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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1952
Page
1
William P. Rogers of Bethesda Maryland will be deputy attorney general in the next administration. The selection was announced after a conference between Eisenhower and Herbert Brownell who has been designated as attorney general.
President elect Eisenhower moved toward finalizing top government posts and said more women will be appointed to high administration roles. He named the seventh member of the nine person cabinet and signaled plans to announce two additional appointments.
Background on Eisenhowers new appointments includes Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby to head the Federal Security Agency and Mrs Ivy Baker Priest as treasurer of the United States. Arthur E Summerfield named postmaster general as the first cabinet choice. Speculation surrounds remaining posts as McKeldin and Anna Rosenberg draw attention. McCormick criticizes Dulles selection and warns of party splits.
Washington reports DiSalle former price administrator summoned for high level talks on the nations controls program. Administration planners debate extending wage and price controls beyond April 30 or lifting all controls. White House stance unclear but Truman has power to end controls. DiSalle to visit early next week and confer with OPS officials.
Washington AP reports the government near ready to issue a decision on the soft coal wage case. Economic Stabilizer Putnam may have discussed with Steelman and could have the decision on his desk. White House comment and timing remain unclear.
After three days of debate, delegates to the 34th annual Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Conference will vote on parity resolutions. The federation president is to be elected after the resolutions session, with Everett T. Rittenour of Piketon expected to win reelection. Rep. Harold D. Cooley urged a rigid 90 percent parity scale, clashing with Sen. Taft's farm policy.
London reports American business leaders in Britain urge lowering U S tariffs to ease world economic ills and urge President elect Eisenhower to relax U S anti trust laws.
Allied flys blasted a Red troop and supply concentration near Wonson on the East Coast with high explosives and napalm in a four hour fight on Jackson Heights. Lt Cecil G Foster of San Antonio became the 24th Korea War ace after gun camera confirms. Maj Vernon J Lyle of Alexandria claimed a MIG-15 in a separate Friday shootdown.
Linda Harmon a 5 year old in Mansfield Ohio faces terminal kidney cancer doctors say. Her great step uncle and Westinghouse colleagues arranged a Christmas party to lift her spirits with a full tree gifts and visitors despite her painful episodes.
In Salisbury England the Air Ministry cited a Royal Air Force transport crash to argue that sitting backward in a plane increases safety. Four crew members faced forward were injured when the transport collided with a jet fighter. nine passengers seated facing rearward escaped unharmed.
Dr. Ernest H. Hahne president of Miami University since 1946 died at Lewis Place in Oxford after a year long illness. His death comes just before Miami's Thanksgiving gridiron game with Cincinnati. university officials say the game will go on. He led Miami through a period of expansion and a large new building program.
House investigators condemn poor handling of the Miller war contracts case as an example of how not to conduct government litigation. Norman E. Miller faced 1944 fraud charges, delays and subterfuge led to dropped actions, while the subcommittee blames Miller and his tactics more than DOJ officials.
Seattle police say Ellen Noreen Fern, 15, told detectives she lost her temper when the 4 month old Garry Payne cried. She described placing a striped cloth in the boy’s throat and pushing with her fingers, causing the infant to stop crying before she removed the rag. She is held as a delinquent.
Baltimore police report Peter Lang shot his wife Katherine and then killed himself after a long gap in dawn hours. Neighbors heard shots about 11 p.m. Monday. a visitor found Peter Lang Jr., five, John, four, and Sharon, two, in nightclothes. the children waited downstairs while in the home tragedy unfolded.
Hartford police say 33 year old electronics student John E. Whitley, jailed in February for stealing a church tape recorder from the First Congregational Church of West Hartford, is charged again with breaking and entering and theft after the same machine was found in his room. He previously received six months in jail and probation.
Little Rock ended 356 days without a traffic fatality when pedestrian Heston S. Coney, 54, was struck and killed by a car driven by William Reed. Patrolman J. E. Walworth reported the death, the first in the city since December 4, 1951, thwarting a planned parade and celebratory events. Mayor Pratt Remnell noted no decision on canceling the deathless day festivities.
In a UN session Russia’s Vishinsky announced China rejected India’s compromise on Korean POW deadlock. The 60 nation committee gave priority to the Indian proposal amid Western support and Soviet opposition while Vishinsky urged immediate ceasefire and full prisoner repatriation.
An unidentified aircraft wreckage was sighted in high mountain country along a route from McChord Air Force Base to Elmendorf. Officials reported the site near Whittier about 50 miles south of Anchorage, with comparisons to two other missing craft and plans for dawn search and possible recovery efforts.
In Bonn Chancellor Konrad Adenauer secured a vital preliminary win as the Bundestag foreign affairs committee backed ratification of the twin treaties. The coalition hailed the move as a strong signal ahead of the final debate and potential full approval by parliament.
In BWYMESWOLD England a 72 year old bride fainted as her 81 year old groom placed the ring. Widow Kate Morris recovered and the ceremony continued after a 15 minute delay with Albert Morris giving away the bride. The couple wed yesterday amid excitement.
Wind driven snow paralyzed travel across Kansas Nebraska Iowa and nearby states with blizzard like conditions. At least six people died in the storm and public transit halted as hundreds were stranded and bus and rail traffic stalled in cities like Wichita Council Bluffs and Omaha.
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