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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1947
Page
8
A Chronicle Telegram note outlines plywood use across work boats. It lists cabins decks bulkheads and interior finish as key components for larproot and Clippers salmon séinérs trail ing boats tugs and other vessel classes.
Joseph W. Meriam of Cleveland is appointed to Oberlin College Athletic Advisory Committee. He and Bernie Smythe led Oberlin baseball in 1898 to 1900, later becoming Cleveland civic leaders. Also reports store burglary at Rowe-Governor Garage with thefts totaling 415.56 including an adding machine. fingerprints taken.
The Wo man’s Society of Christian Service at LaPorte church held a Dow tuber meeting in the church dining room last Tuesday evening. Mrs. Howard Hulse opened with devotions, readings from the Journal of Living on Thankfulness, and prayers by Rey. Lewis Green. Mrs. James Dewhurst led singing. business reports were given and fundraising and kitchen improvements discussed. Officers for the year were installed by Mr. Green using Romans chapter 12. A Christmas program directed by Mrs. L. A. Gould featured instrumental preludes, readings, carols, and solos by Mrs. Dewhurst and Mrs. Floyd Worthington and daughters. A dessert was served by Circle Four.
Washington sponsors included former and current members of Congress among backers of the Win the Peace movement, now blacklisted by the Justice Department. Key names listed include Rep Adolph Sabath and Sen Harley Kilgore, with several others from New York California Idaho and Washington. Only a subset remained in Congress after disclosures in early 1946. The movement was described as a Communist front that failed to thrive after press exposure and official charges.
Marion Ray Shappard, 48, goes on trial for first degree murder of 16 year old Raxid Ann Green of Kearby Prospect Ohio. Jury selection from 105 prospective jurors underway before Judge Paul D. Smith. Body found nine days after her death on a roadside near Norton. Sheriff LeRoy Vederer says confession led to body and weapon. Shappard pleaded guilty at arraignment before Judge Dexter Hazen.
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