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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1949
Page
3
Washington Republicans are puzzled by Thomas E. Dewey who hints at retirement yet accepts two Lincoln Day banquet talks. He will speak in Washington on February 8 and in New York on February 12, becoming the top attraction in a countrywide banquet series and facing President Truman in a charged political context.
Tacoma authorities identify the nude frozen body found in a shallow grave as 17 year old Noreen MacNicholas. Missing since November 5 she disappeared after beauty school classes. Coroner says marks indicate strangling, rape status undetermined. A Tacoma Boys Club searcher found the body near Spanaway Park.
At the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on February 24, Dewey’s supporters argued New York Governor Dewey should give the speech, while rivals hoped a new contender would take the spot. Dewey remains titular head of the party and will outline what went wrong on November 2, with associates saying he won’t seek office again but will stay active in party affairs.
Cleveland AP reports a sharp drop in scrap prices across key consuming points. The Magazine Steel notes a $2 per ton fall in steel mill dealer grades and $5 to $7.50 in foundry grades, the sharpest decline seen amid weak buying, rising inventories, and broader business uncertainty.
Phillip Kreis of the Flying Wallenda troupe fell 35 feet at the Shrine Show in Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. He suffered a broken left wrist a deep forehead cut and a possible skull fracture as the show ended.
Since the fall of 1947 the magazine says weighing the decline's importance is hard. No buying spurt followed the price break, scrap ease seems unrelated to steel production which remains near capacity through mid year. Ingot output rose to a record with 1,830,600 net tons, national rate at 99 percent of 96,120,930 tons per year.
Kenyon College researchers report that people uncontrollably mirror the volume of the questioner. In a basic test students answered softly or loudly in response to the asker's loudness, even when instructed to maintain a uniform tone.
Ernst M. Ruder of Oxford donates 20000 to Western College Centennial Fund. Gift is the largest to date, part of a drive aiming to raise 3400000 by 1953 for endowment and needs. General chairman is Lewis Clark Thomson. fund progress cited at a Centennial Fund committee and board meeting. Also notices of probate and hospital meeting appear in this scan.
Moscow reports Russia and Poland will raise trade under the five year pact signed last January by 35 percent this year. The communique ties the increase to the existing $1,000,000 trade pact and follows a recent Poland Britain treaty in Warsaw.
The First Church of the Nazarene will open revival services tonight for two weeks with Rev. W A Strong of Eaton Ohio as guest evangelist. Strong is a graduate of the local church's theological program.
Olivet Nazarene College figures in a revival event with Rev. W. K. Poole of the Church of the Nazarene in Hamilton as the guest singer. Special singing is planned each evening at 7:30 p m as part of the program.
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