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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1934
Page
1
Despatches from Calcutta state the Bengal quake may have caused a vast humanitarian disaster with about 20 000 dead in ruined cities. Refugees report 6 000 to 8 000 dead in Monghyr and 15 000 in Bebar. Official damage estimated at 37.5 million dollars as rivers carried bodies downstream.
Hundreds of Lorain County farm women and girls joined nutrition clothing and sewing machine clinics in the year. A total of 1 216 women in 142 groups attended nutrition meetings plus 770 women in 36 clothing sessions. Four-H clubs enrolled 532 girls in 42 clubs with 49 women and 10 older members as advisors.
At the Lorain County Farm Bureau annual meeting the group voted to change its constitution to join with the Lorain County Cooperative Association creating one corporation. A seven member board will include two nominees from each district with terms set by vote results.
The State Highway Department awarded a contract to Hill and Hill Company of Elyria for paving a fifth of a mile of Lake road west of Lorain at a cost of 9404.95 dollars. A. P. Lagton said this completes the paving final strip in the Lake road improvement project.
The forecast calls for cloudy skies and a warmer air mass across Ohio tonight, with a chance of rain in the extreme southwest. Sunday expects further warming and scattered showers or rain across the state.
A Kentucky delegation led by Dr. William Taylor meets E F Allen in Louisville to plan the 1934 International Society for Crippled Children convention in Montreal in May and a Kentucky White Cross Seal campaign. Taylor notes rapid progress in Kentucky’s crippled children work but cites funding gaps affecting more than 17 000 children. The effort is a joint project of the Kentucky Society for Crippled Children and the Kentucky Crippled Children’s Commission. The commission is state supported and contributions have risen this year.
Elyria High School will hold commencement for its January graduating class next Thursday in the auditorium. The 41 girls and 40 boys constitute the second largest mid year class, behind the January 1932 class of 96. Principal C. P. Shively announced the official graduate list after final exams. The ceremony will close a week of busy activities.
Fred A Adler of Cleveland buys E Gillis interests in the Lewis Mercantile Co in Elyria. Adler joins A Williamson founder since 1918 to remodel the store and reopen early March. Bayer will manage ready to wear. Gillis aims for rest after long merchandising career.
Athens Jan 20 The Greek state council has approved the deportation order against Samuel Insull fugitive Chicago utilities magnate. The decision will be published Tuesday Insull appealed to revoke the order arguing the supreme court twice refused to surrender him to American authorities.
The notice lists residents including Audrey Mae Squire Donald R Thompson Robert H Thompson Balint R Toth Lucille Kathryn Walker Delphinia D Warren George A Washburn Wanda Marie Wilmot Geraldine G Wilson Ruby Mae Woodcock Herbert A Young and Bessie M Yungman.
Vern E. Reisinger, a Grafton township farmer, was released from County Jail this morning by Common Pleas Judge A R Webber on a writ of habeas corpus. He had been jailed for non payment of a 17 22 fine and costs for trespassing after a preliminary trial in Justice G E Gardner's court.
The Lorain County Board of Education held its first meeting at the county offices in Elyria today. Walter Hadaway was re elected president and Elmer Cotton named vice president replacing Mrs H G Portman. R P Vaughn remains clerk and Emma Gleason named assistant county superintendent for the first six grades.
In Columbus Ohio on January 20 1930 State Senator William H Herner of Monroeville faces a criminal court trial on an indictment charging him with soliciting a 1500 bribe. Prosecutor Hoskins subpoenaed lobbyist Frank H Ellison of Manchester. Jury selection expected to consume Monday morning.
Miss Anne Scott of Columbus has been chosen beauty queen for Ma kie Ohio State University year book. She is a freshman at the university and earned the honor in campus selections.
Lorain County extension report shows dairying 34 percent of income from 3,038 farms with 238,731 acres and 13,800 workers. The study outlines crops, pastures, woodlands, owner operation, and mortgage levels, plus a broad plan for next year including lime need, floriculture, irrigation, fruit programs, poultry breeding, and 4 H leader training. The report highlights soils work, potato schooling, market gardens, fruit and poultry projects, dairy activities, tuberculosis testing, and extensive community and 4 H programs with seed loans and checks totaling thousands of dollars.
A stamped note received by Minneapolis Postmaster W C Robertson claimed banker Edward G Bremer was killed by his abductors by accident. The message said the body lay near Anoka and warned it would not be found until snow levees. Police suspect a crank authored the note.
Bob Brady and Jim Clark headed six other convicts over the Kansas Penitentiary walls and fled toward the Osage Hills near Bartlesville Oklahoma. Louis Dresser, a Kansas schoolteacher, was kidnapped and later released after identifying Brady and Clark from police photos. He said Bonnie Parker and an accomplice awaited them in Oklahoma and that the group moved on back roads with about 15 dollars for fuel, avoiding towns and official pursuit.
Judge C. G. Washburn of the district court of appeals spoke on practice and procedure in a court of review at a Lorain Country Club dinner for younger lawyers. Twenty two members with ten years or less in practice attended. Judge Perry Stevens of Akron accompanied him.
Four masked gunmen with two machine guns pistols and shotguns robbed the Fort Kearney State Bank in Kearney Nebraska seizing five hostages who were released after the bandits escaped. Local authorities pursued no immediate arrests reported.
The Roosevelt gold bill, a major monetary measure, faces its first critical test in the House as administration leaders push for passage. Democratic leaders tighten party lines, Majority Leader Burns believes action will come before nightfall, while Republicans are expected to back the final vote amid Senate committee hearings drawing economist and Federal Reserve objections.
Cleveland officials reported a police tip that John Dillinger and his gang planned a bank raid in or near Cleveland. Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach relayed the alert to Police Chief George J. Matowitz, prompting banks to increase guards and staff.
Huntington Farmers Institute resumes with a two day session in Lorain County. Speakers include Mrs Grace Renwell Miller of Sunbury Delaware County and C J Nobis of Amelia Clermont County. First session at 10 A M features music, invocation, welcome address, and talks on waste baskets and tool chests.
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