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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1953
Page
1
PANMUNJOM AP The Korean repatriation commission urged the UN Command and the Communists to begin Thursday efforts to explain to prisoners why they should return home. The UNC announced completion of a center for interviewing about 22 300 North Korean and Chinese POWs. The Reds and Allies gave no immediate reply.
The United States and 16 Korean War partners reject neutral nations in a proposed peace conference. An American envoy would meet Red China and North Korea at Panmunjom on October 26 to discuss only time and place and procedural questions. Britain presses Washington to broaden the conference makeup.
Voters in 11 rural counties of Wisconsin pick a successor to the late Rep Merlin Hall. State Sen Arthur Padrutt and Democrat Lester Johnson campaign amid apathy and uncertainty on national significance.
Joe Gavin resigns as University of Dayton football coach citing pressure from onside groups and impact on his family. He will finish this season with six games remaining and has not decided on future coaching or private business plans.
John Wesley Wable, in Bernalillo County Jail, awaits transport to face murder charges for the Turnpike killings. He says he did not kill anyone while New Mexico police investigate his claims and a signed statement naming an “other man” emerges. Pennsylvania officers will seek extradition after Wable waived it.
Former Atomic Energy Commission chair Gordon Dean argues for scaring the public with pictures of hydrogen and atom bomb effects as a deterrent. He notes Russia could strike hard today and in two years but praises Eisenhower for informing the public amid fuzzy coverage.
Lt. Gen. Reuben Jenkins turns over command of the U S 10th Corps to Lt. Gen. Bruce M. Clarke and sails to the United States for retirement.
A military court in Romania has condemned 13 individuals to death on charges of spying and sabotage. Three others, including a woman, were sentenced to prison terms from three to twenty five years.
Burma says its air force strafed and bombed a Nationalist Chinese guerrilla jungle position 60 miles northeast of Lai Kaw in Kayah state for about half an hour. The base was left in flames according to the report.
Ohio faces a worsening drought as state natural resources officials warn October may bring below normal rainfall and higher temperatures. Soil is so dry that only deep-rooted plants survive, with four inches of rain needed to restore moisture. Yearly precipitation averages 38 inches, but this year has seen five to six inches less rain, reducing stream flow across the state.
Belgrade awaits Western response as Tito warns of direct action in Zone A. Moscow backs Yugoslavia with notes denouncing the Trieste plan as a grave treaty violation and urges neutral, demilitarized status. Washington reiterates support for withdrawing Allied troops and turning Zone A to Italian administration amid rising tensions.
The confessed kidnapper killers of Bobby Greenlease were moved under heavy guard from St. Louis to Kansas City where the abduction occurred. Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady, both in custody, faced detention as federal charges under the Lindbergh law loom, with a grand jury to hear evidence while state charges were already filed.
Secretary of State Dulles will join British and French foreign ministers in London Friday for talks on Trieste Korea and Russian relations. In New York the United Nations Security Council faced renewed calls to try again to set up an international administration for the Free Territory of Trieste.
British troops and police raided the Peoples Progressive Party headquarters in Georgetown and homes of leaders including ex Premier Cheddi Jagan as a sugar industry strike spread. Officers sought documents to support charges of a plot to establish a Communist state.
Pennsylvania farmers and state leaders join President Eisenhower in Hershey for a birthday celebration. Nearly 30,000 expected to greet the President and First Lady as 6000 attend a $100 plate roast beef buffet in the big top. The event features Fred Waring rehearsals, student costumes, a giant cake platform, and a large stadium program for nonpaying guests.
The forecast calls for clear and cool conditions tonight in Middle town with Old Sol fading. Tomorrow should be fair and warmer across the Miami Valley and much of Ohio. A five day AP forecast projects Ohio averaging 46 degrees above normal with gradual warming midweek then cooling Sunday. No rain through Saturday with a chance of light showers Sunday.
A Michigan student, Zander Hollander, reports on a Moscow Kiev visit noting MVD checkpoints at hotels and bread-line queues. He describes New Moscow State University, worker poverty, and Soviet views of the United States while discussing The Grapes of Wrath and Paul Robeson at Kiev talks.
Democrat Thomas A. Burke, 54, Cleveland mayor four times, was appointed to the Senate seat vacant after Senator Taft's death by Ohio Governor Frank Lausche. The move sharpens party edge to 48-47 with independent Wayne Morse. Burke plans to serve the term through 1957. future election decisions remain unsettled.
Ohio Democrat Thomas A. Burke, newly appointed senator, vows a middle-of-the-road approach. He intends to back the Republican administration where possible and not dominate the Senate with votes. Burke meets Gov. Frank Lausche at the Statler Hotel and says he will travel to Washington soon to learn the Senate system.
Manila police and customs report three World War I Japanese stragglers entered a village on Lubang Island near Manila Bay over the weekend. They shot and killed a resident, wounded another, and carried off all the food they could take.
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