Nationalists Prepare Counterdrive in China’s North
Nationalists in China plan a counteroffensive from Kukong 125 miles north of Canton to retake Chihing Namyang and push toward Hengyang. Reinforcements have arrived at Kukong where fighting is reported 15 miles east and gunfire audible in the town. The operation targets control of the Canton rail line and major northern towns.
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Canton
China
Kwangtung
Kukong
Ministry of National Defense
Ukong
South China Defense
Heng- Yang
Chihing
Namyang
City Briefs Packed Midweek Meetings Across Local Groups
Wednesday noon meetings include Miami Chapter of Ohio Society of Professional Engineers at the Manchester Hotel and Blythe Williams Post 231 American Legion exec session. Other groups meet 7 to 7:30 p m at churches, schools, and civic venues. Thursday events feature Lions Club lunch, VFW dance committee, Armco Employees Federation, Moose Lodge, Toastmasters, Odd Fellows, Legion Auxiliary, Alpha Council, Kiwanis, and Infantile Paralysis Foundation meetings across Butler County venues.
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Miami
Ohio Society of Professional Engineers
Manchester Hotel
House
Blythe- Williams Post
American Legion
Blythe-Williams Post Auxiliary of
Silver Leaf
Plane Victims Are Removed From Mountain
Rescue teams retrieved 25 bodies from a DC-3 crash on Popocatepetl, Mexico's 17,887 foot volcano. Cold rain slowed efforts but searchers reached the wreckage after the crash Monday afternoon. two American tourists, Mrs Eugenia Goldsmith and Mrs George Graham of Miami Beach, Fla, were among the dead.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Popocatepetl
Eugenia Goldsmith
George Graham
Miami Beach
Fla
Local Realtors Meet in Dayton for Ohio Convention
Middletown will be represented by C. G. Crist at the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards meeting in Dayton during the organization's 40th annual convention October 3-5. Eight hundred Ohio realtors and their wives are expected. Herbert A. Nelson heads a speakers list in Washington, D. C. Address panels planned and ten standing committees will report. The state roster includes J. D. Aig, Harry A. Finkelman, and J. Thomas Sebald all of Middletown.
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Middletown
C. G. Crist
Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards
Dayton
Ohio
Herbert A. Nelson
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Washington, D. C
Association
J. D. Aig
Harry A. Finkelman
J. Thomas Sebald
Butler County Divorces and Probate Notes Roundup
Doris Gibbs versus Stanley Gibbs cites neglect in a divorce suit. Eva Cisco and Neva Commodore seek divorces from Malcolm Cisco and Wayne Commodore, both citing neglect. Four sons to inherit Minnie Young estate. Stewart M. Smith named executor for Harry E. Smith estate. Probate filings also note a motor collision claim by Robert J. Kelly against Donna Reed. Fairfield Township trustees seek transfer of funds to road and bridge, with signatures from McGreevy McCormick and Schiering.
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Doris Gibbs
Hamilton
Stanley Gibbs
Julia Dichoff
Park St
Middletown
Peter Dichoff
State St
Trenton
Eva Cisco
Malcolm Cisco
Neva Commodore
Minnesota St
Wayne Commodore
Eighteenth Ave
Louise Ellen Cusick
Cpl
Fred Paul Cusick
Robert J. Kelly
Manchester Ave
Common Pleas Court
Donna Reed
Dixie Hwy
Fairfield Township
General Fund
Road and Bridge Fund
John B. McGreevy
A. B McCormick
Carl Schiering
Minnie Young
George Herold Young
Roger Donne Young
Raymond Wilson Young
Marion Ellison Young
Pearl Cassidy
C. H. Taylor
Test
Oklahoma still dry after repeal failure in 42 years
Oklahoma voted against repealing the state constitutional ban on intoxicants in a special election. With 3 584 of 3 720 precincts reported the repeal lost 313 071 to 264 661. Tulsa attorney A G Kulp led the repeal effort and David C Shapard announced further anti bootlegger campaigns.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
A. G. Kulp
Tulsa
The
Oklahoma Economic Institute
United Dty Association
David C. Shapard
Wets
Public water system bid notice in Butler County Ohio
Butler County Ohio invites sealed bids for the Dixie Heights sewer district water supply distribution system. Bid due October 7 1949 at 11 AM EST. Includes iron pipe fittings hydrants valves copper tubing house services and appurtenances with five percent bond. County reserves right to reject all bids. Thomas H. Feltz Clerk. Sept. 21-28.
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Butler County
Ohio
Board of County Commissioners
Hamilton
Dixie Heights
Middletown
Township
County Commissioners
Court House
Thomas H. Feltz
Jury Declares Slayer Insane In 1914 Murder
Oscar Fetters, 63, was acquitted in a district court by a jury that found him insane at the time of the September 9, 1914 killing of Hugh Dougall Sr. Fetters was committed to the Anamosa State Reformatory’s insane ward and released as mentally restored before standing trial. Dougall’s daughter, Mrs.
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Washington
Oscar Fetters
Hugh Dougall
Dougall
Fetters
Anamosa State Reformatory
Actress heir awarded higher monthly allowance from estate
In Los Angeles a Superior Court judge granted Carol Ann Beery a $1,000 monthly increase from $2,000 to $3,000 from the late Wallace Berry estate. Attorney Lyman Garber disclosed the estate total reached $2,100,000, $600,000 more than expected. Carol Ann, 19, an adopted daughter, leaves October 5 for a year in a New York drama school.
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Los Angeles
Carol Ann Beery
Superior Court
Lyman A. Garber
Wallace Berry
Lyman
Carol Ann
New York
Sailor Kinship Tale Cited in Fetters Trial Testimony
Sarah Dougall Sailor 59 of Plumas Manitoba testified she spurned Fetters' attentions during the state proceedings. Fetters said he became distraught after the breakup with Mrs Sailor and could not recall events linked to the slaying of her father.
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Sarah Dougall Sailor
Plumas
Manitoba
Fetters
Sailor
Olivia De Havilland Becomes Mother to Baby Boy
Los Angeles AP reports actress Olivia De Havilland has a son born by cesarean section named Benjamin Briggs Goodrich. The eight pound infant arrived as De Havilland, wife of Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, had been ill and hospitalized since February with doctors once fearing for the baby.
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Los Angeles
Olivia de Havilland
Mama
Benjamin Briggs Goodrich
Marcus Aurelius Goodrich
Benjamin
Texas
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Butler Tile & Flooring CO
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St. John’s
Lemon Township Athletic Association
Lemon-Monroe High School
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Civic Association
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Armco Employes’ Independent Federation
AEIF
Moose Lodge
Toastmasters Club
Odd Fellows Lodge
Alpha Council
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Kiwanis Club
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Mercy Hospital
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Harry E. Smith
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