WSYR sale to Newhouse. Col Wilder to remain president
Col Harry C. Wilder announced the sale of WSYR to S L Newhouse, principal owner of the Syracuse Herald Journal and the Syracuse Post Standard, for 1.2 million dollars. Newhouse will own Central New York Broadcasting Corp including WSYR and WSYR FM. FCC approval required before transfer. Col Wilder continues as WSYR president and active operator of WSYR, WTRY, and WELI, with staff unchanged. The sale covers only WSYR. Newhouse gains full control upon FCC clearance.
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S. L Newhouse
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Central New York Broadcasting Corporation
Newhouse
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Syracuse
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Col Wilder
Eight Fallen Sons Come Home Tribute For Onondaga Heroes
A solemn community service honored eight Onondaga County servicemen among 1,140 who died in combat. At New York Central Station, 1,000 mourners observed as flag draped caskets arrived, a military band played Abide With Me and Nearer My God to Thee, led by Major Frank J. Costello and county Legion commander William H. Pope with the 108th Infantry squad. The fallen included Set. Palmer B. Cately Lieutenant John Haver T/4 Lester I. Haynes and Corp. John P. Mirabile.
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William H. Pope
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Lester I. Haynes
John P. Mirabile
Tax Cut Fight Aims To Speed Aid Abroad
Congress supe r session opens Nov 17 as Rep Statson unveils a 4 billion tax slashing bill tied to community property rules. The plan faces GOP opposition while Truman aides press for restraint on taxes and inflation controls amid Europe aid talks and a 22 billion plan.
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Quakes Kill 51 in Peru
Peru reports say at least 151 killed in a central Peru earthquake that struck seven towns over the weekend. Officials fear the toll may rise above 100 as landslides from mountains dam up the Satipo River and flood homes. Satipo suffered 40 deaths, with Huancayo 3, Tarma 1, and San Felix 7.
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Ghost Ships Create Mock Beachhead in Panama City
A mock amphibious assault uses ghost ships and a simulated division armed with broomsticks. Real tanks and artillery join the landings, with Air Force and Navy top cover, while naval gunfire is unseen as ships are paper labels of secret and confidential.
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Walker Named Acting Chairman of FCC
President Truman designated Paul A. Walker as acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission following the resignation of Charles R. Denny. Walker, an FCC member, will serve in the role while the White House decides a permanent successor and timing remains undetermined.
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Truman
Paul A. Walker
Federal Communications Commission
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Charles G. Ross
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Rain Expected Tuesday With Light to Moderate Showers
A new low temperature record was set at 25 degrees this morning at 6 30 AM surpassing the previous 26 degree mark from 1912. This marks the third consecutive day of breaking cold records as rain moves in Tuesday afternoon and lasts through the night with light to moderate precipitation.
Kilroy Returns with Jokes and Street Gossip
A brief quirky item notes Kilroy back in circulation with winked trivia about a boy and a mother and a playful exchange about husbands and strangers on the street. The piece reflects light humor and street chatter characteristic of the era.
Russia rejects Amarici plan for Palestine mandate end
Soviet Union rejects the Amari plan for partitioning Palestine and demands Britain end its mandate by January 1 1948 with troop withdrawal by May 1 1948. Moscow calls for a transition period up to one year before independence for Jewish and Arab states under UN Security Council supervision.
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Today’s Features Through the Marshall Plan
Marquis Childs closes his column before sailing home after surveying postwar Europe. He argues America can and must help Britain recover in this transition period, but only Britain can truly save itself. Also notes pages and regular features distribution.
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America
Britain
Marquis Childs
Europe
Nazi war crimes verdicts condemn Pohl and aides to death
An American war crimes tribunal found Lt Gen Oswald Pohl and three assistants guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fourteen former Nazis were convicted. Pohl and three lieutenants received the death penalty. Several defendants were acquitted amid indictments of 19 more German officials for roles in diplomacy finance and industry.
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Georg Lerner
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Quarrel Over Theft Leads 12-Year-Old to Confess Slaying
AP report from Chicago states 12-year-old Howard Lang signed a one line confession admitting he killed Lonnie Fellict, 7, by stabbing and smashing his head with a rock after a quarrel over a stolen $20. Lang’s attorney questions coercion and plans habeas corpus. Gerald Mickalek is named as the other boy involved.
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Gerald Mickalek
Mickalek
Lang
Reds spurn Cominform over Marshall Plan
The Communist Party of the United States rejected joining the Communist Information Bureau created by nine European nations to combat the Marshall Plan, while endorsing Cominform and vowing to continue the U S battle. Officials William Foster and Eugene Dennis led the release, noting affiliation would worsen prejudice against American Communists and referencing the Voorhis Act’s agent-registration rule.
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Eugene Dennis
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Communist International
Peace Is Linked to Repelling Reds in Western Europe
Detroit dispatch reports Assistant Secretary of State Norman Armour linking the chance to avert another world war to Western Europe’s success in repelling encroachments of the police state. He singles out the Soviet Union as an evil system bending satellites to power, defying United Nations principles.
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Norman Armour
Europe
Soviet Union
Armour
United Nations
Fire Still Menaces Two Maine Towns
A forest fire threatens Whitneyville and Machias as a new blaze advances through heavy timber country. No rain yet ends Maine's worst two week economic disaster, which has cost 16 lives and 30 million dollars in property.
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Maine
Whitneyville
Machias
Polish opposition leader Mikolajczyk seeks sanctuary in Britain
London reports confirm Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, head of the Polish Peasant Party in exile, reached Britain by plane after fleeing into the British zone. A Foreign Office official announced sanctuary, while Warsaw disclosed a parliamentary inquiry into his flight amid Moscow backed government concerns. His wife and son remain in Britain. his son attends Cambridge University.
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Britain
Foreign Office
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Great Britain
Poland
Mikolaiczyk Sam
Germany
British’ Foreign Office
Mikolajczyks
Winston Churchill
National Unity
Marjam
Cambridge University
Vishinsky Chairs UN Assembly in New York Debut
Russia's An Drei Y Vishinsky presided over the UN Assembly session in New York for the first time. He served as one of seven vice presidents and took the chair at the request of Assembly president Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil who often passes the gavel around.
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Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations Assembly
Assembly
Vishinsky
Oswald Aranha
Brazil
Reds Beat Off Peiping Rise in Manchuria Aid
Mechanized units from Mukden race north across Manchuria to aid government troops. They beat back fresh Chinese Communist attacks near Kirin, about 60 miles east of Changchun, the Manchurian capital.
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