Leiters Estate Advised For Media Assistance
An unclear regional notice mentions Leiters estate and a request for media help. Details are unreadable, but the fragment indicates a family or property matter seeking public notification.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
1
An unclear regional notice mentions Leiters estate and a request for media help. Details are unreadable, but the fragment indicates a family or property matter seeking public notification.
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Army and Navy leaders expect the war with Japan to continue at least into late 1946 with unconditional surrender as the terms. Officials anticipate campaigns in China and the possibility of Russia entering the war, while noting no peace offers from Tokyo. The State Department confirms no Tokyo peace offers and questions remain about postwar terms.
A theft reported to the Police Department describes $54 stolen from a man named George Currey who found his billfold missing from his chair and trousers after an intruder visited him overnight at the Imperial Hotel corner of West Main and First Avenue. Police search for suspects who knew the rooming place conditions, with no arrest announced.
Bulletin items report a Pacific air fleet against Japan and a House critique of war officials. Casualty update notes nine US enlisted men and one civilian killed by German mine explosions near Villville yesterday with thirty injured. A State Department letter addresses Poland election participation and Yalta obligations.
American air units reinforced by European forces join Pacific strikes from Marianas to Kyushu. 5th and 7th Air Forces attack Japanese home islands including Miyazaki Nobeoka Fukushima Tomita ri and Kagoshima Bay while A-24 bombers lead new formations. Veterans from the Mediterranean theater fly alongside.
Mrs Lick driving alone skidded on a wet patch three miles east of North East. The car overturned after striking an object. She suffered fractures of the collar bone several ribs and cuts on the right forehead. She was rushed to the hospital by ambulance after being aided from the wreck by passing motorists.
Potsdam dispatch reports President Truman pledged full support to any reasonable settlement of European boundaries and postwar rehabilitation as the Big Three discuss Japan. Allies weigh major German territory shifts for Poland while secrecy surrounds a joint communique and Russia's potential role in Asia remains debated.
Steen's Dry Cleaning operated by Mrs W A Steen and daughter Zipporah Miller will reopen all departments on July 30. The North Center street plant was closed for renovations with offices and work rooms on Raat Washington street upgraded. The firm has operated here over 49 years and will resume full service from the 80th of the month.
A series of powerful explosions at a Royal Canadian Navy mine depot near Dartmouth shook Halifax area. Fires, telephone outages, and a 150 foot blaze sent debris across the Bedford basin as 10,000 residents evacuated the danger zone. casualties remained uncertain with several injured.
Corty Hospital Association directors held their first monthly meeting after recent elections. Arthur Shepphey presided as president with new directors Holden and Bi. F. Pain attending. Miss Franis Hover resigned as supervisor of the operating room and Miss Floretta Clark was named directress of nurses. The board reported 212 patients admitted last month with 1201 days of service, 28 births and three deaths. They noted $409 county aid, revised the accounting system, and praised interior renovations and the new laundry. The meeting included 12 directors including Elston Fogle Hawkins Pain Rathesale Scheppner Smith Holden Nast and Young.
Heavy overnight rains forced the closure today of 19 collieries employing nearly 4 000 miners in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. An estimated three inches of rain fell from midnight to 8 a m with almost seven inches since Sunday. Highways were flooded with worst damage at Branchdale and Pine Grove.
Pennsylvania will continue inducting fathers into the armed services under National Selective Service, Col. John Met Smith says. The plan follows a New York move to induct fathers with volunteers and certain exemptions, with only a few fathers under 30 being drafted in practice.
Frank Whiteley of Crystal Ice and Coal Company has assumed the Cohen and Son fuel yard on West Washington Street. The Cohen firm will operate until about August 1 as stocks are cleared. The integrated business will run from Whiteley’s Maple Avenue facilities with plans to secure additional equipment.
Madrid dispatch reports Generalissimo Franco will announce a sweeping cabinet overhaul tonight replacing most ministers. Expected includes royalist and Catholic Church figures rather than Falangists to bridge the preparative period before a restored monarchy. The duration of the new cabinet remains uncertain.
Wheelock residents report a panther returning to the Findley Lake area near Wheelock after a months long absence. At 9 30 last night cries were heard near the creek behind Morris McIntyre’s barn sparking a multi household search by local men. A reward had previously been offered for the animal’s capture as the community remains alert.
Erie OPA consolidation shifts enforcement rationing and appeals work to Pittsburgh regional office. Erie staff will be absorbed into Pittsburgh and a direct phone link remains for case handling between the two cities.
The U S aircraft carrier Ticonderoga suffered 437 casualties and major damage after being hit by two Japanese planes on January 21. The ship, new to the fleet, returned to Bremerton for extensive repairs after a bold war action that included sinking ships and bombing targets across Formosa Indo China and the South China coast.
Induction and exam groups depart for Pittsburgh for pre induction training camps. The Corry district supplied nineteen men including Leroy Bansberry Harald Callier and Roy Kerstatter for the program.
Reports from Corry Union City indicate cherry harvest workers were crowded onto buses, with 290 workers sent to Northast and about the same to a day. Charles Monroe, in charge of recruitment, plans more trips as organizers say more labor is still needed for the orchards.
The attack on Yokosuka naval base continues with intense antiaircraft fire. The main enemy fleet is believed to have escaped after weather prevented damage estimates.
American ships moved within five miles of Tokyo Bay and bombarded coastal targets on the Chiba Peninsula. Reports claim 1,500,000 Japanese killed or captured, with casualties and losses continuing as Allied forces advance and threaten full occupation of Honshu’s northern approaches.
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