Welles Report May Never Be Made Public
President Roosevelt kept Sumner Welles report on European conditions secret after a 93 minute White House meeting. Welles’ tour findings remain undisclosed as the White House weighs whether to release them.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
1
President Roosevelt kept Sumner Welles report on European conditions secret after a 93 minute White House meeting. Welles’ tour findings remain undisclosed as the White House weighs whether to release them.
The Norwegian steamship Burgos of 3,220 tons was sunk off the east coast of England. Its crew were rescued.
The Weather reports fair conditions in central and west Ohio with part cloudy skies and showers in the extreme east. Colder tonight, Saturday remains fair and colder. Light to moderate precipitation has been general in central valleys and western lake region. warmer morning temperatures across the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. high pressure over Atlantic states. western low moved Kansas to Minnesota.
Brigadier William A. Spatig will speak at the opening dinner for an $18,000 Salvation Army building fund campaign in Elyria. The event at Church of Christ starts 6 p.m. Tuesday with Dr. Charles Guth providing vocal numbers. New captains include Mrs Qsea Hignie and Ben Sotherden, boosting total to 31.
County Commissioner Harry L. Dunham proposed leveling the approach to the Root Road New York Central crossing in Ridgeville to remove a steep grade. He estimated 12 080 cubic yards of fill and about 1 800 feet of work at a cost of 6 000, with railroad furnishing materials. Other similar upgrades have occurred on Maddock Road Ridgeville West Ridge Sunnyside Road and Indian Hollow Road.
Everett R. Helles reports in Europe wartime opinion about the United States. British and German presses allege U S profits from war and a retreat from humanitarian aims, while officials urge keeping the U S neutral yet aiding Allies. A Dorchester lunch room discussion highlights tensions over America’s role.
The freighter Antinous, with a two foot hull fracture, struggles in heavy seas to reach Guam Island after SOS. U S Admiral Halstead could not reach before 3 p.m. PST. The ship, owned by Waterman Steamship, left Honolulu on March 13 and has its No 1 hold flooded.
Mrs. Carl Webber of Brighton is hospitalized at Falls Clinic with a deep forehead cut and chest injuries after a collision on Route 18 at DeVies corners two miles west of Wellington. Her husband and Otis Sigsby and Harlan Roberts of La Grange received minor injuries.
Vietzen, foreman for the American Radiaster and Standard Sanitary, was elected president of the Elyria Foremen's Club for the coming year at the Y M C A meeting. Leland Minch of Colson Corporation was reelected first vice president and F E Biddinger of General Industries was elected second vice president. Past year officers included James Wise, William Wilson, and R G Rhoads. no third vice president was elected.
Miss Vera Marshall 35 from Cincinnati died after falling from an 18th-floor hotel room at the Hotel Edison in New York. She registered late yesterday and fell four floors to land on the 14th-story extension roof.
Captain Arthur Roth of the juvenile bureau spoke to Elyria Kiwanis about turning Cleveland South Side from a high delinquency area in 1937 into a steadier district. He lived 60 days with local underworld figures, then revealed his police role and helped form the Improvement Club with 65 gang leaders at a banquet. The club sponsored boy scout troops, and delinquency among younger boys dropped below normal.
J. Slack, the Henrietta township school superintendent, was re employed for two more years by the Henrietta Township board of education at a special meeting last night. He is completing his third year and also teaches physical sciences and mathematics. The board will meet April 5 to address employment of other teachers for next year.
Leo Borer 26 of Grafton, employee of George Spitzer Hardware, was killed at 1 15 am when his light truck skidded on a curve on North Ridge Road near Penfield Junction and hit a tree. He was returning to Grafton to his wife and four month old baby after visiting his parents in Lorain. Body taken to Reichlin and Cooley Funeral Home in Lorain.
National Tube Company at Lorain will run the same as this week with four blast furnaces and nine lepen hearth furnaces in operation. The Bessemer converter will operate a single turn and other departments will follow this week’s schedule.
Elyria firemen aimed for a 15 day fire free period after reading about Cleveland’s 15 hour stretch. The city began the sequence over a week earlier and remained fire free into its sixteenth consecutive day, despite a grass fire report that did not escalate into a blaze.
Washington dispatch reports rising pressure for federal spending on farm and work relief, as both Senate and House moved to exceed Roosevelt budget limits. The Labor Security bill passed at 1,021,000,000, with added CCC and NYA funds, while NLRB funding faced a sharp cut amid board investigations. Local civic leader Louis D. Strecker, 67, of Marietta, dies.
John Crozier Conaway 79 a noted Elyria lawyer and former justice of the peace died at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a five day illness. A graduate with a long private practice he taught in Harrison county before joining the bar in 1895 and later married Adeline Buttenbender in 1904. He built a large private library and served Lorain and Ohio bar associations. Surviving relatives include a sister Adeline Conaway and two nephews. Burial is at Ridgelawn Cemetery with Lorain county bar members attending the service conducted by Rev. Edwin Kirby.
Washington March 2 The Census Bureau selected the night of April to count heads in hobo jungles flop houses and other gathering places for the homeless Night counting aims to reach those in temporary camps and avoid daytime omissions The plan reflects concerns about accuracy in hard to reach areas
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