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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1949
Page
2
New York report states a student panel rejected Cosmamere's invitation amid faculty tensions. The council, representing about 1100 students, voted 32 to 3 to bar the defendant, citing university policy.
U S Treasury narcotics agents report seizing a large cache of opium and heroin in Cleveland after a three hour search of a den on the near East Side. They arrested Louie Wong aged 49 and Eddie Woo aged 55.
United Farm Equipment Workers CIO demands a national holiday to press for repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. In Massachusetts a Navy fighter plane wreckage identified as Lt. Comdr. Albert Foster 31 of Weymouth was found after a disappearance en route from Virginia. The Navy will commission cruiser Roanoke April 4 at Philadelphia, first of Worcester Class. In Wales triplets Fred Fredrick and John White wed three local girls in one ceremony after RAF service.
In Paris French and Italian foreign ministers Count Carlo Sforza and Robert Schuman signed a customs union after negotiations begun in 1947. It aims to end border duties within a year and hints at a possible broader economic union by 1955.
Republican leaders in the New York Legislature introduced a net supplemental budget of 639,919.15, bringing the total to 937,102,971.44 for the next fiscal year. The package funds cerebral palsy programs at 165,000 plus 239,000 for West Haverstraw facilities, and allocates capital construction for dormitories and other projects.
In Camden New Zealand John Dunatic a 61 year old junkman received a one day jail term. His shepherd dog joined him in the dockside protest and has since refused food, prompting humane society workers to seize the animal and place it in the city pound until Dunatic’s release.
American know how aided restoration of Ruhr coal production toward prewar levels of 125 million tons annually. R. R. Estill of the W. H. C. Fricke Coke Co. cited Ruhr output above 300000 tons a day in a report to the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania. Estill led a American team of mine experts who traveled to Germany in late 1947 to help rehabilitation.
Washington reports a proposed $1.2 billion arms program for Western Europe and other non Communist nations to be sent from mid 1950. The plan aims quick delivery of military supplies, with hearings possibly secret, and would draw on surplus stocks plus new production starting in 1950.
Senator Taft floated a 34.25 billion ceiling for the European Recovery Program and urged a 10 percent budget cut across all appropriations. He warned there may be little savings without trimming ERPs, while the Senate resumes debate and the Foreign Relations Committee outlined year start allocations.
Col. Louis Johnson will take the oath of office as Secretary of Defense tomorrow at Pentagon ceremonies attended by about 10 000 people. He succeeds Forrestal and will be sworn by Chief Justice Fred M Vinson in the Pentagon center court.
In Washington the coalition of Reublicans and Southern Democrats lines up to delay debate on the Taft-Hartley repeal as the House Rules Committee weighs conditions for debate. Lesinski's Labor Committee approved the bill restoring Wagner Act provisions with a 30 day cooling off and limits on jurisdictional strikes and certain secondary boycotts. The bill moves to the Rules Committee for decision on debate timing.
The London News of the World quoted unconfirmed reports that a zero-hour may be near in Russia’s attempt to topple Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav regime. The Rome dispatch said Russia is sending war materiel into Albania.
A Los Angeles man identified only as De Linguept confessed to the Internal Revenue Collector Westover that he owed the government 1171.65 dollars and could not pay it all. Westover opened a delinquent account after receiving the cashier’s check and six years of income tax returns.
ROMEP-Drye weather causes the worst electric power shortage in the nation’s history threatening postwar industrial recovery. Officials warn output, which equaled or surpassed prewar levels on January 1, could fall by 7 to 50 percent due to rigid rationing.
A daylight curfew was imposed yesterday on Puchenz, defense bastion north of Nanking, amid reports of desertions among Nationalist troops guarding approaches to the capital. Unconfirmed word said an entire Nationalist army joined the Communists, denied by Chow Tse-tung as commander of the Nanking Shanchai Hangchow command.
A plane from Frobisher Bay yesterday dropped supplies to seven airmen stranded in Resolute Bay about 400 miles north of the magnetic North Pole. The seven were aboard a C 82 which belly landed on an ice floe in the bay Friday.
A 33 member group reportedly fatally harmed an Iranian soldier and wounded two others in a frontier region south of the Atre River in Gurfan district. Two Iranians were captured during the incident, which occurred in an area claimed by Iran. date not stated due to censorship. Iranian commander notified Soviet consul in Gurgan and sought prisoner release.
Cambridge report says two patrolmen halted a motorist after a gas station proprietor reported a driver acting suspiciously. The man drank from a bottle, collapsed, and died en route to St Francis Hospital. Police identified the incident as a fatal act observed at the scene.
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