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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1953
Page
1
Signs of a quick truce appeared amid a Red offensive as staff officers worked on armistice details and a prisoner exchange. Allied and Red liaison officers met in secret. Lt Gen Maxwell D. Taylor warned readiness remains. South Korea opposes any truce while Christians in Seoul press for peace and justice.
Postmaster General Summerfield plans rate increases to erase a 594 million dollar postal deficit. Republican leaders said the plan aims to raise most rates, with a likely 3 to 4 cent rise for first class mail, pending a formal request to Congress this week.
French airman Roger Audouin plummeted from 5000 feet before a crowd of about 50 000 in Mannheim Germany last night. He was unable to open his parachute and died in the fall.
A mother robin and her four two week old chicks nest on the loudspeaker at the Vancouver barracks provost marshal’s office. The birds remain undisturbed by the daily 13 bugle calls echoed through the area.
Paris and Saigon report France may depose Norodom Sihanouk if he does not return from exile in Thailand. The 31 year old king fled with 27 in his auto entourage to Bangkok and transferred full power to Prime Minister Pen Nouth. French observers fear uprisings by ultranationalists and Vietminh forces. He expressed willingness to maintain friendship with France.
President Syngman Rhee cautioned local and foreign correspondents not to publish unfavourable accounts of the Republic of Korea. He urged reporters to verify violence claims and said such reports should be handled by the government. He did not name individuals.
Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk arrived in Bangkok seeking asylum and liberty from French rule. Cambodian legation spokesman Kreng-nill said the monarch fled to avoid anti-French revolution and would pursue peaceful resolution first as a crusade for independence.
The Cambodian king says negotiations stall on full inde pendence but hopes an agreement soon will allow return home. Paris deplores the exile as complicating a settlement amid fear of a Communist invasion. He asks for removal of mixed jurisdiction and direct control, total independence, the king as anti Vietminh commander, and denunciation of Indo China economic pacts.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford chairman designate of the U S Joint Chiefs of Staff left by plane for Pearl Harbor after visiting Korea last week where he met with President Syngman Rhee. He also called on Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa during the Pacific tour.
President Eisenhower told Dartmouth graduates not to hide ideas or suppress books in the fight against communism. He urged Americans to read all works and defend free inquiry, even when views differ, saying it is un-American to conceal thinking. He also toured storm damage and dedicated Roosevelt's home as a national shrine.
Thirty thousand Reds struck Allied lines across a wide front in a forceful push believed aimed at gains before an armistice. U S and South Korean units counterattacked the eastern flank while air bombardment pounded the 40 mile front. Casualties were heavy for the Reds with fierce fighting at Anchor Hill Christmas Hill and other positions as the front remained fluid.
Belgrade and Moscow move toward renewed liaison as Vasily Valkov, former Dutch envoy, is appointed to Belgrade. Tito warns the ambassador exchange does not equal normalization or trust, stressing Yugoslavia will not shift policy with the West.
New York hospital officials said Senator Robert A Taft was in good condition after entering for surgery and hip treatment The bulletin noted ongoing X ray work and no visitors allowed Tafts condition was described as good this morning by hospital staff
AP reports on a World Congress of Peace in Budapest where delegates labeled as peace partisans mix Communists and non communists. The article analyzes Soviet framing, Molotov and Malenkov quotes, and the aim of a temporary peace enabling Soviet expansion while opposing permanent peace with capitalist powers.
In Portsmouth harbor the queen presided as warships from Britain and 16 foreign navies fired 21 gun salutes to mark the coronation naval review off Spithead.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger urged a political amnesty for Americans who joined Communism before it was seen as a threat. The New York Times publisher spoke to John Carroll University graduates, suggesting a date back to the Berlin airlift in 1948 for clemency.
President Eisenhower seeks a one year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act with House approval likely. The main clash centers on expanding the Tariff Commission with Democrats fighting the change while Senate leaders doubt passage. The plan would create a 17 member study panel and extend commission membership, shifting control to Republicans temporarily.
North Korean forces on the Eastern Front post a sign declaring that Chinese and American troops will depart soon, urging an end to fighting and asserting that everything will be number one.
Army Chief Lt. Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ousted President Laureano Gomez in a coup. Both Conservative and Liberal leaders endorsed the takeover amid political chaos. Rojas Pinilla named a 13 member cabinet and vowed military rule until clean elections.
The Supreme Court refused to stay the Rosenbergs’ executions and to review their trial. Demonstrators surrounded the White House as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg face imminent death in Sing Sing, with potential clemency from President Eisenhower.
New York reports a 2 ½ year old boy named Marshal Harris survived a 13 story tumble after he fell from a bedroom window. He landed in bushes on freshly turned earth, aided by a seventh floor radio aerial, and was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical condition with a cautious chance of recovery.
A deadly stampede in Sao Paulo after a fire in a dry goods store killed around 70 people and left another 70 missing. Police reported a solid pile of bodies on the stairway with most deaths from suffocation rather than burns.
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