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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1955
Page
5
The FBI and state police expand the hunt for a third suspect tied to Thursday’s Brink’s armored truck robbery in Buffalo. James Sheridan of New York is charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, with detectives checking trains from Buffalo to New York for leads.
In Albany area a sharply dressed man cashed more than $15,000 in stolen American Express travelers checks from a Philadelphia theft. The checks, part of $20,000 taken July 29, were cashed in Albany Troy and Schenectady using different assumed names to avoid detection. FBI and banking officials investigated with security measures cited.
An 18 year old employee named Troy was fatally injured last night after being exposed to a steam jet used to clean a truck engine. Thomas H L McBain of Cohoes found unconscious under the truck at Boght Corners Albany County and is the victim.
About 5000 American Legion members 40 and 8ers and auxiliaries begin the 37th New York State Legion convention in Buffalo as a heat wave bears down. Attendees march through downtown with bands civic groups and National Guard units while talks by Jacob Javits Roy Cohn and Carmine DeSapio highlight the agenda. The event ends Sunday with officer elections.
A pair of electrical blasts darkened Troy sections last night. A hospital relied on emergency lighting for a delivery and a temporary operation. A conduit short circuit lifted a manhole cover and knocked out power to 1100 homes, then a second blast at a nearby substation cut power to half the city and nearby areas before restoration.
More than 100 tankers and infantrymen simulated a two week combat in Camp Lejeune North Carolina. The Syracuse Leathernecks acted as the Syracuse Task Force practicing offensive operations and prisoner handling under heat and mosquitoes.
A Hiroshima survivor, Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto Imoto, laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He prayed for world disarmament under U.S. leadership and urged that no city endure atomic war again, invoking a prayer with taps signaling.
Capt George A Stone of Minneapolis landed a four engine Stratocruiser at Midway Airport after its propellers failed to reverse. He steered with full left rudder as the plane veered off the runway and through a steel fence onto Central Avenue. All 68 aboard were evacuated with no fire.
In Edison Georgia near a private lake an irate landowner confessed to dressing in a sheet to frighten trespassers. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said reports of a hairy monster were the result of imagination sparked by the farmer’s Halloween ghost act.
In Philadelphia a grand jury indicted Theodore Armpriester and Joseph Ryan, both 12, for involuntary and voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Ellis Palmer, 10, and Adolph Sincavage, 13. Armpriester allegedly planned and carried out the drowning in the Schuylkill River. Ryan allegedly acted under his influence. Ryan to be handled by Juvenile Court. Armpriester to face regular courts like an adult.
Pope Pius XII appeals to eastern rite churches including Russia to join the Roman Catholic Church after centuries of schism. He sent a letter through Archimandrite Isidore Croce at Santa Maria Grottaferrata, commemorating the ninth centennial of St. Bartholomew Junior. The plea aims at Orthodox unity, noting mutual benefit and no loss of rites.
Philadelphia The Atlantic Refining Co unveiled the Atomic Particle Accelerator a petroleum processing device designed to produce higher power fuels for space rocket experiments. The instrument acts as an electron gun propelling atomic particles at high speeds through magnetic coils into petroleum hydrocarbons. Vice president H W Field said atomic energy could cut gasoline molecules to exact pieces with minimal waste.
Howard Neal, 47, drowned yesterday while swimming in the Erie Barge Canal at North Tonawanda suburb. Rescue efforts failed as he disappeared in the canal waters and his body was recovered later.
A typhoon named Hope was located 420 miles south-southwest of Tokyo and moving north northeast parallel to Japan’s coast. Winds reached 80 mph as the storm advanced at about 15 mph.
Joycelin Pilapil, a 16 year old high school senior of Portuguese Filipino heritage, slipped aboard the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan during an open house and is en route to Long Beach with 150 sailors. Canadian navy officials say she will be turned over to U S officials and that no crew member aided her.
President Eisenhower visited the Gettysburg farm with a new two engine Air Force plane carrying hundreds of bills from Congress ending its 1955 session. He plans to act on them before returning to Washington for a Cabinet meeting. Mrs. Eisenhower arrived earlier by car. The Air Force plans to buy 15 similar planes for short trips.
Governor Averell Harriman said he was not interested in a vice presidential bid and would not consider second place on the Democratic ticket. He planned a meeting in Illinois with Adlai Stevenson and reaffirmed support for Stevenson for 1956 while avoiding speculation on Stevenson's own candidacy.
Two Senate Democrats, Russell and Morse, who blocked cabinet pay raise bills this year, said they will support salary increases next year after hearings. They favor some boosts and potential retroactive pay, with hearings and proper consideration urged by Johnston for early January session.
Senator Kefauver blasted the American Democratic Action critique as unjust and said Democrats and President Eisenhower did well in foreign affairs while domestic progress lagged. He urged focus on construction, highways, social security, water resources, and farm legislation in the next session.
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