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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1935
Page
3
A June 15 entertainment note announces Hal Kemp and his International Favorites at Celoron Park Pier 1 Ballroom. Kemp, fresh from a successful run at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City, is billed as a leading bandmaster and expected to draw a full house.
John Fisher former Pennsylvania governor forecasts a Republican landslide in the 1936 national contest unless Roosevelt policies yield real public benefits soon. He labels Rooseveltian plans as destructive to property and production while urging new party leadership and recovery of control at state and national levels. Also notes Fisher’s retirement to insurance work and ties to Indiana Pennsylvania. In Chillicothe Missouri George Ashbury Smith dies after injury and served on Pershing examiner board for West Point nomination.
John Sherman of Mansfield Ohio proposed the Resumption Act in 1874, which passed the Senate that year and the House by 1875. In 1877 President Hayes appointed him secretary of the treasury, and he oversaw the government’s spe c ie payments resumption, a crowning achievement he originated as a senator despite wary financiers.
From Hopedale Ohio Rev Samuel J Williams arrives in Hollywood to avert Clark Gable from sinful film fame. He claims a flock message and reports a woman in his congregation saw Hollywood movie folk pressed toward virtue by church prayer. He seeks to urge Gable toward an evangelistic career.
United Press reports Tacoma residents Harmon Waley William Waley and Margaret Waley faced Ludbergh law charges over abducting nine year old George Weyerhaeuser. Complaints say the boy was moved from Washington into Idaho then to Spirit Lake and Blaine, with ransom paid, after a May 24 theft on a Tacoma street.
Wayne’s fighting qualities praised as Gov George J Earle commemorates Mad Anthony Wayne during Waynesburg College commencement. Earle urges graduates to “make sure of your ground then fight to the last ditch.” He warns that opportunity remains unequal in the current economic system.
Mrs David Tomich of Granite City and her daughter Dorothy survived a crash near Zanesville that killed Walter Tomich and Pauline Tomich, siblings of the bride. Funeral services set in Granite City. The wedding party had wed hours before the accident.
American Legion Post 365 held student awards at the Junior High school with Olia W. Bracken presenting for the post and Mrs. William Houghton presenting the auxiliary award to Verene Ava Hill. Robert Swanson won for honor courage scholarship leadership and service while 156 students received letter awards and moving up exercises occurred.
Preparations are set for the sixty sixth Genival Cotr High School Alumni gathering at the Junior High on Thursday evening. Mrs Ruh Sheen leads the committee with a 10 pm dance that runs to 1 am and a 6 30 pm banquet followed by a business session and entertainment. Addresses by Howard J Sheen Milon L Brown and Ralph S Dewey will be given. Gayle Browns orchestra will provide eleven musicians for the dancing.
Coast guard stations reported seeing flares in Lake Erie but backtracked to say the signals were from Franklin buoys tossed overboard during a morning man overboard drill by the Tacoma. Several cutters observed the flares and reported a vessel in distress but no actual distress was found.
Pan American Clipper flight to Midway Islands inching toward a 3 pm start if Pacific weather cooperates. Officials said the attempt, twice postponed, hinges on favorable conditions for the altitude test as the crew visits. A separate item notes a segregated summer resort for African Americans at Lake Placid near Versailles on the Lake of the Ozarks.
The Curry Nurses Alumnae Association annual meeting in the nurses home elected officers for the coming year. Grace Decker as president, Mildred Young and Erma Jacobs as vice presidents, Cla Cullet as secretary, Ingebore Selberg as treasurer, with Neylon Schreckengoat Ora Harper Edith Davis and Isabel Huntzinger as directors. The hospital Alumnae room was redecorated with new furniture. The annual banquet is set for June 19 at Shoenaker's Inn Findley Lake, with a picnic planned for next month.
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