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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1938
Page
8
Analyzed returns show Republicans winning eight U.S. Senate seats, reshaping control as several incumbents were defeated or retired. Missouri and California shifts, with Downey and Bancroft winning key races, indicate a broader GOP gain amid Roosevelt era debates.
Mr and Mrs Fred Lehman of 216 Marseilles Avenue survived a Sunday afternoon crash three miles east of Ravenna when their car veered off the road and overturned into a ditch. Treated at Ravenna hospital and released. They had been returning from Pittsburgh where Fred Lehman attended Carnegie Institute of Technology homecoming. Betty Bridgeland Lehman is his wife.
Massillon Ohio reports three bandits robbed the Carver Cigar Store of 1500 dollars today. They forced clerk Willam Williams into a car, then to the store to open the safe and later dropped him outside town before fleeing. Williams notified police.
New York dispatch reports Nov 9 Republicans gain in House elections continued with delayed returns showing many Democratic incumbents defeated in the West and East. By midmorning 34 Democrats and four Progressives fallen. Republicans lead or tie in about 38 districts. Republicans elected total 109, Democrats 193, Progressives 2. several states added seats as GOP momentum grows toward a strong House majority. Ohio Washington California Illinois Indiana Kentucky Michigan Montana Nebraska Oregon Pennsylvania and other states reported gains amid shift in control.
The bribery trial of ex Sheriff William F Grall was postponed by Judge Guy B Findley after Marine Barbour and Penny Morgan failed to appear. Henry King sought a continuance to locate Barbour, while Butler cited 35 subpoenaed witnesses dismissed by the court. Grall faces a double charge over a June bribe for allowing a house for immoral purposes.
A fire started in leaves against a basement door last night damaged a one and one half story frame barn at the rear of Mrs George Stevens home at 218 East Avenue. Cause undetermined today. The barn, used as a garage and tool house, housed three automobiles. Flames spread to a door and siding above it, along a joist pocket across the basement, igniting a sill. Two fire companies from Central Fire Station responded to the alarm.
CALLANDER Ont Nov 9 The mass operation on the Dionne Quintuplets for removal of infected tonsils and adenoids was completed shortly after noon by Dr D E S Wishart of Toronto. Dr Allen Roy Dafoe the Quins’ physician reported the operations were a success. Brantford Out There is a bicycle thief here who plays no favorites. Constable Fred W Cooper parked his wheel behind a tree in a park here, and the thief took 30
Detroit November 9 Former Governor Frank D Fitzgerald converted Michigan to GOP support with a decisive victory over Governor Frank Murphy. Murphy, a labor champion who mediated 1937 sit downs, failed to win re election by more than 60 000 votes in a Civil War era context for Democratic governors.
A 22 year old Lorain father admitted to Sheriff Finegan and Deputy Fitzgerald that he stole eight 100 pound bags of potatoes from L. H Grobe’s Telegraph road warehouse on November 2. He is held in the county jail with his 15 year old brother who confessed to stealing blankets and supplies from Oberlin Children’s Home over the past two years. Grobe reported 60 bushels stolen. inmates also involved in related property cases.
Two naval aviators were killed when an airplane crashed in Washington's residential section. One victim was Col. Leslie McDill, an established officer.
In San Francisco, Uncle Sam sells unclaimed merchandise featuring two hula skirts a derby hat a batch of chicken wire china eggs and a cake turner in the annual government auction of surplus goods .
Federal Judge John C Knox denied a defense motion for acquittal of two men and one woman indicted on charges of stealing United States military secrets for a foreign government.
Los Angeles USC now offers twenty two courses across motion picture production with studio directors and film executives lecturing.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire Mrs Edmund R Fay’s fox terrier Spotty used a learned trick to escape punishment. He snapped a bathroom door lock instead of opening it, becoming further entangled in trouble. Firemen with ladders rescued Spotty from the bathroom.
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