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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1938
Page
1
President Roosevelt plans to implement a broad rearmament program without raising taxes now, keeping the 1940 budget largely unchanged while defense spending rises. Officials say funding will be pay as you go and debt will not increase, with exact defense figures to Congress on January 3.
London December 7 Daily Express quotes well informed sources stating a fairly extensive purge is underway in Germany. It claims secret police have arrested about 40 army officers including generals, plus high officials from the foreign office and civil service in Leipzig Dusseldorf and Vienna amid rising political tension and worsening economic conditions threatening the regime.
Chevalier Lodge Knights of Pythias elected officers for the coming year after conferring Page and Esquire ranks. A. E. Buckingham named chancellor commander with Les Harding as vice chancellor. Other officers include Carl Turner prelate A H Ernst master of work Eugene Hall master at arms Joe Hansman inner guard Charles Nagy outer guard Dudley Blaine keeper of records Thomas Marsh minister of finance O A Barton master of exchequer and John Gutenson trustee.
In Athens Ohio M C Matthews age 50 of Glouster was killed and Harold Showers age 33 of Millfield was seriously injured in a coal fall at a Sunday Creek Coal Co mine Showers was taken to Athens hospital for treatment
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday in Ohio with likely snow flurries in extreme north. Temperature changes remain minimal overall. Weather map shows little pressure change, high barometers in the west and south, and a low from Saskatche wan to New England. Scattered lake region snow, moderate to heavy precipitation in the St Lawrence Valley and New England, rain on the North Pacific coast. Colder along the Middle and North Atlantic coasts, slightly warmer in the lower Mississippi Valley.
Cleveland Ohio December incident reports after a street car on St. Clair avenue collided with a car and caught fire. Three women suffered minor injuries and were treated at a hospital. The street car motorman Thomas Sullivan sustained a burned hand. Automobile occupants John Lackner Irene Lackner and their 13 month old son John Jr were unharmed.
In Burlington North Carolina on December 7 a sheriff just two days in office and a veteran city police officer were shot and killed during a raid on an apparently robbed filling station. One escaped convict Roy Teelly, while fellow inmate Roy Huffman of Greensboro died after being shot by officer F B Baliff who fired from outside the station.
Stanley Crandall was elected Noble Grand for six months and L J Blake Noble Vice Grand. One year officers include H C Olmstead Edward Thompson Carl Lehman. Clarence Vincent trustee three years Thomas Robson relief committee one year. Publicity director W C Karg announced regional meeting in Cleveland February with four states represented. Plans for Christmas party December 21 and pound night next Tuesday. A chartered bus will take members to the Olmsted Falls rally next Saturday. Visitors from Norwalk and Erie Lodge attended.
Mary Cunningham, a 15 year old Janesville high school student, disappeared after leaving with her brother and Curtis Hanson to shop for Christmas. Police suspect elopement though family fears kidnapping. Hanson, with ties to the Cunningham family, reportedly drove toward his father's home. Mary and Hanson have not been seen since.
Paris dispatch says Germany does not back Italy’s bid for Tunis and Corsica though Berlin Rome axis remains strong. Ribbentrop assured French Foreign Minister Bonnet Berlin seeks no Italian expansion and aims for renewed Franco German friendship. Bonnet and Ribbentrop planned a joint communique as talks continue.
Lorain County will honor about 90 foreign born residents who have completed citizenship requirements at a dinner at the Polonia Club in Lorain. Rev. Father I. J. Dembowski will speak on A Good Citizen. Regional and local representatives will greet the new citizens, with remarks from Dr. James L. Hupp and others. An illustrated Ohio talk, a DAR talk, music, a Christmas story, and a solo are also planned.
Columbus dispatch reports Governor Davey will not intervene in the Hahn case. He cites inner conflict over a woman facing execution and notes the case raises questions about respecting womanhood amid tragedy. Dramatized remarks hint at broader debates on capital punishment.
Attorneys for Anna Marie Hahn sought a writ of habeas corpus in U S District Court to halt her planned electric chair death for murder. The filing contends the 14th Amendment due process was violated by admitting evidence of four murders, not just one, and cites trial flaws and pretrial media influence. Oscar Hahn visited in her cell as legal action moved forward.
Police hunt two well dressed hitch hikers who forced Lester Drusendahl of Cleveland to drive them from Elyria to three miles past Oberlin where they fled in his car after a gun was pointed at him. The victim, son-in-law of the Tibbals family, picked them up on Hilliard road and suspects Oberlin College students. One robber searched him while the other held the revolver. A motorist later found Drusendahl in Oberlin and alerted authorities.
Common Pleas Judges D. A. Cook and Guy B. Findley today appointed FE. J. Berger manager of Ohio Public Service properties in Lorain as the fifth member of the Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority. Other members include Robert E. Bryan Arnold Levin P. J. Stelmazeski and H. E. Bracker. The authority will carry out a slum clearance project in Lorain.
In Marietta Ohio on December 7 an 83 year old groom George B Ruth of Parkersburg West Virginia wed 72 year old Maggie Rollins of Belpre Ohio in a ceremony by Justice of the Peace O G Warner. Both have been married twice before.
The Duke of Windsor will visit England for two weeks toward the end of February to see his mother Queen Mary, possibly with the Duchess. He is not planning to live in England. An unimpeachable source stated the sole purpose of the visit is family reasons.
Patrick J. Mullane a 52 year old World War veteran who served in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry regiment was killed yesterday in a twenty foot fall while washing windows on an office building in Findlay Ohio The incident ends a long career of service and leaves a grieving family and community in shock
Elyria High School announces its sixth annual Christmas concert on Sunday December 18 at 3 p.m. in the high school auditorium. About 65 current choir members will perform with scores of former singers including roughly 75 alumni invited to join for a reunion number Divine Praise. The program is free to the public and 2 p.m. rehearsal will precede the concert.
New England rivers swollen by melting snow and heavy rains surged over banks today but little damage was expected. Clearing skies suggested peaks would be brief, with the Connecticut crest near 18 feet, eight feet below September highs. Cellars flooded in the south end, while Merrimack rises caused no major disruption. a bridge over the Sandy River washout cut West Farmington, Maine off from outside connections.
Des Moines reports 20 year old baseball star Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians instructed his attorney to appeal to the State Supreme Court for reinstatement of his Iowa driver license. The license was suspended for three months after a $100 reckless driving fine.
Forty Elyria women joined opening night activities of the recreation and physical education program sponsored by the Elyria Recreation Board. The program, led by Mrs. Hershey Shannon, offers gymnasium games calisthenics relays and basketball each Tuesday at Gates School. The class is open to all Elyria women out of school with no fees.
Gen Alberto Parjani, Under Secretary of War and Army Chief of Staff, began an inspection of bases and the Sardinia establishment general, amid mounting anti French feeling. Reports from Rome Milan Turin and Genoa note student protests and calls for Corsica and Tunis. A Tunis dispatch claims anti Italian outbreaks and attacks on Italians near a new hospital.
The Lorain county board of appraisers filed a combined bill of 3075 for fees for three appraisers Frank Billings Elyria Michael Peer Spain and F A Sanford Lorenzh. They were paid 25 a day and listed 41 days though they spent most of three months settling with property owners. They saved the county 35000 to 40000 by negotiating settlements about 143000 in total which was 27000 less than estimated. They made trips to Cleveland and Pittsburgh to settle claims.
Rex Bush 19 of Mentone Ind pleaded guilty in a Justice of the Peace Court to first degree murder in the shooting death of Marshal Neal D Fowler 49 of Clyde Ohio The Sandusky County Grand Jury was called for 9 am Friday to hear the case Bush captured by Bellevue police after Fowler was killed on Route 20 near Clyde authorities say he confessed to shooting the officer with a shotgun following a gas station robbery netting 73 cents and five gallons of gasoline
This evening at 8:00 in the First Congregational church Eugene Lyons, renowned American newspaper correspondent and author, will discuss his lecture subject Whats Going In Russia as the third talk in a four part series sponsored by the Elyria Y M C A education committee.
Common Pleas Judge Findley weighs a late bid for continuance in ex Sheriff William F. Grall bribery case set for Monday. Grall swore in an affidavit that he never took a bribe from Maxine Barbour alias Penny Morgan for access to operate an immoral house. Morgan is a fugitive. The affidavit seeks to introduce testimony alleging officials had relations with Morgan or associates. Prosecutor objects to admitting the claim as evidence without cross examination. The defense asks for Morgan’s presence or delay. Officials have sought Morgan for five weeks without success. The court also considers releasing subpoenaed witnesses to the defense.
Ma dame Marie Jeanne Lahaurine Johnston, 40, directrice of la Maison Francaise at Oberlin College since 1927, died at Aen Hospital at 2 a m from double pneumonia with streptococcal infection. She had been ill two weeks and had lived in oxygen tent since Friday. Earlier teaching French at Snead School for Girls in Toledo, she built French House from a 10-person start to a thriving center with 20 boarders and 20 students.
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