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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1936
Page
7
A Harvard physicist Edwin H. Land 27 demonstrated a new glass called polaroid that polarizes light. It aims to cut headlight glare for motorists enable cinema goers to see films in three dimensions and help detect bottle weaknesses and fishermen locate quarry at a glance.
The demonstration described goggles using polarized glass to render 3D images beyond a flat screen. Photos are taken through polar lenses and projected via a polarizer, muting headlight flare while clearly showing oncoming cars. Polaroid combines glass with an inner crystal layer forming a light gathering slot.
Radio schedule from WTAYW WJ? WHR and WGAR listing 7:00 Cathedral Echoes through 7:00 News. Program blocks include Melody Hour Melody Lane Breakfast Club and various city mission talks. Late morning features Major Bowes Choir and Polish program with multiple orchestral and concert items. Evening offers Bohemian Hour Jewish and German programs, followed by opera and concert selections, with sign off.
Incomplete broadcast grid lists station calls and shows from 6:20 a m to 1:00 p m with musical programs Breakfast Club News and various acts. Mentions include Tall Texans Hank Heene and Wayne West with several time slots and program names.
February 3 program listings blend studio music and stage acts with performers such as Cowboy Silm Musical Clock Information Rage Room Organ Eennes Por Trappe and Charm Manhatt. The lineup includes Ted Meh Tracy Too Armstrong Buck Rogers Music Mints and a Villaged cast with Singin Sam Roache Carter Curkidle Fish and Truth Barlow Piel. The docket cites Noble's Orch and Polish Progr while referencing Old Bohemia Polish Progr.
Mrs. Huey P. Long, appointed to serve the unexpired Senate term after Huey Long's assassination, heads to Washington to become the third woman senator. Friends note she may revive his share our wealth movement while keeping policy choices private. Observers cite her past ties to copyrights, patents, and club lists as potential assets and risks for steering the Long machine in coming battles.
Federal court convicts eight defendants in the Sir Francis Drake Estate swindle. Promoters claimed payouts up to 1800 on a dollar, drawing from about 70 000 midwestern investors. The case centers on a long running fraud that stole over 120 000 from farmers and small town residents. Oscar Hartzell is named as mastermind in this notorious promotion.
On the London night in the Seeley area Sam Jacobie and Carrie Seeley collided with a stopped B and O train. Harizel Hartzell and seven others were convicted on 17 counts of mail fraud and one conspiracy count after nine weeks of trial. Sentences set for Tuesday. depostat A R Gregory escaped one count. Defendants argued the Drake Estate existed in defense, while several co defendants were named from New York Chicago and Madison Wisconsin with various prison and fine penalties outlined.
An editor note asks a writer to supply name and address before publishing a letter on humane methods for impounding dlogy. The Chronicle Telegram also promotes Washington news and the National Whirlin g.
Col Knox told southern Ohio Republicans at the McKinley Day dinner in Dayton that businessmen must engage in politics or lose influence. He warned the New Deal risks government control or stifling competition and questioned the purpose of legislative probes into private enterprise as aimed at discrediting business leaders.
He stated congressional investigations showed little or no corruption in business and noted a legislative investigator apologized to the press for having no headlines during an inquiry.
A light comedy set on a park bench where a young millionaire with troubles meets a penniless girl reading ads. The Rivoli Theatre presents If You Could Only Cook starring Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur, opening tomorrow.
Buck Jonesy returns to the Dreamland Theatre screen tomorrow in Sunset of Power a tale of a cowboy forced to fight his way out of sinister entanglements at the local cinema.
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