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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1947
Page
3
Three Dunkirk men face sentencing on charges tied to the burning of a fruit stand owned by Charles Acy inkire. Gasoline was reportedly used to set the stand ablaze, with damage estimated at 75 dollars.
Percy Fetilman formerly of Jarland Road died after a brief illness at Warren General Hospital. A locomotive engineer for 49 years with the Pennsylvania Railroad who had lived in Warren 85 years will be buried in Corry Lutheran Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Cale H and a brother Tenrydh Shir of Erie. Funeral services will be held at the Lutz Funeral Home in Warren and the body taken to Corry for burial.
A letter to Senator Taft and Representative Wolcott requests a Congressional investigation into grain trading. It is signed by presidents of the Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis grain exchanges. Queen Mary crew strikes delay ship's sailing from Southampton to New York by Cunard White Star Line.
In Santa Ana California Judge Kenneth Morison ordered burning of photographic copies of fervent love letters exchanged by Louise Overell and George Gollum. The 18 year old heiress and 21 year old man were acquitted of charges but suspected of murdering her parents, with copies to be burned by the clerk.
Erie police detain 18 year old William Van De Walker for grand larceny charges. Detectives traced him via two Rochester teen girls. he arrived from Buffalo with them and is accused of stealing clothing jewelry and $40 in cash from Richfield Springs.
Attorney General Eugene Cook announced theft of highly secret papers in Atlanta. The records allegedly list prominent persons involved in race-baiting activities and Ku Klux Klan links. Additional confidential files were reported taken or examined, with a third threat to the office in recent months.
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