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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1944
Page
2
Measles cases in Elgin show a slight drop last week from the prior week yet remain higher than any single week of the 1841 epidemic. City health records indicate 192 new cases in the recent week, 27 fewer than the March 11 peak, with 867 total cases in six weeks. Officials note the epidemic started earlier this year and hope the peak has passed.
U S Attorney Charles Carr urged a federal court jury to convict Charlie Chaplin on two white slavery counts after detailing alleged immoral motives when he paid Juan Barry’s railroad fare to New York. The trial featured conflicting testimony from Chaplin and his former protege, as final arguments approached and jurors prepared to deliberate.
New York Senator Guy M. Gillette blamed Britain for outbreaks in Palestine and urged the United States to use influence to prevent further violation of the Balfour promise. He spoke at a gathering of the Order Sons of Israel calling for immediate nullification of the 1939 White Paper halting Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Public sale begins at noon on April 5 with multiple farm implements including Fordyon tractor Ferguson 12 and Case 2 bottom plows Yor planters int ft seeder and more. Includes hay tools bay gelding 13 years white 1400 dairy cows due April 15 and truck with rebuilt motor plus seed potatoes and harness. Terms cash. Ownership by Walter Leber Avet.
On account of the death of my husband I will sell at my residence on Middle Ridge road a mile west of Schmitheng fruit farm or three miles text of New York Central Railroad Crossing. Household items will be offered at public auction to settle the estate.
On Wednesday April 5 at 1 P M a sale offers household items including an electric watching machine radio sewing machine beds dressers dishes silverware jewelry clocks lamps a large heating stove cook stove and more with terms cash. Owner A Walker Audt Elyrng 668 avin Klose Clark.
A War Bond talk at Fiyria High School honored three former students Ed Deerlig Rudy Mckuran and Dick Hysell who gave their lives in service. Carol Alarshall urged students to sacrifice small comforts to aid the war effort and end the conflict sooner by saving their pin money and supporting war bonds.
Jackson police and probate court officials study the fate of five to seventeen year old members of a secret group named The State. Noonday rites allegedly required feet on the American flag and Bible stabbing with a knife wrapped in purple cloth. The leader, claimed to be six years old, described the group as resisting capitalism and God, aiming to dominate government and inferior races within 10 to 20 years.
Four German war prisoners were at large in Ontario with two escaping yesterday and others at liberty since mid last week. Herbert Kunz was captured by U S coast guards while attempting to row across the Detroit river. W Muller and Joseph Fired escaped from a Otter Lake work project, with other fugitives from a Monteith prison camp still at large amid wartime trials and resource debates.
An OCR fragmented ad notes stomach troubles and promises rapid relief with von pin tablets. It mentions acet stomach relief and a product line marketed for digestion, urging readers to try Von’s tablets for prompt relief. Names and places are garbled, but the core claim centers on stomach remedy and quick action.
Death records list Warren Walker of Lorain died suddenly at home with remarks on his work at American Shipbuilding Lorain yards. Marie Novak of Louisville Kentucky, formerly Elyria, dies of pneumonia aged 74, with a large family noted. James Blackwell of Elyria dies after brief illness. funeral plans set. Edward Robinson of Wellington dies at home. services scheduled. Bernard Willem Larin of Vermilion dies after illness. services planned. Farm youths in Chiyte area noted for crops and vegetables.
Walter Winchell, a Navy lieutenant commander and radio commentator, plans a $250,000 libel suit in federal court against Rep Clare Hofman of Michigan over a letter Hofman wrote to a Marcellus, Michigan paper claiming to have exposed Winchell’s Navy duties and pay. Meanwhile, Italian and Allied air operations around Cassino and surrounding rail targets continued with raids on bridges near Orvieto and Poggio, and French naval forces reportedly destroyed an enemy convoy in the Atlantic without damage to themselves.
Fragmented OCR notes describe Mediterranean air action with large bomber tonnage and fighter intercepts. Mentions include Allied and German planes, factories, and naval or air bases. exact counts and outcomes are unclear in the damaged text.
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Jaw B. Mershéy denied knowledge of plans to lower the draft age and said deferment rules under 26 would be tightened. Officials estimate only about 230,000 of 1,187,000 under 26 could be inducted after deferments and high rejection rates. An inter-agency panel led by Paul V. McNutt weighs rigid deferment standards as military agencies push for more stays for younger registrants.
Reports detail a break in at a Route 10 cottage with a seven tube radio stolen. Cleveland man Harry Toy fined for driving with a 1944 plate. Oakdale trunk theft in Oberlin. possible relative involvement. Western Milk Cartage Co garage entered. gasoline taken. Ontario case: Fred Maddock sues Norman Ahusey for 710 dollars to foreclose transfer void. Lorain couple, Gladys Hueston and William, seek divorce on cruelty. Vine Yet Seaulli’s alimony suit vs Raymond dismissed. Dog warden reports 177 dogs served in March with several euthanizations. 135 investigations, six cruelty cases, ten dogs quarantined for rabies. April term of common pleas court opens with Judge Nok as presiding judge.
Washington Rep Robert Ramspeck accuses Army of silence amid charges that WASP pilots are being favored while thousands of male pilots are sidelined. He notes many complaints and threatens hearings if no official data emerge, as debate grows over training of women versus men.
The report details casualties from air and sea operations, noting 410 paratroopers and airmen killed after enemy transports were shot down, with six Americans killed when the carrier based fighters engaged a transport near a city. It also mentions Allied PT boats and destroyers, and references actions around MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific HQ. Separate items cover two Italian POWs escaping near Phoenix and campaign shifts in the Republican race, plus a theft of a spare tire from a car trunk in a local parking lot.
London reports two correspondents died with Maj. Gen. Wingate when his plane crashed in Burma on March 24. The reporters were Stanley H Wuls of the Pauly Herald and Enrony Stunt from News Chronicle. The deaths bring to 2h the tally of American and British correspondents killed in the war. nine others are missing and four wounded.
More than 30,000 World War I veterans urged drafting all eligible women aged 18 to 43. Delegates from Los Angeles Santa Barbara and Ventura adopted a resolution for selective service and said those eligible should be inducted as they wished. The resolution also urged Congress to place all fit, honorably discharged World War II veterans on the reserve list.
The U S destroyer O Bannon earned the presidential citation for actions against Japanese forces in 1942. It launched a night torpedo attack off Guadalcanal on November 13 1942 scoring three torpedo hits and returned safely despite damage. In another operation with two destroyers it intercepted Japanese warships off Vella Lavella on July 14 1942 destroying two enemy ships and damaging others.
Boston area news notes Dr Gleanon Archer of Suffolk University becomes chair of the American Democratic National Committee opposing a Roosevelt fourth term. The committee splits over policy. Archer vows to back the anti Roosevelter cause and a national meeting will pick a presidential candidate and platform for the July Democratic convention.
The record lists grains meats and produce with prices and ranges. Corn No 2 yellow oats soybeans hog cattle lambs and calves show varied quotes. Local items include lettuce tomatoes turnips and herbs with assorted per unit or bushel prices.
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