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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1947
Page
9
Police report a drunken man knocked a telephone pole across a road on Christmas Eve in Essex Maryland. Several drivers were cited for reckless driving or minor injuries occurred as collisions followed. A bystander who came to bail him out stepped into a moving car but remained unfazed and shouted Merry Christmas.
A Christmas night blaze at a fireworks shop in a crowded Hollywood Street tenement housing area caused four structures to collapse within forty minutes. Officials reported about thirty to forty people missing as the fire spread rapidly through flimsy wooden buildings.
Budapest reports show about 25000 Soviet troops remain billeted in Hungary, despite the treaty's call to cut forces. Observers say Western negotiators failed to fix a precise number for lines of communication units, while Hungarian officials stay silent on the status.
The new Progressive Party is circulating petitions for candidates across Cook County and seeks a circuit court declaratory judgment to appear on the April primary and November ballots.
Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Francis T. O Hara 22, a Navy veteran and Niagara Falls chemical plant worker, was fatally injured in an icy highway crash while a friend drove him to an airport for a flight home for a family reunion. The reporter notified his editor by phone and continued work on the story.
New York City physician Dr Sigmund L Wilens reports in JAMA that alcoholism does not by itself prevent arteriosclerosis. He cites postmortem comparisons from Bellevue Hospital and NYU College of Medicine, noting differences arise from age blood pressure and nutrition rather than alcohol use.
Richard Crowe woke to a blaze in his Ar September dwelling in Massachusetts. He carried his wife and five children to safety but the infant, Arthur Crowe, slipped from a blanket during the escape and perished when the fire consumed the small frame home.
Rep. Nixon says hearings begin late January on curbs by registering Communists as foreign agents. He may call A G Clark as first witness, backs Mundt proposal, and seeks tougher loyalty affidavits for federal employees. He proposes NLRB disclose unions with officials failing non Communist assurances.
Chinese authorities imposed news censorship today in Mukden and Peiping as the Communist-threatened South Manchurian stronghold faces info curbs.
Charles Newman 27 and his wife Lucille 23 died in a Christmas tree fire in Hartford while decorating. Fire marshal Thomas F Lee said the amateur wiring of decorative lights caused the blaze. The couple were killed after becoming trapped behind the tree where they worked.
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