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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1931
Page
7
County Controller Janvey M. Willis will start preparing the 132 budget next Monday. He expects a shortfall of about 800,000 and notes that funding sources, including an anticipated eight mill tax levy, are uncertain. Budgets must be delivered by February 1, with revisions possible until mid-February.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports 48 year old Mred Hosmer, husband to a wife and father of five, vanished days after Christmas in Wilkinsburg PA after returning from Sunset Maine. Described as five feet nine inches tall and about 150 pounds, Hosmer formerly chemist at Carnegie Steel for 23 years. Police search continues as family faces financial concerns and budget anxieties.
Police and state officers recovered a two thousand dollar cache near Bradford during a Christmas Eve theft probe at Kissem Hollow. Two men Hugh Booth and George Jury were arrested and jailed as investigators identified loot from multiple companies including Forest Oil, Bell Telephone, and American Telephone. The case, led by Marcus White and Constable Lawrence Covine, continues as officers work to link additional robberies in the area.
The United States circuit court of appeals at Philadelphia upheld a Pittsburgh federal court ruling and ordered the New York Life Insurance Company to pay Mrs. Helena Gustafson four thousand dollars. Her son Evan F Gustafson, 22, died January 18, 1930 after being struck by an opponent in a ring contest at St Bonaventure College Allegany. She held a two thousand dollar policy with a double provision.
Funeral services are set for Judge Emory A. Walling this Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Home with Pastor Clarence Allen officiating and burial at Erie Cemetery. Attending will be Chief Justin Robert S. Frazer of Pittsburgh and Justice George W. Maxey of Scranton, both from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, along with scores of state officials, lawyers and physicians. Walling died from a heart attack at his home on Tuesday night, and tribute is made to his long service on the high court.
Charles Z. Growtoble of Deep Hollow, 51, was seriously injured when a Fisher Jeise tractor overturned on a slope at an oil well site. Crownable rider was pinned under the heavy machine with chest injury. he was hospitalized in Oil City in serious condition.
Hiram B. Sullivan longtime Portage Twin proprietor in Westfield died at 5 a m on Wednesday at age 60 after a stroke two years earlier. He had operated the Portage Inn for twelve years and previously ran a Bemus Street shop and the Portage Hotel for three years, with prior years at the Bemus market.
Wanted notices offer 55 old scrips, envelopes of Civil Spanish-American and World Wars from Dec 25 to Jan 1. M W Doolittle requests North Center Street contact. Also listings seek affordable rooms with board, furnished flats, or duplex houses.
Washington Dec 31 Speaker Garner said Democrats will push a tariff proposition soon after the hearings and rush it through the House before a tax bill. He reported after a conference with House leaders and finance experts that there is a possibility the tariff could be given precedence.
In South Bend Indiana former American Bankers Association president Tom G. repheusom wed Miss Mary Studtynulee. The ceremony occurred at Lederat South Batu es wuns Liles Jackles peat age and involved notable associates.
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