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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
1
Three Chinese men were found slain in an East Side apartment. Police rushed to the scene amid fears of a tong dispute. Reportedly the victims had been stripped.
The U S Navy pressed on with efforts to locate Capt Charles T Um and two companions after Stella Australis ditched en route from Oakland to Honolulu. Authorities doubt a rescue is likely, but two or three more days of searching were planned in the Kuni Channel area where earlier salvage attempts occurred.
Deters live Lloyd Sweet of the Klyria police department explained fingerprinting basics and value in criminal identification at a noon meeting of the Flyria Krivunis. He noted 2,204 identification aids locally and 8,074 law enforcement agencies contributing to the national bureau in Washington. Sweet, in charge of the local bureau, said about 365 fugitives are identified monthly and credited Detective George Knapp of Lorain Police for assistance. Continued on Page 2.
Police urge parents to keep children off slippery streets after a series of snow related crashes. Louis Berson of Akron skidded on Hast avenue at 1200 and hit a tree, minor injuries and a wrecked car. Ralph First of Cleveland collided with P C Miller of Elyria on Oberlin road. Mrs. Obitts narrowly avoided a fall when her car struck the West Third street bridge railing. Margaret Reed reported a hit and run on Lake avenue after a failed stop on Huron street.
Fair conditions continue in OULO with slightly colder temperatures tonight in the fan and south portions. Saturday brings fair weather with a slowly rising temperature as the day progresses.
U S treasury figures show five months into the current fiscal year with expenditures at 3 039 768 006 and a government income of 1 417 459 316. The treasury notes gold reserves near peak at 5 161 195 000 while normal government costs total 1 424 624 739 and Relief costs run 31 604 743 260. The deficit for five months stands at 1 575 921 600 with comparisons to last year and wartime levels.
Capital reports suggest Gen White may be named chairman of the planning and coordination committee of the petroleum industry, replacing Amos J Beaty who intends to resign. The committee will meet December 17 to decide a new chair, with Gov White regarded as a strong candidate due to his oil sector background and past Tidewater Oil directorship.
Madison dispatch reports Mrs Helen Young widow of George Tally Face Nelson was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. The judge told her there is only one path for the life she led and that punishment would stand as a warning.
Lorain County commissioners yesterday authorized the issuance of additional selective sales tax bonds totaling 81,000 the limit allowed under current laws to be used for relief. This marks the fifth bond issue under the tax program bringing total relief bonds in this division to 253,300. Separate issues in 1982 and 1953 totaling 2381,045 will be redeemed from excise tax proceeds on public utilities. Since the first issue in November 1932 Lorain County relief bonds have reached 452,345.
Dee Youngstown reports steel output rising in the Youngstown area with Monday reaching a 39 percent level, the highest in over five months. At least two of eighty three open hearth furnaces show signs of ice melt problems.
In a crowded Brooklyn tenement district a wealthy recluse Damian Tabinski, long stingy and solitary, suddenly gave to the poor and threatened his health, four weeks later thieves followed him home, killed him and searched his apartment for hoarded wealth, leaving neighbors to weigh 30 years of frugality against four weeks of charity.
Jugoslavian foreign minister Bogoljub Jevtic accused Hungary of complicity in the Marseille assassinations of King Alexander and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The League of Nations council opened talks to prevent a wider crisis and to possibly appoint a neutral reporter to report to the January council meeting.
County commissioners considered a 500 dollar extra appropriation for the County Board of Elections to pay bills. Chairman F A Stetson said cuts in the original budget leave the board short of funds to meet all obligations this year. The board’s appropriation this year is 91758, with 34934 in 1932 and 27598 in 1933.
Rogers of Lorain County the sole local House member voted for the general three per cent sales tax bill which passed the House 87 to 23. Sen Philip Wolfe of Mansfield who represents Lorain County in the Senate voted against the Ward Income Tax Bill which senators defeated 19 to 8. The sales tax measure if approved would raise about 60 million dollars annually.
Hungarian anger erupts as hundreds of destitute refugees, driven from Yugoslavia after the assassination of King Alexander, crowd Szeged and other border towns. Hungary protests to Yugoslavia and the League of Nations as children, mothers, and wounded are counted among the displaced.
Auxiliary Bishop James A. McFadden of Cleveland will headline the Young Ladies Sodality annual banquet at St. Marys Church on Sunday. Dinner for about 200 is prepared by the Altar and Rosary Societies, with a reception for new members an hour earlier.
Cincinnati dispatch says T Freil Shafer a farmer near Mount Carmel shot his daughter in law Anna Shafer 35 after wounding her with a shotgun blast fired through a window. Shafer then shot himself in a desperate act provoked by his son and daughter in law planning to leave their home. The couple’s house and furnishings were being loaded into a van when the tragedy occurred near Summer Side on Highway 74.
Superior Judge Syer in San Jose California ruled that David Lamson must stand trial again on charges he killed his wife Allene. The decision orders re indictment and re trial proceedings in the case, reflecting continued judicial action in the deadly domestic incident.
Columbus dispatch reports Governor White would veto the 460 million sales tax bill if not paired with an income tax measure. The plan, deemed a balanced program, aims to raise revenue amid Ohio’s financial emergency. The tax takes effect January 1 and applies varying brackets with a three percent top rate.
In Columbus a joint conference committee reached a near final accord on the McCluskey Utilities Excise tax bill. The House had passed a sixty million dollar three percent sales tax and restored a one percent excise levy on steam railroads. Senate differences were reconciled and the committee restored the previously removed one percent rail levy as part of the overall taxation program, with Governor S veto risk still a factor.
Seventy crippled children traveled up to nearly 100 miles to Gates Hospital for Crippled Children for a clinic despite icy roads. Twenty-nine cities and towns were represented. Examinations were led by Dr. C. A. Hyman and Dr. F. A. Lawrence with visitors including Dr. F. R. Dow Lorain County health commissioner and county nurses.
A fierce winter storm blanketed Ohio and much of the Midwest with ice and heavy snow. Trains and air travel were disrupted, highways iced over, and temperatures dropped into the single digits in several states. The blizzard halted flights in Toledo and Cleveland while Minnesota and the Dakotas endured record December snowfall, with thousands clearing streets as 4,000 workers were employed to manage the conditions.
AMARILLO Texas Dec 7 officers shot Try ing Blackie Thompson to death near here as part of a five man Texas prisoner escape last July Thompson Raymond Hamilton and Joe Palmer climbed walls while a companion was killed and another wounded and captured Last night Thompson evaded officers for 15 miles in a car chase before bullets cut his tires and he fell fatally wounded while reaching for a rifle after using his car as a shield
Mike Bolsh a 44 year old resident of No 1 Woodford Avenue suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in an Elyria Foundry accident at 0 30 a m. He was admitted to Memorial Hospital for treatment.
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