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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1948
Page
4
Allied authorities in Trieste announce the civil government in the British American zone of the free territory will be transferred to Italian hands on April 12.
Crowell Collier Publishing Co reports 1947 net profit of 4.865 million dollars or 3.14 a share versus 6.853 million and 4.22 a share in 1946. The annual report also notes 1947 sales and gross revenue at a record 60.924 million dollars.
Civil actions filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas seek 200000 total damages from Ohio Fuel Gas Company over the Broad Street bridge explosion in Columbus on August 21. James D. Klinkert Armitt Spohn and Irene D. Murphy sue for 100000 75000 and 25000 respectively alleging negligence and gas accumulation in air chambers led to ignition and a deadly blast. Victims were hurled 50 to 75 feet and several tossed into the Scioto River with one woman killed.
The Senate ordered further study today on bills to grant federal charters to Catholic Jewish and French American veterans organizations.
Common Pleas Judge Frank L. Johnson ruled the State of Ohio has clear title to 58 year old O Neill Hall on Wilberforce University’s campus. The dispute arose from a power struggle between the African Methodist Episcopal Church trustees and the state with both sides backing separate institutions on campus. The ruling frames the church eviction bid as driven by petty politics and notes the dormitory was built and maintained by the state.
Miss Nelli Robinson of East Liverpool Hospital becomes president elect of Ohio Hospital Association. She succeeds Robert M. Porter of Columbus Children's Hospital, who was installed as president today, succeeding D. A. Endres of Youngstown Hospital. Delegates named Endres to the American Hospital Association.
Harold Ehrensperger of the Methodist Church's Board of Education proposed a Christian missionary plan as an alternative to the draft. He urged churches to unite to demonstrate a "better way" and suggested sending young men and women abroad where “Marshall Plan money is going.”
The Kelmoor Fox and Fur Farms of Medina sues the federal government for 14140 dollars claiming two Army planes, flying about 200 feet over the ranch and circling near 73 female foxes, frightened breeding foxes and caused 36 cubs to be killed.
There they would live on salaries comparable to those paid to draftees.
Dr. Thomas S. Gates chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania was found dead in his bed in Philadelphia at age 75. The report notes his longtime leadership and service to the university.
The remark notes that some female foxes abandon or kill their young, challenging the notion of mammalian motherhood and illustrating harsh survival strategies in the wild.
Dr. Gates former partner at J. P. Morgan and Co and Drexel and Co, led the university as president from 1930 to 1944 and later served as chairman of the board. He was found dead in bed at his summer home on Cape Cod at 8:15 a m. His retirement followed in 1944. Mechanization cut corn per acre production hours from 13 8 to 6 4 for a group of farmers.
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