Black Legion Probes Move Forward
Detroit May 29 Five investigations into Black Legion activities moved forward as authorities gathered evidence of alleged federal law violations. A citizen committee backed by Pontiac authorities and Detroit prosecutors pressed for federal intervention, citing murders arsons and propaganda by mail. Crowley in Lansing to seek wide county probe while Washington urged congressional action.
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Pierwing
Detroit
Sticral
Michigan
Inta
Pontiac
Legion
Crowley
Charles P. Webster
Wasyne
Duncan C. Metrea
Homer S. Cummings
Mei’rea
McC
Cummina
MerCrea
Guy T. Helvyering
Internal Revenue
Versil F. Effinger
Lima
D.inger
McCrea
Warne
Decroin
Genesee
Pense
Citizens’ Committee
Jackson County
Owen Dudier
Ettinger
Lansing
Washington
The
House
Senate
John A. Hoffman
Ohio Weather Outlook Fair And Cool Through Weekend
The forecast calls for fair skies and continued cool temperatures tonight and Saturday in Ohio. Sunday should bring fair conditions with a rise in temperatures across the region.
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Ohio
Three Quarters Of Million Americans Return To Jobs
President Green reported nearly three quarters of a million Americans returned to work in March and April. Unemployment fell from 12,153,009 to 11,506,000 as farm and nonfarm hiring rose across sectors, though Green warned against assuming full reemployment kept pace with recovery.
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Green
Washington
Willam Green
American Federation of Labor
Opi
Three Injured in Route 50 Baumhardt Crash Near Oberlin
Three residents of North Fairfeld Q were badly hurt when their car rolled after a collision with another vehicle on Route 50 Baumhardt Road west of here at about 845 pm. Injured were Robert Gannett driver with a head cut, his wife with head face knee cuts, and Wallace Mitchell with lacerations. They were treated at Amherst hospital. The other car, driven by Stanley Smeary of 93 East Lorain Street Oberlin, had a minor hand injury. Henry A Ruth of 250 West Lorain Street Oberlin treated for head and face lacerations at Elyria Memorial Hospital.
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North Fairfeld
Route 50
Baumhardt Road
Here
Robert Gannett
Wallace Mitchell
Amherst Hospital
Stanley Smeary
East Loraintreet
Obertin
Henry A. Ruth
West Lorain Street
Oberlin
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Public Hearings On Townsend Plan Will Be Resumed
Washington May 27 Public hearings on the Townsend Plan resume as the House committee schedules further inquiry into the aged pension scheme. Townsend and two directors Clinton Wunder and John B. Kiefer face contempt citations for defying questions. District Attorney Garnett will pursue indictments, with trial not likely until October. hearings to resume next week as the panel warns against further boycotts by Townsend followers.
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Washington
House
Townsend
Francois E. Townsend
Clinton Wunder
New York
John B. Kiefer
Chicago
Leslie Garnett
District of Columbia
District Supreme Court
C. Jasper Bell
Woether
Poycott
Lilley Elected Club President in Elvria
James B. Lilley of Elvria was elected president of the Elvria Young Men's Democrat Club at a meeting of about 59 members in the directors room of the Elvria Savings and Trust Company. Other officers elected were Harold Ewing, vice president. DeForest Rim Bach, secretary. Patrick Radican, treasurer, with an executive board including Norman Kaiser, William Bird, Richard Todé, John Ross, Samuel Baldwin, Russell Patton, William Kovach, Frank Kayden, Alfred Bauer, William G. Smith, Thomas Kaine and Carl Finegan.
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James B. Lilley
Elvria
Elvria Young Men’s Democrat Club
Elvria Savings and Trust Company
Harold Ewing
DeForest Rimbach
Patrick Radican
Norman Kaiser
William Bird
Richard Todé
John Ross
Samuel Baldwin
Russell Patton
William Kovach
Frank Kayden
Alfred Bauer
William G. Smith
Thomas Kaine
Carl Finegan
Seek Donations Of Flowers For Graves
Decoration Day committees ask for flower or plant donations to adorn soldiers graves. Donors may have items picked up by calling J. G. Schrock at 1191 by noon tomorrow or James Howlett at 9491.
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J. G. Schrock
James Howlett
Tube Plant Will Continue At High Level
National Tube Company at Lorain plans a busy week with most operations resuming Monday after a weekend shutdown. Three blast furnaces and 12 open hearths stay in use. the Bessemer converter runs double. the rail mill operates Saturday and part of Sunday then idle next week. Skelp and pipe mills mostly shut Saturday. seamless mill three runs three days. other mills span five days or less. Date is tentative and subject to change.
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National Tube Company
Plastr
Lorain
Bessemer
Skelp
Pipe Mills
Skeip
Pleads Guilty To Serious Charge In Lorain Case
William Bolich a 19 year old from Lorain pleaded guilty to operating an automobile without the owner's consent. He said marijuana from a cigarette given by hoboes caused his first brush with the law. He sped 7 in an hour and the stolen car was recovered after arrest. Judge D A Cook postponed a decision pending Bolich’s prior record.
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William Bolich
Lorain
Bolich
Common Pieas
D. A. Cook
Cleveland
Bar Village
Winton Keepke
Cook
McKees Rocks
Cleveland Police Captain Sentenced for Bribery
Cleveland Police Captain Louis J. Cadek was sentenced to two to twenty years in the Ohio Penitentiary by Judge Walter McMahon after a conviction for bribery. Motions for a new trial and stay were overruled and an appeal notice was filed.
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Cleveland
Louis J. Cadek
Ohio
Walter McMahon
McMahon
Cadek
Raymond J. Logan
Wealth Piling Up For Dionne Quintuplets
Callander Ontario May 23 The Dionne quintuplets reach age three not in hospital but a nursery and near millionaire status before 21. A radio party from the Dafoe nursery reveals fund growth to over 20 000 yearly income and almost 500 000 in securities and cash securing the Dionne family for life.
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Callander
Ont
Dafoe
Dafoe Hospital
David Croll
Dionne
Oliva Dionne
Kaiser Appointed To New Position
L. P. Kaiser, city building inspector, resigning June 1, is appointed assistant resident engineer in the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. He conferred with PWA officials at Columbus and expects to start work Monday with details on his exact location to follow.
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L. P. Kaiser
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Kaiser
PWA
Columbus
Mondar_ Kaiser
Memorial Services At Kipton Saturday
Rollin E Hickson Post and Auxiliary No 3341 will hold memorial services at 10 34 Saturday in Kipton High School Auditorium. Commander Mel Brown and Auxiliary President Mrs Helen Perkins arranged the program with local boys orchestra music and a wreath ceremony. Members will meet at the Brown home Friday evening for final arrangements and march to Ridgelawn Cemetery.
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Rollin E. Hickson
Perkins
Kipton Memorial Committee
Kipton High School
Mel Brown
Helen Perkins
Brown
Ridgelawn Cemetery
No Deliveries Of Mail Tomorrow Memorial Day
Elyria post office workers will observe Memorial Day with no mail deliveries during the day. Outgoing mail will be dispatched until 4 p.m. for C. J. Sartor, postmaster, and only special delivery mail will be handled promptly regardless of the holiday.
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Elyria Post Office
C. J. Sartor
Truck Load Of Liquor Hijacked Near Canton
A $10,000 shipment of state liquor bound for Youngstown stores was hijacked by eight armed men near Canton. They seized a truck with 500 cases and abducted driver John A. Davis of Warren, holding him for over two hours before releasing him.
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Youngstown
Canton
John A. Davis
Warren
Davia
Britain Considers Negotiating With Italy Amid War Tensions
Britain's cabinet, after a special House of Commons meeting, reportedly weighs opening talks with Italy to settle a yearlong dispute within the League framework. Dominions' views will shape the approach as Italy signals willingness to ease tensions after Dino Grandi's Rome visit and Eden discussions.
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United Press
Loxdon
Great Britain
Italy
House of Commons
Dino Grandi
Anthony Eden
Grandi
Beden
Mediterranean
League
Eden
Rome
Relief Problem Stall Unsolved
Columbus May 25 After passing the stopgap relief bill to tide counties over as relief funds run out the general assembly recessed again with most relief issues unresolved. The plan is for lawmakers to return in the week of June 15 to draft a permanent six month relief bill ending January 31 next year.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Toder
Senate Research Committee
House Finance Committee
Britain Declines To Reopen War Debt Question
London reports the United States signals willingness to reopen Britain's war debt talks while Britain, noting another installment due June 15, declines to resume payments. The foreign office received a formal reminder from Washington about the next due payment, but the British government says it cannot resume debt payments at present.
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United Presse
London
United States
Great Britain
América
Foreign Office
U. S. Department of State
Britain
Referendum proposed to extend county official terms in Ohio
Petition forms for the Gilbert Act seek a four year term for county treasurers recorders sheriffs coroners clerks and prosecutors. The petitions await approval by Secretary of State George V. Mr ers to meet the July 6 filing deadline for 131 222 signatures to place the measure on the November ballot.
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Columbus
Secretary of
George 5
Mrers
Secretary of State
No Paper Tomorrow Holiday Observance Noted
Chronicle Telegram will not publish the edition tomorrow Decoration Day. News staff and their families will join others in observance of the holiday.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Newsa
Steel Chiefs See Business Gains But Clash With New Deal
New York March 29 heads of major steel firms report improving business with signs of strength ahead yet condemn government interference. At the American Iron and Steel Institute convention executives representing companies controlling vast capital criticized Roosevelt era policies and urged an end to the era of experimentation. Key leaders named include William A. Irvin and Eugene G. Grace along with E. T. Weir and T. M. Girdler among others. They attacked policy directions affecting industry.
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New York
American Iron & Steel Institute
William A. Irvin
United States Steel Corporation
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
The
Iron and Steel Institute
E. T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
T. M. Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
Investigation links Black Legion to Shrine Fire
Detroit prosecutors intensify inquiry into the Shrine of the Little Flower blaze after disclosing that within 48 hours sufficient evidence connected the Black Legion to the destruction. Father Charles E. Coughlin's shrine is the focal point of the investigation as officials press for charges.
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Detroit
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Mine Workers Union Defiance Shocks AFL Leaders
The United Mine Workers of America defied the executive council of the American Federation of Labor by not dissolving its committee for industrial organization, stepping against AFL leadership. In Washington, Speaker Joseph W. Buell warned adjournment could be delayed beyond June 6 due to Senate tax bill snags. The Senate finance committee advanced a tax plan boosting income surtaxes by one percent for incomes from 6,000 to 30,000 dollars.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Joseph W. Buuns
Congress
Senate
Paducah Fire Massively Damages Business Block
A fire of undetermined origin swept through a Paducah Kentucky business district block early today inflicting damage estimated over 250000 dollars. Fire crews battled the blaze as businesses suffered extensive damage and authorities investigated the cause.
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Paducah
Roosevelt to Speak in Ohio This August
President Roosevelt plans an August political address in Ohio, likely at Columbus, per Governor Martin Davis after a White House visit. The notice confirms a forthcoming public appearance by the president in the Buckeye State.
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Ohio
Washington
Roosevelt
Columbus
Martin Daver
White House
Convict Flight Deaths Reach Three As Guards Fire
Angola La May 23 Casualties in the convict escape from the state prison farm rose to three dead and two wounded as a 23 year old fugitive named Wilfred Lindsly fled. A farm boy was killed and two prison guards were shot at by a pursuing posse during the dramatic episode. The escape followed the stabbing of Mrs Nelson J Himel and the shooting of Captain Himel earlier. Willie Wade a 19 year old farm youth was accidentally killed while Willie Wade was not — the report explains Wade died from his faulty hearing.
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Angola
Ziager
Wilfred Lindsig
Lindsiy
Hiessaig
Nelson J. Himel
Captain Himel
Willie Wade
William Green
Jake Hoover
Hoover
Green
Wade
Smiley
Lindsly
Himel
Hooter
Amy
Hia Shotglan
Tom J
Finitt
Wag Acci
Tax Recommendations of President Ignored
Washington May 29 Action by a House Senate conference appeared today as the only possibility of salvaging administration hopes for a tax bill placing drastic levies on undistributed corporate profits. The Senate Finance committee ignored President Roosevelt tax recommendations as to amount and manner of raising it and prepared to recommend passage of a drastically modified compromise version of the 803 million revenue measure. The compromise would fail by more than a half billion over three years yet could move swiftly to en act.
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Washington
House-Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
Sendre
Botantial
Indictments For Attempt To Aid Jail Break
A Cleveland girl of 19 and William Gromand, 22, were indicted by a grand jury in a secret session for aiding a jail break in Wellington. The pair, held since Wednesday in the county jail, allegedly sought to smuggle a loaded .45 pistol and three hacksaw blades to Edward Gromand to aid his escape. The girl, said to be Edward Gromand’s sweetheart, did not speak. Convictions could bring two to three years. both suspects are jailed on Wellington Bank robbery bonds.
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Grand
Cleveland
William Gromand
Edward Gromand
County Jar
Anthony Pages
Wellington
Howard R. Butler
Gromand
Papes
Clarence W. Dick
Edward Gr
Trusty
Monroe
Lail
Butler
Sheriff’s Department
Pipe Arrives for City Water Main Project
City engineer J M Powell reports the first carload of 3 inch pipe arrived from Middletown for the new water main. Eight sections of forty feet each are on site with another carload en route. Couplings and equipment to proceed are here.
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J. M. Powell
Middletown
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Lilley
Kipton
G. O. P. Convention
Henry D. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Herbert Hoover
Fletcher
Rogers
Columbces
Julian Schweller
Putnam
William M. Boyd
Curahoga
al Kalb
Ottawa
P. H. Rogers
Lerain
Henry F. Cordes
Hamilton
Mine Workers Union
Howard Courtney
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