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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1948
Page
2
A Weather Bureau radar system will soon be installed in New York to spot storms up to 200 miles away and provide a six hour warning. The move aims to prevent repeats of last winter's record snowfall after forecasts predicted only light snow flurries hours before the city received its heaviest 25.9 inch snowfall.
In a tense struggle for control of the Republican Party, Carroll Reece may mount a comeback against National Chairman Hugh Scott, with Scott a Philadelphia congressman who replaced Reece. Thomas E. Davey of New York won the party’s press arian post. A police case in Boston involves James R. Berry accused of polygamy after marrying a former clerk in the wartime period. In Cleveland, workers at Jack & Heintz Inc. receive checks averaging $130 as part of a profit-sharing fund. Washington reports on a planned plain trust by the United Nations to evaluate weapons and their use, while Exentlower continues advisory duties to the Defense Secretary. British Foreign Office notes no link between Holman’s recall and Romania’s demand for recall of embassy staff. the U.S. demands Romania recall one of its staff.
International dispatches report widespread loyalty declaration refusals among East Sechz municipal workers in May, amid a broader Soviet sector strain, as CZechs/Czechoslovakians in Moscow dine with Stalin during a diplomatic visit. Pope Pius XII backs Italian federation hoping for a Europe-wide unity, while Poland’s Communist and Socialist parties merge into the United Workers’ party. In Bucharest, Romanian officials recall the British envoy Adrian Kolman as his term ends.
Walter Kisman argues the sentencing of nine spies shows the value of American citizenship. He notes native spies avoid such harsh treatment, recalls a woman who admitted Soviet dealings being humiliated on television, and praises DOJ caution about premature publicity in spy cases. He criticizes old evidence and contrasts microfilms with Hollywood plots.
Obituary notices report the deaths of MM. Thanter 71 executive managing editor of the Buffalo Courier Express a veteran newspaper man since 1894 in Buffalo Elizabeth Duncan 77 advocate of a new school of dancing with her sister the late Isadora Duncan in Teabingen Germany and Walter P Shattuck 77 retired architect designer of numerous buildings in the United States Canada Japan and China and former architecture professor at the Armour Institute in Chicago.
Prague reports cabinet decision to shift 5,000 civil employees into mines and factories to boost industrial output and reorganize civil administration. About 640,000 workers are on the public payroll. those moved received a month's pay.
An Albany report says the city council adopted an ordinance extending limits on lurid comics modeled after a pending New York City law. It targets publications featuring crime reports or sexually explicit drawings, defining indecency and criminal depictions to curb distribution. Oliver Co. Pioper, a New York Central Railroad worker, died after a fall.
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