Out-Of-County Judge To Hear Grall Bribery Trial
An out of county judge will preside over the bribery trial of former Sheriff William F. Grall, as Common Pleas Judge Findley grants the defense motion. A 21 person special jury venire was summoned from Elyria and nearby townships, with nam es including Clark Maddock, Francis Walter, Marie Nermerer, Edith Mann, and many others. Judge Weygandt will appoint the judge to hear the case, per Findley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grall
Common Pleas
Guy B. Findley
William F. Grall
Henry George King
King
Findley
D. A. Cooks
Ohio
Carl V. Weygandt
Venice
Elyria
Clark Maddock
Eighth Street
Francis L. Walter
Cornell Avenue
Marie Nermerer
Cleveland Street
Edith Mann
Riverside Court
Lucy Pember
East River Street
Thomias Dean
Columbus Street
Gertrude Lemon
Middle Avenue
Fred Lattman
Bisra
Fram
North Ridge
Ron Dellman
Columbia Station
Albert Prosser
R. D
Oberlin
Arthur Klingshirn
Avon Lake
Ray Snyder
New London
Amy Ferriman
Wellington
Witness To Slave Rescue Case At 90 Sees Oberlin Event
Mrs. Mary Terry of 117 Dikson Street Wellington will celebrate her 90th birthday on Sunday. She was present at the doorway of her father’s carriage shop opposite the hotel when the rescue of John Price the recaptured slave who fled Kentucky occurred in Oberlin in 1858. Price was lured by a boy with a job offer and seized by Anderson Jennings and accomplices before being taken toward Wellington.
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Oberlin-Wellington
Mary Terry
Dikson Street
Wellington
Anderson Jennings
Price
Oberlin
Jennings
Weather Ohio: Cloudy and snow flurries with colder night
A weather summary notes clouds and light rain turning to snow flurries across Ohio with colder conditions in the west and south tonight. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies and slightly colder conditions in the east with possible snow flurries in the northeast.
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Ohio
Ohio Valley
South Atlantic States
Canadian Prairie Provinee
New England
West Gulf States
Pacific Northwest
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Northwest
Earere
Two Bank Robbers and Two Women Taken After Kidnapping Patrolman
In Ohio, two men David I. Cross and Coy Russell and two women Naomi Hayes and Marie Day were taken into custody after abducting Patrolman Parker Powell near Waynesville. A nationwide manhunt involved hundreds of officers across Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, with the suspects later confessing to bank robberies including $2700 from a Sebring, Ohio holdup. Powell escaped with minor injuries. a large-scale tri-state search followed with no shots fired.
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Lebanon
U.P
Ohio Highway Patrol
Washington Court House
David I. Cross
Hamilton
Coy Russell
Houston
Tex
Warren County
Naomi Hayes
Steele
Marie Day
Greenup
Col
Lann Black
Ohio
Indiana
Cross
Russell
Jess Ellis
Raiden Long
Parker W. Powell
Waynesville
Ellis
Long
Powell
State Patrol
Wilmington
Black
Sebring
Youngstown
Columbiana County
Kings Mills
Harvey Kurth
Paul Clark
Middletown
Foster
Poswell
Here
Sheldom
South
Louis Luedeke
Hopkinsville
South Lebanon
Michigan
George Mingle
Col. Black
Fairfield
Neb
Missouri
Elyrians Rally To Provide Dinners And Toys For Needy
Elyria launches its annual drive to aid families with Christmas baskets and a Toyshop. The Not an Empty Stocking Committee plans to distribute baskets for hearty dinners, while early donations fund toys for children. About 281 baskets and 925 toys were provided last year, with Captain Henry Hillier and Mayor Joseph Q. Petro leading efforts and local groups pledging cooperation.
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Elyria
Henry Hillier
Salvation Army
Hillier
Joseph Q. Petro
Captain Hillier
Toyshop
Marriage Dissolved From War Bonded Union
Tillie Goldsand of Lorain is granted a divorce from Isidore Goldsand, a World War veteran, on gross neglect of duty after eight years of separation. They wed in 1923 to escape turmoil in Europe for America. one child, past pension issues, and a failed marriage cited. The judge noted no support or affection for eight years and recalled the couple’s path from war era to dissolution.
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Europe
America
Common Pleas
Guy B. Findley
Tillie Goldsand
Lorain
Isidore Goldsand
Goldsand
New York City
Yoldsane
United States
Russia-Poland
Merchants Told To Continue To Collect Sales Tax On Candy
Elyria merchants were urged by the Chamber of Commerce to keep collecting Ohio sales tax on candy despite a Court of Appeals ruling that candy is not taxable. George V. Sheridan reported Walter Mitchell said the tax remains in force until the Ohio Supreme Court decides. Mitchell said the Tax Commission will hold merchants accountable for many sales tax collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Court of Appeals
Summit County
George V. Sheridan
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Walter Mitchell
Tax Commission
Ohio Supreme Court
Mitchell
Bank Bandits Rob Fallston Bank in Daylight Holdup
Three youths raided the Fallston bank and escaped with about $200 in a daylight robbery. One was captured within an hour and police apprehended the other two shortly before noon.
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Fallston
N. C
Bank of
Defiance Plant Sold to Toledo Firm for 250000
The Defiance Machine Works and its Defiance, Ohio plant were purchased by Toledo Precision Devices, Inc. for 250000, with the deal completed today.
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Defiance
Toledo, O
U.S
Defiance Machine Works
Defiance, O
Toledo Precision Devices, Inc
Pipe mill operations to rise at Lorain plant next week
National Tube Company Lorain plant will slightly raise pipe mill output next week to about the level seen three weeks ago. Steel production holds steady with three blast furnaces and 10 open hearths. Bessemer converter to work at 50 percent. Rail mill skelp mills 1 and 5, butt mills 2, 6 and 7, and seamless mills 1 and 2 scheduled for five days starting Monday. Seamless mill 1 runs until 7 am Sunday. plan is tentative and may change with orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Tube Company
Lorain
Bessemer
Skelp
County Schools To Be In Session On January Second
Lorain County announces January 2 will not be a holiday for village and rural schools as the State Education Department requires the 180 day minimum, though Elyria may not hold classes that day. The calendar resumes January 3 after vacation, with Elyria possibly exceeding the 180 day minimum already.
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Lorain
C. A. Gibbons
Gibbons
State Department of Education
Ohio School Foundation
Elyria
Miller Sues Estate For $12,499 In Personal Services
Charles Miller of Amherst sues the Martha Miller estate for $12,499 for life caretaker services at $75 a month over 12 years. Martha Miller died about a year ago leaving a $60,000 estate with two nieces as heirs. another nursing services suit for $4,227 by Christine Miller is pending against Franklin Miller as administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Cook
Charles Miller
Amherst
Martha Miller
Lillie Fetzer
Ann Flynn
Christine Miller
Franklin Miller
Prominent Physician Finds Real Interest In Local Hospital
Dr. C. R. Ogden of Clarksburg West Virginia visited Elyria Memorial Hospital today. He expressed pride in his daughter Mrs. William Bailey and his newborn granddaughter born yesterday, and praised the hospital for annual American College of Surgeons approval since 1927. Ogden is a noted physician and surgeon, former West Virginia Medical Society president, a regent of the American College of Surgeons, and a friend of Dr. George Crile of Cleveland.
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C. R. Ogden
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Elyria Memorial Hospital
William Bailey
Tenth Street
Elyria
American College of Surgeons
Ogden
West Virginia Medical Society
George Crile
Cleveland
Anna Marie Hahn Confession Claimed By Attorneys
Cincinnati December report says Anna Marie Hahn executed Wednesday night likely made a full confession. Attorneys Joseph H Houdin and Hiram C Bolsinger stated the letters Hahn gave Houdin may contain the answers, to be opened after he regains strength following recent events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Joseph H. Houdin
Hiram C. Bolsinger
Detective Dies in 24 Hours After Cleveland Killing
Cleveland December 9 detective Earl Dietrich aged 40 died of a heart attack less than a day after he killed 27 year old Joseph Blazer alias Curve in an attempted hotel holdup. Dietrich had been on unofficial patrol when the shooting occurred and had previously been involved in a prior robbery killing.
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Cleveland
Earl Dietrich
Dietrich
Lillian
Dietrick
Joseph Blazer
Curve
Ohio Engineering Co To Get First Of Bridge Jobs
Lorain county commissioners reported that the Ohio Engineering company won the first bridge contract by submitting the lowest bid of 13 961 for extending a sewer at the west end of the 21st street bridge. Four companies bid, with others up to 22 000. The only other awarded contract covered demolition of several old buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Ohio Engineering Company
21St Street
Man Held for Grand Jury Over Forged Check Charge
Edward Mason 35 of Steubenville was held for the county grand jury in default of 1000 bond after arraignment on a forged check charge. He cashed a 15 dollar check at a gas station and tried another with a borrowed blank check. Buckingham and Brubaker aided police in identifying Mason as Lloyd Reese and Frank Haines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Mason
Steubenville
Joseph Q. Petro
Mason
C. E. Parker
A. E. Buckingham
East Avenue
Temple Court
Urban Brubaker
Fourth Street
Brubaker
Buckingham
Lloyd Reese
Frank Haines
New Dirigible Will Make Test Flights
The navy's non rigid airship K-2 is set for its first test flight today at Akron Municipal Airport after two brief warm up flights yesterday. Goodyear pilots operated the K-2 with a skeleton crew of Lakehurst Navy officials aboard. The craft measures 246 feet in length, 76.5 feet in height, and holds 400000 cubic feet of gas.
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Akron
Ohio
United States Navy
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
Board of Inspection and Survey
Acme
Akron, O
Navy
Akron Municipal
Goodyear Zeppelin Corp
Awards Presented To Six Carriers Of Chronicle-Telegram At Annual Banquet
Six Chronicle Telegram carriers, three in Elyria and three outside, received Carrier Boy Merit Awards at the annual Chronicle Telegram Association of Newspaper Carriers banquet at the Elks Club. First place city winner Andrew Foreman and suburban winner Roland Detwiler led the list, with second and third place recipients in both divisions named. Judges and officials were noted, and the meeting also saw officer installations for the coming year.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
Chronicle-Telegram Association
Elks Club
Andrew Foreman
Harvard Avenue
Roland Detwiler
Fields Corners
Jack Kelly
Park Avenue
Leland Hardy
East River Road
Suburban Carriers
Carl Koepp
352
Ninth Street
Ralph Page
Murray Ridge
A. C. Hudnutt
T. F. Henkel
Troxel Manufacturing Company
Robert Buel Jr
Western Automatic Machine Screw Company
N. M
Robert Clark
Robert Bollmer
Lloyd Hayes
Eugene Bayley
Richard Kuchenrither
Bernard McLaughlin
Robert Sutton
Chester Malnowski
William Bennett
Joe Bakes
Richard Wagner
Richard Maurer
Robbers Flee Through Woods After Bowling Green Jewelry Theft
Police and county officers formed a large posse to track two armed men who robbed Klever's Jewelry Store window in Bowling Green, taking 10 to 15 watches before fleeing on foot through fields. The suspects drove a stolen Plymouth with stolen plates earlier from Vandalia and Troy. They paused at an all-night restaurant before the break in. about 25 officers joined the search, with no shots fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowling Green
Harold Fletcher
Klever
Fletcher
Wood County
Vandalia
Troy
Jewlery
Explaining Lorain County 1939 conservation program
Elmer S Kruze Ohio state chairman explained the 1939 agricultural conservation plan to 80 Lorain County farmers at Elyria Y M C A. He warned against biased information and said corn acreage allotments will be set in Lorain County for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Elmer 5. Kruze
Ohio
Elyria Y
Lorain
Kruze
John Cummings
Medina County
18 Months Old Child With Bolt In Stomach
In Painesville Ohio infant Donald Pierce aged 18 months lies in Lake County Memorial Hospital with a two inch iron bolt in his stomach. Doctors monitor his condition as officials react to the crisis.
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Painesville. O
Donald Pierce
Lake County Memorial Hospital
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Corporal Powell
Joe Sheldon
Greenville
Sheldon
Midland-Buckeye Federal Savings & Loan Co
Lester Johnson
John Reddy
Alice Pope
Mary Jane Turner
Lawrence
Kansas
National Guard
Yege
Ohio Engineering Co
Santa
GM Rems
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