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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1949
Page
1
In Shanghai, Communist forces complete occupation as Nationalist garrison at Woosung fortress collapses. Reds seize control of government as 6,000,000 residents face new regime. Evacuation fleets depart the Yangtze while foreign nationals are kept from escaping.
Margaret Hampson reports from Shanghai on civilians trapped in besieged buildings during the Chinese civil war. She describes constant shelling from Nationalist and Communist forces, narrow escapes near mortars and gun ports, and the nerve wracking effort to monitor the battle from windows. The piece ends with her leaving the scene, reading papers, and planning sleep.
BLUEFIELD Virginia AP Southern soft coal contract talks halted for a week as John L. Lewis leads United Mine Workers out of the conference demanding proof the SCPA speaks for enough members. He warned a return on Thursday as the union presses to reorganize forces and avoid an early contract lapse. Two big producers pulled out recently, narrowing the bargaining pool and delaying the Southern contract.
Washington AP Truman dismissed a charge that the Atomic Energy Commission inquiry is a political pre election move. He urged the public not to hysteria over atom issues and affirmed confidence in AEC Chairman Lilienthal. Senator Hickenlooper denies politics in his critique, calling for leadership changes over alleged mismanagement.
Janet Lee Armitage seven week old Attica girl died at Children's Hospital from a collapsed lung. She was rushed there by the State Highway Patrol when she was 13 days old. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Armitage.
The Berlin rail strike cripples transport with no West German trains moving toward Berlin. Western sectors draw on three weeks of food from Allied airlift as mayor Ernst Reuter convenes district leaders. Allies call it a German matter. Reichsbahn readies repair crews, raising fears of clashes with strikebreakers. The situation underscores a tense stalemate amid postwar displacement.
AP reports Western Powers drafted a plan to unify east and west Germany. The blueprint, to be shown to the Russians soon, seeks German control of political and economic affairs while retaining oversight of security demilitarization production and foreign policy. It also states no more reparations from West or all-German production and urges dissolving eastern industrial trusts held by Russia.
The CIO United Auto Workers rejected Ford's peace bid to end a 23 day strike. Ford proposed arbitration on work standards in two struck plants focusing on health and safety, while the union pressed for limits on arbitrator powers to challenge employer headcount beyond 100 percent of normal standards.
President Truman will spend the weekend cruising on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, outlining travel plans and enjoying a brief naval outing.
Dr. James Monroe Smith, a prominent figure in the 1939 Louisiana political scandals, died last night of a heart attack in Angola. He was years old.
An AP report describes a tornado sweeping across eastern North Carolina, hitting Harnett County near Dunn and causing destruction to homes and farm buildings. No serious injuries reported. several people received first aid. The storm damaged multiple sections including Easy Street, Reedy Prong, and Newton Grove before moving toward Jordan Chapel in Wayne County.
Rita Hayworth 31 and Aly Khan 38 wed in a civil ceremony in Vallauris France before 500 villagers. A simple eight minute ceremony ended with a double ring exchange and a rice shower as the Aga Khan’s family attended. Rita’s Brooklyn roots and Aly Khan’s Ismaili leadership ties mark a high profile union with Hollywood glamour in a village setting.
The U S Senate unanimously urged President Truman to mobilize the FBI in the Victor Reuther shooting case. Authorities sought the gunman who fired a shotgun through a Detroit home window Tuesday night as clues remained meager and police worked the scene.
Viscount William Leverhulme 61 world industrialist and head of Unilever Industries died in a Minneapolis hospital during a family world tour after an internal ulcer worsened. His body to be transported by train and boat to England for burial with his wife Lady Leverhulme and Jill Lee Morris accompanying. Born William Hulme Lever of Bolton Lancashire he built a soap empire spanning 40 countries with 516 firms valued at about a quarter of a billion dollars.
A new plan to avert a low mood aims to stabilize the economy. Senator Murray announced a bill creating a National Economic Cooperation Board to work with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. It seeks private investment incentives, tax measures, and public works planning, with emphasis on critical materials and underdeveloped regions.
Seventeen people were killed by lava flames during a field trip at Purace volcano in CALI Colombia. The group of engineering students led by a professor was exploring the active site about 150 miles southwest of Bogota.
Journal previews Middletown’s new railroad on its maiden run with a feature by Peg Rosing. Memorial Day services return Monday with observances and a piece on Civil War veterans. Elsa Simpson surveys 1929 Optimist yearbook forecasts for local grads. Ninetys-year-old Germantown resident recalls 40 years at Mudlick Distillery in a Nearby Community Page piece.
Bow Street magistrate court in London rejected the U S demand to extradite Gerhart Eisler to serve two prison sentences from investigations of his Communist activities. Eisler said he would go to Germany and accepted a potential professorship in Leipzig.
Attorney General Tom Clark said the United States will press to extradite Communist Gerhart Eisler from England to serve his prison sentences. He criticized the Bow Street ruling as based on narrow technical grounds and pledged full efforts to secure Eisler's return.
The court ruled Eisler could not be extradited for falsification of passport information, finding it not the same as perjury, while his wife Mrs Gerhart Eisler agreed to leave Ellis Island. Eisler was freed in England and Mrs Eisler moved to depart the United States to join him, with the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born withdrawing its habeas corpus bid.
A 23 year old woman said she killed her former husband after he attacked her in Youngstown. Alfred De Rose a 37 percent self styled gambler and recent divorcee was shot in the back at Economy Motors where Elaine Timpano and husband John Timpano work. De Rose allegedly tried to break up their marriage. Timpano said her pistol misfired before she fired.
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