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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1945
Page
1
Fragmented text references a county or city survey, a rising stake, and a referenced office or department. Mentions Warren product and Erle, with unclear dates and actions. The readable portions suggest a miscellaneous local items summary rather than a single event.
Allied dispatches describe heavy ground actions in Cologne and Iwo Jima with U.S. Marines repelling a Japanese counterattack amid intense shelling. Casualty counts and prisoner reports accompany claims of advances as forces move toward key objectives.
Allied dispatches claim American armor stormed Cologne after street fighting as Patton's Third Army imposes a dusk blackout while advancing toward the Rhine. German reports say fleets and bridges near Wesel are under pressure as Allied forces push toward Germany's heart.
Allied reports say Zhukov’s heavy artillery bombards the Stettin suburbs as Red forces split their assault toward Stargard and Stettin Bay. Rokossovsky pushes two spearheads toward Kolberg and Usedom, aiming to encircle Stettin from the Baltic and deny German port facilities.
Robert K. Gierie, former Aero Supply employee, filed an appeal in the New York Compensation Court at Jamestown asking for adjusted compensation after a serious head injury suffered while employed at the American Aviation Corporation Jamestown plant. He left Offerle in fall 1949 for the Cory plant then joined Jamestown, with his earnings prior to his Jamestown work cited. The appeal was one of 82 compensation claims heard by a referee last week.
Bulletin from Supreme Headquarters reports Danish resistance cripples German troop movements, delaying river crossings. In Duisburg, German bridges were blown to slow advancing forces as Allied gunners push west and east.
An arbitration hearing began this afternoon in the basement assembly room at Hole Coxry over issues between Ajax Tron Works management and the Ajax lodge negotiating committee of the International Association of Machinists. Jacob Blair of Pittsburgh served as arbitrator. no progress announced and decision may be delayed for full consideration.
AP reports approximately 95 000 German prisoners of war will be brought to the three state Third Service Command within three months to help with labor shortages. About 25 000 will be assigned to Maryland for farms canneries and military posts, with the rest to Virginia and Pennsylvania. Allocations depend on War Manpower Commission needs and state certifications. In Pittsburgh, 21-year-old Burton Stonebraker from Johnstown has been identified after wandering to Columbia Hospital with a brain concussion suffered about a month ago.
American forces advance deeper into the northern Luzon mountains as General MacArthur reports Filipino guerrillas have cleared northern provinces and Japanese resistance near Manila ends. West and First Corps units push along Baleto Pass and Ambayitang River toward Bagui. Japanese losses mount as guerrilla efforts disrupt supply and communications.
Milo J. Martin of Union City announced the purchase of the William J. Yatt Vleet garage on West South Street. The Milo Martin and Sam firm will move in as soon as warehouse space is found for Montgomery Ward and Company. The deal expands the headquarters for Dodge and Plymouth sales and service and plans an addition to nearly double the building size, extending to the DeHaven property.
First maples tapped in Wattsburg Carter Hill district as producers begin sap gathering amid three foot snow. Robert Morris starts tapping and plans to boil tonight or tomorrow. Burrows tract reports preliminary work, many pails sterilized, and up to a thousand buckets expected after week’s end. Some producers delay due to storage delays from a recent storm. snow hampers access and sap handling.
Allied air forces mounted a day long offensive across Europe with about 400 heavy bombers from Britain and the United States targeting Chemnitz railway yards and Harbury oil refineries. The raid supported by escort fighters hit rail hubs near Stuttgart and other strategic targets across the Ruhr area while Mosquitos attacked Essen. RAF and American bomber streams pounded rail yards at Casary in northeast Italy and additional targets in Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
March 5, Frea M. Vinson, economic stabilization director, was nominated by President Roosevelt to head the Federal Loan Administration, succeeding Jesse Jones. Vinson, a former Kentucky congressman and former DC Circuit Court justice, has led stabilization since Byrnes left the post. the move shifts agencies from the Commerce Department to avoid Wallace’s jurisdiction.
Harrisburg March 5 The Liquor Control Board kept the ration at one fifth of a gallon for four weeks from March 14 to April 7. An identical allotment applies to service members. Retirees receive 10 percent of their prior purchase.
Susy Campion of Pottsville died and Robert P. O'Keefe was injured when a vehicle overturned on a side road at the Indiantown Gap military reservation in Pennsylvania. Authorities sought to identify a pajama-clad body found in the reservation lake while autopsy results were withheld pending identification.
An Allied air force reports 150 Superfortress B-29s hammered Tokyo yesterday amid severe weather. One aircraft landed at Iwo Jima with five minutes of fuel left and narrowly avoided a crash. crew survived as Marines aided repairs before returning to Tinian.
London reports German war planes attacked Britain last night following an earlier Sunday raid. The assaults, part of the June 13 blitz, saw low swoops along the east coast with several bombs dropped near a nursery, injuring one woman attendant by shrapnel.
A new price inspection program starts in the Corry district and across Western Pennsylvania. About 1,100 local prize and balloon workers will survey every food store for compliance, checking 20 listed items. A formal trade notice outlines enforcement. results will focus on stores found in violation last May.
Mrs Arna Merkel 70 was found dead in a gas filled kitchen and her daughter Una Merkel Burls 41 was found unconscious in their 7th floor apartment on Central Park South. Police said the mother died by her own action and the daughter was overcome accidentally. A note on the table reportedly read Forgive me. The note referenced money and jewelry. In California, Warren S. Nuhler survived 65 of 65 survivors of the USS Extractor who arrived for maintenance after the ship was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine in the Pacific.
A car driven by William G. Smith of Jamestown was violently destroyed by fire near Wheelock on the Findley Lake highway shortly before 1 a.m. The occupants, two young Jamestown residents, escaped as flames enveloped the vehicle. Perkins garage responded and Whitty towed the badly burned car to the city after flames were extinguished.
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