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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1949
Page
1
The House trimmed the bill to Senate size reducing public housing units from 1 050 000 to 810 000 and subsidies from 400 million to 308 million dollars. Republicans push limits on costs while administration allies defend the plan.
Nationalist planes bombed the crowded Chapei district of Shanghai at noon. At least two Liberator planes targeted the north railroad station and Markham Road rail yards, causing possible heavy casualties. Ambulances ferried victims as authorities cordoned off several blocks and monitored the area.
In Bowling Green Ohio two truck drivers died when their vehicles collided head-on and gasoline tanks exploded. Ray Hentges 35 of FindlayOhio driving for Square Deal Cartage Company Toledo and Noah Moore 36 of Knightstown Ind. died in the crash. Two other drivers Russell Dolbey 41 of Detroit and James Kerr 37 of Greenville Ind suffered severe burns while attempting rescues. Hentges apparently fell asleep at the wheel causing the fatal crash.
Washington AP says a congressional inquiry into Alabama night rider violence began with a modest civil rights focus. Rep Byrne chairing, three Alabama newspaper witnesses heard, with future calls possible. Battle criticizes the move as superficial political intervention by Congress.
Priscilla Hiss returns to the stand to defend her husband Alger Hiss and to shield her own name. She denies social ties with the Chambers and disputed their testimony about alleged visits and shared moments, insisting no Delaware cottage visit or park meetings occurred.
Soviet guards halted a west German convoy at the Dreilinden checkpoint near Berlin claiming cargo papers were insufficient. U S and British officials protested, saying the trucks and parts were legally consigned and demanded a release as four power talks pressed a live and let live policy.
George Lloyd Weber aged 13 drowned yesterday while swimming with two companions in the Shade River near Chester Ohio. Officials investigated but no details of rescue reported.
AFL urged Senate to defeat the administration labor bill after it gained national emergency injunction powers under Taft Hartley. CIO leaders criticized the move and said Taft Hartley would stay in force at least until after the 1950 elections. Arthur Goldberg, CIO counsel, warned the act remaining through next year. Green of the AFL called the amendments useless and said the union would push to end the Senate debate.
A car explosion shattered a parked 1948 sedan outside the Sovereign Hotel in Cleveland, scattering debris over 500 yards. No injuries reported. Police sought motive and suspects. two Newark men, Herbert Taina and Jerome Friedman, were associated with the car and had been inside the hotel during the blast. A cabbie said two men in a grey sedan fled the scene after the explosion.
Senator Taft led a 50 to 40 Senate passage of the Taft-Hartley strike injunction plan with 32 of 41 Republicans backing him and 17 Democrats joining. The vote followed earlier opposition to the injunctions and saw some lawmakers switch sides, signaling Taft's effective coalition leadership amid debate over national emergency strikes.
Ohio House leaders move to vote on a bill to grant an annual pay raise totaling 5 million dollars for about 35 000 state employees not funded in the two year budget. Finance Director Defenbacher questions funding sources while the Salary Study Commission backs the increases and Civil Service classifications would be cut. Gov Lausche hopes raises align with cost of living within available funds.
Democratic Senator Robert Wagner resigns after 23 years in the U S Senate, citing it is his turn to step down. Gov. Thomas E Dewey faces interim appointment as the party braces for November elections. Wagner, a Roosevel ty ally, led landmark labor and social welfare measures and served since 1926.
Dr. George E. Black Sr., 62, an Akron eye nose and throat specialist, died at his home in Cuyahoga Falls yesterday. He practiced in Akron and was a prominent local physician. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
Federal judge Albert L. Reeves instructs a jury of eight women and four men as they begin deliberations in the Judith Coplon espionage case. The defense motion for a mistrial over prosecutor Kelley’s closing argument is denied.
A Cleveland man Henry Vaczure, 22, was shot on a sidewalk watched by about 22 people from a nearby bus. He died six hours later after being taken to City Point. Police said two youths surrendered and admitted the shooting, part of a feud between neighborhood gangs.
Government revenue for the 1949 fiscal year is expected to fall about a billion dollars below the January forecast, marking a five year low as factors include the 1948 income tax cut and postwar layoffs. Withholding and personal income taxes drop while sales taxes run slightly above last year, and corporate taxes recover only slowly in the peacetime economy.
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