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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1952
Page
2
On Friday May 2 1952 in Elyria Ohio Benjamin Coleman reported he should have yelled free whiskey as a holdup man entered a Baltimore Md liquor store and grappled with him shouting holdup while passersby kept walking. The robber finally fled after tiring of the struggle.
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Taylor John Smith son of Mrs Evelin A Smith of 35790 Detroit road Avon has won a Baker Scholarship valued at 3200 for Kenyon College next fall. The award from the George F Baker estate recognizes academic merit and leadership. He has served as Student Council representative class president editor of the school paper and lettered in football and basketball. He participates in YMCA activities and has superior ratings in county district and state instrumental music contests.
A Belem Brazil search failed to find survivors from the Pan American Stratocruiser crash on a jungle hill. All 50 aboard, including 19 Americans, were likely killed as fire-blackened debris covered a quarter mile on a 1500 foot ridge. Brazilian air force evacuated wreckage to Araguacema.
The four-engine Stratocruiser vanished Tuesday on the Buenos Aires to New York leg over the Caribbean. Capt Jim Rowing piloting a cargo C-47 from Miami reported spotting wreckage from the air. Nine crew members and 10 of 41 passengers were American. Col Archibald D Odom, head of the Air Force Rescue Service, said early photos of wreckage and bodies suggest an in-flight explosion.
A Philomath restaurant owner creates an Ikeburger linked to the Ike sentiment. Ted Ward, Eisenhower committee chair, samples it and proclaims I like Ikeburger. Also from Texas a grocer learns his $10 violin is an authentic Stradivarius dated 1716 after shop verification.
Omaha dispatch notes Jack Simons a truck driver arriving in the city after a 500 mile journey from Berryville. He describes a lengthy haul and reflects on road conditions and travel times. Officials record the event as a standard travel report.
Pvt Richard Murphy 20, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Murphy of 310 Roosevelt Ave, is home from Ft Leonard Wood Missouri after clerk-typist training. He will report May 19 to Camp Kilmer New Jersey for overseas reassignment. Inducted last November. Oliver Murray returns to San Francisco base after 18 days with mother Helen and sister Mary Jane of No 2 Shear St. he serves as Seaman first class in the U S Navy.
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