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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1946
Page
6
Fragmented report covers a burglary, missing property, and an array of local items. It notes a theft near Gow Geuser and Spariansburg address, police involvement, a loss of money and papers, plus community notices on marriages, Red Cross activities, and Navy recruitment across Jamestown and Erie areas.
An overnight guest at the Jamestown residence of Arvid Jomwon witnessed four occupants narrowly escape a deadly gas leak. Betty Anderson, Lois Johnson, and Vivian Johnson were incapacitated by fumes as the furnace released coal gas spreading through Stowe Street home. The trio, aided by Mr Johnson, reached safety as the fire department was alerted.
Erie man James Mossburg, 29, was arrested by State Police on a charge of indecent assault involving a nine year old Erie girl. Acting District Attorney Dawhon McLaughlin said Mossburg allegedly enticed the girl into his car under the pretense of driving her home on a Friday afternoon. The girl fled from the vehicle, ran to a nearby farmhouse, and returned home with her father before Mossburg drove back to Colonial Avenue. Police recovered the license number and arrested Mossburg at his home with Puts, Reck, and A. W. Bering assisting.
Answers reveal the gis questions printed on the editorial page. Items list names such as Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin for Britain and James Byrnes for the US, Molotov for the Soviet Union, and references to Ike Hashimoto, nations Paraguay and Kentucky, ages 65, National Liberation, and items like Extortion and excess and Chronometer. Regional mentions include Ohio Pennsylvania New York Michigan. Final item notes The bombs list.
Two crew members died of injuries after an airliner crash near a central airport yesterday. Several others were injured as the plane skidded off a runway in murky conditions. The dead include pilot Delmar Dunkin and doctor Simons Gorsony. two severely injured passengers were treated at a hospital.
In Charlotte, Dan Sinclairville notes discuss petitions to replace Republican incumbent Emerson Derby with Wesley M Penhollow, elected highway superintendent but barred from office by the Town Board. Penhollow opposes petition circulation. Democratic committee pressed for resignation. Derby offered to resign at the board’s January 2 meeting, but the vote to table continued until the February 18 regular meeting.
Charter No 4479 Reserve District No 4 report details the bank’s balance sheet as of December 21 1915, including assets total 88998021 and deposits of 5499356.46. It lists loans and discounts, government obligations, securities pledged, cash balances, bank premises, and capital accounts. Officers H W Barker and W Parker certify the figures as true to the best knowledge, sworn January 4, 1916 before Notary Walter L. Peake.
About 9,000 GE workers at Erie area plants will participate in a nationwide strike ordered Saturday. The action, led by production workers, follows a call from New York headquarters and involves GE units across the nation as of the weekend reports.
Ellen Pearson whose husband died at Jamestown Saturday evening, a former resident of this city, survived by a daughter Mrs. D. B. Lawson of Randolph, three grandchildren, mother Mrs. August Pearson, sister Mrs. Mabel Selion of Jamestown. Funeral services set for Jamestown Tuesday with relatives from here attending.
Trade listings show Hansaheld Goods for sale in Pittsburgh with living room items and appliances. Separate Pittsburgh produce prices list apples potatoes and various citrus and fruit stock, alongside several regional fruit varieties. New York stock market activity notes mixed early strength with irregular noon quotations for major industrials and rails.
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