Slow start seen in Syracuse peacetime draft signup
In Syracuse and Onondaga County 2000 men aged 25 registered across 71 centers as Board 57 and county boards worked through early hours. Swartz cited quiet orderly response while confusion grew over sign up timing and procedures. Schools reported light turnout with 8 to 10 per site. university center ran smoothly amid many workers signing up at plants to avoid work disruption.
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Syracuse
Onondaga County
Louis B. Swartz
Selective Service Board
Daniel Shéa
Woting
Board 57
Swartz
Washington Irving
Madison School
Syracuse University
Maxwell School
Henry Kaiser spotlight in Marquis Childs profile
Marquis Childs profiles Henry J Kaiser, noting a controversial, diversified career that defied expectations. The feature highlights Kaiser's influence across industry and finance, with pages 30 and 31 dedicated to comics, horoscopes, and various regular sections.
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United States
Henry J. Kaiser
Marquis Childs
California
Airport Tower Plans Held Up By CAA Split
Hancock Airport will gain floor loading specifications from the Civil Aeronautics Administration to finish control tower plans. Washington and Albany offices reportedly disagree on the agency’s role in tower and hangar equipment requirements before opening the field for commercial use. Reginald Sutherland, CAA district engineer in Albany, says the CAA must provide details.
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William A. Barry
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Hancock Airport
Herald- Journal
Washington, D. C
Albany
CAA
Washington
Reginald Sutherland
Wallace jeered in South as rally interrupted by banners
Pi Henry A Wallace campaigned through North Carolina amid boos and cheers ending the day at a wealthy Durham home after an armory rally was interrupted by eye hurling pickets and catcalls. He spoke at Norfolk and Richmond earlier, calling the scene a criterion of what lies ahead. A protest group carried banners condemning him as a mockery and Hitler today as others clashed in the hall.
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Durham
N. C
Henry A. Wallace
North Carolina
Wallace
Mason-Dixon Line
Progressive Party
Norfolk
Richmond
Russia
N. J
GOP Backs Heath For High Bench In Southern District
Republicans of the Sixth Judicial District named Riley H. Heath of Binghamton as their candidate to replace retiring State Supreme Court Justice James P. Hill. Heath, 58, previously served on the Supreme Court bench from 1931 to 1944, then moved from Ithaca to establish a law practice in Binghamton. The district includes 10 southern and central counties.
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Binghamton
Riley H. Heath
Supreme Court
James P. Hill
Hill
Heath
Ithaca
Low of 58 Is Forecast for Tonight in Syracuse
A cooling air mass from Canada eased the Syracuse area heat with a forecast of a 58 degree low tonight and 82 high tomorrow. The period also notes New York State leading heat death tolls with 43 of 173 deaths. Syracuse resident Peter Petruniak dies at University Hospital. In New York City, J Peters, accused communist organizer Alexander Stevens, was subpoenaed by the House Un American Activities Committee for deportation hearings.
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J . Peters
Chambers
Syracuse
Mometers
New York State
Peter Petruniak
E. Genesee St
University Hospital
New York
House Un-American Activities Committee
J. Peters
Whittaker Chambers
United States
Peters
Alexander Stevens
Immigration and Naturalization Service
House Committee
House
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Thay
Immigration Service
Robert Nixon
R.-Calif
John McDowell
R.-Pa
King
Stevens
Kew Gardens
Borough of
Queens
New York City
Tornado Believed To Have Hit Northwest Plane Crash
An official said a tornado likely struck the Northwest Airlines Martin 2-0-2 causing a crash into a Mississippi River bluff near Fountain City Wisconsin. All 36 aboard died, with 10 bodies recovered as searchers combed swamps along the river.
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Fountain City
Wis
Northwest Airlines
Henry Rhyner
Buffalo County
Buffalo Ridge
St. Charles
Minn
Here
Rhyner
J. W. Tinker
Winona
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Axis Sally May Face Grand Jury
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally was asked to appear before a Federal grand jury in Washington to testify she is a German citizen while she made wartime broadcasts. She faces treason charges for Nazi radio broadcasts aimed at undermining American GIs.
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Washington
Mildred E. Gillars
Miss Gillars
Negro Captain Renounces U S Citizenship in Paris
Paris dispatch reports Arthur W. Taylor of Pittsburgh, a wartime captain in a Black U S Army unit, renounced his American citizenship at the American Embassy. Officials say he took the oath ten days ago and is believed to have gone to Belgium where he had lived.
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Paris
Arthur W. Taylor
Pittsburgh
Belgium
American VIENNA: Pfc Marvin Ayres Released After Russian Custody
Pfc. Marvin Ayres of Los Angeles has been returned to American authorities after 60 hours in Russian custody. He was handed over at Linz yesterday afternoon after being arrested Wednesday for crossing into the Russian zone in an Austrian taxi.
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Vienna
Marvin Ayres
Los Angeles
Ayres
Linz
Reds Peril South Korea Threat in North Korea Broadcast
A Pyongyang broadcast intercepted by the U S Army warned it would destroy the elected government in American occupied South Korea. It followed North Korea's August 25 election for a Supreme Peoples Council and attacked the Novrean Republic in the South.
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Seoul
North Korea
South Korea
Pyongyang
Supreme Peoples Council
United Nations
Water Main Break Delays Subway Service in New York
Emergency crews fought to repair a major water main break that flooded scores of cellars and disrupted West Side IRT subway service for 13 hours. The break, one of the worst in years, sent torrents through tracks and caused sidewalk collapses.
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New York
INS
West Side
Bath Writ by Peorian in 1870 Sparked by Soot Claim
Ferdinand Silcox, an actuary, quotes a Peoria writer who called the city the dirtiest in America. He notes sun penetration through soot, low buildings to curb deaths, and concludes with the plan to take a bath after describing Peoria.
Silence is Golden Court Rules in Vacuum Case
A Syracuse Municipal Court decision finds Joseph Bisslessi liable only for costs as his wife bought a vacuum cleaner and paid the bill. Judge Harry H. Skerritt ruled Bisslessi’s presence at signing did not authorize the sale, while Star Vacuum Stores, Inc. seeks $35 unpaid balance. In Nantico ker Pennsylvania, farmer Henry Bobbin reports an abundance of cabbage with 40,000 heads offered free, yet only 500 were claimed at the park.
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Syracuse
Joseph Bisslessi
Shennard Jr
Harry H. Skerritt
Bisslessi
Star Vacuum Stores, Inc
Nanticoker
Henry Bobbin
Bobbin
Red Probers Will Examine CIO Union
Rep. Charles Wersten said the House Labor Subcommittee probing communist influence in unions will begin an inquiry into the CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America in Washington on Thursday.
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New York
Charles Z. Wersten
R-Wis
House Labor
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Washington
North Carolina braces for major hurricane strike
Hurricane warnings stretch from Hatteras to the Virginia capes as a tropical cyclone nears the coast. At 10 A.M. the center lay about 250 miles south, moving north-northwest toward Cape Hatteras with expected landfall tonight. Winds top 115 mph, with hurricane-force gusts 50 to 60 miles around the center.
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Cape Hatteras
Italy Reds Insult Catholic Pilgrims at Genoa Station
Rioting Reds insulted and trampled cigarettes tossed at a group of 535 American Catholic pilgrims arriving by train from France at Genoa. The pilgrims, mostly from New England and many churchmen, faced shouts of go back to America as they were herded through the Genoa railroad station last Friday.
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Genoa
America
New England
France
Worker Suffocated Under Tons of Sand at Plaster Plant
Fred Rigabar, 54, of 122 Fabius Street, died after being buried beneath tons of sand in a hopper at Paragon Plaster Co. He, in charge of screening sand, apparently fell into a third-floor sand chute and was trapped between floors. His body was found about an hour later by coworker Joseph Grzelak.
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Fred Rigabar
Fabius St
Paragon Plaster Co
W. Fayette St
Rigabar
Joseph Grzelak
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