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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1959
Page
1
New York AP: informal government mediation proposes a union steel settlement with substantial welfare benefits and a modest wage increase. Four-man teams resume talks as a May 13 contract expiry nears. a strike by 500,000 union members could follow if no deal is reached.
Tokyo dispatch reports a massive flood in Kwangtun and Kwangsi provinces as millions race to shore up dikes. Peiping radio warned of peak levels along the Pearl River delta late Tuesday into Wednesday while 12 inches of rain in Kwangsi from June 15 to 21 damaged 250000 acres. Hardest hit are Yungning Nanning and Wuchow as manpower is mobilized to evacuate residents and save crops.
Hollywood pays final homage to Ethel Barrymore, 79, who died of a heart ailment Thursday. Requiem Mass at Church of the Good Shepherd Beverly Hills. She will be buried beside brothers John and Lionel at Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers include Cot ten, Kelly, McCarthy, Swope Jr., Brackett, Dunne and Dr. Barton. about 300 mourners attended Rosary. Representing the movie colony were Spencer Tracy Ina Claire Blanche Ring Kelly and Cotten.
Cincinnati courtroom proceedings begin the final phase of the case against Edythe Klumpp 41 a part time sewing teacher charged with first degree murder for the death of Louise Bergen. Prosecutor Hover plans to finish the state case Tuesday and may call rebuttal witnesses. Evidence includes a gasoline receipt and the burned body found on Lake Cowan shore. The defense contends self defense and a struggle for the gun in Klumpp’s car the gun owned by William Bergen estranged husband of the victim.
Police pursued James F Hecker 23 and Joseph S Hecker 17 of Webster Groves after a bombing at the St Louis Arena. Gerald Hecker 20 was arrested, two others escaped when a bomb was tossed during a watchman call. Bombs dynamite fuse caps and tools found. entry gained by roof hole. coin boxes broken. Mrs Dorsey Hecker urged surrender on radio.
In Cincinnati the badly decomposed body recovered Saturday from the Big Miami River near the city is believed to be a male flood victim from January. The remains, described as skeletal with clothes, were identified by 12 year old Jarvis Cooper as being in five feet of water.
In Tallahassee Florida four white youths convicted of raping a Negro coed received life imprisonment from Circuit Judge W May Walker. The life term follows a verdict of guilty with a mercy recommendation, avoiding the electric chair. The defendants were William Ted Collingsworth David Ervin Beagles Patrick Gene Scarborough and Ollie Stoutamire. The judge noted the offense was serious and horrible, expressing sympathy for the prosecutrix and noting the jury’s mercy recommendation.
Baton Rouge faces uncertainty as Governor Earl K Long, recently committed to Southeast Louisiana Hospital for paranoid schizophrenia, undergoes observation. Questions loom on his legal sanity, potential release, and who will lead the state as doctors assess his condition and possible legal moves.
Arthur Godfrey plans a one hour TV special to mark his return after lung cancer surgery on April 30. The program is scheduled for September 16 from 1 to 11 p.m. EDT and the format has not yet been disclosed.
Greta Thyssen, 27, and actor George R. Starr, 26, married on Sunday in Montauk New York. It is Thyssen’s third marriage and Starr’s second.
Washington AP Democratic National Chairman Paul M Butler calls for safeguards in any bill exempting news broadcasts from equal time rules He favors revising the law to spur more political news on radio and TV while guaranteeing equal time on political newscasts for major party candidates and stresses the term major.
The ACLU, after seven years, endorses a bill to protect democratic practices in unions, citing that self-regulation often fails to secure workers rights to free speech press and assembly. It supports limited government intervention as a necessary but restricted measure.
Congress faces a frantic end-of-June push to pass multiple big money bills before July 1. The House has acted on most annual appropriations while the Senate lags. Key issues include foreign aid, anti racketeering labor laws, civil rights, and federal education aid. President Eisenhower’s limited ability to push spending and tax changes amid slim Republican majorities heightens political maneuvering.
Walter Williams, last survivor of the Civil War, rests in an oxygen tent with pneumonia. Dr. Russell Wolfe reports little to no change, noting a slight temperature drop and good pulse. The 116-year-old receives milk and egg drink as congestion persists. His radio was removed by his daughter to aid rest.
A light humorous line notes that the recipe for success resembles that for a nervous breakdown, highlighting the shared pressures and pitfalls of modern achievement in a witty aside.
Former Yale football star Joseph P. Crowley walks free from Tokyo District Court after a verdict acquitting him of beating his brother-in-law to death in the Imperial Hotel suite last year. Prosecution can appeal within 14 days. judges found lack of proof. Crowley, 49, of New Haven and T. A. D. Jones Co. executives, had been in Japan to discuss oil tanker prospects.
Walter Robertson, retiring assistant secretary of state for the Far East, told Congress that unrest in Red China is at an all time peak and could toppling Peiping’s regime only if the army rebels. He added it is not visionary to hope the army might join the people. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released censored testimony from closed sessions about nearly four billion dollars in foreign aid for next year.
Thunderstorms spread from Texas and Oklahoma northward through the central plains into the upper Midwest with showers across the Rockies and central plateau. A damaging windstorm hit Walcott Iowa tearing a roof from a cooperative elevator and felling trees and a barn. A second belt of showers stretched from central New York to northern West Virginia and along the Florida east coast.
Hollywood AP reports Edie Adams mother of a 7 pound 7 ounce girl born Saturday night. Comedian Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams are parents for the first time. mother and baby are reported healthy and fine.
The article notes that A D Jones Jr who died is the son of T A D Jones Sr a native of Excello and an official of Harding Jones Paper Co. The deceased was a nephew of Tom and Clarence Jones of Middletown, also officials of the company.
The court upheld defense claims that Jones died from bruises and injuries after stumbling and falling in his hotel suite while drunk. An autopsy had cited cerebral hemorrhage. Crowley, unmoved, said his innocence would be proven. He faces 2 to 15 years for bodily injury resulting in death, prosecution sought four. The verdict was telephoned to Crowley’s wife. today would have been their 26th anniversary. Crowley plans to return to the United States to see his family after 21 days in jail prior to indictment. He has been free on $833.33 bail.
Secretary of State Herter briefed President Eisenhower on the Geneva foreign ministers talks, calling the six week effort to reach a Berlin settlement futile. He outlined plans to address the nation on the failed talks, reiterated Western resolve to defend West Berlin, and said no summit with Khrushchev is currently planned.
Five climbers, including 16 year old David Draper of Vancouver Washington, were swept into a 30 foot crevasse on Mt Hood after ice and snow loosened by sun broke away. Draper died in a Portland hospital eight hours later. The party of 48 climbers included two adults among the roped group. four others were seriously injured.
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