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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1953
Page
1
Returned POWs describe Bataan style death marches and brutal treatment in Communist camps. Allied soldiers remain ill in captivity, challenging the pledge to free all sick and wounded. Rear Admiral Daniel said the 600 sick and wounded repatriation was unexpectedly small.
The first two days of the Korea prisoner exchange freed 65 Americans with 35 wounded or ill. many families rejoice while others still await word. Survivors recall freezing marches, harsh confinement, and varied treatment, with some prisoners hopeful for more homecomings in the week ahead.
U S carrier planes from Oriskany and Princeton blasted Communist positions less than a mile ahead of Allied lines in Heartbreak and Sniper Ridge. Okinawa based B29 Superforts hit Taechon and Namsi airfields, while Fifth Air Force Thunder jets and Australian Meteors targeted supply and personnel buildup areas 20 miles north of Chorwon.
Mrs. John Nesslar found a stray mother cat with five newborn kittens in her baby buggy left outside her Chicago apartment yesterday. The event occurred while she retrieved the buggy from the exterior of her residence.
Authorities report the bodies of 12 more native victims of the Mau Mau. The victims were found in shanty villages near Nairobi and are believed to have been executed on orders of a Mau Mau court holding sessions in a village hut.
Panmunjom Korea reporting 100 disabled but jubilant Allied prisoners return from North Korean camps on the Freedom Gate route. The handover follows yesterday’s exchanges as armistice talks near restart with 605 sick and wounded to be freed by Saturday.
Senate harmonized testimony reveals Gen. Ridgway refused Gen. Van Fleet proposal for an Allied seaborne assault on Communist forces in Korea in June 1951. Van Fleet said he could have crushed Chinese armies, Ridgway offered no comment in Paris, and the plan never reached the Joint Chiefs for decision. The Armed Services panel paused to digest testimony and consider further hearings.
In Schenectady New York police raided the Delores Restaurant at 3 30 am finding grounds for liquor license violations. Owner Clifford Perkins 41 and counterman Hugh Lewis 31 were booked after the raid. The house specialty coffee royal allegedly contained liquor.
An Argentine federal judge released five people arrested after last week's bombing at a pro Peron rally addressed by President Juan Peron. Among those freed was Stephen Jacyna, an American citizen, with the rest being Argentines.
Four month old Lewis R. Babylon suffocated in a Columbus house fire while under the care of his three year old brother Steven. The infant's parents were away shopping at the time.
Police officer Glenn Thompson spotted a pre dawn attempt to enter the home of Mrs. Harold Foster. A Chesapeake retriever used its teeth on the door knob. Thompson seized the dog and took it to the pound.
A 20 year old farm woman and her 2 year old son were in critical condition after her husband shot them and killed his oldest daughter and another son before shooting himself. George Neisner age 23 carried out the killings on a farm 12 miles east of TIFFIN.
A 17 car Atlantic Coast Line streamliner from Miami to New York derailed near Dillon South Carolina injuring 125 or more and killing at least five. Rescue crews battled fires and a mass of twisted railcars as doctors treated victims on site and ambulances ferried the injured to multiple hospitals.
A Western Air Lines DC-6B with 15 aboard crashed into San Francisco Bay minutes after unloading 44 passengers at the city airport. Two survived, four were killed, four missing. The night disaster occurred on a 10 mile hop from San Francisco to Oakland. Cause unknown.
Frank S. Monnett, former Ohio attorney general famed for anti monopoly actions against oil companies, died at his Columbus home at age 96. He was the oldest practicing attorney in Franklin County, possibly the nation.
Washington AP reports Attorney General Brownell filed a civil anti trust suit in federal court charging five major oil companies with participating in an international cartel. The action replaces the criminal anti trust inquiry opened by former AG McGranery before a local grand jury last fall.
Hershel Young, 46, was convicted in Washington on charges of perjury for swearing to a 1951 grand jury that he never represented RFC loan seekers. He is the older brother of E Merl Young, a central figure in an RFC influence case who was convicted of perjury March 321.
Panmunjom Korea AP reports one of the Americans freed by the Communists is likely Pfc. Fon Mitchell 22 of Roderfield West Virginia. Mitchell was captured December 1 1950 and served as Maj. Gen. William F. Deans orderly in a Pyongyang prison camp.
Washington reports three firms Western Union Telegraph RCA Communications and American Cable and Radio Corp explore a possible merger. Former Senate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland filed with the secretary of the Senate detailing his employment at 2500 dollars a month plus 1000 dollars monthly expenses to study the merger and related legislation.
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