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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
5
Wakeman high school junior class stages a three act comedy titled Wild Oranges in the school auditorium at 3 p.m. Friday April 5. Proceeds fund the annual Junior Senior banquet. Public invite.
A. C. Moring of 72 East Erie Avenue Lorain reports a tire valued at 18.50 stolen from the right front wheel of his car parked on Washington Avenue overnight. Frank Brantlay of 128 Lake Avenue reports his car stolen from Second Street near Middle at 1 20 a m. The vehicle was found on East Avenue about 135 minutes later by a police squad.
The 1940 season is near and a Philco or Zenith radio promises more thrilling game listening. Also advertised is a Westinghouse ironer with an open cut design for easier ironing of large pieces.
The WPA reports 129 public buildings built or repaired in Lorain County since July 1935, with schools receiving early focus. A new Pleasant View Sanitarium School building in Amherst and repairs on 38 more schools including Lorain Elyria and Avon Centralized School districts are noted. The county saw a new Lorain football stadium, fire houses 1 through 8 improvements, jail repairs, Lakeview Bath House, Oakwood Park Shelter, a new city garage, and more than 300 acres of parkland improvements. Over 253 miles of storm and sanitary sewers and 5 miles of water mains were completed. 1300 sanitary privies built. This covers WPA only, not CWA or FERA work.
Four typewriters and two electric adding machines believed stolen were found yesterday in a field in Avon Lake by local school boys. One finder is the son of Paul Mc Campbell, Avon Lake justice of the peace. A resident, Mrs Gable, reported seeing a car halt at 1 35 a.m. near the discovery.
A grateful user testimony promotes RUX Compound as relief for Rheumatic, Neuralgic, and Neuritic pain. Mrs. Wm Schleicher of LaSalle Illinois reports easing of arm and leg pains and better sleep after buying at a local drug store. Advertisement urges readers to ask for Genuine RUX Compound at Philips Cut Rate Drugs Elyria Ohio and to look for the brown and yellow carton.
Nova tenor Rob Roy Crumbine soprano Jean McMillan Lash from Ashland and Miss Ellen Grissinger of New London perform a half hour concert of classical pieces on Radio Station WMAN Mansfield Sunday evening March 31 from 6 to 6 30 pm. The three, pupils of Charles Wengerd, present works including Mendelssohn Elijah items and Salter The Cry of Rachel with Grissinger on piano accompaniment.
Chief Blue Sky a Pueblo Indian and descendant of King Philip will entertain state highway employees tonight at the Modern Woodmen Hall. F W Bunting Modern Woodmen of America reports the entertainer comes highly recommended and has appeared before many organizations.
European reports claim the German high seas fleet sailed from Wilhelmshaven to engage Britain near the Skagerrak in a major naval clash. Rome and Copenhagen carried the alert of a strong German force opposing the British, with Britain pursuing German ships in the Skagerrak as Luftwaffe planes hit a German patrol vessel.
Dr. Raymond W. Bixler head of Ashland College history department will speak to the Elyria Lawyers Club Saturday on Foreign Relations of the United States. Bixler, a Mt Union College graduate with an MA from Harvard and a PhD from Ohio State, has studied at Columbia and Chicago and traveled extensively in Europe.
Three British cruisers chased the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee into Montevideo harbor Uruguay to force scuttling. The era’s last major surface clash had been at Jutland near Denmark, in a distant memory of war.
The Lorain Baptist Men's Association will meet at the First Hungarian Baptist Church at 208 West River Street for a social gathering and banquet at 6 30 p m served by the Ladies Aid Society. The evening service starts at 7 30 p m with guest speakers Rev E Foster Dr Charles Gruber and Rev G Petre along with representatives from Buckeye, Akron and Wadsworth Baptist churches.
Penn State leaders joined the hunt for a sex fiend after 17 year old freshman Rachael Taylor from Wildwood New Jersey was slain near the campus. She was found on a township school parade grounds with a crushed skull and the attack occurred near 1:30 a m after she accepted a ride. Investigators believe she knew the killer and the case centers on campus as the motive.
Police yesterday investigated tampering with a pay telephone coin box at the New York Central railroad station. A screwdriver had been used to pry the coin section open but the attempt failed. Also, a corpse linked to a Kingston murder was found, and Miss Taylors luggage was located at Shilo Cemetery with a blood-stained handkerchief nearby.
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