Dike Fails in Nebraska Town Amid Missouri River Flood
The South Sioux City dike on the Missouri River collapsed under the crest of a historic flood. About 1,600 residents were left homeless as 34 blocks flooded and an auxiliary dike was built to protect the city’s power plant. Across the river in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, 80 percent was submerged.
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Sioux City
Neb
Missouri
Missouri Valley
Pierre
S. D
Missouri River
Fort Pierre
Iowa
Nebraska
Community drive records show varied contributions and quotas
Herbert Meister leads post luncheon discussions on drive improvements. Residential division totals span multiple donors with amounts from $4.50 to $4,219 and township quotas listed in parentheses for many communities including Brighton Camden East Carlisle West Carlisle Columbia Eaton Elyria Township Grafton Henrietta Huntington La Grange Penfield Pittsfield Ridgeville Fields Rochester Russia Wellington Oberlin and more.
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Herbert Meister
Henry Beam
Charles Biggs
T. V. Boylan
Morris Brown
Edward Champion
William Curtiss
Fred Greenich
Marsh Guerin
Merle Huppert
Don Hutchings
Mitchell Knittle
David Law
Walter McMullen
Francis McCrann
Otto Mischka
Lynn Nicholas
Louis Novak
Ed Roe
Brighton
Camden
East Carlisle
West Carlisle
Columbia
Eaton
Elyria Township
Grafton
Henrietta
Huntington
la Grange
Village
Penfield
Pittsfield
Ridgeville
Fields
Rochester
Ruscia
Wellington
Oberlin
Village case marks prosecution victory over $8 000 disposal site sale
The village’s long criminal trial ended in the conviction of Mrs Sprunk for perjury, a hard fought victory for Prosecutor Paul Mikus and Assistant Harold Ewing. The case affirmed grand jury authority and saw defense and prosecution teams from Ashland and Lorain counties assist the effort. Mrs Sprunk remains free under bond pending further action.
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Paul Mikus
Harold Ewing
Howard Lutz
Ashland
Mikus
James Christie
Ewing
Lutz
Sprunk
Sheffield Lake
Lorain County
Michael O'Leary
Sneffield Lake
Death of Mrs Viola Parsch Helfrich
Mrs Viola Parsch Helfrich 64 of 910 Middle avenue died at 3 30 pm Wednesday after two months illness Born Elyria Oct 5 1887 daughter of the late William T and Mary T Parsch Lived in the city all her life Member of St Marys church and Altar and Rosary Society Survived by daughter Mrs Charles Wentz two granddaughters Sally and Nancy Wentz three sisters Mrs Lucille McQuistion Elyria Mrs Gertrude Mathews Cleveland and Mrs Floyd Helfrich Elyria Husband the late Colonel Helfrich died July 5 1951 Friends may call Sudro Curtis Funeral Home Services 1 pm Saturday from St Marys church burial in St Marys cemetery
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Viola Parsch Helfrich
Middle Avenue
Helfrich
Elyria
William T
Mary T. Parsch
St. Mary's Church
Altar and Rosary Society
Charles Wentz
Sally
Nancy Wentz
Lucille McQuistion
Gertrude Mathews
Cleveland
Floyd Helfrich
Colonel Helfrich
Sudro- Curtis
St. Mary’s Church
Edward Pevee
St. Mary’s Cemetery
James F. Carpenter
New York Central Railroad
Washington Avenue
Mr. Carpenter
Fields
Elyria Eagles Lodge
Leroy Cornwall
Huron
Leroy
Nettie Cornwall
Sudro-Curtis Funeral
Ridgelawn
William S. Bamford Westlake
Williams. Bamford
Manhattan Avenue
Parma
Phoenix
Ariz
Lavinia Line of
Charles Bamford
Davenport
Iowa
Mary
Pease
Dover Road
Westlake
Finkenbiner
Brookside Baptist Church
Fields Cemetery
Local Obituaries Mention Carpenter Bamford Brown Horvath Rites
James F. Carpenter aged 81 dies at home after a week of illness in Elyria. Rev William Bamford of Parma dies in Phoenix after a long ministry. Eliza Brown former Oberlin resident dies in Cleveland University Hospital. Alek Horvath aged 68 of Sullivan township Dies. services in Huntington township. Survivors include grandchildren, children, and spouses. Funeral arrangements noted at local funeral homes with burial planned in Ridge Lawn and Westwood and Huntington cemeteries.
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Oberlin
Eliza Brown
University Hospital
Cleveland
East 55Th Street
William Binns
Cowling-Sedgeman
Normal Crosby
Westwood Cemetery
Dorothy Nichols speaks to Ridgeville group on Alaska mission
Dorothy Nichols, religious education director at Elyria First Methodist, spoke to about 60 members of the Fields W S C S at the North Ridgeville Congregational church following a spring luncheon. She shared experiences from Fairbanks Alaska during 1946 to 1948 and ended with the Easter story. A $10 cancer drive donation was reported.
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North Ridgeville
Dorothy Nichols
First Methodist Church
Elyria
North Ridgeville Congregational Church
Fields
Jack Spirek
C. $. Winter
Howard Randolph
J. K. Johnson
Charles Burrows
Howard Brooks
Felix Anderson
Frank Blaser
Walter Reinhart
Harold McVeigh
Howard Randulph
Ralph Prechtel
H. Carpenter
Turnpike panel offers 11.8 mile cut near Maumee
The Ohio Turnpike Commission proposes shortening the route to end near Stony Ridge and shift traffic to State Route 120, reducing length from 241.4 to 169.9 miles. The plan aims to resolve Maumee concerns about constitutionality and routing while bonds proceed aided by a New York financier group.
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Columbus
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Maumee
Stony Ridge
Indiana Turnpike Board
Carl Baldur
Commission
James W. Shacknessy
Shocknessy
New York
City Buys Radar Speed Control Unit For Police
Elyria police acquire a radar speed control unit from federal license approval. Delivered in 30 to 60 days at a cost of 650 dollars charged to police funds. The system will be used with two cruisers to read speeds and radio license numbers to officers ahead for arrests.
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Elyria
Safety Service
D. W. Kothe
Federal Communications Commission
Kot
Toledo
Soldier Visited Relatives Here After Korea War Duty
Pic. John Avery spends a furlough with his Cincinnati family on Fuller road after a year of fighting in Korea. He returned home March 19 and will resume service at Camp Custer Michigan for six months. He served in the 24th Infantry and later the 35th Infantry of the 25th Division after joining the Army 18 months ago. Prior to service he worked for National Tube Company.
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Pic
John Avery
Fuller Road
Cincinnati
Korea
Elijah Avery
States
Camp Custer
Michigan
24Th
Meyer Brothers and family in business ties and mothers work noted
J O Meyer of 624 Griswold Road and Leo R Meyer Jr of 115 Park Avenue, with Alvin Bud Meyer of 118 Washington Avenue, all in the family auto business, are joined by daughter Lois Meyer Hinshaw who soon plans to move to Lorain. Mrs Meyer is to be introduced at the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Dayton as part of the American Mothers Committee.
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J. O. Meyer
Griswold Road
Kiski
University of Michigan
Army Ordnance
England
Leo R. Meyer, Jr
Park Avenue
Miami University
Alvin
Bud) Meyer
Washington Avenue
Army Air Corps
A. B. Hinshaw
Lois Meyer
Meyer
Lorain
Ohio State Mothers Committee
American Mothers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
New York City
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs
Dayton
Swanbeck
OFWC
Ohio
Lausche
Morris Says FBI Files Buried Facts By Hoover
Morris tells Congress that FBI files are loaded with scandals but J Edgar Hoover cannot act beyond uncovering facts. He claims Hoover knows all about the bodies and delivers facts only for them to be buried. This was Morris second appearance before a Congressional committee and he criticizes senators with diseased minds.
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Morris
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congressional
theSenate
Local Soldier Recovers After Korea to Crane Ind
Sgt. Rosenau was wounded in Korea and treated at a field hospital. He received the Purple Heart at Tripler Hospital in Honolulu during a two day delay. He was air evacuated to the United States and spent time in several hospitals before arriving in Philadelphia for special treatment. He was then assigned to the Naval Ammunition Depot at Crane Indiana and is now released to inactive duty staying with his wife's parents. His parents are missionaries stationed at Fort Sibut l in French Equatorial Africa.
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Rosenau
Korea
Japan
United States
Honolulu
Air Force Hospital
States
Philadelphia
Naval Ammunition Depot
Crane
Ind
Richard Jacobs
West Third Street
Ford Rosenau
Fort Sibut l
French Equatorial Africa
Tax benefits approved for $792 million expansion
Defense Production Administration grants tax benefits on expansion costs totaling $792,758,000. Elyria firms Ohio Screw Products and Electric-Alloys Division of American Brake Shoe are named among Ohio companies. Ohio Screw Products gets $124,355 and American Brake Shoe $220,852. Each project receives 65 percent of defense expansion costs.
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Defense Production Administration
Elyria
Ohio
Ohio Screw Products, Inc
Electro-Alloys
American Brake Shoe Company
Ohio Screw Products
American Brake Shoe
Very Close to Schuster Killer Traced by Police
A Brooklyn longshoreman, grilled all night, is identified by a district attorney source as being very close to the killer of Arnold Schuster. Schuster, 24, was shot days after aiding police in Sutton’s capture, part of a broader dock crew gun theft tied to the case.
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New York
District Attorney
Arnold Schuster
Schuster
Brooklyn
Willie” Sutton
Sutton
Pleads Not Guilty To Driving Charge
Steve Madaras pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated in Elyria Mayor's court. He also pleaded guilty to driving without a license and was fined $10 and costs. The arrest followed a rear collision with Mose Jones on Lake Avenue after Madaras allegedly swapped seats with Mary Williams. Williams later admitted Madaras was driving. she was fined $10 and costs for allowing an unlicensed driver. Hearing for Madaras set for tomorrow.
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Steve Madaras
Elyria
Madaras
Mose Jones
Foster Avenue
Jones
Lake Avenue
Mary M. Williams
Lake Road
Vermilion
Loyalists March On Bolivia Capital
Loyal government troops mass toward La Paz to reinforce loyalist lines as rebels seized central La Paz and interior towns. First aid centers report seven dead and 70 wounded. A clandestine Viacha radio says Bolivar Regiment and Lanza Infantry hold out against rebel forces. Exiled MNR leader Victor Paz Estenssoro says he hopes to reach the frontier tonight.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Viacha
Bolivar
Lanza
Buenos Aires
Victor Paz Estenssoro
National Revolutionary Movement
MNR
Boliva
Investigator's clash with McGrath sparks calls for reform
The speaker criticizes the new Attorney General for whitewashing federal oversight and urges a permanent independent investigator. He cites political entanglements with RFC FHA and Commodity Credit Corp, pressed by delays and red tape, and notes White House backing before a fallout that ends with McGrath resisting subpoenas and cooperation.
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RFC
FHA
Commodity Credit Corp
Andrew Jackson
Washington
McGrath
Congress
White House
Mr. McGrath
Howard
Newbold
Howard McGrath
Col
Sam Becker
Justice Department
Col. Becker
McGreth
Grand Jury
Morris
New York
Won't Take Draft Truman Insists
President Truman said he will not accept a draft for renomination and does not plan to attend the Democratic convention in Chicago. He pledged to campaign for the Democratic nominee and to support the party as far as the National Committee desires. He added he decided not to run again more than a year ago.
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Washington
Truman
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Workers Refuse To Return To Republic Steel Mill
In Cleveland the Republic Steel strip mill, a three shift facility with about 2500 workers, remained idle as crews did not report for the 7:30 am shift. Management called the action arbitrary and said not enough workers could be obtained to restart production. Local 2265 CIO United Steelworkers officials would not comment.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel
Greater
Republic
CIO United Steelworkers
Murray accuses Inland Steel president of lying
CIO president Philip Murray called Clarence R. Randall's nationwide broadcast claim of a political deal with President Truman a malicious and deliberate lie. He said Randall insulted Truman, himself, and steel workers and labeled him a prevaricator of the lowest type.
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Nathan P. Feinsinger
Wake Stabilization Board
Steelman
Feinsinger
Clarence Randall
Inland Steel Corp
Truman
CIO
Senate Gop
Senate Judiciary Committee
Philip Murray
Washington
Clarence R. Randall
Inland Steel Co
Steelworkers
Randall
Murray
Police Dept News: Multiple arrests and fines announced
Warrant issued for Dan Ostrow on failure to pay five parking tickets. Glass at Garford School broken. police contact parents of boys in region. Richard A. Jantz fined for reckless driving after speeds up to 55 mph on Lake Ave. Lee W. Falls arrested for failure to stop. fined. George E. Roeder fined for intoxication. John G. Killiany fined for disorderly conduct. Charles Richards bitten by dog. treated. Raymond S. Crittenden picked up after leaving Keesler AFB. Gas cap and lighter stolen from car on Broad St. Bike tires slashed in Golski yard. Paul Davenport fined for following too closely after rear-end collision. Frank Nichols fined for reckless driving after running a red light on Broad St.
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Dan Ostrow
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Richard A. Jantz
Emerson Court
Henry W. Ault
Lake Avenue
Paul Davenport
Spencer
Louis Mackabee
Clark Street
Frank Nichols
Erie Avenue
Lorain
Broad Street
Say Rails Seizure Increases Strikes
Three railroad brotherhoods filed a 50 page brief in Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed's court arguing that government seizure of the rail industry has increased strikes and undermined good faith bargaining. They seek to lift a three day rail strike injunction, while the government requests it be made permanent. The unions named are the Locomotive Engineers Railway Conductors and the Firemen and Enginemen.
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Cleveland
Emerich B. Freed
Freed
Court Actions Highlight Divorces And Settlements In Lorain
In Lorain court today Priscills Smith vs Dr Ethel Pillion for 25000 was dismissed. Patricia Burton vs Robert Hogg for 26100 settled over injuries from a June 16 1949 collision. Olive Roth seeks divorce from James married July 1 1950. Evelyn Redman seeks divorce from John married June 9 1947. Judge Cook grants divorce to Phylis Bunton from William with custody to mother. Jennie Katiba granted divorce from Louis. Ollie Blanton vs Arneal Brown for 5000 settled. Joseph Komizes 42 charged with intoxication held for arraignment. Tom Worcester seeks help finding wife Virginia. Ursula Porter returns home. Charles Barnes reports jacket and 400 bonus missing from Five Star Night Club. Two Ridgeville youths held for car theft. car traced to Beans Young and repaired in Avon Lake. Steve Mrosko Jr seeks divorce or annulment from Marie married 1952. Carole Autio seeks restoration to Stewart from Reino. Farm Bureau Auto Insurance and Service Transport Co suit for 1728 dismissed. Herman Steele seeks divorce from Clementine. William Goebl seeks divorce from Marilyn. Eleanor Sanger refiles divorce from James after residence issue. Olga Pochuch granted divorce from Eli. Gene Linder released on bond pending statutory case involving a 15-year-old.
Ohio Bell Strike Enters Fourth Day
The Ohio Bell Telephone Co workers strike entered its fourth day as union and company negotiators met again. Federal mediators conferred but no progress was reported. Local service remained normal while long distance was crippled. in Cincinnati a judge ordered 300 Western Electric workers to remove picket lines from installations, ruling they were not on strike.
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Cleveland
Cle Communication
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Cincinnati
Common Pleas
Louis Schneider
Western Electric
Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Co
Cincinnati Bell
Fellowcraft Team Visits Lorain Lodge
The Fellowcraft team of El Rey Grotto Lorain County conferred the Master Mason degree at Lorain Lodge No. 552 F. and A.M. in the Masonic Temple. Harrison Carter played piano, Wasyl Livchack sang, and Maurice Flood presented the lapel pin. The next visit will be April 28 at Sandusky Science Lodge No. 50 F. and A.M. by chartered bus.
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Fellowcraft
el Rey Grotto
Lorain County
Lorain Lodge No
Masonic Temple
Lorain
Sandusky
Science Lodge
James Mosley
Stock Market Quotations At Noon
At noon stock market activity shows mixed results with notable moves in key sectors. Investors monitor shares across major indexes as percentages trend on trading day.
Toledo Market Report Highlights Mixed Grain and Live Stock Activity
Grain prices show No 1 soft red wheat at 3.49 to 2.80 and No 2 2.48 to 2.49 with oats and soybeans listed. Livestock markets mixed with cattle steady to strong, calves steady, and sheep and lambs slow with undertones of weakness. Hog front higher by 10 to 35 cents with ranges across weights. Fresh produce prices for apples carrots cucumbers onions lettuce mushrooms parsnips radishes and turnips provided with baskets and pack specifics.
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Toledo
Baldwin
Turley
Rome
Ohio
Pennsylvania
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City
United Press
Pierre R. Smith & Co
Elyria, Ohio
Midwest Stock Eichange
Newspapern AbHiye
Death Records
Viola Helfrich
Alek Horvath Sullivan
Alek Horvath
Sullivan R. D. No
Curtis E. Truman
George Koob
St. Patrick's Church
Huntington Cemetery
Horvath
Charles Horvath
Huntington Township
Ann
Europe
Sudro-Curtis
Pike
Schuster Killer
New York World-Telegram Corporation
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Steel Company
Police Dept. News
William McClellan
Elyria Schools
Garford
Lee W. Falls
4Th Street
Seventh Street
West Avenue
George E. Roeder
Kramer
John G. Killiany
West Bridge Street
Charles Richards
Harrison Street
David S. Ferguson
Raymonds
Crittenden
Keesler Air Force Base
Mississippi
Huron Street
D. E. McBride
West Street
Danny Golski
16Th Street
Golski
Priscills Smith
Ethel Pillion
Common Pleas Court
Patricia Burton
Robert Hogg
Fourth Street
Olive Roth
Cascade Street
James
Evelyn Redman
John
D. A. Cook
Phylis Bunton
William
Jennie Katiba
Louis
John D. Pincura
Ollie Blanton
Arneal Brown
Elyria Avenue
Joseph Komizes
Tom Worcester
Columbia Station
Sheriff's Department
Virginia
West Virginia
Ursula Porter
Wimnels Court
Sheriff's
Charles W. Barnes
Broadway
Barnes
Ft. Lawton
Wash
Willoughby
Beans Young
Walker Road
Avon Lake
Dub Kidney
Sheriff Department
Steve Mrosko, Jr
Marie
Lawrenceburg
Carole Autio
Reino
Iron River
Wis
Stewart
Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co
Lorance Wheeler, Inc
Service Transport Co
Herman Steele
Clementine
Prichard
Ala
William Goebl
Marilyn
Eleanor Sanger
Libertystreet
Vincent
Niles
John Pincura
Olga Pochuch
Eli
Gene Linder
Erie Street
Justice C. C. Lord
Ohio Bell
Lorain Lodge
American T. & T
Anaconda Copper
Avco Mfg
Bendix Aviation
Chrysler
Cleveland Cliffs
Columbia Gas
Fruehaus Trailer
General Motors
Glidden Co
iKennecott Copper
Montgomery Ward
Ohio Edison
Ohio Oil
Penna. R. R
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Standard of Ind. Standard of N. J Standard of Ohio
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