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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1949
Page
1
The government announced a cease fire demand for both Nationalist and Communist forces in the three year civil war and urged immediate peace talks. The Executive Yuan said it would appoint delegates to start negotiations, though Legislative Yuan approval is required for the proposals.
In Cleveland a Common Pleas Court jury convicted Theodore E. Weil 23 and Thomas L. Murray 19 of attacking a police sergeant's 24 year old daughter in a gully last August 21. Forrest G. Johnson 22 was acquitted. All three were acquitted of kidnapping. The judge ordered jail delays and planned to discuss appeal bonds. Convicted defendants face three to 20 years in prison.
In Hamilton Bermuda AP reports eighty planes and many U S warships including two carriers and the battleship Missouri scouring 177000 square miles of Atlantic for the four engine Tudor Ariel airliner missing since Monday with 20 aboard on a Bermuda Kingston Jamaica run.
Frank Yearout and Paul Norton, both sought fugitives from Marysville Tennessee, were captured in Troy after police spotted them burglarizing a garage. Sheriff Seifried and a deputy made the arrest.
In a 47 to 44 Senate vote Republicans aided by six Southern Democrats defeated a bill to exempt inaugural parade and ball tickets from excise taxes. The surprise outcome signals a potential GOP-Dixie coalition near the Truman administration, though administration Democrats dispute a lasting realignment.
The Midlands faced a severe snowstorm followed by bitter cold. Kansas City area bore the hardest hit with eight inches of snow recorded by the Weather Bureau. Schools in Kansas City Kansas and neighboring areas were disrupted by the storm.
A rain and windstorm struck Findlay last night with Findlay Airport employees reporting 80 mph winds. Several trees were blown down and electric and telephone lines in scattered sections were reported down. Two light private planes at the airport were damaged.
A major winter storm cripples roads in northwest and central Missouri while hotels fill with stormbound travelers. Flights, buses, and trains face delays. numerous towns lose telephone service and power as ice and freezing rain snap lines and branches. Hospitals brace for injuries from slick streets as temperatures plunge across the central plains.
Thousands pour into Washington in holiday mood for Harry S. Truman's inauguration. Estimates put attendance between 500000 and 750000 as Dewey offers goodwill while Congress blocks a tax waiver. Truman signs a Thursday Friday federal holiday for Washington area workers.
President Truman arrived in Washington amid inaugural events and music promising world peace and a Fair Deal. He urged Democratic lawmakers to cooperate in Congress, saying he believed they would. The remarks followed a Truman-Barkley Club dinner attended by supporters.
A 15 year old, Eugene Newsom, a high school junior, confronted a masked bandit in a Detroit drug store. The clerk and proprietor were forced to the back as the thief took 135 dollars. The youth fired five shots. the robber shot twice and fled wounded.
NLRB examiner William R. Ringer ruled the union shop provision in the John L. Lewis United Mine Workers contract with soft coal operators illegal. The July 1 one year pact faced challenge from U. S. Steel and other steel interests relying on captive coal for their mills. The Taft Hartley Act requires a majority vote to approve union shop agreements. The ruling is subject to review by the full National Labor Relations Board if appealed.
Undersecretary of State Lovett said the United States wants to see concrete actions behind Communist leaders’ calls for better relations with the West. He emphasized deeds over words and urged the Soviets and their allies to demonstrate a real peace offensive.
Authorities marked time in the Baker case awaiting FBI analysis of evidence from the fatal pistol wound and the jeep crash on a plantation road. Sheriff Stoutamire and State Attorney Hopkins questioned accidental death or possible self harm while Thelma Griffin provided limited testimony.
Police and Hamilton County deputies raided a Woodlawn basement headquarters of a numbers racket arresting nine people. Authorities seized $1,000 cash, three adding machines, a typewriter and thousands of policy slips. Two suspects from Springfield were Mrs Leha Mohr 38 and Francis Duval 48. All held on $1,000 bonds for promoting a policy game.
In Waukesha Wisconsin the $88 500 in currency from a bank mail shipment was found under a culvert in Frame Park after an anonymous tip. Postal Inspector E J Holmes said the bag remained undisturbed and all money was usable. A caller said two boys reported finding the cash. Frame Park lies along the Fox River on the city’s western edge.
Ohio unemployment rose 10 percent in December according to the State Bureau of Unemployment. The report was released yesterday signaling tougher job markets across the state.
Ohio State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson says the bulk of 25.7 million dollars in uncollected state debts stems from poor collection efforts by attorneys general and local prosecutors. He notes 47 years of findings totaling 38.7 million with only 13 thousand collected and proposes authorizing his own collections using a dedicated legal staff.
In New York, the trial of 12 Communist leaders proceeds slowly with delays and defense challenges to juror selection. Judge Medina allows Foster to be tried separately due to health, while the 11 others proceed with the government case. Jurors were sent home to return next day.
Flames leaped from the Big Inch pipeline at Morris Indiana after a power failure triggered a gas fire. The 24 inch line was scorched while the 20 inch Little Inch line remained intact. Gas flow was shut at source and pumping stations closed to reduce pressure as engineers plan to reroute gas through older beeper lines. Two workers were burned slightly and damages are estimated without a firm total.
Ohio Supreme Court upholds the murder conviction of 15 year old John Harvey Haley for the 1945 Canton holdup slaying of shop keeper William Karau. Haley remains sentenced to life imprisonment. The court declined to consider claims of trial error or constitutional rights violations.
Columbus Ohio AP an 18 year old youth John R Britton admitted faking a murder confession to bolster his rep with an East side gang. Police say Britton was ruled out as a suspect in the March murder of Mrs Marcella Smilack and had been at Ft Jackson S C when the crime occurred. He remains jailed on assault to rob and attempted auto theft charges awaiting trial.
The Rev. Russell Eaton, 76, former president of Urbana Junior College, died yesterday in a local hospital. He served as pastor of the Wedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem.
Ten Coast Guardsmen died as the cutter Eastwind collided with the S S Gulf Stream in fog. The S S Suzanne and the S S Junior aided and rescued crew, with 17 survivors from the Eastwind tanker and 75 rescued from the cutter. Fire burned the Eastwind while the tanker suffered no reported casualties.
A 30 inch natural gas pipe break in Moreno prompted Riverside county police to urge about 250 residents to evacuate immediately. Fire units from Riverside Hemet and Paris rushed to the site as wind carried fumes toward March Airbase five miles away and a roaring blast could be heard from a mile and a half.
Park at Nick Nackes restaurant in You Can't Lose ARON, O. The meter spins a wheel when a dime is inserted and if it lands on a payoff, diners receive a free meal. Nackes aims to operate the meter year round to raise funds for polio victims and braces for patients.
President Truman wins confirmation for Dean Acheson as Secretary of State amid debate over a hard line against Soviet Communism. Senate vote was 83 to 6 with Republicans opposing only to challenge foreign policy direction. Acheson promised no appeasement and faces a bi partisan front in Congress.
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