Elyria PWA waterworks project approved for 408000
Final approval from the Public Works Administration was reported in telegrams to Mayor W H Vanoster. The Elyria project extends the 36 inch city water main from North Ridge road to East Broad street near East River street, connecting with Broad street main. It will employ about 100 men directly and 200 indirectly for one year and improve fire insurance ratings. The city pays 70 percent with a government loan financing the local share over 25 years.
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Elyria
PWA
Public Works Administration
Washington
W. H.vanoster
Robert Bulkley
Don Harter
North Ridge Road
East Broad Street
East River Street
Broad Street
W H. Vanosier
J. X N. Bidt
Wen
Fred Iderhill
Orty Hagneer J. Mpell
Retired Railroader Takes Fishing trip in Michigan
C. E. Barry, longtime Baltimore and Ohio Railroad agent, retires after nearly 50 years of service and returns from an extended Alpena fishing trip. He recalls wartime overtime, received a $1,200 draft as thanks, and says Elyria feels like home.
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C. E. Barry
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Alpena
Michigan
Barry
Earth
Elyria
Ohio Forecast Sees Warmer West and South Then Showers
Fair weather across Ohio with warmer readings in the west and south. Local thunder showers expected tonight and Tuesday with cooler conditions after Tuesday afternoon and night.
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Ohio
Darrow Report Criticizes NRA For Third Time
Washington reports the Darrow recovery review board criticizes the NRA for squeezing the little man and consumer while bolstering monopolies. The final report reiterates prior charges that codes enable control by big interests, hamper small industry, and promote price fixing. It notes government bid losses, 15 percent price-cut orders, and a Ford Motor Co feeler amid hopes for NRA peace.
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Washington
Darrow Recovery Review Board
NRA
Little Man
Blue Eagle
Henry Ford
Ford
Johnson
Ford Motor Co
Recall petitions circulated to remove Toledo mayor
Recall drive against Mayor Klotz gains momentum in Toledo as Roy Schunk states about 10,000 signatures collected Sunday. Organizers aim for 23,000 by Thursday citing 10 alleged grounds including incompetency and insincerity in the mayor.
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Toledo
Klotz
Roy Schunk
Schunk
Elyria Survey Sets Sewer Rental Plan for City System
Elyria's sanitary engineer George B. Gascoigne completed a survey to propose a rental schedule funding sewer system operation and maintenance plus ejector stations and treatment works. The plan aims to cover collection costs, system upkeep, and treatment works with annual revenues based on three years of costs.
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George B. Gascoigne
Elyria
Mr. Gascoigne
Elyna
Girl Drowns After Diving Platform Fault at Nova Reservoir
Beth Wacker a 15 year old New London high school junior drowned at Nova Ohio when a diving platform overturned after bathers clustered on the edge. Her brother Roy and sister Alice dived to help but could not find her. Body recovered after two hours. parents Louis and Mrs Wacker along with Irma Roy and Alice witnessed the tragedy at the reservoir picnic. Burial plans in Wellington pending.
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Nova, O
Here
Beth Wacker
New London High School
Miss Wacker
Roy
Alice
Louis Wacker
Irma
Perry
Cleveland Heights
Wade
Andrews
Wellington
Fireman Sues For Pension In Common Pleas
Leonard Shade, Lorain volunteer fireman since 1913, sues for a pension of 29.40 monthly under the Firemen's Relief Fund rules. He says he was dismissed April 24 after charges, seeks mandamus against fund trustees William Davis, W T Latimer, James March, Andrew Parobeck, Joseph White, Joseph Feldkamp, and the fund treasurer. Case set to be heard in July.
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Leonard Shade
Lorain
Common Pleas Court
Firemen’s Relief Fund
Shade
Pension Fund
William Davis
W. T. Latimer
Trans-Atlantic Plane Lands in Warsaw Crowd Cheers
The Adamancez brothers of Brooklyn landed their trans Atlantic flight at Warsaw airport late today. A wildly cheering crowd of 20 000 citizens welcomed them as the achievement drew national attention and marked a dramatic milestone in air travel.
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Warsaw
Adamancez Brothers
Brooklyn
Judge Lowers Verdict For Ruffing After New Trial Motion
Judge A R Webber reduced a jury verdict from 3500 to 2500 for Jacob Ruffing of Oberlic Te after a motion for a new trial. Ruffing, injured August 1 1932 when a tree limb fell on him on East Lorain Street, was brought to court on a cot due to earlier injuries that led to leg amputation.
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R Webber
Jacob Ruffing
Oberlic
Ruffing
East Lorain Street
Former Kansas Senator Chester I Long Dies in Washington
Washington July 2 Former U S Senator Chester I Long of Kansas died suddenly here yesterday at age 74 His body was to be sent to Wichita for burial Long a Republican and leading hard money advocate in the Bryan free silver fight served Kansas seventh district in the 54th 55th and 56th congresses and was in the Senate from 1903 to 1909 His death was attributed to a bleeding kidney
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Washington
U.S
Chester I Long
Kansas
Wichita
Kans
Long
Senate
No Holidays For Johnson As He Battles To Codify Business
Washington July 2 Brig Gen Hugh S Johnson head of the New Deal recovery program has faced nonstop strain as he works to codify fair business practice. He has been hospitalized three times since the NRA began and slept little, yet he continues to dictate orders from his bed and carry on seven day a week labor amid weight gain and exhaustion. This article begins a series on the New Dealers a year after the program started.
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Johnson
Geo
Hugh S. Johnson
West Pointer
Washington
Hugh 5. Johnson
National Recovery Adr
Water, Traffic Accidents Take Big Ohio Toll
United Press reports a deadly weekend in Ohio with at least 12 fatalities from water and traffic incidents. Drownings occurred near Cincinnati and in the Whitewater and Ohio rivers, including two Bay Scouts ages 12. A car crash near Youngstown killed Mr and Mrs Guides, and other deaths were reported in West Independence, Columbus, Bellefontaine, and Cleveland.
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United Press
Ohio
Cincinnati
Adam Milleck
Whitewater
Charlies Doran
Clarence Bowey
John Muller
Willie Hatcher
J. Guides
Youngstown
Michigan
Oma Bovee
Fostoria
West Independence
James Grubb
Columbus
J. Myers
Zanesville
James E. Neff
Bellefontaine
Cleveland
Marie Dressler Still Critical Continues Fight
Marie Dressler, 65, remains in critical condition in Santa Barbara with doctors reporting no immediate change. She recently recovered briefly from a coma to speak to those around her as Louis B. Mayer visited, calling the outlook difficult to be optimistic.
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Santa Barbara
Mare Dressler
We Tate
Miss Dressler
Louis B. Mayer
Close Confidant of Hitler Takes Own Life in Crisis
Berlin July 2 Gregor Strasser once a close confidant to Hitler and a Nazi power reportedly killed himself after learning of General Kurt von Schleicher’s death. Reliable authority said the fatal action occurred upon the grim news.
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Berlin
Gregor Strasser
Adolf Hitler
Kurt von Schleicher
August Wilhelm
Kaiser
Tce
Franz von Ep von Papen
Junker
Hitler
von Papen
Hubert von Bose
Police Guard Waterfront as Pacific Coast Strike Intensifies
San Francisco July 2. Blue coated police took stations on the Embarcadero as mediators failed to break the Pacific coast maritime workers strike that paralyzed export trade from San Diego to Seattle. Leaders warned of renewed violence while Archbishop Hanna asked for guidance from the president. The port would be opened by force at noon with strike breakers and guards ready to move $50 million in cargo. Five men were arrested and two residences damaged as violence rose. the fourth Seattle fatality was linked to the clash at the docks. Union freight drivers in Portland briefly struck but returned to work after wage demands were met.
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San Francisco
Edward J. Hanna
Roosevelt
National Mediation Board
Perkins
William Quinn
San Francisco Bay
Seattle
Lons Shoreman
Shelby
Dafton
Portland
Cooler Weather Forecast After Tornado Hits Parma Heights
A small tornado accompanied Sunday’s storms in northern Ohio, forming southwest of Cleveland and tracking east through Parma Heights, lifting a three car garage and flattening debris. The city and surrounding towns saw heavy rain, cloudbursts, and traffic flooding as temperatures spiked from 71 to 90 before cooling. The Weather Bureau tied the twister to a local thunderstorm with extra force, with sightings as far south as Hinckley.
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Cleveland
Mark Parscher
Parma Heights
Ohio
Lorain
Akron
Hinckley. O
Lake Erie
Weather Bureau
Mexican Voters Elect Cardenas For President
Mexico City July 2 Gen Lazaro Cardenas, 39, elected president with the largest ballot total in Mexican history. He will succeed Abelardo L. Rodriguez December 1 for a six year term. The election was the most peaceful on record with two voting related deaths. Defeated candidates accused supporters of beating and intimidation.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Plutarco Elias Calles
Mexico
Abelardo L. Rodriguez
Cardenas
Shank petition for re hearing denied in Arkansas
Arkansas Supreme Court denied a petition for rehearing filed by Mark Shank of Akron who was convicted of the mass poison murder of Alvin Colley his wife and two children. Shank awaits execution after a Lauderdale County jury sentenced him to die in the electric chair to be set later by Governor Futtrell. The Colleys were found dead in a wrecked automobile near Malvern after allegedly poisoned grape juice.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Supreme Court
Mark Shank
Akron
Alvin Colley
Shank
J. M. Futtrell
Colley
Malvern
Vacation Bound President Is On Atlantic Today
President Roosevelt begins a sea vacation aboard the cruiser Houston as it moves into the Chesapeake Bay after a brief Hampton Roads pause. He relaxes with Franklin Jr and John, with a small staff, while newsmen travel aboard the destroyer Gilmer.
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Gilmer
Chesapeake Bay
Roosevelt
Houston
Atlantic
Franklin, Jr
John
Hampton Roads
Willamson
Conyer
Ross McIntire
Rudolph Forster
Gus Gennerich
McDuffie
Civil War Vet Buried in Columbus Service Today
Joseph Dre Brown 91 Civil War veteran was buried with military honors in Columbus. He was the last surviving member of Franklin County Soldiers and Sailors Association, formerly living in Moxahala, Ohio.
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Columbus
Joseph Dre Brown
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association
Franklin County
Moxahala
Uncertain German Crisis Spurs Nazi Leadership Shake
Berlin reports indicate President Hindenburg blessed Hitler's ruthless purge of the Nazi ranks as executions continued to suppress a stormtrooper revolt. The death toll neared 24 with more killings at Lichterfelde cadet school and in Berlin. The regime hinted at cabinet changes while Goering and Goebbels shaped the purge and order across Germany.
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Berlin
Paul von Hindenburg
Hitler
Nendeck
East Prussia
Hermann Goering
Hindenburg
Lichterfelde
Adolf Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Paul van Hindenburg
Neudick
Walter Funk
Neudeck
Goering
State Police
Reichswehr
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American Amateur Athletic Union
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New York
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Elyria Memorial Hospital
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Wurstcourt
Austin Hastings
Litchfield
Rtat
TOTAL
Reservca
Nova
Charles Fiske
P. E. Church
Anna Dall
Elliott
Marie Dressler
Waterfront
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Howard J. Lawless
Troy
N.Y
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Germany
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