Robbery at Eloy Service Station Wounds Attendant
A service station in Eloy was robbed by two Negro gunmen who opened fire wounding attendant Charles Hewett in the right shoulder. Two customers, A V Looper and Eugene Schupp, were forced to surrender cash. about 33 dollars was taken. The robbers fled, and Hewett was treated at Pinal County Hospital. Deputy Charles Newsome reported the event and suspects remained at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eloy
Charles Newsome
Charles Hewett
Hewett
Newsome
A. V. Looper
Eugene Schupp
Coolidge
Looper
Schupp
Pinal County Hospital
Bandit Wrecks Cab as Driver Leaps From Moving Car
A Phoenix cab driver fled by leaping from his moving Yellow Cab after a gunmenaced passenger seized the wheel. The cab crashed into a panel truck injuring Mrs. Lucille Goodden. Suspect James W. Ralls was nabbed at Fourth Avenue and Van Buren Street as the investigation continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Third Avenue
Roosevelt Street
Fourth Avenue
van Buren Street
Lucille Goodden
West Bellview Street
Leonard
St. Monica’s Hospital
Vic Soule
Virgil Jobe
West McKinley Street
Central Avenue
Culver Street
James W. Ralls
East van Buren Street
Soule
Jobe
Cathay Garden
Lawrence Smith
Richard Harrison
Goodden
Jim Wallace
Ed Langevin
Treasury Chief Sets 600 Million Cap On Excise Cut
Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder told Congress the excise tax reduction must be limited to six hundred million dollars. He detailed the plan at the start of House tax hearings, refining Truman’s January outline and outlining the administration’s sales tax relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Congress
Truman
Snyder
Hoffman Begins Battle Over European Recovery Aid
Washington reports that Paul Hoffman heads into tough talks with Congress to push a $3.1 billion European Recovery Program. He plans meetings with Secretary Acheson and Senator Connally about cuts sought to trim this year’s foreign aid. Hoffman's euro aims, barriers, and currency reform were discussed amid forecasts of plan success or failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Economic Co-Operation Administration
Paul Hoffman
Congress
Europe
Hoffman
Dean Acheson
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
ECA
Senate Appropriations Committee
Gust Smacks Atlantic Liner Into Quay Wall
The US Liner Washington with 622 passengers was damaged when a 50 mph gale drove her bow into the Southampton quay during docking. The impact tore a six foot hole near the bridge and damaged a wooden fender, delaying the Queen Mary by at least 24 hours.
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Southampton
England
United States
Washington
Cunard Line
Atlantic
Flood Dangers Force 34000 From Homes Across Six States
Floodwaters from the Ohio River and other streams drive mass evacuations in Arkansas Kentucky West Virginia Tennessee and Indiana. Red Cross reports 22288 evacuated in Arkansas and about 100 families in West Virginia. The Cumberland and Ohio rivers crest pressure rises and evacuations continue as cold air follows weeks of rain. Newsboys deliver papers by boat amid floodwaters and damage.
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Ohio
Arkansas
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Indiana
Cincinnati
ST. Francis
Williamsburg
Cumberland
Federal Weather Bureau
Barbourville
Nashville
Tenn
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Businss
All-Western Stampede Set at Arizona-Biltmore Stables
West Phoenix shows growing western interest with almost 250 horses in the second annual All-Western Stampede at the Arizona-Biltmore Stables. The Western Saddle Club presents cutting horse and bending races, a Quadrille Team state champ exhibition, and events for children, cowboys, and women. A dinner dance follows at Cudin City. committee members and assignments listed.
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Phoenix
Arizona-Biltmore
Jack Tade
Western Saddle Club of
Western Saddle Club
Saddle Club
Cudin City
Birth Of Son Pleases Both Ingrid, Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini welcomed a son born last night in Rome. Bergman expressed joy as the child arrived at 7 p.m. weighing just under eight pounds. Rossellini, the father per Father Morlion, stayed at the hospital while Bergman recovered, and the couple plans to raise the child Catholic.
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Ingrid
Rossellini
Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
Pier Luigi Guidotti
St. Francis of Assisi
Guidotti
Miss Bergman
Felix A. Morlion
Pro Deo University of Rome
Morlion
Noted leaders react to wartime threats and peace efforts
International News Service reports Defense Secretary Johnson pledging swift American retaliation if Stalin provokes an attack. Senator McMahon urges a hydrogen bomb policy tied to a moral peace crusade. Bertrand Russell argues the United Nations cannot work with the Soviet bloc, citing unexpressed will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
Defense
Johnson
Joe Stalin
America
Paris
Earl Bertrand Russell
United Nations
Temperatures Today Sky Paperation Readings
A series of thermometer readings list morning temperatures at 12:30 am 43 and 5:30 am 44 with several intervals showing 44 and 42 to 49 as the day progresses. The data appear as a fragmented time series without full context or locations.
One Dead 65 Hurt In Saukville Train Derailment
A Milwaukee Road Chippewa Hiawatha passenger train derailed near Saukville Wisconsin after a rail broke sending cars into a ditch. One man E J Synnott of Rib Lake died. About 65 injured, 16 hospitalized including Leonard Kleschewski Milwaukee 21 with broken back. Engineer L McFarland Green Bay said rail snapped at 65 mph.
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Saukville
Wis
Here
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Port Washington
E. J. Synnott
Rib Lake
Leonard K. Kleschewski
Milwaukee
L. McFarland
Green Bay
John Krause
Two Men Die In Fire Swept Lodging House
A downtown Klamath Falls rooming house fire killed two men and sent twelve others to hospital. Firefighters battled flames that destroyed the second floor and damaged Bertram's Jewelry Store and Arbuckle's Shoe Store. Manager Floyd Nobles and his wife escaped via a back stairway as Jimmy Speirs and Arley Stout were among the victims. Funeral and recovery details followed as authorities identified missing residents and checked the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klamath Falls
Ore
Floyd Nobles
George Redmond
Charles “Frenchy” de Rocher
Bertram's
Arbuckle
Top British scientist Claus Fuchs charged with aiding Russia
German-born physicist Claus Fuchs, 38, a trusted bearer of U.S. atomic secrets, faces charges of passing information to an enemy. Scotland Yard arrested him after FBI tips pointed to espionage linked to Russia. He previously worked in Los Alamos and Oak Ridge during and after World War II.
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Russia
U.S
London
America
Claus Fuchs
Scotland Yard
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
Bow Street
Fuchs
Ministry of Supply
Great
Harwell Atomic Research Center
Europe
Britain
Allied Atomic Research
Los Alamos
N. M
Alan Nunn May
Harwell
Canada
Oak Ridge
Tenn
U S Atom Group Calls Huddle mT
The Congressional Atomic Energy Committee called an emergency meeting to hear from A bomb security officials after Dr. Claus Fuchs was admitted to the Manhattan Project in 1943. Chairman Brien McMahon led the session as FBI and British authorities cooperated in tracing the leak.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Claus Fuchs
Manhattan
London
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
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Glen Tyler
Nick Rosch
Harold Adams
Waddie Wills
Ray Harshman
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Noble Pierce
William Rafferty
Les Hanson
Irene Tiernan
Ralph Feffer
Morris
Louise Morgan
Wills
Tyler
Pierce
Rafferty
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Miss Tiernan
Gene Johnson
Feffer
Mrs. Tyler
Betty Morris
Otto Olilson
Conn
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