School run disrupted by grading room changes
In a brief school notice a disruption affected class logistics as students and staff navigated room reassignment during a period of timetable adjustments. No further details provided.
06 Jun 1928
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1928
Page
1
In a brief school notice a disruption affected class logistics as students and staff navigated room reassignment during a period of timetable adjustments. No further details provided.
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Alpine experts aboard the steamship Hobby scoured Spitzbergen interior for eight days without finding the missing Italia crewmen or the dirigible. The Hobby reached Skaers Bay at 10 a.m. and located the Chasseurs with only one week's provisions from the Citta Di Milano. The Bragansa, sent by the Italian government, arrived at North Cape to aid the interior search while Moscow officials wrestle with a garbled radio report about the Pont tete-aetear near Franz Josef land.
In a bold escape at Dixon State Hospital for the Insane, seven inmates overpowered a guard and fled the facility. Warden Warren G Murmy issued a broad alert as towns nearby were urged to watch for Miles Gerbec 17 Howard Hyland 2 Edyard Pale 10 Marvin Rosen 21 Joseph Remedies 11 Sydney Merle Hadley and James Ohno 19.
Tonight's listings show WPG at Atlantic City with the NBL convention featuring tenor Richard Grooks. WEAF airs opera La Favorita at 10 30 p.m. WJ2 offers The Singing Gift operetta. WOR presents Operetta In Miniature and WHAL plays Home Companion Hair in BDST.
Washington observers predict Herbert Hoover may win the Republican nomination early at the Kansas City convention. A Missouri-voted group believes Secretary of Commerce will be the party choice while others expect President Coolidge to emerge as the convention pick. Notes of tension surface over a Coolidge 'choice' stance and the economy wave fading in Congress as debates continue.
Close to two hundred reservations have been received for the fifty first annual Corry High School Alumni Association reunion and reception to be held at the Junior High School Thursday evening. More than three hundred are expected, including the 1928 class. The event opens at 6:40 with a banquet at 7. Rev C Wesley Adams delivers the invocation, with Miss Lucille Murray leading America. Arthur J. Schaub welcomes, Lyle Chase responds. A business meeting features the Virgil G Curtis Memorial Fund Scholarship. A short entertainment program includes musical features and a one act playlet Everybody Says So. The Club Revelers close the evening. The fiftieth anniversary of the class of 1878 is highlighted as several alumni plan to attend.
On June 6 a volcanic eruption was reported from Alutan Island near Dutch Harbor. The motorship Pat Hierson observed black smoke clouds rolling from the island as the eruption occurred.
London June 6 Miss Helma a clerk in a Barrow la Purness office won the $625000 Stock Exchange sweepstake with her ticket on Felstead the rank outsider who outgamed a field of nineteen to win the historic race.
A coroner jury in Waynesburg finds the Mather Mine explosion on May 14 killed 195 men and arose from a combination of gas and coal dust igniting in an unknown manner. The inquest cites a probable ignition source in a storage battery locomotive and urges rock-dusting safety measures.
Sydney dispatch reports Captain Kingsford Smith and crew of the Southern Cross plan a Suva Fiji takeoff at 8 PM for Brisbane aiming for daylight Friday. The flight path over typhoon prone South Seas presents high danger and lands await safe harbor on possible coral or volcanic islands. The piece notes warnings from the pilots and the famed homecoming anticipated alongside other crew and observers.
A full auditorium witnessed 128 students complete the ninth year and advance to Senior High. The event featured the cantata Spring Cometh, sung by the class under Lucille Murray, with the school orchestra delivering a standout performance. Principal Wolfe highlighted the new Junior High plan and its exploratory seventh year, praising student government and the strong faculty-student harmony.
The Republican National Committee has finished hearings on delegates from four states and will hear South Carolina Tennessee and Texas today. Florida Kentucky Louisiana and Mississippi were settled. Georgia delegates are split with Hoover favored. Forty percent of convention seats thus far have backed Hoover, with two Louisiana delegates dissenting. Elmer Bullis predicts 60 000 to 75 000 farmers will converge for farm relief demands at the convention, coordinating with hearings across fourteen states.
United Press reports from June 6 quote a Telegram dispatch stating President Coolidge warned William Butler that he would refuse renomination under any circumstance. The White House position described him as firmly against a third term with Hoover delegates reacting to the development as the convention nears.
England refused Harry Thaw permission to land on June 4 while aboard the ocean liner Aquitania. Immigration officials cited reluctance to explain the reasons, but said he would be held aboard and await ref eral to the United States when the ship sails. Thaw planned to stay three days, then travel to the continent by air, with no evident plan to return to France.
A westbound freight train on the Rentove division of the Pennsylvania Railroad breached capacity at city grade, halting both Pennsylvania Railroad and Erie system divisions. Crossings were blocked for minutes to hours, pedestrians and schoolchildren stranded in heavy rain. Eastbound and westbound Erie passenger trains were held, while a separate Allegheny division freight wreck at Lovell’s Station derailed five cars, worsening the outage and delaying traffic with no crew injuries reported.
The crew of the monoplane Friendship waited for a favorable cross wind at Trepassy Bay to permit take-off from St Johns. Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh era aboard, aiming for the Atlantic crossing amid secrecy to deter rivals. Gasoline loading continued with feverish haste as preparations intensified for the historic attempt.
A special Stanford Hose Company meeting is called for this evening to decide on hosting the Erie County Volunteer Firemen's Association field meet in Stanford. Tentative plans set August 4 for the event, but failure to rouse business interest prompted the postponement. A North East association meeting Thursday requires a firm decision, as other towns bid for the meet. H. Malo travels to Salford, Arizona seeking relief from illness.
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