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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1950
Page
6
Paraphrased report states safecrackers broke into Roth Mois garage and Cadillac dealers in Erie yesterday, stole about $400, and damaged the safe with a sledgehammer. Police described the break in and the resulting damages, with no arrests mentioned.
Warren borough council will open bids for a new traffic system at tonight’s meeting. Two new traffic lights are scheduled. 16 existing lights will have controllers and wiring upgraded. Burgess Crosett says the sequence will change to green then yellow then red and back to green, removing the second yellow warning. Local police warned northwest Pennsylvania to drive with hazy visibility due to poor weather. In Presbyterian Church, a seven member pulpit committee was elected to choose a new pastor after Rev. Gilbert Boyd's resignation. C. M. Howard chairs, with Clarence Wallace, James Harper, Al Vanesen, Chester Gaines, Mrs. I. Harold Patterson, and Mrs. Hubert Heerlein. E. J. Lewis will serve as secretary and Harry Smith as adviser.
Philadelphia February 6 The 25 year old Air Force veteran Edward Gibbs who confessed to killing Marlon Baker, a Franklin and Marshall College stenographer, underwent an electrical brain examination at Philadelphia General Hospital. Defense attorney Weasel Brown ordered the test amid hints Gibbs may plead insanity. Trial for murder is set for next month in Lancaster, with results possibly kept confidential.
Mrs Esther Legters wife of Clarence T Legters of North Clymer died Saturday afternoon at Roswell Memorial Hospital Buffalo after more than a year ill She was born February 9 1894 in Clymer and daughter of the late John and Hannah Wevers She was a member of Clymer Hill Reformed Church and a charter member of Une Damcott Jones Post American Legion Auxiliary Survived by husband a son Kenneth Legters of Schenectady a daughter Charlotte a granddaughter Lana Lee Legters a brother Milton Wevers of Bear Lake and a sister Mrs John Tenburkle of Clymer Services Tuesday at 2 pm at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer with Rev Gerald Dykstra officiating Interment in Holland Cemetery.
President invokes Taft Hartley after coal miners resist a fact finding board with power to set wages. Lewis warned that miners, as free citizens, reject outsiders deciding vital terms and urged self determination. Soft coal operators had agreed to the president's proposed procedure.
Pittsburgh February 1 police questioned a 31-year-old freight handler charged with murder in the death of his cousin and rooming-house landlady Florence Fuge 55. Inspector Flavin said the suspect George Stepp admitted striking her during an argument citing she nagged him as the cause. Coroner pathologist Dr Theodore Helmbold ruled death from blows and shock.
A prominent Greenville manufacturer long missing nine years ago was legally declared dead today. Victor G. Deissler, 43, disappeared after vanishing from his office and automobile. the court ruling sets his death date as nine years prior.
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