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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1954
Page
1
Tokyo sources report a real but waning danger of World War III in the Pacific last weeks. Russian forces linger ready for a possible strike on Japan while U.S. and Allied redeployments are considered amid hopes that spring thaws limit rapid movement.
President Eisenhower said he is completely opposed to admitting Red China to the United Nations under present conditions but avoided calling for U.S. withdrawal. He warned that a strike at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky would be serious and embarrassing, yet expressed hope workers return after his emergency fact finding board action. He praised Congress for a flexible price support farm bill and defended CIA head Allen Dulles while noting ongoing scrutiny by the executive branch. The speech touched on S senador McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration in the agency.
Coroner's jury investigates the death of Montgomery Ward Thorne a 20 year old heir to a multimillion dollar mail order fortune Dr Harry Leon pathologist testifying suggested poisoning as a possible cause He cited trace barbiturate and dicating alcohols in Thorne's brain while noting alcohol could have dissipated before autopsy The inquest also questions Thorne family ties his living arrangements and his will beneficiaries including fiancée Maureen Ragen
Senator Joseph McCarthy says he will provide information about the Central Intelligence Agency to a Hoover Commission task force led by General Mark Clark. He says this does not close the broader Senate inquiry into CIA operations and maintains confidence in Clark, while denying a parallel probe is planned.
Ronald Merton Fuller, 45, died in a 55 foot shaft while searching for three chests of buried gold thought to be hidden by a Mexican bandit. His son in law and daughter, Jack Hooper and wife, vow to continue the hunt despite the fatal accident. Two sailors with him found the body as dynamite fumes caused a fall.
TOKYO The Army announced that adding another troop ship to the rest leave fleet will allow 600 more men from Korea to take weekly leave in Japan.
CIO workers at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky struck to press a 15 cent hourly raise for 4500 plant staff at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals. Production halted as officials note complex processes may take a year to resume. Eisenhower orders a fact finding board to probe the wage dispute.
In Sandusky Ohio two trustees from the field Reformatory escaped an honor camp but only one was captured. Charles Ryals 22 was shot in the head by Patrolman George Hess and died from his wounds. Robert Schultz 18 remains at large after the pursuit and escape in a car the men had stolen.
Judith Ann Roberts seven year old daughter of Baltimore attorney James Roberts was kidnapped from her grandparents home and found murdered on Bayshore Drive near Biscayne Bay. Police tracked a car to a wooded area where the body showed head trauma and possible strangulation. FBI aided the statewide search as investigators noted no ransom motive.
In Los Angeles a bench warrant was issued for singer Dick Haymes after his second ex wife Nora yng Fiynna Hay filed over $3,800 in alimony. A separate case shows $4,800 in arrears for ex wife Joanne Dra regarding their three children. Haymes was reported vacationing at Lake Tahoe with Rita Hayworth, his fourth wife.
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem declared he would not accept the south eastern Red River delta withdrawal as final and demanded reoccupation by Vietnamese forces. He warned against partition at the Geneva talks and noted Viet Minh occupation of the delta after French exit, while Geneva reports suggested a provisional 16th Parallel division with Hanoi and Haiphong retained by France.
Dispatches report a plane crash northwest of Kansas Citys business district. Five ambulances were sent to the scene as at least one house burned.
At Cleveland Hopkins Airport a 15 year old tried to hijack an American Airlines DC6 armed with a broken revolver. Pilot Capt. William Bonnell fired twice, wounding the boy who died hours later. Passengers, including women and children, were aboard the New York origin flight bound for Fort Worth and Mexico City.
Guatemala's five man junta ends state of siege once led by Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. It bars illiterates from voting and freezes assets of Arbenz and former officials, while continuing civil rights limits until Aug 8. Press censorship ends. curfew remains lifted.
A strong quake rattled Western Nevada injuring fourteen sailors at Fallon Naval Auxili, with aftershocks shaking downtown Fallon and Reno. Police reported six wounded severely and others with injuries as crews assessed damage and safety concerns in the region.
Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr trails in a crowded Democratic primary led by Roy Turner, forcing a runoff after returns show Kerr below 50 percent. Turnout includes martial law counties with no major violence reported and election irregularities under militia watch.
The Air Force says a daylight jet fighter, the Lockheed XF104, passed flight tests at Edwards AFB California. Reportedly capable of about 1500 miles per hour, the aircraft allegedly weighs about half of current jets while reaching twice their speed.
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