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The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 17, 1942

Page

3

20 Ohio Schools to Seek Honors in Speech Here

McKinley High hosts Northeastern Ohio schools Saturday for a National Forensic League invitational with about 20 entrants. The event features five speech categories across four rounds starting at 9 a.m., with McKinley staff and several assistants guiding 43 student competitors.

Ohio McKinley High School Clayton Schindler McKinley National Forensic League Richard Davies

Navy Opens Ranks to Skilled Workers in Cleveland Area

Navy recruiters announced openings for skilled construction regiments and various trades at Cleveland main recruiting station next Sunday and Monday from 9 am to 4 pm. Age 17 to 50. waivers for color vision and denture needs considered. Applicants must bring birth certificates and prior discharges. Preliminary exams at Canton post office. Also urgent need for 600 experienced cooks at Great Lakes near Chicago with base pay of 60 dollars monthly and provided clothes and quarters.

Navy Federal Cleveland Canton Navy Recruiting Office Great Lakes Naval Training Station Chicago

Ukrainysan Girl Credited In High Nazi General Death

In Kharkov a Ukrainian girl is credited by Russians with assisting in the February 1 bombing that killed German General Braun at his division headquarters. The incident was linked to guerrillas and the girl’s role was only revealed later.

Associated Press Moscow Kharkov Braun

Three Men Lost When Boat Hits Ohio River Span

Wheeling West Virginia March 17 Workmen dragged the swollen waters of the Ohio river today for the bodies of two of three men lost when the 150 foot tow boat Katie Lyons caught in a swift current and sank after striking a railroad bridge pier Fourteen others aboard including two women saved themselves by clinging to barges or wreckage until rivermen could haul them ashore The missing men were Capt Andrew C Lyons of Pittsburgh master of the sternwheeler and head of Lyons River Transportation Co which owned it and Harry McGuire 76 one of the oldest active pilots in Pittsburgh The body of Second Engineer Charles Danner 68 of Pittsburgh washed ashore at Weegee Ohio The 534 ton boat struck the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge connecting Bellaire Ohio and Benwood West Virginia about five miles below Wheeling yesterday

Associated Press Wheeling W. Va Katie Lyons Andrew C. Lyons Pittsburgh Lyons River Transportation Co Harry McGuire Charles Danner Weegee Baltimore & Ohio Bellaire Benwood

State Relaxes Rule On Women's Hours

Columbus March 17 George A Strain state director of industrial relations said he authorized about six firms to continue employing women beyond the legal 45 hours a week for a brief period He noted a careful investigation of each case The Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations protested months ago when Strain first allowed 62 corporations to exceed the hours maximum The director said the move aimed to expedite war material production.

Associated Press Columbus George A. Strain Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations Strain

Litvinov Urges Second War Front in Speech Dinner

Soviet ambassador Maxime Litvinov urged a second front at a New York Economic Club dinner, arguing time favors the Nazis and that weakening German forces on the eastern front could push them back toward Berlin. British Ambassador Lord Halifax said the war cannot be fought defensively if total defeat of Hitler is to be achieved.

Economic Club of New York Ier Berlin Lord Halifax Hitler

Sunnniest Spot in the West Indies Named

The Weather Bureau says Puerto Rico is the sunniest spot in the West Indies. It has not recorded temperatures below 62 or above 92 degrees in 42 years and has not had a cloudy day in two and a half years.

Puerto Rico West Indies Weather Bureau

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