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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1935
Page
3
The era reports Premier Mussolini speaking from Rome on Africa via WEAF NEC network. City Council scheduled Monday, and Erie area officials discuss WPA projects and state liquor act cases. local incidents include a lace curtain fire and a busy library board.
Knights Templar from northwest Pennsylvania and southwest New York, about four hundred, will meet in Corry on Sunday, October 1. The program includes a City Park concert by the Temple Band at 2:30, a drill exhibition, and a service at the Rex theatre led by Rev. Perry F. Haines. A buffet luncheon at the state armory will follow, with many officers and commanderies attending.
A labor organizer sought for questioning over a strike related incident at the Anthony cleaning establishment in Peach Street. The suspect, labeled as a man who warned of trouble for workers refusing to unionize, was sighted in a downtown restaurant near James Anthony, the plant manager, after a prior threat.
Forty nine new members joined the Townsend Club of Corry at a meeting held in the Grand theatre building. About four hundred members and others heard Dr. Clare Barnes of Dunkirk discuss the Townsend plan and its financing with a comparison to current governmental finances. The club's total membership neared nine hundred, with a goal to hit one thousand by month end.
A quotation from Oathfinder Magazine defines boxing the compass as listing all mariner compass points in order. The phrase also describes a person who repeatedly adopts different opinions on a subject.
Rome reports a massive Fascist mobilization as over ten million Italians respond to Pasist calls. Citizens from cities to villages abandon tasks, don uniforms, take weapons, and head to organization posts amid bells, sirens, and drums signaling the nationwide effort coordinated by Achille Starace.
Harrisburg Oct 2 The recent Democratic primary campaign that secured H Eagar Barnes a 21 year Supreme Court term shows his expense account with 16188 from his own money. The filing lists 16298 in expenditures and 1125 unpaid bills with 1330 in contributions including 1000 from John A Monty of Philadelphia and 300 from Deputy Attorney General Grover Ladner of Philadelphia.
Harrisburg reports show the 1983 85 biennium with $355 383 600 in revenue and $876 491 661 in expenditures in operative funds, motorists paying 21 percent of taxes, 26 percent from general taxpayers, and 9 percent from inheritance, plus unemployment relief costs and state school funding. Rebekah Lodge installs officers led by Elizabeth Finster with Maude Colby as noble grand and a gathering in Erie.
A report notes Ned-Joe Sesto’s heat induced chest pain traced to a white shirt fragment driven under skin by a shotgun charge two years prior. Infection followed and the cloth was removed. The piece highlights state construction costs including highway supplies and debt service, with a large postage expense to the federal government for stamps.
Temperatures dropped to 28 degrees last night in the city, the coldest mark since last winter, bringing one of the season’s heaviest frosts. Hail storms were reported in several areas as rain turned to sleet, affecting flowers and late crops while merchants anticipate a burst of fall shopping as cold weather lingers.
Sharon Pennsylvania October 2 England will wage war against Italy rather than let Ethiopia fall into Mussolini's hands. Prof James V Baker of Westminster College after three months in Great Britain says England fears Italy may gain control of the upper Nile, Lake Tsana, used by Egypt for navigation in cotton growing. The United States will stay out of the conflict, while England expects France to aid in a crisis.
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