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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1949
Page
2
The Times Square scene outside Mike Todd’s show As the Girls Go at the Winter Garden draws a mix of Broadway hopefuls, chorus beauties, managers, and curious tourists. Ingenues like Rosemary Williamson mingle with nightlife characters as autographs and gossip flow among a bustling crowd.
Obituaries note R Kay Barker associate editor of the Ann Arbor News and Booth Newspapers writer in Ann Arbor Michigan. Eugene Sablin 74 charge d affaires for the Russian Imperial Embassy in London. Gheorghe Perkkasct Romania's leading painter known for landscapes and still lifes in Bucharest.
Fordham University seismograph recorded two tremors in Chile at 1 08:52 AM and 1 18:49 AM local time. Reports place the origin about 100 miles below ground level.
Census Bureau data show the Bible far outsold other titles, with 1947 sales near 9.25 million copies valued at about 9.29 million dollars, far above 1939 factory figures. Philco workers face a second day of walkouts affecting about 6,500 employees while clerical staff slip past lines. The Boston Ugly Man contest names Brockton veteran Greg Castano as leader with public votes funding a European Boy Scout project. Jonathan Daniels, North Carolina editor, is offered Secretary of the Navy post pending approval by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.
Multiple short dispatches cover health and politics with Douglas at an embassy, Attlee and Churchill lunch with Bevin, Mexico's government taking over Western Union operations, Hukbalahap attacks in the Philippines, a near-miss aviation incident near Frankfurt, and Canada’s first-quarter export figures showing gains to the United States.
In Bridgeport the Rev Hetenyi faces first degree murder charges after his wife’s death. A special police detail prepared for crowds at St. Andrews Episcopal Church as services and burial plans unfold with Bishop Scaife to officiate. The slain woman’s mother arrived from Oakland for the funeral.
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge faces murder charges in Cedar Rapids as his wifeTestifies will aid defense with Leo Laughren, a St. Louis attorney who represented Rutledge in Missouri hearings. Jurors questioned amid hints of a defense strategy focusing on the late 23 year old air craft designer Byron Hartman. Hartman was found dead in a bloodstained Cedar Rapids hotel room December 15, with the state saying Hartman’s pursuit of Mrs Rutledge sparked the incident.
A Vatican source says Princess Margaret of England will meet Pope Pius XII during her visit to Rome. The encounter is part of the Princess’s official stay in the city.
A fast moving two family frame house fire in Hinton West Virginia killed seven occupants who were trapped in their sleep. Fire Captain Jehan Lively said flames spread quickly and rescuers found identified victims including Anna June Deeds and her children Drema Has Hazel Joyce Dennis plus Mrs Exel soman and baby Diana Frances Homer Pincher a visitor. The fire began around 2 AM.
In Wales the tales of King Arthur and the Round Table originated, shaping early legend and national myth through centuries of storytelling and cultural memory.
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