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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
1
A city campaign reports $1450 pledged toward purchasing an iron lung respirator for Cony Hospital. The committee headed by Richard Rossbacher plans a policy for its use and aims to secure the required $1594 with additional donations expected.
The Meadville Firemen's Relief Association plans to loan the city funds at 2 percent to buy new apparatus for the Second Ward station. Earlier notes of a $9,600 outright bid were denied, with the loan seen as the preferred path. The association had offered $2,500 toward a $4,500 deficit if the city covered the rest. The measure is set for Monday's council meeting as discussions continue.
Washington notes growing concern as German successes in Europe and France’s shift toward autocracy threaten Monroe Doctrine and Western Hemisphere possessions. Pan American conference in Havana eyes urgent measures to prevent German influence and take protective steps before July 20.
In Somerset Pennsylvania a B40 trainer crashed atop Laurel Mountain in the Allegheny range killing the pilot Lieutenant W. Re, Dirk of Wright Field Dayton Ohio after the aircraft reportedly encountered motor trouble at about 600 feet. Federal and state aviation authorities investigated the tragedy as a graveyard of aviators site. Witnesses saw the craft bail out of the air but the parachute failed to deploy.
Twenty seamen of the British motor tanker Athellanrd survived a torpedo attack on July 2 and rowed nearly 400 miles in two 20 foot lifeboats. They subsisted on biscuits condensed milk corned beef and rain water and were sighted eight miles from the Irish coast. A second lifeboat carrying the captain and 21 others was later picked up about 200 miles from the coast.
Petain takes control as head of an authoritarian French regime. A constitutional act grants him combined powers as president and premier while a new constitution is prepared. The old parliament is dissolved and a transition governs until a referendum on the new order.
A Pan American Airways airliner departs Los Angeles on a 008 mile flight to Auckland New Zealand in about 50 hours flight time, shrinking travel 17 days by sea. The voyage marks the first nonstop air service across the South Pacific. In Pittsburgh, wage negotiations stall as strikes threaten near five plants of the Alumina Company.
Adult training classes at Hatch Vocational Shop start under national defense. all costs are paid by the federal government. Four shifts run 6 teachers handle 60 students, with Merritt Hunt assisting and duties split among Edinger Wengert and Wissinger to emphasize shop theory and direct practice for Corry area industries.
Hoboken report states the French liner Champlain was sunk by an air planted magnet mine in La Rochelle harbor on June 27. Eyewitness Ruchel Weill, vice president of a San Francisco department store, corroborates the sinking after arriving from Lisbon aboard the Neshellas.
President Roosevelt refused to commit to attending the Chicago Democratic convention and suggested he would not accept a draft nomination. He spoke at a press conference in Washington saying he would maintain wage standards and continue defense program plans.
London reports that Britain will recognize the government of Emperor Haile Selassie as the lawful Ethiopian authority and ally in the current war. Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs BR A Butler stated contact has been made with Selassie who will be admitted to full allied status and independence guaranteed after the war. British and Ethiopian forces will coordinate activities in North and East Africa and Abyssinia.
July 12 news reports Jack Dempsey and wife have a separation agreement declaring their two daughters Joan eight and Barbara four shall live with their mother Hattie Williams while Dempsey and Williams share custody and provide support for all three children, attorney Moses Polakov disclosed.
London reports escalating air war in western Europe with R A F and German attacks. Casualty toll rises in northeast Scotland with a bomb killing several and many injured as crews perish after their plane was shot down. King George VI narrowly escapes an England daylight raid amid widespread bombings and shipping attacks.
Gen George C Marshall told the Senate Military Committee he favored mobilizing the National Guard immediately for training. He said 230000 guardsmen could be called up at first mobilization and the pooling law would raise total strength to just short of 400000, with consideration of selective service.
Vatican sources say a search began for the original grave of St Peter under the basilica. Pope Pius XII commands the dig with supervision by Enrico Galleausi the chief architect and Bartolomeo No Bara director of papal museums guiding the effort.
In New York on arrival, C J Hambro president of the Norwegian Parliament for 15 years says the German occupation of Norway was in a sense an inside job. He alleges reports to that effect were spread by the Nazis themselves.
Five persons were killed and at least two severely burned when a blaze trapped 80 residents and workers on the third floor of the Holy Family Home. Names of the dead include Marty Rose Watkins and Minnie Brandhoff. Firemen said the basement laundry started the fire and some occupants escaped via stairs while others were rescued by volunteers.
A July 12 crash near Toledo killed three aboard a Greyhound bus and injured several others including truck driver Gerald Nye of Napoleon Indiana. Dead are Griver John French of Fort Wayne Indiana Jesse Copeland of Detroit and Mrs Beullswn of Muncie Indiana. The sheriff reports the bus driver likely dozed off before impact.
Associated Press reports a sustained heat wave across parts of Pennsylvania with Friday temperatures high and storms bringing brief relief. Hospitals see many heat related cases and heat stroke warnings issued as beaches and lakes attract crowds seeking respite.
A young American born worker suspended from a Works Progress Administration job challenges the constitutionality of the federal law barring aliens, Communists and Nazis from WPA payrolls, signaling a high court question with broad civil rights implications.
Five day fair opens August 27 and runs through August 31 with a full program of entertainment exhibits and premium awards. Directors tout expanded space for larger displays at Wallsburg fair, including agricultural exhibits and a 72 page program detailing schedules and premiums.
Mexico faces a fractured political scene as rival groups claim control of Congress and presidential succession. Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan backs a separate congress and vows oath on December 1, while Manuel Avila Camacho party asserts nationwide victory and legitimacy of its tally, with separate voting centers and tabulations creating a contested path to the presidency.
Philadelphia publisher Annenberg and his family plan personal pleas ahead of his probation hearing next Monday for evading 1,217,996 in taxes on 1936 income. His wife and several daughters are expected to join in appeals for sentence modification after a three year term.
Wendell Willkie spoke to a Colorado Springs audience in cowboy idiom predicting a stronger effort after January. He joined an outdoor, informal dinner with the community cowhands before his Denver trip and a meeting with the Colorado Republican state committee. The event preceded his push for the November campaign and a January agenda. The story also notes a New York strike settlement involving 35,000 workers and a $240 million industry deal as Governor Herbert H. Lehman reacts.
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