Civic Award Presented to Middletown Leader Frank Dobrozsi
Frank Dobrozsi president of the Middletown American Citizens Club received the Fraternal Order of Eagles Civic Award at the Lodge Hall. Award chair man Frank Kartovich credited him with aiding over 500 immigrants to study and obtain naturalization papers in Butler County and noted his role in promoting citizenship in the community. Dobrozsi also co chaired the city's I Am An American Day celebration for several years.
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Frank Dobrozsi
Middletown
American Citizens Club
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Lodge Hall
Frank Kartovich
Dobrozsi
Butler County
Eagles
Karavich
Chambers says five sources provided data in Hiss case
Whittaker Chambers testified at the Alger Hiss trial that five government sources supplied documents when he was a courier for a prewar Soviet spy ring. He named Julian Wadleigh as one source and said the 47 original papers and two film strips came from Hiss. He denied mental illness and described two Washington houses tied to the Hisses.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss Persity
Chambers
State Department
U. S
Thomas F. Murphy
Julian Wadleigh
Hiss
Department
Washington, D. C
Hisses
Senators Can Buy Ice Boxes Chairs Ruling
Washington AP The House Appropriations Committee refused 10 million for a new Senate office building but allowed swiv el chairs and refrigerators. It also rejected 2 thousand new desk lamps while urging carpets for offices and blocked 1 thousand 500 for piped in music in the Library of Congress. The bill covers funding for the legislative establishment for the year starting July 1 including the Senate House architect capital and Botanic Garden.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Library of Congress
Luther Evans
Gowthe Botanic Garden
Two Escapees Still At Large From Reform School
CHILLICOTHE O AP two of three youths who escaped from the federal reformatory were still at large today one was recaptured six hours after breaking away from guards returning from the prison farm Edgar Dowker 19 Bristol Pa was caught while Watkins 19 Heflin Ala and Ellis Cook 19 Marlstone Ky escaped into the brush Dowker was serving three years for theft of government property Watkins 18 months for auto theft and Cook two years for breaking into a post office
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Chillicothe
Edgar Dowker
Bristol
Jimmy Watkins
Heflin
Ala
Ellis Cook
Marlstone
Dowker
Watkins
Cook
Westward Bound Bicycle Trip Through Ohio
Prince ton University student George F. French 20 was believed to be in western Ohio today on a bicycle trip from Asbury Park New Jersey to Pasadena California He passed through Zanesville in eastern Ohio Monday night
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Columbus
George F. French
Princeton University
Ohio
Asbury Park
N. J
Pasadena
Cal
Zanesville
Family Grows to Twenty in Bangor Household
The George E Chapman family of Bangor Maine expands from 17 to 20 children after Mrs Chapman gave birth to triplets two girls and a boy at Eastern Maine General Hospital. The 26 year old mother and her babies are reported as doing well while Chapman, a 46 year old truck driver, says he and his wife were astounded.
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Bangor, ME
George E. Chapmans
Akron mother who saved child dies from burn injuries
Mrs. Peggy Cook, 20, died of burns and injuries after saving her two year old son from a blazing Akron apartment. She leaped from the second floor after dropping the child to her husband Cletus below, report says.
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Akron
Peggy Cook
Cletus
House chaplain’s pay misprinted at 3.75 million
Congressional records show the chaplain of the House with a salary listed as 3,750,000 dollars a year but officials corrected it as a typographical error, stating the Rev. James Shera Montgomery earns 3,750 dollars annually.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee
James Shera Montgomery
Blast wrecks bridge tower near Tacoma narrows span
Explosions and fire heavily damaged the 502-foot west tower of a new Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge, with damage estimated at 400000 dollars or more. Bethlehem Steel engineer warns the hot heat could require rebuilding, as the 13 million project replaces the original bridge toppled in 1940. Cause cited as a hot rivet and leaking drums at the base.
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Tacoma
Wash
Tacoma Narrows
Olympic Peninsula
Tom Martinsen
Bethlehem Pacific Steel Construction Company
Narrows
Move To Save Cash Gaining Senate Help
Washington AP reports a Senate economy push gains momentum though Senator McClellan notes President Truman wields the whip. Aimed at a balanced next year budget, the plan trims about three billion from Truman’s proposal, risking a veto. The Senate also trims a major State Justice Commerce bill by 12.8 million below the House total, approving 671,782,281.
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Senate
Truman
McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
Senate Expenditures Committee
McClelan
House
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
Federal Judiciary
Youth wins hiking wager from Akron to Cleveland
A Greenbier Military School student, Steve Russell, 19, reportedly won about 1500 for hiking from Akron to Public Square in under 12 hours. Funds totaling roughly 3000 were raised by backers including Harvey Harr, who sought a pool hall venture prize. The money remains uncollected as the holder has not been located.
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Akron, C
Military Academy
Akron
Cleveland
Public Square
Steve Russell
Cuyahoga Fally
Greenbier Military School
Lewisburg
W. Va
Steve
Walter Russell
Harvey Harr
Russell
Murder charge filed in Cincinnati slaying of brother in law
Detec tive Chief Clem Merz said a murder charge would be filed against William Hughes 21 in the slaying of his brother in law Charles Rogers 24 who died from gunshot wounds to the neck after a family quarrel at the home of his estranged wife Mrs Willet Rogers 23 Hughes a University of Cincinnati student
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Cincinnati
Deteca Ve
Clem Merz
William Hughes
Charles Rogers
Willet Rogers
Hughes
University of Cincinnati
Botanist Mrs Metcalf Dies In Oberlin Ohio
Mrs Franklin P Metcalf 39 a noted Chinese botanist died in Oberlin after a long illness She was the first Chinese woman to publish technical papers on botany and the first to teach at an Anglo Chinese College for boys in China She was married to Maj Franklin Metcalf and they moved to Oberlin in 1947.
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Oberlin
Franklin P. Metcalf
Luetta Chen
China
Maj
Franklin Metcalf
Dies In Crash At Flasher Crossing In Bucyrus
Lattie Lea Graves 32 of Chatfield was killed when a Pennsylvania train struck his automobile at a flasher crossing. Graves worked for Swan Rubber Company.
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Bucyrus, O
Lattie ‘Lea Graves
Chatfield
Pennsylvania
Graves
Swan Rubber Company
Middletown Man Arrested for Reckless Driving After Crossing Barricade
Middletown 28 year old Whitman was arrested by Patrolman Furginson early Tuesday on a reckless driving charge after allegedly driving his car against a barricade at the Fifth and High Streets crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad in Hamilton. The item also includes pages of legal notices and a city planning contract for Middletown.
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Whitman
Middletown
Boyd Furginson
Fifth and High Sts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hamilton
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