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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1934
Page
6
Weather plans and municipal finance notes touch the city calendar as residents await colder weather and a year-end budget deadline. Reports cover license plate rules, 1935 DeSoto prices, the motor vehicle bureau, and holiday events from the M M Sorority to the High School Glee Club.
Reports from multiple locales detail a mass slaying with seven victims and related funeral rites. C W Hicks notes a break-in at his East Charen Street home with items ransacked. arrests hinted. Separately, funerals proceed for Mrs Ruth D Hughes in Dunieirk while Mrs Schoch’s family mourns in Perrysville amid royal references.
Corry stores enjoyed the brisk Christmas business the strongest in five years with Montgomery Ward and Co reporting the best since 1930. Clerks noted heavy Saturday and Monday traffic as shoppers completed purchases, with department stores and clothing shops posting gains and forecasts of continued improvement into 1935.
Three bandits intercepted a payroll transfer from the Lancaster main office to the Chester plant. They seized about $15,000 and fled in an unlicensed Pontiac, leaving investigators to pursue clues.
Philadelphia prepared for the New Year’s Day Mummers parade despite internal club bickerings. City funding of 12000 dollars, history of past disruptions, and rival directors fuel anticipation as clubs guard secret costumes aiming for top prizes in a glamorous display that drew national attention in prior years.
National Commander Janes Vien Zandt says the Vettrand of Fro m Wire supports a two thirds House majority for a soldier bonus bill. Zandt expresses confidence that President Hoonevelt will approve the measure and begin payments soon after passage.
A thief used carpenter tools to bore a hole in a Greenville grocery store roof, lowering into the market to rob a safe. About $700 in cash and $300 in checks were stolen, the robber apparently opened the safe by combination and left through the same route, escaping to an apartment above the shop.
Harrisburg reports the annual semi annual compulsory motor vehicle inspection campaign runs January 1 to March 31 with all owners required to visit official stations for repairs or adjustments. Governor Pinchot cites progress but notes only one in four Pennsylvanians keep cars mechanically safe and urges early inspections amid winter conditions and hazardous road surfaces.
A freak kitten in South Windsor Connecticut was born with eight legs two bodies one head and a split gender half male and half female. Three legs were at the front five at the back. The remarkable kitten died within a few days while its siblings were normal.
Washington dispatch reports that since April the U S Treasury through the 2 billion dollar exchange stabilization fund has earned a substantial profit in foreign exchange markets. The fund, part of the dollar devaluation profits, buys and sells currencies to stabilize the dollar while contrasting with Britain’s losses over its fund. The operations have kept the dollar near gold parity and secured a multi hundred thousand to several million dollar gain, with the fund set to expire June 30 1936 unless extended.
Erie hotel proprietor Joe Williams says a couple with twin babies visited his Ford restaurant in the early hours after midnight on December 15. He recalls the man and woman, both about 28, ordering coffee and speaking of passing through Boston toward Columbus Ohio while the babies rode with them.
Charles Beromsky of Trumbull claimed a flock of 700 chickens producing strictly fresh eggs in storage near Bridgeport. Health officers found no flock and defective storage conditions. He was arrested.
The Tie Conference Young People’s Union of the United Brethren in Christ will hold its year end convention Thursday and Friday December 27 and 28 at Salamanca NY. Rev Dr Ira D Wiener Bishop of the Pacifly district will speak on Motives for Christian Living and Russia’s Challenge to the Christian Church. Other speakers include Rev S Paul Weaver Rev E Schafer Rev J Leon Manegal Rev C Grover Rev L M Caster and Rev H Ray Harris. The theme Youth Building a New World. A banquet opens Thursday at six led by Miss Ruth Hunt Otterbein College. The Otterbein male quartet will sing. Attendees are expected from western New York and nearby.
Announcement states Miss Viola Leningar of Spartensburg Pennsylvania and Alfred Brown of Corry married in Clymer New York on Saturday December 22. They plan to reside with him in his city.
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