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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1950
Page
2
A Buffalo citizens group, including clergymen, educators and lawyers, urged President Truman and Secretary Acheson to seek a negotiated settlement of the Korean conflict. They warned against rushing into unlimited war with China.
In Anaheim California a 47 year old mother will marry tonight for the 14th time with a full ceremony including best man cake guests and a preacher. The Nelsons say the vow renewals are a serious annual ritual tied to their anniversary.
In Paris Premier Rene Pleven calls cabinet to clarify policy on Germany rearma ment and an Atlantic army. Alphand to draft instructions for London Atlantic Pact council meeting. Also notes Stassen’s world tour and Chinese mobilization calls. Obituaries include Dr Lewis Atterbury Conner and others.
A boy threw a snowball at a passing locomotive in Durham Ohio. The engineer stopped the long freight train, jumped down, chased the boy, and administered a spanking. He returned to the cab and resumed the run.
In a skid row hotel dark haired man boasted of being the greatest knife thrower in Mexico. Ray Lilly 54 challenged him and a blade missing a foot earlier pierced Lilly's neck causing critical injuries before the assailant fled.
Congressional investigators say Treasury and Labor Department offices falsified work records and overstaffed so workers spent time doing nothing. The subcommittee cited Coast Guard HQ with excessive ranks and misused funds from a 1 million dollar Labor statistics cost of living index revision. Some employees signed false progress reports and faced threats when seeking relief.
The Post Office Department told the Interstate Commerce Commission that a 25 percent parcel post rate rise would make the service self supporting, adding an estimated 110 million dollars yearly. Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson sought the rate revision after noting 1949 costs of about 500 million with 400 million in revenues.
Philadelphia reporters recount a youth who hid a ball python and emerald tree boa under his jacket to steal from the zoo. Zoo Curator Roger Conant said both snakes over a yard long and two inches thick were taken, with no charges filed as the boy’s identity remains withheld. A Philadelphia father later reported the boy’s growing snake collection and the thefts.
Reports from Kalamazoo and New York describe authorities seeking a clue to the death of an 18 year old girl found on a farm edge near a college. The diary of Carolyn King is under examination for possible connections to the wreck and other events.
Police questioned a dozen men named in a rambling diary written with green ink found near the campus eight miles from town. Sheriff Thomas K. Badger said there are no real suspects yet as investigators review the entries and locations near a lovers lane.
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