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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1942
Page
4
The President asserts wartime needs authorize broad executive powers while Congress acts promptly. We face inflation, hoarding, and wasteful spending. proposals cover farm prices rents wages rationing and debt relief as urgency mounts and Congress is urged to move swiftly. The public expects decisive, emergency measures.
Serious injuries were reported to Frank Boyas, a driver for J. M. Purpura on Hust Main Street after his International truck from Warren toppled near Garland. Purpura, badly cut, and Boyas injured, with further political rhetoric on war bonds and wealth taxation urging Americans to invest significantly as world war costs loom.
W pMathews resigns from Cli max Manufacturing after seventeen years to join Lima Locomotive Works Inc in New York City. Groundbreaking announced for a new Grand Theater after Harreburg plan approval. Daylight saving observed across the United States, with Gerry sticking to standard time. Local May party by the Ladies Auxiliary at Cory Hospital Armory features Rathbun's Novelty Orchestra. School board to discuss repairs and remodeling of grade buildings as term ends. Navy story recalls the divers’ tragedy and the battleship Sallfist’s later feats led by Commander Richard G. Voge earning the Navy Cross.
Wide World Features Writer reports on Carol Bruce a Brooklyn born singer who rose from Broadway chorus lines to Hollywood films and top night spots. At the Copacabana she earned about $1500 weekly, wearing a white crepe gown and delivering torchy contralto with strong encores. She recalls a memorable moment when a fan proposed on air after a performance and she accepted after singing Embraceable You.
Seattle May 1 in a plant called the cold room aircraft crews and equipment undergo extreme cold tests to simulate high altitude. The facility uses 1200 kilowatt refrigerators and a four layer glass windowed chamber where pilots wear heated suits and oxygen helmets. Engineers receive results by telephone and prove systems will endure subzero conditions used by air forces.
A historical note outlines lead exposure dangers across industries and common items. It highlights the making of lead compounds, storage batteries, painting, and acetylene work as hazardous. Outside industry, drinking vessels and household uses also pose poisoning risks, with symptoms like weakness and faintness noted.
War Department rejected Senator Mead's 1943 canal plan to cut through Canadian territory linking Lakes St Clair and Erie. It would cost about 20 million dollars, take 300 days to build, save ten hours on shipments to Ashtabula Cleveland and Connell, and potentially double Erie lake trade while reducing need for ore carriers.
A scrambled quiz asks about Charles A pind argh employment, a named Italian avin or governor killed in Tobruk, plant for Ceylon ja mus, which medium carries sound faster, trooper work, Bartholdi statue, racial composition claim, Yethindi Menubitt as a musician, carousal alias for merry go round, and Davie Copperfield’s child wife in a Dickens novel.
The text catalogs prewar pearl sources from the Indian Ocean and East Indies routed through a London clearing house, notes Tasman's 1682 Dutch discovery of New Zealand, and mentions Tasman and Cook's explorations in 1769-70. It adds Chinese carving motifs tied to mythic creatures and notes the Virgin Islands purchase from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000.
A critic surveys Gladys Schmaltz's debut The Emves of Autis noting strong American voice but stylistic borrowings from Mann and Proust, while likening the work to Robert Louis Stevenson. Also discussed are Paul J. Wellman's Angel With Spurs, Alexander Werth's Moscow Diary, Raoul de Salesto's The Making of Tomorrow, Philip Van Doren Stern's The Midnight Reader, Gerald Savory's Hughie Rodis, and other new books and stories.
Pennsylvania’s Joint State Government Commission reports third class school districts levy higher taxes and per capita taxes than first and second class districts. In years 1937-40 the average per capita tax rose about $19 above second and fourth class districts, while overall millage hovered near 17–18 across the state.
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