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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment references a car or vehicle context with hall, role, and arcing phrases. Names and places are unreadable, leaving only scattered terms about an ons or car and a hall setting. No clear identities or actions emerge from the legible text.
Readable fragments mention mayor, clerk, and school items with unclear names and actions. Potential references to streets, residents, and city processes are present but details are garbled, offering a partial view of local governance and education topics.
The fifty-fifth annual commencement held at the Senior High School Auditorium honored sixty five graduates of the class of 1928. A simple, impressive program featured the valedictory by Miss Hinkeales on American ideals and duty, a girls sextette performance, and a sermonette by Rev. H. A. Wast.
United Press report from Kansas City notes Hoover strengthened by recent delegate wins as administration backers eye Mellon and Pennsylvania. Hoover forces claim major gains, seating large blocs in Texas and moves to seat delegates in Porto Rico and the District of Columbia, signaling a likely Hoover edge at the upcoming convention.
Washington June. Today is the last day for President Coolidge to veto or sign the Muscle Shoals bill for the wartime nitrate plant in Alabama. If he fails to act by midnight the measure may become law automatically, per the Justice Department view, while proponents insist it will become law.
Frank Ellsworth Butters of Corry High School’s 1928 class wins the H. Bagley Scholarship Fund to Allegheny College, worth $300 a year for four years, with state competition results pending. Jessie Mitchell and Fred Rausgher receive additional college awards. other honors announced at commencement and alumni events.
Sam Irvine of Standard Automatic Products urged Corry’s steps toward establishing an airport, noting aviation growth and America as a leader in production. He urged Corry to expand aircraft manufacturing, cited 51 U.S. airplane companies, and said airways are a new market for investors. The Kiwanis club discussed a standard field for commercial air use and noted nearby cities with airports. Arthur Palmer won May attendance honors. A Northwest Division meeting is planned for June 18 with a large Corry delegation.
The Stanford Automatié Products Company announced its acquisition of the former Corry Box and Lumber property on West Main Street. Plant No 2 will manufacture aircraft parts, with operations starting by August, employing 30 to 40 workers, and ensuring continued main factory output. The facility will be run separately, using existing lumber sheds for storage as improvements proceed.
Corry joins county wide Rose Day to aid the Erie Infants Home funded from the drive. Local committees finalize arrangements for citywide sale and donations by high school girls and residents to ease the institution debt and support its baby ward for under five years.
North Wales Pa June 7 United Press Albert Byler radio amateur said he picked up a message he believed was General Umberto Nobile giving the position of the lost North Pole dirigible Italia crew. The message in English read Rusti pasistance Position 4 1 10 norths 15 20 40 east very fold and worried Mobile. The position is about 400 miles north of Spitzbergen.
At a special meeting the Stanford Hose Company voted to bid for Erie County Volunteer Firemen's Association annual field meet, to be held Saturday August 4. A committee will attend North East meeting tonight to seek invitation and see if Corry can secure funds to stage the event amid competition from Wesleyville Harborcreek and Union City.
J E Stoltefus 28 is dying in Lancaster hospital after two motor accidents within thirty minutes yesterday. He was thrown from a motorcycle near his Gap home, then struck by an automobile driven by Moses Weithorn of Brooklyn, N Y. On the way to the hospital the ambulance carrying Stoltzfus was struck by a volley car. No others were injured.
Totin Joyce a railroad telegrapher at Ostlee Maklee in Mount Carmel Pennsylvania was struck by a shifting engine. He lost a leg when he fell from a string of box cars and will recover.
Tonight’s five best radio features include WJZ Maxwell Hour on EDST, Wiz Network seven, Navy Band, WEAS New York, WEI, WCAE nine, and WOR Newark. Also listed are the Music Merchants Association event with Guy Albert Ritchin and the Honeymooners at BDST 8:30, plus Chote Tnyiable on CBST.
United Press dispatch from Suva Fi Islands details Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and crew planning to depart in the Southern Cross for Brisbane after overnight delays. Gasoline supply and field work at Naselai Beach were completed as workers hurried to prepare the aircraft for the flight. The pilot hinted at a larger world flight, outlining a route from Australia through Asia, Europe, Africa, South America and back to the United States, with Mexico City and the U.S. interior included in the plan.
Mystery surrounds the slaying of an unidentified man whose body was found today along the Stoops Furry-Glen Willard road in Pittsburgh. Bullets pierced his body and a purse with $2925 and an automobile card issued to Ernest W. Swanson was found in his clothing. Swanson, a state police member, had been in Pittsburgh last October for court. The man wore two pairs of braces, three coats, no shirt, and carried an overcoat and clothing bundle. His right arm appeared burned from a past injury.
In Newfoundland and New York dispatches the vintage attempt at the first all woman trans Atlantic flight stalled by wind and fog. Amelia Earhart Mabel Bell and their crews faced delays while Miss Earhart and Wilmer Stultz prepared to depart from Old Orchard and Trespassy Bay as the Bellanca awaited a better breeze.
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