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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1948
Page
2
The widow of Floyd Pultz filed a $20,500 damage suit against landlord Frank Waldvogel, jailed on a first degree murder charge in the shotgun killing following an eviction dispute. She seeks $10,000 for conscious pain and more for maintenance loss, as her husband's death left her wholly deprived of support.
Passengers and crew of the steamer City of Detroit report seeing a 60 foot sea serpent with a horned head and green coloration in Georgian Bay off Lake Huron yesterday. The sighting involved more than a dozen passengers and several crew members.
Western Berlin letters to newspapers urge gifts and monuments to honor the pilots who ferried supplies during the Russian blockade. A widow offers her Welsh terrier as a gesture of thanks, while others push for memorials to three Americans killed in an air lift crash two weeks ago.
Stone Mountain Georgia witnesses a KKK initiation as Dr Samuel Green top leader unveiled a national head role. About 700 to 5,000 robed Klansmen from several states participate in a two hour ceremony with cross lights and pledges to uphold the Constitution and Southern womanhood.
Brig Gen Brown, veteran of World War I, is named state selective service director after Dewey recommendation and Truman appointment. He will oversee 77 local boards across upstate New York and Long Island and plan to use experienced drafters from World War II.
Chairman Fred A. Harley Jr of the House Labor Committee said informants report Communist labor leaders have plans to sabotage U S industry in war. Hearings begin Aug 4 as investigators probe Red infiltration in unions including United Electrical Workers, Food and Leather workers, and the National Maritime Union.
A fragmented OCR list shows multiple traffic court entries with names and addresses followed by speeds and fines. It mentions individuals such as William H, Richard W. Cinte, Joncas, Marcets, Vales Dr, W Geneen, Amage A Gonuore, Robert G. Giatke, and others, along with street names like Murray Ave and Delving Smarnperiy teaisiered vehsels, and fines ranging from around $9 to $18.
Wallace and Taylor addressed the New Party convention urging peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union and denouncing the old parties. Delegates backed a two-man national committee and emphasized fighting monopoly, with Wallace claiming Communists back his campaign to keep competition alive.
Bridge column discusses several hands with questions on best opening bids and later contracts. Examples include South holdings like 6529 10TS and 45 Q753 4876421, and sequences where North or East passes lead to 2NT or 3NT decisions.
Dixiecrats from the states rights faction gathered in Atlanta for a top secret strategy conference. Thurmond planned to fly in to meet running mate Fielding Wright as they discussed candidate names on Southern ballots. Alabama Democratic committeeman MacTon dushton resigned over the party’s civil rights platform while some leaders stayed with the regular Democrats. In Washington, Senators and Barkley supported Truman, with Georgia leaders planning to ignore the session.
Reports detail a Mansfield reformatory farm slayings case linking Bob Daniels and West, with Conn wounded aiding Shafter in a red block gunfight. Daniels confessed planning and executing killings of John Niebel and family, plus others, during a nightlong crime spree ending at the field with victims identified, while authorities move toward first degree murder charges in Richland County.
Soviet Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky announced a new Deutsche mark for the Soviet zone of Germany and Berlin, exchanging one for one with coupon marks, with up to 500 million extra marks authorized. Western powers agreed to accept the new Soviet currency in their sectors. The airlift delivered 2,811 tons of supplies in 516 aircraft, the largest daily total since the program began 39 years ago, while electricity curbs limited daily German consumption.
George Wolland Jones aged 64 longtime president of Gilbert Knitting and later a commissioner in Little Falls passed away. Obituary notes his extensive career and local civic leadership announced in the small town notice.
In New York the Soviet motorship Pobeda was fumigated after health officials found 17 rats aboard. American officials said fumigation was agreed after a delay of nine hours in negotiations with the Public Wealth Service. At one point the Coast Guard was ordered to fire on the Pobeda if it moved. The ship had last visited Odessa and Naples, plague ports.
Britain says it has reorganized armed forces command in the Middle East and Mediterranean and in East Africa. A single command will coordinate land sea and air forces around the Mediterranean and neighboring countries. East Africa Command will oversee British forces in Somaliland East and Central Africa colonies and Mauritius.
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