Passengers Rescued From Hurricane Wrecked Dixie
Miami reports detail the Dixie rescue operation after the hurricane drove the liner onto French Reef. Rescue ships landed 77 passengers and 54 crew early, with 219 aboard. later the last 122 passengers were removed. Ships Arenas and Reaper ferried others to Charleston and Wilmington. Crew to remain aboard to aid salvage. Passengers praised Captain Sundström and crew for steadfast conduct amid peril.
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Miami
Dixie
Coast Guard
el Occidente
Einar Sundstrom
E. W. Sundstrom
French Reef
Florida
United Fruit
Arenas
Miami Harbor
Charleston
Reaper
Wilmington
N. C
Einer William Sundstrom
Florida Coast
Sundstrom
Unknown Perp Escapes Between Dixie Rescue and Rigging Incident
Celia Ratiner of Sunnyside Los Angeles recalls aboard the Dixie rescue operation with calm gratitude for the crew’s discipline and officers’ efficiency as about 14 others waited to depart. She mentions an unknown passenger among the crowd who climbed into the rigging during high winds to repair the radio antenna.
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Celia Ratiner
Sunnyside
L. A
Weather Ohio: Fair Tonight and Friday
AR weather forecast notes fair conditions across Ohio tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures expected tonight and a continued mild pattern into Friday. Highs in the 60s, lows around the 40s, light winds.
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Ohio
Woman Describes Experiences Aboard Wrecked Liner
Mrs. F. C. Scott of Los Angeles recalls 86 terrifying hours aboard the Dixie after leaving New Orleans. Aboard the liner as Florida Keys storms intensified, the vessel pitched, stranded on rocks, with rain, wind, and towering waves. Lifeboats were boarded amid a raging sea as the ship groaned and battered the deck.
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F. C. Scott
Los Angeles
Dixie
United Press
Miami
Sam
New Orleans
Florida Keys
Lorain Youth Surrenders In St Louis
Joseph J. Meluch, 27, of Lorain Ohio, who studied to be a detective, surrendered in St Louis after admitting his fingerprints linked him to his wife Dorothy Meluch's August death in Lorain. He waived extradition and offered to take lie detector tests. Lorain police planned to return him on a first degree murder warrant.
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ST. Louis
Joseph J. Meluch
Lorain
Meluch
Dorothy Meluch
Ohio
Dorothy Flowers
Dearborn
Mich
Dorothy
Fort Wayne
Ind
Michigan
Wisconsin
St Louis
Theodore E. Walker
Picket Hotel In Cleveland
Union pickets starved hotel deliveries and blocked entrances at Hotel Statler in Cleveland on September 5 prompting a renewed hotel strike strategy. Thomas A. Lenehan of the Cleveland Federation of Labor led a 75 to 150 strong line as engineers firemen and electricians joined, coinciding with a National Letter Carriers Convention.
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Cleveland
Hotel Statler
Thomas A. Lenehan
Cleveland Federation of Labor
National Letter Cartiers’ Association
American Federation of Labor Organization
the Brotherhood of Railway
Doric Rescues 736 Passengers After Liner Collision
In fog off Oporto, Cunard White Star liner Doric collides with French steamship Formigny. Doric 736 passengers taken aboard by Viceroy of India and Orion. crew of 400 stay onboard. Doric heads toward London, passengers to arrive Saturday.
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Lisbon
Cunard
White Star
Dorie
Formigny
Oporto
Doric
Oran
Algeria
Greig
Viceroy of India
Orion
London
Lordon
Hurricanes Bring Unimaginable Loss Across Florida Keys
Rescue parties penetrate hurricane wreckage across the Florida Keys with reports of 300 to 750 dead, 500 injured, and property damage possibly over 10 million dollars. Red Cross and FERA camps, veterans, and CCC workers figure in this vast disaster as bodies are recovered and graves prepared.
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Miami
Florida Keys
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
United Press
Keys
Key West
St. Petersburg
Gulf Coast
Homestead
Here
Western
Florida
Georgia
Jacksonville
Thomsoe
The
Miami Beach Daily Tribune
Red Cross
Key Largo
Upper
Lower Metacombe Keys
Coast Guard
Snake Creek
Upper Metacombe Key
FERA
Leonard K. Thompson
Thompson
CCC
Metacombe Keys
Veterans’ Bureau
Joe Stewart
Ed Butters
Islamorada
National Guard
Atlantic Coast Shipping Warned for Gulf Storm
The U S Weather Bureau warned Atlantic Coast shipping to brace for gales from Virginia Capes to Hatteras due to the Florida hurricane. Southeast storm warnings were hoisted from cape to Hatteras and the disturbance is expected to move northeastward bringing increasing southeast or east winds. Gale force winds are forecast for Friday.
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Washington
U. S. Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Hatteras
Florida
Cape
Renew Offer Of Compromise To Italy
Geneva September 5 Great Britain and France prepared to renew a compromise offer on the Ethiopian dispute. The plan aims to establish an Italian Ethiopian conciliation commission under League of Nations auspices to guide Ethiopia with collaboration from the three powers and Italy’s special interests considered.
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Geneva
Great Britain
France
Benito Mussolini
Paris
League
Anthony Eden
Britain
Ethiopia
Italy
Pierre Laval
Baron Pompeo Alesi
Eden
Bids Sought For PWA Water Main And Storage Tank
Bids are to be compiled this afternoon for the PWA water main project and a 1,000,000 gallon storage tank. City Engineer J M Powell reported bids received today. Estimated costs are 225000 for the main and 75000 for the storage tank.
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PWA
J. M. Powell
Only Four Enroll For Post Graduate Work
Elyria High School reports record low post graduate enrollment this year with only four students enrolled in advanced subjects. Principal C. P. Shively notes the four are studying physics economics chemistry and bookkeeping and cites improving employment prospects as a factor behind the decline.
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Elyria High
C. P. Shively
Elyria Hopes For Sufficient WPA Employment Projects
Elyria aims to secure enough WPA work to supply relief clients through winter. City Engineer J M Powell turned in 56 more projects totaling about 300000 in material and labor, bringing the past few weeks’ submissions to near 509000. Projects focus on sewers street work and park and cemetery improvements to meet Lorain County’s quota of 1413000 with Columbus review pending.
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WPA
Elyria
PWA
J. M. Powell
William Dutch
Cascade Park
Brookdale Cemetery
Lorain County
Columbus
Sandusky
Elyria Public School Enrollment Rises on Third Day
Elyria's public schools show a gain of 29 students on the third day, lifting total enrollment to 4,641. Elyria High School reaches 1,700 students, up 21 from yesterday, while Jefferson Junior High rises to 144 and elementary schools add five to bring third day totals to 2,777. special schools remain at 40. Since opening day, 122 students have enrolled.
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Elyria
Elyria High School
Jefferson Junior High School
Plans for $117,290 Jefferson Junior High addition
Preliminary plans for a proposed addition to Jefferson Junior High School, costing 117,290 dollars, were at Columbus today with state PWA officials after approval by the state department of education. The local school board seeks a 45 percent PWA grant, and approval by PWA officials is expected. James F. Brown, the school business manager, carried the plans and grant application to Columbus yesterday.
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Jefferson Junior High
PWA
Columbus
State Department of Education
James F. Brown
Brown
Four Injured In Traffic Accident Near Cincinnati
Four persons injured in a Dent Ohio auto crash involved a 14 year old girl struck by a car driven by Ethel Spear of Petersburg Virginia. Spear swerved and hit a porch and telephone pole. The girl Anna Feldkamp from Dent suffered a possible skull fracture and facial injuries. Spear and her parents G L Spear 74 and Emme Spear 71 were reported injured but not yet determined.
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Cincinnati
Dent
Ethel Spear
Petersburg
Anto
Anna Feldkamp
Miss Spear
G. L. Spear
Emme Spear
County Officials Discuss Collecting Owed Road Funds
County commissioners and County Surveyor J W Warden discussed collecting 920,090 owed to the county road fund by townships. Elyria owes 18,800 Rochester and Russia exceed 10,000 each. others owe lesser amounts. The funds are badly needed to replenish the depleted road fund.
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J. W. Warden
Elyria
Rochester
Russia
Declares Case Workers Pay Too High at Oberlin Home
State welfare officials protested proposed budget cuts to Oberlin Children's Home arguing two case workers should remain. Miss Elizabeth Houghton earns 125 monthly plus expenses and Elizabeth Lynch 95 plus expenses, though officials note caseloads and comparisons in Summit. County commissioners warned of tight finances with welfare budgets and offered no decision.
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Oberlin Children’s Home
Board of County Commissioners
State Welfare Department
Martha Lowry
J.holland
Oscar G. Dunn
Elizabeth Houghton
Elizabeth Lynch
Dunn
John E. Davidson
Holland
Miss Lowry
State Department
Cleveland Man Bidder On Elyria Project Attacked
Dominic Nero a 48 year old Cleveland construction firm head was struck from behind by a robber in daylight in Cleveland. He was wounded seriously after being hit with a gas pipe and robbed of 41 in cash plus an $11 000 certified check made out to the City of Biruria. Police said the robbers likely knew of his Elyria bid and expected cash. Nero lived in Cleveland and suffered a probable fractured skull.
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Cleveland
Dominic Nero
Nero
Bolton Square
Elyria
Biruria
Several Ohio Projects Get Approval
Washington reports presidential approval of 184 public works projects nationwide totaling $85,833,098 under the works relief program. Ohio items include grants for Piqua and Mansfield schools, a Cincinnati bridge project, Tiffin highway resurfacing, Cleveland sewer work, and Toledo school buildings and a storage service building, with loans and grants totaling multiple tens of thousands of dollars.
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Washington
PWA
Roosevelt
Ohio
Piqua
Mansfield
Cincinnati
Reading Roads
McMillan Ave
Tiffin
Cleveland
Toledo
Data On Silver To Be Revealed
Secretary Morgenthau pledged full cooperation with a Senate inquiry into the treasury’s silver purchase policy. He said figures on silver are being prepared and will be shared with Senator Pittman and the silver commission. He noted progress in the fourth Liberty Loan refunding, described as going very nicely.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Senate
the Treasury
Sen
Key Pittman
Morgenthau
Prolress
Bridge Commission Undertakes Duties
The Sandusky Bay Bridge Commission, sworn in, readies to assume duties today. Members Nick Stevens Oak Harbor Robert Lucas Fremont and George C Hill Sandusky were officially sworn in by John Caren executive secretary to Governor Martin L Davey. An organization meeting will name Norman C Howcek Sandusky secretary treasurer.
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Columbus
Sandusky Bay Bridge
Fall Is Fatal To Bucyrus Dentist
Dr Clarence Delashmutt a Bucyrus physician aged 42 died from injuries after a fall from a six foot stepladder. He and his wife and son had returned from Crawford County Fair and found the family cat missing. He climbed a tree to reach the limb broke and he fell to the pavement below. He died several hours later at City Hospital.
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Bucerus
Clarence Delashmutt
Crawford County
Delashmutt
City Hospital
Humane Society Set to Review 1936 Budget
The Lorain County Humane Society will discuss its 1936 budget as the principal business at Tuesday’s meeting held at Richard Horan’s office. Horan serves as general agent and attorney for the society, it was announced today.
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Lorain County Humane Society
Richard Horan
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Morgan Lineal
New York
BE. W. Sundstrum
Morgan Line
Studstrim
Merrit
Chapman and Scott Company
F. A. Wekenman
San Diego
Cal
Vine Dixie
E. HL. 8
Elyria Project
Bulletin
Bridge Commission
Humane Society
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