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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1952
Page
1
Denver AP report notes the Air Force orders reduce flying hours outside the Korean Theater due to an 80,000 refinery and pipeline workers strike. A two sentence Air Force statement says flying activity is curtailed to the minimum required for training and stock levels constrain operations.
In Panmunjom the 24 minute armistice session yielded no U N wide agreement and left analysts guessing if the Reds rejected an Allied package addressing prisoner exchange airfield rehab and truce supervision Russian participation. Joy signaled a recess and Nam Il led the discussion with little spoken by Joy. Communist reporters pledge Reds will not yield on forced repatriation while the U N calls for voluntary repatriation.
In Toledo area, CIO oil workers halted operations by a work stoppage, causing three refineries and five other oil installations to shut down today. The action underscores ongoing labor tensions affecting regional energy facilities.
The CIO AFL and independent unions began a strike cutting aviation fuel supply. Eighth Air Force curtailed bomber flights while training at Scott AFB was reduced. Oil refiners including Gulf Port Arthur and Shell Houston face curtailments in crude purchases and production by up to 60 percent in some areas. Wage talks linger as the OWIU seeks a 25 cent hourly rise and higher night differentials amid a broad supply squeeze.
Senate Agriculture Committee hearings probe a defense program cotton stockpile deal. Sen Ellender says to hand a transcript to Justice Department for inquiry while Sen Aiken withholds Senate floor revelations about two cabinet members, and Walker and Mansour face questions over secret codes and $37 million in cotton sales and Egyptian dealings.
Senators plan to cut one billion dollars from the 7.9 billion foreign aid request for the year ending June 30 1953 as Congress debates conditions. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill with detailed cuts but no new restrictions. The House Foreign Affairs Committee opened debate, considering amendments including tying aid to European unification progress.
Louisville bulletin reports the 78th Kentucky Derby field cut to 16 when Ben Jones scratched Top Blend, Calumet Farm stable mate of Hill Gail, from the favored stable.
BEL AIR Maryland a driver Panaski claims a monkey hopped through his car window while he headed toward the Susquehanna River for fishing. Troopers chased the animal for an hour before Panaski captured it and the SPCA took custody. The bizarre incident left officers puzzled about the monkey s origin and the nearby carnival theory.
Under sheriff Donald Midgett announced evidence suggests 4 year old Stephanie Margo Wendt is with her mother Margarita Sempe Wendt, daughter of Honduras Banco Atlantida president. Sheriff Sellmer called it likely a custody fight as two men and a woman abducted the child from Alto, California.
President Truman, at the National Civil Service League’s 70th anniversary, calls political gangsters worse than Communists for besmirching government workers to gain office. Republicans label the speech smear tactics while critics defend his bold anti corruption stance amid looming elections.
In Agency Missouri eighty two year old Addie Lower known as Aunt Addie fell 45 feet into a well when its cover gave way. Her niece Hattie Clouser and neighbors pulled her out after she climbed partway with a waterpipe. A doctor said bruises and muscle strain but she refused to rest due to visiting company.
U S Sabre pilots shot down four Communist jets near the Yalu River boundary in two sunset air battles over Northwest Korea. Capt Robert T Latshaw Jr of Amarillo Texas became the 13th jet ace. The weekly summary notes a record 1283 sorties and total weekly losses of eight aircraft.
The government will seek another mediation session next Wednesday to resolve the Western Union strike now a month old. Cyrus S. Ching, mediation service director, invited company and Commercial Telegraphers Union members to meet a three-man conciliation panel led by Marvin Sconyers James Holden of Washington and J R Mandelbaum of New York. The telegraphers began the strike on April 3 demanding a 16 cent hourly wage hike and shorter hours for some workers.
West Haverstraw, NY AP report says autopsy to determine cause of death for Jean de Chambre, 2, amidst an investigation into his mother Ruth S. de Chambre 44 who was found wandering in nearby woods with wrists slashed after the child's body was found at the Oliver home. The mother faces prior murder accusations regarding another son, Fernand Jr., drowned in a bathtub in 1947. she was deemed insane and later released, while the French family awaits return of her husband Fernand de Chambre from France.
In Riviera Beach Maryland 94 year old Letitia Virginia Groves nicknamed Granny plans to vote for State Senator Louis N Phipps in the Democratic congressional nomination race from Maryland s Fifth District after meeting him at a rally Her large family including 18 children 40 grandchildren and 45 great grandchildren could be swayed by her change of heart from longstanding belief that women should not run the country to backing a young candidate for Congress.
About 50,000 police officers trained at the Delahanty Institute. Two guards Benjamin Blumenfeld and Isidore Meichenbaum, both 35, were robbed of a payroll totaling $11,354. Gunmen forced them into a car and dumped them in Harlem, minus the cash.
Chile ends a year old pact to sell 80 percent of copper to the United States at a fixed price and plans free market sale of all output May 8. Mines mostly owned by two U S firms produced about 400000 tons yearly amid worker strikes and rising price tensions.
LANTANA Florida Civil Air Patrol lieutenant Virgil May, 55, disappeared during a flight from Lima Ohio to Lantana. Air Force Air Sea Rescue at Selfridge Base Michigan works with Ohio and Kentucky CAP in the ongoing hunt.
Lt. Verne Goodwin at Biggs Air Force Base seeks resignation “for the good of the service” to avoid a two year prison term for refusing to fly. His fate rests on approval from Washington while other cases in court martial status remain unresolved. Goodwin is confined at Biggs. officials say discharge would be under conditions other than honorable.
In Hamilton Ohio Deputy Sheriff Adrian Peters reports 3 year old Frank Asher Jr. was shot in the stomach by a loaded .22 rifle at his home late Friday night. The father, Frank Asher, said he was cleaning the rifle and did not realize it was loaded. The child lies in Mercy Hospital in critical condition, about 15 feet from the gun when it discharged.
President Truman met with steel industry chiefs and United Steelworkers leaders at the White House to advance a contract settlement as a three day strike ends. Key figures included Benjamin Fairless and Philip Murray urging hope while government seizure looms as leverage.
Hong Kong papers report an April 26 explosion in the engine room of a Russian freighter at Whampoa anchorage during unloading by coolie gangs, with authorities arresting most workers. One paper adds that seven Russian sailors were killed by bombs from anti-Communists in Swatow on the same date.
BOAC launches the first commercial jet service with De Havilland Comet flying London to Johannesburg via Entebbe, Beirut, and Khartoum. The 6,724 mile route totals 23 hours 40 minutes with five ground stops, carrying 36 passengers among crew.
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