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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1937
Page
1
A jumbled OCR note lists partial names and figures, mentioning units and years in a chaotic sequence. The readable elements include references to people and localized terms but lack coherent events or context to form a complete news item.
Milwaukee Aug 28 United Automobile Workers vote to fund a $400000 campaign and wage an organizing push among Henry Ford's 140000 workers. The drive signals possible sitdown tactics as the union seeks a collective bargaining contract with Ford and other automakers still without pacts.
Two hundred children attended the Mutt Show at the city park, hosted by Thomas Reclats of the WEA. Prizes went to Con all Cox for best looking slug, Mix Gregory for smallest, Jamies Reynolis for ugliest, Dabs Honaghue for most loyal pet, and Velyn Clark for best pet overall, featuring a rooster as the top animal. Free lemonade and lollypops were provided to attendees.
In Chicago on August 28 a Federal mediator reopened wage talks between 83 railroads and operating railmen to avert a threatened strike. William M. Lelserson of the Federal Railroad Mediation Board was to meet separately with both sides before reconvening for talks.
Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative stockholders voted to seek a $1,000,000 debt increase to finance new power lines in the association’s northwestern Pennsylvania area. Counsel Culbertson said the cooperative would petition the Federal REA for approval to raise funds for construction in Clarion and surrounding counties. The plan targets extending lines toward Titusville and the Beavertown-Corry project with anticipated federal aid of several million dollars.
A tentative outline for a sweeping program to revise pel wall tig statutes is set as a congressional project. Key figures include Ky. representative Frey M. Vinson and a Ways and Means subcommittee chair who confer with the undersecretary of the Treasury and experts from the joint tax committee on the scope of Roosevelt’s proposed revisions.
Harrisburg Aug 28 Gov Menre Hy Earle ordered salary increases for 2588 state welfare workers averaging $10 a month starting next Tuesday. Funds come from a $1,000,000 appropriation for operation and maintenance of institutions built under state authority. In Paris a vansation is noted. Insane women news from London reports a feminine mob nearly trampling a cigarette butt souvenir from Robert Taylor.
A prowler entering a house led to the shooting death of a man identified as John Schenk after a wife reported seeing a figure peering through a window. The incident occurred as residents were alarmed by a series of intrusions and the family of Larsen faced a fatal loss from a likely arterial injury during an alleged break in.
Health authorities began a needles in the haystack search for 999 passengers who left the Hamburg American liner Hansa yesterday unaware that 24 cases of suspected illness had been found among the crew. Federal authorities worked to trace passengers who traveled with the sick men as mediation officials said there is no cause for public alarm.
New York architect John Russell Pope, 68, designer of the Mellon Gallery of Art in Washington, died in New York. He passed away at his daughter Mrs David K. E. Bruce's home in Southampton, N. Y., 24 hours after the death of Andrew W. Mellon.
In Los Angeles 45 year old Coral Anne Berny reportedly adopted Wallicy Bury’s daughter amid threats of kidnapping. A ransom note demanded 10,000 dollars and was intercepted by port officials. Police investigated as movie stars and studios faced heightened security in Hollywood following the scare.
Hyde Park Aug 26 The president weighs a possible western and Pacific coast trip this fall to boost popular support for his legislative program. A telegraph from Washington says he remains in close touch with the Eastern situation as Congress debates the sugar marketing bill and allied measures ahead of a three week recess.
Harrisburg dispatch notes the state treasury has over 2.0 million dollars unclaimed from a 70 million soldiers bonus approved by voters in 1935. Eligible veterans must file by July 1, 1888 to receive payment. remaining balances will lapse to the general fund. Mrs. W. H. Speck and daughter Helenar visited Brig today.
A convoluted, fragmentary NY news item reports the widow of a narcotics peddler was slain. The readable portions mention victims, names, and locations but lack coherent details or dates, yielding a terse, puzzling police connected note from the Aug. 28 issue.
A fragmented obituary note lists multiple victims and mourners including Vernon, Ty West, Pastor Chestign, Mr. Arauietatis, and Claire Paves. The text references a vigil, a burial, and a church service with attendees from Ohio and surrounding areas.
Clearfield officials hold a suspect in a murder for intent case. The unnamed man, 44, is charged after a shooting in Clearfield County that left Bar Marshall, 44, of Torjan, Pa, injured while Meushatt was reportedly gathering belongings and Tear Mehattey was present.
The 1987 conference session closes at United Beeth ves in Christchurch this Sunday evening. Morning prayers open at 9, with Rev B H M Reagle leading the sermon, followed by services and reports from standing committees. Closing rites include a final worship service and remarks by church leaders.
In HRI Pennsylvania on August 24 a boy attempting to climb a high tension wire fell about 20 feet to the ground. He was with companion Gene Barton 7 who attempted to climb the pole and also fell. The injured boy suffered a fracture and remained hospitalized in Montour as authorities investigated the incident.
Andrew W. Mellon famed financier and philanthropist is returned to his birthplace Pittsburgh for funeral rites after dying at 82 from bronchial pneumonia and uremia at Southampton. His body arrived from New York aboard a special Pittsburgh car with eight close relatives aboard and was moved to T. B. Moreland funeral home chapel in East Liberty.
British protest escalates as a wounded aide prompts government reaction. Amid tensions, naval actions unfold near Shanghai with Chinese casualties reported in Nantao district. The President Lincoln, en route to Hong Kong, is described amid urgent dispatches as ships engage near the Chinese lines.
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