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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1931
Page
3
A Unitarian preacher who spent summer in Russia urges direct action against Communism. He argues against child labor, wealth inequality, and inadequate social security, saying reform at home must reflect sacredness of property, child, and job to win converts.
Government relief policy urged to use surplus wheat and cotton held by the Farm Board to aid food and clothing needs. Authors argue selling at very low prices or gifting could prevent price disruption while easing storage costs and avoid legal technicalities.
A Chicago federal court trial of Al Capone looms with widespread media commentary framed as a sports contest. The piece mocks the proceedings with wit, drawing praise for craft while provoking concern over glamorizing crime and the public’s taste for humor in racketeering cases.
Lon Jourdet of this city earned praise for his ice dine playing for Pennsylvania in a game at Ursinus College. The North American praised his performance as one of the year’s best. Marie Srehin lectured on Scientific Temperance at the Presbyterian church. A healing plant and greenhouse improvements were noted on Main Street. Mayme Glass Robinson and Richard Robinson perform tonight in a vaudeville show at homes of June Richards and Richard Clarke. Grace Haley, Corry High School grad, now teaching in the South, has a new position in Cincinnati public schools. Three local girls, about fourteen, and sons of well known parents, are missing from their homes with no trace found.
Daily English lesson notes present misspellings mispronunciations and word study ideas. It lists daily vocabulary practice and guidance on pronunciation usage and synonyms with an emphasis on subservient and subordinate meanings.
Answers include Metmisélan living 968 years and the Passion Play in Oberammergau Germany The load pulls easier with the short hitch The acre contains 43560 square feet The famous lakes are the Lakes of Killarney
A historical note describes a field in the shape of a tranchoid with parallel sides six rods and fourteen rods, and a width of sixteen rods. It asks for the area in acres and mentions an unrelated calculation about cubic feet of water freezing and a fraction 624 divided by 13.
Jamestown reports a 19 year old Clyde Jandrew of 51 East Second Street was struck while crossing East Second Street near Luther Immanuel Church. He sustained a fractured skull and severe injuries and was taken to Jamestown General Hospital. Anthony Angelo, 21, of 760 East Second Street, was arrested on an open charge after the collision and held for the injury outcome. Police say Angelo was eastbound on East Second Street when Jandrew crossed the street. The impact damaged Angelo’s car bumper and fender, sending Jandrew onto the street and shattering a car door window. The vehicle was tested in a garage, which reported faulty brakes. Ruth Swanson, 132 Weeks Street, later suffered a bruised forehead after being struck by a car driven by Joseph Supence Jr. on Last Second Street as he backed from a driveway onto a sidewalk. Swanson was treated by a doctor and released home.
Two employees escaped serious injury when shelving in the Setts Roe buck & Co store collapsed in the Drake Theatre building. An avalanche of filled paint cans dropped to the door, bursting several and spilling paint over the floor. The incident damaged over $200 worth of paint and the Drake building floor, while workers moved the Complete paint department to an opened area in the basement.
A community relief appeal requests every able person contribute a day’s pay monthly to fund Corry’s winter relief program. The plan emphasizes equitable funding, thorough case investigations, and limiting abuses, with wood allotments and rationing to curb expenditures while targeting actual needs.
Mil Daugherty, former president of the defunct Bank of Washington Ohio, had his conviction reversed by the Ninth Di iner Court of Appeals and the case remanded for retrial. He previously faced a ten year sentence and a $7000 fine for misuse of funds.
United Press report from Pellywooon City details a fatal collision between an automobile and a horse drawn wagon. Tony Cirmeno of Ellwood City died instantly. wagon was driven by Al Text Blicxin of Wilport. Seven children in the wagon escaped unharmed, according to police.
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