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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1934
Page
6
Regular City Council meeting set for Monday evening. District projects include Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation funds and a new restaurant planned near Christensen Garage. Community updates cover church events, education degrees, NBC broadcast of Carnera Baer fight, and local business openings in Corry area.
Erin June 14 Releasing $600 000 to its depositors the Girard Nation Bank will open on an unrestricted basis at 9 a m Saturday. Depositors of First Nation Bank North Girard and National Bank Girard will receive 60 percent of their deposits. The new bank will be run by officers including Aben J Gunnison president and J P O Leary vice president with C M Drury cashier and directors Clarence T Bryan F X Bowman Gunison and O Leary. Credit for early opening goes to Rev George A Gay who led a committee that raised 50 000 in stock. Reconstruction Finance Corp holds 25 000 stock. Deposits insured up to 2600 by the Left Frail Deposit Insurance Corp, rising to 9000 after the bank deposit guarantee bill is signed by President Roosevelt.
The article describes a balloon ascent starting after a date with good weather. A balloon expert will inspect the rigging from a tethered balloon while ground crews monitor folds, valves, and inflation. An observer in an airplane will relay signals as the balloon rises toward 16 miles, carrying an 80 foot parachute for safety.
The column praises Queen’s The Chinese Orange Mystery yet notes a waning flare while extolling Maurice Walsh’s The Road to Nowhere as a strong summer romance. It also recommends Langston Hughes as modern realism, Dr Harlan Stetson’s Warth Radio and the Stars, and Melville Herskovits and Fran cen Herskovits’s Rebel Destiny. Additional items cover Suriname natives, and a note on Pittsburgh gas rates approved by Harrisburg authorities.
Complete official returns show three Republican statewide candidates and all five Democratic statewide candidates nominated by majority votes. Attorney General William A. Schnader and lieutenant governor candidate Harry T. Scott won margins but did not poll a majority of Republican votes for their offices.
An old advertisement promotes Dare's Mentha Pepsin for gas and stomach distress. It claims immediate gas relief from a tablespoonful in hot water and permanent relief from prior meals, promising a money back guarantee. It urges purchasing through Keister's or any American drugstore.
State Police arrest Imac Anderson age 18 of 110 Beech Street and John Yazurek age 17 of 427 Hacker Street on charges of eight robberies in Kane during recent months. Anderson confessed implicating Yazurek in the Kane Milling and Grocery store, South Side Grocery, Pratt Company and Olympic Leather Shop robberies and car thefts from four owners. Evidence located in a abandoned house at 220 Birch Street.
Alvin B. Fix resigned as collector of internal revenue for the Philadelphia area after a White House demand. He denied charges of forcing federal employees to contribute to the Democratic campaign fund and said he was ousted without a hearing. Fix claimed he was made the goat in a Democratic party dispute amid political maneuvering in the federal building.
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