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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1944
Page
4
The Hotel Company directors chose Chapman and Graham of Jamestown for the Corry hotel project with a $150,000 general construction bid. Groundbreaking is reported to start this week.
James D. Wi Washington discusses the rapid rise in the U S public debt from 187 billion dollars toward 240 billion with war loans. He notes per person burden and compares debt levels to national income and past hikes, framing postwar questions about debt repayment and economic impact.
Increase in Erie payrolls April total 39,997 employed down 841 from March including military withdrawals. Manufacturing lost 81 workers, contractors 15, retail and wholesale 22, miscellaneous 23. Sixty eight reporting industries worked 6,853,038 man hours, 361,956 less than March. Absenteeism rose 3 percent. 33,103 employees studied averaged 45.6 hours weekly, 14 hours less than March.
The Special Committee to Investigate Un American Activities faces uncertainty as Martin Dies contemplates withdrawal from Texas’s second district race. Analysts debate whether the Dies committee survives, shrinks, or is abolished with a Republican majority looming. The impact on leadership and staffing could leave a veteran roster reduced to few senior members, pending election outcomes.
Charles Bitsy, 45, Sheffield resident, was captured near the Glade Found bridge by Howard Bandera, John Dailey, and Leo Turner after allegedly following a nine year old girl from a grocery store to her home and giving her 20 cents to cause her to stop. The case is under District Attorney J H Goldstein and Bitsy faces a heavy this week and likely court appearance.
A critique of a proposed Dutch Commonwealth postwar framework outlines three customs unions tying the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg with toll-free trade, plus a Dutch East Indies grouping including Australia and New Zealand. The column weaves in jokes about the Aldrich family and wartime leadership, suggesting caution yet humor about global reshaping and domestic life after conflict.
The piece cites 6,600,000 hay fever victims in the United States and explains pollen triggers across tree, grass, and weed seasons. It shifts to wartime caution about bombing, urging Americans to focus on internal strength rather than grandiose destructive plans.
A reader is asked to turn to the classified page for correct answers to ten questions. Topics include delegate strength at a Republican convention, a misquoted sentence, the leaf emblematic of Canada, the head of a company, colors of a flag of truce, croquet equipment, Cuba’s chief crop, numerals for a thousand thousand, and the author of The Curtain Risest.
Four Erie defense plant workers aged 27 to 82 were fined 910 each plus costs after being found guilty of a disorderly conduct charge in police court. The men, Elmer Smith Joy Biedias and Ivan Rundstedler, upset a State street restaurant staff by ordering food to be fed to pigs and telling a waitress to feed it to swine. Patrolman Ross Webb stated he gave them a break after the disturbance, and Smith challenged the officer as they were led to jail.
Arrangements are set for an air WAC show at the State Armory Bradford from May 23 to June 3 featuring a P 40 Warhawk air war exhibit. The veteran fighter from the China theater once fought the Flying Tigers and is now too damaged for combat but displayed in an indoor exhibit. Pieces were transported from Middletown air depot and reassembled inside the armory with a crash stick boom aiding the setup.
Meadvill s, May 1 to May 2. Smock of Meadville was re-elected chairman of the Crawford County Republican committee at a Tuesday night meeting at the Hotel Oakland Conneaus Lake. He will serve an eighth consecutive two year term. The committee stood unanimously for Governor Martin as a presidential possibility. Several talks and pleas were made for the upcoming Republican plenic to be held this summer.
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