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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1949
Page
3
A Bangkok based former British Army captain now works as a prison hangman in Malaya and reflects on 16 years of executions. He fears nooses and hooded final moments but insists each case ends cleanly. The engineer of death finds his duty heavy yet necessary, and reports that none of the condemned feared him. He plans to quit after this last assignment and return to England.
A former University of Washington professor, Ralph Gundlach, was jailed 30 days and fined $250 after being convicted of contempt of a state legislative committee on Un American activities. He refused to say if he had ever been a Communist Party member before Superior Judge William Wilkins.
Ten year old Andy Tempos Jr whose mother vanished five years ago asked for her return in a newspaper letter. Haywood Bundy and his wife of Norfolk Virginia offered to adopt him. The Saul couple of Bethesda Maryland also offered, pending his grandparents approval. Andy lives with his ailing grandparents Mr and Mrs Andy Oblywanik. The grandmother said it would be nice if Andy could visit his grandparents even if his mother does not return.
Bishop Edward F Hoban of the Cleveland Diocese sails for France on the second leg of a papal visit. Accompanied by Msgr John J Krol he left Cleveland by train for Cherbourg aboard the Queen Mary. More merchant seamen died at Mindoro in WWII than soldiers in the action.
CHICAGO AP The nation faces a hand to mouth electric power situation may persist until 1952 or later as engineers at the Midwest Power conference were told. E Robert de Luccia of the Federal Power Commission said new capacity is being added at an unprecedented rate but demand keeps pace. He warned the drought and sudden loads cause local shortages, and noted power reserves remain thin, making continued shortages likely and risky for economic growth and national defense.
U S forces had a hand in several new items announced this week including a rust proofing system from Shell Development for tools and engine parts, a butt joint panel fastener by Simmons and U S Plywood with Army engineers, a turbo supercharger for cars distributed by Vaughn Motors, a baby rattle built into a powder can by Mennen, a Mount Vernon farm spreader, and neoprene gloves from Pioneer, Edmont, and Hood Rubber.
In Olympia a 47 year old man shot his 31 year old wife in a downtown hotel lobby then killed himself. Coroner Van R Hinkle said the murder suicide stemmed from a triangle with a Fort Lewis soldier who was questioned and held without charge. The soldier, who had met Mrs Cook, was to meet her that night.
Police seek to identify a man about 70 who died in a hospital after being found near a road east of Warren. He is believed to have been struck yesterday by a hit and run driver.
Union leaders at Los Alamos Atomic Energy project and Sandia base weigh settlement to avoid picket lines. Construction slowed with 19 prime contractors and 47 subcontractors at Los Alamos, while Sandia base works face similar disruption.
About 1,600 construction workers walked off the job in Albuquerque in a wage dispute, seeking 25 more cents per hour from $1.15. J. B. McCoy of Hod Carriers urged no picketing of vital installations like Zia Los Alamos maintenance, promising settlement by other means. A mole unfed for 12 hours will starve to death.
EAST LIVERPOOL Ohio AP Absence of two city councilmen at the third reading killed a resolution to invite the Ohio River Lake Erie conveyor belt project. The measure died 3 2 after earlier support at two meetings. The article also notes a claim about platinum reaching Europe in 1941 from Cartagena Colombia by a Jamaican assayer.
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