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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
1
Elyria will complete 1938 with all bills paid and a small balance, likely under $1,000, dependent on county sales tax receipts from December sales. Council set general fund expenditures at 287,402, with operating costs covered, and last Monday added 10,000 more from actual receipts, totaling 297,402 for the year.
Senator King of Utah leads opposition to the Works Progress Administration demanding its abolition amid reports of coercion in elections and calls for fiscal oversight. Senator Wheeler of Montana joins in criticizing the agency as a political liability while WPA officials warn funds will run dry without a new appropriation.
Tony Paulson aged 35 and Oliver Genovesi aged 46, both of Painesville, were rescued after 19 hours trapped nearly a mile underground in Copper Range Mining Co's Campain mine in Hancock Michigan. A crew of 15 men blasted through a 50 foot rock and timber wall to reach them. Continued on page 2.
Cloudy with possible snow in western Ohio tonight and Friday with a mix turning to rain and warmer. A high pressure system spans the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley with fair cold conditions elsewhere. A pacific Northwest high and a disturbance from the Western Plains bring light precipitation and rising temps across several states. Local rain reported in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas, with freezing rain and snow in Nebraska and Iowa.
In Perth Scotland on December 22 W McNair Snaddon official conservative candidate defeated Duchess of Atholl insurgent conservative in the Kinross and Western division by election. Snaddon supported Chamberlain foreign policy receiving 11808 votes to 10495 for the Duchess.
Paris dispatch reports Italy in a note to French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet declares the Laval Mussolini accord of 1930s no longer valid. The pact concerned Tunisia and territorial concessions near Italian Libya and Italian East Africa, signaling Italy's likely move to press new demands on France over Tunisia.
The home office said 34 leaders and members of the Irish Republican Army were arrested overnight in Northern Ireland on charges of plotting violence. Police learned plans targeted prominent persons and government and other property during the Christmas and New Year periods.
Germany has sharply protested to the United States state department against coarse and insulting remarks by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes in a Cleveland speech on German conditions. Germany's chargé d affaires presented the protest to the under secretary of state.
Tokyo dispatch reports Premier Fumimazoe Konoye unveiling a New Asia policy toward China. Japan would end extraterritorial rights in exchange for a settlement, abolish foreign concessions, and seek a bloc with Manchukuo and China to counter communism. The plan envisions Japan guiding regional influence while reducing foreign interference.
President Roosevelt appointed Franklin W. Hancock Sr. of North Carolina to the Federal Home Loan Bank board. Hancock, a former North Carolina Congressman, fills a vacancy that has existed on the bank board for some time.
Secretary Morgenthau announced he will urge Congress to extend the 2 billion monetary stabilization fund whose authority expires June 30, 1939. Created after the 1938 dollar devaluation, the fund has stabilized international monetary operations and protected currencies from speculative swings, and it is reported to have earned a profit, now exceeding 2 billion dollars.
In St Joseph Michigan on December 22 Fern Patricia Dull a blonde known as the office wife who killed her employer and lover William Holbrook was sentenced to four to fifteen years in the Detroit House of Correction Judge Mark Taylor pronounced the sentence after a manslaughter conviction by a jury last night and urged the maximum term be served.
Speaker Bankhead predicted aviation expansion will be a main feature of the next defense program. He expects increases in air power rather than further navy build up, stressing his view is personal and not a White House position. He has an appointment with President Roosevelt later today in Washington.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins estimated that non agricultural employment has grown by about one million since last June with a 30,000 gain in November. She noted roughly 150,000 workers secured jobs in November across retail and wholesale trade factories bituminous coal and metal mines and brokerage offices.
New York December 22 F Donald Coster Musica released a suicide letter in which he exonerates his brothers from any wrongdoing in the McKesson and Robbins affair. He claims no millions were lost and that listed assets in the crude drug department were merely false profits he had booked.
PWA officials in Columbus told Commissioner Clerk Fred Ruth that the federal government will release its share of funds for two Lorain County bridge constructions on ten days notice. Bids for the basic structures are expected to be let soon.
Ruth said he was told during applications for 342100 for the Erie avenue bridge and 341140 for the 21st street bridge that these sums cover slightly more than half of the federal share. He noted the federal government will pay 1.8 percent interest on the county's share totaling 1580000 while funds wait for contract letting.
Elyria resident Harold Bates, 32, of 835 West Broad Street, was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital for four facial lacerations and possible skull fracture after a traffic crash on Middle Avenue near Eighth Street involving a car driven by James Ferguson, 18, of 1001 Middle Avenue. Bates was thrown through the right front door glass when his car struck a light pole. Police reported both cars suffered extensive damage. Additional crashes nearby involved Mrs. Paul Myer and John Stevenson at Lake Avenue and Huron Street, Mrs. C. M. Price and William Ellis near Middle Avenue, Charles Kohler colliding with a county truck on Route 38, and Oliver Blaine skidding into a ditch on Route 59 west of Elyria.
In Los Angeles on December 22 a suspected spy faces trial on a charge of attempting to sell airplane plans to Japan. Karl Allen Drummond, an airplane factory employee, would testify before Federal Judge Leon R. Yankwich without a jury. He allegedly took blueprints from the Northrop plant and tried to peddle them to Japanese consular officers. The case mentions a Navy super-bomber still in drafting. A second indictment charges Hafis Salich, 33, and Mikhail Gorin, 34, with espionage for turning over records on Japan to a Soviet agency. Salich, a Naval Intelligence Bureau employee, and Gorin, a Pacific coast Intourist manager, are held on $25,000 bonds and arraignments are set for Monday.
Federal Judge Edward Moinch granted a permanent injunction against the Fidelity Investment Association a West Virginia corporation restraining it from continuing its business practices The SEC charged misrepresentation fraud and window dressing The order forbids purchasing insufficient securities failing to segregate adequate deposits creating separate contract funds maintaining required reserves and transferring gains from contract funds to the general fund
Joseph Pett 34, crane operator at National Tube Company Lorain plant, was found dead in bar mill from a fractured skull after leaving his crane cab to adjust the machine. He had planned to celebrate his fifth wedding anniversary that evening and was awaiting a naturalization exam on January 6. Pett, Italian-born, recently enrolled in a citizenship class and was to attend Citizenship Night where 96 foreign-born residents were awarded certificates. He joined National Tube in 1923 after moving from Detroit and belonged to St Jenin’s Church. Survived by wife and two daughters. Funeral services set for Saturday morning.
Chatham farmer Martin Deneter died when his car collided with a truck near Lodi while three boys riding with him were injured. Local authorities reported the fatal collision occurred last night and prompted an ongoing investigation.
The State Sundries Claims Board rejected Sejanus A. Lengel former Canton police chief s claim for 15000 as pay for wrongful conviction and illegal imprisonment Lengel was convicted of murder of Don R Mellert Canton Daily News editor in 1926 but was granted a new trial and acquitted in the second trial He may appeal and the board may reconsider if it wishes
Sixteen shipwrecked seamen and the ship's cat neared Lituya Bay after ten days exposed to storms and cold. An advance party of coast guardsmen, trappers and a doctor aided the survivors during a 25 mile trek from the Patterson wreck off Cape Fairweather. Two navy bombers will ferry the last stragglers to a coast guard cutter and then to Juneau.
Sixty four men and 32 women from 13 European countries were recognized as Lorain county's newest American citizens at a Citizenship Night at Elyria High School. Speakers urged continued study of English and democratic principles while presentations highlighted certificates, flags, and civic duties. Eighteen residents live in Elyria and many hail from Hungary Czechoslovakia Italy Poland and the British Isles. The youngest new citizen is 26 and the oldest 60 with an average age of 45.
County Commissioner Oscar G. Dunn, a Republican, walked out of a star chamber relief meeting with Democrats Edward DeChant and John E. Davidson as they discussed hiring politics as a qualification for county relief workers. Davidson indicated no final retention decision, while Lorain city would take over ten local case workers. Elyria appointed Marie S. Gilman to head direct relief with two assistants not yet named.
The Elyria Home for the Aged reports a busy period as over 500 mail items arrived yesterday and 350 more today. Most greetings are for residents. A East Liverpool Sunday school class sent gifts for each member, individually wrapped, with anticipation for unwrapping.
London dispatches report widespread disaffection in Nationalist Spain with claims of mass arrests. A Burgos frontier sighting cites 45 Italian soldiers hanged along a highway by angry Spaniards as an example to deter others.
A wartime air crash near Norfolk Virginia kills two army fliers. Lieut. Dale E. Ellis 25 of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania and Mechanic Private Charles S S Owner of Parentun Pennsylvania, both stationed at Langley Field Virginia, died when their plane crashed and burned on Seawell Point road a few miles from the city.
CHICAGO December 22 A woman claiming to be Mrs. Mary Cheek Schuch 36 a nurse master chemist detective story writer and mother failed a bank robbery attempt at Drexel State Bank of 5000 dollars Detectives nabbed her as she left the bank after she displayed vials said to contain nitroglycerin The vials held distilled water She gave multiple aliases and said debts of 2000 prompted the act A federal agent assisted police and authorities weigh federal or state charges for bank robbery
In Paris the government escaped defeat by seven votes in the Chamber of Deputies on Article Two of the Revenue Bill. The chamber backed the government 291 to 284, authorizing 10,000,000,000 francs in additional direct and indirect taxes to balance the 1939 budget, using emergency powers granted during the fall recess.
Three and a half year old Rex Schindler son of Mr and Mrs Arnold Schindler of 281 Roosevelt avenue suffered first and second degree burns when his sleeping garments caught fire at 11 am today while he played at home. He was taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital where doctors described his condition as good.
Sheriff’s reports say 40 chickens were stolen from the Kokopilo farm on Whitehead road two miles southwest of LaGrange and seven chickens from Milo McQueen's farm in Brownhelm, according to today’s department notes.
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