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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1947
Page
6
Erie county reports reveal police assigned to Corry and weekend patrols with one parking meter damage on East Main Street. Real estate transfer notes include Leotard Hayes to Cecil Harrington in Wayne township.
The Stancuff Hose Co of Waterford reports steady progress toward a $2500 fundraising goal for a link trick, with $1433 already raised. Early this morning a large flock of geese sighted flying due east over Spring Creek just after 3 am.
In Allegany county jail, two Mexicans identified as Joseph Martinez, 28, and Benjamin Zarate, 21, told authorities they entered the country illegally after enduring a mountain snowstorm. They swam the Rio Grande on October 24, then hitchhiked and rode freight trains seeking New York.
Nov 17 Erie reports two incidents. Eleanor Neilson, 23, exposed to bathroom fumes from a heater, revived after fire department inhalation treatment and returned home. Ann Young, 11, suffered second degree burns when clothing caught fire while playing, aided by a neighbor who extinguished flames. both cases treated at local hospitals.
Mrs. William Hammond, 1867 11 17 born Concord Township, died Sunday at McCoy Nursing Home Pittsfield at 1 20 PM after ten days as patient. Survived by husband and three sons Wallace Howard Lawrence, a brother Frank Parsons, and ten grandchildren. Funeral at Bracken Keating Wednesday 2:30 PM Pine Grove Cemetery family lot.
Police said ship steward James Camb confessed he tossed actress Eileen Gay Gibson into the sea after a rendezvous in her cabin. Camb, 31, said he was frightened and believed she was dead. he was arraigned on a murder charge in her death.
The prosecution alleged Gibson, 21, resisted an attack and pushed a woman through a porthole aboard the Durban Castle near Africa on October 18. Camb’s statement claimed the woman consented to intimacy and that she suddenly clutched him, with foam mentioned in the account.
A partial OCR fragment describes an attempt to aid a drowning person. The speaker recalls the struggle, applying artificial respiration and placing the limp body near a port hole, then washing her through.
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