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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1938
Page
1
Elyria post office clerks begin a program to study each department and educate the public about services. The monthly meetings cover one department, with the head presenting and leading discussions as Postmaster Sartor notes many residents are unaware of available services to boost use.
The Senate campaign expenditures committee dispatched six investigators to Tennessee to probe alleged fund-raising and coercion practices in the Democratic primary. Investigations extend to six other states California Kentucky Pennsylvania Missouri Indiana and Georgia amid charges of coercion of relief workers and misuse of government privileges.
In Santa Cruz California a massive King of the Salmon specimen over five feet long was landed and will be mounted for the local museum. Such giants are rare with most caught salmon measuring about six inches. The Ash word origin traces to Washington Indians who believed the salmon run would fail if one were killed.
Lanark County orders 512 wooden houses at a total cost of 1 500 000, the largest single order for wooden homes in Scotland. The project marks a major housing expansion and showcases a significant public works investment by local authorities.
Miss Margaret F Bolton of the Lorain field office warns that possession of an old age insurance account card is not proof of employability for minors. She notes isolated cases where merchants and employers assumed legal working age upon seeing the card, but explains its sole use is wage account setup and later insurance determinations. The card also serves state unemployment purposes and should not be used for identification or hiring eligibility.
Moscow reports a wide purge of alleged enemies and spies in the Far East. Gregory Gorbach named chief of Russian Secret Police in the region, replacing General Genrik Lushkov. Vassily Dementiev appointed head of the Special Secret Police Division for the Pacific Fleet and Vladivostok. Metropolitan Peter Sergei, 60, Greek Orthodox Church leader, arrested at Rostov.
In Columbus Ohio on July 28 Charles Hubbell of Cleveland who resigned from the Unemployment Compensation Commission this week and Hugh Nichols campaign manager for Charles Sawyer Democratic governor candidate were to testify before a special grand jury probing alleged solicitation of campaign contributions from Civil Service workers. Nichols would testify without subpoena about charges that Nichols solicited A F Alspaugh and W H Aborn by mail for Sawyer campaign funds. Alspaugh testified yesterday and Aborn may be called today. Hubbell was recently indicted.
FT GELENAP Mont plans to place Gros Ventres religious pipes in a fireproof building for preservation. The flat pipe and feathered pipe are linked to tribal creation and an ancient chief respectively. Keepers have died and superstition keeps members from touching them. Museums and collectors have offered money.
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