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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1949
Page
1
John L. Lewis blocked Charles I. Dawson from taking his seat as Operators' trustee on the United Mine Workers Welfare Fund board. The confrontation occurred during a stormy session as the dispute over trusteeship intensified.
Pittsburgh AP reports few signs of panic buying as coal stockpiles run low in some states. About 400,000 soft coal diggers currently at work, but workers east of the Mississippi face a renewed strike by month’s end. Anthracite diggers may join.
Lewis chairing miners board meeting blocks Dawson while trustees set next session for Friday December 2. Truman vows use of Taft Hartley to halt coal emergency if needed as strike truce ends. Van Horn resigned and is under legal dispute over fund spending. details remain undisclosed.
Kaiser-Frazer announces a pension trust fund for 12,000 production workers in Detroit with a six cent hourly contribution. The pact extends health, welfare, and life insurance benefits and runs through November 11, 1954. A joint union management committee will finalize plan details. The UAW expectation noted Ford’s $100 monthly pension after 30 years.
Police say 17 month old Josephine Yanez was abducted from her parents car near Huron, then raped and killed. Suspect Paul Gutierrez, 25, an itinerant cotton picker, claimed he took the child and spanked her before waking later in his cabin. investigators described the scene as brutal with bruises and liver damage suggesting violent squeezing.
An early morning blaze damaged the Riverside Tavern on Route 73 north of Middletown with $3,000 in losses. Fire Chief William Long said the kitchen wiring caused the fire, which forced entry due to no one being present. Fourteen firefighters battled the blaze. owners are Charles French and Mr and Mrs Herbert Huffman.
Wilmington Delaware sees a seven day transit strike pause for a pre Christmas parade. Delaware Coach Company and AFL Streetcar Union agree to operate trolleys and buses 4 pm to 9 pm EST during the event. All passengers ride free.
This piece humorously portrays a man realizing middle age brings weight gain and the need for self discipline. It contrasts youth’s appetite with the coming burden of larger clothes and shrinking energy, urging a switch from excess to restraint and fitness.
Cleveland AP Berea officials oppose any closed course air races in their community after last September's Thompson Trophy crash killed Bill Odom a mother and her baby. Mayors elect from nearby suburbs met with race officials and agreed to hold events in Cleveland next year under strict new rules.
AKRON Ohio AP Seiberling Rubber Company will raise prices on most tires and tubes sold for replacement by 3 percent starting Friday. The move, following earlier increases by all tire makers, comes as President J P Seiberling says tire and tube prices are still too low relative to manufacturing costs.
A large quake felt as distant as 5 800 miles was recorded at 5 04 05 last night by the University of California seismograph. Early today the direction from Berkeley was undetermined and the tremor lasted one hour and 45 minutes.
Paul G Hoffman warned at Pomona College that the Russian Politburo plans to conquer the United States in due course. He cited the Marshal Plan’s success and Western self-help as essential to stop Communism, noting Moscow aims first at Western Europe then Asia and Africa before North America.
In Champaign Illinois authorities list a broken romance as the motive for the death of James Robert Edwards 21 a University of Illinois student The body was found in a campus area cemetery with a .32 caliber pistol by his side He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound Coroner Don Wikoff says Edwards engagement with Jayne Cutler a student at Illinois Normal University Blooming ton was broken during Homecoming celebrations in Champaign
Mounds Club manager Thomas E. Farley, 56, was found guilty by a Municipal Court jury of unlawfully keeping a place where liquor is dispensed. The club faces possible closure after two convictions, with sentencing set for Saturday at 9 am. The venue is currently closed as a fire hazard under Governor Lausche’s order amid remodeling efforts.
Washington expects a score or more nations to join a U S push for concerted action to free Consul General Angus Ward and his staff from four weeks in Mukden. Secretary Acheson sent inquiries to 30 governments, including the Soviet bloc, to test unity against the Chinese regime and prevent UN recognition while Ward is detained.
Former cabinet officer James F. Byrnes spoke at the Southern Governors Conference in Biloxi Mississippi criticizing federal taxes and the national debt. He argued deficit spending would continue, urged cutting expenditures, and warned that big government poses greater danger than big business while suggesting a possible run for South Carolina governor.
Jack Hundley, a soldier from Rainsboro Ohio, borrowed Patrolman Leamon Foster’s car for a short errand last August. Three months and 30,000 miles later, Hundley was returned to Cincinnati from Columbus to face the conversion charge. Municipal Judge Frank M. Gusweiler fined him 100 dollars and sentenced him to the workhouse for three months.
New York. As Alger Hiss perjury trial enters its fourth day Claude Cross questions Whittaker Chambers. Chambers testifies about a 1935 England trip and falsified passport data claiming Maxim Lieber and a Communist network used the American Writers Project as a Soviet cover. Lieber unavailable for comment due to illness.
Franklin village council considers first reading of an ordinance by Mayor J T Riley to prohibit production or exhibition of movies and public appearances by persons judged to be Communists or who advocate overthrow of the U S government. The measure lacks criteria for judgment or enforcement and will have two more readings before a vote.
In Burlington a local Eisenhower-For-President Club pushes to draft Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republican nomination in 1952, despite a prior failed effort. George Abbott says a public meeting in City Hall Auditorium endorsed the drive and posters would read First in war first in peace and first in the heart of humanity.
New York video workers threaten a 5 p m strike by Local 829 of the United Scenic Artists representing 72 set designers scenic artists and costume designers at five stations. Union officials say stage scenery already built can be used but production could stop if wage scales equal those paid in legitimate stage and film work are not met.
State Rep. John J. Gallagher of Cleveland declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Ohio state treasurer in the May 2, 1950 primary. He announced in Columbus, aiming to win the party nomination and advance to the general election.
In Warsaw police say 100 people were arrested as members of a spy ring tied to the French embassy. An alleged confession by Andre Simon Robineau, secretary at the Foreign Ministry, led to the claim of espionage and a cover role for his consulate post.
An automobile created tire tracks to outline Youngstown airport’s runway as a DC-3 circled for 15 minutes during a sudden snow flurry. The two airliners landed safely with no mishap, reported by AP.
Police in Oslo said 26 bodies were found from a DC-3 wreck carrying 28 Jewish refugee children three nurses and four crew. One 12 year old boy survived. Rescue teams faced dense forests near Fite vet two miles from a village on Oslofjord.
Procter and Gamble will construct a $1.5 million research laboratory in Cincinnati. Chairman Richard R. Deepree announced the facility will sit on an acre tract on Colerain Township’s northern rim in Hamilton County. The lab will house era research equipment and laboratory facilities, with the general plan completed and navy engineering nearing completion. occupancy is not expected for about two years.
The Middletown Journal signals its Christmas season opening with a 64 page Early Christmas Edition to publish Thursday at noon due to holiday half day. Display ads are due Wednesday 3 p.m. and classified ads 9 a.m. Thursday with all departments back to normal Friday.
Thirty passengers died when an Irrawaddy River ferry was attacked by rebels 40 miles south of Mandalay Burma. Local reports state the vessel carried 40 or more travelers as the assault occurred on the river, with authorities beginning inquiry and rescue operations underway.
A 16 year old boy, Franklin Delano Wade, faces a murder charge over the shooting of Katherine B. Furbish, 16, in her Portland, Maine home. Wade admitted to firing the pistol after claiming Katherine laughed at his threats. He said he was angered by her dating other boys, took a pistol from her father, and shot during a confrontation in the bedroom. Katherine was a Portland High School sophomore who had left the school two weeks earlier.
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