Five College Graduates Win Honors at Wilmington Commencement
At the 73rd Wilmington College commencement Friday in the college gymnasium five graduates earned honors, with 31 others set to complete August degrees. Honorary doctor of laws went to Rev. Dale Dutton, while Nancy Terrell and Ruth Hussey received magna cum laude, and Wilmer Cooper, Walter Spangler, and Doris Wall cum laude. Dr. Joseph King spoke on Change and Transition amid a world of abrupt climaxes and camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington College
Dale D. Dutton
Bristol Manufacturing Company
Providence
R. 1
5. A. Watson
Mias
Nancy Terrell
New Vienna
Ruth Kether Halne Hussey
Near Highland
Wilmer Cooper
Columbiana
Walter E. Spangler
Martinsville
Doris Kathryn Wall
London
Frank Jandes
Lynchburg
A. Ward Applegate
Wilmington Friends Church
Joan R. Duffey
First Baptist Church
Mayor Nichols Posts $1 000 May Revenue In Police Court
City records show Mayor C. Nichols processed over $1,000 in May police court business. He collected $835 in fines from 31 cases and $202.80 from 28 cases. Police Chief Everett Downing reports 18 inmates held in city jail that month. City funds totaled $15,764.42 general, $3,965.52 street, $11,811.95 gasoline tax, and $9,395.18 sewer tax.
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C. Nichols
Nichols
Everett Downing
Ohio Legislature To Quit Next Week
Ohio's 97th General Assembly breaks for weekend recess ahead of final week of session. Lawmakers aim to pass many pending measures before adjournment, with a skeleton session set for June 18 to sign bills. News includes plans for a new state department of natural resources and other proposed laws.
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Columbus
97Th
Ohio General Assembly
Thomas J. Herbert
Senate
State Department of Natural Resources
House
Lorain County
Carl D. Sheppard
Summit
Girl's Body Found in Columbus Hotel Room
Columbus police probed the death of 20 year old Miss Mabel Hoffman secretary to the superintendent of schools at Pleasantville. Her body was found in a room at the Southern Hotel last night. Dr. John B Gravis led the homicide investigation with Capt. Joseph Tibe reporting the identification.
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Columbus
John B. Gravis
Fairfield County
Southern Hotel
Joseph Tibe
Mabel Hoffman
Pleasantville
Two Months' Freedom Costs Man Two Years
Paul Raines, 35, returned to London Prison Farm after capture in Cincinnati will be sent back to Ohio Penitentiary and penalized two years for escaping. He fled the farm April 4, 1946, after admitting to grand larceny on December 6, 1943, with a parole hearing due next November.
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London
Paul Raines
Cincinnati
Ohio Penitentiary
Raines
Hoffer Convicted of Second Degree Murder
Ralph David Hoffer, 23, a former Marine, was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of 17 year old Thelma Harger Anderson. The verdict carries a life sentence with 20 years before parole and 10 years of hard labor plus yearly solitary confinement on July 27 anniversaries. Hoffer claimed innocence but was deemed legally sane.
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Newark
Licking County
Ralph David Hoffer
Thelma Harger Anderson
William Donaldson
Clifford L. Belt
Hoffer
Belt
Floods and Storms Hit Four States
Thousands were left temporarily homeless as surging river waters spilled over farms and flooded highways across four Midwest states. Tornadoes struck in four other states causing extensive property damage.
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Midwest
President Truman in Kansas City and flood tornado news
President Truman visited his bedridden mother in Grandview and attended a veterans parade in Kansas City while Eisenhower spoke on peace. Tornadoes and floods battered Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas with wide destruction but no fatalities.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Ilinois
Colorado
Oklahoma
Champaign
Julesburg
Colo
Illinois
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Truman
Grandview
Martha E. Truman
Ma Greene’s pilots license renewed by Coast Guard
Cincinnati report notes 79 year old Ma Greene, longtime Ohio river pilot, renewed five year license for the eleventh time after passing tests. She remains the nation’s only woman inland pilot, with son Tom carrying on the family steamboat line founded by her husband.
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Cincinnati
June
Ma” Greene
U. S. Coast Guard
Mary Greene
Pittsburgh
Gordon C. Greene
Marietta
Tom
Rainbow Division Plans Memorial in Cincinnati
Ohio veterans of the Rainbow Division from World War I and II disclosed plans for a Cincinnati memorial. Ground is allotted at Triangle Park near Taft and Reading roads for a 20 foot bronze granite structure featuring a veteran from each war. Speakers include Homer Gardner and three former Ohio state presidents Leland Whitney Edward C Weltzel and Albert Hoy.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Veterans of the
Roy Grant
Ohio Rainbow Division
City Park Board
Triangle Park
Reading Roads
Homer Gardner
Des Moines
Only Two GAR Members To Meet
Two of Ohio's three remaining Grand Army of the Republic members travel to Columbus for the Slat state encampment. National and Ohio Commander John H. Grate of Atwater and John R. Bennett of Waynesfield arrive as adjutant and quartermaster and Past Ohio commander. Oakley Bailey of Alliance notes his 14th birthday on June 14 and says his friends will have to get along without him.
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Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
National
John H. Grate
Atwater
John R. Bennett
Waynesfield
Oakley Bailey
Alliance
Burgstahler Resigns as Wesleyan President
Dr. H. J. Burgstahler, president of Ohio Wesleyan University since 1939, resigned yesterday due to ill health. The announcement comes from Wesleyan officials in Delaware.
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H. J. Burgstahler
Wesleyan
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Bulgaria Jails Anti Red Leader
Sofia reports that opposition leader Nikolai Dimitrov Petrov, secretary of the Agrarian Party, was jailed after the assembly voted to deprive him of immunity. Petrov described the arrest as a prolongation of Hungary's actions, while government spokesman Vladimir Topencharov linked Bulgarian events to Hungary, noting conspiracies with no organizational link.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Nikolai Dimitrov Petrov
Hungary
Petrov
Agrarian Party
Petkov
National Assembly
Vladimir Topencharov
Goverment
Ferenc Nagy
Switzerland
Fatherland Front
Front
Deer Rampage Spooks Cleveland Street Night
Two deer fled through Cleveland streets last night injuring a woman and crashing into a garage and window. A buck carcass was found later in town, and local officials said the animal would be donated to a children's hospital for medical study.
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Cleveland
Shaker Laker
Fred Tabor
Leo
Sauerthrun
Cuyaha County
Gas workers threaten Cincinnati strike at midnight
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. workers threaten a 490 person walkout as federal conciliators say settlement is likely before the deadline. Wages and sick leave fuel the dispute with wage demands from 12 to 6 cents while the company offers 7 to 15 cents. arbitration remains an option.
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Ers
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co
Gas Workes Division
United Mine Workers Aff
James McNamara
Whioh
McNaciara
Willity
Woman Drowns Sons and Self in Cisterna Tragedy
Mrs Ivian James 25 of Vaniue drowned her two sons Billy 4 and Bobby 8 months in a cistern at her parents home last night then killed herself. Coroner B F Voorhees said James a Cooper Rubber Co employee reported a note saying she would kill the children and herself to ease financial difficulties. Death ruled as drowning and self-inflicted death by temporary insanity.
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Findlay
Ivian James
Vaniue
Billy
Bobby
B. F. Voorhees
James
Cooper Rubber Co
Aiay
Dri ‘Ning
Labor bill seals vast veto-proof win in Congress
Congress approves sweeping labor measure by 54 to 17 in Senate and 320 to 29 in House, setting up a potential presidential veto override. The bill empowers 80-day injunctions against national paralysis strikes, outlaws the closed shop, permits union shop by majority vote, bars union health funds, and holds unions liable for unfair labor practices. Continued on page two.
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Congress
Senate
Truman
House
Langer
North Dakota
Morse
Oreston
Granville Wallace Dies at 74 in Wilmington
Granville Wallace 74 died of a heart ailment at his home on Locust Street Friday evening after a 22 week illness. Born September 24, 1872 in Wilmington, he was a harness maker by trade and is survived by his widow Eva J. Wallace, two brothers Lew and Charles Wallace, and sister Mrs Mabel Lacy. Funeral services set for Tuesday 2 30 P M at Winhop Funeral Home with Rev Thomas Adshead. Interment Makes Grove cemetery. The body remains at the funeral home after Saturday 5 P.M.
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Cranville Wallace
James
Eliza Mooney Wallace
Wilmington
Eva J. Wallace
Lew
Charles
Dick) Wallace
Faulty Records Blamed in Ohio Parole Slips
A Cincinnati Bar Association committee proposed a better record system to fix complaints about Ohio parole. The probe followed the parole of bank robber Harry Zens, who had an incomplete prison record and undisclosed comments from a prosecutor and sentencing judge. The panel urged cooperation between the parole commission and local officials to provide a fuller picture before parole decisions.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Bar Association
Parole Commission
Ohio Prosecutors
Harry
Pete) Zens
Carson Hoy
Zenz
Hamilton County
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