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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1943
Page
4
The article recounts Wendell Willkie’s wartime journey in 1942, detailing travel via aircraft to Egypt and interviews with key leaders. He notes rapid global change, the fall of old empires, and a push toward world-wide thinking amid Allied campaigns, with reflections from General Montgomery and other officials in Alexandria.
The text describes Willkie’s Middle East trip from Cairo to Tehran and Beirut to Baghdad, with meetings with Arab and Jewish leaders, Iran's Mohammad Reza Shah, and Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold. It notes belief that regional peoples lean toward the Allies, caution about rapid change, and questions on freedom and foreign mandates in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine.
Army and civil authorities investigated a collision between a Boston and Maine Transportation Company bus and a private automobile near Clinton Massachusetts. The crash killed Mary L. Gibbs 23 a Waac and injured 20 others including 13 soldiers and Waacs from Fort Devens Miss Gibbs was from Stowe Vermont.
War and agriculture leaders push for direct farm subsidies while critics warn subsidies to processors will suppress production. Congress debates altering price ceilings to reflect realities, with Senator O Mahoney proposing shifting subsidy authority to the War Food Administration as a potential compromise.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Roosevelt's nomination of James B. M. McNally to be United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, succeeding Mathias F. Correa, who resigned. McNally's name moves to the Senate floor for final action.
The U S S Frament destroyer escort was launched in Quincy Massachusetts with sponsor Mrs Edward A Frament mother of Paul S Frament pharmacist mate third class U S N R hero of the Solomon Islands. Frament earned the Silver Star for aiding wounded Marines and twice returned to the front before being killed in action November 19 1942.
Federal agents report George Lehmitz a Staten Island resident born in Germany in 188? came to the United States in 1908 and worked for the German consulate until World War I. He allegedly began letters in 1942 using many false names and traveled to Germany in 1912 and 1929. He was naturalized in 1924 and acted as an air raid warden while secretly receiving international funds and later worked at a Staten Island restaurant.
Harry A. Brocas, executive secretary of the Retail Meat Dealers Association of Western New York, warned that if the meat shortage continues more than half of Erie County’s 376 retail butcher shops may close by Saturday. He said only small amounts remain for civilian use while bulk sales to restaurants hotels and war plants dominate, squeezing civilian supplies.
Stockholm reports the United States battleships have reached the Mediterranean and joined the British battlefleet. The Reuters dispatch cites the Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau amid rumors of the Italian fleet possibly sailing for action or refuge, though no official confirmation exists.
Kenneth Decker of Ithaca was elected president of the New York State Acting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the annual convention in Auburn on June 28. Other officers chosen included John J. Taggart of Buffalo chaplain Thomas Keaveny of Johnstown conductor and William C. Conrow of Endicott treasurer.
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