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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1941
Page
3
A jumble ofOCR fragments mentions youths, schools, and valves in uncertain context. The readable bits reference 35 years, mutations, and potential educational or institutional notes, but concrete facts, dates, or names are not clear.
Mrs Beatrice Eden wife of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden departed London at the wheel of a mobil ten canteen to serve the army.
Harrisburg dispatch reports Democrats in the Pennsylvania legislature opposed Governor Arthur H. James's program, voting 126 to 2 in the House and 18 to 82 in the Senate against his proposals as he urged national defense unity. Republican leaders praised the speech, while Democrats urged political truce and many doubted the plan’s substance. A meeting was arranged with Governor James and Democratic chairman Meredith Meyers to discuss differences.
Excerpts describe London evacuation chaos and destruction of homes from bombing. Letters from Paterson relatives in November recount hardships, sheltering, and missing windows. A December message from London details a bombing blast, destroyed homes, and partial recovery as families endure the war’s upheaval.
Rumors rise that Works Progress Administration offices in Pennsylvania may be consolidated or moved as relief staff are absorbed into private jobs. The Franklin headquarters, serving Venango Erie Clarion Jefferson Warren and surrounding counties, faces potential changes though no definite plan is confirmed.
United States Coast Guard transported eight escapees from Devil's Island penal colony to Vichy Martinique. They were loaded aboard a vessel yesterday for deportation. The men hoped to join General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces and fight against the Axis in Europe.
A fragmented old proverb voice cites a saying that a nation's life rests in the hands of homemakers, labeling it an Arovatan maxim.
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania a collision between a private auto and a truck near Coaldale injured four people. Nellie Poarekaylo 11 suffered head injury and leg fracture, Athan Eokis 21 leg injuries, Frank Echuffer 27 facial injuries, all taken to Coaldale state hospital.
A Delaware County jury convicted Thomas A. Haynes, former Upper Darby detective, on charges of attempting to warn six gambling establishments that a state police raid was coming. He faced counts of misfeasance, malfeasance, and aiding and abetting in a scheme to influence witnesses and obstruct investigations.
A Clearfield firm faced an Associated Press report on Pittsburgh payroll actions. The case alleges underpayment of wages to 800 workers in 1946, with the firm accused of failing to pay the standard rate and overtime.
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