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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
7
A fragmented report notes a high school grid game played yesterday evening with emphasis on local teams and facility. Details are unclear but mention of union and charges suggests a social or disciplinary angle surrounding the event.
Reports from Wane Pennsylvania say the Twin Lakes project in the Allegheny National Forest near Dahoga will be larger than first planned. Construction of a 300 foot dam on Hoffman Rim will flood about 200 acres, with 40 local workers employed and a new road built as a fire access route.
The Baptist Ladies Ald Sode held a full day meeting at Mrs Caroline McVaugh's home on West Frederick street. A noon meal for sixteen members and three visitors followed devotion led by Mrs W N Jones. Mrs Bruce presided and officers were re elected for the year.
Le Roy Drake an 18 year old president of a church society in Los Angeles confessed to poisoning his elderly aunt and uncle and dumping their bodies into the sea. He led divers to recover the bodies from 30 feet beneath the harbor surface. Drake said he placed poison in coffee at dinner and watched them die then fled with the car. He said fear of arrest prompted the crime and linked his motive to disgrace. He is a student at Long Beach Junior College and an amateur astronomer and had recently faced a grand theft auto charge.
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Tl, visiting Moscow, fell ill with bronchial pneumonia and suffered a relapse during the night. By noon his condition alarmed his attending physicians who monitor his progress closely.
Harrisburg Sept 26 Wendell Y Blanning of Willi amstown resigns as secretary of state public service commission effective Oct 1 to join the interstate commerce commission Samuel Ettinger Carlisle principal hearing examiner and assistant in the P S C legal bureau will succeed him Blanning helped establish the bus and public convenience bureau system under the I C C jurisdiction
The Department of Highways awards a 3.28 mile Route 340 paving contract in Butler County to County Construction Company of Pittsburgh. The job includes two reinforced concrete bridges and 20 foot wide pavement with 3 foot shoulders, connecting Grove City and Slippery Rock. The contract requires using skilled and intermediate labor hired through the U S Employment Service.
Ettinger, a Muhlenberg College and Dickinson College Law School graduate, will earn $6,000 annually as the commission's new position. Blanning, also a Dickinson College graduate, is referenced in connection with the regulation topic.
Police have clues to the two gunmen who held up guests at the White House inn on Charles Street and kidnapped a Cambridge Springs couple, forcing them to drive toward Buffalo. They are wanted for robbery and forcible abduction.
A truck plowed through a concrete railroad wall in Columbus Ohio and landed on a moving coal car. The driver sustained injuries in the freak accident.
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