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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1943
Page
2
Debates among Clearfield Elk and Cambria county feed dealers in DuBois Friday night lead to forming a nine member coordinating board. They aim to allocate soybean meal and gluten to stock raisers in the tri-county area amid a shortage of thigh protein feeds.
A sweeping local page notes a Madison Street apartment fire blamed on faulty wiring, damaging the Newells’ unit while a second flat owned by Frank Lecker remained largely intact. Other items include a Seventh Day Adventist missionary event at Strong Vincent High School, hospital transfers, Red Cross blood drives, and community notices across Meadville Jamestown and Oil City with town updates and wartime welfare.
A seven acre block of earth moved into the Valley of the Moon at about two feet per hour from dawn yesterday near Glen Bilon. No homes were endangered but Sonoms Creek could be dammed or diverted if the slide continued. Engineers attribute erosion as the cause.
Advanced New Rates Take Effect April 1 in all union barber shops. Haircuts will cost 35 cents and shaves 20 cents, up five cents each. Saturday closing time moves to 8 PM before holidays. list of barber names included.
Mr and Mrs Terents Lindberg of Warren RD 3 receive from the War Department the Purple Heart and certificate awarded posthumously to their son, Sgt Vernon Lindberg, who died from wounds received in action in Europe in 1942. A brother Clifford Lindberg lives on Mont Street, Corry.
Police at Rio de Janeiro report to the national security tribunal details of an Axis spy plot against the United States. Capt Tullio Regis Do Nascimento and other Brazilian nationals, plus present and former Axis diplomats, used clandestine radio messages via Argentina to study U S naval vessels and movements. The scheme included a request in Berlin for 3000 dollars for Nasci mentos travel expenses and involved a former German ambassador Kurt Pruefer and aides. The investigation notes transmission of invisible messages and efforts to gather military base information in northern Brazil.
Washington reports the War Production Board announced that about 250000 ice boxes will be made in the second quarter to meet civilian needs with no retail sale restrictions. Some mechanical refrigerators will be released soon but the total number for purchase remains undecided.
A morning eastbound Pennsylvanian derailment near Warren injures two, with one was moved to Warren Hospital for shock. Fire crews, ambulances, and wrecking teams from Renovo and Erie respond as roadbed is torn up. Postmaster J E Bell oversees mail from the train, and buses shuttle passengers to Warren, Corry, and Erie while the route is detoured via Olean and Emporium. The Philadelphia to Erie service derails while picking up a sleeper in Philadelphia and Washington.
Philadelphia report says a real estate office near 172 South Street was robbed yesterday. A bystander was shot and killed, injuring Mrs. Freda Eiberg, 37, wife of Dr Arthur Eiberg head of the mathematics department at John Baritam High school. A man identified as James Monroe, 6, a local resident, is charged with homicide, holdup, and robbery.
Treasury Washington reports March 27 receipts of 185 101 730 26 expenditures 229 882 76 14 net balance 54 194 974 609 68 gross debt 19 604 72 decrease 20 788 176 80. In Harrisburg an accident on a train left Mrs Harry Wasson of Kane unshaken describing the ride as surprisingly calm.
A garbled excerpt hints at amity, the United States and Germany, with scattered phrases about Jose and straits. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or dates to identify a concrete news item.
Fragmented OCR text hints at World War II topics involving Rommel and British forces, referencing tanks and victory in Europe. No clear event, date, or named stand-alone fact is readable to form a complete report.
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