Five Trapped by Sewer Collapse in Columbus
A bulkhead in a sewer passage twenty feet underground collapsed, burying a city sewer inspector and four workers. Two men died, identified as George Smith and Aaron Frazer, while three others including C. B. Stephenson, Arthur Powers, and Robert Holcomb remained trapped as rescuers labored for hours from the tunnel mouth. All were Columbus residents and the incident prompted frantic excavation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
George Smith
Aaron Frazer
Cc. B. Stephenson
Arthur Powers
Robert Holcomb
Governor White backs sales tax plan for schools and relief
Governor White announced that when the legislature reconvenes on November 19 he will seek enactment of a sales tax to fund schools relief and political subdivisions. He cited developments since the last session and justified his earlier petition for this revenue approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
White
75 From Lorain County Attend G. O. P. Rally
A Lorain County Republican delegation of about 75 led by Frank A. Stetson attended the formal state campaign opening in Columbus. Key speakers included Clarence J. Brown for governor and Senator Simeon D. Fess. Plans for future local rallies in Lorain and Oberlin were announced by party leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Frank A. Stetson
Lorain County
Republican Executive Committee
Ohio
Columbus
14Th Congressional District
Clarence J. Brown
Simeon D. Fess
Deshler-Wallick
Clarence Brown
David Ingalls
Paul Herbert
James T. Begg
Senator Fess
Fess
Stetson
Liquor Permits At Lorain Revoked In Ohio Action
In Columbus on September 29 Col. John A. Hughes revoked liquor licenses of 10 permit holders in the Cleveland area, mostly beer permits. Twenty permits were suspended. Lorain issued revocations for John Gimben 2215 West 28th Street Steve Chonka 1686 F. BSth Street Veronica Logan 1057 14th Street S. B. Kochischak E 28th Street all tied to beer permits.
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Lorain
Columbus
Cleveland Area
Col
John A. Hughes
John Gimben
Wst
28Th Street
Steve Chonka
F. Bsth Street
Veronica Logan
14Th Street
S. B. Kochischak
E. 28Th Street
Eight Pencing Sentenced by Judge
Eight persons in Lorain County were sentenced by Common Pleas Judge A R Wender to workhouse terms ranging from three to six months for illegal liquor sales. The court issued severe sentences to deter similar offenses after undercover liquor inspections and follow up investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Pleas
A. R. Wender
Toledo
Frank E Stevens
Malcolm Thompson
Tom Dill
Chestnut Ridge Road
Tenoring Dill
Webber
Edward Reed
Sheffield Lake Village
Sheffield Lake
Adelbert Miller
Avon
Joe Stanislawsk
Grafton Road
Ten Killed In England Train Crash
Fleetwood England report says ten killed and many injured after a collision between the London Blackpool express and a slow train at Winwick Junction. Rails bent, two carriages telescoped, crews unharmed, rescuers freed pinned victims with broken limbs. Authorities feared more deaths as tally rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleetwood
England
Winwick Junction
National Industrial Recovery Board forms with 36 hour week aim
Washington reports the new National Industrial Recovery Board pledges to cut standard hours to 36 per week and boosts skilled wages. The cotton garment industry tests the move with a stay on President Roosevelt’s order until October 15. The unemployment picture remains dire with millions idle as the board begins early administration and code adjustments. Col. Lynch contemplates departure while Col. Brady prepares to lead the administrative office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Industrial Recovery Board
Roosevelt
Lone Distance Telephone
S. Clay Williams
Hugh S Johnson
Recovery Administration
George F. Brady
Brady
George A Lynch
Lynch
Far East
Fall down elevator shaft kills child in Mansfield
Injuries from a fall down an elevator shaft at a Mansfield department store caused the death of three year old Barbara Jean Eliot daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Eliot of Shiloh Ohio yesterday.
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Mansfield
Barbara Jean Eliot
Elmer Elliot
Shiloh
Oberlin Dedicates Municipal Light and Power Plant
Oberlin residents witnessed the formal dedication of the new Municipal Light and Power Plant yesterday. Mayor C R Comings opened the program with welcomes, as officials and visitors discussed the plant’s history, equipment, and the community’s long fight for a municipal plant. Diesel engines of 870 and 600 horsepower power the plant, now supplying most local electricity at lower rates than the private company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Othe
Ohio
Pennnsylvania
Vt Hayes
Mayror C. R Comings
Sears
I. L. Porter
Chaiman
Citizens’ Committee
Lloyd Taylor
Oberlin College
National Tube Co. Lorain plant schedule announced
Operations at the Lorain plant will run next week on a similar scale as this week. One blast furnace and five open hearth furnaces will be in operation. The Bessemer converter will run Saturday and Sunday, with blooming mills adjusting to steel conditions. No skelp mills will operate. Number two seamless mill operates three and a half days, number five lapp mill three days, and number six butt mill five days.
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Lorain
National Tube Company
Supeintendent
Bessemer
Hauptmann May Gon Trial Octob er
New York Sept 29 Lindbergh kidnapping investigators plan to question a woman known as Mia about remarks on kidnapping and murder as Hauptmann extortion trial looks to begin around October 10. A Chicago couple Bowen and his wife were detained on an anonymous tip but deny link to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lindberg
Bruno R .Hauptmann
Samuel Foley
Miai
Foley
Hauptmann
New Jersey
Englewood
Lindbergh
James Bowman
Chicago
Department of Justice
Hauptmann Under C105 Guard In Lindbergh Case
New Jersey authorities pursue secret effort to tie the .25 caliber German pistol found with Bruno Hauptmann to the Lindbergh baby murder. Investigators examined a hillside grave site near Hopewell where the infant was buried, with earth sifted and four pegs marking the exact spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A Lindbergh, Jr
Nea Hopewell
Lindbergh
Hauptmann
Three Killed and Five Hurt In Crossing Tragedy
A Cleveland car carrying seven passengers crashed into the rear of a truck on Route 14 east of Edinburg Ohio, killing three people all from Cleveland and injuring five. The wreck occurred when glare from an oncoming car blinded the driver, who could not stop in time. Dead are Jacob Smith 56, Richard Kukral six weeks old, and Mrs Katherine Smith Kukral 45. Injured were Stanley Koleczek 22, his wife Mrs Gladys Koleczek 22, their daughter Jean Koleczek 4, Jacob Smith Jr. 17, and Joseph Kukral. The crash happened near Ravenna and all were taken to Robinson Memorial Hospital.
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Edinburg, CO
Pittsburgh
Here
Cleveland
Jacob Smith
Richard Kukral
Joseph Kukral
Katheriine Smith Kukral
Richard
Robinson Memorial Hospital
RageuBeare
Stanley Koleczek
Gladys Koleczek
Stanley
Jean Koleczek
Jacob Smith, Jr
Homer
Luelein
Aithmn Serio
Serio
Ravenna
Elhjia Y M C A announces 1954 fall and winter schedule
W O McClellan Y M C A secretary and Robert L Moore physical director reveal the 1954 55 fall and winter program at Elhjia Y M C A. The plan includes diverse classes for men boys women and girls with swimming gymnasiums and scheduled times for Cadets Preps Juniors B Junior A Seniors business men and ladies swim groups plus league practices and daily gym hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elhjia Y. McA
Mondas
W. O McClellan
Y. M. Co
Robert Ls . Moore
Yw. Ca
Gmnasium
Earch
Rain May Decide Baseball Race
Rain in St Louis and New York turned the National League pennant race chaotic with two games left for each side. NL president Heydler stated a playoff would occur if the regular season ends tied, but no provision covers games left unplayed by darkness Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis
John Arnold Heydler
National League
Giants
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Training for Salvation Army Officer in New York City
Alvin Schenfield of Turner Street has begun a year long Salvation Army officer training at a New York college. He reports enjoying the associations and expects a rewarding year while pursuing the one year course after four years as a cadet. About two hundred cadets from across the United States are enrolled this year at the college.
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Alvin Schenfield
Turner Street
New York City
Salvation Army Training College
Salation Army
New York
Salvation Army
Petts
United States
Engineer killed as three Pennilma trains wreck at Cly
York Pa Sept 29 One engineer was killed and two firemen injured when three Pennilma railroad trains wrecked at Cly Pa near here. A broken rail believed to have caused the accident derailed the first freight train and blocked tracks. Later a double header locomotive and 16 cars were derailed by wreckage and another seven cars of the third train derailed in a collision. Two injured trainmen were hospitalized in Harrisburg. identity of the others not immediately learned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York Pa
Cly
Walter W. Baston
Harrisburg
Baston
Police Believe Goodrich Is In Northern Ohio
Detroit police pursue Merton Ward Goodrich, linked to the murder of Detroit schoolgirl Lillian Galla, with tips from Akron and sightings in Ravenna and Des Moines. A Cleveland headquarters coordinates the hunt as officers confirm the suspect and his wife Florence may have little money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Merton Ward Goodrich
Lillian Gallaher
Ohio
Goodrich
Florence
Cleveland
Campbell R. Fugitt
Akron
Louisville
Michigan
Ravenna
Goodriches
Des Moines
Lillian
Convention closes as officers elected in lumber group
Cincinnati sept 29 closing sessions of the National Hardwood Lumber Association convention elected officers. A resolution was adopted asking President Roosevelt to reply to the chamber of commerce inquiry on the federal budget status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
National Hardwood Lumber Association
Roosevelt
United States Chamber of Commerce
Train Crash Kills Engineer and Fireman at Station
A fast Pennsylvania Gotham Limited plowed into a stalled auto at Convoy crossing causeing the locomotive to derail and crash through a deserted station killing engineer H. R. Tourgee of Fort Wayne Indiana and fireman B. J. Gladden of Delphos Ohio. Mrs. Fred Schilling and family tried to flag the train and escaped. Coroner Dr W E Beach of Van Wert and railway officials investigated as the eastbound line halted to clear wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
H. R. Tourgee
Ft. Wayne
Ind
B. J. Gladden
Delphos
Fred Schilling
Here
J T. Cooper
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ft Warne
Gotham Limited
Sickness on the decrease in Elyria health report
Elyria health officials report a drop in contagious illness with only 32 whooping cough, 24 measles, and two scarlet fever visits last month. Kathryn Fulton notes 172 visits this period covering infant welfare, tuberculosis, orthopenic, and infantile paralysis cases, plus 42 baby clinic patients and 12 chest clinic cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
E G Curtiss
G. W. Savage
Workers Meet At Ridgeville For PTA Gathering
Sixty five Lorain county PTA workers attended the Ridgeville school for the first get-together of the new school year. Committees reported and an invitation urged representatives to join a hot school lunches demonstration next Saturday. Mrs C A Rawson urged attendance at the state convention in Columbus. Miss Alice Bird explained the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teacher Association
Lorain County
Ridgeville
County Council of
Parent- Teacher Associations
C .A. Rawson
la Grange
North Central
Association
Columbus
Alice Bird
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Bulletin
Salestar
NRA
Donald Ro Richbetz
the Interior
Harold Lockes
Fences Perkins
Chester C. Davis
Agricultural Adjustment
Harry Hopkins
Percing
A. L. Becker
Henry McKee
Andy Abahazi
Pete Spanos
Becker
Wayside Inn
Oberlin Road
Abahazi
Spanos
Louis Kolman
la Grange Road
National Tube Co
Edinburg
MG. A
Alvin Schen Field
Northern
PT. A
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