Fragmented OCR Item About Week 25 and Dates
A damaged OCR fragment mentions week 25 and various numbers 45 15 25 12 23 1 age 19. Hard to extract a coherent event, person, or location from the unreadable text. No clear entity or action stands out.
15 Nov 1940
Page 1
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1940
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions week 25 and various numbers 45 15 25 12 23 1 age 19. Hard to extract a coherent event, person, or location from the unreadable text. No clear entity or action stands out.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars state encampment will be held June 26 through 28 in Scranton. Commander Leo Moerschbacher announced the location and dates for the gathering, outlining plans for the event and its expected attendees.
Reports from a wartime bulletin describe the discharge of all uncommissioned guardsmen in Company A as the unit struggles to recruit 20 new members by January. Berlin endures heavy RAF raids with fires and casualties while Britain acknowledges mine-sweeping losses. Paris protests Nazi actions in Lorraine as Laval seeks to avert a break with Germany. In the Balkans, Greece advances against Mussolini’s forces, claiming significant Italian losses and prisoner captures along a broad front.
London reports Adolf Hitler’s air raid on Coventry as one of the siege’s heaviest blows, hitting hospitals shelters fire cathedral police post office and other public buildings while casualties mount and evacuation patterns continue.
More than 4,000 medical men in Western Pennsylvania joined a drive to aid England’s hospitals. Doctors urged contributors to donate old surgical instruments and hospital equipment. Contributions flow to Allied Relief Warehouse in Pittsburgh for shipment to New York then to England.
The Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association won a contract from the Rural Electrification Administration to construct 213 miles of line serving 712 members. Paul L Gilmore Company of Columbus was awarded the work for 147975 dollars and 18 cents, with kickoff expected soon. In other news, Westminster upset Geneva 11 years after their last such win.
Lynn Sill of Beavernam represented Wayne and Concord township members at the Erie County Agriculture Conservation Association meeting in Erie to name a county committee for the national program. SIN was named district representative for today’s meeting as about forty members of the Wayne Concord Agricultural Conservation Association unit gathered. Carl D. Proctor was named district community chairman James Crowell community vice chairman and Frank Darrow the third member. A sound picture The Pioneering of a Farm from the state department of agriculture was shown. Proctor explained the 1841 farm program and Frank Hackvey spoke on the state committee setup for national defense.
Corry officials plan to join protests against a Pittsburgh water supply plan that could affect Northwestern Pennsylvania. Mayor Hepler notes uncertainty and doubts state engineers will approve. protest committee to meet in Pittsburgh next Wednesday. Maps show a proposed reserve extending from Crawford to Union City.
A list of Wilcox Volunteer No. 1 members from Mtate County and East Street area readies for a year of service. Fourteen county men volunteered for a military braini ta and will depart for duty in November. Officials note details of the deployment and medical examinations for the group are pending at the county.
A car crash on the Hydetown Townville road left Melville, a Townville youth, dead from skull fracture and injuries. The vehicle, owned by Merle Smith and driven by his son Keith, struck a culvert. Smith and Pail Reb of Townville were injured and taken to Titusville hospital. Judge John B. Fox of Dauphin County common pleas announces he will not seek re election at end of 1941.
Oliver Martin Sexton, a 28 year old Union City Home National Bank cashier, was paroled today after pleading guilty to embezzling 312240 of bank money to buy stock. He was sentenced to 9 1/2 years, with probation for several years and ordered to restitution of 4265. The stock resale offer provided equity in the home to balance jobs. Discharged in relief case separate.
The Public Utility Commission will resume hearings into Pennsylvania Electric Company power rates next Wednesday. The probe, tied to a five year history of field hearings since 1999 and 1946, seeks access to bank and records kept outside the state. Former trustees Denis J Driscoll and Willard Thorp, tied to AG&E reorganization, predicted amicable sentiment after meeting the commission.
Registrants with Union City District draft orders will receive their questionnaires today. A local advisory committee, based at the Municipal building, will aid residents in preparing tax returns and other forms. Advisers will sit at the Municipal building from 7 to 8 o clock evenings Monday through Friday. The board begins work tonight with listed helpers continuing on pages.
Johnny Dietsch faced a perjury charge after testifying as a witness in county court in the burglary case of Fred Schulte and Anthony Senger, both of Brie, tied to the Italian-American club room thefts. Dietsch was removed to the county jail pending further hearing later today. The trial of Senger and Schultz, accused of stealing vending machines from the Corry club, was expected to go to the jury in the afternoon after court resumed post lunch.
Reports via censorship from Bucharest describe a revolt within Romania's Iron Guardist movement. casualties and injuries are cited amid expulsions from the movement. The unrest follows political crisis and German army moves into Romania as leaders clash over power and policy.
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