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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1953
Page
1
Communist infantrymen launched near 1500 men in heavy dawn attacks along the Korean Front. In the East, battles raged for hours as 213 of 900 attackers reportedly fell. Allied air power hit Sinanju rail yards with 10000 tons of explosives.
U S Marines launched an independent inquiry into a strafing and bombing raid on the Korean Front that killed 14 American soldiers and wounded nine. An Air Force report pointed to Panther jets. investigators questioned witnesses and inspected damage eight miles behind the front.
Justice William O. Douglas urged full U.S. backing for workable land reform in Iran in a CBS interview. He argued Iran was ripe for Communist exploitation but Premier Mossadegh had checkmated them and should receive U.S. aid. He proposed a World Bank loan to settle British investments and U.S. technical help to restart oil production without political interference.
Tokyo reports the first batch of 68 U. S. Navy vessels to be handed to Japan at Yokosuka. The transfer includes six frigates and four large landing ships in the initial group, with 18 frigates and 50 landing vessels total to be loaned for five years without charge under a 1949 act. Prime Minister Yoshida had urged more ships to guard Japan’s long coastline.
A Sunday fire destroyed a two story farm home in Erie causing the death of George Thompson 23 his wife Alice 22 and their children Rita 5 Martha 4 Charles 2 and Charlene 4 months Five other residents on the first floor escaped as investigators suspect an old oil stove in a heated child’s bedroom exploded in the basement Fire Marshal Stanley Szymanowicz noted the blaze as the likely cause
Senator Taft plans a switch from the Senate Finance Committee to the Foreign Relations Committee under Eisenhower. He aims to influence policy by gaining first hand reports from Secretary of State Dulles and to sit in on legislative program formation. Taft expects support from Republicans Langer Knowland Wiley and others.
Imroze reports communist chief Aziz Ahmed Khan captured in a police dragnet after four days of deadly riots in Karachi. City officials had blamed Communists for student disturbances and announced arrests of many "bad characters." Curfew remains 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. with quiet conditions today.
Clifford Mudd, a young man, plans a five day 270 mile roller skate trip to Rita Warner in Brighton to propose. Rita Warner, 18, replies she is too young to marry and wants to see more of life.
Pope Pius XII named 24 new cardinals in a secret consistory in the Vatican Consistorial Hall. The group includes James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles, Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac of Zagreb, and Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski of Poland, expanding the college to 70 cardinals for the first time in nearly two centuries. The selection broadens church representation to 27 nations, with several notices pending to nuncios in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Spain’s Franco regime.
Rome reports James Francis Cardinal McIntyre is named the first prince of the church from the Far Western United States. He received the papal biglietto at 10 40 a m local time and thanked the Vatican with reverence. McIntyre spoke to clergy and friends in Rome and California Catholics praised the honor for their faith and archdiocese.
President elect Eisenhower meets his full Cabinet for the first time to discuss global and domestic policy and to confer with GOP Senate leaders on patronage. Key appointees and aides join the sessions as Senate leaders push for consultation rules on appointments. Jan 20 inauguration looms as officials review who controls state by state appointments.
A seven member advisory panel led by Harold S. Vance filed a proposal with the Office of Defense Mobilization outlining a sympathetic presidential reception. The plan calls for new laws funds and executive action to keep production facilities ready rather than stockpiling weapons. The committee estimates half a billion dollars annually for 10 years could avert bottlenecks and save lives by ensuring a steady flow of modern arms.
The Senate internal security subcommittee urged further probes into Communist influence in education. It reported evidence of many teachers who are Communists across colleges, high schools, and elementary schools, and urged state legislatures to form local probes.
An Air Force B26 on a routine Washington to Dallas flight crashed near Charlottesville Virginia in fog and rain. Searches found body parts indicating all three crewmen died. Pilot Capt. Charles Herring 31 of Falls Church VA S Sgt James R Quaintance 23 of Washington DC and Reading PA and Navy civilian Michael C Jenkins of Indianhead MD were identified as the crew.
Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche will be inaugurated for a fourth term in the Statehouse rotunda with Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt administering the oath. Lausche will deliver the State of the State at 8 p.m. in a joint session of the Legislature, followed by an inaugural ball at 19:00. Five Republican state officials will take oaths at 9 a.m. in the rotunda, then Lt. Gov. John W. Brown will be sworn in as presiding officer at 1:30 p.m. A luncheon will be held at noon hosted by the Buckeye Republican Club.
New York's Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman arrived in Rome to attend the consistory elevating 24 clerics to the College of Cardinals. He had spent Christmas in Korea with United Nations troops on the war front before traveling to Rome.
Washington drafts from the new Republican leadership push for fewer Senate sessions five hours daily and longer committee work. A GOP senator notes plans to avoid quorum calls and encourage printed remarks in the Congressional Record to shorten floor time.
Redondo Beach mayor Dr. J Russell Shea says the sea caused about 15 million dollars in damage and requests Governor Earl Warren to declare a disaster. More than 20 families are homeless as streets, utilities, and the breakwater suffer, with the sea wall reinforced after twin breaches.
Arkansas authorities hold James W Head charged with first degree murder in the death of his foster daughter. Head, arrested in Concordia Kansas, was being held in an undisclosed Arkansas location after being returned from Kansas Sunday. Prosecutor J B Reed of Lonoke filed charges against Head and his wife Linda.
President Truman ordered dropping criminal anti monopoly proceedings against five major oil companies if they provide records for a civil suit. He cited factors from the ongoing grand jury probe into their international activities. In Washington Eisenhower named James Bryant Conant of Harvard as U S high commissioner for Germany.
A 90 gallon fuel tank exploded on a large trailer truck after a fire pumper arrived to fight a blaze. Flaming gasoline scorched nine firefighters. two in critical condition at General Hospital, seven others listed as fair.
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