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Corry Evening Journal in Corry, Pennsylvania
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1943
Page
1
Coal Miners Strike Again Paralyzing Nation's War Effort
Amodalee Press reports the United Mine Workers and Lewis again refuse to sign the War Labor Board contract terming it a yellow dog contract. The no contract work policy spreads as negotiations fail and miners halt production across 500000 mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amodalee Press
Washington
War Labor Board
Lewis
United Mine
Kets
UMW
Disjointed Notes Cover Local Events and Incidents
Fragmentary OCR reads about various local items including public notices, planning discussions, a court or legal matter with a H. Gor, and references to wartime era figures and places. Lingering names and places appear with unclear connections, suggesting a collage of community notes and oblique reports.
Coal Miners Walkout Threatens Nation's Fuel Supply
The anthracite industry faced a short shutdown amid talks between operators and the United Workers over pay. Union leaders pressed for an extra 1.30 a day for underground travel time, while Interior Secretary Ickes weighed government action. About 64,000 miners stopped work as shifts ended, signaling an imminent crisis for coal production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Wale
United Workers
Ickes
Columbus
Ohio
Pollay Conntee
Jon Q Grady
Wilow Grove
Hares
Bangle
Cooperac
I Corporation
Gennes
Poa
Allies Use Carriers Planes To Beat Off U Boat Offensive
London reports a five day clash in which land based bombers escort fighters and warships aided the Allied effort. Two U boats were sunk with three probable. ninety seven percent of convoy ships reached harbor unharmed. Escort carrier HMS Biter, and destroyers Broadway and Hesperus credited with confirmed and probable kills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carriers
Assouate A
London
Garsier
Atlantic
Tree
Admiralty
All Ministry
Poole
Pest
H. M. S. Biter
Broadway
U.S. 8. Hunt
Hesperus
Heat Wave Tolls Four as Pennsylvanians Suffer Sunday
Mercury 86 in Philadelphia as scorching weekend heat continues with no relief in sight. Four deaths linked to the heat occur as crowds return from recreation spots and a public doubleheader at Shibe Park ends with auto checks by ration officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Philadelphia
Thomas Kelleher
Henry Mark
Robert Maravec
Donors
Winks Barre
John Henry Benson
Sehuyuill
Office of Price Administration
Shibe Park
Athletics
Boston
Wreck on Pittsburgh Line Delays Rail Traffic
A collision between a Chicago board train and a freight train on the Pitts burgh and Duke Erie Railroad at South Pittsburgh damaged a Diesel passenger engine baggage car and five freight cars. No injuries reported to passengers aboard the B and B train. Traffic restored after one hour of repair work with $100,000 damage to the engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Board of
Chicago-board
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburgh and
Duke Erie Railroad
Betterer
Supreme Court Rebukes Citizenship by Party Membership
AP dispatch reports the Supreme Court ruling that alien citizenship cannot be conferred solely by Communist Party membership. In Washington the House paused for the Senate to consider an Army funding bill. In Algiers a National Liberation committee failed to resolve military power division between Generals De Gaulle and Giraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Wasitington
Spreme Court
Communist Party
Washington
House
Senate
Japan
Germany
Maly
Algiers
Committee of National Liberation
Charles DeGaulle
Henri Giraud
Gilbert Island Jap Base Bombed In Pacific Action
Navy communique details heavy bombing raids on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands with Liberator and other aircraft involvement. Reports note enemy fighters in the air but no press of attack against US bombers and mention additional strikes on Sanili Bainares Vila Kolobangera Kiska and other installations with varying results. Treasury figures show June receipts and expenditures with net and total debt changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
Navy
United States
Sanili
Bainares
Navy Dawintless
Avengers
Armay
Warhawk
Navy Wildest Fehders
Vila
Kolobangera Island
Detroit Riots Prompt Governor to Call In State Troops
Detroit faces a widening race riot with six killed including four Black and white officers shot. more than 180 civilians injured, and police escalating measures as Governor Kelly mobilizes nine state guard units and police. Aimed to restore order with possible martial law and River Rouge MP deployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Detroit
Michigan
Columbus
Marty
Kelly
Michigan State Guard
T. A. Aurond
Sixth Service Command
Readinens
River Roupe
Tata Net
River Rouge
Wert
Edward J. Jeffries
Bellé Tile Bridge
Carl Lincoln
Harold Bole
Vernon Hayden
Bole
Hancock
Beaubein
Lincoln
William Hardges
Robert Davis
Sergi
Floyd C. Noot
Ernest J Hartwick, Jr
Division
Hastings
Children Involved In Attack On Great Allied Fleet At Gibraltar
Two young children ages five to seven report being followed and subjected to improper advances by a man named Wesley Yealey 44 in the Second Ward. Police stopped the incident after Yealey allegedly struck one boy Yealey was arrested and later examined as a case of possible assault and battery while the injured boy received hospital care. The incident prompted a police inquiry led by District Attorney Burton R Taub with further details on page three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wiesd
Raul
Andrus
Man George
Corry Public
Paul Cross
Erie County
H. Gormade
Pohnsyl
Saldiers
Arth Aimeri
Ila Castalty Lanigan
Atreworks
Willemebrg
Bear Lake
Harold
Te Rawle
Aerhie
Boyd Mele
Nolice Bill Nop
Heaven
Bugle Street
Wiley
Coa
Hammond
Hethe
Mie
Wil Mh Turk
Hayle Street
Wesley
Jim
Arti Bacon
Turk House
Uteman
Yesley
Yealey
Bacon
Azing
Corry Hospital
Breen
Allied Raids Hit Germany as Air Attacks Continue
Swiss dispatches report heavy Allied raids on southwest Germany and Lake Constance towns as Britain resumes air attacks on European targets. night strikes echoed across northern Alpine regions amid ongoing attacks on German munitions plants at Le Creusot and Schneider works, with casualties and widespread destruction in affected areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Berlin
Germany
Reieh City
Neus Lake Constance
Switzerland
Great
Wales
He Kalandborg Radio Im
Denmark
Lake Constance
Prietischshuvay
Grea Eppelin Works
Aliphure
Greas
le Grensob
Paris
Schneider
Gretna
New Armor To Shield Bombers From Fire
The Eighth Air Force announced all American heavy bomber crews will wear a manganese steel armored vest. London firms in sword-making, now producing the gear, say production will be rapid. First Lieut Jack Fisher of Presidio California, a bomber navigator, reports a near miss where a 20 millimeter shell failed to penetrate the vest during a May raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crostesteed Press
Highth
U. 5S
England
Eighth Air Force
Europe
Jack Fisher
Pres 4Y
Calif
Wilhelmhaven-Emden
Irvine Forge walk-out ends after conference
Production at the National Forge and Ordnance Company plant in Irvine resumed after workers who walked out on Friday returned to their jobs following a conference that set rotated shifts and scheduling adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvine Forge
Associated Press
Warren
Naional Forge and Ordnance Company
Irvine
Parents push council to adopt city curfew
PTA petitions with over two hundred signatures present to City Council at tonight’s meeting urging a curfew law to curb youth delinquency. Police favor the measure for night enforcement while council members show a changed, favorable sentiment since earlier proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Py T.A. Orgenicaion
Ingiman Council
P.T. A
Municipel Commission
Slash in Meat Prices In Effect Across Zone 7
Price reductions under the Office of Price Administration subsidy program took effect today in Zone 7 covering 16 western Pennsylvania counties, all of Ohio and part of West Virginia. Beef and veal saw downshifts of 3 to 8 cents a pound, pork 4 to 7 cents, with notable cuts in bailed ham and northrhone steak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Citizen Incensed At Driving Ban Enforcement
A Second Ward resident said he counted twenty two cars on West Wayne Street during the federal driving restriction Sunday while bicycling. He noted Mead Park lacked any cars as crowds gathered, reflecting public concern about enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win Tas Bee
Stabbing of 2 1/2 year old shocks Glassport neighborhood
Glassport Pa police report an 18 year old boy confessed to stabbing a 2 1/2 year old neighbor, saying the attack followed a stone thrown at him. The injured child lay in an oxygen tent in McKeesport hospital with multiple stab wounds to neck back and face. investigators seek motive and expect further statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glassport
Clarence Urbanski
Tiny Berard Pacewicg
McKeesport
T Ie Hospital
Hale
Bernard
West Coast Japanese Curfew Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled military curfew regulations on all persons of Japanese ancestry constitutional and barred them from specified areas on the West Coast. Chief Justice Stone delivered the opinion in a challenge by two American-born sons of Japanese ancestry who argued the measures violated citizenship protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Stone
Allied thrust fears loom over Crete from Berlin broadcasts
Allied invasion fleet assembling in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast and landing craft moving toward North Africa were reported by German broadcasts. British and American naval forces concentrate at Gibraltar as skies over Sicily and Italy endure heavy air activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dy Associated Press
Mediterranean
North
Africa
Gibraltar
Armeadas
Atair Belds
Sicily
Stockholm
Bellate
North Africa
Umberto
Pietro Badoglia
Vittorio Emanusle
Darwin
Rabaul
Russia
Seysit
Orel Front
Red Air
Bryansk
Wit Kara
Johey
Berlin
Rattin
Germany
Schneider
Stetisel
Krupps
Carl Spaata
Naples
Fogzle
Spinozeola
Bar Province
Adriatic
Reggio Calabrisi
San Giovanni
Porto Empedoc
Es 'Eet
Blin St
Italien Dodecanese Islands
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bayvette
Rok Bude
Erly Beer
Kees
Union Executive Committee
PROBE
L. E
Gilbert Island
Buin
North Pacific
Kiska
Treasury
Negro District
Bella Isla
Hird
Joyd Yealey
Fock
U. 5
Council
Coucil
West Coast
Crete
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