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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1920
Page
3
Lomden Jong 26 Dick Howell head of an outlaw band was found guilty of first degree murder for killing City Detective Rhotinicky last December. Defense moved for a new trial and sentence was deferred until Saturday. Howell claimed the shooting was accidental.
Columbus June 26 Superintendent J. H. Francis of the Columbus public schools resigns. The reason was not given but said to be due to ill health. No successor has been chosen yet.
Three patents have been granted to Lorain county men. Elbner of Wellington earned a rail joint patent, W Klecki of Grafton a plow construction patent, and W and Kay of Elyria a protected pneumatic heel patent.
Miss Jane Lucile Ager and Lieutenant Georgia Layton secretly married in an Akron airplane. They eloped from the Ager farm near Skaroi Center to Modinga, with the groom serving as chief pilot of an Akron airway company. Jane is 17.
County commissioners plan to advertise bids soon for a new double boulevard west of Lorain on Lake Road. The proposed design features two 18 foot roadways with Lee Shore Electric tracks in the center, and the State Highway Commission has approved the plans. The initial single 18 foot road plan with tracks on one side was rejected.
Franklin Field hosted preliminary track and field trials with entrants from Maine to Oklahoma. Champions Karl Eby, Geo F. Bronder Jr., Patrick J. Ryan, and F. H. Prem set records in France, as Ted Meredith sought a return to Olympic selection. Finals for boxing and the middle Atlantic district national tryouts were scheduled for tonight in New York.
Grafton residents traveled to Cleveland for the National Hardware Men’s Convention and to Lorain for visits while others planned moves to Columbia and Shiloh. A Cleveland iron worker fell 20 feet on Osbourne grounds, suffering a serious facial injury.
Decatur June 26 H Von Boeckman a roundhouse employee tore apart an old glove during a fight at the Wabash railroad shops and uncovered a ground plan of Amiens France fortifications drawn on tracing muslin. Another map in the second glove was too damaged to trace. Both were sealed in oil cloth between leather layers.
Columbus June 26 Persons secretly indicted by the federal grand jury at Dayton on charge of alleged profiteering probably will be arraigned early in July according to U S District Attorney Clark of Cincinnati. Captain William Finch senior captain of the White Star Line fleet and for 46 years a seaman took the Steam Baltic out for Liverpool today on his last voyage as skipper. He will be retired on pension when he reaches Liverpool. Captain Finch received the order of the British empire from King George for his services as ship commander during the war and it was his ship that took Gen-
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