Betty Heywood 100000 Suit Dismissed
Betty Heywood’s $50,000 suit against Lorain Dry Squad members and bondsmen was dismissed in common pleas court by Judge A R Webber at noon. Attorney Guy Farquharson said a federal case will be filed in Cleveland tomorrow since she is not a U.S. citizen. The action cited injuries from a September 26 shooting when the auto did not stop at a command post east of East List street bridge. Defendants listed include Central West Casualty Co and The Fidelity and Casualty Co alongside former sheriff E G Mathews and squad heads. Firestone and his bondsmen not named in the federal suit. Costs were paid by plaintiff. A prior similar suit in Cuyahoga County was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Heywood
Lorain Dry Squad
Common Pleas
A. R. Webber
Guy ©. Farquharson
Cleveland
Miss Heywood
Farquharson
Webber
Lorain County
Louis Cleen
Frank J. Klady
W. F. Knitter
William A. Firestone
Firestone
Common Fee
Plaintua
Common Please Court
Cuyahoga County
Cole Declares He Has Not Resigned
John O Cole the Elyria district prohibition inspector says he has not resigned or been fired and will stay on the job until formally dismissed Sheriff Adams says Cole denies leaving Beetham earlier announced their resignations while Beetham says Cole has resigned The matter arose after Cole and Little used two Lancaster girls as No 3 and were temporarily dismissed by Beetham’s son about May 1, with continued doubt about their status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O. Cole
Elyria
Beetham
Cole
Little
Clarence E. Adams
City Council OKs street improvement ordinances
City Council approved several street projects on Monday night. ordinances authorize special assessments for Nichols court paving from Lodi street to its southerly end. resurfacing measures cover Grace Court from East avenue to Cedar street, Cedar street from Grace Court to Broad street, Second Street from Chestnut to West avenue, and Third Street from Middle avenue to East avenue.
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Nichols Court
Lodi Street
Grace Court
East Avenue
Cedar Street
Broad Street
Second Street
Chestnut Street
West Avenue
Third Street
Middle Avenue
Vestal’s life in shoe business spans decades
Robert Vestal began in shoes at 21 in Terre Haute Indiana. He moved to Elyria in 1915 to manage a store for William C. Smith and Son and, two years later, opened his own shoe store which he still runs. He is married with two children and lives at 416 West Ninth Street.
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Robert Vestal
Terre Haute
Indiana
Elyria
William C. Smith
Elyria Board Approves Summer School Teachers
Elyria board of education authorized employment of summer school teachers as needed. Plans not finalized. date unspecified. Miss Mabel Vogan named writing supervisor to replace Irma Highland, with 13 years of teaching experience. Ruth Dewhurst reinstated after leave. Board approved $5,000 for repairs and $2,000 for painting. interior Washington school and Ely auditorium redecorating in progress.
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Elyria Board of Educaion
R. C. Maston
Mabel Vogan
Columbus
Irma Highland
Ruth Dewhurst
Roosevelt School
Vogan
Office Training School
Sioux City
Fairmont
West Virginia
Aliance
Ohio
Washington School
Ely School
Divorce suits Tunney for 500000 breach of promise
Stamford Conn May 21 The old Colonial home once to be Gene Tunney and Mary Josephine Lander was attached by a deputy sheriff in a 500000 breach of promise suit filed by Mrs Katherine King Fogarty of New York and Fort Worth Texas a divorcee The writ named Tunney allegedly proposed in 1925 but later married another person The case is returnable to the June term of Fairfield County Superior Court in Bridgeport and papers were filed with Stamford banks Tunney and his bride are in Italy where Mrs Tunney is recovering from an operation.
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Stamford
Conn
Gene Tunney
Mary Josephine Lauder
Greenwich
Katherine King Fogarty
New York
Fort Worth
Texas
Tunney
Fogarty
Record Flight Push Near 48 Hour Mark Over Fort Worth
Roy Robbins and Jim Kelly aim to extend the Fort Worth refueling flight to beat the 151 hour mark set by the Question Mark. The engine of the monoplane Fort Worth purrs along as the pair restocks fuel and stays aloft to Saturday evening. Meanwhile Perry Clapp, 13, Elyria, suffers non serious burns from a sleeve incident and is treated at Memorial hospital.
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Worth
Tex
Fort Worth
Roy Robbins
Jim Kelly
Perry Clapp
A. D
Elyria
Memorial Hospital
Louis Wilcox Found Guilty In Bootlegging Bribe Case
Louis Wilcox, former state dry agent, was found guilty by a federal jury of taking a bribe to protect a bootlegger, specifically taking 25 dollars monthly from Joseph Stayanchi. Sentencing set for Saturday before Judge Samuel H. West, with potential penalties of up to three years in jail and a thousand dollar fine. Federal agents Palmer and Custin supervised the marked money sting leading to Wilcox's arrest.
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Cleveland
Louis Wilcox
Wilcox
Samuel H. West
Joseph Stayanchi
Stayanchi
Bernard Palmer
Milton Custin
U. S
Mock warfront action as 800000 troops vie for Columbus
Red Army headquarters reports a simulated ground battle along a twenty mile front at Columbus. Eight hundred thousand troops maneuver for control of the capital in a controlled exercise marking the ground phase of a combined air and ground war game. About 320000 Blues contest the advance along Big Darby Creek with machine guns and hand grenades.
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RED Army
Columbus
Big Darby Creek
Plaintiff Wins 5000 Verdict in Lorain Auto Death Suit
A jury in Judge A R Webber's common pleas court awarded Mary Kaya five thousand dollars in the thirty thousand dollar suit arising from the August 1927 death of Joseph Kaya after a collision involving Steve Bogi of 3054 Vine Street Lorain. Nine of twelve jurors agreed after about an hour of deliberation.
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Common Pleas
A. R. Webber
Mary Kaya
Steve Bogi
Vinestreet
Lorain
Joseph Kaya
Bogi
Ohio Bankers Convene in Columbus for 39th Convention
Ohio Bankers Association prepares for its 39th annual convention in Columbus with over 1000 delegates expected. Opening session features Craig B. Hazelwood, president of the American Bankers Association, while Governor Cooper and Louis T. McFadden are slated to speak at the closing session on banking issues.
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Columbus
Ohio Bankers” Association
Craig B. Hazelwood
American Bankers’ Association
Chicago
Cooper
Louis T. McFadden
Banking and Currency Committee
Washington, D. C
Presidents Plan National Law Commission
Hoover proposes a national commission to study crime law enforcement and reform. The panel includes Wickersham Baker Loesch Pond Grubb Lemann Kenyon MacIntosh McCormick Anderson Comstock and others. The group will examine prohibition enforcement and determine if changes to the Volstead Act or Jones Law are needed.
Favor Increase In Salary of Mayor Elyria
The mayor of Elyria will earn four thousand dollars per year starting January 1 1930. City council unanimously approved the finance committee's recommendation to raise the mayor's salary from three thousand dollars. Final legislation to formalize the increase expected in the coming months. The council also authorized raising the city solicitor's salary to three thousand dollars.
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Elyria
Granges Oppose D Hour Parking
Frank Mason deputy master of the Pomona Grange in Lorain county voiced the Granges opposition to changing the city parking limit from two hours to one hour. He noted the May 4 meeting vote against the one hour limit and said Broad Street would stay at two hours with Bly Park spaces at one hour. Mason cited about two thousand Grange members and indicated the changes, drafted in authorized form, are expected to be read at the next council meeting.
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Frank Mason
Ridgeville
Mason
Pomona Grange
Lorain County
Pontona
Penfield
Elyria
Broad Street
Bly Park
Grangers
Grange
Army Airman Killed in Ohio Crash Near Yellow Springs
Lieut Florin W Shade of Selfridge Field Michigan was killed when his plane crashed near Yellow Springs Ohio while returning to Columbus after a Dayton mission against the Blue army. A faulty engine was blamed. eight other airmen had flown to Dayton and returned, with Shade missing until news of the death arrived.
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Columbus
Florin W. Shade
First Pursuit
Selfridge Field
Mich
Yellow Springs
Shade
Dayton
Blue Army
Norton Field
Blackmail Threat Targets Miss Morrow in Boston Area
Constance Morrow, 15, daughter of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, received a life threat demanding 850000 placed at a Balch estate. Police and Burns Agency operatives attempted pickup last Saturday night as detectives surveilled the scene. Ambassador Morrow declined comment and plans to return to the United States.
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Westwood
Mass
Constance Morrow
Dwight W. Morrow
Peter Driscoll
Greater
Boston
Miss Morrow
Joseph Balch
Burns Agency
Balch
Mexico City
United States
Dwight Morrow
Constance
Cleveland Clinic disaster blamed on X ray film decomposition
A state report by T. C. Devine and H. G. Ehret cites decomposition of 6600 to eject pounds of X ray films as the source of a deadly gas that filled a four foot tunnel around the hospital and caused a catastrophic explosion. The gas, a mix of carbon monoxide and nitrogen compound, killed instantly those who inhaled it. The study urges fire proof film storage compartments in hospitals and clinics handling large quantities of films.
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Columbus
Cleveland Clinic Hospital
T. C. Devine
State Workshops and Factories
H. G. Ehret
Will T. Blake
Fear Engineer and Son Drowned in Chesapeake Bay
Carey V. Hodgson, a Washington engineer, and his 10-year-old son William were believed drowned after their canoe swamped in a heavy storm off Bay Ridge, Chesapeake Bay. A third day of sea and air patrols from the Naval Academy continued with little chance of success.
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Annapolis
Carey V. Hodgson
Washington
William
Bay Ridge
Chesapeake Bay
Naval Academy
Bachelors Respond To Lonesome Maidens Ad In Belgium
In Ecaussines Belgium on May 21 bachelors arrived by train in response to a Europe wide advertisement by Beaussines maidens who outnumbered men eight to five. The event drew large crowds as maidens welcomed suitors with greetings and kisses. After a day of tours, a grand feast and dancing followed with many couples planning to wed and return home with brides.
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Ecaussines
Belgium
Europe
Beaussines
Eeaussines Matrimonial Asso
Eeaussines
First Baptist Church Drives $25 075 Toward new Building Fund
Enthusiasm ran high at the First Baptist church as pledges during the first public effort to fund the new building totaled 25075 dollars. The pastor and leaders expect to reach the 150000 dollar goal by next Sunday night. Dr. F H Divine of New York leads the campaign delivering nightly messages. Tonight's address is Trusteeship.
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First Baptist Church
F. H. Divine
New York
Will Rogers to Speak at Elyria Meeting This Year
Lorain County Jefferson Club plans a Will Rogers address in Elyria. A specific date is not set yet, but organizers led by W H Van Oster confirm negotiations are underway. The club aims to energize Democrats and provide political insight during a progressive speaker series.
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Will Rogers
Lorain County
Jefferson Club
Wil
Elyria
Rogers
W. H. van Oster
Lariat
Will
Locomotive Hits Bus In Cincinnati Injury Toll Rises
Six persons were injured when a Baltimore and Ohio locomotive backing up struck a street railway bus at a crossing in Cincinnati. The bus had its side ripped out and passengers jolted. Driver Robert L. Hughes escaped injury after bringing the bus under control as a crossing watchman signaled. Injured include August Wagner, 50, city employee, and Patrick Whalen, 53, police patrol driver.
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Sulletin
Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio
Street Railway Company
Robert L. Hughes
August Wagner
Patrick Whalen
Change Name Of Local Plant In Elyria Division
The Willys Overland Company announced the plant in this city would be renamed from Falcon Motors Corporation to Willys Overland Co Elyria Division. Plant manager E A Barnes said operations are increasing and there will be a sharp rise in truck and building activity immediately.
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Willys-Overland Company
Falcon Motors Corporation
Willys-Overland Co
Elyria
E. A. Barnes
Thousand Feet Levee at Mounds Landing Threatens Flood
Memphis report from May 21 says 1000 feet of levee at Mounds Landing Mississippi is eroding and if relief is not swift the Mississippi River will crest and flood a large area. Chief Engineer J S Allen calls the situation the most critical in two years. over 250 men worked on the levee as engineers seek permission from President Hoover to employ convict labor amid rising flood waters.
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Sulletin
Memphis
Tenn
Mounds Landing
Miesiasippi
Hoover
Cleveland Clinic disaster death toll climbs to 125
Cleveland May 21 The Cleveland Clinic disaster death toll rises to 125 as Dr Belcher and other staff members are cited for bravery in rescue efforts. Belcher, initially spared, fell ill after returning home and died at Mt Sinai Hospital. Survived by wife Susan and three children Mary Dorothy Buddy and William. Dr George W Crile to testify to the coroner on observations of the tragedy.
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Cleveland, C
Cleveland
Belcher
Susan
Mary Dorothy
Buddy
William
George W. Crile
Cleveland Clinic
A.J. Pease
Young Men’s Club Elects New Officers at Annual Meeting
Officers for the coming year at the Young Men's Club were elected Monday night at the annual meeting of the club at the Y. M. C. A. Named are M. F. Fey as president Harold Birch as vice president Leonard Kuss as sergeant at arms and W. C. McClellan as secretary and treasurer They will take office at the next meeting. Final plans were made for the club golf tournament to be held Wednesday and Saturday at Spring Valley Country Club It will be a handicap singles event An entertainment feature was a magic program by William Burgette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. F. Fey
Harold Birch
Leonard Kuss
W. C. McClellan
Spring Valley Country Club
William Burgette
Cooper Approves Rowland and Ashbrook Appointments
Governor Cooper approves C. H. B. Rowland of Elyria as assistant director of agriculture and E. Ashbrook of Ashley, Delaware county as assistant state fair director. Rowland, WWI veteran, formerly led the Ohio County Extension Agents Association since 1926. Ashbrook, a newspaper man, came from journalism work in Dayton and New York.
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Columbus
C. HB. Rowland
Elyria
E. Ashbrook
Ashley
Delaware County
Cooper
Perry L. Green
Rowland
Ohio County Extension Agents’ Association
Columbiana County Farm Bureau
Ashbrook
Agricultural Department
Dayton Journal
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Sheet
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Harvard Law School
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William I. Grubb
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Monte M. Lemann
New Orleans
Louisiana Bar Association
Council of the American Law Institution
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Iowa
United States District Court of Appeals
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Beatle
President Hoover
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Richmond
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Radcliffe College
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