Republicans Celebrate With Victory Dinner
Approximately 460 Republicans from Lorain and Medina Counties gathered for a victory dinner recounting last month’s sweep. George Bender of Cleveland and Edward S. Sheck of Akron spoke, with Sheck substituting for ill Judge Walter B. Wanamaker. Mrs. Olive Harding urged rewarding the faithful in the party, not jumpers, amid patronage talks. Bender joked of sleeping pills before attacking the New Deal, urging prosperity through Christian principles and tolerance, and predicting a Bricker or Taft-led Ohio win in 1940.
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Lorain
Medina
George Bender
Cleveland
Edward S. Sheck
Akron
Sheck
Walter B. Wanamaker
F. A. Stetson
Ohio
Congress
Bender
Roosevelt
America
Europe
Republican Party
John W. Bricker
Robert Taft
Calls On Sheriff To Search For Missing Husband
The Clayton Owen farm near Graf ton is the scene as Earl Bucklew 25 a farm helper remains missing since 9 30 p m Thursday His wife asked the sheriff s department last night for aid Bucklew planned to drive to Ak ron Wednesday to pick up his wife and two children a two year old son and an eight month old baby They were visiting the mother Mrs Ida Pelton 1104 Emmet road Bucklew about 5 feet 11 inches tall 165 pounds left with a shotgun in hand.
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Sheriff's Department
Earl Bucklew
Clayton Owen
Grafton
Akron
Ida Pelton
Emmet Road
Owen
Buckley
Weather Ohio: Cooler tonight and Sunday partly cloudy
Weather summary notes generally fair and cooler tonight with Sunday partly cloudy in the east. A low in eastern Ontario extends to Texas disturbance while Manitoba experiences low pressure. central plains and mountain states show high barometers. Light rain in Middle Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. moderate rain and snow in eastern Lake region. Warmer Ohio Valley northeastward, colder in Central Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley.
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Ohio
Ontario
Texas
Manitoba
Central Plains
Mountain States
Mississippi
Lake
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Fearful losses feared for McKesson Robbins stockholders
New York December 17 federal authorities warned that 13,500 stockholders faced losses up to 20 million dollars from the McKesson and Robbins drug firm scandal. Philip Musica, alias F Donald Coster, allegedly led a web of fake assets and dummy companies while brothers George Arthur and Robert Musica faced charges and arrest as investigations spread.
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New York City
N. Y
Frank Donald Coster
McKesson and Robbins
Phillip Musica
Connecticut
Musica
New York
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Musica Brothers
Wall Street
Philip
F. Donald Coster
Bolivia
Spain
Paraguay
Gran Chaco
U.S. Department of Agriculture
McKesson
Robbins
Securities and Exchange Commission
Arthur Musica
George Vernard
W. W. Smith and Company
Manning and Company
McKesson and
Robert Musica
Robert Dietrich
George Dietrich
McKesson-Robbins
Four Residents Of Kent Have Narrow Escape
Four Kent residents escaped injury when their car skidded into a ditch and toppled over after 5 30 AM with Deputy Sheriff Anthony Pollock saying the driver Roy A Gatts 32 was en route to Berlin Heights and was joined by Vernon Mains 21 Guy Mains 17 and Clarence Gatts 10 all thrown from the car on Route 62 a quarter mile west of North Eaton. Another car driven by Steve Kostraub Jr of Lorain wrecked at 4 PM the previous day after losing control on West River road and striking a mail box then entering a culvert as he tried to retrieve a dropped tax receipt. A collision at Grafton and Indian Hollow roads yesterday afternoon damaged cars driven by John Henry Bobel 61 of Lorain and Nina Rhodes of 156 Beebecourt deputies reported.
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Kent
Anthony Pollock
Roy A. Gatts
Berlin Heights
Vernon Mains
Guy Mains
Clarence Gatts
Route 62
North Eaton
Steve Kostraub, Jr
Lorain
West River Road
Sheriff's Department
John Henry Bobel
Nina Rhodes
Beebecourt
Grafton
Indian Hollow Roads
United States proposes Lima declaration for regional unity
In Lima Peru delegates at the eighth Pan American Conference circulated a U S compromise proposal titled the declaration of Lima. The plan calls for continental solidarity and united defense against an outside aggressor, based on a revised draft from Argentina. It envisages two parts: peaceful cooperation and joint defense.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Public debt per capita tops 300 dollars nation wide
Washington December 17 The treasury announced the public debt has reached an all time high of more than 39.4 billion dollars, equating to about 305 dollars for every man woman and child in the United States.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Rescue Delivers Death Toll From Nora Coal Blast
Enterprise West Virginia reports rescue teams recovered the bodies of Orville Davis 26 and Harrison J Winemiller 46, both miners and related by marriage, trapped 22 hours after a blast at the Nora Coal Company mine near here. Authorities say only two workers were inside when the explosion occurred.
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Enterprise
W. Va
Nora Coal Company
Here
Orville Davis
Harrison J. Winemiller
Michigan Co-Ed Hurton Collision Near Wellington
A University of Michigan co ed was slightly injured when a car sideswiped a truck on Route 18 near Wellington. Norma Pultz 18 suffered a severe head bruise and was treated at Falls Clinic. The other three girls escaped injury and continued their trip after spending the night in Wellington.
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Wellington
University of Michigan
Uncle Tom's
New York
Norma Pultz
Miss Pultz
Falls Clinic
Four Families Flee From Apartment Fire at 25 West Avenue
Four families fled to safety as a second floor kitchen blaze spread through a two story frame building at 25 West Avenue causing about 100 dollars in damage. A fight erupted among occupants and neighbors during the fire. two people were taken to police, one fined two dollars on intoxication charges with the fine suspended. Fire Chief Bates investigates cause. A separate early morning fire at Sunshine Wiping Rag Company on Winckles and Clark streets was deemed spontaneous combustion.
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West Avenue
W. N. Bates
Fannie Jackson
Henry Sheare
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Tho
Louis Widzer
Union Avenue
Cleveland
Central Fire Station
East Side
Sunshine Wiping Rag Company
Winckles and
Clark Streets
East Side Station
Cleveland Engineer Prather Killed In Auto Crash
Harold P. Prather, 44, a Cleveland engineer formerly with the Non-Ferrous Metal Trust in Russia, died after his car struck a safety zone in Cleveland. He had been leaving a Builders' Exchange Christmas party. He built the $4,000,000 Shore Drive project and is survived by his second wife Helen and daughter Marilyn, 16. his first wife and a son are dead.
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Cleveland, CO
Harold P. Prather
Cleveland
Ural Mountains
Russia
Prather
Builders’ Exchange
Helen
Marilyn
Street car system to be junked in Ohio town
East Liverpool Ohio news reports that the 31 year old Beaver Pennsylvania East Liverpool and Steubenville Interurban street car system will be junked after midnight. Tomorrow buses of the Steubenville East Liverpool and Beaver Valley Traction Co will replace trolley cars. Only the six mile Wellsville East Liverpool line, started 47 years ago by Tom L Johnson later Cleveland mayor, will remain. Wellsville franchise forbids bus substitution.
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East Liverpool
Beaver, Pa
Steubenville
Beaver Valley Traction Co
Wellsville
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Grall Realizes Mistake as Indeterminate Term Begins
Former Sheriff William F Grall was admitted to the state penitentiary in Columbus as inmate No 74885 to serve an indeterminate term of one to ten years for accepting bribes from a vice resort. He arrived with deputies C J Cordy and Chalmer Davidson and said he hoped to get out soon and do the right thing. He referenced no bitterness toward others and indicated no appeal of his sentence.
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William F. Grall
State Penitentiary
Columbus
C. J. Cordy
Chalmer Davidson
Grall
Coy Russell
David Cross
P. W. Powell
Lebanon
Cordy
Holiday Mail Pours Into Postoffice Elyria
A long row of Christmas greeting cards sits at the Elyria post office with many undeliverable due to incorrect or incomplete addresses. Postmaster Sartor notes higher holiday mail volume this year, extra windows and workers, trucks on duty, and Saturday extended hours to handle incoming mail.
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Elyria
C. J. Sartor
Elyrians
State Highway Department
Holidays Silence Divorce Court In Summit County
Akron Ohio December 17 Judge Oscar Hunsicker of the Sum mit county court of domestic relations announces a holiday from December 23 to January 3. No divorce or family petitions will be heard during this period as the judge hopes estranged couples will seek reconciliation amid the season of peace.
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Akron
Oscar Hunsicker
Court of Domestic Relations
Summit County
Hunsicker
Real Estate Tax Bills To Be Ready About Jan. tenth
County Treasurer Walter J. Wright announced that real estate tax bills will be ready for distribution around January 10. A corps of 12 extra clerks will assist as about 105,000 parcels are billed, with roughly 35,000 mailed to owners. The January collection is expected to total about $1.5 million for distribution to county subdivisions.
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Walter J. Wright
Salvation Army Headquarters A Busy Place
Salvation Army headquarters buzzes with activity as 150 families are catalogued for food and toys. Toys fill two rooms while barrels and boxes of food are prepared from theatre donations. Captain Henry Hillier oversees tag preparation and a careful plan to assemble baskets for delivery.
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Salvation Army
Henry Hillier
Hillier
Scouts Place Cards Of Warning On Christmas Trees
Two hundred warning cards on fire hazards were attached today to trees offered for sale in Elyria by local Boy Scouts on behalf of the Elyria Safety Council. The cards urge avoiding candles, careful wiring, keeping trees away from stoves, using safe trims, and disposing of trees before drying.
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Elyria
Dairy farmers meeting date moved to January 6
Lorain County dairy farmers will hold the second meeting of the series at La Grange on January 6 instead of January 13. County agent C I Hummel announced the change with Dr Scott Sutton as speaker on Udder Diseases.
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Lorain County
C. I. Hummel
la Grange
Scott Sutton
Score of Cases Ready For January 3rd
Approximately a score of cases will be presented to the grand jury called back for January 3 to clean up criminal proceedings from the September term. Prosecutor Howard R. Butler said Bridges from the U S Treasury may influence any vice and gambling probe. Bridges has authority to reveal information now. The grand jury will also handle burglary, larceny and other pending charges against Edward Mason, Whitney Rottari, Albert and Joseph Kosiorek, Joe Polgar, Anna Miller, Tony Ferraro, William Borac, Charles Sweet, Earl Fries, Peter Drogas, John Lautner, John Pavelich, Andy Breznak, Charles Sagert and Edward Diedrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard R. Butler
Robert Bridges
United States Treasury
Lorain
Bridges
Butler
Edward Mason
Whitney Rottari
Albert
Joseph Kosiorek
Joe Polgar
Ripton
Anna Miller
Tony Ferraro
William Borac
Charles Sweet
Earl Fries
Peter Drogas
John Lautner
John Pavelich
Andy Breznak
Charles Sagert
Edward Diedrich
Mrs Hahn Confessed to Three Murders
Cincinnati press reports that Anna Marie Hahn, executed by electric chair on December 7, left papers in her death cell confessing to three additional murders and hinting at a fourth. The confessions arose from notes to her attorney Joseph Hoodin, written during her last days in the Ohio penitentiary death house.
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Cincinnati, CO
Cincinnati Post
Anna Marie Hahn
Rotarians Will Sponsor Gates Hospital Christmas Party
Rotarians meet for weekly luncheon at Elyria Memorial hospital dining room then travel to Gates hospital for a brief Christmas party. They plan a program distributing gifts to crippled children.
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Gates Hospital
Elyria Memorial Hospital
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McKesson- Robbins
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George E. Dietrich
Italy
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Assunta
Louisa Musica
Robert Guex
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Fishkill
Vital Statistics Bureau
Carol Jenkins
Who's Who
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Court of General Sessions
Philip Musica
Barney Baff
Joseph Cohen
Coster- Musica
Attorney General's Office
Johnson
U.S
United Defense
U. S
Michigan
Salvation Army Headquarters
Hahn
Butletin
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