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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1931
Page
4
The Alpha Chapter of the Bie Phi Wang Fraternity will hold its regular meeting this evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Richard Miley on West Predetick Street.
Commencement exercises at Meadville held at the Partheatre on Sunday evening. A class of thirty Rompers were graduated marking the end of their studies.
A Meadville shopping ad lists city and vicinity bargains including lettuce corn oleo crackers and coffee, with delivery mention. Local items note Salvation Army commander Evangeline Booth speaking to 2,000, jail escapes by Seyler and Stark, and a busy church and club schedule with meetings, graduations, and a death in Maracaibo.
Harrisburg March 8 United Press reports Glyte L. King former secretary of Feverlié and Miss Irene Afwrschall of Likny Texas will wed Saturday June 11 The ceremony will be at Ghand with Miss Marshall senior status from Bay Ink University Chicago and Europe connections The bride resigned June 3 from a Baylor University post she has held five years
Several local residents completed courses at the Pennsylvania State College commencement. Names include Ruth J Bennett Ruth L Wrang Lea T Franz Cuthbert JH Atkinson Walter Mugis Hettie Rubling Ruth T Bennett Ruth L Frans Leo T Prang William Fr. Paters Miss Wilman Geer Raymond Comey Cranesville and more. Many hold education agrology mechanical engineering and other fields with fraternity or club memberships noted.
United Press reports the final body of the five Negro workers buried alive in a Philadelphia excavation for a skyscraper was recovered after 46 hours 70 feet below street level. Police firemen and laborers lifted the corpses one by one as earth and oak collapsed from the south wall. Several other men injured by the falling roof remain in hospitals.
Prank Girardot, insurance adjuster, is bound to court on arson charges with $6,000 bail set by Judge C Clare Kent after a Wednesday hearing. Louis Kaufman testified of plans to split insurance proceeds from arson damage. Next hearing for G Harrison Lund is scheduled for Saturday at 10 AM, delayed due to Lund’s attorney absence.
Special Vice Investigator Ritchie was buried in a Bradford cemetery after a fatal slaying last Friday. Police searched for Tony Lorenzo, the alleged slayer, in New York and Pennsylvania but found no trace. Friend Tony Mile Mucalo, wounded in the incident, lies in Bradford Hospital. Lorenzo’s whereabouts remain unknown. Police recall Lorenzo’s prior stabbing conviction in Olean, and Bradford and Erie officers connect him to Ritchie’s murder. Ritchie, a former deputy, had been leading a blackhand and gang activity probe and wrote magazine pieces on the subject.
In Moscow on May 28 seven bandits robbed the Soviet State Bank in the Sukharev market area, taking 7500 rubles as chaos sparked by a daylight assault. Reports note 12 to 18 killed and many injured as attackers tossed smoke bombs and fled. Simultaneous robberies occurred in Mid-Moscow with several wounded. Soviet censors barred export telegraphing of the event.
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