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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1932
Page
3
Mayor Ben F. Starr of Ute City suffers a breakdown amid intense demands from the Relief Fund drive and municipal duties. The community, recognizing the strain, hopes for a speedy recovery and calls for greater cooperation and less criticism as relief efforts continue.
Corry Hospital directors and local citizens plan a two phase effort to raise a large share of financing. They aim to enlist about one hundred volunteers to underwrite at least half the needed amount over two years before requesting public funds.
Governor Pinchot convenes a business welfare and relief leaders meeting next Thursday to outline resources for local relief, discuss measures a special legislative session might consider, and push for prompt, apolitical action as crisis looms by mid August. The gathering follows calls for federal aid and notes state funds are exhausted despite the Talbot bill.
French citizens claim the average man must work one day in every mestorie collector to cover direct and indirect taxes. Public debate centers on the burden of state revenue.
United Press reports that free mail using congressional franks floods official channels. Lobbyists and candidates mail literature at government expense, with cases like Chaude Weaver exploiting Franked envelopes for political outreach. Statistics show over 28 million free pieces mailed last year, weighing over 4 million pounds and costing $723,671 in postage.
Celoron Park in Western New York announces its 198% season with an elaborate opening weekend starting Saturday. After extensive repairs and improvements the resort promises a bigger and brighter experience with two international dance bands, Mike at the Mike and Nelson Maples, performing during the opening ceremonies.
The article outlines a French tax system imposing numerous levies from income and rent to indirect charges on everyday goods and services. It notes how a hypothetical 5000 dollar earner faces 800 plus 821.20 in taxes, plus theatre taxes and perishable-item levies, with veterans and dependents receiving rebates and foreigners having a different taxation option based on rental multiples.
Nurses from Corry Hospital celebrated at the farm home of Mr and Mrs Smith in Beaver Dam. Fire destroyed Spartansburg Creamery Thursday night. Bird men tour planned from Alcon Ohio through Jericho Concaut Erie Harrisburg and West Virginia to Akron. Miss Florence Blair hosted a miscellaneous shower for Miss Mary Faulzen. Arta Smith left for Clemens Michigan seeking health. A H Gates of the Corry Condensary left for Keene Illinois due to sister’s illness.
Washington May 25 United Press reports Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur chairman of the commissions on the costs of medical care said the committee is ending its work. He noted the group knows when to quit and that funding backers saw the end of the project. Garner dodges a vote on the beer for revenue bill preferring not to have his name called. Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve board enjoys dominoes and horseback riding over golf.
Questions ask about French Creel oboe indwngs to the Indiana and the Indian Ocean size. It also inquires when the first congress met in New York and what Nathan Hale was noted for. It asks who is the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and who wrote a line about creation being great and not understood.
Dr John Bush McMaster aged 70, emeritus professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, died last night at the home of his son in Darien Connecticut. He was noted as one of the nation's leading historians.
Hollywood reveals Herbert Marshall as the male lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus as production nears. Marshall appears with wife Edna Best in There’s Always Juliet at New York’s Henry Miller Theatre. Alan Mowbray joins The Man From Yesterday cast from Paramount with Claudette Colbert Clive Brook and Charles Boyer.
Memorial Day observances are outlined with graves in McCray Elgin Beaverdam St Thomas Lutheran Pine Grove Wheelock and St Elizabeths to be decorated with flags on Saturday May 28. A Memorial Day service at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Sunday May 29 features Rev. G Stanley West sermon.
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