Lodge Notices and Funeral Notices Highlight Middletown Events
Jefferson Lodge No 06 F A M meets February 11 with F A Degree. Lost & Found: umbrella, beagle hound, and memorial ads listed. Funeral notices include Ashcraft Sarah Ada, Hull John W Sr, Merritt Cecil Paul, Williams Robert F E, with services at McCoy Leffler and Wilson Funeral Homes and interments at Middletown, Woodside, and Franklin cemeteries.
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Jefferson Lodge
Ashcraft
Sarah Ada
Arthur Stubbs
Henry Ave
Friends Oat McCoy-Leffler
John I. Parr
John J. Williams
Middletown Cemetery
McCoy-Leffer Funeral Ome
Hull
John W
Florence
Monroe St
Middletown Hospital
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Woodside Cemetery
McCoy-Leffler Funeral
World Reacts to Sudden Death of King George II
World and Britain mourn as King George dies in his sleep after a Tuesday night in health. Flags lower to half mast. BBC announces the death at 6 16 a m EST and closes most services for the day. Parliament to adjourn to express sympathy. theaters and courts close. Prime Minister Churchill calls a cabinet meeting.
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World
George
London
British Broadcasting System
Parliament
BBC
Sandringham
Mrs McCandless Enters Republican Senate Primary
Mrs Freida B McCandless wife of Senator announces bid for Ohio State Senate against Kathryn E Wetzel in Butler County GOP race. Her husband George McCandless will retire from the Senate. Mrs McCandless leads civic roles in Hamilton and Butler County and seeks state level legislation. The race, noted for contrasting statures, remains unpredictable.
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Butler County
Freida B. McCandless
Ohio State Senate
George McCandless
Senate
Kathryn E. Wetzel
GOP
Republican Organization
McCandless
Hamilton
Hamilton Community Council
Family Service Agency
Butler County Mental Hygiene Association
Community Chest
Washington
Conference On Children and Youth
Wetzell
Moran Convicted in Shakedown Ring Faces Long Term
James J. Moran, associate of ex mayor William O Dwyer, convicted of leading a $500 000 a year fire department shakedown scheme. He was found guilty on 23 counts of extortion and one of conspiracy, faces up to 348 years, and is jailed awaiting sentencing in March. The case highlighted graft in the department with inspectors charging fees from 5 to 35 dollars. Moran has appeals pending in a federal case and was described by prosecutors as the ring s guiding genius and protector.
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New York
James J. Moran
William O'Dwyer
Moran
John A. Mullen
George Wolf
Wolf
U. S. Senate Crime Committee
Brooklyn Numbers
James F. Smith
Wilmore Foundation Funds Charles F Wilmore Award at Middletown High
The American Legion Post 218 announces a new annual $15 prize in memory of Maj Charles F Wilmore, dead in World War II France. The award joins the Legion’s $10 and $5 prizes under the Americanism Foundation Award for Middletown High seniors, to be funded by a trust at First National Bank.
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Charles F. Wilmore
France
American Legion Post
Tor
First National Bank
Middletown High School
Wilmore
Legion
Americanism Foundation
Thirty-Nine Report For Induction Examinations In Ohio City
Nine taking exams for induction traveled to Cincinnati for armed forces physicals. Fifty nine registrants from Selective Service Board 10 and six transfers reached the city. They include Gerald C. Richardson and 38 others from Middletown and surrounding areas under Board 10. The six transfers were Miami University students. Restoration of ancient geysers near Florence Italy resumes power generation after 1944 retreating German destruction.
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Selective Service Board
Cincinnati
Armed Forces
Middletown
Gerald C. Richardson
William O. Eck
Robert E. Martin
J. C. Martin
Jack A. Coombs
Berry Harnett Oral Sallee
Bernard Gumm
Charles E. Lewis
Willie R. Banks
Joseph R. Veda
John F. Cotterman
Robert C Housh
Charles D. Donahoe
Herbert K. Wells
Glenn
Harold Booker
Oxford
James A. Haddix
Hamilton
Morris D. Otto
Robert E. Malcom
Seven Mile
Carl R. McCracken
Robert van Over
Overpeck
John A West
Wilbur L. Million
Trenton
Waymon McNeal
New Miami
Holbrook Brenton
Lee Moneace
James L. McGuire
Miami University
New
Florence
Italy
Business Man In Hamilton Dies Tuesday
Thomas H. Bateman 82 a local business man died Tuesday in New York City Word received here. Born in Cincinnati he founded the Hamilton Daily Sun on June 18 1902 becoming its business manager and advertising director. He later headed the Printing Machine Co of Cincinnati and founded the International Playing Card and Label Co at Rogersville Tennessee. He is survived by a widow and two children.
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Hamilton
O. W
Thomas H. Bateman
New York
Cty
Bateman
Cincinnati
Hamilton Daily Sun
Hamilton Journal - News
Printing Machine Co
International Playing Card and Label Co
Rogersville
Tenn
Grain Shortages Bring Discharge of AG Officials
Secretary Brannan dismissed Latham White and James Solomon, director and assistant director of the Agriculture Department’s commodity office in Dallas, for administrative deficiencies amid investigations of government grain shortages. They have been off duty since December. legal action seeks about 4.9 million dollars from 15 storage firms over shortages in price support program grain and goods.
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Washington
Brannan
Agriculture Department
Dallas
Latham White
James Solomon
White
Solomon
Masked witness recounts Katyn Forest killings
An escaped Polish soldier testifies before a House subcommittee that Polish officers were shot by Russian soldiers in Katyn Forest in October 1939. He describes watching killings from a tree as two companions hid with a pillow mask to conceal identities. He cites evidence of mass graves later found by Germans in 1943 and notes Moscow’s denial blaming Nazis. The witness remains unidentified for safety.
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Washington
Katyn Forest
Special House
Smolensk
Russia
Rep
Madden
D-Ind
John Mitchell
Subcommittee
Mitchell
Moscow
Katyn
Ohio Turnpike Near Toledo Planned 181 Mile Section
The Ohio Turnpike Commission on Tuesday approved building 181 miles from the Pennsylvania border to west of the Maumee River, delaying the 60 mile extension to the Indiana border. The decision promises $48 million in initial savings and 15 percent less steel, though Chairman James W. Shacknessy stated the full turnpike will be built. The section would start at the western end of the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Petersburg.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania
Toledo
Turnpike Commission
Maumee River
Indiana
Commission
James W. Shacknessy
Petersburg
Father Falls From Hospital Window During Birth Wait
In Springfield Missouri an expectant father, 27 year old Bill Brown, fell from a second floor hospital window just minutes before his wife delivered a baby girl. He survived with a back injury and is listed in fair condition. mother and newborn are reported healthy by hospital staff. Brown reportedly dozed on a window sill in the waiting area prior to the accident.
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Springfield
Bill Brown
Brown
VA life insurance mixup hits Island Tree widow
Ruth Bogen of Island Tree, New York, received a VA letter saying her husband Harold had died and that she should apply for $10,000 life insurance. The 27-year-old bakery truck driver was alive and unaware of any death, but the form urged Mrs. Bogen to claim the benefit.
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Island Tree
N. Y
Ruth Bogen
Veterans Administration
Bogen
Hamilton Resident Turns 100 in Hamilton Ky Heritage
Robert Fields born in Hazard Kentucky and living in Hamilton since 1927 is 100 years old today. He says he was a former sheriff and judge in Kentucky and is proud of his shooting eye. Family descendants numbering 35 to 40 will gather Sunday to celebrate.
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Hamilton, O
Robert Fields
Hazard
Kentucky
Fields
Colored News Slip Stitch Hobby Club Meeting
Colored News Slip Stitch Hobby Club will meet at Mrs Beatrice Reed home 1627 Garfield St at 7 30 p m Thursday Members invited to bring a guest Special services this week at the People s Friendship Baptist Church 1304 Young St The Rev J C Scrugg pastor of Galilee Baptist Church Cincinnati will speak at Thursday services at 8 p m The Holy City Travelers will sing.
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Beatrice Reed
Garfield St
People’s Friendship Baptist Church
Young St
J. C. Scrugg
the Galilee Baptist Church of
Cincinnati
Holy City
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