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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1932
Page
5
A fragmented note references Washington and Coors, with mentions of war, Spain, and Lafayette, plus a plan about keeping air circulating and a request for free entry to living spaces. The garbled text loosely hints at domestic comfort and ventilation concerns amid historical figures, but specifics are unclear.
A long list of local residents and visitors are in town or en route for weekend stays. Mrs Vinson Stevens and her son Rob bert of Fort Wayne Indiana have returned from visiting Mrs Will Bensini. Misses Jane and Fern Raymond went to Brie for the day. Norman Mountain visited Youngsville for the weekend. Mrs C E Shopp s is in Warren then traveling there tomorrow. C A Wolford visits Girard. Ruth French returned from Pittsburgh to spend time with her aunt Mrs Bessie Naylor. Henry Wild and Byron Miller visit Erie and DuBois respectively. Edith Turner, nurse, visits home for Sunday. Mary O'Hare comes from Akron for the weekend. Franklin Babbitt travels from Pottsville. Frank M Raymond and wife enjoy several days in Preston Springs. Margaret Clark returns from Mercyhurst College for the weekend. Baryou Franz heads to New York City for Columbia University studies. Dora Williams and daughter Doroltha return from a New York motor trip. Franz Savage visits Montgomery Ward offices in New York. J B Johnson family plans Sunday with Mrs Florence Crashy in North Girard. Mr and Mrs Like Graham visit with Mrs Blazek in Cleveland then return by car via Niagara Falls. Ralph Martin, Warren Mitus, Russell Briggs, and A V Gohrane travel to Canandaigua Lake for a weekend cottage.
Lawrence Woodward, 44, convicted as an habitual criminal by a county court jury, filed a motion for a new trial after Friday. Judge Waite set a 2 p.m. Monday hearing with Bernard Woley for Woodward and Burton J. Lam for the commonwealth opposing. If denied, Woodward faces life imprisonment. the verdict stemmed from four prior convictions. George Foster, 54, who pleaded guilty to the habitual charge, is to be sentenced Monday by Judge Williams.
An Army ambulance plane landed at Bolling Field carrying Pvt. Robert R. Hall from Chanute Field to Walter Reed Hospital. Hall, injured in an automobile accident last Saturday, stood the trip well and was taken immediately into care.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Giuseppe Spinello, alias Big Mike Spinello, long linked to underworld activity, is named by a coroner’s jury as one of the three men who fatally shot Tod Volpe, James Volpe, and Arthur Volpe on July 29 in a case tied to the Volpe brothers killings.
Keo Press reports on September 24 that leaders of the Farmers Holiday Association refuse to confer with President Hoover when he is in Missouri for a campaign address on October 4. Reno, president of the association, stated the position today.
Poona India September 24 The untouchables and high caste Hindu leaders petitioned Prime Minister MacDonald by cable to withdraw the government veting of communal voting so Gandhi may end his fast unto death. Agreed after a short of frenzied negotiations while Gandhi lay under a Mango tree in the prison yard slowly starving to death in protest against the government settlement.
In Philadelphia on September 24 Appallo Speranti, 32, an unemployed laborer, allegedly hacked his wife to death with a hatchet and then set his home ablaze. The badly burned body was found in the bedroom. Speranti later tried to kill himself by burning and gas inhalation and was hospitalized in Temple University Hospital with burns and gas poisoning.
Rev William J Reiser announces a novena to St Therese the Lime Flower at St Elizabeth’s church starting Sunday 4 oclock mass. Daily devotions will run each morning at 7 oclock through Monday October 9 with a public generation of the relic from 7 to 8:30 oclock each day. General public invited to attend.
A Franklin youth identified as Sanford Jr., a local resident, died in hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile while playing near his home last Wednesday. Police said the car, driven by G W Gil of Wilkinsburg, Pa., struck the boy in his path. witnesses described the sequence of events.
The New York stock market moved higher in a short session led by rails and other industrials. Stocks rose 1 to over 4 points, with bonds and bank issues up, wheat and cotton inching higher, and the dollar gaining against foreign currencies as aviation and communication issues strength aided the rally.
Unemployed George S Hurt shot his wife Laurie 45 and sons Wilbur 19 and Charles 21 in Hart Horney Hamilton Park suburb of Wilmington today before shooting himself. Police say financial worries triggered the tragedy and a celebration planned for Wilbur’s 13th birthday was abandoned.
In Boise on September 24 Mrs William Borah wife of the Idaho senator suffered a sudden relapse from parrot fever after months of serious illness. Doctors say the setback is temporary but she has lost ground quickly. Desmond of Boston returned home this week after assisting at her bedside.
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