Lightning sets Pittsburgh street car ablaze injuring 23
A bolt of lightning struck a downtown Pittsburgh street car during an electrical storm, igniting the roof and causing panic. Twenty three passengers were injured, most during a rush to exits as windows shattered and doors opened. Most patients stabilized after hospital treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Mercy Hospital
Morgantown
W. Va
Pittsburgh Weather Bureau
Knoxville
Alda Laverne Grazer
Dennis Hinton
U. S. Weather Bureau
Allegheny County
United Press
300 Sites Being Considered For Air Academy
Elyria officials Norris Ryder and Dexter Kimball Jr. returned from the U S Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington where they learned the Army Air Forces Site Selection Commission continues reviewing about 300 proposed sites for the Air Academy. The project is an academic school, not a flying program, and Lorain County’s 9,000 acre Columbia Township listing is among many under scrutiny delaying final screening. Ryder noted the process is longer than expected. Kimball and his wife planned to return by car.
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Norris Ryder
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Elyria
Washington, D. C
United States Chamber of Commerce
Dexter S. Kimball, Jr
Elyria Chamber
Ryder
Kimball
Army Air Forces
Army
Lorain County
Columbia Township
German Cabinet Reacts To Moscow Prisoner Repatriation
Chancellor Adenauer called a Bonn emergency meeting after Moscow announced Russia had repatriated all German prisoners of war. German officials called the claim unbelievable and warned 400,000 German POWs may spend life in Russia. Western Allies estimate 225,000 to 250,000 remain in Russian custody.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Moscow
Russia
Northeastern Ohio Weather and Ridgeville Fish Fry Notice
Partly cloudy and warm with showers this evening and Saturday. Tonight's low 59, Saturday high 80. Five day forecast calls for warmer Monday and cooler Tuesday or Wednesday with showers Saturday and again early next week. Ridgeville Sportsmen's Club Fish Fry Friday May 12 tickets at local merchants posters display the event. few tickets at the door.
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Ohio
Ridgeville Sportsmen’s Club
Ridgeville
Remington Called For Further Testimony Today
Washington Commerce Department economist William W. Remington, suspended previously for security reasons, faced further evidence today as the Un American Activities Committee led by Chairman John S. Wood sought to publicize all evidence. Secretary Charles Sawyer pledged to reconvene the loyalty board if new character evidence emerged. The 33 year old official had been recalled for more testimony as the committee reopened the case yesterday to review new findings.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
Washington
William Remington
Debies
Communist Party
Knoxville
Tenn
Remington
Commerce Department
William W. Remington
John S. Wood
unAmerican Activities Committee
Charles Sawyer
Loyalty ‘Board
Wood
Legion To Have Annual Mother s Day Breakfast
The 14th Annual Mother's Day Breakfast by Elyria American Legion Post 12 is set for Sunday May 14 at 9 am. If held in the new post addition, it will be its first use. Speaker will be Mrs Louis B Seltzer wife of the Cleveland Press editor and noted traveler. George Tattersall chairs arrangements with Bob Green assisting. Mrs A E Sherman organizes invitations for Gold Star mothers. The post ladies auxiliary will prepare and serve the meal.
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Elyria American Legion Post
Louis B. Seltzer
Cleveland Press
George Tatters
Fourth In Series Of Bird Walks In Ely Woods
The fourth in the series of bird walks in Ely woods will take place Sunday. Meet at 7 15 a m at the park entrance on Washing ton avenue. Participants will study birds and wildflowers. Mayor Slusser and the emergency bus committee met amid Akron transit talks. A 12 cent fare with three tokens for 35 cents was discussed as a possible reform.
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Ely Woods
Washington Avenue
Akron
Charles E. Slusser
Sweden to protest Russian seizure of ships
Stockholm government sources said Sweden will protest to Russia over seizure and surveillance of Swedish fishing vessels in the Baltic where an American Navy plane is believed shot down. A note to the Kremlin will be sent within days. Denmark may also protest as four Danish boats have been missing since April 28. The missing American crew and debris from the plane have been found by Baltic fishers.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Baltic Sea
Kremlin
Denmark
Baltic
Ohio Lutherans Meet Select Toledo For 1951 Convention
The 9th annual Ohio Lutherans convention met in Mansfield and set Toledo as the host city for 1951. Delegates approved a $616,000 budget, up $30,000 from last year, and discussed plans for the synod. The report mentions Roy Troyer, 23, seriously injured in a car crash near Berlin and a harness shop owner in Toledo.
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Ohio Lutherans
Toledo
Mansfield
Millersburg
O.john Raber
City
Berlin
Roy Troyer
Southwest Tornadoes Injure 66 Across Midwest
Deadly storms sweep the Great Plains injuring 66 and hospitalizing dozens as tornadoes hit Great Bend Kansas Perryton Texas Zook Kansas and Cordell Fort Supply Oklahoma. Red Cross reports over 40 treated plus 10 hospitalized while winds and dust ravage the region and temperatures surge northward toward ninety.
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Chicago
Southwest
Canada
Great Bend
Kan
Red Cross
Ray Schulz
Kaw
Perryton
Tex
Zook
Ray
Cordell
Fort Supply
Oklahoma
Woodward
Okla
Mid-Continent
Plains
Rockies
Missouri
Kentucky
Texas- Oklahoma-Kansas
Fifteen Derby hopefuls drawn for 76th Kentucky Derby
Louisville notes a field of fifteen entrants for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs tomorrow led by Hill Prince and Your Host as strong contenders. Post positions place Your Host at 1 and Hill Prince among a crowded lineup including Mr Trouble Dooly Trumpet King and Oil Capitol. The race offers 100000 and the roses as prize.
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Louisville
Churchill Downs
Virginia
California
California Comet
Red
Mr. Trouble
Dooly
Trumpet King
Hill Prince
Oil Capitol
Hallie Boy
Sunglow
Lotowhite
Black George
Hawley
Middleground
Who Shot The Pigeons At The Courthouse Yard
A courthouse yard mystery concerns lifeless pigeons found about the building with county officials denying any campaign to remove them. County commissioners say they know nothing about the affair, though they are accused of being involved in the ongoing bird issue.
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Robb
Elyria to Curtail Afternoon Mail Deliveries
Postmaster William Jenne announces a gradual plan to end afternoon mail delivery in residential areas by June 1. The change reallocates routes, extends morning routes, and shifts vacation schedules to avoid layoffs while maintaining eight hour Saturday shifts. Some customers will move to afternoon delivery on expanded routes.
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William Jenne
Elyria
Postal Department
McCarthy Attacks Truman on Loyalty Files Ruling
Senator Joseph McCarthy condemned President Truman s move to allow Senate investigators access to State Department loyalty files as a political maneuver. The Tydings subcommittee continues its Amerasia case probes while McCarthy seeks broader access to FBI records to bolster his claim of Communist influence in the department.
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Washington
Joseph
McCarthy
R. Wis
Truman
Senate
State Department
Millard E. Tydings
Senate Foreign Relations
Department
FBI
Chicago
Carek’s
Tydings’ Subcommittee
Amerasia
Fifty thousand flee Norwegian towns to escape gas cloud
More than 60,000 residents fled two towns south of Oslo to escape poisonous gas from a pulp factory pipeline. About 25,000 in Sarpsborg and 36,000 in Frederikstad returned home three hours later as the cloud drifted down the Glomma river. Officials traced the leak to a valve left open during a valve cleaning. Fire brigades and civil defense workers sealed the valve. only minor gas exposure among workers was reported.
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Oslo
Norway
Sarpsborg
Frederikstad
Glomma
Borregaard
Sarsborg
Elyrian Selected For Naval Reserve Officers Training
John Gregory Jasper of Elyria High School was named one of 1 800 successful candidates for the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. The selection came from more than 25 000 applicants after aptitude testing last December and state quotas based on male high school graduates in 1948. Jasper, son of Mr and Mrs Virgil G Jasper of 100 East Second Street, has been active in tennis band and Hi-Y, leads Elyria Council of Protestant Youth, and is a DeMolay member. The program offers college training with unit assignment later.
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Bureau of Naval Personnel
John Gregory Jasper
Elyria Higa School
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Jasper
Virgil G. Jasper
East Second Street
Naval College
John
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Junior Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Elyria Council of Protestant Youth
DeMolay
Brazil Bus Fire Kills 115, Wounds 20 in Flooded Streets
In Rio de Janeiro area a bus engine burst into flames and exploded amid floodwaters, trapping and burning passengers. Torrential rain hampered rescue efforts as 115 died and 29 were injured in the catastrophe, highlighting destructive weather and transportation dangers.
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Brazil
DE Janeiro
Peasants Battle Troops Near Manila in La Paz Clash
In La Paz, 60 miles north of Manila, about 200 Huks peasants clashed with constabulary troops. One person was killed and 12 wounded in the pitched battle, marking a violent confrontation in the area.
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Manila
la Paz
Manilla
Nehru And Cabinet Resign
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his cabinet resigned today in New Delhi. Nehru was expected to form a new and stronger government by tonight.
Elyria High Band Opens Door to Fund Drive
Elyria High School band members resumed door to door solicitations and collected 624 dollars 75 cents by nightfall. They covered the south end of the city and will continue Monday evening to the west and northwest areas weather permitting.
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Elyria High School
RK. W. Butts
Pastor Wins Suit to Retain His Position
Reverend Jesse Lee Sawyer of Second Baptist Church in Lorain defeated a congregation suit to discharge him. Medina Common Pleas Judge W E Kellogg dismissed the members’ case, granting the preacher’s motion to dismiss.
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Jesse Lee Sawyer
Ihe Second Baptist Church
Lorrain
Common Pleas
W. E. Kellogg
Medina
Kellogg
Air Force C-46 Crashes. 26 Escape Injury At Takeoff
An Air Force C-46 transport crashed and caught fire on takeoff at Wold-Chamberlain Field today. All 26 aboard escaped unharmed including three crew members and 23 ROTC students.
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Wold- Chamberland Field
Air Force
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Health Group To Meet In Columbus May 11 12
The first annual meeting of the Ohio Public Health Association set for May 11 and 12 in Columbus will gather members from the former Ohio Association of Public Health Officials and others interested in public health. An inserted item notes early cabbage plants at 1 cent per dozen from Resar Florist, 1435 East River St.
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Columbus
Ohio Public Health Association
Ohio Association of Public Health Officials
East River St
United States Says Soviet Charges Are False in Baltic Incident
Washington warned Moscow that its charges risk hampering international relations. The note denied Soviet claims that a B-29 violated Soviet airspace and that armed forces fired on a Soviet unit. It reiterated that a Navy Privateer was shot down, with 10 American fliers lost, and faulted the USSR for not basing its stance on factual investigation.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Soviet Socialist Republics
Ussr
Baltic Sea
Soviet Union
Baltic
Latvia
Plans Nearly Ready for Elyria Memorial Day Parade
Plans for this year’s Memorial Day celebration in Elyria near completion after the final meeting of the Elyria Decoration Day committee in City Hall. President Corbett Southam reports no further meetings needed as cemetery and grave decorations and the Broad street parade toward Ridgelawn Cemetery are nearly ready. Committee names and parade formation details will be announced soon.
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Elyria
City Hall
Corbett Southam
Broad Street
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Work To Avert iBakery Strike
Federal mediators pressed to avert a bakery workers strike that could disrupt bread in 39 cities. Cyrus Ching and Clyde Mills brokered a one week postponement as the AFL union representing 2,500 bakers warned another 40,000 could join if Continental Baking Co contracts with other major firms are included.
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Washington
AFL
Cyrus
Ching
Continental Baking Co
Clyde Mills
Chaims
Soph Hi Y Club Elects Officers For 1950 51 Term
The Sophomore Hi Y section of Elyria elected officers for the 1950 51 term at the MCA. Ray Bartholomew was chosen president elect with Jim McCord as vice president, Bill Bowden secretary, Harlan Chapman treasurer, and Bob Decker sergeant at arms. Officers to be installed May 18 will serve most of their junior year.
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Elyria Hi-V Club
M.C.A
Ray Bartholomew
Jim McCord
Bill Bowden
Harlan Chapman
Bob Decker
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Wellington
Wellington—Bendetto Saporito
DeWolf Street
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Magyar Street
New York Central Railroad
Saporito
New York Central
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Wheeling and Lake Erie Road
Paul Tillman
Rose
Bassillio
Ann Grisby
Cleveland
Carl
Charles
Sam
Dayton
Nellie Browand
Clevelend
Beatrice Blanc
Warren
Curtis E., Truman Funeral Home
St. Patrick's Church
Charles McCann
Greenwood Cemetery
Air Academy
Legion To
Dc Bunch
Darek Florist
Shrysler
Chrysler
Detroit
Victory Pictures
Ee SE Sabre
Loyalty Files
Roper
Colsea Wheel
Elyria Holwe
Elyrian
Naval Reserve
Dr. Smith
Pastor
Soph Hi-Y Club
River St
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