Chinese Army Attacks Peiping as Japanese Hold North China
Chinese forces led by Gen Chu Teh penetrated toward Peiping in a major bid to strike the Japanese in north China. Battles raged near the Grand Canal and the Lung-Hai rail corridor as Emperor Hirohito dispatched Prince Chichibu to bolster morale.
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Emperor Hirohito
Brother
China
Hitler
Chu ‘Teh
Napoléon
Peiping
Japan
Grand Canal
Lung-Hai
Hirohito
Prince Chichibu
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Rome-Berlin
Rome
Naples
Europe
Great Britain
Konrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Dems Plan Rally Tonight in Grand Theatre
Democrats finalize preparations for a big rally at the Grand Theatre building at 8 o'clock tonight. A parade will precede the meeting, starting at City Park at 8, with the Corry Band and several groups joining a procession of cars and local leaders. Speakers include Norbert J. Pitsgerald George Stout Maurice Coughlin and Walter H. Scott.
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Grand Theatre
City Park
Corry Band
V. T. W. Druim Corps
Erie County
Norbert J. Pitsgerald
George Stout
Maurice Coughlin
Walter FH. Scott
PairIndicted for Robbery in Crawford County Court
Twiist Lee of Corry and Jyenerd Platt of Spartansburg are named in an indictment returned by Crawford County grand jury. They face charges of unlawful entry and larceny following an alleged robbery at an isolated plant in Spartansburg. Trial is set at Crayford County Court in Meadville next week.
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Twiist Lee
Corry
Jyenerd Platt
Spartansburg
Crayford
Meadville
Crawford Colinty
Fire destroys St. Mary's business district buildings
A blaze in Mays, Pa, caused about $25,000 in damage to several businesses in the heart of the district. Wiremen battled the flames for two hours before they were controlled. The frame buildings were gutted. no injuries reported. Officials suspect the Kallas Restaurant as the origin of the fire.
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United Press
Mays
Kallas
Mulan Waller Dies at Erie Hospital
Milan Waller sixty five longtime Corry resident and notable band and music figure died at Hamot hospital Erie after months of illness. He helped found Kinney Spiesman and Waller plumbing firm and led the Corry Band for years as a cornetist and organizer. His death ends a widely known civic and musical career.
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Milan
Waller
Kinney, Splesian and
Ue Hamot Hospital
Erie
Corry
Ute Erie
Erie Hospital
Barlow Hardware Company
Iter
Willian and
Wrenk Spiesman
Walter Kinney
Kinney, Spiesman and Waller Plumbing Frm
Corry Batts
Effrts
Lang
73 Year Old Woman Admits Murder Pact
Eleanor Smith, 73, confessed to a murder pact with her son War Decasio Hayer and helped transport parts of Navy Lieutenant James Eugene Bassett's body in September 1928. She is on a police hunt for evidence that could lead to execution after a parole violation and prior grand larceny sentence.
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Ay United Press
Seattle
Wash
Eleanor Smith
Pratt
Waley
War
Decasio Hayer
James Eugene Bassett
Navy
Hoover Outlines 11 point recovery plan to Republicans
Former president Herbert Hoover spoke to 7,500 party workers across Oklahoma and neighboring western states detailing an 11 point program aimed at restoring jobs and countering the New Deal. He urged use of the plan as a start toward immediate and lasting employment. The nationally broadcast address was his fourth since returning from abroad.
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United Press
Oklahoma
City
May
Wormer
Herbert Hoover
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Kansas
Arkansas
Missouri
Idaho
Corry Gas Rates Hearings and Air Mail Plan May 19
Public Utility Commission to hold eight hearings next Tuesday in the city council chamber to review Pennsylvania Gas Company rates for Corry and nearby communities. Meanwhile Corry pilots Charles Pierce and Lawrence Thomas will carry mail via air to Buffalo Cleveland and Pittsburgh as part of National Air Mail Week with a one day service from Corry May 18 19.
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CORY
Gees Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Briverty Council Chamber
Syalhial
Corry
Trigen
Feu
Tris
Perio
National Air Mail
Charles Pierce
Lawrence T Thomas
Union City
Waterford
Wattsburg
Buffalo
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
James P. Sullivan
Jagternton
James F. Warley
Riie
Roosevelt recovery program funds debated by subcommittee
A House appropriations sub-committee on May 6 discussed a relief appropriation plan replacing a fire chief with relief agencies. The debate cited President Roosevelt and a proposed implant message, with Virginia representative Woodrum commenting on the amount as insubstantial.
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Flouse
Karryman Gilfion A. Woodrum
Examinations for More Public Aid Positions
The state employment board announced a second series of civil service exams for about 400 state and county public assistance jobs to be held June 11 and 12 at Brie. Applications must arrive by May 25. Exams will be practical and test capacity and fitness for various posts from administrative director to puncher with salaries from 6000 to 1020 dollars annually. Previous testers may compete in the new series. It is expected several from Corry will participate.
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Brie
Employment Board
Public Assistance Office
War Service
Com Agitatanve
Tor
Corry’ | Witt
Pittsburgh parking lot strike widens to neighborhood centers
May 8 Pittsburgh reports the strike by parking lot attendants spreading from downtown to nearby business districts. George Schmitt, director of cheatribe, calls for 400 additional pickets before neighborhood establishments, compounding pressure on operators.
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Miker
Pittsburgh
George Schmitt
Cheatribe
Gehnaut
Coercion of WPA Workers in Erie Area Reported
Mine County Democrat chairman Arthur Colegrove charged political coercion of WPA workers in six northwestern Pennsylvania counties. He accused Mercer WPA Director of District 12 and other campaign operatives of pressuring workers to support Kennedy or lose their jobs. The cabinet officer reportedly backed the Hayle Jones ticket and urged dismissal of about 100 federal employees as punishment.
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United Press
Harrisburg
WIA
C. J. O. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Thomas Kennedy
Colegrove
Mercer
U. S
Joseph T. Guffey
Committee For Industrial Organization
Splegrove
Kennelly
Guffey
Cusegiuve
Corry Students Compete in Pa Scholarship Exams
Six Cony High students from Corry joined ninety one Erie county peers taking statewide PA scholarship exams. Top eighty earn four year scholarships with $100 yearly stipends to approved colleges. Corry trio Harriet Anderson Rachel Graft Albert McElroy Alvin Cogan Burton Dearing plus Mat Batn Sears named among participants.
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Cony High Enool
Erie
Erie County
Commonwealth
State Council of
Edugaton
Corry
Harriett Anderson
Rachel Graft
Alpert McElroy
Alvin Cogan
Burton Dearing
Pennington Faces Hearing Over Inmate Gas Fatality
Pennington, superintendent of the State Industrial School for Boys in Pennington County, faces a Monday hearing on involuntary manslaughter charges related to a December gas exposure death of a Black inmate. The hearing follows a $1,000 bond posted by an employee. The case stems from an incident under investigation by the district attorney and state authorities. Park Central Hotel Announces 5 Percent Wage Raise for 692 Employees.
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Unitd
Harrisburg
Earle
Chas. J. Margiotti
Gail B. Shelley
David L. Lawrence
The
Commonwealth
Isurance
Shelley
Warle- Jones
Schiyl- Ault
George J. Harle
Supreme Coit
Philadel
Phiay
Dauphin
Margioth
Huntingdon
Coumandér Doa
Pennington
State Industrial School For
Justice of the Peace
Ralph Galbraith
Harry Bock
No School
Samuel Stewart
Huntingdon County
Bn Pennington
S. M. Washabaugh
George H. Warle
Daniel Lanaurr
Philadelphia
Early Vote On Wage Bill Sparks 218 Signatures
In Washington on May 6 the House fast tracked a wage hour bill to the floor for a May 24 vote after a record breaking petition drive led by Mary Neo of the House labor committee. The panel faced swift signatures as supporters surged to bring the measure onto the agenda despite historical limits on such petitions.
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United Press
Washington
House
House Rules Committees
Mary Neo
House Labor Committee
Ben
Wello
Norton
Chamber of Commerce President Urges Labor Industry Accord
George H. Davis of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged a labor industry accord after restoring national confidence. He called repealing the Wagner Act defeating the wages and hours bill and moving tax and appropriation measures. The 26th annual meeting adopted a resolution for management and labor to cooperate without federal government intervention on common concerns.
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Washington
George H. Davis
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Chamber
Lsborto
Ommon
Amerian Federation of Labor
Babson Sees Farm Outlook Dim Amid Price Slump
Babson Park May 6 1938 A fiscal outlook piece notes farm families numbering 15 million face stalling farm prices with wheat cotton and dairy prices falling while production forecasts promise record or near record crops. Government programs draw rural resistance as farm income slumps requiring caution for 1938. Continued on page five.
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U.S
Wallace
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Margiotti
Lawrence
Joe Alex Morris
North
DEMS
St. Mary's
Mulan Waller
Corry Plumbing Firm
Hoover
WPA
Natchet Man
Eddie Jones
Irvin Rooney
Delaware Street
John D. Mlanigan
New York
Park Central
Ite
Wagner Bill
Babson
Roger Babson
Babson Park
Mass
America
Harney
United States
Sarah
Althouh
Canada
Cottotaloe
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