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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1948

Page

5

Landlord Kills Man and Woman in Mansfield

In Mansfield Ohio a rooming house owner Clarence Greer 31 walked into police headquarters and said he had shot two people. The victims Mrs Ella Owens and Zell Taylor were found dead in their beds. Det C Bruce Friday said motive was not learned immediately.

Mansfield, O Namne City C. Bruce Friday Clarence Greer Ella Owens Zell Taylor Mansfield Greer Friday

Dog Rescued From Ice Floe Off Brooklyn

A mongrel dog was saved from an ice floe 200 feet out in Gravesend Bay near Brooklyn after six hours of combined operations by police ashore and in a launch, a coast guard ice breaker, a fire ladder truck, SPCA agents with life-saving gear, and a small sailboat crewed by two men who lured the dog aboard with dog food.

New York Gravesend Bay Brooklyn Coast Guard Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals

Market Break to Be Probed by House Committee

Washington AP reports the House Committee investigating commodity trading ordered a probe into last week's market breakdown. Chairman August Andresen seeks to uncover names and extent of insider profits and will request full information from Secretary of Agriculture Anderson on a leak prior to the government grain purchase announcement.

Washington House Committee August H. Andresen R-Minn

Woman Held After Cincinnati Man Stabbed to Death

Police found 24 year old Melvin Gerard stabbed to death in the bedroom of his fiancée Irene Shaw 21. Shaw sobbed I didn't mean to do it but later said it was not an admission. Four men were questioned after an evening of cards and drinking at her apartment. Gerard and Shaw were to be married Tuesday. Shaw had recently moved to Cincinnati from Hillsboro Ohio after inheriting 1000 dollars.

Cincinnati Melvin Gerard William Burks Irene Shaw Gerard Clem Mérz Issaw Burks Miss Shaw Hillsboro

Butler County Safety Conference Promises Wide Appeal

The Butler County Regional Safety Conference in Middletown offers sessions for all, with a fire prevention section and a banquet at 6 30 p m featuring Maj Norman A Imrie of Fort Meade Md. Divisional meetings cover metal foundry civic association paper and pulp traffic farm and home safety gas and electric and commercial vehicle topics with workman’s compensation information.

Butler County Middletown Norman A. Imrie Second Army Fort Meade Metal Ara Foundry Civic Association Sorg Company Butler County Farm and Home Safety Company

Film head dies Hollywood

Ben Silvey 54 production manager for 20th Century Fox died of a heart attack at home on Saturday. He began in New York with Cosmopolitan Studio and moved to Hollywood in 1925. Survived by widow Vivian a brother Dr Marcus Silberman and sister Mrs Dorothy Cohen.

Hollywood Ben Silvey 20Th Century-Fox Studio Silvey Cosmopolitan New York Vivian Marcus Silberman Dorothy Cohen

Burns Mantle Dies at 74 Theater Critic Emeritus

Burns Mantle, 74, drama critic emeritus of the New York Daily News and author of numerous theater books, died today in New York. Mantle was a leading voice in American theatre criticism and helped shape midcentury criticism.

NEW York Burns Mantle The New York Daily News

Washington Letter Sees Old Times Through Arrivals

A Washington letter recalls “hello” and old times while noting early arrivals at a function. Woodrow Wilson appears alongside former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones and Justice and Mrs Reed, Jackson, Bur, and others. A notice lists appointments and creditor claims against the estate of M. Anderson in Ohio, with dates in January 1968.

Woodrow Wilson Commerce Jesse Jones Coal Reed Robert Jackson Harold H Burtell M. Anderson le Speen Ohio Oscar Tesser

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