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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1942
Page
3
A fragmentary obituary item references Charles, an aunt, and children at a home setting. The text hints at a funeral service held in the late afternoon with a clock time noted, but details are incomplete and unclear.
Local report lists tonight’s game at Loveland Field between Keystone Ordnance and Corry Merchants. Police report two arrests for drunkenness during the night and a flurry of industrial, railway, and civic notes across the region. Priscilla Dove, 15, is missing from Youngsville. authorities fear she may have headed toward Cleveland or Genog, Ohio with two youths.
Chester W. Calvin deputy warden and former Beaver Falls mayor and Alex Bentley an insurance agent were summoned for a hearing on conspiracy to aid prisoner escape. They allegedly aided George Puskar an Ambridge auto dealer who escaped May 14, 1941 and later tried again last week. Puskar was captured in California. Calvin and Bentley faced forgery charges tied to auto finance papers and were released on bond pending the hearing.
Miss Jean Nette Rose of Cambridge Springs daughter of Mr and Mrs William P Rose was notified by the YMCA USO branch in New York that she has been appointed recreational director and will report to Yorktown Virginia within a week to serve as assistant director at USO headquarters There the unit serves several army camps including Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort and nearby installations
Andrew Karley of Chicago was held for the September federal term on a motor vehicle theft act charge after police say he tried to sell a stolen car in North East. He was remanded to Erie county prison in 1000 bond as details tie the theft to Elmhurst Country Club. Police testified he transported the auto from Elmhurst to North East following the alleged theft.
Detectives, led by Frank W. Story, return from Pittsburgh with a 16 year old suspect in the Ringling Bros fire that killed 42 animals. Ford is said to have given vague statements and false confessions under police questioning. Circus officials note Ford’s brief Pittsburgh hire and discharge before the blaze.Pennsylvania Railroad police investigated the case. a circus meal ticket found on Ford aided custody. Jess, a 20 year old sought accomplice, remains at large. A 10 year old Pittsburgh youth linked to the fire is questioned.
ERs reports a dying case of a rare leukemia. William Mac Vor, chief mechanician at Strong estate, is in critical condition at Hamot Hospital. He resides at 1350 5 Shore Drive and has had two blood transfusions as doctors fight the disease. Nelson Maclvor, longtime Strong estate worker, traveled from Washington, D. C. to be at his brother’s bedside.
Budd B. Stewart, longtime junior high teacher at GLAHSON, Pa, has been named a special interviewer at the United States Army induction center in New Cumberland. A Clarion State Teachers College graduate with postgraduate study at the University of Phishureh, Stewart was inducted July 1. He notes many men ages 40 to 44 are being inducted, suggesting eastern boards are stricter than those in western Pennsylvania. In Franklin, Patrolman Paul Gourley, 29, of Rocky Grove, riding a motorcycle, was injured when his bike collided with a sedan driven by George W. Chapin of Rocky Grove. Gourley sustained a fractured left toe and bruises.
Mendville The First National Bank and Crawford County DA Herbert A Mook executors of the estate of Gertrude Reed Wilson sold the two story brick business building that housed the Wallace Wilson store next to the Crawford County Trust Company building to Warren C Smith. The deed was recorded in the Register of Wills office yesterday afternoon.
A higher court faces imminent review after Erie County judges upheld a ruling closing the Sky Way Drive-In Theatre on West Lake Road as a nuisance. The Sky Way operators plan an immediate appeal while the theater remains open during the interim review before Superior Court Judge Charles M. Culver and associates.
Miss Maxine Shelley elected music supervisor of Millcreek township to replace Elizabeth Thomas. A Grove City College graduate with a bachelor of music, she taught last year at Lakewood Elementary. Announcement comes from Jamies C. Wilson, supervising principal.
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