Weather swirls into cold spell with rain and thawed roads
Local reports note showers turning colder while New Year’s remnants fade. Memorial Day remains months away as Chevrolet Plant No. 9 workers plan a strike vote and Corry motorists enjoy clear highways amid scattered snow in Chau tauiqua county. Several local items follow from city meetings to licensing and public notices.
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Mystery Attacks on Girl Believed Solved in Pa
Detective Carl E. Hartman announced the Esther Firestone case was solved after the 17 year old was found bound and gagged in a wooded area near York county. She described being waylaid Monday while walking to a domestic job and restrained with stockings and undergarments, then left in a streamside location before being found five hours later. Police and state investigators followed reports of an attack on a nearby road leading toward Yocumtown.
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Roosevelts 1940 Campaign Shifts Center Stage
AP profiles Franklin D Roosevelts bid for a historic third term highlighting his electrifying speeches as he defeats Wendell Willkie in a tight national vote 27 241039 to 22937226 amid tax changes civil service reform and new campaign finance limits. The piece covers Hull treaty extensions Wagner Act debates personnel shifts and cabinet realignments as Republicans gain in the House while the Senate grows.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willie
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Congress
House of Representatives
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Senate
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Chautauqua Board to Meet Mayville Officers Elected
The Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors meets Friday afternoon for its annual session. Wesley J. Young of Cherry Creek was chosen chairman succeeding Martin P. Wallows of Mayville. Pred G. Davis serves as chairman pro tem. Joseph A. McGinchies of Ripley continues as clerk after long service since 1905.
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Jamestown
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Dunkrk
Snow Removal Trucks Get Warning Lights for Safety
The department of highways tests new safety lights for snow removal trucks. Trucks will mount amber cab lights labeled slow and red rear lights labeled stop to warn motorists and protect crews. Tests show visibility from a useful distance, and about 775 units are to be installed this winter.
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Van
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Pennsylvania traffic engineer invited for Yale visiting lectures
Pennsylvanian traffic engineer Reigelmeier of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways is invited as a research visiting lecturer at Yale University from January 23 to 25. He will join Yale in July 1939. Between 1930 and 1938 he served as maintenance and design engineer in Pittsburgh's Bureau of Traffic Planning.
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Yale University
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Pittsburen
Six Injured When Christmas Tree Burns
Fire in Pittsburgh injures six as a Christmas tree ignites near a residence. Victims include Emma Nordorfer 73, Clara Dewalt 70, and Ethel Locke 82, taken to hospital. Three firefighters also sustain burns while rescuing occupants from the flames. A toy electric train spark caused the blaze.
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Ethel Locke
Five Rockview Fugitives Recaptured in Four Hours
Five prisoners who escaped Rockview penitentiary during a New Year break were recaptured on the Pennsylvania State College campus eight miles away within four hours. Guards Ray Johnson and John Baumgardner said the men fled after leaving a holiday movie show and passed an eight-foot wire stockade. The escape, the largest in recent Rockview history, may double the sentences of those involved. Recaptured inmates include William Clark, Leland Stanford Summit, Alfred Wick, Joseph Peters, and John Cliffe, all awaiting return to Centre County jail.
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Butler County
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Allegheny County
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Alegheny County
Centre County
81 Miles Of Additional Traffic Lanes On Roads
RAKHISBURG Jan 2 Construction of nearly eighty one miles of additional traffic lanes on heavily traveled roads and grades has been authorized by the Department of Highways engineers. The mileage will be built as WPA projects on the program sponsored by the Department. Between June 1, 1939 and October 15, 1940, the Department started the construction of more than 81 miles of additional traffic lanes on its WEA program. The additional mileage has been approved since October 15th.
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Erie Man Dies After Auto Crash In Hamet Hospital
Erie man Janette Kelly, age 2, died in Hamet hospital from injuries after being struck by a car driven by Ruth Schmock, 20, several days earlier according to Dr. W G Stroble, coroner.
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Thurt in Auto Trolley Crash Mayville
Two injured in a sedan trolley collision on East Chautsumia Street. Victims identified as Mr and Mrs J Harvey Skipper of 68 Fluvanna Avenue Jamestown. They were taken to Jamestown General Hospital with injuries not yet fully described. Motorman Leroy Anderson reported he was operating at the time of the crash.
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Leroy Anderson
Pittsburgh Year Ends With Fewer Drunken Driving Fatalities
Judge Misael Rousmmano credits a safety campaign for abolishing drunken driving deaths in Pittsburgh during year-end celebrations. He notes past fatalities: two at the last year-end, four previously, while a near-mitigation incident saw a sedan drift twelve to fifteen feet after braking and nearly colliding with a trolley car.
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Conder DUBLIN bomb neuts a recessive to tal Stat
A terse item notes a Dublin related incident involving a bomb and a political consequence. Details are fragmentary but indicate a security event and mentions of a legislature and tax issues, with no clear chronology or full names.
Union to Downs Prote: Monthly War Day From We
Unionto reports a monthly update on wartime day provisions and protection measures. Details are sparse but indicate ongoing coordination among local officials and civil defense groups regarding duties, supplies, and public safety. Further specifics are not clearly readable in the fragment.
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Fragmented Broadcast Schedule Bits From Wartime Radio
Radio listings mix scattered program names and times across networks NBC CBS WABC WEAF and more. Mentions broadcasts from Army Camp Bragg N C and London Berlin Budapest with varied shows and phonies amid incomplete lines.
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New Dent Of Equipmesc in Corry Unclear
Fragmentary note reports a new person and equipment in Corry. It mentions rooms, moving, and practice time but is garbled and lacks clear names, dates, or outcomes.
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Corry
Guy
Dri Ji
Kap Om Nort
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