Mesa Boy, 14, Wins County Marble Title
Freddie Martinez, 14, Irving School Mesa, claimed the 1951 Maricopa County marbles championship after five straight finals wins at University Park. He defeated James Drake, 12, 7 to 1, winning a bicycle and earning a TV appearance on KPHO at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Freddie is the son of Mrs. Mary Martinez and represented Irving School among 34 contestants.
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Mesa
Freddie Martinez
Freddie
Irving School
Maricopa County Marbles
University Park
10Th Avenue
War Buren Street
Kpho-Tv
Mary Martinez
East Fourth Avenue
James Drake
John E. Drake
East Taylor Street
James
Balsz School
John Pendergraft
C. F. Pendergraft
East Pierson Street
Madison School
John
The
Phoenix Gazette
Gazette
Bus crash in Burlingame kills 22 year old driver
In Burlingame California a head on crash between a car and a Greyhound bus left one man dead and 11 hurt. The deceased was Mark Lintz 22 of San Francisco. Bus driver Albert Y Totty also of San Francisco was treated for a possible fractured foot and ten bus passengers sustained cuts and bruises.
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Burlingame
Calif
Greyhound
Mark Lintz
San Francisco
Lintz
Albert Y. Totty
Fall River Hero Hudner Receives Honor Gift
Navy Lt. Thomas J. Hudner, hailed for crash landing to save Ensign Jesse L. Brown in Korea, received a $1,000 check from Fall River in his homecoming. He endorsed the money to Mrs. Daisy Brown of Mississippi to fund Pamela Brown’s education, as Brown died in the rescue attempt near the Chosin Reservoir.
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Fall River
Mass
Navy
Thomas J. Hudner
Korea
Jesse Leroy Brown
Hudner
Daisy Brown
Hattiesburg
Miss
Ensign Brown
Pamela
Chosin Reservoir
North Korea
Lieutenant Hudner
Marine Heli
Charley Ward
Troy
Ala
Children See Mother Killed by Ax in Front of Kids
Bakersfield California April 23 AP A young mother Clara Elizabeth Baker 30 was slain with an ax as her three children Merline 12 Robert 10 and Mary 8 watched. The suspect Wilbert Bernie Baker 42 her husband and father and a former mental hospital inmate was captured and sent to Kern General Hospital mental ward. Deputies labeled him completely insane and gave no motive.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Wilbert Bernie Baker
Clara Elizabeth Baker
Merline
Robert
Mary
Baker
Kern General Hospital
Auto Deaths Mount To 99
A Mesa manJuan Gomez, 71, died from multiple injuries after a head on collision two miles west of Mesa late Saturday. Betty Mendoza, 23, suffered a possible skull fracture. Gomez was in a car driven by Raul Dominguez, 29, with Mrs Mendoza as a passenger in Bennie Mendoza's coupe. The 1951 Arizona traffic fatality toll reached 99, one higher than the prior year.
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Mesa
Arizona
Juan Gomez
Betty Mendoza
Gomez
Raul Dominguez
Estate Of Slain Woman Seeks $100,000 Heirs
Santa Barbara April 23 An estate worth about $100,000 is traced to Betty Hetherington whose battered body was found buried in a Hope Ranch chicken coop last Friday. The will dated February 18 names husband Paul Hetherington, held on murder suspicion, and mother Josephine Bardslee of Newark as equal heirs.
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Santa Barbara
Hope Ranch
Betty Hetherington
Paul
Josephine Bardslee
Newark
Nationalists Accept U. S. Advisory Unit on Formosa
Nationalist China formally approves the appointment of a United States military assistance advisory group in Formosa. The MAAG will operate under the U S embassy with Minister Karl L Rankin and start early next month. The move signals a major shift in U S policy since 1949 and carries hopes of strengthening defense against the Communist mainland.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
United States
George Yeh
MAAG
U. S
Karl L. Rankin
U.S
Chiang Kai-shek
Douglas MacArthur
Yeh
Hunger Marchers Return Home From Mexico City Train
Three thousand five hundred coal miners from the north marched to Mexico City, but by dawn only about 1,800 remained. The government distributed 100 pesos to each man and sent the survivors home in 15 railroad coaches after a 40 day protest near a suburban park.
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Mexico City
Police Chief Tickets Himself After Stop Sign Crash
Albuquerque April 23 AP Police Chief Paul A Shaver ran a stop sign colliding with another car He issued himself a ticket forfeited the $5 bond and quipped Thats the very thing Ive been warning other people about No injuries were reported
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Albuquerque
Paul A. Shaver
Casa Grande Chief Heads State Firemen
Nathan A. Coxon of Casa Grande Fire Department was elected president of the State Firemen’s Association at the 1951 convention in Kingman. Douglas will host next year’s gathering as 273 delegates concluded proceedings. Re-elected officers include First VP W. W. Malone, Second VP E. C. McCarty, and Sec/Treasurer H. W. Reggin. executive committee members named were W. O. Gardner, William Molina, Don Heatwelf, and Ivan Allen. Hermosillo and Mesa tied for first in drill, earning cash awards.
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Kingman
Nathan A. Coxon
Casa Grande
State Firemen’s Association
Douglas
Coxon
B. B. Wilkinson
Phoenix
W. W. Malone
Holbrook
E. C. McCarty
Mesa
Carlos Barragan
Nogales
Sonora
H. W. Reggin
Prescott
W. O. Gardner
William Molina
South Tucson
Don Heatwelf
Glendale
Ivan Allen
Safford
Detroit Strikes Disrupt War Industry And Transit
Detroit suffers a crippling transit strike that began Saturday and idled 3,700 city street railway workers. As negotiations dragged on into Monday, the impact hit war industry and daily commuters with about a million riders relying on hitchhiking and carpooling. Mayor Albert E. Cobo and AFL representatives pressed at a bargaining session to resolve a bitter wage dispute, but no compromise surfaced.
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Detroit
American Federation of Labor
Department of Street Railways
Albert E. Cobo
AFL
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City Parks Department
George D. Hoy
Phoenix College
Albert Jarvis
Alma
Rogers Johnson
Mary Bethune
William Stamps
Higley
L. D. Rhoton
al Northen
Dysart
R. J. Solomon
L. M. Williams
Longview
T. E. Morgan
Sunnyside
Cactus
George Diggs
Percy L. Julian
William Warren
Booker T. Washington
William Johnson
Il Greyhound
Hermosillo
Mexico
Galey & Lord Woven
Seersucker
Dallas
BROWN
Galey & Lord
Diamond's Sportswear Shop
Washington
Second Street
Diamond
Espadrille
Mary Jane
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