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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1930
Page
1
In a hectic off year contest millions vote nationwide as Democrats seek gains in House and Senate. Prohibition and Hoover administration themes drive turnout while key races in Illinois Ohio Massachusetts and New York shape the mood ahead of presidential prospects.
A listing of prime time radio programs across networks. WEAF and NEC present Trois Bells at 8:00 p m, WABC carries Blackstone at 8:00, Eyeready at 9:00, Death Valley Days at 9:30, and Philco Symphony Orchestra at 9:20.
A fire shortly before 7 p m razed a large barn a garage and a milling house on the H B Pettit farm on Jackson Hill south of Spring Creek. Firemen from Corry and Second Ward helped quell flames with neighbors assisting. A lantern explosion caused the blaze. Pettit escaped with livestock and machinery lost. partial insurance reported. Pettit, a Corry resident, narrowly avoided a broader disaster previously.
American Legion Post plans to sponsor speakers in all city schools next Tuesday to explain Armistice Day significance. Exhibits of war trophies to be shown in a North Center Street display window. Some schools may hold World War anniversary exercises as a holiday is observed with limited business impact. A. Conn travels to Jamestown for several days.
Northwestern Pennsylvania Republicans hailed fair weather as voters headed to the polls for a high stakes governor race. Pinchot favored by rural areas and expected to win by several hundred statewide, with Erie and Allegheny county results less certain. Weather forecasts predicted no rain, aiding turnout in western Pennsylvania. A&P store in East End Pittsburgh reported a $47 cash robbery earlier today.
John R. Collins, Democratic state chairman, forecast Hemphill’s victory by about 200000 votes from Harrisburg. He said reports indicate the Democratic ticket will ride a landslide and that statewide candidates have not pledged beyond the party platform.
Call 50 tonight for election results from Journal readers. United Press will provide election service via printer telegraph starting at 6 o clock. Pennsylvania contests may come late while New York and other states using voting machines offer earlier returns. Calls to 50 will resume once results from Pennsylvania or other states are received.
City Council held one of its shortest sessions in a month, approving minutes and several resolutions. Superintendent of Finance England transfers funds, including 1346.01 from the incidental fund, while Treasurer F. B. Westley reports October balances and current month receipts and expenditures. Heffernan’s East Columbus avenue project tax relief approved, with state funds largely allotted. Irene Mullen resumes tax duplicate recopy duties.
Ralph Dewey, superintendent of Corry Public Schools, spoke at today's Rotary Club luncheon at Hobel Corry. His address on the business of education and education in business was well received, as attendance contests and a peewee golf course proposal captured interest. Harry Smith and Frank T. Babbitt lead attendance efforts, with Babbitt's team slightly ahead. Wost Morrow chairs the peewee golf committee for Kiwanis planning.
Ann Arbor police hinted that University of Michigan students may be involved in the robbery and shooting at Lemble’s meat market last night. Alfonzo Lemblé, a cripple, was forced into a corner as the youths looted two cash registers and fired at him after a drinking spree.
TARRISVILLE West Virginia November 4 Found guilty of second degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Leonard Parks an oil field worker of Mad Farlin at a dance hall last September Forrest Roberts Mac Farlin today was sentenced to serve twelve years in the state penitentiary Parks was stabbed during a lovers quarrel.
State Highway Department engineers begin surveying the two mile stretch from Spartansburg to the Erie county line. Local officials expect paving of the gap into Spartansburg in Crawford county, likely in 1931. Residents note repeated surveys but hope for definite action and summer construction.
A tractor trailer stalled on a state highway near Rockford Illinois was struck by two autos killing truck owner Joe Schoulman and driver Frank Wittehen, and car owner Joe Lavinsky. Passengers Maurice Sharpe and Roy McZinney were injured, with McZinney fatally endangered.
Firefighters and volunteers contained a massive river oil blaze along the North Canadian after a Morgan gusher released thousands of barrels daily. Fire crossed the water, with forty ignition points. Waner bridge at Spencer was destroyed. Hurrah, McCloud and Spencer faced threats as crews chopped trees and cleared brush to prevent further spread.
Explosion and high pressure blast at the Whiting plant of Standard Oil in Gary Indiana caused an estimated three quarters of a million dollars in damage. No injuries reported as the refinery’s fire department contained the blaze. officials declined to comment.
In New York on November 4 1930 three million voters faced a tight governor race between Franklin D Roosevelt Democrat and Charles H Tuttle Republican. Roosevelt sought continued leadership and national influence while Tuttle framed the race as a rebuke to Tammany Hall and promised a strong Republican opposition in New York City. Both candidates supported repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Heavy fog slowed transportation across five middle west states. Mail planes were grounded and trains lagged behind schedule as the Weather Bureau reported dense conditions from Cleveland through Indiana and Illinois to Iowa City, with visibility severely limited in Chicago.
Paul Smith's era reports a tragedy where Thomss P. Ford, 15, was killed after BJ Ford, an Albany auto dealer, mistook him for a deer. State troopers say the father had told his son to watch for deer but fired when the youth moved, the bullet striking and killing him instantly.
Skilled observers regard the state contest as a test of prohibition policy. Victory claims surface from both Pinchot and Hemphill camps on the eve of the election, but forecasts waver as the outcome remains uncertain.
In Philadelphia on November 4 1940 Pennsylvanias gubernatorial contest between Republican Prohibitionist Gifford Pinchot and Democrat John M Hemphill dominates the day polls report a close race as voters also choose a U S senator 36 congressmen lieutenant governor and other state officials Secretary of Labor James J Davis appears headed for Senate while expectations bush about 20 congressional seats returning to Republicans and GOP majorities in the legislature
President Hoover proclaims November Armistice Day to honor the World War end date November 11, 1918. He urges observance in churches and schools and forbids flag displays on all government buildings. The proclamation highlights sacrifice, peace, and national gratitude for those who died in the war.
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