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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1942
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR reads of municipal notices and relief about funerals and services fill Friday’s city page. The text mentions multiple families, a Baptist church event, and scheduled rites across Foxburg and nearby towns, with details garbled but signaling community obituary activity and civic notices.
Soviet forces pressing on Kharkov from the Ukraine and Donets Basin claim to near liberation, while Red Army reports claim breakthroughs along the Kursk Orel line and ring siege around Staraya Russa. Tanks enter southwest battles as Marshal Timoshenko’s forces advance toward the Sea of Azov and Dnieper region.
Stanford Hose Company leaders end war emergency program with factory visits to Aero Supply Mfg Co and Ajax Iron Works to acquaint members with hydrants access points and plant conditions. Delegation includes Ray Loutle Paul Laude Reymond Sandburg Carl Peterson Edward Berry and others under Fire Chief Andrew Paulson.
In Harrisburg on March 18 Associated Press reports U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey brands U.S. Attorney General Praimus A. Biddle as ringleader of a scheme to seize Democratic control in Pennsylvania. Guffey’s statement accuses Biddle and allied figures of masked attempts to promote a single candidate and sway voters.
Pittsburgh report says Phil Murray faces a looming split as John L. Lewis moves to form a new labor group. Sources claim Lewis aims to force Murray from his 18,000 a year post as vice president of the CIO and head of the steel workers group. An undercover rift reportedly widened for more than a year before Murray received a unanimous but symbolic vote of confidence.
Fourteen Japanese bombers struck Darwin today, targeting the northern territory capital as a potential UN warship and aircraft anchor. Sydney Radio reported only slight damage and some casualties, amid ongoing Southwest Pacific high tension and defense concerns.
The Corry man Claude Praskin Price of West Mallin street has two draft numbers listed by Union Giry Corry draft headquarters for the national drawing tomorrow night. In one listing he is T A54 and in the other T O18, with both entries showing the same name and address.
March 15 Congressional allies of Tabor pledged to tie profit limits on war production to wage ceilings proposed by President Roosevelt. Senators Hill and Law Pollete urged that wage action be paired with legislation stripping wartime contracts of profits. House leaders and others floated a super tax on government contracts. hearings on related bills were discussed, including closed shop bans and longer work weeks.
The Corry office of the Railway Express Agency on North Center street earned a February plaque for the largest increase in express shipments within the Buffalo Erie district. The Corry office exceeded its February quota by 95 percent, totaling 145 shipments against a 50 quota, with growth noted in recent months and a Friday report of four hundred pounds shipped citywide.
Residents urged to follow defense instructions under Walter Scott as wardens and auxiliary police coordinate drills. Stay indoors, seal shelters, keep water, coal, and fire safety gear ready, and report to shelter when alarms sound. Red Cross medical teams stand by for emergencies.
Washington reports an American four motor bomber attacked two Japanese held airfields on New Britain last Friday. It destroyed at least two planes on the ground and damaged runways at Vunikanai and Vunyaway airfields during reconnaissance missions.
British forces reportedly recrossed the Sitlang River in a counter offensive and captured Shweeyin, 80 miles north of Rangoon, as Allied defense stiffens in Burma. A U S air command in India outlines plans to push offensively, with growing air support and reinforced contingents, while London notes defense measures for Ceylon and a rising tempo of Allied aircraft and pilots aiding the fight.
Hundreds of men aged 20 to 45 in Coty and vicinity registered under the February 1 act awaken the national lottery to determine the order of call for military service starting at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday in Washington. Serial numbers have been assigned to all who registered last month, with the Journal listing those in Comy and vicinity on pages 6 and 7. Only five names from Local Board No. 3 at Union City were submitted to the Journal.
Secretary of State Hull? No, Welles warned in a press briefing that Hitler’s rhetoric signals his impending collapse. He argued Hitler returns to a world Americans reject, a world demanding decency, freedom, and tolerance.
Washington report says by midnight nearly all adults must file federal income tax returns. About 22 million individuals and thousands of corporations faced the deadline. Expected daily collections of income and excess profits taxes total around 2.75 billion dollars, the highest monthly amount ever recorded.
Report from Harrisburg notes the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ross received formal party committee backing without opposition on Saturday. An accompanying labor conference in Philadelphia aims to confer with two other contenders, Hale Smith of Pittsburgh and Luther Hare of Philadelphia, as part of a broader slate planning.
A Daily Mail dispatch citing Swedish reports says Soviet Siberian bases near Vladivostok and Nikolaevsk are ready for instant action against Japan. It notes Japan's enlarged army in Manchukuo, and three factors seen as portents of an early move: Tokyo recalling Ambassador Tatekawa, replacing him with Sato. Gen Minami returning to Tokyo. and Chang Ching-Hu’s visit to Japan.
In Erie Pennsylvania on March 16 Federal Judge FP P Schoonmaker sentenced King Gilliland aged 41 a teller at Franklin Trust Company to three years in the penitentiary on charges of embezzlement and false entries amounting to about 502 dollars lost to gambling houses in Youngstown and Cleveland Ohio FBI agents reported.
Adolf Hitler, addressing German war dead commemorations, urged sacrifices for a hard struggle but forecast crushing victory over Soviet Russia in the coming summer. He admitted unforeseen Russian obstacles, blamed winter, and vowed Bolshevik defeat, while dismissing President Roosevelt's aims as an alien world doomed to collapse.
Canberra dispatch reports heavy air strikes by American and Australian forces on Japanese bases in Timor, Dili, Rabaul, and New Britain. A UN submarine supposedly sank about 60 000 tons of Japanese shipping on a 15 000 mile foray, while talks of a US offense against Japanese overseas communications circulated without official confirmation.
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