We Must Protect Arizona Highways and Tourism Funding
Arizona highways face accelerated wear as visitors arrive chiefly by car. The highway commission blames gas tax diversions for about a million dollars yearly, urging promotion to continue while pursuing legal limits on funds for Arizona Highways magazine and boosting enforcement against overloads with truck scales at three locations.
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Earl C. Rogge
Highway Commission
Arizona
Rogge
U. S. Public Roads Administration
Highway Department
Shame On Arizona! TB crisis spurs calls for funding
A chest X ray survey shows Arizona has a high per capita tuberculosis rate. Public health officials urge immediate action, citing poor sanitation at migrant camps, weak health laws, and lack of funds as key factors driving the disease and hindering control efforts.
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Arizona
Round Up The Reds Plan For Detention Camps
Federal prison director James V Bennett urges four detention camps to receive thousands of subversives in a national emergency. FBI chief Hoover cites 14,000 potential threats and notes tighter Communist security. Arizona reports over 100 known Communists and Civil Defense staged a mock sabotage near Phoenix.
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Congress
James V. Bennett
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
United States
Communist Party
Russia
Civil Defense
Phoenix
Arizona
Monument in Glendale Cemetery to feature nude showgirl statue
In Hollywood, Earl Carroll's will commissions a statue of Beryl Wallace to adorn a grave marker at Glendale Cemetery. A superior court judge upheld the request, declaring it valid. The statue honors Carroll's leading lady as she rests with the late impresario.
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Hollywood
Glendale
Earl Carroll
Carroll
Beryl Wallace
Mr. Carroll
Washington Post Opinion on National Control of Marginal Sea Resources
The Washington Post argues against state quitclaim efforts over submerged lands outside tidelands, noting Supreme Court rulings that the U S holds sovereign rights. It praises Senator O Mahoney s bill to manage and conserve the oil wealth as a national heritage while ratifying existing good faith leases.
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Senate
Supreme Court
United States
California
Louisiana
Texas
Congress
Interior and Justice Departments
House
O’mahoney
Editorials On Oil Rights Standoff Across States
The piece notes lodgment of invalid California Texas and Louisiana claims by paying rents to the Interior Department rather than to states. States resist federal management of the marginal sea, hoping to block federal control of oil. It argues President Truman may veto quitclaim bills again, stressing national oil for defense and national interest.
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California
Texas
Louisiana
Interior Department
White House
Truman
Free enterprise vs socialism debated in labor magazine rows
Senator Byrd credits free enterprise as Russia’s fear edge at a DAR gathering. The current labor union magazine contrasts 1950s profits, calling them shocking and pushing socialism, while noting worker hours needed for wages in the US Britain and Russia. The piece ponders whether capitalism or socialism offers better profits and wages.
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Byrd
America
Russia
DAR
United States
Britain
Ed Hana
U S Ineptness May Lose Turkey
Ankara voices alarm over Washington’s wavering on a Turkish alliance amid strong Turkish forces in the Eastern Mediterranean and a powerful 25 division army. The piece warns that delaying or rejecting a U S Turkish security pact could end a major strategic bargain and push Turkey toward armed independence.
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Ankara
Tehran
Iran
Turkey
Mediterranean
Kremlin
Washington
State Department
Congress
United States
Yugoslavia
Korea
Political clash over Barkley visit rocks Arizona GOP
GOP Governor Howard Pyle’s absence briefly left Democratic Secretary of State Wesley Bolin acting governor, prompting a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner skit about a temporary Republican chair. The program listed 15 Republicans as a “Democratic State Party Council” misprint, drawing mock outrage from Republicans and a private talk between Bolin and Vice President Barkley with no politics discussed.
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GOP
Howard Pyle
Alben W. Barkley
Phoenix
Pyle
Wesley Bolin
Democratic Party
Nabobs
Barkley
Salt Lake City
Santa Fe
Bolin
Ralph Watkins
Westward Ho
Central Arizona Project
Republican
Arizona
Democratic State Central Committee
Democrats
Democratic State Party Council
O. D. Miller
E. E. McElhaney
Chester A. Westerdahl
Ronald Webster, Jr
Robert H. Wallace
Derek van Dyke
Robert Myers
Dick Martin
Robert C. Bohannan, Jr
Elmer Vickers
Arizona Federation of Labor
Nick Dragon
CIO
Don Baldwin
Shrine Auditorium
Baldwin
Pyle- Bohannan
State Welfare Board
Tucson
Bohannan
Independence of the judiciary warned in a letter ruling
Commentary notes Judge Ben nett Champ Clark rebuking the idea that a presidential letter holds sway in court. The piece lauds Clark for affirming judicial independence and cautions against letters or petitions influencing litigation, urging adherence to constitutional limits and the three branches’ separation of powers. It also includes assorted local political notes and trivia.
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Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Bennett Champ Clark
United States
The
Clark
Independence, Tyranny, and the Presidential Power Debate
In a discussion of executive overreach and testing limits on testimony by military leaders, the author argues the President’s censor ship undermines constitutional checks and balances. The piece questions if figures like MacArthur and Eisenhower could be punished for testimony, asserting the need for lawful, distributed authority among the branches.
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Department of Defense
Omar Bradley
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Wedemeyer
Ridgway
United States
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Senate
MacArthur Barred From Politics In Hoover Talks
Washington April 30 Republican leaders in the senate fault General MacArthur for discussing politics with Herbert Hoover. Hoover offered views on 1952 candidate Earl Warren, while MacArthur reportedly resisted promotion moves in the Far East. A sun power plan via Smithsonian funding also unfolds, with estimates of vast desert-generated power. The Chinese attack in Korea follows secret talks in Mukden with Mao Tse-tung, Vasilevsky, and allies.
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Washington
Senate
MacArthur
Herbert Hoover
Tokyo
Hoover
Waldorf Tower
New York
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Dewey
Taft
Matt Ridgway
Ridgway
Far East
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
George Stratemeyer
Air Force
Adm
Turner Joy
Stratemeyer
Joy
Korea
Stratemeyer and
James van Fleet
Frank Milburn
John Coulter
Edward Almond
Harold Martin
Mukden
Moscow
Mao Tse-tung
Vasilevsky
Mao
Mongolia
Russia
Ustinov
Voronovicl
Chen
First Field Army
Shanghai
Shanghai People’s Council
U.N
Try And Stop Me Maxwell Perkins Remembrance
Maxwell Perkins late editor of Scribner's was a trusted counselor to authors like Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He inspired confidence and drew out secrets from strangers, while noting that memory can be selective and people repeat stories after short gaps.
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Maxwell Perkins
Scribner’s
Thomas Wolfe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unread Uncut Leaves Prompt Reflections on Books
A reader recalls buying three old books still with uncut leaves and questions how people can own fine writing without reading it. The reflection expands to consider unused ideas and talents in people who never develop or record achievements, like untouched pages awaiting a read.
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Phoenix Gazette
State Highway Department
Arizona Highways Magazine
Reds
Washington Post
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
U. S
Finletter
Capitol Dome
By Bill Turnbow
Labor
Yuma
Republicrat
Jim Washum
Yuma County
Statehouse
State Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
U. S. District Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Colorado River
Dean Acheson
John R. Williams
Jack Williams
George E. Sokolsky
Drew Pearson
New Mexico
Smithsonian Institution
Charles G. Abbot
Smithsonian Laboratory
Dr. Abbot
U.S
Albert Thomas
Houston
Tex
By Bennett Cerf
George Matthew Adams
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