Escaped Convict James Wood Dies After Tavern Shootout
In Chicago a Missouri escapee identified by fingerprints as James Wood shot Officer Edward Lynn in the head at a tavern before dying from a heart wound. Police say Wood, 34, was fleeing Jefferson City where he served a term for assault to kill and attempted robbery.
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Chicago
Missouri
James Wood
Jefferson City
Wood
Edward Lynn
Garfield Park Community Hospital
Lynn
Allen Mulvey
Tom Williams
Bet
William H Struck Elyria Merchant Dies at 830 This Morning
William H Struck 37 proprietor of the Struck Furniture Store in Elyria died at his home 248 Columbus street after a six month illness. German born January 6 1881 he came to Elstra at age ten and entered the furniture trade with Wilkins Hurst Company later buying the business and renaming it Bill Struck Furniture. He led the Lorain County Agricultural Society as director and past president and was active in St Johns Lutheran Church Columbia Club and Elyria Kiwanis. Survived by wife Flora four daughters three grandchildren two brothers Ernst and Emil Struck and sister Minnie Schmidt. Funeral 2pm Friday at St Johns with burial in Ridgelawn. Burial at Ridgelawn Cemetery after service at Sudro Curtis Funeral Home then to Struck home for calling.
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Willam H Struck
Columbus Street
Germany
Elstra
Wilkins-Hurst Company
J H Hurst
Bill Struck Furniture Company
Lorain County Agricultural Society
St Johns Lutheran Church
Columbia Club
Elyria
Emil Struck
Elyna
Minnie Schmidt
Elynia
St John’s Lutheran Church
Armin Schroeder
Ridgelawn
Sudro- Curtis Funeral
Deputies To Be Given Special Training
Sheriff Carl R. Finegan arranges Lorain County deputy sheriffs to enroll in the Cleveland Police School to improve efficiency. The program, set up with safety director Elliott Ness, will cover traffic, photography, accident prevention, and vice investigation, with further details continued on page 27.
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Lorain County
Cleveland
Carl R. Finegan
Finegan
Elliott Ness
Cleveland Safety Director
Cleveland Police School
Weather Ohio and surrounding regions forecast update
Mixed reading shows mostly cloudy conditions tonight with a slight cool down expected Thursday. Area barometer trends persist across Gulf states and Rockies. a new high forms over Manitoba while Ontario system exits toward the Atlantic.
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Ohio
Gulf States
Rocky Mountain Plateau
Manitoba
Ontario
New England
Puget Sound
United States
St. Lawrence Valley
North Pacific
Jeke
Outlawed Iron Guard members killed escaping prison
In Bucharest on November 30 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 other Iron Guard members were shot and killed while attempting to escape a prison. Codreanu had been sentenced to ten years hard labor and seven years civil rights loss for the plan to overthrow King Carol and install fascism.
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Bucuarest
Roumania
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Iron Guard
Codreanu
Carol
Codreannu
Ion G. Duea
Europe
Plans For Seven Farm Institutes Nearly Complete
Preparations for seven Farmers Institutes in Lorain County are nearing completion. The Columbia Farmers’ Institute will open January 11 and 12 with speakers Thomas Campbell and Mrs. Forrest H. Bond. Other institutes follow in Eaton Brownhelm Brighton Henrietta Huntington and Belaen, with a special vegetable growers’ institute February 9 and 10.
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Lorain County
Columbia Farmers’ Institute
Thomas Campbell
van Wert
Lone Bandit Makes Haul In Cleveland
A neatly dressed man in Cleveland held up a mail carrier and eight Ohio Loan and Discount Co employees. He escaped with 2500 in cash and 4000 in diamonds after tying victims with twine and forcing cashier Miss Lillian Grant to open a safe. Clerk Agnes Hogue was knocked down during the confrontation at the Keith Building on the eighth floor.
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Cleveland
Ohio Loan & Discount Co
Lillian Grant
Agnes Hogue
Keith Building
Passes Over Columbus In Non-Stop Flight
John M. Jones completed a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to New York, passing over Columbus at 10:22 A M EST today after departing Los Angeles at 6:31 A M PST Tuesday. The journey demonstrated a direct air route with refueling not required.
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Columbus
John M. Jones
Los Angeles
New York
Publication In Berlin Attacks Americans
Berlin dispatch reports Das Schwarze Korps, the Elite Blackshirt Guards organ, threatens extermination of Jews if a Jew or inspired by Jews targets German officials. It attacks Roosevelt and the American press, cites a reader’s pardon proposal for mu nerers to go to Germany, and portrays Roosevelt amid lynching images. The editorial claims United States and Soviet Russia now personify world Jewry in global politics.
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Berlin
Das Schwarze Korps
Blackshirt Guards
Germany
Roosevelt
New York Daily News
United States
13 000 Auto Plants Idle By Strike
In Detroit on November 30 13 000 workers were sent home as body handlers walked out at the Plymouth and Briggs body plants. The strike by UAW members, described as a wildcat action, halted mass production with about 6 000 idle at Plymouth and 7 000 at Briggs. Union officials held talks with Plymouth management.
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Detroit
Plymouth
Briggs
Company 9
General Assembly
Automobile Company
United Automobile Workers Union
UAW
Plysmouth
Premonition Saves 34 As Schoolroom Ceiling Collapses
Joplin Missouri report credits a teacher Miss Beard with saving 34 pupils by leading them out of a classroom moments before plaster and metal lath crashed through the floor. She cited a forewarning feeling and attributed it to God Providence. Engineers blamed faulty construction for the collapse.
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Joplin
Mhiss Dollie Board
40 Foot Fall Fatal in Cleveland On Scaffold Collapse
Philip Marcus, 32, a bricklayer, died in Cleveland after a 40 foot fall from a scaffold while he and his father worked on repairing a building wall. He died from a skull fracture sustained in the fall. November 30.
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Cleveland
Philip Marcus
Emil Hacha Elected New Czech President in Prague
Dr Emil Hacha, long a top Czech legal figure, was chosen by the National Assembly as president of Czechoslovakia by 272 to 39 votes. Premier Sylovy accompanied him to Parliament for the oath, succeeding Eduard Benes amid a period of territorial concessions and cabinet reorganization.
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Czechoslovakia
Nov JU
Emil Hacha
High Court of Administration
National Assembly
Hacha
Czech
Jan Sylovy
Eduard Benes
Germany
Syrovy
Bohemia and Moravia
Slovakia
Ruthenia
Iluadia
Hacha Long
Fire Still Smoulders Six Days After Blaze
Six days after a fire destroyed wood pulp and the Jarka Great Lakes warehouse in Toledo authorities estimate losses at 70 000 dollars. Six firemen still directed streams of water on the smouldering ruins as Fire Chief Fred Schioff said access to the center was blocked by the nature of the stock. The blaze began Thanksgiving night.
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Toledo
Jarka Great Lakes
Fred Schioff
Auto Upsets Salesman Burns To Death In Ditch
Middletown dispatch reports Roy Tne, 43, a salesman, was burned to death when his automobile overturned on Route 73 and plunged into a ditch. The car struck two poles before leaving the road, and the victim was identified by his watch and license plates.
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Middletown
Roy Tne
Daveys To Vacate Mansion Before Inauguration
COLUMBUS November 30 Following the usual custom of retiring governors Governor and Mrs Martin L Davey will vacate the executive mansion several days in advance of the inauguration to allow Governor-Elect and Mrs John W Bricker to move in before the ceremony Mrs Myrne Smith the Governor's secretary said the Daveys probably would move back to their Kent home at least a week before Bricker becomes the seventh Governor to occupy the mansion The first was Governor James M Cox during his third term in 1920 Others have been Governors Harry L Davis Vic Donahey Myers Y Cooper George White and Davey
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
John W. Bricker
Myrne Smith
Daveys
Thei R Kent
Bricker
James M .Cox
Harry L. Davis
Vic Donahey
Myers Y. Cooper
George White
Davey
Highway Engineer To Get Job Back Soon
Columbus November 30 former State Highway engineer Harry A Sparks will be restored to his position by acting director Ivan Ault once a final court entry by Common Pleas Judge C A Leach is approved. Judge Leach ruled the March 7 abolition of Sparks post illegal. Sparks was dismissed after testifying before the Ohio Senate Graft Investigating committee that the state overpaid for hot mix road materials. Isadore Topper Sparks counsel will seek back salary from the dismissal date.
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Columbus
Harry A. Sparks
Ivan Ault
Common Pleas
C A Leach
Leach
Sparks
Ilegal Sparks
Ohio Senate
Isadore Topper
Probe Crash Of Luxury Airliner Five Are Dead
SAN FRANCISCO November 30 The Civil Aeronautics Authority investigated the crash landing of a luxury airliner in the Pacific near Point Reyes with five lives lost. Only Isadore Edelstein and Captain Charles Baldwin Stead survived. Surgeons say the passengers and crew who drowned in the surf near the rocks were Lloyd Jones stewardess Fiona Clay and other travelers including Philip Hart Ivan B Hetleblower Sidney L Shantz. Edelstein, paroled for the second time, was en route to Los Angeles to bid his parents farewell before leaving for Honolulu after promising Gov Martin to depart the United States.
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San Francisco
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Isadore Edelstein
Charles Baldwin Stead
United Air
Point Reyes
Coast
Clarence D Martin
Washington
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Gov Martin
United States
Elyria Stores Show Thousands Of Gift Items For Christmas
Local merchants announce a vast array of Christmas gifts in Elyria stores. Merchandise from manufacturers and wholesale marts arrives weeks ahead and the Yuletide stock is complete and varied. Shoppers are urged to visit stores now before the holiday rush and enjoy the educational displays of new items from around the world.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
Bricker to Discuss Patronage Shift in Ohio Highway Dept
Governor-elect John W. Bricker said a complete change in personnel at the state highway department may be more essential than a nonpartisan board. He noted several candidates for highway director and said a legislature submission is possible. He plans to review school funding deficits with a citizen committee and will meet county chairmen to discuss patronage distribution.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
State Highway Department
Bricker
Nnally
Walton Bliss
Ohio Education Association
Citizens Committee
School Foundation
Pleads Guilty To Grand Larceny Charge
John Calante of Chicago pled guilty before Judge D Cook to grand larceny charges in Lorain. He faces one to seven years in prison for swindling Phillip Russo of 5800 by using a black box ruse to obtain money for a farm purchase. Prosecutor Wickens said Calante traveled through Indiana Michigan Illinois Minnesota and Wisconsin using aliases to avoid conviction. Wisconsin released him to Lorain after failing to convict on related charges. Calante reportedly altered his hair and facial hair to foil identification at trials.
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John Calante
Chicago
D . Cook
Phillip Russo
Lorain
William Wickens
Calante
Indiana
Michigan
Ilinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Lorain County
Wickens
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