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Fragmentary OCR notes reference a 2e year-old individual and a date in early April. The readable terms imply a race or event but lack full names, places, or outcomes to identify a clear news item.
25 Sep 1945
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1945
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a 2e year-old individual and a date in early April. The readable terms imply a race or event but lack full names, places, or outcomes to identify a clear news item.
A fragmented agricultural market listing with numbers for silage capacity, hay tools, and livestock. Mentions prices for cattle by weight and class, deliveries, and equipment like a feed distiller and a Papee tedder. Indicates market modesty and limited buyer interest.
Reports from London indicate momentum toward a Truman Stalin Attlee summit to address Europe’s major postwar issues. Delegates weigh a December follow-up with De Gaulle possibly included. talks center on western Germany, Balkan tensions, and expedited Soviet repatriation of prisoners.
In the election on the memorial building purchase, 318 votes were cast with 126 for and 92 against. French Creek town voted 29 for and 16 opposed. Clymer District 1, 80 for and 62 against. District 2, 17 for and 14 against. Chairman Legtera said opposition and farming duties influenced the close result and no action will occur until World War II veterans return home. Treasury report shows receipts 425,754,545.77. expenditures 278,241,083.719. balance 16,146,399. total debt 260,720,051,653.89.
Associated Press reports Washington approval of Dian Acheson as Undersecretary of State signals a broader line in the Wabsh-on-Japan policy. President Truman also clarifies Gen. Douglas MacArthur's authority, aiming to show Japan they must follow American orders. Debate included Wherry's bid to block the Acheson promotion, with Republicans objecting to perceived social revolution aims in Japan.
Corry War Fund Committee to meet Thursday after noon in the municipal building council room to organize the 1945-16 war fund drive. The city will limit participation to actual war services and will not fund county or Erie city institutional needs. A chairman will be named and plans decided. Arlo Stevens of Waterford will confer with Corry workers at a later meeting. Attending include J A William, Harry Blount, Walter Hindman, Farol Cracy, C W Bracken, Ralph Larson, Barl T Cherry, Richard Rossbacher, G H Holden, William Wan and Dr C Sinfley.
A coroner's jury at Erie ruled the Pennsylvania Railroad bears responsibility for two deaths at the McMichany Elgin crossing. The verdict faulted a nearby freight-wiring hazard and urged proper electric signals and improved crossing protection to stop future tragedies.
In Saigon on September 9 British mortars and heavy machine guns fire on hidden Annamites as Indo-Chinese Independente forces try to quell a rising. The capital is in near state of war after a French soldier was fatally shot and a French civilian stoned near a downtown market. Major outages followed as power and water systems were disrupted by clashes. A Frenchman was kidnapped and menaced atop a car while Japanese bystander freed the French and fled. motives remain unclear.
A fire alarm at Corry Hospital caused wide alarm when a surge in the porch box wiring during a heavy rain triggered a callout by the Stanford Hose Company. Volunteers searched the building from attic to electrical panels, ensuring no fire started.
Principal Howard Sheen reports five Senior High students released this week to assist with corn and grain harvests near Corry. Charles Monroe says applications exist for at least fifty men from nearby farms, but unemployment compensation keeps many from taking farm work. Mrs Monroe has handled emergency jobs during war periods. hundreds in the city could consider farm work, yet none are applying.
Berlin reports reveal German plans in fall 1940 to invade south and southeast England with about 22 divisions, plus 1 2 more in reserve. Army Group A would land on the Kent coast and target positions from Portsmouth to London, while Army Group B would follow from Cherbourg. Nebelwerfer mortars and airborne landings north of Romney Marsh were included in the invasion scheme.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 14 to 10 to shelve all bills liberalizing unemployment benefits. Chairman Doughton said the panel will instead pursue peacetime tax relief. Rep Knutson cited strike concerns as the deciding factor in postponing any expansion of jobless pay.
The government acts to ease heavy labor unrest across the nation as oil strikes and other protests push unemployment higher. In New York City, 15,000 AML building service workers walk out, paralyzing business and shutting offices and hotels, while other major strikes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Michigan affect thousands more.
City merchants gathered at the Ritz Restaurant for a dinner meeting. They reviewed Christmas street lighting, announced Aluminsted street decorations, and discussed broadcasting carols on both city sides. Plans also emerged for Halloween events and safety improvements after recent vandalism with fires set to awnings. Harold McConnell was named Halloween committee chair.
Corry and all towns in the district will revert to standard time next Sunday night. The move follows Congress repealing the national daylight saving law, with local authorities to decide whether Corry will observe daylight saving again next spring. Public schools and city services will operate on standard time until a local decision is made.
Harrisburg reports a 4 million expansion plan for Rockview prison near Bellefonte. Two new institutions would be built while the current minimum security prison remains. An industrial school for 1,000 first offenders would get 2.5 million from an 8 million penal fund and a defective-delinquents institute for 600 inmates would receive 1.49 million. All on 7,000 acres, part of a statewide prison reorganization approved by the 1985 legislature. Miss O’Hara notes no inter-institution commingling, with some utility centralization.
Washington reports indicate the Navy will release any enlisted man with three or more children under 18 on his own request under a liberalized oath policy for hard cases. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach backs a 75 cent hourly minimum wage for workers covered by federal wage-hour laws. A Senate committee plans to visit Pearl Harbor to investigate the small Japanese attack that brought the United States into war. Chairman Barkley says the trip to Hawaii will occur after a preliminary evidence review. Secretary Schwellenbach tells the labor-management conference in Chicago that the meeting must proceed due to the short time remaining.
New York dispatch quotes Hirohito as opposing a return to war as policy, pledging constitutional changes by legal means. He expresses support for a British style constitutional monarchy and notes Tojo used war measures to attack the United States if needed, with the interview authorized by the emperor and allied figures.
Round up of war criminals continues as Allied occupation of Japan remains extended. General MacArthur warns the occupation may endure for many years with minimal forces, while reporting of wartime crimes and the reorganization of Japanese society proceeds amid cautious optimism and heavy censorship.
Orry’s salvage drive will stop on October 1 as the statewide salvage operation suspends. Final shipments and a last collection day occur Saturday with work run from homes by lime trucks. residents should place salvage paper at curbs or pick up at designated points.
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