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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1944
Page
3
The Corry Evening Journal notes that leaders and representatives discuss monetary issues and world affairs in a restrained, quiet setting. They emphasize careful pre negotiation and mutual understanding to avoid hasty, conflicting decisions.
Citizens demand full inquiry into wartime scandals and profiteering as shortages strain daily life. Frustration grows over lingering investigations, while calls grow for accountability, action, and an end to perceived government inaction in handling the crisis.
Rationing notices list continued as OPA explains validity of Book Four red blue and 12-A 30 31 BY and B-3 B-4 C-4 coupons through specified end dates. Fuel oil and shoes stamps details appear with dates and usage rules. A historical note mentions WWI transport feeding wounded personnel.
Hundreds of residents visit West Smith street coneal after an expose. Plans for another boxing card to be discussed at a Corry Boxing Commission meeting tonight. Modern Dames Club meeting at Mrs. Clarefice Mixer produced officers and a reporter. John Marks critically ill at his First avenue home. Canadohba Lake summer resort development linked to Centerville Union City road plans. Lincolnville ad and gas rate case talk as city solicitor Blaine Kincaid travels to Erie for talks with Samuel Gilson. Municipalities seek to delay rate hike pending state hearing.
Albert Berger chief enforcement attorney for the Erie district OPA office was relieved of duties effective Sunday. Davis of Pittsburgh named interim chief, not permanent. Reported Berger recalled to New York City or relieved. Erie board tensions and cooperation issues with the enforcement office cited as possible factors. Executive director Williams said Berger on routine business trip. no official Erie OPA confirmation.
The Medica Society of Pennsylvania warns that wars foster opium addiction as American troops occupy territories. Opium shops flourish for profits and troops risk exposure through close contact. Authorities are urged to seize opium, close shops, and prohibit opium smoking in war zones. The U S did not permit opium sales in the Philippines, and global suppression remains essential despite ongoing conflicts.
Classified page hints quiz style questions about geography and honors. It asks for the peninsula with Cherbourg at its tip, plus multiple true false and fact questions about U S Army branches, Lisbon, kinship, Tin King, a Turkish or other device, heliocentricity, Hawaii governance, top US decoration, and Brian Ahern birthplace.
Washington forecasts a record wheat crop of 1,127,829,000 bushels and a very large corn crop of 3,980,236,000 bushels for the coming season. Favorable weather is expected to sustain the grains through the 1845 growing period with oats barley and hay also rated strong.
Rose Lee Bell, 26, hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and possible injuries after a fuel shortage incident in a car driven by Ron Adolph Butler. Police say Butler turned off the ignition and rocked the steering wheel as a passerby pushed the stranded vehicle, causing it to veer off the road and down an embankment. Bell leaped from the car during the rollover.
Oil City officials say a valve controlling gasoline flow failed, releasing confined vapor that ignited and caused a million dollar fire at a 100 octane plant. Eight lives were lost and several injured in the Thursday disaster, with Ferinal Company releasing the three page statement to newspapers.
Fire destroyed a barn and outbuildings at Colby farm near Bemus Point early yesterday. Officials expect to form a new Moose lodge. ceremonies planned Sunday at the State Armory with delegates from several cities. Capital invested in the U. S. motion picture industry totals $2,061,500,000.
In continued coverage from page one, President Roosevelt endorses the De Gaulle regime as an interim authority under Gen Dwight D Eisenhower. The setup grants Eisenhower and the Allied leadership de facto control over municipal transfers from military administration to the committee until Free French governance is enabled by the people.
Mrs Caroline Maybee aged 23 died suddenly this morning at her daughter Mrs duel Carpenter home in Meadville She was widow of Mt B Maybee and sister of Mrs Selle and Mrs Selsle Funeral arrangements were not yet completed She is survived by a daughter and two granddaughters with the names of other relatives noted in the notice
A wartime health and education subcommittee heard that many servicemen who experience breakdowns recover fully and can return to civilian life. Coronel Bracelund and Colonel Enuinger from Navy and Army neuropsychiatry testified that the public and employers must accept mentally cured individuals as normal workers.
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