Memorial Day Parade Plans Announced by City Committees
The General Memorial Day Committee led by Mason D. Smith outlined parade details after a City Hall meeting. Forming on West Avenue facing Broad Street, the lineup includes the G A R E J Stankard and Elyria Police, Elyria City Band, 145th Infantry, D A R units, Boys Band, Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary, VFW and its Auxiliary, American Legion Bugle Corps, O O F Canton 93 and other groups in autos or marching, with Scouts and Sons of Union Veterans invited to join.
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General Memorial Day Committee
Mason D. Smith
Sons of Union Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
City Hall
West Avenue
Broad Street
Chas
Abba
Elyria
Hedy, Co
D. A
American Legion Autihary
Memorial Service Planned at Washington Avenue Bridge
Memorial services for sailors and soldiers lost at sea are set for Sunday at 2:30 PM at the Washington Avenue Bridge. Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary announce the event with all patriotic orders invited. Rev. W C Fowler and Rev. Harold B Sayles will speak. songs by Mrs. Carl Martin and possibly Mrs. Alice B Selring. George Richwine will represent Mayor Jiewitt.
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U.S
Washington Avenue Bridge
Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary
W. C. Fowler
Harold B. Sayles
Carl Martin
Alice B. Selring
George Richwine
Elyria
James A. Jiewitt
Chiang Accepts Fengs Challenge From the Chinese War Leader
General Chiang Kai-Shek, head of China's National Government, accepted today the war challenge issued by General Feng Yu-Hsiang the Christian General. The Nanking government dismissed Feng from the Kuomintang high council and deprived him of all offices, empowering the state council to subjugate him forthwith.
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Shana
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Feng Yu- Hsiang
Nanking
Feng
Kuomintang
High Council
State Council
Life of Elyria Leader Robert B Lersch at Twenty One
The narrative outlines Robert B Lersch rising from law clerk duties to leading roles in Elyria. He studied under E G Johnson, spent a Wyoming ranch summer, joined John Lersch Company store and became its president nine years ago. He served seven years on city council and three state legislative terms, chaired lake water committee, and led finance decisions. He holds roles at Elyria Memorial Hospital and Elyria Library, directs Lorain County Savings, and presides over L M S Company owner of Hotel Newell. Married with two children, he lives at 334 Washington Avenue and pursues carpentry, hunting, fishing, and politics as hobbies. his youthful dream was to become a sailor.
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Robert B. Lersch
Olt Ks
E.G. Johnson
Wyoming
Elyria
John Lersch
Lake Water Committee
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Elyria Library
Lorain County Savings and Trust Company
L. M.S. Company
Newell
Lersch
Washington Avenue
Church Plans Drive For Funds Campaign To raise church debt
The Second Congregational church launches a fund drive to meet the remaining indebtedness. Plans have been under consideration and will be finalized for presentation to canvassers at a dinner at 6 30 p m Friday at the church.
One Year Old Girl Struck By Auto On Cascade
Five year old Geraldine Shedron of 106 Cascade street suffered a fractured right arm and facial and body bruises when an auto driven by D Jenkins of 821 Lake avenue struck her at Cascade and Forest. She was crossing with other children who halted, she did not, and Jenkins claimed she ran into the car. She was taken to the clinic and the driver was not held.
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Geraldine Shedron
Cascade Street
Cascade
Forest Streets
D. B. Jenkins
Lake Avenue
Geraldine
Jenkins
State Probes Film Storage Across Ohio Hospitals
In Columbus on May 23, thirty eight inspectors from the state division of workshops and factories began surveying X-ray film storage in hospitals and other sites. Will T Blake, state agitator of industrial relations, ordered the force to act to prevent a repeat of the Cleveland Clinic tragedy. Inspectors will cover the state and report to local officials where hazards are found. If hazards are found, immediate removal orders or suggestions will follow. Blake will issue a statewide final report based on these findings.
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Columbus
State Division
Will T. Blake
Blake
Cleveland
Upper Sandusky Banker Elected Head of Ohio Bankers
Al len B. Whitney president of Citizens Savings Bank of Upper Sandusky was chosen president of the Ohio Bankers Association at the annual convention in Columbus. He began his banking career in Mt. Gilead and serves on the Ohio Wesleyan University board and Worthington children’s home trustee. Other officers named were Edward A. Selter and Oscar D. Miller.
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Columbus
Allen B. Whitney
Citizens Savings Bank of
Upper Sandusky
Ohio Bankers’ Association
Whitney
Mt. Gilead
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
Worthingon Children’s Home
Edward A. Selter
Fifth-Third Union Trust Company
Cincinnati
Oscar D. Miller
Ohio Merchants’ Trust Company
Masalllon
Realtors Elect Board at Elyria-Lorain Real Estate Meet
The Elyria Lorain County Real Estate Board schedules its annual meeting next Monday at the Elyria Chamber of Commerce office. The program highlights electing trustees for the ensuing year and reports from the president and treasurer plus local matters. Speakers will discuss subjects of interest to brokers and salesmen, reflecting on the board’s first year.
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Elyria-Lorain County Real Estate Board
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Rockefeller gift funds Oberlin theology buildings
A $300000 grant from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology was announced at graduation exercises. The funds are to be used for three new buildings replacing Council Hall, including an administration classroom chapel building and two dormitories. The plan, approved by the Oberlin Board of Trustees, follows decades of need for updated facilities.
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Oberlin, O
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Oberlin Graduate School of Theology
Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Oberlin College
Council
Theological School
Graduate School of Theology
Lane Theological Seminary
Cincinnati
Charles G. Finney
Broadway Congregational Tabernacle
New York
Thomas W. Graham
Minneapolis
Edward I. Bosworth
Bosworth
Wilkins
Rockefeller
Oberlin School of Theology
Cass Gilbert
Oberlin
Finney Chapel
Allen Art
Allen Hospital
Gilbert
Wilking
Graduate School
Oberlin Inn
Distinction Day At E H S Monday
Elyria High School will hold Senior Distinction Day Monday with a two caste analogy inspired by India's system. Seniors, in distinctive garb, will be honored by the plebeian lower class students. Principal C. P. Shively said the day honors soon-to-graduate seniors and a junior-senior sack race contest may follow, date to be set.
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India
Elyria High School
C. P. Shively
Shively
Elyria Chamber of Commerce works on annual program
Elyria chamber directors, led by secretary E J Fellow, are crafting a 10 to 15 item program for the coming year aimed at community benefit. planned projects include continuing the good roads program fire prevention city publicity and closer cooperation with manufacturers to attract new industries. suggestions from members via a recent questionnaire are being weighed while the Credit Rating Bureau and Merchants Bureau continue their usual activities.
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Elyria
Credit Rating Bureau
Merchants Bureau
Four new traffic lights installed in city intersections
Four traffic lights were completed and operating today. Three light at Lodi street intersections with Furnace street West avenue and West River streets. The fourth at East avenue and Fourth streets. A special five points traffic light will be ordered for Lodi street and Lake avenue soon.
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Lodi Street
Furnace Street
West Avenue
West River Streets
East Avenue
Fourth Streets
Lake Avenue
Wheelchair bound plaintiff in court for $200,000 suit
Miss Helen Buschmann, 20, once a Lake Erie college student, sat in a wheelchair in Painesville court as her $200,000 damage suit against Great Lakes Stages Co. proceeded. Struck Jan 15, 1928, she spent six months unconscious and now regains some function with help as her mother sat beside her. Dr. W N Marsh testified to limited speech and partial recovery.
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Painesville
Misa Helen Buschman
Lake Erie College
Great Lakes Stages Co., Inc
Cleveland
Emma Buschmann
Helen
W. N. Marsh
Hunt to nab Hangman Creek crime suspect
Spokane police and a crowd searched the Hangman Creek district for William J. Johnson, 29, electrician, accused of shooting Hazel Hitler, 28, and binding her with copper wire before chloroforming her and abandoning them in a burning car.
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Spokane
Wash
Hangman Creek
William J. Johnson
Hazel Hitler
Luke's Hospital Blaze Shocks Cleveland Night Nurses Flee
May 23. Fire on the roof of the new east wing at St Luke's hospital caused two hundred nurses to flee into the street. Five fire companies responded. Battalion Chief O Neil ordered one company kept on site as crews worked quietly. Fire believed to start from hot ashes on the tin roof from timers. A patient alerted staff.
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Cleveland
St. Luke's Hospital
Cleveland Clinic
O'Neil
Rotary Club Luncheon Aids Crippled Children Birthday
The Gates hospital Crippled children assisted the Rotary club in commemorating Edgar F. Allen s birthday and the Ohio Society for Crippled Children ten year founding. About forty youngsters joined a program of songs recitations and a pageant with Donald Seymour as flag bearer Earl Smith as wood chopper and others including Elmer Fitz Paul Hasinger Paul Sabo Kenneth Hanson Clifford Fenton Edwin Schneider Martha Richey Bertha Burley Margaret Jasper George Stetler and Alice Healey. John R Mannix superintendent presided and noted Gates hospital has discharged fourteen hundred children since its founding. The event ended with golf, a banquet and dancing at Elyria Country Club.
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Gates Hospital
Rotary Club
Edgar F
Daddy” Allen
Ohio Society For Crippled Children
Memoria Hospital
Donald Seymour
Earl Smith
Elmer Fitz
Paul Hassinger
Paul Sabo
Kenneth Han
Clifford Fenton
Edwin, Schneider
Martha Richey
Bertha Burley
Margaret Jasper
George Stetler
Alice Healey
Miss Foley
Miss Duffey
Mrs. Fisher
Lawrence Webber
John R. Mannix
Mannix
Elyria Country Club
Changes in pending tariff bill approved in caucus
Washington May 23 House Republicans in caucus agreed the tariff bill should be amended. Reported changes include butter duty raised from 12 to 14 cents a pound and skimmed milk from 11 2 to 21 2 cents. Ways and Means recommended ad valorem rates of 10 percent on hides 20 percent on boots and shoes 35 percent on cloth leather shoes and 12 1 2 to 30 percent on leathers. caucus to consider these recommendations.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Witchcraft murderers get life terms in York
In York County three men convicted in the Rehmeyer murder were sentenced. John Blymer and John Curry received life imprisonment after denial of new trials. Wilbert Hess got ten to twenty years for second degree murder in the case linked to an alleged ITex spell.
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York
York County
John Blymer
John Curry
Wilbert Hess
Nelson D. Rehmeyer
Rehmeyer
Curry
Blymyer
Hess
Delaware Man Slated for Deputy Day Commissioner
Former Probate Judge W. W. Aldrich of Delaware is slated to succeed Sam K. Beetham as deputy state prohibition commissioner. Aldrich currently assists Charles A. Jones, assistant to the governor, while Beetham has acted as deputy since his father took office.
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Delaware
Columbus, CO
Students Protest Resignation Of Urbana School Supt
About 450 students deserted classes in Urbana Illinois to join a parade protesting the resignation of M. L. Flaningam, the city schools superintendent and former Urbana High principal, after seven women teachers accused him of discussing sex matters too freely.
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Urbana, II
M. L. Flaningam
City
Flaningam
Urbana High School
Urbana
Regular American man from prompt payments urged
The Chronicle Telegram urges timely payment to support junior newspaper carrier Junior Rucker. It emphasizes his impressionable age and how punctual bIN payments help ensure on time delivery and boost his motivation and satisfaction.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Injury at Work Hidden in Fragment at Colson Co
J. H. Forman of 461 Cleveland Street sustained a left hand injury at the Colson Company when a screw was driven through his hand. The wound was dressed at Memorial hospital.
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J. H. Forman
Cleveland Street
Colson Company
Memorial Hospital
Auto Driver Injured in Washington Avenue crash
George Schnarr of 370 Columbus Street sustained painful injuries after his auto hit a parked car owned by Mrs Edwin Gillis at Washington avenue just after midnight. He suffered chin lacerations and a possible jaw fracture. taken to Memorial hospital by Officer Sawyer and A Nilsen. Police have not fixed blame.
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Washington Avenue
George Schnarr
Columbus Street
I Schnarr
Schnarr
Edwin Gillis
Scharr
Ocean planes landbound halt Rome hop plan
Oarchard Missouri May 22 The monoplane Green Flash after three days of tuning for a 5000 mile hop to Rome remains land bound here Dr James H Kimball New York meteorologist reports of 1000 miles of clouds veiling the air trail the veterans Roger Williams and Lewis A Yancey plan to follow across the Atlantic and postponed take off until daybreak tomorrow New York May 23 Rene Leferve co pilot on the proposed No 4
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Lod Oarchard
Rome
James H. Kimball
New York
Roger ©. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Atlantic
Explosive Blast Strikes Rochester Air Service Hangar
A blast at the Municipal airport in Rochester followed by a fire demolished the $100,000 hangar and headquarters. Walter Hutchings, business manager of the Rochester Flying Service, was badly burned in the shop near the hangar but escaped through a window. Cause of the explosion remains undetermined.
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Rochester
Municipal Aires
Walter Hutchings
Rochester Flying Service
Endurance flight in Fort Worth pilots near 151 hours
Reg Robbins and Jim Kelly, weary aviators, press toward the 151 hour mark in a Tebnik cabin monoplane named Fort Worth in their bid to beat the Question Mark’s sustained flight record. The duo report few incidents aside from a hammock nap interrupted by a visit from Kelly’s wife and a minor tumble plus a burned hand during refueling tasks aboard the aircraft.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Reg Robbins
Jim Kelly
Kelly
Robbins
United Press Backstall on Lenroot Vote Follows Senate Clash
In Washington May 23 the Senate moved to overturn the Rules Committee over publication of the United Press secret roll calls on Lenroot and West confirmations. Senator Norris argued the committee had no authority to subpoena Paul Mallon, government detail chief, who defended the press’s right to publish executive session facts. Karl A. Bickel, U P president, backed Mallon and defended news gathering as lawful.
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Washington
Senate
Rules Committee
United Press
Secrrtary
Intery
Roy O. West
U. S. Customs
Lenroot
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Curtis
Rriles
Paul R. Mallon
Capitol Staf
New York
Karl A. Bickel
The
Senate Rules Committee
Paul Mallon
United States
Mallon
United Prenc
Mallon Wy
Mattar
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Sandusky
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