Australia swings right as Labor loses election
Australia ends eight years of Labor rule as Liberal and Country parties win a clear majority in the 123 seat House of Representatives. Robert Menzies to become prime minister, promising to halt nationalization, protect free enterprise, abolish state controls, and outlaw the Communist Party. England remains the only major commonwealth nation with a Socialist government.
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Sydney
Australia
New Zealand
Labor
Liberal and
Country
House of Representatives
Liberal-Country
Communist Party
England
London
Winston Churchill
Darwin
Canberra
Joseph E. Chifley
Robert G. Menzies
Menzies
Meyers Parole Denied After Mandatory Sentence
Former Maj. Gen. Bennett E Meyers saw his parole request rejected and will stay jailed at least another year. He served the minimum 20 months of a five year sentence for pressuring a business associate to lie under oath for him.
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Washington
Benett E. Meyers
Air Force
Cold Wave In Valley After Arizona Rain Snow Falls In Arizona
A storm moving from Utah drenched parts of Arizona with rain and snow in higher elevations. Snow piled up in Flagstaff, while Payson logged .83 inch of rain with a 38 degree low. The Phoenix area saw a 60 53 day, then a plunge toward near freezing as a cold air mass moves in. Violent winds battered California coasts and Los Angeles suburbs as crews aided five distressed vessels. frost and lower temps forecast for Flagstaff and the Valley with a slow clearing trend tomorrow.
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Arizona
Flagstaff
L. R. Jurwitz
Phoenix
Payson
Litchfield Park
Tucson
Gila Bend
Tempe
Yuma
Winslow
Grand Canyon
Utah
Jarwitz
Prospect
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountains
California
Coast Guard
Long Beach
Laguna Beach
Los Angeles
Desert
Sandberg
Catalina
Texas
Parched New York Seeks Divine Help and Faces Car Wash Rebellion
New York City seeks relief from the water crisis by turning to faith as Water Commissioner Carney asks churches to pray for rain. Cardinal Spellman and other faith groups plan mass prayers over three months. Auto laundry owners resist the crackdown, with plans to defy bans and keep shops open while facing potential fines and shutoffs. The dispute reflects tensions between conservation efforts and business interests amid dwindling reservoir levels. 84 words.
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Stephen J. Carney
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Abraham M. Bell
Production Auto Laundry Owners Association
Congress of Industrial Organizations Automobile Workers Union
Carney
Bell
Brooklyn
Adenauer urges German units in Western army
Koenigswinter report says Chancellor Adenauer pressed for German representation in any Western European army despite Allied misgivings. He argued only German forces could secure Germany, while urging a federation and equal rights for German troops if involved. The Western Allies in Bonn dissented.
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Koenigswinter
Germany
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
High Commission
Bonn
Wilhelm Wegener
Temperatures Today At Various Times
A garbled list shows temperatures recorded at several times in the morning including 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 with readings of 34, 54, 3, 54 and other figures in a disordered sequence. The data appears incomplete and inconsistent across the collected entries.
What Noted People Are Saying What Noted People Are Saying
International News Service collects remarks from key figures. Sharett condemns U N Jerusalem decision as a dark day and unimplementable. Groves demands truth and trust in critical American matters. Wynn jokes about inventing bubble bath soap after a bathtub accident.
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Flushing Meadow
N. Y
Sharett
U.N
Jerusalem
Brentwood
Calif
Ed Wynn
Apartment Fire Kills Businessman's Wife in Chicago
Chicago dispatch reports early morning blaze on the 12th floor of a 48 story North Side building near Edgewater Beach Hotel. The wife of Herbert R. Lanning, Mary Lanning aged 55, died, found in the hallway where the fire started. About 200 residents fled in nightclothes. no other injuries reported. Lanning was uninjured, dazed. maid Miss Sylvia Brehm, 50, was turned to FIRE on Page 2.
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Chicago
Edgewater Beach
Mary Lanning
Herbert R. Lanning
Apex Washing Machine Company
Cleveland
Lanning
Sylvia Brehm
Gold Mine Visit Promises Classic Arizona Travelcade
The Phoenix Dons Club invites readers to a Sunday travelcade visiting King's Ranch and the Goldfield Mine near Superstition Mountain. A 3 a.m. bus departure from The Gazette building covers transport for $2.90 round trip. Guides plan a tour of an old mine and point to syphic markings as signs of gold nearby.
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Phoenix Dons Club
King’s Ranch
Apache Junction
Old Goldfield
Gazette and Republic Building
East
van Buren Street
Dons
Julian King
Real Western Outfit
King
Family No. 50 Desperate plea for help at holiday time
An impoverished Phoenix family of four endures welfare delays, a mentally troubled father, a 8 year old disabled child, and two daughters in worn dresses. The mother seeks daily food and clothing while the oldest son plans to return to school when possible. Donations via Adopt-a-Family Fund.
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Phoenix Community Council
Lucy Krug
The
Phoenix Gazette
Auto Court
Child Saved After 3 Scorpion Stings In Glendale
A 9 year old Glendale girl Mildred Sisco was stung three times on the chest by a scorpion and treated for over three hours at St Monica s Hospital before she was out of danger. She was hospitalized after the attack about 1 a m and received constant care by a doctor intern and two nurses for 4 1 2 hours. Sodium pentothal helped save her life replacing the usual anti scorpion serum. Her sister Myra 5 was also stung but fared better, suggesting the poison affected the older child.
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Glendale
St. Monica’s Hospital
Mildred Sisco
Taft Sisco
Myra
Chicagoan Christenson slain in Cicero mob ambush
Frank Christenson former Cook County assistant state’s attorney and anti mob crusader was gunned down near his Cicero home in what police call a gangland ambush. Neighbors recall two men fleeing in a black car after eight shots from a submachine gun. Christenson died in his wife’s arms at Loretta Hospital as Cicero police link the killing to mob activity once led by Al Capone.
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Cicero
Ill
Capone Syndicate
Frank Christenson
Cook County
Chicago
Christenson
Loretta Hospital
al Capone
Leo Kasperski
Kasperski
Joseph Mack
Mary Washington
Motorola Plans New Laboratory Near Here
Motorola Incorporated plans a larger research facility on Ingleside Road near the Arizona Country Club, with 100 to 150 workers. Mutschler Investment sold 15 acres on Ingleside Road to Motorola last October. no construction has begun. Daniel E. Noble, based in Phoenix, has been in Chicago to finalize expansion arrangements. The current lab on 1100 North Central employs about 50 people and may be moved or integrated. The company aims to expand electronics research including radar and microwave relay.
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Motorola, Incorporated
North Central
Ingleside Road
Arizona Country Club
Chicago
Paul V. Galvin
Daniel E. Noble
Phoenix
Ingleside
Osborn
Thomas Roads
Motorola Lab
The
Corporation
U S Soldier Dies Of Knife Wounds In Japan Fight
U S Army reports Pfc. Charles E. Everson, 22, of Titusville Pennsylvania, died from knife wounds after a fight with another soldier in KOKURA Japan. Investigators hold Pfc. James N. Chadd, 22, of Valley Park Missouri, in connection with the death.
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Kokura
Japan
Charles E. Everson
Titusville
James N. Chadd
Valley Park
St. Louis
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Stes Fa
Meyers
New York City
Leslie Groves
United States
Wanda Wiley
Earl N. Wiley
Austin
Tex
Wanda
Valley
Travelcade
Russ Backus
Paul van Leer
Goldfield
Charles H. Dunning
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources
Alfred Lewis
Tom Russell
Scorpion
Rooney
Motorola
Mutschler Investment Company
U. S
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