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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1939
Page
2
The Zuni Indians of Zuni New Mexico will host a $5000 New Year rain festival to honor the rain gods and their couriers the Shalakos. Despite poverty many tribesmen insist on traditional splendor with hundreds of sheep and many cattle slaughtered for six housewarmings, one for each courier.
Ottawa plans to keep the open-market wheat policy as the best way to relieve the wheat glut in Canada. Trading will continue on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and British wartime purchases will move through ordinary trade channels. The policy's permanency depends on the war’s progress.
London editors condemn Admiralty for failing to seize the German luxury liner Bremen after it passed Murmansk toward a German home port. Articles question armed status, call for sinking or capture, and cite international law limits and public war doubts.
District Attorney Thomas E Dewey will deliver another campaign speech in Boston next month before moving to the West and Rocky Mountain states. He received invitations to speak in Pennsylvania Oregon California and other states with a date for Boston not yet set. His next address is to the Pennsylvania Society in New York City Saturday night.
In Newburgh Orange County the inquiry into vice and corruption advances to the case of former Federal Penitentiary inmate Michael A Devasto. He received a suspended three and a half year sentence for a second degree assault in the shooting of Carl Scribner at Newburgh. Judge Henry B Merritt approved the suspension on Henry Hirschbergs recommendation after authorities cited past liquor convictions during prohibition and 18 months served in federal penitentiary.
Detectives theorize a William Tell style sharpshooting game led to the deaths of 15 year old Norval Harrison and his scoutmaster Daniel Hackett 29 in Elizabeth Pennsylvania. Harrison was shot in the head and Hackett apparently killed himself with the same rifle. An apple hung from a light fixture with bite marks was found above Harrison's body.
The extraordinary county Grand Jury investigates welfare fraud as four witnesses deny receiving relief food orders allegedly credited to them. Testimony shows several listed addresses did not house recipients, with others asserting they never lived there. Sloan remains among indicted individuals in the broader inquiry.
Santa Monica Calif Dec 13 UP Douglas Fairbanks Sr will have a quiet private funeral likely at Forest Lawn with close friends present His widow Lady Sylvia Ashley under medical care and the embalmed body laid in the seaside home as friends recall his last wish to see the ocean Charles Chaplin called him his best friend and rushed to the scene
An advertisement extols Resinol Ointment for itching and irritation of sensitive areas with a night-time application claiming faster healing and comfort. Resinol Soap is praised for gentle cleansing, and nurses reportedly use the products. free samples offered by mail from Baltimore.
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