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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1921
Page
3
In Chicago on July 11 three hundred eighty electrical workers strike after wage raise demand fails. City lighting plants face disruption as workers protest pay. The walkout could affect street lighting and city services.
Dr. John Mert United States Commissioner of Education told the Des Moines Advertising Club in Des Moines Iowa that advertising is essential in business. He argued advertising stimulates demand supports custom and serves as a dominant modern medium for immediate effect.
Rail unions representing 35 000 workers sent a message to Samuel Gompers protest to the American Federation of Labor against United States warships off Tampico. They accuse the U S government of threatening Mexico's neutrality and seek broader labor support.
July 11 report of a countywide manhunt for John who shot Julius Nax at a coffee house. Nax died instantly after Burris pulled a revolver and fired at Spannax, who was seated with friends. Burris fled the scene.
Ungstown reports Squire Sexton fined eight violators of liquor laws on July 11. The operation, led by constable Frank Riss, arrested most suspects in Strutpers and surrounding areas, with fines ranging from 16 to 25 dollars and a total gate of 32400 in fines collected.
Chicago July 11 union officials fear the Pennsylvania railroad will negotiate with its workers on an open shop basis, challenging the United States railway labor board rules. Officials seek conferences with rail heads before September 1 to fix working rules. Pennsylvania maintains it will conduct negotiations its own way, signaling broader road defiance.
Columbus July 11 Director C G Williams and all Wooster Experiment Station employees will be retained indefinitely. The new board of control of the institution, comprising an Ohio State University trustee and State Director of Agriculture Tabor, labeled Williams resignation as tendered months ago. The station will continue as a separate state institution and will not merge with the College of Agriculture Ohio State University.
July 11. William W. Grant grain dealer of Columbus sustained a broken leg and collar bone and other injuries when his automobile overturned down an embankment at Hebron Cemetery Hillnear Newark. His companion D R Taylor also of Columbus was badly bruised. Both are in the hospital here.
About 2,000 delegates and visitors gathering in Canton Ohio for the annual campment. A highlight will be the parade Tuesday with the Akron Patriarchs militant leading the largest such parade in the United States.
MACAYEAL OF COLUMBUS announces that Dr HH Goddard will be retained as director of the state bureau of juvenile research. He will be provided with a sufficient number of assistants to permit proper operation of the bureau.
In New Orleans this morning the steam and sailing vessel Meriiweather of the Gulf Coast Shipping Co sank in Lake Pontchartrain off Little Weeds after onshore observers saw flames from all sides. Six shipmen are reported missing.
Four injured miners were brought to City hospital after accidents tied to a broken leg and heat. In Belmont county Cambridge reports Mrs E F Cain died of apoplexy while helping a wash, with extreme heat hastening her death. St Clairsville issued 192 marriage licenses in Belmont county during June, a county record. Martins Ferry noted four injuries.
Charles W Hilton of Wheeling reports the drowning death of his seventh child in the Ohio river as the city mourns. In Bellaire, John Walker receives 1400 dollars in fines and 42 months in jail after attacking Police Chief Mahone, who assisted in the arrest. Columbus notes a state supreme court decree allowing only United States citizens to take the state bar exam. Wooster councils a White Way fight plan as a 19 member committee is appointed to draft details.
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