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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1943
Page
4
The editorial notes a passionate presidential speech urging unrelenting home front effort in a world war. It stresses that stopping coal or essentials risks soldiers and national security, and calls for a clean, maximum mobilization to secure victory.
The article debunks a theory that wartime bombing and artillery cause irregular weather. It notes that weather moves west to east in northern regions, tends to exit via the St Lawrence valley, and Pacific coast activity is too distant to affect North America. Experts dismiss the suggestion as implausible.
In a wartime transcript Maxi ame Chiang Kai-shek calls for no bitterness in rebuilding global relations and forgiveness for past injuries. The rhetoric contrasts with lingering Tokyo execution memories ands a warning against feuds repeating in the postwar order. Time as a Western concept is also referenced by a business columnist.
Readers are asked to answer seven questions from the classified page, including identifying the last U S president born south of the Mason Dixon line and the origin of spaniels. The item notes word puzzles and requests corrections to several garbled phrases.
Fire sweeps eleven structures on First and Second avenues causing about $65,000 in losses. The blaze, possibly sparked by a passing locomotive, started near a barn behind a West store and spread from the Conewan Bo Refining Company plant in Warren. A second fire at the refinery district estimated at $175,000 is noted as still burning fiercely with sparks believed to have come from the locomotive. Bids will open for paying projects at a city commission meeting. Robert Bates, a postal lineman, suffers serious scalp injury and leg fracture after a collision. he’s described as improving at the hospital. The Water Company plans new wells near Cook’s Hill and North Corry pumping station. Byron F. Babbitt named receiver for the Texas and Oklahoma Railroad. Tonight’s film, Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks, opens at Rex with new Fotoplayer installation and Roy Larson at the organ.
The report notes American steel production in 1942 was about one percent higher than in 1917 or 1918 and over ten percent greater than total output from April 6, 1917, to the Armistice, reflecting a wartime production surge.
Erie court hearings July trial nears for William McCausland charged with killing Lea Knoll. He shows nerves and confusion as he faces jury selection with his attorney and district attorney Burnin Laub preparing to present police witness statements. The state seeks the death penalty.
Harrisburg reports a Senate committee declines to act on Democratic charges against Attorney General James H. Duff. The debate centers on a $119,000 indebtedness tied to the closed Trust Company of Western Pennsylvania with $60,500 paid. Duff defends the record and calls the charges propaganda.
One farm accident victim left Corry Hospital yesterday after injuries from a wagon run over. Another victim remained in fair condition with multiple broken ribs. Charles Swan, reportedly in critical condition from a tractor fire, suffered extensive burns to hands arms and abdomen.
Rose Res, of Butler, a sister long believed dead, reunited with brother Alexander Fox of Washington and their sibling David from Erie after 40 and 36 years respectively. Fox, a structural steel worker who has been in Panama, France and Trinidad, arrived with David to meet Mrs. Rew.
A discussion notes that physically handicapped individuals can be effective war workers and even outperform some nondisabled workers. It calls for careful screening and surveys, and argues employing disabled workers relieves manpower shortages and offers hope, while politics weigh criminalizing strikes.
Jamestown May 7 Private Lewis M. Terry son of Mr and Mrs Mason H Terry of Ellington is reported missing since February 13 and believed captured by the German government in North Africa according to telegrams from the War Department.
Major Theodore C Tolman 42 of Jamestown's Mrs Satan Tolman 58 Bowen Street recalled a chat the afternoon of an Iceland plane crash that killed Lieut Gen Frank M Andrews and 12 others. Tolman served as an aide to Andrews, traveled world wide, and was recently promoted to major. He married in Langley Field Virginia and is survived by a son Lonny and a sister Mrs Pred Newcnmb of California.
Jamestown reports the death of Minnie Tillerby and the missing Army sergeant James A Hillerby in the North African theater since March 29 1943. Sergent Hillerby enlisted January 1981 and previously served at Fort Devens Fort Bragg Florida and Fort Benning. He has four sisters and a brother at home. Erie county official Thomas Flatley probes Detention Home conditions after a May grand jury report finds deplorable conditions and calls for watchful oversight until a new facility is chosen.
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