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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1958
Page
1
Beir ut AP Nuri Said a pro Western Iraqi strong man escaped rebel capture as Baghdad radio said the army rallied to Brig Gen Abdel Karim Kassem. Western diplomats warned of possible danger as rebels held Baghdad and Nuri Said’s fate remained unclear.
Bernard Goldfine's lawyers urge the House subcommittee to end hearings and take the dispute over his refusal to answer 23 financial questions to a judge. The move comes as Goldfine faces contempt threats while denying favors to regulator aides allied with Sherman Adams.
Cuban rebels still held two U.S. sailors and Marines at Guantanamo Bay with helicopters planned to lift them to a point in eastern Cuba where they were to be released. U.S. Consul Park Wollam expressed confidence that some or all could be freed soon and returned to base.
A Navy spokesman said foul weather apparently kept rebels from gathering captives from scattered mountain camps.
A Polish seaman leaped from a Soviet trawler and fought to swim to safety as the Rosemary trawler cut off his escape four miles off Scotland. He was dragged back aboard and hustled below deck as the pursuit ended. In a separate incident, an Estonian fisherman fled from a Soviet trawler, landed in Shetland, and sought political asylum after a seaside chase.
Cincinnati AP reports that the Ohio Blue Laws face appeal in the Supreme Court focusing on religious bias and forced observance. The case argues the laws favor certain religions and restrict the rights of individuals statewide.
About 1,000 members of the Transport Workers Union struck Pan American Airways at the Air Force Missile Test Center in Cape Canaveral Florida. The walkout began at midnight over wage disputes and the death of a mechanic who fell from an Atlas range. The union demanded the dismissal of Dr L B La Recke and supervisor Glen Rutter over the incident. Pan American disagreed, and Richard Mitchell denied any plan to fire them.
In Jonesboro Arkansas a sewer excavation wall failed killing foreman James Kegley and workers Charlies Key Rose Barnhill and Willie Brown provided differing accounts of the disaster. Rescue teams found Kegley and Barnhill trapped after the cave in as Brown recounted actions to save his colleagues.
Typhoon Winnie with 172 mile per hour winds bears down on Formosa causing fatalities in the Philippines. The storm is forecast to strike the island’s east coast then sweep across Taipei and into the Formosa Strait toward Red China.
American airline pilot Capt. John Hulburd said Basra's airport was calm after revolutionary forces seized it. He reported smooth takeovers, three machine guns around the craft, and no fear among passengers as two Iraqi citizens were removed before departure.
Two unidentified American businessmen were reported killed by mob action in Baghdad, Iraq, according to the State Department. The department also advised Americans against travel in the Middle East unless essential. Separately the Defense Department announced troop carrier planes moved from Donaldson Air Force Base to an undisclosed European destination.
Norman A Foose 47, a former mental patient, is charged with two counts of murder for the fatal shooting of 14 year old Eddie Cebada and his aunt Arlene Cebada, 12, in Cuba New Mexico. District Attorney Paul Robinson said Foose will likely be tried at the next term beginning August 25. Foose claimed the killings were to depopulate the world and showed no remorse while hospitalized with a bullet shattered foot.
Beirut AP The Baghdad coup harms the Hashemite family which has held four thrones since World War I. Faisal II in Iraq and Hussein in Jordan sit as two of the remaining heirs, with risks to Hussein’s throne as rebels seek to consolidate power. The lineage spans Mecca Damascus Amman and Baghdad with eight Hashemite kings before.
The United States sent over 5,000 Marines to Lebanon to safeguard Americans and bolster Lebanese sovereignty in response to an urgent request from President Chamoun. President Eisenhower announced the move as nonwarfare, aiming to deter indirect aggression while promising UN measures and possible withdrawal once security is ensured.
U S Marines landed near Beirut after a coup toppled Iraq's pro Western government. The 6th Fleet deployed as UN Security Council met in New York to address Middle East threats. President Eisenhower said troops protect American lives and uphold UN principles.
In a Vatican encyclical Pope Pius XII urges bishops to pray for peace and a return to Christian precepts as U S forces move toward the Middle East. The pope warns of possible universal extermination in the first encyclical over a year.
A young lawyer travels to New York to meet a client but forgets the name. He sends a wire asking for the client’s identity. The firm replies with a swap: the client is Smith, William A while his own name is Jones, John B.
Dayton police report a collision early today in Dayton Ohio between a motorcycle and a car killed 23 year old Richard M Levy III of Dayton. Investigators identified Levy as the rider and opened inquiry into the crash circumstances.
United States and Soviet Union clash at the Security Council over U.S. forces in the Middle East aimed at the United Arab Republic. Ambassador Lodge calls for urgent U.N. action while Sobolev demands withdrawal of American troops as tensions rise in Lebanon and Iraq.
American and NATO sources deny Cairo reports that U S and Turkish air borne forces will land in Jordan with no plans to send troops elsewhere, including Lebanon.
Washington reports the United States rejected a Soviet bid for long term credits to expand trade. President Eisenhower said such a move would raise legal and political questions. He noted East West trade could grow if Soviet trade bodies used regular credit terms, while Khrushchev’s June 2 letter urged the credits as a path out of recession. Eisenhower indicated friendly aims for broader commerce within conditions.
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