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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1948
Page
2
Ragged reminiscence charts Clyde Beatty, elephant handlers, and other carnival figures in a chaotic interview. The piece recalls past showdowns, dangers in cages, and a near disaster with a 2,500 pound tiger named Eoday, while mixing in pop culture notes and gossip about Errol Flynn, Jackie Gleason, and Paris fashion.
Berlin officials admit Germans at Allied airlift bases steal from three to thirty percent of small packaged consumer goods flown to the city. Heavy sacks of coal and flour, main airlift tonnage, are rarely bothered. American and British authorities say some shoplifting by German laborers is almost impossible to prevent. CAR-TRUCK CRASH KILLS MRS. SHELBY AND SON IN PORT CRANE, NEAR BINGHAMTON.
The Indian Constituent Assembly today fixed the term of future Indian presidents at five years and allowed reelection to any number of terms. A clause stating simply There shall be a President of India was adopted.
Obituaries list 12 individuals including Rowland Stebbins 66 stock broker producer of The Green Pastures in New York City. Dr Marjory Stephenson 63 British bacterial diseases authority in London. Charles Templeton Crocker 63 playwright explorer in San Francisco. Clarence W Snyder 75 portrait painter in Philadelphia. Dr Howard S Fawcett 75 plant pathology professor emeritus at UC Riverside. Edward L O Neill 45 former Democratic Congressman from New York's 12th District. Maase 60 Chicago Sun-Times assistant circulation manager. Donald Ayers Williams 43 editor True magazine in New York. Marshall Kernard Hanks newspaper publisher radio station owner in Abilene. Philip W H Dumas 180 British torpedo expert WWI naval aide to King George V in London. Boris Glagolin 70 Barrymore of Russia in Thetyswood. Dr Careyose Woodbury 71 Norwich University faculty member and 1944 Randolph press official.
Customs agents in New York City seized about $23,000 worth of cocaine allegedly smuggled into the United States by an American merchant seaman. The cocaine was taken from Juan D. Vilolia of Brooklyn aboard the vessel Sintal Olvin which arrived at Tuboken.
Five workers including one plant official were injured when eight men in a car waylaid them near the American Zinc Oxide Co plant during the Lares month strike. Police say attackers beat the victims with iron bars and clubs as they walked from the plant./editorial writer dies in Cleveland after cancer column reveal. Truman reportedly seeking candidate to replace Marshall if health forces retirement. no decision yet.
A satirical critique maligns Britain's socialized health service and Bevan's dental plan. It mocks rising government costs from private earnings and dental fillings paid by the state, claiming taxes will balloon while care falters. The piece pivots to a cartoonish royal baby joke, undermining public sentiment.
Thousands of Christian pilgrims will be allowed to cross both Jewish and Arab battle lines for a centuries old procession to Bethlehem this Christmas. Israeli and Trans-Jordan Arab Legion commanders approved safe passage yesterday under UN observation in the Holy City.
Washington reports army and navy paymasters will begin withholding federal income tax from all ranks next month. The automatic exemption that freed enlisted men and officers from tax ends at midnight December 1 unless renewed. Defense officials expect a request to value military pay to offset deductions so net pay remains comparable.
London dispatch reports the government rejected today a proposal to build a bridge over the English Channel. Transport Minister Al Buenos Aires and Police Fred Barnes noted a Laborite Peter Free-Argentine figure sought a committee to study the project. Authorities say a sum may have been defrauded exceeding 12,000,000 pesos (about 52,400).
Four former Japanese Navy admirals were sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison for responsibility in the deaths of more than 800 people. They commanded submarine forces in the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific, with victims aboard Allied ships. Convicted were Vice Admirals Teruhisa Komatsu Hisashi Ichioka Hisashi Mito and Rear Admiral Noburu Ishizaki. Eleven lesser navy personnel received terms of one to ten years. Twenty three defendants were acquitted previously.
More than 1,000,000 Christmas trees roll from Lancaster New Hampshire by wagon and truck bound for homes across New England New York Pennsylvania Virginia and New Jersey as demand drives nationwide shipments.
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