Storms threaten central states as news of winter weather spreads
A Pacific coast storm moves inland toward central states bringing snow, rain, and flood worries from the Rockies to the Alleghenies. Floods and ground instability hamper northern Illinois and western Michigan while dust storms threaten central and western Kansas winter wheat. Temperatures rise except in the east as a milder trend moves toward the Atlantic seaboard. A legends about groundhog shadow predicts spring timing. Rescuers free stranded students near Sunmora after a bus breakdown and Boulder Creek floods force evacuations. Government engineers plan to dynamite an ice gorge at the Aw Tram river mouth to ease rising waters. Several homes flood Au Train and a lumber camp is marooned 23 miles east of Tig Bay. Continuous updates expect more storm impact and road closures.
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United Press
Pacific Coast
Central States
Rockies
Alleghenies
Elinais
Stumm
Werpus
San Francisco
College of the Hugitic
Sunmora
Cal
Pitty
Boulder Creek
Peninesila
Michigan
Mauunising
Au Train
Tig Bay
Midway
Elyria Chamber Plans Annual Meeting Speaker Named
Preparations for the Elyria Chamber of Commerce annual meeting began with the board's meeting last night. Dr. James Shelby Thomas of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering in Detroit will speak. The date is tentatively set for April 15. A ballots review committee of ten was appointed to verify director ballots, due back by 5 PM next Tuesday.
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Elyria Chamber of Commerce
James Shelby Thomas
Chrysler Institute of Engineering
Dettroit
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Don Cornish
Jack Hannaford
Rk. J. Williamson
Raymond Ritter
A. M. Hutchinson
David Hyman
Ralph Standen
BE. R. Reger
Kenneth Bolamer
R. B. Struilers
Weather update from Ohio to New England coast
Cloudy and warmer tonight in Ohio with Thursday showers expected in the south. The Great Lakes high moved to New England coast while Canada sees higher pressure. a Colorado low develops as central valleys and plains warm. Light snows in Upper Lake Region with widespread snow in North Dakota Montana and Canadian prairies. rain along Pacific coast and in Florida.
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Ohio
Great Lakes
New England
Canada
North Pacific
Colorado
Plains
Upper Lake Region
North Dakota
Montana
Canadian Prairie
Pacific Coast
Florida
Milk Producers Meet In Annual Session Monday
Lorain County Milk Producers Association holds its annual meeting at Carlisle Grange Hall next Monday with talks by C. P Christian of the Milk Producers Federation and Clarence Burke former state senator. Nine directors will be elected representing county at large shipping to Lorain Elyria and Amherst, with about 160 members. Merle Penfaund is president and Vark Dimaline is secretary treasurer. Sessions begin 10:30 a.m with a morning and afternoon program and a free lunch for members.
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Lorain County Milk Producers Association
Carlisle Grange Hall
C. P Christian
Milk Producers' Federation of
Cleveland
Clarence Burke
Vermilian
Lorain
Elyria
Amherst
Lorain County
Merle Penfaund
Vark Dimaline
Hood
Y M C A program outlined to Rotarians at Elks meeting
Carl Wagner YMCA program director spoke to Rotarians at the Elks restaurant about a busy boys program. He said the gymnasium is at capacity with boys and men, a 15 team Junior League with 12 year olds, and a new class for high school boys. The YMCA aims to develop mentally, physically, socially and spiritually sound boys and asks the community to view the organization as a charitable effort benefiting social betterment, not merely athletics. Continued on page 2.
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Rotarians
Det
Yo MW. C. A
Drafting Rules On Jail Visitation
Chief Deputy William G. Smith announced the drafting of jail visitation rules governing prisoner correspondence, permissible items from visitors, and visiting privileges. He noted rules have been enforced as policy but no printed set existed, and printed regulations could be issued at little cost at the prisoners' correspondence paper.
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William G. Smith
Smith
Hold Up At Columbus Nets $1200 At Fi Feneral Savings
Three men robbed the Fi Feneral Savings & Loan Co in Columbus Ohio taking 1200 from cash drawers. Bank staff including secretary Herbert Deems clerk Helen Tannehintiarelerk and clerk Margaret Fletcher were ordered into a back room. Witnesses described the bandits as they fled, with one clerk recalling little detail. The bank sits on the west side.
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Columbus
Fi Feneral Savings & Loan Co
Herbert Deems
Sayings Association
Helen Tannehintitarelerk
Margaret Fletcher
Admiral Leahy says U S Navy will not join foreign powers
Washington February 2 Admiral William Leahy chief of naval operations told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the U S Navy has no plans to join any foreign power in war He rejected charges that America aims to police the world and said the program follows the five five three ratio justifying increased naval strength to about 20 percent under consideration.
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Washington
William Dr. Leahy
U. S. Navy
Leahy
House
Rur
Che Vinsen
Senate
Carl Vilson D
Green Likely To Be Expelled By Mine Workers
Delegates of the United Mine Workers of America moved to expel William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, as tensions with John L. Lewis committee for Industrial Organization rose. The UMWA struck references to the AFL from its constitution, with a committee expected to present expulsion recommendations today, following constitutional revisions and delegate transportation payments.
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Green
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industria Organization
OI OL
A. F. of
Ofticials
League Urges Action to Halt Far East War
Geneva February 2 10 The League of Nations council approved a resolution inviting members to consider sending aid to China in the Far East conflict. It urged nations with interests there to seek retirement of the undeclared war and to cooperate for a just settlement. China’s delegate Dr V K Wellington Koo urged action to halt Japan’s campaign and press for peace through cooperation of peace loving countries.
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Geneva
League of Nations Council
China
Far East
League Assembly
V. K. Wellington Koo
League
Japan
Experts Scoff At Ground Hog Legend
Washington amid skepticism from government mammalogists who say no groundhog reliably greets February 2 shadows and that the superstition predicting six more weeks of winter has no significance. Weather officials echoed that the best forecast is the official forecast on the newspaper front page.
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Washington
Tis Hole
Weather Bureau
Charles L. Mitchell
Wisconsin farm and home week honors five for service
The University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture honored five individuals for unusual service to agriculture in Wisconsin and the nation during the first major event of the annual farm and home week. Recipients include Mrs. Winifred Wallace Erickson of Pigeon Falls noted for community life work, George Pope of Darien for dairy and club work, Hermanhde of Neenah as longtime state Grange master, and Samuel D. Sanders, federal Farm Credit Administration official in Washington, D. C.
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University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Winifred Wallace Erickson
Pigeon Falls
George Pope
Darien
Hermanshde
Neenah
Wis
The
Grange
State Council of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Samuel D. Sanders
Co-Operative Bank
Federal Farm Credit Administration
Washington, D. C
Acme
Little Businessmen's Congress Stormy Start Abandons Session
The Little Businessmen's Congress opened amid allegations that Fred Roth of Cleveland was chosen by the administration to preside. Charles Schnor of Springdale sparked disorder, prompting Ernest Draper to take over as chair and eventually move the meeting to round-table conferences with approval from over 90 percent of the delegates.
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Washington
Congress
Fred Roth
Cleveland
Charles H. Schnor
Springdale
Ernest G. Draper
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel Roper
Roosevelt
Draper
Roth
Roper
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Britain to toughen antipiracy actions in Med after Endymion sinking
Britain weighs strong protest to Spanish Nationalists and steps to harden the antipiracy patrol after the Endymion was sunk off Spain. Cabinet and Ny on anti piracy pact signatories meet as destroyers scour the western Mediterranean for the submarine believed based at Menorca.
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London
Endymion
Spain
Mediterranean
Nyon
Anthony Keten
Andre Charles Corbin
Dino Grandi
Halian
Dudley Pound
Manorca
Baleaiics Islands
Daily Mail
Britain
Firedrake
Forester
Fortune
Fury
Faulkner
Fearleas
Foresight
Foxhound
Gibraltar
House of Commons
Commons
New FHA Bill Heads To President For Signature
Ohio business leaders and labor reps react with guarded optimism to the newly passed Federal Housing Bill. A. L. Guekeri notes potential for more home building if signed, citing loans could flow with government insurance. The bill lowers down payments to 10 percent for homes under 6,000 and extends repayment to 25 years, with FHA insuring up to 90 percent on new homes. Don Tobin says the measure could stimulate buying, though the program may still be debated.
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Columbus
Ohio
A. L. Guekeri
FHA
Roosevelt
Don Tobin
Ohio Building Association League
Former Elyria teacher Amy Saye 32 years dies
Friday funeral for Miss Amy M. Saye longtime Elyria school teacher who died yesterday at Oberlin. Born May 13 1866 in Ridgeville she began teaching at 16 and served Elyria schools from 1895 to 1927 retiring due to ill health. Survived by sister Mrs John Fisher of Avon and several nieces and nephews. Services at 2 30 p m Friday Ridgeville Congregational Church where she was a member.
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Amy M. Saye
Elyria
Oberlin
Miss Saye
Hidgeville
John and
Mariam Parker Saye
Saye
John F “Sher
Avon
Ridgeville
Voted Since 1897 But Becomes Citizen Today
Marion Ohio report notes W. M. Ireland, who had voted in every election since 1897 after moving to the area, finally became a United States citizen today. He learned by a courts clerk in Michigan that he had filed for citizenship back in 1892, but only recently realized he was still Canadian and eligible for an Old Age Pension.
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Marion, O
W. M. Ireland
United States
Michigan
Forgotten Man Offers Nine Point Plan At Conference
Wm Robert Kaempfer of New York identifying as the Forgotten Man arrived at a conference with a nine point plan to halt the recession. He proposed a 3 million WEA jobs deferral, Wages and Hours reform, a housing plan for industrial cities, Wright Patman price controls, dropping the Fort Knox gold-buying plan, wage cuts for building trades, expanded credit for small business, continued excess profits and corporate gains taxes, and expanding WPA to boost purchasing power.
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Washington
Robert Kaempfer
New York
Kaempfer
Congress
Wright Patman
Gould
Fort Knox
Auto Safety Device Plays Familiar Hymn
A Boston University School of Theology exhibit showcased a car safety device. It flashes a white dashboard light at 14 mph, green at 25 mph, red at 40 mph, and plays Nearer My God To Thee on a music box at 60 mph.
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Boston
Boston University School of Theology
Kiwanians Hear Social Security Office Manager
Miss Margaret F Bolton manager of the Lorain Social Security office will speak at the Elyria Kiwanis Club noon meeting at the Stone Hotel on old age pensions. Directors meet Monday evening to discuss a new meeting place for February 17 with W H Crane Lester FBI inspector slated as speaker and many guests expected.
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Margaret F. Bolton
Lorain
Social Security Board
Elyria Kiwanis Club
Stone Hotel
W. H. Crane Lester
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Groundhog Lodge Proclaims Six Weeks More Winter
In Quarryville Pennsylvania on February 2 members of the Slumbering Ground Hog Lodge conducted their annual shadow test. Led by Defender at the Faith Joseph Richlieu Swinehart the group watched groundhog holes to decide if winter continues or spring arrives. Local businessmen makeup the lodge with a tradition laced ceremony and a procession ending with a church dinner and ceremonial readings.
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Quarryville
U.R
Hog Lodge
Joseph Richlieu Swinehart
Marmot
Hfe
Jon Swinehart
George Washington Hensel
al Fritz
Hugh Gilbert
Wilzam Lfengel
B. SP. B
Report Two of Crew Have Perished
PARIS, Feb. 2. The seaplane piloted by Mario Stoppani, an Italian aviator returning from Brazil on a round trip from Italy, crashed in the South Atlantic today. A German seaplane from the air mail catapult steamer Westfalen reported it had found the Stoppani plane in flames and that only Stoppani was alive of its three crew members. Earlier messages from Stoppani said engine trouble and urged help as he stated he was turning back to Brazil.
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Bulletin
Paris
Mario Stoppani
Brazil
Italy
South Atlantic
Air Mail
Westfalen
Stoppani Plate
Stoppani
Japanese Capture Key Rail Post South of Pengpu
Shanghai reports cite Dom ei News Agency that Japanese Storm Troops captured a rail post on the Tientsin Nanking line south of Pengpu aiding their advance toward Pengpu and signaling a climactic phase of the Hsuchow battle while Chinese forces in Hangchow area claim a Japanese commander was killed by soldiers in plain clothes.
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Shanghai
Domei
Tientsin-Nanking
Pengpu
Pengepu
Hsuchow
Hangchow
Pension Bill Heads to House Floor for World War Widows and Orphans
The first World War pension bill moves to the House, offering $22 monthly for widows and $6 per month for each child under 18. It would cover 94,000 deceased veterans' families and costs could reach about $34 million the first year, potentially doubling in year two.
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Washington
House
Frank T. Hines
House Pensions Committee
Congress
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
House World War Veterans Committee
Boys Plan Trips From Elyria Y M C A Rally
A 1938 camp rally at the Elyria Y M C A outlines a series of May and June trips to Ohio points of interest for boys who attended Camp Iss See Kes or show interest. Leaders Herman Geyer and Carl Wagner say the program includes visits to the Ohio Penitentiary, Plue Hole, Senta Caves, a dirigible hangar, a rubber plant, and spectacular local sites, building toward next summer’s Indian program.
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Ohio
Elyria Y. M. C. A
Iss- See-Kes
Vermilion River
Herman Geyer
Carl Wagner
Ohio Penitentiary
Columbus
Plue
Cam Talla
Cue Senta
Oblo
Grheebrant
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Moss
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Lierd
Terman Uhde
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Charles Miles
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