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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
2
Taft, eyed as a potential Republican candidate, weighs a 1948 bid amid labor bill backlash and political maneuvering. The interview portrays him as focused on debates, cocktails, and a Cincinnati HQ plan, with remarks on Truman, Dewey, and future steps.
Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index for week ended June 24 stayed at 6.24 cents per pound for 31 items, unchanged from the prior week and down from 4.35 a year earlier. A New York City housing group urged Governor Dewey to reconvene to reinstate the mortgage moratorium set to expire July 1. Two Dansville sisters, infantile paralysis patients, were hospitalized within 24 hours with their mother and aunt listed in fair to good condition. Baltimore student J Michael Conner won the national high school photography prize. The New York Central Railroad said July will see the completion of two way FM radio for tug dispatches in New York Harbor.
Police in Grand Junction report ongoing investigation into the poison death of Samuel G. McMullin 80. His widow Mazie Lightfoot McMullin 54 and Roy Maxson 61, a rancher, are jailed on murder charges for the November death. Maxson admitted prior infatuation with Mazie before her marriage.
Emergency war council gathered in Peiping area as top Nationalist generals respond to mounting clashes along the Peiping Paoting railway. Reports say Communist forces aim to disrupt the line while Chiang Kai-shek convenes leaders.
Six to possibly seven deaths reported after twin locomotives on the New York Central St Louis Special derailed at Shiloh Ohio. Engineers F Higgins and Elmer R Wanke of Cleveland perished. Firemen L J McCord and J D Kennedy Jr of Cleveland also died, along with work crewman Edward Gunderson of Lansing and James L Brockwell of Johnson City. Four hours after the crash, Wanke and Kennedy died at Shelby Memorial Hospital. Three passengers were injured. Search for McCord’s body continued as investigators reviewed a cross street derailment and embankment plunge that sent the lead engine into the mound of coal. Witnesses described the first locomotive vaulting into the air and narrowly missing a 200-strong laborer work train.
Albany reports New York State asks the Federal Power Commission to reject Electric Power Co of New Jersey Inc. permit for a Delaware River power project between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It would include three dams and threaten Port Jervis flood safety while hindering Delaware water diversions to New York City.
Gardeners are warned that Japanese beetles, a summer scourge of the East Coast, are due to arrive in East Orange New Jersey next week.
An essay humorously notes Pittsburgh testing women as traffic cops provoking male drivers to adjust their ties. It suggests women may excel at directing traffic while joking about a cop who asks Where do you think you're going. The piece also muses on weather talk and a moon weather claim.
Washington reports a balanced federal budget with a near one billion dollar surplus for the current fiscal year. The surplus stood at 987 million dollars on June 23, possibly the largest in U.S. history, though the all time peak was 1.155 billion in 1927 and 737 million in 1930.
About 1,800 residents were evacuated from 63 blocks around the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers as near record crest levels threatened downtown. The Des Moines River stood at 26.37 feet at Second Avenue with a predicted rise of six tenths, and the Raccoon flow above Scott Street was 20.9 with four to six inches more expected. A 60 man crew reinforced the Scott Bridge with sandbags while Missouri River levee breaches worsened downstream.
Grant L. Matthews chief of the Pittsford Fire Department was elected president of the Northern Central New York Volunteer Firemen's Association at the annual convention. He succeeds John I. Cotton of Canandaigua. Other officers include William I. Reed Jr. of East Rochester as secretary and William R. Coureen of Lyons as treasurer.
The New York State Sheriffs Association starts a statewide effort to curb highway accidents. Sheriffs will stop speeding and reckless driving and inspect brakes and headlights of cars involved in violations.
An Agri culture Department spokesman says it is too early to predict crop outcomes amid widespread spring floods and planting delays. He notes prices are rising and forecasts of failure exist, but two weeks of warm dry weather could change the outlook significantly.
Deaths include Christopher G. Simpson 63 Whitlock & Co. Chicago chairman and magazine circulator ally. Vincent L. Banioor 47 Chase National Bank vice president Port Chester. Luotms Boomer Waldorf Astoria director heart attack in Hamar Norway. Miss Helyn Woodard Atwater 71 home economist clubwoman 16 years Office of Home Economics USDA Washington.
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