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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1946
Page
2
John G. Winant stressed two way foreign trade as essential to world structure and peace in a prepared speech at a world trade luncheon in New York. He urged expanding trade to free opportunities for all and improve life prospects.
A Circuit Court jury acquitted poor Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad guards of manslaughter in the Gridley Illinois killings of two union pickets on February 6. The seven women and five men deliberated nine hours across three weeks of testimony.
Obituaries list several prominent figures including Guy W. Runyan 48 president of a petroleum retailers group in Amesia John Car veth Wells 34 travel lecturer in London Elizabeth Mercier Oderbal Barry 66 writer and journalist in New York Arthur James 68 former NYC columnist editor Baltimore staff Mary Fairchild Low artist widow of Will Low in Bronxville and Magr Joseph O Keefe 68 dean of Catholic clergymen Akron district pastor of St Marys Akron Ohio.
In Bikini Atoll operations Crossroads rehearsal, Brig Gen Roger Ramey announced American Superfortress airmen conducted a three hour on-the-spot dress rehearsal with more than twenty B-29s. He called the results excellent and conclusive.
The ongoing railroad strike threatens to shut down industrial plants factories warn of mass idle workers and US operations pause. President Truman plans to address the Oklahoma City conference while government mobilizes transport resources and congressional action intensifies amid carrier negotiations.
Walter Kiernan writes from the Bowery as a refugee from the rail strike. He describes his separation from his wife, the uneasy optimism of a so-called brave new world, meager food, and the noisy elevated train outside their window while he keeps watch from a dusty hole in the glass.
The government seizure of mines under the Smith Connally act draws union ire as John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers face a possible strike. Interior Secretary Krug meets operators but leaves for a White House cabinet session. Rail shutdowns threaten to halt coal shipments and jeopardize the two week truce ending Saturday.
Lt. Antonio David M.P. intelligence officer said Hukbalahaps in Nueva Ecija plan a general uprising May 28 the date Roxas becomes president. The Huks backed Osmena in the April elections and 70 Huks who surrendered confirmed the plan reported by USAFFE guerrilla rivals.
New York CP reports retail sales rose this week despite rain and cool weather with volume 24 to 28 percent ahead of a year ago. Dun and Braa street notes strong consumer demand in most lines led by women’s apparel and home furnishings.
Emperor Hirohito called on Japan’s 73 million people to help each other through the food shortage and pressed Prime Minister Yoshida’s new government for action. Prime Minister Yoshida echoed the call for a self help approach and named Hiro Wada as agriculture minister to present a plan to ease the crisis. Wada said the public should have more control over rationing machinery as details await the cabinet.
Nellie Tay Ross, director of the U S mint, says the so called white penny is rapidly disappearing. She explains they are wearing out quickly and are not being deliberately called in.
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