Three Bank Robbers Sentenced for Sabina Heist
Three men pleaded guilty to bank robbery at the First National Bank of Sabina and received life imprisonment. Howard Wells, James Clift, and Russell Clift robbed the Sabina bank on January 16, fleeing with about 2,500 dollars. Wells was captured in Xenia. the Clifts in Memphis. About 1,700 dollars recovered.
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Wilmington
First National Bank of
Sabina
Frank M. Clevenger
Howard Wells
Lebanon
Ohio
James Clift
Russell
Richmond
Ind
Wells
Xenia
Clift Brothers
Memphis
Tenn
Sterilization Bill Rejected by Ohio Senate Panel
In Columbus on January 31 the senate public health committee voted four to three to indefinitely postpone Sen. W D Emmons elective sterilization bill for feeble minded and epileptic persons before release from institutions. Supporters cited endorsements from the Ohio Pastor's convention and Methodist churches while opponents led by Dr Edwin Steddam argued medical associations have no stance on the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
W. D. Emmons
Summit County
Senate
Committee On Public Health
F. L. Kaiser
Columbus Hospital
George Dial
Springfield
Rose Beatty
Delaware Girls Industrial School
John B. Ascham
Children’s Home
Cincinnati
A. Brown
Cleveland
T. J. Duffy
Joseph Schrembs
Edwin Steddam
Emmons
Ohio
Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
United States Supreme Court
Steddam
Jury Sits On Two Trials In One Afternoon
In a 1933 efficiency feat Judge W B Thompson kept jurors after noon to hear a criminal case after suspending the William Chamberlain Jr versus Edward Nasi trial. Later the same panel would hear petit larceny charges against Leo Swiegonowski and Frank Fiuskosni for alleged theft of 12 Plymouth Rock chickens from Otto Knierim last November.
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Common Pleas Court
W. B. Thompson
William Chamberlain, Jr
Edward Nasi
Leo Swiegonowski
Frank Fiuskosni
Otto Knierim
Ohio Weather Forecast Spots Rain and Warmer Outlook
Occasional rain expected tonight into Wednesday with warmer temperatures in the southeast. Colder Wednesday night and in the west and extreme north portions by afternoon.
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Ohio
Steady Return of Ford Workers Amid Briggs Strike
Detroit January 31 workers return to Briggs Body Plant as 150000 Ford employees await settlement. About 1000 Briggs workers on hand with 5000 at capacity. 700 pickets march, minor disorders noted, police maintain open lines for workers crossing.
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Detroit
Ford
Briggs Body
Ford Automobiles
Briggs
Commnists and Socialists Call General Strike Against Hitler
Berlin reports a general strike call by Communists and Socialists as Hitler begins his chancellorship seeking support in parliament. Early street clashes in Hamburg saw dock workers ignore agitators and violence flare outside Berlin leaving two dead and several wounded.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Hamburg
Ludwig Kaas
Ministry of Justice
Johannes Bell
Reichstag
Ironton Grocer Fatally Shot by Burglars
Ironton Ohio January 31 John Bartram a 38 year old grocer was shot through the head while guarding his darkened store He died three hours later at a hospital Police hunted several crews for the burglar slayer After a window break was heard thieves fired through the window Bartram left a widow and four children.
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Ironton
John Bartram
Bartam
Bartram
House Labor Panel Backs Connery 30 Hour Week Bill
The House Labor Committee favorably reported the Connery 30 hour work week bill to spread employment. It bans interstate and foreign transport of goods from factories with workers over 30 hours weekly and faces constitutional questions. Penalties include a $1000 minimum fine or up to three months imprisonment.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Connery
Senate
Galsworthy, Novelist, Dies After Lingering Illness
London reports the death of John Galsworthy at 65 in Hampstead after a long illness begun with a chill last November. He could not travel to Stockholm to receive the Nobel prize for literature. The Forsythe Saga and later works made him a leading British writer. his plays featured natural dialogue. Born in Coombe on August 14 1867, he studied at Harrow and Oxford before choosing law.
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London
John Galsworthy
Galsworthy
Stockholm
Shaw
Kipling
Hampstead
H. G. Wells
Forsythe
Coombe
Surrey
Harrow
New College
Oxford
Elyria High Forms Mixed Chorus For Busy Concert Season
Elyria High School launches a new mixed chorus with 36 members including 21 girls and 15 boys. The group, directed by J. Martin Beck, will rehearse Monday Wednesday and Friday afternoons and participate in several concerts plus the Lake Erie High School League music festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria High School
Lake Erie
Lucille Hand
Kathleen Maston
Florence Clawson
Gertrude Mallory
Josephine Paenessa
Janet Robbins
Ruth Eileen Ellam
Virginia Showalter
Anna Haake
Anita Poole
Trene Ackerman
Elaine Cole
Katherine Fiske
Jane Storm
Mary Franklin
Dorothy Keffer
Mary Holzweuer
Marian Nilsen
Rosetta Dyer
Everly Peterman
Wilma
Earle Rainey
Robert Linden
Myron Briggs
Roland Faulhaber
Dominick Paonessa
Alfred O'Donnell
Arnold Alexander
Ernest Buswell
Kenneth Crooks
Harold Biddinger
Alan Davies
Congress bill to redraw districts creates two new districts
Rep. George J. Harter will introduce a measure to reallocate Ohio districts. Summit County joins the 14th, Mahoning and Trumbull form the 19th, and adjustments to the 20th 21st and 22nd place all of Cuyahoga County into new configurations. Western Cuyahoga with Medina and Lorain forms the 22nd, Ashtabula Lake Geauga and Portage form the 24th, affecting Lorain Medina Summit Portage Mahoning Trumbull Ashtabula Lake Geauga and Cuyahoga.
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Columbus
George J. Harter
Akron
Summit County
Mahoning
Trumbull
Cuyahoga County
Medina
Lorain
Ashtabula
Lake
Geauga
Portage
Harter
Summit
Cuyahoga
Bates Announces Transfers of 13 Local Firemen
Elyria Fire Department announces transfers of 13 men effective tomorrow. Lieut C C Osborn moves from Engine One to Ladder One and Lieut W A Cory from Engine One to Engine Two. Other moves include Archie Phipps, Ralph Montague, R E Benton, Charles Schue, William McVetta, Fred Kraft, A A Roling, Otto Stegman, and H A Vosburgh among Engine Ladder and Hose companies. Policy aims to familiarize men with all city fire areas and overall operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
W. N. Bates
C. C. Osborn
W. A. Cory
Archie Phipps
Ralph Montague
R. E. Benton
Charles Schue
William McVetta
Fred Kraft
A. A. Roling
Otto Stegman
H. A. Vosburgh
Fire Department
Banks not doing on are to help railroads
Reconstruction Finance Corp chairman Pomerene accused banks of hoarding cash and credit, refusing to finance railroads. He cited collateral issues in a Baltimore & Ohio loan and said many railroad loans are maturing as the probe into CF loan practices continues.
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Ava
Washington
Pomerene
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Couzen
Pomerone
Myles Kennedy
R. F. C. Kennedy
Kennedy
Baltimore & Ohio
Senator Goldsborough
Daniel Willard
Pomer
Terminal Go Aeg Right 10 Sell Delurties
Cincinnati Union Terminal Co asks ICC for authority to sell 12 million dollars of mortgage securities to repay Reconstruction Finance Corporation borrowings and finish its station in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AEG
Washington
Cincinnati Union Terminal Co
Interstate Commerce Commission Authority
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cincinnati
Bequest to Carnegie Museum from Victor Sterki
New Philadelphia Ohio January 31 a collection of theses and mollusk specimens was bequeathed to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh by Victor Sterki curator of Mollusca at the museum who died at his home here last Wednesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Philadelphia
Carnegie Museum
Pitsburgh
Victor Sterki
Elyria Gas Rates Compared With Proposed Compromise
Elyria City Council approved on first reading a compromise gas rate meant to show how much Elyrians will pay under the new terms. The present four year contract expired long ago but charges continue. The proposed rate will be lower than current payments for the average consumer yet higher than the final year’s rates from the expired contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Council
Elyrians
Foreclosure sale nets $2.17 on Cecil Kestner property
In Deshler Ohio January 31 U P notes the $350 personal property mortgage on Cecil Kestner to City Savings & Loan Bowling Green was bought by neighbors at a foreclosure sale for $2.17 The property was leased back to Kestner for 99 years Agents of the finance company were among 3500 people at the Kestner farm five miles north of town but no bids were placed.
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Deshler
U.P
Cecil Kestner
City Savings & Loan Company
Bowling Green
Kestner
Finance Company
Japanese Plan to Strike Jehol From Korea
Three Japanese army divisions totaling 30,000 men move by train from Korea toward Manchuria to attack Jehol in northern China. Chinese delegate W. W. Yen cited instructions from Nanking and said the 5th 10th and 14th divisions would reach fighting positions within a week.
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Ceneva
Korea
Manchuria
Jehol
League of Nations
W. W. Yen
Nanking
Lorain County to Receive 30000 From Highway Fund
Lorain County will obtain a 30000 share of the motor vehicle revenue fund as part of 1959 distributions to eight counties. The funds will be used for highway repair and construction while additional distribution to cities and municipalities awaits application checks.
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Lorain County
George S. Myers
Myers
Relief Granted to Wood County Farmers Moratorium Implemented
A 60 day moratorium on chattel loans was put into effect in Wood County following a meeting of about 800 farmers at Bowling Green State Normal College. Rev John Chaney urged relief, leading to the joint action of two local loan companies to aid debtor farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowling Green, CO
Wood County
Chattel
John Chaney
Bloomdale
Bowling Green State Normal College
Robbery at Midwest Finance Directors Meeting
Four armed men disrupted a directors meeting of the Midwest Finance & Loan Company in the Society for Savings Building Cleveland. They escaped with 1500 dollars in cash and jewelry as 400 National Guardsmen drilled nearby in Public Square.
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Cleveland, CO
Public Square
Midwest Finance & Loan Company
Society For Savings
Foreclosure Sale Delayed as Farmers Back Home Rule Rally
In Deshler Ohio on January 31 a foreclosure sale of Cecil Kestner’s farm goods was postponed while about 3500 farmers heard talks urging home rule and a farmer labor party. Sheriff Bowerman oversaw the event with C E Wharton and Jake Prentiss speaking before Col M M Laybarter acted as auctioneer. Speakers predicted 35 more foreclosures in the area in two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation of Farm Councils of Ohio
Jake Prentiss
Col. M. M. Laybarter
Another Car Of Flour Received By Red Cross
The Elyria Chapter of the Red Cross received an unexpected 4,400 sacks, boosting its flour stock to about 7,000 sacks for city families. The distribution station on West Avenue, just north of Broad Street, now holds the larger supply.
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Elyria
The
Red Cross
West Avenue
Broad Street
Body of Man Found Under Railroad Trestle
New Philadelphia January 31 police questioned a man and woman in the death of Samuel Ridley 44 of Newcomerstown whose body was found under a railroad trestle near Newcomerstown Coroner Albert Balmer said Ridley had a punctured lung and several broken ribs He was said to have been in a recent fight.
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New
Philadelphia
Samuel Ridley
Newcomerstown
Albert Balmer
Ridley
City Council approves first reading of five year gas rate compromise
The council passed the five year gas rate ordinance on its first reading with two more readings pending before final adoption. The measure promises an overall about 9.3 percent net reduction over five years for the average domestic user of 6,000 feet while parties urged caution about terms. Mayor Van Oster outlined three options and touted the proposed rate as the best available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. van Oster
Public Utilities Commission
Utilities Commission
Columbus
Cleveland
Utility Commission
O. E. Rankin
Daladier Forms Cabinet to Tackle France Crisis
Edouard Daladier completed formation of a cabinet in Paris and drafted a new plan to meet the French financial crisis. Officials believed the proposal would gain approval from both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Edouard Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Dredge Chinook Found After Gale Near Chesapeake
Coast Guard announced the Army dredge Chinook missing since Saturday's gale off the Atlantic coast was located near Chesapeake lightship and was moving under her own power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Chesapeake
There’s Still Time For Cold Weather Coal Ad Directories
The article extols remaining cold days per almanac and urges readers to consult the Chronicle-Telegram Want Ads for coal dealers. It promotes coal at low prices and invites readers to check the COAL DEALERS directory for reliable listings.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Directory of
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Ironton Grocer
Bulletin
High School Chorus
Louise Johnston
Queens
New Wilmington Way
Westmin
Ster College
New Wilmington
Congress
Loraine
Bates
R. F.C
Bequeaths Collection
Farmer ~ Labor Party
Carl Curtis
Leonard Smith
William G. Smith
Curtis
France
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