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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1932
Page
6
Pedestrians skated on improvised rinks as Whiteley rink closed. City council special meeting planned amid holiday closings and parochial school events. Janet Gaynor divorce news, local crime reports, and unemployment figures accompany civic notices and a milk distribution proposal.
Local post office reports a holiday surge in mail volume, prompting temporary schedule changes. Extra truck service mobilized to pace parcel deliveries, with two full delivery runs daily at 8:30 am and 2 pm Thursday through Saturday. Stamp and general delivery windows stay open evenings to 9. Christmas day deliveries suspended. greeting extended to patrons.
Asplenuya Christmas program was given by the pupils of the Fairview School yesterday afternoon in connection with the December meeting of the Fairview Parent Teachers association. The program drew a large crowd of mothers, fathers and friends. Mrs. J G Alexander of Kansas City Mo will be sorry to learn she fell in her home a few days ago and fractured her elbow, leaving her incapacitated for several days.
Oil City dispatch reports three men and one woman arrested on charges of issuing worthless checks in multiple Pennsylvania cities. Checks totaling 50 dollars passed locally, with the writer receiving 82 dollars in cash. Suspects include Mrs Laura May McCartney of Altoona and others, using aliases such as Allan Miller and Decker Davis. Checks drawn on banks in Mt. Carmel Sunbury Johns town Lewistown and Middletown and Schenectady New York. The scheme spanned Ol City Butler Warren York Carbondale Pottsville Cambridge Marion Salem Warren Middletown Ohio Hagerstown Md New Brunswick Nj Bridgeport Danbury Conn Bimba Middletown Poughkeepsie and Binghamton NY Middleburg Northampton Mass.
Mary Wimmer 74 of Dunkirk is in critical condition at Brooks Memorial hospital after being hit by a black sedan while waiting for a street car at Sixth Street and Central Avenue last night at 10 30. The car crashed into a tree, bent the bumper into a Y shape and its front headlight broke. The driver fled the scene. Dunkirk police alerted Jamestown police to distribute a sedan description.
A P Lorillard Co Old Gold Chevrolet sedan driven by Arthur A Bowman of Kane skidded on Route 2 miles north of Ridway at 330 PM Monday, struck a culvert, and demolished the truck. Bowman suffered a four stitch chin wound and was treated at Elk County General Hospital before being discharged.
In Dunkirk on December 21 three men were detained by police for alleged fraud in applying for city relief. Anthony Arcorat possessed 255 dollars on deposit, Dominick Szacik had 3500 dollars in a bank account, and Jacob Bebak held 7.62 dollars when arrested, authorities said.
Stock markets held steady today in New York as selling persisted yet prices resisted further declines. Leaders like United States Steel remained near closing levels while lower priced rail stocks weakened due to tax selling and railroad reorganization fears. list includes American Can, General Electric, General Motors, New York Central, Norfolk, and other major names with mixed moves amid market uncertainty.
Word came this afternoon of the death in Erie of Mrs Vincenzella Pasqualicchio Formaini wife of Louis Formaini 606 West Seventeenth street and sister of Leonard Pasqualicchia formerly of Corry The news notes she was a cousin of Mrs Frank Litz of Corry and cites her Corry connections with local ties to the Pasqualicchio family.
Clifford B Foley of 246 Bissell Avenue is charged by State Highway Patrol Officer J W Heineman with wreckless driving and operating a motor vehicle without a license after the car he drove struck and killed Myron Guy of Youngstown Ohio on the Ol City Reno road December 4. Informations were filed before Alderman George A Kern with ten days to answer. Heineman led the investigation into the fatal night crash.
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