Distinction Day Program At Elyria High School
Elyria High School seniors eligible for diplomas next month were treated to a Distinction Day on campus. In the auditorium the front-row graduates watched lower-class members perform as their college selves in scenes from campus life, with white and blue attire and a full crowd. The program, directed by Miss Alice Storer, featured campus scenes, a serenade, sorority and fraternity acts, a hall of fame, and a prom amid music and comedy.
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Elyria High School
Alice Storer
Norma Wiesman
Leonard Dumford
Jack Refenning
Arthur Sparks
Peter Smith
Andrew Foreman
Charles O'Malley
Richard Burandt
Bob Ericson
Don Marsh
Bob Kaiser
Jim Ferriman
Kay Sinnott
Joan Bauer
Shirley Altfeld
Helen Simpson
Joan Swindling
Lois Youtzy
Edward Smith
Bob Blayney
Paul Irion
Eleanor Hardesty
Bull Woodfill
Dick Funk
Stewart Hawthorne
Harrison Comstock
Tom Buttle
Harris Nichols
John Boylan
Nancy Koplin
Dorothy White
Nick Kolopos
Bernice Nicholas
Pat Peter
Paul Gardner
Marilyn Hastings
Beverly Wright
Evelyn Rockafellow
Paul Eckler
Bob Obringer
Patricia Hoke
Tom Cochrane
Dick Baum
FDR to Announce Action on Tax Bill Tomorrow
President Roosevelt will reveal his action on a 35.33 billion tax measure in a 2 p.m. national address from Arthurdale West Virginia. He may criticize Congress for changes to the New Deal tax policy before signing or letting the bill become law without his signature. He will speak via national radio and travel by train to Morgan Town then Arthurdale.
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Washington
Roosevelt
aArthurdale
W. Va
White House
Arthurdale
Morgantown
Weather Ohio Showers Tonight and Friday Cooler North
Occasional showers expected tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures in the extreme north. The 24 hour conditions show high pressure over the eastern states and Rocky Mountain plateau, with low pressure over the plains and Pacific coast. Rain noted from the South Atlantic states, heavy in Florida, and light showers in the lake region and plains. Temperatures higher across the nation this morning.
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Ohio
Eastern States
Rocky Mountain Plateau
Plains States
Pacific Coast
South Atlantic States
Florida
Lake Region
United States
Confession in Union Chief Slaying By Arnold Johnson
Arnold Ralph Johnson admitted killing William S. Brown president of the General Drivers Union over a dispute about union funds. Johnson said he shot Brown last night after arguing about money and was taken into custody after boasting about his crime. Police recovered two revolvers in Johnsons rooms and detained two women found there.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Arnold Ralph Johnson
William S. Brown
General Drivers’ Union
James Mullings
Johnson
Brown
Toledo Business Leader Dies After Seventh Floor Fall
Benjamin H. Bonnar 51, vice president and general superintendent of LaSalle and Koch Co., died after a fall from the seventh floor of a Toledo department store. Coroner ruled death a possible suicide amid recent illness and insomnia. Bonnar served as Toledo Chamber of Commerce secretary since 1926 and then as store superintendent since 1929. He left a wife and two children. Police investigate whether Bonnar jumped or fell.
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Toeldo
William M. Shapiro
Benjamin H. Bonar
LaSalle & Koch Co
Bonnar
Toledo
Benjamin H. Bonnar
Toledo Chamber of Commerce
Schenectady, N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Bonnar
Buffalo
Jeanne
Robert
Four Polish Flyers Making Progress
Four Polish flyers traveling from the United States to Poland took off from Buenos Aires on May 26. They planned a route via Natal Dakar Africa Casablanca and Rome and hoped to reach Warsaw within ten days.
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Buenos Aires
Poland
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Natal
Dakar
Africa
Casablanca
Rome
Warsaw
Cost Of Two Bridges And Annex To Courthouse Estimated At $2,906,434
County commissioners oppose a one per cent increase in engineering fees for three WPA and PWA projects in Lorain. Total cost for East Erie avenue bridge, 21st street bridge, and courthouse annex is 2,906,434 with county share 1,643,540 and federal grant 1,262,844. Approval depends on federal consent and a 65 per cent voter yes, plus Lorain city unity on a bond plan.
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Oscar G. Dunn
John E. Davidson
Engineering Commission
Lorain
PWA
Byron Dalton
Walker and Weeks
Cleveland
Dalton
Engineers’ Society of Ohio
WPA
Dunn
Davidson
East Erie Avenue
21St Street
Erie Avenue
Lorain City
14Th Street
Union Ratifies End to Goodrich Strike Amid Wage Pact
The United Rubber Workers ratified a six day strike ending agreement with BF Goodrich Co in Akron. The deal includes a vacation program with two weeks for ten years service and pay of two percent of 1937 earnings, and one week vacation with one percent for five years. Base and hourly rates stay aligned with industry changes. The contract runs to December 31, 1938.
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Akron
BF. Goodrich Co
Goodrich
United Rubber Workers of America
National Labor Relations Board
URWA
Tammany Hall Leader Named In Big Racket
New York May 26 James J Hines a powerful Tammany Hall politician and patronage dispenser was named in a broad indictment as a key figure in a 100000000 a year numbers racket involving bribed judges and violence He is the first Tammany district leader named in crime charges in years The indictment also ties him to J Richard Dixie Davis and eight others including George Weinberg and Harry Schoenhaus with fugitives John Cooney Selly Girsch and Harry Wolf mentioned.
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New York
James J. Hines
Tammany Hall
Hines
Tammany
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
George Weinberg
Harry Schoenhaus
Martin Weinberg
John Cooney
Selly Girsch
Harry Wolf
Investigation Of Plane Crash In Cleveland
A Federal Board of Inquiry met in Cleveland to probe a United Air Lines crash that killed 10 people. A public hearing with witnesses is planned for tomorrow or Saturday after preliminary inquiries by federal inspectors and airline officials. The aircraft went down in a sparsely settled suburb nine miles east of Cleveland Airport.
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Cleveland
Federal Board of
United Air Lines Transport
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Air Line
Psychiatrists Testify In Boy's Murder Defense
In New York on May 26 the defense rested after psychiatrists testified that 16 year old Donald Carroll did not understand the nature of his act when he killed his sweetheart Charlotte Matthiesen. The youth said she believed death was the only escape and that stories from plays and operas influenced him.
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New York
Donald Carroll
Charlotte Matthiesen
Donald
U.S. Fleet to Route South to Equator Next February
The navy department announced the 1939 fleet problem will be held in West Indian waters and the Atlantic beginning next February, taking the fleet at least as far south as the equator.
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Washington
U.B
Navy Department
West Indian
Atlantic
Navy
Equator
Two Suffer Facial Lacerations in Route 301 Crash
George McFadden aged 45 of La Grange and Hazel Myers of Spencer were treated at Elgin Memorial Hospital for facial lacerations after a 8:30 pm traffic crash on Route 301 about 1% miles south of LaGrange. McFadden was driving Hazel Myers' car when it collided with a machine driven by Tip Collins, 34, of LaGrange.
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George McFadden
LaGrange
Hazel Myers
Spencer
Elgin Memorial Hospital
McFadden
Miss Myers
Tip Collins
Capture Of Woman Who Escaped From Reformatory
Elizabeth Griffith 42 of Cleveland escaped from the women's reformatory in Marysville and was captured 15 hours later five miles southwest of town by farmers George and Richard Starr who saw her leave a barn. She served a term for forgery.
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Marysville
Elizabeth Griffith
Cleveland
Here
George
Richard Starr
Ex-Chairman’s Vision for TVA Coinage and Far-Reaching Plans
H A Morgan testified before a joint congressional inquiry alleging Arthur E. Morgan proposed TVA money creation and mass land dispossession along with other outside scope schemes. He cited a memorandum detailing a general social and economic plan for TVA including a separate Tennessee Valley coinage and real estate shifts.
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TVA
Washington
Harcourt A. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
H. A. Morgan
Arthur Morgan
David E. Lilenthal
Ing
Tennessee Valley
H A. Morgan
Lilienthal
H. A Morgan
Japan Premier reshuffles cabinet for stronger wartime unity
Tokyo May 26 Premier Fumimaro Konoye re shuffled his cabinet to win greater popular financial and army support during the China war. Gen Kazunari Ugaki becomes foreign minister Sekin Ikeda new finance minister and Gen Sadao Araki Education minister with Marquis Kido moved to welfare.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
China
Prince Konoye
Kazunari Ugaki
Koki Hirota
Sekin Ikeda
Okinobo Kaya
Gen
Sadao Araki
Koichi Kido
Ikeda
Inen
Seishiro Itagaki
Sugiyama
Konoye
Hirota
Congressman to Speak in Jersey City Despite Permit Refusal
Rep. Jerry J. O Connell a Democrat from Montana announced he will address a gathering in Jersey City tomorrow night under Committee for Industrial Organization auspices despite the Hague city's administration denying a permit for the meeting.
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Jersey City
Washington
Upp
Jerry J. O’connell
Mont
Committee For Industrial Organization
Hague
County Schools Will Close Tomorrow
The 1957-38 school year ends tomorrow for thousands in Lorain County village and rural schools. Wellington will continue two more weeks with a June 9 commencement. Commencements occurred this week at La Grange, Brigh ton, Eaton, Penfield, Avon, Brownhelm, Camden, Columbia, Clearview, Ridgeville and Brookside with more tonight at Avon Lake, Belden, Grifton, Henrietta and South Amherst.
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Lorain
Wellington
la Grange
Brighton
Eaton and Penfield
Avon
Brownhelm
Camden
Columbia
Clearview
Ridgeville
Brookside
Avon Lake
Belden
Grafton
Henrietta
South Amherst
Mrs Sally Bridges Dies in Washington Cerebral Hemorrhage
Funeral services for Mrs. Sally Bridges 36 wife of Senator H Styles Bridges R N H will be held Saturday in Concord. Bridges arrived at Concord airport in an army plane from Washington six minutes after she died yesterday from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Concord
WN H
Sally Bridges
H Styles Bridges
H. Bridges
Concord Airport
Washington
Tragic accident claims life of Elyria boy Ronald Acton
Ronald Basil Acton four died from injuries after his tricycle collided with a trailer on Broad Street and East Avenue in Elyria. The four year old son of Basil and Mrs. Acton died at Elyria Memorial Hospital at 10 27am. Police noted prior wandering incidents, and the toll for 1938 rises in Elyria with Route 20 accidents. He is survived by his parents and sister Mrs Russell Bryan. Funeral arrangements set for Saturday at 3 30 pm.
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Lorain County
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Ronald Basil Acton
Basil Acton
South Logan Street
Harvey Holmes
Elyria
Ronald
John Grouse
H. B. Rawson
Sam Karkellie
Jackson
Mich
Russell Bryan
Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home
Two Soloists To Be Heard With Elyria High Choir
Elyria High School presents its 60 member a cappella choir in a Spring concert. Natalie Henderson of Oberlin, 10, will perform two piano solos including Haydn and Chopin works. Marjorie Phelps, a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music, will sing soprano solos with the choir.
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Elyria High School
Natalie Henderson
Oberlin
Oberlin Conservatory
Haydn
Chopin
Marjorie Phelps
Cleveland Institute of Music
Archangelski
Griffith Jones
Gretchaninoff
Miss Phelps
Palmgren
di Lasso
Jeannie
Foster
Miss Henderson
Foy
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ARCRA
A. E. Morgan
David Lilienthal
Arthur E Morgan
Congressional
Morgan
Vic Donahey
D. C
Rep
James Mead
Acme Telephoto
Bulletin
U.S
Cleveland, O
United Airlies
W. H. Cady
Airmail
B. B. Jackson
Cady
C. C. Hart
Acme
Japan
Actontot
M. T. Eckler
Walnut Street
Broad Street
East Avenue
Eckler
Motor Express, Inc
Fay Stocking Company
WSPAP
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