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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1934
Page
6
A Kansas State Penitentiary guard testified that Clyde Deer 25th pound guard at Lansing gave prison keys to the outlaw Bob Brady. Brady allegedly used the keys to aid seven convicts in an escape after threatening guards during the breakout.
Stormy weather ushers in Erie events as the Erie Automobile Show begins Saturday February 1 at the old Bieber Garage on East Tenth Street. The week brings health conference talks, hotel changes, radio broadcasts, theater attractions and local civic notes including weather, registrations, and community updates.
S. M. Wales was reelected president of the Coury Building and Loan Association after the annual stockholders session in the Barlow block offices. He succeeds A. C. Foster who resigned months ago. Three directors for three-year terms were named Ei. L. Simmons, B. M. Jourdet, and Frei Barnes. Guy Haskins fills the unexpired term of John A. Lanston. Officers named at the reorganizational meeting include Wales as president, Ralph Fogie vice president, Orrin M. Hillburg treasurer, J. L. Spiesman secretary, W. York assistant secretary, and Walter L. Peake solicitor.
Private detectives have been assigned to guard Doris Duke at her Somerville New Jersey home following a threatening letter. Duke, reputedly the world’s richest young woman, inherited her father James Buchanan Duke’s vast fortune.
Meadville, Jan. 23. Charles Wilson of Mayville and Arthur Eggert of Westfield were arrested at Westfield, Me., in a rapid cross‑county operation after a burglary near Meadville. Police obtained a signed confession and returned the pair to Crawford County jail for arraignment on charges of breaking and entering and larceny.
Grace Perigo, sister of Charles B. Perigo of this city, died in Chicago after injuries from a scalding accident ten days earlier. She was nearly blind and suffered from illness, a daughter of Captain William H. Perigo, a Civil War Battery H 1st Ohio Light Artillery officer. Her sister Mrs. Jona Chi Hint in Chicago attended the funeral, with Episcopal rites held Monday.
In Portland Oregon an OCR reading notes state crop figures for 1935 with totals around 37,000 acres in production. Official figures are uncertain and irrigation or weather data are not clear.
Governor Pinchot, recuperating in New York from shingles, announced that about 88 000 Pennsylvanians over 70 will be eligible for monthly old age pensions starting December 1. The plan, signed last week, sets $80 for the first family member and $16 for each additional dependent, aiming to ease alms houses and reduce public welfare costs. Pennsylvania becomes the 26th state to provide for the aged poor, a program tracing back to the 1915 Alaska law.
Adolph Bresn ep and Bremer family members pursue ransom terms for Bremer's release. Negotiators allegedly received two notes via Nippert home, with $200,700 to be paid at a payout. Denials from Nippert and Bremer family officials followed reports of notes and an advertisement in two Minneapolis papers signaling possible payment under the abductors' terms.
Heirs of William Hoagland the millionaire lumberman sue Mrs. Margaret Shotwell in Lincoln Nebraska over a $50 000 claim on a promissory note cited as given for value received The case centers on how the word Happiness is legally defined in the note and will determine the decision path of the court
Two investigators from the State Department of Public Instruction launched the $5 million school relief survey in Harrisburg. Dr James Rule ordered full investigation of every application, with 500 to 1,600 districts applying across Pennsylvania.
Jen Hold, 23 from Pittsburgh, was arrested after slamming a car into a Duquesne Heights repair crew and an open manhole. Foreman Maynard Manners, 40 of Wilkinsburg, suffered head and hip injuries and was hospitalized. Police freed two electricians trapped by high tension wires. no one else was trapped.
Mrs. William ding of Durant City was injured when the car returning from Old City skidded on snow. The vehicle veered off the road, struck the embankment and rolled. She remained hospitalized as x rays showed fractures to a vertebra and a rib.
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