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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1943
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment mentions events, patrols, and times with names like Marty and Deena. It references a town, a military or police context, and a legal or weighing incident, but the text is too damaged to extract coherent facts or dates.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Foster and P R Ry with mentions of a morning event and a call for a necessary omen among a group of men at Neler Valley. No clear narrative or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
Fragmented OCR text mentions western Arizona and Elaney with partial references to events and coloreds. Details are unclear. readable items include a gun reference and partial place names. No clear date, organization, or outcome evident.
Washington May 3 Four months of party strife end today in a showdown on pay-as-you-go income taxation. House likely to pass by tomorrow a bill wiping out half or more of the 10 billion tax assets against 12 individuals. Competing plans would cancel 1942 tax burdens for many, amortize 1942 liabilities over three years, or forgive parts of the 1942 surtaxes. Treasury report shows April receipts 47.9 million with expenditures 762.98 million and a net balance of 12.6 million.
About 4,000 subscriptions were pledged in the local bond drive led by Dallas C. Smiley with Dan Depew as vice chairman. The drive surpassed its per capita target but fell short of the higher city goals. officials expect additional bond sales to push final totals toward or above 1.1 million.
The Associated Press reports American heavy bombers lost seven over St Nazaire amid bad weather and fierce German fighter opposition. Russian raids reportedly strike Prussia, while Finns claim large Russian formations suffer losses near Lake Ladoga. RAF Mosquitoes hit Thionville railway shops as anti strike bill gains momentum in Senate.
Allied forces surged toward Tunisian targets as Mateur fell and Bizerte remained within reach. German forces withdrew from northern Tunisian positions after heavy Allied pressure. Dispatches from Allied HQ in North Africa report advances to within 15 miles of Bizerte and 28 miles southwest of Bizet te, with American, British and French troops forming an arc of control across the contested terrain.
Lieut. Wil son Watt Woods son of Crawford Woods and his college roommate Jay Allison of Hickory Pa held an unexpected reunion while 62 aero patrols over the Atlantic. The event, several months old, recalls their days as Kappa Sigma brothers and Naval aviation cadets with Woods later serving in the South Pacific.
Stockholm reports say the German high command aims to recruit up to 500,000 from captured Soviet soldiers and Baltic civilians for a new force led by a former Soviet general. The move follows a failed mobilization and limited local volunteers in Lithuania and Estonia despite Gestapo controls.
Murray, head of CIO, tells United Steel Workers from 11 western states there will be no wartime work stoppage. He vows not to break the no strike pact with the president and emphasizes fidelity to American labor. Also noted is Roosevelt nominating Norman T. Kirk to be surgeon general of the Army.
Erie police arrested a hold up suspect tied to checks and city-wide robberies. The report notes Nilson and Wilson, linked to North East cases, and states a companion escaped during the two incidents. Further details appear elsewhere in the Journal edition.
Washington dispatch reports steel industry objections to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt 48 hour compulsory work week. They argue payroll would rise by about 10 million yearly without boosting output, while current production runs near 99 percent capacity at 41.8 hours weekly.
Washington May 3 Official reports say American forces bombed Japan’s Alaska area near Kiska twelve times with one heavy explosion at North Head near Kiska harbor. Fires broke out and railways damaged as other bombers hit Altú, a Japanese outpost 200 miles from Misia, while a new raid targeted Mureka in the central Solomons.
Allied bombers and submarines intensify activity against Japanese supply lines to Australia as Darwin endures a heavy toll from raids. A broader war at sea and air stretches across the Pacific, with attrition mounting for both sides as supply routes face renewed assault.
Allied forces report heavy losses as Darwin air base sustains damage from a large Japanese raid. In Australia’s northwest and Timor, MacArthur airmen attacked ships and airfields while Allied bombers and fighters, aided by submarines, claimed significant enemy air and shipping losses. The campaign aims to disrupt Japanese supply lines to Australia amid a broader Pacific war effort.
Supt Ralph Dewey reports that classes resumed this morning in all buildings with good attendance though some rooms show illnesses. Lois Heesink of Slippery Rock State Teachers College begins physical education duties in Corry schools as student instructor. Few faculty changes expected. With one month left in the 1942 44 term, the year closes in June.
A five man board will operate the nation s hard coal mines led by Julie Forbes WilBe chief of production and security for war. Kennedy said two miners representatives and two coal operators will assist the board which follows a brief Roosevelt era policy meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel with John Lewis UMW president present. The panel aims to set terms for wartime coal output and labor relations with miners returning to work by tomorrow morning.
William Fox, once a multimillionaire producer, was released at 10 A M from the northeastern federal penitentiary after serving five and a half months of a year and a day sentence for conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States in his bankruptcy case. He pleaded guilty to conspiring with retired U S Circuit Judge J Warren Davis and Morgan Kaufman.
May 3 report says coal mines began resuming under a 15 day truce amid government mediation led by Harold Ickes to settle wage disputes. UMW predicts full crews by tonight or tomorrow as several hundred miners return in Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky with hopeful prospects for steady production. Roosevelt radio appeal for uninterrupted output accompanies cautious optimism about supply and in transit coal shipments.
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