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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1952
Page
2
Dauphin county detectives and state police disclosed a raid on a Swatara township repair shop netted 44 slot machines. Harry Farina said 13 intact, eight dismantled, and parts of 22 smashed, with other fragments later found in a Harrisburg junkyard.
President Truman interrupted a Florida vacation to fly to Washington for an overnight stop and then to New York City for a 2 30 p.m. address before the 28th annual meeting of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at the Waldorf Astoria. The event gathers about 3,000 scholastic editors from junior colleges and schools nationwide.
A crowded notice sheet reports officials may require conformity to the city plumbing code for Powell’s area, with the mayor and council empowered to shape sewer contracts with surrounding suburbs. Other items include National Guard age exemptions, car thefts in Warren Titusville, a Titusville birth delivery after a fall, a rail strike disruption, and various local business ads and civic notices.
A hospital report lists emergency calls and discharges around Corry and nearby towns. Names, addresses, and relations appear for patients from Wesleyville to Spartansboro with several infants and adults noted as discharged or awaiting services. The item closes with a Meadville birthday DUI case.
Walter W. Morty 10, credited with developing the teletypesetter system that transmits news by wire to set type from perforated tape, died at home after remaining active in promoting the system. He worked 20 years for Telétype Corp and was backed by Frank Gannett. born March 6, 1882 in Troy, NY. Survived by widow Alice Capps Morey and a son, Walter Wilton Morey. Funeral set for Wednesday in Alhambra.
Harrisburg March 10 special religious services will be held by the state to honor comrades in Europe and Korea. Adjutant General Frank A. Webber has requested all guardsmen to attend church in uniform the weekend of April 25 to 27 for special prayer and remembrance.
Four hour airborne drama ends safely as pilot Carl R. Siemer belly-lands a Lockheed Lodestar at Dayton Municipal Airport with four aboard. Passengers Ruth Siemer and three men including W. A. Burns, Harry Byler, and William Pollard exit uninjured after the gear failed. Flight originated from Lansing Michigan en route to Denver. A crowd of thousands watched as the plane skimmed the grass and burned fuel to reduce fire risk.
The High Court ruled that contempt sentences imposed on 11 lawyers who defended the leading Communist figures at a New York trial stand. Justice Frankfurter, Blick, and Douglas wrote separate dissents. Sentences ranged from one to six months for lawyers including Harry Sacher, Richard Gladstein, and Eugene Dennis, the Communist party leader who acted as his own attorney. Louis and Crockett Jr. were among others named in the decision.
Miss Ida V. Guffey, sister of former Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, died at her Washington home today. No details were immediately available. The article also notes ongoing legal appeals involving McCabe of Philadelphia and a six to two Supreme Court ruling on deportation of aliens who were once Communist party members.
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