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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1944
Page
8
A fragment filled with local notices reports a missing 18 year old Robert Bownin of Alvon Ohio, a gunman named Terry Carroll 74, and a search by police and family. Reports also note memorial services for Pvt Joseph Chiswerykowsk and the death of Army flyer Henry Drescher, with several transfers and local civic updates.
Nov 24 midnight accident at the intersection of Penn sylvania avenue and Hickory street injured Miss Shire ley Lewis of Tidioute. A Mercury car driven by Pred Benney of Youngsville struck Bennet’s vehicle, sending it skidding past the Gower Hotel and overturning. Several occupants suffered injuries. Miss Lewis was hospitalized for X rays, condition reported good.
Officers say James Wilson and Sylvester Foster confessed to robbing Walter Schwartz, 32, an Erie Coach Company bus driver, on Tuesday night. Detectives arrested them after finding a gun in Foster's possession, and they will be charged with highway robbery.
Sparta Sprang school pupils hold a salvage drive with November 27 collecting, November 24 and 30 drop off. Prizes include $10 or 10 percent of sales for top room, $6 for first material. Fund proceeds support a memorial honor hall for graduates serving in the U S armed forces.
Local readers are told how Thompson's Borsoma Tablets ease backache leg pains and night waking by aiding kidney elimination of poisons. The ad promises faster recovery and urges getting a box for six cents from the druggist today.
American and French forces push through three Vosges passes while German units marshal boats and barges along the Rhine to protect bridges at Strasbourg and Karlsruhe. U S First and Ninth Armies and British Second Army press northeast near Gailenkirchen as Tiger tanks bolster German defenses west of Cologne. Americans recapture Lohn as front lines shift amid heavy tank clashes and scorched terrain.
Answers to the quiz printed on the editorial page list four correct entries: 4 Tee, 0 Hushyllesind, 8 6tr Edgerd Burne Jones, 1 Columbia University in, with the exact letters and names matching the original questions.
A mixed recap from Buffalo and New York market notes shows hogs steady, calves and lambs steady with varying per hundred weights, prices for cattle and fat cattle ranges, eggs quoted at 11 cents in New York with whites and browns split across No 1 to No 4 grades. Stocks in aviation and heavy industry names appear in brief quotational form.
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