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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1942
Page
1
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Corry City Council approved a 1943 budget totaling 99,085.02 with a 4 mill assessment cut and a 14 mill tax levy of 72,165.02. The plan uses 9,000 from a reserve fund, funds police raises, new equipment, Mead Park, Corry Hospital, and war efforts while detailing property and occupation assessments across four wards.
Washington December reports indicate legislative pressure from the war may prevent a Christmas recess as Congress has sat nearly without pause for two years and could continue into January. Treasury figures show receipts about 88.99 million, outlays 175.91 million, with a balance of 5.26 million and total debt rising by 183.96 million from the prior day.
Board of Education at a special session considered the Maton Vocational School fire and took no formal action. One student, Charles Egan Roberts of Ooty High, remains critical at Corry Hospital with extensive burns. Another student, Milelsel Goda, suffered minor burns, while names and details of others remain unconfirmed as officials withhold information.
A major blaze in Mt Pleasant Westmoreland County Pa at noon today damaged several Main Street buildings including J C Penney Montgomery Ward and a grocery chain store. Fire spread across the block prompting assistance from Greensburg Cornwellsville Scottdale Everson and other nearby communities as citizens helped with hoses. Loss is unofficially estimated at 60000. A similar fire occurred in November 1915 near the same site.
Allied Headquarters in South Africa announces Dakar Harbor and its air fields are placed at the disposal of the United States and Britain. Pierre Boisson agreed with Admiral Jean Darlan to grant use rights, aiming to curb German submarine activity in the South Atlantic and speed warplane delivery to North Africa. The fleet includes the battleship Richelieu and several cruisers and destroyers, with most French units reportedly ready for action on short notice.
The Navy reports 74 free ships in Toulon harbor when the Germans moved in. About 20 remained afloat, 51 were sunk or damaged or unaccounted for, and four escaped. Vessels afloat include two Vecht cruisers, three destroyer leaders, three destroyers, four submarines, two gun boats, one demilitarized battleship and five tankers. Several ships show damage from demolition or scuttling, with the seaplane carrier Commandant Test noted as seaworthy but damaged. Descriptions mention Algeria on fire or aground, and many destroyer leaders heavily damaged or scuttled.
In Point Marion Pennsylvania a house fire killed three children aged 10, 5, and 1 after their mother, widowed six months, who returned to find doors locked for safety. Neighbors rescued two other children but the structure burned late yesterday. The coroner noted the mother said she locked the doors believing the kids would be safer inside. Ethel 6 and Alex 3 survived with minor injuries and were treated at Uniontown Hospital.
A fire at the John Phelps homestead on Half Moon road near Lowville claimed three lives: Ruth Vogt 25, Amelia Vogt 7, and Theresa Phelps 9, all found in their bedrooms. Harold Phelps 18 suffered burns while attempting rescue. the youth had started the blaze in the kitchen stove and fled to the barn. The bodies were recovered as Erie county authorities opened an inquiry into the overheated stove.
Berlin radio claimed a British 18 100 ton Inner Ceramic, likely heading from the United States to North Africa with troops and gear, was sunk by a U boat west of the Azores. In Washington General Arnold said air superiority over North Africa is a fragile balance, with a possible battle that could decide Mediterranean and European air control. Chicago Edward O Neal, American Farm Bureau president, argued government cost poses a greater threat to people than rising food costs.
City officials asked the Federal Works Agency to certify expenses to date on the Second Ward sewer project. The record shows 858.99 incurred, awaiting federal reply. Councilors discussed potential federal share and timing, with health department permit funding also mentioned.
Washington dispatch recalls the valor of American sailors who saved many shipmates and passengers from four torpedoed United Nations merchant vessels. Survivors described lifeboat rescue efforts, a young sailor who lowered a boat while drowning, and Frederick J. Mills of Detroit repairing a shattered lifeboat at sea while immersed and freezing. The AP count of lost ships rose to 552 in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor.
War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt outlined a labor control framework to align manpower with military needs and war production. He said draft boards would integrate with the War Manpower Commission to balance essential civilian work, industry, and agriculture while pursuing possible revisions to Selective Service policies.
William Gifford Foy a 14 year old from Laughlintown pled guilty to kidnapping and robbing Mahlon Jacob Miller 10 in a farmer's son case. He said he forced Miller to drive him to Ohio in Miller's car and admitted participation in a jeweler robbery in Urshita. He received an indeterminate sentence at the state training school in Morganza.
MADISON Wis Dec King death has struck the state just before inauguration as Orland Loomis a 45 year old lawyer and Progressive party winner over Julius Heil died in Wisconsin General Hospital of a heart ailment Loomis five weeks after his landslide victory raises questions of succession likely needing Supreme Court guidance on who will hold the governorship until the inauguration.
A 13 year old, identified as Den Gilbert, was found dead in Los Angeles last night. Police say the youth, described as adopter Jean at Willam Gilbert, appeared to have fired a rifle with his toe, indicating self inflicted action.
Allied forces stand firm along the Tebourba front amid a three day tank battle. British First Army and American troops repel Axis assaults near Tunis as German and Italian air power pound the area and battle reports describe heavy fighting from Leningrad to Moscow and beyond with continued Soviet counterattacks and Allied air activity over Tunis and surrounding regions.
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