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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1937
Page
3
In a case involving Tranil Dorothy Jam and Ashley Lanston with McCray named in records, oil company interests appear linked to property and timing. Authorities cite contract filings and court dates as parties dispute ownership and royalties amid a wider energy sector dispute.
Corry Public Schools open tomorrow morning and a primary election set for Tuesday September 14. Local civic notes include a Wrightsville picnic and a Sugar Grove Community Fair plan. Police report a few drunkenness arrests and a bicycle theft at carnival grounds.
Police learned yesterday of the robbery of the Drake theatre offices at Oil City and the theft of a safe containing about 200, which instantly brought recollections and speculations. The Oil City safe was blown open and the $200 in small change removed. Authorities have no clue to the culprits.
The British government delivered a strong note to Japan demanding an apology, punishment for those responsible, and assurances attacks will not be repeated, after a shooting incident during a diplomatic tour from Nanking to Shanghai. Japan's reply claimed it found no evidence of guilt by a Japanese plane acting in the incident.
Kane Sept 7 plans call for a neon police light to be visible up to 20 miles. The light, about three feet high, would sit atop the 80 foot fire tower on the Commons or a high platform on a tall building. Installation hinges on fire tower action and could aid search and emergency service, with patrols seeing it from Praley Field intersection.
Corry residents enjoyed a quiet Labor Day as many traveled to Cleveland and nearby fairs to attend art races and town fairs. Weather shifts from rain to cool conditions kept crowds dispersed, with Archie W. Thompson Post sponsors and a local marching procession marking the day’s activities.
Funeral services for Mrs. Russell Merritt were conducted Sunday at 2 o'clock from the family home at 341 Second Avenue with Rev. Perry I. Flames of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating. Burial followed at Pine Grove Cemetery with brothers-in-law as pallbearers. Numerous out-of-town relatives attended from Warren, Pa. and Ashville, N. Y., among others, while Aero SupplyCompany colleagues joined the procession in a show of sympathy.
Warren P. Norton superintendent of Meadville schools was elected director of the Northwestern district of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League He will direct the Northwestern Intercounty speech and music contests among area high schools in spring 1988 The district covers Erie Crawford Venango Mercer Lawrence and Britter counties
The article reports renewed pressure in Europe with demands on leaders amid Tunisia and Spanish Nationalists, noting attacks on peaceful Mediterranean shipping totalling 39,000 tons and the loss of life. It also mentions Hitler in Nuremberg denouncing Bolshevism as a menace to organized society.
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