Aid Sent To Storm Refugees
Mexico City reports President Aleman dispatching two corvettes with 500 tons of supplies to Tampico region. An air lift has moved 2 tons of food and medicine over two days, as trains and vehicles are commandeered to reach displaced refugees. Helicopters aboard a tanker aid rescue efforts, while Tamaulipas officials warn of malaria and typhoid risks amid widespread devastation.
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Mexico City
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
Aleman
Porter
Tampico
Boys Find Phoenician's Body In Salt River
The body of Clifford Raymond Ashley, 39, was found in Salt River near Tempe by three Tempe boys. A gunshot wound to the head was suspected. Police and sheriff investigators identified him from papers in a water soaked billfold. He had lived at the YMCA dormitory and worked at local lounges. He disappeared about ten days earlier amid family troubles.
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Phoenician
Tempe
Phoenix
Maricopa County
Clifford Raymond Ashley
Salt River
Tempe Bridge
Gerald Peralta
John Aguilar
Henry Gamboa
Vic Stewart
Sheriff's Office
Ashley
Young Men’s Christian Association
Western Village
Mel Art Club
Stolen Machine Guns Found Near Ajo Ranch
Pima County sheriff’s officers and FBI agents uncovered six air plane type machine guns in a cave on a ranch 20 miles south of Ajo. The cache, valued at over $6,000, appears to be stolen from an air force base. No charges yet filed against the ranch operator. Serial numbers were telegraphed nationwide to locate the original theft.
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Ajo
Pima County
Nirschel
Two French Fliers Die In Crash Near Air Base
Special to The Gazette at Williams Air Force Base two French airmen were killed when their T-6 training plane crashed seven miles north in a cotton field during simulated forced landings. Captain Jean M. Des Courtis, 37, pilot instructor, and Chief Cpl. Yves V. Vellere, 21, student, were both stationed here. Des Courtis, a liaison officer for French allied students, previously commanded a Spitfire squadron in French Morocco and held 95 missions with high honors including the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with two palms.
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Williams Air Force Base
Here
Jean M. Des Courtis
St. Germain
France
Yves V. Vellere
Marseilles
Gilbert
Des Courtis
Marie
Williams Base
Randolph Air Force Base
Texas
Morocco
England
Free France
Funeral Held for Dr Glenn C Andersen at Arizona State Hospital
Funeral services were held for Dr Glenn C Andersen 44 acting superintendent and clinical director of Arizona State Hospital. Burial followed at Greenwood Memorial Park with American Legion graveside honors. Holt driver in fatal crash also died. Dr Andersen’s wife and two others injured. Mrs Holt’s services planned later today.
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Glenn C. Andersen
Arizona State Hospital
Whitney & Murphy Funeral Home
David L. Jones
First Methodist Church
Greenwood Memorial Park
Lake Greenway
Myrtle
Andersen
Mary
Paul Barnes
Army Medical Corps
Phoenix
Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan State
W. Jefferson
Anne Frimodig
Frank
Merced
Calif
Gene Shipley
Miami
Woodpeckers Ringing Phones In Tracy Minn Eavestroughs
Residents of Tracy Minnesota believed telephones rang after woodpeckers tapped on metal eavestroughs. When no one answered, they complained of receiving wrong numbers and sought answers about the odd disturbance.
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Tracy, Minn
Mrs King Dies Longtime Phoenix Resident at 81
Mrs Emma King of 814 N Ninth St a long time Phoenix resident died this morning after an illness since March 2 on the eve of her 81st birthday She was mother to Oliver King circulation director and manager of The Phoenix Gazette and The Arizona Republic Survived by three other sons Walter Arthur Ezra a sister and numerous grandchildren Funeral services by A L Moore Sons Interment in Archbold Ohio Born March 3 1870 in Thingen Switzerland came to the US in 1871 and to Phoenix in 1908
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Emma King
Ninth St
Phoenix
Oliver King
44Th St
Phoenix Gazette
The
Arizona Republic
Walter King
Arthur King
Harbor City
Calif
Ezra King
el Monte
Jacob Fenstermaker
Archold, Ohio
Mrs. King
Thingen
Switzerland
United States
Henry Kleck
Archbold
Samuel King
King
Missionary Church
Ninth and McKinley Sts
A. L. Moore & Sons
Evacuation routes set as bases face flood impacts
Flooding disrupts routes around Glendale and Phoenix area. A Navy facility and Goodyear plant worker attempted to report to work while evacuees moved from Luke Air Force Base nine miles west of the city. Highway 80 remains closed between Avondale and Aztec, and the Gila Bend to Tucson highway may reopen today. a canal bridge at Lateral 27 and Avenue J broke, with water rushing south. Patrolman James Witt described the evacuation path from Litchfield Road to Avenue J, then toward Van Buren and back toward Glendale.
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Goodyear
Luke Air Force Base
Glendale
James Witt
Litchfield Road
Avenue J
van Buren
Patrol
Lateral 27
Chandler
Williams Air Force Base
Avondale
Aztec
Gila Bend
Tucson
Casa Grande
Wm Adams Dies In Crash In Indiana
William D. Adams, 53, private secretary to Kenneth McMicken of Goodyear Farms, died from chest injuries after a Monday night crash on U S Highway 36 in Putnam County. A school bus with a broken tie rod swerved into his car. the bus driver, Percy Rice, 38, Bainbridge, Ind., reported no passengers. Adams is survived by his wife Sylvia, father J H Adams of Whipple Ohio, and brothers G H Adams H W Adams of Akron and Howard Adams of Fort Smith. Funeral services will be in Akron and burial in Seville, Ohio.
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Greencastle
Ind
William D. Adams
Kenneth McMicken
Goodyear Farms
Litchfield Park
Ariz
Putnam County
U.S. Highway 36
Adams
Percy Rice
Bainbridge
Sylvia
J. H. Adams
Whipple
Ohio
G. H
H. W. Adams
Akron
Howard Adams
Fort Smith
Ark
Seville
Probe Extension Studied by Senate Commerce Committee
Washington August 29 The senate commerce committee met to consider plans to carry on the crusade against crime begun last year by the famed special crime investigating committee.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Special Crime Investigating Committee
Strike Echoes Across Nation Amid Wage Board Dispute
About 58,000 Mine-Mill union members stayed off work in 15 states with 42,000 AFL craft and railroad workers joining protests. The walkout followed a 10 percent pay cap dispute as unions criticise the Wage Stabilization Board while Kennecott and other firms face disruption. The CIO expelled Mine-Mill in 1950 over alleged Communist alignment. a related Garfield strike ended awaiting board action.
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AFL
CIO
Communist Party
Washington
Kennecott Company
Anaconda
Phelps Dodge
American Smelting and Refining Co
Truman
Wage Board
Garfield
Utah
Flood Warnings Alert Lower Ground Areas Across Arizona Rivers
Rainfall projections estimate 50 000 acre feet for 24 hours and 10 000 acre feet this morning. Tonto Creek and Verde River are rising while Salt River remains strong. Lower Gila residents near Wellton Mohawk and Yuma urged to move to higher ground. Weather Bureau warns of continued flooding from Hassayampa and Agua Fria in Buckeye and Gillespie Dam regions.
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Tonto Creek
Verde River
Lower
Gila River
Wellton-Mohawk
Yuma
Weather Bureau
Hassayampa
Agua Fria
Buckeye
Gillespie Dam
It Was Cold But Hot Too
Prescott August 29 AP It was cold and rainy on Highway 89 near Hell Canyon when a Denver man endured a dramatic fuel fire. Robert Sharp stopped to refuel from an auxiliary tank and arranged flares around his parked tractor and trailer. A passing vehicle hit a flare causing a flare to skid toward the open tank and ignite the fuel. Sharp separated the tractor and trailer and saved the load though the tractor burned.
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Prescott
Highway 89
Hell Canyon
Robert Sharp
Denver
Sharp
Forest and Mountain Areas Drive California Water Supply
Forest and mountain regions provide over 90 percent of California's water supply, underscoring their vital role in the state's hydrology.
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California
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