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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1934
Page
1
A wave of strike violence hit Bridgeport Alabama as Jacobs Manufacturing Company workers attacked targets with dynamite and stones. Authorities called for troops after a child was shot and seriously injured. Glass crashed throughout the night amid ongoing unrest and line of march confrontations.
Vermilion Aug 1 Fire from an overheated kerosene lamp started in the Double cottage and spread rapidly, destroying three cottages owned by A R Dea hie and J B Hill of Oberlin and John Comfort of Norwalk, and damaging two others. Fire departments from Huron Vermilion and Berlin Heights fought the blaze that caused about 135000 in damage.
The National Coal Board in Washington will hear the appeal of five Cleveland coal dealers against the NRA board to fix fair minimum prices. The case, before the NRA research and planning division, seeks to overturn a $7.94 minimum set by the Ohio Coal Code authority for Pocahontas coal domestic delivery. The clubs led by Campbell Bros. Coal Co. seek to drop to $6.95, and their yards are closed pending settlement. Judge David Ralph Hertz issued a consent decree restraining underselling and advertising to lower the price. The Recovery Act was not ruled upon.
Judge A R Webber of the Lorain County common pleas court will speak at the Elyria Kiwanis Club meeting at Hotel Newell at noon Thursday. His topic is Is The World Getting Better.
The forecast calls for probable showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday. Temperatures will rise in the east and central regions tonight, while the north and western portions will cool on Thursday.
Today marks the Blue Eagle’s first birthday as the NRA symbol. The emblem, created by Charles Conner of Philadelphia, fueled a nationwide volunteer effort to revitalize the economy. More than 1.5 million people began a block to block canvass, with 2.3 million employers and over 60 million consumers joining the cooperation pledge.
Huey P Long faced New Orleans as National Guardsmen seized the city hall and police expanded to 1340 officers. 500 citizens and 750 guardsmen were mobilized amid martial law fears as Mayor Walmsley battled Long in a packed political clash.
Six boys will be chosen from a group of twelve dairy club workers to form Lorain County's four H dairy judging team. The top six will represent the county at Ohio Dairy Day in Wooster on August 10, with three later selected for the Ohio State Fair. C I Hummel announced the plan as preparations continued. Lorain men were fined five dollars and costs for intoxication after being found about to drive a car on Cascade Street.
Paris dispatch reports half a dozen national staffs reassessing war plans as Hindenburg’s declining health sparks fears of a crisis in Germany and Austria. Restoration rumors for Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs swirl amid talk of a French march into the Rhineland and Allied troops ready for precautionary mobilization.
NEUDECK Germany Aug 1 President Paul von Hindenburg's doctors say he grew weaker today with no fever but increasing weakness. Hitler sped from Berlin to be at the bedside, with plans to assume leadership as he contemplates an unofficial presidency then a flagged election. The president, 86, remains conscious but near death as physicians report no improvement and his condition unchanged since morning. Grandchildren are allowed to visit as his family stays nearby at the Neudeck chateau.
Jesus Barden of 1901 East 30th street Lorain was fined $50 and costs yesterday afternoon after arraignment before Mayor W H Vanoster for driving while intoxicated.
Vienna announces Nazi Germany direct complicity in the revolt that killed Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. Codified papers found on a courier from Munich hint at German government ties to the uprising. Austrian minister Anton Rintelen implicated. he shot himself and was moved to a prison hospital.
Twenty two more bankers and bank directors were indicted by a Federal grand jury investigating the Detroit Michigan bank collapse. Indictments raise total charged to 35 as the long bank crisis traces back to February 1935 when Michigan banks shut their doors by Gov Comstock order.
John Miskow, 20, of 212 Colorado Avenue, was arrested by Deputies Nau and Chapman at his home for stealing a harness from Loney Brumby in Camden on November 26. He admits the theft and a separate gasoline theft, and is wanted in Ashland for carrying concealed weapons. He appeared before Justice Joseph Petro and his case was to be disposed of the next day.
A man was arrested after his car collided with another vehicle and became jammed on Broad Street while attempting a turn. Police responded to the scene and took the driver into custody as officers investigated the incident.
Reports from Cleveland say East Ohio Gas Co will accept the Ohio Public Utilities Commission order cutting Cleveland gas rates to 57.15 cents per thousand cubic feet, a saving of 1,185,000 dollars annually to users. The company has one week left to file a protest with the commission.
A Staten Island man Gilford Clobridge 34 was arrested at the St George Ferry House on an attempted extortion charge after sending two letters demanding 10900 to a Staten Island woman under threat of kidnapping her daughter. He had a prior sentence to Atlanta Federal Pen for the Lindbergh case.
Depositors will receive at least 100 dollars, trust deposits and public funds paid in full, large depositors to get at least 350 percent payoff, and the 8 million dollar institution will start functioning again in Cleveland.
Five balloons lifted from Birmingham under clear skies as crews vie to place among the farthest distance earn US entry to the Gordon Bennett balloon race in Warsaw on Sept 23. Prize money totals 1,750 dollars. Early departures included Army, Buffalo Courier-Express, and Goodyear entries with crews led by Capt. William J. Flood, George Ineman, Milford Vanik, Lieut. Comdr. Kerl Lange, Verner Smith, Lieut. Haynie McCormick, Lieut. J. P. Kirkenwall, and Lieut. Charles Mendall along with H T Orville.
Lorain County farmers will attend a county-wide picnic at Cascade Park on August 9 with an extensive program. Attendance contests will reward Granges and Four H Clubs with the largest membership presence. Dean John F. Cunningham of Ohio State University will lead a principal talk. The plan includes horseshoe pitching, baseball, and other contests.
A five week blaze on Zach ary Taylor’s swamp north of Urbana resists extinguishment after a lightning strike started the fire. A ditch around the tract keeps it from spreading to nearby farms as observers expect rain to help. Reports mention trees burned and plan details in a three bank reopening scheme announced by Conservator Robert M Huston who has led the bank since May 1, 1933.
Elyria's American Legion drum and bugle corps, three time Ohio champions and last year’s national runners up in Chicago, will join eight corps at Fostoria Sunday for the Fifth District convention. Entries from Lorain Galion Toledo At tica Carer Lima and Van Wert are expected. A parade begins at 1 p m and the show closes with prize money of 100 75 and 50. Paul M Herbert will speak and Cedar Point hosts the state convention August 18 19 20.
Tim Clarke, infamous Oklahoma desperado and Kansas prison break leader, was seized in Tulsa with federal agents and Kansas highway patrol. He and Frank Delmar were the last on the run from Lansing prison escape. Clarke headed back to Lansing prison as officers moved to Kansas. He had been linked to a dozen bank robberies in Oklahoma after his escape.
President Roosevelt travels aboard the U S cruiser Houston ahead of schedule during the vacation cruise toward Astoria Oregon at 22 knots. Navigator efforts push for leeway in fog as the president reviews public works and relief project documents and handles administration details via radio from Washington.
A National Retail Code Authority ruling allows retailers to employ highly skilled inventory staff for extended peak period weeks without violating consecutive hour limits. Workers receive time and a half for overtime beyond daily maximums. The exemption lasts until August 31 and applies only to skilled employees engaged exclusively in inventory work.
Minneapolis reports a bloodless coup as Adjutant General Walsh and National Guardsmen arrest union leaders in a crackdown on a 16 day strike. President William S. Brown and secretary Milas Dunne are seized, with 150 pickets detained and 40 cars seized. One organizer Vincent Dunus and a physician are held, while dozens of women nurses are captured but released.
MINNEAPOLIS August 1 John Belor died at St Barnabas Hospital from chest wounds suffered two weeks earlier when police fired on pickets in the truck drivers strike. He is the fourth death in disorders linked to the drivers two strikes. Two special policemen were beaten to death in May. Another striker Henry B XII was fatally wounded at the same time.
Three persons will be summoned before Assistant State Fire Marshal J P Hopkins today to press the inquiry into the cause of the $6,000 fire at Archie Draper’s farm on Baker Road in Huntington township. Deputy Sheriff Gerald Nau aids the investigation. The blaze started in a straw stack after threshing 93 bushels of oats Monday. An arson plot had been found at the same farm two years earlier during threshing, with no damage then.
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