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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1950
Page
2
The 118th annual meeting of the State Agricultural Society will be held in Albany Jan. 18 with over 400 expected. President Earl B. Clark of North Norwich announced the event and Governor Dewey will address the farm dinner.
A proposed anti monopoly labor law will be sent to the Senate Banking Committee within days. Sponsor Senator Robinson of Virginia says the measure adds labor unions to anti trust coverage this week. An added note reports unions reorganizing GE shop workers into a new CIO union.
The Czechoslovak Communist Party released a revised handbook sharply criticizing Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk. The wartime exile government is labeled anti-National and anti-Soviet, with two former members cited among today’s Communist leadership.
Mine owners and major operators urged the National Labor Relations Board to seek a court injunction against United Mine Workers leader John Lewis. They want Lewis to restore a full five day work week and stop alleged unfair practices. The miners currently work three days a week on Lewis's orders. President Truman has refused to view the production slowdown as a national emergency justifying Taft-Hartley actions.
Western New York police were alerted to help locate two Buffalo State Hospital patients who escaped shortly before midnight last night. One patient is described as very dangerous.
Clearfield county registrar receives back a marriage license issued in October with an explanatory note saying the marriage is cancelled and the groom is in hospital.
Defense seeks to damage Mrs. Chambers testimony in the Hiss perjury case by examining a Baltimore libel suit record. Marbury testified Chambers did not recount visiting the Hisses at their Washington address, while prosecutors pressed for lines about her meetings on 20th Street. The judge adjourned to let Chambers review the transcript.
A satirical column notes Congress opened with pleas for strict economy yet hints they will spend money. Absentees include Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr after a horse accident and another who fell from a wagon. It jokes about party balance and the State of the Union.
A 30-year-old mother fought to correct a district court record after an eight month old baby was removed. The court record alleged she drank heavily practiced immoral acts while her husband served in the Navy and that she was arrested as a prostitute in Los Angeles. She contested the details insisting the husband was in the Army and the arrest occurred in Long Beach.
Senator Myers predicts the House approved DP bill liberalizing entry rules will pass the Senate. Senator McCarran counters he can block it. The measure would remove discriminatory features and raise DP eligibility from 205000 to 339000 within three years. President Truman urged action in his State of the Union message.
Ray Funk struck a deer near Fort Ashby and loaded the limp animal into his car. While driving to conservation officers the back seat broke loose and the deer revived, prompting Funk to release the live animal from the trunk in a startling incident.
A Wayne University surgeon performed an unusual operation inserting a tiny knife on his index finger to make two incisions inside a patient's heart. The 42-year-old Monroe Ferrell survived two years bedridden with mitral stenosis and now has an 80-20 chance of survival after a nearly two hour procedure at Receiving Hospital.
ALBANY UP Republican Arthur H. Wicks declares he has taken over as majority leader, calling this a working session and aiming to finish quickly. He asserts he is running the Senate while Democratic quips fly from the House side. Wicks succeeded Feinberg who left to chair the Public Service Commission.
Informed sources in Washington say Britain agreed to U S demands to retain sole rights to produce atom bombs while Britain focuses on experiments with new weapons and atomic power for industrial use. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity and the reports remain unconfirmed.
The text describes a proposed deal where two nations and Canada would exchange exclusive rights to bomb production for an American guarantee of an emergency supply. The plan suggested storage in Britain under U S supervision and control.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistics show the U.S. population at the end of 1949 rose to about 150 500 000 due to the lowest death rate on record and significant immigration alongside 3 700 000 births.
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