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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1954
Page
1
Inside Quemoy a Nationalist stronghold near Formosa amid ongoing shelling and air strikes. U S officials note strong interest in maintaining Nationalist control as 100000 Soviet and Korean veterans threaten from Amoy and Amoy Bay.
Senate investigators summon Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker and retired Maj. Gen. Kirke Lawton to testify as the McCarthy censure inquiry seeks closure. McCarthy faces cross-examination amid assertions of abuse over Zwicker in a February closed hearing linked to Maj. Irving Peress.
Hurricane Edna neared the New England coast with 125 mph winds. The center lay 100 miles south of Montauk Point, Long Island, with evacuations underway and Red Cross disaster plans mobilized. Flights canceled, ships anchored, and hotels crowded as Newark to Boston brace for impact and possible avoidance of full force in Rhode Island and Nantucket region.
The Chinese Nationalist government announced that six Russian crew members of the seized Soviet tanker EE asked for political asylum. President Chiang Kai-shek granted the requests. The 8,840-ton Danish-built tanker was seized between the Philippines and Formosa last June 23 while carrying oil to Red China.
CHICAGO The Tribune reports police and the FBI are probing an attempted attack on Lt. Frank Jarecki 23 former Polish pilot who fled Iron Curtain Denmark in a Soviet MIG15 fighter in 1953. A black sedan followed his car and opened fire at a stoplight about 20 miles from Chicago injuring him with glass shards.
Earth tremors rocked Orleansville Algeria, 48 hours after a disastrous quake that killed about 1,000 people. The shocks damaged already fragile buildings, hampering movement through streets. The first quake struck just after midnight, with heavier tremors at 3 a.m. and irregular aftershocks. Residents began reopening some shops and resuming work as attempts to restore normal activity continued.
The FHA seeks to recover 2.43 million dollars in alleged windfall profits from Linwood Park Inc. in Hackensack New Jersey as a first step toward reclaiming over 40 million dollars claimed nationwide. The agency will replace directors at a Sept. 22 special meeting to authorize recovery of FHA insured loan profits.
In Bonn Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appeals for public confidence in his pro Western policies on the eve of the Schleswig Holstein state election. He says West Germany would seek NATO membership after sovereignty and rejects a revised European defense plan. He warns the world will watch voter opinion while facing internal party tensions and calls for unity.
Mississippi roadblocks search for Minor Sorber and Gerald Gallego, condemned to die, after they tossed acid at a jailer, escaped from Hinds county jail, and assaulted others to seize vehicles. Jailer J C Landrum remains in critical condition. Sorber and Gallego had appeals pending at the state Supreme Court.
Fifty contestants compete for the title from Convention Hall as judges narrow to five finalists. Seven leaders emerge from preliminary contests in talent and bathing suit segments, with final crowning to honor Miss America of 1955 and award over 50 000 dollars in prizes amid rain and Edna’s storm threat.
The Security Council adjourned without a vote on investigating the September 4 Soviet downing of an American Neptune bomber off Siberia. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. accused Russia of blocking inquiry while Andrei Vishinsky said Moscow would refuse any investigation and defended shooting over its territory. Lodge urged World Court involvement amid a pattern of attacks since 1950.
A five million gallon gasoline storage tank ruptured during routine repairs at Wadhams division of Socony-Vacuum in Green Bay. Five firemen and four employees were injured, seven burned, as flames towered hundreds of feet. An earthen dike and water cooling prevented further explosions while Red Cross evacuated nearby homes.
Weather experts said Typhoon June veered eastward and would miss the U.S. base at Okinawa. The island braced for the storm as the Air Force warned winds would remain intense but fall short of catastrophic levels.
Washington reports the United States Britain and France united against Soviet calls for a Big Four ministers meeting to secure Europe. They demand German Austrian treaties and free elections to unif y Germany and warn NATO remains the defen s ive framework. Eden tours Western capitals to press the alliance after French EDC rejection.
British Foreign Secretary Eden heads to Brussels and four West European capitals to discuss rearmament of West Germany. He meets Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Italy West Germany and France ministers to hear views after the French rejection of the European Defense Community plan.
The Bank of Mexico reports August food cost index at 944.7, up from 910.3 in July and 860.4 in August last year. The August figure marks a 34.4 point rise from July, with August 1953 at 84.3 points higher than July.
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