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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1947
Page
2
A scatter of backstage humor and outlandish anecdotes from Broadway life. The piece lampoons doctors giving vitamin shots and quick cures, celebrity gossip, and show business chatter spanning George Jessel Bert Lahr Phil Silvers and vaudeville notes with playful digs at Hollywood shoots and drinkers.
The Empire State increases the cigarette tax from two to three cents after December 31 to fund a $400 million veterans bonus debt. Dealers may buy one-cent tax stickers from wholesalers after December 15. Cigarettes packaged on hand by year end face the higher tax.
President Truman plans to launch a government fuel and power conservation campaign with a call for voluntary consumer rationing. A congressional committee proceeds with a broad investigation into shortages across gasoline fuel oil natural gas coal and electricity.
Dispatches from Belgrade indicate the first full Cominform meeting will occur sooner than the December 15 date. In Saigon the Viet Nam attack failed at night as French sources noted a few small bomb blasts in central Saigon and outside attacks.
In Allentown Pennsylvania printers strike after rejecting a 16 to 22 percent wage increase tied to continuing the expired contract with the Allentown Call Chronicle. Chicago locals seek higher pay. benefits start today. Newspapers oppose Taft Hartley closed shop clause amid wage dispute and contract terms.
Walter Kiernan critiques inflation during Christmas by noting widespread job gains and rising prices. Phil Murray and Earl Bunting argue for higher production and output to match demand. The piece mocks the idea of limitless guarantees and questions the Santa mystique guiding consumer beliefs.
Death notices list Rev Henry H Foot emeritus of Evangelical Brethren Church in Frederick. Md. Frederick McGormack 50 wealthy racing yachtsman in New York City. Dr Wesley G France 55 Ohio State University chemist in Columbus. Willis I Weaver 44 Erie editor in Hamburg. John G Keinsingmith 57 VP National Chautauqua Bank in Boston. Roy H Beatty 59 House of Representatives bookkeeper in Washington.
The body of a one month bride, identified as Bernice Gold Gollobith 36, was found strangled in the trunk of a discarded automobile on Northfield Road in Livingston. Her husband Vincent A. Gollobith 45, of Denville, is being held for investigation in a condition described as incoherent by Police Sergeant Nelson Beck.
Secretary of State Marshall arrived early for a luncheon with Foreign Minister Molo tov and chose a London sight-seeing drive over waiting at the Russian Embassy. Attaches said the early arrival stemmed from a timing misunderstanding. Ambassador Lewis Douglas accompanied him to view points of interest in London.
Moscow marked the 11th anniversary of the Stalin Constitution with flags on public buildings and front page portraits of Stalin in the Russian press. All workers received a holiday.
Millard F. Wright a 38 year old burglar who received a prefrontal lobotomy to curb crime remains evasive crafty and cunning according to the Pittsburg clinic report. He continues two to 12 year burglary term under psychiatrists surveillance with no real change in egocentric behavior.
One million dollar blaze destroyed the main mill of the world’s largest toothpick maker last night. Forster Manufactusine Co employees facing layoffs include 700 workers in the three story mill and those at the South Portland assembly plant. Vice President R. J. Steffins noted widespread shutdowns and job losses.
A three alarm fire raged through a partly demolished slaughterhouse on the site slated for the United Nations project in Manhattan. Firemen kept the blaze under control ten hours after it started last night.
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