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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1941
Page
3
Fragmentary report notes tensions between Weh and Brit-Frits escalating in spring. Mentions ANB roan id on tak bout and early signs of conflict, with references to ongoing trade or political friction. No clear dates or outcomes available.
Erie dealers of the Milk Marketing Area announce a price rise effective tomorrow with quart bottles up one cent and regular milk increasing from 13 to 14 cents per quart. Chocolate and special milks also rise one cent per quart, vitamin D milk to 16 cents, while pint bottles stay unchanged.
Custer City Pa September 23 The National Labor Relations Board will review the dispute between workers of the Custer City Char coal Milling Company and the Custer City Chemical Company and management. Regional AFL agent Martin McIntyre announced the board will hear the case. Plant closures since the dispute began may end later this week as a conference with workers and company officials progresses. The boards directors will convene tomorrow to consider the employees demands.
Calvin Anderson 21 of Wilcox is hospitalized with possible skull fracture after a scaffold collapse at a Wilcox camp. Dr Stanley Barratt transported him to Community hospital for examination. Two other workers escaped unharmed and aided Anderson.
Distressed by rectal irritation and piles get SAN CURA Ointment. Wash with SAN-CURA Soap, then apply. SAN-CURA antiseptic marketed as first aid for minor cuts, burns, bruises for children and adults. Available at drug stores for 6c and 25c soap.
Associated Press reports Harrisburg officials completed a survey to speed standardization of traffic signals nationwide in Pennsylvania and say the January 1 deadline will be extended for some cities. The law requires a comet type by year end but extensions may be granted in specific cases. Four traffic lights on street standards must be installed now at busy intersections guarded by other signals. The law specifies a green to amber to red to green sequence replacing amber between green and red.
Rev Dr T Aird Moffatt longtime minister emeritus of Kane First Congregational church died at the home of Dr and Mrs J M Heimbach after an attack of acute indigestion during dinner. He resign ed from Kane church years earlier and spent winters in Florida. Survived by wife Sue Magie and son Charles Aird Moffatt of Elkhart Ind.
Erie police arrested Herbert Valen ting, 21, of 522 East 12th street, on a charge of assault with attempt to rape a fourteen year old girl. The girl left home with a friend Sunday night. two youths in a car picked them up near Chestnut Street. The couple separated and Valentine drove the girl to Grandview boulevard where she fought off the assailant and escaped.
PrinaDkurnia reports three Chester officials faced guilty pleas in a state police bribery case tied to gambling. William A. McClure, Chester Republican leader, received a one to two year sentence. Co-defendants Marlin Sapiego and Ralph D'Amico drew five years probation and six months to two years respectively, with McClurg recently released after eight months into trial proceedings following five years of delays.
Harrisburg dispatch reports that William J. Earnest and Harold B. Frisble, convicted elders, face execution by electric chair next month unless new stay or clemency intervenes. The board refused their appeals, stating no grounds found to commute or commute. Executions set for the following month pending further action.
A mass meeting at the St Marys airport led to a petition urging the state to build a Ridgway to St Marys highway over hill tops north of Elk Creek. The plan promises straight grade drainage less fog and quicker snow melt and would connect with the Johnsonburg St Marys route near St Marys offering airport access and central Elk County towns. A follow up public meeting is slated for the Logen airport near Ridgway next Sunday afternoon.
Governor James overrode the board of pardons after it rejected two appeals. The pardons board had followed its recommendation in every case except one in recent years, making this a notable deviation in the pardon process.
A Buffalo man is held in Mayville jail as a suspect in a Columbus Athletic Club robbery at the Peide Building. Four armed men used a ruse to corral patrons and took about $1000 in cash. Police say another arrest is expected as the club was robbed three years earlier.
Funeral services were held for Orrin L. Thomas, Concord school janitor, at 2:30 PM in the Brick en Resting chapel. Rev. H. Ray Harris officiated. Burial followed in Pine Grove cemetery with nephews Charles L. Borstorff Edwin Borstorff Loren Thomas and Lawrence Thomas as bearers. Out of town relatives included Carlyle Thomas and sons Daniel and David of Chicago HL William Shumm Findley Lake NY and Luton Thomas Union City. Concord teachers and school officials attended.
Thomas Henderson Jr of Meadville convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a motor crash near Meadville and sentenced to Camp Hill industrial school by Judge Clare Kent. He received $13 fine and costs. Other defendants noted include John R Schneider Titusville two to five years for burglarizing the Eagles club, George Turner Titusville nine months for driving an automobile while intoxicated, and several men given 60 day county jail sentences for drunken driving or related offenses. Felton Charleston W Way faces larceny of an automobile with $100 fine and two to five years in Allegheny county workhouse. Doh Henry Burton, colored, Meadville, violator of firearms act, $25 fine and nine months in workhouse.
Clarence Hoffman and Mabel Deal, both of Franklin R D 3, and R D 2 Kennerdell, are patients in the Frank Jim N hospital with severe head lacerations and bruises after a car they rode in collided with a truck driven by a Brighton man on Franklin Gil City road late Monday.
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