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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1948
Page
1
Fragmented OCR lines show catalog like notes with numbers and names. Text unclear but references items and codes such as 3120 4038 65 and names like Catlin and Locey appear amid partial phrases. No clear event or outcome can be determined from the visible snippet.
Incomplete OCR fragment notes a house and furniture sale by writ with a furnace possession. Mentions addresses and phone numbers for Lovells of Hottie and other parties, plus a dial contact. Details are fragmentary and unclear.
Cairo reports say Prime Minister Mahmoud Nokrashy Pasha was shot by a student linked to the Moslem Brotherhood, later killed himself. The assassin, a Brotherhood member, was immediately arrested as mourners and officials reacted with grief and concern over Egypt’s next leadership amid regional tensions.
Twelve men stranded on Greenland ice were rescued after three weeks by a C-47 from an air base 70 miles north of the crash site. USS Saipan aided the effort as Navy planes chased through storms. The surprise correction says 11 survivors and one died?
Poughkeepsie New York December 28 Beauty actress wife of Elliott Roosevelt slashed her left wrist at the Hyde Park home. Sheriff Fred Close quoted Dr H Sherman Hirst saying the wound was self inflicted and she needed restraint. Roosevelt claims it was an accident. She was treated at Vassar Brothers Hospital then released.
Britain urged an immediate ceasefire in southern Palestine and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Negev with a UN Security Council resolution. Harold Beeley pressed for the truce supervision committee to report by January 1 at Lake Success, as Israeli and Egyptian positions near Gaza faced renewed fighting and a threatened corridor breach.
A charter airplane with 28 aboard is missing on a flight from San Juan Puerto Rico to Miami Florida. The Dc 8 twin engined craft carried a crew of eight and 25 passengers. It was over five hours overdue at 10 30 a m fuel exhausted about 5 45 a m Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue said last contact was made at 4 a m over seas radio near New Orleans with the plane reporting position 50 miles south of Miami no answer received. Continuous radio calls failed to elicit a response. The craft departed San Juan at 10 03 p m yesterday and was due in Miami about 4 20 a m.
Cony Memorial Hospital Association weighs urgent decisions on joining the federal aid program to match $1 locally for each $2 from the government. Warlow notes $400,000 is needed to leverage about $600,000 for the West Smith site, with $180,000 bonds and $40,000 pledges outstanding. Board aims to choose fundraising plans and finalize approvals by May 1 with final passage by June 1.
Richard Martin 19, a U S Army recruit from Corry, was injured when the car carrying six servicemen home for the holidays crashed into a cattle truck near Indianapolis. He and a Meadville youth suffered jaw and head injuries while four others escaped injury. Martin is at Patterson Meld Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, recovering.
Mary Gayton aged 4 and Crystal Gayton aged 3 were fatally burned when a fire destroyed their home in Sub Urban Pottville. Their mother Mrs. Douglas Gayton was severely burned. Officials believe an oil stave explosion started the blaze.
Reports claim a shift in power and possible peace talks led by Li Tsung-jen with Chiang Kai-shek under pressure to step down. Chinese Communists allegedly gain momentum across the Yangtze defenses as air force detachments defect to the rebels.
The report notes new postal rates commence soon affecting delivery timelines. It mentions expected delays for certain mail classes and that post offices will process goings on the upcoming period with possible service adjustments.
Workers at the Ajax plant face furloughs as part of a broader curtailment program. Most layoffs affect the service areas including assembly floor stockroom and foundry, with skilled machine shop operators spared. Officials cite improved demand and a four-day week rumor as part of the production pattern. Two Pittsburgh firefighters were overcome by smoke in a cellar fire, with mayoral officials assessing damages at about $2,000.
Four men from Armstrong and Clarion counties died after a two vehicle crash near Erie on Route 6, about 10 miles west of the city. Deputy Howard W. Murray of Beaver County was killed, and police chief Trevor Jenkins of Aliquippa was in critical condition. The truck driver Gentes Bernabore, 17, survived with chest injuries, and two others were seriously hurt including a prisoner being moved from Buffalo to Beaver Falls.
Pittsburgh budget for the city’s history totals 333,000. It includes a yearly cost of living increase for city employees and a marked rise in activity by the health department accounting for the surge in expenses.
Budapest reports that ten top Roman Catholic Church figures, including Prime Minister Josef Cardinal Mandazenly, were arrested by the Interior Ministry in a sweeping action announced today.
A 39 year old husband and his wife were found dead in their home in Lykens Pennsylvania ending a search by state police. Authorities call it a double death with murder and death by own action as the women’s body was discovered in her apartment with a note and the man’s body found in a field.
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