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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1936
Page
1
The siege and combat continue as the Alcazar of Toledo is attacked marking the tenth week of the civil war. Rebels and Loyalists clash on multiple fronts near Madrid and Toledo while Madrid braces for air raids and a cold winter campaign.
Toledo dispatch reports Loyalists pressing to reach Alcazar bedrock cells amid debris as bombardment threatens Madrid. A second assault within 24 hours follows a failed attempt to dynamite the fortress, with authorities ordering a city blackout to avert a Rebel air raid.
A rebel communique from Burgos states Major Cobian’s forces in Seville captured 2,000 Loyalists on the Lierena Sector of the Extremadura front. It reports 140 Loyalists killed, 30 wounded, no rebels harmed, and loot including armaments and horses.
Ohio forecast calls for fair conditions tonight then sunny on Sunday with slightly warmer temperatures. Monday may bring showers as a continuation of unsettled spring weather.
In a hurricane off Delaware, 34 crew members were found alive on a barge inside Delaware Breakwater after being listed as lost. Four others remained missing while three were saved from wreckage as Coast Guard units pursued rescue and inspected the grounded Ida Hay At water.
Chief enforcement officer Almon J. Borgardus 63 of the Ohio Liquor Board was charged with the killing of Mrs. June Roebuck Montgomery 34. A homicide squad warrant filed today cites the hotel room assault Thursday with Montgomery dying Friday.
Elyria reports its new 30 inch water main from North Ridge Road to Belmont Street shows no leaks in five of six sections during tests. Engineers note a negligible leak in one section likely at a valve, with couplings cited as key to the water tightness and specifications allowing some leakage. Normal pressure runs about 65 psi.
WPA unveils a 40.6 million word geography book with six national volumes 48 state guides and about 100 city guides. Six thousand paid authors 12,000 volunteers and 3 million dollars funded the project with prints set to roll nationwide. Specimen pages promise wide range from history to folklore with vivid photography and prose.
More than 2,000 people homeless across Ballinger and San Angelo as Colorado and Concho river floods surged toward Austin. About 20 miles southeast of Ballinger the rivers meet, driving 1,500 from their homes and causing $2,000,000 in damage yesterday in San Angelo. Local authorities rushed public services repairs, Red Cross meals, and shelter in schools while fearing greater flooding downstream.
Police harbor patrol rescued three men from a small schooner that foundered a half mile off shore during last night's gale. The survivors were Nicholas Freedman and his brother Robert Freedman of Newton Massachusetts and Joseph Chapman of Rye New York.
Five hundred Big Four workers on the Louisiana Arkansas and Texas line walk out at 6 30 A M with all trains idle. Engineers firemen conductors brakemen and switchmen quit their jobs following a strike order in Greenville Texas on September 19.
In Garden City New York on September 19 Jock McLean the 25 year old Scotsman led Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati two up after the morning 18 holes of a 36 hole U S amateur final Fischer the 24 year old University of Cincinnati law student held the early advantage two up through ten holes but McLean fought back with saving halves on 11 and 12 and then won the 13th and following holes as Fischer faltered to square the match at half.
With schools closed, the Elyria High protest committee of six students prepared arguments for a special Elyria Board of Education meeting on Monday night. They disavowed responsibility for yesterday’s noon walkout by about 100 students and weighed cafeteria policy changes versus a return to the prior schedule.
In Steubenville Ohio a quarrel over stones from a coal mine led to the deaths of Joseph Lutskay and his son. James Moore and his wife Marie were jailed as suspects after Lutskays fought back and Moore fired. Authorities describe the confrontation on the Lutskays farm near Blues Run.
Coast guard cutters routed through huge waves to rescue more than 150 mariners stranded on disabled vessels after a hurricane battered the Atlantic coast. Ten of 11 hurricane deaths occurred at sea. eight men are missing, and other sailors drowned on a foundered trawler and a sunken cruiser.
Lorain County faces a decision on relief administration costs after a July when a new state law set an 8 percent cap. Commissioners Dunn Davidson and Wickens clash over preserving the current administrative structure vs meeting the limit which could force cuts. The winter relief load is expected to rise, prompting concern over potential disruption to operations.
National Tube Company will raise activity slightly next week with the rail mill resuming Monday for six days after a idle week. Three blast furnaces and 12 open hearth furnaces stay active, and the Bessemer converter runs single shift. Other chords include skelp mill five four days, butt mill six five and a half days, lap mill five five days, and seamless mills one and two five and a half days starting Monday. The timetable may change with orders.
The 38th National Encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars chose Bernard W. Kearney of Gloverville New York as commander in chief for 1937. The site was set for Buffalo New York with James E. Van Zant of Altoona Pennsylvania stepping down as part of new officer selections including W N Wratne of Akron Ohio as junior vice commander. Resolutions urged a suitable ceremony for teachers oath in normal schools and condemned communism and fascism.
Lorain County commissioners authorized bids for a four mile Chestnut Ridge road project from East River to Avon Belden roads. Estimated cost about 56000 dollars, widening to 20 feet and paving with bituminous material. Bids due at 2 p.m. October 6.
The hurricane swept from the Carolinas to New Jersey and New York, leaving at least eleven dead and more than five million dollars in damage. Seven crew members of the fishing boat Long Island died in Delaware bays. 32 survivors were found, and three others died in the region including Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
Damage from the hurricane off Nantucket may total more than 5 million dollars, based on estimates from shipping interests and coastal authorities across North Carolina to New York. At least one fishing boat and numerous barges and small yachts were lost as flood and wind devastated communities along 100 miles of coast. Crops in North Carolina were hit hard with up to 20 percent loss in the corn belt, and many towns report flooded streets, ruined boardwalks, and damaged buildings.
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