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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1945
Page
4
Corry briefs report wage debates under wartime price controls, club fracas over a popular garment, service line upgrades, and police activity amid a spate of local incidents. The column notes aviation chatter, stalled industrial plans, postwar labor shifts, and community notices including hospital recoveries, retirements, and civic commentary.
The piece argues Arthur MacArthur and the regular army would not be ideal for governing Japan after six months. It suggests the public misreads his 200,000-troops claim, noting that occupation would rely on U S Army regulars rather than drafted soldiers. It stresses regulars are steadier and should return home when possible.
Wartime letters discuss mailing decisions for soldiers headed home before Christmas. Transportation bottlenecks and limited ships may delay reunions as crews endure postwar demobilization processes. Factors include points for discharge, overseas assignments, and harbor delays due to repairs or storms.
Twenty years ago notes reflect on Pearl Wrist investigations, defense debates, and industrial surveys. Corry hosts a modern hotel opening with public reception. residents plan winter trips to Florida as local boosters promote basketball and industry collaboration. General Short’s wartime cable error hints at tensions with Japan.
The article notes rising pressure in Congress to repeal or limit nuisance taxes while preserving core levies like tobacco and alcohol. It outlines tax groups from excises on fuels, jewelry, cosmetics, and consumer goods to per item levies, and cites CIO pressure for broad repeal. Data from 1944 internal revenue shows taxes totaling over 362 billion in internal revenue, with debates on whether nuisance taxes should end as wartime fiscal policies shift.
A fragmentary note recounts physicians turning to poetry, citing Wane Wei, Darwin, Jenner, Holmes, and Ross as examples. It mentions Oliver Goldsmith, Keats, Coleridge, Goethe, and Francis Thompson as physicians who wrote poetry, and notes doctors from various specialties finding solace in verse.
A distorted prompt lists questions about a European Remy newspaper, the head of the Newspaper Guild, famous quotes, whisky distillery origin, wartime office dismissals, military terminology, a general linked to a famous poem, dinosaur teeth, patronymic meanings, US states, and an unclear French phrase.
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