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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1941
Page
4
Bernard M. Mitchell announces Syracuse births for this year exceed any calendar year on record with 4468 to date, surpassing last year’s 4059 for the same period. Officials expect annual births to near 4600, about 12 percent above the three centennial years average.
The Federal Trade Commission charges Sheffield Farms Company Inc with unfair practices to control the Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Association. The complaint says Sheffield organized and dominated the association to fix prices and limit member choice, harming producer cooperatives. The association lists 7 166 producer members as of November 1940. Sheffield has 20 days to answer. delegates gather in Syracuse for meetings and board changes.
AP foreign staff member Roy Porter spoke at a Syracuse editors luncheon about the Vichy regime and Nazi censorship. He described conditions in unoccupied France as dire and noted Rostov’s German withdrawal as tactical. Porter plans to reunite his scattered family after furlough and will report from the west.
Ambrose McDermott of Lysander seeks custody of his five children. Supreme Court Justice Kimball referred the case to Official Referee Ernest I Edgecomb who began hearings this afternoon. McDermott previously left with four children, was jailed on an abandonment charge, and custody was given to the maternal grandparents after the mother died in 1938. Irwin represents McDermott. Preston duo represent the defendants.
Edward J. Leclair was elected general chairman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on multiple rail lines including the New York Central System Boston and Albany Big Four Michigan Central and Erie. The honor at the New York Central passenger station was presented by foreman Robert Dool Tittle and W. J. Brockway with more than 73 employees present.
Rev. Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney of Park Central Presbyterian Church challenged 200 young Pilgrim Fellowship members from Central New York Congregational churches to deepen belief beyond mere acquaintance with God. The event at Dansforth United Church featured worship, seminars, recreation, dinner, and a candlelight communion led by Rev. Archie B. Bedford.
Syracuse district office of American Airlines will move to the Boston traffic control area. Flights east of Syracuse will be piloted from Massachusetts city. Change aims for more coordinated flight control after a two week practice period.
Protestant and Catholic church leaders in Syracuse condemned the Greta Garbo movie Two Faced Woman as indecent and immoral. Clergy urged congregants to boycott showings and avoid theaters, with leaders from the Syracuse Council of Churches backing the stance.
William Case, 29, of 202 Holland Street, is in fair condition at St. Joseph's Hospital after taking a large amount of poison Saturday. He was admitted in critical condition and given an injection of sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, a new drug, in an attempt to save his life.
The Syracuse and Onondaga County boards started counting enrolled voters with 28 extra clerks, 14 Republicans and 14 Democrats, expected to take about three weeks.
Mrs Herbert H Lehman wife of the New York governor christened the New York Central Empire State Express by breaking a bottle of champagne over the locomotive nose. The $1,000,000 streamlined train promises synchronized efficiency to bolster national defense and unity across races creeds and groups.
A brief Albany AP roundup lists several weekend highway deaths across New York state from Niagara Falls to Buffalo. Names include Joseph Bell, Florence A. Mader, and Norman Croweth, with multiple two-car or auto truck collisions reported in Grand Island Saranac Lake Saratoga Springs and Batavia areas.
The Syracuse area reports multiple injuries and the death of Henry Stark 76 of 116 Hillsdale Avenue after a monthlong injury from a car collision at James Street and Ashdale Avenue. Patrolman John Miller suffered injuries in a radio car crash, while Harold Ferguson 18 faced reckless driving charges. Additional crashes near Cicero Ogdensburg and Ithaca injured several others, including Gynalle Petrie and others, with details on injuries and hospitalizations.
Navy torpedo boats were allowed by State Commissioner Guy Pinck to pass through the Barge Canal from the Great Lakes after the official closing date. The Alden Barnes Fiertz and three Socony barges moved through Syracuse area as the season ends. Buoys and lights removal was set to begin, with no definite timing for the fleet’s entry.
Vito Cocuzzi 41 of 211 North Townsend Street and Robert J. May 41 of 355 East Genesee were arraigned in Police Court and pleaded not guilty. May is held on $500 bond until tomorrow. Cocuzzi bound over on $500 bond until December 7. They were arrested yesterday at May’s apartment after an altercation that left Cocuzzi with injuries.
About 800 to 1,000 representatives from 400 industries in Syracuse and nearby areas will visit the OPM special defense train at the D L W Railroad station on Wednesday from 8 50 A.M. to 5 P.M. Thurlow D Harter says city officials will join the reception committee. Admission by ticket only. public not admitted. A 36 member staff from Army Navy Maritime Commission and OPM will guide tours and potential contracts may be discussed. The Syracuse office manager departs for Albany to join the train, which will also stop in Utica for local industrialists.
Wilfred J. Wilcox 35 of 200 Hawley Avenue was held without charge at Lordwdse pole headquarters after an alleged burglary attempt at Beil's Restaurant 550 Butternut Street. Albert Pierce reported hearing footsteps at 3 AM. Patrolman John Galeazzi found Wilcox on an icebox. A pinball machine and cash register had been tampered with and $3 to $4 in change taken from a tumbler. Detective Louis McMahon continues the inquiry with no signs of forced entry.
War Department contracts totaling 5 355 774 are awarded with three destined for Syracuse manufacture. Hoffman Machine Corporation gets 9 466 for conveying equipment. E D Clapp Manufacturing of Auburn appears with a 1.00 contract for Syracuse manufacture, and Globe Forge and Foundries of Syracuse receives 1 653 for forgings, totaling 12 173 for Syracuse.
Conservation Commissioner Lithgow Osborne orders district rangers and foresters to patrol Forest Preserve and reforestation areas to deter holiday tree theft. Syracuse conservation chief M. L. Callaghan confirms constant surveillance until after Christmas. Theft carries fines up to 100 dollars per offense plus 10 dollars per tree and treble stumpage. private land removals without consent are a misdemeanor.
A December cold wave hits town driving temperatures to 20 degrees with frost on lawns and cars. Weather Bureau forecasts cloudy skies then warmer with occasional snow and rain, and notes Syracuse’s record low for December 1 at 1 degree above zero set in 1936.
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