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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
3
Kinley reports January snowfall of 45 inches, bringing the seasonal total to 124 inches, with record patterns showing 21 snowy days in January and temperatures hitting zero or below on 12 days. Ground remains unfrozen except where cleared, causing ongoing settlement and drifting up to 23 inches.
In Mexico City area at 12:47 a m a rear end crash between a freight train and a passenger train carrying pilgrims bound for Mexico City from the Virgin Mary festival at San Juan De Los Lagos left more than 100 dead and about 150 injured near Cazadero Hidalgo state.
Harrisburg reports 1944 fire data show hunters started 131 fires across 41 Pennsylvania counties, burning about 2296 acres and costing $4,692 to extinguish. In Huntingdon county 15 fires linked to smoking game, with a club in Centre county setting a fire to improve deer food.
Mrs Isabel Edwards Hinchman received a surprise call from Cpl Bruce Hinchman who said he had just arrived in the United States for a 30 day rest furlough. He, a Liberator bomber crew member, was missing since October after a fight over Austria and had escaped from enemy territory to rejoin his unit at an RAF base in Italy. He reported being in good health despite bailing out and weeks in enemy-held territory. Co pilot escaped with him. five crew members are prisoners of war. He expected to reach his home within days for a rest leave.
Ridgway February 1 Mrs Richard Glantz was carried on a stretcher for two miles through hip deep snow to a waiting automobile and taken to Elk County General Hospital. Ten men alternated in the rescue and it took about two hours to reach the car. She had been ill for a week and was moved to the hospital where she rests comfortably today.
Former Filipino guerrillas, after their role in fighting Japanese, are signing up with the American Merchant Marine. They are being used to replace casualties among merchant ship crews in the Philippines as reported by the War Shipping Administration.
Sgt. Doyle Hetrick, a Kane native, arrived in New York after multiple injuries and previous missing status in North Africa Italy and France. He formerly left Kane with local Pennsylvania National Guard units in 1941 for federal service and is expected to be assigned to a hospital near his home town, possibly Deshon Hospital in Butler.
In Erie on February 1 police search for Ethel Nollinger a 32 year old Hele waitress who left a downtown restaurant with an unknown man at 4 am and has not returned home Her husband Orin Nollinger cannot explain her disappearance.
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