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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1949
Page
2
A collage of whimsical quips and anecdotes from radio hosts and public figures, including Franklin D Roosevelt and Jimmy Welker, plus a college note about a dance gun shortage aid. Reads like quirky nostalgia with jokes about questions, mint juleps, Mardi Gras and a Louisiana plantation visitor.
Flashy society and show business tidbits flow from Cleveland and beyond. Louis Prima and Mrs Prima expect a May baby. Benny Goodman weighs gifts for an Inaugural Ball couple. Miami clubs ponder a merger to end ruinous rivalry. DiMaggio and Vaughn update headlines. Gerton Ayres of Our Gang reveals Ingrid Bergman marriage plans. Broadway BuzzSaw notes socialites and concerts hinting at Washington trips and fast-paced showbiz chatter.
In Rochester, detectives Charles Hogan and Clarence O'Toole tracked and captured a suspect linked to forged stolen checks totaling about 39,500. The arrest followed a police chase after the thief fled from a Peterhead headquarters and involved a coin tele communications mix up before detainment.
A jumble of clipped reports includes a father suing a bank over a son taking sixty thousand nine hundred dollars, a convict dying of burns, a Memphis murder case, a plane overshooting a field injuring many, and Epiphany rites at Greek Cross Church with a cross throwing practice by fighter planes. Names and places are garbled but indicate a broad late year wire service round up.
Tabis reports a French public funds scandal involving top officials from 1945 to 1947 when Communists stood in the coalition. Auditor’s report triggers political debate as a special cabinet group handles the fallout. the story notes the issue is a political football in France.
Death notices list Dr A Hermann Peund a Johns Hopkins emeritus professor in Baltimore noted for pioneering work in light ras. Traxe J LammEr an attorney and former raisa tennis official in White Plains. John G. Craig 8&5 claimed to have attracted fireworks spectacles to the United States in London.
A Dutch court today rejected the U S State Department appeal to reopen the case of three American pilots sentenced yesterday for unlawfully shipping arms to Indonesia. The Americans received prison terms from four years to 35 months and have filed appeals to higher courts.
SENECA FALLS fire killed Ida Deal, 23, and her 10 month old son in a farmhouse blaze started by an oil stove in a south west Seneca Falls kitchen. Reports from Ida Deal’s father Frensanger described futile rescue attempts as flames consumed the home. Firemen said heat and smoke overwhelmed the occupants.
A fragmented column by Weker Kremmen contemplates social pressures around marriage and matrimony. It hints at a nurse delaying a rush to value marriage and references a prospective bride facing licensing numbers and increasing costs over four years, noting possible CLO involvement.
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