Last Nazi General Sentenced Syrian Coup Tops News
In Amman, Jordan, a swift coup ousted Syrian strongman Gen Sami Hennawi and killed five aides. Col Abid Shishakali led the revolt, surrounding Damascus airfield and seizing government offices as the capital calms and factions debate union with Iraq. Hennawi had ruled since August 14 and executed Zayim and Barazi.
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Azette
Phoenix
Arizona
Amman
Jordan
INS
Sami Hennawi
Damascus
Hennawi
Abid Shishakali
Syria
Hemawi
Iraq
Shihakalli
Coalition Constitutional Assembly
Husni Zayim
Mohsen el Barazi
U S Acts To Start Work On Davis Dam Power Substations
Bids for a Mesa electrical substation to bring Davis Dam power to Salt River Valley will be called within 30 days, with a Coolidge unit bid opening Jan 5. Estimated total cost is 9 million, with completion expected by Jan 1, 1951. Paradise Valley protests line routing. dispatching plant for Central and Southern Arizona under construction near Phoenix.
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U.S
Davis Dam
Mesa
Coolidge
Salt River Valley
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Aviola Building
Henshaw Road
S. A. McWilliams
A. J. Ecker
Salt River Valley Waters Users Station
Tom Burrows
U. S. Indian Service
A. M. Clark
Paradise Valley Improvement Association
Phoenix
Prescott
Paradise Valley
Ecker
Central and
Arizona
Buckeye Road
Eloy Tackles Crime Issue and Police Chief Talks
Eloy council members plan to draft ordinances and consider appointing a police chief amid a string of violent incidents that drew a governor’s warning. Publisher Vince Taylor defends local police, noting deputies have worked under difficult conditions as cotton workers surge into Eloy each harvest season.
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Eloy
A. V. Queen
Dan E. Garvey
Vince Taylor
The
Eloy Enterprise
Eloy Tale of Bars and Beds in a Noisy Town
Last weekend in Eloy the town buzzed with carnival games and street evangelists while wages ranged from nine to eighteen dollars a day for workers. Thirty three men were jailed for drunkenness as bars overflowed with music and juke boxes, and Eloy’s cot houses offered 50 cent beds for early arrivals.
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Eloy
James Eaves
Nationalists to Mine Every Chinese Port and Hong Kong
The Nationalist government announced that all ports along a 2000 mile China coast from Yinkow to Luichow will be mined to block Communist and Allied shipping. Foreign offices warned consulates to advise ships to leave Communist ports by Tuesday. The move follows the fall of the last Nationalist port Tsamkiang on the Luichow Peninsula.
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Hong Kong
China
Formosa
Yinkow
Luichow
Brandtsen Line
U. S. State Department
Washington
Shanghai
State Department
Tientsin
Foochow
Amoy
Swatow
Canton
Shangai
Tsamkiang
Kwangchowan
Four Die Violently In Weekend In Arizona
Four persons died violently in Arizona during the weekend. Mrs Charity Emma Butler 85 Glendale died of burns from a stove explosion at her home. Noble N Sommerville 48 Springdale Ark an Army veteran suffocated when fire broke out in a cotton loaded freight car at Buckeye.An unidentified hitchhiker about 65 died in Holbrook hospital from injuries endured in an auto pedestrian collision west of Show Low. A second unidentified man was found beside Santa Fe tracks 30 miles west of Wickenburg authorities believe he fell from a moving train. Funeral services are being arranged. Surviving relatives listed. An unidentified box car victim believed to have broken neck. Eight bales damaged. Patrolemn Harley Tompson noted the car was driven by John S Buford of Los Angeles.
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Noble N. Sommerville
Springdale
Ark
Buckeye
Holbrook Hospital
Show Low
Wickenburg
Butler
Texas
Glendale
Oklahoma
St. Monica’s Hospital
Myrtle Muller
Veneta
Ore
Ethel Barton
Bogata
Tex
A. O. Arnold
Phoenix
Jack Littleton
Los Angeles
Earl Butler
Bandon
Summerville
Billy Meek
Boswell Cotton Company
Louis Westall
Salvation Army
Christmas appeal for Phoenix Family No 77 and 78
A Phoenix Christmas appeal requests adoption of Family No 77, a six member household facing hunger and illness with no income. They seek a $15 donation to provide food and clothing through the Phoenix Community Council and The Gazette. Family No 78 is a separate case of an elderly mother and her daughter living in a bare cabin without adequate clothing or heat.
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Phoenix
Lucy Krug
The
Phoenix Gazette
Phoenix Community Council
Miss Krug
Mildred Gillespie
Woman shoots husband after taunts over aim
In South Bend Indiana Mrs Iona E Long 31 admits shooting and killing her third husband Ralph 40 after a violent quarrel at their home. She says he taunted her about marksmanship and turned away as she fired a .22 rifle twice striking him in the shoulder and heart. The couple had been drinking with others and planned a trip to her parents in Kouts Indiana it ended in a fatal confrontation.
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South Bend
Ind
Iona E. Long
Ralph
Long
Mrs
Mrs. Long
Noted Figures Comment On Air Safety And Faith
International News Service reports Civil Aeronautics Board chair Joseph J. O Connell links rising air fatalities to bigger aircraft and more passengers. Cardinal Eugene Tisserant says Catholic Orientale seeks return of brethren who embraced communism. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill notes a new pessimism undermining hope in rational reform.
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International News Service
Washington
Joseph J. O’connell
The
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rome
Eugene Tisserant
Roman Catholic Oriental Congregation
New York
Protestant Episcopal
Henry Knox Sherrill
Five Children Burn To Death In Michigan Farmhouse
Five children of the Bethway family perished when a flash fire swept a two story frame farmhouse near Emmett Michigan during the morning. The parents Clarence and Irene Bethway escaped with five other children and the elderly grandmother. The 11th child Della survived by staying with maternal grandparents. Names of the deceased are Freddie aged 3 Beverly Ann 4 David 5 Billy 7 and Thomas 11.
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Emmett, Mich
Emmett
Clarence Bethway
Irene
Mr. Bethway
Della
Freddie Bethway
Beverly Ann
David
Billy
Thomas
Chennault Buys Hong Kong Airline Assets
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault and an associate said they have bought the personal assets of two Nationalist airlines in Hong Kong to prevent them from falling under Communist control.
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Hong Kong
Claire L. Chennault
Los Angeles Floods and Cold Wave Tighten State Weather
The Associated Press reports Southern California endured its heaviest rain of the season with 1.95 inches in Los Angeles flooding streets and raising the season total to 4.80 inches. The Pacific Northwest braces for a cold wave to 10 below in parts of Washington and Idaho. Snow and sleet snarled travel as snowplows cleared tracks on Cascade routes with snow up to 42 inches in places.
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Associated Press
Montana
Cut Bank
Lewiston
California
Los Angeles
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Idaho Panhandle
Southern Pacific Railway
La Guardia Planes Grounded By Fog
Fog caused cancellation of 70 domestic flights at La Guardia Field today. Half a dozen overseas planes at La Guardia and several others at Idlewild International Airport also were held up.
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New York
la Guardia Field
la Guardia
Idlewild International Airport
Von Manstein Gets 18 Years For Atrocities
Former Field Marshal Erich von Manstein is sentenced by a British Military Court to 18 years for nine counts of atrocities against Poles and Russians. He declined mercy, was found guilty on nine charges, acquitted on eight, and faces higher authority review. He will be imprisoned at Werl near Hamm alongside other war crimes defendants.
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Hamburg
Germany
Erich von Manstein
Manstein
Hitler
Poland
Russia
Britain
Winston Churchill
Walter von Brauchitsch
Gerd von Rundstedt
Adolf Strauss
Werly
Hamm
Albert Kesselring
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Mannstein
Counshel
Britain U S and Canada agree on arms standardization
Britain United States and Canada announced a plan to standardize arms and training to ensure seamless Allied cooperation in emergencies. The initiative, ongoing since 1947, favors common designs and procedures while preserving each nation's control over its territory, linking to broader North Atlantic security goals.
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London
Britain
United States
Canada
Ministry of Defense
North Atlantic
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J. C. Garrett
Earl Neal
Ed Smith
Charles Newsome
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Charity Emma Butler
Harley Tompson
John S. Buford
Mate
Chennault
L.A
von Manstein
Churchill
U. S
Defense Ministry
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