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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1929
Page
1
A pledge drive for a new Phillips Jones Corporation factory to employ 84,000 beyond a target proceeds as workers and officials gather gifts. A site will be chosen in coming weeks after the campaign and funding aim to secure an adequate fund. company officials anticipate final pledges rising.
W Stewart reports a telegram from Mrs Loltier Rafter pledging five hundred dollars for the industrial fund. Local efforts continue as Phillips Jones officials plan a conference to finalize contract terms and site decisions. Several thousand dollars more are anticipated from remaining pledges and corporate contributors.
Washington February 26 The stalemate over whether the administration shall secure 24 million more for prohibition enforcement next year resurfaces in the Senate Senator Harris Democrat Georgia proposes a 24 million amendment to the Senate appropriation bill. Republican leaders plan moves to aid the amendment as a defense against the first deficiency bill defeat in conference. Glass Virginia Democrat aims to revive the first deficiency measure by resisting the Harris proposal and forcing a House compatible action. The appropriations committee resists adding Harris while warning it could destabilize the entire appropriations system.
Paul Willis of Titusville was arrested by Patrolman Ruppersburg on a charge of issuing forged checks. He was sentenced to the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon by Judge O Clare Kent in Crawford County Court. Willis claimed his brother gave the checks and that he did not know they were fraudulent. The judge noted the leniency shown did not seem to profit from it and said parole possible after 13 months if good behavior. William Gayenaki of Titusville faced $50 and costs for wanton pointing of firearms and parole was granted. His wife shot John J. Sagan, the prosecutor, the day after conviction. She pleads guilty to tellions shooting before a Titusville fisherman and will face county court for sentence. Lewis Stull and Auzone Webb of Meadville pleaded guilty to robbing five business places at Saeger Town near Meadville and were sent to the Western Penitentiary for three years.
Washington reports six of the bandits who kidnapped and killed C. C Aisethorpe and Josep Underwood have been killed. Ambassador Morrow telegraphed the State Department today from Mexico City.
The Journal prints a complete donor list for Corry Industrial Funds after careful compilation by the committee. It notes space limits prevent full reprinting but pledges will continue to be published as reported, and urges readers to keep this issue for reference.
Corry motorists through the Erie County Motor Club protest a proposed four and a half cent gas tax increase to fund highway projects. Secretary Je Chester Lillis, in Harrisburg in conference with State Senator Miles Ellis and assemblymen, seeks support to defeat the boost. He will then attend the Pennsylvania Motor Club secretaries meeting in Lancaster.
Lindbergh and his fiancée Anne Morrow remained silent on wedding plans during a quiet stay at Cuernavaca Mexico. The couple explored the resort city amid orchids and roses, with only occasional church bells and no public statements about an engagement announcement.
Washington Feb 26 The Hoover administration faces uncertainty over William Donovan’s cabinet future after another conference with President Hoover. Donovan, an assistant to Attorney General Sargent, is not assured a cabinet post. Rumors linked him to Secretary of War, citing his World War I record as a colonel. Others named for top posts include William Mitchell for Attorney General and Justice Harlan Fiske Stone in talks, with senators Hastings Townsend and Ralph Arnold noted among Hoover allies.
An exhibition of prints from famous artists opens this afternoon at the junior high school and runs three days through Thursday. Hours are 3 to 5 in the afternoon and 7 to 10 in the evening, with a 15 cent charge to benefit the school’s art purchases. The show features 150 prints reproduced from originals, aiding art education and teaching pupils to recognize great works and learn about painters. Robert Bachester and Harold and Donald Tate left for Buffalo this morning to bring back new Chevrolet cats.
Listings show multiple radio entertainments across networks including WARG CBS Atlantic City with Hans Simmons Shaw and George Barreye's Littig Symphony Orchestra, Popular Hour with Matshil ierel's orchestra, Jane Green, and Paul Warteman with orchestras on WABC CBS networks.
In Harrisburg on February 26, intense clashes between physicians and chiropractors resumed as hearings spotlight bribery allegations over a chiropractors bill. Dr. Arthur C. Morgan of Philadelphia disputed bribery charges. House members pressed for substantiation after Morgan’s denial.
Worth Hammond of the Corry Credit Exchange announced a new Corry trade in movement set to start tomorrow. With each $1 purchase, shoppers receive a coupon entitling them to a share of a four prize pool totaling 600 in gold: 250, 200, 100, and 50 dollars. Coupons apply to purchases and account payments.
Dr Edwin Mimms of Vanderbilt University spoke to about two hundred at the Masonic hall after a sauerkraut supper hosted by the Woman's Club led by Mrs Charles Stewart. He discussed idealism through growth, democracy, and leisure, citing Soviet experiments and American projects in art, science, and nature.
United Press reports fourteen people were injured when a southbound Reading passenger train crashed into a wrecking train at Laurel, six miles south of Coatesville. Fog and a flagman's failure to stop are blamed. injured were treated at Coatesville Hospital.
Harrisburg Pa February 25 Pennsylvania's war veterans moved closer to a state bonus The House approved a constitutional amendment allowing a popular vote on a 60 million dollar honor issue for World War and other American wars veterans The measure still requires Senate passage and approval by both parties for a 198% referendum delay unclear text.
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