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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1949
Page
2
State police say a 14 year old confessed to starting two fires at Holland High School in Buffalo suburbia. The first blaze damaged a storeroom for about 2000 dollars. The second fire struck the gymnasium auditorium yesterday, forcing about 550 students and staff to evacuate. The motive remains unknown.
Two California of three cent a quart cuts are being rolled back by Sheffield Farms and Borden Farm Products after talks with New Jersey officials led by Attorney General Theodore Parsons. The row followed a demand to restore prices or risk license withdrawal as discussions continued among state leaders and executives.
News brief summarizes international items: Swedish Yugoslav year long trade pact worth 900 million kronor. Milan editor fined for war mongering claims. Italian court sentence and fines for director. a U S navy plan to haul Rome Coliseum stone to Los Angeles. a Manila port fire disaster with 2 dead and 200 homeless. Legaspi area fire damage. Tokyo reports 1.3 million Japanese students truant since spring arrival.
Doris Coulombe of Brookline says priests refused to marry her to Thomas Sennott due to her link with St Benedict's Center Cambridge, banned by Archbishop Cushing after a doctrinal dispute with Rev Leonard Feeney. She plans to appeal to the Archbishop while noting Emanuel College teachings she calls contrary to Catholic doctrine.
Eisler was cleared of extraditable charges as he faced a Tuesday meeting with British groups aiding his defense. The National Council for Civil Liberties raised 230 pounds for his case while the British Council for German Democracy supported him. Eisler plans to stay in Britain briefly then travel to Gdynia before a Leipzig tenure, hoping to recover belongings. consternation arose over police removal at Southampton and calls for compensation. The Times and Daily Telegraph weighed in on British justice and Eisler’s activist legacy.
Obituary notes death of John W. Whitehead aged 64, president of the Norwalk Tire and Rubber Company in Norwalk Connecticut, with brief mention of his passing. Also records the death of Vice Admiral John Ernest Troute Harper, a British naval historian, in Chatham England.
FRANKFURT Germany a Swiss private investigating firm has been hired to monitor economic recovery program goods arriving in Germany. The firm has checked shipments since January 12 reporting shortages. The ECA pays Societe Generale de Surveillance of Geneva 750000 Deutschemark for the first year to oversee the Marshall Plant goods and verify shipments at origin, transit, and final destination.
Three thousand workers at 75 food warehouses in New York and New Jersey threaten a strike next Tuesday midnight if a contract dispute remains unsettled. A stoppage could halt millions in meat butter eggs and other staples. The union seeks a 35 cent hourly wage increase from about 1.35 dollars, a welfare fund and higher wage classifications for some workers.
Dock union leaders ordered stevedores to end a 10 day strike that blocked unloading of food ships in four British ports. The move followed an appeal by one group of striking dockers for government intervention to end the deadlock.
Termite damage to cellar beams at Seton Hospital in the Bronx forces New York City to relocate 96 tuberculosis patients from the unsafe 500 bed hospital. The city took over the facility in May 1948, when all but one patient were municipal cases.
The Senate approved the nomination of Major General Philip B. Fleming to lead the U S Maritime Commission. Fleming, a retired Army officer, previously headed the Federal Works Agency.
John R. Burson, 33, condemned for the April 8, 1948 murder spree, spent his final hours in prayer with Catholic chaplain Rev. Cle W. Lucier and for his four brothers in prison. He was executed in the electric chair at 8 12 PM after being strapped in and pronounced dead. His mother Blanche Burson, also with a criminal record, had six sons and four daughters.
The Associated Press notes the nation’s Memorial Day holiday began with a slow start and four deaths three traffic and one miscellaneous as the three day period begins. The National Safety Council predicts about 215 traffic fatalities and more than 30 million vehicles are expected to travel if weather stays good.
The Jewish Home for the Aged at 4301 E Gene see Il plans its biggest picnic yet. Chairman Eli Finkelstein announced after a committee meeting that the open house will start at noon on July 1 with refreshments and games featured.
In Cedar Rapids Virginia jurors begin deliberations in the murder trial of Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. after a day of resumed testimony. The defense alleges a plan to smear Sydney Rutledge and questions key witnesses while the state calls rebuttal testimony from Christopher Eftrin of St Louis.
A Vatican source says the Moslem wedding will excommunicate Rita Hayworth, while a French civil ceremony in Vallauris did not satisfy church law. Mayor Paul Derigen hailed Hayworth as princess, and Aly Khan’s residences span India, France, England and Ireland as the couple plans a Hollywood career and a residence location.
Rita Barworth's marriage to Moslem prince drew a quiet family scene in Los Angeles. Father Eduardo Cansino dozed through the ceremony but woke to cut the cake. Rita's brother Vernon marked the day at Santa Monica with hot dogs and sodas from his own stand while the couple planned a dance recital after 27 years as partners.
Hospital report summarizes April 1949 figures for Syracuse Memorial Hospital and St Josephs Hospital including admissions treated discharged births deaths operations and patients remaining at month end. It lists totals for ambulances laboratory tests physical therapy autopsies X rays and patient days across facilities.
Berlin faces renewed tension as Soviet threats over airlift corridors clash with Western refusal to alter routes. Despite daily relief of 7,930 tons to Berlin, rail lines stay idle and joblessness tops 1.2 million in allied sectors. Berliners see themselves as pawns in the East West conflict as Paris talks stall and railway talks remain deadlocked.
Princess Margaret lands in Paris aboard a holiday tour return. She is greeted at Gare de Lyon by British ambassador Sir Oliver Hardy and Canadian ambassador Maj Gen George P. Vanier.
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