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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1939
Page
3
Mid September weather forecast for the orth and middle Atlantic states lists generally fair conditions early in the week with showers Tuesday or Wednesday and cooler days later. A regular City Council meeting is noted for Sunday and Monday evenings, while local postmasters discuss regional issues at Punxsutawney.
After a three day September term of criminal court, most cases were not disposed of to allow Judge Waite to preside over the official vote count. Several juries returned sealed verdicts while grand jurors continued county inspections and the district attorney noted many guilty verdicts in trials.
Erie dispatch notes a wartime shift in shipping, with a booming Great Lakes trade. After earlier slowdowns from a coal strike and reduced ocean freight, Erie harbor now bustles with grain ships, pulp wood from Quebec, coal and ore traffic, keeping five docks busy day and night.
City P T A presidents from elementary and senior high schools gathered in the Library building Friday afternoon with Mrs Predepick Beall to map this year's activities. Stanley B. Anderson of Senior High spoke on the Lyceum Course lineup and distributed tickets for sale.
A note describes the Columbia A C team in the upper bracket sandlot league. The squad aims to liquidate opposition by sending a varied lineup featuring Heerman and Frank Drinkya. The passage emphasizes decisive action and strategic batting and pitching prowess.
Erie county's Work-relief program employs about 500 persons, mostly men, earning Public Assistance Board relief checks. The board plans to expand to near 4,000 workers under the state effort to have relief recipients earn their funds. Rita Leasure named junior investigator replacing Velda White. Headquarters lease renewed at the old Jarecki plant with annual rent $200 and heating upgrades promised. Executive director C. L. White urges more WPA projects to reduce state relief demands.
Erie district attorney Mortimer E Graham will travel to Harrisburg on September 20 to oppose leniency for Paul Terry who murdered his wife with an axe in May 1936 and faces the electric chair on September 25. He will also go to Philadelphia September 25 to discuss a liquor sale off premises case involving Wanda Bienkowski and a ruling that no law was violated.
Louis Romec ai, 21, of Erie, driver of a Marienville CCC camp truck, faced Elk County court after a hearing at Ridgway. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Guy Scuille of Vandergrift, the vehicle’s late Sunday morning crash on Malin Street. Romec also serves a ten day sentence for reckless driving linked to the Sime accident.
Warren section reports Roy Foreman aged 25 of Pleasant township route 1 died after his Harley Davidson left the Pleasant township highway, skidded, and rolled into an embankment. Investigating officers say Foreman apparently lost control after passing a car and trailer driven by H Walter Huber. Police and coroner details note pavement marks show the bike veered left before striking guard rails.
Ridgway September 16 Roy Anderson, a young bowling enthusiast, set a new Thursday night record at Hooks alleys with a 3-game total of 780. He opened with 260, rolled 226 in the second game, and finished with 268 in the final game.
Sept 16 PennsylvanIa Railroad guards its million dollar bridge over the Allegheny River between Tenry Ward and the East End in Pittsburgh as a precaution amid the European war. No trouble reported. other railroads may adopt similar protective measures.
Hidgway town council at the regular meeting warned all persons or firms failing to cooperate with borough tax collection against future business with the borough. It also ruled that effective immediately no exemptions will be allowed for parties paying water usage from the Borough water mains.
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