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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1951
Page
1
The Kansas City area braces for a massive cleanup as Missouri and Kansas floodwaters recede. Damage to Kansas and Missouri reaches 750 million dollars with widespread industrial disruption and flooded towns along the Missouri River.
Senator McClellan defended flood control projects against critics who call them pork. He argued $300 million for reservoirs could have prevented flood losses, with estimates of damage now at least $750 million and potentially higher per Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Army Engineers chief.
Central Missouri dikes broke as Wichita and Neosho floods overflowed into Oklahoma. Miami Oklahoma endures its worst flood on record with 130 to 150 blocks inundated. The disaster has claimed 17 lives and disrupted highway and rail traffic, displacing more than 70,000 residents.
About 35 000 Western Union employees voted to accept a company offer of a 17 cent an hour raise. The vote follows a planned July 2 strike called off to consider the proposal. Messengers and adult staff would see phased increases pending Wage Stabilization Board approval. The boost is projected to cost the firm roughly 12.5 million dollars annually.
Senate investigators heard of possible racketeers linked to nickel supply as Marshall C. Thomas of Norwalk testified in Detroit. Moody pressed Thomas after a claim that racketeers offered large quantities of nickel at high prices, with Thomas admitting nickel anodes sale at 0 50 per unit while denying a racket.
In Washington, Administration allies in the House defend a 10 percent beef price rollback as key to stabilizing prices. The fight centers on broader rollback limits and bans on future reductions across all sectors, with debate spanning into the next day and varied congressional proposals from the Banking Committee and Farm groups.
Iran's Parliament adjourned amid shouting after a deputy charged Interior Minister Zahedi with plotting Sunday riots to topple Premier Mossadegh. Harriman, Mossadegh seek solution to oil nationalization as death toll estimates range from 12 to 25. Martial law restricts gatherings after clashes between Mossadegh supporters and a Communist mob.
Gov. Lausche will ask trustees to probe complaints over Columbia University educator Dr Harold Rugg visit to Ohio State University. Senate subcommittee to investigate. trustees plan September discussion. newspapers criticize the event.
William H. Balgarnie, the real life model behind James Hilton's Goodbye Mr Chips, has died at his Portmadoc home at age 82. He was a senior classical master at Leys School Cambridge where Hilton was a pupil.
Donald Otto age 22 and Kathleen Otto age 20 bought a new baby buggy and showed it to their 18 day old daughter Mary Jean in Cleveland. When Mary Jean was lifted from the crib she was found dead. Grandmother Eleanor Langwald 53 had placed the child to bed 20 minutes earlier in apparently good health. Cause of death not yet determined.
The Senate Crime Committee plans to wrap up its underworld probe within a month after public hearings in New York City. The hearings will cover dope traffic waterfront rackets gambling and political tip ups with meetings planned in Atlantic City and northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. The panel aims to finish investigations by mid August and prepare a final report with no witnesses subpoenaed after August 15.
The House Public Works Committee voted 14 to 13 to defeat a motion to table the seaway and power project bill. Rep Dondero said a final vote could come at tomorrow’s meeting as Secrest’s replacement Machrowicz joins the committee. Opponents fear delay and packing the panel with new supporters.
Thirteen indicted Communist leaders were ordered jailed again after failing to post court approved bail. Judge Alexander Holtzoff ruled on Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s bail and allowed Grace Hutchins to post on her behalf. The Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund had been disqualified by Judge Sylvester Ryan. The fund had posted $260,000 for 11 leaders and $80,000 was forfeited when four did not surrender to begin term.
President Einaudi began talks to broaden Italy’s anti-Communist government. Premier De Gasperi, who quit with his cabinet, likely will be named to head a reshuffled regime.
President Truman sent the nomination of Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, director of the CIA, to the Senate for four-star rank as he prepared to depart for a flight over the flooded Midwest.
About 5000 attendees at the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf convention in Chicago heard Dr. Daniel T. Cloud of the Illinois School for the Deaf deliver the opening address in sign language. The event included a dance where many members could not hear the music and relied on a band with an unusual rhythm section.
The sixth Kaesong cease fire talks extend to Wednesday with Allied and UN delegates, led by Nam Hi and Joy, reporting progress as translators smooth misunderstandings. A new Red point was raised, though details were not disclosed, and few Red guards were seen near the meeting site.
An 18 year old North Korean sergeant Miss Pak, a Red Cross reception worker in Kaesong, tells UN reporters there are many American prisoners in Pyongyang. She spoke English and Japanese, expressed desire for peace, and said a unified Korea with United Nations forces leaving postwar is possible.
Five convicts stirred in solitary cells as officials probed a failed escape from Colorado State Prison. Two guards were wounded lightly in the riot that broke out yesterday when five inmates armed with knives and a revolver tried to free 10 isolated prisoners. Guards trapped the attackers in a cellhouse and repelled the assault with tear gas.
Washington AP reports the government lifts a three month ban on spare tires for new autos. The ban, imposed in April to save rubber for trucks tractors and farm equipment, ends effective today with the production cap reduced to four tires per vehicle.
President Truman signed a bill making the U.S. Secret Service a permanent, regular government bureau after six years of status as a special agency. The move elevates protection duties for the president and top officials as part of the federal bureaucracy.
Alfred Kohlberg claims U S ambassador Jessup and Russian Gromyko reached a Korea cease fire agreement in Paris earlier this year. He accuses the State Department of risking cease-fire talks and warns of Communist takeover as he cites alleged links between U S operations research and Johns Hopkins Page School of International Studies.
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