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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1948
Page
1
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Jerusalem remained paralyzed as Arabs Britons and Jews patrolled the tense city after yesterday's bomb blast in the Jewish sector. Rescue workers clawed through wreckage of two hotels and surrounding buildings as the death toll rose and security measures tightened with Jewish police and British forces barred from Jewish sections.
Six members of a Cambridge family die in a fire on Brewster Street early today. H Alan Grege a Harvard graduate, his wife Ann, and their four children Susan Alydry Peter and Phanons perished. Exia Roper survived with critical injuries after escaping from a second story window as flames swept the three story house. Firefighters and deputies battled the blaze as the structure burned, forcing rescue attempts and declaring the home an inferno before arrival of the fire crew.
Senate Finance committee met behind closed doors at Millikin’s urging to plan formal hearings on the House tax cut bill totaling 36.4 billion dollars. Members favored brief sessions with testimony limited to key lawmakers and business spokesmen as they weigh passage versus a smaller measure to avoid a Truman veto. Senator George indicated odds improve if the tax cut is trimmed to about four billion dollars.
In Phoenixville, three doctors spent five hours stitching Walter Wood, 25, after a bullet perforated his heart, left ventricle, lung, stomach, and spleen. At Phoenixville Hospital, surgeons Carlton Jameson, Robert W. Brant, and Ralph Shereshore said Wood is expected to live. The operation required about 150 stitches, with many to the heart and stomach. The bullet reportedly exited near his back, and Wood’s condition remained serious but hopeful. Separately, Hyam Dempsey, father of former boxing champion Jack Dempsey, died at age 78 in Salt Lake City. He was born May 4, 1856, in Logan, West Virginia.
President Truman urged a 14 month extension of rent control to cover a long range housing program aimed at producing a million dwellings annually for the next decade. He pressed for higher protection for tenants and funding to support low rent housing for the poorest families, warning rent increases if control lapses. He noted less than 15 percent of 1947 housing was rental units and warned of notices from landlords across the country threatening major rent hikes.
Washington reports angry Republicans plan public hearings this week on steel price hikes. Senate committee will question three steel executives as Taft vows a serious session. GOP fears price boosts ripple through industries and fuel inflation, while unions threaten new wage demands and anti inflation measures.
The United States Great Britain and France begin talks on western Germany's future with Russia absent. They acknowledge a divided world and discuss the Marshall plan and postwar peace, while Soviet leaders call the plan imperialistic and insist on four power consensus from Potsdam 1945.
In Manhattan on February 23 a 60 year old man Royal Lefkowsky and his 27 year old son Melle Lotkowsky died after tumbling beneath a moving BMT line at 8th Street Avenue station. The train operator Magnin Waagenes said he saw a struggle on the platform before the crash. Police noted the son shouted I’m going to die before the fatal fall and that the couple reportedly lived together in Brooklyn.
A chaotic Prague flashpoint erupts as police seize the headquarters of a major party after a government collapse. Communists tighten grip with interior ministry orders, arrests bloom among officials, and foreign embassies report heightened security. In a separate incident in Olyphant, Pa., 80 year old Mrs. Julia Smalley is burned to death in a house fire.
Corry men completed a weekend deal to buy Wilcox Grocery at 401 East Main Street. New owners Mette Page and Kenneth Nichols intend to continue operations from the West Main site, with plans for a new brick building on North Center Street but cites material delays. The Wilcox firm, started by the late Will J. Wilcox, served the community with staple goods and premium foods, and was later run by his son S. D. Wilcox before changes in ownership.
Chinese Dominionist troops wheeled their big guns close to Mukden to shake the beleaguered industrial city. Reports from Peiping said another setback north of Mukden tightened the blockade and opened the way for further Communist assaults to the north.
A fire at the G and J Restaurant on West Main Street and First Avenue raged for seven hours, killing five-year-old Jacqueline Hayrilla and an elderly man. George Clark, 56, and three firemen were injured as flames driven by a winter wind gutted a 21 room rooming house above the restaurant. Initial theories blame a floor furnace or a large transformer near the serving counter. investigators will likely never determine the exact cause. Property loss estimated at $60,000, with the building and contents owned by Mrs. Gertrude Haveli and Willem Jackson.
BULLETINS WALMINGTON Feb 23 The House armed services committee today evicted that 13 000 women would be enough for peace and discussed enlisting and commissioning women as regulars in the Army Navy and Air Force Americans for Democratic Action ADA adopted a platform at its first national convention urging abolition of the House Committee on un American activities The party branded the committee a threat to freedom of political opinion Hitoshi As h ida Japan s new prime minister eyes a three party coalition cabinet amid shaky support The Arch Conservative Liberal party he helped form refuses participation remaining in opposition
Federal Power Commission in Washington extends the emergency gas order for the Pennsylvania and Indiana nations. The 10,500,000 cubic feet daily allocation aids Jamestown Emery and Buffalo Troquois systems on the Pennsylvania gas utility grid. Corry and the industrial plants operate under 50 percent curtailment as Midwest gas boosts arrive. Funeral services set for Thomas Moses of Tanville, former president of H. C. Frick Coke Co. in Pittsburgh. John L. Lewis and soft coal operators delay pension talks until Friday.
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