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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1934
Page
6
A string of short notices reports a city council session Monday evening amid discussions of liquor store hours on Election Day, a fence project on northwest Pennsylvania highways, a fall injury to Mrs Lea Hoyten in Columbus, and a mixed weather and industrial activity outlook for early November.
Oregon election results will decide the fate of the New Deal as three Congressmen and state officials are chosen. Democratic nominee Charles H. Martin leads the ticket with a record in Congress, while Republican Joe B. Dunne emphasizes party unity and New Deal opposition amid strong labor and farm support for independent Peter Zimmerman.
Police rushed to a Philadelphia subway station to quell a free-for-all melee of about 50 men and women. Seven people, including one woman, were injured as officers used nightsticks to separate two rival groups after a disputed remark by several men provoked the disturbance.
New arrivals at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo include a spotted hyena and a Barbary sheep from Africa. The Barbary sheep differs from domestic sheep and lacks typical wood features, resembling deer in some traits.
In Cheyenne Wyoming Austin Trumbull preparing to fire his furnace for a cold spell discovered a stick of dynamite in the coal. Further checks revealed a total of three sticks of explosive hidden in the fuel.
Erie County commissioners opened an investigation into registrations by residents claiming to be out of the city on the last enrollment day. About 700 names were added since Oct 6, the largest in county history, with 204 in Corry on Thursday. Officials will review claims of illness or absence and pursue fraud penalties if found. Suspicion rose as politicians brought groups for registration and clerks granted affidavits readily. The enrollments split roughly evenly between Republican and Democratic affiliations.
United Press reports nine deaths linked to the small game season in Pennsylvania. Frank Palmer, 50, of Upper Darby, died of heart disease while hunting. On the first day seven fatalities were recorded, with two more the next day. In Jefferson county, Staley Reams, 16, of Big Run, was wounded in a thigh by an accidental shot. his companion Wesley Frye, also from Big Run, was involved. Separately in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a stalled Union Pacific Zip train required hauling for repairs after breakdowns.
Lakewood on Friday morning 5 o'clock a fire forced Leslie Herne and his wife with three children to flee their Ashville Bay Sugar Grove Road home. The family escaped in their night clothes amid smoke and flame while the home and contents burned, aided by a dry throat warning from their baby. A partition between kitchen and dining room was ablaze before firemen arrived and the residence was destroyed. Later in Orleans, Mass, Pastor Alexander Maculay preaches at the Leleans Congregational church each Sunday and runs a tailor shop during the week.
The list outlines 20 platform planks backing Roosevelt policies, including full employment, abolition of child labor, regulated hours, minimum wage, collective bargaining, old age pensions, unemployment reserves, sweatshop elimination, bank deposits protection, tax reform, consolidated city county government, income tax for schools, inheritance tax, utility regulation, balanced budget, state credit maintenance, honest elections, and constitutional modernization through a 1934 convention.
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