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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1940
Page
2
Alive Marble world tennis champion will speak Friday night in Jamestown High School auditorium on The Will to Win addressing students and the public. The event is part of a series highlighting determination and sportsmanship with Marble set to share experiences from top competition and training.
City and Vicinity column lists groceries like Campbell's tomato soup 3 for 20c and large walnuts 2 lbs 49c with delivery. Also reports injuries to two children treated at Warren General Hospital, local politics, thefts, parking meter talk in Kane, a draft board note, hospital aid drives, community events, sports notes, hunting accidents, and obituaries.
The Corry and Clymer group under Albert Manuel opened the 1940-31 season at the senior high school with a program featuring Boieldieu overture The Galiary of Bagdad and Donizetti fantasy Lucia di Lammermoor. Grace Whittier, harp soloist, offered Annie Laurie Waltz in A Flat My Old Kentucky Home and Serenade Melancolique. The program included Bizet Prelude and Medley of classic tunes.
The American Legion outlines a tentative march route through downtown to the Grand Theatre for a patriotic rally with music from the V F W bugle corps Cory High band and other units. Parking restrictions apply after 6 pm on Park Place and near the Grand Theatre to prevent interruptions. The event aims to spur patriotic spirit amid international tensions and features Boy and Girl Scouts. The Women’s Relief Corps meets Thursday at 2 30 pm in the Masonic Hall to discuss important business.
In Washington on November 5 1940 control of the U S House of Representatives remained the big national stake as 432 seats were at stake in the House and a Senate race count was underway. Gubernatorial elections in 33 states would decide successors to 19 Democrats and 14 Republicans. The contest centered on whether Republicans could wrest control from entrenched Democrats while Democrats projected the drive would fail. Thirty five Senate races offered potential turnover in the seven year old Democratic majority.
The council pressed for no delay in meter installation and debated contract signing after Friday's meeting. Members warned they may authorize another signer if the mayor delays action, insisting the deal is legal and intended to be in good faith so meters can be used once the ordinance takes effect on November 18.
Philadelphia dispatch notes rising voter registration as five million Pennsylvanians head to polls. U S Senator Joseph F Guffey, 64, seeks reelection against Jay Cooke, Philadelphia Republican chair, in a close national political climate with forecasts of large margins yet varied.
Simon Michell, head of the National Get Out the Vote Club, predicted that 51,000,000 Americans would cast ballots in the election. He warned that only about 50,000,000 would vote for a president and a vice president, noting the unusual split in expected choices.
In New York City Wendell L. Willkie cast his ballot at Public School No. 6 on Madison Avenue and 85th Street at 9 42 p m. He told a radio announcer he would vote straight Republican and listed his occupation as lawyer. Mrs Willkie accompanied him as hundreds cheered, with Willkie eager to finish his voting.
A charter airliner crash on a Wasatch slope left ten dead after a violent collision. Captain Howard Foy and First Officer Thomas E. Sandegren were hurled from the cabin and found near the plane's severed nose. Rescue teams hauled bodies through the snow by pack horse, with authorities postponing final recovery until daylight.
In Mount Washington Massachusetts the vote tallies show 32 for Wendell Willkie and 10 for Franklin D Roosevelt as part of an early state total of 172 for Willkie and 21 for Roosevelt statewide with results reported from Boston.
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