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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1929
Page
1
Polls opened across Wellington as five precincts waited for voters but clerks and judges reported no activity. The village plans to settle political questions later at a people's caucus, with no votes cast in prior regular primaries and the expectation of another empty tally tonight.
Friedrichshafen Germany Aug 13 Owing to storms in the east and Siberian forecasts the Graf Zeppelin will not start the Friedrichshafen to Tokio leg until early Thursday morning likely 5 a m The takeoff time to be set after further weather data Captain Ernst Lehmann said the flight will present the most interesting scientific challenge meeting nearly every weather condition in the northern hemisphere and aims to cover the longest airship voyage yet attempted
In Caracas on August 13 the Venezuelan Governor of Sucre, General Emilio Fernandez, was killed defending Cumana from a bold rebel landing. About 400 rebels arrived aboard the steamer Falke flying the German flag. heavy fighting followed with several rebels killed and their general Eijinares Aicanata reportedly fleeing. The rebels retreated to their ship and departed after the setback.
Frank Berson grew up in Bayonne New Jersey and at 21 worked in a local store. Two years later he moved to Akron to work in another store. About 15 years ago he joined the Elyria Dry Goods Company and became manager supervising 11 employees. He is married with three children and lives at 112 Park Avenue. His boyhood goal was to be a storekeeper.
London reports a setback in the Russo-Chinese dispute as Chinese delegates return to Harbin from Manchurian talks. Russians continue intimidation along the border with Soviet and Chinese troops, including arson and sabotage causing estimated damages around 10 million dollars.
CHICAGO August 13 Detectives arrested the baby faced gunman known as Wee Willie Doody in a west side apartment without a struggle. Once blamed for all major crimes he taunted police and said he would never be taken alive. Today he appeared sleepy and unarmed, emerging in bedroom slippers as three squads closed in.
Mrs. Josephine Nicioski of Grafton was arraigned on a second offense liquor charge and placed on $1,000 bond to await trial Friday after a raid by Sheriff Clarence E. Adams. About three quarts of liquor and empty jugs were found. her husband John Niciceli is wanted on a third offense charge with a $2,000 bond not yet forfeited. A conviction on the third offense could send him to the state penitentiary.
Washington reports that investigations by the agriculture department into more than a thousand products labeled as antiseptics found hundreds to be misbranded and making false claims. The inquiry will continue as a re survey to assess the scope of the misbranding and false labeling.
Aug 13. Subordinate French and British delegates begin direct talks while senior mediators Adatchi Houtart and Jaspar remain involved. French ministers Loucheur and Quesnay meet British officials Leith Ross and Waley, signaling a shift toward direct engagement over the Young plan. A decisive day looms as the Rhineland evacuation and financial settlement frame progress.
Four men were seriously burned as firemen and miners fought a stubborn blaze at the Sherman colliery, half a mile south of Pottsville. Twenty one other miners, trapped for three hours by a gas blast, escaped via another opening and returned to fight the underground fire. Pottsville figures Harvey Hilbert and W C Schott along with Guy Irvin and Leo Berski were involved when a powder charge to loosen coal and rock triggered the explosion and a gas pocket burst, hurling men down a chute and starting the fire.
Two out of towners J J An drugesoski of 433 Berea Street and Mrs Orios Aubis of Amherst RD1 drove a coach and a sedan into a minor crash at Lodi Street and the New York Central last evening. Both bumpers were broken.
Madison Virginia readies a welcome for President Hoover with two hundred volunteers clearing Madison County Fair Grounds. Governor Byrd and state officials travel to deliver the welcome as Richmond blues guard Hoover, while a ten day effort gathers cows pigs bread and other provisions for a large community barbecue.
In Columbus Aug 13 the state finished its rebuttal in the Snook Hix murder case at 11:40 am with Chief Harry E. French as the final witness. The defense objected to third degree methods as the court overruled. French described Snook as calm and unruffled during lengthy questioning while the jury heard testimony on the alleged confession and prior statements.
Elyria voters showed sparse turnout in a Republican only primary with no Democratic contests. Early afternoon results from downtown booths reported just four votes cast at one site, two Republican and two Democratic, both Democrats’ absentees. The sole race is councilman at large with four Republicans vying for three nominations.
Mike Olenik aged 43 of 143 Bath Street pleaded guilty in police court to disorderly conduct for striking his fourteen year old daughter Annie with a stick after she disobeyed him while he told her to mop the kitchen floor. She was taken to a doctor for a welt on her forearm. The family did not appear. Another case involved Juan Lira charged with intoxication, who pleaded guilty and was fined five dollars and costs.
A tremor at 6:24 a.m. EST rattled six states from Massachusetts to Ohio with Buffalo area as the focal point. Attica reported the only serious damage including cracked walls and shattered chimneys while buildings swayed and dishes clattered.
CHICAGO Aug 13 The State has begun its first to send Earl Nicholson 2% and Robert Camy 19 to the electric chair for the murders of George Schreiner and Leon Raymond two indictments charging murder and one each charging assault to kill and robbery were returned against the suspects yesterday after they confessed slaying Schreiner and Raymond both druggists and wounding Joseph Jerry a night watchman
In the absence of his famous son John Gilbert, the actor’s father John Pringle 467 was buried today in Hollywood. Mars old troopers paid their respects at the bier. Pringle had long been identified with the theatre, the sow is in Europe on his honeymoon with Tea Claire.
Columbus Ohio August 12 The Ohio Chamber of Commerce goodwill air tour plan is announced with pilot veto power over field adequacy. The 25 plane caravan leaves Port Columbus August 21 visiting Springfield Troy Vandalia Dayton Hamilton Cincinnati Lincoln Airport Portsmouth Chillicothe Circleville Lancaster Newark Zanesville Coshocton New Philadelphia Canton Alliance East Liverpool Warren Akron Ashland Wooster Mansfield Bucyrus Marion Kenton Lima Defiance Findlay Kenton again Toledo Lorain and finally Cleveland airport. A path finding tour precedes the event for safety.
A semi official report from Mexico City states President Herbert Hoover would visit Mexico next December. Details of the presidential tour remain incomplete and unrevealed.
A general riot call was issued in New Orleans as fresh violence broke out near noon during the street car strike. Three people were shot as union representatives delivered a petition with 50,000 names to the city commission council demanding abolition of jitney ordinances.
In Hollis New York Rev Arthur W Brooks editor of Astrology says the eighteenth amendment will change through a star guided compromise. He predicts public saloons will not return but a modification tied to the definition of intoxicating will be accepted by wets and drys. He sent Hoover a copy of his findings.
John Vernon Stewart eleven year old son of Mr and Mrs C H Stewart of 204 EE 23rd street Lorain was found dead at 8 30 this morning when his body was dragged from Lake Erie by coast guards Drowning cited as cause of death marking the twelfth drowning this year He left home Monday at 9 a m to fish did not return as night fell His parents notified police who alerted coast guards A search began last night and continued until the body was recovered at the base of the east government pier after five hours of dragging
Governor Cooper orders Roscoe McCullough to convene rail and electric line representatives to craft an emergency plan for grade crossing safety. A state highway survey finds 79 percent of steam railways and 81 percent of interurban crossings lack adequate signals, with 1961 deaths over six years and rising yearly.
Lorain county courthouse closed this afternoon to allow county workers to participate in the primary election today.
Harry Bander of Ellwood, Pa., drove his car into L. R. Hooper of Cleveland near Kipton at Bates Corner on Route 20. Both automobiles were badly damaged.
In Sudbury Suffolk a ceremony will honor General Charles Gates Dawes as American Ambassador with the Freedom of the Borough. An October luncheon and council meeting will recognize the Dawes family’s emigration from England to America and the later return of a notable descendant.
Fred Bergdorf 23, a Willys Overland plant employee, died at St Joseph's Hospital after a motorcycle collision with a small coupe at Thirty-Third and Pearl streets Lorain. The coupe occupants were uninjured. driver absolved by coroner Myles E Perry after review. Bergdorf, unmarried, lived with parents at Stop 7 North Ridge and was a trimmer at the plant.
Harold Groves 24 son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Groves was found dead today in Phi Sigma Chi Fraternity rooms in Lancaster Ohio. Friends said he drove his car intoxicated on a downtown street last night and they left him on a davenport in the fraternity. Coroner and doctor indicated possible suffocation or liquor reaction. Survived by parents a brother Clay and two sisters Elsie and Mrs Wilbur Himes. Father formerly superintendent of Fairfield County Home.
Paris dated report says Dieudome Coste and Maurice Bellonte conduct daily test flights at Ville Coubiay air field preparing for another Atlantic crossing attempt to New York. Officials await favorable weather with a Thursday start hoped for.
L J Diedrich filed an appeal in common pleas court against a Justice S J George order requiring him to keep the peace and good behavior for three months after a warrant by George Firstone. Firestone alleged Diedrich threatened him and feared further offense.
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