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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1944
Page
2
The McOniy Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs Thelma McCray Thursday May 11 for an all day gathering with a picnic lunch at noon Visitors welcome. Amelia Camp MF a Titusville hospital staffer has resigned to study at St Francis hospital in Philadelphia.
City and Vicinity notices report selective service orders to furnish two groups of men for Navy induction at Erie on May 25 and May 31. Draft board No. 1 must send 44 men for May 25, while board No. 2 supplies 16 for May 31. The Erie area also lists local looms of insurance, missing in action notices from Franklin, and various community notices including a charity bake sale and a patrolman medical case.
Ange Une chairm an of the Bank ing and Investment Division announces a July 19 to July 8 drive for the largest goal yet. The appeal seeks proven volunteers to direct activities, recalling last drive workers and urging more citizens to contact the County War Finance Chairman.
Fragmentary note mentions a center at Columbus Avenue and an emblem or station in North Corry. Text references a “000W forvelic bructors” and “trbcrisants” with a contact “W. le ARMITAGE Phone Manser 4-65”.
The Corry Ministerial Association held its May meeting at United Brethren Church. Rev Hurris presided. Rev Hall, longtime secretary treasurer, recently died. a Resolution of Respect was adopted. Rev Francis Whitetay elected to succeed Hall for one year. Baccalaureate set for June 4 at the High School with Rev P A Galbreath as speaker.
Attorney General Biddle announced an indictment against three American born sisters of Japanese ancestry for treason. The women, Tsuruko Wallace Florence Shiyze Otani and Billy Shitera Tanigoshi, aided two German soldiers to escape from a POW camp in Trinidad, Colorado, by supplying food clothing money and maps and transporting them toward Wawon Mound New Mexico before they were recaptured.
Word came from Los Angeles of the death last Friday of Robert Lasse, longtime Corry radiator pioneer and founder of the Corry Radiator Works with his father James Lose. The firm later became part of Ajax Iron Works era, with the Lasse family home shown at 37 Park Place in Corry prior to relocation.
About 5,000 Montgomery Ward employees were eligible to vote on forming a CIO union to represent them in bargaining. Balloting was supervised by the NLRB and to continue until 7 a.m. central wartime. Resulted were to be announced tonight as a federal seizure dispute loomed ahead of a court ruling on government injunctions.
Pennsylvania's GOP delegation may withhold a firm 70 votes at next weekend's organization meeting. High sources oppose declaring a presidential nominee choice to avoid embarrassment at the annual governors conference. Dewey led write ins with about 150000 votes in the last primary, signaling potential support on the first convention ballot.
In Harlem at Public School 119 two masked Black girls armed with kaves attacked nine year old Mary Patton, who died en route to Harlem Hospital. Police report the assailants were captured and taken into custody for questioning.
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