23 Die In Ohio Over Yale Weekend
AP reports Christmas weekend traffic toll in Ohio reached 23 fatalities, with California at the top nationwide. Notable crashes included a Port Clinton three-vehicle wreck killing six from one family. Names span Sciotoville to Dayton, with multiple youth victims and a crossing collision near Dayton. Also notices of estates and appointments follow in Butler County records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Ohio
Port Clinton
Larry Thompson
Sciotoville
Portsmouth
Raymond Yousko
Richard C. Kohler
Lakewood
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Thomas E. Mallett
Massillon
Jack S. Kreci
Wintersville
Jefferson County
Jimmy Gabbard
Dayton
Max Leistner
Bradford
Raymond White, Jr
Covington
Gettysburg
Cyril B. Mannier
Greenville
New York Central
Cinco
W. Va
City Briefs Veterans and civic group meetings slated
Local veterans and fraternal organizations schedule Monday gatherings at multiple venues. VFW and Blythe Williams Post meetings begin around 7:30 to 8 p.m. plus a VFW Auxiliary cancer clinic at Middletown Hospital. Rotary, Civitan, Eagles, and National Guard drill also listed with times and sites.
Monoxide Fatal To Eaton Man
Eaton, General B Gibbs 26 died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty car heater after a Christmas party trip with Miss Mary Catherine Fudge 22 who also fell ill. Gibbs, a WWII veteran, lived on West High Street. Fudge on North Vine Street. Coroner Flory cited manifold heater as cause. Gibbs’s body at Girton funeral home. Gibbs worked for Frigidaire Corp in Dayton. survived by parents and siblings.
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Eaton
General B. Gibbs
G. W. Flory
Gibbs
Mary Catherine Fudge
W. High St
Miss Fudge
Vine Street
Miamisburg
Edith Doty
Dadsville
U. S. 35
Sam
Flory
Girton Funeral Home
Corbin
Frigidaire Corp
Dayton
Europe
Hugh Gibbs
Fire Destroys Franklin Home of Ed Wills Family
An overheated stove caused a fire that destroyed the Wills family home on Shorts Road east of Franklin early yesterday. The couple saved only their clothing. the amount of loss was not estimated.
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Franklin
Ed Wills
Shorts Road
Ship in distress off Peloponnesus with 500 refugees
The Panamanian vessel Tamba with 500 passengers, believed Jewish refugees to Palestine, sent a distress signal 60 miles south of Antikythera. An accompanying ship stood by to tow but rough seas prevented immediate rescue.
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Athens
Antikythera
Peloponnesus
Ministry of Mercantile Marine
Palestine
False Alarms Give Officials Rough Time
Hamilton reports a string of false alarms from a caller who used a South 12th Street address. Police investigated an alleged automobile crash, the fire department found no fire, and an undertaker was asked to send an ambulance after a woman supposedly fell from a window. No trace of the caller was found.
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Hamilton, D
Hamilton
South 12Th St
Man assaulted during attempted robbery near Middletown
William Hale, 25, of Middletown Route 2, says three men in a car stopped him Saturday near the Redbud Inn, beat him, and took $20. He was treated and released from Middletown Hospital. The notice also includes multiple legal notices from Butler and Warren counties concerning estate administration and sealed bids for a public water distribution project and city purchases with bid deadlines in early January 1949.
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Elwood Wells
West Liberty
Omucky
Lurlene Wells
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Conrad CC Stroh
Joseph Kiep
H. O. Finkelman
Dee
William Hale
Middletown
Redbud
Nation of Public Water Supply
Board of County Commissioners
Butler County Court House
Hamilton
Buena Vista
Town
Lemon Township
County Commissioners
Court House
P. G. Banker
City Building
City of
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Yale
Associated Press
Perce
Dudley" Caldwell
C. L. Cnrate
Dudley Caldwell
de Leyd
Oscar R. Leiser
Said County
Thomas — An
George H Harvey
Arthur Ross Harvey
First National Bank of
George H. Harvey
Said
Elliott D. Levey
Plymouth
Johnson Motor Co
Johnson
Colummbia
Sven
Alee Rion
Des Landes
Theoville
ICE
G. Walg
Freeze
Snow
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Miami Valley Post
Post
Blythe-Williams
American Legion
Eighth Ve
Executive Committee of
Legion
VFW
Middletown Hospital
Hunter Clark Post
Silver Leaf
Order of Eagles
North Middletown Fire Association
Manchester Road
Hughes Garvin
Episcopal Church of Ascension
Rotary Club
Manchester Hotel
Civitan Club
Manchester
U.S. National Guard
Haywood County
North Carolina
John Hasselman
Louella Sovers Hensey
Arthur Hauselman
Oho
Fred J. Schatzmann
William E. Sharkey
Louise Sharkey
Ed J. Schatzmann
Mary Caroline Rettig
QxRlesby Barnitz Bank and Trust Company
E. Burke
the Bake Shop
Central Ave
Nick A. Flagg
Nick Flagg
Nicholas Flagg
Iddietown
First American Bank & Trust Co
Herbert S. Miller
American Flyer
Middletown Gas & Electric Service
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