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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1947
Page
7
Peggy McCarthy reports residents at the Courthouse discuss rent control amid housing shortages. Names include Eloise Rommel, Fred Cargian, Joseph Mondo, W Newton Clark, Milford House. views vary from support with reforms to abolition and calls for fair returns and protections for wage earners.
About 400000 cubic yards of hydraulic fill will be used at Oak Neck Beach and Center Island Causeway Beach to restore over a mile of eroded shoreline in Nassau County. The $145560 contract was awarded by the State Public Works Department to Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Co. of New York City.
Observers doubt peace in India as independence nears, warning that Britain must quit by June 1948. The article argues unity is fragile amid Hindu Muslim tensions and predicts power may be handed to two or more successor governments, with India facing a divided postcolonial future.
ORILLIA Ont CP Martin Insull 77 brother of Samuel Insull and a leading industrialist died Sunday in a hospital after living in a rest home. He helped bring electric power to 4000 towns across 30 states and led Middle West Utilities until its 1932 collapse. He faced larceny and embezzlement charges in the U.S. extradition case but was released by June 1933. Born in Reading England he kept British citizenship.
Five Holstein heifers valued at $11,000 traveled by plane to Montevideo Uruguay to beat expected calving. Uruguay breeders bought them with a clause they arrive before birth. Boat passage delays prompted the airborne delivery as a whimsical race against the stork.
Senate War Investigating Committee chair Brewster said King Ibn Saud and heirs will receive about five billion dollars in royalties from U.S. oil firms. He cited licenses for 20 billion barrels and a 23 cent per barrel royalty under contracts through 1999.
Havana observes three days of mourning after Mayor Manuel Fernandez Supervielle shot himself in his garage. Police said he borrowed a .45 revolver from a on duty officer near Vedado, then fired a shot. Friends reported his mood dipped due to frequent public demonstrations of unpopularity.
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