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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1940
Page
1
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Intensive police search centers on 10 year old Genevieve Connolly. Thomas Convoy confesses to strangling and burning the body in a tenement. Mrs Pam Holt of Graham Texas faces murder charge after horse trader Jack Parker is found shot dead beside her daughter. Willkie leads Republican voter support in New York campaign coverage.
A condensed Front page of News Today reports Munich bombed shortly after Hitler’s speech as Nazis celebrate their rise to power. Athens notes rains on Koritza front with prisoner captures, while London reports sporadic German raids. Washington pledges wage hour standards for defense workers amid war mobilization. Local briefs include City Solicitor Blaine Kineald resigning over parking meters and a District Legion lecture urging U.S. neutrality. Armistice Day radio plans feature Roosevelt participation. multiple network listings detail programs and ceremonies.
A metro report notes solicitors in a dispute over a parking meter duration and a forthcoming meeting between City Council and District Engineer Young to discuss Hayes Creek sewage issues. Officials seek a practical plan within municipal finances to address long‑standing sewage problems without a costly build program. The conference aims to outline feasible steps.
In Mutin November 9 dispatch Roger Barson writes that Roosevelt's re election ends the political war and opens the way for a third term. The piece argues defense will become the biggest industry as Grover, management and labor work to create a vast program while scrapping inefficiencies in private enterprise.
City Council postponed action on appointing a new city engineer to fill the late Nevin R. Dickson's vacancy. Donald D Williams, a Corr y High School graduate of 1918 now with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, is an applicant with about fifteen years in engineering. Hill & Hill of North East also submitted a proposal to handle the municipality's engineering needs for consideration at a later meeting.
A proposed 70 to 100 million dollar pure water system would flood thousands of acres across Western Pennsylvania to form a reservoir network starting in eastern Crawford and southern Erie counties. Mayor Cornelius Scully plans to present the plan to Pittsburgh City Council on November 20, facing protests from northwestern counties and civic leaders.
Harrisburg, Nov. 8. Three civil service employees Sol Kesilman Hyman B Penn and Henry Reichel all of Philadelphia were reinstated by direction of the unemployment compensation board of review after they were found to have signed Communist party nomination petitions.
Tier A W Thompson Post 264 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will sponsor its annual Armistice Day memorial service at the post home on West Washington Street Monday evening. All veterans invited. transportation will be available. Several speakers are engaged for the occasion, with a large gathering hoped for. London notes former Prime Minister Chamberlain gravely ill at his Hampshire home with unchanged condition.
City council heard appeal from Cory Hospital and another local organization requesting city assistance to cover indigents care costs. Hospitalization costs run about 3000 dollars yearly above state allowances, creating an annual municipal deficit. A 19 Commi argument from a year ago suggested reassessing the assessment to fund the gap. no action taken yet.
The American Legion event in the Grand theatre, led by Crawford County commander Sidney De Vote and others, featured a parade through the bushycsy district with a police escort and school bands. Ralph B. Dewey spoke on National Education Week as part of the program under Elmer Carrier Poet auspices, with members of the American Legion pledging support for neutrality amid wartime tensions.
Clues scarce after a deadly bomb explosion in Scranton killed two and left a teen wounded. Police and federal investigators, with help from neighboring states, search the area for fragments as experts review the driver’s pile and surrounding scene. The district attorney calls the case definite and promises a future inquiry plan. Page Two.
New envoy in Tokyo reports that Foreign Minister Kichianburo Fie mura has been chosen to succeed Kensuke Horbooch as ambassador to the United States. The selection signals ongoing diplomacy between Japan and the United States amid regional issues.
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