Two Carriers To Be Added In Pacific
The Navy will move two carriers from the East Coast to the Pacific while keeping Atlantic strength. Philippine Sea and Sicily shift to Pacific, joining Valley Forge Boxer and Badoeng Strait as Leyte and Oriskany relocate. Leyte stays on East Coast until Oriskany is ready this Fall. Savings from using Missouri as a training ship fund the operations.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Atlantic
Admi
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Leyte
Portsmouth
Philippine Sea
Oriskany
Missouri
Truman Assails Reporters For Interview Objections
President Truman lashed at reporters over exclusive interview with Arthur Krock of the New York Times. He said he is his own free agent, will do as he pleases, and will not be censored. He acknowledged no rule against exclusive interviews and left open future such actions. The Mississippi River has added 50 square miles to Louisiana in the past century.
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Washington
Truman
Arthur Krock
New York Times
Russia
Doris Freeson
Earl Godwin
Krock
White House
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Gales Slow Search For B-36 Airmen
Gale force winds off the British Columbia coast hampered the search for the remaining five crew members of a B-36 bomber after three engines caught fire and they parachuted clear. Eleven others were rescued and treated for injuries and exposure. a ground party of 55 returned to the Cayuga as planes scouted the rain soaked islands. Parachutes, cries for help, gunfire and warnings of survivors kept hopes alive amid heavy seas and six inch slush.
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Seattle
Wash
British Columbia
Royal Canadian Navy
Cayuga
Princess Royal Island
Prince Rupert
B. C
North Pacific
Hotel Death Case at Riverside Hotel
Police conclude a death at a Riverside hotel occurred about 11 p m Wednesday after neighbors heard a fierce struggle in room six. A gash on the head may have been from a water pitcher, with glass fragments and blood on the floor. Farris had deposited 1340 with attorney Charles H Young. authorities seek how the money was obtained and whether foul play was involved. The body was found by a maid after she used a passkey to open a locked door.
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Farris
Phoenix
Charles H. Young
South First Avenue
Holton
Riverside
Calif
Young
H. O. English
Tony Acker
West Villetta Street
Coplon Lawyers Split As Spy Trial Shifts Counsel
Archibald Palmer admits Judith Coplon has dismissed him as her attorney in the Coplon Gubitchev spy conspiracy trial. Reports of a change follow Judge Sylvester Ryan adjourning the case with the remark that a situation has arisen.
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New York
Archibald Palmer
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Sylvester J. Ryan
Canada Plane Crashes In Arctic Exercises
A Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota aircraft taking part in Exercise Sweetbriar crashed after striking ice during approach. None of the 14 aboard was killed, though radio communications failed briefly. the operator said no fatalities.
Sale Of Arms Charged In Smuggling Racket
Washington reports Leonard H. Pomeroy a State Department official accuses American adventurers of a major arms smuggling ring in Southeast Asia. Stolen materiel from US surplus dumps in the Philippines and abandoned Japanese stock allegedly moved to Indonesian, Burmese, Indo-Chinese, and Thai factions. War surplus also cited as transferred to the Philippine government amid reported losses. The Army says surplus vanished from Pacific islands after troop withdrawals but was disposed of properly where troops remained.
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Washington
Leonard H. Pomeroy
State Department
Southeast Asia
Pomeroy
Department
Munitions Control Division
Department of State
United States
Philippines
Indonesia
Burma
Indo-China
Thailand
Pacific Islands
U. S
Patagonia Land of the Big Feet Meaning
The name Patagonia derives from Argentina and refers to the southern land described as extending from the pampas into a vast region nicknamed Siberia. The term translates to Land of the Big Feet.
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Patagonia
Argentina
Siberia
Pampas
Paul Keefe Improves After Hospitalization
Marcus J. Lawrence Memorial Hospital attendants report Paul C. Keefe aged 62 is improved after several days with a heart ailment. Keefe, long prominent in state politics, was speaker of the House in the Fifth Legislature and a senator for parts of the 11th and all of the 12th sessions. He was Senate president in the 13th Legislature and held that post through the 17th, believed to be the longest tenure on record.
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Cottonwood
Marcus J. Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Paul C. Keefe
Keefe
House of Representatives
Senate
Phoenix Driver Killed In 200-Foot Plunge
A Phoenix road construction worker LeRoy Pourchot 46 died after his car left the highway and fell into a 200 foot canyon east of the Claypool Tunnel near Superior He died at Magma Hospital and was employed by Fisher Construction Company He is survived by his wife and several relatives The incident raises the year to date Arizona traffic fatalities.
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Phoenix
Claypool
Superior
LeRoy Pourchot
van Buren Street
Magma Hospital
Arizona
Pourchot
Fisher Construction Company
Robert E. Ledford
Texas
Ruth
Ollie
Melvin
Truman
Earl
Raymond
University of Southern California
Local history quiz questions recall Amalgamated Wild-Eyed Apaches
A nostalgic prompt asks readers to name the Amalgamated Order of Wild-Eyed Apaches and recalls radio clubs, clambakes, and early Phoenix landmarks. It also invites memory of Hattie Mosher’s suit against Jolson and the Frolic, the downtown venue razed by fire.
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Amalgamated Order of
KFAD
KTAR
al Jolson
Hattie Mosher
Mr. Jolson
Fox Theater
Greyhound
Pleasure Palace
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Paul Keefe
U.S. Department of Commerce
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West Main—Mesa
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ANGEL
Brownie
South Main
Coolidgeith Ave
Camelback Rd
Glendale
East
Boston
Chandler
E. Jefferson
Folger’s Coffee
Durkee
Rosedale
Iin
Séiei
Merrill
Aime
Res
Durkee’s Margarine Plain
Yuma
BEL Peppers
Costly
Bett Crocker
Tbs
Basha’s
Libby’s
del Monte
Libby
Campbell
Davina
HEMET
Brookdale
Alaska
Pineapple Chunk
Camelback
7Th Ave
Dous
Oscar Mayer
Oscar
Meeter
Colgate Palmolive Peet
Durkeot
Jemima
Aunt Jemima
Dept
Chicago
Jungis
Pillsbury
Fresh Creamery Groverbloom
Vienna
Sauerkraut
APPLE
Tal
AMN
Family Kitchen Pie
Swans Down Devils
Junket
Tin
Swift
Meng
Rashaat
Second Ave
West van Buren
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