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Newspaper

The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 01, 1938

Page

5

Harter Accepts Debate Proposal With Sheck

Congressman Don W. Harter accepted Edward S. Sheck's plan for debates but urged narrowing to present public interest questions likely to reach Congress. He proposed three additional questions and argued incumbency and party leadership experience justify discussion of policy over personal clashes. He favored limiting debates to a few sessions focusing on major issues.

Don W. Harter Edward S. Sheck Sheck Harter Congress Supreme Court Securities and Exchange Commission WPA PWA

Fourth Stop Added To Lorain County Corn Tour

The Lorain County hybrid corn tour adds a fourth stop next Tuesday after noon. C Hummel announces the new site at J H Miller farm Brownhenny Township to study K 23 and open pollinated hybrids. Previous stops include H L Leimbach Brownhelm Neal Ludwig Amherst and Frank Sweet Fields Corners with the first stop at Leimbach at 1 pm.

Lorain County C [. Hummel County Agricultural J. H. Miller Brownhenny Township H. L. Leimbach Brownhelm Neal Ludwig Amherst Frank Sweet Fields Corners Leimbach

Clerk H E Agate Announces New Registrar Clerk

Clerk of Courts H E Agate announced the hiring of Miss Helen Savulak of Lorain as a clerk in the automobile registration department. She will replace Mrs Eleanor Schiff who recently got married.

H. E. Agate Helen Savulak Lorain Automobile Registration Department Savulak Eleanor Schiff

Traffic Lights Made In Amherst Flash Stop And Go Coast To Coast

Master Equipment Company in Amherst produces traffic signals used from Beverly Hills to Elyria. The firm, incorporated last December, plans expansion to add die cast signals and increase floor space as demand grows. L. P. Wottring, president, says shipments go nationwide and most lights are Master Signals with glare-free visibility.

Amherst Beverly Hills California Atlantic Coast Pacific Coast Master Equipment Company Forest Street L. P. Wottring Wottring Dustrial Elylyia Iver American Crucible Products Company Loran Lorain Company United States Elyria Broad Street L. A. We Vce R Hy Warren Anager I Don Granger

New York Man Hurt In Collision Near Wellington

William Steger of New York treated at Falls Clinic for head cuts and bruises after a head on crash on Route 18 one and a quarter miles west of Wellington. Steger’s car collided with a vehicle driven by Earl Watters of Wellington. Steger and Watters’ mother sister and brother rode in the second car and were unhurt. The Steger family had been visiting Minnesota.

Wellington William Sieger New York Falls Clin Steger Earl Watters Watters Sterer Minnesota

Poland and Czechoslovakia face mounting border clash

News wires report rising tension as Polish forces mass near the border amid a dispute over Teschen and adjacent towns. Czechoslovak troops occupy contested territory while civilians prepare with gas masks as both sides brace for possible fighting despite the Munich accord. Poland aims to press its claims with mobilization discussions unfolding and international powers holding a reconfirming meeting if the dispute persists.

Teschen Poland Karwin Prynec Aloracska Ostrava Czechoslovakia Chechoslovakia Warsaw Spo Adolf Hitler Germany Great Britain France Italy Morayska Ostrava

Industrial Safety Campaign Begins in Lorain County

Industrial Safety Campaign opens at midnight with over 300 Lenunp County firms expected to join. Awards offered for best safety records over three months, automatic enrollment this year, with additions likely. Sponsored by Division of Safety and Hygiene, Industrial Commission of Ohio, in cooperation with Elyria Lorain Chamber. Officials include Thomas P. Kearns chair, Claude Birch vice chair, Den F Williams and Walter Y Mahl. Elsra Chamber prize to grand winner. other division winners receive certificates. Participants must file monthly reports on hours worked and all accidents.

Lenunp Division of Safety and Hygiene Otho Elyria Lorvit Charmakers of Commerce Lorain Chamber Thomas P. Kearns Claude Birch Pfaudler Company den F Williams Lorain Chamber of Commerce Walter Y Mahl National Tube Company Elsra Chamber of Commerce Ihe Vatims Industrial Commission

Poland Faces Border Crises as Prague Accord Frays

A broadcast heightens Polish-Czechoslovak tensions amid border clashes. Polish leaders fear Prague’s collapse as Slovaks pull from government. Estimates place Polish and Czech forces around 3.5 million and 1 million respectively, with Czechoslovakia possibly fracturing to 7 to 10 million if conflict escalates. Foreign ministers and ambassadors from six nations met in Warsaw as skirmishes across the border claim nearly 100 lives in a week.

Prague Lower Silesian Poland Czechoslovakia Skoda Pilsen Joseph Beck Warsaw Germany France Italy Great Britain Romania United States Hungary Pac

Deaths and funeral notices pile up in Amherst and Elyria

A string of obituaries and funeral notices from Amherst and Elyria details names ages and burial places. George Rufus Fox 87 of Union Street dies at home. services set for Sunday at Keith Andrews Funeral Home, burial in Clarksfield. Mary Wright, born 1853 in Popular England, dies at Elyria Home for the Aged. services Monday at 2:30, burial Ridgelawn. Josef Chismar of 621 West River Street dies after illness. services Tuesday at St Agnes parish. Serene Smith wife of George Smith dies at 10am. memorials at funeral home and burial pending. John M Diederich 62 dies at Amherst Hospital after illness. service at St Joseph’s Amherst, burial St Mars’s. Mary Schmickens Brandt 86 dies at North Main Street. rites at St Peter’s Amherst, burial Cleveland Avenue Cemetery. survivors listed including children and grandchildren.

George Rufus Fox Wellington Union Street Keith Andrews C. W Clarksfield Cemetery Mary A Wright Elyria Miss. Wright Popular England First Methodist Church of Walter T. Wright Denver Colorado C. $. Brown Pasadenia California Taylor Funeral Home Home For the Frank Hicks Ridgelawn Cemetery Svoseon Losmar West River Street Murray Ridge Road Chismar Austria Beer County St Agnes Parish John Joseph Steven Andrew Michael George Maury Frans Cleveland St. Agnes Church Serene Smith George Smith Berlinville Ohio Tira Methodist Church Pested Edward Smith Alice Cees Bernard Voelker St. Lows Voelker Enid Oklahoma Suare Curtis Ale Kemp Carl LaPorte Cemeterie Amherst John M Deoderich Amherst Hospital R D Jenne Road Gertrude Vogler P. J. Diederich Wiliam N A. Diederich Matt B. Diederich Elgria St. Joseph's Church St Mars’s Cemetery Elyrg Max Mary Brandt Amherst Mary Schmickens Brand North Min Street Brandt Bavaria St. Peter's Rose Opperman Vermilion Margaret Erhart Barbara Schultz Rose Kane St. Peter's Church C. B. Schmidt Cleveland Avenue Cemetery

County budget shows large increases in aid and services

The document lists a total agriculture and promotion budget of 12 150 with 49 033 in miscellaneous including 25 000 for state institutions care 1 000 for crippled children and 4 000 for workmen s compensation A 20 000 item covers delinquent lands advertising County Auditor 39 330 includes 2 000 raise for employer compensation 1 600 for Board of Revision 2 800 for personal property assessing and more across offices with noted increases in clerks juvenile and probate court salaries and 70 000 aid for dependent children reflecting a year of expanded county spending.

Board of Revision Board of Elections Common Pleas Court

Elyria Records Few Contagions in September

Elyria nearly cleared of contagious disease last month with only 17 whooping cough cases, plus one chicken pox and one pulmonary tuberculosis case. Measles and scarlet fever were absent. Health staff logged heavy preventive work: 507 visits by Kathryne Fulton, many tuberculosis and infant welfare activities, school and clinic duties, births, vaccinations, throat cultures, and skin tests. City chemist E G Currugs ran 337 tests, while FH Williams and G W Savage oversaw inspections, complaints, and meat market diligence.

Elyria Health Department G. E. French Board of Health Kathryne Fulton Ehemist

Increase in Elyria Fires In First Three Quarters of 1938

Elyria fire department records show 167 fires to date in the first three quarters of 1938, up from 14 in the same period in 1937. March 1938 had 44 fires, 21 more than March 1937. September totals dropped slightly year over year.

Elyria

National Dairy Show Opens Next Saturday with Lorain 4-H Group

Eight members of Lorain County 4-H dairy clubs head to the National Dairy Show in Columbus, after earning tickets through dairy judging wins at the Lorain County Fair. The group includes John Love Brownhelm Wayne Aldrich La Grange Donald Simms Carlisle William Brill Brownhelm Neil Wise Grafton Robert Grobe Amherst Marshall Bligh Penfield and Erma Youngberg Carlisle.

Lorain County Columbus John Love Brownhelm Wayne Aldrich la Grange Donald Simms Carlisle William Brill Neil Wise Grafton Robert Grobe Amherst Marshall Bligh Penfield Erma Youngeberg

County Budget Increases Across Courts And Relief Funds

The county budget details increases for Courts to 26,920 dollars, Coroner 1,900, Sheriff’s Department 43,245, and Children’s Home 58,800, plus adds 1,000 for physicians and 6,000 for child maintenance. County Engineer 15,883, Ditches 11,050, Soldiers Relief 43,260, Blind Relief 9,318, with 18,000 for a contingent fund not included in the 742,460 total.

Sheriff's Department Children’s Home

Oberlin Indians Rally To Defeat Berea 13-12

Oberlin Highs Indians overcome the loss of star center Paul Hovey to a fractured ankle to edge Berea 13 to 12 at Morris Field. Campbell and Hudwell sparked a late rally with a key scoring play and a successful pass combination, giving Oberlin its second win of the season. Next Friday they host Fairview under lights at 7:45 pm.

Tom Kelly Oberlin Oberlin High Indians Berea Morris Field Paul Hovey Campbell Don Campbell Robinson Norm Willbond Radamaker Phillips Obertin Wilband Herman Hudwell Fairview Oherlis Brawn

College and City Grid Scores From Far-Flung Meet

A long list of high school and college results features teams from Columbus, Akron, Cleveland, and beyond. Notable scores include Columbus North 39, Columbus West 1, and Cleveland St Ignatius 26, with many smaller schools earning wins or losses across a sprawling slate of matches and exhibitions.

Moves to avert European war cited as success

Commentators said efforts to prevent a European war had succeeded, noting that war would have required sidelining domestic affairs. Although war is averted for now, US neutrality policy is expected to be a major congressional debate topic.

Europe United States Congress

College events and talks schedule for October week one

Weekly calendar lists events at Finney Chapel Carnegie Library and Allen Art Building. Includes lectures by Oscar Jaszi on Czechoslovakia, Samuel Kao on The Present Situation in China, religious services, faculty meetings, a college football game against Oberlings and a cross country meet with Ohio Wesleyan, plus student receptions and an opening recital.

Allen Art Finney Chapel Oscar Jaszi Czechoslovakia Carnegie Library John W. Bricker Ohio The College of Arts and Sciences Conservatory of Music School of Theology Fairchild Chapel Samuel C. Kao Yunnanfu West China China Conservatory Barrows House E. H. Wilkins Oberlings Kenyon Ohio Wesleyan Allen Art Building

First Church Activities in Oberlin and Community Notes

Church services and classes at First Church in Oberlin listed with times and leaders including James A Richards and Clarke J M Cochrane. Evening services feature sermons such as Vexing God and A Faith to Match the Hour. Oberlin Woman's Club holds its first meeting with a reception and conservatory quartet. travel notes mention professors and relatives abroad.

Oberlin James A Richards Clarke J M Cochrane First Methodist Church Slee Whiteman Ernest Yocom C. T. Craig Emerson Ane Europe Epworth League Capen House Methodist Parsonage South Cedar Oberlin Woman’s Club Mes . H. Wilkins Forest Street Conservatory

Court verdict awards prosser daughter loan case in Elyria

A jury in Common Pleas Court awarded Mary A. Prosser of Elyria four thousand two hundred fifty nine dollars against her daughter Ida B. Kruger after Prosser claimed she loaned the money two years ago and Kruger argues it was a gift. Lorain County Savings and Trust Co sues Clarence J. Smith for three thousand five hundred nine dollars and seeks foreclosure of property in Avon Lake. Isabel Denger seeks divorce from William Denger on cruelty grounds. they married October 18 last year.

Common Pleas D. A. Cook Mary A. Prosser Elyria Ida B. Kruger Lorain County Savings and Trust Company Clarence J. Smith Avon Lake Isabel Denger William Denger

Says Jobs Available Here For Girls

Unemployed Elyria girls may secure jobs through the Ohio State Employment Service run by the state with no charge. Lorain County office manager Louis A. Lieb said the bureau cannot meet Elyria employers demand because too few girls are registered. Openings exist in Elyria stores businesses restaurants and homes. Girls seeking work should register at the bureau any morning between 9 and 12.

Elyria Ohio State Employment Service Louis A. Lieb Lorain County Broadway Lorain Dreamland Theatre Ellyria

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