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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
3
J O McMurdy a 16 year old of Rocky Grove was nearly suffocated by carbon monoxide fumes in a Maple street cellar while repairing a hot water tank. He lay unconscious for hours before neighbors and his grandson aided him and a physician treated him as his condition improved later that evening.
Mae Sprank Jer known as Pin, 19, of Kane and Brooks ville, blonde companion of Sam Montgomery who received life plus five years for armed robbery in Louisville. She faces similar liquor law and car theft related charges in this county and will appear in Kentucky on October 5 after involvement in hold ups at Ridge wily Bradford and Oil City before fleeing into Kentucky where they were captured.
Erie Sept 2 An 14 year old Dorothy Hart daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Hart 205 East 6th Street swallowed an open inch long safety pin while preparing to fasten her apron at 3 PM at Hamid hospital. Doctors monitor the pin by X rays and report the course has been normal with no intestinal damage so far.
The Tebo Gospel Party led by Rev Clarence W Tebo and Mrs Tebo with Miss Nadina Leonard and Miss Edna Mae Borders will begin evangelistic meetings at United Brethren in Christchurch on Tuesday October 3 1939. The group includes musicians and educators trained at Cazenovia Seminary Cortland Conservatory Moody Bible Institute and features twelve instruments including marimba vibraphone and autoharp. Each evening includes a sacred music program before the gospel message.
W H Locke of Oil City was named to succeed the late Benjamin H McLachlan as president of the Pennsylvania Gas Company which supplies Corry. He also was elected head of the Pennsylvania Oil Company, and is currently vice president of United Gas Company. He is a 1917 Penn State civil engineer graduate who served in the army and held various engineering and valuation roles in gas firms and the federal treasury.
An ad claims a new scientific discovery called Breatheasy relieves asthma and hay fever with a money back guarantee. It offers a free trial and provides the contact as E English in Rouseville Pennsylvania with a phone number.
United States Treasury department agent Mike Cymbalista, in town for federal court, was robbed of $28, a white gold wrist watch, and credentials on Lower State Street. He identified the robber, described as speaking with a southern accent, who forced him to surrender his watch and cash after the victim was ordered to raise his hands. The incident occurred shortly after leaving a nearby restaurant. Cymbalista was staying at the Ford hotel.
Chief George J. Christoph announced that the armed holdup of A. Watkins, secretary of the Sani tary Farms Dairy, on June 30 in Erie, has been solved. Ex-convict Vola Stimison, 30, of Volant, Pa, now held in New Castle for a separate holdup, has been named as the gunman. An Erie man, whose name is withheld, admitted involvement after police picked him up, and he is held pending further investigation. Watkins was robbed of $900 in cash and $300 in checks after being lured into his automobile.
Two youths, one colored, are in custody of state motor police at Phillipsburg as authorities probe suspected worthless check operations and gas station robberies in the northwest district of Pennsylvania. Chief John D. Finnigan was asked to check Thurman Audley Smallwood, 14, of Houston Missouri, and Irvin Mitchell, 21, of New York City. Smallwood, said to be unusually large for his age, is suspected of cashing numerous worthless checks in the Erie district and taking part in gas station robberies in Ohio including Painesville where he broke jail. His latest act was at DuBois where he and Mitchell tried a holdup but were driven off.
Erie state motor police traced 16 year old Viola Straub after blood stained clothing found near Sik Mile creek. Investigators pursued a track driver last seen with the girl on East Lake road. Officials said developments Tuesday suggested possible foul play but remain hopeful she is alive. Police reported Straub stepped an employee of the General Electric plant on Septem ber 15 at 12 45 p m.
Erie aug hour crash on State street last night killed 72 year old Miss Anna Warfful and injured Lenora Arbuckle, both of Erie. Coroner Stroble said the auto struck them after halting for a red light, the driver stating he could not avoid the collision.
A girl was reported missing at 5 10 p m on September 14 after a G E employee who asked to remain unnamed picked up her bagged apparel and drove her toward her grandmother's home near Rankin Avenue Lawrence Park. He described her as evasive during questions about being in the lonely Six Mile Creek area, and said she boarded his car and rode to George Hearsh's boat livery on the beach at Six Mile Creek.
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