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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1944
Page
3
Grim wartime item highlights a Corry resident reporting a prowler, a train delay due to engine failure, thefts including gasoline and garden produce, and a Purple Heart award. Other notes cover rainfall aiding crops, trout stocking concerns, police updates, stamps for Corregidor sale, and regional business and tax news. Multiple named individuals and local organizations featured.
A severe electric storm dumped over 4 inches of rain in Kane causing widespread damage. A 2300 volt line was broken by lightning on Hemlock Avenue and South Fraley Street. crews repaired the breaks after eight hours. Lightning also struck a flagpole at Sakuya Mills and damaged wiring at Community Hospital including the elevator. Western Union lines were down until 10 15 p.m. partial service resumed. The storm lasted over two hours with continuous lightning and minor property damage elsewhere. Early post office mail relied on candles and flashlights while station lanterns aided operations.
Reports to the three delegations indicate progress toward a general frame of work for the organization and the machinery to maintain peace and security. Governments will consider the reports and issue a simultaneous statement. Further big power talks among top-ranking officials may precede a full-scale United Nations meeting to organize the world.
Heads of the U S automobile industry say if the European war ends before January 1 production of new passenger cars will require six to eight months. E G Wilson of General Motors and leaders of Chrysler Ford Packard discuss wartime controls and peacetime plans. Wilson notes wartime controls will not abruptly end and prices for 1942 cars cannot persist.
Erie Sept 23 countywide registration day adds more than 10 000 names. With 48 of 115 districts reporting GOP registrations lead by 739 though 32 of 67 unreported districts are in the city potentially shifting totals to Democrats. For 34 districts reported the total is 5 587 with 3 163 GOP and 2 424 Democratic. Last 1943 city county totals stood at 65 920 with 38 273 GOP and 27 61 Democratic.
The article reports China's loss of three forward bases Kweilin Tanchuk and Likehow and possible retreat of operations toward Kunming 430 miles from Kweilin. It notes Chinese divisions chewed up by Japanese, hindering joint efforts with American forces and raises concern over China’s role in any peace conference amid near collapse.
Allied dispatches report Fifth Army troops approach Bologna as they seize Mount Battaglia near Tmola and three key heights commanding the direct Bologna route. British Eighth Army gains noted in Po valley edges. German defenses stiff, weather hindered air support, and the Gothic Line penetration advances extend north and west.
Allied air forces maintain round the clock assault on Germany with about 7,300 planes and 48,000 crews over four days. U S high air power losses stay under four percent as British and American Ninth Air Force planes strike targets from Norway to Switzerland. Waves of aircraft cross the channel in continuous sorties.
Frederick Williamson, 68, former president of the New York Central Railroad, died in New York City after illness. Born in Norvalk, Otto, he began with the line on September 24, 1898 as a Mohawk division clerk at Albany and rose to presidency from 1992 until his resignation last August.
Samuel Harner four of Rankin was found Wednesday in Wilfied room with two bullet wounds in his head. He died last night at Braddock General Hospital after daylight RAF Mosquitos returned from moonlight attacks to Brunswick and enemy airfields in central Germany. German radio said weak bomber formations were over the reich for the fifth day.
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