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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1953
Page
1
Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky denounced U S charges of Russian atrocities in Korea as a flagrant fabrication. He called Lodge’s United Nations presentation cynical cowardly and a maneuver to derail peace talks.
Vishinsky opened the session defending against American charges that 38 000 people were slaughtered by Communist Chinese and North Korean troops. The Soviet bloc seeks to block the motion with neutral nations abstaining, while India refuses to speak or vote as head of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission in Korea.
Allied interviewing teams open talks with 30 of 328 South Koreans held as war prisoners. After about 11 days of interviews, 22 Americans and 1 Briton may be offered freedom of choice. The UNC seeks voluntary return, while some prisoners remain staunch Communists.
The Air Force distributed a two lens stereoscopic camera to about 75 bases including Wright Patterson to photograph flying saucer reports. The device uses a refraction grading to split light into a spectrum on film, aiding identification of light sources.
In Detroit the heart specialist Dr. Edward D. Spalding 60 was shot dead outside his office by a former mental patient who aimed at another doctor. The killer John Sherback 51 carried a list of targets including health department staff and said he mistook Spalding for his intended victim Dr. William T. McAlonan.
Rep Will E Neal said two Atomic Energy Commission officials visiting southern Ohio Friday would not inspect possible sites for a new peacetime atomic plant. The telegram cited routine inspection and stated it does not involve site inspections for future facilities.
South Korea defense minister Sohn Won II announced that battle hardened ROK soldiers will join police to combat Communist guerrillas in the mountains. A police source said at least one ROF division will be deployed next week with about 800 guerrillas active.
In Kingman Arizona 27 leaders alleged of the Short Creek polygamy sect face sentencing for conspiracy after pleading guilty yesterday Four months earlier a police force enforced martial law at Short Creek on the Arizona Utah border rounding up the community’s men women and children.
Senator Welker charges that the Harry Dexter White case will lead to ongoing disclosures abused by Democrats. He targets Democratic leaders Mitchell and Fritchey amid criticism of Republican handling of White's Truman era promotion disclosures. He warns of further revelations to come.
The former Russian code clerk Gouzenko will refuse to be questioned by the Jenner subcommittee saying his testimony would harm U S and Canadian security and endanger his new life under an assumed name.
Welker arrived for Senate internal security hearings where a former White associate is to be questioned. He called Fritchey’s Sunday claim that Attorney General Brownell reopened the White case to divert attention from Justice Department issues the silliest statement he has heard in the Senate. Fritchey had accused Brownell of politicizing the FBI on an MBS radio broadcast.
New York City faced a news blackout as the Herald Tribune joined six major papers in suspension amid a photo engravers strike. Negotiations with AFL Photo Engravers Union and publishers resume under federal mediation as about 20 000 workers are idled.
Pvt William J. Eicher of McKeesport Pa stationed in Germany notified Army officers that a German girl named Margarete Pfeiffer attempted to pay him 238 dollars for military information. Pfeiffer is in custody at Nuremberg.
Secretary of State Dulles said Eisenhower and he will not abandon allied cooperation or blunt tactics. He rejected arrogant methods and warned that shared bases enable a credible nuclear peace. Dulles spoke with presidential backing after meeting with newsmen and noted Allied bases matter in deterring Russia.
A Zurich based poll by the International Press Institute shows 40 percent of American newspaper readers could not identify Georgi Malenkov as Soviet Russia premier a month after he took office. The study notes Americans read very little of foreign news and that 79 percent did not know NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In Washington unions and management officials agree opposition to wartime labor conscription. AFL President Meany says manufacturers and chambers of commerce support a no-compulsion stance, while government agencies reportedly still favor the idea. Defense Department reports ongoing debate.
CBS ABC and NBC refused requests from the Communist party and the Daily Worker for radio and television time to respond to Senator McCarthy. NBC said granting time would not serve the public interest.
Miami report claimed President Eisenhower urged Gen. James A. Van Fleet to run for Florida governor next year. Van Fleet said the idea was news to him and he has not discussed the subject with the President while on a speaking tour in Jackson, Mississippi.
An Athens report says a new earthquake shook Greece last night, collapsing 90 houses and damaging 300 more in the south central region. No casualties are mentioned, with the quake also felt along the west coast and in the Ionian Islands where last summer thousands were killed or left homeless by a prior disaster.
A 1952 AMA exhibit reports safety belts could save thousands of highway lives. In Indiana analysis 453 of 633 deaths might have been prevented by belts, with chest and neck injuries common. Troopers and police promote belts including 25 Indiana cars now equipped.
Longshoremen across a 15 block pier area refuse to work in protest of the Bio State Waterfront Commission law that licenses dock workers and seeks to purge corruption. Pickets appeared at each pier while some workers with valid cards honored the lines. The stoppage spreads to Brooklyn as the new era of regulation begins amid jurisdictional tensions between ILA and AFL unions.
Ex governor Kim Sigler and three companions died when his four place plane struck a guy wire near a television tower in dense fog and burned in a wooded area near Augusta Kalamazoo County. The 59 year old Republican had risen to power after a grand jury probe into graft.
G A Boger of Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers and Herman Aaberg of the American Farm Bureau urged phasing out price supports at the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Columbus. Boger called for reducing dairy supports from 90 to 75 percent and eventual abolition, citing declining milk consumption since 1945 and urging retail price cuts to halt the drop.
James Mason the British and Hollywood star will be the leading actor at Stratford Ont next summer in the second annual Shakespearian Festival officials announced last night.
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with a low around 32. Tomorrow shows increasing warmth and some rain. Five day Ohio outlook: temperatures 3-6 degrees above normal Wednesday to Sunday. lighter showers midweek. highs around 41 to 47 with variable nights. Local observations list highs and lows at 12 PM and 6 AM.
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