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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1933
Page
6
A benefit event titled Anvente In Old Virginia is planned at the Senior High School auditorium in Corry for next week. The program, part of weekly radio letters by Erie Congressman Charles N. Grassy, may include entertainment and community donations.
The Junior Department of the Corry Woman's Club staged the Spring Fashion Show at the Masonic Temple in partnership with Nasts Ladies Shop. About 300 guests viewed 30 dresses, 18 suits and ensembles, 24 coats modeled by club members and junior participants. Footwear from Newhouse Shoehouse and music by Joseph Sherrick and Keppel Tiffany complemented an elaborate display. Proceeds support the Corry Relief Fund. directed by MS. Guy Abbey with Nast and Miss Sullivan assisting.
A former motorcycle patrolman who escaped from Coluntis prison on April 0 1982 after eight and a half years of a life sentence for mugging was arrested in a Buffalo rooming house last night. The prisoner used the alias Frank Fish and posed as a chauffeur. A woman with him was from Waterton Illinois and was released after questioning. Miller claimed innocence and said he broke away when attempts at legal pay down or commutation failed.
Detroit reports the national bank plan to end the banking paralysis with Reconstruction Finance Corporation support and GM investment. The new bank takes over liquid assets from First National and Guardian National, with deposits awaiting liquidation of frozen assets. Conservators manage gradual liquidation as Cleveland faces broader failures and calls for investigations.
United Press reports a petition to reopen an $18,000,000 patent infringement suit against Henry Ford is scheduled for a federal court hearing during the week beginning April 6 in Pittsburgh. The suit, filed in 1931 by late Arthur Banker and continued by his wife after his death, was dismissed two weeks earlier by Judge Nelson McVicar for tardy filing.
Senate banking committee members weigh a possible inquiry into a Justice department order in the Hoover era that allegedly delayed prosecution of Joseph Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank of New York. Attorney General Cummings cited a December order delaying action, with former official William D. Mitchell cited as background.
Los Angeles March 24 United Press reports that Douglas Fairbanks Jr plans to press a $50,000 alienation of affections suit against the young actor Dietz, returning from a Mexico honeymoon with his wife Lucy Doraine, ex-wife of director Michael Ritz. The case involves Dietz alleging Fairbanks entangled his former wife Olveig during residence in Copenhagen.
An unusual monument is planned for the firemen's plot in Union cemetery Amesbury. The four block granite design stands nearly eight feet high with varied firefighting implement motifs. Attorney General on March 4 said he had never heard of the Harriman case and had issued no orders nor could say if a subordinate might have suspended prosecution.
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