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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1927
Page
1
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McCormick Unostruction Company of Erie won the graveling bid for the Columbus Avenue stretch from North Ceres Street to the city line at $8 per yard, with the city supplying gravel. Other bids were Miller and Hill 83 cents, George A. Still 88 cents, and Ey M Love & Son 8e. work to start immediately to improve East Columbus Avenue.
Harrisburg Pa September. The Public Service Commission moved to set a state wide policy for commercial air service in Pennsylvania. It requires charter applicants to first obtain approval before pursuing certificates of public convenience for each route. Two firms already applied Read ing Airways and Gettysburg Flying Service Inn with a third expected from Pottsville. The plan involves cooperation with the new Agronautics Commission to review and deny unsuitable charter bids.
Voters show strong turnout projections for the primary with a high registration pace. Journal figures compiled by Rowistton Will Shields of the First Avars show 440 registered on day one, 375 total across two wards, with precincts reporting 72 in First Ward, 29 in the new Second District, and 78 in the Third Ward’s Second District as enrollment continues.
United Press reports a joint session of Reed election investigation and Privileges and Elections committees in Chicago to seek a method to impound remaining Pennsylvania ballots from the 1926 senatorial contest between Ware and Wilson. Key figures: Reed Dem Missouri, La Follette Republican Wisconsin, Deneen Democrat Illinois. financing concerns were raised over advancing funds for the contest.
A blaze at Polk Institute in Franklin Pa destroys a large barn and hay, with damage estimated at 95,000 dollars. No cattle were sent and no injuries reported. The fire began late in the evening and is described as one of the most disastrous in the institution's history.
Ruth Elder of Lakeland will pilot the Stinson Red Wing monoplane with Captain George Haldeman as navigator. The team plans to depart Wheeling, West Virginia, for Paris around September 1 from Lun Montravel Field, carrying a check to the orphans of World War veterans in France as funds are raised nationwide by the Officers Reserve Corps.
New York dispatch reports Robert McGority, 29, stage manager, is the fourth victim in the Charles Bernstein shooting at a Manhattan office. He was struck on 44th Street as Victor Steinberg, Bernstein's lawyer, fell from a window and injured others. Autopsy pending. Previous victims include Henry Cohen and Chas Hershovite, brokers who arranged the disputed meeting.
Arthur Rich, son of a Bates Creek manufacturer, appeals to the United States Supreme Court for a review of his conviction and life sentence for criminal assault. The defense claims improper change of venue and the use of newspaper clippings as evidence. Rich and Miss Briesiman spend today in Erie on business.
City council last night approved a plan to allow a modern gasoline station on the former Heath site with pumps set back from the curb and objections eliminated. The meeting included routine approvals for street and sewer work, a transfer of funds from the incidental to permanent improvement accounts, and a budget report showing August receipts of 4 080.11 and expenditures of 9 197.02.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of the Treasury Mellon says he is not a presidential candidate and does not anticipate a campaign for himself. He did discuss the presidential situation with Charles Hughes during a trip home on the Leviathan, but no conclusions were reached and he declined to express himself on the political situation.
Governor orders rapid survey of Pennsylvania road dangers as Highway Patrol and Highway Department collect data on hit and run incidents and truck driver hogging the road. Captain Price heads the survey but was called away by a family tragedy. Information due by next Monday to gauge the menace of crazy drivers and large trucks in congestion.
Edith Crawford reported the theft of a horse from a Franklin Avenue barn to the police this afternoon asking for help locating the animal. A hog theft at an East Columbus avenue farm was also reported and investigated today.
Tonight radio listings show a sequence of program hooks across stations WJ2 WEAF WAM WEBB with start times around 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. including La Salle Concert Hour Maxwell Hour Blue Ribbon Hour Goodrich Hour and a Chicago Theatre Program. The schedule reflects Eastern time and station names such as WJ2 WEAF and WEBB.
Harbor Grace Newfoundland September 7 1927 the monoplane Sir John Carling departed for a trans Atlantic flight to London England after a earlier attempt ended at Caribou Manitoba and adjustments to tail gear were completed aboard were Terry Tully and James Medeall Canadian aviators The weather was fine the plane took off at 1 35 AM Newfoundland time heading westward toward the ocean.
Pittsburgh Sept 7 One man was killed and another seriously injured in a riot near the Moon Run mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The dead man was James Toots, 46, of Cleveland. Jose Bargo, 85, was wounded in the abdomen and face and rushed to Allegheny General Hospital. Both men reportedly former Pittsburgh Coal Company workers en route to Mees Rocks to seek steel mill work when the disturbance occurred. An August 27 employment application was found on Toots, suggesting prior work in the mines.
In Shrewsbury Massachusetts on September 7 a fire swept the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Henge Walter Henze aged 12 and his brother George 10. Both boys perished trapped in their bedrooms as flames destroyed the house.
In a North Atlantic rescue drama, Cunard Cannania and Cunard Anchor Tansylvania responded after Old Glory, a land monoplane carrying pilots Bertaudt De Witt Hill and Philip A Payne, broadcast distress signals. The plane, drifting east of Newfoundland, carried emergency gear and was preparing to dump fuel to improve flotation while ships closed in under challenging seas and winds.
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