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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1936
Page
15
Lorain County General Health District reports 67 more deaths than births in the first 11 months of 1936, with 385 deaths and 312 births. November alone saw 31 births and 31 deaths, both down from a year earlier. the average ages and other details are noted, including several under 31 deaths and two stillbirths.
The report notes the deceased aged 57 from heart disease, cancer, and lung diseases contributed to 17 of 31 November deaths. In the 11 month period, 42 fewer births and more deaths raised the district’s total loss by 48, yielding a net excess of 67 deaths over births. Dr. Dew cites that last year had 19 more deaths than births in the same period.
Frank A. Hoiles, veteran publisher and industrialist, was killed in an automobile collision two miles north of Salem while en route to Darlington Pennsylvania. Cross, Floyd, the Stremmels, and Chester Stremmel were hospitalized. Hoiles published the Alliance Review for 42 years and held multiple company presidencies. He was trustee of Mount Union College since 1926 and a former Stark County representative. He left a wife and six surviving children. one son died in infancy.
Loyalist aircraft attacked two insurgent battleships Espana and Velasco as they bombarded Fort Musel on the Asturian coast. Government bombers countered, and after a 13 minute exchange neither side scored a hit. The ships retired, with experts suggesting Franco may shift focus to Cordoba and the southern front to sever Madrid from the coast and its supplies.
In Columbus Ohio on December 30 Judge Charles A Leach refused to enjoin the State Civil Service Commission from finishing exams and forming eligible lists for appointments to state and county positions under the public assistance section of the Social Security program The ruling overturns temporary injunctions that had halted the commission after written exams but before oral tests five applicants previously excluded from the exams were among those seeking the injunction backed by the Eagle fraternal order and the Ohio State Federation of Labor
A court considers whether the commission overstepped by imposing excessive educational and experience requirements and by taking guidance from the Federal Social Security Board on these standards. The dispute centers on whether such dictate limits were undue and prescript.
In Winchester Ohio the board of education dismissed charges of improper conduct against C O Williams superintendent of schools by a 3 to 2 vote in a secret session. The board ordered the four teachers to return to classrooms on June 1 when the school reopens after the holidays after they filed affidavits against Williams.
A sit down strike was called today in Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint Michigan, employing 1,200 men making bodies for Chevrolet. The strike is the fourth Fisher Body Plant affected, with similar labor action at GM affiliated plants in Cleveland Kansas City and Atlanta.
Sylvan Beach New York December 30 Toyoki Igenasa 735 former adviser to the Japanese Embassy in Washington drowned yesterday in Oneida Lake after stepping into a crack in the ice He was a graduate of Oberlin College.
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