Woman Suspect Indicted on Two Murder Charges in Cincinnati
Hamilton County grand jury returns two first degree murder indictments against Anna Marie Hahn 31 charging poisoning of elderly Cincinnati men George Geellman 67 and Jacob Wagner The case stems from police probe into a string of deaths and illnesses amid witnesses naming Hahn Autopsies found metallic poison in Geellman’s organs Wagner’s autopsy report was pending Hahn admitted treating Wagner and denied knowing Geellman arraignment set before Judge Charles S Bell with trial by October 1 expected
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County Grand Jury
Anna Marie Hahn
Uiret
Hahn
Grand Jury
Frank M. Gusweiler
Patrick Hayes
George Schattle
Walter Hart
Hahne
Charles S. Bell
Wagner
Gsellman
Wan
Committee Urges 23 Million for Federal Buildings
The House Appropriations Committee recommended 23 million dollars for new post offices courthouses and other federal buildings in fiscal 1938. It also favored a provision allowing the Treasury Post Office committee to enter new contracts totaling 70 million for the year with up to 23 million spent before July 1 1938.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Post Office
Treasury and Post Office Department
Treasury Post Office Committee
Congress
House
Courthouse divorces and suits in Lorain county
Grace Bruce of Wellington was granted a divorce from Johkn Bruce for neglect and cruelty with $1000 alimony and $12 weekly support for two children by Judge Guy B. Findley. Other suits include Frederick N. Walkden seeking to set aside a deed to Columbia township property, an injunction, Evelyn Kegyes seeking divorce from Michael Kegyes, Arlene Davis filing for divorce from William D. Davis with name restoration, and Lorain Banking Company suing William Bring for $402 with foreclosure. Two habeas corpus writs were allowed for Burr F. Sprague and Arlynn Watson, with bonds released.
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Grace Bruce
Wellington
Johkn Bruce
Guy B. Findley
Frederick N. Walkden
Columbia Township
Charles W. Stone
Lorain Banking Company
William
Lorain
Burr F. Sprague
Elyria
Arlynn Watson
South Amherst
Road improvements eyed for Avon Belden and Oberlin road
Local officials plan to eliminate the S curve on Oberlin road near Brookdale cemetery and hope to complete Avon Belden road from Route 57 to Route 42 this year. The remaining segment north of Route 10 should be improved next year, with nine miles total from Route 57 to Route 40. Australia’s arbitration court raises the basic weekly rate by one dollar.
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Oberlin Road
Brookdale Cemetery
Avon Belden
Oberlin News Notes and Convention Attendance
Oberlin reports active community life with notes on the American Legion convention representation by Dr. F R Dew H R Pratt and Mrs Frank Felkner at Columbus August 15 17 The Coming Events list a Baptist Ladies Aid meeting August 18 Vermilion on the Lake outing August 17 and an Odd Fellows lodge gathering Additional items include visits and trips among local families with regional travel between Oberlin Kalamazoo Cleveland Saginaw and Toledo plus influenza illness at a local home and several social visits by residents
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Oberlin
Karl Wilson Locke
American Legion
Department of Ohio, American Legion and Auxiliary
F. R. Dew
H.R. Pratt
Frank Felkner
Columbus
Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church
Albert McDole
South Pleasant Street
Martés Club
Vermilion-on-the-Lake
Odd Fellows Lodge
Tooms
$3 Investment For 3 Lots Launches New Realty Group
Elyria forms The Elyria Esquires with three partners Harry Hyman Robert Fauver and Hubbard Wilcox each investing 1 to buy three sheriff auctioned parcels at a tax foreclosure sale. Sheriff turned $3 collected to treasurer though 314 tauren and 177 court costs due. Parcels in Ridgeville and on Colorado avenue. Name of owners Spachius Coury Zouain. Taxes due totaled 32 on the Colorado lot.
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Elyria
Elyria Esquires
Harry Hyman
Robert Fauver
Hubbard Wilcox
N. D. Backus
Claude Adams
Adams
Ridgeville
Colorado Avenue
The
Augusta Spachius
Tom Coury
Louis Zouain
Promises To Pay Man Released From Jail
Andrew Wargo 47 of Loraiz was released after agreeing to pay 5 dollars weekly for child support, ending an extra eight days of a 10 day sentence. Judge Guy B Findley noted Wargo appeared well cared for and said the defendant works as a theater property man two or three days weekly. Wargo had argued he has not worked steadily since December and had driven to court in a car bought by him and his wife.
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Andrew Wargo
Loraiz
Jack Cash
Guy B. Findley
Gen
Wargo
Jane
Findley
New Elyria Lawyer Presented To Bar
Richard Baird son of the late Mayor Don A Baird was admitted to the practice of law. Judge Guy B Findley introduced him at the bar's Monday session noting his father's respected standing. Baird has set up in offices formerly used by his father.
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Richard Baird
Don A. Baird
Common Pleas
Guy B. Findley
Baird
Acting pension office head named for absence of administrator
Alma Tyson, an Old Age Pension investigator, was named acting administrator of the pension office during William France’s two week vacation. Tyson had been assisting in Columbus last week and has served as an investigator since the department’s establishment here.
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Alma Tyson
William France
Tyson
Columbus
District drum corps leaders named for march event
Number one continued from page one lists district commanders Grant Klever of Bowling Green Newell McCartney of Piqua Leon Gove of Sandusky Herbert E Wilson of Washington D C Otis Shryock of Akron and Charles Ar Tick of St Clairsville Irene Bhim of Dayton is named president of the women’s auxiliary Other officers include Gladys Rickles of Xenia and Lucille Kitchen Cleveland vice presidents Darlene Brock Dayton chaplain Inez Likenberry Marion mistress of ceremonies Mary Zawo dni Toledo sergeant at arms and Daisy Nichols Portsmouth
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Grant BR. Klever
Bowling Green
Newell McCartney
Piqua
Leon Gove
Sandusky
Herbert E. Wilson
Washington D. S
Otis Shryock
Akron
Charles Ar- Tick
St. Clairsville
Irene Bhim
Dayton
Woman's Auxiliary
Gladys Rickles
Xenia
Lucille Kitchen
Cleveland
Darlene Brock
Inez Kikenberry
Marion
Mary Zawodni
Toledo
Daisy Nichols
Portsmouth
Let Us Have Your Favorite Jelly Or Canning Recipe
Readers invited to submit practical economical canning jelly recipes for weekly publication. Chronicle Telegram offers a dollar for the best recipe each week judged on usefulness and timeliness. Submissions accepted until 6 PM Thursday for publication Tuesday.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Chronicle- Telegram
Auto Fires Alarm Elyria Firefighters
Hose Company No 1 of the Elyria Fire Department responded to two car blazes within about 35 minutes. Lloyd Sweet’s 439 West River Street car had insulation on wiring under the hood burn due to a short. Arthur Eslinger’s 302 Blaine Street car caught fire from leaking gasoline igniting around the fuel pump and ignition wires. Eslinger used flour from nearby to extinguish it. Damage estimated at $10.
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Elyria
East Avenue
Fourth Street
Arthur Eslinger
Blaine Street
Eslinger
Elyrian Fined On Zoning Law Charge
W H Siler of 378 East Bridge street found guilty of violating the city zoning ordinance in police court before Mayor Leonard Smith. He was fined five dollars and costs after arrest on a warrant sworn by E C Munson of 375 East Bridge street for operating a furnace business in a restricted district.
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W. H. Siler
East Bridge Street
Leonard Smith
Smith
Siler
E. C. Munson
Commission Sets 25 Cent Monophone Charge Rule
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio ordered a 25 cent monthly limit on extra charges for monophone or handset instruments by larger independent telephone firms for up to 24 months. The rule, affecting all independents except Classes C and D, takes effect October 1 unless affected companies show cause by August 31 why it should not become effective.
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Columbus
Ohio
Public Utilities Commission
Bilbo Harrison Feud Disturbs Senate Leadership Crunch
The article notes a bitter feud between Bilbo and Sen. Pat Harrison amid a split in senate leadership. Roosevelt reportedly shifted support toward Barkley over Harrison as conservatives grow wary of wage hour and relief policies. Southern disaffection hints at a possible conservative bolt against the administration.
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Bilbo-Harrison
Bilbo
Sen
Pat Harrison
Miss
Huey P. Long
Mississippi
Harrison
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Alben W. Barkley
Nationalists Advance Toward Santander in Munitions Town Link
Nationalists report Franco army moved into the vital munitions town of Reinosa near the Santander drive. Loyalists concede a general push toward Santander but say resistance remains strong as Nationalist columns tighten a pincer plan toward the last government port on the Bay of Biscay.
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Hendate
Francisco Franco
Santander
Reloosa
Bay of Biscay
Castro Alea
Biscay
Franco
Jat
Reinesa
Fombellida
Sestil de Endino
Reinosa
Lorain County Reports Mostly Minor Weekend Accidents
Lorain County saw only minor traffic incidents over the weekend with no fatal or serious crashes reported. Walter Reacher and Helen McIntire were involved in a Broad street rear end collision. Mike Botos and Lilian Schlag had a minor Broad street collision. C E Miller and R Snodgrass had a minor mishap at East avenue and Second Street. Elyria Police logged the incidents and the Sheriff's Department reported no listed accidents for the period.
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Walter Reacher
Oxford Avenue
Helen McIntire
R. B
C. E. Miller
Forest Avenue
Parma
R. Snodgrass
Elyria
East Avenue
Second Street
Lorain County Sheriff's Department
County Clerk Restricts Passport Orders in Suspected Military Intentions
New clerk instructions bar issuing passports to anyone showing intent to engage in military activities abroad. The clerk of courts will notify the State Department passport division of anyone suspected of such intentions, tightening controls over who may travel.
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State Department
Rotarians Visit Elyria Memorial Hospital Tomorrow
The Rotary Club holds its regular weekly meeting as a visit to Elyria Memorial Hospital tomorrow. The event is an annual visit led by Frank Hoover, superintendent of Elyria Memorial Hospital.
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Rotary Club
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Frank Hoover
Names and honors tied to Nome crash rescue mission
Will Rogers and Wiley Post return to the United States after a crash near Nome. S. E. Robbins and Clyde Armistead receive Order of Lenin for aiding 100 Russians off an ice floe in the Bering Sea. Levanevsky, the lost plane’s pilot, named hero of the Soviet Union for directing the rescue. Mattern credits Levanevsky and Levchenko for saving him in Siberia in 1933. A Vartanian, a Soviet agent and Western manager of the failed flight, travels from Seattle. Eighty students will enter a new opera studio in Ashkhabad Turkmenia this year.
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Will Rogers
Wiley Post
United States
Nome
S. E. Robbins
Clyde Armiistead
Bering Sea
Levanevsky
Soviet Union
Mattern
Victor Levchenko
15 Die In Ohio Auto Accidents
A wave of deadly motor accidents in Ohio over the weekend killed at least 15 people. The four mile west of Wooster crash killed Charles Merrill 44 Ruth 43 and Esther 17. their son Charles Jr 9 was seriously injured. Truck driver William H Holt of New Brighton Pa was held pending investigation. A baby 20 months old died in Cleveland after crawling from a car and being hit by another car. Other fatalities included Huston Wilson 65 and Cleveland resident Mrs Pearl Harri 4. Kenneth Baker 25 of Wadsworth faced reckless driving charges after William Long 14 was struck. Two hit and run deaths were Alois Ebret 56 Toledo and Herbert Winders 55 Columbus. Additional victims listed include Andrew Weigel 60 Celina William Breithoff 53 Reading Bernard Miller 92 Cincinnati Mrs Charles Hiney 21 Wilmington and Howard Boatwright 4 Oxford. Mrs Anna Weigel 51 who died after her husband Andrew 60 was killed in the same crash passed away in Celina hospital.
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United Press
Ohio
Wooster
Charles
Merrill
Ruth
Esther
Charles, Jr
William H. Holt
New Brighton
Wiliam Domalis
Cleveland
Huston Wilson
Pearl Harri
Kenneth Baker
Wadsworth
Akron
William Long
Baker
Alois Ebret
Toledo
Herbert Winders
Columbus
Andrew Weigel
Cellna
William Breithoff
Reading
Bernard Miller
Cincinnati
Charles Hiney
Wilmington
Howard Boatwright
Oaford
Anna Weigel
Andrew
Celina
Permits Issued For Remodeling Of Two Downtown Buildings
City inspector Hart A Dickason issued two remodeling permits today totaling 5000 dollars. The Strauss Building on Broad Street will gain a front remodel by City Loan and Guarantee Company at an estimated 3000 dollars under George Fridenstine. The Troxel Manufacturing Company on Mill Street will replace its storefront with a modern factory front at an estimated 2000 dollars under Henry Heidrich.
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Hart A. Dickason
Strauss
Broad Street
Martin
City Loan and Guarantee Company
George Fridenstine
Troxel Company
Mill Street
Troxel Manufacturing Company
Henry Heidrich
Death Penalty For Kidnapping In Effect
Columbus Ohio August 16 The Disallo Act making kidnapping for ransom punishable by death became operative today after the 90 day referendum period. If mercy is not recommended by the jury the penalty is death. Mercy quoted allows life imprisonment and a minimum 20 year sentence if the victim is returned unharmed before trial.
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Columbus
Ohio
Flying Boat Nordmest Lands Off Port Washington
The Germano flying boat Nordmest landed at 6:37 a.m. Eastern Time after a 2400 mile nonstop flight from Horta Azores. It departed the Azores at 2:09 p.m. yesterday while surveying a transatlantic route to the United States.
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Port Washington
Germano
Nordmest
United States
Horta
Azores
Budget cuts eyed in farm and ship subsidy plan
A congressional committee outlines reductions in farm forestry funding including 500000 for great plains shelter belts and elimination of 20000000 for the Jones Bankhead Farm Tenancy Act. It would authorize 150000000 in ship building subsidies and provide 33000000 for payments to Land Banks and Farm Credit entities, citing improving conditions and faster loan repayments.
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Great Plains
Mid-West
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Land Banke
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Congress
Country Reporter Fin Petrie Tells Secrets To N Y Newspapermen
Fin Petrie of Opal Wyoming, third annual winner of the $200 best country correspondent award, shares his reporting rules with New York metropolitan reporters. He says news is what comes into the store and those who drop remarks. Petrie also notes his Opal Mercantile salary, a $2 monthly column in the Kemmerer Gazette, and plans to meet Mayor LaGuardia and Jack Dempsey while potentially visiting Washington before returning home.
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New York
Fin” Petrie
Opal
Wyo
Petrie
Opal Mercantile Company
Kemmerer Gazette
Waoen
Laramie Boomerang
Winchell
Fin
Salt Lake Tribune
Elyria Man Fined for Infoxication in Police Court
William E. Lockeby of Elyria was fined one dollar plus costs for infoxication when arraigned before Mayor Leonard Smith in police court this morning.
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William E. Lockeby
Leonard Smith
Elyria Police Release Man Arrested on Abuse Complaint
Elyria police Saturday evening arrested a Second Street resident on a wife’s complaint that he came home intoxicated and abusive. He was released yesterday when she declined to press charges.
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Elyria
Second Street
Rejected Suitor Hunted In Probe Of Co-Ed's Death
In Berea Kentucky authorities hunted a rejected suitor in the investigation of 19 year old Misa Opal Sturgell's death on the Berea College campus. Sturgell was shot three times in the breast with one bullet hitting her heart as she walked with William Anderson 19 of Rockcastle County. Anderson told police the shooter emerged from behind bushes on campus and shouted at Opal after the man had earlier pressed her to accompany him.
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Berea
Misa Opal Sturgell
Berea College
Miss Sturgell
Marlon &. Sturgell
Houckville
William Anderson
Rockcastle County
Anderson
E. T. Hayes
Opal
Packs Keepsakes At Pickfair Before Sale Near Hollywood
Mary Pickford packs keepsakes at Pickfair as workers finish 20 room estate on a 12 acre hilltop site. She plans to sell the mansion where she wed Douglas Fairbanks after marrying Buddy Rogers. Valuables go to storage vault as she erases her romance with Fairbanks and builds a ranch home nearby.
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Hollywood
Mary Pickford
Pickfair
Love
Douglas Fairbanks
Norman
Miss Pickford
Buddy Rogers
America
Fairbanks
Rogers
Markets near Cleveland show mixed grain and livestock activity
Grain quotes steady with No 2 red and No 3 yellow bids around 1.12 to 1.14. Livestock receipts climb as cattle and hog markets stay firm on select grades. calves and sheep show higher bids, while produce markets in Cleveland hold firm on butter eggs and poultry with modest gains across several items.
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Cleveland
PIATH
Toledo
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Saginaw
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