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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1929
Page
1
In Cleveland a grand air race armada forms as the Graf Zeppelin and the Los Angeles vie for arrival times. Goodyear blimps join the fleet, with naval pursuit planes hooking to the Los Angeles. High speed demonstrations and Lindbergh stunts highlight the day as crews plan arrivals and departures through the afternoon.
Carl J. Freese died suddenly at Memorial hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Born January 4, 1878 in Amherst, Ohio, he leaves his mother Mrs. M. E. Freese, a brother Theodore, and three sisters Lillie Elizabeth and Lucy. Freese Brothers Clothing, a firm he helped run for thirty years, traces back to Daniel T. Freese who died seven years ago. Funeral at 111 Cedar Street Friday at 2:00 p.m. with Reverend William Muir Auld officiating. Burial in Ridgelawn cemetery.
E T Reese attended Ohio Northern University Ada then taught in Van Wert County schools for seven years. He studied at Marion Indiana Business University and Zanerian Penman College in Columbus. Reese taught at Metropolitan Business College Chicago and Duff's Business College Pittsburgh. He has headed Elyria Business College for twelve years. Married with four children, he lives at 112 Water Street. His early ambition was to become a public school teacher.
Chronicle Telegram reporter and chemists visit the Kitchen farm near Spencer to study the nightly lights blamed on the old spook. Dr Wendell Neiderhauser and Rudolph Seigfried examined the site but the fireballs did not appear. They favor Ignis fatuus as a natural explanation, while awaiting a future, better night observation. The village buzzes as locals, including two ministers and the Ramsiers, recall past sightings and prepare to stay up for another watch.
Sheriff Adams led a raid with Lorain city vice officers uncovering one of the county’s largest stills on 1708 East 28th street. Jack James, arrested after a rooftop chase, pleaded not guilty to manufacturing liquor and possessing liquor. Bond set at 2000. If convicted on manufacturing charges, he faces 1 to 5 years and fines up to 3000 dollars. Confiscated were a copper still, coil, pumps, hoses, mash, and several barrels of corn whiskey.
Aug 28 agreement ends a three week deadlock over German reparations. British chancellor Philip Snowden secures 78 percent of Britain’s demands, surpassing Spa terms, with Britain to receive about 83 percent of its targeted share. Italy agrees to buy 1,009,000 tons of coal annually for three years from British mines as a concession. Evacuation of the Rhineland remains the next major issue.
Cincinnati reports Lorain was awarded the 1930 convention of the Order of De Molar at the close of its annual meeting. The decision was announced in Lorain Ohio on August 28.
Walker Warren, 26, of Warren Ohio, died here when his auto was struck by an Erie freight train. He apparently did not see the train as he drove onto the tracks.
Police in Columbus seek two bandits who held up a street car crew early today. They fired several shots, grabbing $15 before escaping. Motorman and conductor unharmed, investigation under way.
Paul Gebhart aged 12 drowned in the Hydraulic Canal in Middletown Ohio while fishing with two companions. Authorities reported the incident occurred yesterday. burial plans were not announced.
Captain Ira Eaker arrived at Cleveland Municipal Airport at noon on his endurance flight. He connected with a supporting plane piloted by Lieutenant Newton Longfellow to take on a new fuel load, extending the coast to coast attempt.
Philadelphia August 28 a dramatic payroll theft unmasked when Alexander J Hamilton assistant paymaster admitted he and two men stole 4089.80 from the department of public works. James F Gaggan and Jess Titermary were arrested and charged with larceny conspiracy and receiving stolen goods.
Freddie Lund of Troy Ohio, famed civilian stunt flyer, entertains lakefront crowds in a lighted plane. His comet-fifer trail and a blazing siren accompany daring maneuvers, including an dramatic outside loop that drew gasps at the air races.
Police tagged four cars Tuesday for overtime parking. Each vehicle received a red tag noting the violation.
Lorain County voters probably will not see a pond issue for a county tuberculosis sanitarium on the November ballot. Prosecutor Myers says an architect must draft plans and estimates, costs of site, and a certificate of reference for bond maturity, delaying passage to next year. A countywide meeting of clubs will seek a concrete plan, while two other bond items loom including a two million dollar Black River bridge and a sick and invalid building for the county home.
A Navy dirigible from Los Angeles was sighted over Elyria at 1 30 p m and headed west toward Cleveland Airport as crowds watched from Elyria buildings. The event marks the arrival of the first of the Armada's blimps in Cleveland with the Graf Zeppelin moving toward Chicago to join the five blimps already on display.
Four bandits attempted a midnight hold up of a Covington Kentucky barbecue stand but ran into an ambush by local residents. Two fled, one was captured as Paul Smith, and another was believed wounded. Bernard Hilman had warned others and joined the hiding with loaded shotguns.
Two Elyrians and a Lorain youth were elected to Ohio State Council positions at the fifth annual PeMOLay conclave in Cincinnati. Robert Harding became master councilor, Artemas Beebe was elected chair of the state advisory council, and Charles Kafer from Lorain was chosen junior councilor. Other officers include Alfred Veal Jr of Lakewood as senior councilor Melvin Stickner of Cleveland as scribe and Kenneth Schrader of Lakewood as treasurer. Harding succeeds Stephan McNutt as master councilor. Delbert Savage, first state master councilor, received a watches honor.
Graf Zeppelin flight toward Lakehurst, New Jersey, is slowed by head winds from the vicinity of Chicago. Observers say weather data from the U S Weather Bureau forecast overcast skies and possible light rain near Chicago, with fair conditions and opposing winds eastward toward Lakehurst. The ship skirted storms overnight, traversed the Midwest, and aimed for Cleveland before finishing at Lakehurst, where the finish sign marks the world flight end.
Dr Lerwick Silberstein of New York told the American Astronomical Society in Ottawa that he measured the universe. He proposed two objects can be further space than 9,009,009 years and a distance of 54,090,900,099,990,098,000 miles. Silberstein presented his data yesterday at the Dominion Observatory and dismissed the Wilson Observatory distance of 149,909,800 link years as utterly inadmissible.
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