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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1948
Page
8
In 1886 New Orleans a well to do man marries a mysterious bride from St. Louis only to learn she is an impostor. A sister’s letter triggers the revelation and a $50,000 theft drains his bank account. Police say little can be done.
For over 40 years Dr. F. M. Edwards of Ohio offered Olive Tablets to relieve constipation and headaches with gentle, thorough action on upper and lower bowels. They are vegetable and promise comfortable, natural bowel movements with no griping. Available at drugstores for 15 cents or 30 cents.
Durand confronts a broker of deceit after finding his wife in a proxy marriage. The commissioner asserts the wife is legally his, despite misgivings and evidence of foul play. Authorities refuse arrest without concrete proof of a crime and advise pursuing the case in St. Louis for corroborating evidence.
Elizabeth T. Bentley, a self styled former Communist spy, is at a Catholic retreat in New York taking religious instruction from Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Her previous Hawthorne retreat is noted and Budenz is named as godfather for her baptism as part of ongoing spy probe coverage.
A 12 year old Miss from five miles southeast of Burbank told officers her clothes were the target of theft rather than foul play after her garments were found along a county road. She described wearing old clothes during school commutes to protect better outfits.
In Philadelphia the court gave J Newton Garver 20 a week to decide on a substantial action toward the draft or jail. James S Lovett 23 of Falsington Pa was released to the American Friends Service Committee for China work with a suspended year plus probation. Garver, Swarthmore College student, admitted refusing draft registration citing marriage and Ivy League life. Lovett pleaded no defense and was placed on probation after the suspended sentence.
Fifty officers from the United States Britain and Canada will convene November 22 to December 3 at the Topeka Kansas air base. The goal is to compare aerial reconnaissance methods and tactics with Brig. Gen. Paul T. Cullen of the 311th Air Division hosting the event.
The Ohio Automobile Dealers' Association elected R. E. Reinhold of Cincinnati as president. Lou Wilsch of Columbus became first vice president, Marcus Feder Jr of Cleveland second vice president, M. R. Purdy of Van Wert treasurer, and F. Armstrong Jr of Warren secretary. Joseph F. Leopold warned at the convention that tax free cooperatives threaten private enterprise.
A lone robber with a revolver robbed four patrons and the proprietor Paul Raps of $263 at the Erie Lunchroom in Hamilton. The bandit ordered customers to place their billfolds in view and forced Raps to empty the card register before fleeing. Victims and losses include John Caldwell 21 M R 60 Hamilton $5 Allen Combs 40 337 N Sixth St $97 Laverne Boggs 34 $18 John Lundeman 16 R R 4.
The report provides a partial description of a robber named Hamilton. It notes a striped railroad cap, about 30 years old, five feet 10 inches tall, wearing a navy coat and light blue trousers, and weighing around 150 pounds.
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