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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1944
Page
4
Public notice listing advertising representative offices in New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Details on Associated Press rights and subscription rates by mail and carrier. Includes post office entry and pricing for year and weekly carriage.
A writer recalls Italian and American unity as liberators advance in World War II. Capt. Mark Reardon reports Italian crowds cheering, offering flowers and aid to repair war damage. The piece weighs Free Enterprise rhetoric, noting workers’ need for true opportunity and restraint from harm during heated presidential discourse.
Chief Dinkle plans pedestrian safety lanes in the business district at intersections. Congress of alumni to meet at State Armory on Monday evening. Theodore Ayers of West Spring Creek seriously injured in a morning auto crash. Altoona motor race draws many top drivers for 200 mile event next week. John Flanigan and E A Merker open Corry Repair Company on East Washington Street for upholstery and furniture work. Louise Dewey fractured right wrist after a garden fall. Miss Vetta Crowell and Vincent M. Anderson wed by Rev. Retlinger at the parsonage this morning.
The Medical Society of Pennsylvania notes four percent of people are left handed and cites famous lefties like Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo and Holbein. It argues left-handedness is not a disgrace and that trying to force right-handed use can cause nervousness or mental upset.
Farmers in Dubois Pennsylvania endured heavy losses as thousands of bushels stored last fall to fetch high prices were now being shipped in open hopper cars and converted into industrial alcohol. Prices fell to 65 cents to 1.23 per bushel from earlier 1.50 to 2.50, forcing outlets searches.
A reader quiz on common knowledge asks which material is heavier copper or steel and other civics science questions. It presents true false statements about taxes the Hudson River and cabinet eligibility with options to choose from.
Police report another spree of petty thefts in Erie. Thieves forced a tavern window at Eugene Alberstadt's place and stole $96.75 in cash, $15 in war stamps, and a Colt revolver valued at $15. A station book was taken from E. P. Brown's car garaged at the rear of his residence.
State liquor agents seized 179 bottles of untaxed whiskey from Ernst Lachesky’s home and car trunk in a rear garage. Lachesky, a longtime bondsman, was charged with possession and transportation of untaxed whiskey and held on 2000 bail. Investigation into the whiskey black market has been ongoing for three months. A separate report notes a green jacket and brooch were taken from Ida Omniewski’s car.
The Erie OPA office announced a top price of 44 cents a quart retail and 51 cents a quart to wholesalers for home grown berries. The price aims to clear up trade misunderstandings about coverage and includes a base price of 32.5 cents plus charges and markups totaling 44 cents per quart.
Mercer County grand jury hearing evidence in the Ice Graham case tied to the October dairy farm killings will announce its action tomorrow. Everett Wilson, owner of the farm where his mother, wife, and an employee were slain, was the last of 21 witnesses to testify yesterday.
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