Dewey Says Russia Supports Five Pacific Wars
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey warned in Wellington that Russia has pursued constant war since WWII and backs five Pacific conflicts Korea Indonesia Malaya the Philippines and China. He urged stronger defense pacts in the region and a robust Japan Ukraine? diplomacy. He plans a Alaska visit en route to New York for the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Pacific
Thomas E. Dewey
Russia
Korea
Indonesia
Malaya
Philippines
China
Japan
Germany
Australia
New York
Burma
Dewey
Alaska
North America
Fiji
Honolulu
Seattle
Juneau
Anchorage
National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Body of Last Victim Recovered From Wreck in Simmesport
SIMMESPORT La Aug 13 AP The body of the final victim from a collision between a marine troop train and the Southern Belle streamliner has been recovered from charred wreckage. Coroner Dr J C Roberts said he is practically sure the remains are L L Rainey 69 engineer of the Southern Belle. Eleven people died and 60 were injured in the crash as the ECS operated trains. Sutter said the troop train engineer C A Yates 41 of New Orleans had written instructions to permit the Belle to pass. Yates died in the crash, deemed the railroad line’s worst in 40 years.
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Simmesport
J. C. Roberts
Pointe Coupee Parish
L. L. Rainey
R. R. Sutter
Kansas City Southern Superintendent of Transportation
C. A. Yates
New Orleans
ECS
Sutter
Yates
95 Cent State Tax Rate Scheduled For Adoption
The Arizona Tax Commission planned formal adoption of a 95 cent per $100 valuation state property tax rate, down from $1.55 in 1950, with a total new levy based on state needs of 34.45 million dollars and anticipated revenues. County and city rates would yield Phoenix owners a combined 3.57 per 100, about 64 cents less than last year, while several property assessments and reductions were adjusted by the commission including El Paso Natural Gas Co and other entities.
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Arizona Tax Commission
Commission
State Board of Equalization
George Erhardt
Maricopa County
Phoenix
Athletic
Graham County
el Paso Natural Gas Co
el Dorado Lodge
Tucson
Westerner Hotel
Miami Copper Co
Castle Dome
Western Union Company
Eagle-Picher
Shattuck Dean Mining Company
Iron King Branch
Southern Pacific Company
Kennecott Copper Co
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Parents Leave To Bring Runaway Brothers Home
Parents of runaway Edward and Robert Dittell 16 and 14 left for Northern California yesterday to bring the two boys home. Robert was held by Bakersfield police. Edward was later located working for a construction firm near Walnut Creek, about 20 miles from San Francisco. The youths departed from 6210 S Fifth Ave taking all possessions, the family car and Robert’s puppy to join a supposed youth crusade. The younger boy was detained after wiring his father for money. The family was en route home this morning.
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Edward
Robert Dittell
California
Bakersfield
Robert
Walnut Creek
San Francisco
Fifth Ave
Reds Alarm U.S. Press Over Five Power Peace Pact
The Soviet press said American papers showed alarm at Nikolai Shvernik's proposal for a five power peace pact. It quoted the U S State Department rejecting the plan on the awkward pretext that the United Nations already exists.
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Moscow
Nikolai Shvernik
U.S. States Department
United Nations
WCTU Leader Denounces Whisky Diplomacy in Speech
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of Evans ton Illinois addressing the 77th annual WCTU convention denounces American diplomacy with whiskey on its breath. She says sobriety is needed in the nation’s capital and abroad noting Washington and Alaskan per capita drinking levels and large State Department entertainment expenditures on liquor for foreign diplomats and officials.
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Boston
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
D. Leigh Colvin
Evanston
Ill
WCTU
Washington
Eagles to Hold 1952 Fraternal Conven tion in Philadelphia
The Fraternal Order of Eagles votes to stage its annual convention in Philadelphia in 1952. A Saturday resolution urged barring government press conference access to reporters until William Oatis, AP Prague bureau chief, is freed from a Czechoslovakian prison after a 10 year sentence for alleged espionage.
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Rochester
N. Y
Order of Eagles
Philadelphia
Eagles
William Oatis
Oatis
Associated Press
Prague
Leona H Warren Funeral Held
Graveside services for Leona H. Warren 40 formerly of Arizona were held at Memory Lawn Memorial Park after she died in a Long Beach California hospital. Survivors include her husband Benny R a daughter Wanda Jean and two sons Benny Lee and Thomas E all of Long Beach her parents Roy H Henderson and wife in Phoenix and three sisters Valera Polk Geneva Smith and Gertrude Pollard.
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Leona H. Warren
Roy H. Henderson
Phoenix
Valera Polk
Geneva Smith
Gertrude Pollard
Long Beach
Pastor Of The Aleutians Finds Servicemen Morale Rising
Anchorage report details Chaplain William Perkins who has flown 30 000 miles along the Aleutians. He notes morale fell with rotation limits but is climbing back as officers treat troops like family. Domestic strains trigger letters and possible divorces, with Red Cross aid and emergency leave saving most marriages.
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Anchorage
Alaska
William M. Perkins
The
Aleutians
Perkins
Suicide Hill
Lonely Islands
Shemya
Red Cross
Shot Patron Dies Murder Charge Filed
In Corpus Christi Texas a 27 year old war veteran Anastacio Hernandez was charged with murder after firing in a crowded supermarket killing Laurencio Maedina Guerrero 38 and wounding Jesse Lopez 19. Hernandez said he was tired of people trapping him and he was unemployed with a wife expecting a child.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Anastacio Hernandez
Laurencio Maedina Guerrero
Jesse Lopez
Hernandez
Guerrero
Lopez
Phoenix businessman Joe Harris dies at 65
Joe Harris 65 of 14 W Mariposa Phoenix died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. Born June 15 1886 in Oxford Mississippi he moved from Des Arc Arkansas to El Paso Texas then Phoenix in 1927 where he ran a store equipment and butcher supply business until retiring three years ago. He was a 35 year Mason and member of First Presbyterian Church. Surviving wife Annie Lena two sons Ed and Joe B a daughter Emily Pourchot seven grandchildren sister Emmett Reinhardt Des Arc Ark brother David W Pueblo Cole. Funeral services were held this morning at Arizona Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Jim Christian officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Me
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Joe Harris
W. Mariposa
Good Samaritan Hospital
Oxford
Miss
Harris
Des Are
Ark
el Paso
Texas
Phoenix
Masonic Lodge
First Presbyterian Church
Annie Lena
Joe B
Emily Pourchot
Emmett Reinhardt
Des Arc
David W
Pueblo
Cole
Arizona Funeral Home Chapel
Jim Christian
Greenwood Memorial Park
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Itt
Blaze
Peabody
Mass
Frank Poppello
Juvenille
Bliss Jewelers
Wet Ashington Street
Korricks
U.S. Press
Dick Steinman
Money Store
1St Ave
Western Auto
Little Loans Corp
N. 1St Ave
Mesa
Ed Vetter
Main St
Florida Keys
J. S. Lomax
Lester Cunningham
A. F. Hempstead
U.S
Aleutian
Air Force
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Arizona
North 1St Street
Monroe
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