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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
2
A Park Avenue duchess, famed heiress Hopie Hampton, adopts a unique three quarter convertible with a sun shield for her blond skin. Attorney Sinclair Robinson escorts her in a Buick, while a separate top keeps the sun from her seat as she prefers top down rides.
Rumors swirl about Lana Turner filming in Rome with chambermaids on strike while Governor Dewey allegedly seeks ex publicist Lemanes for a covert job. Melvin Purvis reportedly investigates Army plane crashes for possible sabotage and Joey Adams notes Russia’s current imports focus on its own diplomats. Juuba Turpak, Mrs Kasenkina Interview interpreter, claims to be the daughter of a priest, clarifying her father Rev Cumphrey Kowalsky of a Ramay Pennsylvania church is an Eastern Rite minister.
Obituaries list prominent figures: Harry N. Rickey 77 former Scripps Howard executive and first director of NEA in Winter Park Florida. Harry N. Wiess 61 Humble Oil chairman in Houston. Frank W. Goodale 61 pioneer aviator tested Army parachute in St Petersburg Florida. Thomas Lard Cameron 90 singer at LaSalle Theater Montreal noted in Canada and U S. Miss Katherine A S Trist Ram 90 missionary and long time VP of Britain Missionary Society in Japan based Bristol England. Gordon Bottomley 74 poet playwright promoter of revived English drama in Oare Wiltshire England.
A transcontinental rail line stretching across South America reaches its western terminus near Lima Peru with elevations reaching up to 15000 feet above sea level illustrating the high altitude route.
Dr. W Ralph Singleton senior geneticist at Brookhaven National Laboratory announced a new stubby field corn plant rising to about man height. The redesign aims to ease harvesting and reduce storm vulnerability.
Publisher Frank C. Gannett entered Highland Hospital yesterday for a rest and recuperation after business trips in Rochester. The brief note records his admission and expected stay.
A 15 member group of anti Nazi German editors and publishers will arrive in New York by plane on September for a six week study of democratic press functions and techniques. Floyd Paytor of the American Press Institute at Columbia University said the group includes owners of Germanys strongest publications.
The Tsungarian legation reported Nagy defied the Budapest government’s come home order. The State Department would not comment, while Informer quarters said Nagy sought permission to stay in the United States as a political refugee.
Alfred Krupp van Bohlen und Halbach, heir to the German arms dynasty, serving 12 years for war crimes, petitions General Clay for a new trial claiming his sentence is unfair and that he never took anything without paying.
Within the United States the state of Nevada reports the smallest number of persons per theater seat at 5.6, highlighting unusually compact seating distribution.
A federal grand jury, previously indicting 12 top Communists, is summoned to reconvene on September 14 to review additional evidence. Thomas Donegan announces the call and notes jurors will be in session through September. Trial for the 12 is tentatively set for October 15. all defendants remain free on bond.
In the Schellenberg war crimes trial at MERNBERG German officials presented documents showing Russian soldiers captured early in the war acted as spies against the Soviet Union. They claimed thousands were trained and used, then murdered at Auschwitz when no longer needed.
A packed Los Angeles courtroom saw Mae testify in a suit by writers Edwin O vis Ren and Michael Raneoh who claim material appeared in her production Catherine. Mae denies seeing the script and questions the relevance of the lovers' succession order while the trial focuses on alleged appropriation of material.
New York reports 7,690 new business incorporations in July the smallest monthly total since November 1945. June had 8,550 and July 9,041. For the first seven months of 1948 stock company formations totaled 61,928, down 9 percent from the 68,414 in the same period a year earlier.
Washington reports Britain and the United States seek agreement on a price for German steel scrap imports. The U S favors 26 dollars per ton while Britain pushes 30 to speed deliveries. General Lucius D. Clay has delayed allocations pending a common price and both nations face quarterly scrap allocations.
Federal Judge Robert Baltell ruled the CIO United Electrical Workers must remove their picket line from the Bucyrus-Erie plant in Indianapolis. Testimony showed Ryan Construction Company workers would not cross the line to access the site where Ryan erects a building for Bucyrus-Erie, prompting NLRB to seek an injunction over alleged secondary boycott activity.
British officials have decided to try three top German field marshals for shooting hostages and other military crimes under the Hague Convention. The defendants are Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Fritz Erich von Mannstein, and Walther von Brauchitsch.
The smallest South American country is Uruguay with an area of 72,153 square miles.
New York landlords seek eviction of Vivienne Woolley Hart from Park Avenue apartment after a charity gambling party July 28 sparked a grand jury inquiry. They filed with the City Rent Commission citing tenant embarrassment as grounds for removal.
Viscount Montgomery, British imperial chief of staff, lands in Hamburg for a three day tour in the British zone. Officials call the trip routine.
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