Crash Kills Two Pilots as Six Escape in Boxcar Wreck
A C 82 flying boxcar from Lowry Air Base Denver to Alameda Cal crashed two miles north of Colima California killing the two pilots and burning. Six crew members parachuted to safety and were listed in good condition. Survivors include Charles W Sturdivant Kenneth R Carlson Robert Horton Horace Desion Roy W Cham Berlin and Kenneth Giorro. The aircraft belonged to the 37th Troop Carrier Squadron based at Greenville South Carolina. The crash occurred at 2 43 am EDT after an engine failure.
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Fairfield-Suisun
Cat
Air Force
ColiMe
Cal
37Th Troop Carczier
Greenville
S.C
Denver
Lowry Air Base
Alameda
Naval Air Station
Charles W. Sturdivant
Kenneth R. Carlson
37Th Troop Carrier Command
Robert Horton
Barksdale Field
Horace Desion
Roy W. Chamberlin
Eglin Field
Fla
Kenneth Giorro
Sacramento River
Cap Ceremony Honors M B Johnson School of Nursing Class of 1952
Ten members of the M B Johnson School of Nursing class of 1952 were capped at a service last evening at Race Lutheran church. Judge Malcolm Thomson spoke and Eleanor Freshwater read an essay on cap meaning. Members named include Eleanor Freshwater Eleanor De Santis Elaine Kerchinske Dolly Varouse Marjorie Everiss Lois Hoffner Catherine Lees and Mary Jane Wywszynski. A reception followed at the nurses home.
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M. B. Johnson School of Nursing
Race Lutheran Church
Malcolm Thomson
Marjorie Everiss
Eleanor Freshwater
W. W. Walker
Grace Lutheran Church
Elizabeth M. Ashcom
Halina Magorka
Eleanor DeSantis
Elaine Kerchinske
Dolly Varouse
Lorain
Litchfield
Lois Hoffner
Oderiin
Catherine Lees
Franowski
Mary Jane Wywszynski
Elyria
Sisters Questioned In Lorain Fires
An 11-year-old girl and her seven-year-old sister were suspects in juvenile court in Lorain for a series of small fires at their Reid avenue home. Fire officials handed the case to the state fire marshal as investigators traced the outbreaks with help from juvenile officer Jane Patterson. A separate fire at 14 West Avenue caused by a defective motor was confined to the refrigerator unit and extinguished after the power was cut.
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Reid Avenue
Lorain
State Fire Marshals Office
In- Izall
James Godette
Jane Patterson
Tme
Elogyia
C. A. Schroeder
West Avenue
Cleveland Weather: Warmer Sunday With Showers
Northeast Ohio forecast says fair and warmer this afternoon. Sunday will be partly cloudy with widely separated showers. Tonight's low is 64 degrees and Sunday's high reaches 86.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cold storage for furs and garments ad
Crystal Clear Dry Cleaners offers cold storage for furs and garments. Located at 132 Broad St with phone contact 3179-59603.
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Crystal Clear Dry Cleaners
Broad St
Colson
Mundt Seeks New Leads in Five Per Center Inquiry
Senator Mundt reports about 50 new leads and clues from government employees in the Five Per Center inquiry. He cites Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan and notes the need to corroborate with official files as calls for possible recall rise. Mundt warns against White House influence echoing Harding and Grant eras.
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Sen. Mundt
Ashington
Senate
Kaci E. Mundt
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Truman
Air. Truman
GOP
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Mundt
Hes
White House
Harding
Grant
Husband Held On Bigamy Charge Filed By Wife
Robert Lee Laughter, 23, faces bigamy charges after marriage to Iola Beebe on July 2, 1838, while his wife in Hendersonville, North Carolina held a warrant. He was jailed there, later returned to Ohio, and held on bigamy charges by Loram County authorities for transfer and trial.
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Robert Lee Laughter
Hendersonville
N. C
Ioa Beebe
Ridgeville
Laughter
Ambrose Kissel
North Carolina
Kissell
Loram County
James Hornscourt
Iola Beebe
Covington
New Typhoons Threaten Japan
Tokyo reports two new high velocity typhoons menacing Okinawa Iwo Jima and mainland Japan. Recon planes tracked typhoon Lise 600 miles southwest of Okinawa moving northwest at 12 mph with 35 mph winds. another storm Madelie bears down on Iwo Jima from 600 miles northeast of Guam. The storms follow Japan’s first typhoon that flooded thousands of acres and caused 163 deaths.
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Tokyo
Okinawa- Iwo Jima
Japan
Lise
Okinawa
European Assembly Rejects Single Currency Plan
In Strasbourg the European assembly rejected a proposal for a single European currency. It urged member states to keep currencies freely exchangeable and proposed future talks with officials from the United States and other nations at a world economic conference.
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Strasbourg
France
European Assembly Today
Dut
United States
Truck Tips Over Spilling Its Load at Railroad Crossing
A Marine City Nursery truck with Michigan plates tipped on Route 26 at the single track crossing near the eastern city limits at 11 45 a m spilling nursery stock. A witness from Independent 617 Co says the driver lost control trying to stop for a train. no injuries reported.
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Marine City Nursery
Michigan
Independent 617 Co
Diiver
Council Faces Twin Salary Ordinances Debate
The Cleveland city council weighs two salary ordinances amid clashes over a 6000 job evaluation study. Police and fire departments seek higher raises, while some members want to delay any increases until the November wo-mill levy outcome.
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Council Wall
Council Safety
Ralph Terry
Safety Department
Iity
Cleveland
Therr
Belgian Near Goal In Channel Swim
Belgian swimmer Eng-Fernand Dumoulin, 34, a breast stroke attempt to cross the English Channel, fought heavy tides and a strong wind. He left France at 9:56 p.m. yesterday and was three miles from England nine hours later, still battling a choppy sea. Reports of his quitting were unfounded.
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Deal
Eng
Fernand Dumoulin
English Channel
Dumoulin
Belzion
France
Dutoulin
Huge Air Liner In Test Runs At Bristol Brabazon
The Bristol Brabazon eight engined airliner made taxiing tests at Bristol company field. Chief test pilot A J Pegg reported the craft reached about 69 knots on its tenth run and the nose wheel rose four feet. The team prepared it for further taxiing tests and possible first flight tomorrow.
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Bristol
England
Bristol Brabazon
Bristol Company
A. J. Pegg
Testis
Sis
Avon School District Seeks 65000 Bond Issue
The Avon Local School District board filed with the Lorain County Board of Elections for a 65,000 bond issue over ten years to construct improvements and additions to the present building and to equip the same.
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Board of Education
Avon Local
Lorain County Board of Elections
Salvage Request From Chinese Vessel Yuchuan Reported Near Typhoon Area
An urgent distress signal from the Chinese ship Yuchuan was intercepted by RCA Marine Station Manila. The message asked for a salvage tug and cited a position about 700 miles southwest of Tokyo in a typhoon area.
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Manila
P. I
RCA Marine Station
Tokyo
Soens Named Manager of Elyria Credit Bureau
Robert W. Soens, longtime Ober School of Commerce vice president and secretary, will become manager of the Elyria Credit Bureau next Tuesday as announced by John L. Mockler president of the board. Soens and his wife once ran a Dallas business college and later worked for Minnesota Power and Light before joining Elyria bureau duties. The current staff remains and Mrs. Alex Burnett will operate the office. Soens joins the bureau board alongside Mockler Claude Wagner Kellogg Dar J R Dail Denis J Ryan and Earl Bell.
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Robert W. Soens
Ober School of Commerce
Elyria Credit Bureau
Mdicy
John L. Mockler
Soens
Stithhwater
Minn
Dallal
Minnesota Power and Light Company
Oberlin School of Commerce
Eivria
East River Street
Fuller Road
Mockler
Credit Bureau
Alex Burnett
Bureau
Claude Wagner
Kellogg Dar
J. R. Dail
Denis J. Ryan
Earl Bell
Associate Justice Rutledge Near Death in Cerebral Hemorrhage
U S Supreme Court Justice Wiley R Rutledge lay near death in a York Maine hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage amid treatment for a cardiac condition. He remained in very grave condition in a coma with wife, physician, and children at his bedside as doctors managed deteriorating circulatory and cardiac issues.
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York. Me
Wiley R. Rutledge
U.S. Supreme Court
Rutledge
Fred A. J. Geler
Fails To Find Noah's Ark On Mt Ararat Expedition
Dr Aaron J. Smith of Greenstorm North Carolina organized a search for Noah's Ark on Mt Ararat in Turkey. The expedition near the Turkish Soviet border failed to locate the biblical craft despite reports of a shepherd seeing a hull and a prophetic messenger from a previous 1883 expedition claiming the Ark stuck from a glacier.
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Surbehan
Turkey
Aaron J. Smith
Greenstorm
N. C
Ararat
Aishin
Sistth
Thair
Aragat
Test Pilot Len W Larsen Killed In F-80 Crash
U S Air Force officials investigate a fatal Lockheed F 80 crash in Buffalo New York. Test Pilot Len W Larsen Navy veteran died in the mishap during a test flight for the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. He was to resume studies at Princeton University next week.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U. S Air Force
Lenf W. Larsen
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
Princeton University
Bendix Race Planes Heat Toward Cleveland Finish
Six souped up speed planes leave Rosamond and head toward Cleveland for the Bendix Trophy race. Maj Venon Ford leads jet division from Muroc with others following as crews expect cooler temps to aid the record bid. Thousands gather near the start as the 2010 mile dash unfolds from California.
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Cleveland
Vernon A. Ford
California
Rosamoad
Lake Cal
Vince Perron
Leland Carmmeron
Los Angeles
Muroc Air Force Base
Maj
Venon Ford
Republic
John Co. Newman
F. W. Rizer
Muroc
Air Force
Sisters of Notre Dame to Open New Faculty Residence
The Sisters of Notre Dame prepare to welcome visitors to the new faculty residence on Gulf Road north of the Elyria District Catholic high school. Open house runs 2 to 5 p m tomorrow with visitors from Cleveland expected while the high school opens its first year Wednesday. the school itself will not be open for inspection tomorrow. Dr Joseph B Lehane, director, reported.
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Sisters of Notre Dame
Gulf Road
Theew Elyria District Catholic High School
Poplar Street
Cleveland
Joseph B. Lehane
Park Prepares for Large Labor Day Crowds
Cascade Park officials expect heavy attendance this Labor Day weekend as crowds gather for recreation. Black River crossings reopened after high water. water levels normal again. Park facilities ready with swimming pool sessions daily 2 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm, expanding weekends in September if weather permits.
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Cascade Park
John Mechock
Black River
Mechock
Sleepwalker Rescued From Window Ledge
Donald Gidding a 27 year old bartender prone to sleepwalking woke to find himself hanging by both hands from a second floor window 30 feet above street level The bar manager alerted firefighters who rescued him without injury
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London
Denald Gidding
Sheffield Lake Woman Added to Poliomyelitis List
A Sheffield Lake resident, Esther Hendrickson, 36, of 880 Sheffield Road, joins Lorain county admissions to City Hospital in Cleveland for poliomyelitis. The notice appears in a local ad for RADIO and Television Sales & Service, Stewart Radio, 242 Ma..., Ph. 66124.
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City Hospital
Cleveland
Esther Hendrickson
Sheffield Road
Sheffield Lake
Radio and
Stewart Radio
Marseilles
Americans Take To Out-Of-Doors For Long Weekend
The nation gears up for Labor Day travel with 33 million cars on highways, flights booked solid to Chicago and the West Coast, and officials predicting about 283 traffic deaths. President Truman and Vice President Barkley plan speeches and trips as crowds flock to resorts amid clear to partly stormy weather nationwide.
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Amercan
Hiisteury
Seoon
Chicago
West Coast
Truman
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Independence
Washington
Alben W. Barkley
St. Louis
Paducah
Cleveland
United Airlines
Midwest
South
Elyria High School Nears End of First Century
A study by Earl Lautenschleger, Elyria High School teacher, revises the town’s school origins. The 1830 academy preceded a true public high school. the first tax supported secondary system began official operations in 1850 with building changes and expansions through 1913.
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Elvira High School
Earl Lautenschieger
Lautenschieger
Ohio State University
Elvrians
Bic
Laurenschleger
Elyria High School
Ohio
Lautenschleger
Luther 3R. Oviatt
Elsria
Leutenschleger
Monee Bre Board of Education
Elyria
Bulding
Hemnan Ely Head
Elmsra Township
Union Schools
Sixth Street
Franklin School
Union School
Washington
Lincoln
Army veteran accused of aiding Japanese during war
U S Attorney John F X McSphex charges John David Provoc 33 of San Francisco with assisting the Japanese during World War II He was arraigned after eight years of service and held for further proceedings McGahey said Provoc aided Javanese broadcasting propaganda and helped Japanese forces occupy Corregidor
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New York
Justice Department
Tokyo Rose
U. S
John F. X. McSphex
John David Provoc
San Francisco
FBI
Governor’s Island
Paii
Tokyo
McGahey
Corregidor
Condition Of Lauder Remains Unchanged
STARTHAVEN Scotland physicians said today that the condition of Sir Harry Lauder 79 year old minstrel and composer remained unchanged. Sir Harry is gravely ill of cerebral thrombosis and uremia and spent a quiet night the directors said.
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Starthaven
Scotland
Harry Lauder
Harry
Traffic Crash Fatal To Berlin Heights Man
Fred Perry 29 of Berlin Heights dies when his car collides with a stationary Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a crossing in Tire. Police and investigators cite the accident as a fatal roadway collision with train at night.
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Berlin Heights
Bucyrus
Fred Perry
Pennsylvania Railroad
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