Libel suit trial advances as Peer witnesses tally up
A Lorain libel case pitting William J. Peer against Samuel Horvitz and David Gibson nears a verdict. After two weeks of testimony, Judge Webber denied a jury verdict for defendants as arguments continue. The case, the longest civil trial in local history, has drawn hundreds of spectators and wide press attention from northern Ohio.
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William J. Peer
Lorain
Samuel Horvitz
Lorain Journal
David Gibson
Horvitz
A. R. Webber
Atty
Frank D. Scott
Dianntis
Atty. L. B Faurer
Ohio
Peer
William Peer
State Prohibition
O. E. Rankin
Pat Crow
Elyria Real Estate
John Shumagi
Ben Harris
County Elections Board
E. G .Eckley
Peer Brothers Real Estate Ofic
Fauver
Scott
Court Secon
Vic Donahey
Two Killed in Suburban Fireworks Blast in New Haven
An explosion at a suburban Northford fireworks facility killed two men today. The blast shattered windows in nearby homes eight miles away and left investigators to determine how many occupants were present. In London, a naval treaty contingency clause reached agreement among the United States Great Britain and Japan clearing the path for drafting and signing in the coming days.
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New Haven
Conn
Northbord
London
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Reijiro Wakatsuki
J. Ramsey MacDonald
New York
Elyria High honors 29 students at assembly
Twenty nine Elyria High School students were honored for athletics and leadership at an honor assembly. Seven National Honor Society members were elected eight letters were awarded for heavy weight and lightweight basketball and swimming. Robert Goecke led swimming and earned the Burns Trophy. A Garrick Club check funded new school microphone equipment, and Red Cross life saving demo was presented by Paul Goss. County commissioners favored the Miller Ditch in Carlisle Township for assessment bearing.
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Elyria High School
Ners
Robert Goecke
Dorothy Mann
Annette Meinke
Ingrid Eggers
David Horan
Josep Smith
Arthur Buswell
Oliver Blakiey
Lorne Elbert
Charles Terry
Donald Garner
Fred Rule
Robert Hancock
Franklin Whitney
Jay Howenstine
Howard Kushinsky
William Kohn
Ted Washke
Harold Stock
Lorenzo Todd
Ben DeFazio
James Redington
Robert Carr
Willem Arve
Robert Goecks
Burns
Harold Burns
Goecke
Garrick Club
Paul Goss
American Red Cross
Fire and explosions devastate Sagey Negros Island
Twelve thousand people were left homeless after a major blaze at Sagey on Negros Island, then a series of dynamite explosions destroyed dwellings and a lumber plant owned by Insular Lumber Company. Early casualty reports vary, with preliminary damage pegged at 2.5 million dollars.
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Noile
Sagey
Negros Island
Insular Lumber Company
Seventeen Revolutionists Given Severe Sentences in India
In Allahabad on April 16, Mohanlal Saxena chief of the Lucknow Congress executive committee and Inwiaz Ahamad Ashraft local congress president led a group of seventeen Revolutionists charged with violating salt tax laws. Sentences ranged from four months to two years with Saxena and Ashraft each receiving 18 months. Six others got similar penalties, two received two years, and the rest four months.
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Allahabad
India
Mohanlal Saxena
Lucknow Congress
Inwiaz Ahamad Ashraft
Congress Committee
Saxena
Ashraft
U S World Trade Shows Favorable Balance
The Commerce Department reported in Washington on April 16 that March world trade showed a favorable balance of exports over imports totaling 74 million dollars. Exports reached 374 million, up 25.046 million from February, while imports stood at 200 million, up 15.393 million, with gold and silver export and import figures also noted.
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Washington
America
Commerce Department
DAR Opposes American Entry to World Court
Daughters of the American Revolution went on record against U S participation in the World Court despite President Hoover's appeal. In New York, AT&T directors approved a stockholder benefit distribution exceeding 300 million dollars, offering subscription rights at 100 dollars per share.
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America
World Court
Washington
Hoover
Daughters of the American Revolution
A. T. and
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Wet campaign centers on electing wet candidates in repeal push
Washington April 16 The association against the prohibition amendment centers its fight for repeal of the 18th Amendment in electing wet candidates and in showing how the law works Henry H Curran president of the association testified to the senate lobby committee as the first witness in the committee's probe of lobbying by wet and dry groups
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Washington
Association Against the
Resigns from committee in Washington on April 16
Senator Goldsborough Repn Md forwards resignation as member of the senate campaign expenditures investigating committee. His departure may delay the inquiry scheduled to begin next week. Willard warns railroad improvements could freeze if Couzens resolution passes. Aviation treaty terms reached to allow U S plane sales in England and align air-worthiness standards with British rules.
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Washington
Goldsborough
Curtis
Senate
Willard
Baltimore and Ohio
Congress
Couzens
Daniel Willard
Senate Interstate Commerce
London
England
British
Air Ministry
United States
League of Nations
Farm Work Calls For Five Unmarried Men
Lorain county employment bureau seeking five unmarried men with farm experience to fill dairy and truck farm jobs. Miss Florence Brucker says this follows a prior notice that ten men were placed and only one request remained.
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Lorain County
County Agricultural Extension Office
Florence Brucker
Bureau
Plans for Elyria High centenary celebration in June
A June centenary celebration plan for Elyria High School advances after a committee meeting. Details include a June 16 exhibit, citywide decoration, and a head committee for the historical exhibit. A definite arrangements meeting is set for next Monday at Washington school’s music room. The executive committee will meet Thursday at Superintendent R C Maston’s office to discuss policy matters.
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Elyria High School
Washington School
Earl Bacon
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
R. C. Maston
Graf Zeppelin On Long Tour Over Lisbon
Graf Zeppelin circled Lisbon for twenty minutes en route from Friedrichshafen to Seville, Spain, then headed north. It carried 16 passengers under Captain Ernst A. Lehmann on the dirigible’s first long tour of the season.
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Libson
Portugal
Friedrichshafen
Seville
Spain
Lisbon
Trig
Ernst A. Lehmann
Red Cross Sends 50000 Smallpox Vaccine to San Jose
Washington dispatch reports 50,000 tubes of smallpox vaccine en route by air to San Jose Costa Rica. The shipment, a duplicate of a recent order, fulfills a request by the Costa Rican Red Cross for mass vaccination.
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Washington
The
American Red Cross
San Jose
Costa Rica
Red Cross
Two Deaths in Epidemic at Brunswick
In Brunswick a typhoid fever outbreak claims two lives and adds one new case. Mrs. Howard Widdifield, 24, dies after illness since April 5. A Feightner daughter dies in Doylestown, Ohio. Samuel Feightner, ill since last night, is hospitalized in Berea. Mrs. Feightner and son Perry, 12, are bedridden. Total typhoid patients reach twenty one.
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Brunswick
Howard Widdifield
Albert Wood
Samuel Feightner
Doylestown
Wood
Berea Community Hospital
Will Face Fed Grand Jury In Cleveland Smuggling Case
In Cleveland on April 16 144 defendants were named in a federal grand jury indictment. Harry Olsen former coast guardsman faced charges of offering bribes to Capt. Daly and Boatswain's Mate Potts to permit rum landings near Cleveland. The illfated Sambo G. accused smugglers Hentrie and Smith linked to the gun battle near Cleveland March 6. The armored carrier carried 1506 cases of liquor. Olsen arrested entering Cleveland harbor aboard a speed boat piloted by Fred G. Porter.
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Cleveland, O
Wilfred J. Mahon
Harry Olsen
Coast Guardsman
John Daly
Clark F. Potts
Fairport Station
Cleveland
Olsen
Daly
Cleveland Hatrbor
Fred G. Porter
Fred Hentrie
Frank Smith
Sambo G
Hentrie
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lorain
Lake Erie
Harvey D. Webb
Cuyahoza No. 2
Sheriff Hunts Lorain Man Missing in Woods Search
Sheriff Clarence E. Adams and deputies hunted for John Braun, 62, of 423 West Twenty second street Lorain, missing since 7 30 a m Monday. Braun in ill health before disappearance and his son Gustav Braun reported the search, fearing he wandered into the South Lorain woods between Oberlin avenue and Broadway.
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John Braun
West Twenty-second Street
Lorain
Blue Ribbon Winners Highlight Health Program progress
Two more schools in the Class A Health Program earned Blue Ribbons at Tuesday events. Camden School reported 42 recipients and Brownhelm 196, boosting county totals to 942 ribbons so far this year. Brownhelm’s 63 percent share leads as enthusiasm remains high and plans for Health Day advance.
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Camden
Brownhelm
Wade
Camden School
Lorain County Grand Jury Report Expected This Afternoon
The Lorain County Grand Jury is to report findings for the April term after noon today. More than a week was spent considering nearly 40 cases and indictments are being drawn, delaying the report until this afternoon per foreman Don W. Myers.
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Lorain County
Guess Elyria and Lorain County Population
Chronicle Telegram invites readers to guess the census population for Elyria and Lorain County. Submit name address and your figures for both totals to the editor by mail.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Chronicle-Telegram
Record Census Ennumerators Hit Final Rush in Lorain
Final census push in Lorain Elyria and Oberlin produced two new area records. An enumerator in Lorain counted 472 names in a day while Elyria worker logged 389 persons after a 15 hour shift. Nearly all districts not finished with enumeration but Oberlin Lorain and Elyria districts progress to complete within a few days with extra enumerators employed to speed up the process.
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Lorain
Elyria
F. A. Stetson
Medina
Stetson
Oberlin
Sterson
Lorain County
Lindbergh Plans Test Flight For Transcontinental Run
Col. Charles W. Lindbergh announced a late week flight with speed and altitude tests in a Lockheed plane from Berbanke to New York with one stop at Wichita. The mission aims to study high altitude air lanes to speed future transcontinental service. Ange Lind will accompany him.
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Berbanke
Cailif
Charles W. Lindbergh
Lockheed
New York
Ange Morrow Lind
Conn
Lindbersh
Wichita
Kansas
Lindbergh
Senator Black Proposes Five-Year Immigration Freeze
In the Senate, Senator Black of Alabama proposed a complete five-year suspension of immigration as a remedy for unemployment. He said he will amend the Harris immigration bill to halt all immigration for five years.
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Senator Black
Alabama
Washington
Senate
Black
Dem
Ala
Violence Threatens Gandhi Civil Disobedience Campaign
Bombay and Calcutta erupt in rioting as civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi sparks clashes across major cities. Riots injure Europeans, courts are stormed, police fire on mobs, and political leaders face sentencing amid rising tensions in Bengal and Bombay.
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Bombay
India
MM. K Gandhi
Dandi
Bengal
Arabian Sea
Gandhi
Calcutia
Allahabad
Karachi
Calcutta
J. M. Sen Gupta
Kercchi
National Congress
Wadai
Udress
Indore
Poona
Fleming
Cordon
Gay
Subhas Chandra Bose
Lothers
Bose
Bengal Congress
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