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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1937
Page
12
Washington April 5 Leaders proposed a straight resolution condemning sit-down strikes tied to the Guffey Coal bill. A compromise would drop Byrnes anti-sitdown amendment and condemn all interstate sit-down strikes after the coal measure.
A special program at Camp Lorain on Tuesday evening April 6 at 7 00 p m features Dr French Elyria Health Commissioner speaking on Good Health and The Community The event aligns with National Negro Health Week observed April 4 11 to promote better Negro health and community health awareness everyone is invited to attend
Telegram from O. J. Shafer and Fritz Bauer says Florida caught fish weighing 200 pounds shipped to the local lodge. Fish to be fried by Rube Baus and served with trim mings to all Elks Wednesday evening April 7 at 6 30 p m.
The Saturday edition carries a correction noting Lawrence Mere dith was wrongly named as a cast member. The Meredith representative in the play was Winifred Meredith of 310 East River Street, a member of another Meredith family.
Dan Bjitzel aged 10 of 319 East River Street reported to police that a combination sight and horn was stolen from his bicycle while he attended a movie Saturday night.
Elyria High School announces senior class play tryouts led by drama coach Miss Nina Baker. The comedy Spring Dance by Philip Barry, chosen for May 20 and 21, requires seven girls and six boys in the cast and will be among the first amateur local productions after a New York run.
Hattie H Fraustine wife of Edward Fraustine died Sunday night at 10 00 pm at 981 Foster avenue after an illness since October 1936. Born in Germany May 5 1873 she came to the United States at 15 and lived in Elyria since moving from Cleveland 16 years ago. She was a member of St John s Lutheran church funeral services Wednesday at 2 pm Reverend Armin Schroeder officiating from the home at 1 30 and burial in Ridge lawn cemetery. She leaves husband three sons Harry Hille Wilbert Hille Fred Hille two stepdaughters Louise Kauffman Lillian Woods ten grandchildren. Body moved from Sudro Curtis Funeral Home to the Foster avenue home.
Funeral services for John Drenna, who died Saturday at his home 137 Garvin Avenue, will be held Tuesday at 9 a m from St Agnes Church with Rev Father Leo Brissel officiating. Burial will be in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
Warren A. Root died Saturday at Glenville Hospital after a month long illness. Funeral services were held at Sudro Curt is Funeral Home at 1 30 PM for the Pennsylvania Railroad engineer who lived at 1890 East 89th Street. Born April 15 1879 in Belden Ohio he is survived by three brothers A D Root Norton C Root of Toledo and A B Root of Grafton. Burial was in Belden Cemetery with Rev George Beebe officiating.
Mrs Alice Purviance mother of Mrs Frank Hoover of this city died Saturday in Alliance Ohio after years of illness. She leaves a son Thomas W Purviance of Toledo and was born in Providence Rhode Island in 1871. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10:00 A M from the late home.
Edward W. Sinegar 65 employed on James Moore's Ridgeville farm was found hanging in Moore's barn at noon. Coroner rules death by own action. Surviving son John and daughter Mrs. Mary Cain. five brothers in Pennsylvania. seven grandchildren. five great. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday at Taylor Funeral Home with Rev. R. W. Neighbour officiating. burial Elmwood cemetery.
Listings of clubs societies and lodges meeting April 5 through 9 in Oberlin. Names and addresses include Miss Erma Champney 36 Morgan street Mrs Ada Cook South Main street Miss Katherine Higgins South Park street and Mrs Paul Court 41 Morgan street. A History department meeting is postponed to April 20 and several regular meetings are noted with venues and times.
Eddie Poweska of Lorain was fined 200 dollars with 175 suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty to assault before Judge D A Cook. Elmer Cunningham received 90 days Toledo workhouse and a 25 dollar fine. Emme Ehrlich sued Adolph Lachman for 500 dollars for ten months board. Florence Bruce won a divorce from Robert Bruce with 200 dollars alimony. Mildred Hamilton obtained a divorce from Ronald Hamilton with 6 dollars weekly alimony for two children.
Deputy sheriffs impounded a 1928 Chevrolet coach left on Durkee road Saturday afternoon. The car was taken to the Rothgery garage at Graf ton per deputies request.
Justice James C. McReynolds departed from a prepared dissent to affirm that the constitution is written as is. He spoke in a dissent to a ruling upholding a District of Columbia no jury trial statute for petty offenders. Justice Pierce Butler joined his remarks in a rare business day for the court. The Wagner Act decision was not issued. the earliest date is next Monday.
Police report Alex C. Hawkins of 115 Cleveland Street was arrested at Broad Street and East Avenue around 2 40 a m yesterday on disorderly conduct charges and is to be arraigned before Mayor Don A. Baird.
The term Detroit derives from a French phrase meaning straight or narrow passage. Early explorers used it to describe the river’s channel guiding ships into the region.
The Women’s Association of the First Church will host women from Medina churches for a pot-luck luncheon on Thursday April 7 at 12:50 PM at the James Brand House. Afterward, attendees will hear musical selections a devotional and talks.
The April term of common pleas court opened with Judge Guy B Findley presiding and succeeding Judge D A Cook as presiding magistrate. Findley will hear equity and criminal cases while Cook handles jury trials. The Court of Appeals will sit here from April 26 to consider many accumulated cases.
Elyria Rotary Club will nominate directors from the floor at noon Tuesday at the Elks Restaurant. James C. McDermott of Wellington will speak on Texas. A by law change would shift to three year terms with rotation, requiring nine directors this year. Roy Clymer pursues a Boy Scouts representative for the State Citizenship Camp in Columbus this summer. Current directors listed with one vacancy.
Eight year old Jackie Klekotta won the Hi Speed gas sales contest ahead of older competitors. Living with grandparents Mr and Mrs Chas Hadaway, he earned a pair of fine roller skates as the prize for leading on points.
Norway became an early adopter of factory laws aimed at protecting workers, driven largely by the efforts of a prominent reform woman who championed labor protections. Her advocacy helped secure safeguards for workers in industrial settings amid early 20th century reforms.
Kansas City dispatch reports a one day sit down strike at the Ford Assembly plant with 2200 workers involved. Ed Hall of the United Automobile Workers urged workers to return to their jobs and warned against abusing the sit down method while promising no discrimination for union membership. Ford officials indicated production limits and emphasized wage policy controlled from Detroit. No disturbances occurred as workers evacuated and then returned.
Washington April 5 The Supreme Court refused to entertain an appeal challenging that its ruling condemning the Municipal Bankruptcy act did not apply to all irrigation districts.
Evidence shows salary buyers charging as much as ten percent weekly on loans as small as ten dollars. A borrower testified paying eleven dollars weekly, totaling 520 percent yearly, with cases involving minors and borrowers unfamiliar with contracts. One man repaid forty eight on fifty one but faced a claimed unpaid balance.
A man from West Bridge street was fined $2 and costs by Mayor Wayne Cropp after arraignment before Mayor Don A. Baird. He was arrested on Broad street shortly after midnight Saturday.
Police filed a warrant charging Jacob Warmah of 419 Elm Street with intoxication. He was arrested on Broad Street Saturday evening.
Several minor automobile collisions were reported over the weekend. John Balzer, 27, of Quarry Street, South Amherst, suffered facial lacerations after his car overturned on a curve near Amherst. He was treated at Amherst Hospital. Leonard De Chant, 19, of Stoney Ridge Road, Avon, damaged his car after being sideswiped on Gulf Road near Elyria. Fenders were damaged on cars driven by Frank Harrison Jr., 16, Elyria, and Kenneth Host, Lorain, in a LaPorte collision. Bumpers damaged in a collision on East Bridge involving R V Hirsh of Cleveland and Walter Tamosak of La Grange. Fenders and running boards damaged in a Cleveland Street collision near Beverly Court involving Robert Adams and Frank Weisheit.
Northwestern University School of Commerce launches a business internship program with 21 scholarships. Students gain store experience and classroom study toward an advanced degree, under Prof. D Duncan with support from Chicago department stores. The plan aims to prepare students for retail leadership, test vocational choices, prove qualifications, and expose them to store policies and problems.
Carl Wagner the YMCA physical director leaves for Chicago with his family to attend the National Physical Directors Association meeting, blending business with leisure during his vacation.
F R Maguire of Lakewood was arrested about 9 20 p m yesterday for reckless driving after Patrolmen Parker and Indicott clocked him at 50 miles per hour on Middle Avenue. He is to be tried April 9.
State relief administrator L. P. Zimmerman asked officials to provide a small sobering up jail near Mendota for the transient camp. The structure would hold campers briefly while they recover.
Cleveland market notes butter unsettled at 36 cents, eggs steady with extras at 22 to 24 cents, live poultry and potatoes listed with varied regional prices. Calves, sheep and hogs show slower demand and mixed bids, while Toledo grains quote wheat at around 1.49 to 1.50, corn 1.31 to 1.32, oats 59 to 60 cents.
Cattle prices listed for Revellnte stock show steady ranges. Steers over 1100 pounds fetch 11.00 to 12.00 dollars per hundredweight, 750 to 1160 pounds 11.00 to 12.50, high quality 10.00 to 11.00, medium 9.00 to 10.00, common 7.00 to 8.50. Bye-datable figures include head butcher cattle 9.50 to 10.50 and cows 6.00 to 7.00, with varying mediums and heifers priced accordingly.
Cleveland police Lieut. John H. Nebe goes on trial in common pleas court charged with accepting protection bribes from bootleggers. Nebe, a prominent prohibition era raid leader in Collinwood, faces up to four to 40 years if convicted. He denies any bribe taking as predecessors from Capt. Michael J. Harwood and Deputy Inspector Edwin C. Burns already were convicted.
Mrs B B Brunderlin of Santa Monica mother of a Douglas engineer E R Mosier 55 father of the pilot and operator of a high Sierra boys camp Carl Cover of the Douglas Company said the army would be asked to join the search Pilot Moser a Douglas Company veteran and former army air mail flier Worfolk 32 a Douglas co pilot and navigator both residents of Santa Monica.
Mrs. Margaret L. L. McCarty 72 years old and past her 52nd wedding anniversary has completed 55 consecutive years in education. Former Kingbury county superintendent of schools she now teaches in a rural Desmet school directing 16 boys and girls toward a more successful life.
A report claims communism is spreading rapidly across Africa with attention on political movements and party activity. Analysts note rising influence in several nations and collaboration with regional groups, though specifics vary by source.
Louisiana motorists have paid millions in gasoline taxes over 16 years to fund highways. The 18th anniversary marks a rise from 1 cent to a share of fuel cost with state federal and city levies. New Orleans taxes total 10 cents per gallon with a 20 cent local pump price. National collections exceed 6.17 billion since the first levy. Louisiana reports 1935 collections of 9.34 million and 1936 nine months at 3.54 million.
The passage notes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution granted the president dictatorial powers during emergencies, a feature the Kaiser's era never anticipated. Ironically, this sole article outlasted many upheavals by declaring the constitution suspendable in emergencies.
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