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Corry Evening Journal

Location

Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1940

Page

2

Oil lease operator injured by belt accident near Drake Well Memorial Paris

Titusville reports Jack Preston, operator of an oil lease a quarter mile south of Drake Well Memorial Paris, suffered a broken leg when his foot was caught in a moving transmission belt of a grindstone. His wife quickly shut off power, averting a worse injury. In Dunkirk, Henry G. Wagner, longtime wholesale grocer, was found dead in bed at his Park Avenue room yesterday morning. He was 57.

Titusville Jack Preston Drake Well Memorial Paris Dunkirk Henry G. Wagner Park Avenue Hovel Dominick Dukas Brooks Memorial Hospital East Fourth Street Albert A. Drake Leonhard Street Henry Easterfelt East South Street Corry “Hospital Ladies Aid Society of the United, Brethren Church Guy Bennini South Center Street Merle Triscuit Cory D. I Corry Hospital Tacics VPW

City and Vicinity y Certo 3 bottles 47c and more

Local ads list grocery prices for Certo jelly mix Pillsbury flour and ring bologna, plus delivery from Wilcox Grocery. Community notes on a Marine recruiting substation reopening in Ol City with Sgt John G Combs in charge and enlistment ages, plus various local notices and obits.

Pillsbury Wilcox Grocery Ol City John G. Combs

Roosevelt Signs Defense Tax Bill Amid Expansive Reforms

President Roosevelt signed a defense tax bill to fund the vast expense program. The measure lowers married and individual exemptions, raises surtax and corporate rates, and increases the national debt limit by 4 billion dollars, aiming to yield about 322 million dollars yearly.

Roosevelt United Press Washington

Foresee Hire in 1941 Auto Prices

Ward's Automotive Reports predicts higher 1941 car prices due to taxes living costs and wage adjustments as inflation rises. Inventories of raw materials are lengthening hedging against price climbs, with one company stockpiling steel to April and some circles foreseeing steel near peak by summer.

Detroit Ward

Liner Villa Namur sunk by German submarine

In Boruwaux France on June 25, it was announced that a German U boat torpedoed and sank the 8000 ton freighter Villa Namur formerly the American Merchant. The British crew reported 59 seamen and 611 horses bound for the French army missing after leaving New York on June 7. Ninety survivors reached safety after four days in open boats before a French cruiser rescued them. Also, Isabelle Separaga, 9, of Erie, was injured in an auto accident with John Spaulding of Erie.

Boruwaux France Villa Namur United States New York Dune 7

Connecticut Delegation Back Willkie Boom

June 25 Philadelphia report says the Connecticut delegation voted unanimously to cast their first ballot for Wendell L. Willkie. Willkie greeted delegation members at the meeting as party leaders aim to end the favorite son vote for Gov. Jane and avoid a looming split. A separate late report notes 6 year old Ellen Ruth Wiel was fatally struck by a car yesterday.

North Street Stadt Meadville Mendville Evatts Plumer Eugene Snyder Kenneth Snyder E. M. Snyder of City R. Dip Oil City Hospital Donald Chapmann D. L. Chapman West Smith Street Corry Hospital Siam Allegheny Magazine Timothy Alden Allegheny College Jamestown Florence England Reading Mass Howard Wright Earl Olson Zacchini Stockton Drunge Lee Ottaway Mayville Titusville Titusville-Meadville Edward R. Reed Philadelphia Connecticut Wendell L. Willkie Guassport Willkie Jane Ellen’ Ruth Wiel

Baldwin Wins First Ballot in Willie Sunday Nominating Reckoning

Raymond B Baldwin secures the first ballot position after entering the race for Willie Sunday. He plans to deliver one of the second speeches supporting Willide's nomination as the contest moves to further rounds.

Raymond B Baldwin Baldwin Willie Sunday Willide

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