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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1961
Page
9
Pope John XXIII announces a major encyclical to outline the church stance on labor wealth and social justice. He says it will supplement Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum and address grave modern problems while delaying release to allow simultaneous Latin text distribution to church hierarchies.
In New York science reports a new healing substance that reduces hemorrhoids without surgery. Case after case shows relief from pain and itching while actual shrinkage occurs. Patients experience thorough results with consistent improvement.
State Department papers reveal Sumner Welles and President Roosevelt condemned Pope Pius XII's 1942 reception of Japan's ambassador Ken Harada. U.S. and Britain deemed the act deplorable amid Japan's wartime atrocities and Vatican diplomacy. Archbisop Ciocognani and Msgr Vagnozzi represented the Holy See in Washington.
In Dallas a holdup man demanded cash at a grocery. He ordered sacks of cash and silver but no checks. After a customer approached with a purchase, the manager returned the bag and the gunman fled with the money.
Funeral services were scheduled in Cincinnati for Carl J. Kiefer 78 a retired executive vice president of Schenley Industries Inc He joined Schenley in 1935 after leading a consulting engineering firm and retired in 1953 He died Saturday at his Cincinnati home.
American judge Michael A. Musmanno testified at the Eichmann trial that Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop identified Adolf Eichmann as a main cog in the plan to exterminate Europe's Jews. Musmanno, a Pittsburgh jurist and former Nuremberg interrogator, cited statements by Goering and Ribbentrop, and noted Kaltenbrunner listed Eichmann among those who ran the extermination effort.
Musmanno stated Hans Frank, governor of Poland, chose to “wade in blood no longer” and complained to Himmler. The judge noted Frank was referred to Eichmann. The remarks position Frank within the Nazi hierarchy and war crimes discourse.
In Edinburgh court a Scotsman won damages after claiming he lost his taste for whisky following a pick axe injury. The ruling underscores how an accident can alter a lifelong habit and affect a smoker’s or drinker’s enjoyment in legal terms.
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