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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1949
Page
10
Fourteen men parachuted to safety from a B-29 after a crash northwest of Spokane at the edge of an Indian reservation. One crew member is missing. pieces of a body were found as searchers recovered wreckage. Three crewmen suffered minor injuries during the parachute jump into the night.
Braddon directs a municipal memorial auditorium campaign and promotes a local CLSCLA in Johnson City. He organized a county and area camping program for XUMGC.aAc and expanded Binghamton Camp with eight new men cabins. He teaches jiu jitsu to police and serves on church and civic boards including Tabernacle Methodist and United Churches.
Open letter to a Palermo newspaper features Salvatore Giuliano claiming to be savior of Sicily and demanding authorities halt police actions. Robin Hood rhetoric appears in the text with threats of hunting him if orders are not followed. The piece frames a self styled rebel and government tension in Sicily.
A watch seller named Owens used watches from his store to lure customers then faced theft. A youth snatched the case and escaped through a alley despite Owens pursuit. In New York, electric power output for the week ending August declined due to cooler weather, though output remained above year earlier levels.
Washington reports the Reconstruction Finance Corp may add 2500000 dollars to a single loan batch for Lustron Corp of Columbus Ohio. The move would exhaust Congress authorized funds to aid manufacturers of prefabricated houses as Senate committees hear testimony.
Ossining reports jewel thief Gererd Gra iham Dennis, 29, convicted of jewel thefts totaling more than 500000 dollars, was moved today from Sing Sing Prison to Auburn Penitentiary. He also faced burglary charges relating to the case.
At a four day meeting the American Legion delegates vow to defend veterans rights, oppose dissolving VA control, and push for UN veto reform while backing civilian atom control and anti Communist measures. A 12 hour parade drew an estimated 1.5 million spectators.
The Miami weather bulletin notes a developing disturbance located east of Barbados in the central Atlantic. It was southeast of Barbados moves west at about six to eight knots with winds near 35 mph. forecast to pass south of Barbados later today. Small craft are advised to remain in port.
Sir Stafford Cripps and Foreign Secretary Bevin sailed from Southampton on the Mauretanias for talks in Washington. Bevin said the mission may be one of the most important in history and that an answer to financial and economic problems could be found to lay a sound foundation for future world peace.
New York reports the death of Robert AL Miller known as Gouet Vietor Iustig, a famed swindler linked to elaborate counterfeiting schemes. Federal authorities confirm his death in a federal hospital in Maine after a career that allegedly defrauded owners of millions. Miller and his associate Watts were previously sentenced to Alcatraz.
New York wholesale price index for a pound of 31 general use foods fell to 3.73 from 3.81 last week, 16.2 percent below the year ago level of 4.90. Wheat, corn, oats rose while beef, butter, eggs, potatoes, lard and cacao moved lower.
A mass escape at a Little Rock reform school near 16 miles southwest involved eight inmates and led to indictments against two former officials for mistreatment. Six fugitives were later recaptured and returned to the facility as police investigated the disorder and the missing girls.
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