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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1947
Page
2
Earl Wilson writes about a flamboyant hat trend featuring a $400 Fira hat with a $50 pheasant winged band. He recalls Montecris hats seen in Donk's window, notes Tall tales by Sidney Greenstice and Mickey Tron Sey mour Rathbun, and mentions a Panama straw hat as a rare export.
Washington reports the government begins a new broadcasting year as Congress delays deciding exact funds for shortwave programs to Russia and other lands. Senate backs a reduced 450 hat in a tight budget climate while State Department Cultural Information Service faces separate bills and possible expansion of radio activities.
Former newsboy Lou Holt Wheeler Patsy Kelis Bari Gotelia and others figure in a chaotic item touching the Navy Department in Washington secretary Forrestal and a surprise remark about Joe Lewis. Moe Snyder is named water works inspector at Chicago. a July 4 warning urges abstinence to cut traffic deaths. other notes include factory leadership changes and federal workforce shifts.
U S Army test pilot Maj Wilbur Webb of Republic Aviation rode out an engine failure over Long Island Sound Monday aiming for a beach landing at Isaac, but found the area crowded. He ditch the P 84 jet in the water and escaped uninjured as the craft sank.
Defense attorney Charles J. Margioli argued before a Federal District Court jury that a bribery conspiracy involving wartime House leader Andrew J. May and the Garssons could not have occurred. He contended no politician would accept graft as alleged, noting evidence that telewriter seatings were left visible. The government charges May took over $50,000 in bribes linked to $70,000,000 in munitions orders in a case that strikes at democratic trust.
Doctors caution against eating when tense or angry and predict savings under a new labor bill. Roy Rogers enters a restaurant on horseback and is served after a ten minute delay. Construction booms while a Nashville home sits on an incorrect lot unseen. Medical progress, hypnotism, and a Russian correspondent’s wary view share space in this light roundup.
President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile cancels his trip to Uruguay after the illness of Uruguay's chief executive prompts the postponement.
The Baltimore and Ohio Columbian streamliner on the Chicago to Washington run struck an open switch near Westville at 6:15 PM, injuring 56 passengers. About 180 aboard, eight coaches and one sleeper, were affecting to continue by rail as ambulances rushed injured to nearby Michigan City Gary Ta Porte and Valparaiso. Rosemary Maden, 31, Evanston stewardess, aided in first aid.
John Ramsey, a veteran safecracker released during the war to serve as a Commando behind enemy lines, was back in court where a local judge considered his war record and sentenced him to five years in prison for blowing safes as a civilian.
The Civil Aeronautics Board said its preliminary investigation found some fault in the tail assembly of the Eastern Airlines plane that crashed near Bainbridge Maryland on May 30, killing all aboard. The board credits no guess of failure until just before the crash and notes unt for assembly.
Review of Soviet Medicine reports KR, a Russian cancer drug, dissolves malignant growths in about half the patients treated. Eva Peron to visit London with Duchess of Gloucester. Grady presents credentials in India as US diplomat. Viceroy Mountbatten’s son noted. US investment chief O Connor praised for peace efforts. Train crash in Yamaguchi prefecture leaves many dead or injured.
A Budapest dispatch reported that Hungary’s Communist Party demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly and fresh elections, urging the three coalition parties to press for a new political arrangement. The report notes urgent calls amid postwar political tension in Budapest.
A British war bride won a divorce from Lene Pearson after testifying that his passion for comic books and tinkering with an old car caused fights. District Judge Joseph Meyer granted the divorce to Mrs Phyllis Pearson who had married Pearson on January 14. Pearson alleged a black eye from a dispute over the car, comic books and money.
The 41,500 CLO shipbuilders strike spread to nearly all east and west coast yards, halting work on about 175 ships. International Union head John Green estimated 90,000 to 100,000 workers joined the latest strike call that began at 12:01 AM.
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