02 Oct 1946
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1946
Page
1
Reconversion Director John R. Steelman warned that a further rapid price rise could stifle demand and trigger an early severe price collapse with serious economic and social consequences. He opposed broad wage increases, saying they would mainly help special groups at the expense of workers nationwide.
On his 75th birthday, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull urged the Big Five powers to replace dangerous differences with mutual confidence or face incalculable disaster. He spoke while frail and fighting a stroke at U S naval hospital during his last effort toward world peace.
Navy physicians report no change in Cordell Hull condition as he remains seriously ill at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a stroke on Monday. The former Secretary of State for 12 years at Roosevelt’s helm, Hull reflects on past experiences to offer lessons for international unity and enduring peace if big powers cooperate.
The Syracuse area forecast calls for light rain ending today followed by fair cool weather and widespread frost tonight with lows near 4 to 33 degrees. Thursday should be fair and warmer with a high around 45 and sunrise at 6 04 A M. Sunset today is 5 45 P M and record highs and lows are noted from past years.
Washington reports aides of top policy officials weighing two main actions to alleviate meat shortages. Potential steps include easing controls and raising prices to boost marketing or government requisitioning of farm meat animals. Secretary Anderson floated seizure of livestock arriving at markets as another option. An Agriculture Department report shows 80 million pounds produced last week, only 27 percent above baseline.
Reconversion Director John R. Steelman told Truman and Congress in a quarterly report that shortages will worsen for some foods this winter, notably meat, contradicting a week earlier White House forecast of more and better meat soon.
New York dispatch says two moderate earthquakes were recorded last night and today by Fordham University seismograph about 5 150 miles south of New York, likely in Chile. Officials noted the quakes were distant and of moderate strength with no immediate reports of damage.
Near freezing conditions hit northern New York as the first snow storm of the season moved out to sea. Syracuse reported wet streets and power outages lingered in rural areas around Skaneateles and Marcellus since Tuesday night. Fallen branches clutter highways as weather forecasters predict clearing skies and warmer temperatures with no return of heavy snow.
Lloyd Irving Chavis, 33, known as a poet and artist, pleaded guilty to violating the selective service act after dodging the draft for five years with help from two teachers. He blamed his wife’s big blue eyes for the trouble, while an Ann Arbor girlfriend defended artists over soldiers. Chavis was ordered held on a $1,000 bond awaiting sentencing.
American journalist John Strohm describes life inside the Soviet Union after being allowed to travel 4,000 miles, offering up-to-date, ground-level impressions of the people behind the barrier Churchill dubbed the iron curtain.
Early settlement talks surface as the stalled merchant fleet faces a second strike in a month. AF L and C I O leaders and officials report the Maritime Commission would enforce agreed working conditions on government vessels. Pacific Coast shipowners resist eastern contract demands, hindering progress. Edgar L. Warren of the Labor Department chairs conciliation talks in Washington.
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Monday Sept 30. Albany reports the superintendent of banks also issued a call for quarterly reports from state banks trust companies industrial banks and private bankers as of Sept 30.
Yugoslav delegate Pijade charges the United States and Britain with betraying the Big Four accord on Trieste to back a British American military base on the Adriatic. He denounces democratic principles as gone with the wind while debate continues on Connally's internationalized zone plan.
Federal agents seized an arsenal of small arms and military equipment in a Buffalo attic. Charles H. Abt 46 and his son Edward 19 pleaded innocent to charges under the national firearms act and were released pending Friday hearing.
An Army B 29 plane crashed in Buffalo Valley thirty miles southeast of Battle Mountain Nevada. Army authorities said they believed there were no survivors. The number of men aboard was not disclosed though a B 29 crew is normally about ten.
A man was killed and another injured during the night as communal disturbances in Bombay continued to claim casualties. A large early morning clash in a shop district marked the latest violence authorities described.
The London Evening Standard publishes a last interview with condemned Marshal Hermann Goering from his Nuernberg jail cell. Ten questions reveal evasive yet defiant replies about the fairness of the trial and the political nature of the proceedings.
Three workmen were injured when a freight elevator they rode dropped three stories at the Central Garage on Clinton Street. Louis Bero, Peter Lawrence, and Leo Rogowski were taken to Onondaga General Hospital with contusions, back injuries, and a severe shaking. Two other passengers escaped unharmed.
Washington based Price Decentre Board opens today to review milk butter and cheese prices. Chairman Roy L Thompson says price ceilings likely stay unless fluid milk prices rise and notes milk remains stable while butter and cheese have edged up slightly.
Fifty Jews were reported arrested today in a surprise raid by mobile Palestine police on a seashore cafe in Tel Aviv. They were rounded up and taken away in armored cars.
Eighteen condemned Nazis, wrists cuffed, are taken from prison to meet lawyers on final appeals. Some of the 11 sentenced to hafizätion say they do not wish to appeal to the Allied Central Council in Berlin. Lawyers plan appeals as Goering and others confer. Berlin crowds march with red banners.
In Tokyo 27 accused war criminals learn of three Nuremberg acquittals. Former premier Hideki Tojo declines comment, citing lack of facts. Mamoru Shigemitsu says the verdicts offer some hope to him and others who signed the surrender aboard the Missouri.
Report describes a mass protest planned by the Socialist Unity Party as Soviet authorities look on. Guards faced press at Nuernberg court as acquitted defendants Franz von Papen MaJalmar Schacht and Hans Fritsche left prison for safety. Officials said transport to the British zone was arranged and Truman was to decide on future Nazi trials with Justice Jackson.
David Lawrence argues on the editorial page that a US-Russia conflict can be avoided if both nations' people are told the truth. The piece appears amid a page of listings and features sections such as Amusements, Classifieds, Deaths, Comics, and Sports.
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