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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
4
Daily Dozen cautions readers about botulism risks from home canned vegetables. It explains botulism is rare but deadly, caused by bacillus botulinus in under processed foods, and emphasizes proper washing cooking and sealing. It urges destroying compromised jars and boiling home canned vegetables before serving to prevent illness.
A three day wallout by 15 workers at Allegheny-Ludium Steel’s Dunkirk facility spread to 125 employees in electric melt and billet grinding. Leaders say two men were suspended, others quit in protest, and company officials report no formal grievance filed under the contract with United Steelworkers. The night shift quit at midnight and the 2 to 8 a.m. billet grinders also did not report for work as the midshift stoppage continued.
London reports Propaganda Minister Goebbels issued sweeping decrees banning all public meetings and entertainments not linked to the war. Domestic servants of foreign extraction are drafted into war industry or army, reducing railways, postal and cultural staff as Germany mobilizes. Berlin radio said decrees would be published formally.
Robert Gustafson of Jamestown, active in public affairs and Insurance, died suddenly at the Rice Associates clinic. Coroner reports death from a heart condition. A Jamestown High School and Wharton School alumnus, he starred in track, held the national 600 yard intercollegiate title, led the two mile relay team, captained the track squad, and was named to the 1920 Olympic track team, though he did not compete.
Federal court charges four men with illegal sale or transfer of gasoline coupons worth over ten million dollars. Charles Cline and Byron Stafford of St. Joseph Missouri and Jack Arnold Ross Marion Bolder of Kansas City are accused. OPA investigators say coupons were burned salvaged via a poker and an armored-car operation linked to a local bank. Cline admits aiding theft and selling coupons at two or one cents per gallon.
A cow headed for slaughter at Schatiner Brasmes packing house objected for two minutes on Tuesday. Stanley Rowers, 25, a butcher, stood with a sharp blade at the ready as the moment of execution approached.
A cow delivered a strong kick and struck the knife causing a slash on an employee’s left hand. Rewers dropped the weapon. the injured man was taken to Hamot Hospital. A second employee completed the slaughter.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark faces a setback as Clark fails to secure renomination for the Democratic presidential race in 1912. The article recalls Clark’s long House tenure with Speaker status, his 1912 nomination hopes, and his son Kermit Clark’s remarks on Roosevelt and isolationist stance amid changing party dynamics.
A stream of trivia prompts asks about continents, islands, assassinations, federal prisons, depositories, Celtics baseball teams, presidential portraits, baptism by Quakers, and Navy rank. The piece ties questions to Woodrow Wilson and a Ger ald W. Jokinson biography commentary on national conscience after Pearl Harbor.
Alit hia Linceln and Jefferson Davie were born in the same state Kei nekey.
An old advertisement asserts Thompson's Borsoman Tablets promote healthy kidney function by increasing urinary excretion. It promises relief from dizziness fatigue and constipation with Golden Lay Tablets as a recommended remedy.
The ration charts raise butter to 412 points per pound and process butter to six points, with eight points for several cheese types. Cheddar, Colby see two-point hikes to 12 points per pound. neufchatel and creamed cottage cheese rise to six. Swiss, Italian, Munster and Limburger up to eight. Cheese increases aim to curb rapid consumption. Nearby, Kentucky Cumberland waterfells near Carbit are noted as the only western hemisphere water fall with a moonbow, with a second similar site in South Africa.
Mrs. Mayme T. Heitzer aged 55 hanged herself in a tool house near her home on Cherry Street extension R D 4 around 7 am Wednesday. Coroner Warren W. Wood said death by strangulation occurred after she stood on a chair and stepped off obed despondency for months. The couple was moving to Erie and left no note.
In Harrisburg areas 700 truck drivers and helpers continued their strike, hampering delivery of war materiel as authorities pursued methods to break the deadlock.
Aug 10 last of the county's 10,000 military ballots go up the mails tonight. Ralph Benedict, chief clerk to county commissioners, announced. Eleven soldiers stationed in this country have already married and returned ballots. All ballots are air mailed for delivery. Ballots must be segregated and held for opening until November 28.
In Springfield on August 10 physicians gave penicillin to Jackie Krumholtz, 4, battling acute lymphatic leukemia. A Philadelphia woman, Mrs. William McMullin, 45, prepared to donate a rare blood type after an extensive march to aid his life, following past radio program fame.
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