Amherst bank president indicted on embezzlement charges
William H. Schibley, president of Amherst Savings and Banking Co., faces four indictments totaling 12 counts for alleged embezzlement and misappropriation of 23,387.04. Indictments allege transfers to the U. S. Automatic Co. from Wesbecher Hardware, Emery Schibley, D. A. Baker, and C. E. Cooper estates between 1927 and 1928. Schibley was arrested after being served with the indictments and called the charges unfair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Schibley
Amherst Savings and Banking Company
Lorain County
Shibley
Wesbecher Hardware Company
Amherst
Dompostor
U. S. Automatic Company
Schibley
Emery Schibley
Emery
Scibley
D. A. Baker
Baker
C. E. Cooper
May E. Duhig
Cooper
Court House
Grand Jury
Clarence E. Adams
Adams
Large Sunday crowd hears Rev Sunday sermon on "The Hour is Come"
A driving rain failed to deter about 3,000 worshipers at the West Avenue tabernacle as Rev William A Sunday delivered a sermon titled The Hour is Come. He spoke that Jesus Christ understood the coming hour and faced his crucifixion with purpose, outlining its global significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabernacle
West Avenue
Sixth Street
William A. Sunday
Jesus Christ
God
Father
Thrift Days Observe National Thrift Week in Elyria Stores
Seventeen Elyria shops join a two day event to celebrate National Thrift Week with cross-store savings on almost every product line. Thrift Cars offers universal discounts attracting many out of town shoppers during January sales peak. Participating stores include Sul's Manser's Day's Music and Hardware Miyrsa Dry Goods and more in Elyria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyrria
Elyria
Benjamin Franklin
Flyria
Wales
Ssul’s
Manser's
Day's Music
Miyrsa Dry Goods Co
Wa3seeman's
Ohis
Sermon by Rev Wiliam A Sunday in Elyria on The Parable of the Pounds
Rev Wiliam A Sunday preached for the first time in Elyria this afternoon on The Parable of the Pounds. He framed the parable as a prophetic picture of Christ’s return and urged servants to prove their fitness to reign when He comes again. The talk noted ten servants and their testing to determine standing with the nobleman who goes to a far country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam A
Elyria
Jesus
Christ
Sunday Fundraising Drives Gasoline Fee Aid
Billy Sunday asked people to mail checks covering the gas line fill cost and received a large response. He turned the donations over to the local committee to cover expenses. Mrs. Sunday spoke at the Business Women's Club in the afternoon. Local and area church groups attended the meeting with delegations from Kiwanis and several Evangelical and Methodist churches across nearby towns. Rev. Davis and Bob Moore performed a 13% duet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Methodist
Avon
Grafton
Relden
la Grange Oberlin
Amherst
South Amherst
Columbia Station
la Parte
Lorrain First
Lorain Delaware Avenue
Lorain Grace
Lorain 29Th Street
Ilyria
Lake Avenue
Move to place state sanitarium at Grafton farm site
Elyria Board of Trade urges lawmakers to reconsider the Grafton site for the new state san itarium for feeble minded and seeks support to shift from Apple Creek. The group notes initial Apple Creek funding and argues Grafton offers better access and infrastructure, with local leaders backing the plan and plans for a 40 acre lake and boulevard potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Reformatory
Grafton Reformatory Farm
Apple Creek
Elyria Board of Trade
P. H. Rogers
C. KR. Summers
Lorain County
Grafton
Board of Trade
J. B. Thompson
Berea
State Senate
Thompson
W. B. Thompson
Lorain County Common Pleas Court
Harry N. Davis
A. V. Donahey
E. J. Fellow
Elsria Board of Trade
Miers V. Cooper
Elyria
Donachery
Senate
Fellow
W. R. Comings
Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Eaton Township
Cleveland
Summers
Rogers
H. H. Griswold
Cooper
State Welfare
Marines Announce Rector Death in Nicaragua Fight
In Managua on January 25 1947 United States marine headquarters announced the death of Everett A Rector first class private in an engagement with rebels Monday The Nicaraguan congress was expected to pass a bill declaring martial law in bandit infested provinces of northern Nicaragua
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicaragua
Managua
Everett A. Rector
United States Marine Headquarters
Nicaraguan Congress
Secretly Indicted Man Arrested for Non Support
Thomas McGuane, secretly indicted by the grand jury for non support, was arrested by sheriff deputies last night. He will be arraigned in court Thursday morning. Sheriff Adams anticipates early apprehension of the remaining secret indictments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas McGuane
Grand Jury
Sherif Adams
Rain and Cold Wind Batters Midwest Cities
Heavy winds and near zero temperatures returned to the north and middle west with hours of rain sleet and brisk winds. The cold wave from Canada spread across Montana South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois and Indiana with little relief expected for 36 hours. Ice on rails caused a wreck on the South Shore Electric Line at Michigan City Indiana injuring five. A woman was killed in St Paul stepping into a car during a blizzard. Carl H. Schubert 36 died in a Rock Island Illinois coasting accident. Herman C. Knoll was killed when an ice coated haystack toppled over in Ottawa Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Middlewest
Weather Bureau
Canada
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
South Shore Electric
Michigan City
Ind
St. Paul
Carl HH. Schubert
Rock Island
Herman C. Knoll
Ottawa
Cotton Given Postry Onoper Cotton Given Postry
Appointment of E C Cotton Ely Tia as chief of the state division of plant industry by Agriculture Director Perry L Green announced by Governor Cooper. Cotton served six years from 1917 to 1925 in the bureau of horticulture under Agriculture Secretary Shaw. He is a graduate of the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
E. C. Cotton
Ely
Tia
Piant Industry
Perry L. Green
Cooper
Cotton
Bureau of Horticulture
Shaw
College of Agriculture
Ohio State Uni- No 3
Senate committee backs three treaties including Czecho-Slovakia pact
Washington January 23 the senate foreign relations committee ordered favorable reports on three treaties the naturalization treaty with Czecho Slovakia the anti smuggling treaty with Japan and the claims convention with Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Czecho-Slovakia
Japan
Panama
Court Rules for County in Farmer Damages Case
In Columbus on January 25 the Ohio Supreme Court overruled a motion to certify Lorain county matters, ruling against Adelaide Farmer in her suit for damages against W. B. Richmond and Lorain county commissioners. The decision concerns costs for a common pleas trial charged to George M. Parker as next friend before Miss Farmer reached adulthood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus. CO
Lorain
Supreme Court
Adelaide Farmer
W. B. Richmond
Lorain County
Miss Farmer
Common Pleas
George M. Parker
Woman Slips on Ice Injures Hand Near Home
Mrs. Robert Flood of 134 Marseilles Avenue slipped on ice while carrying a fruit tart and sustained lacerations. She was treated in Memorial Hospital emergency room and released. no admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Flood
Marseilles Avenue
Flood
Memorial Hospital
Accident at Bellevue crosses claims Greyhound rider
In Bellevue Ohio a Greyhound bus accident killed 15 people when the bus was hit by a Lake Shore Electric car. A father among the dead left small toys along the wreckage path as his child waits at home for his return, unaware the tragedy has happened. A rescue worker found a dead passenger clutching a toy car.
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Daddy
Detroit
Bellevue Crossing
Greyhound
Lake Shore
Sonny
Revised dead and injured list from Bellevue bus crash
Jan 23 report lists victims and survivors from the interurban crash. The dead include Teddy Obrowski Brooklyn N Y and Mrs William J Cook Cleveland among others. numerous others named by city include Cleveland Detroit Akron Toledo Pittsburgh and Chicago residents. Injured include Edward Butler James Watrab Mrs Thelma Mether and several others by city.
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Bellevue
Teddy Obrowski
Brooklyn
N. Y
William J. Cook
Cleveland
D. Coughaneur
Susan Deister
Detroit
A. Robinson
J. S. Davenport
Louis Flynn
Steubenville
Elmer Almond
Youngstown
Bela Theist
Father of Elyria Girl Victim of Fatal Crash
Wakeman resident John Kingster, father of Miss Pegsy Kingsley, died in a collision yesterday afternoon when an interurban car struck a Grarhound bus near Beile wee. Kingsley, a waitress at the Seder restaurant, had been returning from Detroit to Wakeman and had left Detroit a day early for unknown reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kingster
Wakeman
Pegsy Kingsley
Fourth Street
Elyria
Interburn
Aa Grarhound
Beilewee
Miss Kingsley
Seder
Kingsley
Birmingham
Detroit
Train Hits Auto Claim Three Lives At Crossing
Three men died when their automobile was struck by a westbound Rock Island passenger train at a crossing in the town. Joe Grevitel of Ladd Sr died instantly, George Horn of Ladd, and Peter Rabeczzi of Spring Valley perished after being rushed to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Depf. Ni
Rock Island
Joe Grevitel
Ladd, Sr
Spmps Valley
George Horn
Ladd
Peter Rabeczzi
Spring Valley
Inquest Planned for 19 Killed in Lakeshore Interurban Crash
Bellevue Ohio January 23 Formal inquest into the deaths of 19 persons killed when a Lakeshore interurban struck a Greyhound bus near Bellevue will be held in Norwalk on Friday February 1. Coroner C L Bell will preside. Three investigations began today by utilities commission traction and bus company officials. Speed of the interurban at impact is to be examined alongside fault assessments by the utility commission and company probes.
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Bellevue
Greyhound
Norwalk
Edgar G. Martin
C. L. Bell
State Public Utilities Commission
L. C. Smith
The
Utilities Commission
Smith
Tom Stahl
Toledo
Earl J. de Long
Milan
R. Sandstrone
Cleveland
Greyshound Hines
Lake Shore
Here
Ohio
Edward Martin
Myers Y. Cooper
Martin
Lake Shore Electric Company
Greyhound Lines
Frank Tru- No. 2
Victim Confesses To Bank Holdup After Crash
Bellevue Ohio January 23 Ted Orawski a crash victim died after admitting to Police Chief C E North that he was one of three men who robbed a street bank of 26.60. He said two companions were shot while escaping and would not reveal the robbery date or bank. He died at 7 am.
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Bellevue. O
Teddy Orawski
Niheten Hvea
Totee
C. E. North
Oraweki
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Amerot Bank
Evangelist
Lake Shore Electric Railway
Billy Sunday
Sunday
Business Women's Club
Sandusky
Citiers of Ackland
Rev. Davis
Bob Moore
Harry L. Davis
U. S
State Division of Plant Industry
Bis
Edward Williams
Pittsburgh
Martin Larenger
Woodrocket
L Merrill Long
Portage
Harold Schaeffer
A. W. van Valkenburgh
Green Springs
Elnora Haughtby
Frank Truman
Fremont
Thomas Schuyler
Edward Rowley
Alcott Rowley
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