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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1946
Page
2
Rochester officials announce the city will drop Wheatless Mondays from the calendar after a famine emergency committee declares the measure no longer necessary. The meatless day had been in effect since June 11 under Mayor Samuel B. Dicker.
The Civil Aeronautics Board asked Lockheed Aircraft Co and four others to explain why Lockheed Constellation planes should not be permanently banned after temporary grounding. The action follows complaints by the Civil Aeronautics Administration seeking revoke of operating certificates for these primarily trans oceanic aircraft.
Deaths list includes Augustin J. Glassmire a 67 year old actor and stage director in Hollywood California. Dr Edward Godfrey Huber 64 a Harvard School of Public Health professor in Boston. Wesley M. Dawson 61 New York State Tax Department district supervisor in New York City. James Max ton 61 leader of Independent labor party in British House of Commons Ayrshire Scotland. Mrs Gertrude MackKellar 77 prominent American organist earlier this century in Gergenfield New Jersey.
A British government spokesman said London would not favor publishing the drafts of the peace treaties as urged by U S Secretary of State Byrnes. In Moscow, Ilya Ehrenburg claimed the United States maintains a legalized racial caste for Negroes and informal caste for Jews Italians and Chinese. In Bucharest, Prof Mihail Eralea was approved as Romanian envoy to Washington.
Moscow radio commentator David Zaslavsky denounces the FBI for its role in the Lt. Nicolai Redin espionage case. He calls the arrest in Portland and subsequent coverage a provocation and compares U S methods to Tsarist Okhrana provocateurs. Redin was acquitted in Seattle on July 17.
In Bulacan province 81 millimeter mortars used by military police were heard 20 miles from Manila suburbs. Authorities said the guns targeted 200 Hukbalahaps attacking an outpost where 80 suspected Huks, arrested earlier, were held. The unrest echoed in other provinces as peace reports arrived.
A comic column riffs on Representative May Kiss agreeing to testify to a committee, with jests about kissing babies and a parade of diplomats. The piece lampoons U.S. intervention in China, noting Sun Yat Sen's widow and Tokyo’s criticism, and hints at broader non interventionist debates.
The Rev Dr William R Watson 74 rector of St Peters Church by the Sea Bay Shore for 30 years and senior priest in the Long Island Episcopal diocese was killed in an automobile crash on Taconic Parkway His car struck a curb skidded then was hit by another vehicle He died at Ossining Hospital. Also United States Communists return to the party line per a national board statement published in the Daily Worker after plenary sessions July 15-18.
Polio illness climbs to 2 596 cases by July 13 in 1946, up from 1 752 in 1945. Texas reports 391 cases. Minnesota sees 178 since July 1. Epidemic risk noted in Texas Florida Alabama and Colorado as Manchester New Hampshire pools close for precaution.
President Truman nominates Louis G. Dreyfus Jr a career diplomat serving as minister to Iceland to be minister to Sweden. He succeeds Herschel V Johnson who resigned May 5 to join the U N Security Council delegation.
Regents examinations will begin August 21 at approved summer high schools and examination centers, instead of August 22 as planned. Physics, mathematics and chemistry tests will be given August 22. The Education Department cited unusually heavy registration as a reason for the shift.
Mrs Annie Irene Mansfeldt a 45 year old San Francisco social figure was sentenced to seven years in the California Institution for Women Tehachapi for manslaughter in the shooting of Veda Martin a nurse last October.
General Electric announces Carl M. Lynge will succeed W. Stewart Clark as manager of the national appliance and merchandise department at the Bridgeport plant. Clark retires July 31 after 47 years with GE, including 26 years as executive head of the local plant.
Chicago report says conductors threaten a nationwide strike scheduled for August 7 against the Pullman Company over wage increase applications. Union vice president B C Johnson cites failure to pay $1.48 per day or $44.40 per month as the dispute trigger following arbitration and talks with the White House.
Landlord Joseph Segal won approval from Judge Joseph L. Kun in Philadelphia for the eviction, stating the 28 month dispute with tenants Arthur and Mrs Weinberg ends with Segal and his family moving into the property after tenants refused to leave. The ruling resolves a long housing conflict in favor of the landlord.
Government troops report seizure of the important Communist base of Jukao, 95 miles northwest of Shanghai, with Peng Hsue-Pei saying Northern Kiangsu is under control though the Nan king Shanghai line remains under threat. Communist spokesman Wang Ping Nan disputes the loss and claims Gen Wang Techun surrendered with the 105th Division routed between Nantong and Jukao.
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