Earthquake Toll Climbs as New Zealand Aid Races In
New Zealand tremor toll climbs into hundreds as relief forces move into Hawkes Bay cities Napier Hastings and adjacent towns. Deaths near 300 in Napier with thousands injured. evacuation orders issued for Napier city. A daughter’s family in Wellington reported safe via cable as fears eased for Mrs. Hoffner.
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E. W. Hoffner
Fifteenth Street
Wellington
New Zealand
Auckland
Napier
Hastings
Napler
Hastings quake toll and a sister in Hastings
Walter H. Watts follows New Zealand earthquake reports with personal concern as 100 killed in Hastings and many injured. Fires raged at Napier, seventeen bodies found at the hospital ruins, surgeons performed operations by candle light, a temporary hospital was set up on the race course.
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Napier
Elyrian
New Zealand
Justice of the Peace
Walter H. Watts
Hastings
Watts
Harry Date
England
Ohio Forecast Calls for Fair, Cooler Tonight
Ohio weather expects fair conditions with a light fall in temperature tonight and a gradual rise Thursday. Yesterday’s high reached 80 in Phoenix, 70 in Oklahoma City and Shreveport, while Cochrane reported 18 below, Port Arthur 2 below and White River 30 below. High pressure over the middle states moves east, bringing fair skies. Shippers forecast winds from the north to west with modest above readings.
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Ohio
Phoenix
Oklahoma City
Shreveport
Cochrane
Port Arthur
White River
Middle States
Ohio Valley
Shippers
North
Hoover refuses compromise on drought relief funds
President Hoover at breakfast with Senators McNary and Watson stated he would not concede to any drought relief plan that used government funds for charitable purposes. The dispute centers on relief appropriations and Congress resistance.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
McNary
Ore
Watson
Ind
Walter Newton
Senate
U. S. Dirigible Los Angeles To Fly To Cuba Today
The Navy says the airship Los Angeles will depart Lakehurst New Jersey at 6 p.m. EST for Guantanamo Cuba. Lt Commander W A Clarke leads the mission and asks the Guantanamo base mast to be ready to receive at sunset tomorrow.
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U. S. Dirigible
Cuba
Washington
Navy Department
Los Angeles
Lake Hurst
N. J
Guantanamo
W. A. Clarke
Guatanamo Naval Base
Explosion sinks RAF plane in Plymouth Sound
A Royal Air Force bomber crashed in Plymouth Sound and exploded, sinking the ship. One officer and seven men were missing, while four others aboard were rescued. The incident occurred on February 4 in Plymouth.
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Plymouth
Eng
Royal Air Force
Plymouth Sound
Sears Named to Ohio Day Post
Governor White announced the appointment of Clarence H. Sears of Chillicothe as state prohibition commissioner. Sears, a former Ohio Canners' Association president, Kansas law graduate, and 40-year resident of Chillicothe, was Democratic candidate for Ross County recorder in 1930. appointment awaits Senate confirmation.
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Columbus
White
Clarence H. Sears
Chillicothe
Sears
Ohio Canners’ Association
University of Kansas
Ross
Senate
Rotarians Plan Weekly Food Drive for Needy Families
Elyria Rotary members at Hotel Newell yesterday agreed to aid the needy by weekly donations. Food articles will be left in a box each Tuesday, the club’s meeting day, for distribution. Acton Brownell of Cleveland spoke on Debits and Credits for Rotary. A M Hannaford led the singing.
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Elyria Rotarians
Newell
Acton Brownell
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Rotary Club
Rotary
A. M. Hannaford
Elyria Plans Fund To Aid Industrial Development
Plans to obtain underwriting for the Elyria Investment Company to support industrial growth in Elyria are underway. The company will lease land and buildings, manage industrial properties, own securities, and fund needed aid, with a $100000 capital and no salaries from capital. Directors list J C Crisp E Jay Howenstine C Hi Tucker R Vandemark with expansion planned.
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Elyria Investment Company
Elyria Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee
Elyria and
Chamber of Commerce
Industraal Development Committee
Elyria
Elyrians
J.C. Crisp
E. Jay Howenstine
Charity asks reward given for tonnage record at Steel and Tubes
Elyria’s needy families may benefit as Steel and Tubes, Inc. reports its plant department will break a tonnage record this week. Traditionally the recordbreakers receive cigars, but this group asked to donate the value to charity instead, sending a letter to Mayor James A. Hewitt.
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Elyria
of Steel and Tubes, Inc
James A. Hewitt
Plans For Elyria Boys Washington Trip
H W Korner Y M C A boys work secretary announces Elyria High School boys travel plan for spring vacation. The trip runs March 28 to April 4 covering about 1100 miles with visits to Washington Frederickstown Annapolis Alexandria Mt Vernon Baltimore and Gettysburg. David Eaton of the coaching staff serves as assistant director.
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Washington
Elyria
H. W.orner
Korner
M.C. A
Frederickstown
Alexandria
Mt. Vernon
Annapolis
Baltimore
Gettysburg
David Eaton
Elyria High School
Wis
Jury awards $9179 in auto crash suit
Marcella Kelch was awarded a verdict for $9179 against George Schweda by a jury in common pleas court yesterday. The suit originally was for $10,000 for injuries received in an automobile accident.
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Marcella Kelch
George Schweda
Common Pleas Court
Ohio bill proposes 17th district with Ashland and others
A bill to create new congressional districts in Ohio to add two seats after the 1930 census is proposed. The plan, endorsed by the Citizens League of Cleveland, would redraw districts including Ashland Erie Huron Lorain and Richland counties into the seventeenth district with a 209 692 population.
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Ashland, Erie, Huron Lorain
Richland Counties
Columbus
Ohio Senate
L. L. Marshall
Cleveland
Citizens League of Cleveland
Toledo
Dayton
Akron
Youngstown
Canton
Senate Committee On Elections
Ohio
Hamilton County
Adams
Brown
Butler
Clermont
Clinton
High
Ashland
Erie
Huron
Lorain
Richland
Ashtabula
Geauga, Lake, Portage
Trumbull
Butler Faces Court Martial After Philadelphia Speech
Major General Smedley B Butler planned to leave confinement at Quantico to travel to Washington for a court martial at the Philadelphia Naval Yard on February 16. He will be charged likely with conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline over his Philadelphia speech depicting Mussolini as a hit and run motorist. He will confer with chief counsel Major Henry Leonard and may be joined by other friends in forming a defense.
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Washington
Smedley D. Butler
Quantico
Philadelphia Naval Yard
Navy Department
Butler
Philadelphia
Mussolini
Italy
Builer
Henry Leonard
Marine Corps
Elyria Finishes Sanitary Sewage Ejector Station on Mound Street
The sanitary sewage ejector station on Mound Street is complete with installation of equipment to be finished in 10 days. It will collect waste from Pine Cedar Center and part of East avenue, cross the river, and discharge into a main trunk sewer on East River Street. The project cost about 17 500 dollars. Low water ejector stations at Tannery and Water streets and relief sewers are planned as part of a 900 000 dollar sewer program including treatment works. Additional siphon crossings and the Blaine Street sewer will carry sewer flows with an estimated 30 000 dollar cost.
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Mound Street
J. N. Bildt
Elyria
Center
East Avenue
East River Street
West Avenue
Fourth Street
Ninth Street
Blaine Street
City of Lorain sued for fifty thousand dollars
Mrs Ottie L Reardon files in common pleas court claiming 50 000 in damages after injuring herself by stepping into a hole in a sidewalk on Streeter Place November 22. She accuses the City of Lorain of negligence.
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Lorain
Common Pleas Court
Ottie L. Reardon
Reardon
Streeter Place
Vanderbilt Substantiates His Assertion That He Interviewed Mussolini
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr says in a Los Angeles letter that his 1926 interview with Benito Mussolini formed the basis for Major General Smedley D. Butler's remarks about Mussolini and a fatal car incident. State Department has received the letter but not its contents.
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Leicester Wagner
United Press Staff Corp
Washington
State Department
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Mussolini
Mary Whicher
Smedley BD
Butler
Phiadelphia
Vanderbilt
Tucson
Ariz
Henry L. Stimson
Department
Los Angeles
Muscolini
Philadelphia
Navy
Butler- Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Smedley D. Butler
Phoenix
United States
Builer
Boreas
Rome
Europe
Stalin
Piludski
Clemenceau
Doumergue
Poincare
Joffre
Foch
Pershing
King Alfonso
Lloyd George
Baldwin
Trotsky
Kaiser
Il Duce
Emily Taft Dies in Winter Florida Home
Mrs. Emily Tilden Taft of Lorain died in Eustis Florida on Tuesday February 3rd during wintering with husband Charles Taft. The Tafts funded 26500 toward the Elyria Home for the Aged Taft Memorial unit and held a prominent local profile born in Amherst taught painting in Vermilion and traveled abroad. Funeral plans await Lorain arrival Monday morning. MAKE DITCH VIEW County commissioners viewed the Steelton ditch to Carlisle township today regarding an improvement request.
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Emily Tilden Taft
Lorain
Eustis
Florida
Taft
Make Ditch View
Carlisle
Rogers championed Grafton farm independence bill
P H Rogers of Grafton and state legislator announced that his bill to make the Grafton State Farm an independent institution passed both houses without a dissenting vote. He said the budget estimate for the farm is 1,049,400 dollars and appears favorable for a major development in Lorain County.
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Grafton
P. H. Rogers
Grafton State Farm
Rogers
Grafton Farm
Lorain County
Columbia Township Residents Win First Skirmish
Residents of Columbia township secured a temporary injunction restraining work on a proposed dynamite and nitroglycerin magazine. Judge A B Webber granted the order served on workers by Sheriff Clarence Adams, suspending activity on the project.
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Columbia Township
A. BR. Webber
the Magazine
Clarence Adams
Adams
A. Kuender
Henry and
Emma Dreger
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company
John Doe
du Pont de Nemours Company
A. G. Yawhberg
Homer Wilkinson
Yawberg
Lawrence Webber
Res
Suit Seeks $200 From Mendelson Reduction Company
Philip Lytwak of Lorain files a $200 damage suit against Mendelson Reduction Co alleging his car was damaged in a collision with the defendant's truck on January 1 in Lorain.
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Philip Lytwak
Lorain
Mendelson Reduction Company
Fox
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