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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
1
A series of crashes left twenty injured after a high embankment derailment in Dayton Ohio and a trolley plunge in Hoboken New Jersey. Other incidents include a Rio Grande Western derailment near Ruby Colorado injuring twelve and a Columbus Georgia collision injuring eight.
Columbus Jan 22 House of Representatives expected to pass under special order the emergency financial relief bill for cities villages and school districts The measure would authorize a maximum tax of 3 mills by petition of a majority of voters and includes four amendments from Governor Nonahey to clarify the bill.
Lorain relief move backed by City Solicitor Grills who met with the legislature’s finance committees. A joint session is set for January 30 with mayor and officials urged to attend. He thanked the Kiwanis Club for cyclone aid and noted their pledge to lobby for the relief bill.
Senator Marshall announces a senate ordered probe into Soldiers and Sailors Orphanage Home in Xenia focusing on alleged immorality by Supt Sylvis Gerber and wife Anna Noble Gerber the chief matron. The investigation proceeds regardless of resignation offers as officials promise a cleanup.
Washington reports Judge George Barrett of the Chicago Sanitary System told the Senate Waterways Committee that Niagara Falls water power value might rise by 200 million dollars if an equalisation dam were built at Buffalo. He urged a canal linking the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
Ninety-nine automobiles mostly owned by Masonic convention members and delegates were destroyed in a $300,000 blaze that consumed the Motor Service Company garage near the Sir Walter Motel in Raleigh at dawn.
Albert Gordy of Grafton dies at 71 after a brief illness at his home on Wednesday. He leaves his wife five children two sons and twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services are at Assumption Church at 9:30 Saturday. burial at St. Marys Cemetery with Father Bodney presiding.
James Levitt aged 70 of 143 School Street died at Memorial Hospital last evening due to pneumonia. Survivor listed as brother John. Body at Welsh Funeral Home. Funeral services set for Saturday at St Agnes Church at 9 o clock.
Seventy one students graduated from Lorain High School last night in the auditorium. Dr J Knox Montgomery of Muskingum College gave the address. Music was performed by the girls glee club and the school orchestra.
Martin She nka, 25, a clerk in the Lake Terminal railroad office, died last night from a hemorrhage. He was organist for St John's church and highly esteemed by many friends.
A Congressional committee led by Rep. Dyer of Missouri closed its hearing in Wheeling on charges by District Attorney T. A. Brown against Federal Judge W. E. Baker and then departed Washington.
In Jefferson City on January 22 Representative Fred Frey, 71, was slightly wounded when he wrestled a bandit who shoved a pistol at his face and demanded surrender. Frey grabbed the weapon, a discharge occurred, and the bandit fled before the House convened.
In a criminal court session, two more defendants pleaded guilty and were sent to Mansfield Reformatory. Carl Bruening, 18, admitted uttering a forged check after noting his past at the Oberlin Home and later farm work. Farr McDonald, 17, confessed auto theft connected to a Michigan homeward journey, citing a troubled upbringing. Other defendants, including Joseph Hughes and Howard Oliver, were sentenced for sodomy, with a broader trial schedule outlined for Friday and Monday cases involving robbery, destruction of property, concealed weapons, and various charges. The prosecutor aims to proceed as fully as possible.
January 22 report says Glenn Whitmer is held without bond for Franklin county grand jury after a preliminary hearing in municipal court for the murder of Mrs Ruth Kendig on January 6. Harry Kendig of Cincinnati, husband of the deceased, is held for forgery as well.
In New Lexington Ohio on January 22 Thomas Kinder 31 of Corning is held without bond awaiting Perry County grand jury action for the murder of Albert Marcey 30 a Corning coal miner. Authorities attribute the night murder to an old grudge.
In Youngstown Ohio on January 22, women inmates at the county jail assaulted Homer Lamb the chief jail trusty as he prepared the morning meal. Lamb retreated after the attack saying the inmates called him names and accused him of refusing to carry notes to outside friends.
The Elyria Savings and Trust Company held its annual meeting in the directors room with 118 officers and employees receiving praise for administration. J A Rawson and the examining committee commended the bank’s record-keeping and overall condition as the report and stockholders’ elections were presented.
Mrs Chas Levin wife of a freetown tailor was found slain in a hollow near the Nickle Plate railroad right of way at an early hour. Her body was located by a watchman at 6 o clock this morning within 300 feet of State Street Erie’s main business thoroughfare. The face was hacked beyond recognition and identification by her husband and a neighbor occurred at noon.
Washington Jan 22 The 68 million postal wage bill faced renewed Senate debate as Moses omnibus plan would finance raises mainly through higher rates. Publishers would see a portion of increases, while parcel post bears the heaviest burden with slight rises for some second class mail and several zone-based decreases.
Rome reports a family of eight in Jerza Sardinia murdered while sleeping. No motive given.
Peking January 22 The Central Government’s salt tax revenue, a principal federal income, declined by 9 million dollars in the past year signaling a worsening financial condition for China.
Lorain reports at automotive headquarters that 2,900 automobile tags have been issued so far for 1925.
Herbert Copeland a black man faced the gallows in Washington on January 22 after admitting to numerous murders. Authorities say he confessed to killing two capital police officers and a deputy sheriff shortly before his death and also to a woman in Galveston Texas and a Black policeman in Chicago.
A full program is set for the Lorain County Farm Bureau meeting at the First Congregational church with LB Palmer of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation as main speaker. The agenda includes morning reports from nominating committee and clubs, guest talks by C J Halverstadt and C I Rowland, plus an afternoon session led by Mrs Durkee and a keynote by Palmer.
Kiwanis members staged a humorous stunt on running another man’s business with talks by J. F. Getteridge Ralph Osborne Gust Kolinski and others. The event chaired by J E Thatcher celebrated Kiwanis ten years with plans for the Harding memorial and social service notes.
In San Francisco 22 year old Dorothy Ellneron known as Jazzzmaniac avoided trial as her attorney asked for a continuance in a juvenile case to decide if she should be sent to reform school or tried for murder. A mob pressed outside while police subdued the crowd. The defendant, who killed her mother ten days earlier, wore the same tan dress and refused to testify against four orchestra members charged in connection with the incident.
Charles Fiala as trustee in bankruptcy files three suits in Lorain County Common Pleas to marshal assets and recover judgments against multiple debtors. Defendants include G A Lemence Cleveland street 68, Nicholas Neufer School street 93, Chas Dickson Sumner street 68, J G Weller Eastern Heights 398, Fred Dunham Oberlin 63, Antone Pfeifer 98, James Martin 98, Patrick Brady 398, Lorain residents and Bishop Schrembs Cleveland 98.
Berlin January 22 the Reichstag granted the new government a confidence vote. On the roll call 246 members voted yes 160 voted no and 39 abstained from voting in the afternoon session.
Washington January 22 commissioners of conciliation Thomas Davis and James F Dewey advised Secretary of Labor that the danger of a general strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields has been averted.
Owen R Lovejoy executive secretary of the National Child Labor Committee and leading advocate speaks at Open Forum next Sunday January 25 at the Church of Christ at three o'clock. Topic will be Child Labor The Vicious Circle. Crowds have filled Forum rooms, forcing early admission to assure seats.
The Elysia firemen pension fund totals 1 084 654 dollars per the annual statement by W A Cory secretary of the board. The fund started with 8 725 56 cash and 850 in liberty bonds. taxes 797 11, interest 40757, and donations 6 added during the year. no funds were expended.
One man was fined for driving a auto while intoxicated and another for intoxication before Justice S J George. JoA Abrecht paid 25 dollars and 850 dollars costs for driving while intoxicated. JoA Arnie, riding with Abrecht, was fined 10 dollars and 850 costs for intoxication. Two others were arrested after their auto wrecked on the Cleveland road east of Ridgeville. they said they had come from Mount Clemens Michigan. Charles Joetasek, 35, Oberlin, paid 1 dollar and 720 dollars costs before Mayor Harry Hinkson on intoxication.
William James Porter aged 26 pleaded guilty in Steubenville area federal court to leading a toll house robbery and kidnapping of toll keeper Frel Brinkman. He was sentenced to ten years in the West Virginia penitentiary.
Dayton judge upholds municipal court finding in case William Penn vs City of Dayton. Penn fined 350 dollars for unlawful possession of whiskey after police said his wife concealed the liquor under her dress during a raid on their home. State Supreme Court rejects appeal asserting crimes personal.
Four letters signed Carl and a young graduate nurse emerged in Chicago on January 22 as new elements in the McClintock death probe. Judge Harry Olson holds the letters and the nurse Estella Gehling says their friendship ended after Shepherd allegedly went broke. The letters prompted a delay in the inquest that previously aimed to declare death a typhoid case.
Mrs J B Feron Sr died at her home 355 South Maple Street this morning at age sixty five after a paralysis stroke four days earlier. She lived in the city 25 years and is survived by her husband and children Anna Agnes Feron at home Mrs W McCool of Creston now living here W J Thomas Bernard Jr and Edward J all of this city Funeral arrangements not yet made.
A workman was found dead on B and O tracks near Thew Shovel works in Lorain. Identified as Lonng Churpek, 59, of 1007 East 34a Street, he likely slipped crossing a moving train. Survived by wife and five children. funeral planned at St Nicholas.
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