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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1951
Page
2
The 25th U.N. armistice meeting is set for Wednesday as Nam Il pushes for a line along the 38th parallel. Allied leaders defend a flexible front while Nam II claims U.N. air and sea power harms civilians, urging harsher terms.
Allied air force and naval bombardment target Pyongyang supply dumps and ramp up pressure around Korea as U.N. troops seize a hill near Hwachon. General Everest reports good to excellent results from raid involving B-29s F-51s and F-80s with anti aircraft fire downed.
JOHN THOMAS 24 and his wife escaped with their 8 month old son Danny as flames tore through their Seattle apartment. One victim, Evelyn Smith Macabee 25, identified by her husband from a wedding ring. Boeing said the B 50 involved was being modified at the Seattle plant and had taken off from Boeing Field. Military and civilian investigators planned to probe the wreckage. Only about one third of the 64 residents were home. twelve severely burned or injured and at least five others died.
The Seattle crash victims include Lt. Lloyd G. Vanderwielen 33 pilot Capt. Charles A. Dews 30 radar observer Master Sgt Frank A. Dodaro 35 flight engineer Edith Turner 33 Boeing co pilots Earl Edwards 35 Boeing co-pilot Kenneth C. Barrick 36 Boeing analyst Delon P Turner 33 Boeing analyst Mrs Evelyn Smith Macabee 25 apartment resident Mrs Albert Mason about 40 Martin Roberts age unknown two unidentified. The Nova Scotia flag note appears unrelated.
About 1,500 Dallas telephone operators walked out yesterday seeking air conditioning at Southwestern Bell buildings. The CIO union said the strike was not authorized. Temperatures reached 105 in Dallas, with Fort Worth and Bryan also recording 105 as a hot, dry spell continued.
ST. JOHNS August 14 AP The 100th birthday of David King Udall will be celebrated at a September 8 9 gathering of Udalls of Arizona in St Johns Udall born in 1851 in St Louis was first bishop of St Johns Ward and a leading Arizona developer. Nearly all 171 living direct Udall descendants will attend along with descendants of his brother Joseph a rancher. Nine of Udall's 11 children survive including Levi S Udall chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court Jesse A former judge and state senator and Don T Holbrook Navajo County judge and former legislator. A grandson Nicholas is mayor of Phoenix.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee said allies have plans that should deter Soviet aggression or defeat if launched. A committee report noted these plans were discussed at secret hearings on the administration's 8.5 billion dollar foreign aid program.
Elizabeth Bentley testifies before a Senate subcommittee that the Institute of Pacific Relations was a Communist front of a sort. She says Golos described IPR as “one of our organizations” and under their control while noting critiques that it operated too loosely. Bentley describes her role as Golos’s courier and successor after his 1943 death.
Ex-officio coroner says no inquest will be held into the death of Bobby Peterman a 3 year old boy who drowned yesterday afternoon at Granite Reef Dam in the Phoenix area. He was on a swimming party with his parents four brothers and a sister and was pronounced dead at Mesa Southside District Hospital. Body at Whitney and Murphy Mortuary with rosary at 8 p.m. and Mass at St Marys Phoenix followed by burial at St Francis Cemetery.
Judith Kay Mendenhall aged 19 months was saved from nearly drowning in an irrigation ditch at her home in front of Lateral 19 and W. Van Buren. Neighbors heard her brother Jon cry out and the dog barked, prompting intervention. Herman Houzenga carried the child to safety as artificial respiration was given by Nick Traog and Mrs. A. R. Covell. Dr. Robert Stump later examined her at home and reported she was in good condition.
Earl Smith, chief federal narcotics agent in Arizona, launches inquiry into ownership of a home made users narcotics kit found near Memorial Hospital's emergency entrance. Anita Bolton, a student nurse, discovered the kit containing a home made syringe several needles and two pink pills being analyzed.
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