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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1940
Page
3
The Corry Evening Journal notes rising registration and predicts a turnout possibly exceeding 50 million nationwide. It argues the outcome will reflect the deliberate will of the people, stressing a peaceful, unity-driven democracy and the need for permanent preparedness and a strong domestic security posture.
A reader prompts seven quiz items covering world leaders, Nobel physics, printing, famous last words, Japan, Yale founded by Eleazar Wheelock, and classic ship sinks. The page also warns against common phrasing errors in recitation notices.
James Bassett reports from Australia on the national push for self sufficiency and expanded military strength amid looming fears of a Japanese invasion. Australia plans 250000 infantry, 26000 air crew annually, with 400 planes and new bombers under development to defend vital sea lanes and port Darwin. New Zealand joins with manpower and aircraft support to Britain, as pundits warn of potential saturation in manpower by 1943 and hopes for U S assistance.
The Selective Service will show the state of our health with 492 local draft boards in Pennsylvania passing on registrants prior to physical examination. Physicians will perform 4,000,000 physicals on a voluntary non pay basis to examine, find, evaluate and recommend.
Journal notes reveal Judge magazine coverage of Mary Frances Brooks case loss to years shifted to hours. Mrs Thomas Giblin appointed Erie Sailty Mothers Pension Board member. Joseph Pope marries Miss Grice Robbin in Baltimore and will reside there as Pope takes lucrative post. League of Women Voters meeting features multiple women speakers urging citizenship and civic participation post suffrage. Mr and Mrs A L Cotirellary return home after six weeks touring the continent via Los Angeles encounter with Corry residents.
Mr and Mrs Cassius F McCray and their daughter Adella arrived home this morning after a three week visit with relatives in Rochester Minnesota and other western points.
Fragmentary notes describe a Roman road built by Julius Caesar and a fly’s vacuum feet enabling attachment. The text also covers cricket chirping mechanics and early human diet discussions by Hippocrates and Mannonedes. It then shifts to Meadville with a Student Conference on civic life at Allegheny College starting tomorrow.
Washington reports a defense commission board authorized manufacturers to give government defense contracts priority when needed. Donald M. Nelson, coordinator of defense purchases and new priorities administrator, said the administration does not plan mandatory priorities on all defense contracts immediately.
Three Warren men were arrested at their home by state police and Forest County police on burglary charges. They allegedly stole cans, bonds, coin, and merchandise from the Truamans Forest County Pools Creek Mercantile Company. The men were to be arraigned soon.
W H Lewis of New Castle told city council members that Mead Penn Iron Works, idle for ten years, is expected to be back in operation at Wense by year’s start. He disclosed the update at a routine council meeting as he sought an adjustment of a city tax bill owed by the plant.
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