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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1946
Page
2
State police investigated a $5200 jewel theft from a safe at the Sagamore Hotel Bolton Landing and described the missing items as a 160 karat amethyst diamond bracelets rings and a jade edged brooch with amethysts and diamonds. owner unknown.
Ninety vintage cars push toward Columbians Ohio after crossing two laps of the Glidden Tour. The 500 mile event ends with a run to Youngstown as Firestone's birthplace hosts the finish. Senator Vandenberg heads to Paris for the Peace Conference. Deshazer and Matheny announce their wedding in Gresham Oregon. Shirley Temple consoles W C Fields with a promise about liquor in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. A milkman reports a death by own action in Minersville after a sign reads call police dead.
Simeon R. Winch 58 vice president and business manager of the Oregon Journal Portland. Courtenay Savage 56 Chicago writer and dramatist former drama director for CBS who went to Italy as Rome correspondent for the Catholic Welfare Conference. N Robert Bushman 74 patent attorney and director at Technicolor Pictures Corporation Boston. Joseph Edmund Witeh 58 president of the Chicago Bar Association Chicago.
Government reports 25 Jews fled Athut detention camp near Haifa on Thursday night. Police credited a HIagana operation for the escape, with the group linked to one of the principal Jewish resistance organizations.
Albany reports the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination sharpening between Maj. Gen. William Donovan and retired Lt. Gen. Hugh Drum. Drum wins NYC support, Donovan garners WWI veterans' backing and opposition from the State Federation of Labor as Saratoga convention nears.
The article describes boat rocking on the water as a metaphor for dance motion and notes the Lindy and jitterbug have merged into rhumba with a sugar foot break. Arthur Powell of New York City, a Lindy teacher, says jumping five bars is being replaced by standard ballroom moves and jitterbugging remains smooth with many turns.
Jawaharlal Nehru named to head a new interim government for India to take office September 2. King George VI appointed the government as the first step toward independence, facing opposition from the Moslem League which refuses to participate and threatens direct action that could cripple governance.
A missing father Abraham Kohn 45 a Stamford bookkeeper is sought along with his four sons after a deserted mother left them. Police found an empty rowboat a half mile offshore fueling fears the man may have taken his own life and fled with his children.
Reconversion Director John R. Sleelman met with the wage board as White House conferences continued to study ways to stage any new wage demands and strikes.
In Nashville Tennessee Dwight Carman 62 is jailed after his wife Mrs. Carman 61 died in a cottage fire. Investigators allege Carman planned to marry lobbie Ann Keith 16 and flee with her after sending letters he and the girl wrote. The case headed to the grand jury with more details from District Attorney General J Carlton Loser.
Acheson indicated the United States remains concerned with casualties from the Yugoslav attack and the release of seven Americans and two Hungarians. Officials weighed whether the Turk’s flight was intentional and how to proceed before the Security Council as moves to resume Army Air Force flights with protection were prepared.
In White Plains a 49 year old Negro porter Percy Marvini died at White Plains Hospital from stab wounds after an ax and knife assault at the American Red Cross office where he and 19-year-old clerk Frances Anastasi were employed. Anastasi remains unconscious and critical but is reported holding her own by hospital staff.
U S officials confirm five U S airmen killed in a transport crash in Yugoslavia as embassies assist with grave identification. Ambassador Patterson and Col. Partridge oversee recovery in Belgrade and visit Koprivnik remains amid a deteriorating ultimatum deadline.
The notice catalogs a string of consumer items including gold plated watches at 275, moon phase Wright watches at 275, shaving brushes at 12, aluminum durable goods, hermetically sealed cases, and refrigerator innards bathed in ultraviolet light. It ends with a comic note on gas savings and a blanket remark about postwar shopping.
Litvinoff emerged as a key Soviet figure from 1939 through 1943. He backed mutual assistance pacts with nezo powers, helped secure U S recognition in 1933, and served as ambassador in Washington from Dec 6 1941, until Aug 22 1943. He remained a vocal advocate of collective security and closer ties with Britain and the United States.
Bread production shifts from dark to white flour as restrictions ease due to record 1946 crops and price decontrol board action. Meat ceilings curb excessive feed while grain export targets rise from 250 million to about 400 million bushels. Distillers get 20 percent more grain in September, brewers 21.5 percent more, with existing limits kept for rye and certain grades.
A strong earthquake struck the Dominican Republic at 9 15 A M with no immediate reports of damage or casualties. CIUBAD TRUJILLO D BR reported the tremor and noted no injuries or destruction in initial assessments.
The Office of Price Administration vows firm ceilings and expands meat inspector staff beyond 800 as it authorizes over a score of price hikes on trucks, cotton goods, nuts, tuna, furnaces, metals and building materials. Auto prices face targeted increases through dealer records with prewar charge permits. Margarine oils lard flour and clothing costs also rise while new pricing rules tie to textile costs and grain policy.
The International Photo-Engravers Union AJOL ends its 45th convention in Cincinnati by approving a plan to resist CIO expansion into allied graphic arts crafts. Delegates authorized the executive council to study a national program for organizing offset and lithographic workers. Charles Bixbee of Seattle introduced the resolution.
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