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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
1
Event details fragment mention a fair or meeting with a theme about service and peace. Several garbled phrases reference people, cards, and a Monday event. Reading notes include oyster stew and pie offerings, but specifics are unclear.
A village bazaar and bake sale is set for October 4 with doors opening at 5 30 pm at the Vale hall. Organizers include Mona Avation and staff along with residents Lillian Phyllis and Mary Arnis. Local warden and volunteers will assist as vendors offer treats and handmade goods to raise funds for community projects.
Roosevelt issued a neutral proclamation barring belligerent submarines from U S territorial waters and ports except under force majeure conditions. Submarines must surface, show conning towers, fly their flags, and leave on completion of necessary stops. Canal Zone vessels exempt from the rule.
On Oct 19 Pittsburgh report says the five member Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission heard Peoples Natural Gas Co seek a rate increase for about 150000 customers in western PA. The company argues demand drop and possible gas exhaustion in 15 years justify higher rates to yield 7.8 percent return. commission previously limits returns to 6 percent. company cites 1936 profits of 168 percent.
A fragmentary report from Titusville Pennsylvania dated October 19 details a mining accident at Mine No related to Union County. Names and full details are garbled in the OCR but indicate a fatal injury to a miner and mention individuals tied to Rural Ridge and nearby areas.
BULLETINS Sofia Bulgaria The cabinet of Premier George Cidsservancy resigned today. London The admiralty called claims Churchill resigned as first lord of the admiralty nonsense. London Royal Air Force planes carried out eight successful reconnaissance sorties over northwestern Germany last night reached their objective and returned safely. Paris Radio from Le Havre stated the 11,302 ton French freighter Vermont had been sunk in the Atlantic but the crew was safe.
Three condemned murderers including Paul Perry face execution at Rockview penitentiary early Monday unless last minute appeals are successful. Governor James rejected pleas for commutation. other scheduled executions include Willie Bailey Ira Redman and four more pending cases with dates in October and November.
Shipping officials feared several inbound ships from Europe were badly battered by a hurricane across the North Atlantic. Radio reports said 73 passengers and crew were injured, with more ships believed in the storm's path including the Manhattan, Washington, and Conte di Savoie. the coast guard cutter Hamilton delivered medical supplies after reaching the President Harding at sea.
Rome reports that authoritative sources say peace hopes are effectively ended for at least two months. German air raids on the Scottish coast and submarine activity, plus preparations for a large battle on the western front, push the war to the foreground of affairs.
Harrisburg October headline notes that 33 payroll appointees of the unemployment compensation and employment division have been dismissed as part of a broader cleansing by Labor and Industry Secretary Lewis G. Hines. The early removals target irregular hires and flawed scoring on applications. Chief accountant Hownd P. Orth of Frackville was among those fired after a discrepancy in his educational records emerged.
Lansing October 19 Officials of the United Automobile Workers and Chrysler meet with the state mediation board to resolve a strike that has left 35,900 workers idle. Arthur Raab leads the board as conciliators from the U S Department of Labor participate in the talks.
Spencer Haner aged 77 died at Corry Hospital after a fall from his porch on his rural route home. Injuries from a rod puncture and fractured ribs, compounded by long illness, led to death. He lived in Corry since youth, retired from farming, survived by son Charles and two grandsons Norman and Lawrence Haner. The body rests with burial set at West Spring Creek cemetery after services at West Spring Creek church Saturday.
Philadelphia reports slow but important progress in cancer battle. Dr Frank Adair announces the American College of Surgeons cancer committee has logged 30 000 cures over decades, signaling new hope for patients once deemed incurable.
Four men are dead after a plane crash near Bray Neil San Diego. The burning aircraft was badly damaged and it was unclear what caused the crash while investigators combed the wreckage for clues.
Washington reports warn of a possible 1940 business recession and urge higher consumer spending and capex to sustain industrial output. Officials say the downturn may be temporary, with optimism for a rebound next year, noting improving wholesale prices and transport activity as favorable signals.
Shanghai December reports neutral diplomats announce that a fifth column Russian delegation has arrived at Chungking the Chinese temporary capital and word spread that a military alliance could be negotiated. A man named Howard Whit, 40, of Giz Midla steam gravel operator, was killed in Bedford Pennsylvania by a rock and run vehicle while working on a highway repair.
American Ambassador Joseph Grew told a luncheon of Japanese and foreign attendees in Tokyo that the American public resents Japanese actions in China. He warned relations may falter if policy in East Asia remains aggressive, stressing long standing U.S. rights and an understanding of Japanese aims.
A local Y.M.C.A. secretaries announced plans for a Halloween program in the elit area with a children parade featuring red fire and horse-drawn floats. Prizes for best costumes are expected, and leaders will finalize a wholesome entertainments plan for the youngsters this evening.
J Hopkins, judge of election for the First Precinct of the Third Ward, announced to the Journal that the county commissioners asked him to locate a voting site and he recommended the small room adjoining Jourdet Grocery at West Wayne and Washington streets. No Second Ward site found yet. An earthquake rattled windows across Boston and parts of New England and eastern Canada.
Robert Busman Woodruff was elevated to a top executive post at the ERR, marking a series of high-level railroad leadership changes. Once a track laborer, Woodruff now serves as trustee while Charles Denney and Francis James Gayin moved to new president roles at Northern Pacific and Great Northern respectively, with John A. Hadden as lawyer trustee. Woodruff, born 1884 in Green Bay, began at the Erle railway firm in 1905 and advanced through multiple engineering and management posts across Ohio and New York before today’s appointment.
State police corporal Beramln Pomaikes faces indictment on murder and manslaughter charges tied to the fatal beating of 1 year old Joan Suyvens. A venue hearing is set as prosecutors seek a change of location and call 18 witnesses to testify.
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