Wreckage Found in Florida Still Yields No Trace of Missing Pilot
A seaplane wreck near Melbourne, Florida, is found with a missing pilot after a Detroit to Titusville flight. The craft is badly damaged, a wing is missing, and searchers including Boy Scouts and local boats scour beaches and offshore waters. Coast Guard vessels are alerted but high waves hinder rescue attempts.
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Melbourne
Fla
Harry Brooke
Wavver
Here
Ford
Titusville
Brooks
Detroit
Brook
George Rommel
Medow Gravelle
Rogers
Tikes
Coast Guard
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Pierce
One Manager Charged After South Shore Plant Robbery Attempt
Charles Belfield, sales manager of South Shore Manufacturing Co on Abbey Road, fought off two robbers Saturday night near the plant entrance. Belfield was stabbed in the leg after a gun was fired during the struggle. the assailants fled as Belfield, a Manchester-born WWI veteran decorated with the French Croix de Guerre and other medals, escaped serious injury.
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Charles Belfield
Rockey River
South Shore Manufacturing Co
Abbey Road
South Shore
Belfield
Imstead
Mbbers
Belticid
Manchester
England
Fugisa
Dedication of Lorain Church Set for Sunday
Lorain will host the dedication of the new 250000 dollar St. Anthony's Catholic church at Kansas Avenue and Erie Avenue. Bishop Josiph T. Schrembs of Cleveland and the Very Reverend Schlang of Louisville will officiate, with services beginning at 10 a.m.
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Lorain
Josiph T. Schrembs
Cleveland
Schlang
Louisville
St. Anthony's Cathem
Kansas Avenue
B. Erie Avenue
Bad Luck Flies With American Airmen
Three planes crashed across the United States over the week leaving three flyers missing or feared dead and several injured. Kar ry Brooks disappeared after a sea plunge off Melbourne Florida while Walter Hendricks tried to greet a navigator from Curtiss Field. Airmail crashes near Margoeth Nebraska and McCamey Texas left one passenger dead and multiple injuries.
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Atlantic
Ome
Stix
Bedlak
Emi
Karry Brooks
Meilbourne
Fla
Walter Hendricks
Wnkiows
Aca
Curtian Field
L. I
New York
S .N. Craig
Beaver
Frank Yager
Margoeth
Neb
Otha Eddieman
Bert McIntyre
C. A. _Powell
McCamey
Calls
John McMillan
S. P. Gray
Lambert Futkl
St. Louis
Two Killed in Toledo Gas Tank Explosion
In Toledo Ohio February 27 two workmen died and four were injured when a ten thousand gallon gasoline tank exploded at Sun Oil Company plant. The blast rocked neighborhoods wh i le a large fire raged. Firemen fought the blaze as two smaller detonations renewed the danger. Franke Kreuse fifty and Verne L Sinclaire twenty nine died. others injured were expected to survive.
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Toledo
Sun of Company
Franke Kreuse
Verne L Sinclaire
Kreuse
Maple Syrup Ruse Disclosed by Lorain Inspector
Lorain city food inspector George Savage found a sample of maple syrup sold by a man said to be a maple syrup maker from Clarksfield Ohio. Laboratory tests showed the product was a brown sugar and water mixture with mapleine flavor not real maple syrup. The inspector warns the public to buy only from dependable sources.
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George Savage
City Food Inspector
Savage
Lorain
Clarksfield
City
E G. Curtiss
Ridgeville Grange to Meet Tuesday Evening
Ridgeville Grange will hold a meeting Tuesday night at 8:00 at the Ridgeville Grange hall. Speaker will be Merton Coe of North Olmstead.
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Ridgeville Grange
Ridgeville
Merton Coe
North Olmstead
Senators Probe Pennsylvanian Coal Strike Conditions
Indiana Pa February 27 Senator Gooding Republican Idaho led a Senate Interstate Commerce subcommittee visit to Hossiter and Rossiter amid the Pennsylvania coal strike. They toured hovels housing miners, warned of Communism, praised John L Lewis, and pressed for quick remedies to end industrial unrest in the Pittsburgh district.
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Indiana
Senate Inter-State Commerce and Committee
Pennsylvania
Hossiter
Little Magyar Presbyterian
J. N. Langhan
Indiana County
Senator Gooding
Idaho
Gooding
Senate Interstate Commerce
United Mine Workers of America
Pittsburgh
America
Communist Party
Pennnsylvania
Frst Rossitter
Horace F Baker
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation
Baker
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Commissioners Set Dates For Reid Avenue Bridge View and Hearing
Lorain County commissioners set a March 19 viewing along the Reid avenue approach to the $2 139 000 Lorain County Memorial Bridge over the Black River and a March 26 hearing on property damages, with W B Richmond C D Murray and George Rhoads presiding. They will walk the proposed site to inspect the approach before discussing damages at the hearing.
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Reid Ave Nue
Lorain County Memorial
Black River
Lorain
W.B. Richmond
C. D. Murray
George Rhoads
Reid Avenue
Pinchot announces candidacy for Congress in 8th Penn. district
Mrs Gifford Pinchot wife of the Pennsylvania governor declares her bid for the Republican congressional nomination in the 8th Pennsylvania district She outlines a platform centered on farm relief and prohibition.
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MRA
Penchot
Congress
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Republcican
Afth Penna
Dry forces rally as parties seek firm platform planks
Washington hosts a meeting pushing clear dry planks for both major parties. Governor Smith makes two radio addresses opposing internal government enemies deemed intellectual and unsympathetic. Senator Reed campaigns for the Democratic nomination in Phoenix as engineers back Hoover for president. Iowa counties largely back Frank Lowden for the Republican nomination.
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Washington
Iowa
Frank QC. Lowden
Illinois
Grafton Officials Face Hearing on Water Supply Controversy
Ohio Department of Health summoned Grafton officials to a March 9 hearing in Columbus over the town water supply. Dr. C D Barrett said samples showed most times unsatisfactory water and explained Willow Creek damming created the quarry hole source. He noted surface water remains vulnerable and no adequate emergency supply exists.
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Grafton
Department of Health
State of
Ohio
Columbus
Chronicle-Telegram
C.D. Barrett
Oberlin
Barrett
Health Department
Willow Creek
Vault Bombed at Salem High School in Theft of 441
The steel vault in the Salem high school board office was dynamited Sunday and $441 stolen. Ten certified checks for $1,000 each, deposited by contractors bidding on a new grate school, were not disturbed.
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Salem School
Salem, O
Board of Education
Salem High School
Navy Dirigible Los Angeles Bound for France Field
The Los Angeles left Lakehurst New Jersey and passed Cuba en route to France Field Panama Canal Zone on a nonstop flight. The giant airship travels about 30 miles an hour and aims to reach the canal zone by this evening.
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Navy Dirigible
Los Angeles
Navy Department
South Negril
Jamaica
West Indies
France Field
Panama
Camal Zone
Lakehurst
X. J
Cuba
Panama Canal Zone
Naval Headquarters
Canal Zone
Atlantic
Germany
Impetes
Rosendahl
Canal
Leap Day Births Spark Chronicle Telegram Replies
The Chronicle-Telegram received many responses from people born on February 29, prompting publication of names today and more tomorrow. Letters include Norman Briton born February 3rd, 1904 in Santiago Chile and Gladys Reynolds of Kipton Ohio, a Leap Year girl turning 12 on February 29.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Marr Fersons
Leap Lear
Norman
Briton
Spree Street
Santiago
Chile
Elyria
Gladys Reynolds
Kipton
Ohio
Tam
Five of Seven Bandits Arrested in Grand Trunk Mail Robbery
Chicago police reported five of the seven bandits who dynamited a Grand Trunk mail car at Evergreen Park and fled with 133000 were in custody. William Donovan and Charles Limpy Cleaver allegedly led the plot and made confessions, with six men and six women also arrested in the loot distribution. The arrests tie to a Ravenswood National Bank robbery and other incidents as officers expect more recoveries within twenty four hours.
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Central Press
Spot
Evergreen Park
Chicago
Grand Trunk Railroad
Fred Hartmeyer
Inser
Henry Workman
Richard Adema
Henry Graefen
Grand Trunk
William Donovan
Charles “Limpy
Cleaver
Ravenswood Natonal Bank
William E. O'Connor
Donovan
Ftag
Trial Started In Suit Over $1000 Profit Claim
In W B Thompson court a suit filed by J B O'Brien doing business as Acme Construction Co against Joseph Fine sold seeks $1000 claiming May 13 1926 contract to erect a Elyria store and find a renter. O'Brien says Finegold halted work and deprived him of profits. Finegold answers illness postponed building and says the lease obtained by O'Brien is invalid.
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W. B. Thompson
J. B. O'Brien
Acme Construction Co
Cleveland
Joseph Finesold
Middle Ave
O'Brien
Finegold
Elyria
Elyria Man Robbed by Four in City Alley
Elyria resident William Jenny reported to police that four men held him up and robbed him of $25 Saturday night in an alley east of Broadway near 14th Street. In Lorain a separate note records Rev G Carl Lundholm condemning compassionate marriage as legalized adultery.
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Lorain
William Jenny
Elyria
Broadway
14Th Street
Ben Lindsey
Carl Lundholm
First Baptist Church
Fire murder fiend not captured in Newark probe
The slayer of Miss Margaret Brown, who described the murder in a mail confession, eludes police with searches centered in Newark where 2500 in securities were stolen. A second confession letter is rumored but denied. The victim was found by a road side hot dog stand near Morristown, New Jersey, with clothing ablaze from gasoline.
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New York
Margaret Brown
Newark
Miss Brown
Morristown
N. J
Two Trainmen Are Badly Scalded in Derailed Limited
Chester Pa February reports two trainmen seriously scalded when the Congressional Limited derailed near Marcus Hook Tower while en route from Pinehurst to New York on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fireman C L O Berle and engineer F Tileroy of Washington DC were injured as the train’s cars toppled and 35 people were moved to hospital.
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Congressional
Pinehurst
Fix
New York
Penna
R R
Marcus Hook Tower
Chester Hospital
C. L. O'Berle
F. Tileroy
Washington, D.C
Vecailonista
Large Barns Destroyed by Flames in Major Fire
A spectacular early morning fire consumed a three story barn and three connected buildings on Furnace Street, damaging Mooris Leenick property. Two horses and a German police dog died. nine trucks and two autos were destroyed. warehouse and Mendelson barns were also affected. Firefighters battled two hours as gas tanks, sawdust, and debris fed the blaze while embers spread across blocks.
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Mooris Leenick
Gooden Brea
Mendelson
Elyria Free Department
E. O. Hees
Lesrick
Merrie Lemick Sb
Sheoe
Barnes
C. A. Erbecorn
Engine Co 2
Emil Meschke
Euwadeo
Sud
Dan Schnarr
Engine Co 1
Elyria
W. M. Bates
Lesnick
Hilisdale Court
Cascade Street
English Prince Henry Thrown From Horse in England
Prince Henry, third son of King George, was severely injured in Mowbray after his horse fell during a pull at an awkward hedge. The incident occurred on February 27 and was reported as a heavy throw with serious injuries.
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Mowbray
England
Prince Henry
King George
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