Tragic Death After Children’s Game on North Ridge Road
Three year old Helen Dimich, daughter of Mr and Mrs Steve Dimich, was struck by a car while crossing North Ridge Road near Vincent school during a children’s game. Driver A R Ewell reported horn sounded and brakes applied as she crossed, then returned toward his lane. She died at St Joseph’s Hospital Lorain from a fractured skull and a broken neck.
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Helen Dimich
Steve Dimich
North Ridge Road
Vincent
A. R. Ewell
Eighth Street
Ewell
Dimich
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lorain
Hrr
Feud Ends in Double Murder Near Monroe Ford Plant
Monroe, Michigan June 28 A long standing Kentucky feud culminated last night with the murder of Clifford Williams and Lee Walden at a Flat Rock Ford plant area. Eugene H Cheres, Middlesburg, confessed and jailed on first degree murder charges after shooting Williams and Walden as Williams sat with his 8 year old son in a car and Walden spoke with him on a porch nearby.
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Monroe
Mich
Blue Grass Country
Clifford Williams
Middiesburg
Lee Walden
Ford
Flat Rock
Eugene H. Cher
Walden
Cheves
Williams
Life of S R Nichols Elyria Embalmer and Veteran
S R Nichols enlisted from Elyria underage, served two years in the Thirty Seventh Division field artillery. After service he trained as an embalmer, graduated from Columbus College of Embalming in 1923, and opened a Elyria funeral home in June 1928. Born in LaGrange, he moved to Elyria in 1815, lives at 412 Middle Avenue with wife and two children. His hobbies include boating and fishing.
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S. R. Nichols
Field Artillery
Elyria
Columbus College of
Nichols
LaGrange
Middle Avenue
Rupert Beetham to Speak on Prohibition Sunday
State Prohibition Commissioner Rupert Beetham will address the public at 7 30 p m Sunday at the First Methodist church. Known for visual power, he speaks with first hand knowledge of enforcement conditions as head of the state forces. A large crowd is expected.
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Rupert Beetham
First Methodist Church
Dty
Beetham
Girl Struck By Auto Hurts Seven Year Old
Seven year old Esther Chance of 312 East Bridge street suffered severe injuries after darting from a truck on Hast Bridge street into oncoming traffic. She has contusions, abrasions, and a fractured left leg and is listed as much improved at Elyria Memorial hospital. The driver C W Hawn of Lakewood attempted to avoid the child and skidded sixty feet. A transient, Tom Brody, was with him. Police still investigating blame. Witnesses include H R Smith, Mrs W Fridenstine, and C H Reddrop.
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Esther Chance
East Bridge Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Hast Bridge St
Lewis Court
C. W. Hawn
Courant Avenue
Lakewood
Hawn
D.\.M. Thomas
Stow Corners
Ohio
Moehle
Valley City
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tom Brody
H. R. Smith
Gulf Road
W. Fridenstine
C. H. Reddrop
Dover
Storm wreckage leaves city trees shattered
A severe early morning storm damaged many shade trees citywide. Large limbs blocked Clark Street and spread debris across Lake and Middle avenues. A plate glass window at Little Market was blown out. A maple top hung over wires on Charles Court. Electric company and police reports followed.
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Little Market
Middle Avenue
Temple Court
Clark Street
Service Department
Lake Avenue
Corneil Avenue
Cantle
Charles Court
Electric Light Company
Seabold's
Scheel Street
Will Drain The Miami Erie Canal Near Toledo
Columbus June 28 draining of the Miami Erie Canal near Toledo will begin within 60 days under a plan adopted by state officers. Authorized in 1927 and delayed by a court challenge from Maumee Valley Electric Co. the canal bed will become a boulevard system foundation.
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Columbus, CO
Toledo
Maumee Valley Electric Company
Endurance flight ends at Cleveland in blinding storm
City of Cleveland, piloted by Byron Newcomb and R L Mitchell, was forced down at 1:40 a m after six hours and 24 minutes aloft while attempting a refueling record. Lightning and rain disabled instruments and lighting at Cleveland Airport, prompting a precautionary landing.
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Cleveland
Byron K. Newcomb
R. L. Mitchell
Ernest E. Basham
James QO. Hayden
Reginald L. Robbins
James Kelly
Fort Worth
City of Cleveland
Reg Robbins
Jim Kelly
Texas
Otto L. Lesley
Stewart Aircraft Corporation
Newcomb
Pasadena Avenues To Be Repaired Next Week
Pasadena street work will resurf ace Roosevelt Branston avenues and nearby streets starting next week per street commissioner L A Hastings with early prep and cleaning already underway in Pasadena.
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Roosevelt
Pasadena
Branston
L. A. Hastings
Endurance flight ends in crash at Long Island field
Miss Viola Gentry's Cabinair plane attempting an endurance record crashed into a tree at Hicks Nursery Grounds in Old Westbury on June 28. Co pilot Jack Ashcraft was killed instantly. Gentry was rushed to a Mineola hospital with facial injuries and possible internal damage. she reported her name to Henry Hicks and Henry Balkan who witnessed the crash. The aircraft, traveling west, hit a 30 foot tree and did not burn. The incident occurred between 6 30 and 7 00 this morning.
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Miss Gentry
Old Westbury
L. I
Viola Gentry
Cabinair
Hick’s
Jack Ashcraft
Mineola
Henry Hicks
Henry Balkan
Train Averages 66 Miles An Hour
The Ohio State Limited, a Big Four passenger train between Cleveland and Columbus, arrived at Union Depot at 8 13 after seven minutes early and set a speed record equal to a mark from 1925. It left Columbus at 6 98 p m and completed the 12.8 mile run in two hours five minutes, averaging over 66 miles an hour with Joseph F Coffee at the throttle.
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Cleveland
Ohio State Limited
Columbus
Union Depot
Joseph F
Potatoes Taken Over in Lorain County
Ohio State University plant disease specialist A L Pierstorf and county farm extension agent Horton Alger visited potato growers in Lorain County. They sacked crops and gave advice to farmers William Saldauf Riegelsberger Bros Avon Henry Leimbach Nelson Newberry and Lloyd Bacon Brownhelm.
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Torain
Lorain
A. L. Pierstorf
Ohio State University
Horton Alger
William Saldauf
Riegelsberger
Captain Hawks Sets Transcontinental Flight Record Breaks Previous Best
At Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport on June 28 Captain Frank Hawks launched at 6:37 a m and landed yesterday evening after shaving nearly five hours from the prior transcontinental record set by C B D Collyer and Harry Tucker. The Lockheed air express suffered a cracked right streamline cowling on return but mechanics rushed repairs while Hawks slept. He was awakened around 3 a m and then took off for New York, circling the field before heading east as lights vanished behind him.
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Hawks
Lockheed
Three Musketeers Continues Endurance Flight Test
In New York on June 28 Mr and Mrs Martin Jensen and William Ulbrich piloting the monoplane Three Musketeers extended their endurance flight. They have been aloft for more than 35 hours in an attempt to set a new record.
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New York
Martin Jensen
William Ulbrich
Youth fined for fictitious auto licenses in police court
A youth named Robert Butler of 415 East Avenue was fined $25 and costs by Mayor James A. HentL in police court after pleading guilty to using fictitious license plates on a car he drove around the city Thursday. He admitted finding the plates and making a cardboard substitute for a vehicle he was repairing.
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Robert Butler
East Avenue
James A. Hentl
Butler
Woman Victim of Shooting Dies in Elyria Hospital
Mrs. Pearl Woods aged 21 of Fox Furanace apartments died at Elyria Memorial Hospital after being shot three times with a single barrell shotgun by a 40 year old black assailant who broke into her apartment early Tuesday. Police have not captured him. the warrant may be upgraded to first degree murder.
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Pearl Woods
Fox Furnace Apartments
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Woods
Elyria
Eight Teachers Hired to Fill Elyria Schools Vacancies
Elyria public schools announced the employment of eight teachers to fill vacancies. New assistant coach A Eaton from Bellevue succeeds A N Smith as head coach next fall. Eaton, a 1925 Wittenberg graduate, played football and basketball and coached at Gallon High School. Other hires include Neva Brown Chatfield Blanche Ingraham Elyria Edna Funk Elsha Grace Hahn South Amherst Helen Gilbert Columbus Marjorie Rosenberger Tiffin Nancy Anne Murphy Sebring plus current Elyria summer school staff.
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Elyria Public Schools
R. C. Maston
Board of Education
A. Eaton
Bellevue
A. N. Smith
Eaton
Wittenberg College
Galion High School
University of Illinois
Wittenberg
Neva Brown
Chatfield
Blanche Ingraham
Elyria
Germans Bitter Toward Versailles Treaty Marking Anniversary
In Berlin on the tenth anniversary of the Versailles Treaty, demonstrations and street clashes erupted as students defied bans, marching with chants against the treaty. A mass meeting near the university led 4,009 students to the Prussian Ministry of Education to protest.
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Berlin
Versailles
Unter den Linden
Five Auto Tags Issued For Park Violations By Police
Five red traffic violation tags were issued by police Thursday for as many traffic violators. Four of the five violations were failure to have auto properly vetted after park. The fifth violation was of improper parking, by taking up two spaces.
Two Counties Raid Nets Stills and Whiskey
Lorain and Medina County sheriffs offices teamed to arrest Court E. Stewart at his Spencer area farm straddling the county line. Five Lorain deputies plus a state agent and two Medina deputies seized two stills, 25 gallons of whiskey and 50 gallons of wine hidden in barrels at the home.
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Lorain
Medina County
Court E. Stewart
Spencer
Lorain County
George Baynham
Stewart
Judge Allows Uni Youth to Change Plea in Liquor Case
Joseph Justin a 23 year old Miami University junior from Lorain withdrew his guilty plea and entered not guilty to two charges of selling intoxicating liquor at 1709 EB Twenty eighth Street Lorain before Judge A R Webber John Matkovic arrested at the same address yesterday was fined 1500 on two charges by Judge Webber 1000 for possession and 500 for keeping a place where liquor is sold Both fines are the maximum for first offenses Matkovic pleaded guilty to both charges admitting he recently bought the place from Justin's father Frank Justin who was bound over to the grand jury on a third offense charge to which he pleaded not guilty.
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Joseph Justin
Lorain
Miami University
Twenty-eighth Street
A. R. Webber
John Matkovic
Matkovic
Justin
Frank Justin
Body of man found along Amherst rail tracks
June 28 Amherst Ohio. The body of Daniel Brown 55 believed Elyria resident was found beside the New York Central high speed tracks a quarter mile west of Brownhelm by the 4 45 am train crew. coroner Myles E Perry notified examined and began efforts to identify and notify relatives. The victim belonged to International Moulders Union No 383 card 6017. Nephew J A Brown 15608 Lake Shore Boulevard Willard Storage Battery Company notified and to claim the body. Implements of the moulders trade scattered along the tracks. The door damaged by rain. coroner suspects accident occurred before the storm. Body taken to Zilch Funeral Home pending nephew arrival.
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Amherst
Daniel Brown
Elyria
New York Central
Brownhelm
Myles E. Perry
Elvira
International Moulder’s Union of North America
J. A. Brown
Lake Shore Boulevard
Willard Storage Battery Company
Morzize
Elyria Board Adopts Tentative School Budget
The Elyria Board of Education approved a tentative budget for next year totaling 621 293 50 for operation, up from 614 807 59 last year. General fund rises to 530 931 including 15 000 for library purposes, with teacher salaries around 340 000. Bond retirement is set at 90 312 50, compared with 125 424 last year. Also approved were seating for Allen school, coal bids, and a cafeteria profit of about 300 last year.
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Elyria Public Schools
Board of Education
Allen
Abbey Road
Woman Bandit Robs Topeka Office For 14000
In Topeka Kansas a woman bandit forced a motorist to drive her to the Security Benefit Association offices. She held up official W L Stanley after warning him to drop the bag or she would blow him apart and escaped with 14000 dollars.
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Topeka
Kans
Security Benefit Association
W. L. Stanley
Rescue at Sea Near Point Reyes After Hartwood Wreck
San Francisco reports all hands from the U S Hartwood ashore a mile southeast of Point Reyes were removed. Coast guard boat evacuated Captain Engstrom eight crew members and a police dog from the vessel after it ran aground following radio updates.
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San Francisco
Calif
U. S. Hartwood
Point Reyes
Co. Engstrom
Coast Guard
Quarrel Ends in Death of Husband and Wife in Grand Rapids
Abraham L. Lawrence, 46, shot and killed his wife and wounded daughter Celia, 22, then killed himself during a domestic quarrel at their Grand Rapids home. Lawrence had been job hunting unsuccessfully. Celia remains in critical condition.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Abraham L. Lawrence
Lawrence
Celia Lawrence
Customs Men Seize Eight Motor Boats Near Detroit
Canadian customs men seized eight motor boats owned by T. S. liquor traders at the dock of the Atlantic Export Company in La Salle Ontario near Detroit. U S prohibition forces continued their push to curb smuggling across the Detroit River.
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Detroit
Mid
S&s
T. S. Liquor Tanners
Atlantic Export Company
Lasalle
Weather Damages Reported Across County
Rain and windstorm caused minor damage in the county with no serious destruction. Some limbs fell from trees and crops like wheat suffered flattening, but moisture and warmth are helping growth. farmers expect a late spring recovery as creases reach maturity.
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R&u
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