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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1934
Page
1
The Ohio General Assembly enters a final push for a $51,000, Retail Sales Tax bill after weeks of failure. With 68 votes needed, proponents county pressure in districts as House reconvenes Tuesday. If passed, the bill faces Senate approval and a rush of related measures.
San Francisco April 9 The federal government is constructing three massive dams Boulder Dam Grand Coulee Dam and Fort Peck in Montana as a coordinated plan creating a vast water power and navigation system. Together they would form a 440 mile long lake with a final height of 1212 feet and cost about 205 million dollars with full power potential reaching roughly 656 million.
Washington April 9 The Supreme Court announced it would hear argument again on the Columbus Gas rate case during the week beginning April 20 in an effort to dispose of the case at the present term of court.
Increasing cloudiness followed by showers in the north portion tonight. Tuesday will be partly cloudy with probable rain in the northeast. Temperatures will be somewhat colder, especially in the extreme north tonight.
A massive boulder avalanche on Storm King Mountain in West Point New York crushed three automobiles along the congested Storm King Highway. Three people died Instantly including Otto Seilheimer, his wife Louise, and their five year old son Eugene. Otto Seilheimer and his infant daughter Geraldine were injured. The state highway commission opened an investigation into the slide attributing it to late winter frosts and rains loosening the mountain face.
Turkish and American authorities planned to start Samuel Insull back to the United States possibly tomorrow as lawyers push a last chance to halt extradition. The government and Ambassador Skinner in Istanbul expressed confidence he cannot avoid trial on fraud charges linked to his utilities firms.
The Avon thefts left 34 chickens from George Ackerman’s coops and 20 chickens with two ducks from George Lewis’s coops. Deputy sheriffs Joe Woodings and Ed Monroe investigated the incidents.
Oscar G. Dunn of Elyria announced his candidacy for County Commissioner on the Republican ticket in the August primaries. Dunn has a long Lorain County career from Elyria City Council to a 1914 county post, service in Washington during WWI, and local welfare activism. He is a longtime resident, married to Clara Dreitzler, with two children, and formerly ran a business in Elyria.
Mr and Mrs Frank Garvich of Mill Hollow were diagnosed by physicians as having tularemia after eating rabbit meat last Wednesday. Dr G R Wiseman Sr of Amherst and County Health Commissioner Dr H R O'Brien ordered tests to confirm the diagnosis. Parts of the rabbit fed to a dog and four cats on the Garvich property sickened the animals and were euthanized by Dog Warden Lee Minkler to prevent spread.
Three county school officials and a Lorain councilman plus two others were injured when a car skidded into a ditch on Route 4 near Attica. R P Vaughn Emma Gleason Eva Mackey and Mrs Vaughn suffered contusions. Vaughn said the car left the road without explanation. Mackey suffered a severe wrist injury and was described as most seriously hurt. Arthur Matchette Lorain councilman was injured in a separate crash on Lake avenue near Lodi. Lenora Baatz sustained a severe laceration and knee bruise in a motorcycle mishap on Cleveland road. Police took the injured to local hospitals.
United Press reports list nine deaths from Ohio crashes and derailments including Lonnie H. Thomasson 59 and Amelia Soliday 60 killed when a car hit a Pennsyl vania train near Urbana. Also cited are Grace Juanita Bell 17 of Zanesville Ruth C. Hirkpatrick 24 Springfield Clyde Tingley 45 John K Conlon 19 and others injured or dead across several towns.
In Cleveland on April 9 mounted police rode down three pickets and stepped on another as office workers and strikers clashed at the Cleveland Worsted Mills. The disturbance occurred after workers were blocked from the plant amid ongoing labor unrest that left 1600 Cleveland workers idle and hundreds more at the Ravenna plant. The National Labor Board considers settlement options including an employee election between federated and company unions, which could trigger code violations if refused.
Cleveland April 9 Huge freighting vessels prepared today for the spring resumption of bulk cargo on the Great Lakes. Officials expect a 70,000,000 ton season as ice clears at Saulte Ste Marie before signaling skippers to go ahead. Freight will be split between coal and iron ore with peak years noted. marketing committees under code authority plan a comprehensive lake stopping program within a fortnight.
Cleveland April 9 The Magazine Steel forecasts the second quarter will exceed the first three months of 1934 by 25 percent as buyers push to meet demand. Price increases of 2 to 8 dollars a ton sharper selling and restrained speculative buying by sellers hint at stronger activity. National Steel utilization sits at 48 percent while auto output and rail traffic rise. Iron and steel composites hold at 32.40, finished steel at 51.10, scrap at 12.21.
United Press reports a widespread hunt for outlaw Barrow and partner Bonnie Parker with Henry Methvin suspected. After killing Constable Cal Campbell near Commerce Oklahoma, the trio fled in a stolen car, abandoned it near Ottawa Kansas, and may have switched vehicles as fingerprints tied to the Texas killer. Authorities across several states await the next report on their location.
Plans for the third annual Old Timers Banquet and Reunion at the National Tube Company Lorain plant are announced by secretary John Gould. More than 300 veteran workers and wives are expected. tickets available at Day's Music Store in Elyria until Wednesday morning. An exceptional post dinner program is planned.
Washington April 3 District of Columbia Supreme Court began the trial of Bishop James Cannon Jr and his secretary Ada L Burroughs on charges tied to the 1928 anti Smith campaign They are accused of failing to report contributions to a fund used in that election The case follows Cannon a central figure in a decade long political clash with strong church backing and a trial that was expected to start promptly with a defense call for particulars rejected
Three frame stores in Canfield's business district near Youngstown were destroyed by fire on Sunday. The Farmers' National Bank also suffered heavy damage with losses estimated at about 25000 dollars, according to Assistant Fire Chief Herman Steinfarth.
Grand jurors indicted William Cox of Elyria for manslaughter in the February 18 fatal traffic crash and charged Edward Minnich and Charles Carroll with robbery and shooting during grocery-store robberies and a fracas with Lorain police that left an officer dead. The panel issued 57 indictments, 12 secret, and dismissed nine cases including civil rights charges against Oberlin bowling alley owner P. L. Wickerham.
In Tuscaloosa on April 3 a student election controversy at the University of Alabama turned violent as Andrew Manning of Birmingham, candidate for editor of the Crimson-White, was shot in the thigh by an unidentified assailant during the dispute.
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