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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1949
Page
2
New York reports former governor Dewey arriving at LaGuardia early morning after attending the Colorado governors conference. He said one session was successful and planned to sleep after the cross-country night flight.
A 15 member council on human relations has been named by Mayor Joseph Darse to study inter racial issues in St. Louis. Led by Russell L. Dearmont the group will meet soon to replace a larger 72 member race relations commission amid recent white and Negro teen clashes after segregation bans were lifted at pools and playgrounds.
Dr A Kuznetsov told Womsomolskaya Pravda that capitalist societies push narcotic use. A Greek source says Communist divisions in Greece were nearly wiped out after three months of fighting. 5 000 to 6 000 guerrillas started, few hundred remain. In Cuba, Carlos Prio Socarras names Segundo Curtis Mesina minister of national defense, replacing Antonio de Varona.
A column reflects on dry weather in New York and residents carrying water to Belem butdust covers streets. It notes a welfare cabinet balance and describes Henry Wilson, a 45 year old steeplejack trapped on a 100 foot rack for two hours before rescue.
Patrolman James Devereaux confronted three armed bandits in a mid town office elevator. The assailants demanded the Coleman Brothers Corp payroll and fired when he challenged them, but the officer protected the payroll ahead of a planned $315,000 theft.
Helen Richards Guthrie Miller 88 longtime suffrage and welfare leader and widow of Dr Waeler McNab Aulier died in Columbia Mo She was prominent in national welfare work and suffrage Walter McGee 34 serving life for 1933 kidnapping of Mary McElroy daughter of BH McElroy Kansas City city manager His case involved a 260 600 ransom in Jefferson City Missouri.
The minimum producer price for fluid milk in the New York City area will stay pegged to the Boston market price for the rest of the year. The Agriculture Department announced hearings within six months on a long range method to determine New York prices. The tie was due to expire July 1 and the NY I A price is set at 19 cents less per hundredweight than Boston.
Denver report says Dr Eugene Paven of Detroit describes a Parke Davis drug chlorometin that may flatten influenza. The medic says it has also treated typhus and typhoid fever with success.
Roger Bannister, a 20 year old miler, captains the English combined Oxford Cambridge track team to victory over the Harvard Yale squad. He has broken the mile in under 4 20 ten times and is regarded as the youngest captain of the English steam.
Report notes the New York Central will seek a six month extension of a 20 percent interim fare hike as filed before the Public Service Commission on February 2, 1645. Separate items describe rationing in the Netherlands and a rescue incident at Swammscot with a kayaker and related events.
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