Corry Area News Wraps War Pace and Local News
Cloudy warm with heavy troop train movements noted. Folletts sell three family home and plan new farm west of city after the war. Corry mourns Cor B. King as funeral planned tomorrow. Army jeeps and surplus vehicles parade through yards bound for postwar use. Gas thefts reported on Main Street. Basil Davis held on non support and desertion charges. Vernon Doyle, Erie missing boy, sought. Stolen cars, beer and cash, tires and books reported in robberies. Unemployment payouts dip. Siggins recovering after appendectomy. Clinton Pratt and Betty Litz marry in Corry. AAA to sell 7,700 tractors to PA farmers in 1944. Potatoes shipped to dehydrators. sugar beet plants active. Hershey gardens bloom with thousands of tulips and daffodils. War Department lists several soldiers wounded at sea from the region.
May Term Opens With Assault Cases In Erie Court
May term of the Erie County criminal court opens with 32 cases on the docket including aggravated assault by Max Lesenof son of Josiah Lesenoff and involuntary manslaughter in the highway death of Lawrence Busch. Albert De Bello faces a separate motor collision charge as John Donaduey, aka Jack Day, is set for trial on criminal libel claims in The Town Crier case with defense arguing malice and constitutional rights.
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John N. Donaduey
Albert de Bello
Lawrence Busch
North Girard
Lesenoff
Arthur Blass
Thomas E. Doyle
Busch
Avonia
Girard
Donaducy
Erie County
Rial
Jack Day
Town Crier
Albert Means
Charles Swartz
The
Vote
Joseph Scary Field
Bomber flier drops wife note over Jamestown
A B-24 Liberator dropped a note to Mrs. Stanley H. Morse in Jamestown noon Monday. The 12 year old Irving Burgeson saw the plane and retrieved the card. The message from Stan Morse, a gunner, said he would be seeing her soon and asked delivery to her at 58 Dearborn Street. Morse is stationed at Westover Field Massachusetts.
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Jamestown
Stanley H. Morse
Dearborn Street
Stan
Usband
Morse
Charles Morse
Jamestown Mutual Insurance Company
Irving Burgeson
J Willard Street
King and Kinney Streets
Millions Can't Buy Good Health Pills Claim
An old advertisement claims Thompson Bor soma Tablets boost kidney activity to purify the blood, increase excretion, and relieve headaches and fatigue. It promotes the product for 50 cents at drug stores and suggests Golden Tax Tablets for constipation.
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Sue
Erie Readies for Governor and Cabinet Visit
Governor Baward Martin will arrive in Erie on Wednesday for talks with city and county officials at 8 15 am. D A Currie chairs the visit with a large slate of state officers including Lieutenant Governor John C Bell and Attorney General James H Duff. A public reception at Hotel Lawrence is set for 4 pm before departure to Harrisburg at 6 pm.
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Brie
Baward Martin
Erie
D. A. Currie
Chamber of Commerce
John C. Bell
Charles Morrison
James H. Duff
William S. Livengood, Jr
Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Vail
Greeg L. Neel
William G. Freeman
Chester M. Yfdl- Worth
James A. Kell
John A. Squroyer
A. H. Stewart
M. Wilhelm
William Hf. Chestnut
Labor and Industry
Milak
M. R. O'Hara
David W. Harris
Revenue
Samuel Y. Rammage
Floyd Chalfant
Commerce
Ralph Cooper Hutchinson
State Council of Defense
George J. Bloom
Edward 5. Logan
E. H. Rowan
Lawrence
Harrisburg
New Cure Found For Blood Clots Says Medical Science
Sun ran ALLMAN AP Features Writer reports a 1922 note on spoiled sweet clover causing hemorrhage in cattle leading to a hunt for clot dissolvers. In 1940 Dr Paul Link and colleagues isolated dicoumarin from spoiled ensilage as a promising anticoagulant.
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Sun
Allman AP
Man
Link
Paul Link
University of Wisconsin
Outs Returns Sour Cream on the Farm Decreases Its Market Value
Quarter yields indicate sour cream on the farm lowers market value and producer returns, harming butter industry stability as prices dip and demand shifts. The note outlines economic impact affecting farmers and related markets.
Three jailed in Erie dining room disorder
Erie police detain Michael Lombardo 36 Donald E Nicholson 25 and Phy Us Anthony 20 after an early Sunday dispute over $2 led to Lombardo being stabbed six times Nicholson admits stabbing and all three face charges Lombardo treated at Hamot Hospital with injuries to shoulder hand and arm and suspects jailed in county prison
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Erie
Michael Lombardo
Donald E. Nicholson
Ray Mong
Phy- Us Anthony
Mong
Loimbardo
Nicholson
Miss Anthony
Sts
Jack Reagan
Paul Schaaf
Lombardo
Hamot
Four Receive Pasteur Treatment After Dog Bite
May 9 report from Warren police says four children were bitten by the same dog that grabbed Carol Van Blois causing a severe gash. All four receive Pasteur treatment and are watched for symptoms. Infected animals found citywide prompt strict steps to halt an outbreak. Pittsfield reports a child bitten by a dog.
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Pasteur
Warren Warren
Police Department
Carol van Blois
Pittsfield
Downed Flier Is Home Escaped From Greece
Salamanca May 9 The hero of another Huibrecht Harry escape is home radio operator gunner S Sherris survivor of a B 17 that exploded over Greece Seven crew were killed Sherris was one of three survivors He and two companions hid in a snow bank in Greece after the ship blew up and then endured a three month series of ventures aided by friendly Greeks to reach temporary safety in Greece and finally out to safety via Afion
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Salamanca
Greece
Huibrecht Harry
Yegret
S. Sherris
Sherris
Otter Armerieary
Afeion
Services for Jimmy Bates in Columbus Church
The nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Bates of Columbus will be removed from Bracken Keating funeral home to Columbus Church for services in his memory Wednesday after two o clock. He passed away Monday at Hamot Hospital Erie from complications of diabetes. Interment will follow at West Lawn Cemetery.
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Wimpy Hares
Cecil Bates
Columbus
Bracken- Keating
Nowie
Hamot Hospital
Erie
Columbus Church
West Lawn Cemetery
Home on Leave Youth Soldier Killed in Crash
Jean Bowker, 19, of the U S Army on furlough at his home near Friendship, died six hours after a sedan crash near the Ceres Colosseum. Several others injured, skull fractures and other injuries reported as victims were taken to hospitals.
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Jean
Pvl
Orl D. Bowker
U.S. Army
Friendship
St. Pranels
Ceres Colosseum
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Johnsonburg
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Tomorow
Eyle
Sheffield
King
C. C. Cussett
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Basil Davis
Gordon
Corry
Vernon William Doyle
Sinte
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New Castle
John Siggins, Jr
Pennsylvania Publi Utility Commission
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Clinton L. Pratt
Betty Litz
AAA
Pennsylvania
John Mark Gannon
Clearfield
Johnsonbure
Ohio
Michigan
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hershey
America
War Department
Pyt
David Randolph
Mie
Tech
Etide
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Carl J Hosmer
Glesn
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