Doak Named Secretary of Labor by Hoover
William Nuckles Doak, long time legislative counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, is nominated by President Hoover for secretary of labor at a salary of 15000 a year. Doak rose from a Norfolk and Western yard clerk at Bluefield West Virginia to a cabinet post, despite opposition from William Green of the AFL. The Senate is expected to confirm him. Green questions why someone outside the federation should be chosen.
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Washington
William Nuckles Doak
Senate
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Bluefield
W. Va
Doak
Brotherhood of Railroad
Green
Hoover
United States
Federation
Brotherhood
Freighter Lake Simco Reported Missing on Lake Erie
FREIGHTER LAKE SIMCO MISSING IN LAKE ERIE. CAPT. JOHN DALY SAID THE SHIP WAS WINDBOUND AT RONDEAU ONT AND REPORTED MISSING AT AMERICAN PORTS. CREW OF 22 MEN ALLEGEDLY SAFE IN CLEVELAND HARBOR AFTER WINDSTORM FEARS. INDIcATED DISTRESS AND FEAR OF SINKING.
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Cleveland, CO
Lake Simco
Lake Erie
Cleveland Harbor
John Daly
Rondeau
Ont
Lake Simca
Ashes Found Belief in Teacher's Death Shocks Fort Morgan
In Fort Morgan Colorado on November 29, authorities pursued Enid Marriott missing since October. A Kiowa County sheriff member P Mayne reported ashes found in a furnace at a Ho tel in Eads suggesting a teacher's body may have been cremated.
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Fort Morgan
Colo
Enid Marriott
Wiggins
Eads
P. Mayne
Kiowa County
Winter Storm Ravages Midwest and Northeast
Blinding snow storms and subzero winds sweep the Dakotas and Central States. Temperatures stay below freezing across the Midwest as New York and Cleveland feel the edge of the system. Six deaths in Chicago and widespread calls for aid reflect the harsh conditions and looming toll from the cold snap.
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Chicago
Dakotas
Canada
Central State
Mid-West
North
South Dakota
Middle West
Central
Atlantic Seaboard
New York State
Cleveland
Brainerd
Minn
St. Paul
la Crosse
Wis
Berlin Unemployed Riots Clash with Police in Center
In Berlin on November 29 police clashed with unemployed rioters in the capital’s center. Disturbances along Friedrichstrasse prompted shopkeepers to lower shutters to prevent looting and damage.
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Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
Australian flier in Havana trip missing over water
In Havana November 29, Mrs. J M Keith Miller an Australian woman pilot disappeared after leaving General Machado airport in a single motor Wingo plane bound for Pittsburgh. Search efforts by sea and air from Key West Miami and Havana continued through the night and dawn with naval and Pan American Airways aircraft and boats scouring the Gulf of Mexico for the bullet monoplane and pilot.
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Havana
Cuba
J. M. Keith- Miller
Miami
Florida
General Machado
Naval Base
Key West
Fla
Pan-American Airways
Companie Cabana O de Aviacon
Pittsburgh
Humane Society To Meet Monday Lorain County annual meeting to elect two directors
The Lorain County Humane Society to hold its annual meeting at 211 Masonic Temple Monday evening with two directors to be elected. Terms of Harriet Cobb and Gertrude Ashbolt expire. Otto K Mischka will resign January 1 as agent and attorney. a successor will be appointed within ten days after the annual meeting. Reports from Alice Fisher secretary treasurer and J J Howlett pound keeper expected, including Howlett's dog redemption, sale or death figures.
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Lorain County Humane Society
Masonic Temple
Harriet Cobb
Gertrude Ashbolt
Lorain
Otto K. Mischka
Mischka
Alice Fisher
J. J. Howlett
Howlett
Opposition to Hoover World Court protocol in short session
Senate opposition forms to President Hoover's plan to submit the Root World Court protocol in the upcoming short session. Senator James I. Watson calls the move a grave mistake and rejects consideration of the World Court at the session. Hoover opposes an extra session, warning the protocol must not become a pretext to delay appropriations.
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Watson
Washington
Senate
Hoover
James I. Watson
Foor Jeader
Congress
Longworth Opposes Extra Session to March
Speaker Nicholas Longworth declared he would use all means to stop an extra congressional session after March 4. He urged rapid passage of appropriation bills and supported House votes on key proposals like Muscle Shoals and the Norris Lame Duck resolution to avoid being pressured into a new session.
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Washington
House
Nicholas Longworth
Congress
Longworth
Semi-Dictatorial Plan For Germany Revealed In Berlin
Berlin November 29 reports Chancellor Heinrich Bruening will pursue a financial program under a constitutional plan that would be semi-dictatorial in character as leaders of the government meet to map policy.
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Germany
Berlin
Heinrich Bruening
Mrs. H. M. Ebert Found Dead In Bed
Mrs. H. M. Ebert, 67, of 308 West Avenue, was found dead in her bed by neighbors this morning from a heart attack. She had lived alone since her husband died on Oct. 18 and was widow of Elyna High School's former principal. Neighbors noticed closed blinds and crawled in a window to find her. A daughter, Mrs. T. J. Weidner of Medina, will arrive for funeral arrangements.
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H. M. Ebert
West Avenue
Ebert
Elyna High School
T. J. Weidner
Medina
Building delay prompts Monday completion ultimatum
A county commissioners storm over the delay in finishing the new sick and invalid building at the County Home on Murray Ridge led to an ultimatum to Lorain contractor T. J. Hume to complete by Monday morning. Commissioner Thomas Peebles led the order and criticized other members of the Lorain County Building Commission.
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Murray Ridge
T. J. Hume
Lorain
Thomas Pebles
Charles Murray
Wellington
Building Commission
Peebles
Hume
Charles Jacobs
R. B. Baus
County Home
Missing Cleveland pilot Griffin Abandoned by Airport Officials
Cleveland news reports the disappearance of pilot William T. Griffin who left Toronto for Cleveland and is believed lost in a blizzard. Major John Berry says the chances of survival are slim as airmail pilots scan the route and one flyer, Barney Rawson, searched near Chagrin Falls for wreckage. Griffin, a Berea resident and Wings Inc. chief mechanic, is feared dead as harsh weather lingers over the city.
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Cleveland
William TF. Griffin
Cleveland Flyer
Toronto
John Berry
Griffin
Barney Rawson
Chagrin Falls
Berea
Wings, Inc
Blue Jay Next Week Color Contest Promises Fun
The Chronicle Telegram announces a blue jay coloring picture for next week after a strong response to the goldfinch contest. Judges face a tough task selecting winners, to be announced Monday, with the bird editor promising a dandy image for another fun coloring week.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Lorain County fair bill eyed. date moved to mid September
The Lorain County Agricultural Society opened a session in Lorain voting tentatively to move the 1931 Lorain County Fair to September 15 16 and 17 to avoid conflicts with the Ohio State Fair and others. The group seeks a state law guaranteeing county fair deficits while noting past losses around eight thousand dollars. State Rep P F Rogers supported a carefully drafted measure. Five new directors N D Backus EB M Wilkens W C Sudro A J Robinson P G Miller were elected to three year terms and will elect officers later.
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Ohio
Lorain
H. Rogers
Grafton
Lorain County
State Fair Managers’Association
N. D. Backus
EB. M. Wilkens
W. C. Sudro
A. J. Robinson
P. G. Miller
Dissension Flare at Ohio Farmers Co-Operative Milk Assn
J J Crecelius Milan vice president and board member accuses mismanagement and calls for an official house cleaning from cellar to garret. He threatens an accounting of officials and criticizes muddled plans to sell the Cleveland retail plant amid financial losses. Frank W Bishop counters that Crecelius is a trouble maker on the board.
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Cleveland, CO
Ohio Farmers’ Co-Operative Milk Association
J. J. Crecelius
Milan, CO
Crecelius
Co-operative
Cleveland
Frank W. Bishop
Guardian Trust Company
J. J. Prindle
Erie County
Milk Association
No. 3
Snowbound in Geauga County as blizzard seals area
Geauga County faced its worst snowfall in memory with a 35 square mile area housebound. Five foot drifts and 30 inches of snow on the level blocked roads and hindered mail and milk deliveries as dairy farms and residents fortified containers and await relief.
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Chardon
Geauga County
Admission of Espionage by Soviet Defendant
In Moscow on November 29 a defendant admitted providing military and economic information to foreigners. Eight counter-revolutionaries were on trial for plotting an interventionist war. The prosecutor Nicholas Krilenko pressed the case as the defendant testified he supplied data from the state planning commission and war materials to the central committee and on to Paris for foreign foes of the Soviet.
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Moscow
Russia
Nicholas Krilenko
Technico-Scientific
Supreme Court Council of National Economy
State Planning Commission
Central Committee
Paris
Lorain bootlegger fined to aid county poor funds
Frank Smith of TV Lorain was fined 1000 dollars and costs by Judge A R Webber for a third liquor offense, with half the total going to Lorain County Widow's Pension and Soldiers' Relief Funds and half to the state. A second Lorain violator faces a similar arrangement to replenish depleted funds.
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Lorain County
Frank Smith
Don W. Myers
John Harding
Lorain
Smith
Frank Pope Fined 300 For Liquor Possession
A police court this morning fined Frank Pope 300 and costs after he pleaded guilty to possession of intoxicating liquor. Pope was arrested November 25 in a raid on Elm Street where officers reported finding a gallon jug of alleged liquor. He was committed to the county jail for nonpayment of the fine.
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Frank Pope
Pope
Elm Street
Grain Carrier Maple Bay Sinks Likely
Coast guardsmen search Lake Superior for the Maple Bay of Montreal with a 22 man crew after the grain carrier failed to report since Tuesday. Marquette officials fear it sank in a violent wind storm that lashed the lake while the ship was en route for fuel at Marquette.
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Lake Superior
Marquette
Mich
Maple Bay
Montreal
T. B. Deegan
Marquette Coast Guard
Bete Gris Bay
Ita
Dreamland Theatre Fire in Elyria Causes Heavy Loss
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Dreamland Theatre at 537 Broad Street Elyria’s oldest motion picture house with an estimated loss of 30 000 to 40 000 dollars. Ten off duty firefighters aided, one inured, and occupants on the second floor evacuated as smoke and debris filled the building.
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Dreamland Theatre
Broad Street
Elyria
Hilyria
W. N. Bates
Frank Lysaght
Engine. —Co. No. Two
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Maccabees’ Lodge
Henry Wurst
Pekras
Bates
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Bree Eee
Membee
William Juak
A.F. of L
Labor
Irma Loucks
Nelson C. Bowles
Portland
Ore
Bowles
Miss Loucks
Humane Society
J. Herbert Case
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York
Bank of United States
Manufacturers Trust Company
Public National Bank and Trust Company
The
International Trust Company
Ficer
Anle Atal
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