Fatal aboard Nantucket sparks coast guard call in port
In a forecastle brawl aboard the coastwise Nantucket the fight over a coat hanger escalated to a fatal stabbing. Julius Walker, from Baltimore, died. Robert Parson was charged with murder after five crewmen were taken ashore and four others held as witnesses. The ship then resumed its voyage to Boston.
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Philadelphia
Nantucket
Coast Guard
Boston
Julius Walker
Robert Parson
Coast Guards
Christiana
Wilmington
Lewes
Del
Walker
Baltimore
Parson
Injuries Fatal to Deputy James E Rundle
James E. Rundle, 64, veteran deputy sheriff, died at Memorial hospital after injuries from a December 29 accident near Ridgeville. A motorist's car struck him while he helped out a motorist, severing his right leg. he lingered through transfusions. Survived by wife Linda and three children, funeral at Columbia Baptist Church.
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James E. Rundle
Memorial Hospital
Rundle
Ridgeville
Benjamin Tomascenki
Elyria
Underhill
Mathews
Adams
England
America
Columbia Center
Blaine Street
Linda
Florence Rundle
Harlan
Berea
Vernon
la Grange
Bessie Weekly
Eva Beaumont
Walter
Columbia Baptist Church
C. L. Doyle
Columbia Cemetery
Frank Strohl
Strohl
Cleveland Street
Father Remains Suspected In Child's Abduction
Doris May Flaherty a 10 year old Roosevelt School student was seized by her father Thomas Flaherty of McKeesport Pa as she walked to school. She was taken to McKeesport and later identified by police after a missing persons search. Mrs Dorothy Dehnhard is caring for the girl by court order pending custody action by the mother who is in St Louis. The case could lead to kidnapping charges.
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Doris May Flaherty
Roosevelt School
Thomas Flaherty
McKeesport
Dorothy Dehnhard
St. Louis
Ellsworth Receives Congressional Medal at White House
Lincoln Ellsworth of Hudson Ohio, famed Arctic explorer, arrives at the White House to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor from President Hoover. The award, approved by Congress in 1927, honors his 1925 Arctic flight and the 1926 Dirigible Roma trans-polar voyage.
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Washington
Lincoln Ellsworth
Hudson
Ohio
North Pole
White House
Hoover
Congress
Ellsworth
Arctic
Bread Costs To Be Investigated
The Senate authorized an investigation into bread costs compared with wheat prices. Senator Wagner of New York offered the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. The inquiry will also cover sugar and flour prices to explain why less refined grades cost more than highly refined product.
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Washington
Senate
Wagner
New York
Time Has Come When We Must Unite Or Die Briand Declares
Briand veteran French foreign minister and peace activist told European leaders at Geneva that the time has come to unite or die. He urged the inauguration of a United States of Europe before the second federation meeting as Europe faces a manifest economic burden. Curtius stressed EU economic priorities and proposed addressing League of Nations gaps and potential non European members.
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Geneva
Aristide Briand
European Union
Europe
Briand
United States of Europe
Julius Curtius
Turkey
Russia
Battleship Modernization Vote Set For Senate Today
The Senate faces a 4 PM vote on a 30 million dollar battleship modernization plan as politics mix with hunger relief. Nye's committee, Smoot, and Robinson shape the day while White’s death looms over Armour and Company leadership succession with Reed and Armour II eyed as likely successors.
Mrs Rising Endorsed for Grafton Post Office Job
The Lorain County Republican Executive Committee endorsed Bertha Rising for the Grafton post office appointment following their Oberlin meeting. The endorsement was sent to Congressman Francis Seiberling. Frank Cousins remains postmaster at Grafton. The committee also finalized plans for the McKinley Day Banquet at the American Legion Home on January 30 with Secretary of State Clarence Brown as speaker.
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Lorain County
Republican Executive Committee
Bertha Rising
Grafton
Frank Stetson
Oberlin
Francis Seiberling
Stetson
Frank Cousins
American Legion
Clarence Brown
Seven Elyria Churches to Lead Baccalaureate Service
Seven Elyria church pastors join Sunday night at First M E Church to lead the baccalaureate for Elyria High School January graduates. Rev E B Redhead will preach. the service includes prayers, scripture, psalters, offering, benediction, and an anthem "Rejoice" by Spinney sung by the Girls Glee Club directed by J Martin Beck. Musical selections include "Cradle Song" "Pomp and Circumstance" "Lovely Appears" "Postlude in B Major" and hymns "Holy Holy Holy" and "America."
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Elyria
M. E
Elyria High School
E. B. Redhead
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
William Muir Auld
First Congregational Church
Ernst Irion
St. Paul’s Evangelical Church
Psalter
R. T. Ketcham
First Baptist Church
C. F. Wiseman
Second Congregational Church
Offering
G. A. Brown
United Presbyterian
H. A. Sayles
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Gounod
A. Thomas
America
Governor White Otarts to Cut Tate Payroll
Columbus Ohio January 16 Governor White begins to shrink state payroll abolishing a Welfare Department representative post held by Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton with a 3000 dollar yearly salary and merging six Commerce posts into one secretary role for 3600 dollars while cutting overall personnel costs by replacing six workers earning 11220 dollars total with a single new appointee S W Fennig Celina will fill the secretary role replacing the previous staff in the Commerce Department effective February 1.
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Columbus
White
Welfare Department
Department of Commerce
McSweeney
Harriett Taylor Upton
Warren
Fenning
Paine of Wales and brother begin South American trip
The Prince of Wales and Prince George left Hendon airfield England for Paris at 1 p.m. on January 16 to begin their South American tour. They will spend the night in Paris, then travel to Santander to embark for the voyage. The Prince of Wales travels as the Earl of Chester. Prince George uses his own title.
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Hendon
England
Prince of Wales
Prince George
Paris
Royal Brothers
HE. H. Fielden
Santander
South America
Earl of Chester
Two Small Fires Extinguished By Firemen
Two small fires this morning, about 35 minutes apart, raised eight alarms for 1931. The worst blaze damaged a living room at Will H. Thomas’s home at 222 Columbus Street when burning wood from an open fireplace set the wood floor on fire. A camp fire near the Walton Ice Company’s boiler house at Winckles Street ignited two tons of coal behind the pile, prompting firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
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Will H. Thomas
Columbus Street
Walton Ice Company
Winckles Street
Bandits Shoot Into Group Of Hotel Guests
In Los Angeles on January 16 two young bandits fired into a hotel lobby where guests played bridge and watched. They wounded one man fatally or near fatally and injured three others including a 10 year old girl. both bandits escaped after a clash with guests and clerks. One man tried to grapple a bandit and was knocked down amid guns, chairs and fists as the attackers forced others into an anteroom.
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Los Angeles
L. B. Jarrett
J. H. Thompson
Thompson
Fire marshal arrives to probe Broad Street blaze
Assistant State Fire Marshal C. A. Clark arrived at noon to lead an investigation into the $50,000 Broad Street fire that destroyed frame buildings at Broad and West Avenue. Fire Chief Wallace N. Bates calls the string of five area fires in a year peculiar and says three general alarms and two second alarms occurred after good starts.
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Broad Street
West Avenue
C. A. Clark
Wallace N. Bates
Bates
Quake Devastates Oaxaca With Heavy Losses Feared
A strong earthquake in Oaxaca state caused extensive destruction with feared high deaths. Oaxaca city reports widespread ruin and backlog of medical supplies as relief from Mexico City arrives. The quake, felt in Mexico City late Wednesday, leaves debris strewn streets and potential epidemics. Reports vary on exact fatalities, with La Prensa and El Universal noting dozens killed and many injured.
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Mexico City
Oaxaca
la Prensa
Universal
el Universal
Gueiat Oba
Republican Woman's Club Elects Officers for 1931
The Republican Woman's Club elected officers for the coming year at its first 1931 meeting held at Mrs. F. M. Stevens’s home. New officers are A. C. Schilleman president, George Bush vice president, J. C. Jackson secretary, and Stanley Crandall treasurer. Four ward leaders were chosen and monthly meetings with every second evening session were planned to accommodate workers. The next meeting is at Mrs. Crandall’s home, and Miss Mabel Marsh spoke as county clerk of courts. The club will have a table at the McKinley Day Banquet January 30 at the American Legion Home.
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Republican Woman’s Club
F. M. Stevens
Fifth Street
A. C. Schilleman
George Bush
J.C. Jackson
Stanley Crandall
William Schnuur
G. W. Wingard
East Broad Street
Mabel Marsh
Fire Threatens Alliance Plant
Fire at the Hillgreen Lane Co plant in Alliance Ohio caused about $10,000 in damage before it reached the organ material storage. Officials reported the blaze was extinguished and did not destroy the costly materials.
Needy Families to Be Given Aid by Employed Persons
Employees from twelve Elyria plants will donate food on a rotating weekly schedule to aid needy families. Troxel Manufacturing led early success, with other firms listing donation days from Colson to Elyria Brass and Bronze. A city truck will collect and deliver to a packing depot for basket distribution.
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Elyria
Troxel Manufacturing Company
Chronicle-Telegram
QC. O. Strohl
J. W. Brandt
Troxel Company
Colson Company
General Industries
Perry-Fay Company
Harshaw Chemical Company
Steel and Tubes, Inc
Pfaudler Company
Western Automatic Company
Temperance Day Observed in Elyria and Lorain County
Tem perance Day observed in Elyria and Lorain County schools marking the eleventh birthday of national prohibition. Rev A B Piper spoke to 1 500 students at Elyria High School linking the day to a rally for basketball games. He defended the amendment noting states predated the war and urged enforcement by believers in the law.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Ohio
Elyria High School
Lorain
Cleveland Heights
Piper
A. B. Piper
R. C. Maston
State Department of Education
Maston
Legislature To Get Message Tuesday
Governor White will send his second message to the legislature next Tuesday. It will cover departmental matters and likely include recommendations on the Welfare department and state institutions. He does not plan to appear in person to deliver the message to the assembly.
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Columbus
White
Train Crashes Into Wall in Hudson Tubes. 19 Hurt
A train in the Hudson tubes at the Manhattan terminal jumped an open switch, crashed into a dividing wall, injuring all 19 passengers. Smoke filled underground tunnels as electric sparks flew, endangering about 500 people at 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue.
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New York
Hudson Tubes
Manhattan Terminal
33Rd Street
Sixth Avenue
National Tube Company Gets Large Order for Pipe
United Press reports a contract for 80 000 tons of seamless pipe to be split between Lorain Ohio and Gary Indiana plants. The order from a Mid West gas company could employ over a thousand workers at the Lorain plant, though official employment figures were not released.
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Chronicle-Telegram
United Press
National Tube Co
Lorain
Earl W. Brown
Brown
Pittsburgh
Gary
Ind
F. W. Waterman
Wave of Influenza Sweeps Europe
A wave of influenza sweeps Europe as Britain endures its worst grippe season since 1927. France Germany Spain and Portugal report unusual suffering. Berlin reports about 10 000 influenza cases with a third in hospitals and England sees around 200 deaths in the last fortnight amid cold fog and neglected colds.
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London
Europe
Britain
France
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Military College
Lisbox
Berlin
England
Report Shows 68 Children Given Homes
Lorain County wards of the County Children's Home were placed in foster homes in 1930. The social worker, Mrs. A L Jones, records 212 calls on foster children, 130 aid calls, 15 school calls, 47 foster home investigations, four adoptions, and three marriages. Additional activities include 178 interviews on proposed homes, 239 references sent, 10 child transfers, two boarding home investigations, and 18 organizational contacts. Pre admission work involved 79 calls on 12 families for 43 children.
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Lorain County
A. L. Jones
Nye Committee Extends Funds As Hearings Resume
The Senate approved $50,000 more expense money for the Nye Campaign Funds Investigating committee and extended its life to the first legislative day of January 1932. Hearings on the Pennsylvania campaign were set to resume this afternoon with no objections.
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Washington
Senate
Nye
Pennsylvania
Committee On Audit and Control
Congress
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Penna
Bulletin
Armour Company
F. Edson White
Chicago
Philip D. Armour III
Philip L. Reed
Armour and Company
Reed
Armour Plant Executive Club
Philip Armour
Armour
Lester
Whit
J. Ogden Armour
Mrs. White
Kathleen Pearson
Interior Department
Nye Campaign Funds Committee
Davis
Repn
Agriculture Department
Smoot
Finance Committee
Robinson
Heflin
Dem
Ala
Red Cross
Mrs. Rising
White Otarts
Tate
Paine
Wales
Brother
Republican Woman's Club
Alliance
National Tube Company
Nye Committee
Chronicle Telegram
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