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Newspaper

Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1951

Page

7

Edgars Award Honors Best Mystery Writers

The Mystery Writers of America awarded Thomas Walsh’s Night Mare in Manhattan as best first mystery novel. Walsh, of Ridgefield Connecticut, collected the Edgar statue at a New York dinner. Awards also went to Little Brown for the novel’s publisher and to The Asphalt Jungle as best mystery film.

NEW York Mystery Writers of America Thomas Walsh Manhattan Walsh Ridgefield, Conn Little, Brown and Company Edgar MWA Hollywood Edgar Allan Poe Thomas Sterling Lawrence G. Blackman New York City Dragnet Mutual Edward D. Radin Detective

Ohioans Get Hero Citations

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission cited four Ohioans for bravery in 1950. Byron Wootton of Vermilion On The Lake earned a bronze medal for saving an injured miner after a dynamite blast near Nolan W Va. Akron residents William C. Lane and Joseph A. Mariola received medals for a September Akron incident in a 40 foot storage tank where three workers died from gas. Lane and Mariola survived weeks in hospital. The widow of Akron electrician Albert L. Kepler received a bronze medal and a monthly $80 death benefit.

Pittsburgh Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Byron Wootton Vermilion On Kepler Mariola Lane Akron

Probate notices and lawsuits filed in Butler County

Probate filings include the will of C L Maxberry Middletown died April 19 with $500 bequests to Georgia Sanders Hampton Jamison Jr Dave Maxberry and Charles Lewis Maxberry widow Pearl named executrix Witnesses H O Finkelman and Walter D Hall. Also estate of Anna Laura Martin appraised 20274.03 executors Russell W Martin and Harry W Martin. Bertha G Pearson Hamilton died April 12 probate with multiple specific bequests to Zona Scheid Bertha Ritz Erma Pratt Elizabeth Turner Dr Vera Iber Jony B Connaughton Etta Sater residue to Ritz Turner Iber Connaughton executor. Walter C Breen Hamilton estate to sister in law Leona Dustin nnomin executrix. Pergingon Hamilton petitions Common Pleas to recover 500 from Stanley Dunmeyer for realty deal including a beer dispensary in Somerville. State Auto Mutual Insurance sues Curtis Colwell for 1121.78 over auto damage near Flenner Corner April 23 1950. Double liability judgment sought 2000 by Nora Wilmot Hamilton against Metropolitan Life Insurance on life policy of William Ernest Wilmont who died October 12 after a September 5 assault. Divorces filed Marilyn Nori e Roberts Oxford State Rd Middletown vs Charles H Roberts cruelty. Betty West Hamilton vs Orville West neglect failure to provide desertion. Phyllis Gene Townsend Middletown vs Orville Townsend neglect. Duane Townsend Middletown vs Mary Tyson Hamilton neglect and cruelty.

Bertha G. Pearson Hamilton Zona Scheid East Orange N. J Bertha Ritz Milwaukee Wis Erma Pratt Evanston Cincinnati Elizabeth Turner Vera Iber Jony B. Connaughton Etta Sater State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company Common Pleas Court Curtis Colwell Robert L. Koogler Flenner Corner Nora Wilmot Common Pleas Metropolitan Life Insurance Company William Ernest Wilmont Marilyn Noriie Roberts Oxford State Rd Middletown Charles H. Roberts Woodlawn Ave Betty West Orville West Phyllis Gene Townsend Curtis St Orville Duane Townsend Fernwood St Mary Tyson Willie Tyson

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