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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1949
Page
1
A climactic session in Berlin is expected this week as Soviet and Allied negotiators seek to end the blockade. A key meeting may set a date for a Big Four foreign ministers talks on the German question, signaling possible agreement to lift the blockade and the counter-blockade.
Gen Lucus D Clay warned that even a temporary Russian moderation at future talks could not alter Communism's ultimate goal of world domination. He noted Soviet attitude in U S negotiations and cautioned that a German solution would not end Communism's aims.
Tass reports talks between U S Deputy Foreign Minister Philip De Jessup and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Malik progress smoothly. Malik suggested lifting the blockade by end of the first week in June. Western powers demand no hidden strings and a clear date for a Big Four meeting on Germany, likely in Paris in May or June.
Syracuse couple Mr and Mrs Charles Tripp Cochran renew vows after divorce last fall marrying in Reno Nevada. Suzanne Hoyt Lipe Cochran previously wed Aug 20 1944. She is daughter of the late W Charles Lipe who perished in a 1929 Thousand Islands boat accident. Grandfather Willard Lipe helped found Brown-Lipe Gear Co. The family home on Woodchuck Hill Road is expected to host the reunited couple and their two children.
The will of G Walter Laidlaw of 300 Stolp Ave New York City shows an estate valued at £401,188.34 gross and £331,785.43 net after inheritance tax. Surrogate Charles R Milford Jr approved the report filed by Nicholas Ransler transfers, naming wife Alice as a $10,000 bequest plus an automobile and home at Saranac Lake, with Enid Janette Laidlaw of New York City as heir to the Stolp Avenue residence. Trust allocates one half to Laidlaw’s widow, one quarter to sister Mrs Ethel L Woods of Oneonta, and one quarter to sister Mrs Florence L Bundy of Clearwater Florida.
Washington dispatch reports John L. Lewis facing a Taft Hartley deadline to notify soft coal operators of desired changes as the June 30 contract expiry nears. The 60 day notice is required and failure could trigger unfair labor practice charges while London reports Samuel Gantor held without bail on charges of receiving 1052 sets of black market false teeth.
In Sundays issue Puck the Comic Weekly presents Jimmy Haile with Theyll Do It Every Time in color as part of Todays Pictures. The page highlights Fun Fun Fun and the big color comic magazine format with other features and pages listed for Amusements Financial Radio Editorials and more.
Pakistan launched a campaign at the British Industries Fair in London to market bagpipes to Scots, signaling a targeted export effort amid trade show activity.
Shanghai reports a suspended rail link to Hangchow and Nanchang as Communist pressure grows in South China. The city’s money market collapsed at midday after a garrison order banned free trading in prewar silver dollars on pain of death. Nationalist forces claim footholds around Kunshan while Red artillery advances and troop movements are observed along the Whangpoo River.
New York reports two new network channels begin operation linking Philadelphia and Chicago. AT&T announces three west bound and one east bound channels will expand Midwest audiences access to East Coast network programs. Broadcasters currently sharing channels gain broader program choice.
N V Godse, who was convicted of Mohandas K Gandhi's assassination, appeared today before the East Punjab high court in Simla for the last appeal from the death sentence handed down January 10 in New Delhi.
Reports say Dr. Peter Lindstrom of Hollywood met with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in Milazzo Sicily to discuss a romance involving Ingrid Bergman. Bergman reportedly remained unseen as Rossellini sailed back to Stromboli with her after a weekend hotel lunch.
The weather page notes above normal conditions for two days with a cold front from the West bringing wind up to 35 mph, showers, and thunderstorms. Yesterday’s high reached 74 degrees, Saturday’s 79 marked the season’s high, and a 65 degree forecast is set for tomorrow with a cooler, fair day ahead.
Rescue teams resumed search for Dr. Paul H. Schiller, 40, of Orange Park, Florida, a former Hungarian psychologist, who fell into a 100-foot crevice atop the Tuckerman Ravine headwall after sweeping turns above the waterfall. He was last seen swept into the torrent of rushing water.
Three New York youths faced a fog shrouded river ordeal. James McCole 15 swam 15 feet to shore while George Thomas 15 and Kenneth Smith 16 were rescued by a police launch after their raft drifted into darkness on the Hudson River.
Robert Garver drove off the road when blinded by headlights from an oncoming car in Cincinnati. His car crashed into a house, toppled, and threw him and a passenger free with only minor injuries while the kitchen suffered serious damage.
Washington report notes Phineas T Barnum quote misattributed while Ernest C Blanche chief statistician for the Army outlines his new book You Cant Win arguing most gambling games are crooked and the odds against players are steep Blanche details poker hands odds bridge odds and the house take in lotteries with a cautious tone and a final caveat that despite study he cannot explain why people gamble Barnum’s reputation as a sage of caution is recalled.
FBI witnesses testified in the Judith Coplon espionage case, tracing three meetings with Russian defector Valentine Gubitchev in New York. Agents shadowed Coplon from Pennsylvania Station to Dyckman Street and the Soviet UN delegation area, with charts and photos used to illustrate the surveillance.
A dynamite blast near Marconi House in central Cairo injured one man seriously. Police had been conducting a major search for munitions, with an official stating the raid yielded explosives sufficient to blow up all of Cairo.
Blue shirted Falangists crowded Santana Parish Church in Barcelona to pay tribute to Mussolini. The event occurred four days past the fourth anniversary of Mussolini's execution by Italian partisans and his body hung at Piazza Loreto in Milan.
Temperance lecturer Mrs Winston Chase quotes a red nosed heckler at a Darton address arguing against prohibition. The heckler claims water has killed more people than alcohol, prompting a pro prohibition reply that references the Flood as the beginning of the assertion.
Miss Bette Wolf, a Syracuse University graduate student and St. Pauls Choir soloist, was bitten on the face by a dachshund after a performance at the Osborne Hotel Auburn. She received treatment at Auburn City Hospital and was discharged. She attended the event with Helen Russell, another Syracuse soloist, and visited Victor J Callanan afterward.
Former Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the origins of the North Atlantic Treaty alliance. He linked the NATO concept to what he described as the Soviet Union and Communist parties exploiting insecurity in Western Europe after the Marshall Plan.
In Trieste an American Army private, Pfc. Louis J. Capelitti Jr., from Hanson, Mass., fatally shot his 29 year old girlfriend Maria Siosca and wounded himself with two head shots after venting jealousy over rival men. She left notes describing the plan for a double suicide. Capelitti remained in critical condition.
Israeli troops clashed with Arab forces between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in a brief night encounter. Wailing sirens filled the Holy City as residents sought air raid shelters, and the alarm cleared two hours later amid ongoing truce strains between Trans-Jordan and Israel.
Albania will reestablish diplomatic relations with Italy and exchange representatives, suspended since March 1939 when Mussolini’s armies invaded and annexed Albania as an Italian province, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Speaker Rayburn announced support for five amendments to the administration labor bill aimed at assuring passage. The proposals include presidential intervention in threatened strikes, freedom of speech on both sides, affidavits from leaders, access to union financial reports, and mandatory good faith bargaining by both sides. He spoke after a White House conference and said the amendments will be offered tomorrow to the Lesinski bill.
The Herald Journal lists New York State Senators and the Onondaga County congressman to contact about measures before Congress. It names U S Senator Robert F Wagner and U S Senator Irving M Ives with Washington offices and Representative R Walter Riehlman in Washington D C for readers seeking correspondence.
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