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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1949
Page
1
Reports from Nanking say South Yangtze valley ports and towns fell to the Red advance as communist forces pressed their offensive. The rapid captures marked another phase in the widening campaign across central China.
The Senate approved a sweeping housing package authorizing 810,000 public housing units over six years and a $275 million farm housing program. The vote stood 57 to 13, with debates marking a stormy session before it reached the House.
West Virginia police plan to charge 26 year old Orville Kittle of Greene County Pennsylvania with kidnapping two Weirton officers ten days ago. Kittle was arrested in Mapleton Pennsylvania on a car theft charge and is held for WV authorities. Investigators say the officers were overpowered and taken to Ohio where they were left handcuffed to a tree after questioning suspects in a Fol lawsbee bank robbery case.
Two inmates Leo Evins aged 19 from Stark County and Paul Van Bibber aged 23 of Columbus escaped from the Mansfield state reformatory in a guard's car. They fled yesterday from the reformatories barn where they worked, taking the vehicle owned by guard Arthur Garver while at large.
About 220 truck drivers parked along the Pennsylvania turnpike in a protest against the legislature's delay on a bill to raise allowable weight from 45 000 to 58 000 60 000 pounds. Police counted 40 stopped at New Stanton and 30 40 at Irwin Donegal and East McKeesport, with 100 more between Irwin and Donegal. Drivers, named but unnamed, said the parkdown began near midnight as action from the Senate stalled after the House passed the measure.
Finley Carey aged 20 a railroad worker died from injuries suffered earlier in the week when an automobile truck collision occurred near Sidney Ohio He succumbed yesterday in the aftermath of the accident and is survived by his family friends and fellow workers.
Washington AP reports expected March living cost rise reversing a five month decline. Food prices including fruits meats and vegetables and rents show upticks while other items hold steady. The consumer price index for mid March will compare current prices with 1935 39 baselines across 56 cities, with January at 169 percent of the prewar average.
President Truman urged Congress to enact compulsory medical insurance as part of a national health program. He called for government payment of medical bills from a funded tax source and sought federal aid for medical schools hospitals and disease control programs. He defended the plan against critics and stressed patient doctor freedom.
In Stockholm Paul Robeson sang a Russian anthem then its English verse to mixed reaction. Anti-Communists booed while pro-Communists cheered as the performer urged unity and peace with the Soviet Union. He linked his art to politics, citing Truman’s Florida vacation amid civil rights filibuster talk.
In Columbus Ohio the AP reports a 25 percent jump in unemployment compensation claims last month versus February reflecting a statewide rise in jobless claims.
Secretary Acheson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the first year program to arm North Atlantic nations totals about 1.13 billion dollars with another 320 million for Greece Turkey and possibly others. Senator Connally called the plan defensive and noted 400 million of the 1.45 billion program is in the President's budget leaving 1.05 billion outside it.
Government denied a 12.6 percent rent increase proposed by the local rental advisory board. Housing Expeditor Tighe Woods ruled the board failed to prove rents in Montgomery County declined before rent controls began in 1941. He noted rents actually rose in the year prior to the ceiling imposition.
President Truman announced a drive to recruit “iron men” to fill government roles at low pay as resignations from Royall and Atomic Energy commissioner Bacher highlighted turnover. He named David Bruce as ambassador to France and Alan Kirk as ambassador to Moscow, with Barry Bingham slated for an Economic Corporation post. Royall plans civil life, and no successor is named for the Army post.
In Columbus Ohio the proposed revision of the OSU student government constitution was defeated at the polls yesterday. The defeat ends the effort to reform the student government framework.
The Sunday Social Whirl returns with society notes on engagements weddings and art exhibits. A feature on Trenton High School’s new recreation class and a piece on local women forming the Pedagogue Quartet appear alongside a profile of Miss Alice Stoecklein secretary to Calvin W Verity of the First National Bank.
Indianapolis AP Clyde Milton Johnson labeled FBI public enemy No 1 was critically wounded on Monument Circle in a running gun battle with three FBI agents. Bullets hit two cars and the monument as Johnson was captured with his wife Billie Glaze Johnson arrested after the clash. Johnson faced charges for a Memphis bank robbery and a Miami jail escape.
The NLRB set aside Univis Lens Company decertification election at Dayton Ohio plant, finding management interfered with workers right to choose a bargaining representative. A new decertification election will be held when circumstances permit a free vote. the earlier vote 302 to 0 toppled Local 768 CIO. The case followed a plant strike with violence on the picket line and National Guard involvement.
The Rev. James Warren Leonard, 63, pastor of Union Avenue Christian Church in Litchfield, Illinois, died in east St. Louis Wednesday night from a heart attack.
AG Office reports garrison troops constructing a 35 mile wooden barrier around Shanghai. The fence uses driven poles to form a defensive perimeter as part of regional security measures.
Shanghai AP reports the British sloop Amethyst was struck again by Communist artillery as she moved toward Nanking on the Yangtze. Overall, 44 British sailors killed and at least 82 wounded across four warships. Amethyst crew including Captain Lt Cmdr B M Skinner among the dead.
Singapore AP report says a Sunderland flying boat was fired on by Communist shore batteries as it attempted to land on the Yangtze River to transfer supplies, the effort described as vain.
Atlanta police investigated the slaying of Met opera tenor John Garris 35 of Frankfurt am Main Germany found in a Can k alley. Investigators described a theatrical and deliberate killing with a steel jacketed bullet lodged in his spine and heart despite no theft motive. The case drew comments from Lt Coppen ger noting the crime’s artistry.
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