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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1950
Page
2
Joseph Raleigh, 27, of Buffalo, is missing and presumed drowned after his small sailboat washed ashore off Thunder Bay six and a half miles west of Buffalo. Coast Guard confirms. He is identified by his father as the missing mariner.
Ernst Dunker, adjutant to the Gestapo commander in Marseille during the occupation, was executed today after a 1947 conviction for involvement in arresting and deporting more than 300 members of the French underground. The news item notes Allied postwar actions and related political shifts.
Senators pressed for limits on military aid with a $22,000,600 bill under review by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Vandenberg warned against broad powers for presidential transfer of funds and arms to nations deemed vital, while Green and Johnson urged revisions to curb entanglements. Acheson indicated rising mutual defense costs, and Bradley asserted free nations can defend Europe with time and aid.
A St. Louis County handbook described as a national gambling nerve center was raided by city county and state officers. They seized thousands of telegrams seven telephones racing forms betting tabs and related paraphernalia. The raid followed indications from a New Jersey grand jury indicting four St. Louisans and ties to a Western Union aiding bookmaking.
A Walser Ki column critiques property rights and landlord limits, while Finnish and Soviet trade talks unfold through a five year framework, and a Canastota patrolman’s death after being struck by a bus is reported. The items show housing policy, wartime diplomacy, and a local tragedy with named officials and locations.
In a speech at Penn Military College, defense chief Johnson asserted communism will fail and praised freedom. Separately, Charles Brown reports that the Hensley couple and accomplice McAllister were captured after a failed jailbreak in Spartanburg and chase across the Southeast, with gunfire and roadblocks marking their escape.
Fragmentary clipping reports a dramatic scene in Atlanta involving Law enforcement and the penitentiary. It mentions suspects or a group connected with staled automobiles and a general capture in a chaotic sequence. Names and precise details are unreadable.
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