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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1949
Page
2
A Spanish tanker Marcambe was saved from a blaze in its fuel tanks about 800 miles off Newfoundland after Coast Guard crews detected the fire and issued an SOS. The ship was declared out of danger an hour after discovery. The incident began in the fuel area aboard the North Atlantic vessel.
The Swift and Company packing plant blast in Sioux City Iowa killed 19 with Joseph Kuney 18 dying in St. Vincent Hospital overnight. Kuney was among seven still on the critical list and worked in the loading department.
The Chinese Nationalist cabinet said mines would be laid in ports controlled by the Chinese Communists, to begin Wednesday, from Yingkow in North China to Tienpai off the Kwantung coast.
James T. Murray aged 59 is named as a Marine superintendent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad since 1917 and employed by B&O since 1906 in New York City. W Emmert Swigart aged 66, a prominent Central Pennsylvania banker and insurance official, died of a heart attack in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Dewey Anderson, head of the Public Affairs Institute, quits the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report criticizing former President Hoover as out of date. Committee spokesman Robert McCormack downplays the resignation while Anderson warns liberals lack a voice on the panel.
The United States will back a United Nations plan to internationalize Jerusalem despite opposition from Israel. A State Department official said President Truman will seek about 3.5 million dollars as the U N share of an 8 million dollar fund to implement the internationalization. Officials urged Israel and the Hashemite Jordan government to avoid actions stirring further friction.
Basil Brousikow a former French state messenger admitted spying before a military court in Wroclaw He said he helped obtain samples he believes were uranium for the French embassy He implicated defendants including Aymar De Brossin De Mere and Wilhelm Hild and testified that Hild procured the metal from Polish mines.
Rangoon Burma announced recognition of Communist China becoming the first nation outside the Soviet bloc to establish formal diplomatic ties. The move marks a significant shift in Cold War alignment and broadens Beijing’s international recognition.
Reports say Szechwan Province militia defected to Peng Teh-hwai and are joining his Red drives on Chengtu. Hu Tsung-nan's 400,000-man army now faces two Red forces with revolts spreading from Sikang and Yunnan.
The Lakeland Victory left Pusan Korea with all but one member of U S Consul General Angus Wards party aboard. The ship heads to Yokohama with 20 travelers after a clash with Chinese Communists. Franco Cicogna and his wife refused Seoul posting and will return to Italy.
A middle aged man identified as John Burke from Boston was found shot in a hotel bathroom at the Hotel Times Square. The body lay on a newspaper covered floor with a 32 caliber revolver nearby. no papers or identification were found in the room. Police said Burke registered last Thursday and used no known aliases.
A Buffalo deputy collector in the Bureau of Internal Revenue was freed of a conspiracy charge related to an alleged income tax shake-down. Felix Polluro, 52, had the charge dismissed by Federal Judge John Knight for lack of evidence. The trial of three other defendants Frank Naples, 33, Anthony Marinaccio, 31, and Alfred Marone, 40, proceeds Monday, accused of soliciting 800 dollars from a doctor to fix a 1943 tax return.
The Senate Commerce Committee schedules hearings January 12 and 13 on a bill by Senator Langer to outlaw interstate liquor advertising. The measure targets transport of liquor ads through newspapers films radio broadcasts and mail. violators could face $100 to $1,000 fines and six months to a year in jail.
An Air Ministry observatory report notes a sharp earthquake near Tierras del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. The quake lasted about two hours with a maximum at 4 06 A M and the sparsely populated region was affected.
S. E. DeVaul of Central Square won a Rochester Bar Association prize for best individual moot court performance at Syracuse University College of Law. Six top seniors argued the Stuyvesant Town tenancy case, with DeVaul top among teams including Thompson Mancuso Bogin and Trespasz Gottllieb. The Stuyvesant Town defense featured Negro tenancy issues in a case now before the US Supreme Court.
Benjamin Fairless of U S Steel said the company can present facts to Congress showing why higher steel prices are needed. Other steel firms followed the price rise as CIO U S W denies plans for further wage increases while contracts limit action until next year.
The State Department warned all American ships to avoid Shanghai as a danger zone amid Nationalist shelling of two Isbrandtseri Steamship Co. vessels. The move follows Acheson’s failed assurances and Nationalist refusals to spare the next American ship from the blockade.
Gerald A. Hutt a 35 year old father of two was sentenced to life in prison by County Judge Charles P. Hutchinson for abducting four year old Janie Franz. Hutt admitted abducting the blonde blue eyed child for sexual reasons and lived with his wife in Bridgeport Connecticut.
Elliott Roosevelt was ticketed for speeding last night in the unincorporated Town of Poughkeepsie. He drove a 1949 sedan at 50 mph in a 35 mph zone and was ordered to appear at 7 PM before Justice George Dietz. Elliott is separated from actress-wife Faye Emerson and lives near Wallkill farms.
Mrs. Josephine Walsh of 326 East Main Street and William Lehr of Orleans were married December 10 in the rectory of St Marys Church. Rev. George T. McCall officiated with Mr. and Mrs Elmer Perry of Gorham as attendants. The couple reside in Orleans.
Charles Lawmaster a 76 year old great grandfather and his 70 year old bride Mrs Elizabeth Meyer wed yesterday after a four year friendship. They say they were lonely and shared the same memories and likings. Both had lost spouses before, Lawmaster’s wife died 18 months ago and Meyer's husband died 21 years ago.
Two inmates from the New Mexico State Prison Kenneth L. Powers and Sam Davis said they were glad to be captured after 15 hours of freedom in Santa Fe in sub freezing weather. They escaped by scaling the U foot wall and cutting charged wires before being placed in solitary confinement.
Federal narcotics agents aided by Chicago police staged the largest roundup of drug peddlers in the city's history. Twenty-seven indictments named between 80 and 120 suspects in Chicago importation of drugs, with arrests starting overnight under Robert W. Artis.
Police halted a royal elopement in Madrid when Angelina daughter of the Duke of Pino Hermoso fled her balcony via knotted bedsheets to join bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin. The couple sped away in a car but were spotted by a watchman and later found at separate homes.
American writer Vincent Sheean and former wife Diana Forbes-Robertson remarried at St Marylebone registry office in London four years after their divorce. Sheean, 50, noted war strain may have caused the split. Diana, 34, is the daughter of Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson. They have two daughters, Linda and Ellen, who were not at the ceremony.
Dr. Soekarno was inaugurated as president of the embryo United States of Indonesia. The move signals Indonesia will absorb most East Indies islands from the Dutch.
In St Paul a divorce hearing reveals a long estrangement sparked by a poison pen letter. Irene Boesel testified she wrote a 1946 note and a 1942 note reportedly by the same author. Judge Robert Rensch delayed proceedings hoping the couple would reconcile.
In Chicago a three year old boy Thomas Nykaza weighed 13 pounds at death, nearly blind, prompting the mother Florence Ramsey 28 to be held to the grand jury on manslaughter charges. Ramsey, mother of three, described the child as aggravating and admitted neglect around and after her January divorce. The coroner’s physician noted the severe underweight compared with a typical 35 pound three year old.
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