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Show Mdda Given if or Four Htrota of Clinic Fir NEW TORK. May II (AP) Four telephone employee, who distinguished distin-guished themselves In the Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., rllnlo fire of May It. !:. have been awarded gold and silver medals by the Theodore N. Vail memorial fund. All worked for the Ohio Telephone company. One of the gold medals, tha ten. mtttee of award announced -today, want to Mlaa Gladya I. Olueon, operator, op-erator, who loot her Ufa la tha fire because aha remained at her poet te gaap out tha alarm which brought aaalstancav Mora than 110 persona died In tha fire and explosions which followed It. Other awards connected with the Cleveland fire went to Gerald T. Mahatfey, district trafflo superintendent; superin-tendent; Benjamin O. (Spaeth, district dis-trict plant .superintendent, and Jamaa J, Roonan, district Installation Installa-tion fnramiri. All arrl1ftte4 la rescue work and working In relays, maintained telephone communlca-ttoa communlca-ttoa with tha clinic during tha fire. |