Letter to Victim in Shooting Case Sparks Trial Details
Smethport scene as four day old trial of Frank Heffner Bradford defense worker charged with wife shooting unfolds. Edith Gibbs, 41, testified she wrote a letter found pinned to the victim and admitted authorship. Gibbs, once a Bradford florist, said Heffner threatened him in a shop foyer and warned of shooting if things did not change.
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Washington Street
Bradford
Curtiss- Wright
Buffalo
Gibbs
Heffner
Crotty to Become Erie Rationing Board Chief Clerk
Robert R. Crotty of 429 Shenley drive will replace Harry Mehl as chief clerk of the Erie rationing board at 121 East 9th Street, taking up duties Monday. Mehl resigned citing heavy workload and limited authority, with Crotty learning the office from the departing official.
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Erie
Robert R. Crotty
Shenley Drive
Harry Mehl
Society columnist widow works as script girl in film set
Mrs Jack Singer former society columnist and widow of the IN S war correspondent who died on the Wasp is now a script girl on a Hollywood movie set Grace MacDonald is shown on the set in this image from the production.
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Society
Jack Singer
International News Service
U.S
Wasp
Mavies
Actre
Grace MacDonald
Hollywood
Two Corry Boys Join U S Marines
Two Corry youths Robert H. Stearns and Albert W. Clark enlisted for the duration of the war at the Marine Corps induction station. They were sworn in by Captain Samuel Bonnell at Buffalo’s recruit center and ordered to Parris Island for training in close drill and weapons before serving at posts at home or abroad.
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Albert W Clark Budfalo
Marine Corps
Deave Parris Taland
Oecuit Center
Young Erie attorney admitted to ten county bar
An Erie attorney, son of Mrs. H. Fischer of 316 West 5th Street and Charles H. Fischer, US Navy, and grandson of Henry G. Fink, prominent local industrialist, is admitted to the ten county bar. He graduated Strong Vincent High School in 1924 and cum laude from Lawrenceville School in 1935.
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Erie
H. Fischer
West Sth
Tate Camdr
Charles H. Fischer
United States Navy
Henry G. Fink
Fischer
Strong Vincent High School
Lawrenceville School
Testimonial Dinners Planned for New Bishop
Testimonial dinners honor Bishop-elect William T. McCarty. Dinners will be hosted by St. Philip's parish in Grossinaville and by St. John's parish of Girard where he was reared. He is to be consecrated Titular Bishop of Ames on January 25 and has roots as an altar boy at the Church of St. John. Arrangements are not yet announced.
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Jad
William T. McCarty
Birhplace
Grossinaville
St. Philip's Church
St. John's
Girard
Ames
Church of St. John
Guilty verdicts in Elk County camp case
Wilfred Lene of St Marys found guilty on charges linked to a firing camp in Elk County. Another verdict found Doyly Cyone of Ridgway guilty of furnishing liquor to a man with intemperate habits. Sentencing set for the civil term opening Friday morning.
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Elk County
Ridgway
Wilfred Lene
St. Marys
Cout
Mandal
J. W. DeHaan
Sherif
J. Goete
John ©. van Aken
Rideway
Foremun
Merger Aims to Consolidate Kane Banks and Assets
The First National Bank of Kane plans sale of its buildings and assets to Kane Bank and Trust Company. If stockholders approve and requirements are met, deposits of the Private National Bank will be assumed by Kane Bank and Trust. Effective February, this major financial transaction will create a single bank serving the community for the first time since 1895.
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ANI
Dan. Ivi
Pist National Bank
Kane
Kané Batk and Trust Company
Firet National Bank
Pirv
National Bank
Kane Burkind Tras Company
Efferiive
Pebrurty
Finenela
War Bonds and Bombs Support Airmen in WWII Drive
An article links War Bonds to funding demolition bombs for the RAF to strike Nazi targets, noting 500-pound models and fin attachment at airfields for accuracy. It urges payroll savings participation to fund bombs for U.S. airmen with a New Year goal of reaching ninety percent.
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RAF
Raaing
U.S
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Smethport
John Gibbs
Slayer
Ife
Crotty
Mehl
Croly
Associates/ Discourt Corp
Erle Trust
Mehlann
OPA
Mehr
Corry
U.S. Marines
Robert E. Stearns
Greetory
Kane Banks
Calif
Pillsbury's
RED Cross
Salerno
Collie
Firch
Firch Baking Company
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