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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1943
Page
6
A large crowd is expected for Pelday evening's corn roast at the First Ward Fire Station starting at o'clock. Other notes mention minor court fines, realty transfers, a settlement in a marital rift case, and local police activity. The supply situation, ration book developments, missing youths, and thefts in Erie are also reported with mixed local detail.
Erie August 25 County Solicitor Jacob Heldn submitted to county commissioners an interpretation of write in voting laws. He said primary voters may cast for unlisted candidates by writing a name in the blank space or stamping or labeling the space. He noted that a written name must be in pencil or the vote is void, and that votes for candidates listed on the ballot may be counted even if other unlisted names are chosen.
Justice Alonzo G. Hinkley ordered a county wide recount of the August 10 Republican primary ballots. Clerk Mildred Kling, who lost by 11 votes to Clark B. Goodrich, faced a fraud claim that was dismissed. Agnes Ablstrom joined as third party in the suit but refused to become a party to the fraud claim, while commissioners Arthur T Longevity and Peter Cloos prepared to tour the county to tally ballots.
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Aug 24 Cymer’s Conservation Club hosted a Damcott Grove picnic drawing a large turnout. Proceeds from tag sales funded community projects and shrubbery for honor rolls. Events included exhibits of game, a sharp shooters tent selling food, races, a ball casting win, and prizes for gate tickets.
An unidentified Canadian army trainer plane performed diving stunts at 2 p.m. Monday over downtown Erie near 10th and Wayne streets. The pilot skimmed rooftops and reportedly used City Hall tower as a pylon during bombing practice over the Erie Airport area.
Lieut Maude Neeley a 21 year old Kane high football player and Air Force co pilot is listed as missing in action after a bombing raid over Gelsenkirchen Germany. A War Department message says Neeley has been missing since August 12 and he may be a prisoner of war. He recently earned the air medal and oak leaf cluster.
Three men escaped Federal prison when they appeared for sentence in United States District Court in Jamestown on draft evasion charges. Two claimed eagerness to join the armed forces and were sent to service. a parole violator to Wallkill prison for two and a half years. Judge John Knight sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses to two and a half years each for failure to report for induction, along with two other violators who pled guilty. Robert I. Booth Wesche of Rast Bethany, 29, represented by Ross A. Spoto, pleaded guilty after previously entering not guilty.
The War Department announced two casualty lists. Thirteen Pennsylvanians are among 163 soldiers killed in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, North America, the Pacific and Southwest Pacific. A separate list names 164 wounded, including 15 Pennsylvanians, with no Northwestern Pennsylvania men in either list.
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