Birthday Ball Draws Large Crowd for Infantile Paralysis Drive
More than 1,000 dancers filled three Elyria ballrooms on Saturday for the President's birthday ball to aid crippled children. O J Shafer led as general chairman with tickets still arriving and funds flowing. Seventy percent of net receipts benefit Gates Hospital for Crippled Children and 30 percent aid the Warm Springs Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Oo. J. Shafer
Elyriaus Quartet
Harland Brown
Robert Burns
Walter Smith
Alan van Wormer
Eugene St. Marie
Elyrians
Betty Hengelbaugh
Lois Boothroyd
Mary Jo Keyes
Bob Armitage
Bill Armitage
Elks
Eagles
American Legion
Shafer
Gates Hospital
Warm Springs Foundation
Club To Sponsor Flood Relief Show At Elyria High
The British Empire Club plans an 11 act vaudeville benefit at Elyria High School auditorium 8 p m Wednesday. A 10 piece orchestra and 18 acts complete the program with all receipts donated to flood relief via the Elyria Red Cross. Community groups join, ushers are provided by the Women’s Auxiliary of Erie Post 12 and Boy Scouts handle ticket sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Empire Club
Elyria High School
Women’s Auxiliary of
Eirria Post No. 12
American Legion
D. A. Baird
Flood Control Conference Called For Ohio Valley States
CHICAGO Feb 1 Paul V McNutt head of the council of state governments urged representatives from flood demoralized states in the Ohio valley to attend a Columbus Ohio conference to discuss future flood control and state cooperation. Indiana Kentucky Ohio Virginia Pennsylvania West Virginia invited Tennessee and Illinois New York expected to attend with members of the Federal National Resources Committee and the U S Army Engineering Corps. Over fifty state and federal policy officials expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Paul V. McNutt
Council of State Governments
Indiana
Ohio Valley
Columbus
Kentucky
Ohio
Virginia
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Tennessee
Illinois
New York
Federal National Resources Committee
U. S. Army Engineering Corps
Lorain Countians Invited to OSU Dairy Reunion
Three Lorain County graduates of Ohio State University dairy technology have been invited to a February 10 reunion banquet. H. F. Judkins of National Dairy Products Corp will be principal speaker. The reunion caps the university dairy technology conference February 10 to 11 open to dairy industry professionals. Invited locals: R. C. Strachan Elyria Maurice P. Durkee Graton and Harriet Smythe Oberlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Maurice P. Durkee
Gratton
Harriet Smythe
Oberlin
Ballots Sent For Elyria Chamber Primary Election
Ballots for the Elyria Chamber of Commerce primary election were mailed to members to nominate 14 candidates for seven board vacancies. Ballots must be returned by 4 p.m. Tuesday. The top 14 move to the final election next week to fill terms ending for seven incumbents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Alex Altfeld
E. J. Crisp
Paul Gentzel
W. F. Gollmar
G. E. Gould
J. J. Parks
Frank E. Stevens
Earl Bell
F. H. Bryant
Frank Hoover
al Mason
A. J. Robinson
Harold Rorick
A. H. West
Ralph Young
New Army And Navy Stamps Are Available
The Elyria post office reports new two cent army and navy stamps available. One cent stamps from this issue are nearly exhausted due to heavy collector demand. The army stamp features General Andrew Jackson, General Winfield Scott and Jackson's home The Hermitage. the navy stamp shows Commodore Thomas MacDonough, Stephen Decatur and the U S S Saratoga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army and Navy
Elyria
Andrew Jackson
Winfield Scott
Jackson
Hermitage
Navy
Commodore Thomas MacDonough
Stephen Decatur
U. S. S. Saratoga
Former Shipyard Worker Ends Life Over Cancer Costs
Peter Borovich, 42, WPA worker and former shipyard employer, shot himself twice in the stomach at his Stop 66 Avon Lake home yesterday around 5 30 p.m. Neighbors heard two shots and James McCowan found the body. A Lorain doctor had said radium treatment would cost 500 dollars. Borovich had been treated at St Joseph's Hospital Lorain. His body was taken to Ford Thompson mortuary Lorain pending burial. He had no known relatives according to Marshal Arnold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Borovich
WPA
Stop 66
Avon Lake
James McCowan
W. J. Arnold
Borovich
Lorain
St. Joseph's Hospital
Ford Thompson Mortuary
Arnold
Toledo Boy Scout Drowns Playing on Thin Ice
In Toledo on February 1 a local Boy Scout named Kansorka, fifteen, drowned after ignoring troop officials warning and venturing onto the ice of an artificial pond at the Devilbiss Bory Scout reservation eight miles west of the city. The incident occurred yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Forrest Kansorka
Boy Scout
Devilbiss Bory Scout Reservation
Here
School Musicians Take Top Ratings in Lorain Contest
Seventeen superior and four percent excellent ratings were awarded to Lorain County students at the third annual solo and ensemble contest at Clearview High School. Wellington led with four superior and eight excellent ratings, with Brownhelm and Columbia also earning multiple honors across vocal, instrumental, and ensemble categories involving students like Jeanne Farey, Esther Kaetzel, Jeanne Wise, and Donald Brenner among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Clearview High School
Wellington School
Brownhelm
Columbia
Jeanne Farey
South Amherst
Esther Kaetzel
Henrietta
Ruth Secrest
Huntington
Vernon Burkett
Lois Mae Coe
Raymond McQuate
Violet Baich
Paul Bottomley
Earl Redmond
Ladora Youngless
Norman Youngless
Gareta Huff
Wellington
Don Swanger
Violet Long
Robert Allen
Harold Krueck
Norman Walton
John E. Love
Brownheim
Anna Buswell
Warren Church
Norman Watters
Dick MacDermott
Donald Swanger
Virginia Putt
Donald Brenner
Robert Wilson
Avon Lake
Oliver Shubert
Murray Ridge
Alvin Portman
Cathryn Fowell
County
John Hoffman
Gladys Balazs
Penfield
Elvira
Robert Pomeroy
Bud Hofman
Thomas Davis
Sid Sprague
Elizabeth Churchward
John Vasko
Clearview
Camilla Townsend
Brookside
Marian Heusner
Frances Sanders
Ruth Corbett
Joan Drew
Helen Bartlome
Sophie Yarmack
Henrietta Girls
Mary Thomas
Ardeth Bauman
Phyllis Port
Nettie Naegele
Jeanne Wise
Lois Youtzy
Elyria
Columbia High School
Dorothy Koepke
Rowena Ingersoll
Dorothy Stinchcomb
Lake Avenue
Hilda Binder
Esther Gibbons
Ruth Schumacher
Vivian Posey
Robert Cromling
Gerald Laver
Herbert Starkey
Albert Kozell
Eileen Cassell
Jane Toma
Ridgeville
Mary Bamford
Janet Irons
Russell Anderson
James Walsh
Frances Forbush
Lola Conklin
Phyllis Rawson
LaGrange
Martha Woods
Robert Bavory
William Lott
Ruth Miller
Amherst
Eaton
Ruth McClafflin
Huntingon
Gene Dunford
Virginia Lauren
Robert Jones
Marjorie Jones
Wilma Brewer
Charles Wallace
Margaret Fry
Merle Coe
Firemen Answer Two Alarms No Damage Found
Firemen of Hose Company No 1 were called out twice last night and early this morning but found no damage from either fire. The first at 9 40 p m was at L M Bough ton Apt 2 312 East Broad Street where chimney soot had ignited from the furnace fire. A second alarm at 1 41 a m reported an automobile owned by H C Harlan of Columbus on 351 Broad Street on fire in front of the vehicle. backfire through the carburetor was blamed and the fire was extinguished by the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Boughton
Apt. 2
East Broad Street
H. C. Harlan
Columbus
Broad Street
Legion Ready to Send Flood Relief Supplies
The Elrria post members expect to depart midweek with flood relief, the Legion flood station will stay open with a on duty to receive offerings until all supplies are sent. Dispatching had paused after a report that no more clothing was needed, but resumed this morning as Smith and Welsh located needy areas. Local Legion and Auxiliary workers have spent a week packing and preparing shipments, awaiting available trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elrria
Legion
Smith
Welsh
Legion Auxiliary
Red Cross flood relief effort boosted by fundraiser
The British Empire Club plans a Wednesday charity show to aid flood relief with all proceeds going to the Red Cross. Elyria aims to raise about six thousand dollars after initial reports show 250,000 flood refugees needing care and a national minimum need of fifteen million nine hundred thousand and fifty dollars. Local officials hope to exceed the six thousand goal as more donations arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvrra
National Red Cross
Washington
Red Cross
Cheney
Elyria
Refugee Shelter Aid Reaches Towns and Churches
Medicine and supplies reach the affected towns as they furnish churches and other public buildings to shelter refugees. Local authorities coordinate relief efforts to provide care, housing, and basic necessities for those displaced by the crisis.
Six Continued From Page Number Six Deaths From Local Accidents
A list of local traffic and accident incidents in Lorain and Cleveland areas is reported. Names include Donald Wright and family, Louis Moorhead, Charles Evanson, Leonard Barnes, and multiple Lorain residents. Injuries range from fractures to minor, with several crashes near Amherst and Lorain and several hospitalizations noted at St Joseph's and Elyria Memorial.
Elyria Lawyers Club elects new officers at annual meeting
Justice of the Peace Joseph Q. Petro was elected president of the Elyria Lawyers Club at the annual meeting here Saturday, succeeding John K. Nece. Harvey Cheney city solicitor is vice president, Lawrence Aschenbach secretary and treasurer. Trustees elected include Judge A. R. Webber and Andrew Ormsby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Joseph Q. Petro
Elyria
Van Sweringen Co. Wins $1200 Verdict in Real Estate Contract Suit
Judge Guy B. Findley awarded The Van Sweringen Company $1,200 against H. H. Nye as administrator of the estate of Eoline K. Spaulding. The decision stems from non performance of a contract for the purchase of Shaker Heights real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Sweringen Company
Guy B. Findley
H. H. Nye
Eoline K. Spaulding
Shaker Heights
Funeral services for Minnie Schultz Flowers
Mrs Minnie Schultz Flowers of 223 Eighth Street died at Elyria Memorial Hospital January 30. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p m at Bitner Funeral Home with Reverend E J Bond officiating. Burial will be in Wakeman Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Schultz Flowers
Eighth Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Bittner Funeral Home
E. J. Bond
Wakeman Cemetery
Mrs Grace Babcock Dies After Operation in Elyria
Grace Babcock 45 wife of Arthur Babcock of Napoleon Ohio died Sunday morning at Elyria Memorial Hospital after an operation. Born January 30 1852 in Antwerp Ohio she is survived by her husband her mother Mrs Clara Belle Miller and three Elyria sisters Mrs Leo Otten Mrs Lester Hamilton and Mrs Maude Jackson. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon in Napoleon with burial there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Babcock
Arthur Babcock
Napoleon, Ohio
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Babcock
Antwerp
Ohio
Clara Belle Miller
Elyria
Leo Otten
Lester Hamilton
Maude Jackson
Napoleon
Infant Joanne Ives Dies After One Week Illness
Joanne Carole Ives aged years daughter of Mr and Mrs Horace Ives of Indian Hollow Road died at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a week long pneumonia. She was born February 13, 1936 and is survived by her parents a brother John Ira Ives and two sisters Beverly Jeanne and Audrey Elaine Ives grandparents Ira Ives and Sylvia Bruce. Sudro Curtis Funeral Home will host calling hours with services Tuesday at 1 30 pm officiated by Dr A E Kemp and burial at LaPorte Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joanne Carole Ives
Horace
Avon Village man Frank Knipper dies after yearlong illness
Frank Knipper died at his Avon Village home Sunday at 2 45 PM after a year long illness. He was born January 5 1883 in Avon township and lived there all his life as a meat cutter. Surviving are his wife Edith his mother Mrs Ger Joseph of Avon brothers Herbert Center and Carl of Cleveland sisters Mrs C B McAllister Mrs J Miski of Lorain and Mrs B Burkett of Beverly Hills California. Body to Welsh Funeral Home then to the late residence for calling hours. Funeral at St Marys Avon Wednesday at 9 00 AM officiated by Fr George Stuber. Burial in St Marys Cemetery Avon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Knipper
Avon Village
Avon Township
Edith Knipper
Ger- Joseph
Avon
Herbert
Dover
Knipper
Center
Carl
Cleveland
C. B. McAllister
Detroit Road
J. Miski
General Motors Faces Court Action Over Plant Closures
Thirty-one defendants including Homer Martin and C L O representatives were ordered to show cause why a General Motors injunction should not be granted. Union leaders planned sit downs and mass meetings outside the court, while reports said GM aimed to reopen 17 strike-locked plants as peace talks stalled. GM said 123,724 of 149,249 workers affected support an immediate back-to-work movement. Buick plant to reopen today with 2,000 returning. by week’s end an estimated 6,009 back at work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Motors
Homer Martin
Automobile Union
C. Ll. O
Cadola
Court House
Fisher
Buick
Production Credit Association To Meet
Activities of the Elrra Production Credit Association during 1936 will be reviewed and directors for 1937 will be elected at the association's annual meeting at Wellington Wednesday. The meeting is scheduled to start at 10 a. m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elrra Production Credit Association
Wellington
Nine Year Old Mountain Bride Learns Wife Duties
Sneedville Tenn February 1 nine year old Emilce Winstead Johns became the wife of Charlie Johns thirteen years her senior in a mountain ceremony performed by Reverend Walter Lamb in a roadside marriage. The child wears a gold band signaling her new status as wife as neighbors split over the match while the couple plans to build a home on a forty acre plot and cattle purchase precedes their life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sneedville
Tenn
Emilce Winstead Johns
Ito Crable
Charlie Johns
Tennessee
Knoxville
Eunice
Cumberlands
Charlie
Lewis Winstead
John
Walter Lamb
Here
Lamb
Preacher Lamb
Levee Campaign To Hold Mississippi Flood Line
The Army and Red Cross rallied to defend the Mississippi flood plain as 100000 workers bolster levees along the main river system from Bessie Tennessee toward Kentucky. Engineers announced a comprehensive plan to patrol and repair every foot of levee while race to boats continued at warning sites including Tiptonville and Reelfoot Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Eugene Reybold
Mississippi
Bessie
Tenn
Kentucky- Tennessee Line
Tiptonville
Reelfoot Lake
Markets Cleveland Livestock Cattle Receipts Steady
Cleveland livestock market reports steady demand for cattle with receipts indicating choic e cattle around 1100 pounds. Prices and exact figures are not fully listed in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Thefts Reported In Farm and Gas Station Incidents
Deputy sheriffs pursued a farm hand suspected of stealing 25 dollars and a 38 caliber revolver from the Carl Fowl farm on West Ridge yesterday. Another theft was reported by Anthony McGinnis of Amherst who said a mechanic tool kit 50 feet of rope and pulleys were stolen from the Sheldon gas station at LaGrange on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Fowl
West Ridge
Sheriff Department
Anthony McGinnis
Amherst
Mediac
Sheldon
LaGrange
Local Police Checking Records In Cleveland
Detective Lloyd Sweet and Patrolman Melvin Olmstead of the local police, in Cleveland today, checked with Sixth City authorities about the Foster-Fitch Clothing store robbery last October. Sweet leads the local probe. Olmstead is a witness. Trials of defendants Alex Berlin and Ernest Daniels, both of Cleveland, are expected soon on the current docket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Sweet
Melvin Olmstead
Cleveland
Sixth City
Foster-Fitch
Sweet
Olmstead
Alex Berlin
Ernest Daniels
Levee Patrols Guard Against Floods As Rivermen Rally
Government and levee board patrols coordinate day and night to monitor trouble zones along the Mississippi. Civilian engineers map sandbail and seepage risks while reserve labor crews, towboats, and barges mass at strategic points. President Roosevelt’s Flood Survey Committee led by Hopkins and Markham arrives in Memphis to assess the river. Sandbag walls fail under wind and current, workers evacuated to safety as steamboats and skiffs aid in rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Edwin Markham
Army Engineers
Thomas Parran
James L. Fieser
Red Cross
Roosevelt
Memphis
Gates Landing
Cattle, Calves, Sheep and Hogs Market Prices
Receipts and price ranges for cattle, calves, sheep and hogs with varying grades and weights. Beef cattle reported at 7.00 to 12.50 per cwt, calves 9.00 to 12.50, sheep and lambs up to 10.65, hogs from 9.00 to 10.50 per cwt, market changes noted as mixed to steady or higher.
Cleveland Produce and Live Poultry Market Report Summary
Market report shows steady greens with extra 36c at Rutter Market. Eggs steady with various grades priced. live poultry steady with hens and leghorns and assorted weights. turkeys, ducks, geese and capons listed. potatoes including Idaho No.1 and Ohio No.1 prices and crate and carton quotes across several sizes and regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Idaho
Ohio
Florida
Maine
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bluebird
C. of C
Shipyard
Scout
O'Donnell
Philadelphia
Donald Wright
Benton Wiedler
M. J. Finnegan
Wright
Welsh Funeral Home
Louis Moorhead
Richard Moorhead
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Charles Evanson
West 122Nd Street
Leonard Barnes
Chestnut Ridge Road
John Fulton
Jobo Hudak
Sheffield Lake Village
Mary Fiesy
Alfred Larson
Oscar Jacobson
Carl Strohsack
Furnace Street
Theresa Gubeno
James Dubesa
Amherst-South
Dick Franklin
Eastern Heights Boulevard
G. E. Knapp
Box 41
Litchfield
West River Street
Franklin
Knapp
Harry Carino
Magyar Street
Clyde Houghtaling
East Avenue
Chester Dombroski
West 18Th Street
Frank Dorinski
Fast 20Th Street
Lodi Street
Steve Szabo
Second Street
West River
Furnace
Szabo
Lawyers Club
Frank Kanipper
Production Credit Association
Crystal
Murbach
Feat
Phone
Paul Fairleigh
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Cleveland Produce
F. A. Humphrey
Sederis Restaurant
Huntington Center
Jerseys
Chester
A. B. Jones
Clayton H. Sooy
Carl Webber
Gordon H. Gower
H. H. Benham
Elyria, Ohio
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