Dewey Seeks Second Nomination at Republican Convention
At the Philadelphia hall the Dewey camp pressed toward a second nomination as 2 p.m. approached. Stop-Dewey factions gained from Saltonstall, Shott, and Maryland and Nebraska sources while Taft and Stassen threats loomed. Six hours of speeches and parades closed with Dewey still favored though rivals plotted delay and coalitions.
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Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Dewey
New York
Jim Shott
West Virginia
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
Arthur J. Weaver
Robert O. Bonnell
Maryland
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Stassen
Two Pilots Die In Crash Over Detroit
Two Navy training planes in formation over Detroit locked wings and crashed. Ensign John H. Nicholson and Ensign Roy E. Schultheiss, both 24 or 25, died. The crash sparked fires at a machine shop and two houses. one plane hit a house, another struck near a school. No bodies found at scene. hospitals reported no injuries brought in.
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Detroit
Navy
Grosse Ile Naval Air Station
John H. Nicholson
Scranton
Iowa
Roy E. Schultheiss
Port Huron
Mich
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Putnam
Putnam Machine Shop
Norval
First Draft Call to Enlist Single Men First
Washington reports the first draft call will target single men without dependents in non essential jobs. President Truman may defer men ages 19 to 25 supporting a wife or children and grant deferments to necessary workers in agriculture industry and government. The act exempts many veterans ministers and divinity students. In emergencies, deferred men could be inducted. National Guard strength pressures prompt swift draft signing. Inductions start after registration of 18 to 29 year olds.
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Washington
Administration
Truman
National Guard
Personal Taxes Rise in First 1948 Period Across County
County Auditor Frank Avers reports an appreciable rise in personal taxes for the first 1948 period compared to 1947, totaling 350 671 dollars, up 43 708 from the prior year. Tangible taxes on business property amount 216 401 dollars while intangible taxes on securities total 133 959 dollars. Tangible shares go to county 93 045 dollars township 8 401 dollars schools 118 527 dollars and municipalities 68 427 dollars. Intangible taxes first go to county libraries with 53 243 dollars, then remaining funds to municipalities. Continue on Page 2.
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Frank Avers
Cleveland Northeastern Ohio Forecast With Showers
Weather forecast for northeastern Ohio shows showers and thundershowers ending this afternoon and tonight. Winds shift to westerly late tonight with mild Friday skies. Lows around 66, highs near 82, and markets note electric fans at Bowker Electric Service, 658 West Broad Street.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ender
Bowker Electric Service
Broad St
Oklahoma Floods Kill Eight as Disaster Plan Activated
Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner activated the disaster plan and dispatched National Guardsmen after flash floods across Hydro and Okmulgee left at least eight dead, with five hundred evacuated from Okmulgee. Missing include D. C. Bates and Jerry Friesen among others. water reached up to 15 inches in places as rescuers and patrols searched flooded towns and cars.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Roy J. Turner
Oklahoma
Hydro
Okmulgee
Fork River
Okmulgee Creek
Ellis Holly
National
Jootinz
Highway Patrol
Lsted
D. C. Bates
Yellow Transit Co
Jerry Friesen
Adolph Krewall
Corn
E. Walters
Cordell
Methodists Opposed To Draft Policy Move
The north east conference of the Methodist church declared opposition to universal military training and selective service. They argued such programs would be viewed as war mobilization at home and abroad and threaten world peace and economic recovery.
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Lakeside
North-East
The
Methodist Church
Elyria High 1948 Yearbook Ready For Distribution
The Elyrian yearbook for 1948 is now ready for distribution to the graduating class and other students. Miss Margaret Edwards, faculty adviser, announced the schedule with book room windows in the Technical building open from 2 to 4 p m Saturday Monday for seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen to pick up books upon presenting receipts.
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Elyria High School
Elyrian
Margaret Edwards
Louis Brush Dies Head of Chain of Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA Louis H Brush 76 Salem Ohio board chair of the Brush Moohe newspaper chain died in Hahnemann hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage after a heart attack yesterday Brush friend of President Harding died this morning after wife Maud Brush and a grandson Thomas Stewart Brush arrived He and partner Roy Moore started the chain in 1923 with Marion Star purchase. chain includes seven papers in Ohio and Maryland
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Philadelphia
Louis H. Brush
Salem
Brush-Moohe
Hahnemann Hospital
Harding
Brush
Maud Brush
Thomas Stewart Brush
Roy Moore
Wiliam A. Vodrey
Vodrey
Ohio
Brush and Moore
Maryland
Marion
Bricker Nominates Taft at Philadelphia Convention
Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio nominated Sen. Robert A. Taft for president at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. His 20 minute off the cuff address praised Taft’s leadership and invoked faith and world peace as the convention erupted in a Taft demonstration.
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Philadelphia
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Bricker
Taft
United States
Congress
Sen. Bricker
Band Camp Will Close Tomorrow Concert at Elyria High
The Stay-at-Home Band Camp at Elyria High School conducted by Walter F. Von Brock ends its three week session with a concert at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Little Theatre Room 197. All 60 pupils, mostly junior high aged, will perform for parents and friends after meeting four days a week since school year end. Millerburg death details note Killbeck former state senator W D Gray, 79, died last night of uremic poisoning.
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Elyria High School
Walter F. von Brock
von Brock
Stassen Plans Major Announcement From Philadelphia
Former Minnesota governor Harold E. Stassen told a Philadelphia press conference he would make an important announcement around 2 30 p m He claimed greater confidence than ever that the Dewey Grundy machine had been stopped and said he had spoken by phone with Senators Lodge Saltonstall Knowland and Taft as well as Governor Duff of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Henry Cabot Liodge
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
William Knowland
California
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
Russia May Set Up New State In Germany
Foreign ministers of Russia and seven satellite states eyed turning the Soviet occupation zone into a separate German state with its own government. The talks at Wilanow palace near Warsaw followed six power talks on western Germany. Leipzig was noted as a possible capital. Continued on Page 2. Funeral services held for Joseph W. Robinson in Toledo.
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Warsaw
Russia
Germany
London
United States
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Leipzig
Saxony
General Wainwright at GOP convention urges MacArthur nomination
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright, just out of a Texas hospital after years of captivity, addresses the Republican national convention in Philadelphia. He urges nominating Douglas MacArthur, arguing for a strong wartime leader as delegates, tired yet attentive, respond to his call.
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Philadelphia
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan
Corregidor
Texas
Wainwright
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Harlan W. Kelley
Milwaukee
Charles H. Savage Dies In Florida
Charles H. Savage 82 former Elyria merchant died at his Bradenton Florida home two weeks after his wife. He ran a jewelry store at the site of the current Standard Drug Co retiring in 1927. He was active in Masons Knights Templar and Chamber of Commerce. Survived by brother George sister Annie and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were set for Bradenton with ashes to be sent to Elyria for interment at Ridgelawn cemetery. RUMMAGE Sale by St Clair Rebekah Lodge Odd Fellows Hall Sat 9 am Ady.
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Charles H. Savage
Bradenton
Fla
Standard Drug Co
Knights Templar
George
Annie
Elyria
Ohe
Ridgelawn
Record Heat Blamed for Four Deaths in Cleveland
Record hot weather was blamed for four Cleveland deaths yesterday. Drowned victims include William McHughian, 9, and Andrew Soltis, 18. Max Maier, 54, died en route to hospital after a swimming party. Herman Wadeska, 72, collapsed and died while gardening. doctors cited heat heart attack.
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Cleveland
William MecHuigan
Andrew Soltis
Max Maier
Herman Wadeska
Americans Will Not Be Driven From Berlin
General Lucius D. Clay declared that nothing short of war would drive American forces from Berlin. He spoke at Heidelberg after hurried talks with army commanders, saying Russia’s actions may be the final pressure to expel Western Allies from the city, and expressed regret that German civilians bear the cost.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Russia
U. S
Germany
Heidelberg
Clay
Graduate Of Elyria Nursing School Passes State Board
A 1947 Elyria Memorial Hospital M. B. Johnson School of Nursing graduate, Florence Roesch of Sandusky, passed the April state board exams. She could not take them with her class due to age restrictions and was graduated last June.
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M. B. Johnson School of Nursing
Elyria Memorial Hospital
State Nurses Board
Florence Roesch
Sandusky
Elyria
Demands By Lewis Could Raise Coal Prices
Washington reports that John L. Lewis seeks a $3 a day wage rise for about 400,000 miners. If UMW terms are accepted, coal prices may rise 50 cents to $1 per ton. Operators to answer today, with a meeting of Lewis’s policy committee this afternoon. If no agreement, the Board of Inquiry could urge a court order to resume work by July 6 after the current contract expires.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
President
Truman
Board of Inquiry
White House
National Health and Safety
Union Welfare and Retirement Fund
Classified Ad Mix Finds Mice Game Shifts Toward Listings
A playful note claims wedding bells end the old mice gang as they now haunt the Chronicle-Telegram classifieds for housing and used furniture. Readers are urged to call 44-121 or 44-131 for today’s ads.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Indiana Dewey Holdouts Rally as Votes Tilt Toward Nomination
Indiana pledged all 29 votes to Dewey in a late caucus burst. Stop-Dewey estimates put first ballot at about 400 votes, under 548 needed for nomination, with momentum for a potential vice presidential slot if Dewey heads the ticket. Delegates shifted across states as Driscoll and Warren endorsements surfaced, night-long speeches wrapped as balloting loomed.
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Dewey
Stop-Dewey
Indiana
House
Charles A. Halleck
Pennsylvania
Taft
Vandenberg
Stassen
Massachusetts
Robert Bradford
New Jersey
Alfred E. Driscoll
Albany
Earl Warren
California
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Snator Vandenberg
Douglas MacArthur
Baldwin
Sigler
Harlan Kelly
Milwaukee
Wis
MacArthur
Kelly
Jonathan Wainwright
Bataan
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Thomas FE. Dewey
Landidates
Gen
Vandenberg-Stassen
Connecticut
Warren
Raymond KE. Baldwin
Harold E. Stussen
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Arthur, Jr
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Warne Morse
Oregon
Henry Cabot
Lodge
Stassen-Vandenberg
Vandenbe
G.O.P
Bulletin
E.H.S
Louis Brush
Chain of Newspapers
Deetz, Inc
Chrysler-Plymouth
W. Broad
Bricker Rocks
Millersburg
W. D. Gray
Killbeck
Toledo,o
Joseph W. Robinson
Robinson
Toledo Boys Club
Burkay Co
Westlake Products Co
Libbey Glass Co
Gen. Wainwright
Florida
St. Clair Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Carey's Villa
Maine
Camp Iss-See-Kes
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