General Strike Threatens in Omaha
In Omaha Nebraska on July 27 leaders of tram workers strike threaten a general strike. Central Labor Union affiliates plan a vote next Friday potentially mobilizing over 50 000 workers impacting more than a quarter million people. Martial law ended after rail line talks. strikebreakers dispute discussed. South Omaha packing district workers described. leaders say broad support for a general strike could be achieved.
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Omaha
Neb
Missouri River
Council Bluffalo
Central Labor Union
Omaha Council Bluffs Railway Company
Terra Haute
Ind
Columnian Enameling and Stamping
South Omaha
National
Watkers
Court actions include divorces and debt suits in county court
Ruth Wangerien of Elyria sues Donald Wangerien of Amherst for divorce on gross neglect and extreme cruelty. Joseph Spiker sues Pearl Spiker of Buffalo alleging marriage under duress. Margaret Nebke sues William Nebke for alimony on gross neglect and cruelty. Independent Savings and Loan co sues John Mattson and others for 6292 dollars, Fred Kieps for 6132, Paul Curran for 6904 and H B Anderson for 3612 on promissory notes. Adam Lesieski sues Charles Lesieski for 3994 on a promissory note. Ruth Krakowski of Lorain granted divorce from Raymond Krakowski for gross neglect and cruelty. Depositors Mortgage Loan Co sues Sherman Wurst for 16191 on a note and names additional defendants in the same common pleas action.
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Ruth Wangerien
Elyria
Donald 4. Wangerien
Amherst
Margaret BE. Nebke
Lorain
William Nebke
The
Independent Savings and Loan Company
John Be, Mattson
Fred Kieps
Paul D. Curran
H. B. Anderson
Ruth Krakowski
Raymond Krakowski
D A. Cook
Depositors Mortgage Loan Company
Sherman S Wurst
Common Pleas Court
Dairy Price Cut in Cleveland Reduces Milk Cost
In Cleveland on July 27 a major dairy cut delivered milk from ten to nine cents per quart, while pints stay at six cents. Some dealers still charged nine cents plus a two cent bottle deposit, with three cents refunded upon bottle return.
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Cleveland
Truck Crash Sparks Gas Tank Explosion In Columbus
In Columbus today William Hays 27 of Cincinnati died from injuries when his truck struck a bridge causing a gasoline tank to explode. A companion Isaac Robinson 25 was in critical condition at a Columbus hospital.
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Golumbus
William Hays
Cincinnati
Isaac Robinson
Columbus
Furnace Shop Case Before Zoning Commission
The furnace shop of W. 4H. Siler on East Bridge Street at Lewis Court faces another zoning hearing after a complaint from neighbor Edward C. Munson. Siler lacked an occupancy permit. the building inspector refused. The zoning commission deadlocked 3 to 2 in Munson's favor with five of seven members present. Mayor and others urged four votes to decide. Chairman William B. Richmond presided. Richmond and Fred Undar voted for Siler while Mayor Varoster Frank Wilford and Ralph Silsbee supported Munson. Cyril Maple abstained due to conflict of interest. Harland Lersch was absent.
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Siler
East Bridge Street
Lewis Court
Zoning Commission
Edward C. Munson
L. P Kaiser
Q F. Seanett
Munsey
Dindime
Wiliam B. Richmond
Richmond
Fred Undard
Varoster
Frank Wilford
Ralph Silsbee
Munson
Ati
Cyril Maple
Harland Lersch
Hitch-Hikers On Return Trip Home
Johnny Jones and Bill Herman both 15 of Conneaut were hitchhiking home. They were picked up here last evening and told Chief E J Stankard they planned to go to Greenville Pennsylvania but altered plans and started for Trenton Michigan to visit a relative of Johnny.
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Johnny Jones
Bill Herman
Conneaut
Johnny
Bill
E. J. Stankard
Greenville
Trenton
Mich
Deaths of Mrs Marguerite Feeley and Ralph Ives
Mrs Marguerite Feeley 42 died after a heart attack at noon. Born in Albany August 12 1892 she leaves husband Gardner J. Feeley and two Elyria daughters plus siblings and father Phillip Maharr. Funeral details to be announced. Ralph E Ives 48 died of a heart attack at his La Porte home. Survived by wife Edith daughter Dorothy and four brothers. Services set for Tuesday at Sudro Funeral Home with burial in Columbia cemetery.
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Marguerite Feeley
Gardner J. Feeley
Lexington Avenue
Albany
New York
St. Mary’s Church
Harry Moehman
Peggy Feeley
Elyria
Frank Skinner
Lemto
California
William Burton
William Malone
San Pedro
Calif
Russell J
Lee Maharr
Phillip Maharr
Sudro Funeral
Ralph E. Ives
la Porte
Ives
Columbia Station
Grafton Road
Elyria Fraternal Order of Eagles
Edith E. Ives
Dorothy
Sylvia Tves
Charles W
Warren E
Forest C
Columbia
Ira W
Indian Hollow Road
Sudro Funeral Home
Surial
Columbia Cemetery
U S Will Avoid Entanglement in Ethiopian Dispute
President Roosevelt reafirms neutrality policy to keep the United States out of direct entanglement. He cites two principles: friendly neighbor relations and avoidance of involvement in controversies not directly concerning the United States. He notes U S interest in war peace and supports the Kellogg act outlawing war.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Ethiopia
Italy
National Tube Company Schedules Slight Weekly Decrease
Operations at the National Tube Company show three slight decreases from last week. Two blast furnaces and open hearths run. Bessemer Converter mostly single turn except July 28 and August 1 for double turns. Rail and heavy mills idle. Butt Mill 6 operates five days starting Wednesday. Lapp Mill idle. Seamless Mill No. 1 operates four days starting Monday. No. 3 runs over weekend and suspends Monday. No. 2 opens for two days.
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National Tube Company
Bessemer Converter
Butt Mill
Seamless
Mrs Winchell Gives Birth To A Son
New York July 27 Walter Winchell reports his wife gave birth to a 12 pound boy yesterday He recalls predicting the arrival in advance and notes the choice of name Reid was joked about then settled as Walter The famous reporter recounts the humorous moments of the birth and his own broadcasting enthusiasm
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New York
Walter Winchell
Winchell
Sailing Of Liner Bremen Delayed By Severe Riot
A violent anti Nazi demonstration disrupted the Bremen in New York on July 27. Police and crew clashed with riotous demonstrators for 10 minutes on the foredeck. One rioter shot, a policeman beaten, several demonstrators arrested. The riot delayed the liner about 40 minutes and wounded Edward Doolittle. Demonstrators tore down the Nazi flag and threw it into the East River as others shouted anti Hitler slogans.
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Bremen
New York
Faulies
Edward Doolittle
Matthew Solomon
Munroe Faces Surplus After Plant Boom and Growth
In Munroe New Hampshire a town of 500 struggles with 21500 idle surplus as two hydro plants fund growth. Tax revenue high and rising 1.08 per 3100 while roads and schools expand including a new grammar school, bridge, asphalt roads, doctor, and cemeteries caretaker. Some urge a new high school so local youths avoid crossing the river to McIndoe Falls.
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Munroe
N. H
Mun- Tee
McIndoe Falls
Pre-Nuptial Party For Miss Martha Scott Planned
Miss Martha Scott surprised at a kitchen shower hosted by Mrs. Carl Howe and Mrs. Nathaniel Berthoff on Forest Street with twenty five guests. The couple will wed August 17 at 5:00 pm in Fairchild Chapel with Ross Wilson of Lakewood the groom elect. Services note Union church activities including First Church and First M. E. church schedules and parish events.
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Oberlin
Ohio
Park Street
Dan Kinsey
Copeland
Schwinn
Martha Scott
Carl Howe
Forest Street
Howe
Nathaniel Berthoff
Miss Scott
Ross Wilson
Lakewood
Fairchild Chapel
Girl Scout Briefs Dominate Local Departures
Miss Margaret Glider Lillian Wilbond and Arlene Campbell will spend twelve days starting Sunday at Camp Ledgewood near Akron. Mrs George Jackson and Mrs Amy Ingraham visited Elyria with Mrs Jentte Clark and Mrs Ellsworth Biggs. Jackson visited Cleveland to see nephew Roger Ingraham and wife Martha Scott. Miss Scott visits Cleveland and Lakewood for the weekend. Prof and Mrs A P Lothrop left for Manistique Michigan for several weeks vacation. Evelyn Latham of the Alumni office leaves for a month in South Bend Indiana. Mrs L A Sears and daughter Joan left to visit her sister in Sturgis Michigan then Washington DC for government work.
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Margaret Glider
Lillian Wilbond
Arlene Campbell
Camp Ledgewood
Akron
George Jackson
Amy Ingraham
Jentte Clark
Ellsworth Biggs
Elyria
Manistique
Mich
Evelyn Latham
South Bend
Ind
L. A. Sears
Joan
Sturgis
Father dies saving daughter and cousin at river spillway
Midland on July 27 Frank Olmstead 19 raced to help as Mary Ensign 11 and Clara May Ensign 11 were swept by an undertow in the Tittabawassee river. He saved Clara but Mary dragged him under. Both bodies were recovered about an hour later. Olmstead’s widow Elizabeth remained unaware of the tragedy in Midland Hospital.
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Midland
Mich
Frank Olmstead
Tittabawassee
Mary Ensign
Clara May Ensign
Olmstead
Clara
Mayang
Mary
Elizabeth
Midland Hospital
Local Crime and Accident Roundup in City
Police investigated a robbery complaint by 68 year old Henry Keller who said $13 was taken at a Rush Street residence. Keller declined to prosecute. Firefighters sealed an ammonia leak at Hughes Provision Co on West Broad after a compressor failure. Tomagoda was fined 310 and costs after pleading guilty to intoxication in police court before Mayor W H Vanoster.
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Henry Keller
Winckles Street
Rush Street
Melvin Olmstead
Kelley
City
Hughes Provision Company
West Broad Street
Milk Production Report for June in Lorain County associations
The Ohio Dairy Improvement Association notes June results. Jackson Camp and Wolcott farm in Lorain County Association No. 1 produced 78.5 pounds butterfat and 1286 pounds milk for the month. Ed W. Stang in Association No. 2 reported 78.1 pounds butterfat and 2112 pounds milk.
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Ohio Dairy Improvement Association
Jackson, Camp and Wolcott
Lorain County Association
George Arps
Ohio
Lorain
G. Clement Greene
Tere
C. L. Pickworth
B. A. Fenner
Guernsey
Ed. W. Stang
Daring Daylight Robbery At Arlington Park
Four gunmen robbed George Leeds, a San Francisco horse owner and former trainer, of jewelry valued at 15 000 dollars and 5 000 in cash in broad daylight. Leeds, at Arlington Park for the racing season, said the raiders claimed to be federal narcotic agents and forced him and Mrs Neumann into a bedroom where they were stripped.
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Chicago
George Leeds
San Francisco
Leeds
Arlington Park
Will] Neumann
Death of Josiah Hilliker At Home On Herrick Avenue West
Josiah Hilliker aged 17 died at his home on Herrick avenue west early this morning. Survived by son John and brother Mer TH of Wellington. his wife had died previously. Funeral Monday at 2 PM from the local Baptist church with Rev. John Green officiating. Burial in Kipton cemetery. London's County Council is contributing 10,600,000 dollars to buy land for a green belt of open spaces around London.
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Josiah Hilliker
Herrick Avenue
John
Merth
Wellington
John Green
Kipton
London's County Council
Lonon
Wheat Zooms On Markets
CHICAGO July 27 Wheat prices hit new highs on the Chicago Board of Trade as May delivery posted a five cent advance amid brisk trading. Inland markets in Minneapolis Kansas City and Duluth also showed limit gains while profit taking trimmed some gains. Chicago close higher with corn oats rye also rising on wheat strength.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Duluth
Winnepes
Complete Jury For Murder Trial At Detroit
Detroit July 27 A jury of seven men and seven women was completed for the trial of William Schweitzer and three women charged with the robbery patrol murder of Howard Carter Dickinson a New York attorney and nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the Supreme Court Defense exhausted all peremptory challenges before the decision Prosecutor Duncan McArea expressed satisfaction with the 14 jurors who will sit throughout the trial Recorder Judge John A Boyne noted efforts to avoid postponements due to juror illness Eleven one hundred eleven talesmen had been questioned and excused by opposing counsel mostly for opinions in the case
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Detroit
William Schweitzer
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Jottorney
Charles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Duncan C. McArea
Recorder
John A. Boyne
Schweitzer
Florence
Loretta Jackson
Jean Muller
Talesmen
Committee Named To Study Finances
Five persons were named by County Auditor C. S. Kelser to a committee to present Lorain County finances and municipal needs to the state legislature this fall. Members: Frank Ayers Lorain city auditor William Lattimer Lorain lobbyist for Ohio police and firemen Harvey Cheney Elyria city solicitor County Prosecutor Howard Butler and C R Summers Oberlin solicitor. The school bill sets a 45 percent levy of the free millage inside the 10 mill limit. Elyria Lorain may run short of funds to operate beyond mid next year and the county could lack funds for welfare.
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C. S. Kelser
Lorain
Kiefer-Traxler School Foundation
Frank Ayers
William Lattimer
Firemen
Ohio
Harvey Cheney
Elyria
Howard Butler
C. R. Summers
Oberlin
Tree Climbing Goat Survives Flood in Ohio Farm
In Eaton Ohio on July 27 a goat on BE Woolery’s Harrison township farm survived a Twin Creek flood that swept away pigs and cattle. One goat drowned, but the other clung to a floating uprooted tree until the waters fell and left the tree stranded.
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Eaton
BE. E. Woolery
Harrison Township
Twin Creek
Woolery
Kentucky Governor Undergoes Operation
Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon underwent an appendicitis operation in Lexington last night. He was reported in satisfactory condition with a fairly comfortable night and expected to be confined about three weeks. Dr. Roemele and Dr. Rankin operated, and the governor joked with attendants beforehand. Mrs. Laffoon was with him.
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Lexington
Ruby Laffoon
St. Joseph’s Hospital
B.C. Roemele
Roemele
Fred Rankin
Gov. Laffoon
Mrs. Laffoon
Chicago market summary and farm produce prices
Markets report from Chicago on July 27 lists butter, eggs, and fresh produce receipts and prices. It records butter and egg market softness, freight and storage notes, and a wide range of fruits and vegetables with per basket and per crate pricing, including cherries, potatoes, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, and greens, alongside grain quotes for wheat corn and oats and feed and hay prices.
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Chicago
Wragg
Jake
United States Lepariment of Agriculture
New Stack
Kansas
Uri
Bock
Tod Fesset
Leshern
Fitac
Spriegs
400 Women Visit Mattress Factory
A relief mattress factory in Cleveland hosted 100 delegates from the National Colored Women’s Association led by Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring. The visit, arranged through county and state supervisors, highlighted women workers on relief and the factory’s output of mattresses for relief families since last September.
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United States
National Colored Women's Association
Cleveland
Violet Curtice
Mis
Rosa Miller
Lorain
Hannah Protzman
Columbus
FERA
Mary Fitzbutler Waring
Washington, D. C
Association
Mary Church
Ohio
Barnes
Oberlin
Four Youths Escape From County Jail
DAYTON OH July 27 Four Dayton youths escaped from the juvenile quarters of the county jail by sliding a knotted bed sheet rope from a second floor window. The escapees are Robert Smith 16 James Papp 16 Leroy Johnson 17 and Oscar Of 15 all charged with larceny and hunted today.
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Dayton, O
Dayton
Robert Smith
James Papp
Leroy Johnson
Oscar of
Abandon Hope For Lost Cameraman Abandon Hope For Lost Cameraman
Glen Strong, a motion picture cameraman, is presumed drowned after the filming barge for Mutiny on the Bounty foundered 40 miles southwest of Santa Barbara. Coast Guard cutters patrol the sinking site as survivors and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crew recount Strong's final moments and his efforts to save his camera.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Glen Strong
Here
Coast Guard
Strong
James Haven
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Elyrian Fined And License Suspended
Milford Horace of this city was fined $50 and costs and his license to drive in the city suspended for one year after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. Arraigned before Mayor W. H. Vanoster in police court, he was arrested after his auto collided with a vehicle owned by Walter Cebula of 328 North Olive Street.
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Milford Horace
W. H. Vanoster
Walter Cebula
North Olive Street
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Joseph Spiker
Pearl Spiker
Buffalo
Adam Lesieski
Charles Lesieski
Elks Restaurant
Second Street
Mrs. Gardner Feeley
Schaefer
George E. Schaefer
Oxford Avenue
Sudro
E. W. Allen
Church F Christ
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Eagles Lodge
Pacific
North America
E. F. Whitney & Son
W. Broad
O’donnells
Acme
Donnell Wall Paper & Paint Co
Ort Street
U.S
Sacred Heart Church
James P. Brennan
D. D
Christian Science Society
East College Street
Rust Methodist Church
Mr. Hayes
Epworth League
Mount Zion Baptist Church
F. N. Marshburn
Christian and Missionary Alli Ite
J. D. Bell
East Oberlin Church
Clarence Ward
First Church
First M. E. Church
Dean Bosworth
Baptist Church
Harold Twining
C. P. Edwards
Christ Church (Episcopal
L. E. Vaniels
Tomagoda
W.H. Vanoster
Kentucky
Blue Bird Soda Grille
Court St
Yic
Jake Buling
Barkley
Cleland Grain
Toledo Grain
Mattress
Mone Sibley & Sprague
ATION
Elyrian
REA Matey
WJAY
Newell Hotel
Western Reserve Finance
Turner
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