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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1940
Page
1
Brief item notes a relay station opening by a large trucking company. Mentions other wartime dispatches and local updates including industry activity and community notices.
The Brady Storage and Transfer Co based in Fort Dodge Iowa has leased the tourist camp property beyond the Greyhound Post House on the Roosevelt Highway west of the city. The facility will employ twelve to fourteen workers for truck servicing and driver accommodation. Larry Koepe, the companys safety engineer, is placed in charge of the Corry station with his wife to assist next week. The ramp will remain open to local retail and transient business for auto servicing and tourist accommodations.
Blairsville Pa Sept 20 Captured early today in the act of robbing a pool room weed a 29 year old man hanged himself in the borough jail three hours later Chief A B Watson identified Clarence Weed Patrolman Albert Cummings nabbed weed in the pool room jail ed him and found the prisoner hanged by his belt from a cell bar Woman drowned Media Pay Sept 20 Police caught today the identity of a well dressed worm about 0 years old whose body was found last night in Crum Creek two miles east of Melia
Connelsville Pa September 20 District Attorney H Vance Cottom said Ronald Rumbaugh two year old found in a cornfield Wednesday after a three day missing period was not kidnapped He was believed harbored as a lost child during the search at Fayette county hospital the boy rested and his parents were congratulated Police had suspected abduction but Cottom maintained the tot was picked up as a lost child
Harrisburg dispatches report that Company A of the Meth Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, may not be called for federal service until early 1941 as construction plans proceed to convert the Pennsylvania military reservation near Lebanon into a year round base for 20 000 troops. A two day survey by Adjutant General Renard Martin and Army Third Corps officers assessed facilities to support a division, while state authorities near agreement to lease the base to the War Department. Construction authorization and related WPA projects aim to upgrade barracks, utilities, and training facilities to accommodate expanded forces and winter housing.
President Roosevelt arrived in Philadelphia for a defense inspection and a speech at the University of Pennsylvania's 200th anniversary celebration. Willkie campaigned in California with a four point plan to steer the nation away from a totalitarian system, while Democrats criticize his leadership in Maryland and Baltimore rallies.
Chicago sept 20 William Bioff, the Hollywood movie labor leader, walked out of the house of correction today after serving a six months term for pandering imposed 18 years ago.
Huge new Electro-Motive diesel locomotive tested on Erie Railroad routes through Meadville and Marion draws crowds. The Meadville Tribune-Republican notes the streamlined engine and its distinctive whistle sparked widespread speculation during early evening runs.
In Washington advices drought and early frosts may force a third revision of federal milk marketing rules. The Agricultural Department tentatively schedules hearings Oct 7 in New York City Oct 9 in Syracuse and Oct 11 in Albany to decide if higher costs require raising the price to producers under the federal state program. Upstate producers seek more control while defense facts and health regulations weigh in.
Washington news reports the House and Senate failed to agree on excess profits tax terms. The two chambers sent the issue to a Joint Committee for reconciliation after Senate approval 46 to 22, with changes from the House bill and a rider seeking higher individual and corporate taxes for the war effort.
In Erie Pennsylvania a permanent injunction is sought in federal court to stop L. J. Berkeley Company of Carry Pennsylvania from producing an automatic welding machine used to assemble gunpowder storage cans. Harry Mitchell of Cleveland alleges he conceived and planned the machine and hired Corry firm to build it, then Berkeley began manufacturing a similar unit for a rival. Berkeley counters that welding apparatus can be made by anyone. Mitchell’s counsel states his machine was guarded in a concealed room at his Cleveland plant.
Worry and the eastern end of the county are expected to attend the annual county Picnic to be held at Glenwood Park, Erie, Saturday. The Picnic dinner will be served at noon with the entertainment program starting at 3 and speakers addressing the throng at 4 o'clock. Attorney Walter I. Scott will preside as master of ceremonies.
The 128 enrolled in the special night adult vocational class at Hekdh Vocational Shop will rise as three additional teachers join. A new Welding course is added to the 1940 41 curriculum with Paul Steoup in charge. James Lewis and Carl Lyons assist in shop math and blue print reading. Four regular instructors also teach. Classes run thirty weeks, two hours twice weekly, Tue and Thu, with a Monday change next week for Rotary dinner. Enrollment ends Monday night for the first ten weeks.
France stood defiant as Japan demanded acquiescence within 72 hours to secret demands on French Indo China. Officials said Tokyo gave until midnight Sunday to comply, warning negotiations could fail if unmet. In other news, Altoona mayor ordered Red Cross funds seized from private clubs during raids.
Washington reports preliminary figures on future clerical hires to staff local draft boards and process registrations for compulsory military service. Berlin notes six hundred German deaths and fourteen hundred wounded from British air raids and describes attacks on industrial targets, with London and southeastern England enduring raids as fighter defenses clash over the coast.
Corry and nearby communities open fairs with performances by the Corry High Band at Columbus University and the Cony Band at Spartansburg. A horse-pulling contest and events including cattle judging, baby show, and a Lottaville versus Columbus football game are listed with times and prices. A murder report from Pottsville notes 15 year old Gene Maury Shirey killed after being struck by a car window accident.
Philadelphia date line Roosevelt declared free elections are the complete and enduring basis of our government and warned no dictator has ever dared to face free elections in history.
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