Storm Lashes Corry Area Crippling Poles and Hail Damage
A severe electrical storm swept Corry and nearby areas causing extensive damage. Bell Telephone poles between Cory and Spring Creek were snapped by high winds, power outages occurred briefly, and heavy hail damaged trees and windows in parts of the city.
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Corry
Bell Telephone Company
Cory
Spring Creek
Lie Wity
Spring Cheek
Titusville
Towntown
West Main Street
West Walnut
West Film
Keystone Public Service Company
Suddie
Green House
L. J. Rowe
East End
W. A. Murdoch
Hydetown Road
Townyike
Hart Catshall
Legmlles
Wieborough
Chicago Faces Fresh Financial Crisis As Banks Plead Help
Chicago and Cook County face acute finances with bankers and politicians seeking rapid solutions. Mayor Anton J. Cermak says the city is broke and urgent action is needed, as Treasurer McDonough reports banks have aided previously. Bankers met with officials to discuss loans to bridge funding, while calls for expenditure cuts require legislative support.
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United Press
Chicago
Cook County
Connly
McDonnigh
Anton J. Cermak
Poliliglina
Cermak
McDonough
Little Hope For Sunday Ball Bill Excerpt
Harrisburg May 18 The Dimbing local option Sunday baseball bill can be taken up by the Senate Rules and Order committee today Proponents want a favorable report but members indicate a public hearing may be required to move the measure forward The timing risks running out before the General Assembly adjourns and hints at a tight likelihood of passage
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Harrisburg
Senate
Billy
Two youths killed near New Castle in railroad tragedy
May 19. Howard Miles, 19, Detroit and Frapers Tabor, 18, Cincinnati were killed early today when struck by a locomotive of the Baltimore and Ohio near Walling. They were believed seated on the track as a B. R. & P. locomotive shifted. Coroner J P Caldwell ordered an investigation and the bodies were held at the morgue pending relatives' locating.
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United
Frese New Castle
Howard Miles
Detroit
Frapers ‘Tabor
Cincinnati
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
J. P. Caldwell
Probing Washington shootings sprawl with six killed
Washington police faced a two day wave of gunfire after the early shooting of informant Jack Cunningham, 50, with six dead and two seriously wounded. The day’s events tied to Talley Day’s death at a Maryland gambling resort and a sequence of related shootings, as officers sought arrests and rare self defense exonerations.
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United Press
Washington
Jack Cunningham
Charles Garbett
Cantecler
Robert S. Montgomery
Robert A. Montgomery
Montgomery
Garbett
Jesse Taylor
Talley Day
Maryland
Fay
Ti Salvadoran Legation
Don Carlos Leiva
Legaton
Cunningham
Today’s Five Best Radio Entertainments
NBC network line up includes Paul Whiteman's Orchestra on WNBC at 7 00, Coon Sanders on WEAF at 7 20, Death Valley Days on WIZ at 7 30, Symphony Concert on WABC at 8 00, and Marton Rewney on WAC at 56 06 in the CBS network schedule.
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WIZ
NBC Network
Paul Whiteman
WEAF
Coon-Sanders
WABC
CBS Network
WAC
CBS Networts
Marton Rewney
Parkinson Attacks PSC Reform In Senate Speech
In Harrisburg on May 9 Senator Chauncey Parkinson Greene charged a principal House witness is a Socialist, attacking Pinchot era fair rate board plans as vicious socialistic legislation. He claimed the bills would socialize industries and place government over private ownership, and warned they would embarrass voters who supported them.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Senate
Chauncey Parkinson. Greene
House Utility Investigating
Parkinson
Pinchot
Senate Judiciary General Committee
House
Socialist Party
Mly
Church choir leader Bee R Ballamy faces prison term
Bee R Ballamy former church choir leader and charity charity accountant testified he let his heart rule his head and pleaded guilty to embezzling 1588 from charity funds. He surrendered to police after fleeing from Kansas City a week earlier while attempting to cash a 2500 charity warrant to buy a diamond ring for his fiancée Betty Sinclair in Accomnlade.
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R. Ballamy
Shied Charities
Ballamy
Betty Sinclair
Accomnlade
Kansas City
Sinclar
Johnstown Man Draws a Five Year Parole
Johnstown resident J. Driggs was granted a five year parole by Judge F. F. Schoonminker in a federal court in Pittsburgh on May 18. Diggs had been convicted in December 19 for using the mail to defraud.
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Johnstown
Sreon
Pittsburgh
J. Driggs
F. F. Schoonminker
Diggs Wee
Hoover deficit near one billion. early budget clash
President Hoover faced a mounting deficit of 1793,870,592.28 as treasury estimates showed a large gap in the federal books. Departments including Navy, Treasury, Post Office and Agriculture prepare for further budget talks, with interior and war cuts already eyed to balance the accounts.
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Paul B. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Hoover
Treasury
Navy
Post Office
Agriculture
Tune Goth
Pennsylvanians urged to ship more local farm produce
A Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce survey shows Pennsylvania farmers shipped only a small portion of local produce last year. Of 5 172 640 dollars spent on potatoes apples and cabbage in Pittsburgh, just 162 460 went to Pennsylvania growers. The report notes higher freight costs and indicates improvements in grading packing and standardization are needed to meet consumer demands.
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Wy United Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Chamber of Commerce
Lie
Maine
Judge Hirt to Deliver Memorial Address in Corry
Judge Hirt of Erie county courts will deliver the Memorial Day address in Corry on Saturday morning May 30th at 10 o'clock. The event will be in City Park with an Armory option if rain, a procession will precede the services, and Kedling and committee plan a continued program. Businesses and industries will suspend as tribute to war dead. graves of all soldiers will be decorated.
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Whidge Williams
Hirt
Erie County
Corry
Charis P. Keating
Hirt Wud
State Armory
Kedling
Ars
Buddy Poppy Sale Planned Here May 23
Arrangements have been completed for the Buddy Poppy sale in Gory by the Light. A. W. Thompson Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on May 23. The poppy bears a green label marking genuine handiwork by disabled or needy ex service men. Proceeds go to veteran welfare causes including the National Home for widows and orphans.
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Gory
A. W. ‘Thompson
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Iie I. S
Buddy Poppy
United States
Chateau Thierry
Argonne
St. Mihiel
Verdun
All America
Mr. Lines
DU. S. Vetirans
W. W. National Homse
Baton 'Rapiss, Mich
Air Force readies raid on Chicago amid maneuvers
May 19 report says U S forces massed for a city raid to test first line defense. Nineteen ships with 10 officers led a larger aerial force of 672 planes aiming to simulate massed bombardment on Chicago. Weather could delay the attack, as officials described the drill as a serious demonstration, not a spectacle.
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Chicago
W. Griswold
Bae
uFpone
Bo Sinc
Corry boy takes post with Dublin newspaper
Corry boy and editor from Toledo en route to Dublin Ireland to join the Irish Independent Newspapers Company. He will sail Saturday with his wife from New York after visiting his mother on Marion Street. He plans to write features for the Dublin paper.
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Entiries
Gusey
Yuo
Toledo News-Bee
Dublin
Ireland
Irish Independent Newspapers Company
Lusey
Jessie Lusey
Marion Street
New York City
Corry Boy
Orry
House Senate Split on Apportionment Deadlock in Pa
Harrisburg May 19 report on a conference committee to resolve Senate and House amendments to the Spangler congressional apportionment proposal. Debate centers on Pennsylvania’s shift from 86 to 64 representatives, with the Senate backing McClure and the House backing Spangler. The impasse risks electing 34 at large delegates next November. Senate insists on its amendments. House refuses to concede, leaving a conference committee as the only path to a resolution.
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Senate
United Press
Harrisburg
House
Pennsylvania
Republican State Committee
Pinchot
United States
Grundy
Erie District Clergy Hold Meeting Here
Erie District of the Methodist Episcopal Conference gathers in the First Methodist Episcopal Church for a spring meeting. Clergy and ministers expected today to open sessions this afternoon and continue through Wednesday with speakers including Bishop Herbert C. Welch.
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Erie
Methodist Episcopal Confaranca
Furst
Herbert C. Welch
Amendments in Committee Report On State Senate Actions
The State Senate considered nominations to the Public Service Commission with Samuel Walker, Butler, and James Benn advancing to ten-year terms after prior opposition. Other business included highway and water projects, loans for soldiers, and budget measures. In the House, election code changes and various appropriations faced debate and votes amid labor and committee disputes.
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Thomas E Williams
United Press
Harrisburg
State Senate
Sammtel Walker
Butler
Public Service Commission
Walker
James Benn
John S. Fisher
Senate Committee On Executive
Prrichot
Benn
Commission
Senate Committee
Senate
Senate Highway Committee
Sen
Gelder
Sen. Weingartner
Lawrence
Pymatuning
Storrer
County Election Board
Philadelphia
Allegheny
House
Insurance Committee
Hermansen
Greely
Woodward Senate
Pennsylvania
Jana Bate
Hbisa
Mary Ty
Westmoreland
Wos
Pennsylvania Howes
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