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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1949
Page
2
Catholic parents in New York state were urged to bar public school students from viewing the sex education film Human Growth. Auxiliary Bishop Joseph F. Flannery warned at St Patrick's Cathedral that the film could deliver dangerous miseducation to children.
The Boston and Albany Railroad opened a new Diesel repair shop at West Springfield with Mayor Daniel Brunton and state public utilities officials in attendance. The shop will service Diesel electric locomotives on the New York Central system east of Buffalo.
Home Secretary Chuter Ede argued the atom bomb is overrated as a killer. He cited a 1943 Hamburg RAF raid, a Tokyo incendiary attack in 1945, and claimed civil defense could limit casualties even under an atomic strike.
Rep Martin recounts figures including Gorski a 63 year old Illinois congressman from the fifth district since 1942, Clayton 58 a member of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, Wensley 84 former Scotland Yard chief constable in London, Moulton 65 Argonne Lab official and Missouri professor in Chicago, Leggett 73 Western Electric retiree in Garden City, Lannefeld 68 Lever Brothers executive in Arlington, LePine 73 Detroit Tigers rookie star 1903 to 1905 in Woonsocket, Mrs Vivian Foy 53 wife of film producer Bryan Foy in Encino, Rear Adm George B Wilson retired in Washington.
The 10,500 ton Ward party ship leaves Yokohama for Kobe on a scheduled run to Tientsin and Taku Bar to escort Angus Ward and four aides freed after Communist expulsion from Mukden. A U S Army doctor and 13 reporters accompany the mission as it proceeds toward Pusan and final delivery.
In New York three people face charges in a baby selling racket that allegedly brought in over 100000 dollars in the last year. Attorneys Irwin Slater and Harry Wolfson both of Brooklyn and Mrs. Bess Bernard of New York linked to the grand jury information after a seven week probe. The district attorney called Slater the ring’s king pin which operated from Miami and used airplane couriers to move infants to New York and other eastern states. The ring supposedly sold one baby weekly in New York during the past nine months with prices ranging from 2000 to 2500 dollars.
Boston Archbishop P. S. Cushing calls a Protestant group United for Separation of Church and State a refined form of the Ku Klux Klan. He argues non Catholics do not speak for all Protestants and urges vigilance against anti-Catholic activities and organizations in the era.
Witness from Yugoslavia testifies at a spy case in Sarajevo embassy reports. He describes alleged ployage and denies involvement in war plans. He cites Soviet activities and discusses discrimination against Russians and fair treatment comparisons.
William Dunkin, a fugitive who escaped the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, was killed near Rulo after a daytime chase into Kansas. A Kansas trooper fired as the Omaha man tried to flee, ending an 11 day manhunt with Dunkin’s death at about 10 AM.
The Greek government lifted martial law on Crete and the Aegean and Ionian Islands and removed the night curfew in Athens. The moves were seen as signs of the government’s success against Communist guerrillas.
One man's opinion suggests Congress may investigate coffee prices amid concerns of consumer roasts. Senator Young favors action by the upper house before his next breakfast as the Bronx Committee to Save the OPA returns in dust. The Department of Agriculture may also probe why prices rose without government help.
A 14 year old, Cabe Tatum Jr., fatally shot his 18 year old brother Raymond after a quarrel on a farm in Arlington area. The youth, armed with a borrowed 32 caliber rifle, warned parents not to interfere. He fired from the hip toward Raymond in the front yard of the Tatum Sr. residence. Authorities interviewed by a Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter noted the incident occurred about five miles south of Arlington, Texas.
Britain suspended work on a large atomic pile amid fears of future developments and possible gains from U S information. Some sources speculated that Britain counted on greater atomic data exchange with the United States.
Gen Hoyt S Vanderberg announced the Air Force will cancel or cut other projects to provide 50 million dollars to accelerate work on the U S Alaska warning radar network. He did not disclose which programs were affected.
New York VP Henry A Wallace told a church audience that sensible Americans reject Communism Catholicism capitalism and colonialism seeking world domination. He urged a modified welfare state and limited Marxist intolerance while warning against a single party state in the United States.
Kansas City advertisement touts a new inconspicuous rupture truss. It claims comfort and ease without straps or springs and offers a 30 day trial with a $3.50 truss gift upon reporting. It asserts thousands benefited in the past year and urges readers to try it.
Today only, visit Physician's Appliance Company at 6966 Hoch Bidg and 2906 Main in Kansas City Missouri to avoid losing this address. Limited time offer and free descriptive circular included.
In Sarawak a weekend assassination attempt on Governor Duncan Stewart left him critically ill after a knife wound to the abdomen. The 45 year old governor had arrived three weeks earlier to take up his post in Sibu. two Malay youths, about 16, were arrested.
Shepherds and farmhands returned to pastures on the slopes of Mt Etna as danger from a three day eruption eased. Lava streams from newly opened craters on the 10,783 foot peak slowed to a snails pace and towns Randazzo Bronte and Maletto were briefly threatened.
Los Angeles report says executors filed first accounting in Superior Court detailing estate valued at 9,130,971.11 with cash holdings of 4,004,922.07 and stocks and bonds totaling 5,116,153.94 plus 9,896.10 in sundry assets.
In Seattle, Mr and Mrs Jack L Ault refuse immediate surgery to remove their son Dean Ault s remaining eye. Doctors warned cancer in one eye spread to the other after a fall last summer, risking blindness.
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