29 Dec 1927
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1927
Page
1
A wall of water from a burst irrigation dam in the upper Green River valley near Rock Springs Wyoming caused heavy damage to ranches and threatened large cattle herds. An emergency call went out for cowboys to move cattle to safety as ice and a roaring flood swept the area. Total damage was not estimated.
An unusual wave of fires coinciding with blizzards devastates Japan. Akita Prefecture reports 500 houses razed and 253 homes destroyed nationwide. Six killed, 1600 homeless, and many ships damaged as telephone service disruptions spread. Fires reach Yokosuka and Matsue area.
The present city council meets at the courthouse for its last session in at least two years. Key items include a gas rate ordinance on its third reading and a new franchise for the Cleveland Southwestern Railway Co. with an eight cent city fare. The steam and street railways committee holds Wilson’s franchise request pending. Regular committee reports and legislation are also on the agenda.
Ten month old Evelyn Shepherd, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Shepherd of Circle Green near Steubenville Ohio, was fatally burned when flames from an open grate set fire to her clothing. In Paris, the Bank of France lowered the discount rate to four percent on December 20.
LOS ANGELES Dec 29 William Edward Hickman faced arraignment for Marion Parker’s murder as an accomplished criminal with no killer record. He confessed to holdups including a Christmas Eve 1920 Rose Hill drug store hold up where Thom s was killed and officer Oliver wounded, naming Welby Hunt as accomplice.
Plans for medical and dental clinics in Elyria grade schools were announced by WH King, chair of the Kiwanis public affairs committee, after cooperation from the school board and the Parent Teachers association. The program will start with a doctor and dentist providing part-time service, with a nurse to be added full-time later.
Attorneys for Harry Hill charged with matricide asked the court to delay juror selection. Illinois law limits trial within four months of arrest. Hill’s window expires January 3. A motion challenging the venire panel argued it exceeded a legal limit of 24 jurors. the hearing was continued. A decision could delay the trial further. In a separate note, Gus Thomas, 9, of Woodstone Avenue, injured his right hand in a clothes wringer and was treated at Kirks Memorial hospital.
John Tt. Patterson, superintendent of the Athens public schools, is elected president of the Ohio State Teachers Association, succeeding Charles S. Meek of Toledo. Delegates named to attend the National Educational Association convention in Minneapolis in July include Telien J. Holliday and Jare R. Keans, among others. C. OM. Waston was elected state high school principal and Dan R. Wallace named county high school principal.
Installation highlighted by ATL West electing a president Newell hotels today with A H BoOM as treasurer A T Thatcher as vice president Waterlig as secretary G ituchwineg named district trustee Kim Armitage Dr J F Betteridge Louis Iglaner Paul Wainwright Iak King GC BP Shively and Robert Rive named directors Three new members Frank Aust Ed Knauer and Lawrence Wagner were welcomed into the club.
Pulice Chief KE J Stankard announced there would be no extension of time to obtain 1925 auto tags. Motorists without tags after midnight December 31 face arrest and a minimum $25 fine. harsher penalties possible. Hales will operate Jan 1 2 to sell licenses to those halted. Lorain and Elyria officials warn against delays as tag sales have begun. Total tags issued stand at about 2,600 passenger and 300 commercial from the courthouse bureau.
Former Elyrian Curtis T. Johnson, 66, Toledo attorney and former Lucas County Common Pleas judge, was killed last night when struck by an automobile at Oskwood Avenue and Monroe Street in Toledo. Son of N L Johnson, he and brother Ben practiced law after graduating from Williams College. He leaves two sisters in India and a brother in the East. Funeral services set for Saturday at two o'clock in Toledo.
Miss Charlotte Hanna daughter of the Tate Dan Hanna and niece of Mrs Meet Cormick secretly married in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon the 19th to Richard Hume an assistant national bank examiner aged 28. Hume is from Cleveland and the Hanna home in Ravenna was noted as her birthplace.
Ridgeville Grange plans a dedication ceremony for its new hall on Thursday at 9 a m with State Master Harry Llayton as speaker. The 18 men who supervised the construction will be honored and the public invited to inspect the building after the ceremony. A banquet for 500 follows at six, before the dedication, in a modern auditorium designed for two meetings simultaneously. Ridgeville Grange now has 157 members and the project completes a long cherished goal.
Steve Chismyer was fined ten dollars and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to petit larceny for stealing a gas book from Peerless Oil Company. Aaron Serb was fined ten dollars and costs after pleading guilty to receiving stolen goods for buying the gas book from Chismyer. Both waived trial.
A man and his wife and three others were injured when an auto and a truck collided in Gleveland on December 25. John Smetana aged 24 and his wife Elsie 20 died at the scene. Police attributed the crash to traffic signal confusion.
Col Charles A Lindbergh was welcomed with official receptions and public ac claim as he toured Guatemala City. He arrived from Mexico City and planned to meet gov ernment leaders and the diplomatic corps before a banquet at the Palace Hotel.
In Muskogee Oklahoma Mrs Evangeline Lindhugh was traveling by air from Mesa City to her home when her plane encountered trouble near dark today. The aircraft resumed flight with Detroit listed as a destination or point of departure in a disrupted schedule.
Boston December 29 A trace of Mrs Frances W Grayson and her three companions on the amphibian plane The Dawn has been found as the search by destroyers coast guard vessels ends within 79 miles of Sable Island. The search extends southward eastward and northward as ships continue to sweep waters.
A 41 day gale paralyses shipping across the English Channel delaying hundreds of travelers. Dover ships cancel schedules and Southern Railway halts two steamers due to storm damage. Isle of Wight hit by a blizzard as frosts complicate highway clearance and food supplies grow tight. Local ports face disruption and travel remains hindered amid severe winter conditions.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has decided to return to the United States by way of Havana after finishing his Central American trip, instead of accepting invitations from South Africa. State Department advices from Guatemala City say Lindbergh will leave Guatemala Friday morning for Belize, British Honduras, landing there if the herd condition allows.
Ridgeville township clerk of Ridgeville township Mr Smith retires after a long tenure starting in 1887 with a break and continuous service since 1892. He did not run in November elections and was raised in Ridgeville. Inmawis says the clerk served 38 years in Ridgeville and will end his post in December.
Sheriff and police widen hunt for Julia Marco alias Anna Tringali as details surface on the murder of John Romano in Detroit. Evidence at 3025 House Street Cleveland includes bloodstained clothing and bullets matching the weapon, with Marco sought and Anna Michelli held as a material witness on bond.
George Remus, once a millionaire bootlegger, awaits a judge's decision that will determine his fate. Judge William H. Lueders presided from Cincinnati, with a jury having found him sane but the verdict prompting a mandatory sanity hearing to decide commitment to a state hospital or freedom. Remus remains in jail as the hearing continues into next week.
William Monschien of 333 Ong Bridge Street was injured yesterday when a ladder slipped at the site of his home. He was admitted to Elyria Memorial for care.
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