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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1950
Page
4
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Secretary Acheson will meet in Paris and London with foreign ministers to discuss Indo China. The plan includes economic aid from the United States and Britain, with France stressing the need for more military support. The issue involves Communist gains, regional threats, and Western recognition of competing regimes in Indo China.
A reader quiz asks ten questions on global bodies language ships law courts ambassadors and poetry. It invites checking Classified Page for answers and mentions memory and scoring levels from Genius to Poor.
The Gutang Sunday Seno! hosts an all day rally at Cutting Town Hall on Sunday May 7 with Rev. John H. Blakeley of Ridgeway as guest speaker. Morning service at 10 30 am, afternoon at 1 18 pm, special music and Christian pictures. Screen dinner at noon. Daylight saving time applies. Public invited.
Three masked men held up the Turtle Creek housing project rental office in the late hours, forcing a clerk and several women and children into a vault. Two newspaper delivery drivers entering during the robbery were also restrained. No further details available.
Raymond Spiesman, severely injured when run down by a car on Findley Cake road Friday night, is reported slightly improved at Corry Hospital though condition remains critical. Fire damages and a rifle league election are noted along with deaths, a hospital day observance, and a child narrowly escaping serious injury after stepping into traffic.
In Erie on May, Judge Burton B. Laub awarded 4984 in insurance benefits to the estate of Elisabeth Johnson, widow who killed her husband Ernest F. Johnson on June 10, 1948, while she was committed to Warren State Hospital. The ruling held that the executors of the husband’s estate, the National Bank and Triest Co., should receive the money despite the Slayer Act of 1941.
The judge reasoned that civil law requires criminal responsibility to apply the law. Since Mrs. Johnson was insane at the killing and not responsible, Laub ruled her estate should receive the money. No alternate beneficiaries claimed through the slaver. The Coast Guard also notes it provides weather data to maritime and air units.
Erie plans an official conference on raffles as part of a city anti gambling push. Police Chief William Donahue and Inspector Roy Mongai will meet with the mayor to decide an official stance on raffles amid broader campaigns against numbers horse betting punchboards lotteries and bingo.
The mayor says bingo and car games have been shut down this week as part of an anti gambling drive. He warns venues will not reopen and stresses the city’s firm position on banning such ticket sales.
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