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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1942
Page
7
US Labor reports food retail prices kept advancing in February with small gains in meats and dairy. Local notices include a divorce filing in Erie County, naval and military enlistments, school staff changes, library lighting upgrades, and a rabble of local civic and court actions. Multiple residents face police checks, marriage license filings, and traffic incidents as waves of wartime community life unfold.
London dispatch reports Allied planners weighing a Madagascar strike to deny Japanese control near Africa and protect supply lines. They note Madagascar’s strategic value after Singapore and fear a Japanese push to occupy the island, with a six week presence of a Japanese mission seeking bases.
March 10 Harrisburg report states Governor James cleared the way for centralized civil service control. He sent to the Senate nominees Ruth Pennell John A McCarthy and Robert Hall Craig to form a merit system commission. The body will centralize duties from unemployment compensation, public assistance, and liquor board functions.
A 40 mile per hour gale in southwestern New York endangered the First Methodist church steeple. Police halted traffic as a hole four by six feet opened in the steeple mid height and the spire twisted but remained intact. The near gale caused damaged limbs, awnings, and windows. Jamestown Telephone reported limbs across lines but no trunk lines affected.
Ensign Wayne W. Bleakley, publisher of the News-Herald, leaves Franklin for naval duty after a ten day leave and intensive training at Cambridge Massachusetts. He has led the Hiws-Herald Printing Company and expects assignment soon with the U S Navy.
A damaged notice describes external skin irritations relief using San-Cura Sap and San-Oura Ointment and Soap. It claims cooling comfort and easing of bites, rashes, and itching with topical applications. It mentions cleansing bites and applying ointments to affected areas for relief.
Sparta area notes report weather delayed school openings, community events, and local meetings. Fragments indicate resuming classes, road conditions improving with plows, and snow runoff affecting area ditches and travel.
Twenty five criminal cases involving 82 defendants are listed for disposition at the March term of federal court in Erie. Six defendants are selected under the selective service act for military training. One defendant, Michael Maltin, a former athlete, is noted as a conscientious objector who previously claimed witness testim ony and was ordered confined in a concentration camp. he was arrested for failing to report for removal. Other defendants include perjury charges against Trippleman and Trips, and aliens under the immigration act. Amy Jehtor also charged with violating the Internal Revenue Act. Franklin banker King Gilliland faces trial over a statewide funds shortage under the National Banking Act.
Three Dunkir fishermen Julian Daniels and his sons Albert and Weller were rescued after a small flat-bottom boat broke from the main ice floe three miles offshore. Anthony Lach led the rescue with help from Bremen police and fishermen. The marooned men were spotted waving and showed illness from exposure.
For sale 54 per ton in Clarion County. Earl J Messenger of Columbus advertises contact at 88 829. New Bethlehem Coal offers full loads at 5.25 per ton with Dial 84 401. Powell's Coal Supply and others list musical merchandise and a near new Misetto Fiano journal box.
Erie March 10 A Sherman man Leo Stetson of RD 1 Sherman North Carolina reported to police he was robbed of 6252 while stepping into his truck at 14th and German streets Sunday morning He had been with Nort on Thornton and Richard J Miller of RD 2 North East They later returned to the club to retrieve Thornton s overcoat and found money missing from his shirt pockets Several men loitered near the truck as Thornton and Miller left and the money disappeared
Pittsburgh market reports show produce demand fair with apples and other fruits listed by car and per 100-lb sacks, alongside potatoes and russets in steady ranges. Buffalo livestock prices ease slightly on hogs and cattle, with calves, sheep, and western fed cattle trading steadier, notes on Monday’s averages. New York stock market wobbles amid war news, noon quotes show mixed gains for some blue chips while many fall to new lows, with transports and metals fluctuating.
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