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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1950
Page
5
Police arrested James M. Ritter of Westminster Maryland for stealing his own 1948 car. He had reported the vehicle stolen December 7 and later claimed to have found it in Baltimore. He confessed he kept the insurance payout of $1921.65 and planned to sell the car here for 1050 while awaiting Baltimore warrant.
In Nogales on February 3, Elm Street School students marked Arbor Day by singing the Woody Woodpecker Song as two cedar trees were planted.
New York February 3 Up report details Robert Ingles a 62 year old crippled beggar who died January 22 in Bellevue Hospital. police found ledgers showing bank accounts in 40 states plus a notable 2500 deposit at Manufacturers Trust. He left a will to a Seattle niece Catherine Hayes but she could not be located.
The court heard charges against a British subject, linked to atomic research disclosures in 1945 in the U S A and a 1947 case, alleging information likely to aid an enemy. Commander Leonard Burt testified arrest details and the accused offered no questions after charges read.
Miss Bergman, 2-room Villa Margherita Hospital apartment, Rome, welcomed a son weighing 3½ kilograms. Rossellini seeks Catholic annullment. baby delivered by new anesthesia method. Medical staff report normal delivery and good appetite post childbirth.
BISBEE Feb 3 AP Two Californians, Richard H Chastain and Nicholas J Santini, Fresno, were sentenced by Cochise County Superior Court Judge Frank E Thomas after guilty pleas for assaulting Patrolman R G Michelena of Nogales on U S Highway 80 near Tombstone. Chastain 7 to 10 years, Santini two to five. A third man, Robert Smith, remained at large. Santini said he did not take part in the assault but accompanied Chastain.
London Feb 3 AP King George VI dissolved Britain's Socialist controlled Parliament ending a 1674 day session and clearing the way for the Feb 23 general election. The move starts the bitter race between Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s Labor Party and Winston Churchill’s Conservatives to win a majority of the 625 seats in the new Parliament. Britons had already been in the election fray for weeks.
PITTSBURGH Feb 3 Six firemen were injured and 36 others overcome by smoke during an 11 hour battle against a stubborn fire in the cork insulated former home of the Union Storage Company. The blaze began at 9 p m last night and smoldered until dawn today, with the Golden Triangle between the Ohio Monongahela and Allegheny rivers often obscured by smoke.
Fordham University seismograph recorded a fairly severe earthquake about 6000 miles from New York last night. The force direction remained undetermined and the event was noted as a distant quake.
The United States Weather Bureau predicts mild temperatures in Arizona through the weekend and into Wednesday with little to no precipitation. Phoenix should be mostly clear tonight and sunny tomorrow with highs near 70, a slight rise from yesterday’s 65 at the Phoenix office and 67 at the airport. No bitter cold is expected across the state through the extended period. The note ends with a mention that the world’s most powerful electric transformer is at Sharon, Pennsylvania.
United States Public Health Officer Dr Zenas B Noon announced new requirements for residents of Jalisco and Michoacan entering Nogales Mexico. They must be vaccinated against smallpox following reports of a black smallpox outbreak in those states last week.
AP dispatch from Taipei reports Nationalist forces attacking Communist held islands near Shanghai. Headquarters said January operations damaged or sank 538 craft, demolished 78 pillboxes, wrecked 62 Red defense works along the China coast. Reports from Hainan claimed mainland authorities requisitioned 1,500 automobile engines for landing craft on Luichow Peninsula.
U S astronomers plan intensive observations as Mars moves into a favorable position. Walter Haas of Albuquerque reported that Tsuneo Sadeki of Osaka saw a bulge on Mars edge around 4 30 a m Japanese time January 16. The 4200 mile planet lies 35 to 250 million miles from Earth, with a 900 mile wide explosion cloud observed about 60 miles above surface. Opinions vary on whether the event is volcanic and no definite conclusion has been reached.
Tomorrow night the St Luke's Charity Ball at the Westward Ho will raise a major share of the sanatoriums income. Founded in 1907 through Rev Julius W Atwood the institution pioneered medical work for tuberculosis and early X ray chest exams.
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