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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1952
Page
2
Griffiss Base airman Sgt Joseph Walters died when a canoe overturned in Lake Delta near Rome. Fellow airman Sgt Theodore Kingare said high winds upset the craft. Walters vanished as Kingare swam to shore to remove boots and clothing.
British infantrymen from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry fired tear gas grenades into compound 65 at Koje Island Korea, driving Communist prisoners back from a barbed wire fence after POWs refused to retreat during an excavation. No injuries reported in the pen housing 2,700 North Korean officers and 650 non commissioned officers.
Washington dispatch notes Civil Service chief Robert Ramspeck calling on veteran organizations to help counter alleged discrimination against government workers. He cites 2,250,770 federal employees with 1,104,083 veterans and 172,000 disabled, arguing veterans have a stake in truth about government employment.
Delegates from Texas and other states face seating disputes as Taft and Eisenhower vie for pre convention delegate strength. Lodge insists on fair legal grounds and vows no deals disenfranchising Republicans while the credentials committee must decide contested seats before the convention in Chicago.
London crowds heard a royal proclamation fixing June 2 1953 as the coronation date for Queen Elizabeth II. Heralds in scarlet read the official word as tradition requires. Across the world the date was long known, yet the Court of St James maintains oral ceremony.
Death notices list 78 year old Rev Cameron J Davis retired Episcopal bishop of Western New York in Buffalo. 60 year old Lewis P Reese philanthropist industrialist who built pottery wealth in Scio and Pittsburgh. Dr poxae suacauren resigns as dean of the University of South Dakota Medical School after federal narcotics hospital stay in Vermillion. Col Mario Pamintuan Liberal Party provincial leader and former temporary police chief in Pampanga Provo Manila. Rev Robert Chea 58 fish at Siena College Schenectady. John C Crockett 68 reading clerk famed for swallow-tail coat and booming Senate voice in Washington.
State police hunted a blue sedan gunman after shots were fired at four motorists yesterday near Towanda to Springfield. One driver was injured and crews set up roadblocks as investigators pursued the unidentified shooter, believed to be operating alone or with an accomplice, across central Illinois during Memorial Day weekend.
American Airlines canceled four of its 26 Syracuse flights due to a ground crew strike at LaGuardia Field New York City now in its third day. Two eastbound and two westbound flights were affected. Overall 61 flights were scrapped across the domestic system as workers reported for duty but refused to go on their jobs. The stoppage stemmed from a travel time pay dispute involving staff moved from Newsark New Jersey to Guardia.
The article notes Soviet envoy Panyushkin leaving for New York and a voyage home via Sweden, amid undisclosed future postings. It discusses U.S. doubts about predicting Soviet policy shifts, amid ongoing propaganda attacks, and mentions Eisenhower’s schedule of Republican delegation talks and a key Pennsylvania conference with Governor John Fine, highlighting unpledged delegates and potential GOP strength in a major state.
Communist forces extended control on Berlin outskirts seizing Frohnau estate in the French sector. Russians ordered five families to leave and took livestock after a brief eviction. East German leader Ulbricht urged rapid arming to resist West integration of Germany.
Pope III warmly welcomed 600 American Catholic pilgrims led by Cardinal Spellman at a Vatican mass audience. Cardinal Spellman and other U.S. bishops joined the Pontiff in a group photo after the audience. The pilgrims planned to sail home after a Naples stop aboard the U.S. Inner Constitution.
Indiana party clashes over delegate selection rules as Taft forces dominate the caucus with 20 of 22 district slots filled. Eisenhower supporters protest fee demands and late filing while claims of manipulation and last minute changes ripple through the state Republican scene.
General Eisenhower urged the nation toward secure peace while addressing questions on labor steel and defense. He emphasized cooperation among raw material nations and warned against Soviet control. The New York visit followed his Abilene campaign kickoff and a Columbia University welcome as he pursues the Republican nomination.
A passenger train struck a car at a crossing near Elk River Minnesota shortly before midnight killing five people. Victims include a youth who had just graduated from high school hours earlier his minister father mother sister and childhood friend.
A bomb believed planted by Communist terrorists exploded an American Army sergeant's car on a quiet Legnorno street in northern Italy. The sergeant escaped unharmed as Italian riot police detained about 30 people nearby for questioning, most of them suspected Communists.
Kansas City engineer Hugh M Herbst 65 steered a Missouri Pacific streamliner from Omaha to Kansas City when the run turned deadly. The train narrowly passed an automobile, struck a car near Hiawatha killing Mrs. F L P Rule and her companion Mrs. Fred Yoekman, and finally hit a truck driven by Earl F Jenkins killing him as the train arrived in Kansas City.
The Senate advanced a farm bill setting more than 142 billion dollars for government farm programs starting July 1, sending the measure back to the House which had approved 143 million under the Senate plan. The debate centered on trimming 200 million from soil conservation payments, with opposition from Senator Russell DuGao and support from Anderson and Douglas, while Aiken urged cutting subsidies to large utilities and transportation interests.
In downtown Johnstown, nearly 100 guests escaped a fast spreading blaze at a four story hotel. Firefighters battled two and a half hours to control the Vendome Hotel blaze with four guests and four firefighters overcome by smoke. Thousands watched as crews fought through dense smoke in western Pennsylvania. About 50 guests were evacuated from the adjacent Luray Hotel as a precaution.
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