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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
4
The Corry Evening Journal prints a feature on neutral policy, noting the existing neutrality law through May 1937 with additions but no overhaul. It argues arms trade limits, potential Latin American sales under the Monroe Doctrine, and government power to halt belligerent shipments. A full public debate is urged in the coming year before a possible permanent policy is set.
Visionary Germans open a 200 mile line between Borshin and Leipzig on March 10, planning gradual expansion to major cities. The system, called seeing telephone, uses an eight inch screen to show the other speaker. Experts here test various devices and expect practical use next year on a small scale.
The weather cycle claim grows as forecasters warn of a new pattern of hard winters. After a period of milder conditions, mid January to February shattered expectations. The Weather Bureau suggests future winters may bring wet warmth in some zones and bitter cold in northern regions, impacting the Northwest, Great Lakes, and New England.
Report describes a massive walkout by elevator operators in New York causing paralysis of business and daily life. Millions are affected as 70,000 workers walk out at 5,000 buildings, leaving many unable to reach upper floors. The piece notes the stark contrast between tall office towers and the inability to ascend them.
The text outlines four classes of deductible losses under income tax law. It explains that business losses arise from trades or purchases for profit, and losses from fires, storms, theft, or wagering. It emphasizes inventories to determine income and gives examples of profit driven versus pleasure use assets, with deductibility limits and insurance considerations.
Hollywood facing loss of Mickey Mouse era comedy training, Twentieth Century Fox orders starlets into one act play productions to sharpen camera technique. Director Torin Flood notes old Keystone comedies trained timing, while Zanuck pushes new school method with Rita Cansino and June Lang alumni leading young actors through the program.
Jean Paton debuts new velons for the season in Spring Green and Cattleya. Evening gowns feature pleated silk, long pleated streamers, and crystal bead embroidery. Beach and afternoon clothes remain conservative while colorful linen outfits show bold cuts and decollete.
The Corry Hospital Auxiliary elected officers at yesterday’s meeting in the nurses’ home. Mrs. James Cashldy became president, Mrs. J. Mount vice president, Mrs. Rowlofs secretary, and Mrs. Auer Breasuirey treasurer, succeeding retiring president Mrs. P. G. Woodip. A new electric retrigidaire was reported purchased for the second floor. In related news two Erie men, William Johnson and Frank Fisher, were held for trial on theft charges of 20 cartons of cigars from a local store.
City officials approved a $178,000 WPA worker project to provide four months of work for 500 people, with the city’s share $30,000. Miss Ruth Anthony, 19, of Tidionts, a former student at Coseleck High, Titusville, died yesterday after a yearslong tuberculosis illness.
Members of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church were guests of Lue New Era Club at a pleasant meeting last evening in the church parlors. The program opened at six o'clock and included vocal selections by Misses Louise Whiteley Dorothy Mae Rickers and Ethel Beckwith and a stereoptical lecture by Roy G. Ly Boyd on South America. Refreshments were served to about thirty guests.
Continued discussion on state school subsidies and highway department control over township funds under the Parkinson act. Lancaster county schools superintendent Arthur P. Mylin says they will forgo any stilted appropriation if it supports public schools, even if freedom is costly.
A reflective fragment questions modern life as humans cram into cities and rely on machinery. It contrasts natural and wholesome living with artificial constraints, urging simpler, planned movement away from urban density and gendered division of labor.
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