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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1945
Page
1
The readable text lists items for sale including oats straw fruit and dairy products. It mentions quantities of bulls heifers and other cattle with prices like 14.00 and 16.15. A buyer seeks barley and rolling barley tools or equipment.
The Board of Education met with all directors present and elected three new teachers while accepting resignations. New hires include Mrs. Charlotte Swan and Clarice Wid, plus Lloyd Matsol, with six vacancies still to fill. Treasurer’s report shows a balanced year of 22.80 dollars, no loans, and cafeteria aid totaling 3,850.85 dollars. Enrollment estimates for fall: 714 in grades, 287 in junior high, and 410 in senior high. Bids for August bus transportation from Pairhaven to Concord building to be taken. City treasurer to prepare tax cards for the current levy.
Washington July 10 Associated Press reports a government move to tighten controls on illicit food distribution. A top official indicated the cabinet will join the Office of Price Administration to curb black market sales and ensure fair commodity distribution nationwide. Continued details promised on Page Six.
The Board of Education adopted the 1945 46 school calendar on Supt Ralph Dewey's recommendation Schools reopen September 5 and the year ends June 5 1946 with possible winter delays Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays listed Easter vacation dates and Memorial Day closing details included as approved The plan outlines openings closings and holiday periods for the 1945 46 school year with weather contingencies noted.
Anxiety ran high as families waited for casualty reports from the USS Hancock bombing incident. A Corry sailor named Tinko was feared among the dead but is presumed alive, with no official word of his status to relatives.
Reports show a surge of rats in the center and North Center street blocks near Main. Night shift workers and police describe nightly rodent activity with increasing timber damage and stock losses cited by several downtown firms. Exterminators had begun cleaning some north side buildings, but the overall rat population remains high, echoing a similar rise in Erie. Treasury data from July 7 show total debt and receipts figures for the period.
San Francisco July 10 Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey commander of the Seventh Amphibious Force warned that Japan would be beaten by next summer. He said the question is whether Japan will quit before its country is destroyed or keep fighting until it can no longer resist.
Paris reports two officials say General De Gaulle will not run in the October general election and may not join any party. The vote may decide whether to discard the 1875 constitution and how the new assembly will be formed. In Fort Devens, Pvt Joe McGee is sentenced to six months hard labor for desertion, drunkenness in uniform, and false reporting.
United States senators Millikin and Vandenberg weighed possible reservations to the United Nations charter during Foreign Relations Committee sessions. Millikin questioned passages and suggested leading a reservations effort, while Vandenberg outlined withdrawal conditions and potential adverse public opinion as consequences.
A violent electrical storm hit the Lehigh valley with at least six dead. In Phillipsburg four died when two houses were crushed by falling rocks as Delaware River waters rose and caused a landslide. One death occurred in Bethlehem and another in Allentown. Over 25 Girl Scouts were stranded near Easton until ropes aided a boat crossing a flooded creek. Damage estimates run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, marking the worst storm in years.
Nearly 2,000 American aircraft swept Tokyo Bay area in the heaviest air blow of the Pacific war. The coordinated assault involved carrier task forces striking Japanese waters and targets around Tokyo and surrounding island groups, with plans for continued raids and potential further actions.
Employes and firm agreed on wage plan but regional labor board delays action. Union mobilizes to seek strike authorization to prompt timely approval, following a prior accord reached last October on job evaluation and pay. The dispute mirrors past tensions at the Corry-Painesville area plant tied to the Penn electric company.
Stratford dispatch notes the F4U-4 Corsair fighterBomber, faster than seven miles a minute with 3 000 bombs and six 60 caliber machine guns. Described by Navy in Washington, it uses a Pratt and Whitney double Wasp 2800-C engine boosting speed to about 425 miles per hour and climbs faster with a higher ceiling, aiding superiority over Japanese aircraft. Marine Lieut Douglas M West, piloting one, forced a crash of an enemy pilot after a brief exchange.
A battle casualty at an Ohio hospital, later described as the first to lose four limbs, is highlighted along with wartime injuries and medical details. The report notes extensive injuries among personnel, mentions the death toll impacts, and quotes military officials on the broader casualties and evacuations.
Berlin bulletin reports the three Allied powers amicably solving the issue of reading the nearly 8,000,000 German civilians. The item notes Argentina and a German boat surrender near Mar del Plata, Otto Vermoull commands a 4 man crew, and North American coast guard efforts to evacuate American soldiers from a weather post. London denies reports of a Charles conference with General Franco.
Legal notices show the Corry Lodge of Moose plans to buy the former Exchange Hotel Property on North Center Street for 919,725 and to purchase another Keleher estate property on 1 Spring Street for 1,000. Hearings before Judge Evans set for July before Erie County Court.
State police hunt two Navy uniformed men who robbed a driver in Erie and forced him toward Westfield. A 17 year old victim was abducted, slugged, and robbed. suspects described as men in navy garb, one in spliced white uniform, last seen fleeing in a yellow painted truck. Authorities broadcast photos and notes of the vehicle and suspects.
An arrest was reported today in Marion over a missing baby case. Police indicated belief the infant, daughter of Air Force Gunner John L Creviston and a local matron, may be found with a certain woman who dined with birth claims. Medical exams were planned to verify the story as officers pursued papers at an undisclosed destination.
Five German prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps were executed at U S Disciplinary Barracks Leavenworth in a historic, unprecedented move in U S military history. Convicted January 25 1944 at Camp Gruber for Johannes Kunze’s murder, the group included Walter Beyer Berthold Seidel Mae Demme Hamit Seipente Behiby. All declined pleas and faced the gallows, each hanged by their request in a joint act described as fanatical Nazism.
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