Sheriff Rejects Sixteen Cent Meal for Prisoners
Sheriff Carl R Finegan refused to approve a 6cents a meal plan proposed by county commissioners for feeding prisoners at the county jail. He warned he would wash his hands of the meal business if the present rate could not be maintained and the commissioners took over. He noted meals influence jail labor, saying trusties work voluntarily but could refuse if meals are cheaper, affecting cleaning duties at the jail and courthouse.
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Carl R. Finegan
Fresh Russian Troops Ambush Finnish Defenses Near Viipuri
HELSINKI Jan 23 Fresh waves of Russian troops attacked the Mannerheim line as Finns readied for a decisive battle. Russian air forces dropped hundreds of bombs in raids and three people were killed or wounded. The main assault was expected northeast of Lake Ladoga to crumple the Finnish left flank and disrupt the line.
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Helsinki
Mannerheim
Viipuri
Lake Ladoga
Esch
Lake
Yesterda
Woman Unafraid Causes Robber to Plead Shame
In Cleveland Ohio Eleanor Greitzer confronted a robber at a news stand. The gunman demanded money. she reproved him, asking what others would think. He fled after she handed him $1.90 from the register.
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Cleveland
Eleanor Geritzer
Weather Outlook Ohio Snow Tonight Through Thursday
The report notes snow in Ohio tonight and Wednesday with very cold conditions in the north portion. A disturbance from the Gulf moves into the South Atlantic States bringing moderate to heavy snowfall from Arkansas and northern Louisiana east to Alabama and Georgia. Mow depths reach seven inches at Whexburg and five inches at Atlanta with higher pressures and generally fair conditions over the Reeny Mountain Plateau and Plains States as temperatures stay slow.
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Ohio
North Portion
South Atlantic States
Gulf of Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
Wiexsburg
Atlanta
Reeny Mountain
Plains
County Accepts Mobile Boiler To Heat Lor County Children’s Home
County commissioners accepted a mobile boiler owned by Henry Hart of Elyria as an emergency heat source for the Lor County Children’s Home in Oberlin until new boilers can be installed. Howard Miller credited Hart’s offer and noted past use of a state highway mobile boiler during a similar emergency. The board will move the boiler to the home and integrate it with the current high pressure laundry boiler. Two new boilers and stokers will be bid next Monday at 10 am, with an estimated cost of 4509 dollars. bids may be obtained from architect Alva Smith. Trustees had earlier authorized an immediate boiler order, but commissioners said trustees lack authority to purchase, directing T O Murphy Co. to await a formal process. To expedite repairs, the commissioners waived the usual 30-day bid period with State Auditor Ferguson’s approval, announcing invitational bids to close at 10 am Monday.
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Henry Hart
Elyria
Tag Contractor
Lor County
Oberlin
Howard Miller
Hart
Miller
Institutioon Warthedted
State Highway Department
Alva Smith ES
Orlando Shilts
T. O. Murphy Co
Othos
Coal Unloader Fire Hits Wellington Yard
Wellington fire department answered its second call of the year at 4 am today to a blaze at the Wellington Farmers Grain and Milling Company yard where a coal unloader caught fire. The flames spread quickly and the machine could not be saved. Loss was estimated at 500 dollars. The fire started when a motor began to fire while Arlo Witbeck, an employee, attempted to start the unloader.
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Wellington
Welngton Farmers Grain and Milling Company
Mojor
Arlo Witbeck
Body of Senator Borah on way to Idaho
The body of U. S. Senator William E. Borah arrived in Chicago en route to Boise Idaho where a second funeral service will be held. The funeral party left Washington after Senate services and will arrive in Boise at 7 30 A M Thursday. The body will lie in state at the Idaho State Capitol until 2 30 P M and will be interred at Morris Hill Cemetery.
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Chicago
U 53
William E. Borah
Boise
Ida
Washington
Senate
Idaho State Capitol
Morris Hill
Illness Of DeChant Delays 1940 County Appropriation Bill
County Commissioner Edward DeChant remains home ill delaying the county's 1940 appropriation bill as eight days of work proceed with three of five board members absent. Commissioner Davidson says he will continue, Dunn complains of lack of accord, and pressure to work nights grows despite no consensus on items or salary payments.
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Edward DeChant
Oscar G Thinn
DeChants
John E. Davidson
Cithadl “DeChant
Hem
Dunn
Er : Board
Volice
Industrial Groups To Participate In Y Program
More than 180 employees from six Elyria industrial plants are invited to take part in a Y program series. Each group will have a special night with table tennis and swimming activities, followed by a luncheon where Sheriff Carl R Finegan will present highway safety motion pictures. Groups include Elyria Foundry, General Industries, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary, Thew Shovel, Timm Spring, and Corporation.
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Elyria
Y. A
Carl Wagner
Ieverings
Carl R Finegan
New Assistant Director of Nursing Begins Duties
Miss Constance Mumford begins duties as assistant director of nursing at Elyria Memorial hospital. Born in England she trained at University of Colorado School of Nursing earned a B S at Cornell University and comes from National Jewish Hospital in Denver Colorado.
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Constance Mumford
M B Johnson
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Miss Mumford
England
University of Colorado
Cornell University
Elyria
National Jewish Hospital
Denver
Colorado
Browder receives four year prison term in New York
Browder, longtime Communist party leader in the United States, appeals his ten year sentence for passport fraud and false statements. Judge Coxe allowed a brief liberty period after conviction. Browder spoke at Madison Square Garden on Lenin’s death anniversary. He faces fines and potential appeal bonds as retrials proceed amid claims of imperialist war politics. Separately, film director Edwin Carewe dies in Hollywood at 68, with services announced and survived by wife and four children.
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New York
Browder
Communist Party
United States
Feder
Alferd C. Coxe
Hhe
Madi Square Garden
Nicolalenin
Soviet Union
Brower
Europe
Brawder
Hollywood
Edwin Carewe
Killed As He Flees From Bank Holdup
CLAFLIN Kansas January 23 Russell Hunter 28 a Claflin flour mill employee robbed two banks and was killed fleeing the second holdup He rushed into Farmers and Merchants State Bank obtained between 1200 and 1400 in cash and forced three men and a woman into the vault Earlier he robbed Bushton Kansas State Bank seven miles from here of 400 As Hunter ran from the bank Town Marshal Fred Adams shot and killed him on the street
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Claflin
Kas
Russell Hunter
U S Accuses British Govt Of Unfairness
The United States protests against British interference with American shipping on the high seas. It accuses Britain of detaining American vessels longer than those from other nations and seeks a formal reply from Lord Lothian after delivering an aide memoire to the British Embassy.
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Great Britain
United States
Bri
France
Lord Lothian
Adolph A. Berle
Squire Receives Auto on Retirement as Banking Chief
In Columbus on January 22, the State Banking Division awarded Samuel B. Squire a new automobile upon his retirement as State Banking Superintendent after his recent resignation from the post and service to the division.
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Columbus
Emves
State Banking Division
Samuel B. Squire
Squire
National
Reductions Ordered in Treasury-Postoffice Bill
Washington January 23 The House Appropriations Committee kept its economy record by reporting a 1 032 154 612 treasury postoffice supply bill 11 491 000 below Roosevelt budget. The savings lift the yearly total to about 113 000 000 as cuts below budget for the next fiscal year. Two deficiency bills totaling 69 502 600 will fund naval construction tax refunds and farm benefits this year. Semi defense cuts in the treasury postoffice bill trimmed the treasury by 8 057 150 and the post office by 3 434 750. A 15 000 000 fund for strategic materials was reduced to 12 500 000. Coast Guard aims to equip 70 boats and planes were vetoed with 1 820 000 and 1 699 000 cuts respectively as navy to patrol routes.
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Washington
Wouse Appropriations Committee
Treasury-Postoffice
Roosevelt
Eivis
Treas
Ury-Post Office
Treasury
Post Office
Coast Guard
Bellevue Students Visit Local Plants To Compare Vocational Education Systems
Bellevue High School junior and senior joined a touring group to compare two vocational programs in Elyria. at Thew Shovel Company and General Industries, the students observed plant operations and discussed the need for trained workers while the programs share costs with the State Department of Education.
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Bellevue
Bellevue High
Seton
Te Elyria
General Industries , Company
Thew Shevel Company
Larain
Thew Shovel Company
Bellevue High School
Roberts
A. Rose Ward
M. R. Marshall
State Department of Education
Elyria
Elyria City
Robert Long
William Williams
Long
Thew
Richard F. Mann
General Industries
Carl Kohler
Kohler
General Industries Company
Kehler
Board of Education
Victim Of Fire At Lorain Laid To Rest
Funeral services were held in Lorain for two year-old Patricia Hellinger who died after flames from a gas stove singed her skirt. She passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital two hours later. Her mother and siblings survived as neighbors aided. Burial planned at LaPorte Cemetery with Rev. Edwin P. Eberly officiating.
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Lorain
Patricia Hellinger
Broadway
St. Joseph's Hospital
Barbara Jean
Dora Jean Buckley
Donne Mae Buckley
Edwin P. Eberly
United Brethren Church
LaPorte Cemetery
Expensive Markers for Lorain Bridge Rejected by County Board
Lorain county commissioners ruled out costly entrance markers for the 21st Street high level bridge. They awarded the north approach paving contract to Ohio Engineering Co. of Lorain, trimming the bid by 31 050 to 16 732 50 from an initial 57 782 50.
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21St Street
Lorain
Ohio Engineering Co
Ohi Engineering
Ohio Engineering
Galier Brothers
Cleveland
Harry J. Dunham
Lewis blasts McNutt as adventurer in bid for UMWA criticizes him
In Columbus on January 2, President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America denounces Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt as a political adventurer who used troops against labor. He alleges McNutt pretends to be a soldier and relies on a “two percent bag men” to secure votes and widen his command, linking the remark to Indiana politics and the 1930s labor struggle.
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Columbus
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America Today
Paul V. McNutt
Lewis
McNutt
Indiana
United States
Chandler
Last Civil War Vet in Hocking County Passes
Logan district reports the death of Geoff Burke at age 95, the last Civil War veteran in Hocking County. Burke served in the 12th Ohio Infantry and died after a brief illness in January.
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Hocking County
Logan
Geoff Burke
Ofio Cayey
Thompson Named Elyria City Council President
Mayor Joseph Q. Petro announced the appointment of George Thompson of 440 Ninth Street as president of Elyria city council effective February 1. Thompson, 25 years Elyria resident, retires W. E. B. Notley who resigns to move to Lorain after marriage. Thompson’s council seat vacancy will be filled by the council.
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George Thompson
Ninth Street
Elyria
Joseph Q. Petro
Thompson
W. E. B. Notley
Lorain
Lorain County
Council
American
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Rescue Liners Arrive With 511 Survivors
GENOA Italy Jan 23 The rescue liners Conte Biancamansa and Colombo arrived with 411 survivors from the burned Italian passenger ship Orazio and a report of a defective piston in the engine room believed to have started the fire The Orazio carried 414 passengers and 231 crew resulting in the loss of life and injuries cited among survivors
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Genoa
Italy
The
Conte Biancamansa
Colombo
Orazio
Conte Biancamann
Veteran Engineer Blamed For Wickliffe Collision
RIE. Pa January 22 A veteran engineer with a long service record was blamed for a wreck near Wickliffe when engineer John Hunt 68 of Cleveland misjudged speed and distance after passing warned signals. The Southwestern Limited collided with the Vanderbilt stopped east of Wickliffe depot for brake repairs. Twenty persons suffered minor injuries in the crash.
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Huwi
Eye Injury Reported For Fireman On No 38 Train
Hugh B. Robertson of 139 Stanford Avenue New York Central fireman on No 38 suffered a severe eye injury when a lava bar prong pried loose from the locomotive during a stop at Toledo station. He was reported recovering at St Vincents Hospital Toledo with facial and eye trauma after the bar struck near the eye.
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Hugh B. Robertson
Stanford Avenue
New York Central
St Vincett’s Hospital
Toledo
Roberts
Toleds
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Goat Island
Senator Borah
Idaho
DeChant
U.S
Gov’t
Samuel H. Squire
State Labor Department
Atlanta, Ga
Ben T. Hui
Berry Frank Helbrook
Helbrook
Committee
Oscar G Dunn
PWA
Ralph Harding
Hading
Lewis Blasts McNutt As
Adventurer
Petro
Elyrian
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