Cold wave pushes east as floods spread across states
Gale strength winds drove a cold front to the Atlantic coast dropping temperatures by as much as 36 degrees in 10 hours. Floods hit Mississippi Wyoming and Montana with large areas of cotton flooded along the Yazoo River and thousands displaced.
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Atlantic
Southern
scaies
Mississippi
Wyomaz
Montana
Albany
N. Y
New York City
Buffalo
International Falls
Minn
Pembina
NX. D
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Duluth
Manufacturers Light and Heat Company
Prttsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
National
cit
Greenwood
Miss
Yazoo
Yazoo City
Wyoming
Bit Horn
Worland
Wyo
West Worland
iso
Woerland
Cn o
Oh.o
Principal Heads Red Cross Campaign in Elyna Schools
McKinley School principal Wight G. Felton is named to direct the American Red Cross fund drive in Elyna schools. He has served in this role for years and is active in local groups. Campaign opens March 1 with a $72,410 charter goal.
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wight G. Felton
McKinley school
American Red Cross fund
Elyna
Red Cross Grives
Felton
First Congregational Church
Kivens Club
Boy Scouts of America
Harvard avenue
Elvria
Toledo ammonia blast injures nineteen at dairy plant
A large ammonia explosion at the Page Dairy Co in Toledo injured 19 employees and rattled the neighborhood. Victims were taken by private and police ambulances to Mascotte Va, Merex, and St. Vincent hospitals. All reported nonfatal but suffered fumes. cause under investigation. The dairy employs 259 and spans a three story brick building.
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TOLEDO
Page Dairy Co
Mascmee Va
Merex
St. Vincents
Cleveland Area Weather Update For Western Ohio
Weather forecast for western Ohio and Cleveland includes a few snow flurries and windy icy conditions this afternoon. Clearing and colder tonight with Saturday bright but cold. tonight low around 8, Saturday high near 25.
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CLEVELAND
orvideestern
Ohio
Community notices and club ads from Grafton Ohio
The fragment lists repairs by Deetz Inc and Stewart Radio and Electric at 242 Marseilles Ave plus a recurring Amily party every Monday at 800 p.m. at I. C. Hall in Grafton with the Black River Game Club as an adjacent advertisement.
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ASHERS
Stewart Radio and Electric
Marseilles Ave
I. C. Hall
Grafton
Ohio
Black iver Game Club
Ohio faces bitter cold with 15 degree readings widespread
Cold wave grips eastern Ohio driving temps to 15 degrees in Mansfield Youngstown Toledo and Cleveland with 10 degree lows forecast for some areas. Utilities restrict gas deliveries to 150 industrial users as weather forecasters warn of colder conditions ahead. Port Columbus reports light snow and the day’s high near 65 remains far from the record.
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Ohio
mercury
Manufacturers Heat and Light Co
Sioux City
Mansfield
Youngstown
Toledo
Cleveland
F.ndlay
Akron
East Liverpool
Zanesville
Columbus
Cincinnati
Port Columbus
pearly
Damaged Safe Found Abandoned Near Old House
A 5x2x3 foot cabinet safe with its top blown off was found abandoned in a basement at Routes 52 and 37. Deputy sheriffs investigate after Lester Wen reported it last evening. Diebold Safe Co. to assist in ownership tracing. Not the Ruth grocery store theft.
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Lester wen
Robson road
Diebold Safe Co
Southern Democrats Rally Against Truman Civil Rights Plan
Southern Democrats pressed a protest meeting in Washington to resist Truman civil rights proposals hoping to bargaining power to curb policy. Truman used Jefferson Jackson Day events to condemn Congress as unfit to manage funds and Marshall Plan appropriations. He faces rising party tensions and plans Caribbean vacation while historians watch for his presidential bid.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
R.p
William M. Colmer
D. Miss
Congress
White House
Caribbean
Florida
Henry A. Wallace
Jd. Howard McGrath
Democratic National Committee
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Mayflower Hotel
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Mr. Truman
County Federation Of Democratic Women To Meet
Members of the Lorain County Federation of Democratic Women will meet at Avon school on route 224 at 8 am February 24. Joseph Vyshelyi will assign an organization task. First appearances of several Democratic candidates will be made. The regular meeting is led by Mrs Irene Lieb. A card party is planned for April in Lorain. Mrs Helen Klingshirn of Avon Lake is president of the newly organized Doir Madison club hosting the meeting. All local Democrats are invited.
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Lorain County
Lorain
Wake
Janiz
ways and means
Helen Klingshirn
Steve Moore read
Avon Lake
Doir Madison club
Sheffield
Sheffield Lake
Avon
Elyria Man In Coma Found In Residence
William Edward Barnes 76 of 327 Cleveland Street was found unconscious in a chair at home by his brother in law Harvey Winckles. An unvented gas stove was burning as police arrived and Barnes was taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital for observation after 8 48 p m.
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William Edward Barnes
Cleveland street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Harvey Winckles
Barnes
Pilot dies heroically as plane avoids oil tank crash
Veteran test pilot L A Slim Perrett chose to stay with a crippled three engine Northrop Pioneer to avert a collision with a 100 000 barrel oil tank near a housing project in Los Angeles He ordered his co pilots to bail out and died when his parachute failed to open Witnesses said the plane narrowly missed the storage tank and fielded disaster.
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LOS ANGELES
L. A
Slim) Perrett
Northrop
John Atkinson
E. P. Hetzel
Perrett
Hetzel
Atkinson
ciice
Prices Jump Up to 25 a Ton for Steel Items in Steel Market
Prices on steel items rose as much as 25 a ton after a week of price adjustments by basic steel producers. The hikes affect semi finished steel items and are expected to ripple to plates and rolled sheets, even as producers say the rise is not alarming while wage talks with United Steelworkers loom.
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PITTSBURGH
buize
CLO united steelworkers
Twelve Jewish Leaders Escape Jerusalem Jail Through Secret Tunnel
Twelve underground Jewish leaders fled Central Jail in Jerusalem via a tunnel under the prison foundations, exiting at a St Paul road manhole. Police discovered the escape two hours later as anti terror sirens sounded and security zones closed. Guards found the tunnel entrance in a cell corner and a tunnel exit in an Arao section amid heavy barbed wire and frequent vehicle checks. The escape coincides with wartime Palestine, where British warships pursued refugee vessels and measures against Jewish migrants intensified.
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JERUSALEM
St Paul
County Shares In Poor Relief Funds
Lorain county will receive 126931 for poor relief as its share of a 7424615 distribution by the state from public utility excise taxes announced by State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson.
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Lorain county
Joseph T. Ferguson
Lorain Faces Tax Loss If National Tube Claim Wins
Lorain and county would lose about 190 000 yearly if National Tube Co wins a tax reduction case over plant structures. The dispute centers on classifying blast furnaces and similar structures as personal or real property and what tax value applies. A state-wide meeting is planned for March 4 to discuss the impact of a recent Supreme Court decision on industrial tax classifications.
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Lorain city
National Tube Co
Lorain
William G. Wickens
Ohio Supreme Court
National Tube
Lorain county
Wickens
state tax commission
board of revision
Columbus
Supreme Court
Public Meeting Of Intergroup Relations Council
The Sivmna Council of Intergroup Relations will hold its first public meeting at 8 p m Tuesday at the YMCA announced by Don McThox president The main topic is in What Wars May Labor and Mansezement Together Seek to Terminate Discrimination in Employment The meeting will include officer statements and introductions of the executive committee members also announced were Dr Charles E Guth and Dexter Kim ball vice presidents and Mrs Les le Bowman secretary The executive committee includes Catholic Jewish Protestant representatives as well as Negro races labor management business and professions The president said the council grew from a need to unite diverse groups for mutual understanding and invites all Elyria and vicinity residents who share its principles to join as an independent organization not affiliated with any other group
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Sivmna Council of Intergroup Relations
YMCA
Don McThox
Mellroy
Charles E. Guth
Dexter Kimball
Lesle Bowman
intergroup Relations council
cris
Elyria and
Vlcimaty
Apple Growers To Meet Saturday
Lorain County apple growers will be informed about the federal surplus purchase program at a 10 a m meeting in the directors room of the Lorain County Savings and Trust Company. Growers with large surplus quantities are urged to attend.
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Lorain County
Lorain County Savings and Trust Company
Noted Cleveland churchman to speak at Union Lenten service
Dr. Oscar T. Olsen, minister of Epworth Euclid Metheast church in Cleveland, will speak at the second union Lenten service Sunday at 8 p m in the First Congregational church. He holds multiple degrees and has served in Baltimore and Mt. Union Place, with extensive council work in Methodism.
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Oscar T. Olsen
Epworth-Euclid Metheast
Cleveland
First Congregational church
Olson
Albion College
Union Theological Seminary
Columbia University
Albion
Litt
Western Maryland College
Mt. Vernon College
Allegheny College
Southwestern College
Texas
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Nu fraternity
Royal Oak
Mich
Mt. Union Place
Baltimore
Methodist Ecumenical Conference
Grocers Report Prices Fall Yet Demand Slows Across Cities
Retail grocers report price cuts to attract shoppers but say no rush to buy. Housewives fear a buying surge would lift prices again, while New York surveys show weekly price drops reducing last year’s extra food costs. Butter prices fall as wholesale markets retreat.
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CHICAGO
Moore
groecers
New York
Walter Paul
National Assocation of Retail Grocers
Chicago Board of Trace toGey
Ohio Group Elects E. C. Cotton President
E C Cotton operator of a fruit farm on Lake avenue north of Elyria was elected president of the Ohio Horticultural Society at the annual Cleveland meeting. He succeeds Ben Davis of Clyde and has long led Lorain County fruit growing efforts while serving in state and county horticulture roles.
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E C. Cotton
Lake avenue
Elyria
Ohio Horticultural Society
Cleveland
Cotton
Ben Davis
Clyde
state sociely
Lorain County
Engine and Cars Derail on Norfolk and Western Run
The Powhatan Arrow reports a Norfolk and Western passenger train wrecked 20 miles north of Portsmouth Ohio near Franklin Furnace. Officials say the engine overturned and all but one car derailed with unknown car count and no confirmed injuries. a fireman reportedly killed and an engineer seriously injured per Scioto County deputy.
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PORTSMOUTH
Norfolk and , Western
Cincinnati
Norfolk
Franklin Furnace
Columbus
Scioto County
Stanley Evans
Pastor O Loughlin Dies At Oberlin Sacred Heart
The Rev William C OLoughlin 50 pastor of Sacred Heart Church Oberlin died at 2 15 pm Thursday at St Vincent s Charity Hospital Cleveland after over a year illness He was appointed pastor January 21 1936 He aided church sanctuary renovation and redecorating in 1943 He served as auxiliary chaplain to the Navy V 12 unit at Oberlin College in July 1933 born Cleveland September 14 1897 and educated at St Augustine St Thomas Aquinas Loyola High School John Carroll University and St No 4 Conzinuee on Page 2
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OBERLIN
William C. O'Loughlin
Sacred Heart Church
St. Vincent’s Cherny Hospital
Cleveland
Father O'Loughlin
Sacred Heart parish
Oberlin College
Francis X. Spellman
Daniel O’Loughlin
St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas
Loyola High School
John Carroll University
St. No. 4
Coniizuee
Locations For Youth Center Suggested
Elyria Youth Council discussed possible sites for a future Youth Center during its third regular meeting at Elyria City Hall. Don Aidlroy outlined objectives of the neighboring Elyria Council on Intergroup Relations and pledged support for the youth group.
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Elyria Community Youth Council
Elyria City Hall
Post Office to Observe George Washington Birthday
Elyria post office announces no mail deliveries on Monday in observance of George Washington's Birthday. Outgoing mail boxes and downtown collection points will be closed, though post office windows remain shut for the day and no deliveries will be made.
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Elyria
George Washington
Willam Jenne
posit
Auction sale echoes through Ohio classified column
Obscure ad blurbs tout truthfulness and wealth through inexpensive classified ads. The notice promotes an auction at 7:30 p.m. for the Oberlin household furniture belonging to Mark Friend, listed by Merle G. Karns as auctioneer. It urges readers to read the auction column for details and features “Block-Busters” and “King of the Bandits” as bandwagon appeal.
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Oberlin
Mark Friend
more deters
Merle G. Karns
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Dwight G. Felton
Red Cross Drive
loledo
ARS
Deetz Inc
Newspap
United Press
CANDLELITE INN
Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Vieques Island
Puerto Rico
2nd Marine Division
Atlantic Fleet
NEA-Acme
Arthur Rickerby
Acme
County Federation Of Democratic Women
Mac
East Ave
Palestine
veriously the Proletariat
Galianiry ang Uprighit
CAPITOL
Adv
Apple Growers
RIVOLI
Dr. Olson
Union
Oscar T. Olson
Grocers
Ohio Group
E. C. Cotton
Deziz, Inc
Chrysler-Plymouth
Bread
GEO. WASHINGTON
Chronicle- Telegram
LINCOLN
Block - Busters
Newspaper
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