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DEATHS AND FUNERALS BUILDING Rabbi Louis Egelson Dies; Cincinnatian For 25 Years MM 4 CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 3 Tkartli, Airl II, 157 oner's office was that the victim told a neighbor she struck a match to light a gas burner after a coffee pot boiled over and put out the flame. Wrecking crews reported they fpund no leaks in the stove or pipes. The explosion United an awning 18 feet from the building. Carrier Routi Burglar An Enquirer carrier, Joseph H. Voelkerding 5928 Glen-way apparently prevented a burglary early yesterday at Schmidt drugstore, 3287 Werk police reported.

He told police that as he was delivering papers he saw large man leave the front of the store and enter an automobile driven by a second. Patrolman James Boyle discovered the door had been forced open, but nothing as taken. Is Razed After Eiplosion Woman Victim Dies Of Severe Burns Razing of a three-story brick building at 1713 Pleasant St wai cortipleted yesterday as Mist Mary Persinger, 40, died 'of burns suffered in an explosion there Tuesday. City officials permitted a dozen families evacuated from four tenements near the damaged structure to return to their homes. General Hospital attendants laid Miss Persinger.

occupant of a room on the second floor, died at 1:30 a. m. of third degree burns over 90 per cent ot her body. Cause of the powerful blast still was not determined but It was believed to be gas. An unconfirmed report to the cor- Rabbi Louis I.

Egelson, New York City, former Cincinnatian and one of the nation's most wiiely known reform rabbis, died early yesterday in New York. He was 72 years old. Administrative secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations since 1942 and a staff member of the Union since 1914. he was stricken fatally as he left his home for his office at the UAHC Rabbi Egelson and his wife, Mrs. Gussie Cronheim Egelson, lived In Cincinnati for more than 25 years before the Union moved its headquarters from here to New York seven years ago.

In 1954, the rabbi was awarded honorary degree of doctor of divinity at the Cincinnati Branch of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. He was an honorary member of Rockdale Avenue Temple here and Central Synagogue, New York. Born in Rochester, N. Rabbi Egelson was graduated from the City College of New York in 1904 and ordained in 1908 after graduating from the Jewish Theological Seminary and receiving a master's degree at Columbia University. In World War he served as chaplain with the 91st In RURKMARDTS 1 TI 1 lllli I Muulrli flllik RABBI LOUIS EGELSON al Placement Committee, he introduced hundreds of congregations to their future spiritual leaders.

A member of the American Legion and the Masonic Lodge, Rabbi Egelson formerly was a member of the executive board of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. In addition to his widow iiiliJ) Egelson is survived by a son. Louis I. Egelson Brookline, a brother, Joshua Egelson, Washington, attorney, and fantry Division. In World War three grandchildren.

A memorial service for Rabbi II. he was secretary of the Com mittee on Chaplain Procure Egelson will be held at 2 p. today in New York. ment, recruiting 311 reformed rabbis for the armed services. A second service will be held at 2 p.

m. tomorrow at the Weil funeral home, Avcndale. Burial will be in the family lot in He preached from many of the leading pulpits of the nation and wrote extensively on liberal Judaism. As the UAHC United Jewish Cemetery, Wal nut Hills. representative on the Provision' Requiem Mass Monday For Dr, Francis Siegel big savings of $2.25 COTTON PLAID SPORT SHIRTS m' at StJi in exact sleeve lengths h7? t.

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Dr. Siegel, who practiced here for almost 50 years, died yesterday at St. Francis Hospital after a brief illness His home was at 805 Ludlow Clifton. He was 75 years old. He received one of the Catholic Church's highest honors in 1931 when he was named a Knight Commander of the Order of St.

Gregory the Great. The appointment was given by Pope Pius XII for Dr. Siegel's medical aid to the poor in this country and financial help to the needy in Italy. Dr. Siegel was credited with the first use gas anesthesia for major surgery in Cincinnati prior to World War I end he performed one of the first corneal transplans In this part of the country.

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Fitzpatrick failed to report Tor work and the hospital could not reach her by telephone. Death apparently was due to natural causes Mrs. Fitzpatrick was a member of the American Nurses' Association, the National League of Nursing, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Cincinnati Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Nurses and the St. Mary Ladies' Society of Teresa Church. Survivors include her parents.

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