Senate votes on Central Arizona Project bill and amendments
The Senate will vote on a proposed multi million dollar Central Arizona Project for reclamation and power. California opposes the plan claiming water rights. Nevada seeks more water and shares. Amendments from Knowland Downey and McCarran would alter irrigation features costs and authority.
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Washington
Senate
Arizona
California
Colorado
Nevada
Pat McCarran
Utah
Supreme Court
Treasury
Phoenix
William F. Knowland
Sheridan Downey
McCarran
Central
House
House Public Lands Committee
Devastating Adison Farmhouse Fire Kills Eight
In Addison Michigan a early morning blaze destroyed a frame farmhouse killing seven children and their father. Only mother Dorothy Beagle survived badly burned and hospitalized after escaping through a window. Fire investigators blamed a basement furnace as the likely cause.
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Addison
Mich
Here
Gerald Beagle
Geraldine
Barbara Jean
Eloise
Norma Mae
Paul
William
Linda
Dorothy Beagle
Texas Priest Fatally Beaten
Sheriff Frank Hunt reported the Rev. Leonard Petrykus pastor of Immaculate Concepcion Catholic Church in Gregory was beaten to death in his church living quarters last night.
Three Billion Asked For Aid To Europe
Washington, Feb 21. Foreign Aid Administrator Paul Hoffman urged Congress to provide 3.1 billion dollars to sustain the Marshall Plan. He cited industrial gains and trade improvements but cautioned agricultural shortfalls and slow Western European economic integration. Hoffman predicted major steps toward a single European market within two years.
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Washington
INS
Paul Hoffman
Congress
Hoffman
Senate
House Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Europe
Dean Acheson
Western
Western Europe
United States
Churches Mark Start of Lent Tomorrow
Churches mark Ash Wednesday observances across Phoenix and Valley congregations with Catholic Mass times listed for St. Agnes St. Anthony's St. Catherine's St. Gregory's St. Francis Xavier's Immaculate Heart of Mary St. Mark's St. Mary's St. Matthew's and St. Monica's Mission. Protestant Lent events include World Day of Prayer One Great Hour of Sharing March 12 Holy Week services and union observances by the Phoenix Ministerial Association. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral holds Holy Communion services and related activities with weekday services and youth training at Central Methodist and First Presbyterian plans.
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Phoenix
Valley
ST. Agnes
St. Anthony’s
St. Catherine’s
St. Gregory's
St. Francis Xavier's
Immaculate Heart of Mary
St. Mark's
St. Mary's
St. Matthew’s
St. Monica’s Mission
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Central Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Legislature Opens With Five Bills in Special Session
Arizona Senate introduces a $500000 sanatorium expansion bill sponsored by Sen Sam J Head of Yavapai County plus an $85000 budget for a Phoenix health laboratory in the new State Building on West Adams Street. Other measures create a budget director's office and a nine member State Real Estate Board with a governor appointed commissioner.
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Arizona Senate
Sam J. Head
Yavapai County
State Department of Health
Phoenix
West Adams Street
Senate
William Sullivan
Gila County
Griffenhagen and Associates
Sullivan
House
Frigid Wave Grips Northeast Before Spring Arrival
A severe northeast winter blast spreads from Canada to the southern U S, with subzero readings in Maine and Boston and snow across the Great Lakes region. Rationing coal in New York State and Massachusetts worsens home heating as mills report limited supplies and a three day work week in anthracite mines.
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Canada
United States
New England
Maine
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Miami
Pembina
N. D
Rumford
Boston
Albany
N. Y
New York City
Texas
Missouri
Kansas
Great Lakes
Montana
Dakotas
New York State
Massachusetts
Suspect Disarmed in Nogales in Doctor Slaying
Special to The Phoenix Gazette reports a suspect in the slaying of San Francisco physician Dr Edward Muentzer was disarmed and arrested in Nogales while entering the victim’s parked car. A second man is being sought as FBI and local police continue the cross border search.
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Phoenix Gazette
Nogales
San Francisco
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Parker
Phoenix
W. A. Murphy
Federal Bureau of Investigation Office
Edward Muentzer
William Anson
Sam Barton
William Barton
Los Angeles
Robert Wilson
British Columbia
Father Kills Bisbee Girl Then Himself
Bisbee, Feb 21 AP Investigating officers traced a murder suicide in which 15 year old Mary Jane Kaiser was tied with rope and shot in the chest while her father Carl Frank Kaiser 44 a bus driver killed himself with a shot to the mouth and back of the head A coroner’s jury found death by his own action Neighbors said Kaiser worked on his car about 30 minutes before the shootings the couple had lived in the home about three years Mrs Pearl Kaiser wife and stepmother was at work when the shootings occurred
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Hugh Dennis
George Miller
Miller
New York
Weather Bureau
Midwest
FBI
Phoenix
Parker
Murphy
IL V. Pruitt
Pearl Kaiser
Pruitt
Mary Jane
Kaiser
Indian Aid Bill Faces House Test in Southwest
The House is set to consider an 88.57 million dollar 10 year plan for Navajo and Hopi rehabilitation. The measure, already cleared by the Senate, would fund resource development, education, medical services, and off-reservation employment, with about 80 percent of social security costs borne by the federal government.
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Washington
Southwest
House
Senate
Truman
Colorado River
Arizona
Two Air Officers Die In Mustang Crash At Tokyo Base
Two United States Air Force officers were killed when their Mustang fighter crashed during a routine landing at Johnson Air Base near Tokyo. Names withheld pending notification of kin.
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Tokyo
INS
United States Air Force
Johnson Air Base
Noted Leaders Comment On World Aid And Strategy
International News Service reports London remarks by Winston Churchill urging aid for the submerged tenth and contrasting it with the burden on the strong. Washington Senator Henry Cabot Lodge warns against offers likely to be rejected by the Soviets as a pretext for war. Los Angeles notes General George Marshall argues Western Europe needs continued support but cannot sustain prolonged aid.
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International News Service
London
Winston Churchill
Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Los Angeles
George Marshall
Europe
Utah Bids For Air Force Academy Site in Ogden
Representative Walker K Granger of Utah says Ogden will be surveyed as a potential site for the proposed Air Force Academy. The Utah Democrat spoke today outlining the effort to locate the academy in the state.
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Washington
Ogden
Utah
Air Force Academy
Walker K. Granger
Relations Out After Sofia Refuses Plea
The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria after Sofia refused to withdraw its demand for recall of U S minister Donald R Heath on spying allegations. State Department spokesman Michael McDermott announced the move as Bulgarian charge d affaires Dr Peter Voutov was informed in Washington. Heath notified the Bulgarian government yesterday that the U S was withdrawing its entire legation staff from Sofia and asking Bulgarian representatives to leave the United States. The U S staff in Sofia numbered 23 diplomats plus 15 military mission members and dependents. only Voutov his wife and Attache Constantin Gigorov were listed for the Bulgarian embassy in Washington.
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Washington
United States
Bulgaria
U. S
Sofia
Donald R. Heath
State Department
Michael McDermott
Voutovy
Constantin Gigorov
Heath accused of hiding spy at U.S. Legation in Sofia
Bulgaria charged American diplomat Donald Reed Heath and others with espionage acts. An indictment named five Bulgarians as spies for the United States and claimed Shipkov, a former Legation interpreter, hid in the Sofia legation attic on Heaths orders.
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Softa
Bulgaria
Donald Reed Heath
U. S
Legation
Heath
United States
Sofia
People’s Republic of Bulgaria
Vogeler Is Sentenced to 15 Years for Spy Work in Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler an American businessman received a 15 year prison term on espionage charges in a Hungarian court. Two Hungarian co-defendants were sentenced to death as part of a group trial that saw Britain’s Edgar Sanders given 13 years and the Vatican Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life. Other Hungarians received 10 years for priest Istvan Justh and accountant Kelemen Domokos, while barmaid Edina Doery got five. Vogeler and Sanders were ordered expelled and their assets confiscated. The court cited lack of prior crimes and confessions as mitigating factors.
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Budapest
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
Imre Geiger
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Zoltan Rado
Ministry of Heavy Industry
Edgar Sanders
Vogeler
It&t
Standard Electric Works
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Istvan Justh
Kelemen Domokos
Standard Company
Edina Doery
Sanders
Vilmos Olthy
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