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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
1
Reports from La Paz say Bolivian army holds the Huanuni tin mine region after four days of deadly clashes. Militants seized mine officials, hostages taken including Americans, as 2,000 miners battled 200 troops. Government declares siege and mobilizes reserves amid threatened food shortages.
The House passed a veterans pension bill excluding World War II veterans from benefits and eliminated an unemployability provision after a 172 to 57 vote. Chairman Rankin aims to strip the unemployability standard, amid debate on costs and future Senate fate.
Beer halls in Tokyo opened today following a three year closure. Draught beer was offered in limited quantities to patrons amid the reopening.
Anthony Martino once listed as dead in 1944 hosts a tangled personal life with wife Mary and longtime mistress Dorothy while the Army investigates his unexplained return from Europe. The probe focuses on his alleged noncombat hospital visit and missing records after he walked into an Army station seeking records and a G I loan.
Security concerns prompted the joint chiefs to reject a proposed mock air duel between the BS 36 and the Navy Banshee jets. The plan, backed by Congress, was to showcase high altitude intercepts to resolve Navy Air Force claims. The decision follows a House Armed Services Committee inquiry into the B 36’s prominence and future.
A massive blaze at Searle Petroleum in Omaha began when an explosion rocked the plant and sent a large tank 50 feet into the air. Firemen fought to prevent spread as 500000 to 675000 gallons burned, drawing huge crowds to the scene.
Ironton Ohio AP W A Julian treasurer of the United States will be buried beside his wife here tomorrow. He was killed in an automobile accident last Sunday. His wife, a native of Ironton, died March 26.
Dr. Walter A. Hoyt Sr aged 63, a renowned orthopedic surgeon in Akron, died after a yearlong illness. A Grass Lake, Michigan native, he previously served on the State Welfare Department’s professional advisory committee.
Dr. Willie Melmoth Bomar, 54, a Glenwood home economics teacher, sits in the Georgia teacher retirement offices in Atlanta vowing to stay until paid $65.78 deducted from her pension fund for cancer treatment. She plans Mayo Clinic checks and has lived on sandwiches while awaiting payment.
Gerhart Eisler says he will sue to recover his $23,500 bail posted in the United States and plans to repay supporters if successful. He arrived in Prague via London on a route to Soviet occupied Germany and a professorship at Leipzig University, while awaiting word on a possible grounds for legal action against the arrest warrant.
Navy Chief Storekeeper William J. Kopytko flew from Guam to Los Angeles in emergency relief to visit his wife confined to an iron lung. She recognized him and smiled as tears filled her eyes in their first meeting in 16 months. He then met his nine month old son Rickey and reunited with daughter Sally Jo.
Western officials press for transit links between Berlin and West Germany amid talks with Russia. The Foreign Ministers Council rejects a Soviet bid to present a German People’s Congress delegation and eyes a four power framework to regulate commerce currency and transit between Berlin and western zones.
Senator Vandenberg urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to act quickly to approve the Atlantic Pact to bolster Secretary Acheson before the Paris conference. He said early committee action would aid the minister and that the full Senate debate timing remained uncertain amid Taft-Hartley repeal efforts.
Attorney General Tom Clark refused a Senate Judiciary subcommittee request to surrender secret files on 164 foreign officials calling the material extremely delicate. Chairman McCarran pressed for a disclosure of basic facts and warned the committee seeks evidence of Communist influence and infiltration in the past five years.
Evans Presly of Route 1 Westerville suffered a severe arm injury when a truck sideswiped his car on Route 57 twelve miles north of Newark. His left arm was reported almost severed and he was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus.
AP reports Hiss accused with wife of copying 65 secret State Department sheets from 1938. Prosecution cites hidden document. defense seeks dismissal. Coplon case draws denials from Ruth Gruber and Harold Ickes over FBI evidence linking them to espionage network.
A police car patrolling Euclid Avenue struck and killed Julia Hammond 42 near East 105th Street while she was en route to work. Patrolman Fred Cousino said she stepped into the path of the moving cruiser, which had its siren on.
Jasper Arkansas AP A bank president J W Moore 62 head Newton County Bank was shot in the abdomen and listed in serious condition at a Harrison hospital The assailant Albert Herman Mayer 34 was killed by return fire after exchanging shots with Sheriff Russell Burdine Mayer had sent letters alleging fraud and demanded ten thousand dollars authorities said He carried eight pounds of ammo when killed
Bernard J. Canniff 44 of Youngstown Ohio stands trial in federal court on a kidnapping charge. He allegedly abducted Ralph I Johns at gunpoint from Farrell Pennsylvania to Masury Ohio on March 16 and took $2500 in company funds.
Senator Hickenlooper demanded to see Atomic Energy Commission records on 14 agreements and security data as hearings opened. He questioned Lilienthal and sought documents on wartime and postwar atomic matters including Potsdam and Hyde Park memos, federal oversight, and FBI correspondence.
In Lancaster Ohio two officers were fired after filing extortion charges against Police Chief a Hutsler. Capt. L. F. Bauer and Lieutenants Everett J. Brown and Merill H. Martin were dismissed for gross neglect of duty and conduct subversive to discipline. Patrolman Lester Crook had 15 days after a 30 day suspension.
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