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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1927
Page
4
Local listings promote Rex showing Bardelys the Magnificent tonight through Thursday with John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman leading cast. Other notes include community meetings, traffic incidents, captured court entries, and ads for local shops and services in Oil City and vicinity.
Wayne B Wheeler long time leader of the prohibition movement will be buried Thursday. His body was removed from Willie Creeks and funeral services are planned at Central Methodist Episcopal Church with Anti Saloon League officials in attendance. The burial will follow a service in Michigan where he died after a heart attack last Sunday.
In a Pittsburgh District Court affidavit today, Franklin Moplin of Melville denies attempting to gain control of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, a dominant firm in the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company group. The case involves alleged efforts to secure control of the coal trust amid competing unions and management interests.
Market indices swing with mixed gains and losses as profit taking erodes earlier strength. U S Steel and General Motors show initial gains before retreating, utilities and rail shares move unevenly, Studebaker climbs while Cruicible Steeledate group posts a modest rise amid volatile trading.
A tilt for Miss America 1927 began today in Atlantic City with 71 contestants. The field showed a shift toward taller, fuller figures and a stricter style, reflecting evolving beauty standards. Sonny Sullivan of Bare Fredo Street plans a surgical recovery for tonsil and thyroid removal.
Rapidly reported note says President and Mrs Coolidge hosted a birthday celebration at the Summer White House for their son John Coolidge who turned 21. Attendees included family friends with a cake and a party in his honor in the afternoon.
In Columbus on September 7 a prison breakout attempt at the Ohio penitentiary was thwarted when convicts found digging through an exterior wall with improvised tools. Five ringleaders were placed in solitary confinement as officials recall a series of escape attempts.
United Press reports a freighter Capulin relayed Old Glory distress calls to RCA and joined the search near Newfound Land as five hours from the scene. The arrival of the message sparked renewed surface search efforts.
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