Franklin area man faces manslaughter charge in death of motorcyclist
A 24 year old Franklin Route 2 man Combs faces a manslaughter charge after his southbound car cut in front of a northbound motorcycle on US 7 at Pennyroyal Rd Warren County. Andrew H. Lindon 24 of Dayton died from neck fractures and internal injuries. Lindon’s companion and two other motorcyclists were injured. Combs to be arraigned Friday at 3 pm in Franklin Municipal Court.
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Dishman Combs
Franklin Route 2
Dayton
Middletown Hospital
Andrew H. Lindon
Maple St
Majorie Taylor
McLaine
Pennyroyal Rd
Warren County
Franklin
Lindon
Combs
Middletown
J. T. Riley
Franklin Municipal Court
Bessie Lindon
Daysboro
West Liberty
Bethesda Hospital
Cincinnati
Milton Moore
Ohio 48
O’banion Rd
Milford
Moore
Clermont County
William Miller
Lloyd Sears
Chicago Dog Wins Open All-Age Stakes at Smith Farms
Pennowin's Jim Dandy owned by Mrs P D Armour of Chicago won the Open All-Age Stakes at Smith Farms in Ohio Valley Springer Spaniel Club trials. The victory earns a berth to December national field trials in Illinois. Sepam's Molly, owned by Lou Craig of Cincinnati, also qualified. Local entry Chips, owned by Leonard Reedy and handled by Hugh Herdman, placed fourth in the open. Other results include Feather Field Mark third. Sandy winning the Puppy Stakes. Pop's Gan-Dandy taking the Limit Stakes. and Jiggs winning the Shooting Dog Stakes for owner R Schoenberger of Shaker Heights.
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Pennowin
Jim Dandy
P. D. Armour
Chicago
Ohio
Val- Springer Spaniel Club
Smith Farms
Illinois
Sepam
Molly
Lou Craig
Cincinnati
Chips
Leonard Reedy
Hugh Herdman
Weatlake
Feather Field Mark
E. C. Chick
Sandy
Frank Kunkele
Pop
C. J. Froelick
Cleveland
At The Movies Paramount Listings
On Monday and Tuesday the Greatest Show On Earth plays at 1 15, 3 50. Fargo shows at 1 30, 4 00, 6 30 and 9 00 p m. Feuding Fools screens at 2 50, 5 20, 7 30 and 10 20 p m.
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Paramount
Fargo
Missing Woman Is Sought Here In Cincinnati
Lena Scott, 74, left home August 17 to visit a drug store at Peeble's Corner and may be an amnesia victim. Her daughter Martha Duckworth of 991 Nassau St. Cincinnati reports she could be visiting the area. Lena is described as a Negro woman, five feet two, about 160 pounds, with black turning gray hair, wearing a green and white striped cotton dress, a small black hat and glasses.
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Cine
Lena Scott
Peeble’s Corner
Martha Duckworth
Nassau St
Cincinnati
Officer Hurt Slightly As Tire Blows
A police cruiser driven by Patrolman Robert Sloan suffered a tire blowout on Lincoln Street sending the car into a utility pole and causing about 450 dollars in front end damage. Sloan sustained minor bruises but continued duty.
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Robert Sloan
Lincoln St
Sloan
Deputies Question Three Youths Over Break-Ins Near Middletown
Three youths were being questioned today by Butler County deputy sheriffs in connection with break-ins in and near Middletown. The trio was arrested yesterday north of the city and placed in the Middletown jail. A break-in at the Red Bud Inn west of the city was reported with cigarettes taken and no money missing.
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Butler County
Middletown
Redbud Inn
School And Café Break-Ins Reported Over Weekend
Police reported two break-ins over the weekend, targeting Mull's Cafe on Crawford Street and Garfield School on Yankee Road. Detective Herbert Frazier said 10 to 12 bottles of whiskey and about $20 were taken from Mull's Cafe after a back window was broken during the 2:58 a.m. burglary. At Garfield School, officers arrived at 7:14 a.m. to find an entry gained and several rooms ransacked, with ice cream eaten.
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Herbert Frazier
Mull
Crawford St
Garfield School
Yankee Rd
Canadian Trains Collide In Fog
In Matta wa Ont two Canadian Pacific passenger trains collided head on during fog last night. Only two people, a fireman and an engineer, were seriously injured. two others were hurt less severely and about 100 passengers had minor cuts and bruises. Express cars absorbed much of the collision shock. no immediate cause given.
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Mattawa
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Scout Board To Meet At Girl Scout Offices
The Middletown Girl Scout Council board of directors will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the Civic Association girl scout offices per president Mrs Frank Chapman.
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Middletown
DeForest Seeks Release From Oakland Presbyterian Post
The Dayton Presbytery will consider the Middletown pastor Rev Merton R DeForest request to be released from his Oakland Church assignment at its Eaton meeting tomorrow The church had announced his resignation effective last Saturday after he informed the congregation September 7 He began hisOakland post September 16 of last year succeeding Rev Richard E Moore and previously served churches in Wislock Edgington Nashville St Louis and Greenup The Eaton agenda also lists incoming pastor Rev Robert C Nixon and reports on church insurance and a School of Christian Living plan with 100 ministers and lay delegates expected from 42 churches in eight counties The Rev Harold L Myers Springfield will be moderator with Rev Dale Robb Oxford as vice moderator and other clerks in attendance
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Middletown
Oakland Presbyterian Church
Dayton Presbytery
First Presbyterian Church
Eaton
Merton R. DeForest
Oakland
Garfield St
Woodlawn Ave
DeForest
Charles L. Plymote
Presbytery
Dayton
Richard E. Moore
Greenhills Community Church
Cincinnati
Wislock
N.C
Edgington
Nashville
St. Louis
Greenup
Illinois
Robert C. Nixon
Blue Ball Presbyterian Church
Flint, Mich
Emil Baumann
Board of Trustees
Frank Donaldson
Springfield
School of Christian Living
John C. Inglis
Piqua
Harold L. Myers
Dale Robb
Oxford
Wendell Pontius
Seven Mile
Kenneth Morse
Camden
Cool Air Moves In As Autumn Nears
Cooling air moved eastward over the weekend ahead of schedule, dropping temperatures and bringing rain to the Miami Valley. Rain totals reached 0.94 inches by 8 am today, with a weekend high near 95 and an overnight low around 66. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a high near 80, with cooler, fair conditions expected Tuesday.
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Miami Valley
Lonnie Gibson
The
Miami Conservancy
Central Plains States
Great Lakes
Appalachians
Weather Bureau
Grant to Speak at First Report Dinner of YMCA Drive
E. E. Grant Crystal Tissue Company president will speak briefly at the first report dinner of the YMCA membership drive Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the YMCA gym. Grant sits on the Y board for 25 years and will share the program with a Junior Leaders Club representative. Awards will be given for high scores as the drive closes week one. drive ends September 25. George Kuehnie Jr. will preside. two chairmen will attend kickoff tonight. William Giles leads music. Rev John Parr offers invocation and benediction.
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E. E. Grant
Crystal Tissue Company
YMCA
Grant
Y” Board of
Ray W. Young
George Kuehnie, Jr
Young
Hamilton Ymca
Hamton
George Tompkins
William Giles
First Presbyterian Church
John I. Parr
First Baptist Church
Police Briefs Highlight Drunken Driving and License Violations
Police report shows James Ernest Peebles aged 26 at 1419 Young St arrested for operating while intoxicated resisting arrest and unsafe vehicle. Other incidents include Robert Margum, 9, bitten in a neighborhood, Rena Gunckle treated for facial cuts after a fight, Charles M. Smith reporting a missing jeep license plate, Leonard Jones, 44, released on 500 bond for driving with suspended license, and James E. Hayes, 53, arrested on a warrant for failure to yield and released on 100 bond for traffic court.
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State Patrol
Orville Ridenour
Morrow
E. J. Maag
Lucius Wilson
Lockland
Maag
William Gomin
Yankee Rd
Middletown
Squire J. E. Jackson
Charles Downs
First Ave
Thomas Linn
Monroe
Donnie Stout
Navaho St
Squire Jackson
Samuel Easter
Hamilton
Harry Stretcher
Trenton
Branco Cai
Monroe St
Squire Lammie Bailey
John Bailey
Stretcher
Anthony Bogolo
Squire Lewis Bolser
New Miami
A. B. Steel
Harold Truempy
Beacon
Squire Bailey
Harrison Baird
Hustonville
Linn
Arold Dennis
Dayton
Mayor Linn
Severy Schaeffer
William Fraser
Lebanon
Herman Owens
Cincinnati
J. T. Riley
Franklin
James Ernest Peebles
Young St
Leonard Jones
Garfield St
Eighteenth Ave
James E. Hayes
Central Ave
Oscar Wilde’s Divine Sarah nickname echoed through life
Oscar Wilde dubbed Sarah Bernhardt “Divine Sarah” years before meeting her, and the now famous title clung to her public image throughout her life.
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Oscar Wilde
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah
Mercy Trips Logged Over Weekend
Middletown's Flying Squadron delivered iron lungs to polio patients with four trips Saturday and Sunday. The runs included missions between Lexington Kentucky and Mercy Hospital Hamilton and exchanges involving St Elizabeth Covington and Columbus Children Hospital, plus a tracheometry collar transfer from Middletown to Hamilton. Crew members cited were William Bach Harold Michael Willard Gill Charles Reuthe and John Fitzgerald. Meanwhile Dilbert Wolfe 25 of Oxford Route 3 was admitted to Mercy Hospital Hamilton polio ward marking Butler County 22nd case.
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Middletown
Lexington
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Wright-Patterson Afb
Dayton
Paducah
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Covington
Children Hospital
Columbus
Middletown Hospital
Springfield General Host
St. Joseph Capital
William Bach
Harold Michael
Willard Gill
Charles Reuthe
John Fitzgerald
Butler County
Dilbert Wolfe
Oxford
Local Woman Seeks Custody of Daughter in Indiana Case
Mrs. Alice M. Harris of 1027 Hughes St sues her former husband in Superior Court of Terre Haute seeking habeas corpus to regain custody of their eight year old daughter. She held custody after a 1946 Ohio divorce until 1951 when the father took the child. The petition, filed by Terre Haute attorneys, alleges ongoing wrongful custody by Joseph N. Harris of 1526 Chestnut St Terre Haute.
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Alice M. Harris
Hughes St
Superior Court of
Terre Haute
Ind
Joseph N. Harris
Chestnut St
Harris
Common Pleas Court
Mahoning County
Ohio
Indiana
Robert F. Wallace
Albert F. Owens
Barbers See State Health Code Rules
Health Department bulletins outline Ohio Health Department rules adopted last May to ensure barber shops are properly housed equipped and clean. Authorities note improvements in Middletown shops and explain annual chest x-rays for barbers to reduce tuberculosis spread.
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Health Department
Ohio Department of Health
Middletown
Resignation Date May Decide Butler County Judge Succession
Judge Oscar Leiser plans to resign soon from the Butler County Probate and Juvenile Courts. The exact effective date will shape who succeeds him, with theories of gubernatorial appointment or a write-in election if the 40 day window from the general election passes.
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Leiser
Butler County
Oscar Leiser
Lausche
Democratic Committee
Martin A. Coyle
Greg Holbrook
Judge Walsh
Hamilon Municipal Court
Walsh
Bricker to Fill Vacancy After Judge Palmer Death
John W. Bricker elected to fill the unexpired term after Judge Gideon Palmer’s death. He later won a four year term in 1944 and was reelected in 1948 for another term.
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John W. Bricker
Gideon Palmer
Trucker Campaign Urges Voters Register by Sept 24
Middletown trucking interests back the Get Out the Vote drive with meetings across area communities. Aimed at registering truckers and employees, a Oxford Town Hall session at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday features Wilbur Bull and Edwin Morgan with Charles Taft campaign ties, plus Ohio Chamber of Commerce transportation chair Vernonley. The Miami Valley Ohio Trucking Association chapter governs 8,599 licensed vehicles across Butler, Preble, Clinton and Warren counties.
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Middletown
Sam Tutt
Miami Valley Ticking Association
Oxford
Wilbur Bull
Ohio Trucking Association
Edwin Morgan
Charles P. Taft
Vernonley
Ohio Chamber of Commerce Transporation Committee
Charles E. Dumford
Dumford Trucking Company
Miami Valley
Butler
Preble
Clinton
Warren
Jack Sizer Elected President of Y Club
Jack Sizer was elected president of the YMCA Junior Leaders Club at its annual reorganization meeting Saturday at the YMCA. Also elected were Dick King as vice president Dick Wendt as secretary treasurer and Dick Robinson as chaplain according to Bill Wetzel Y associate physical director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Sizer
YMCA
Bill Wetzel
Dick King
Dick Wendt
Dick Robinson
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Franklin Area
Donald Macy
Malvern St
Peasttown
Charles ST
Erle Hanson
Heffner Ave
Harold Henderson
Walnut St
Letha Viola Childs
Plain St
Childs
Henderson
Garry P. Collinsworth
Rufus St
Clinton St
Vail Ave
Collinsworth
Orville Whitman
Manchester Ave
Whitman
Robert Cecil Dunn
Alameda
Alameda Circle
Dunn
Weather Auto
Scout Board
Central Avenue
Nearty Towne
K E. E. Grant
1St Report
Robert Margum
Lafayette Ve
Rena Gunckle
Elsmere &T
Charlies M. Smith
Fairmount Ave
Clark
Music House
Associated Tool and Manufacturing Company
South Dixie Highway
Flora
Melampy
Big Vote
Y” Club
John C. Barton
Getti
First National
Sutphin Park Place
Armco East
National Bank OF Middletown
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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