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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
1
The Elyria Board of Education will hold a September 19 meeting to explain the November 3 mill levy and its impact. Officials stress the levy is not new and will not raise taxes, with annual revenue about 105000 and potential three month term shortening if it fails, urging lodges clubs and groups to attend for clarity.
Ohio fair tonight with warmer conditions in the southwest. Thursday turns cloudy and cooler with a chance of light rain at night.
Evidence gathered by U S senators reveals bribery as a principal method for securing foreign arms deals. Documents show payoffs to South American figures, including Juan Leguia son of a Peruvian ex-president, tied to major munitions firms and bond issues. The probe details profit schemes, high pressure tactics, and overseas espionage within the Electric Boat inquiry context.
Lorain County commissioners postponed the 1935 budget hearing to 1 p.m. September 9 at the request of Earl Bacon of Elyria Chamber of Commerce and a Citizen's Budget Committee member. Eaton noted the panel is still meeting with officials and hearings continue next Monday. The board has recently imposed reductions totaling 37,000, but details will await further study. The original budget of 676,784 exceeded 1934 general fund by 62,000, much for charity and state care, with other increases mainly in personal services.
The city’s new gas rate ordinance faces opposition as the Ohio Fuel Gas Company's refusal to accept terms was filed with Mayor W H Vanoster yesterday. If protested, the ordinance would take effect May 17 1935, with existing rates kept by bond until the Public Utilities Commission resolves the matter. Domestic rates currently range from 90 cents to 50 cents per thousand cubic feet, rising under the present plan. refunds would follow if a lower rate is set. Continued on Page 2
Washington report by Donald R. Richberg outlines New Deal relief, noting RFC disbursed 5.553 billion dollars and Home Owners' Loan Corporation advanced 1.299 billion, saving about 432,000 homes from foreclosure. RFC and HOLC totals across agencies show substantial lending to banks, agriculture, and municipalities with millions in repayments and safeguards.
Elyria retail stores resume Wednesday afternoon hours after a three month closure. The fall and winter schedule keeps regular hours on Wednesdays and other days. Under the NRA retail code stores may close Wednesday afternoons only during June July and August.
Elyrian High School principal C P Shively urged remaining students to enroll before Saturday noon to ensure smooth scheduling for the 1934 35 term opening Monday. Freshmen transfers and summer movers mostly未 registered. The school will use last year’s second semester schedule with doors at 10 a m and dismissal around 3 93 p m and a shortened first day to acclimate students.
The Elyria Board of Education approved four new teachers at its September meeting to fill summer vacancies. Three locals were chosen from Elyria and one Amherst resident due to no Elyria applicants meeting qualifications. Also awarded was a crippled children transport contract to Ellsworth Hales at 40 cents per day per pupil, funded by the state education department.
James Brown, Elyria school business manager, assured the Elyria Board of Education that coal contracts will follow NRA pricing. If codes fall, rebates cover past deliveries and future coal matches NRA price. if codes rise, contracts hold, with only freight and mine wage increases possibly altering cost.
Howard Vol genau of the Cleveland Federal Housing Bureau met Elyria officials and local banks approved for loans to discuss putting the Federal Housing Program into effect. Efforts were under way to convene the committee meeting this afternoon.
U P President Roosevelt steps in to name a three member mediation board at the urging of the National Labor Relations Board as a nationwide textile strike widens. Reports from New England to the South tally rising strikers, violence, and threatens martial law amid ongoing clashes and police activity.
The Elyria Kiwanis Club postpones its usual noon gathering to Thursday at 6 30 p m at the Newell Hotel for an autumn start event featuring a fish fry. Music will be provided by the Olympic Trio from Cleveland and an eight piece orchestra, arranged by a committee led by William Struck.
The Elyria Women’s Democratic Club schedules its September gathering for Thursday evening at the Woman’s Club. The session will cover club matters and upcoming activities.
Mrs. Mabelle M. Pullen died Monday night in Lakewood hospital from a heart attack linked to tomasilitis. She taught the deaf in Elyria’s Franklin building last year, had just married Gien Pullen, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist, in Ripley New York, and is survived by her daughter Marielle Tschappat. Funeral services were held today at 4 p.m. at William Daniels funeral home in Lakewood. the body will be cremated.
Funeral services were held for Paul F. Robson 25 at home on Fifth Street with interment in Ridgehill Memorial Cemetery. He died Saturday night at 9 30 in Middletown Ohio Hospital following an appendix operation. A Cornell graduate and Phi Gamma Delta member, he worked as designer and architect for Insulated Steel Co in Cleveland and was transferred to Middletown in June. He is survived by his parents and sister Mary Robson. A parliamentary law study, paused in summer, will resume.
Three veteran Elyria teachers with combined service of about 125 years will retire as schools open on Monday for the 1994-35 year term. J J Vaughn, Hilla Parmelee, and Mabel Gallup leave long careers in Elyria schools, Vaughn notably never tardy or absent and a longtime football game speaker, with Parmelee and Gallup also ending lengthy tenures in local classrooms.
Florence Lee, 49, charged with first degree murder in Lorain Municipal Court for the killing of Michael Carreo, 60, co owner of the 400 Bridge Club. Joseph Massessie faces second degree murder charges. Grand jury meets September 11. docket likened to the Magic Shop case. Lee surrendered to police after the fatal shooting following a jealous dispute.
The citizens budget study committee met with Charles Fell Sr and J W Warden to review the Lorain County Tuberculosis Sanatorium and county surveyor budgets. They reported agreement to further cut next year's expenses and praised Fell for two years of savings lowering the sanatorium budget by $20,000 annually and reduced patient care costs from 2.92 to 1.58 per day versus 2.58 average in ten Ohio sanatoriums.
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