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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1931
Page
5
In Cranwood race track seventh race, Lester Dye 28 was injured when his horse Fausto collapsed and died, crushing him and breaking ribs while damaging his lungs. He is hospitalized at St. Alexis hospital in Cleveland and expected to recover.
Louise Ramsey, 38, a divorcee and mother, was shot by Jake Perett, 28, who then killed himself on a Columbus street corner. Police say jealousy over their planned marriage sparked the fatal incident after a Thursday quarrel. The couple had recently moved from Peebles, Adams County.
C. W. Eberhard of the Ohio Farm Bureau Grazits Department says the Federal Farm Board sale totaled about 92,000,000 bushels and that the marked reduction in acreage suggests next year's wheat crop will be somewhat smaller.
Moscow reports a nationwide push by all government branches to boost coal production to meet a 1933 target of 140 million tons of coal and coke, with cast iron goal of 17 million tons. The plan demands rapid expansion of new fields and utilization of existing mines, amid last year’s output near 50 million tons and an unreached 1933 schedule.
In Hackensack New Jersey police accuse Olga Ziegler wife of Otto Ziegler 38 and George Flanard 21 an employee of the silk label maker of murdering Ziegler. Flanard reportedly confessed claiming he shot Ziegler as Olga watched from the porch while Ruth Hering the other employee and flanards sweetheart faced a Canada trip plot. The case ties a love triangle to a fatal shooting amid a broader context of industrial plans and coal mining equipment interests.
Paris remembers a sunny Sunday as rain lashes the city. Rainy weather boosts raincoat makers while straw hat firms suffer losses and cab horses wade the streets as fashion houses eye bathing suits and umbrellas for the Grand Prix year. The London press worries the Paris rain crisis threatens Europe's ramming bay.
In Blossburg Pennsylvania a 110 foot high mound will be dedicated on September 23 as a Wilson memorial. Polish born or descended residents fund the mound symbolizing Wilsons services and Poles support independence. Soil from Poland and Polish communities in the United States will be used. The spiral mound has 14 platforms for Wilsons 14 points with bronze tablets. The Great President Woodrow Wilson Mound Association funds upkeep chaired by Father John Suchose. An American flag will fly atop a 20 foot pole.
A 37 inch long catfish weighing 25 pounds was displayed by Artie Roberts and George Caldwell in Radford Virginia. The find is noted as one of the largest catfish seen in years in the area.
George Parrish weighed 350 pounds while Harry Parrish carried £30 and Dave Parrish £5 with Freak Goodpasture at 215 pounds. Dave and George Parrish defeated their opponents 3 up in a closely fought event described as a Bristol history match.
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