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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1940
Page
6
Cloudy forecasts and clock changes mark the Labor Day weekend with notes on railway earnings and city matters. The Journal will not publish Monday for Labor Day. City Council meetings and local notices are postponed or adjusted. Health updates report two quarantine cases, while travel and recreation trends point to lake resort exodus and Chautauqua County events opening in Dunkirk.
Rural homes gain electricity as the Bear Lake vicinity plans a term restart. Communities report residents traveling to Jamestown and Erie conferences, with multiple visits from Avon Ohio and Ashville kin. Local families, students, and teachers prepare for the new term while events shift indoors due to cold weather.
Northwestern Pennsylvania youths aged 19 to 26 may join a 130 day trial naval service offering 90 days at sea aboard a Navy vessel with pay and 90 days ashore in training. Successful candidates become midshipmen in the U S Naval Reserve, with transportation and pay arranged, and could be commissioned as ensigns.
All American Aviation conducts preliminary aerial survey for potential resumption of airmail pickup in Kane Olean Salamanca Bradford areas. Survey led by JT G Ray with no pilot. aims to assess flying conditions and locate pickup stations. Kane previously hosted experimental route. Olean Salamanca Bradford never had direct airmail service.
Ashville visitors called on J C Man Waring and Ivan Hawking families while P Barrett and relatives from Jamestown joined Rev and Mrs I W Barrett and Fred Blucher group. Joy Smith funeral services were held at Baptist church with Rev A Beightol officiating and interment in Nine cemetery. Mr and Mrs Pred Wheeler vacationed at their Lake Chautauqua cottage.
The draft act proposes pay rises for army, navy, and marine corps with base army pay jumping from 21 to 30 dollars a month. It limits service to the western hemisphere and caps active trainees at 900,000. Trainees become reserves for 10 years, with deferment and recall provisions. Quotas determine trainee selection, with prior service credit. Ages 34 through 48 may volunteer. conscripts share service. Employers would reinstate those evacuated from jobs. protections against evictions and foreclosures for nonpayment of debts by conscripts. Local and appeal boards would classify men, process deferments, and review applications.
Erie police announce solving a string of fires and four break-ins since August 10 with two suspects arrested. Claude Orton, 20, confessed to the arson plot and younger brother Charles Orton, 28, was also arrested. Fire damage totaled about 20000, including garages and a carpet cleaning plant.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Crowe Funeral Home in Union City for Chester Morton Lee 77 of 2 Atlantic Street who died Thursday morning at Hamot Hospital Erie Burial will be in Beaverdam Cemetery He is survived by his widow Brances a daughter Mrs Guy Cook Union City a son Arlington Corry and three brothers Washington E Peal and Chauncey Lee all of Linton City
Buffalo stock markets show hogs mostly 10 cents higher than Friday with good and choice lots at 100 to 230 dollars per hundred pounds. Canadian steers and fat cattle appear up to 9 1/2 dollars higher in some weight ranges. New York stocks highlight broad price movement across multiple blue chip issues and railroads with general market strength noted in late summer trading.
An unscheduled gun duel erupted in Times Square last night as a policeman and a gunman exchanged fire in the lobby of a playhouse. The gunman died at the scene, while officers Joseph Schecker and James Mitchell were wounded. The Plymouth theatre near Broadway and Eighth Avenue was the location, with police investigating the bizarre incident.
A garbled OCR item notes installation of tor devices at a mall training area. It mentions a dean, an older man, and a person named Billy S with unclear roles. The fragment references a boxing context with middleweights and a Johnny RAs name, but specifics are unreadable. The passage lacks coherent facts to confirm events or outcomes.
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