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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1959
Page
4
Floyd Hyde, 29, a rubber plant worker, confessed to using a claw hammer and dumbbell to kill 32 year old Mrs. Nine Reese in a West Side Akron home. Reese’s mother, 73 year old Ann Myrtle Allbritten, was critically wounded in the attack.
The regional rebel leader in Macarasaida area eastern Algeria has surrendered. The French Army announced from Oran on Friday that Youssef Smail addressed a letter to his troops recalling Charles de Gaulle's offer of a peace of the brave to Algerian Nationalists.
Baton Rouge AP reports Governor Earl Long seeks release from a mental hospital. Attorney Theo Cangelosi to handle his case as Long plans a writ of habeas corpus. Long was confined after a court-ordered transfer from Ochsner and is described by Dr Chester Williams as suffering paranoid schizophrenia.
The New China News Agency says Hanoi will be transformed into a socialist center by 1961. The People's Council orders socialization across capitalist industry and commerce, agriculture in outlying districts, and handicrafts.
Medina Ohio AP two State Liquor Department agents Richard Manos of Canton and William C Power of Columbus face arrest warrants sworn Saturday for allegedly soliciting bribes. Enforcers from Canton HQ, they planned to suspend Monday. Patsy Ferrulli owner of Patsys Truck Stop in Litchfield alleges the agents asked for 200 dollars to ignore a pinball payout during a May 22 visit while investigating a whiskey sale without a license. Ferrulli had a 3.2 beer permit but surrendered it last week to avoid renewal.
Washington AP says paralytic polio cases run well ahead of 1958 figures. Last week 55 cases vs 25 in 1958 week and 36 in early June. The year since April 1 shows 265 paralytic cases through June 1, vs 128 previous year. Iowa led with nine cases, concentrated in Des Moines. second such cluster this year after a Missouri religious sect outbreak.
In Portsmouth Ohio Probate Judge C Kenneth Cranston banned women from wearing shorts when applying for marriage licenses calling marriage a sacred institution and requiring proper dress. He urged men to dress suitably as they visit the license bureau.
Senate rackets probes will question four Teamsters vice presidents and a union trustee, along with Teamsters President James R. Hoffa, at hearings starting Thursday in Washington. The probe, led by Sen John L. McClellan, accuses Hoffa of ties to gangsters and racketeers. vice presidents Harold Gibbons, John O Rourke, John T O'Brien, and Owen Brennan may testify after invoking the Fifth Amendment in prior refusals.
AP reports novelist James Jones after ten months in Europe says there is more sexual frustration in America. He cites Paris lovers who receive smiles rather than disapproval and contrasts European views of women with American attitudes. Jones notes intrinsic kindness and mentions historical English claims on Australia in 1770.
In Guttenberg New Jersey a 23 year old Navy air technician Jacob Browler was shot dead at his mother's home before his wedding. His bride to be Marianna Schabilon 21 watched in tears. Rival Robert Sharp 32 of Union City was charged with murder after firing an Army rifle four bullets two misfired. Sharp allegedly declared if he cannot marry her no one can. Browler's mother Sabina Glant 43 was critically wounded as she ran to defend her son.
Florida governor allowed a new act to become law that lets a pupil objecting to integration transfer to another school. If the local board refuses the transfer, the child cannot be compelled under compulsory attendance to attend racially mixed classes. The bill became law without the governor's signature.
In Cincinnati, the Klumpp murder trial moves slowly as prosecutors plan to call 10 to 12 more witnesses after questioning 23. The state aims to finish its case soon, with the defense arguing the burning of the body was not connected to Bergen's death. Key issues include the gun and gasoline used in the crime and whether premeditation is proven.
The Ohio Air National Guard's 121st Tactical Fighter Wing conducts a two day simulated combat exercise with FF Thunderstreak jets against imagined enemy positions in Indiana. Columbus Mansfield and Springfield air crews target the Atterbury Bombing Range in Indiana as war games begin today and run to late Sunday afternoon.
Hitoshi Ashida, 71, former prime minister and onetime Japan Times president, died Saturday of cancer in Tokyo. The report notes his long political career and leadership in media.
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