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Newspaper

The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 05, 1940

Page

6

Elyria Chronicle Telegram circulation bureau audit notice

The Lorain County Printing & Publishing Company publishes the Elyria Chronicle Telegram evenings except Sundays and holidays. Rates include 18 cents per week for carriers and 9.15 dollars per year in advance. outside Elyria and within Lorain and adjoining counties four dollars yearly. elsewhere in Ohio five dollars yearly. foreign advertising services listed in Chicago New York Columbus Detroit offices.

Elyria OWIO Bursau Lorain County Printing & Publishing Company Rare & GC Hupnutt J Clarke Ceohge Elyria Postoffice Callie CIA Lorain Ohio John W. Cullen Company Chicago North Michigan Ave New York Fifth Ave Columbus South Third St Detroit General Motors

Those Good Old Barefoot Days

A Washington dispute over government pamphlet art arose when Katharine Lenroot ordered covers removed from a children in a democracy pamphlet set showing three barefoot youngsters. The piece, reflecting memory and rural youth, faced critique for implying urban children go shoeless, while many kids still go barefoot when allowed.

Washington Katharine Lenroot Federal Children’s Bureau Whittier

Japan's Economy Slowed by Worsening Power Shortage

The piece notes Japan's pinch from power cuts and fuel scarcity, with electric clocks stopped and factories shuttered except war-related plants. It cites reduced gas and electricity, labor constraints, and a dependence on United States trade amid a broader struggle to sustain its new Asia order.

Japan United States China Hachiro Arita Diet Asia

Unsafe furnace choices spark winter house fires

Cold weather fires arise from furnaces undersized for severe cold and from drafts left open after firing. Overheating, poor installation, and dealers selling low capacity units contribute. Complacent maintenance, memory failure, and absent caution around drafts worsen risk. better engineering and careful installation could curb many fires.

Your Federal Income Tax Duplicate Return Requirement

Federal law requires all taxpayers to file a duplicate copy of their 1939 income tax return on the green duplicate form or a photostatic copy. The copy must be complete with schedules, except specified exclusions, and may be inspected only by government officials as permitted, not by the general public. Penalties apply for failure to file.

State Insurance Department Collector of Internal Revenue Secretary of the Treasury

London to reopen deep level tunnel as air raid shelter

The world’s first deep level tube railway, buried 80 feet underground along half a mile of South London, abandoned 48 years ago, will be revived as an air raid shelter for up to 8,000 people with planned safety and comfort provisions.

London

Eskimo Genius! Anthony Fokker’s early aeroplane feats

In 1911 Anthony H. G. Fokker built an airplane and at 21 taught himself to fly. Within 48 hours he demonstrated the first synchronized machine gun to fire through a propeller. His scarce, improvised designs earned him a legendary role in early aviation before his death in 1939 at 49.

Tony Fokkrer Anthony H. G. Fokker Java Fokker North Pole

Elyria Bird Feeding Appeal Urges Public Aid

A local Elyria bird lover appealed for residents to feed song birds during severe weather. He cited an interstate trucking firm giving feed to divers and urged households to save scraps and buy cheap feed, noting 25 cents buys weeks of nourishment and that feeding birds benefits farmers and city dwellers.

Elyria

Seventeen Elyria Men Take Up Archery Sport

Seventeen Elyria men join a newly formed archery class at the YMCA meeting Mondays and Thursdays. Leonard Osberg of Vermilion teaches the group and last week they shot scores for the first time, aiming to improve. Members include Jess Messaros, Howard Somers Jr, Clyde McDowell, Herman Dull, Herold Elliott, Clare Hurder, Robert Seibert, J L Norman Jr, Jack Fox, M Ardman, Charles Streich er, Steve Monti, Wait Manles, Rudy Skinletz, Richard Koehn, Julius Wargo and V D Buzzard.

Elyria Y. McLa Leonard EK Osberg Jess Messaros Howard Somers Jr Clyde McDowell Herman Dull Herold Elliott Clare Hurd Robert Seibert L J. Norman Jr Jack Fox M Ardman Charles Streicher Steve Monti Wait Manles Rudy Skinletz Richard Koehn Julius Wargo V. D Buzzard

Eight of ten sons in army in Lympne England

D W Keene has raised a fighting family. He served in South Africa and in the World War. Now eight of his ten sons are already in khaki and the other two await their call, continuing the family military tradition.

Army Lymphe England D W Keene South Africa

Anniversaries on this date span patriots to inventors

TODAY S ANNIVERSARIES list figures born in Barnstable. New Castle. Northfield. Canton. New Haven. Sangerville. Halifax, Nova Scotia. and more. Notable names include James Otis born 1725 and died 1783, Ole Bull born 1810, Dwight L Moody 1837, Hiram Stevens Maxim born 1840, Simeon E Baldwin born 1840, Cunard Liners Britannic first launched, and 20th century milestones from 1917 immigration bill to 1937 court plan.

James Otis Boston Barnstable Mass Robert M Bird Philadelphia New Castle Del Ole Bull Dwight L Moody Atlantic Northfield Leffert L Buck Peru Canton N Y Hiram Stevens England Sangerville Simeon E Baldwin Yale Connecticut New Haven Baltimore Gas Light Company Cunard Lane Royal Man Stear Packet Company Georgetown SC Ireland U. S Supreme Court Veterans of Future Wars Princeton Liberty League Farley Roosevelt Supreme Court Congress

Two Elyria YMCA Leaders Qualify as Examiners

Carl Wagner activities director and Max Roe boys physical director of the Elyria Y MCA qualified as leader examiners for the new YMCA aquatic program after passing all tests. The trio attended a three day YMCA swimming institute in December at Cleveland Central YMCA and learned that tests and teaching methods have been revised. Wagner already held an examiner certificate but needed the new tests under the revised program. Richard Mathis also holds a new YMCA certificate after qualifying last summer in Columbus.

Elyria Y McA Carl Wagner Max Roe Cleveland Central YM CA Wagner YMCA Richard Mathis YY. M. CA Columbus

Notable Births and Careers Highlighted in Brief

Years ago. Sheldon Whitehouse onetime diplomat born in New York 37 years ago. Maxine Elliott oldtime actress born at Rockland Maine 67 years ago.

Ewin L Davis Tenn Federal Trade Commission Bedford Co. Tenn Bayard Dodge American University At Beirut Syria New York Michael Williams Commonweal New York City Halifax N.S Ralph P Fogg US Department of Labor Lynn Muss Sheldon Whitehouse Maxine Elliott Rockland Maine

Today’s Horoscope Points to Creative and Compassionate Paths

The reading highlights a sensitive, thoughtful nature with a blend of idealism and practicality. A possible future as a preacher or writer appears, driven by simple dignity and strong aspirations to do good.

Bible Readings and Reflections on God’s Grace

Monday February readings on St. John 7:40 53 focus on the gift to aid others with God’s ways. The speaker contrasts life interpretations by Byron Macbeth H G Wells and New Testament voices, urging faith that grace shapes future youth and history.

Byron Macbeth H. G Wells

Texans Like Cranberries Fort Worth Fort Worth

Tex W D Bell a local produce broker calculates that sixty million cranberries will be eaten in Fort Worth over the next four months in a notable estimate reflecting regional fruit consumption and markets.

Fort Worth Tex W.D Bell

Bows to Progress: Veteran Teamster Drives Truck

Murphy a Hampton veteran drayman known as Gus admits after 40 years as a teamster the superiority of the automobile over horse and wagon. For the first time he is driving a truck on his hauls.

Murphy H A Hampton Drayman Gus

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