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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1949
Page
5
Constance Beam and Beverly Beam wed King and Blair Jr. The Misses Beam, formerly married to Blair and King, served as brides and their attendants included Mrs Paddock and Mrs Dunton, who were married in a prior double ceremony four years earlier.
Paul G. Hoffman, head of the Marshall Plan, urged West Europe to unify free trade by cutting national tariffs and removing currency controls. He warned that further U S aid funds would depend on the Marshall Plan nations showing willingness to form a sine qua non economic unit with goods moving freely across borders.
Hoffman told the OEEC council that Europe must aim for a single large market by removing tariffs and monetary barriers. He warned failure would mean disaster and poverty, arguing for concrete results by 1950 and a lasting American backed drive toward a unified, free trading area in Western Europe. He said this would spur large scale production and better resource use.
In Yeovil England a British Navy jet fighter crashed and exploded destroying a house. A woman and a man were killed, and Mrs W Brown perished in the blast. Police searched debris for Mrs Brown’s sister Ann Wilkins. The pilot was chief test pilot and aircraft designer Maxe Jane, son of Sir Ceril Graves former director general of Brick Broadcasting Corp.
Police investigate an incident in which Hilda Hull aged 23 of 103 Ida Street was shot in the leg as she left her home. A .22 caliber rifle bullet was recovered from the front wall. Neighbors recall youths with a rifle nearby. Dr James V Barrett treated the injury at home. Detective Michael J Kane led the inquiry with officers Paul Madeen and George Schulze assisting.
Police and Schenectady authorities pressed a full inquiry into the death of Mrs. Mary Lee Haywood who was found in a Glenridge Sanatorium room. Coroner Bennix held a verdict pending autopsy results as investigators reviewed the missing person report and last sighting on Wednesday after she boarded a bus near the sanatorium.
An Albany butcher Meary 1 Cher was killed while preparing pits for a new home when a tree fell on him after he misjudged its direction. Cher, working with his son Behwyler Cher, was pinned beneath the tree and died from a crushed chest at Memorial Hospital per Coroner Frank C. O Connor. Total life insurance reserves of U S life companies approach 50 billion dollars.
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