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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1942
Page
9
Forrest Wilvin, Pulitzer prize for biography winner, dies suddenly at his Weston home. native of Warren, he authored The Crusader in Criminology, with Harriet Beecher Stowe cited in his award winning work. Services set in Weston, Conn.
A repact on the state convention of the Dundee Chamber of Commerce will be presented at the Elyria Junction Chamber meeting at 8 pm Tuesday. The Knights of Pythias bath in the Boylan block was announced today. A motion picture show will also be featured at the gathering.
The Flyria draft board sent 32 men registered in February numbers 10576 to 10 007 questionnaires. Names include Gilbert Parker Ickes William Hearne Peter Paul Naye Henry Burton James Ivor Thomas Alfred Thomson Watt Jack Abraham Evendilk Sam Raizman Alfred Carl Wolf George Harnik John Donald Smith Neds Fern Rowland Fulston Kenneth Dare Harland Day Brown Harry Lloyd Ford Ignacy Sniezek Milton Carner Paul Eugene Mair Stanley Smith Harry Westring Hugh Cameron Bernard Gied-Kinski and others from various streets.
Washington May 1 new draft service directives list 189 air and 50 water transportation occupations as critical. Vessels carrying food arms and soldiers are vital to national effort and shipyard workers from anglesmiths to able seamen are eligible for deferment while blanket deferments are barred.
The Elyria Rotary Club will host humorist and educator Franklin Q Doyte of Oak Park Indiana as noon speaker at the Elks restaurant. He will discuss The Mysteries of the Zeatiae. Three board of trustees seats are to be filled at the meeting Tuesday.
PITTSHURGH May 22 Scared by molten metal and flames when a blast furnace erupted at the Second Avenue plant of Jones Laugulin Bleck Corp three men were killed and 23 others injured The dead were Mike Makso 55 nine pipe Miter Martin Sloop 33 a machinist and Walter Willmott 48 a stave cleaner all of Pittsburgh Oyakso injured while Getting a four alarm fire which followed the eruption and Sinop succumbed yesterday several hours after the
In Charleston West Virginia two children died after a family picnic boat capsized on the Elk River near the Newhouse Branch mouth. Kay Plumley and Frankie Burgess, ages 37 months, were reported drowned. Mrs Plumley and Mrs Burgess, along with four other children, were rescued. Willmott died later at Mercy Hospital from extensive burns sustained in the incident. Hospitalized injured included several others burned with lighter injuries and kept at work. A separate report notes Mrs C F Gibson of Clinton Avenue informing police of an incident on Broad Street.
Hollywood reports the death of Joe Weber, famed half of the Weber and Fields duo, at 74 after a ten month illness. Lilian Weber, his wife, was at his bedside at Lebanon Hospital. The pair had a long career with a brief split in 1904 before reuniting in 1912.
Graham McNamee, 53, pioneer radio announcer, to be buried Wednesday at Calvary cemetery in Columbus. Funeral services to be held Tuesday in New York where he died Saturday after a brain embolism following a long illness from streptococcus infection. McNamee's father, John McNamee, a former Columbus resident, died six years ago. Other relatives reside here. Peru will raise more karakul sheep.
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