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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1946
Page
6
Court heard affidavits detailing Japanese troops in North China tearing victims with police dogs and mass killings in Nanking and Hopei. Witnesses described rapes, arson executions, and bodies left unburied as U S officials cited over twenty thousand executions.
A Soviet court sentenced Gen. Gregorie Semenov to death by hanging for bearing arms and spying. Five co-defendants were shot, Prince Ukhtomsky got 200 years penal servitude, and Anotkin 15 years. All eight pleaded guilty to a 25 year counter revolution plot. Semenov claimed collaboration with Japanese generals to seize Asiatic Russia.
F J Steinbright reports a nine inch bullhead fish handled as a conductor between live and ground wires on a Northern Pacific telegraph circuit near Lombard Montana. The fish likely dropped by a fish hawk or osprey disrupted the line and killed the circuit.
In Lock Haven Pennsylvania women aviators of the Order of Fifinella checked over more than 100 planes in preparation for a peacetime light plane flight hailed by Piper Aircraft officials as the largest of its kind. The Wasps postponed the attempt yesterday due to bad weather.
Twenty five aircraft are to be showcased at the national air show in Cleveland, Ohio, before continuing to Akron for onward delivery to buyers.
Ferland Colomber interior decorator from Scarsdale New York was killed when his car skidded off the road in Houston yesterday. The crash involved his wife who was injured as she drove.
J Finley Wilson grand exalted ruler of the Negro Elks vows to gain civil liberties and human rights for the Nero and to work toward the extinction of the Ku Klux Klan. Wilson, 66, publisher of the Washington Eagle, spoke in Buffalo.
A Mississippi official, elected to a 25th term, addressed a 47th annual convention and pledged to abolish the poll tax, extinguish mob torch terror, and cut the lynching rope so schools can open as in Buffalo.
Kenneth Reymond, serving 10 to 25 years in Arizona for abducting a Phoenix businessman, continued to deny kidnapping six year old Rochelle Gluskoter in Los Angeles last February. Los Angeles authorities said two women identified him as the man who drove away with the child. Extradition to California was being sought.
Ray Mond admitted guilt last July for kidnapping Max Birka of Phoenix, as investigators pursue related charges.
Lawrence F. Switzer fifteen died after a sister Audrey Louise nine fired a pump rifle during a game of make believe in the barnyard at the Switzer home near Forest Ohio. Dr Dwight King acting county coroner reported the accident occurred Thursday.
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