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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1939
Page
2
Edward Roach Jr was taken to his home on East Main Street Wednesday afternoon from Corry hospital where he underwent an operation for appendicitis.
James Palmer 2 of Ohio is in Mayville on assault charges connected to an attempted auto theft from Floyd Gard of Ashville last Monday evening.
Carlan, injured when a jack slipped during foundation work at the Burns Oil Company lease on Bic Shanty, suffered a severe scalp laceration and possible skull and jaw fracture. Hospital reports his condition favorable. The item also notes community notices from Erie papers and local events in Corry and Shippenville.
Local ads list home grown potatoes 35c per pk and ham to broil 43c lb. Reports note a man from DuBois ordered to appear for beating wife Velma Wilson. she was hospitalized and released. Various small items cover beer bottle incidents, an alumni reunion at Spring Creek school, a freak sunfish with two mouths, old home day picnics, false fire alarm at Jamestown, and community events in Kane and West Kane.
A French tanker Sumile of 5000 tons collided with Swedish steamer Granges berg of 4500 tons in the English Channel south of the Bd zstone Light. The tanker caught fire and 19 crew were missing. Several ships stood by as the British steamer Dartford reported 21 Sunik survivors aboard.
Six year old Russell Jensen told how he survived three days lost in dense timber near Paul Bungar and watched planes searching for him. He remained calm and said he was not hungry during the ordeal.
President Roosevelt nominated James Lawrence Fly, TVA solicitor, to replace Frank R. McNinch as a member of the Federal Communications Commission. McNinch had served as FCC chairman since fall 1987 and had indicated pressure to relinquish the post.
Prime Minister Weville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain will bring to justice the Irish Republican Army bombing raids described as criminal and cowardly. London, July 27. Premier defends stance and resolve in response to attacks attributed to the IRA.
Funeral arrangements for Miss Carolyn Hall formerly of Corry and San Francisco were announced by her aunt Mrs. Glenn Betts. The body will arrive in Corry Sunday morning and be taken to Bracken Keating funeral parlors. Services are set for Monday at 2 PM at the Bracken Keating chapel with burial in Evergreen Cemetery Union City.
Fredericksburn Virginia July 21 a posse led by state troopers today closed in on a wooded area along the Rapidan river seeking fugitives who escaped from a prison bus. No definite trace of the convicts had been found by mid morning yesterday after they abducted a schoolteacher and left her by the roadside with cigarettes to pass time. Troopers maintained roadblock and patrolled routes between here and Charlottesville but found no sign of the fugitives.
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