Walter Fy Brien Wok Elatae Case Update
Walter Fy Brien Wok Elatae faces new developments in a legal matter as authorities review recent filings. The case involves several parties and awaits a court schedule to establish next actions and deadlines.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1942
Page
1
Walter Fy Brien Wok Elatae faces new developments in a legal matter as authorities review recent filings. The case involves several parties and awaits a court schedule to establish next actions and deadlines.
Readable fragments indicate a local event involving Alanti on the 14th of a month, with attendance by Werin participants. The text remains incomplete, but suggests a civic or community notice about a planned gathering or action.
The House military committee unanimously approves a bill to lower the draft age to 18 and prevent married men from being inducted before single men. The measure, backed by President Roosevelt, aims to preserve students’ schooling through 1943 and realign local board quotas toward an army of 7.6 million by year end. Selective Service Director Hershey says most inductees this December would be teens, with others drawn in early next year to balance married men and dependents.
Charles J. Margiotti, former Pennsylvania attorney general, arrives in Washington at the AFLs request to head an independent probe into the cancellation of Andrey Higgins New Orleans shipbuilding contract. The inquiry targets a 50 million assembly line project halted midstream, with officials like Donald Nelson and others expected to testify.
Pittsburgh reports rivers rising slowly after heavy rains but no flood risk noted by Weather Observer W S Brotzman. Other items note a revenue bill victory tax retention, potential peace talks rumors, Allied losses tally, China Burma air raid details, drafting age debate, Trondheim submarine yards fire, and a Vichy radio drop claim.
American and Japanese forces clash in deadly hide and seek battles across land sea and lagoon in the lower Solomon Islands with the fate of the southwest Pacific at stake. A powerful armada of Japanese capital ships cruisers and destroyers maneuvers near Savo Island just north of Guadalcanal.
In a sliding, thunderous naval action around the Solomon Islands the United States and Japan pressed for a knockout blow to Guadalcanal. Japanese bombers attacked the captured air base near Guadalcanal as a Nipponese fleet loomed near Savo Island, signaling a possible decisive showdown for control of the pivotal island.
Six soldiers died when two 20 ton tanks toppled from a pontoon bridge during a blackout maneuver of the Second Army in Tennessee. A rear tank reversed away, but five others were saved by rubber boats. divers searched the Cumberland River for the submerged tanks as of Oct. 16. Names of the drowned will be withheld pending recovery.
Everett Johnson Jr, manager of a Punxsutawney nut shop, was found shot inside his car seven tenths of a mile inside Cameron county near Emporium. Anthony Grimone, Emporium High School football coach, reported the discovery. a firearm cartridge was spent and a pistol fell from Johnson’s hand as the car door opened. The motive remains under investigation by Dr. W B Bush, the sheriff, and the state motor police. an inquest may be held Saturday.
Virginia endures widespread flood damage on October 16 as the Shenandoah River bursts its banks and disrupts road rail and power services. Barrisonburg loses two municipal plants leaving darkness, while the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad faces washouts near Fredericksburg. Front Royal ferries evacuees to safety as Red Cross coordinates relief in Alexandria and Cumberland, Maryland reports 350 families evacuated.
Bern, Switzerland reports violent disorders in unoccupied France zones as Nazis press workers to go to Germany. Dispatches cite centers Lyon Chambery Annecy with possible bloodshed and deployments at stations. Officials played down bloodshed while confirming protests and coercive recruitment.
Washington reports Japanese forces have landed large reinforcements with artillery on Guadalcanal and shell American positions. A sizable enemy naval concentration is noted near Shortland Island, while torpedo boats attacked a Japanese cruiser after shelling Guam positions. Intense fighting continued around the Volga with German advances near Stalingrad, amid Soviet counter actions and harsh winter expectations.
On opening day of the duck season in eastern Crawford County, authorities reported multiple arrests for taking waterfowl before sunrise and other violations. Game wardens noted some hunters met limits while others faced fines up to 15 dollars. specifics included mallards, redheads, and duffleheads with seasonal daily limits of ten ducks as standard.
Washington reports an air attack on the Japanese camp at Kiska in the Aleutians started fires and destroyed three seaplanes. Army Liberator bombers with Lightning fighters carried out the raid, with no enemy counterfire and one U S fighter lost. Alaska Defense Command says American troops seized another island in the Andreanos group in a routine operation with minimal resistance and no casualties.
George Goodwill aged 25 and Russell Goodwill 10, both of East Branch, along with Floyd Goodwill 39 of Floyd, detained in Mayville jail. They face hearings today before Justice A Roy Perkins on second degree assault charges for brutal attack on 67 year old Pindley Lake farmer Hudhian Simounet last Sunday. Simonian was hospitalized in Jamestown General with injuries. earlier self defense verdict in a 1999 case noted.
Pranksmon a farmer about 70 who lives alone on Hyde town Townvills road west of Muorhead’s Corners found his front room safe robbed of 798 dollars upon rising Wednesday morning. He had stored cash at home after returning Tuesday evening from fetching grain. A lower window pane had been raised with a stick and broken, revealing the robbery.
Brown sues the Vivian Miller waited anxiously in Grants Pass for her real daddy today as police in Red Bluff Calif hold a man and his wife who confessed to kidnapping the four year old girl. DuBois and his wife signed a confession in the presence of officials, with DuBois saying he had served a term at McNeil Island prison. Mrs. Miller learned Vivian was found safe and rejoiced by telephone.
Judge RM Gibson granted the government power to seize about 50 acres in Erie, enabling the Defense Plant Corporation to use the Nash Engine and Boiler Works facilities and nearby sites for aluminum forgings and other military purposes. The property involved includes several local firms and industrial works.
A downtown Jacksonville fire in the early morning damaged a block of stores and apartment houses. Three people died and seven were injured as smoke filled the Girard hotel apartments on East Duval Street near Math. The Sunshine Inn adjoining the Girards also suffered smoke damage. police identified the dead as Billie Swaders and several others.
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