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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1937
Page
5
Public notice invites bids for one Power Grader for Elyria Street Department. Bids due June 3 1937 at 12:00 noon EST. max $3600. Requires bidder full disclosure and a $200 certified check. contract contingent on ordinance 3147. Director of Public Service reserves right to reject bids.
In Cleveland on May 13 a federal jury convicted Maxie Diamond Louis Rothkopf Albert Phillips Morris Phillips Morris Kieln Harvey Kater and Philip Goldberg of participating in an alcohol conspiracy that defrauded the government of 150000 in taxes. Others were convicted on the conspiracy count only including Grace Hazelwood Abraham Balshan Sam Bismerk Harry Orloff Hyman Waller Sam Gildar and Albert Licker. New trial motions will be heard Saturday.
Lorain County Ohio sheriff sale notice lists parcels 3 6 7 in Elyria including 423 Elm Street and 616 Lodge Street and riverfront lots. Appraised values range from 2000s to 310000 with cash sale terms and two thirds minimum bid. Attorney Tingersoll Ewing advocate for cross petitioner The Andrews Mortgage Co. sale set for cash day of sale.
Helen Tiernan, 25, confessed to killing her 7 year old daughter Helen with a hatchet and setting fire to her clothes in Patchogue. She sought a guilty plea in a first degree murder case but was advised by a judge to plead differently. A guard guarded Tiernan’s cell as legal proceedings began and her lover George Christopulos was held as a material witness. Jimmy, 4, survived the attack and expressed a wish to see a fire truck.
ALCOA in Tennessee saw three thousand workers walk out in protest of pay disparities between northern and southern plants. The strike, led by Fred Wetmore of the Aluminum Workers of America, affected most plants but spared the reduction facility. Picket lines formed as workers halted operations to safeguard furnaces and prevent damage.
In Jersey City on May 19 18 year old Gladys Mac Knight showed no emotion after admitting she killed her mother with a hatchet as her co defendant Donald Wightman sat shaken. Prosecutors seek the death penalty citing the confessions read to police and the alleged plan to defend themselves by claiming self defense.
Health workers from across Ohio gather in Columbus for the Ohio Public Health Association convention. C A Gibbens, Lorain County school superintendent, will speak at Friday morning session on community tuberculosis education. Lewis S Moorehead will preside as nearly every county in the state is expected to be represented.
Campbell Ohio May 19 vandals today bombed the home of State Representative William Glass a justice of the peace in retaliation for his anti gambling campaign against slot machines no one was injured though the residence was damaged Glass said he had received threats warning him against his anti gambling drive.
Puzzle presents a cobbled list of cryptic style clues with mixed letter fragments and misprints. Entries hint at bases, persons, and abbreviations, plus scattered words like rent scrutinization and royal society. The text appears as OCR garble from a newspaper puzzle section with many illegible segments.
Rodney Trent studies ancient artifacts in Gunnison while a nightclub dancer plots to win his favor and secure a disputed million dollar legacy. Sam uses artifacts as her weapon to outmaneuver rival Judy and entrap Rodney before his twenty fifth birthday.
John Owens Ohio director of the Committee for Industrial Organization secured permission from Lancaster city officials and a citizen committee to speak in the city. He protested the earlier barring of CIO organizers George DeNucci and Avery Dennis, who were turned back to Columbus by police en route to a Hocking Girls Co. workers meeting. After a two hour meeting with Mayor Charles E. Moyer and Police Chief Gail Lesler, Owens said Lancaster will welcome him at any time and that constitutional rights to assemble and speak were respected.
Cleveland May 19 John S Maltzberger an accountant aged 38 plunged 250 feet from the Cleveland nine level bridge to his death. His body was found wedged between a tug and a fisher dock in the Cuyahoga river. Police said he quarreled with his wife Frieda before the tragedy.
A man’s suicide note entrusts $25 to a woman and instructs her to return to their daughter in Tennessee, donate his clothes to the Salvation Army, and cremate his body. The note says I can’t carry on for the wrong I have here and mentions there is no war of paring back.
About fifty Ohio Public Service Company workers joined a camping trip to Camp Iss Les Kes on the Vermilion River this afternoon. Arch H. Stevenson led the event with baseball, bag ball, hikes, and a camp supper planned.
In Columbus Ohio on May 19 Governor Davey signed five bills and vetoed two. A new kidnapping law imposes the death penalty for aggravated abductions and sets at least twenty years for en Pris onment if the victim is rescued unharmed. He plans to seek $1 million for clinic funding in a special session and signed bills on police liability, ballot filing fees, and a Pennsylvani a Ohio lake agreement while vetoing measures restricting funeral home operation and shielding employers in divorce cases.
Ohio's Public Assistance Division distributed the federal share for the current Social Security dependent children program quarter. Lorain County received $7,166 with many other counties listed including Montgomery $18,823 and Wood $4,127. In Marietta Georgia Kitty the cat birthed triplets in a squirrel nest and was rescued after a four day effort.
A cluttered garbled OCR listing shows players from multiple clubs with batting averages and games at bats. Names like Medwick of the Cardinals, Cronin of the Red Sox, and Lary of Indiana appear amid broken text and stray characters, reflecting a historical stats roundup with incomplete entries.
Elyria Police Department shooters led by Patrolman Welve Olmatead posted 1 067 to Parma's 935 points in a 75 foot revolver match on the focal range last evening. The five top scorers determined the team total in both slow and rapid fire trials.
Baseball commissioner E M Landis announced a meeting in Washington on May 26 with Will Harridge Ford Frick and Clark Griffith to discuss plans for the 1937 all star game. The game is set for Washington on July 7.
Orlando: Jack Brooks aged 17 died here yesterday from Hodgkins disease, described as the body turning to stone for three years. The illness followed an injury suffered during a sandlot football game. The report notes the rare cancer and links it to the earlier accident.
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