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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1933
Page
6
M Lily, a focal shoe repairer, installed a Landistock-stitch sewing machine for repairs of recullien's and children's articles. The new machine, second of its kind in the area, was added to a well equipped shop with a heavy outlay. The repairman offers demonstrations to interested customers and bills arrived today.
Police records show 3807 travelers used the city jail lodging over 1932 to 1934, ages 14 to 75 from across the country. They were searched, fed, and housed for brief stays as local authorities monitored panhandling and crime risk. Many were displaced workers driven into roaming by economic hardship.
Police seek Mrs. G. B. Lashley 87 of Washington Pa after notes addressed to her husband and Miss Beatrice Kelly were found in a purse on the Monongahela River bridge. A photograph of her children Lilly 12 and Virginia Mary 8 was recovered and a pedestrian reported a woman who vanished on the bridge.
The article reports that a Senate inquiry into unemployment funding authorized during the 1932 session called by Governor Binchot was ruled outside executive power and that money appropriated for such purposes was illegal. Counsel for the committee was instructed to reply immediately. Five other injunction suits against the Senate committee were pending in the same court.
In Bridgeville Pennsylvania a 13 month old Dolores Dean Boyd saved 19 people as fire destroyed their home. Her cries alerted father Hart Boyd and mother, drawing in the Deneih family and James Walsh and wife to carry others to safety. A dog Nellie died in the blaze. Loss estimated at 10 000 dollars. Fire likely started from an overheated furnace.
Milton Wycoff about 25 is hospitalized in Salamanca in serious condition after a railroad mishap days ago. An Erie Railroad employee, he reportedly fell about twenty feet, struck a tie, and suffered fractures of both hips with back injuries and cuts. His mother Mrs Bertha Wycott of 11 Rave Street has been alerted. he is in a plaster cast and his condition shows some improvement.
Hollywood July report on Marlene Dietrich fighting a federal injunction barring work with others until finishing The Song of Songs for Paramount. Judge Hollzey granted a temporary restraining order but declined a travel ban. Damages of 182,850 dollars claim unpaid salary.
A buffalo escaped Brann Park in Cambridge and wandered onto a railroad right of way causing a small disruption. The herd was reduced by one as the animal challenged the tracks, with no injuries reported.
A farmer north of Corry County was rushed to Corry Hospital with a fractured shoulder and dislocated collarbone after his horse bolted the wagon during an accident on his farm on Monday afternoon. He suffered cuts and bruises and is reported to be improving.
President Hoover assails Democratic opposition at a noon press conference after returning from Florida urging Congress to accept broader independent powers for his successor. He defends a planned reform to classify 58 activities into divisions and warns that without changes the effort would be mock.
Senator Costigan denounces penny pinching relief as he urges a broad federal relief bill. Speaking at a Senate manufacturers committee hearing on a 500 million plan, he notes 12 million unemployed and many on partial aid, urging decisive action and public support. He criticizes national leaders for failing to face the distress.
James Leffingwell alias Ralph Benson, 43, of Buffalo, was jailed on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. Police say he performs a pretend fall, dislocates his shoulder, and collects damages in public places. He faces the February grand jury in Erie County for alleged schemes in Conneaut and other cities in New York and Ohio.
Bellefonte Pa Jan 3 execution of Joseph Hudock 23 a convict in Luzerne county over alleged Toreh slaying at Stanley Yirish was postponed to Thursday January 5 prison officials said today The execution originally set for today was delayed because of the New Year holiday Hudock was to be brought to the death house from Luzerne county jail today.
Fragmentary OCR line references Troy Jonas, Spar -oard, Cox, and Mr Cox with unclear actions. Readable items mention a boxing or sparring context but no coherent event, dates, or outcomes to summarize into a full caption.
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