08 Dec 1952
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1952
Page
1
Twenty cars of a northbound New York Central freight train derailed early today on the West Shore Division near Highland. No injuries were reported and cause was not immediately known. Passenger service expected to be disrupted for several hours as cleanup and investigation proceed.
President elect Eisenhower's trip to Korea is reportedly paid for mainly by the government with estimates over 47500 dollars. Pentagon officials would not confirm the cost, while White House spokesmen cited Truman instructions to provide Eisenhower "anything he wanted."
London reports 85 year old Dowager Queen Mary will miss her granddaughter's coronation due to frail health. She will watch the ceremony in Westminster Abbey by television.
A U S special House committee began drafting proposed changes to Federal election laws. Despite hearings and broad support, Congress is unlikely to act soon. The panel led by Rep Boggs favored raising the $3 million annual ceiling on committee funds and boosting individual and candidate spending limits, unchanged since 1933.
Obituaries note the deaths of Leon McCullough Philip Langseaffeord John Wallace Payne James Lloyd Wright Rupert F Asplund Alois Haveilla and Mrs Lilian V Morgan with brief identifiers. Britain lifts ban on televising the actual coronation of Queen Elizabeth II next June enabling planned coverage of the ceremony and homage portions.
New York State Crime Commission weighs steps to compel testimony from reputed underworld figure Albert Anastasia and his brother Jerry Anastasio as it continues its waterfront inquiry into a seven billion industry. The pair were subpoenaed to appear last Friday.
President-elect Eisenhower weighs risks of expanding the war as talks and briefings unfold before his Honolulu stop. Key aides including Hughes and Jackson join Wake Island discussions with Gen. Omar Bradley and Radford. He plans no public Korea statement until later while weather worsens en route to Pearl Harbor.
University of Rochester reports that the cost of its education and research programs has increased 265 percent since 1942. Total costs for the fiscal year ended June 30 reached 313,178,270, with deficits listed for Arts and Sciences, Strong Memorial Hospital, and the Medical School teaching hospital.
A Virginia produce tracker from Roanoke cannot swim and watched his billfold containing 1506 dollars drift from his pocket into the Alliance Ocean at St Simons Island Georgia. He and his wife and 10 year old son stayed near the beach overnight hoping it would wash ashore. A swimmer approached within 20 feet before cramps forced him to retreat. A Coast Guard boat searched but the billfold vanished. Conner gave a Rig Box 326 B address and offered any reward.
Reports flag imminent purges in Czechoslovakia and satellites following the Prague treason trial of Rudolf Slansky and 13 others. Eleven faced execution, three life terms. Belgrade Radio highlights Fierlinger, former premier from 1945 to 1946 who helped unify Social Democrats with the Communists and later led church affairs suppression into the 1950s.
Waterfront leaders from AFL affiliated unions and employers defend anti picketing injunctions and rail against weak law enforcement as strikes disrupt pier operations. Slater’s firm faced two major stoppages over stevedore hiring bosses, while executives blame courts and police for failing to back anti picketing efforts. In Ipswich England Mrs Kaiie Berritt, 90, plans total immersion baptism at Bethesda Baptist Church next Sunday, aided by a warmed baptismal pool.
Convicts seized Cell Block 2 and the hospital at the 650 man stone prison as guards and state police with National Guard and Atomic Energy Commission security officers prepared for a long siege. Ringleader Robbert Eads of St. Louis faced possible release demands while surrounding authorities clamped a news blackout amid ongoing negotiations through a porthole.
A 50-year-old carpenter Homer Marvin Spruell, held on suspicion of murder after a gun battle near the Georgia Tech campus, died from four gunshot wounds. Patrolman W. M. Richards was killed and two other officers wounded during the dramatic incident claimed by crowds at the scene. Spruell had been under guard at Grady Hospital since the confrontation last Tuesday.
The article outlines three options to keep the wage board operating under the Defense Production Act. Putnam would run the program if needed, appoint a new chairman, or let the board run with experts. He remains steadfast to avoid derailing the coal case and the wage machinery ahead of Eisenhower’s presidency.
QUADS COMENG HOME SASEBO, Japan. The Perri cone quadruplets will be home in Beaumont, Texas, by Christmas, the Army said today. The four brothers, Anthony, Bernard, Carl and Donald, 23, arrived at this processing station on their way from Korea Saturday. The quads, their wives corporals and a sergeant, Carl, have been together throughout their two years in the Army. They spent seven months in Korea with S. Seventh Division's tank.
A talking horse named Lady Wonder was credited by District Attorney Edmund Dewing with helping locate the body of four year old Danny Matson missing from Quincy, Mass. Authorities say Lady answered questions and indicated Kansas as where to find the boy, prompting a search lead. Dewing called it stranger than fiction and kept the detail secret to avoid ridicule.
Two Conklin cousins Kenneth and Wilbur were released in Goshen after being kept as material witnesses in the Ramapo Mountains double slaying of Ramapo town clerk Robert Nugent and banker Charles Simpson. Police investigate the October 25 deaths. a shotgun blast scene near Slotsburg included a deer carcass. The cousins, with a Revolutionary War era clan background, submitted ten lie detector tests, results not disclosed.
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