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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1949
Page
1
John L. Lewis slashed staff and halted welfare fund expenditures as miners’ strike s stalemate lingers. Operators push for tighter controls, trustees face resignations, and government officials weigh Taft Hartley actions while fines from 1948 loom.
Washington reports Acheson returns from Europe to confront a crisis as US consul Angus Ward and four staff remain jailed by Chinese Communists at Mukden. State Department notes little progress and withheld details on health and trial. Aides deem the imprisonment barbaric and seek action though no military option is contemplated.
Government mediators work to avert a deck officers strike threatening to tie up passenger and dry cargo vessels from Atlantic and Gulf ports after midnight. The AFL Masters Mates and Pilots Union, with four or five men on freighters and more on passenger ships, demands rotating jobs. Oil tankers and coal carriers would be exempt. The America, a luxury liner, advanced sailing time to 10 p.m. EST from New York, heading to Southampton, England. Union head Capt Charles F May says vessels on the high seas would be considered struck at their destinations. Negotiators for shipowners say officers sign articles to serve to return ports, obligating completion of runs. Conciliator William N Margolis doubted a strike could be avoided, with talks showing little difference beyond hiring hall rules. The contract expired September 30 and was twice extended.
Yugoslavia was expected at the United Nations to accuse Moscow of maneuvering Soviet missiles along the Yugoslav border. UN delegates awaited a key speech by Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler in the General Assembly Political Committee as Tito’s government widened its public war of words with the Kremlin.
Pittsburgh and Ambala reports cover two major events. Gandhi assassin Narayan Godse and Narayan Apte were executed in Ambala jail after a two year legal battle. In Pennsylvania, Allegheny Ludlum signed a back to work contract with United Steelworkers, restoring production at 12,500 workers across five plants and detailing pensions and health plans.
Six year old Linda Joyce Gillcoft vanished from her Los Angeles area home yesterday afternoon. Her body was recovered near the residence under rubbish with an axe nearby. Also, the United States served notice on Russia and five Soviet bloc states challenging their new Danube shipping control commission.
A passenger train plunged from a bridge into the Crocodile River near Water val Boven in the Upper Transvaal. At least 70 natives and a European were killed and about 100 natives seriously injured, according to reports.
Halter's Pretzels Inc resumed operations after an 11 day strike. The AFL Bakers and Confectioners secured raises of 15 cents hourly for women and 10 cents for men. Piecework pay increased ten percent.
A humorous column about a husband pressed into postal duties by his wife. He jokes that she assigns him mail tasks, lectures him for forgetting stamps, and laments vows that never included such chores. He muses on the odd dynamic of affection and errands, imagining mutual forgetfulness.
Ford Sizemore, 29, linked to Easter Sunday murder of Harlan County police chief Ambrose Metcalfe, was killed as a slow-moving car fired a shotgun blast at him in an alley near Neviss theatre. Oma Wilson, 24, witnessed two bareheaded men in the pursuing car. Coroner says weapon used a metal slug. Sizemore had not been indicted in Metcalfe case. Arthur Jackson later acquitted.
In San Francisco AP reports jurors in the perjury trial of Harry Bridges were told a rival union leader once sought his death. Bridges, 48, head of the Left-wing CIO Longshore Union, faces up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine with possible deportation. A civil suit to revoke his citizenship on fraud grounds is ongoing.
Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche appears set to quit the 1950 U S Senate race. A reliable source said Lausche will resign his candidacy with a formal statement due by Wednesday morning. Observers expect him to seek a third term in the statehouse, while AFL U A W delegates urged him to run as the Democratic Labor candidate against Taft.
Joyce Crafton testified Heer was slightly amorous at a goodnight moment before he shot Jack McKeon, an Ohio University fraternity member. She denied any improper advances or quarrel. A grand jury is expected to consider a first degree murder charge against Heer, an ex Marine from Euclid Ohio, for the shooting of McKeown after a homecoming dance.
Common Pleas Judge Dana F. Reynolds will hear tomorrow the Columbus Transit Company's bid to raise bus fare to ten cents. A temporary injunction issued last week at the request of the City of Columbus blocks the increase. the current fare is five cents.
The Marshall Plan report to Congress urges Europe to slash prices to compete in the U S market. It notes export incentives, factory reorganization, and better merchandising to win American customers, with emphasis on avoiding import controls and exchange barriers.
Fifteen miners became trapped 600 feet underground at Maple Hill Colliery in Mahano y City after a rock fall blamed on a derailment and collapsed timbers. Fellow workers dug for six hours to reopen the tunnel and rescue the trapped men, who were then led to the surface by donkey engine and shaft elevator, unharmed.
Cincinnati Ohio AP report says Common Pleas Judge Nelson Schwab a former Ohio legislator died in a city hospital yesterday at age 61.
Washington AP an eastern rail passenger fare hike won government approval. ICC split 6 4 authorizing a 12 percent rise for coach and sleeping car mileage on 61 eastern lines, effective on five days notice. Commutation fares unchanged. coach 2.276 cents per mile and Pullman 4.5 cents, up from 1941 levels.
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