Five Bandits Steal $26,000 Payroll in Brockton Bank Job
Five bandits robbed a Brockton bank automobile delivering $26,000 payroll from the Home National Bank to the Diamond Shoe Company office. The escape used a second car with Massachusetts 609,481 as the getaway car's registration. No shooting occurred as police broadcast details and noted the stolen payroll originated in Boston.
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Brockton
Mass
Home National Bank
Diamond Shoe Company
Massachusetts
Boston
Bank Robbery Foiled by Tear Gas At Trethers Bank
Five machine gun bandits entered the Dollar Bank in Trethers O Maren 23 and seized cash while forcing customers to flee. President Diefendorfer and teller Miss Thid were held at gunpoint as the robbers used tear gas. Diefendorfer activated the bank’s gas system to aid escape, but the bandits fled in a car toward Youngstown.
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Trethers
Maren
Dollar Bank
Benamin Diefendorfer
Thid
James Me‘ann
Diefendorfer
Youngsown
Railroad Tower Man Injured in Fall at Wellington
The Wellington resident, Fred Greetham, suffered a fractured skull, facial lacerations, and a black eye after a night incident at the railroad tower. He was in Fans Clinic in a stupor and could not explain how he was injured as deputies Joe Womings and Ed Moures investigated the fall.
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Fred Theetham
É& QO
Railead Tower
Wellington
Tony
Greetham
Joe Womings
Ed. Moures
Tegs
Taking Bids On Coal For Schools
James F Brown school business Manager seeks bids for coal required for the next school year. He estimates about 400 tons of coal will be needed to supply the school system throughout the year.
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Ulvha
James F. Brown
Ohio Weather Forecast Clondr.aen Likely Overnight Change
Ohio forecast warns of cloudy conditions tonight with a likely mast portion late. Tomorrow morning may bring a lire change in omy ratare.
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Ohio
Ickes Warns Big Business On Lesson Of Depression
Secretary Harold Ickes said big business tends to forget the depression lessons as the Public Works Administration prepares to spend another 590 million dollars. He cited rapid initial disbursement of 1 billion and warned that rugged individualism could threaten recovery while outlining the next fiscal year allocations totaling about 2.009 billion for relief public works RFC and other programs.
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United Press
Wasitington
Big Business
Interior
Harold L. Jekus
United Press Today
Public Works Administration
Congress
PWA
Ickes
Washington
Interior Department
Wilson
Iykes
Harding-Coolidge
Roosevelt
Farm Credit Administration
Jackson enters race for Lorain County sheriff nomination
J. C. Sudd Jackson, Lorain County native, announces candidacy for the Republican sheriff nomination in the August primaries. A Penfield Township farm-born resident since 1926 in Elyria, he lives at 116 Cornel Avenue with his wife and two children. He is active in the Methodist Church the Grange the Eagles and the Lorain County Fish and Game Association.
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J.C. “Sudd
Jackson
Lorain County
Penfield Township
Wellington
Elyria
Cornel Avenue
Robert L. Jackson
East Avenue
Ovate fitatA in trial at Lima
The state rested its case in the Russell Clark murder trial at Lima, arguing he was not involved in Sheriff Jesse L. Larker’s killing last fall. Defense witness Mrs. Reulan Strachan, Clark’s sister from Detroit, testified Clark was at her home in Detroit on Oct 12 at 6 80 PM during the gangster raid and jail break. Prosecutor Botkin cross examined but her testimony stood.
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John Iallinser
Aen County
Strachan
Ernest Botkin
Union To Elect Officers Tonight
The Elyria local of the Federal Labor Union holds its first meeting at RK 2 C. Mall on Broad street at 7 p m today. About 260 members, workers from the Colon Company, are invited to join as permanent officers are to be elected under the National Recovery Act. Ed Hilbert, temporary secretary, stated the group was granted a charter by the American Federation of Labor two weeks ago.
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Elyria
Federal Labor Union
American Federation of Labor
RK. 2 C. Mall
Broad Street
Tia P. m
Eustis
Ed. Hilbert
Colon Company
National Recovery Act
Industrial Power Use Rises in Elyria
Industrial power consumption in Elyria rose last month with about 15 percent higher sales than February. Through March, figures suggest a total rise of 20 to 25 percent year over year, per J. J. Johnson of Ohio Public Service Company. The uptick points to more activity at local radiotrial plants and marks the greatest power use in Elyria in four years, surpassing March figures of 1921, 1950 levels.
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Elyria
J. J. Johnson
Ohio Public Service Company
Maren
Johnson
Inhncon
Elycia
Pension blanks delayed for Old Age pensions in county
County Commissioner Harry L. Shaw and state Old Age pensions director M. L. Brown said forms for applications will be unavailable for three to four weeks while the State Welfare Department completes final approval. Local boards will handle intake and forward cases to the state for final determinations. Brown warned of rigid investigations with each application and noted funds may be insufficient for the year. Pensions set to begin July 1.
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Harry L. Shaw
M. L. Brown
Brown
State Welfare Department
Oday
Pension Board
Ohio House Splits Over Ingo Tax Proposal
In Columbus March 5 and 25, the Ohio House clashed over tax plans. Democrats and anti tax forces defeated the Keifer bill raising tangible personal property taxes by 45 to 65 votes. The House then moved to consider a broad income tax proposal aimed at funding schools, predicted to raise 15 to 25 million dollars annually, with net revenue around 7 to 8 million after existing taxes.
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Columbus
Democrats
Ses Tor
House
Keifer
Maor
Columbus. O
Ohio House of Representatives
Cornstalk Club
Howe
McCluskey Tilly
S& To
Mre
Cronin
Calumbiana
Hamiltton
Reape
Warren
Ingersoll
Traumhull
Jones
Moses
Kach
Dem
Summits Pett
Leezan Roberts
Stark
Rowers
Repa
Lorain
van Voorhis
Balmy Weather Forecast For Central Ohio Weekend
The Weather Bureau forecast a return of spring warmth in Central Ohio for the weekend after a brief cold spell. Temperatures fell 14 degrees below normal yesterday with a 20 mile per hour breeze, but a gradual warming trend was expected tonight.
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Columbus. Q
Ohio
United States Weather Bureau
Mercury
Ambassador 10 03 Demiously Injured Ambassadors Flight Crash
Lima Peru March 23 Manuel Trucco Chilean ambassador to the United States was in serious condition after a Pan American Grace Line plane crashed on takeoff. Three people died and four were injured including Trucco and his daughter Grace. Co-pilot Wagner and pilot Farris among the deceased.
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Lima
Peru
Manuel Trucco
United States
Grace Line
Homer V. Farris
Berea
Lawrence A. Wagner
Baltimore
Frank Large
Liverpool
England
Air Line
Farris
Rockwell Field
Calif
Wagner
Graes Line
Margaret Horton
Truceor
Grace
Carmelo Bustamente
Joseph McGregor
Miss Trucco
Bustamente
McGregor
Harold KR
Tlaring
Alan W. Ellis
Trucco
Washington
Congress begins tariff fight in Washington
Congress today opened a tariff fight likely to split party lines and delay adjournment into summer. The administration trade bargaining bill seeks authority for the President to adjust tariff duties by 54 percent to pursue reciprocal trade agreements with foreign nations amid a four to five day debate.
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Washington
Congress
House
School Children to Have Eight Days Vacation
Elyria public schools students are restless as they near a weeklong spring break. Teachers note the break will end April 2, with no holidays again until Memorial Day and only one day off before summer term concludes.
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Elyria
Lowa
Enonca
Labor War Developments Across United States
United Press reports widespread labor tensions as 100000 auto workers pause before a potential walkout while Eastman seeks wage dispute resolution for rail carriers. GM raises wages and cuts hours in 40 plants, Detroit Lansing and Flint see strike readiness, and New York police face saboteur-tinged taxi strikes. Connecticut talks loom on Ladies Garment Workers, Manchester woolen and Cromwell greenhouse workers shift. Steel and coal output rise, Roosevelt intervention halts 12000 Longshoremen strike on the Pacific coast, Fisher Body Cleveland workers threaten action, Addressograph-M Multigraph idle workers push for 35 hour week and 60 cent minimum wage, with union recognition. National Labor Board tentatively settles Sherwin-Williams paint workers complaints.
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Ohio
Fisher Body Company
Cleveland
James P. McWeeney
A. F. of L
McWeeney
Washington
Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation
National Labor Board
Sherwin-Williams
Railroad Chiefs Given Wage Plan
Washington dispatch reports Transportation Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman presenting the administration plan to railroad executives in the Willard hotel. The outline aims to raise wages for track workers and other low paid railroad staff and requires quick feedback from the leaders. Eastman planned further talks with rail unions and may postpone meetings to tomorrow.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
Willard Hotel
Byrd Planes Safe At Camp In Antarctica
March 28 at Little America Antarctica two airplanes from the Byrd expedition, out on the Antarctic continent for days, were safely back at camp today.
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Little America
Antarctica
Mackay
Byrd Anarctic Expedition
Antarctic
General Motors Adopts 36-Hour Week nationwide
General Motors plants across the United States begin implementing a 36 hour week with wage increases to preserve weekly pay. Production workers in about 20 plants are affected, with an unofficial estimate of 13,900 benefiting. The move follows a National Automobile Chamber of Commerce endorsement of the plan.
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Detroit
General Motors
United States
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Governor Demands Funding Before Signing Appropriations
In Columbus on March 23 Governor Waite stated he will not sign any appropriation bills until the legislature presents money-raising measures. The Senate approved a Gunert Foundation School Bill for 45,000,000 for state grants under a modified mort plan. The House passed a Ballotins BM bill funding 209,000 for the Mushingam Valley water project, and Whittemore introduced a 1,000,000 mothers’ pensions bill. He vowed not to sign emergency measures without approved funding.
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Columbus. O
Waite
Agsembly
Todar
Senate
Gunert Foundation
Howse
Mushingam Valley Water Control Projet
Whittemore
Roosevelt Faces Auto Strike Crisis in White House Talks
Washington March 23 Union leaders meet Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson at 2 30 PM to discuss the auto strike. Roosevelt hopes a resolution by ordering new elections in motor plants, while labor and management remain divided. Detroit workers await word as talks continue at the White House.
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Washington
Hugh 5. Johnson
Roosevelt
White House
Detroit
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Lorain County Liquor Store Clerks Appointments Listed
D. W. Seward announced liquor store clerks for Lorain county after returning from Columbus. Appointees include Eugene Barlow Elyria Fred Randall Avon Lake Carroll Strong Lorain Nell Ellis Lorain Everly Carer Grafton Harold Bacon Amherst R D 3 Ralph Newman Wellington. Training will precede store assignments.
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D. W. Seward
Columbus
Lorain County
Eugene Barlow
Ninth Street
Elyria
Fred Randall
Moore Road
Avon Lake
Carroll Strong
Erie Ave
Lorain
Nell Ellis
Hamilton Ave
Everly Carer
Grafton
Harold Bacon
Amherst
R. D
Ralph Newman
John Street
Wellington
Seward
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Ladies Garment Workers
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