Sentences in Spy Case Split Deportation Pact Upheld
Russian engineer Valentin Gubitchev to 15 years for attempting to obtain US defense secrets from Judith Coplon. Sentence suspended upon deportation within two weeks. Coplon handed 13 years for traitorous acts with no bail relief pending appeal. Judge Ryan orders Gubitchev to depart on a U S ship with a marshal, while Coplon faces continued imprisonment and 40 months to 10 years earlier sentence.
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New York
Valentin A. Gubitchev
United States
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Sylvester Ryan
Gubitchev
Dean Acheson
J. Howard McGrath
Ryan
U. S
Washington
Richard Larkin To Represent E H S In Speech Contests
Richard Larkin a junior will represent Elyria High School extemporaneous speaking squad in Lake Erie League contests. Miss Alice Stofer, the speech coach, announced Larkin will participate in three contests while Wayne Wise, a sophomore, will attend the Western Reserve University contest. Contests run March 16 24 and April 21 with judges at two sites and a round table at Shaw High School. Elyria aims to extend its two year first place run in extemporaneous contests with prior winners Philip Struthers in 1949 and Harold Kunkle in 1948.
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Richard Larkin
Elyria High School
Alice Stofer
Stofer
Wayne Wise
Wise
Western Reserve University
Exchange Club
Lorain
Shaw High School
Elyria
Larkin
Dan Simon
Jacqueline Cox
Walter Wirnnski
Ann Hennings
Nyla Lyndes
WEOL
Sandra Warmee
John Nielsen
Sally Parks
Margaret Yanega
Marilynn Nicholas
Miss Stofer
Ali Shaw High School
Northeast Storm Bites Nation Amid Fatal Midwest Toll
Chicago dispatch reports winter blizzard sweeping the northeast as midwestern counties tally deaths and damage. Eleven lives lost in expansive blowback with power outages, frozen travelers, and wrecked lines from North Dakota to Illinois. Strong winds hammered New York area and Vermont to Florida. flights canceled at LaGuardia.
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Chicago
Midwest
North Atlantic Seaboard
St. Lawrence
New York Metropolitan
New England
Seaboard
Florida
Plains
North Dakota
Stephen Mission
South Dakota
Nebraska
Carthage
Williston
N. D
Montana
New York
New York City
Weather Bureau
Milton
Mass
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Braintree
LaGuardia Field
Red Cross Campaign Reports Strong Early Progress
The 1950 Elyria Red Cross drive reports 2794.38 collected to date after yesterday’s noon check-up at the YMCA. Oberlin totals reach 1732.44 with industry adding 508.81 pending office turn-in. Campaign chair Herbert Meister and speaker George Calvert urged direct asks for funds. next luncheon is March 16 at noon.
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American Red Cross
Elyria
Red Cross
Oberlin
Herbert Meister
George Calvert
Calvert
Adult Education Classes to Resume Next Week
D A Morris Elyria high school vocational education supervisor announced that all adult education activities will restart next Monday evening except the personality development course which will resume on March 20. A new cabinet making course starts Thursday evening March 16 as coal supplies permit. If further coal difficulties arise another notice may postpone.
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D. A. Morris
Elyria High School
Morris
Educators To Attend Meetings In Lorain County Schools
The Lorain County board of education approved two assistant superintendents attending national meetings. Emma Gleason will go to the Association for Childhood Education annual meeting in Asheville NC on April 14. Gerald M. Frank will attend the Music Educators National Conference in St. Louis in March 1924. The board also awarded driving certificates for the remainder of the year to Leonard Smith of Penfield and Wells Weston of Eaton.
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Lorain County
Leonard] Smith
Penfield
Wells Wes
Ton
Eaton
Nice Day For Fire In A Chimneyless Home
GEORGETOWN KY A cold March day prompted Andy McFarland to light a decorative fireplace that had no chimney. The resulting smoke forced a quick call to the city fire department. Fire crews extinguished the blaze and found no risk beyond smoke in the house.
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Georgetown
Andy McFarland
McFarland
Northeast Ohio Weather Outlook Turns Colder
Partly cloudy and windy conditions continue this afternoon and tonight with snow flurries and a cold snap. Friday turns cloudy with milder temperatures, with a low near 12 tonight and a high around 30 on Friday. Markets found today on page two.
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Ohio
Surplus food charges to be paid by Lorain schools
Lorain County schools and institutions will start paying small charges for free surplus foods used in lunchrooms and school kitchens. C A Gibbons told County Commissioners the Office of Commodities Distribution requires fees for future shipments, including a 50 cent per hundred pound bag charge for surplus potatoes. The plan covers all future commodities as budget shortfalls shift transportation and packaging costs to local recipients. Lorain county handles distribution with Lawrence Collier. A vocational field trip for Elyria High School machine shop and welding students to Fruehaus plant in Avon is planned for Thursday morning March 16, with 34 students attending guided by D A Morris Fred Tuthill and Raymond Richards.
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Lorain County
C. A. Gibbons
Gibbons
Office of Commodities Distribution
Lawrence Collier
Elyria High School
D. A. Morris
Fruehaus
Avon
Morris
Fred Tutthill
Raymond Richards
Final Plea in Sander Murder Case Hears Mercy Request
In Manchester New Hampshire Dr Hermann N Sander’s aging lawyer Louis E Wyman urged jurors to sentence his client to a life of service not death He argued the motive was an irrational response to a cancer patient’s agony and suffering The judge and a packed courtroom heard that the defense cites four possible verdicts including first degree murder with or without capital punishment Second degree murder or acquittal The jury’s deliberations were expected to begin mid afternoon with deputies guarding exits in the locked Hillsborough county courthouse
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Manchester
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
Louis E. Wyman
Sander
Abbie C. Borreto
Harold B. Wescott
Wyman
Eees
Hillsborough County
Lewis Orders Hard Coal Miners To Work Today
John L. Lewis ordered Pennsylvania s 78 000 anthracite miners to report to work today ending their three day week and promising full production in hard and soft coal fields for the first time in three months. The leaders said terms followed the soft coal contract but did not disclose details.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Washington
Lewis
Industrial Gas Cutbacks Hit Five Ohio Counties
Northeastern Ohio faces gas supply restrictions for the second time in a week as a cold wave grips the state. East Ohio Gas Co orders Ras to 700 industrial users in Cuyahoga Stark Summit Mahoning and Tuscarawas counties to reduce to maintenance levels to conserve supplies for homes. The curtailment threatens thousands of area jobs while weather turns bitter with subfreezing highs and lows near the teens.
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United Press
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Akron
Dayton
Cleveland
Toledo
Columbus
Cincinnati
East Ohio Gas Co
East Ohio
Cuyahoga
Stark
Summit
Mahoning
Tuscarawas
State Highway Department
Two Killed As Bus And Truck Collide Near Kingsport
Kingsport Tennessee. A bus carrying Tennessee Eastman Corp workers home collided head on with a truck seven miles south of the city. At least two people were killed and rescuers freed the drivers from twisted wreckage. Earl Wayne Laugherty of Knoxville drove the truck and Ralph Feagins, 38, of Kingsport drove the bus. An undetermined number of others were injured and taken to Holston Valley Community Hospital. Initial reports cited five fatalities, with toll potentially higher.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Tennessee Eastman Corp
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Earl Wayne Laugherty
Knoxville
Ralph Feagins
Laugherty
Feagins
McCarthy Sparks Angry Clash Over State Department
Washington senator Joseph R. McCarthy accuses the State Department group of being a tool of the department, while Senator Brien McMahon denounces his remarks as unworthy. The Foreign Relations subcommittee pressed McCarthy to name the official he claims protected a security risk as hearings proceed amid threats to subpoena McCarthy’s files.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Senate
Today
State Department
Brien McMahon
Conn
McCarthy
McMahon
Department
Senate Foreign Relations
Millard B. Tydings
McMahon-McCarthy
High” Department
Subcommittee
Suboena McCarthy
Wellington Man Has Fracture of Vertebra
Wellington superintendent R O Eaken reported that his assistant Ralph Puder, who fell from a transformer after contact with 34 000 volt lines, is improving at Allen Hospital. The physician says Puder has third degree burns and a fractured vertebra in his neck, refuting earlier reports of a skull fracture.
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Wellington
R. O. Eaken
Robbery at Brunner residence on Kipling Street
Police investigate a burglary at George A Brunner 128 Kipling Street where 250 to 300 dollars vanished between 8 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. Mrs Brunner found a bottle emptied of old coins and two dimes and a quarter on the hall floor. entry traced to a cellar window. Police note only bottle contents were disturbed. A separate incident on Broad Street involved Warren A Miller narrowly avoiding an accident after brake failure led to a collision with a parked Coca Cola truck amid icy pavement.
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George A. Brunner
Kipling Street
Broad Street
West Avenue
Miller
Ralph J. Graham
Certificates Of Title Must Be Secured For 1951 Plates
H E Agate Lorain County clerk of courts today urged car owners to transfer bills of sale to certificates of title before January 1 1951. The state title law took effect January 1 1938, but many owners who have not bought cars since then still use bills of sale to prove ownership when buying license plates.
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H. E. Agate
Lorain County Court House
Agate
Reds Urge Prayer to Stalin for Candy
A Polish visitor recounted a Communist trick in which teachers urge children to pray to God for candy, then to pray to Premier Josef Stalin instead. The next day the children receive candy, illustrating the tactic to steer religious practice toward political figures.
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Penlin
Stettin
Poland
Josef Stalin
Russia
Island Capture Reported By Communique
Formosa to Beijing issue a naval communique admitting that a Chinese Communist invasion force has captured Weichow island located 85 miles northwest of Hainan. The terse report confirms a strategic seizure amid ongoing coastal theater operations.
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Formosa
Weichow Island
Lof
Hainan Island
Taft seeks boost for Ohio University forest station funds
Senator Robert Taft urged a Senate appropriations hearing to raise the Forest Service experiment station at Ohio University Athens by 70 000 dollars. He said the extra money would accelerate reforestation and erosion control in the area while the current budget only specifies 30 000 dollars.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Forest Service
Ohio University
Athens
Taft
Prisoners Trapped In Cells At Sandia Fire Tragedy
At Sandia base near Albuquerque a guard-house blaze killed 14 inmates and injured 30 others. Soldiers Pvt Wilbur Henry and Cpl Rich Miller were hurt saving prisoners. The fire fed by fuel oil burned the three cellblocks. 13 inmates died within 45 minutes and a 14th died hours later.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Sandia
Maj
K.K. Kolster
Kolster
Pvt
Wilbur Henry
South Zanesville
Cpl
Rich A. Miller
Stockton
Calif
Army
Air Force
Miller
Atomic Energy Commissions
Armed Services
Navy
Elyria 133rd Birthday Observed by Historical Society
The Lorain County Historical Society will observe Elyria's 133rd birthday with a March 17 gathering at 7 30 PM in period dress encouraged from 1900 or 1950. Judge Horace H Nye will discuss Fifty Years on Washington Avenue. Exhibits of period items will run March 16 to 21 at Fitch Company C H Merthe Company and Central Book Store.
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The
Lorain
Fitch Company
C. H. Merthe Company
Central Book Store
Lorain County
Two-Day Strike Ends at Great Lakes Engine Works
ASHTABULA Ohio two day wild cat strike ends as 175 employees return to work after discharge of a worker. Company officials say the man was reinstated while arbitration handles the case.
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Ashtabula
Great Lakes
Auto truck crash kills Mansfield man on Highway 42
State highway patrol reports Paul Raymond Kazebee, 22, of Lexington Ohio died when his car skidded on a curve and hit head on a truck driven by James FE Willyerd of Columbus on Highway 42 about one mile southwest of Mansfield yesterday. The ad notes remaining Home and Flower Show tickets at advance sale price of 50 cents from Botamer Florist.
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Mansfield
Paul Raymond Kazebee
Lexington
James FE. Willyerd
Columbus
Here
State Highway Patrol
Botamer Florist
Adv
Cee Sab
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