Young Men Register Rapidly for Selective Service in Elyria
Elyria workers report a brisk rush at the YMCA registration center for men born in 1923 with 249 registrants on the first day and 146 more than the prior day. Five centers logged 206 registrants on Monday with most being World War II veterans, while 1924 birth-year registration is set for September 2 and 3.
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Elyria
Ym.c.a
Y.M.C.A
M.C.A
Wellington
North Ridgeville
Oberlin
Grafton
Amherst
Columbia Station
LaGrange
George Smith
Daisy Felton
Jeanne Coe
R. H. Williamson
Kathryn Alexander
Charles Crehore
Elizabeth Beltz
Lois Tarry
Sears Roebuck and Company
Grace Pijor
J. C. Penney Company
Shirlianne Guth
S. 5. Kresge Company
Assassination in Havana Targets Cuban Labor Leader
Gunmen in a speeding car assassinated veteran anti-Communist labor leader Juan Arevalos, aged 02, as he stood on a suburban Lawton street corner waiting for a street car.
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Havana
Cuba
Juan Arevalos
Lawton
Cleveland Area Forecast for Northeastern Ohio
Sunny mild afternoon and clear cool night followed by partly cloudy warm Thursday. Winds from the west at eight to 14 miles per hour through tonight. Lows around 52 tonight with highs near 84 on Thursday.
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Cleveland
Ohio
New Location Ben Kennellys Garage Cleveland Bellfield
Labor Day weekend sale opens in newly built shop offering full service for all makes. Advertisement touts fresh dressed poultry from Peoples Poultry Mit with wholesale or retail options and contact numbers for Wellington and Lynn Brasce, owner, in a damaged ad.
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Ben Kennelly
Cleveland
Bellfield
Wellington
Peoples’ Poultry
Mit
Sears
Lynn Brasce
Ady
Opeparehee Ss
Benes Near Death Reported as Ill Forges Czech Leader
Former Czechoslovak president Eduard Benes, 64, lies in a coma at his Sezimovo Usti home south of Prague after a circulatory ailment worsened, with doctors warning the condition is extremely serious. He resigned after the February 1948 Communist coup and has long been seen as the symbol of the republic.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Benes
Sezimovo Usti
Kozlany
Western
Bohemia
Thomas G. Masaryk
Czech Republic
Masaryk
Charles University
Hapsburgs
Paris
Munich
Little Republic
Cool Air Mass Relieves Wide Area As Heat Eases
A cool air mass moving eastward eased a nationwide heat wave. Southern California saw highs near 92 in Los Angeles and 100 in Burbank with 110 in desert Blythe. Las Vegas peaked at 112. Forecasters expect calmer, normal temperatures to prevail across the Midwest and Northeast with a possible effect from a coastal hurricane.
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California
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Midwest
Mississippi
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific
Lake Michigan
Los Angeles
Burbank
Blythe
Cal
Las Vegas
Nev
Great Lakes
Ohio River Valley
Chicago
New York
Washington
North Carolina
Long Trails In Close Vote In Louisiana
Russell Long leads Appellate Judge Robert Kennon by 1163 votes in the Louisiana Democratic primary for the unfinished Senate term of John H. Overton. With 1495 of 1878 precincts reporting Long holds 213 734 to Kennon 212 571.
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New Orleans
Russell Long
Louisiana
Trucy
Robert S. Kennon
John H. Overton
Long
Kennon
Six youths indicted for Rank murder in holdup case
Six youths face first degree murder charges in Youngstown over the fatal beating of Cyril Rank, a railroad worker, during a holdup on April 22. Indicted are James Hardret, 17. George Williams, 16. John Williams, 17. Howard Harris, 17. Thomas Williams, 20. and Robert L. McKinney, 26.
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Youngstown
Cyril Rank
James Hardret
George Williams
John Williams
Howard Harris
Thomas Williams
Robert L. McKinney
Pickets March In Front Of Post Office
Pickets from the Lorain County Building Trades Council protested in Elyria and Lorain against a Philadelphia contractor for government job practices on post office painting and roof work. The Sherwood Company bid 6250 dollars for Elyria work, started Monday, with non union workers. Union officials plan to seek guidance from their attorney before any National Labor Relations Board protest.
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Elyria
Philadelphia
Lorain County
Sherwood Company
W. H. Jenne
Federal Works Agency, Public Buildings Administration
N. L. Higgins
Building Trades Council
Higgins
Alton Page
Jenne
Lorain
National Labor Relations Board
County Schools Add Three Teachers in Lorain County
Lorain county villages and rural schools completed staff listings today with one vacancy still open for the new school year. C A Gibbons, county superintendent, announced the employment of three more teachers for the county system subject to local board approval. Rita Ida Allendorf joins Avon Lake as kindergarten, Dorothy Park takes first grade at Avon Lake, and Bonnie Grube becomes commercial subjects teacher at Clearview high school with prior training from Bliss Business College and teaching experience.
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Lorain County
C. A. Gibbons
Rita Ida Allendorf
Lakewood
Avon Lake School
Kent State University
Maple Heights
Elyria
Dorothy Park
Lorain
Bonnie Grube
Clearview High School
Bliss Business College
Columbus
Thirteen Persons Escape Injury in Restaurant Crash
In Columbus a heavy oil truck smashed into a New California restaurant as diners breakfasted, causing heavy damage. Thirteen people narrowly escaped death or serious injury, six treated for minor cuts. Driver Stanley B. Cofall Jr. 26 of Cleveland, uninjured, said he swerved to avoid another car after a light.
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Columbus
New California
State Highway Patrol
Stanley B. Cofall, Jr
Cleveland
Cofall
Dayton
National Solvent Corp
New Tropical Storm Builds Up Off Caribbean
A new tropical storm with 35 to 40 mph winds was building far off the Windward Islands as a prior hurricane veered out to sea. It lies about 1500 miles southeast of Florida, not expected to strengthen soon, but its Caribbean origin raises US risk.
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Miami
Fla
Caribbean
Atlantic
Windward
Florida
Weather Bureau
San Juan
Puerto Rico
United States
Atlantic City
N.J
Washington Weather Bureau
Washington
Block Island
Provincetown
Mass
Cape
Portland
Virginia
North Carolina
Navy
Missouri
Cape Hatteras
Cleveland pilot sets new air race speed record
Cleveland flyer Cle land of Cleveland piloted a Corsair to a record 417,424 miles per hour in the National Air Races qualifying on a 15 mile closed course around four pylons. Cleland, winner of the 1947 Thompson Trophy, is favored to repeat this year. Keith Kelly nightly at Carey's Villa offering tunes.
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Cleveland
Cook Cleland
Cleland
Plans to Lift Berlin Blockade Show Progress
Four power transport and financial committees in Berlin discussed lifting the 74 day blockade and establishing the Deutschmark as Berlin's currency under four power control. Reports said western supply trains may roll in by Sunday, with two trains of 45 cars prepared at Helmstedt. Airlift totals reached 4,836 tons yesterday as intensifying talks hint at a near resolution.
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Berlin
Wassily D. Sokolovsky
Germany
Allied Control Council
Transport Committee
Financial
Lucius D. Clay
Ade Hemmstedt
Helmstedt
Moscow
Russia
Wallace Carries His Campaign To Dixiecrats
Wallace visits Alabama as a Progressive candidate amid tense civil rights clashes. He denounces segregation, travels with staff in private homes due to hotel bans, and faces hostile demonstrations in Durham Asheville and Charlotte. A Birmingham radio appearance was planned while officials vow to enforce local segregation laws.
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Decatu
Alan Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
South
Wallace
Palmer Weber
Atlanta
Alabama
Eugene Connor
Birmingham
Durham
Winston-Salem
N. C
Netro
North Carolina
Asheville
Burlington
Greenboro
High Point
Charlotte
Hickory
Workers Needed Badly On Fruit Farms
Lorain County growers expect 150 extra harvest workers for peaches apples and potatoes over the next two months with 50 growers already reporting needs. Earning potential includes one dollar an hour or better with piece work rates up to 12 to 14 dollars daily. Jamaicans allotted were only partially sent. no further workers can be dispatched. Some factories and students may fill gaps as late bean harvest approaches.
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Lorain County
Martin McManus
Elyria
Ohio State Employment Service
Foster P. Dirlam
Employment Service
McManus
Dirlam
Lorain
Erie
Cuyahoga County
Youth Wins First Round In Fight To Keep Bride
Dan Cupid helped a 20 year old rodeo cowboy from Chamberlain road keep his four day marriage to Shirley Sitts of Saratoga New York. Robert Edward Dent faced abduction charges from Shirley s father Leon Sitts of Saratoga after New York state troopers sought extradition. Dent rescinded his waiver to return to New York and a bond of 1000 was set pending further action.
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Dan Cupid
Robert Edward Dent
Chamberlain Road
R. D. Grafton
Shirley Sitts
Saratoga
N.Y
Dent
Shirley
Leon Sitts
New York State
F. J. Sayers
H. R. McCabe
Common Pleas
Guy B. Findley
New York
Findley
Roofing and Siding and Gutter Services Ad
Holmes and Coates advertise roofing siding gutters and down spouting coating and repair work with contact phone 30 862 35 465. Addressed to homeowners seeking exterior restoration services.
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Holmes & Coates
Adv
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Boston
United Press
New Haven
Conn
Charles A. Beard
Grace Memorial Hospital
Beard
The
Clevelander
Ridgeville
Bulletin
Dectz, Inc
Chrysler-Plymouth
Broad
Keith Kelly
Carey
Dixiecrats
National Democratic Party
Geisel
Stonco
West lAve
Chronicle-Telegram
Carey's Villa
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