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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1939
Page
5
Rudolph H. Hanson a 42 year old Avon Lake court reporter was found dead in his basement after leaving notes and a will. Coroner S C Ward ruled death by self inflicted gunshot. Sheriff Finnegan noted health worries and financial stability with about 8000 in cash and life insurance.
County Commissioners John E. Davidson and Edward DeChant today rejected a $15.60 expense bill for County Auditor C. Kelser for a May 23 Columbus trip. They argued the itemization was missing and could not tell if charges covered gas, shoes, or Pullman fare. Commissioner Oscar G. Dunn supported payment without question.
Todd Moise Jr of 119 Columbus street was fined 25 dollars with 20 dollars costs suspended and placed on 60 days probation to Police Chief Stankard after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Police found him in bed at home after his car knocked over an oil stand at Shell station West avenue and Lodi street at 6 30 p m Saturday.
Lorain attorney Jacob Levin, with his arm in a sling, recounts rescuing Clyde Shockley, a 225 pound Muncie Indiana aviator, from drowning in 12 feet of water at Lake Wawasee Indiana. Shockley was revived after being brought to shore.
Catherine Biggs 35 of 322 12th street hanged herself with a clothes line in the basement while her husband attended church. He found the body after returning home at 12:15 PM and called a neighbor and doctors. She left a despondent note over ill health and is survived by two sisters and a brother. Funeral at Taylor Funeral Home.
Service Director L D Faxon announced traffic will be limited to one side of Oberlin road from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to West Avenue tomorrow during resurfacing. On Wednesday the section from 16th Street to West Avenue will be closed with rerouting around the area.
A July meeting of the Oberlin Phyllis Wheatley Community Center committee appointed five chairmen for youth and adult summer programs. The plan covers Boys and Social committees, a Game and Reading Room group, Adult Education classes, and home care hygiene courses starting July 11. Regular lodge and club meetings are noted for July 11 to July 13 with a neighborhood pot luck planned.
Tonight’s meeting is canceled for the Study Club and Sacred Heart church activities due to unspecified reasons. Members are advised to check for rescheduled plans and any notices from organizers.
Mr and Mrs Carl Berge and other area residents traveled Sunday to Canton for the Grand Encampment of Ohio meeting. Mrs Grace McDole and Mrs Bahr attended a Bentist Women's House Party in Granville. Wendle Knepper and family hosted relatives in Clyde and South Pleasant Street.
Mrs. Mary Saville 79 widow of Samuel Saville died at her home 349 High Street Sunday evening after seven weeks illness. Born in Swansea South Wales on April 8 1860 she came to Elyria 23 years ago from Scranton Pennsylvania. She was active in the Second Congregational church Eastern Star Women’s Welsh Club and leaves a daughter Mrs H J Pettsjohn and three sons Sydney T Wesle B and Montague W. Funeral from Nichols Funeral Home to her home Tuesday then services Wednesday at 2 00 at Second Congregational Church with Dr A E Kemp. burial Ridge Hall Memorial Park.
Abs Josephine Pierce Buice 87 of Wellington died at 8:30 p m yesterday at her son's home Fare Buice. Born in Delaware County in 1892 she moved with her family to Penfield in 1854. She married Lorring Buice of Penfield in 1872. he died in 1917. Survived by sons Fare of Wellington Ray of Logan Okla a daughter Lydia Boice a brother Ernest L Pierce a sister Mrs Lere Murray five grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Funeral at Sharp Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 30 with R W Pitkin Elyria officiating burial in Penfield Cemetery.
John J Flynn 80 a retired steel worker died yesterday at 5 17 am in St Josephs Hospice Lorain after fourteen months as a patient He was born in Canali Fulton Ohio 1859 and moved to Lorain in 1902 He retired in 1928 after 27 years at National Tube company He is survived by five nephews two nieces and several Flynn relatives Funeral services set for Tuesday 9 30 am at St Marys Church Lorain with burial at Calvary Cemetery
Mrs Jessie Mey Whitehead 73 widow of Robert B Whitehead died early today at 33 College Place Oberlin. Born September 29 1866 in Adrian Michigan she resided in Oberlin for many years. Funeral Tuesday at 3 pm at the College Place home with Rev Robert C Whitehead of Mt Vernon NY son of the deceased officiating.
Frederica Wilhelmina Kleps died Saturday at her home in New Oberlin. Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the home with Rev H Duwe of Oberlin officiating. Interment is planned at Ridgehall Cemetery.
Mrs John Pawlehowski reports a camera valued at 12 dollars was stolen from her car last night. The vehicle was parked on Middle Avenue near the Third Street alley.
ODonnell said the suspect would not reveal what he did to Mrs Polillo and asserted a signed confession exists. He stated the key is locating the head to complete the case. Police link Dolezal to the most serious crimes, admitting he knew one worker and two torso victims, and that a knife attack drove a woman to jump from a second floor window.
Crochet bag patterns numbered 6443 with directions, illustrations, and color schemes. Send ten cents to Chroniele Telegram Household Art Dept in New York for pattern 6443, include name and address and pattern number.
Nellie Moria, formerly of Elyria, died at the home of Mrs N Workman in Indianapolis. She was a horsekeeper for Rev Father James T Daley during eight years at St. Mary’s Church in Elyria. Her remains will be brought to Cleveland for burial. funeral services are Wednesday at St Thomas Aquinas Church with interment at Calvary Cemetery.
Washington reports over the weekend that Paul V McNutt is offered the post of director of the newly created Federal Securities Administration with the high government officers saying Roosevelt offered the position last week. McNutt is expected to decide this week.
Governor John W Bricker reviewed more than 600 guardsmen at Camp Perry during a weekend ceremony. Brig Gen Ludwig S Connelis led the 145th and 148th infantry brigades in the review and a 19 gun salute marked the noon event. Attendees included former adjutant generals A B Critchfield and Freius D Henderson and generals from Columbus Cleveland and Akron. Massed bands performed a Sunday concert.
Wilbur Braden a 24 year old Canton Ohio man was killed in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania when his motorcycle crashed while rushing home to take a new job. He had borrowed a friend’s machine to reach a posting in Ohio and died near the accident scene. His mother Mrs Wilbur Braden Sr suffered a relapse after learning of her son’s death and was hospitalized.
In Lorain and surrounding areas multiple actions are noted. William Kovach sues Joseph Celano over a June 13 1937 traffic collision on Elysia Avenue with injuries including four pelvic fractures. The Home Owners Loan Corp seeks foreclosure against Steve Scisflons for 2055. Harvard Lumber Co sues Roy Bruck and H L Brandt for 257 in lumber charges. Julius Nelson Lewis of New York City is fined 25 and jailed for either non payment of a fine or reckless driving after arraignment before Justice H C Cummings in LaGrange Township.
Francis W Brubaker of 134 Huron Street was fined 850 and costs and received a six month driving ban after arraignment before Major Joseph Q Peiro on a DUI charge. Police arrested him at his home following a collision with a parked car on West Bridge Street at 10 30 p.m Saturday, owned by Jedi Rian of 419 Elm Street.
James Fagg of Ashland Wisconsin travels west by bicycle with a trailer after returning from the New York fair. He stopped at the Chronicle-Telegram office en route, continuing his journey homeward.
Lawrence McLain of 51 West Avenue was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital at 12:30 am Sunday after suffering several knife wounds to the face and head in a quarrel with a man visiting Saturday night. McLain declined to press charges.
A 1920s style dining card lists a Wednesday feature stuffed breast of veal served with chicken gravy, accompanied by potatoes vegetables rolls and butter with coffee tea or milk for 35 cents.
Ohio Common Pleas Judge Guy B Findley ruled that farm machinery and household tools belonging to Mrs Mary Szeworsk of Pittsfield cannot be sold to satisfy a $709 judgment held by Joseph Gusey of Lorain. The items are protected by the Ohio homestead exemption as the family tries to live on the farm with six fatherless children. Szeworsk explained the family, aided by her eldest son, 20, plans to continue farming after Izeworsk faced job loss and poverty and attempted to end his struggles by a fatal act near a train in Wellington.
Richard Gates, a former Elyrian and Charles Court resident, won eleventh place out of 943 entrants in a national gas model airplane contest held Saturday in Detroit. He now works for the Curtiss Pump company of Dayton.
Fenders and running boards on cars driven by Alfred Morris of 115 Parkview Court and Tom Welsh of West Bridge Street were damaged at 6 pm Saturday in a collision on West Avenue near Broad Street, police report notes. Slight damage also reported in an accident on Middle Avenue at noon yesterday involving cars driven by T E Webb of 120 Middle Avenue and H Disblow of 133 Columbus Street.
A car owned by Isabelle Whyte from TIL East Avenue was stolen on Led street at 1:20 am Sunday. It was recovered at 1:50 am on Adelbert Street with a spare tire missing, a damaged bumper, and battery tampering, per police report.
Mrs Celia Lieb 40 of Sandusky suffered a fracture to her right arm near the wrist after tripping over a pipe at Cascade Park during a Junior Macabees lodge picnic at 7 pm Saturday, police report states.
A traditional New Orleans praline method combines sugar molasses milk or cream butter and pecan meats. Cook to a soft ball in water then fold in pecans and drop onto a greased slab to cool. An alternate version uses brown sugar and butter with a thin syrup before adding pecans.
The Senate faces a proposed universal forced loan tied to wealth with 1 to 7 percent bonds, penalties for noncompliance, and notes secured by property or lieu. Critics call the plan inflationary and impractical, branding it an attempt to fund war via a printing press approach.
The 1939 camp’s second period closes with 11 boys receiving emblems across years. Richard Hager and John Lebow lead with year level awards while Allan Fritzsche, Rue McIntyre and Sam Redwood earn fourth year emblems. Lodge and team awards go to Wasandotte, Ireneves, Huron, Michigan lodges and women’s group.
Details from friends confirm the death of Al Tappan, former manager of Neisner Brothers in Elyria, on May 19 after a two day illness of meningitis in Miami Florida where his family now resides. He leaves wife Mrs Mac Tappan and four children. Tappan had worked in Mansfield and Royal Oak before moving to Miami, where burial occurred and the family plans to stay.
Previous winners include Jack Holaen Ronald Penfound Peter Craig and Clare Anderson. Emblems show Dan Stevick in first year and William Penberth in fourth year.
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