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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1949
Page
1
The Associated Press reports a record Labor Day toll with more than 500 fatalities during the three day holiday period. The highways bore the heaviest losses as the count neared 505 lives.
A 28 year old war veteran Harold Unruh opened fire along River Road Camden killing 12 and wounding five. He barricaded in a room, exchanged bullets with 50 officers, and fled after a chaotic morning that left streets a battlefield. Truman to lead 1950 campaign with early appearances in key states.
The Thompson Trophy race concluded after a fatal crash and protests from Berea residents over city noise. Bill Odom died in a second lap crash at Berea. two local bystanders, Jeanne Laird and her infant son Craig, perished in the crash. Cook Cleland won the race with a record 397 mph aboard a Goodyear aircraft.
William P. Odom 30, famed pilot who crossed the world solo and flew The Hump, died in a high speed crash during the Thompson Trophy race. His green racing plane struck a suburban home, killing a mother Jeanne Laird 24 and her year old son Craig, as Odom was on the second lap near the grandstand.
Odom spoke before the Middletown Flying Club at the Manchester Hotel on June 17 about plans to enter the National Air Races. He flew to Middletown from Dayton in a borrowed airplane after crash landing his famous Waiiki Beach craft, the non stop distance record holder from Honolulu to Teterboro in March.
Two American boys Warren Oelsner of Oyster Bay New York and Peter Sellers of Philadelphia will be released today by Russian authorities in the German occupation zone. They were seized in July while bicycling through Germany for taking pictures and will be sent to Helmstedt to be returned to U S officials. The boys face reprimand for traveling without proper papers and will have their touring permits revoked.
Senator Robert A. Taft continues his 100 day handshaking tour of Ohio with events in Cleveland planned for today and tomorrow. Labor groups led by Joseph Keenanan predict Taft will lose reelection, arguing his record will be used against him.
A hurricane with winds up to 120 mph moved toward Bermuda, about 400 miles south southwest of the island, drifting northeast at six mph. Gales stretch 300 miles across, with hurricane force winds extending 100 miles east and 50 miles west. Bermuda authorities ordered precautions with plane evacuations and military recalls to bases.
Shirley May France a 17 year old from Somerset Massachusetts abandons her Channel crossing after 100 hours in icy waters. She was within six miles of England when coach and escort swimmers pulled her from the water near Cap Gris Nez. Her father and handlers console her as she is carried to a Dover bound boat.
The flying boat Hawaii Mars carrying 54 aboard lost an engine 400 miles out from Honolulu while en route to the islands. The skipper sent an urgent radio report that the No 1 engine had dropped from the wing after departing Alameda Naval Air Station, California, last night.
Washington reports Britain plans to ask Congress to allow Marshall Plan dollars to be spent outside the United States. Bevin Cripps and Morgenthau discuss Britain’s dire financial path at a three-power conference, while Morgenthau argues Western Europe must boost efficiency to compete.
Gordon Martin notes a shift in public discourse as atomic topics drive new vocabulary. The piece mocks how everyday speech now includes fission, Einstein, velocity of light, uranium, cyclotrons, and Geiger counters, predicting kids will misspell isotopes.
A board of admirals opened an inquiry into the origin of an anonymous memo suggesting fraud in Air Force B-36 bomber purchases. Cedric R. Worth is suspended for drafting and sharing the document with House members. The three man inquiry, led by Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, questioned two or three minor witnesses as it sought who Worth talked to and about what.
Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge shows slight improvement after a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Elmer Tower said the 55-year-old jurist regained consciousness at times and took nourishment yesterday for the first time since entering a coma last Friday. He has been at York Hospital ten days.
Robeson supporters urge President Truman to restore law and order in New York after a five hour riot near Peekskill. George M. Fannelli praised police for a magnificent job as more than 100 injured and vehicles damaged across suburbs north of New York City.
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