Insull’s Life Reviewed In Chicago Trial
Samuel Insull, once a dominant figure on the Gold Coast, faced questions over a $143 million loss to 500 600 investors as his life story was traced through his defense. He described early struggles and his bond with Edison, tears marking his testimony while detailing the formation of Corporation Securities Company and efforts to keep the enterprise alive amid internal and external pressures.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Gold Coast
Insull
Floyd &. Thompson
Corporation Securities Company
Edison
Tani H. Wilkerson
Samuel Insull Sr
England
Central Press
Ban Distribution of Political Cards in Local Schools
Masson the school superintendent announced a prohibition on distributing political literature in or on school premises in support of any candidate. A complaint alleged such materials were being handed to children after school, but he noted the school has no control once students leave the grounds.
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R. (. Masson
Maston
Directors Plan Early Decision On A. & P. Plan
In Cleveland today John A. Hartford president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co said directors would exert utmost efforts to reach by Saturday a labor peace plan to reopen nearly 300 stores. Union leaders in Cleveland are seeking acceptance of the agreement and the decision will be reported to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington. The NLRB took up the case after A and P locked its doors last Saturday leaving 1900 workers idle.
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Cleveland. O
Great Atlantic && Pacific Tea Co
New York
John A. Hartford
Hartford
Cleveland
National Labor Relations Board
Washington
NLRB
Merchants Pledge Help for Community Chest Drive
The Elyria Chamber of Commerce merchants division voted 100 percent support for the Community Chest campaign. They will launch a downtown worker drive urging each employee to donate at least one day's pay, hoping larger subscriptions boost totals without overburdening workers. A bulletin will be sent to employees followed by targeted outreach at employers.
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Community Chest
Merchants’ Division
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Ohio November relief budget set at 38.8 million
Ohio approves November relief totals of 38,800,000 with 213,325 cases. County and local funds cover about 21,880 for direct relief, while federal and state funds fund projects including 18,712 for FERA works, 592 rural recovery, 842 emergency schools, and 125 transient relief. Total November expenditures projected at 7,190,172 federal 1,506,401 state and 103,427 local.
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Lovain County
State Relief Commission
Ohio
FERA
Judge Dismisses Petition By Utility
In Kansas City Missouri Judge Merrill E B Otis ruled Congress acted within constitutional powers under title II of the NIRA to appropriate funds for loans and grants to municipalities for unemployment relief and municipal utility projects The decision dismissed a petition by Missouri Utilities Co seeking to enjoin construction of a municipal electric plant in California Missouri
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Kansas City
Congress
NIRA
Merrill EB. Otis
United States
District
Otis
Missouri Utilities Co
California
Preliminary Chest Drive Work Completed in Elyria Campaign
Division heads in Elyria report at the Community Service Council meeting that preliminary work for the Community Chest drive is finished. Teams are set and solicitation details arranged. Campaign begins November 15 with an opening dinner at the Congregational church.
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Elyria
Community Chest
Community Service Council
Congregational Church
Farm Bureau To Elect Delegates
Lorain County Farm Bureau will elect delegates and alternates at the semiannual meeting next Friday at 8 p m in the Elyria M C A James Moore editor of the Ohio Farm Bureau News will be principal speaker A program of music and entertainment will be provided by the Lorain County Senior Four H Club Delegates chosen here will attend the state federation meeting on November 22 and 23
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Lorain County Farm Bureau
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Elyria
James Moore
Ohio Farm Bureau News
Lorain County
County Bureau
State Federation
Landlords Association Directors Convene In Elyria
Elyria landlords Protective Association directors met at the Elyria Savings and Trust Company headquarters to discuss future activities and possible general membership meeting next week. They noted progress in enrollment but many landlords remain unjoined and plan outreach to explain the association’s purpose and operation.
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Elyria Landlords’ Protective Association
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Let Contract For Strip Mill In Youngstown
contract for construction of the new seven million dollar strip mill at McDonald by Carnegie Steel Co was awarded to United Engineering Co. Work to begin in about six weeks after specifications and drawings arrive. The mill will be 42 inches wide and roll steel to 38 inches wide, employing 250 to 300 men for nearly five months.
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Youngstown
McDonald
Carnegie Steel Co
United Engineering Co
Incal
Germany accused of rearming in violation of Versailles
Paris dispatch reports government investigations into German rearmament. Findings claim Rhineland fortifications ignored demilitarization terms, Grunherdt near Oranienburg producing shells, Hanover Mannover plant sewing light tanks, and Rhinemetal Düsseldorf making heavy artillery parts and machine guns.
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Paris
Germany
Strasbourg
Rhine
Foreign Office
Ministry of War
Rhineland
Grunehert
Oranienburg
Hanover
Mannoeuversche Waggonfabrik
Rhinemettal
Duesseldorf
Philippe Barres
Matin
Martin L. Davey to Speak Here Saturday Rally
Martin L. Davey the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio is set as the main speaker at a rally before the Lorain county courthouse on Saturday. Other speakers include George S. Myers Secretary of State and candidate for re election Vic Donahey Jr. and D W Dunleavey Canton attorney. The event covers Daveys candidacy and state issues with Donahey and Myers also addressing the national and state tickets.
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Martin L. Davey
Olin
Lorain County
Democratic Organization
George S. Myers
Vic T Donahey, Jr
Ohio
United States
D. W. Dunleavey
Canton
Davey
Dunleavey
Donahey
Myers
Wellington
Lorain
Washington Park
Mayor To Speak On Lorain County Tonight
Mayor W H Vanoster will deliver his second radio address at 7 30 pm over station WOSU Columbus. The 15 minute program, requested by the station and Ohio State University, will give a brief resume of Lorain County institutions industries and points of interest. WOSU broadcasts on 570 kilocycles.
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W. H. Vanoster
WOSU
Columbus
Lorain County
Ohio State University
Ohio
Elyria Boys to Hike Despite Snowy Weather
Cold and snow will not deter Elyria youths from their weekly YMCA hike tomorrow afternoon. The hike will depart the YMCA at 1 30 PM under Jack Houser's guidance and proceed to an announced destination revealed at the start.
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Elyria
Jack Houser
Unions Clash at Susquehanna Collieries Nanticoke Strike
United Mine Workers and United Anthracite Miners clash at Susquehanna Collieries in Nanticoke. More than 2,000 men fight and 42 are injured as stones fly and fists fly. A strike was called last night with pickets around mine No 7 starting at 4 AM. several hundred pickets stoned cars and blocked entry.
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Wilkes Barre
United Mine Workers
United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Nanticoke
Culi
Avon councilman Frank Horwedel dies at 63
Well known Avon man and village council member Frank X Horwedel 63 died at the Cleveland Clinic after six weeks illness. He served a third term on the Avon village council. His body was taken to Reichlin Cooley Funeral Home and then to the family home. Survived by widow Elizabeth two sons Ralph and Alfons two daughters Albertha and Rita two brothers two sisters five grandchildren and his parents. Funeral set for St Marys church Avon at 1 am Monday with Rev George N Steuber officiating burial in St Marys cemetery.
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Frank X. Horwedel
Avon
Cleveland Clinic
Reichlin-Cooley
Lorain
Powdermaker Road
Elizabeth
Ralph
Elyria
Alfons
East Avon
Albertha
Rita
Bernard
John
Cleveland
Anna DeHart
Katherine Trall
Sophia Horwedel
Bernard Horwedel
St. Mary’s Church
George N. Steuber
St. Mary's Cemetery
Webner Named On Barbers' Code Group
Bernie W Webner of Elyria was named local committeeman for the barbers' code authority for this district. He announced that barbers or others wishing to confer on code matters may reach him at Shafer's Barber Shop.
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Bernie W. Webner
Elyria
Shafer
Dillinger escape plot to be revealed in Indiana
Indiana report says Gov. McNutt will present a full confession from an escape helper. J. Edward Barce and state police probed the Dillinger jail break at Crown Point. Federal and state officials plan joint actions, with indictments possible. Eight prisoners were released after cross examination, none involved in the plot per Baree.
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Indianapolis
John Dillinger
Crown Point
Ind
Paul V. McNutt
John Klinger
J. Edward Barce
Chicago
Barce
Baree
Meyer Bogue
Dillinger
U. S
James R. Fleming
Fort Wayne
Melvin Purvis
Bureau of Investigation
Chi+azo
Klinger
Fleming
President Roosevelt to vote in person at Hyde Park
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt will travel tonight with his family to Hyde Park New York to cast his ballot for Governor Lehman and the Democratic ticket in person at the village town hall. He will later receive returns at his Hudson Valley home library with a small group of intimates as the White House maintains silence ahead of the nationwide results.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N.Y
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
New York State
Hudson Valley
White House
Agents To Take Richetti To Kansas City
Federal agents departed Cleveland for Lisbon Ohio to seize Adam Richetti 26 associate of Pretty Boy Floyd and rush him to Kansas City Missouri to testify before a special grand jury about the 1933 Union Station massacre. Earlier attempts were blocked by Wellsville police chief J O H Fults who would hand him to Columbia Missouri authorities. Emerick B Freed U S attorney received air mail orders to deliver Richetti immediately.
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Cleveland
Lisbon
Adam Richetti
Charles Arthur
Pretty Boy
Richetti
Kansas City
Kansas City Union Station
U.S Department of Justice
Wellsville
J. H. Fults
Columbia
Emerick B. Freed
Department of Justice
Crippled Children Clinic Draws 71 At Gates Hospital
Seventy-one crippled children aged six months to 21 gathered at Gates Hospital for Crippled Children’s Clinic. It was the largest clinic in months with 13 first-time patients and 58 returning. the group traveled from Elyria Grafton Wellington Amherst Oberlin North Ridgeville Lorain Sullivan Spencer Berlin Heights Wakeman North Olmsted Ashland Shelby Hannibal West Salem Bucyrus Conneaut Galion Cleveland Heights Mansfield New Washington Jefferson Lodi Ashtabula Austinburg Sevill East Orwell Akron Wadsworth Fairport Harbor Homerville. Dr C H Heyman of Cleveland and Dr F A Lawrence of Myra attended examination. F F Alen, founder emeritus of the International Society for Crippled Children, greeted the children, joined by two Jefferson Rotarians who brought nine from Ashtabula County.
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Gates Hospital
Elyria
Jefferson
Ashtabula County
Hannibal
Bellaire
Daddy Allen
F. F. Alen
International Society For Crippled Children
Grafton
Wellington
Amherst
Oberlin
North Ridgeville
Lorain
Sullivan
Spencer
Berlin Heights
Wakeman
Captain and Crew Missing After St Roi Sinks
Half buried hulk of Motorship St. Roi found on north shore of the St. Lawrence River after a Sunday storm. The captain and five crewmen are missing. Cargo pieces recovered indicate the tragedy. A second ship, the St. Pierraise, also sank in the same storm and survivors report Captain Nickolas and an unnamed seaman went down with the ship. Five crew members who landed on Anticosti Island were jailed for illicit alcohol.
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Seven Islands Bay
Que
St. Ro! David
St. Lawrence River
St. Roi
St. Pierraise
Pigou
Anticosti Island
Nickolas
Churchmen Reinstated At Berlin In Sign Of Unity
Berlin November 2. Leaders in the Evangelical church opposition, Bishop Hans Meiser of Bavaria and Bishop Theophil Wurm of Wuerttemberg, were officially reinstated signaling a victory against Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller. Unofficially, others confirmed the move as a step toward reconciliation. Earlier, Mueller ordered special measures to clarify the church dispute.
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Berlin
U.P
Hans Meiser
Bavaria
Theophil Wurm
Wuerttemberg
Evangelical Church
Rural Recovery Program shows 25 families rehabilitated
Lorain County relief commission reports strong six month results with 25 of 39 participating families removed from relief lists through rehabilitation. The program provides seeds tools livestock and other necessities to enable self support, with some repayment in cash or produce at retail value. Federal funds support monthly operations, totaling 592 dollars for this month.
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Lorain County Relief Commission
Commission
MA. Houghton
Rural Recovery Administration
Three Killed In Soap Factory Blast At Procter and Gamble
In Cincinnati on November 2 three workers died after molten tar sprayed from a still at the Procter and Gamble factory. Luther Garber age 45 Lee Stouder 43 and John Conrite 40 died from their injuries. Two others were burned and in critical condition. Damaged plant estimated at 15000 dollars. Superintendent Harvey Knowles said the still’s arches failed, releasing a wave of molten tar about 18 feet high.
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Cincinnati
Procter and Gamble
Luther Garber
Lee Stouder
John Conrte
Harvey C. Knowles
Renarn
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George Washington University
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