30 Mar 1935
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1935
Page
1
An unclear report mentions arrests, warnings, custody, and night travel concerns. It references students residents and girls after dark, with mentions of kidneys, blood and birth, but the text is highly garbled and hard to extract concrete facts or names.
Tulsa dispatch reports Raymond Hamilton and an unnamed female companion eluded pursuit through Mississippi Arkansas and Oklahoma after a bank robbery in Prentiss Mississippi. Two women sisters Dorothy and Estelle Davis both with criminal records were captured near Monticello Mississippi while under duress.
Gov George H Earle will answer a proposed tax program offered by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce in a radio address Tuesday night. He reiterates opposition to a sales tax calling it subtly vicious and notes the chamber plan includes income and sales taxes plus corporate tax. He says a compromise means two programs and that his plan has been submitted but the Republican Senate has not yet offered a replacement.
Federal agents seized narcotics valued at over one million dollars in a surprise raid in New York. The agents called it the biggest seizure of narcotics in history. A weather forecast for April 1 to 6 notes considerable cloudiness and precipitation with temperatures near normal by week end.
Washington March 20 The state commerce Commission authorized emergency freight rate increases totaling 85 million dollars in annual railroad revenues. The measures take effect immediately and run until June 30, 1936. The commission rejected a blanket 10 percent rise and limited increases to coal coke petroleum products iron ore sand gravel and some stone with farm products exempted.
The 1935 junior class comedy Yours Truly played to one of the largest audiences in recent years at the high school auditorium. Cast members Harrison Curtis Richard Shoop Charlotte Schramling Marjorie Young Robert Ott Fred Walsh Winnie St Pierre Agatha St Pierre Duane Fogle Bob Rollots held flawless performances. Senior High Faculty member Ruth Bennett directed. Proceeds support the class prom with thanks to Root's Furniture Store for furnishing.
Manuel Fonseca, a leader in the Guitterag opposition, was reprieved five minutes before his scheduled firing squad execution. Condemned under emergency laws for possession of dynamite, he denied the charge as protests rose. A government decree changed the penalty to life imprisonment for mere possession of explosives.
Washington dispatch reports a Congress clash over a $900 million public works loan and grant with 1 of every 3 dollars to labor. Harold Ickes opposes the wage amendment as cabinet members warn it would make the $4.88 billion relief plan unworkable. The fight centers on whether to restrict funds to labor or allow broader use for materials and projects.
John Casey sues Andrew McKeta over a late yesterday accident on First Avenue near Main Street. Casey alleges McKeta struck Casey’s parked car and damaged a truck. hearing set for Monday in Alderman Gordon’s office. The driver was uninjured.
NRA announces extension of coal industry wage code to June 16 averting a suspension of work in the Appalachian field and potentially across the industry. The agreement covers wage talks with United Mine Workers and operators, aiming to ease a crisis that threatened 850,000 miners and national coal supply.
Moscow reports that Russia aims for full entrance into armament crisis talks, with Maxim Litvinov and Anthony Eden pursuing a wide range of issues from Germany’s Versailles treaty denials to European security. Official briefings deny any move toward a broader security pact including Britain or the United States.
Princess Mdivani arrives in Reno by chartered plane from New York to seek a divorce from Prince Alexis Malvani, youngest son of the Malvani heirs, amid high society attention.
The National Labor Relations Board says Firestone Tire & Rubber Co violated employee organizing rights and must halt the action or face enforcement. Goodyear and Firestone prepare for a walkout as union votes loom, with barbed wire and camp cots at plants and strike ballots planned for April 7.
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of Walter F. McGee, leader of the kidnaping gang that abducted Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City city manager. Execution was scheduled for May 1.
Police admit a months old case of a mutilated body found in a hotel bathtub may be the perfect crime. A special homicide squad investigates an unidentified corpse described as a mutilated victim in a Kansas City hotel setting.
A Kansas City hotel killing leaves police unsure of victim and killer identities. One theory centers on Roland T. Owen, a man staying at the hotel, who allegedly came to end a failed engagement with a local woman. The woman's brother is blamed, but detectives Howland Johnson and Aldrich have little solid evidence and the case remains unresolved.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania violence and bombings flare in coal areas as Attorney General Katzey J Mar glotti and State Police Major Lynn G Adams investigate the bombing of Judge W A Valentine s car. Explosions shook western Wilkes-Barre dwellings amid fears miners seek to maintain a reign of terror with talk of martial law, though officials say the situation has not reached that level.
A wind storm blew hay onto a resident riding a hay load near Priday, fracturing Mrs Edward Schnell left leg. She was taken to Corry Hospital and remains confined. The day carried the season's strongest gales with limited property damage and dusty air from the Midwest storm. In Kane Pa dust and rain swept through homes as winds toppled small buildings and halted motorists with slush on shields.
H G Wells predicts a coming revolution in America on March 30 in New York. He says it will be thoroughly American, not Communist or Fascist, with no Huey Long as leader. He notes other observations by Charlin and Coughlin.
Paul Welch president of Welch Grape Juice Company of Westfield suffered a concussion and possible skull fracture after his car skidded and overturned on the Sherman-Clymer highway. He was treated at Clymer and later transferred to Jamestown hospital where his condition improved by this afternoon. His daughter Barbara was uninjured in the crash.
Treasury figures show liquor and beer yielded about $60 million in tax revenue over the past 24 months, with $56.4 million from domestic spirits beer and wines since April 1983. Customs duties on imported liquor added roughly $50 million. State and city taxes rose as well.
The Post Office Department announced three western postmaster appointments. James J. McNany will serve DuBois, Blanche C. Anderson Monongahela, and Wooda N. Carr Uniontown. Governor Harle will headline a April 6 testimonial dinner in Pittsburgh for Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti.
Greensburg Pa March 30 A 26 year old mother of eight Glenna Bariwell of Library Pa and two male companions Philp DeMarco 18 and James Ross 20 were charged with larceny and highway robbery. They allegedly abducted a driver near Monongahela City after hitchhiking to New York and fled via West Virginia and Maryland before being arrested in Haverford and returned to Greensburg.
Nearly 800 CCC workers in seven camps of the Allegheny National Forest face discharge tomorrow after terms of service of a year to 15 months. Reported average weight gain is 1940 pounds among the youths, with replacements contingent on a world relief bill now before Congress.
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