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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1932
Page
9
A New York recollection of dining at Ben Riley’s hill top restaurant with frog legs and creamed potatoes, mingled with reflections on old and new dinner culture. The writer notes attire, mustaches, and the era’s movie titles while recalling George Cassidy and Gene Walter, plus Roscoe Peacock and the charm of literary silversmiths.
Jimmie Haizlip of St. Louis flies from Los Angeles to Cleveland in ten hours and nineteen minutes, setting a new transcontinental speed mark while winning the Bendix derby at Floyd Bennett, NYC. He records an average of 245 miles per hour and is seen waving on landing, amid notes on culture and club life.
Bright Spots In Business World reports Utility and Industrial Corporation earning 601779 for the first half of 1932 after operating charges but before losses or write-offs, equal to 89 cents per share on 674381 preferred shares, versus 959593 or 45 cents per common share in 1931. Grigsby Grunow and Zenith Radio report stronger radio demand with Grigsby expanding staff from 1000 to 2000. 150 women return to work at H A Baker Company in Sioux City as orders rise. Sinclair Refining plans 1 million dollar plant rehab in Kansas City with 250 to 300 workers. Over 1000 reemployed at Philadelphia Reading Coal Potts Mine in Ashland. Baltimore and Ohio recalls 1000 to main repair shops. Booth Manufacturing and Nashawena Mills employ 1050 in New Bedford.
The Litchfield Ladies Benevolent society meets in the church annex on Sept. 1 with a missionary play tea and a silver offering. A town fire at Halladay place burned stumps and trees. many kept watch through the night and into Wednesday. Local residents attend reunions and visits in Wooster Belle Isle and Elyria as the Cemetery and Park Association plans a Sept. 6 meeting.
Hidden laboratories and scientists are described as refining destructive devices and poisons for future warfare, signaling grave risks of catastrophic casualties in possible future conflicts.
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