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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1938
Page
1
Fragment remains discuss a meeting about a Peninsular society and salary abolition. References to organizing members and dietary value are unclear due to corrupt text. No clear dates or named entities can be identified.
John Ward 26, deemed a psychopath, spent 11 hours on a 17th floor ledge at the Hotel Gatha m in New York before leaping to his death. Police and rescuers, including 100,300 bystanders, pleaded with him as a ship’s net was prepared, but his mind was set.
Plans for the annual John Brown Memorial Picnic at Jon Brown farm New Richmond are complete for Saturday July 20. Directors and judges will meet at 12 30 to judge essay contest entries. Lunch is served at 1 00 with prize awards announced later. The Mundville quartet will sing and lead community singing. R Lew Rodgers of Wije will deliver the principal address.
Pittsburgh July 27 National Steel Corp disclosed a $5,000,000 construction project at its Weirton WV plant as part of a broad expansion since a year of downturn. The move follows favorable earnings from Nationstl and Inland Steel and a U S Steel dividend, boosting optimism in the steel industry. Weirton Steel is a subsidiary of National Steel.
DRUG, Pa. July 27 An Erle man and a Waterford farmer raced themselves within six hours of each other last night and today, coroner reports show. Valentine Wisniwski 66 died at Hamot hospital after slashing his throat with a bread knife in his home. Relatives said he previously attempted suicide. Herbert J. Lininger 60 of Waterford was found hanged in the city jail early today using his belt. He had been arrested for drunkenness.
Plans move forward for the 5th annual Wattsburg Fair to be held Tuesday through Friday August 30 to September 2 in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York. Amateurs kick off with an evening program led by ex County Sheriff Dell Darling. Vocational agriculture exhibits receive special emphasis with prize money for top displays. Grange and community displays award cash prizes up to 50 dollars, plus various division prizes for individual farm displays. Poultry, free acts, races, and machinery and home making displays are highlighted to boost fair appeal.
United Press reports a Republican Democratic push in the Senate to foreclose a third term for President Roosevelt as 1940 contemplates his candidacy. The piece recalls the 1928 Coolidge precedent and notes ongoing debate in Congress on possible action beyond party lines.
Waycross Georgia July 21 Harvey Nelson 35 roadhouse proprietor convicted of first degree murder for killing his 12 year old son in a plot to collect 900 dollars in on an insurance policy. Jury deliberated 45 minutes and recommended no mercy. Judge M D Dickerson said death penalty mandatory under Georgia law and would pronounce sentence today.
Northwestern Pennsylvania notes heavy rains and a rapid spread of late blight risking the region s potato crop. Growers monitor outbreaks as field meetings are planned at Barrie Wilson Farm Union City August 2 at 1 30 pm and Harwood Brothers Farm Watteburg at 1 7 pm with warnings from Pennsylvania State College.
Three Corry Titusville residents die when their boat capsizes near Chautauqua Lake during a sudden storm. Mr and Mrs Asberry Benford and Bama Storey are named among the victims as investigators search Anhuille Bay for another body. The group of six anglers were caught by surprise and the craft overturned swiftly. The Benfords are survived by five children.
Charles Tyo, 15, died while playing a prank on the St Lawrence river shores. He shouted for help, swam ashore laughing, then sank about 30 feet from the bank. Friends, fearing a second rescue, ignored him and the body was recovered a quarter hour later.
United Press dispatch from Indiantown Gap Pa notes dense fog over the Keystone Division drills as 108th field artillery batteries direct 155 millimeter guns in the South Mountain reservation. Maj Gen Edward C Shannon heads officers watching the mock "paper war" while 11th Infantry film crews capture training. Observation planes resumed flights after weather disruption, spotting enemy moves and relaying details to headquarters.
A Philadelphia editor, Wayne Marshall, 44, missing since July, was identified as the man found dead near an automobile exhaust at Long Lake. A coat wrapped the head and a driver’s license helped confirm the identity. Local papers note Marshall was en route to verify the body’s identity.
Senator Joseph F. Guffey sails for Europe amid calls to probe Pennsylvania judiciary from the supreme court to justices of the peace. He leaves as a grand jury subpena lands and as District Attorney Shelley's process servers pursue him on charges tied to graft in the Harle administration. Guffey says he will not comment until September and departs for an interparliamentary meeting in The Hague.
Lynn G. Adams former state police head assisting the grand jury probe into the Earle administration publicized a letter accusing Gov George H Earle of whitewashing the 14 accused officials Adams countered calling the letter vicious and showing Adams was impartial in his dual role for the District Attorney Shelley and the Republican organization Adams resigned last year as deputy motor police commissioner and criticized Earle for his Monday night address to a special legislature tagging Adams as a Republican henchman in Shelley's employ
Mercury, the British-pickup liner, arrived in Lisbon at 1 15 p m local time today after an Atlantic crossing. The ship, scheduled to call at Southampton next, faced a smooth voyage as it completed its trans Atlantic passage.
Local postmaster James P. Sullivan announced rapid arrangements to restore the late afternoon star delivery route for Corry south through Spartansburg and Titusville. Service expected within a week or ten days with all mail classes handled by the star route carrier. A 7:20 am southbound from Ol City and a 4:00 pm northbound from Corry are planned, reinstating preexisting routes and expanding to parcel post.
Fire damage was limited after a Baldwin Brothers Construction truck cab caught fire while a attendant had just filled the gasoline tank at the Charles Parkhurst service station on Roosevelt highway near the State Fish Hatchery. Fire crews arrived and contained the blaze before it spread, preventing a larger disaster.
Ada Leonard a 21 year old strip tease dancer in Chicago refused a medical operation saying she would rather die. Her ruptured appendix caused peritonitis and doctors warned recovery was unlikely despite two blood transfusions and intravenous feeding.
Anited Press reports Harrisburg July 27 that Republican leaders accuse Democrats of rushing five bills to block the Dauphin county grand jury graft inquiry into the Ratle administration. Rep Hwood J Turner urges residents to contact lawmakers to protect the grand jury. The bills seek to suspend or limit the investigation and grant the attorney general power to override district attorneys, with public hearings and a 90 day cap on probes.
Kasur General Blanton Winship, governor of Puerto Rico, survived an attempted assassination this week. He previously commanded the 112th Infantry including Company A of Corry in France during World War I. As colonel he led the regiment when General Richards was wounded in the Argonne. The unit faced heavy losses, with ten officers and six hundred thirty eight men killed or wounded in the Argonne and mines.
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