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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1936
Page
3
Huge crowds filled the Rex theatre for three shows last evening with another capacity crowd expected tonight as a $200 award is announced. If the winner is absent, a $25 prize will be drawn until a winner is chosen, then repeated until the $200 prize is claimed.
Three short plays presented by Curry WPA Dramatic class members will open tomorrow at the high school auditorium. The Singapore Spider and The Pampered Darling have been broadcast on Erie station in the class’s regular weekly program, with The King's Curse likely to be aired later. Under Thomas Roelofs’s direction the entertainment should attract a large audience. cast includes Elbert Miller Effamay Thomas Fred Miller Melvin Thomas Eva Drake Malcolm Haines Peter Dubrosky Rene Swanson William Merrick Victoria Wostechowsk i Doris Follett Lucille Gormz Jennie Ficcardi Jean Collins Dorothy Bjorkquist Gerald Bissell Berrel Hunt Robert Wallace Preston Ohm Wesley Seamens and others. Reserved seats available at Condra's Drug Store. one section set aside for those unable to pay.
Complete plans for a benefit tea to aid the Lutheran House at Chautauqua are announced. The event, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. TD. A. Hillstrom on East Congress Street, will be held Monday evening May 25 at an oclock. Mrs Hillstrom and Miss Signa Anderson are arranging the program, with Mrs. Hawkins and Mrs. Albert Lynn in charge of reception and planning for a pleasant and successful event.
The Corry couple Mr and Mrs Akam observe their 66th wedding anniversary at their Essex street home. He was born January 1898 in Dewittville and she October 1846 in Gary, with seven children listed. Local friends extend sincere wishes on the milestone.
Erie reports indicate a powerful slot machine syndicate is offering protection to 1 3 clients against the law as police resume raids. One man, Robert Nelson, was told it was legal to operate a five cent machine at his confectionery, later charged with maintaining a gambling device. Sergeant Charles Brown warned Nelson that the machine at 303 Hickory I Ith street was illegal. Nelson posted 45 surety for his appearance in police court today.
Union City would be included on a route of a proposed super highway from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. Warren Van Dyke urged extending north from Butler through Frantelin Itusville Union City to the New York state line as part of next year’s agenda. Main roads in the state system would get fast consideration in the 1986 87 program amid budget cuts and repairs delaying the project. Joseph A Heineman of Butler, active in the William Flinn Highway Association, chaired the meeting.
A Gray Wolf tavern on the Sharon Youngstown road burned early today one mile west of Sharon. Two employees Charles Anderson and Michael Winkle escaped after motorists warned them. Fire origin suspected from a cigarette or crossed wires per owner Pete Myers. Loss placed at $15,000.
WPA workers in eastern Erie County may be questioned regarding alleged political activities in the Works Progress Administration. State Senate leaders charge the agency is politically dominated and seeks information on threats to force workers to register Democratic or lose their jobs, with analysts to be consulted amid intimidation claims.
Haven Mowry of Reynoldsville Pa was knocked unconscious when a tractor was struck by a bolt during a sudden electric storm. He later found fingernails and toenails missing and the left shoe blown off, with a small burn hole in his left arm. He recalled the same tractor had been struck previously.
Harrisburg May 21 Republican State Chairman M Harvey Tiler accuses WPA Director Buard Jones of evasive tactics as legislature weighs eight months of unemployment relief funds. Taylor blasts Jones for saying a Senate probe might not be in good faith. He argues if WPA were well run the $70,891,000 in relief would not be needed. A federal agency limits direct state oversight yet a GOP majority supports a bill for inquiry.
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