Dinner for Elyria Legion Memorial Home workers and Chamber
More than 260 Elyria Legion Memorial Home campaign workers and Chamber of Commerce members are to attend a complimentary dinner at the First Congregational Church tonight. The 6:30 p.m. event features Col. Ralph D. Cole’s address, a war motion picture reel, and campaign reports on the $40,000 drive. Names of contributors will be inscribed on a landmark honor plaque in the new Lefton Memorial Home on Ohio Street. Open territory, allowing all workers to solicit subscriptions, was established at noon Wednesday.
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Elyria Legion Memorial Home Campaign
Chamber of Commerce
First Congregational Church
E. J. Fellow
Chamber
Ralph D. Cole
Findlay
Perry Koplin
West Avenue
Lefton Memorial
Ohio Street
Re marking of city parking spaces begins at noon
Service Director John N. Edt ordered re marking of all city parking spaces to a slight angle for easier and safer parking as motorists enter from Broad street. The work includes painting parking spaces street center lines and stop lines at Washington avenue and Lodi street intersections on Broad street and will take about ten days. Weather delays slowed progress but the general spaces will be painted first.
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Service
John N. Edt
Washington Avenue
Lodi Street
Broad Street
Eidt
Toledoan Will Head Medical Association
Dr Cr Waggoner of Toledo was unanimously chosen president elect of the Ohio State Medical Association at the annual convention in Cleveland. He will assume office next year while Dr A H Freiberg of Cincinnati was installed as president for 1929. Next year’s meeting will be in Columbus with new state council members Dr R C Hauser Urbana Dr R J Schlosser Defiance and Dr F R Bush Zanesville.
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Cleveland, C
Cr. W. Waggoner
Toledo
Ohio State Medical Association
A. H. Freiberg
Cincinnati
C. W. Stone
Cleveland
Columbus
R. C. Hauser
Urbana
R. J. Schlosser
Defiance
F. R. Bush
Zanesville
Librarian Charlotte Brooks Tells Of Early Life And Service
Charlotte Brooks, longtime Elyria librarian and Oberlin graduate, spent her twenty first year teaching at a missionary school in southern India 300 miles from Madras. The Kodiakane School served children of missionaries near Ammanai kai oor. After five years abroad she returned to Elyria, taught two years, then joined the Elyria Library staff, serving as librarian for three and a half years at 361 Second Street.
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Charlotte Brooks
Elyria Library
Oberlin College
India
Kodiakane
Madras
Ammayaniakaioor
Miss Brooks
Elyria
Second Street
School Children to Contribute to Legion Home Drive
Elyria schools to offer all pupils a chance to donate to the American Legion Homeland project. Each contributor, regardless of amount, will have their name inscribed on a scroll to be housed in the Legion Home. Teachers and school officials will supervise the fund drive.
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Legion Home
Elyria
Board of Education
American Legion
Legion
Health Day Parade Set by Elyria County Schools
Final arrangements for Health Day in Elyria set a parade of 3 000 to 4 000 pupils from 47 county schools. Brownhelm School Class A and Pittsfield School Number Seven Class B will lead from the county fairgrounds at 11 a m along a downtown route. A morning program includes a championship girls base-ball game and a first six grades track meet, with an afternoon program from 1 30 featuring drills marches county song and Blue Ribbon trophy cups for contest winners.
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Elyria
Brownhelm
Pittsfield
County Fairgrounds
Third Street
East Avenue
Broad Street
Chestnut Street
Fireman Hurt After Fall in Rush Street Blaze
A fire on 223 Rush Street gutted a two story frame dwelling leaving it a total loss. Fireman J D Lysaght suffered back strains and head bruises from a fall but was not bedridden. Damage estimated at least two thousand dollars. The owner is Hiram Vosburgh. Fire crews from Central and Engine Co. No 3 assisted. The cause remained undetermined. The first alarm came at 1 50 am and the house was unoccupied with little furniture inside.
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Rush Street
J. D. Lysaght
W. N. Bates
Central Fire Station
West Street
Hiram Vosburgh
Arrest of Lorain Gangster Suspect On Weapons Charge
Police in Lorain report arrest of a man who identified himself as Juan Cabrera after a Wednesday night stop on Vinc y 28th Street. He faces carrying concealed weapons charges and is being investigated in Cleveland and Chicago for gang activity. A revolver was found in his possession.
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Lorain
Vincy 28Th Street
Juan Cabrera
Cleveland
Chicago
Eaton Couple Married Seventy-One Years Recall Civil War Escape
In Eaton Ohio a 25 year old prisoner in Richmond Virginia during 1865 recounted his escape from a rebel prison. Martin Hopwood fled the walls, crossed Virginia swamps toward Union lines hoping to see spring in Ohio. After sixteen days he neared his troops but was recaptured by Southern soldiers and returned to Richmond. Continued on Page Seven.
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Martin Hopwood
Hopwood
Northland
Virginia
Kellogg to Resume Law Practice in St Paul
Former Secretary of State Frank B Kellogg, back from Europe, plans to return to the law practice he left 15 years ago in St Paul. He declined to comment on Reparations Conference, noted broad peace sentiment at Geneva Arms Reduction talks, and praised Charles G. Dawes’s appointment as ambassador to Great Britain.
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New York
Frank B Kellogg
Europe
St. Paul
Kellogg
Geneva
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britain
London
Dawes
Solar Eclipse Grips Philippine Islands As Scientists Observe
More than a million in the Philippines watched the sky as a solar eclipse passed. The event began at 2 07 p.m. and lasted about an hour, with the sun obscured for 13 minutes in parts. Observers from five major observatories gathered on Panay and Cebu to study spectral shifts and light bending, seeking data related to Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Panay
Cebu
Anderson cites need for Democratic minority in Ohio Senate
Ohio State Senator C. J. Anderson of Shelby, Republican, told the Elyria Kiwanis club that the state faces a detriment from the Republican majorities in both houses. He urged a stronger Democratic minority to foster genuine opposition and prevent hurried, flawed bills. He praised young senators who carried much of the work and criticized a rushed last week of the session. Anderson disagreed with Senator Bender on representation as the legislature’s core fault.
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Ohio
C. J. Anderson
Shelby
Elyria Kiwanis Club Today
Anderson
Senate
Lorain County
State Senate
Firemen Extinguish Roof Blaze At Joe Tunnington Estate
Sparks from a chimney burned a small hole in the shingled roof of a one story cottage on the Joe Tunnington estate at 215 West Street at 1 40 pm today. Hose Company No 1 and Engine Company No 3 extinguished the blaze with chemicals. City street crews repair a large hole in Clark Street while Gulf Hill is prepared for heavier summer traffic.
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Joe Tunnington
West Street
Hose Company No. 1
Enxine Company No. 3
Clark Street
Gulf Hill
Wickersham named to Hoover inquiry commission
Washington reports confirm George W. Wickersham of New York will join President Hoover's law enforcement inquiry panel. Justice Harlan Fiske Stone has not accepted and former President Coolidge is not a member, according to administration sources. Kate Perugini Dickens dies at 89 in London, survivor of Charles Dickens era and a friend to Thackeray and George Eliot. Harold Pulver, 23, dies after electrocution in Valparaiso while handling a steel bar near a charged ditch digger amid high voltage wires.
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Wickersham
Hoover
Washington
Geo. W. Wickersham
New York
Commission
Harlan Fiske Stone
Coolidge
Charles Dickens
London
Kate Perugini
Valparaiso
Ind
Harold Pulver
Pulver
Three Elizabeth pair held in murder tied to Hernshaw store owner
In Charleston W V May 9 authorities guard the country jail where Williard Morrison and Mr and Mrs Walter E Wilmott of Elizabeth N J two men and a woman are held in connection with the murder of Hernshaw filling station owner Frank Bowen. Wilmott confessed to police that Bowen was waylaid and killed after a restaurant visit and a switch of license plates. The mob from Lens Creek had been feared to gather as police prepared for emergencies. Mrs Wilmott said she married Wilmott last month in Elizabeth.
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Charleston
W. Va
Lens Creek
Elizabeth
N. J
Frank Bowen
Hernshaw
Williard Morrison
Walter E. Wilmott
Bowen
Wilmott
Hernishaw
City Hall
William Runne
Fasrest Avenue
Rosella Park
Elyria High to Present Freshman Athletic Awards Friday
Elyria High School will honor freshmen with athletic awards at a Friday morning assembly for eighth and ninth graders in the high school auditorium. Principal C. P. Shively announced the event and a musical program featuring high school students will also be presented at the assembly.
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Elyria High School
C. P. Shively
I High
Delivery to Wrong Address Leads to Prohibition Case
Victor Hanson delivered a case to an address as directed by a caller, but the recipient turned out to be Willard E. Barcus, federal prohibition agent in charge of Cincinnati. Hanson faces arraignment on charges of violating the prohibition law.
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Cincinnati
Victor Hanseon
Hanson
Willard EB. Barcus
Prohibition
Davey Attacks Lump Sum Appropriation Law
Martin L. Davey, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, blasted Ohio’s lump sum appropriations at a Lorain County Jefferson Club meeting. He urged court action, arguing the law violates the state constitution by funding state government with a single arbitrary control and constitutes the largest appropriation in state history.
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Martin L. Davey
Cooper
Lorain County
Jefferson Club
St. Paul’s Church
Davey
Ohio
Debenture Feature Moves In Farm Bill Fight
A coalition of midwestern Republican farm congressmen and Democrats in both houses backed the debenture or tariff bounty in the farm bill by a 47 to 44 vote. Democrats rally around the plan as they push to alter Hoover tariff and agriculture policy, while concerns grow over tariff rates and control of the tariff commission.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Senate
House Democrats
John Garner
Texas
House
Robinson
Tariff Commission
Boreh
Idaho
Cms
United Press
Togeth
Avon man fined after liquor charge in Avon Village
Casper Kuzen, proprietor of a pool room at Avon Village, was fined $400 and costs by Justice J. George after pleading guilty to possession of liquor. His premises were raided by Sheriff Clarence Adams and deputies at 9 p m yesterday, with several bottles and jugs of alleged liquor seized.
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Casper Kuzen
Avon Village
J. George
Kuzen
Clarence ©. Adams
Justice George
Adams
Three Killed In Auto Crash At Hamilton
Three people died and three were injured when an auto crashed into a telephone pole near Hamilton Ohio shortly after midnight. Victims were Nolan Schresze Julius Rocar and an unidentified woman all of Hamilton. Injured were Paul Schnei der 21 driver Mary Alexander and Romilda Rust, also of Hamilton. The car was returning from a dance and Schneider was believed to have been driving at high speed.
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Hamilton, O
Deerfield Pike
Grand Boulevard
Nolan Schresze
Julius Rocar
Hamilton
Paul Schneider
Mary Alexander
Romilda Rust
Schneider
Hinkson weighs possible comeback as mayor bid
Former mayor Harry Hinkson may run again after a Jefferson Club dinner where Martin I. Davey teased a candidacy to about 300 Democrats. Hinkson neither confirmed nor denied the hint, while The Chronicle-Telegram reports he is considering but undecided.
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Hinkson
Harry Hinkson
Martin I. Davey
Jefferson Club
Davey
Chronicle-Telegram
Ohio Democrat Davey Warns Against Lump Sum Appropriation Power
Davey attacked lump sum appropriation as granting unchecked executive control over funds and urged safeguarding measures. He warned such power could partisanly skew investigations, prosecutions, and funding from auditors and attorneys general. He also criticized Governor Cooper’s gasoline tax hike as a broken promise and urged party unity and focus on essential issues.
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Davey
United States
Russia
Italy
Spain
Cooper
Ohie
Ohio
United Democratic Party
Senator Fess Attacks Borah in May Letter
Washington May 9 Senator Simeon Fess republican whip in the senate wrote a letter to a friend in Ohio asserting Idaho's Senator Borah is a pseudo Republican for his vote on the debt plan. Fess claims Hoover was persuaded by Borah to call a special session then Borah deserted the president while headlining the Republican campaign last fall.
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Washington
Simeon Fess
Senate
Ohio
Borah
Idaho
Fess
Hoover
Barah
Congress
Wimbledon to Royal Court Show For Twelve Americans Tonight
Misa Helen Wills leads twelve American women presented to Queen Mary in London tonight as part of royal ceremony. The group includes Virginia Willys Elizabeth Behn Alice Ooo Lillian Em Bert Halstead Jocelyn Pierson Harriet Walke and others. Mrs Raymond Cox and Mrs Chas Wesson were among those to attend the official etiquette briefing at the American embassy.
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London
Misa Helen
Wills
Mise Wille
Virginia Willys
Toledo
Elizabeth Behn
New York City
Alice Ooo
Chicago
Lillian Em
Black Mountain
Bert Halstead
Cincinna
Jocelyn Pierson
Baltio
Harriet
Calif
United States
Diplomatic Corps
Raymond Cox
Chas
Jes Wesson
William
Gale
Braight
Frederick Lea
Wimbledon
California
Holland
Miss Wills
Ray Atherton
Queen Mary
Friedrich Sthamer
State Briefs From Ohio Deaths and Escapes in May
Reports from Columbus Chillicothe Cincinnati and Wilmington detail Bessie Brown 25 dying from gasoline burns while cleaning garments Genevieve Honaker 26 bride dies from poison intheir home police say her husband acted not on his own motive Keith Wilt recaptured after an escape from the federal reformatory in Chillicothe plus two others captured and two still at large A Bournevilis board of education offers a job to Muriel Loumenhosser who resigned after a blackmail plot Moscoe Marshall and Wilmington Barker found guilty of penitentiary offenses
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Chillicothe
Keith Wilt
Shirley
Ind
Federal Reformatory
Wilt
Cincinnati
Genevieve Honaker
Wilmington
Board of Education
Bournevilis
Muriel Loumenhosser
Ahe
Moscoe Marshall
Wimington Barker
Diackmall
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Avon Mian
Man
Bessie Brown
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