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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1959
Page
1
Nina Khrushchev met Friday with women reporters at Blair House and answered questions with calm humor. She traced how she met Nikita Khrushchev in Stalino in the 1920s, married in 1924, and contrasted Soviet and American press customs while explaining personal history and state visit impressions.
A woman was asked if her time at home involved housework or charity work. She quickly replied with a concise answer indicating her focus or preference.
Nina Khrushchev plans a Silver Spring tour of an experimental dry cleaning plant and a luncheon with Mrs. Cyrus Eaton. She also schedules a Sunday visit to Mount Vernon before the Khrushchev party leaves for Russia Sunday night.
In a restrained speech Mrs. Khrushchev rejects charity work and fund collection, arguing the state handles welfare. She stands in a room resembling an American Americana museum, wearing a white and grey dress, with portraits of Daniel Webster and George C. Marshall among echoes of U.S. presidents on the walls.
The speaker spoke Russian through an interpreter while some English was used. The overall tone of the meeting remained pleasant and cordial throughout.
In a discussion about Soviet leadership families, she notes Khrushchev's first wife died in famine and that their two children Julia and Leonid survived. Leonid was a WWII pilot killed in combat. She is mother to three Khrushchev children, Rada Sergei and Yelena, with Yelena a Moscow University student who did not travel. She adds that wives of prominent officials have no official duties, many work, and she formerly worked as well.
Mrs Khrushchev explains in Moscow that she and her husband live in a big house and a country house, all state-owned. She says she dislikes housework, and notes her household includes a cook, a maid, and a serving girl who are employed and paid by the state.
Japan braces for the year’s largest storm as Typhoon Vera nears the industrial south central Honshu region. Outer bands span 500 miles with strong winds and heavy rains sweeping the Pacific coast.
Boston AP seven pieces of Lynn Cauffman’s luggage may solve the mystery of her death aboard the Utrecht. The 23 year old heiress vanished from the ship near Boston and her body was found on Spectacle Island. Police will seek authority to open trunks in New York and examine letters possibly linked to a recent romance that may explain her injuries.
President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev began a second Camp David session to tackle Berlin and Germany issues. They planned discussions on disarmament Laos and U S Soviet cooperation while a broader call for a Big Four meeting remained uncertain. Khrushchev’s schedule includes a Sunday press conference and a television address before leaving for Moscow.
The meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev began Friday night at the Catoctin Mountain camp after their helicopter flight, with early signals suggesting cautious optimism but wary American officials doubting Khrushchev’s aims and avoiding forecasts of a breakthrough.
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller arrived in Hanover to meet Dartmouth classmates and watch a football game. Speculation grew that his trip signaled a presidential run, potentially challenging Vice President Richard Nixon in the New Hampshire primary.
A news conference was held at a Concord hotel opposite the new Draft Rockefeller for President headquarters. Governor Wesley Powell, seen as Nixon friendly, attended a dinner with 40 leading New Hampshire residents who back the movement and seek Rockefeller’s entry into the state primary. Powell planned to attend the Dartmouth Holy Cross game and meet classmates for Lvov.
Ten wet and weary Navy airmen were plucked from the tossing Pacific Ocean nearly 12 hours after they ditched their twin engined patrol plane. A massive rescue operation proceeded despite foul weather darkness and fog 110 miles off the Columbia River mouth.
The ten men were pulled from two liferafts by Coast Guard cutter Yocona near Astoria Oregon at 12 50 a m PST. The freighter Olympic Pioneer arrived moments earlier and stood by as four Navy and Coast Guard planes provided searchlight coverage. All air crew and deck personnel were in good condition despite exposure and exhaustion with no injuries during the ditching or transfer.
A Marlin patrol plane from Whidbey Island navigated with one engine aflame and ditched near land after radio SOS. Lt. James B. Henson, 27, of Pearby Ark., fought to reach shore as rescue teams moved in.
Seven merchant ships joined the Coast Guard response to a downed air crew. The Olympic Pioneer, nearest the scene, led to safety as the men on the rafts reported they were wet but okay before transfer.
James L. Spring, 24, of Mentor a 6 foot 5 inch plasterer, turned himself in to police in CHARDON Ohio after admitting rape of a 22 year old Willoughby Hills housewife. He was previously indicted and released on bond after a similar accusation.
During evening rush hour Friday a man entered KYW radio in Cleveland and claimed to be the rapist. The 35 year old mother of three, left seriously injured, identified the suspect to Sheriff Louis A. Robusky. She said he beat her, raped her, and left her for dead Friday morning.
After regaining consciousness a woman crawled to a neighbor from Russell Township. Police pursued suspect Spring, who fled in the victim's car around Cleveland. A nearly 100 member posse with four airplanes and bloodhounds combed woods near Chagrin Mills Road while Spring listened to a news report and spoke to disc jockey Joe Finan, saying his conscience bothered him.
Sheriff Robusky questioned suspect Spring at Central Police Station after he turned himself in. Spring said he felt lousy and recalled blacking out after entering the victim’s house, then attacked, raped, and beat the woman, who is the wife of an attorney. His father cited long bouts of spells and blackouts since a childhood head injury.
A young mother venting amid a dirty, chaotic home laments that loving and losing would have been simpler. The scene captures her weariness as she listens to her children weep and faces household neglect.
Prime Minister Bandaranaike dies from assassin's bullets as Vijayananda Dahanayake is sworn in as the new Ceylon premier. Gov. Gen. Goonetileke proclaims a state of emergency amid political turmoil. The assassin, a Buddhist monk, fired as Bandaranaike saluted visitors at his Colombo residence.
Gunman identified as Talduwa Sovarama a 43 year old Eastern medicine specialist. He was captured after being shot by a sentinel while fleeing and is held at hospital guarded by 35 police. Police seize Buddhist monk G Pannasekera Thero as possible accomplice as investigations seek motive. The death sparks national mourning and concerns of religious and political strife. Dahanayake takes roles of defense foreign affairs and education while pledging no major policy shifts.
Ban daranaike's funeral is set for next Wednesday after lying in state. Dahanayake, once jailed by the British as a security risk during World War II, was Bandaranaike's education minister and was designated to act as prime minister when Bandaranaike traveled abroad.
Betty Koffer, a fourth grade teacher at P.S. 109 on East 99th Street, was robbed by two older youths who entered class and stole her purse containing $39. The assailants, described as Negroes about 16, escaped as students screamed.
In a Jackson Heights alley near LaGuardia Field a flashy black Cadillac carried Anthony Carfano known as Little Augie Pisano and Janice Drake to death Friday night. Carfano was a Capone era lieutenant and ally of Frank Costello while Drake was wife of comedian Allan Drake and former Palisades Park beauty winner. Neighbors saw two men flee as shots were fired from the rear. no weapon found.
Cartano and Mrs. Drake linked to a previous murder were seen at a hotel near LaGuardia. Police found two weapons used and large sums of cash on Cartano. Mrs. Drake identified by clothing labels, previously questioned in Nat Nelson case. Bodies taken to Queens General Hospital morgue.
Carfano, longtime figure in underworld investigations, lived in a palatial Long Beach mansion on Long Island. A Prohibition era bootlegging kingpin, he was a familiar name to authorities for thirty five years.
The steel industry top negotiator signals readiness to resume talks in New York on Monday while Steelworkers President David J. McDonald says he will not participate. Chief Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan plans weekend meetings in Washington with Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell to review the stalemate and may move talks elsewhere.
McDonald labeled Friday's negotiations a farcical filibuster and said talks would resume only if management offers a substantial proposal. Chief negotiator Cooper urged the union to reconsider its position and unite for renewed efforts to break the deadlock in New York.
McDonald says unions never resist government calls but sees no point returning to New York. He notes the seat of government is in Washington while the steel industry center is in Pittsburgh.
In Sun Valley Idaho AP survey Western governors rate Vice President Richard M Nixon as the strong favorite for the Republican nomination. They see the Democratic contest as open with no single leader favored by more than one governor.
Los Angeles AP reports prosecutors seek the death penalty for Carole Tregoff after new evidence in the murder of Barbara Finch. The case links Tregoff with Dr. Bernard Finch in a plot to kill Barbara, aided by Minneapolis convict Jack Cody and Las Vegas connections.
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