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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1950
Page
6
New York police mobilized all resources to track a dismemberer who left seven body pieces in two Brooklyn baggage lockers at an Long Island Rail Road station. A 35-year-old redhead victim had most of her features removed to hamper identification. The body was placed in November and lay undiscovered for a week as locker fees delayed entry.
Six hundred mayors and city officials prepared to urge Congress for civil defense legislation in the current short session. Delegates to the American Municipal Association feared relief may be delayed until the new Congress begins January 3. The civil defense committee favored urgent action despite no formal vote.
New York meat packing houses slaughtered 96,790,000 pounds liveweight in October. For the first ten months, total slaughter reached 032,784,000 pounds, about four percent higher than 1949. October is seven percent above the previous year’s October.
Emily Meiser a 64 year old Sunday School teacher and bank employee received a six month prison term after confessing to embezzling 25000 dollars from Paragould Security Bank and Trust Co over 18 years. She spent funds on graduation dresses wedding gifts and charitable donations. Judge Thomas Trimble said the offense required confinement. Bank officials and the public expressed regret over the outcome.
A fragment notes lignite or Paraguay material resembles decayed brown coal and resembles California wood in texture and color.
Senator Allen J. Ellender warned at the National Coffee Association convention that a tight supply and demand balance could push prices higher and reduce consumption while boosting production. He noted the Gillette report reflects a narrow view, not U.S. policy.
In eight days military airlift evacuated 14,138 war and weather casualties to hospitals in Korea and Japan. Lt Col Allen D Smith said 2,651 men were moved from the 10th Corps strip at Chasin Reservoir in four days, with 2,386 flown from Pyongyang as it was abandoned. The peak occurred yesterday with 3,053 wounded men airlifted to rear areas and Japan.
Customs officials acting on Department of Commerce orders directed three freighters to unload 12 tons of silicone steel before sailing. The cargo from the Norwegian ship Teadi was consigned to a Red China firm in Tientsin and shipped by the Pacific Trading Company of Boston, raising national security concerns.
A 40 year old farmer Charles Stancil was acquitted of murder by a jury in Ringgold Georgia. Prosecutors alleged he tied a wire cable around Opal Stancil’s neck and dragged her behind a car along an unpaved road until she died. The state claimed jealousy over her attention to another man.
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