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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1938
Page
1
Postman Oliver D. Skinner completes 25 years as a mail carrier and retires August 31. In a reflective interview, Skinner expresses pride in his service and plans to fish, while noting the sadness of ending his daily routes after a long career.
Loyalist forces dug into Gandesa and held firm against rebel assaults on the Ebro front with help from government planes. The stalled Franco advance along the Ebro and the Valencia breakthrough shift political pressure, pushing Mussolini toward backing a Franco victory.
Charles Y. Doyle of the State Housing Board told the Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners that slum clearance will extend to all areas. Ten of sixteen local housing authorities have slum clearance loans totaling over 13 hundred thousand toward an 80 million US Housing Authority quota. Low-cost rental sites are set in Allentown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with early construction planned. Doyle said efforts focus on larger cities to remove substandard unsanitary properties from circulation.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania Henry L. Cannon Cambria County controller accuses Works Progress Administration sewing projects of being political rackets. He withholds Cambria's share of expenses and payment on a $2,590 contract covering rent water and other services, citing disputed costs and political motive.
Public Works Administrator Harald Ickes announced approval of a grant valued at 59,282 dollars with no loss for the construction of an Annie disposal plant in Sharpsville, Fa. The project will create skilled local jobs and support surrounding industries by supplying materials and employment opportunities.
Police hold Charles Smith, 61, of Beaverdam for questioning connected to Sunday morning break in at Wing Walk Store at North Center and Irving Streets. A witness described a man matching Smith leaving the scene. Investigators note little value taken and say vagrancy charges may be added if burglary claims fail.
Part of a news packet reports that the French Trans Atlantic plane Lieut de Vais sent Patsy Tenigid at Hoyta Azores to New York, with the big flying boat expected to reach New York at 10 31 a. m. BST Thursday. Separate: two Black men, Smalley Burrell and William A. Brown, were electrocuted in Trenton prison for murdering a church sexton, with robbery listed as the motive and a small amount spent on fish sandwiches.
Philadelphia county prison guards Alfred Brough and Francis Smith were arrested on homicide charges over the alleged steam scalding deaths of four convicts during a hunger strike. Coroner Hersch and ADAs detailed that heat and possible beatings caused deaths in the Klondike cells, with hearings set at City Hall and planned prison visits by officials.
Mrs Schlurauff hosted a Republican Council garden party at her home on West Lake Road Erie. Cartis were enjoyed and wireless devices were given. A number of prominent speakers were heard and refreshments served. Corry guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Peake Mr and Mrs Roy Cady Mr and Mrs Brice Banks and several named ladies.
A woman at the Harwell residence during a family Bible session mutilated herself, gouging out her left eye with scissors and severing her left hand with an axe. She later stated her eye and hand had sinned, while her husband, Woodroy Murwell, 20, remained nearby as the event unfolded.
George Weinberg testified that $30,000 in Dutch Schultz policy funds passed through James J. Hines to aid William C. Dodge’s district attorney campaign. The trial tied Hines to political protection for racketeering. Democrats lost the mayoralty, La Guardia elected, while Dodge’s DA win helped Democrats salvage the DA office.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports that about four of every five votes were in favor of the federal marketing order in a New York milk shed referendum held last week. Dairymen across New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland participated, with New York state results announced today in Albany.
A Chinese spokesman said a passenger plane flown by an American was shot down near Canton by five Japanese planes. Of the crew and 13 passengers, some were dead or missing. American pilot H L Wood of Winfield Kansas landed at Macao unharmed. He carried an injured Chinese passenger and noted two more wounded at Shekki hospital.
Eyston, the British driver, reached 346.8 miles an hour at Bonneville Salt Flats Utah but the run did not count as a record as two trials are required. A second run failed when the electric fiber equipment ceased functioning.
Police detained eight men and a woman at Seaville Paper Company as they questioned workers about a quilt linked to the 13th torso murder victim in the Kingsbury Run case. Acting Detective Inspector Nevel said the quilt likely traveled from junk dealer Wimner Cummings to the rag company, near the same neighborhood where two identified victims, Edward Andrassy and Florence Sawdey Pobilo, operated.
A Titusville widow Mrs Mra. Ylin G. Anderson died yesterday and a room search found $5,900 in currency plus a bank book showing deposits of $1,886.50. She had been a relief client removed from rolls years ago and reportedly received food from two neighbors in the Chase and Stewarts block on South Franklin Street. A total of $159 in bills was in a drawer and $5,740 more in a showbox. Her husband Samuel Anderson operates a farm near Spartansburg. no other relatives are noted.
The Young Democrats Club of Corry plans a complete reorganization at a meeting in the Grand theatre building next Monday at 8 PM. Kenneth Thompson, George Stout and other leaders are expected. Norbert J. Witzgerald is sought as a main speaker. New officers will be elected and county leaders invited to attend as the group becomes an active county unit.
Delegates to the Central Pennsylvania district firemen's convention opened sessions in Dubois with about 550 delegates from 105 departments across 41 counties. A safety director indicated health duties should move under city council, amid talk of reorganizing the Mendviis department of public health.
Buffalo wound up in twilight tragedy as Captain Frank Hawks world famed speed flier died after attempting a test flight in a small cabin biplane. His passenger J Hagan Campbell, a Buffalo sportsman, was badly burned but survived long enough to be treated. The plane’s wheel tangled in electric light wiring and crashed in Hast Aurora near Buffalo, with Hawks dying three hours later. Campbell, a prospective purchaser of the Aircar by the Gwin Aircar Company of Buffalo, was thrown clear. Hawks was vice president and sales manager for the company and his wife was informed of the accident. Funeral plans pending likely in Connecticut. Eyewitness details scarce but wreckage suggested Hawks violated safety norms.
President Franklin D Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Roswell Magill, longtime tax policy expert and Columbia University professor, effective September 15. Magill had shaped key New Deal fiscal aid and tax measures and said he would remain on call if needed. He had served since January 1937 and had recently briefed Congress on administration tax recommendations.
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