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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
1
The 11 top American Communist leaders were found guilty of conspiring to teach forcible overthrow of the United States government. The verdict came after a recess in the deliberations at the New York courtroom.
Mediators opened exploratory talks with Bethlehem Steel in New York and reported a better understanding of the firm position. They seek a common ground to restart bargaining and aim to involve other companies and workers in joint sessions while unions press for pension and insurance gains.
Senator Robert A. Taft resumes duties in Washington then heads back to Ohio for more campaigning. He unveiled a new method by meeting five occupational groups in New Philadelphia, discussing the Taft Hartley act with AFL unions workers. Brannan farm plan with farmers. civil rights with African Americans. education aid with teachers. and health insurance with doctors. He spoke to about 400 New Philadelphia service club members at supper and about 1100 in Dover later.
AP reports Robert Lyons age 57 died yesterday after a flagpole he and another man were moving touched a 2 400 volt electric wire causing fatal electrocution at a London company site.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS W Va AP Soft coal operators called John L Lewis price of peace in the mine strike fantastic The UMW leader cited a 30 to 35 cent per ton rise in costs while predicting industry profits could absorb it George H Love northern and western operators said owners have their backs to the wall amid market competition He suggested the focus is on gaining customers not speeches Truman considered seizure of mines as a last option and Lewis criticized past seizures as ineffective
J Kilahr Huddle resigns as U S ambassador to Burma and as U N representative on India and Pakistan commission. The 58 year old Bettsville native cited personal and health reasons. President Truman accepted the resignations with regret.
Middletown motorists tip coins and slugs in meters as weekly loot while the paper previews a lead feature on what items appear. Bee caution from S Patterson and a hospital day counting job are also showcased as Sunday leads with local curiosity.
President Truman aims to please liberal Democrats as he gauges potential 1952 bid. He reflects on the failed effort to save Leland Olds on the Federal Power Commission and backs Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing Minn as ambassador to Denmark, elevating ADA alignment and women in the party.
Stalin told East Germany's leaders that German and Russian cooperation could keep Europe peaceful, urging both peoples to apply wartime resolve to peace efforts. Pro-Soviet sources predicted a Soviet bloc peace treaty with East Germany by January after the leaders called the satellite regime a turning point. The statement was distributed by AD and carried in Moscow papers.
Washington lawmakers Brooks and Price urged President Truman to appoint a civilian board to resolve the dispute over defense policy. The proposal mirrors a plan from the Army Navy Union as naval and air power factions clash over funding and strategy. Admiral Denfeld also floated peace terms and a unified approach amid heated charges about the armed forces.
In Budapest today Hungary's Court of Appeal upheld the death sentences for Laszlo Rajk former Communist foreign minister and two plotters for treason. They admitted conspiring to make Hungary a satellite of Yugoslavia and the court also affirmed prison terms for co defendants.
Cincinnati police cleared one kidnapping case yesterday while another remains unsolved. Robert S. Adams, 2, of Ft. Thomas Kentucky, was charged with making a false report after admitting he was not kidnapped. The unsolved case involved Charles E. Caddell, 27, of Cincinnati who said two men in soldier uniforms forced him to drive to Dayton Ohio and robbed him of 324.77 dollars.
Senators opposing the Displaced Persons measure argued against expanding refugee admissions as the bill, stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee for months, faced a floor fight. Cain urged sending it back to committee. Lucas warned adjournment depended on DP action, while McCarran was abroad.
Los Angeles AP reports a massive 72.1 billion suit claiming largest dam age action in history. Arthur R. Van Wyke and A. E. Harrison accuse Standard Oil California and others of interfering with selling a metallic lubricant, seeking profits and damages from world wide sales and alleging adulteration of a product sample.
Arthur R. Shurtleff of Chicago presented Oberlin College with a $25,000 gift for needy students planning to enter theological school or enrolled in the Oberlin graduate school of theology. Shurtleff was an Oberlin Academy student from 1894 to 1896.
Nationalist troops desert Canton as Communists approach and seize White Cloud airport while authorities negotiate surrender. In Michigan, science tests focus on whether six year old Ronald Thompson is the Thompsons’ son after a years long kidnapping. Blood and fingerprint tests yield uncertain results and may not prove parentage.
Paris AP Jules Moch wins a narrow investiture in the National Assembly by 311 to 223 votes, needing one more than the required 310. The 56 year old former interior minister inherits a wage price crisis and a fragile cabinet outlook after Henri Queuille's resignation eight days earlier.
Mrs Beulah Jacques 55 of Lawrence Massachusetts died instantly when a truck and an automobile collided on U S Route 22 about 13 miles east of Cambridge. Five others were injured in the crash reported by AP.
A five man party including Columbus Columbus Dispatch co publisher Robert Wolfe arrived in Brussels on a round the world trip. The group also includes Arthur Campbell, Walter Mile, Lon Casto and Richard Barker from Columbus. They flew to Berlin today.
A federal jury of eight women and four men reassembled at 9:30 a.m. to continue the historic nine month trial. After a five hour, eight minute session the panel had been in disagreement since last night, with about 100 spectators outside the courthouse. The judge cautioned against judging communism or capitalism, noting a guilty verdict would target the Communist Party with up to ten years in prison and fines.
Norman Marsh comic strip artist and sports flyer failed a second bid to set a transcontinental light-plane speed record. His Aeronca four place plane lost fuel pressure five hours after departing Los Angeles, before reaching LaGuardia Field, New York. Marsh aims to publicize the Marine Corps Reserve program. current record stands at 30 years 37 minutes.
A political cartoonish critique depicts a candidate who roars and looks statesmanlike yet speaks in vague generalities. The piece argues voters are mesmerized by appearance and voice, not substance, predicting a reckoning when the truth about empty rhetoric becomes clear.
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