26 Aug 1946
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1946
Page
1
Screen star Olivia De Havilland 30 to marry Scenario writer Marcus Goodrich 48 at Lawrence Langner’s Westport Connecticut home. The wedding marks De Havilland’s first marriage and Goodrich’s fifth.
Washington columnist Frederick O Toman jokes about Army haberdashery choices as the Quartermaster Corps asks the public to help select new fighting man costumes. He notes his own survey to the Smithsonian for ideas while referencing Gen. Phil Sheridan and Rienzi.
The routine forecast calls for fair skies in Syracuse with slightly warmer temperatures today and Tuesday. Highs near 70 and a low around 51 are expected, with sunset at 7 50 P M and sunrise Tuesday at 6 24 A M. Records note a 92 degree high in 1932 and a 44 degree low in 1942.
Soviet and Yugoslav press assail U S campaign against Yugoslavia as search parties resume the hunt for two missing American airmen after two Army transports were downed by Tito's fighters. Moscow radio accuses Washington of pressuring Yugoslavia with military might while Yugoslav papers call the reporting a lie and a slan der amid the Paris peace conference shadow.
A Weather Bureau update warns of a chilly night and modest warm-up today and Tuesday. Readings have stayed about six degrees below normal, with six straight days under average. Since last Tuesday, daily temps averaged five degrees below normal, while early August was slightly warmer but overall August runs one degree below normal.
Washington reports the draft system revives after a two month halt. Reception centers to start lines next week with hopes to meet the Army quota of 25 000 men in the 1929 age group by September. In June 6 400 were inducted all non teenagers. 18 year olds are exempted but 19 year olds drafted. Four new deferment categories include college teachers home construction workers and other critical occupations.
The Justice Department in an opinion approved the gift of surplus government property by the War Assets Administration to non profit educational institutions. Acting Attorney General J Howard McGrath prepared the ruling after a request by War Assets Administrator Robert M Littlejohn. New nonprofit bodies are eligible to receive gifts of surplus property.
A three-judge Federal Court upheld Georgia's county unit vote system for Democratic primaries and refused to invalidate Eugene Talmadge's nomination to a fourth term as governor.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told Syracuse University graduates that peace must be guarded by police forces if needed and defended by brains as atomic power grows. He warned defense is a major issue but urged investment in knowledge to meet future threats, calling peace an interlude between wars without global living skills.
United Nations Security Council expected to hear the Soviet Ukraine charge that the Creek government threatens Balkan peace. The council agenda will place the case on Wednesday after review of nine nations seeking UN admission.
Maj. Gen. Walter Schreiber testified that in July 1943 Adolf Hitler tasked Hermann Goering with preparing bacteriological warfare, granting broad powers. An institute near Poznan was to produce cultures on a large scale and conduct experiments, the witness said at the International Military Tribunal.
An Australian delegate at the peace conference proposed that Russia be asked to justify its $900 million reparations claims. He urged an on the spot investigation of former enemy nations’ ability to pay. Molotov rebutted, noting Russia’s own devastation and extended payment terms.
A David Lawrence column questions Marshal Tito’s unclarified motive for attacking unarmed American planes. The piece appears on today’s op-ed page, with the rest of today’s editorial and illustration features referenced, including a Reader's Digest condensation and an upcoming Reader’s Digest package.
In Nanking Gen. Chou En Lai charged that American support for Chiang Kai-shek's government caused the breakdown of Chinese peace parleys. He said U S policy was largely responsible for the failure of special envoy Marshal and Ambassador Stuart to mediate civil strife.
Col. James A. Killian testified in his own defense that he did not hear of any mistreatment of soldiers in the Lichfield guardhouse until months after he left Lichfield in the English theater. The testimony centers on wartime conduct and command awareness during the period in question.
In Brooklyn a two year nine month old boy drowns in a bathtub while the mother finds him in pajamas. Dawn reveals the father, 43-year-old Joseph Merritt, floating near the docks of New York Harbor as police investigate the simple tragedy.
Thousands of shoppers mobbed Tokyo department stores to buy feather shoes offered at below wartime black market prices. Long lines formed since Sunday evening as customers carried lunch boxes, awaiting the sale start.
Navy officials ordered a full scale investigation into the accidental dive bombing of a private yacht on Lake Erie Sunday. Three reserve officer pilots from Grosse Ile Naval Air Station mistook the white cruiser named The Albatross for a floating target. Seven fishermen aboard the 38 foot boat escaped serious injury as the vessel caught fire. Owner Albert Reisig of Voleda suffered minor burns and shock.
British troops swept Surprise YAM Palestine rounding up 200 residents of the Jewish fishing village near Halfa to search homes for suspects tied to the Empire Rival explosion. Villagers were confined in barbed wire enclosures as mine detector gear and dogs scouted the area. Brig. R. H. Anderson led a full invasion style operation with tanks, trucks, and shore patrols.
Richard Lichtheim, a dissident Zionist leader, charged the Jewish Agency executive committee with secretly acquiescing to British partition proposals for Palestine. He asserted the plan diverts from opposition to current agency policies.
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