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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1944
Page
6
In New York City the opening of the Saray hat season featured a competition with a first prize of 25,000 and a second prize of 10,000. Prizes include 1,000 each for other top entries as merchants report brisk postwar business.
Meadville May 18 Allegheny College Board of Trustees elected E Nichols as president succeeding the late Frank P Miley of Meadville whose death occurred in December The appointment comes as illness delays the degree of Doctor of Laws and a summary will be presented at Sunday’s commencement He is an Allegheny College graduate and industrialist Hugh Gile descendant of one of Allegheny’s founders was also honored in the ceremony
Ronald Laird six son of Mr and Mrs Richard Laird suffered a fractured shin when struck by a car at 6 p m Friday on Pennch street between 28th and 29th streets. Cecil F Herrington age 53 of Pittsburgh driving for Ainsley Morton Co removed the child to St Vincent's Hospital with the youth reported in fair condition. Herrington told police he saw a group of boys on the highway and the boy stepped into the path prompting the impact. He remained in Erie until released by police as the youth’s condition improved.
A Wattsburg doctor Dr. Parsons who served on Commodore Perry’s flagship is credited with boiling instruments to sterilize them, predating Louis Pasteur’s antiseptic methods. The display features his diploma, a small black bag, and relics from the Battle of Lake Erie, linking 18th and 19th century medical practice. The exhibit, part of Hospital Day events, honors local medical history in Erie County.
Attorney General James H. Duff said the commonwealth of Pennsylvania will file suit to collect about 24 million of the 30 million Philadelphia fortune of Mrs Henrietta Schafer Garrett. He noted if heirs are not proved the estate would escheat under 1943 laws, with 26 000 claimants from all states and 29 foreign countries.
In Erie Glenwood district on Saturday afternoon two youths were wounded after a gunfight by Mill Creek. Victims Rees, 15, and his brother Bill, 14, were treated at St Vincent Hospital and discharged. Police said suspects Clarence Skinner, 14, and Kurt Held, 13, were taken to their parents after briefing Chief Christoph for further inquiry.
Erie news reports Col. Donahue expected to be promoted to chief. If Donahue becomes chief, Mayor Barber may shift Lt. Kubecz to captain and promote Sgt. Pischer or Lynch to lieutenant. Christoph could be named chief probation officer of Erie County to fill the vacancy left by Harold Dundon’s death.
Jamestown May 15 Earl R Anderson aged 59 of Jamestown General Hospital in critical condition after a 12 foot fall while mowing his lawn. He sustained a fractured skull scalp contusions and brush burns. The lawn is buttressed by a 12 foot wall near West Third Street and Falmount Avenue and he apparently stumbled over a pipe at the edge of the retaining wall and fell onto the concrete driveway of a nearby gasoline filling station.
Answers to the IQ quiz printed on the editorial page are listed. The key items include War Manpower Commission, an ironworker, John Philip Sousa, Dutch New Guinea, Jesuits, TL contracts, four names Cummings Murphy Jackson Bidslle, the riddle How does your garden grow, Chotwe tble Wellney, and the camel as a final answer.
Federal aid for servicemen families is cutting state relief expenditures as military pay supplements sway eligibility. In the recent quarter, 1,185 aid cases were closed due to income from military service, with most closures from Aid to Dependent Children as sons aged 18 or older entered service or received allowances. Also affected were Old-Age and General Assistance rolls as families shifted to federal aid.
May 15 Titusville saw a cattle drive as 40 head moved west along Malus sleet from the Watson farm on Enterprise road to Bartlett farm near Aydetown. George Jakobs and Guy Watson guided the herd destined for dairies once owned by Eve Heckett, reflecting old practice of shipping cattle to Buffalo and Pittsburgh markets by rail.
May 15. Louis Cooper, about 400 junk yard employee, was injured in the chest with a sharp object and slashed across the breast and mouth during a late Saturday contest. Stever Proveritt found Cooper unconscious on Hast 17th Street near German and Holland Flyerln. He was taken to Hamot Hospital. neighbors questioned by police said they did not see any attack.
A flock of yellow birds with large bills came to the Ridgway courthouse grounds about May 15 and lingered for days. Bird lovers identified them as evening grosbeaks, rare in the U S east of the Mississippi, feeding mainly on seeds with occasional berries and insects. A letter to the National Audubon Society received a reply noting winter invasions and reports from several states.
Jamestown police hold Tord Staham forty Blockville as the suspect in the Thursday hit and run that killed Mrs Tex Johnson sixty four a well known real estate dealer The City Car Company garage mechanic will be arraigned in City Court on criminal negligence and held for the grand jury based on District Attorney Ed gin De O Connor guidance An anonymous tip cleared the case Graham owner of a 1986 Ford sedan admitted involvement All details point to a blue gray sprayed car with welded fenders and a matching rear view mirror found at 437 Baker Street scene Mrs Johnson died instantly after being struck and the vehicle fled the scene
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