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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1932
Page
7
Italians in the county seat organize to end a month of incendiary fires and bomb explosions that terrorized their district. A group of young Italian men have taken matters into their own hands hoping to run down those responsible, with clues suggesting possible arrests ahead.
An unidentified Black man was fatally shot by police after a brief armed encounter outside a restaurant. A companion, identified by police as Doc Hood of New York City, surrendered and claimed Hood led them. Hood then died after returning fire and being shot by officers.
In Erie on Saturday a car crash near 26th Street and Pebble Drive killed three people and seriously injured two others. Leroy and Lynn Barney, both from Girard, among the dead, while Guy Beatty of Pittsburgh was injured. A postmortem was ordered and police investigate possible driver fault.
County employees including court staff, clerks, and aides will take two weeks of unpaid vacation as part of a budget plan. Register of Wills oppose causing further salaries to be cut. total savings expected near 0.5 million dollars after two salary board meetings and speeches.
The State Superintendent addresses the audience on school funding inequities and a plan to improve subsidies. He notes growing high school crowding, rising unemployment, and the need to guide youth in leisure time amid changes to the public education system.
Upwards of one hundred Corry High School seniors left at 11 am for a picnic at Findley Lake. The group rode in many cars with Franz Truck transporting them and were chaperoned by Mrs. Harold Wolfe and Miss Thurze Ely. Activities included roller skating and bowling with a picnic dinner by the lake house and a note on developing ideals of character and cooperative citizenship.
In Bankruptcy Court at Salamanca an order directs the sale of all assets of the Thomas McCabe Industries Inc. for June 21. Trustee Darwin Congdon of Little Valley is appointed in the Botsford bankruptcy case and proceedings are adjourned. A prior plan to hold the sale today was abandoned. In Quincy a circus faces opposition over advertising claiming it would exploit the Lindbergh case. Mayor McGrath vows to bar the show to avoid insensitivity.
Ann Carmichael, a young American wife, assists Toy Burney after a blackmail plot targets him. They flee Bangkok and travel toward Singapore as a gang of extortionists pressures Burney and a murky past links Doris May Burney to a titled Englishwoman.
Classified notices include rental listings for furnished and unfurnished flats houses and rooms in multiple streets with contact phone. sale listing for a dwelling at 45 East Frederick Street. and a hospital stockholders annual meeting notice for Corry Hospital Association on June 8 1982 in Corry Pennsylvania. Also an expression of thanks from the VerMilyen family.
Philadelphia's unemployment relief fund will exhaust by June 25 affecting about 3,000 bread earners from 55,000 families. Horatio G. Lloyd said the Talbot emergency relief money will run dry, with a July legislative special session expected to address resumption of relief.
A Philadelphia home reported a theft of 4000 dollars in jewels from the Wheeler residence. A man identifying as Frank Holbrook was detained in New York in connection with the robbery. The jewels belonged to Mrs. Wheeler, formerly Mabel Brice, linked to Belgian relief work.
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