29 Jul 1957
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1957
Page
1
Lorain County deputies and Sheriff Vernon Smith raided a Sheffield cockfighting operation at Nick Muska property. Thirty men were arrested after a raid involving 19 deputies. Officers recovered evidence including live gamecocks and gambling paraphernalia.
Mexico City and surrounding areas reel from a powerful earthquake. Initial reports flag hundreds dead or missing, with unconfirmed casualty figures and scenes of destruction across towns near Chilpancingo and the capital. US embassy notes discrepancies between official counts and eyewitness accounts.
Elyria team captures sectional Class DP Hot Stove League title and enters state tournament. Amherst Courthouse News reports on death records and hospital notes as Mexico City and Acapulco quake tolls rise, with Mexico’s capital left damaged and rescue efforts ongoing.
In Deland Florida a witness from the Sheppard murder case attempted to identify Donald Wedler 23 claiming he is the man who killed his wife in 194. The witness had seen Wedler in Waterloo Iowa last week where another man described as having bloody hands picked him up after the slaying. Dr Samuel Sheppard attorneys William Corrigan and Fred Garmone arrived under an assumed name and planned to question Wedler before calling the case a hoax.
The narrative details Sheppard's insistence on his innocence after a bushy-haired intruder allegedly killed his wife. He asserts he slept downstairs during the attack and fought the intruder as the killer escaped. Kalofelias arrived unannounced by bus with a telegram from Dr Stephen Sheppard to the sheriff.
A 17 year old member of the teenage confession linked Black Leather Jacket gang escaped gunfire from Deputy Sheriff Johm Weiser while being taken to county jail near O'Shaighnessy Dam. He was captured an hour later after bolting between parked cars and fleeing into a street crowd.
Robert B. Anderson was sworn in as the 34th secretary of the Treasury, replacing George M. Humphrey as Congress probes the government debt refinancing at 4 percent. Anderson signals independence from tight money, stressing accountability to the people. he previously led the Navy and held Dallas Federal Reserve roles while managing the Waggoner estate in Texas.
Partly cloudy and warm today across Northwest and Northeast Ohio with scattered thunder showers this afternoon. Tonight remains unsettled with thundershowers. temperatures range from the mid 60s to mid 80s. Temperatures to trend cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, then warming into the weekend with daily thunder chances and modest precipitation totals.
London AP reports Secretary of State John Foster Dulles travels from Ottawa to seek direct talks with Russia to avert a breakdown in the five power disarmament negotiations. He plans private discussions with Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin and may meet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
In New York, heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson weighed 184 pounds and challenger Tommy Jackson 192 for their title bout tonight. California reports note county jail prisoners involved in a bizarre kangaroo court case in Brockton, Massachusetts as Raymond F. Ohlson pleads innocent to murder charges. the accused’s cautionary actions are described amid a chaotic scene at Fingal presponseduenes.
Police in Kyushu say the toll from floods and a related prison murder in Nagasaki tops 1000 with many missing. Robert Young, jailed with fellow inmates, was found dead in his cell with a towel around his neck tied to a pipe.
Communists demanded immediate withdrawal of American F 100 Sabrejets from South Korea at PANMJOM. The UN Allied command rejected the demand.
A Sheffield raid led by Sheriff Vernon M. Smith and 19 deputies arrested 30 men and confiscated two dead fighting cocks along with gambling paraphernalia and liquor. Nick Muska of Lorain faced charges, fined 30 and 100 dollars and jailed 10 days on gambling and liquor charges respectively. Other participants paid fines of 10 dollars or 20.45 total including court costs. The operation followed weeks of planning with aerial photos and plain clothes tips. Continued on Pg. 9, Col. 1.
In Chicago a racial clash at a city park left 23 injured by flying bats bottles and bricks. Twenty-one youths faced misdemeanor charges in boys court as adults were rounded up but most are teens. Police report the area is quiet but risk of renewed trouble exists and an emergency plan remains in effect.
Three masked gunmen forced bartender David Scanlon and a customer into the Minute Cafe basement, bound them with tape, pried open a safe with crowbars, and took $5,100 including about $5,000 in cash and the register’s $100 plus papers and documents.
Plain talk on finances urging readers to use Chronicle Telegram Classified ads for selling items and raising cash. Encourages dialing for ad writing help and hints at credit options with the line Charge it.
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