Feet Tits, Snell and the Municipal Work
Fragmentary OCR cites feet and tittles related to Snell and municipal work. No clear event or date emerges. Further readable context needed to identify persons, organizations, or locations involved.
05 Sep 1944
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1944
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR cites feet and tittles related to Snell and municipal work. No clear event or date emerges. Further readable context needed to identify persons, organizations, or locations involved.
The readable elements are too incomplete to identify a person, place, or event. The text appears garbled with no coherent names or dates to summarize into a usable news item.
A damaged fragment mentions a local event or notice dated November 4. It references a private child and a person or institution but details are unreadable. The text is incomplete, providing only scattered terms without clear actions or outcomes.
A violent Labor Day storm swept west and north from Corry causing extensive damage in Wattsburg and surrounding townships. Hundreds of trees fell, power and phone lines were severed, windows shattered, and barns and silos destroyed. Corry suffered heavy hail damage and the Country Club endured substantial losses to pillars, greens, and equipment as the storm crossed into Clymer and Cutting districts.
Reports from the French frontier said Allied forces captured Aachen and Saarbrucken in Germany with no confirmation from Supreme Invasion Headquarters. Earlier, American tanks were said to have reached the outskirts of Strasbourg while Strasbourg news remained unavailable.
Walter Rotthof age 41 a Wattsburg farmer was instantly killed by a live 18300 volt power line after a storm felled wires while he moved cows across a highway near the Gilmore farm by the Wattsburg fair grounds. He left a widow and four children. The body was taken to Crowe Funeral Home Union City.
The Blood Bank plans a major donor drive at the Episcopal Church Monday and Tuesday from 1 30 to 4 30 p m and 9 80 to a0, needing many volunteers due to high rejection rates. Appointments can be made by calling 85 594. In Clearfield Pa a reptile bite incident proved fatal to Fish Dishivo, 53, a local business owner, after efforts to kill a snake during a field visit.
Russian troops crossed the Narew river and pressed toward East Prussia as a new hedged offensive expanded. Soviet units stormed eastern Hungarian plains and moved down the Warsaw East Prussia defense belt with Romanian support. Capture of Brasov signaled the Transylvanian front opening the Huneniyy battle, while pilots reported Russian columns west of Craiova on the Danube.
Pfc Roger Amy, wounded in the leg while serving with the Doth Division in France, has informed his parents Mr and Mrs Merle Amy of West Washington Street that he has been returned to England for hospitalization. He enlisted February 14 1943 while a senior at Corry High School and entered active service after graduation, later training at Purdue before joining the tank destroyer outfit and sending word from 4 Wwane hospital in England dated August 25. He went overseas last June.
A strong tremor roused sleepers from Pittsburgh to Scranton and Allentown, with officials attributing the event to rock strata breaks deep underground. Cornwall reported minor injury. other cities felt the shock but reported no major damage as calls flooded police and newspaper offices.
Russia declared war on Bulgaria according to Moscow radio. The Tass agency attacked Prime Minister Muraviev after his neutrality pledge. Washington reports Allied terms await Bulgarian envoys in Cairo before progress.
Robbery at Thomas Motors Company on Clinton Street found early Saturday night. Gasoline coupons valued about 25 dollars and cash from the register were taken. entry method unknown. Proprieties Vincent Anderson and Bob Dewis notified. staff secured scene.
The Comny Public School system plans to open all buildings on Wednesday morning at 8. A staff meeting for teachers is set at 2 PM at the Senior High, followed by conferences with principals. Mrs Elizabeth Murphy resigns from Junior High to take a Delaware post, with several temporary teachers filling in.
Washington sept 5 the armed forces presented to the house military committee their plans to demobilize the vast american war machine after peace is secured chairman may ky says details are restricted under a 24 hour secrecy order the war department will make the public pull on wednesday
War dispatches report a massive Pacific strike. US forces claimed 30 Japanese ships and 107 aircraft knocked out in a five day campaign stretching near Tokyo. Bombers and warships battered Okinawa and other strongholds while task forces pressed deep into the Philippine and Dutch East Indies areas.
News briefs report mixed signals on Germany from Brussels radio misstatements, Japanese advances near Lingling and Kwangsi, Ribbentrop’s meeting with Oshima, and Berlin claims of Hitler with Oshima. U S considers economic actions against Argentina, while Polish and British talks follow Warsaw relief delays. Japanese forces retreat in Burma abandon Bitgung as Allied forces press in the Chindwin valley with over 1,000 Japanese and Allied troops affected by famine.
Allied dispatches report French forces reaching the outskirts of Macon and Saint Christophe de Benayes as pursuit of retreating Germans continues in southern France. The 65 000 prisoners total rises with Villefranche capture. American Seventh Infantry joins the advance, tracing a long history from Louisiana to Rome.
Bulletin from London reports Britain’s four day reply to the flying bomb menace ended as German raiders again struck London and southeast England just before dawn. The brief official notice stated both air raid warnings and damage were limited.
Allied forces report advance units deep into the Siegfried Line as fighting grows near Soorbruck en-British and Breda. British push inside Holland after break through to Antwerp and the Pas-de-Calais area, with reports of trapped positions in the region.
British and American forces push toward the Rhine valley and the Channel coast as Allied reports claim American troops penetrated toward the French border city of Strasbourg near the Rhine and possible crosses into German soil around Saarbrucken. Belgian towns near Brussels and Antwerp reportedly see Allied advances with Luxembourg welcoming Allied troops. Supreme Headquarters cites large German pockets erased, with thousands captured or destroyed and the Siegfried Line widened amid ongoing battles.
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