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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
6
In northwestern Pennsylvania a close fight for the county GOP chairmanship continues as plans move to resume road work and daily commutes. Local reports note heavy May rain and drought elsewhere, with farmers hopeful for relief amid a string of civic notices and upcoming meetings.
Nearby rural road work advances with graveling and paving planned for Concord township from Warner's Gomers to Darrow's Corners and Lovell's Station. New surface expected later this month, with connect ions to Roosevelt highway via Darrow's Corners. Wayne township project between Five Corners and Hare Creek road viewed as first link to Wattsburg, moving rapidly.
Fear of long delay in county Relief Works programs ends as Briebag receives state allocation and most projects including Corry Nashee restart by end of May. An $80,700 June appropriation for Erie County is $700 above prior level. Existing workers to return. no new hires. Corry projects include Gutters cleaning, street grading, and school painting with a full list of jobs across county towns and facilities.
A local newspaper item announces a musical comedy at St Edward's Hall tonight by the Saint Minaards Players directed by Fev Francis J Graves and Mrs Hulh Shoo? The cast includes Don Maloney as Jack Lawson and several others, with a chorus and a list of musical numbers such as Opening chorus Boy chorus and Tell Me Doris Jack My Pennant Doris. a lively, entertainment-filled program is promised.
Erie County Republican committee members meet at the courthouse to select a candidate for county chairman. Sheriff N Dell Darling initially led the group but withdrew. Jacob Held is now their candidate. Alex Sisson and Mr Tred compete for broad support as Corry delegates may vote as a unit or split. The county meeting tomorrow hinges on the local committee’s united or divided stance.
Corry endured a fierce heat spell as the thermometer topped records nationwide. Lamoni Iowa hit 111 degrees, the hottest in the nation yesterday, while St Paul logged 106 degrees with new marks. Ray F Smock of Meadville, a familiar Crawford County figure, is set for re election as Republican county chairman at the reorganizational meeting in Meadville Saturday morning.
In Kansas City Missouri Otis Bleich Jr 19 died after a Sunday school outing at Military Country Club. While swimming with two girls and two other youths he grew exhausted and called I cant make it Miss Rebecca Smith swam to help and held him as others came to assist. He smiled thanked her just before the others reached them and he drowned.
Claire Rambler, 22, of Pittsburgh, missing from the police station after roaming the corridors. Rambler was arrested last Monday for breaking into the First National Bank of Boliver, stealing two revolvers, cash, and stamps. weapons later found at his home.
Miss Marguerite Cook, 19, of Force, and three Weedville High School graduates were in a morning wreck on an earth road leading to the Million Dollar Highway near Wee ville. Cook suffered critical injuries, including a spinal fracture, burns and lacerations. another passenger, Miss Goole, is hospitalized with spinal injuries and burns. The accident truncated the commencement program as speakers were too distressed to proceed. diplomas were later presented by J. W. Sweeney, Erie County school superintendent.
Joseph Jors of Grant Street North East pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and stealing a radio an oil heater and other articles valued at 209 dollars. Judge A P Gossi er ordered two to five years in the hike gheny workhouse citing prior trouble. The case was ruled Thursday in county court.
In Mayville on June 1, Justice Clinton T Hudson sentenced two Dunkirk men and a Dunkirk woman to 3 to 7 years in Attica for first degree grand larceny linked to an April 1 crime against merchant Michael Czysz. The woman was committed to a Bedford Hills state institution until discharged by law. Accomplices Win Bekert Jr and Eugene Wickert, both from Dunkirk, were sentenced as well.
An emergency was declared today in the Western Pennsylvania coal business and a code authority prepared to set minimum prices for coal sales. The move followed a Chamber of Commerce meeting where about 150 coal dealers and truckers complained of cheating and price cutting in the district.
A Blanchardville man, Andrew C. Nyhus, 80, who never lived in anything but a log cabin since arriving in America 63 years ago, refused to leave his home after his wife’s death last fall. A son bert returned to stay with his father in the log cabin, which had become a symbol of his lifelong choice amid changing times in Wisconsin.
United Press report: Lew Cody film star known for his bon vivant lifestyle and love of cocktails died quietly in his sleep in Hollywood. A servant found him and physicians say he had been dead eight to ten hours from a heart attack. Cody, once a bright light among stars, epitomized pre Hayes era and early Hollywood bravado.
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