Improvement of Route 18 Anticipated In Wellington
A meeting of development enthusiasts and state highway officials in Columbus discussed Route 18 in Wellington from the square east as a potential joint state WPA and county project. Oscar G. Dunn said the Herrick avenue segment may proceed with eight miles of improvements between Medina and Akron. District Engineer Shafer and local engineers will confer with county leaders next week to review the system and prepare recommendations for improvements in the county.
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Wellington
Square
State Highway Department
Columbus
Oscar G. Dunn
Herrick Avenue
Medina
Akron
Youngstown
Norwalk
Dunn
Shafer
Ashland
Harry L. Dunham
Lorain County Legion Tackles Juvenile Delinquency and Relief
The Lorain County Council of the American Legion met in Amherst to discuss juvenile delinquency and soldiers relief. The group urged county posts to form committees to work with the probation officer to reduce delinquency and possibly keep boys from Lancaster’s Boys Industrial School or worse.
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Lorain County
Legion
Lancaster
Relef
Check Received By County Board For School Office
The Lorain County Board of Education received from the State Department of Education a check for 8750 dollars for the operation of the county school office in the first half of this year. All funds for the county board are now provided by the state.
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Lorain County
Ohio Storm Outlook With Rain Snow Then Cold
Weather report notes rain tonight and Sunday in Ohio with potential snow in the north on Sunday and colder air, especially in the far north tonight and Monday. High pressure holds across Canada with fair conditions and subzero lows, while disturbances shift over the Upper Mississippi Valley and Rockies bringing mixed precipitation and warmth to the south and east.
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Ohio
Canada
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Mountain Plateau
Rockies
Mississippi
Atlantic
Oil Strike On Zolkay Farm Northeastern Pittsfield
Farmers near the Pittsfield township border with Carlisle Russia and LaGrange anticipate oil yields after a second well on Vincent Zolkay farm near the Rockwood site began rising oil during drilling. Promoters Kane and Peebles expect shooting to boost pressure and production. Oil is sold to Buckeye Pipe Line at 1.02 per barrel. storage plans and further wells are in progress.
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Pittsfield Township
Carlisle
Russia
LaGrange
W W. Rockwood
Vincent Zolkay
Rockwood
Fred Peebles
Elyria
R. E. Kane
Oberlin
Kane
Lorain County
Zolkay
Clinton
Buckeye Pipe Line Company
Berea
Peebles and
D. J. Campbell
Unusual Capacity Noted In Eugenio Pacelli Before Papacy
In 1929 United Press biographical sketch outlines Eugenio Pacelli later Pope Pius XII. Gasparri spots promise as Pacelli advances from Congregation to secretary of state, while Neviani recalls a prophetic sense of his future throne.
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Pius XII
United Press
Vatican City
Monsignor
Pietro Gasparri
Vatican Gardens
Pope Leo XIII
Gasparri
Congregation For
Eugenio
St. Peter’s Square
Antonio Neviani
St. Peter
Vannutelli
Filippo Pacelli
Cardinal Vannutelli
Foreign Ministry
Pontifical Seminary of
Pope Pius XII Falls And Injures Arm
The Giornale D Italia reports Pope Pius XII fell yesterday on the way to the Sistine Chapel in Rome and injured his arm.
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Pope Pius XII
Rome
Giornale D'Italia
Sistine Chapel
Plane found with ten bodies in Lower Alps near Nice
March 4 reports identify debris of a German transport plane near Roubion in the lower Alps with ten victims. A recovery party was sent out. Villagers earlier claimed a nose dive in the Vionene Valley on Feb 24, and Berlin announced a German plane with ten aboard on Feb 25 identified only as marked DALUS.
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Nice
France
Asklier
Roubion
Lower Alps
Vionene
Berlin
Dalus
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Now Declining in Elyria
Nine Elyria homes remain under quarantine as city health officials see signs the mild scarlet fever outbreak is easing. Dr. G E French notes cases are mild and often unreported promptly, complicating control without a vaccine. He contrasts with diphtheria, noting only three cases since 1931, all among the unimmunized.
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Elyria
G. E. French
Citizens discuss $40,000 bond for fairgrounds purchase
A public meeting led by Mayor Joseph Petro endorsed submitting a $40,000 bond issue to voters at the November general election. The plan would buy 31.14 acres of river property and fund sanitation and ball-diamond grading, but not playgrounds.
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Joseph @. Petro
Petro
Citizens’ Committee
Citizens Committee
B. H. Long
Don A. Wilmot
Alva Kemp
A. H. West
A. C. Hudnutt
Worth Fauver
Shaw
Carter
South End
Hudnutt
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Lorain County School Boards Meet March 25 at Elyria High
The Lorain County Board of Education set a March 25 gathering for 26 village and rural boards at Elyria High School auditorium. Richard Smith, assistant state director of education, will speak. Each attending board member will receive two dollars. The meeting historically pairs with the county’s annual public hearing for next year, now no longer required by law.
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Lorain County
University barn burns at Ohio State farm
A livestock barn at an Ohio State University farm burned today causing about 15000 dollars in losses. Several head of livestock and much hay and straw were destroyed in the fire.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Amrine confirms prison corruption in Ohio penitentary probe
Acting Warden William F. Amrine says a six week inquiry into Ohio Penitentiary uncovered liquor and narcotics smuggling gambling and job buying. He reports sales of liquor and marijuana cigarets inside the prison and high stakes poker and dice games while records were burned and letters smuggled to convicts. He also announced personnel shifts including demotion of C A Heffelfinger and new guards J Milton Folk Henry Beard Oliver Slage and R L Darby.
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Amrine
Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
William F. Amrine
James C. Woodard
Charles L. Sherwood
Highway Department
Amarine
C. A. Heffelfinger
Junction City
J. Milton Folk
Henry Beard
Oliver Slage
R. L. Darby
Bellefontaine
Eighteen Indicted in Cemetery Lots Swindle Case
Eighteen defendants including five from the area faced federal indictments for a $160,000 scheme to profit from cemetery lots. Leaders Stickney and Gordon formed Commonwealth Trustee Co in Chicago to swap securities for resold lots at Crown Hill Cemetery. Customers were promised profits from $450 to $500 per lot, with Union Standard Guarantee Co paying 50 cents monthly to keep deals quiet until lawsuits expired.
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Chicago
Mike D. Gordon
Cleveland
Canton
Robert Stickney
Boston
New York
William Mean
Cleveland Heights
William Woodring
Lakewood
Mort Greenbaum
Barney Wolstein
Stickney
Gordon
Commonwealth Trustee Co
Crown Hill
Twinsburg
Union Standard Guarantee Company of
Union Standard
County Board Office Staff Return After Influenza Outbreak
Influenza struck the county school office with every staff member confined to home. W. A. Schmittgen, board president and General Industries plant superintendent, was an additional victim reporting his first illness in 27 years. All staff returned to work, with Emma Gleason limited to part of the day.
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W. A. Schmittgen
Schmittgen
General Industries Company
Emma Gleason
Ambassador Called Home From Spain
The State Department announced that Claude Bowers, American ambassador to Loyalist Spain, has been ordered home for consultation as the United States considers possible recognition of the Franco regime.
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Washington
State Department
Claude Bowers
Spain
Roosevelt Faces Congressional Rebellion Over Spending
President Roosevelt returns to Washington on the sixth anniversary of his first inauguration to confront conservative Democrats attacking New Deal policies. Senate Finance chair Pat Harrison and House Ways chair Robert L. Coughton push for economy and tax study. Senator Van Nuys urges business reassurance through curbing spending and selective reform, proposing repeal of undistributed corporate surplus tax, cap gains tweaks, and firmer office appointments.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
U. S
Caribbean
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Frederick V. Nuys
Ind
Harry F. Byrd
Harrison
Robert L. Coughton
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
van Nuys
Lorain County Board Rehires All Staff for Two Years
The Lorain County Board of Education reemployed all staff for two years starting August 1 except A T Smith whose term starts August 15. Reappointed are C A Gibbons $4100, Gerald Frank $2800, Miss Emma Gleason $2600, Miss Bessie Douglas $1380, Miss Mary Salisbury $1149. Executive session preceded the action.
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Lorain County
Smith
Death of Dr. Charles Sumner Plumb Pro Emeritus Ohio State
Dr. Charles Sumner Plumb aged 78 professor emeritus of animal husbandry at Ohio State University died of heart disease. He was born in Westfield Massachusetts and had taught at the University of Tennessee and Purdue University.
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Columbus
Charles Sumner Plumb
Ohio State University
Westfield
Mass
University of Tennessee
Purdue University
Roosevelt and Hughes praise democracy and religious freedom
In Washington on March 4 President Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes urged steadfast democratic principles and religious liberty at a joint congressional session marking the 150th anniversary of Congress. Roosevelt warned against tyranny and stressed that the United States will not tolerate persecution of religion nor passive acceptance of autocratic rule.
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Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
Congress
United States
World Today
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Army
House
William B. Bankhead
Senate
Key Pittman
Lorain County Board Defers Paying Most Bills
The Lorain County Board of Education halted payment on most last month’s bills after its state check had not arrived. Local boards received their first quarter funds yesterday, but the county board’s check was missing. Superintendent C. A. Gibbons was informed that funds may arrive in a few days.
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Lorain County
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