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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1944
Page
6
Wartime brief from Corry area detailing emergency reports, missing and returned service members, and local administrative actions. Includes aviation and Navy casualty notes, highway patrol checks, bridge safety plans near Warren, and real estate transfers. Also mentions police inquiries into a stolen car, military medical dispositions, and rationing updates with February 1945 timing.
Corry Red Cross Chapter and Veterans of Foreign Wars lead a survey of problems faced by ex servicemen returning to civilian life. About 100 vets have returned to Corry and work in local industries as committees push for efficient job referrals and orderly discharge paperwork. Other groups including the American Legion Rotary Club and Civilian Defense aid efforts with U S Employment Service and draft board partners pledging cooperation.
Grand jury returns indictments including Simpson 24 of 147 West 15th Street for murder in Erie slaying of Charles Rayford 81. Judges Kitts Evans set testimony for February 9 at 9 04 pm to fix guilt degree and sentence. Other indictments include McKendree Jarzemy Angelo Thomas larceny Dye rape Orettit two counts rape Merritt Smith Mus Sutton adulter Robert Idder indecent assault.
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In Clymer on February 2 the volunteer firemen and their wives held their annual banquet at the Clymer Central School with about seventy five in attendance. A three course chicken dinner was served by the Young Ladies Mission Band. Guest of honor Sgt. Ralph Damvolt attended with remarks and magic acts entertained. Mrs. Emogene Newhouse was feted with a chicken dinner and a handkerchief shower ahead of plans to move to Tampa, Fla. Several local events followed including Rebekah Lodge activities, club meetings, and a funeral service for John Schruers. Elementary and high school notes report War Bond sales and a lively first semester in music.
Erving A. Curdy, 35, ex laboratory technician at Newton Memorial Hospital, held on $1000 property bail by Jamestown city court on a bigamy charge. Alleged to be married before and father of two, Curdy was arrested in Belair, Maryland, after a pursuit from Havre de Grace. His 16 year old bride Charlotte May Loucks allegedly obtained a marriage in Lakewood two weeks earlier, while Mrs. Margaret Cardy, 27, Newton Hospital employee, reportedly married Cardy on December 19, 1996 and has two daughters. her husband left the hospital about six months ago.
Victor Stout, trained in the Army, saved his wife after she collapsed from gas heater fumes in their second floor apartment at 2361 West State Street. He started artificial respiration and continued until firefighters arrived with an inhalator, while their one-year-old son was nearby.
Third and fifth grades tied for first place with thirty eight songs. Mrs Tyes first grade and Mrs Lovkeniouse seventh grade tied for second with thirty one songs. Pewald grades to sing again February sixteenth in the next music assembly. The band added new music and members. The chorus plans more modern numbers this semester. Second semester courses include Leconom etry mechanical drawing I representation IT design I and an advanced craft class.
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