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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
2
A collage of Christmas ads and notices from Titusville and nearby towns includes grocery specials at Wilcox Market, Armoury and consumer goods from Franz Home Furnishings, plus local updates on deaths, hospitalizations, and civic notices. Community events cover boy scouts, utility workers meeting, and TNT plant supervision near Geneva with Forties era military context.
A. G. Stillman, longtime manager of the Corry plant for the Dairymen's League, is promoted to lead the Cobleskill milk producers' association plant. He plans to depart next week and assume duties there, with H. L. Bump of Towanda, Pa, set to succeed him locally. Stillman is active in the Rotary Club, Masonic fraternity, and the Corry band. Formal transfer to Cobleskill and start date January 16 are announced.
Two youths were arrested by state motor police last week for stealing tires inner tubes and wheels from the Powell Motor Company warehouse on the city’s eastern outskirts. Walter Kowalski 18 of Gary was jailed six months and fined 100 after pleading guilty. Robert Woodworth of Corry was fined 50 and costs and placed on two years probation. A third offender Joseph H Matic of Buffalo pled guilty to driving while intoxicated and was fined 100 with one year probation.
Funeral services for Mrs Alpheus Beebe were held after three prayer services at Stacken Keatin funeral chapel and a requiem at St Thomas church. Rev Francis J Graves officiated for the late 822 East street resident who died Sunday at Corry hospital. Interment followed in St Elizabeth's cemetery with out of town attendees listed.
Japanese forces press landings along Lingayen gulf while air combat roars. American airmen reportedly repelled a landing under destroyer fire as Mindanao fighting persists and Tokyo claims large troop deployments. Unconfirmed reports hint at sunk transports and uncertain landing totals near Santo Tomas and Lingayen.
Batavia Dec 23 Dutch naval aircraft tracked Japanese ships in the Philippine harbor of Davao aiding United States forces fighting the Mindanao invasion. One Japanese tanker of about 10 000 tons was hit squarely by a 400 pound bomb and burst into flames. Artillery and other targets were also attacked.
Major General Howard Martin may become director of civilian defense for the Third Corps Area after serving as Pennsylvania National Guard commander, as the State Defense Council meets to discuss rationing amid Federal requests. Army officials reported two waves of Japanese planes heading to Manila were intercepted by American fighters, with ongoing heavy fighting near Lingayen Gulf as of early morning.
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