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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1948
Page
1
Berlin AP report says American officials rejected a Russian bid to restrict Berlin airlift amid street clashes. Fighting near Brandenburg Gate left one German youth dead and many injured as crowds confronted Russian troops and police.
The Associated Press reports renewed efforts to resolve crippling strikes in oil shipping and trucking. CIO PAC and DNC Chairman McGrath attacked Republicans over labor votes and Dewey ties while GOP leaders branded the administration as a failed experiment amid claims of Communist influence in Washington.
The Midwest led in the talent and swimsuit events for the 1948 Miss America crown with Marilyn Robinson of Ogden Utah winning the talent title for a hospital mother monologue and Beatrice Shopp of Hopkins Minnesota claiming top bathing suit honors as 8,000 watched in Atlantic City. Vera Ralston of Wichita Kansas won the bathing suit event earlier and Dorothy Jane Free of Chattanooga Tennessee took the talent honors in another segment.
Mayor Thomas A. Burke of Cleveland will be temporary chairman and key noter when the Democratic state convention opens in Columbus at 8 p.m. next Thursday. Eugene B. Hanhart announced Burke’s acceptance. Burke is a Lausche ally and member at large of the state executive committee. General sessions start Friday with platform hearings set for Friday morning. Separately Crestline, Crawford County, would receive a brief Truman campaign stop at 10:15 p.m. on September 17 en route from Pittsburgh to Fort Wayne.
Republicans, Democrats and Progressives spar over presidential campaigns while a nationwide work stoppage idles more than 119000 workers including 50000 Detroit auto plant staff. Oil workers and refinery staff join the dispute as gas shipments face federal embargo and wage bids rise. Wallace address at Yankee Stadium postponed due to rain with about 30000 already in attendance.
Hollywood actress Rita Johnson is in critical condition with a brain injury after an incident at her apartment. Doctors removed a blood clot and she underwent surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital as detectives probe an unknown cause. Mary Ainslee reported Johnson bumped her head and later fainted, with a maid mentioning a hair dryer as a possible clue.
London price tale of pilot Dick Wells misled buyers as details from Studebaker show the London order for a sedan cost 1,803.70 with 14 extra charges bringing 1,817.70 and a convertible at 2,387 in the US. Shipping estimated at about 600 dollars.
Reports say 19 000 trapped Filipinos on Camiguin Island were safe after an eighteen hour quiet following an urgent call for ships to assist. Cries for help came as Hibok Hibok erupted for a tenth day, releasing chlorine bearing gases and thick ash.
In Baton Rouge the Democratic State Central Committee removed President Truman from Louisiana ballots and replaced him with the States’ Rights Democratic ticket led by Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Lt. Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi. The body pledged all electors to Thurmond and Wright for the November 2 election, rescinding a prior undecided pledge. Judge Leander Perez introduced the measure, and the secretary of state will place Thurmond Wright above Democratic nominees. The group also said Truman could be voted for only as a write-in candidate.
In Defiance Ohio city workers will receive cost of living increases averaging five cents per hour, effective October 15, following a council vote.
Preliminary returns from the 1948 polls show President Truman likely to win nine states totaling 106 electoral votes with no more than about 210. To reach 266 he would need 56 more, depending on Wallace withdrawals and shifts in several close states, including Minnesota California New York.
In New Mexico a B-25 ran out of gas and crashed near Otto after an emergency approach. Pilot First Lt. William K. Bowler, 29, was killed while Lt. Cols. Gilbert Dorland and Willard Shankle and MSgt. Arthur Morgan parachuted to safety. In California Capt. James T. Fitzgerald Jr., 28, was critically injured when his TF-80C Shooting Star crashed near Metropolitan airport after takeoff from Muroc.
A 21 year old Dayton man and his seven month old son perished when a fire gutted their home. Firemen blamed a lit cigarette left burning as the likely cause after the father fell asleep. The mother, 20 year old Vera Jane Popp, was lightly burned and rescued from the adjoining bathroom. Donald William Popp Sr. was a World War II veteran who served in Japan.
In Albuquerque ex cabinet members Patrick J. Hurley and Clinton P. Anderson clash in a heated Senate race. Hurley attacks Anderson as a New Deal millionaire while Anderson counters with a $10,000 wager offer to prove wealth, promising any winnings go to charity.
Former wartime atomic bomb chief General Leslie Groves suggested to reporters after a closed House committee session that wartime leaks of atomic secrets to Russia may have occurred. He cited the Canadian spy ring report and noted the impossibility of perfect integrity among hundreds of thousands of employees.
Washington AP notes the Air Force now fields 13 new models since becoming a separate service one year ago. Fighter designs include the F 87 all weather jet and the F 86. bombers feature the XB 47 and B 49 Flying Wing. Transports include the XC 99 capable of 60 tons of cargo and 400 troops.
Doris Duke Rubirosa’s private plane La Ganza, valued at $50,000 with Elabo rate upholstery and a kitchen, crashed in swampy land 1,500 feet south of Teterboro airport. Captain William Cody survived with crew Jim Connors and Di Osa Lopez. no injuries. The craft had set a Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires speed record last May and carried flags of six nations.
A federal grand jury indicted Mildred Gillars of Portland Maine known as Axis Sally on treason charges. The 47 year old woman allegedly made Nazi propaganda broadcasts for Germany during wartime from locations including Charles Paris in France Hilversum Holland and Berlin, with ten cited instances.
War Minister George Stratos announced that 20 Yugoslav soldiers were killed when a Yugoslav force with Communist rebels entered Greece. Three officers were among the dead and three more were captured and interrogated by United Nations observers. Stratos urged UN or Western Allied action to avert a wider Balkan conflict and proposed an international force to seal about 500 miles of northern borders.
In Columbus AP report firefighters failed to light a test oil tank using a torch and kerosene. After adding gasoline they managed to start the flame with coaxing, burning for about twenty minutes before extinguishing it in nine seconds.
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