Wives and Sons of Education Leaders Mentioned
Fragmentary OCR notes reference wives and sons connected to education figures. Details unclear, with no identifiable names, places, or dates readable.
15 Sep 1931
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1931
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes reference wives and sons connected to education figures. Details unclear, with no identifiable names, places, or dates readable.
Police press investigation into a spate of burglaries in the city as two more homes were entered overnight in the Third Ward. Victims include Lieut Archie W Thompson Post on West Washington Street and Roy Dickinson on West Weyne Street, with small loot reported and a suspected common culprit.
The Masonic entertainment committee announces eleven dance parties to be held across fall and winter with tentative dates starting October 4. Orrin sburg Lloyd Stowe and Harold Bront lead the initial event at Sherrick's Troubadours supplying music for the October 4 affair, with other dates including October 30 November 27 January 1 20 February 26 and April 29. Non members will receive invitations and committees promise continued popularity and organized dances by year’s end.
NBC and CBS radio schedules feature Gene Cook at 6:16, Phil Cook, Brother Pryor’s Band, Nit Wits and Bing Crosby at 8:36, Jack Little and Jesse Crawford at 10:00, and Paul Whiteman at 11:15, with WEAF and NBC networks broadcasting the lineups.
Four murder cases lead the September term of Corry County Court trials opening yesterday. Judges A. P. Rossiter and William Buir preside. Indicted charges against three county peace officers also feature. Main murder defendants include Alois Schigler, 22, Erie, opening Sept 29, and Richard Hinz, 21, Erie, to be tried after Schigler. Local cases Sept 17 include A B Foster assault and battery, malicious mischief and larceny, and Hugh Bailey with John Cheney for violation of anti laws.
A one year old boy, son of Harry Lamons of Corry, sustained severe facial cuts and other bruises when two cars collided in Spring Creek this morning about 8:30. He was treated at Dr. John Kibler’s office after being brought there in the other car driven by Clarence Lamond. Donald Cartier, driving a Spring Creek car, was the other operator. all parties escaped serious injury.
United Press reports Louis K Comstock at the International Association of Electrical Inspectors convention in Pittsburgh urged modifying prohibition laws. He argued repeal or modification would lift farmer and labor morale, stimulate railways and breweries, create jobs, and improve national mood despite a winter outlook and unemployment figures.
A Buppalo New York report says Mrs. Mary Ganas attempted suicide by gas. The device failed, gas ignited, exploding in her home and injuring her daughter Betty, a 3 year old, as neighbors were rocked by the blast. Police note the death was self-inflicted though not as she planned. The article details the sequence and tragedy surrounding the incident.
Corry P T A Goltnel representatives will attend the county council meeting in Waterford on Wednesday. Included in the all day session are presidents of local associations and others such as Mrs Emory Drake Mrs Bert Hurst Mrs Vincent Anderson Mrs Sedric McCall Mrs M J Parkhurst Mrs W L Peake Mrs C W Bracken and Mrs Leon Lindsley.
Dr. Arthur G. Davis, Erie orthopedic surgeon, lauded Rotary Clubs of the district and the Shrine hospital at Erie for their work with crippled children. He told Erie service club members at the Hotel Corny that caring for crippled children is a shared burden of parents and organizations, noting the economic value of rehabilitation. Dr. G W Bennett and Condra O Hare attended as guests.
Sy United Press reports Pelham Manor Sept 15 that Constance Harrison 84 wife of James R Harrison a former New York Times sporting writer committed suicide by gas, killing her 5 year old daughter Sean. Police found them on kitchen floor beside a drawing of her husband. Neighbors had notified police after noticing gas. Harrison had been in poor health and was to be operated on at Presbyterian hospital. A book titled Margerys School Days lay beside the child.
Harrisburg Sept 1 Approximately 2 000 000 Pennsylvania voters register their choice today under uniform primaries for municipal, county and judicial offices. The primary ends bitter faction fights for Republican control in cities and counties as Governor Pinchot orders state police into Pittsburgh to prevent violence. Only one city-wide battle in Philadelphia as J Hampton Moore vies for mayor.
Cincinnati theatre owner Arnold Lowry and his wife Hyslyn die when she falls from a yacht and he jumps to rescue her. The moonlight voyage with Cleveland attorney Samiel Horwitz as host ends with both sinking before rescuers arrive. Other party members include four girls and three Cleveland men. A Coast Guard search continues for the bodies.
United Press reports a Junkers monoplane piloted by Willy Rody Christian Johannsen and Fernando Costa Viejo missing after departing Lisbon for New York. The craft, with fuel for 45 hours, was last sighted near the Azores and 395 miles east of Fairfax, Virginia, with Navy and Army search planes scouring the coast amid fog and uncertain conditions.
Belize updates from Belize Sept 15 report cleared streets reveal more bodies as death toll from last week’s hurricane climbs toward 2,000 with some estimates reaching 2,500. Relief arrives by British warship easing fears of disease, while refugees stream out of the city and salvage operations recover boats for possible evacuation.
Mia Grace MacKay Tibbett, wife of opera and film star Lawrence Tibbett, has a divorce suit on the docket in Reno as 52 cases appear after a busy session. The hearing is set before Judge Ben Curler in a closed proceeding. The couple's marital strain is linked to fame, with Mrs Tibbett stating she will remain in Reno and pursue a literary career.
Residents may call the Journal for municipal and county returns this evening. The Journal building will be open and calls to 50 will receive returns on all contests. Returns from the six city precincts will be posted as soon as recorded and received by the Journal. Call 50 for election news tonight.
The ninety sixth session of the annual Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opens this afternoon in Warren Pennsylvania with Rev Frank A Wimner and local lay delegates representing First M E Church of Warren The conference runs through Monday September 21 Bishop Herbert Welch of Pittsburgh area will preside and Rev Charles T Green is entertaining pastor The gathering includes about six hundred participants and features a memorial service and ministerial qualification committee session events center on Pioneers and Progress theme.
Agreement reached on exchange of shares by stockholders of the Prairie Oil Company and Sinclair interests. Formal merger announcement expected this week. The new concern would rank among the largest oil companies in the world.
In Newark New Jersey on September 15 a cable rope broke causing over 200 quarter ton steel zirlera to collapse into a heap. Two workers were killed Andrew Zerneich age 60 and Patrick Corcoran age 40. Three were expected to die and two more were severely injured with 35 others recovering from serious hurts.
Voters packed all four wards as extra machines appeared in the Second and Fourth Wards to ease congestion. Officials worry the large primary list and machine handling will hinder finishing before 7 pm with possible delays in vote counting after closing.
Paul V. Hurley, 20, once a prize student in a capital punishment essay, was executed in the Massachusetts state prison electrocution chamber for the murder of Patrolman Joseph P O'Brien of Brookline. He faced the death penalty after an abortive appeal, and at 1:13 p.m. was pronounced dead, bidding farewell to his father as prison chaplain Farrell administered last rites.
A Detroit Airways passenger plane crashed near Calumet Lake in Chicago with the pilot AD Melvick of Chingy dead after the wreck. The craft carried Mkshlights and fire was reported as the aircraft sank in muddy waters. An emergency response moved the unconscious pilot to hospital but he died later.
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