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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1949
Page
10
City Commission meets tonight in a light session with water works projects largely finished. The agenda includes a resolution authorizing the chairman to enter into a right of way agreement with the New York Central to lay a water main beneath the Big Four tracks, per City Attorney Fred J. Schatzmann.
In Batangas Province about 60 miles south of Manila a large battle raged between communist Hukbalahap forces and constabulary troops. Roughly 300 dissidents armed with trench mortars and machine guns clashed with two constabulary companies. No casualty figures were released. Brig. Gen. Alberto Ramos, chief of the constabulary, planned to visit the scene tomorrow.
Canada Steamship Lines faces three damage suits totaling 340000 linked to the Noronic disaster of September 17 in Toronto. Alvin Metzgar seeks 100000 for the loss of his drowned wife. Gordon and Arthur Albes ask 225000 jointly for injuries. Earl Doering’s estate seeks 15000 after Doering and wife died in the fire. Federal inquiry findings fault the company and Captain William Taylor for failing to follow basic fire precautions.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals rejected Harry Z. Dodds 21 year old convict in the slaying of Eleanor E. Grifford a woman church worker. Dodds was sentenced July 19 to death in the electric chair and the appeals court found no error prejudicial to his rights. A new execution date will be set by Judge Roy D. Williams.
In Eau Claire County near Rock Falls a house fire killed five children from the John Berg family and a granddaughter. Alvin Berg, 11, escaped by leaping from a second story window and was hospitalized with serious injuries. Mr and Mrs Berg were in the barn and could not enter the burning home.
John David Provoo, a 32 year old former Army staff sergeant, pleads innocent to 12 treason acts linked to U S prisoners after Japan seized Corregidor. Indicted by a federal grand jury, he is remanded without bail to face trial December 6. He allegedly caused the execution of Captain Burton C. Thompson. He will be examined by Bellevue psychiatrists before trial.
Syracuse traffic crawled bumper to bumper on ice covered streets as temperature fell to 17 degrees the coldest November 22 since 1932. Hazardous conditions caused 35 minor city accidents last night with cars stalled on icy hills outside the city.
New York Champion Paper and Fibre Company announced net income for the quarter ended September 30 of 1,758,551 dollars, or 1.49 dollars per share. For the prior year’s lake quarter, net income was 3,136,242 dollars, or 2.74 dollars per share. Net sales in the latest quarter were 20,267,940 dollars, down from 22,801,782 dollars a year earlier.
Elderly newlyweds Catherine Ginther Ward and Charles Ward, ages 67 and 82, left Pittsburgh for Wisconsin Dells after marrying last night. They are joined by 11 travelers on the bus, headed to Ward's Wisconsin home. Catherine's first husband died in 1939 and Ward was widowed two years ago. The couple met last September while traveling to California to visit relatives.
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