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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1930
Page
1
Reports detail gang bombings and slayings in Chicago fueling a statewide Republican controversy. Mentions include planned visits by leaders, possible gubernatorial candidates, and shifts in party support amidst a tense early morning political climate.
Harrisburg dispatch reports war signs across Pennsylvania GOP as May primary fate hinges on Philadelphia leaders' Florida retreat. Vare backs Shunk Brown for governor while Taylor distance from lieutenant governor role signals internal maneuvering. Mellons considered mediating factions. Monaghan boom gains traction with Houck support. western publisher John L. Stewart touted as potential governor candidate with Hoover ties.
The National Association of Wets discusses calling a national convention to unite behind a single plan to repeal or modify the Volstead Act. Former Senator William Cabell Bruce proposes delegates from all states to form a coordinated platform, aiming to centralize the wets and influence repeal hearings opening Feb 12.
Washington Feb 3 United Press reports Chief Justice William Howard Taft resigned today ending a brilliant, long career that rose from president to head of the Supreme Court. Taft left Asheville after three weeks of rest, with health and old bladder ailment cited. no statement was made on resignation.
NBC network listings show 7 30 Roxy's Gang on WEAF 8 30 A and P Gypsies on WEAP 9 30 General Motors hour on NBC stations 10 30 Empire builders and Voice of Columbia on WABC GBS network.
U A. Vriske of East Main Street was overcome by gas fumes in his bathroom. A neighbor, Mx Tyiskel, investigated after he did not respond, finding the room smoky and aiding his revival with assistance from Charles Pundurst nearby. After rest, Vriske fully recovered.
State Police arrest B. Foster of the county area after he refused to surrender a car claimed by Olson of Pittsburgh as his property. Foster, held on inquiry, was brought before Alderman C. B. Porter as the case continued.
Harrisburg fed reports two men named C. Stare and Guy H. Thomas pleaded guilty to defrauding the State Department of Agriculture by submitting fraudulent cattle indemnity vouchers. Judge Hargest sentenced them today in Dauphin County Court.
United Press reports air mail pilot Carey Pridham of Lexington Massachusetts drowned when his aircraft struck an observation tower over Brarnard Field Hartford Connecticut on February 3. Pridham aged 30 left a widow and child in Losington after about six months flying the New York Hartford Boston mail route for Colonial Air Transport.
Five men died and several injured in a rash of weekend auto crashes across western Pennsylvania. John Leippe, 53, struck on Parlington road near Beaver Falls. Wilbur Wiles, 22, University of Pittsburgh student, killed in Sharpsburg. Almond Williams, 22, critically injured at St Francis Hospital after a skull fracture. A hit and run injured Berkenbush, a contractor, near Dixmont. a white male about 40 was killed by two cars in Pittsburgh. Coroner and police investigated as wrecks were reported in multiple towns.
A Corry Water Company line burst near the Masonic building at the corner of Washington and Gebter streets, tearing a three foot diameter hole in the pavement and sending water into a wide area. Pressure at the poll reached about 140 pounds. MR Green had a crew of two workers at the scene, water shut off for about two hours as repairs began amid long-standing local concerns.
A perfect diamond hand was dealt during a bridge game at the home of Mr and Mrs Walter H Merrick over the weekend. Mrs Charles Spiesman of West Smith Street held the hand, one of the few to be reported among local players.
Scores of witnesses including public officials physicians and other prominent locals arrived in Pittsburgh for the trial of former Judge John A Berjey of Somerset and 16 others indicted by the federal grand jury on three counts of conspiracy to sell transport and manufacture liquor.
The brief notes a recently appointed ambassador who served as an expert at the Washington Arms Conference. The image caption directs readers to page 8 for more details.
Giuseppe Guida, 36, of Doylestown, was executed by electric chair at Rockview for the murder of Joan Tillotta near Bristol on December 29, 1928. Convicted after evidence showed he hired New York gunmen to waylay her husband. attended by Rev. Francis P. McCreesh. With this death, 200 people have died by electric chair in Pennsylvania since 1915.
London naval conference enters its third week of diplomacy as Britain and America push for limits on tonnage shifts among battleships aircraft carriers and submarines. France plans to present views on policy and transfer while Premier Tarieu will be absent from the next meeting.
Bulletin reports a fire destroyed isolated farms at Hammonds Corners ten miles south of Conneaut. In separate items, a protest against regulating telephone and ratio industries under one commission is raised in the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee by the Independent Persons association of 7,000 firms. The administration bill to move the prohibition bureau to the Justice Department gains House approval momentum. Storms in Europe feared to have killed 21 as shipping suffers from the Gulf of Finland to the Mediterranean. A Canadian man from La Salle claims he was wounded by U S forces in the Detroit River incident.
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