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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1932
Page
14
Council debate centers on aiding landlords and tenants as William Ith argues relief is needed to prevent evictions. Landlords claim taxes raise rents while associations do little to ease rent, and Charles r cautions relief would pose problems for city finances.
Radio rograms column lists WAM 1070 and stations in EST. Programs include Waldorf Astoria Orchestra Twilight Tunes Three Brown Bears Pie Plant Pete Gene and Glenn The Goldbergs Sanderson and Crummit Mary and Bob Gay Vienna Ed Wynn Giers and Forteto's Bands Russ Columbo Cab Calloway Beale Street Nights Don Bestor Simon's Orchestra Al Katz Landers Arthur Jarrett Dinner Joe Palock Mills Brothers Sylvia Froos Morton Downer Allie Miles Abe Lyman Kate Smith Modern Mate chorus Ben Bernie's Orchestra with numerous bands and performances noted for Tuesday May 5.
A dense radio schedule fragment lists Crime Club and various music acts across stations, naming performers such as Jack Kerr tenor, Bing Crosby, Larry Rich, Kay Kyser’s Orchestra, Amos ’n’ Andy, and Myer’s Jug Band, with times and station identifiers interwoven. The garbled OCR shows multiple programs including dance, comedy, religious convention, and orchestra lineups across WWJ WLW WJR WABC and others, along with venue hints like Garden hour and Paris Night Life. The entry reflects a chaotic early 20th century broadcast grid with many overlapping items and partial titles.
The Litchfield brief notes a quilting club meeting at Mrs Hal Leach on May 11, illness updates for Mrs H C Stephan, visits from Edna Sargent and Miss Mary Streett, a fish supper by the Ladies Benevolent Society, May Queen attendants for Virginia Rade at Berea on May 14, Medina track meet participants, and various local visits. Also mentioned are obituaries, medical association plans in Dayton, and a suspected scam involving Burton of Crosby street Akron and Will-O-Lite Co signs.
The Lorain County Game and Fish Association voted to amend its constitution at the annual meeting. Officers will now be nominated in November and elected in December, taking office January 1. A measure opposing a national one cent per shell tax was approved, citing higher shell costs. Additional notes include social events and community notices from Medina and nearby towns.
Dreamland Theatre presents Left over Ladies by Tiffany Productions with a starry cast led by Claudia Is, famed for Sweet Kitty Bellairs and Fifty Million Frenchmen, and Marjorie Rambeau in a standout character role. The program highlights Claudia Is and Rambeau as marquee names from stage and screen.
The piece notes screen actors often fear audiences due to stage experience. Nancy Carroll stars in Wayward at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow and Thursday and fears the take may fail. Richard Arlen, an active outdoorsman, fears the camera will not capture his exuberance.
Those who see Samuel Goldwyn’s film version of the New York comedy hit The Greeks Had a Word for Them will readily concede that never before has the screen seen the counterpart of the three merry maids of Broadway whose squabbles and loyalties provide the hilarity of the story.
United Artists presents a comedy where three feminine musketeers vie for control as a millionaire enters the scene. The ensuing battle of wits and words drives the plot in this lighthearted film.
CHICAGO May 5 Capone the notorious gangster faces transfer to Leavenworth Penitentiary to begin a sentence of about seven and a half years with time off for good behavior. Federal officials described the move as the end of the Capone Syndicate era as Justice Hughes denied certiorari ending the last legal delay. Capone, weighing 265 pounds during his Cook County jail stay, will depart tonight with a carload of convicts for the federal prison.
The Portage County Citizens League launched a campaign to stop betting at the Ravenna running race meeting by appealing to Governor George White. Akron man Max Letzel faced the court on an affidavit accusing him of buying a betting ticket, with his hearing moved to May 21.
In Cleveland on May 3 Gart Starkey a 23 year old Western Reserve University student remained in a coma at Lakeside Hospital from sleeping tablets he allegedly swallowed to end his life. His roommate John Schenk found two notes addressed to his mother Mrs Matel Starkey an Otterbein College instructor. One note read Dear Mother There is no special reason I am just batter off not living. No one at all is to blame in any way Carl. The second note’s contents were not revealed. Starkey was asleep when he left for classes yesterday morning and still asleep when he returned at noon unable to arouse him.
Schenk called a physician and found three empty sleeping tablet bottles under the bed. Notes were on the dresser. The physician could not revive Starkey, who was taken to Lakeside Hospital. In Portland, Marie E. Lewis hooked a sizable salmon in the Nehalem River but a seal seized the fish, leaving her with only half a salmon.
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