Record Flight Seaplanes Set Pearl Harbor Distance Mark
Six slant navy seaplanes from San Francisco reached Pearl Harbor Honolulu in 24 hours 48 minutes covering 2150 nautical miles setting a world long distance non stop formation record. Lt Commander McGinnis led 30 fliers overcoming fog seven hours of blind flying and a developing storm as John Perry separated but rejoined later.
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Honolulu
T. HL
U. S. Navy
John Paul Jones
Blunt John Barry
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
Knefier McGinnis
McGinnis
California
John Perry
Greenville
S. C
Hawaii
Perry
Paradise Cove
Marin County
Cal
Famed radio comic Charley Mack dies in auto crash near Mesa
Charles E. Mack renowned for the Two Black Crows comedy team with Moran is dead after an auto accident near Mesa Arizona. Moran wife and daughter and producer Mack Sennett were injured as the car overturned at about 45 miles an hour. Mack, 46, had just left Moran after an 18 year partnership ended years earlier. He was born in White Cloud Kansas and once played baseball in Olympia Washington before vaudeville writing and bookings in Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack
White Cloud
Kan
Olympia
Wash
Seattle
Alexander Pantages
Weather forecast for Ohto tonight and Saturday
The forecast calls for rain tonight with likely rain into Saturday morning. It also notes warmer conditions tonight with cooler readings in the southwest portion on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OHTO
Indictments Total 29 After Three-Day Grand Jury
Twenty-two persons named in indictments after a three-day grand jury, with 29 total charges including burglary and larceny. Several cases deferred due to illness. arraignments set for Monday before Judge A. R. Webber. Also open indictments against multiple Lorain area individuals and a note on a January 18 short session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence W. Dick
A. R. Webber
Stanley Yourkvitch
aArt Schroeder
Elyria
LaGrange Hardware Company
Norman Gibbon
Henry Anna
Buffalo
Lorain
Clarence Angell
John Jackson
Pete Yawkowski
Plans For President's Ball In Elyria Progressing Rapidly
Elyria organizers report rapid progress for the President's Birthday Ball to be held January 39. The Shrine of Jerusalem and the Odd Fellows join about 35 participating groups. Ticket price is one dollar per couple with proceeds benefiting the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralysis.
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Elyria
General Committee
Shrine of Jerusalem
Olga Sacse
The
Odd Fellows
Ralph Hobill
Charles Day
Harry Patterson
Charles Sartor
Sartor
Harold R. Rorick
Republic Steel Buys Gulf States Steel Stock
Republic Steel Corp has bought nearly 16 000 shares of Gulf States Steel Corp common stock held by Globe Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. The purchase is believed to give Republic control of Gulf States Steel, which operates large finishing capacity at properties in the Birmingham district.
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Youngstown
Republic Steel Corp
Gulf States Steel Corp
Republic
Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co
Gulf States Co
Birmingham
Ohio State Students Defy Suspension Over Military Drill
Seven Ohio State University students defy President Rightmire by continuing to attend classes after oral suspension for objecting to compulsory military training. At Antioch College Yellow Springs a group plans a state wide student movement to protest drill in land grant colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State University
George W. Rightmire
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio States
Charles B. Hart
Antioch
Amherst case resumes in fraud suit over electric plant contract
The tax payer Gladys Schraeder sues Amherst alleging fraud and collusion in awarding an $82 218 municipal electric light plant equipment contract to Fairbanks Morse The trial before Judge A R Webber resumes after a one day interruption The case centers on a Chicago World’s Fair trip and alleged company spending with questions about expense allocations and liquor funded by Fairbanks Morse officials
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Amherst
Fairbanks Morse Company
A. R. Webber
E. C. Stiwald
Board of Trustees of Public Affairs
Gladys Schraeder
Chicago
William Thomas
Cleveland
Robert Cromwell
Cromwell
Thomas
Doou
County Commissioners Approve 1934 Budget With Road Funds Boost
The county board approved the annual appropriation totaling 1 101 402 for 1934. General fund rises to 614 029 while road construction, maintenance, and repair see large increases. Road and gasoline taxes fund road aims and bond retirement, with real estate taxes covering about 456 000. Several department appropriations change modestly, including clerk and maintenance raises. Mothers pensions jump from 35 000 to 57 000.
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Board of County Commissioners
County Road and Bridge Fund
State Road and Bridge Fund
Wellington
County Auditor's Department and Board of Revision
Board of Elections
Recorder's Department
Prosecutor’s Department
Court of Appeals
Common Pleas Court
Probate
Children's Home
Surveyor's Department
Soldier's Relief
Mrs Marie Hess Killed in Auto Collision Near Urbana
Mrs Marie Hess 30 of Columbus was fatally hurt when her husband L W Hess lost control of their car in a collision at St Paris west of Urbana. The other vehicle was driven by Isaac Green of Pemberton Ohio. The Hesses had been visiting in Greenville.
Gore resigns as governor of Puerto Rico
President Roosevelt nominated Gen. Blanton Winship of Georgia to be governor of Puerto Rico, replacing Robert H. Gore who resigned due to ill health and family illness. Gore cited health and political opposition, sending a letter dated January 8 expressing loyalty and cooperation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Blanton Winship
Georgia
Puerto Rico
Robert H. Gore
Winship
Gore
Macon
United States
Bob Gore
Bowman capture believed imminent by state patrol
Athens C Jan 12 Captain Lynn Black said the capture of Neal Bowman, fugitive from Lima Hospital for the Criminal Insane, was imminent. Black led about 260 patrolmen aided by Sheriff Asa V Butterfield in Hamilton county and local officers to seal off Hill country where Bowman roamed after his robbery conviction.
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Athens
Lynn Black
Neal Bowman
Lima Hospital
Black
Asa V. Butterfield
Hamilton County
Bowman
Torch murder torso found in burning car near Dover
Officials in Tuscarawas County identified a badly charred male torso found in a blaze on State Route 8 near the old Ohio Canal. The victim’s status as a Dover racketeer Frank T. Joiner was considered possible as investigators sent C. W. Cody Kurt Gloeckner and Bernard Wolf to Dover to aid in identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Beelief
Dover
Frank T. Joiner
C. W. Cody
Kurt Gloeckner
Sergt
Bernard Wolf
Tuscarawas County
Ohio Canal
Lorain milk group backs Cleveland area under code
Two hundred Lorain county milk producers and distributors crowded into courtroom One at the county courthouse to hear arguments for and against the state milk commission ruling placing Lorain county in the Cleveland area under the new milk code. Speakers urged a fair trial before seeking changes, with objections from some over a per cent fee to the Cleveland District Dairy Council. A grievance committee was formed with Ed Whiton Howard Dayton and Simeon Nash named as producer representatives.
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Lorain County
County Court House
State Milk Commission
Cleveland
Lorain
Cleveland Milk Board
Cleveland District Dairy Council
Dairymen’s Cooperative Sales Association
P. H. Rogers
Ohio
Ed. Whiton
Henry Ingersoll
Howard Dayton
Simeon Nash
New Plan to Be All Wright New Plan to Be All Wright
County Treasurer Walter Wright announced a February 1 to 20 tax collection period and the start of a 10 percent monthly payment plan for current taxes plus 3 percent monthly on delinquent older taxes. Installments due between the 15th and 20th. Branch offices will operate in Lorain Oberlin La Grange Kipton Wellington Amherst and Grafton.
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Walter Wright
State Tax Commission
Wright
Lorain
Oberlin
la Grange
Kipton
Wellington
Amherst
Grafton
Life ends after six week struggle from hit and run
Michael Stamp, 67, of 317 South Maple Street, died at Elyria Memorial Hospital after being struck on December 1 while crossing Oberlin Road at West Avenue. The driver fled the scene. Stamp, born February 3, 1866 in Flat Rock Newfoundland, had lived in Elyria 35 years and was a Green Line power house fireman. He leaves a son Richard of Pontiac Michigan and two Newfoundland siblings Mary Ann Powers and brothers Richard and Oliver. Funeral set for Monday at 8:30 a.m. from Bittner Funeral Parlors and 9 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church with burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
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Michael Stamp
South Maple Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Oberlin Road
West Avenue
Stamp
Mr. Startz
Flat Rock
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Elyria
Green Line
Richard
Pontiac
Michigan
Mary Ann Powers
Oliver
Bittner
St. Mary's Church
James Daley
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Reduced Rates For Want-Ads
Advertisers are told of new low Want Ad rates effective January 15 to 20. The campaign promises increased reader interest and lower costs with phone numbers 4412 4413 for details and a rate schedule on the Want-Ad Page.
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GIANT
Oeaplanes
Noaah Daos
Radio
13 Dead
Mack Sennett
White House
BRAND
White Horse
Treasury
Morgenthau
Cummings
Federal Reserve System
United States Monetary
Republic Steel
Gulf States Corp
Puertoric
New I. C. C. Member
Walter M. W. Splawn
University of Texas, At Austin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Splawn
Ezra Brainard
MAN Otrugk
Automobile UK
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