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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1931
Page
3
Copenhagen dispatch reports submarine Nautilus reaching the sea barrier as Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to push onward toward the North Pole tonight on a perilous polar cruise. The craft carries ice breaking gear for the dangerous voyage.
The submarine Nautilus faced delays and engine failures on its U S voyage, was towed to Plymouth for repairs, then sailed toward Bergen and Advent Bay Spitzbergen where refueling and minor repairs continued. Wilkins led the crew aiming to return with new polar knowledge within three weeks.
Police investigated a burglary at the unoccupied home of F. M. McClintock at 818 Middle Avenue after a break in through a front window sash. The incident followed a report that the house had been ransacked and silverware stolen. An automobile collision near the scene caused minor damage to a Wood vehicle driven by Edison and George Wood.
Stumps of Siamese figures depict King Chulalongworn alongside a half man half bird creature called the khrot, a mythical being with a fang mouth and hand nose. Legend states Vishnu rides this creature on his journeys.
Peter Bond arrested by deputy sheriffs yesterday and to be turned over to Saratoga Springs, New York officials for automobile stealing. Bond claimed Chicago origin and was nabbed after fleeing a gas station without paying for gas.
On Aug 21 Fields held its Home Coming with ideal weather and a community dinner for over a hundred at the church dining room. Afterward the event moved to the school lawn for games, music by Sudro’s Seven Orchestra and the Fields Young People’s orchestra, readings by Wiss Lynn Eldred, and a talk by James G. Horgan of Cleveland. Rufus Smith of Ridgeville won the croceries prize in the guessing contest. Attendees came from Cleveland Elyria Dover Olmsted Falls Columbia Eaton Medina and Ridgeville. Dinner profits for the Ladies Aid Society reached about $430.
The report notes Russia aims to complete a massive electrical facility by 1933 and that a major sentencing board will determine the pace of executions or decisions tied to the project.
Paris Aug 21 United Press reports the Russian Orthodox Church survives in name but is largely empty of youth. Services continue only for aging worshippers while many clerics and monks have adapted to Soviet life, some becoming factory workers or beggars and peddling papers on Moscow streets.
A collage of short items notes shrines and churches in Russia after upheaval, a blind Englishman teaching 2000 youths via a revolving stool, Niagara Falls erosion findings predicting little change for 200 years, an estimate of 5 to 6 million enslaved people mostly in China Arabia and Abyssinia, and the origin of the word cant from Rev Andrew Cant.
Iceland lies just south of the Arctic circle with days long in midsummer and nights long in midwinter. The duration of daylight changes with the season as the sun rises and sets at extreme angles.
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