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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1938
Page
1
The Ohio Education Association proposed three plans to cover a $17.5 million school foundation deficit. Options include a state borrowing authority to issue bonds, or continued local borrowing with a revenue program, or continued borrowing plus a dedicated tax. The group urged the first option as most efficient though it might clash with constitutional debt limits.
Vienna November 14 Cardinal Theodor Kanitzer archbishop of Vienna urged Austrian Catholics to resist efforts to weaken the Catholic faith. He denounced as a malicious invention rumors of a new church tax and said a Nazi campaign aimed at registering youths against religious instruction had failed. He ordered the pastoral letter read at all Masses in his diocese amid reports of renewed Nazi violence in Munich and attacks on episcopal quarters.
The archbishop of Baltimore, Michael J. Curley, challenged Adolf Hitler to make diplomatic representations to the State Department over Nazi persecutions. In a Holy Comforter Church address, Curley branded Hitler a madman with delusions of divinity and condemned Goebbels as crippled minded, warning that Jewish prosecutions would fail and Jews would remain in Germany centuries after Hitler’s demise.
The forecast covers tonight and Tuesday with a slight cooling in the east and extreme north and a rising temperature in the south. An area of low pressure of considerable intensity sits over eastern Ontario while high pressure dominates over the U.S. Rain fell east of the Mississippi and snow in the northern Lake region in the last 24 hours. Cold in the upper Mississippi valley and Ohio valley, with warmth in the northern mountain states.
Berlin reports show 700000 German Jews frantically raising a 400 million dollar fine after rioting angered the regime. Stocks slumped as Jewish leaders sold assets to repair damages and fund penalties. Goebbels claimed Jewish business would soon be German, while universities and theaters barred Jewish access and refugees streamed abroad.
John L. Lewis, chair of the CIO, addressed 450 delegates in Pittsburgh, denouncing Nazi persecution of Jews as a grave act and urging a U.S. protest. He warned that 20 million CIO members and families would back the government against such "cruelties." He defended the CIO's aims of equality for all races and creeds amid labor peace pleas from officials and a Catholic trade union chaplain.
London reports indicate Britain postponed indefinite negotiations with Germany amid a fierce Nazi anti Jewish campaign and personal attacks on leaders like Winston Churchill Anthony Eden and Duff Cooper. The government aims to defend British Jewish interests and protest a Der Angriff article linking Churchill Eden and Duff Cooper to the Rath assassination while signaling no intervention in Germany’s anti Jewish actions.
Buckingham Palace announced King George and Queen Elizabeth will arrive in Quebec for a state visit to Canada and the United States on May 15. After visiting Washington they will depart from Halifax about June 10.
Clayton Carson 25 son of Mr and Mrs Jack Carson of 417 Adams street was killed in an automobile accident Saturday at Wisner Michigan where he was staying with his grandparents. He attended Elyria schools and is survived by his parents brother and sister Mrs Dean Rogers of Detroit. His parents left for Michigan with his brother Donald and the funeral will be held there.
Sheriff Carl R. Finegan announced the appointment of two new deputies who will begin duties November 16. Al McWilliams of Krebs Road and Joseph Guzek of 825 West 20th Street Lorain were named to fill vacancies from the resignation of Deputy John Fulton and the dismissal of Adam Lepkowski effective November 15. McWilliams is Elyria Central Labor Union president and Colson Corporation employee. Guzek, 30, is married with three children and has worked in his family dairy business in Lorain.
London dispatches report that a major reciprocal trade treaty between the United States and Great Britain is expected to be signed Thursday in Washington. The accord is described as the most important in the U S system of reciprocal treaties.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that Britain is not contemplating transferring any former German colonies in Africa, which are under mandate. The reply came after renewed German demands for the colonies and prior British acquisitions in southwest Africa, Tanganyika, and the Cameroons.
United Press reports at least ten people died in Ohio motor accidents over the weekend. Notable fatalities include Harley Aber of Akron who plunged 30 feet into the Cuyahoga River, Marie Marlette of Toledo after a truck struck a parked car, and warehouse driver Joseph Koenig who cited poor visibility in rain. Other deaths occurred in Fremont, Upper Sandusky, Wyandot county, Cincinnati, Canton, and Cleveland areas, with multiple injuries reported.
Mrs Mary Streicher 58 was injured Saturday when she fell from a second story window at 504 Park Avenue. Her condition at Elyria Memorial Hospital was reported as improved later the same day.
A Chinese educator now pursuing post graduate work at Oberlin College will address the Elyria Rotary Club at the Elks Restaurant tomorrow noon. He is Prof. Hseuh, head of a boys' school in Foochew China. His topic has not been announced.
Charles L. Stanton a 47 year old city letter carrier was held to the federal grand jury under a 5000 dollar bond on charges of stealing 1500 dollars worth of WPA pay checks from the mails. He was arrested when attempting to cash one of the checks according to U S Commissioner W L Weber.
Elyria community Chest campaign workers will gather at the First Congregational Church for the opening dinner at 5 45 p m tonight. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Cleveland diocese will speak. The meeting ends by 8 15 p m to allow attendance at a lecture by Arthur Kallet at the high school auditorium. Luncheons will be held on Wednesday and Friday this week and Monday and Tuesday next week at the Y M C A with a 40 cent charge for meals.
Charles B. Penfield of Plymouth Indiana returns to Lorain County for two weeks visiting cousins Edith Taylor Elyria and Alonzo Taylor Litchfield. Born in Penfield Township in 1858 he left in 1880. He worked 20 years at a South Bend manufacturing firm, then moved west in 1909 to Washington state where he served as postmaster at Jared for 19 years. Now he runs a poultry business with his son focusing on white Leghorn eggs.
Elyria will host a Christmas light ceremony on November 25 in Ely Park to open the shopping season. The Christmas lighting committee approved plans for an elaborate Ely Park display and a post ceremony window shopping event downtown.
The Supreme Court, in Washington, refused to review Thomas J. Mooney's 22 year fight for release from life imprisonment at San Quentin California.
New York November 14 A solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated in St Patrick s Cathedral tomorrow for Clarence H Mackay chairman of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company wealthy sportsman and art patron He was 64 Mackay husband of Anna Case the opera star died Saturday night after a long illness Surviving with Mrs Mackay are his son John W Mackay and two daughters Mrs Ellin Berlin wife of Irving Berlin and Mrs Robert Z Hawkins
November 14 report from Bellefontaine states 3 year old Robert Eugene Strong, son of Mr and Mrs John Strong of Maplewood, died from a skull fracture after a delivery truck struck him as he ran from a crowd at an auction sale near DeGraff. Coroner Hobart L. Mikkel noted the incident occurred when the child darted into the street.
Chest leader Harry L. Reynolds of 330 Denison Avenue guides the Elyria Community Service Council as the campaign opens this evening with Reynolds and aides establishing the organization and preparing activities after years of service in various roles.
Lee Bradley, a key witness in the State Senate graft probe, files in Common Pleas Court for 900000 alleging false arrest and conspiracy by Governor Martin L. Davey and General Motors. The suit says Bradley was charged with perjury without cause after testifying he acted as Davey’s contact man and helped channel utilities and auto-industry commissions to the campaign.
ROCHESTER Minn November 14 Manuel Mujica Carassa a 58 year old millionaire Peruvian mine owner arrived today by Northwest Airlines after a 4765 mile journey from Lima Peru to seek surgery for an intestinal tract obstruction. Dr Eugene McCormack who accompanied him said the trip was without incident and that Mujica is in a highly toxic condition though not as bad as some reports. He walked off the plane unaided.
Damage to the United Paperboard Co. plant in Urbana Ohio from a windstorm was estimated at 10000 dollars. A brick boiler building collapsed, small buildings were unroofed, fences torn, and trees uprooted across Champaign county as utility crews restored electric and telephone service.
Miss Frieda L. Poston Athens county school teacher suffered a broken back in an automobile accident near here Sunday. Her brother Glen H. Poston of Charleston West Virginia received minor injuries in the same crash.
London reports mounting public indignation over Nazi persecution of Jews with talk that Britain's cabinet may express abhorrence. The Daily Express cites possible action by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government as the United States and others contemplate protests. British insurers say claims paid for Jewish property insured in Germany may be forfeited to the Reich, prompting potential government support.
Former President Herbert Hoover Sinclair Lewis Bishop William T Marining and President William Green of the AFL united today to protest renewed persecution of Jews in Germany. Through the Federal Council of Churches they urged action and denounced the political agencies in power as the responsible parties.
Berlin dispatch reports that Jews are banned from all public schools in Germany. The official notice, issued tonight, marks a sweeping exclusion affecting students and families across the nation.
UAW organizer Zygmund Dobrzynski testified before the House committee that the Communist party once sought to control auto unions to paralyze the armaments industry during war. He traced the plan to May 1937 discussions with William Weinstone, Michigan party secretary, noting Local No. 205 as a pivotal union capable of halting the entire industry.
Ohio Poultry Improvement Association manager C S Vickers joins the Lorain County poultrymen banquet lineup. The event at Oberlin M B Church starts at 7 PM with Glenn Campbell, publicity director of the Worlds Poultry show in Cleveland next week, as the opening speaker.
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