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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
2
Earl Wilson surveys show business mood as acts like Joey Adams and Tommy Dorasy struggle with low gate receipts. Chuck Green laments earnings while Jackie Gleason earns modest weekly pay amid shifting star power and evolving careers in Hollywood and on tour.
Hollywood and music figures weigh paydays and careers as a backdrop to Miami’s upcoming season. Milton Berle earns 25000 weekly while Joe Lewis contemplates life after the big studio era amid industry churn and rising costs. The Copa and Metropolitan Opera reshuffle plans. personal notes on Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone, and others fill the gossip column.
The Intergovernmental Refugee Committee proposes a budget where the United States and Britain would cover about 70 percent of operational costs. Currently both nations underwrite the full expense, with equal contributions.
Henry Haubold, 16, a high school sophomore, is charged with second degree murder in the stabbing of 10 year old George Wanzer Jr. Tests on his brain waves will be conducted at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center by Nassau County Court Judge Henry J. A. Collins ordering the examination after police say Haubold claimed to be overwhelmed by a blind urge at the time of the duck hunting incident last October.
Dr Justin F Walt an eminent design engineer from Metuchen New Jersey was surprised to find out his confidential projects had triggered a 13 state alarm when he failed to return home on time The incident followed reports he vanished while traveling from Harrisonburg Virginia to New Jersey and prompted police to search nationwide. Gerald Sullivan 12 shot and killed himself after being scolded for going to the movies Thomasville NC. Paula Weld en 18 Bennington College missing since December 1 a new theory says she was given a ride by a motorist as footprints were seen in fresh snow on Bennington Brattleboro highway Hollywood studios plan a million dollar Christmas payout to extras under a retroactive contract with the AFL.
The BBC announced successful but cautious testing of hypnotism via closed circuit television. A dozen volunteers from BBC staff were hypnotized with five entering hypnotic sleep during the first test conducted by Peter Casson.
Representative August H. Andresen plans to reopen the cash or bonds option for terminal pay to servicemen. He argues GIs should receive cash just as officers and would allow cash or bond conversion at any time, noting current law grants a five year non negotiable bond unless the amount is under sixty dollars.
Death notices list DEPUTY editor DEATHS MARK MATHEWS 49 in Detroit and HARRY FORBES 67 heavyweight figure in Chicago. Other figures include attorney ROBERT W. SCHUPP 56 in Chicago and actress WILLIAM MOR TIMER in Toledo. Also REV DR GEORGE WHITEFIELD MEAD 79 in Asheville, JIM KELY 90 in Melbourne, ANDREW W BROWN 56 in Chicago, MOTHER SUPERIOR ALUIGI in Ambler, CHARLES I RHODES 65 in Los Angeles, and HARLEY CRANDALL 60 in New York City. The items span multiple cities and professions from journalism to religion to academia.
Cardinals in Rome appealed to Italian authorities to take measures against Italian publications waging a bitter campaign against Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church.
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