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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1948
Page
2
Earl Wilson notes a possible Missouri housing surge driven by Truman and Dewey backers fleeing Washington. He predicts a Washington real estate uptick as New York and California Republicans move amid the election climate.
Dry weather and above normal temperatures reduce New York State apple crop to 12.5 million bushels, 17 percent below 1947 and the smallest since 1936 except for last decade. Registration deadline extended for veterans hospital patients to Oct 23. Empire State Baptist Convention opens sessions with Brooklyn pastor's wife as speaker. Water shortage ends in Ripley after weekend rains. reservoir near normal and service to resume.
An assortment of social notes and quips featuring diplomats, celebrities, and media figures. Highlights include Toots Shor’s icebreakers in the East Room, Eleanor Roosevelt’s letter scuttlebutt, DiMaggio and peers away for pheasant hunting, Bernard Baruch’s quick dinner, and film trade tidbits about King Vidor Jane Wyman frames and Lindell’s party chatter.
In Coxsackie Charles Swarthout aged 72 perished when flames swept his home yesterday. In Port Henry James Colerman 32 of Saratoga Springs died last night crushed shifting a train of empty gondola cars onto a siding. General Electric announced operation of a private telegraph system linking 79 cities and over 16 thousand circuit lines. A man questioned about a 12 foot cross burn near Hinman's Corners was released without charge by the Chenango sheriff.
Obituaries report Archbishop Francis Beckman 72 former head of the Dubuque archdiocese. Emmett K. Gaughn 61 chairman of New York State Youth Commission. David Kerr 84 retiree. Redheaded Ann Powers 39 to stand trial in Newark for police slaying. Captain Thomas Rowe shot. George Henderson fire loss at Mosher Parker plant. grain handlers end 1200‑strong strike in Twin Cities. Royal Cortilloz 79 art critic. Anthony J. Canney 47 former New York assemblyman.
Beverly Hills police chief says the Siegel murder was ordered by an international underworld syndicate and that killers are powerful. He cites new evidence from New York and Las Vegas and notes Siegel was shot June 20, 1947 in a Beverly Hills mansion while warning he would talk to police.
FBI agents searched for a burglar in Oakland who might have sought atomic data. Francis R. Bichowsky, UC thermodynamics instructor and Bikini tests observer, was away. Private papers on atomic studies were ransacked while valuables remained undisturbed.
In Pineville Kentucky the bodies of eleven miners entombed in a coal mine for almost three years were recovered early today. Five other bodies were found but not yet removed. Four more miners remain missing from the December 26 1945 explosion. Harold Townsend 49 Rochester New York died in Oklahoma crash on U S Highway 66. His wife and son were injured as were William Crowther and his wife. Joyce Townsend 21 suffered minor injuries.
WARSAW government launches nationwide enlistment of youths aged 16 to 18 for national reconstruction projects and military training. About 1,500,000 expected in service by December 18, with a plan to boost the corps to 3,000,000. The drive marks a major mobilization in Poland's postwar effort.
In this column Walter Kiernan notes military and political ironies. He praises a powder milk to liquid milk process as forward, compares it to political cycles from candidate to office holder and back, and jokes about a vegetarian restaurant man running for president still seeking sources of lettuce.
Defense Secretary Forrestal awaits a Hook Commission recommendation to standardize flight pay at 125 dollars monthly for all ranks. The proposal would raise pay for enlisted personnel and many junior officers while cutting high ranking Air Force and Navy officers.
A crippled Air Force C-82 transport crashed in a ravine near Clinton Louisiana killing four of 33 aboard. The craft carried 29 artillery officers from Fort Bliss and Fort Sill plus a four-man Air Force crew. The dead include Lt Col Herbert Ramey and Capt Harold Dudley. two other Fort Bliss and Fort Sill officers. An injured Maj Frank Duda was from Fort Sill. Investigators from Baton Rouge planned a formal probe today.
Dunkirk launches a Thanksgiving drive to fund two ambulances for Dunkerque in France and Anzio in Italy. The Dunkirk Society will raise funds while last year's effort raised $100,000 in aid for Anzio and the year before sent more than $75,000 to Dunkerque.
New York will study public and private welfare costs with Peter Kasius named to lead the inquiry. Assemblyman Harold C. Oster will head a committee on social welfare to examine why welfare caseloads and costs rose during prosperity and what actions can reduce them. About 3.1 million New Yorkers received aid via 1,500 agencies, at a last year cost of 420 million dollars.
Ostertag notes that the state is using preventive and rehabilitative resources in health welfare and vocational fields. The goal is first to prevent dependency and then to restore the indigent to self support.
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