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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1942
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a sale plan and an event dated near 23 in post, with references to Doane and a main jay. It notes a committee or group gathering, a warning, and efforts tied to a public action or campaign. Names and precise details are unclear due to text corruption.
In Bern, May 12, Allied reports say Goering may meet Petain and Laval to firm up decisions as French German talks grow urgent. Laval, Petain return to Vichy amid high tension over Martinique, military collaboration with Axis, and unsettled Italy disputes.
Unoccupied France reports a German decree giving Occupation authorities power to raise working hours in French enterprises and compel employers to report the number and categories of workers available for other war efforts. The move appears aimed at expanding the pool of forced labor, intensifying production under Vichy control.
London reports the British admiralty says three destroyers the Lively Jackal and Kipling were sunk by German bombs in the Mediterranean. Over 500 crewmen were saved from the vessels and complements total about 600. The Lively and the Kipling were newly built and heavily engaged in subsequent actions including Crete.
Hruno Gattuso pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge in county court before Judge Elmer L. Evans and received a six month term in the Allegheny county workhouse. He has a history of trouble here over the past eighteen months including prior incidents on West Main Street and East Main Street. He will be credited for time already served and must avoid Erie County in the future.
City officials secured a 60 day option on the property at East Smith and Sciotn streets for the planned sewage disposal plant. George Besson, the owner, offered the site at 1900 dollars. A $35,000 grant from the Federal Works Agency supports a storm sewer and extension along East Smith Street, with a municipal bond issue of about $40,000 to fund the city portion.
Realization for gasoline rationing starts in 63 Pennsylvania counties with motorists limited to essential travel. School teachers and volunteers assist in registration of over one million motorists as the restricted use zone covers Tioga to Bedford counties. West of the line, 25 counties are freed by federal orders due to surpluses.
The Elkton Maryland Gretna Green anticipates a record year for marriages as wartime conditions drive up quick unions. Officials estimate about 20 000 marriages this year up from 16 054 last year with 40 percent of brides and grooms service members. Rising costs and rationing threaten the trend, while Cumberland reports similar activity with 1941 total near 4 530 marriages.
Moscow reports German efforts to break Soviet lines near Kerch and the Caucasus subsided after a brief flare. Soviet communique says stubborn battles continued on the Sereh Peninsula while German forces reportedly rested by night.
Berlin reports the Kerch Peninsula action as the first great German offensive since winter defenses. German and Romanian troops attacked on May 5 with strong air support and new weapons. A British observer cautions Russians may have halted the push, while Tass cites poison gas use on the Russian front for the first time. Separate note: Senate approves creation of a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, sending the bill to the White House.
Robert Lee Williams, a Navy seaman first class and son of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, is believed captured in Manila Bay area. Telegram from Rear Admiral Rendall Jacobs states no death report yet and uncertain status, with families awaiting official word. The Quail mine sweeper crew diaries list Sherman Williams as a member. continued on page six.
A series of brief wartime dispatches report Japanese reinforcements threatening Yunnan in western China, a British counterattack in Burma driving back more than 200 Japanese, a Dutch merchant vessel torpedoed off the Atlantic coast with survivors landed on the U S East Coast, RAF said Axis raiders shot down, a coal mine explosion in Excelior injuring miners, thirteen American airmen in Australia to regain planes after New Guinea crashes, and Dutch authorities executing 24 alleged conspirators linked to anti Nazi plots ahead of possible Allied invasion.
Donald Kintner, 20, is charged in Cleveland with sabotaging a New York Central train by shooting engineer PF Becker last Friday. The act aimed at hindering war material flow to the German cause. maximum penalty is 40 years and a $10,000 fine. Becker survived a head wound and returned to duty at the next station.
A Monday morning derailment blocked both main line tracks near Coury Pictures of the 900 car freight train. Evie Railway crews laid temporary trackage to resume freight and passenger traffic within hours as wreckers from Meadville and Salem moved heavy debris. Coal salvage went to A Zylzneck & Sons while cranes lifted cars from the right of way. Hundreds gathered to watch the recovery work as efforts continued through the day.
Private Bielawski stationed at Camp Bowie, Tex, received second degree burns from elbow to hand while washing gears in a gasoline wash. A fellow worker lit a blow torch causing the gasoline to catch fire. He is confined to quarters and expected to return to active duty soon. A fellow soldier assisting him also suffered burns to the hand. Aviation Cadet Robert Shoup, 26, of Butler, Pa., was killed in a crash near Waukomis during a routine night flight training.
Tourists along the eastern seaboard are told to go home as gas rationing begins. About 8.5 million automobile owners in 17 coastal states start applying for rationing cards from May 15 to July 4. One third of applicants may receive limited to one gallon. Workers and essential users get extra rations.
Australian reports say Allied headquarters in Australia announced Japan’s losses in the Coral Sea battle rose to 23 or 24 ships as more enemy transports were struck by U S and Allied forces. The note warns Japan may renew southward push, with Deboyne and Louisiade areas cited as possible shelter sites for invasion craft and supplies.
Meadville May 19 verdict of death by own action was issued today in the torch death case. Mrs E D Mosbacher clubwomen of Meadville, whose 62 body was found early Sunday in woods five miles from Dr King, apparently set herself afire with her clothing. Funeral services were held in Louis.
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