Italy Gives Assurance To Britain
Italy assured Great Britain it harbors no hostile intent as Europe weighs Britain and Germany positions in the Mediterranean crisis. 60 000 reservists are called for February retraining amid fears of a Franco Italian clash while Chamberlain prepares a clarifying speech and Edouard Daladier pushes for Spain troop withdrawal after the civil war. Sir Samuel Hoare warns the empire’s power is irresistible, urging a cautious response to Nazi threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Italy
Great Britain
Britain
Germany
Europe
Mediterranean
France
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
Hoare
Edouard Daladier
Spain
Swansea
Wales
Business Council Stands Behind New Commerce Secretary Hopkins
Washington Jan 27 The business advisory council of industrialists decided to continue its work with enthusiasm under new Secretary of Commerce Harry L Hopkins. Hopkins met 50 council members for four hours and council chairman W A Harriman said the group was impressed with Hopkins approach and unanimously agreed to press on with the council’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Business Advisory Council
Commerce Department
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Daniel C. Roper
W. A. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Ohio Fair Tonight With Warmer Weekend Rain Likely
The forecast notes fair, not very cold conditions tonight in Ohio. Saturday will see increasing cloudiness and warmth, with rain expected Saturday night into Sunday. The report cites a low pressure from Washington and Oregon moving southeast to the Rockies and Missouri Valley, with a western high centered over the South. Precipitation was light in the Lake Region, Ohio Valley, Southern Texas, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California. It also says it is colder from the Upper Lake Region south to the Gulf, but warmer elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Washington
Oregon
Rockies
Missouri Valley
Lake
Ohio Valley
Texas
Idaho
California
Upper Lake Region
Gulf
Warner
Quake Sparks Evacuations and Health Crisis in Chile
After the Chilean earthquake, five cities were ordered evacuated as disease and famine threats rise. Martial law blocks looting, aid planes and trains mobilize from Argentina, the Canal Zone, and European carriers to deliver medical supplies. Camps, fires, and unburied dead mark a vast disaster zone.
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United Press
Santiago
Chile
Chillan
San Carlos
Linares
Parral
Cauquenes
Concepcion
Congress
United States Army
Canal Zone
Trans-Atlantic
Andes
Mendoza
France Ready To Strengthen Defenses
Paris January 27 An overwhelming Chamber of Deputies vote approved Premier Daladier’s plan for a vast military expansion to defend France’s colonial empire and deter domination by Italy and Loyalist Spain. Bonnet defended the policy emphasizing defense of colonies and non intervention in the Spanish war, with Britain to free Spain and the western Mediterranean of foreign influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Daladier
France
Spain
Italy
Thaladier
Georges Bonnet
Barcelona
Mediterranean
Daladier
Bonnet
Great Britain
Chamber
Resources of State Banks Increase in Ohio 1938
Ohio state banks raised total resources by 51.6 million dollars to 1.5308 billion in 1938. Deposits climbed to 1.3556 billion from 1.3096 billion while individual deposits rose by 21.8 million. Loans declined 29.3 million and government securities grew 15.1 million. Banking Superintendent Samuel H. Squire reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Samuel H. Squire
Squire
Louise Conrad, Elyria native, dies at 75 in home
Louise Smith Conrad 75 longtime Elyria resident and St. Mary's parish member died after an eight month illness at 105 West Bridge Street. Born May 11 1863 she was the second daughter of W H Smith a West Broad street merchant and attended Elyria High School class of 1882. She married Frederick Conrad in 1886. he died in 1924. Survived by four children William H Conrad Cleveland and three daughters-in-law plus three daughters, a brother Henry Smith Lorain, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Monday at St Marys Church with burial in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the residence.
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Louise (Smith) Conrad
West Bridge Street
Elyria
W. H. Smith
West Broad Street
St. Mary’s Parish
Middle Avenue
Fourth Street
Elyria High School
Frederick Conrad
New York Central Railroad
William H. Conrad
Cleveland
Arthur Bolly
Fred Humphrey
Thomas Kelley
City
Henry Smith
Lorain
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
France May Buy U.S. Planes, Roosevelt Says
President Roosevelt stated in a press conference that the United States has no objection to France purchasing American military aircraft. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and War Secretary Woodring testified on a French observer aboard an experimental California plane that crashed. France plans to buy about 600 planes, with 100 already delivered and another 100 ordered, while the U.S. maintains a general sale ban to foreign nations but supports keeping facilities active for America's expanded air program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
France
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Harry Woodring
Senate Military Affairs Committee
California
War Department
Paris
America
Roosevelt seeks $30 million for 565 new planes
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a 30 million emergency appropriation to buy 565 combat aircraft for the army. The move kicks off the 552 million defense expansion aimed at rapid air power buildup, with funds to cover immediate airplane procurement and other program parts to follow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
America
Elyrian Appointed District Governor of Exchange Club
Mark T. Byers secretary of the Elyria Exchange Club has been named governor of Ohio's 16th district of the National Exchange Club. The district includes several counties with Elyria and Oberlin clubs already represented. He succeeds Irving Worcester who served as governor last year and will help organize new clubs in towns able to support them.
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Mark T. Byers
Elyria Exchange Club
Ohio
National Exchange Club
Elyria
Oberlin
Byars
Irving Worcester
Oberlin Exenante Club
Mrs Charles Tucker Called By Death
Mrs Harriette E. Tucker 77 widow of Charles E. Tucker died at 3 30 p m at her home 1206 East Avenue after a lingering illness She lived most of her life in Elyria born November 18 1861 She married Charles E Tucker September 20 1882 they celebrated their golden wedding in 1932 Mr Tucker served three terms as county recorder two terms as mayor of Elyria and was a county commissioner at death Funeral services 3 p m Monday Nichols Funeral Home with Dr William Muir Auld officiating Burial Ridgelawn Cemetery Friends may call at the Nichols Funeral Home until then
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Harriette E. Tucker
Charles E. Tucker
East Avenue
Elyria
Tucker
John W. Hart
Carlisle Township
Ninety-five Club
Charles Morse
Nichols Funeral Home
William Muir Auld
First Congregational Church
Ridgelawn
Elyrians Filing Income Tax Returns Ahead of Deadline
Patrick A. Radican, Elyria deputy internal revenue collector, says many residents have filed their 1938 income tax returns with about seven weeks left. He notes changes in capital gains handling and the removal of individual capital gains loss limits, plus a new alternative tax. Radican also collects Social Security and Unemployment Compensation Tax data due January 31, with the 0.3 percent unemployment tax combining to 3 percent with the state tax for employers with eight or more workers in 20 weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick A. Radican
Internal Revenue
Radican
Suit to padlock The Chester Club
Assistant Prosecutor William Wickens filed a suit to padlock the Chester Club on Elyria Avenue near Lorain, after deputy sheriffs arrested Pearl Lewis for liquor selling without a license on New Year’s Eve and she was convicted. Sheriff Finegan seeks action to deter illicit liquor dealers in Lorain County under a 1923 prohibition era nuisance statute. A hearing in common pleas court is set for February 1.
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William Wickens
Chester Club
Elyria Avenue
Lorain
Pearl Lewis
Carl R. Finegan
Ohio
Lorain County
Common Pleas Court
Social Security Blanks At Post Office
The Elyria post office now offers application blanks for filing Social Security claims. The forms are to be mailed to the field office at Eighth Street and Broadway Lorain.
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Elyria
C. J. Sartar
Eighth Street
Broadway
Lorain
Italian Students Shout Insults At France
In Rome on January 27, hundreds of Italian students demonstrating near the French embassy and institute shouted insults at France to mark Spain's Nationalists capture of Barcelona. Two hundred Carabiniers and troops were deployed. police cordoned six surrounding streets as soldiers cleared the area.
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Rome
D.iv
France
Barcelona
Farnese Square
Loyalist Army Forms For New Stand
Loyalist forces withdraw intact to a new position north of Barcelona and prepare a final stand as Nationalists consolidate victory in Barcelona. Gerona authorities admit loss of Barcelona and warn that further defense would risk split from the main Loyalist army. Nationalists claim rapid advance in the Pyrenees and expect disorganized Loyalist units remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perpignan
Barcelona
Gerona
Salamanca
Pyrenees
Spain
Woodsfield Man Named Assistant Welfare Director
Herbert R. Mooney, formerly a Woodsfield banker, was appointed assistant state welfare director to succeed Oakley Spaght. The post pays $5000 annually. Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood said Mooney would later be named chief of the division of business administration in the department.
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Columbus, O
Herbert R. Mooney
Woodsfield
Oakley Spaght
Davey
Charles L. Sherwood
Mooney
Division of Business Administration
Nationalists Take Charge In Barcelona
Nationalist authorities ordered all members of the fifth column to report to central headquarters as troops and food trucks poured into Barcelona after the latest advance. Brigadier General Eliseo Alvarez was named chief of all services in the newly occupied area as massed forces prepared for a formal Franco entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Fifth Column
Regipe
Spain
Explosion Fatal To 24 Coal Miners
Tokyo report states a gas explosion at Fukuoka killed 24 coal miners and left 12 others near death, with rescuers rushing to the scene and authorities launching inquiries into the disaster.
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Tokyo
Fukuoka
Bids Opened For Three Lorain Bridges Projects
About 75 people attended the Lorain court room bid opening as 24 bids were opened for three contracts. Contracts cover Erie avenue bridge substructures and east abutment at 73000, 21st street bridge north approach fill at 75000, and an access road to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad property at 6900. Walker and Weeks and Wilbur Watson attended to tabulate bids for the county with County Engineer Harry Dunham. Awards expected 1 PM Monday pending PWA approval. Earl Sternberg, PWA engineer, observed the opening.
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Lorain
John E. Davidson
Erie Avenue
21St Street
Baltimore and Ohio
Walker and Weeks
Wilbur Watson
Harry L. Dunham
Pwaa
Earl Sternberg
PWA
City Names Committee To Study Park Plan For Fairgrounds
Mayor Joseph Q. Petra appointed Don A. Wilmot Alva Kemp A C Hudnutt A H West and Mrs B H Long to a special citizens committee to study purchasing the fairgrounds for park use and to consider other city sites for parks. The group meets Tuesday at P M with invited members from the Elyria Recreation Commission and city officials to discuss a general plan and financing via bond issue if pursued. A February 6 report on advisability and funding was set, with potential expansion of the park system including other sites for parks and playgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Q. Petra
Don A. Wilmot
Alva Kemp
A. C. Hudnutt
A. H.west
B. H. Long
Fairgrounds
Carl Wagner
Edwin C. Keyes
Elyria Recreation Commission
I. D. Faxon
Frank Wilford
Black River Routes Relief Notes Approved by Township
County commissioners received unanimous approval from Black River township to issue 230000 dollars in relief notes and maintain current direct relief administration. Subdivisions must grant unanimous consent before issuance. Black River was first to respond to a letter seeking subdivision approvals. Officials indicated Elyria council's prior resolution remains acceptable, avoiding further council action.
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Black River Township
Black River
Elyria Council
Trade in Your Used Car for a Better 1939 Model
The ad urges readers to swap old, costly cars for newer 1939 models while selection and prices are favorable, emphasizing safety and pleasure. It notes dealers prefer cash trades and directs readers to the Want-Ads Used Car section for a quick, advantageous deal.
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Talca
Acme
Santiago al Valparaiso
Central Theatre
U. S
Elyrian
Dist
Exchange Club
Charles Tucker
Franco
New York
Acme Telephoto
Bulletin
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Black River Two
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