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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1929
Page
1
An American mining engineer Floyd Thompson was found dead near the Nogales border after a bullet wound to the temple. Mexican officials claim he was killed on the Mexican side and moved, while American authorities launched an investigation to confirm identity and locate the killer as tensions rise amid regional unrest.
Cleveland police killed an alleged bandit Lenel Morris after he crashed through a store door. Patrolman Arthur Gerdig shot him as police pursue the gunmen who killed Patrolman Carl Sherman and wounded Sergt. Martin Hoffman. The citywide manhunt expanded with 25 men and four women arrested and a $5,000 reward posted for information leading to arrests.
The late Ethel C. Mockler formerly married to an Athens country physician died at Columbus state hospital and left all her estate to the Columbus Y W C A according to terms of her will probated today by Judge Homer Z. Bostwick. No estimate of the estate was made.
United Press reports cyclonic winds battered Ohio causing over 1 million dollars in damage. Cleveland precincts tally 300000 in losses, driven by a 250000 fire at a dress rental shop. A downtown streetcar shelter collapsed, lines snapped, trees uprooted, and debris scattered. A woman, Eva Pari, was injured by a blown car. Shipping largely spared due to winter berths. Temperatures dropped as winds eased. central Ohio saw shattered windows and blown trees. Continued on page 2.
A powerful 50 mile per hour gale swept from the southwest to the northwest last night, triggering a mid winter blizzard across Northern Ohio. In Elyria and surrounding county, roofs were torn, fences felled, barns and garages doors blown off, and trees toppled. The county fair grandstand roof was blown away and street lights were knocked down as debris cluttered highways. A sheet of tin on the county courthouse roof was noted. Continued on page 2.
Robert Hopkins, flying a Douglas plane, used favorable winds to establish a new Chicago to Cleveland air mail record. He departed Chicago at 10 20 p m and landed in Cleveland at midnight, covering about 230 miles at an average speed of 90 miles per hour, beating Harold Knoopp’s previous mark by one minute.
Two suits totalling 559049 were filed in common pleas court today against John W. Shawke of Cleveland and Werner Zitch of Amherst by Florian A. Sadowski Lorain and Walter Sadowski Cleveland. The actions stem from a November 6 1927 Amherst automobile collision. Florian Sadowski claims 25049 and Walter Sadowski 10009 for injuries as passengers.
Chicago report from March 7 notes a rapid temperature drop from 58 to 18 degrees with forty mph winds. Storms caused structural damage and six injuries. A blizzard killed a man struck by a passenger train near St Paul and Minneapolis. temps in twin cities fell by about forty degrees and colder weather was forecast for the Midwest.
The Elyria Kiwanis International club marked a decade with a luncheon at Hotel Newell attended by most members and guests. William Damm donated a large birthday cake bearing the Kiwanis emblem. Judge H. G. Redington and Dr. Betteridge carved the cake while A. H. West led the Welfare committee. George Chamberlain spoke on five years of Kiwanis in Elyria and A. H. Waters reviewed club activities. H. M. Andress read a paper on Kiwanis Objectives.
At 2 15 a m a German police horde pet named La Pal belonging to the Kovacs family on Third Street detects smoke. The dog’s howls wake Jot Kovacs who finds the building burning in the basement of the confectionery. Firefighters respond but the blaze worsens with strong winds as they battle the flames for an hour.
The senate elections committee favorably reported the Scott Gerrymandering bill in Columbus Ohio. The measure would realign districts by moving Madison Fayette counties to the eleventh, adding Perry to the fifteenth and transferring Hocking to the tenth. Senator Milton J. Scott of Chillicothe authored the bill.
LOGAN CO March 7 Bar Featheroff nineteen Hocking county request slayer found insane by a jury in common pleas court and ordered committed to Lima hospital for criminal insane Featheroff confessed that he shot and killed Jacob Kunkler aged recluse in his shack near Mound Crossing last December The youth said Kunkler claimed he owed debts and desired to die so he shot him at his request.
The Lorain county board of review continued a three day session in rural areas, hearing 50 complaints on property assessments. A further three day session will hear 37 more cases next week, with 76 complaints remaining and no hearing date set yet for them.
Authorities learned the 17 year old Canton girl held the car taken from Rufus Dawes of Evanston Illinois and tried to sell it to the Elyria Buick Company. Federal agents questioned her and planned to take her to Cleveland for further investigation. She had used an assumed name in a Chicago hotel and left Evanston about the time of the theft. Relatives stayed out of the case and she had claimed nurse training and other schooling without full explanations.
Four passengers were injured aboard the Leviathan during a fierce storm that battered the liner for most of the voyage from New York, forcing a 12 hour late arrival at Cherbourg. The ship’s crew rendered aid as the vessel completed its crossing.
Washington dispatch reports Rebel General Luis De La Sierra and General Gama among leaders killed as Federal forces retook Vera Cruz port yesterday. Official advices to the Mexican embassy confirm the fatalities amid the battle for control of the coastal city.
Common Pleas Judge A R Webber extended for two weeks habeas corpus hearings for eight jail inmates awaiting liquor fine release. The delay cites possible new parole ordinances by Lorain City Council, while the judge warns habeas corpus post conviction may be unlawful per Supreme Court rulings. The case draws statewide attention as a test of liquor law violator detentions.
Fire destroyed Dean dormitory at Bowling Green State Normal School. Laura Morrow of Milan and Isabellle Jurr of Bellevue were saved from the blaze as classmates slept. Fire started near the furnace in the basement. Thirteen other girls lost personal effects and were temporarily housed in Williams and Shatzel halls.
President Hoover declares Congress must meet in extra session on April 15 to consider agricultural relief and tariff changes. He hints at possible repeal of the national origins immigration provision and shift of prohibition enforcement to the justice department, with the session to be held in Washington at noon.
Sheriff Clarence E. Adams and his deputies spent a 12 hour period rounding up four truck drivers whose loads were overloaded and issued appearance tickets to 12 motorists with a single functioning headlight. The truck drivers, two from Cleveland and two from Toledo, were fined $25 plus costs in Justice S. J. George court. The 12 auto offenders were summoned to appear in court in the coming days. The drive, lasting three weeks, began with warnings for one headlight motorists and now includes arrests when no good excuse is presented.
A record from Al beri Pallas at 433 Adams Street notes sixteen years of perfect Sunday school attendance with rewards in possession. He claims two years of attendance with only five absences, and describes walking the same Adams Street to Lodi Street route to St Pauls Church on Third Street.
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