Hunt Murder Suspect At Avon Lake
Five deputies from the sheriff's office and four Elyria police, with Cleveland detectives, searched Avon Lake after a reported sighting of murder suspect Michael Sayko, 50, at Schneider's restaurant near Stop 65 Lake Road. Sayko, wanted on a Pittsburgh murder indictment, allegedly escaped custody and exchanged gunfire with Cleveland officers the previous day. no capture by mid afternoon.
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Sheriff's Office
Elyvia Police Department
Cleveland
William Arnold
Avon Lake
Schneider's
Stop 65
Lake Road
Michael Sayko
Pittsburgh
C. J. Coerdy
Suyku
Adams, Fullon
Bulzumi
Judge
Kubiske
Lloyd Sweet
M. E. Olmsted
C. L. Miller
Paui Palmer
A. F. L. Sidetracks Report Assailing New Deal Policies
In Houston on Oct 12 the American Federation of Labor shelved a report attacking New Deal policies as steering toward socialism. The document criticized state control but did not attack President Roosevelt and was sent to the Executive Council. Debates raged as George Q. Land led challenges to the report led by Woll and Frey. President Green called it a confusing philosophical analysis and opposed the act it opposed. The convention will hear Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews and is set to reelect Green to a 15th term amid CIO pressure.
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Houston
Tex
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Federation
Executive Council
Resolutions Committee
Matthew Wall
George Q. Land
Pattern Makers
Woll
John P. Frey
Metal Trades Department
William Green
A. F.of L
Andrews
William L. Green
John L. Lewis
CIO
Green
Lewis
Veteran Dies At 94 In Athens Home
Gny Charles Barker, 94, Civil War veteran, died yesterday at his home in Lower Plains Athens. He escaped Andersonville prison by disguising himself in a guard’s clothing during the war.
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Athens
Charles Barker
Lower Plains
Andersonville
Ohio Editor Retires After 51 Years in Chillicothe
Edwin Wenis, editor of the Chillicothe Scioto Gazette, announced his retirement today after 51 years in newspaper work. He will move to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Chillicothe
Edwin
Wenis
Chillicothe Scioto-Gazette
Scranton
Weather outlook with rain and cooling Thursday
The forecast indicates rain beginning late tonight or Thursday with colder conditions on Thursday. Winds shift from south to southwest to northwest. Pressure remains high over the Atlantic states while a new high forms in the Rocky Mountains. A western disturbance moves toward Manitoba with low pressure extending southward through the Plains. Showers and storms reported from Kansas to the Carolinas. Temperature changes in the last 24 hours are minimal.
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Atlantic States
Rocky Mountain
Manitoba
Plains
Mansas Orruethwent
Io Cartana
British Warn Japanese Fighting Toward Canton
British warns that Japanese forces push toward Canton threatening Great Britain’s South China commercial interests. The invasion marks a bold advance aimed at severing Chinese supply lines to Hankow, with an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 troops and a potential defense force near a million. Britain cites soaring stock prices and warns that foreign trade in Canton and Hong Kong hangs in the balance as Europe’s crisis and Spanish war unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Canton
Great Britain
China
Sugrave
Britain
Japan
Bias Bay
Hankow
South China
Peipine
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Far East
Hongkong
Yangtze Valley
Tokyo Stock Exchange
France
United States
Europe
Palestine
Roosevelt Hikes Navy Budget Dooms Armament Talks
President Roosevelt announced next year's naval expenditures would rise to a peace time high, with a $150 million increase pushing the 1940 naval budget above $700 million. Officials see little chance for an immediate disarmament conference amid European tension and Sino Japanese warfare. The move aims to accelerate shipbuilding and begin the $1.5 billion expansion, signaling approval to proceed on four new battleships and six first line warships in 1939.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Adolf Hitler
Saarbrucken
Germany
Great Britain
France
Sumner Welles
Ford Officials May Talk With Martin Again
Detroit Oct 12 Universal Press reports more talks between Ford Motor Co official Harry Bennett and United Auto Workers president Homer Martin. After a handshake with Ford foe union chief, both indicated further discussions on working conditions and the union seeks a 32 hour week. Martin and Bennett noted talks on equalizing waves and conditions and ungilded labor. Martin indicated hope of a Flint meeting with the union committee to press grievances, with continued discussions likely among General Motors and Chrysler as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.P
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Co
Homer Martin
United Auto Workers
Ford
Bennett
Martin
Henry Ford
General Motors Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
Ford Company
National Labor Relations Board
Martina
General Motors
Chrysler
Buick
Flint
Arabs And British Battle Near Sacred Shrines
Arab rebels and British troops clashed five miles southwest of Jerusalem near Bethlehem, leaving one British soldier dead and another wounded as Arabs reportedly withdrew with unknown casualties. Reinforcements from Egypt, Malta, and the British Isles poured in while clashes continued around Nazareth and other nearby towns.
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Jerusalem
U.n
Holy Land
Bethlehem
Christ
Egypt
Malta
British Isles
Mathias
Nazareth
Barclays Bank
Seminary President Is Baptist Speaker at Johnson City Conference
Rev. Earl G. Griffith D D pastor of the First Baptist Church Johnson City New York and president of Johnson City Bible Seminary spoke at the First Baptist Church last night as the conference under the General Association of Regular Baptists of North America met. Rev E C Shute of Decatur Illinois will bring the message this evening. It was announced Rev R T Ketcham D D Gary Indiana former Elyria Baptist Church pastor will preach the ordination sermon for Edward Frederick. Public invited to attend both services tonight and tomorrow night at 730 pm.
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Earl G. Griffith
D. D
First Baptist Church
Johnson City
New York
Shute
R. T. Ketcham
Gary
Indiana
Elyria Baptist Church
Edward Frederick
Czech Hungarian Border Parley Resumes After Deadlock
Delegations negotiating the Czechoslovak Hungarian frontier reassembled after yesterday's deadlock. Czechoslovaks insisted on basing majorities on the 1930 map, while Hungarians demanded lands south of a Bratislava Uzhorod line, a 250 mile stretch crossing Slovakian territory.
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Komarom
Hungary
Bratislava
Uzhorod
Slovakia
Big Business Gains In Last Half Of 1938
New York Oct 12 United Press reports that national income is set to rise by about 5 billion in the second half of 1938, the largest such gain in years though still below 1936 and 1937 totals. Employment has increased with over a million more workers in five months as economists project a stronger three months ahead and an annual total around 56 billion, versus 69.8 billion in 1937.
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United Press
New York
Sears
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Community Chest Plans Discussed Elyria executive committee plans campaign roles
The Elyria Community Chest executive committee met last night to set a general chairman and chairmen for the Ladies Industrial and Committee A groups. A top speaker will open the campaign dinner, dates will follow tradition, and new member Alva Kemp joined to help with the extensive work ahead.
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Elyria Community Chest
Council
Community Chest
Alva Kemp
Lorain Student Wins Scholarship Award At Columbia Law
New York October 12 Oliver T Mansfield of Cleveland Heights Ohio a second year student at Columbia University law school and Edward H Mahla of Lorain Ohio a third year student are among recipients of dean and faculty scholarships at the university Scholarships are for individual amounts adjusted to student needs.
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New York
Oliver T. Mansfield
Cleveland Heights
Columbia University Law School
Edward H. Mahla
Lorain
University
Driver Killed In Truck Crash Near Mount Union
Funeral services for Max Frederick Welton twenty five, killed yesterday near Mount Union when his truck left the highway and he was thrown from the cab under the trailer. Interment in LaPorte cemetery. Survived by parents Leon and Mrs Welton, two grandmothers, and other relatives. Body at Nichols Funeral Home. casket not to be opened.
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Max Frederick Welton
Mount Union
Nichols Funeral Home
Thomas Hughes
LaPorte M. LE
LaPorte
Weston
Leon A. Welton
Grafton Road
Lorain County
LaPorte M. BE. Church
Elizabeth Handrod
Alice Welton
Elyria
Seventeen Dead In Ontario forest fires threaten towns
Fort Frances Ontario reports fires sweeping 700 square miles along the border with Minnesota. Seventeen dead and many missing as volunteers and CCC workers, aided by air observers, battle brush fires driven by winds. Dance township area sees 13 deaths, including LaBelle and Noah Labelle families. Roads blocked, wagon evacuation failed, bodies found near a woodlawn patch.
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Fort Frances
CCC
Rosseau
Lake of the Woods
Kogchiching
Minnesota
International Falls
Dance Township
Ontario
William
Frank
Noah LaBelle
William Labelle
Woodlawn
Strachey Appeals U.S. Exclusion in Washington
NEW YORK October 21 British left wing author John Strachey appealed an immigration exclusion to the state and labor departments in Washington. Strachey, barred after a visa cancellation in London, is confined without bail pending deportation on the Normandie, but he signed the appeal.
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New York
John Strachey
Badger Leads Nevada Gold Strike to Rich Prospect
San Francisco salesman Edward Boomershine and prospector George Burris credit a digging badger for guiding ore finds 12 miles south of Hawthorne on the Lucky Boy grade. They have extracted over 800 tons of ore valued from $20 to $900 a ton, with initial sample assays around $65 per ton.
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San Francisco
Edward R. Boomershine
Nevada
Boomershine
George Burris
Hawthorne
Burris
Bureau of Mines
George
Dayton Consolidated Mill
Last Arguments Given Reinstatement Of 3 Deputies By Sheriff
A Lorain County bribery trial in Oberlin featured closing arguments as a nine woman jury weighed testimonies in the slot machine case against operators William Peer Harry Zeeman Dave Crawford Sr and Dave Crawford Jr. Defense argued the sheriff William Grall and aides conspired while prosecutors urged conviction and removal of Grall amid testimony that elder Crawford sought immunity.
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Guy B. Findley
William Wickens
Howard R. Butler
C. F. Adams
William F. Grall
William Peer
Harry Zeeman
Dave Crawford
Lorain
Stanton
Hobbs
Oberlin
Grall
Tn Hie Anéning Ordment Vector
Wickens
Lorain County
Crawford
Crawford, Sr
Butler
Crawfords
Aos
Sheriff's Department
William G. Smith
Alfred G. Bauer
Department
Slain Girl's Coat and Beret Found
In Larchmont, New York, the brown cloth coat and maroon beret of 17-year-old Mary Imelda Coyle were found near her houseboat home off the Boston Post Road. Police also recovered an old automobile crank that may have been the murder weapon. A sister identified the garments as hers. they had been missing when her body was found in a vacant lot.
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Larchmont
Mary Imelda Coyle
Boston Post Road
Russian Throne Pretender Dies
Paris reports Grand Duke Cyril, claimant to the Russian throne, died at 62 after leg infection and arterial hardening. A grandson of Alexander II and cousin to Nicholas II, he had proclaimed himself successor in 1917 and was titled Emperor of all the Russians by royalists. His niece was Great Britain's Duchess of Kent.
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Paris
Cyril
Russia
Alexander II
Nicholas II
Great Britain
Duchess of Kent
Italy to stay on guard after Munich pact report
Rome reports that Italy and Germany will remain vigilant despite the Munich agreement. The semi official diplomatic information service praised Hitler’s stance and said Germany would carefully strengthen defenses. The report notes no immediate changes but signals continued alert status.
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Italy
Rome
Germany
Adolf Miter
Hitler
Neti
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Grail
Smith and Bauer
Hobb
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