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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1939
Page
1
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The Board of Education met in the Library basement and elected G. Carl Wingert of Altoona as Hatch Vocational instructor, with a contract for $1,500 a year. Mrs. Gladys Price Howe was granted a year’s leave due to her husband’s ill health, effective September 1, 1938. The board also discussed janitorial assignments, resignations, and staffing for the new term, noting minimal district cost thanks to state and federal aid.
In Harrisburg on June 18 the State Troupr Control Board said it will use a flexible measure to define a 300 foot dry area around schools churches and other public institutions. The policy follows a Philadelphia court ruling that welfare of the people is not measured with exact lineal precision. A recent case saw a license denied for a building 804 feet from a church.
State Senator Samuel L. Gilson of Erie will be principal speaker at Flag Day exercises in City Park at 7 45 tomorrow evening under Corry Lodge of Elks and local veterans groups. The public is cordially invited.
United Press reports in Mauch Chunk Pa that the body of Joan Stevens will be moved from Nesquohoning to assess alleged mistreatment before she was fatally shot by Pennsylvania State Police corporal Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, 84, free on $5,000 bail, was relieved of duty as a coroner's inquiry proceeds amid conflicting accounts about the toy pistol and a bank plot. The district attorney had once questioned autopsy necessity but later supported disinterment to quash persistent rumors.
One thousand local members of the National Maritime Union, CIO affiliate, returned to work as the union's executive board voted to end that two month strike against four major oil tanker companies. Meanwhile, 6000 seamen in 82 ports along the East and Gulf coasts were to vote on concurrence with the board's decision.
City school authorities began an investigation into a reported beating and prounding of 15 year old Jewish high school student Melvin Bridge and a fight between his friends and alleged pro Nazi classmates. An official said another band may be operating at the school.
Washington June 13 President John L. Lewis warned the CIO executive board that the nation risks fascism unless it courageously solves its problems. He set a 20 million unorganized wage earners target and accused AFL raids as CIO fights to organize the unorganized in key booming industries like aircraft and shipbuilding. In Flint AFL and CIO clashed as GM plants reopened, with 3,876 to work and 6,508 later reported. In Milwaukee striking CIO members attacked streetcars and office workers near Allis-Chalmers, police using tear gas to restore order.
Daily Vacation Bible School opened yesterday at the United Brethren Church in Christchurch with 99 students, now 102, ages three to fifteen. Faculty includes Miss Arlene Rus and a team of pre school to junior teachers. Two weeks of classes continue toward closing exercises on June 23.
United Press reports rising tensions as Japan moves to blockade the British and French concessions in Tientsin, threatening the great northern port and affecting U S business interests. Germany Poland hostility also escalates in Europe amid the unfolding diplomatic crisis.
Washington June 13 The WPA administrator Francis Harrington testified before the House Investigative relief committee defending the relief program and warning that a $25 000 maximum cost restriction would wreck the WPA projects He said the inquiry had shown several misstatements of fact and defended WPA's record with regard to reliability and integrity.
Washington. A tax revision bill moving toward enactment before July 1 aims to remove business tax deters and speed congressional action. The House Ways and Means Committee advanced Morgenthau recommendations a 48 percent tax on large corporations and changes to stock declarations and loss carryovers.
London June 13 The intergovernmental committee of refugees saved 907 German Jewish refugees aboard the liner St Louis from return to Germany. Belgium granted temporary refuge to 250, the Netherlands to 194, France about 200, and Britain the rest. The United States Joint Distribution Committee offered to pay for their maintenance. Cuba or other destinations in the New World were refused, and the refugees were being taken back to Germany. The captain slowed to allow delay that might avert a similar outcome.
Philadelphia June 4 defense counsel planned legal moves to gain a new trial for State Senator Joseph Frindo Schuylkill County Democrat leader convicted yesterday of diverting WPA labor to private improvements on his annisc rent and beer garden. Llewellyn Dandy was convicted with five co-defendants. two co-defendants acquitted. Judge William H. Kirkpatrick delayed bail for six convicted co defendants until next Tuesday to hear appeals for a possible mag tein. Max sentence two years and $10 000 fine. Potential loss of senate seat under state constitution for embezzlement or other infamous crimes.
State dog catcher E C Myers warned dog owners to license their canines or face arrest and fines. About four dozen unlicensed dogs were impounded this morning and returned to owners only upon licensing. A county wide campaign will resume with early visits planned to Corry and other towns to seize unlicensed dogs and issue penalties of ten dollars and costs.
Br. Norman T. Stewart a former dentist, once wealthy scion of a Warren oil family, began a life sentence for murdering his wife and four year old son in Wilkinsburg with a hammer and knife. He pleaded guilty after fleeing to Florida, was judged an epileptic equivalent by a psychiatrist, and given life for the murders.
Pittsburgh June 13 Harold Martin Brest a 29 year old Sharon Pa resident was sentenced to life in prison for kidnaping and related offenses. U S District Judge Schoonmaker imposed concurrent terms including 25 years for bank robberies and auto theft connected to the July 1936 incident.
WPA relief cuts threaten 24 000 Works Progress Administration workers slated for dismissal July 1 across Corry and district. Pennsylvania Workers' Alliance plans to petition Gov. James to avert layoffs, arguing sponsor 20 percent cost rule limits highway project funding and would leave 75 000 on state WPA rolls.
Luzerne County figures emerge as state prosecutors detail warnings from a highways department executive to former Secretary Roy E Brownmiller. Keeley testifies that Brownmiller ordered an investigation, hinted at graft risks, and directed a pause on maintenance work as inquiry began, delaying expenditures and signaling broader graft probes.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Newcastle then Frederickton New Brunswick as part of their Canada US tour. They traveled by car over rough inland roads toward the provincial capital, after a brief stop in Newcastle at 9:30 a.m. The royal party traveled 120 miles through the interior, continuing their arduous schedule.
About 70 miners at the Brownsville mine of the Remblin Coal Corporation returned to work today after a two week layoff. The workers resumed operations as conditions stabilized and production is expected to ramp up through June.
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