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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1946
Page
2
A Saratoga Springs taxi driver Abe Kobel and passenger Charles Gurevich were robbed this morning by a dark youth who boarded at an intersection and produced a gun after pickup. The theft totaled over $2600 and included the vehicle.
In ONSET and Cambridge a murder charge was filed against Charles Russell Goodale for the slaying of Ruth McGurk a 25 year old vacationer. The case sparked a tavern brawl in Swedesboro where a crowd attacked a man and seized his revolver. Dwight D Eisenhower prepared to depart from San Antonio for an undisclosed destination after a Latin American tour. Gerald L Smith spoke at a 7000 strong crowd in Nequa Wisconsin. Episcopal convention in Philadelphia will seek women's rights definitions and seating of a lost female delegate. Philadelphia police report the Stork delivered the 25th baby for officer Philip Pourton after 26 years on the force.
Trem Care 54 production chief Monogram Studios and 1954 Independent Motion Picture Producers Association president dies in San Diego. Henry O. Rondeau 45 led the New England Shoe and Leather Association and wartime War Production Board unit in Alton Bay New Jersey. Inez Farmer Oliveros aided the Girl Scout movement in Savannah Georgia. Richard Collet 61 long served as general manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Chobham England. William Martin Wammer 79 railroad equipment manufacturer dies in New York City.
London reports Britain pressed Turkey to discuss revisions to the Dardanelles accord and called for a meeting of all signatories to the Montreux convention. Britain and France were among those urged to attend as part of a broader revision effort.
Two German party leaders urged Allied powers to reconsider Poland’s gains in Germanys eastern territories. In Eastern Germany critics opposed only eastern frontiers revision while Russian sponsored groups opposed Ruhr Rhineland Saar split. Hermann Goering at the War Crimes trial was shoved by a guard as he attempted to pass a note to his attorney, violating trial rules.
Washington Senator Owen Brewster urged revising the Wagner Labor Relations Act to grant employers free speech in union organizing campaigns. He proposed early session study of changes to ensure fair treatment, including rights to petition for plant elections and define supervisory employees, while opposing committee study delays and noting potential secondary boycott legislation.
In Jerusalem a citywide halt and checks on all automobiles and pedestrians signal a tense standstill amid mounting Jewish non cooperation talks. Despite threats of action if death sentences are confirmed, authorities report no arrests as mobile British troops guard key sites and underground groups lean toward restraint during London negotiations.
Jonita Michigan reports the United Furniture Workers faced a potential loss of 500 members as Tonia Local 420 demanded transfer to the CIO and United Auto Workers. The Grand Rapids Local, with 2,500 members, has already voted to leave the UFCW for the AFL, amid protests of alleged Communist influence in the parent group.
Patterson condemns the Yugoslav air attack on an American transport flight from Vienna to Udine as wicked and deliberate. He cites crew survival thanks to pilot skill and divine grace, notes a Turkish officer wounded, and says Yugoslavs refused US access to victims and the wreck. Crew included Crombie, McNew, Dahlgren, Dick. passengers Carroll, Hodecker, Burnburn. The plane rests near Kranj after a crash landing. Yugoslav officials hold the aircraft logbook and the crew and passengers.
The federal probe into Kansas City vote fraud led to 278 indictments and 63 convictions, mostly precired captains and judges. Pardon petitions before President Truman include Callie Clark and many others, while Truman granted pardons to a list of individuals in 1945 and Roosevelt did so in 1944 for several named persons.
Two men died and a third was injured when their car crashed into a Bronx trolley at Broadway and Mansion Road derailing the trolley. Police said the crash occurred early today and disrupted transit as investigators began interviewing witnesses and examining the wreckage.
Moscow radio quoted Iranian press reports that British forces occupied two small lagga towns across the river from Abadan Iran near the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refineries. The broadcasts say on Aug 12 and Aug 14 British troops entered towns within two miles of the Iranian border and opposite Abadan.
Pu Yi testified in Tokyo that Japanese forces murdered his Chinese wife. He named Lt. Gen. Yoshioka as the adviser suspected of poisoning her and said he entered the puppet throne to resist at the right moment, lamenting his lack of freedom as a trail of courtroom friction unfolded between prosecutors and the judge over translation.
Violence between Moslem and Hindu crowds erupts over Indian independence plans. At least three killed and about 20 injured as houses are burned and families flee with belongings. Jinnah rejects Congress offers, urging British mediation amid mounting intercommunal tension.
Athens Alabama special 18 member jury to be chosen from 36 summoned men as judge Crowe reevaluates riot where a number of Neutroes were beaten and ten white men arrested on unlawful assembly charges in connection with the disturbance.
An Army tug battled a approaching typhoon to tow the disabled Liberty ship Samuel Seabury, stranded at the Inland Sea after losing a propeller. After 12 stormy hours, the Seabury sent an SOS and was reached Sunday. both ships, now Japanese-manned, were reported approaching Kobe.
District Attorney Edward A. Russell announced warrants issued charging a Jersey City grandfather and his brother with kidnapping a three year old boy from his mother Mrs Elmira Quis 24. The case centers on the abduction from the mother in Jersey City. The two suspects named are a grandfather and an uncle from Jersey City referenced in the warrants.
A wartime era column notes the presidents yacht voyage along the Maine coast for a Democratic landing. It mocks political divisions in Maine, with Republicans on the farms and Democrats offshore awaiting a night operation. It asserts the same leaders run the country since the war’s end and concludes with a patrol remark.
Dr Urey of the University of Chicago outlines three war avoidance options. One seeks delaying wars through diplomacy, another warns of a possible future world war to seize global dominance, and a third advocates adequate international control of the atom bomb and major weapons.
Vienna reports the last motorized vehicles in the western zones face imminent halt due to gasoline shortages. American officers cite Russia’s refusal to supply fuel from the Zisterdorf oilfields, claimed by the Soviets as a reparations prize.
President Truman spent time at Quonset Point as he described Gov. Pastore and Solicitor General McGrath's 10 AM visit as a friendly call. He docked aboard the USS Williamsburg at 4 PM after a Washington cruise and avoided political discussion while on a 18 day vacation. Senator Green remains a close friend, with no invitations extended.
Magee Mississippi mayor says a posse of two to three hundred sheriffs and townspeople is hunting a Negro family after multiple shootings in Sullivan Hollow last night. One member of the Afert Craft family is reported shot and captured by state police as four white men are shot or wounded and two state troopers fired upon.
Colorado reported 28 fatalities from a polio outbreak. The latest death was 37 year old James E. Gilbert, who died en route from Walsenburg for iron lung treatment. Two earlier deaths were announced today.
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