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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1927
Page
1
British ambassador Sir Osae Howard told acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew that Britain supports U S and Japan joining a three power conference to discuss auxiliary naval craft. The meeting is expected in Geneva this summer.
TOKIO reports late today that the death toll from Monday's earthquake in the Kyoto district is expected to approach 3,000. The tally includes deaths from exposure after the quake based on nearly complete reports.
In Tonopah Nevada hundreds camp in flimsy tents as last nights snowstorm bites. Prospectors guard claims at Weepah where two youths reportedly found gold quartz worth 378000 a ton. Water shortages hamper camps while bootleg liquor dominates diversions. E J Roberts of San Francisco offered up to 2000 dollars for claims at the plot.
March 10 report says a jury in the Harry F. Sinclair sen mac contempt case was excused until Monday by Justice William Fitz to hear defense claims that Sinclair refused to answer questions not pertinent to the investigation. Judge Hite ordered the jurors to stay away from the courthouse and avoid reading newspaper accounts of the trial.
Columbus Ohio March 10 Governor Donahey denied considering a general pardon or ordered release of prisoners serving out fines assessed under town or city officials for violations tied to a prohibition law later struck down by the U. S. Supreme Court.
More than sixty representatives from 28 Lorain county groups attended a European corn borer meeting in Elyria. Entomologist T Parks explained the pest cycle and control methods, and county inspectors to be funded by federal and state agriculture departments were discussed. A 30 member board of directors was chosen to appoint inspectors to the U S Department of Agriculture. local men to oversee corn borer work were emphasized.
Prohibition inspector C. E. Rankin with L. C. Price and Frank Smith seized a 50 gallon still and twelve barrels of mash after an all night vigil at 1083 West 19th street Lorain. The owner John Lauria was arrested in Elyria and arraigned on charges of possession of liquor and a still, pleading not guilty. Bond set at 1000 dollars. trial scheduled for Monday morning.
Firemen battled a furnace spill at the Federal Glass Company in Columbus on March 10. Molten glass at 2600 degrees cracked the vat, sending glass to the basement. Water streams cooled the crack while tons of molten glass flooded the floor, later freezing as the blaze was stopped. The company could not estimate losses.
Warnings were broadcast from London today after a theft of eight test tubes containing virulent germs including anthrax and typhoid. In Marietta Ohio, Clyde Seevers a 15 year old junior high student hanged himself in a shed near his home after troubles with school authorities.
Elkanah Crossen of Marseilles near Marion Ohio escaped a blaze and led neighbors in bucket brigades before returning to the burning home and suffocating. Coroner I W Naus of Upner Sandusky ruled death by suffocation.
A $10,600 damage suit brought by Jose Padilla over an October 1925 accident at Globe and E 28th streets in Lorain was decided for the defendant fifteen minutes after jury deliberations began at 2:20 p m Witnesses testified Lewalsky drove with due care and promptly took Jose to the hospital, with an initial 10 to 2 ballot confirming the verdict.
At the Falcon Motors Corporation plant work continues on the Falcon Knight motor cars. About 150 workers are employed locally plus 50 contractors. Spray booths are to be added next week, and several carloads of structural steel have arrived. A 10 foot bridge between plants is planned to allow car passage. Office redecorating by O'Donnell's should finish next week.
In Athens on March 19 Greek troops were mobilized as bakers gravara and restaurateurs joined a broad strike over rent and tax law changes. Public officials and railway workers evaluated joining. the government declared mobilization amid Greece’s largest ever strike.
Casablanca dispatch reports two French planes departed for Puerto Canada to rescue four Uruguayan aviators wrecked off Cape Juby. A negotiator reached Puerto Cansada to arrange for release of Uruguayan captives held by Moorish tribesmen for ransom.
Georgina Jones, six, sustained severe burns to arms and hands when her clothing caught fire from a gas jet at her Laurel court home. She was admitted to Elyria Memorial hospital after 8 20 AM treatment. her mother Mrs H Jones was rescued and treated but not admitted.
Yokohama reports the Kirishima Maru training ship likely lost after a Wednesday storm with eight students among the casualties. Japanese vessels Otaro Maru and Sapporo Maru could not locate the Kirishima. a Yokosuka destroyer continued search.
Four local high school boys Sumner Vandine 16 Clarence Bonnell 17 Roland Young 14 and Ralph Suttle 15 confessed to stealing 26 automobiles during the past three months. They took cars for joy rides wrecking some and leaving them along country roads. Several vehicles were reportedly sold to a Cambridge man.
Four hundred Ohio Republican women leaders gather in Columbus for the largest off season meeting. A noon luncheon will feature speakers including U S Senator Simeon D Ross Mrs Wilna Sinclair Tévan Stenbanville national committee woman for Ohio and Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren as principal speakers.
Canton Ohio March 10 An independent inquiry into police links with the underworld in the murder of editor Don R Mellett was announced by Mayor S M Swarts. Louis Mazer indicted for the slay ing said two officers and a former detective aided the frame up and alibis. Swarts and City Solicitor J E Kinnison plan steps for charging and possible civil service hearings.
Lorain residents filed protests at the courthouse basement office of Mason Smith as pre appraisal valuations sparked discontent. Clerks worked through the day handling the flood of protest filings with many taxpayers to face the tax commission and justify keeping their taxes as set.
A Paris dispatch reports King Ferdinand of Koummania in poor health with intestinal cancer and believed to be seriously ill for months. Rumors note Queen Marie and King Alexander abroad as Belgrade rushes to Bucharest amid unstable conditions.
A running hospital log from the 97th hour notes Frick showing slight improvements and moments of sleep as doctors describe a possible ray of hope. The account details pulse, temperature, swallowing, and responses to caregivers with no decisive change in condition.
Bulletin from Moscow reports a deadly blaze at a school in Karavtkevo village, Dyinn province. Twenty seven people perished and forty are listed as missing, with recovery of the 27 bodies confirmed.
Columbus Ohio March 10 W ly McKinney Republican Columbus today was nominated to the Public Utilities Commission by Governor Jie Donabey. He was named to take the place of Trank B Manlar of Chill cobha whose term expires February 1 for the term ending February 1 1993. McKinney, secretary of the Southern Ohio Coal Association, was named after the senate failed to confirm C C schoupe recommended by the railroad brotherhoods.
Elyria Tever and Ridgeville representatives gathered 250 people in Ridgeville to hear plans for a super highway from Millard Bridge in Rocky River to Elyria. County signatures for land rights gathered. 12 of 24 parcels in Lorain county yet to sign. Committee led by C. T. Winckles aims to push start this year and holds next meeting.
In Evanston Illinois a 22 year old salesman Alfred Frick is paralyzed and on artificial respiration. Co workers in two man shifts press on his chest for more than ninety hours to sustain life. Doctors report a potential recovery if Frick endures the next twenty four to thirty six hours. The scene unfolds in room 108 where volunteers monitor every three minutes of effort.
A city wide traffic safety campaign will be opened in Lorain within a few days announced by Mayor William Jy Grall after a conference with J Clarry Killius of the Cleveland Automobile Club. A Junior traffic corps will guard schoolchildren and hundreds of safety placards will be posted with safety signs at dangerous crossings.
Director Frank T. Hines announced after a White House conference that the Veterans Bureau will process all loan applications for compensation certificates. The program aims to provide about 5 million dollars monthly, funded by 3 million from premiums on paid-in insurance and 2 million from sale of government securities, with banks already advancing roughly 30 thousand.
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