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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1960
Page
1
UPI reports ominous Paris summit signals raise grave concern in Washington. Senators Hickenlooper Cannon Russell Saltonstall and Rep McCormack voice views on Khrushchev actions and the chance of U S leadership amid tensions with the Soviet Union.
Premier Khrushchev withdrew invitation to Eisenhower for a Soviet visit and delivered a blistering attack over U-2 flights. He threatened to walk out and demanded Washington condemn, halt, and punish U-2 activities as a condition for continuing the Paris summit. Eisenhower rejected the charges and offered direct talks while urging ongoing vigilance. Western officials warned the summit could collapse amid the confrontation and anger.
Moscow delivered a new note to the U S Embassy regarding the U 2 spy incident and rushed it to President Eisenhower in Paris for his attention.
Washington says Francis Powers was under orders to admit the espionage role to Soviet captors. George V. Allen, head of the Information Agency, said Powers’ mission aligned with his superiors’ instructions. Allen also noted the pistol and needle were for suicide only if life in danger, and dismissed Khrushchev staging a propaganda coup.
The US District Court in Cleveland begins hearing a case where a radio station sues Lorain Journal. The action seeks damages or injunctions over broadcast rights and related publications. Proceedings focus on contract or rights disputes and may affect local media coverage.
Partly cloudy to cloudy with showers and scattered thunderstorms likely in the north tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures range from the upper teens in the extreme north to the low 30s south by day with a night drop toward the 60s in central and southern areas. Lake Erie winds shift from northwesterly to east then northeast.
The severely harmed body of Ethel Sanders, a 24 year old Cleveland woman and mother of two, was found in an East Side garage with her head missing. Police questioned two men, including a 43 year old who had been her partner for six years and was father to one of her children. Police and firemen searched nearby roofs as investigators linked this crime to previous torso slayings in Kingsbury Run.
A $12 million pastel walled prison in Lebanon, designed for 1 900 first offenders, opened today with 700 more to transfer in July from Mansfield. The facility aims to ease overcrowding and house younger inmates with single cells, a three-altar chapel, and architecture-friendly steel bars. Ralph W. Alvis to lead, Mansfield officials say the Mansfield population will drop to about 2 000 inmates.
Police said Tabata Kazayoshi, known as the friendly pickpocket, was arrested Sunday in Tokyo. He would lift a wallet from a young woman, keep the money, return her train pass, and ask for a date.
Ohio delegates to the Democratic National Convention meet in Columbus likely to snub Sen Stephen M Young's bid for national committeeman from Ohio. Duffy is the sole Cleveland delegate attending. DiSalle backs Horstman for reelection as national committeeman and Coleman as state chairman. Feud with Ray Miller persists after a Kennedy pledge in the Ohio primary and Miller won eight of 64 convention votes amid a pamphlet controversy.
Moscow reports praise for a huge model space ship with a dummy astronaut launched from a secret site. The 9 988 pound craft orbited the globe every 75 minutes, crossed over Paris during talks of the Big Four, and was not to be recovered but to disintegrate upon reentry. Tass notes the mission aims at peaceful purposes alongside rival U S space plans.
Howard Ray Criswell an 18 year old from Nashville known as the Midnight Sniper admits in a police statement to an urge to kill. He admits shooting during nine incidents from April 24 wounding three men and injuring a truck driver who may lose a leg. Criswell has undergone three years of mental treatment and will undergo further tests as authorities pursue charges of assault with intent to kill.
Twelve people were killed and 60 injured when two crowded passenger trains collided Sunday night outside Leipzig East Germany. The collision occurred in the outskirts, causing severe casualties among travelers and disrupting rail service. Rescue teams battled darkness as they transported the injured to local hospitals.
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