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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1953
Page
4
Twenty years ago notes report Dutch elm disease spreading from New Jersey and Ohio affecting Elm trees on East Bond Street. Property owners plan to mail twigs to the Department of Agriculture to help identify the blight cause.
Ten trivia questions test memory and knowledge across geography history and language. The article presents scoring tiers from Genius to Poor and then reports a French liner grounding near Le Havre with tugs freeing the Liberte as fog and mud slowed its departure. It also notes a curious statistic about British population origins.
Pittsburgh man Robert Charles Stewart, 43, who blamed years of chronic alcoholism, was sentenced to three to six years in Western Penitentiary after pleading guilty to obtaining goods from local stores on false pretenses by signing F. McCarthy Erie charge accounts as McCarthy\\'s brother in law. Judge Laub ordered consecutive and concurrent terms totaling up to six years. Also sentenced were Lawrence Wilson for bad checks, Charles White for driving on a suspended license, and Lyle Sorenson for related offenses.
Joseph Baysek, ex deputy collector of internal revenue, was found guilty on conspiracy and extortion charges. Jury deliberated six hours. Judge Harrison postponed sentencing pending possible motion for new trial. Baysek, from Pittsburgh, alleged to have shared about $4,000 with two other former deputies taken from Harry Feldman, owner of a Homestead tavern, under tax collection pretenses. Co-defendants Altmeyer of New Kensington and Barczak of Pittsburgh testified for the government. both pleaded no defense.
The Jewish New Year begins at sundown and lasts 24 hours for Reform Jews and 48 hours for more orthodox believers. Rosh Hashanah marks the lunar new year. Yom Kippur follows ten days later as a day of fasting and judgment. The ancient Sanhedrin set the calendar by the new moon, and creation is dated 3,760 years before the Christian era.
Jamestown ex resident Theodore Roosevelt Johnson, 45, arrested for murder by Clarksburg, W Va police. Johnson, born in Owassa Alabama, shot a man with a .25 caliber pistol just after midnight Saturday. He previously served a six month sentence suspended for second degree assault on December 31, 1951.
Herbert J Idle, a 55 year old junior engineer with 32 years service at the City Water Department, returns to his $420 a month post after winning a large prize. He plans two to three years more work before retiring to write religious music as taxes may reduce his winnings.
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