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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1954
Page
5
A 2160 worker strike at Alexander Smith Inc closes the Yonkers carpet and rug plant. Union Local 129 sought a one year contract extension. company offer deemed unacceptable. Non union staff also employed at the plant.
The Air Force began a continuous search for hurricanes with a Bermuda base takeoff. The operation spans from Whiting to Brownsville as the hurricane season opens, signaling a major coastal weather effort.
Searchers reached the wreckage of a Navy plane on Raku Island and found no survivors among the 11 aboard. Seven bodies were recovered before dark, with hopes to search for more casualties tomorrow.
John Pratt aged 68 died recently. He was a former Hearst newspaper executive in Chicago, holding senior positions and guiding operations during his tenure. He is remembered for leadership and contribution to the newsroom. He is survived by family and colleagues who honored his career.
Investigators probed scattered wreckage of a TF-32D trainer near Elma after a night crash that killed two fliers. Maj. Walter Kirkbride, a reservist at Niagara Falls Air Force Base, piloted the Mustang trainer with Airman 3/c Donald J. Weiglein of Buffalo as the passenger of the 445th Fighter Bomber Wing.
The Italian Welfare Council, formed in 1936 to aid indigent Italians, agreed to dissolve and transfer its $400,000 assets to the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for cancer research. Council president Anthony V. Champegne said the distribution will do the most good for all people. the council had 622 members.
Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis paid a 309 dollar fine after failing to answer about twenty traffic summonses. Chief Magistrate John Murtagh said citizens must answer summons, while Louis’s lawyer blamed misdirected notices to his late mother’s Detroit address.
Los Angeles reports Dr Oscar A Benson Lutheran leader from Minneapolis and president of Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church criticized Congressional investigative committees for assuming competence to define Americanism as intolerable and dangerous. He spoke to the 95th synod in session here.
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