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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1930
Page
1
Grand jury opens a September term to investigate seven auto theft cases along with other offenses. The docket includes charges of burglary larceny breaking and entering and embezzlement as well as assaults, liquor offenses, and fraud related counts. The panel is expected to sit ten days or more.
Berlin Sept 50 The cabinet of Chancellor Heinrich Bruening moved to ease the financial crisis by a drastic expenditure cut following S Parker Gilbert American agent general for Dawes plan preparations. The government took the offensive against the extremist movement strengthened by the Reichstag election and announced reforms requiring Reichstag action.
In Toledo Ohio police broke up a counterfeiting gang that passed spurious twenty dollar bills in northwest Ohio and southern Michigan. Three men and a woman were arrested. a fourth man fled with engraving plates. Officers seized presses ink dies and 13 newly made twenty nine dollar bills. The scheme could produce about 60 notes daily.
The American Bankers Association in Cleveland heard speakers led by John G. Lonsdale and Rudolf Wecht as they pressed for less legislative meddling with business and an optimistic outlook. President Hoover’s forthcoming speech drew high interest amid talks of officer nominations and banking policy issues.
Arthur Lescher appeals his Lorain Municipal Court liquor conviction arguing officers swore out a search warrant for a private dwelling without reasonable grounds to doubt it was a bona fide residence. The appeal alleges lack of evidence of liquor traffic and improper pre investigation by officers.
Arthur Drakenbrod former Canton city councilman pleaded guilty to conspiring against national prohibition laws and turning governments evidence. He received three months in the Canton workhouse and a $600 fine. He testified against E E Curtis who got two years in a federal penitentiary and a $4 000 fine after conviction on conspiracy charges in Atlanta.
In a dispatch from Shangh with Nanking reports Feng Yu-Hsiang co leader of the Northern Rebel Government withdraws from Peiping to Taishan and plans to reestablish authority at Taiyuan Fu Shansi. The civil war, begun last April, appears over except Henan where Manchurian forces hold Peiping.
In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania two blasts at the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company warehouse in the east end injured thirteen people. None are expected to die. Victims were knocked down by the force and some suffered gas exposure. The first blast came from a gas leak and the second released ammonia fumes as weakened by the initial explosion.
Former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, addressing the Democratic State convention in Syracuse, denounces unfaithful officials and backs Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in removing corrupt leaders. He recalls nominating Roosevelt years ago and urges a fight against corruption within the party and administration.
Frank Ardo aged 27 of Cleveland received multiple non serious lacerations in a family quarrel last night and was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital.
Children under thirteen are urged to submit colored pictures of the red headed woodpecker from Chronicle Telegram Saturday pages. The two best colorings win attractive prizes including birds and coloring sets. No cost to enter. mail to the Chronicle-Telegram third editor.
Atty Clarence Darrow returns to the bar to defend William Three Fingered Jack White and George Red Barker in a vagrancy trial in Chicago. They were released on $10,000 bail each after surrendering to Judge George B. Holmes, as Darrow denounces Judge Lyle s crusade against 25 so called public enemies.
Frederick Edwin Smith known as Lord Birkenhead, former secretary for India and one of Britain’s eminent statesmen, died in London after weeks of pneumonia. Born in Liverpool, he rose from a solicitor to Britain’s lord chancellor, gaining a reputation for a formidable legal mind and a lifelong ambition to reach the top. He achieved the goal in 1919 at age 47.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated by acclamation to run as the Democratic candidate for governor of New York to succeed himself. The announcement came from Coastention Hall in Syracuse on September 30.
Kansas health officials consider a state wide school quarantine as infantile paralysis cases rise. Kansas City reports 12 cases and two deaths leading to closing 75 schools. Wichita has closed some schools and bans for under 16 from public meetings. Cases appear at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and total cases exceed 250 statewide.
The Chronicle Telegram will provide full World Series coverage with United Press and Central Press reports expert writers and complete game accounts. Radio broadcasts will be available with a radio set to listen at the office on Second Street through Dar's Music Store courtesy.
Akron police vice squad raided Mike Balas's home on a liquor possession charge. A search uncovered three half pints of whisky hidden near a piano after a humorous note by Officer Scott Leonard.
Toledo news reports two armed men roped off West Toledo Market at opening time and seized more than 1600 dollars after forcing four workers into an ice box. They ordered Mack Raiven, Edward Schanka, and Frances King to surrender, rifled the cash register and safe.
The mutilated body of a 49 year old unidentified Italian man was found in Dennison with ears severed and wounds to the head. A scrap of paper bearing the name Anthony Carbone was found on his clothing. Authorities suspect torture and murder, with evidence suggesting he was slain and dumped from a car.
The late actor Milton Sills leaves his widow Doris Kenyon Sills as sole beneficiary of a 250000 dollar estate. He gifts his young son Kenron a watch and ring and his daughter Dorothy a diamond ring. A trust fund of 300900 dollars for his first wife Gladys Sills is requested and 109100 dollars for Dorothy is to be maintained.
The lodging business showed a slump at the city jail with only four transients given room and bed for the night. Earlier nights ranged from seven to twelve a night. Rooms were reported to residents from Columbus and Sandusky Ohio Haver Home Mass and Martinsville Va.
Elstia stage marks start of annual enrollment drive with 19 men's teams and 10 boys' teams gathering at the Y M C A to receive prospect cards and map campaign actions. Dan B. Symons leads as president and enrollment chief, detailing divisions under M. F. Fer and Walter S. Kohn, with captains announced by Bers and Whorner. Progress reports set for Wednesday at 6 30 p m and again Friday evening.
Napoleon Ohio area authorities say they have rounded up almost all of a four person chicken stealing ring operating across five counties. Joe Korak 15 of Hoytville is in custody and his mother Eva Korak is jailed at Findlay Anna Neuman and her husband John Neuman are also sought or held. Suspect Worak confessed to stealing 73 leghorns from Francis Orthwein near Hamlet and 20 birds from Witham Schulzburg near Weston. County authorities from Henry Defiance Putnam Hancock and Wood coordinate the crackdown.
Coast Guards fired 100 shots today when they surprised a dozen smugglers at Newport Beach and seized imported liquors valued at £25,000. The raiders escaped in cars. Surfman William Brindie was injured leaping onto a running board and dragged several yards.
Provincetown reports eight fishermen were picked up by another schooner after their vessel, the John R. Ericsson of Boston, burned and sank six miles north of North Truro following a mysterious onboard fire. They were adrift for two hours and landed at Provincetown.
Elyria voters face three registration days October 2 10 and 26 under permanent registration. Board of Elections urges early registration with housewives at 1 pm and wage earners in evening. Absent voters may register at the Board office before October 11. Home registration allowed with doctor’s note. Lists of registration officials announced for all four wards. Route 20 meeting at Oberlin Town Hall to organize to retain the highway.
Fall era Wants Ad highlights many closed cars priced from 65 to 1656. Ad promises a square deal and fair trade to swap old car for a winter ready closed car for comfortable transport through colder days.
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