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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1945
Page
2
Announcement says Mansion House restaurant in Titusville has been bought by Titusville Hotel Corporation from Frank H. Burrow. The sale includes all equipment and the business will be run under hotel management. Meadville area report notes. Lightning struck a home owned by Ray Smock in this city causing major front path damage.
Local items report minor thefts and vandalism including eight park meters broken open and contents stolen in Titusville. Wounded service members Maurice Wirenberg and Pvt Philip Kinnear are mentioned with hospital notes. Other dispatches cite hospital discharges, fire damage to a three story frame dwelling, and public notices from Erie County officials. A Treasury report closes the column with financial figures and debt data.
General MacArthur announced heavy air strikes from Formosa and New Guinea targeting Baculo area, Taihoku base, and Okayama airfields. Baguio lay in mountains of Northern Luzon as doughboys and artillery pressed Yamashita’s supposed Philippine HQ. Units of the 25th and 39th Divisions neared Santa Fe on the Cagayan Valley road.
Ward H Hopkins of 1075 North Center street reported to police this morning that his Pontish coach was stolen from an Aero parking lot between midnight and four this morning. Hopkins suggested a relative might have taken it but denied they had a key. The car was titled in both Hopkins and his wife, who resides at Spar tanshure.
In Sparta Vocational School news Donna Weitner in eighth grade misses school due to illness. The Junior Class plans the annual play before April 20. P.T.A monthly meeting is scheduled for March 19. Seniors have portraits at Healy's Studio on March 21. Seed sales prize money totals include Bernard Skiff, Gerald McCray, Roland Crosby, James Biker, and Gerry Storkton, with funds to buy livestock or hybrid seed.
Rev and Mrs Nelson of Chicago and Dr Dewey Whitwell of Nashville headline opening night at United Brethren Church for a two week evangelistic series. They appear daily at 7 45 p m with minstrel style gospel program showing the Ninety Nine and hodrachrome Life of Christ pictures. Youth meetings Monday Wednesday and Friday. Young People's gathering Tuesday Thursday at 9 45 p m. Everyone welcome.
Jonas Antill died last evening at Corry Hospital about 7:30 after a month as a patient. Survived by wife Julia four daughters two sons a sister and many grandchildren. Services will be held at Torrey Funeral Home Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Interment Rose Hill Cemetery Spartansburg.
An electrical storm on Saturday struck the Red Oak district near Sparta Sturg, damaging a building little. Two cows sheltered in a barn were killed and a young heifer died in the incident.
Patton's forces press toward Mainz as Seventh Army reports capturing Bottenbach near Pirmasens. German withdrawal grows chaotic with tanks and artillery abandoned. American units shift southeast and south, building a Rhine bridgehead about 15 miles long and eight wide, using pontoon crossings to push toward the Ruhr.
The Fourth Armored Division under General White aims toward Maina near 33 miles from Frankfurt as Third Army closes on Bonn and Cologne bridges. German losses across the Rhine grow with pontoon and improvised spans in use while Omar Bradley's forces push north.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a Senate meeting on an unclear date with garbled words. Key entities and specifics are unreadable, preventing precise summary.
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