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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1949
Page
4
The CIO executive board meets in Cleveland to decide on a purge of fellow travelers. Analysts say about a dozen unions are tarred by Red ties, led by Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, with nearly 1 million members in CIO unions.
Chronicle of October 25 1929 reports Wall Street crash impact on Corry traders and local business changes. Michael Malone to open a South Center street market, Corry Fish Hatchery shipping thousands of trout, discussions on raising peddler license fees, Alfred Schrader dies of pneumonia, and Erie voting sentiment on vending machines. A separate item notes a 24 car derailment near Montoursville, coal and timber spills blocking lines with no injuries.
Erie news reports four men pleaded guilty in county court to offenses from theft of two candy bars to obtaining about $1,830 under false pretenses. Judge Elmer J. Evans handed down sentences including prison terms in the Allegheny County Workhouse and Western Penitentiary, with restitution orders where noted. The defendants were Fred Opalinski of Lake Worth Florida, Harry J. Steinheuser of Pittsburgh, Blaine Lupin of Clymer, and Raymond Locke of Willis Michigan, plus a sixth unnamed miner case sentence for a gas station theft.
A brittle Q A style page lists ten trivia prompts with multiple choice style tasks and corrections, including questions about Sister Kenny, Mt Etna, Teapot Dome leases, daylight saving time in 1949, and the Truman election. The piece ends with a death sentence: Alex Agoston Jr., 41, from Bloomsburg, Pa., was sentenced to death for the December 19, 1947 slaying of Russell Ballfiet, a Berwick used car salesman, with an appeal planned to the state supreme court.
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