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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1951
Page
2
Police reported two men parked a car on the George Washington Bridge before 6 AM and one man then jumped into the Hudson River. Hours later no body was found. wallet on the seat bore the name Bruno Ehrman Jr, 35, of Rochelle Park New Jersey.
A $200000 blaze tore through Fisher Hall at St Lawrence University overnight. The 68 year old building housed the theological school. About 2000 books and irreplaceable manuscripts were lost. Four undergraduates saved oil paintings and equipment. Fire started in a basement lounge near 1030 PM and raged for hours until the steeple collapsed.
An Ingham County judge issued an injunction prohibiting Western Union Telegraph Company from using its facilities to transmit horse race betting information in Michigan. State Attorney General Frank G Millard sought the order to restrain use of wires to aid gambling and to remove related equipment such as tickers amplifiers microphones and loudspeakers.
Wholesale prices on food in York rose a shade this week but remained near the level a year ago, per the Dun and Bradstreet Feed Index. The index stood at 669, up from 668 last week, and well above the 664 low of Nov. 6, with the 1951 peak at 731 on Feb. 20. Wheat, corn, rye, butter, cocoa, eggs, rice and llamas showed higher costs, while flour, oats, hams, lard, sugar, coffee, steers and hogs declined.
In Paris the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine told the General Assembly it could not settle the Israel Arab states feud after three years. The panel said it explored all procedures without success. Iraq and the Netherlands endorsed creating a UN commission to study all-German elections as the special committee resumes talks on postwar Germany.
Death notices from London Washington New Delhi Miami and London list Viscount Addison aged 82 a Labor leader. Louis Caldwell 66 prominent attorney and broadcaster. James Wahl 61 secretary of the Quaker center in New Delhi. Clarence B Ree Melin 63 retired naval officer and advertising manager. Glasius Erous 31 pioneer monastery founder. Lydia Alexander Hays 97 former Presbyterian mission leader in Sitka. Stanley Camerell 72 lyricist of Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing in London.
A Swiss chemical firm says it has invented a self lighting cigarette. The tip is activated by a secret chemical rubbed against the package, no lighter or pulling needed. Inventor Ernest Heimo, aged three, says cigars and cigarettes could be produced cheaply and that European and American tobacco firms seek rights.
Notes and manuscripts from eight books by Loltris Pierce of the theological school faculty were lost in the blaze. Three paintings were saved by students and identified as portraits of Dr. Ebenezer Fisher, Dr. Isaac M. Atwood, and his son Dr. John Murray Atwood, with Atwood’s death dated November 4 in N.
In Paris Soviet diplomat Vishinsky derides Western disarmament plans as “utopian” and blocks a proposed international control scheme. The UN Polstral Committee faces renewed contention as Big Four talks resume after a three-year pause amid accusations of Western cynicism and U.S. and French involvement in a new “mad armaments race.”
United Press editors name the top ten 1952 headlines led by Truman firing MacArthur and Korean armistice talks. Other nominees include Kefauver crime hearings, inflation controls, war atrocity reports, amateur sports scandals, IRS dismissals, Churchill's return, Missouri Kansas floods, and tactical weapons storage development.
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