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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1934
Page
6
Local items cover council sessions, road work on Waterford Hire road, and a grape carnival in Northast. Sheriff and state officials reshuffle offices, tax changes loom, and car collisions are reported. Erie Times notes freight car counts, industry indicators, speaker at First Baptist, and Rex theatre prizes.
Sparta Spartansburg September meeting of the Woman's club meets at Mrs. Nellie Steadman home with presiding president Mrs. Lina Rexford. Members hear on Amana Colony and United States topics, enjoy songs and solos, and plan next meeting. Ivy Embroidery Club guests in Centerville entertainments noted. Funeral for Mary Ann Sherlock listed. Century of Progress trip reported. Next Sparsta Grange meeting set for October 1 with clean-up day planned.
Spencer Community Sunday announces officers for the coming year in school and church roles. Debs Sorenson is superintendent with assistants C R Crowell and Lavina Bailey. Irene Parkhurst is secretary. C M Bailey treasurer. other posts include pianist Lavina Bailey and cradle roll supervisor J F Hullom. Rev. J Baker serves as pastor.
Franklin Sept 28 An immediate survey of the Allegheny River French Creek canal route was ordered by the War Department and will start at once under U S engineers direction Major W D Styer of Pittsburgh told the Allegheny River Improvement Association at its annual Franklin Y M C A meeting He noted the survey follows a strong protest at a Washington hearing against Beaver and Manning Rivers canal plans and said work will continue through the winter weather permitting
Three men were injured when a scaffold collapsed while laying roofing on the C. C. Ailes home at 50% Bissell Avenue in Oil City. Ralph Heckathorn, C. C. Aites, and James Martin fell about 20 feet to a porch roof and then to the ground. Aites suffered multiple injuries including a possible arm and hip fracture. Heckathorn a probable broken shoulder. Martin had minor cuts. X rays were to be taken to assess Aites and Heckathorn's injuries.
In Meadville a man identified as Fritz Fritz is to be arraigned before Alderman Ralph A Schrubb after a double shooting that wounded his wife Ellen Fritz and Paul Kightlinger of 538 East Henry Street. One bullet hit Kightlinger’s left hip and was removed at Spencer Hospital. another lodged near Mrs Fritz’s lungs and will be removed in coming days. Mrs Fritz’s condition was described as good.
The Mt. Union College faces a challenge as heirs of Bishop John W. Hamilton of Washington DC contest a will that leaves $200,000 from his estate to the college. Court action and probate are anticipated as officials confirm the dispute.
In Warren on September 28 Judge D A Arird sentenced John Cangiano alias John Gontey of New York City to two to four years in prison plus a $500 fine and costs after pleading guilty to peddling doped cigarettes. Also sentenced were Frank Williams of Jamestown for burglary and larceny to seven months. Henry Young of Erie to one and a half to three years plus a $100 fine. and Edward Tomsn of Sugar Grove to six months in the workhouse plus a $200 fine and costs for intoxicated driving.
The Department of Justice suit against the Aluminum Company of America for a 1.5 million rebate on World War II era aluminum purchases continued in U S Court of Claims. Defense testimony was expected to begin soon after delays dating back to 1928 as the company had first claimed 682,588 dollars the government still owed on war time sales.
Three men were arrested after the assault and robbery on Axel Olson of Wes Wind Road. James McKendren 22 and Eugene Howe 19 pleaded guilty to robbery and remained in jail for court. All admitted to officials about the events of the previous evening and the $104 taken.
Jamestown September 28 County Court will convene at Mayville Court House next Monday at 10 a.m. for the October term with Judge Lee T Ottaway presiding. Anthony Barile of Jamestown heads the calendar on criminal causes charged with blackmail. Barile was convicted two years ago of sending threatening letters to Mrs. James M Seldon of Pittsburgh and Bemus Point demanding 5000 under threat of injury. He served time in Auburn State Prison before the case was appealed and remanded for a new trial.
Brun Sal 20 and Stanley Pludziak 17 of Niagara Falls were convicted of first degree murder in the slaying of Police Lieutenant George L. Uhle. The jury deliberated under three hours, with the death sentence to be set by Justice Norton the following morning. Salek, described as a nervy gunman, and Pludavale, who left school last April, fled with Salek’s girlfriend Alice Zimmerman after the crime. They hijacked a car owned by Theodore Keating, holding him captive during a vain flight to Olean before dumping him in a corn field.
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