Judge urges vigilance for safety at General Industries event
Judge Lee Skeel urged constant care to prevent accidents at General Industries safety night held at Elyria High School. About 3500 attendees heard him outline personal safety habits and the cost of carelessness, while company leaders urged reporting near misses and continued safety training.
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General Industries Company
T He Company
Elyria High School
Lee Skeel
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas
Cleveland Safety Council
Ohio State Safety Council
Weather Ohio Fair and warmer with Thursday showers
The Ohio forecast calls for fair, warmer conditions tonight. Thursday will be cloudy with mild temperatures and showers Thursday night, possibly in western and extreme northern portions late Thursday afternoon. High pressure remains over the Atlantic states while a new high forms on the North Pacific coast.
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Ohio
Atlantic States
North Pacific Coast
Manitoba
Colorado
Great Plains
Rocky Mountain Plateau
Mountain
Canadian Prairie Provinces
Northern Plains
Mississippi Valley
Northern
Lake Region
Central States
Rocky Mountain Region
Ohio taxes up 18.9 percent in decade says chamber
The Ohio State Chamber of Commerce reports federal state and local taxes rose 18.9 percent over the past ten years while taxpayers face fluctuating ability to pay. The study analyzes public expenditures 1929 1938 with 1937 figures used where 1938 unavailable. It notes declines in real estate values and factory payrolls, and warns of wage losses amid a slow recovery through 1938.
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Columbus
Ohio State Chamber of Commerce
Arch D. Schultz
Chamber
Schultz
U. S. Department of Labor
Poison Blamed For 2 Deaths In Institution
At the State Institution for Feeble Minded in Columbus two inmates, Miss Pauline Branicki of Cleveland and Miss Virginia Anderson of Guernsey County, died after cockroach powder mistaken for baking soda was used in cookies. Dr. F L Keyser reported an attendant error, suspending the worker. Mrs. Margaret Allman ordered further investigations and criticized storage of poison with cooking supplies.
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Columbus
State Institution
F. L. Keyser
Inn
Margaret Allman
Pauline Branicki
Cleveland
Virginia Anderson
Guernsey County
Keyser
Lorain Man Faces Prison Term In Michigan
Lorain Ohio resident Leo Schildmer, 28, was sentenced to three to 15 years in Southern Michigan prison after telling authorities that prison is as good as any other place. He allegedly broke into a restaurant, driving a stolen car, and was a parolee from the Ohio Reformatory at Mansfield.
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Detroit
Leo Schildmer
Lorain
Schildmer
Southern
Michigan
John Scallen
Ohio Reformatory
Mansfield
Winners in Dairy Judging Named for Four-H Night
Five boys and one girl with top ratings in Four-H Club dairy judging will receive awards at the annual Four-H Advisors Meeting at the Y M C A Thursday evening. Winners include Erma Youngeberg and Wayne Aldrich of LaGrange Donald Simm Carlisle Neil Wise Stranton Robert Grobe Amherst and Marshall Bligh Penfield. The program will feature the Four-H pledge demonstrations and reports on the 1938 Ohio Club Congress by 11 Lorain County delegates.
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Erma Youngeberg
Wayne Aldrich
LaGrange
Donald Simm
Carlisle
Neil Wise
Sratton
Robert Grobe
Amherst
Marshall Bligh
Penfield
C. I. Hummel
Lorain County
Dayton Teachers Decide On School Reopenings
Dayton Ohio private mass meeting of 1,300 public school teachers to decide if poverty stricken schools will reopen quickly. Questions about returning to work with withheld salaries and working five weeks without pay if a 2 mill tax levy passes. District faces a $61,000 deficit and no funds for weeks.
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Dayton
Board of Education
Citizens’ Committee
Null M. Hodapp
Citizens Committee
Common Pleas Court
Hodapp
Richard L. Withrow
Davey Accuses Ohio Governor of Intimidating Tobacco Strike Workers
Washington reports Chairman John L. Lewis of the CIO accuses Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio of trying to intimidate Middletown tobacco workers by threatening state military power. Lewis says Davey is aligned with anti union interests and misstates the strike merits.
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Bulletin
Washington
USB
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization Today
Gov. Martin
Ty Davey
Ohio
Middletown
Davey
Lewis
Tobacco Company
Cascade Park To Have New Picnic Grounds
Cascade Park will enlarge its picnic facilities by opening a new grounds in the Ely wood area within weeks. The site, chosen after a survey, will sit east of the current grounds and connect by a winding trail, with the same amenities including fireplaces tables and running water. An old roadway will be opened to allow easy auto access.
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Cascade Park
Elywood
Park Commissioners
Lorain County
Kiwanians To See Football Movies
Kiwanis Club members will view moving pictures of two Elyria High School football games after their Thursday noon luncheon at the Elks restaurant tomorrow. Coach Roy Clymer will provide commentary on outstanding plays during the Elyria-Lakewood and Elyria-Cleveland Heights films.
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Kiwanis Club
Elyria
Elks Restaurant
Roy Clymer
Hull Warns No Compromise In Trade Policies
New York Nov. 2 United States warns there will be no compromise in trade policies to accommodate totalitarian economic theories Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the National Foreign Trade convention advocates multilateral trade over bilateral pacts and decries autarchy as unstable He predicts Germany Italy and Japan will eventually adopt freer trade principles for durable peace and opposes forced economic self sufficiency regimes that stifle enterprise and liberty
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New York
United States
Cordell Hull
Germany
Walter Punk
Husl
Hull
Still Hoping Dog Will Be Rescued In Spelter Mountain Cave
In Spelter West Virginia a veterinarian expressed optimism that Sport the five year old Beagle trapped for two weeks in a sink hole within an abandoned mine is alive. Dr F K McClure arrived at the scene after rescue workers blasted into the rock and said the dog probably slept to account for quiet hours. A faint cry may have been heard the previous night.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Life
Sport
Dr. McClure
Spelter
Elyria Stores Launch Three Day City Sale Elyria Days
Local Elyria merchants announce a three day city wide sale event named Elyria Days. Stores stock large Fall and Winter merchandise at attractive prices to draw in town and out of town shoppers, with extra sales staff to assist buyers during the crowds.
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Elyria
Hoover Announces Capture Of Kidnaping Gang In New York
J Edgar Hoover announced DOJ agents captured a gang of former convicts believed tied to three New York kidnappings. Victims included Arthur Fried who was murdered after ransom demands. Several suspects named with prior crimes. total ransoms paid and robberies cited. details trace to December through July incidents.
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New York
J Edgar Hoover
Odey
Department of Justice
Arthur Fried
Hoover
Joseph Stephen Sacoda
Demetrius Gula
John Virgo
William Jackins
Fried
Benjamin Farber
Brooklyn
Norman Miller
Charles
Elyria to host district Legion meeting and Armistice plans
Elyria Post No. 12 American Legion held its district meeting led by new post commander John J. Kolapos. Reports outlined activities for the year and highlighted the Fifth District junior baseball team sponsored by the post. A November 11 Armistice Day dance at the Legion home on Ghig Street and a Cleveland Armistice Day dinner with speaker Congressman Dick were announced.
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Elyria Post
American Legion
John J. Kolapos
Harry Forbes
Louis Beaumont
Jerry Ricketts
Court of Appeals Bailuf
Akron
Cleveland
Carter Hotel
Post
National Legion Headquarters
Kolopos
American Legion of Ohio
Elyria
Charles Marion
Veterans Administration
Review of Totalitarianism versus Democracy by Prof Pautz
Prof William C Pautz Baldwin Wallace University spoke to Elysia Rotary at Elks Restaurant on the struggle between totalitarianism and democracy. He argued totalitarian powers grow by aggression, noted Germany Austria union as natural, recalled the Sudeten crisis and Hitler’s aims, described totalitarian self sufficiency drives, and warned against U S overt involvement as Germany expands in South America.
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Europe
Elysia Rotary Club
William C. Pautz
Baldwin-Wallace University
Elks
Germany
Austria
Bismarck
Sudeten Mountains
Central Europe
Adolf Hitler
Sud¢ten
Pautz
Japan
Orient
United States
South America
Governor orders troops ready for Middletown strike
Gov. Martin L. Davey announced National Guard troops on notice for possible service at Middletown amid a CIO led strike at the Lorillard Tobacco Co plant. He accused John L. Lewis and the CIO of a reign of terror and said the labor board is controlled by Lewis while voicing alarm over American labor being made a tool of dictatorship. The strike began Oct. 3 after failed bargaining and an attempt to operate with nonstriking workers was blocked by pickets. Continued on Page 20.
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Miller
Hoover
Farber
National City Bank
Brooklyn
New York
Coney Island
Columbus
Martin L. Davey
National
Guy
Davey
Labor Board
Lewis
American Federation of Labor
John Lewis
National Guard
Middletown
P. Lorillard Tobacco Co
CIO
Lorillard
Pioneer Tobacco Workers
Committee For Industrial Organization Union
Springfield Truck Drivers Strike Over New Contract Demand
In Springfield C Nov 2 an estimated 233 union truck drivers from Local No 634 of the Truck Drivers Union walked out at Howard Sober Inc and the Kenosha Auto Transport. The strikers voted last Friday to strike unless a new contract is reached. They demand a rate of three and one fourth cents per mile.
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Springfield
Truck Drivers Union
Howard Sober, Inc
Kenosha Auto Transport
Sheriff Finegan Outlines Policy To His Aides
Sheriff Carl R. Finegan, after taking office, repeals the eight hour worsy ing schedule and returns deputies to a 12 hour basis with one day off a week. He establishes two squad patrols, each of two men, to report hourly by phone and via state patrol radio for emergencies. Deputies will enforce liquor permit closing hours, conduct traffic checks in school zones, and patrol beer parlors at night. Weekly training meetings and rotating shifts are planned, with gradual staff changes. About 225 ex Grall special deputies receive notice that their commissions are canceled.
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Carl R. Finegan
William F. Grall
State Liquor Department
Finegan
Grall
Standardize Wages in Auto Parts Plants Across UAW Talks
Washington November 2 The executive board of the United Automobile Workers begins meetings likely to affect relations with Ford Motor Co Two subcommittees craft reports on issues in Ford the sole major automaker without a contract The plan aims to standardize wages hours and conditions in about 2000 supplier plants Homer Martin the UAW president seeks a 65 cents an hour minimum wage in parts plants Ford personnel director Harry Bennett says they will back stabilizing wages where it is our business.
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Washington
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Fota Motor Company
Ford
UAW
Harry Bennett
Homer Martin
Martin
Bennett
County Board OKs Two Fund Transfers This Morning
County commissioners authorized two fund transfers from the courthouse and jail repairs and insurance appropriation this morning. Five hundred dollars went to the board of elections and seven hundred dollars to Probate Judge H H Nye’s department for care of handicapped children in private boarding homes.
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Board of Elections
H. H. Nye
Appliance Week Sales Amid Elyria Days Event
Local appliance dealers promote exceptional savings on refrigerators radios washers irons sweepers stoves as part of Elyria Days. If you cannot buy a brand new appliance today, the bargains offered should greatly interest you. look now and save.
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AL Sehnttgen
General Industres
Maniger
H. OM. Schnever
Ennig Uling
Wal
Safety Department
Carl L. Kohler
T. E. Fennessy
Division of Safety and Hygiene
Industrial Commission
Ylene
Robert Burns
Gene St. Marie
Burns
Park Commission
Dist
Legion
Sheriff Finegan
Dre
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