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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1934
Page
8
Ex service men in Corry will soon begin receiving soldiers' pens from the state as the Pennsylvania treasury sets up machinery to pay the veterans' compensation around March 1. A $20 million bond issue contract funds the payments, with the remaining $20 million to be issued later.
Stanley Kubers, 40, jailed in Eros Pa for impersonating an officer. He twice hanged himself in his cell and twice police rescued him, underlining ongoing peril in custody.
Funeral services were largely attended Wednesday afternoon for William Ridout a well known Corry resident. The 2:80 pm service was at his daughter's home Mrs R M Randall 525 West Wayne Street conducted by Rev G Stanley West. Interment followed at Pine Grove Cemetery with Odd Fellows bearers Arthur Schaub Carl Nelson Wayne Skinner George Blair LeRoy Dickinson and Harold Ander on. Committal by W Ed Marsh and A P F Munger with I Q Faselsting members. Attendees included Mrs G W Brown and her son George Brown of Joliet Illinois.
Florida expects to collect about 1.1 million more from its 7 cent gasoline tax in the first four months of this year than in the same period of 1933. Officials cite a tremendous increase in tourist travel during the winter months as the reason.
Lawrence M. Manion died at 2 40 p m Wednesday in Oil City hospital. Funeral will be at 9 o clock Saturday morning in St Josephs church with burial in old St Josephs cemetery. He led Manion Steel Barrel Co Rouseville Copper Co Manion Paint and Varnish Co and founded Manion Can Co later sold to Continental Can Co.
Strikers at the Aluminum Company of America plants in New Kensington Arnold and Logans Ferry continued to refuse work. A Pittsburgh conference between I. W. Vienas vice president and union leaders failed to yield results. The company offered only a one per cent wage increase, the same as before.
Washington March 8 E Burd Grubb head of the New York curb market urged licensing of all stock exchanges by the government as a control measure preferable to the Pletcher Rayburn bill before the Senate banking committee.
The Corry Women's Club voted to assist the Junior Department in staging a style show at the Junior High School auditorium on Tuesday evening March 20. Tickets went on sale to raise funds for the club. The club endorsed Miss Rebecca Scofield of Warren as next president of the Northwest district of the Federated Women's Clubs. Regular business followed. a luncheon preceded the meeting. On Friday March 10 Mrs Ramsey Burton of Erie will address the club under Citizenship department auspices.
Washington March 4. Barlt Henderson vice president of United Aircraft and Transport Co. testified that he lent $10,000 to a postal department official in the fall of 191?, several months after his company secured a continental mail contract.
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. urged adoption of a constitutional amendment eliminating tax exempt securities. He spoke before the House Judiciary Committee as it weighs a bill to pave the way for such an amendment.
Receipts from the Erie Malleable Trey Company show a court approved loan of over $25,000. The money will be used to meet payroll, with the borrowing action authorized by the United States District Court. The funds are to be drawn by Monday, March 12.
Wars March 8 twelve men entered guilty pleas in Warren Court. Names include William McKenzie larceny Carl Welsh larceny Frank Welsh larceny Bob Preston illegal sale of liquor Marion Bemis illegal sale of liquor Milo Walton larceny Mike Miketut aggravated assault and battery Henry Nelson driving an auto while intoxicated Wilson Musom careless handling of fuel George Micieleteh statutory wharfage A R Saueabh larceny of jewelry Magee and Ellen in trouble before and after incident Grant Post a former Corry resident died yesterday in Belvedere New York. family left Corry years ago.
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