War era notes mix unemployment checks and local notices
Local reports show Corry residents receiving unemployment compensation totaling 805 dollars in a weekly outflow of 169 573 dollars statewide. Private Williams earns a promotion at Camp Panmin, while veteran aid and real estate transfers appear in Corry and surrounding towns amid war end expectations and civil service posts.
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Winfield Williams
Corry
Co. A
Infantry Replacement ‘Training Center
Camp Panmin
Zee
Ith
William
County Schools Get Teachers Headed For Open
Aug 13 report says county schools will open on time after Labor Day. Howard Denison reports strong response to teacher appeals and notes a need for three or four instructors for one room schools and four to five for county high schools. Qualified teachers urged to contact Denison in the courthouse. County teachers will benefit from higher wages authorized by the last legislature.
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Erse
Howard Denison
Denison
Court House
Debris Clearing From Erie R R Wreck Delays Traffic
Still working on debris from the Erie R R wreck near Lottsville and Elmira. Wrecking crews from Meadville and Salamanca use cranes to separate cars and clear a damaged right of way as trains resume via Bear Lake line. The collision derailed an Endy Brothers Carnival train at Elmira killing none and injuring two workers.
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Salamanca
Lottsville
Setion
Erle
T Army
Bear Lake
Baccus Corners Road
Erie
CM Tower
Ashville
First Avenue
Center Street
Elmira
Hornell
Binghamton
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Vast Russian offensive traps 500000 Japs in bold drive
The report details a massive Russian advance near Vladivostok trapping large Japanese forces. It describes Japanese positions at Rashin and Seishin and claims large-scale transfer of Manchuria’s war industry to homeland security and readiness.
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Keton
Rashin
Poset
Vladivostok
Keres
Yuki
Manchuria
White House says no answer yet on Japan surrender terms
The White House reported no reply from Japan by 10 45 A M after the four power ultimatum on Emperor Hirohito and wartime control. Charles G Ross said negotiations continue with no time limit set and no certainty of another ultimatum. Tokyo reports Hirohito met the foreign minister while Japanese observers warned of invasion jitters and American carrier strikes hit Yokohama and Tokyo docks.
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Onese
White House
Japan
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Tokyo
Hirohito
Togo
Imperial Palace
Yokohama
Allied veteran Nimitz receives Bath Grand Cross in ceremony
In a delayed ceremony aboard the Duke of York Admiral Nimitz was awarded Britain's Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Bulletins note homeward movement details for American troops in the India Burma theater will be released after surrender is signed. Japanese reports claim air attacks on the U S fleet off Honshu near Tokyo. The Daily Mail says Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth and Aquitania will be demobilized and returned to Cunard after four more Atlantic crossings.
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Kandy
Ceylon
India-Burma
Southeast Asia Command
HLM
London
London Daily Mail
Cunard Line
Child Drowns in Chautauqua Lake Tragedy
Eleanor Sande a 13 year old of South Dayton N Y drowned yesterday afternoon in Chautauqua Lake between Cheney's Point and Shore Acres. Four children were riding in a row boat towed by a speedboat driven by Claude Rice. The towrape fouled the propeller and jerked the boat throwing all four into the water. Rice and others in the speedboat rescued his three children but the Sande girl did not surface.
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Eleanor Sande
South Dayton
Chautauqua Lake
Cheney
Rice
Edward Sands Burial At Columbus After Final Rites
Edward Sands was buried Saturday at West Lawn Cemetery in Columbus after final rites at Bracken-Keating Funeral Home. Rev. Wilmer Heffer officiated with bearers Orlie Wynn John McKay Don McKay C A Pier Charles Edmond Edward Carroll. Several relatives traveled from Spring Creek and other towns for the service. A separate note records that May 1944 saw school ground accident rates twice those of April.
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Edward Sands
Columbus
West Lawn
Bracken-Keating
Wilmer Heffer
The
Christian
Jonry Allance
Orlie Wynn
John
Don McKay
C. A. Pier
Charles Edmond
Edward Carroll
Sands
W. L. Henry
Betty Stuart
Virgil Tubbs
Wilson Sickler
John McBay
Bernard Porter
Spring Creek
Cora Lamona
Ben Dunton
Edward Carrall
Letha Whipple
Ruth Healey
Eric
George Martin
Adele
Geraldine Martin
Dunteirk
Union Victory Service at First Methodist Church
The Corry Ministerial Association announces a Union Victory Service at First Methodist Church featuring Thanksgiving for Victory. Major A Schotter will speak briefly, with special music, an address on Preserving Peace by Ht Ray Harris, and a benediction by Dr C F Hildebrand.
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Union
First Methodist Church
Major A. Schotter
Ray Harris
C.F. Hildebrand
Volunteers to meet at Corry Veterans Center
The third instructional meeting of women volunteers for the Veterans Informational Center in Corry will be held at the Corry School District Offices on North Center Street at 8 00 p m Tuesday Mildred Alfred of the American Red Cross will speak on services for veterans If Tuesday is declared V J Day the meeting will be postponed to a later date
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Veterans’ Center
Veterans’ Informational Center
Corry
North Center Street
Mildred Alfred
The
American Red Cross
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