Phoenix contractor seized in Trader's Furniture burglary
Police arrested 43 year old H Ray West inside Trader's Furniture Company at 1414 East Van Buren Street after he was found hiding under a Hollywood bed on the mezzanine. Officers Wolf and Flack with detectives Van Doren and Heyser entered the store following a window entry, noting a broken glass pane and a removed gate. The man allegedly carried burglary tools including screwdriver, glasscutter and wrench during the inside search.
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Trader’s Furniture Company
East van Buren Street
H. Ray West
East Roosevelt Street
Hollywood
John Wolf
Robert Flack
George van Doren
Charles Heyser
Flack
Wolf
Leopard Still Free As Hunters Track It Across Countryside
A leopard remains at large after two days of tracking by hundreds of hunters who combed an area about 15 miles north and east. The big cat was seen three times from a distance and vanished each time, while its mate is reported jailed in a zoo.
Leopards Seven Dogs Hunt Leopard at Oklahoma City Zoo
Seven dogs trained to hunt mountain lions took to the trail in Oklahoma City in a bid to locate a missing leopard. The hunt, led by Bryan Denton and William Kent, used a chartered Denver Post plane, with Marine reserves and National Guard aircraft aiding. Zoo director Julian Frazier warned the cat is hungry and dangerous, while hairs on a fence provided the only clue as search teams, armed and organized, scoured the underbrush under central command.
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Oklahoma City
Bryan Denton
Laveta
Colo
Colorado Game and Fish Department
William Kent
Colorado
Denver Post
India
Daybreak
Julian Frazier
National Guard
M. D. Douglass
W. T. Cooke
Here
20Th Infantry Battalion
Marine Reserves
Jack Reynolds
Alert Officer Spots Holdup Near Lucky Market
San Francisco police officer Sterling Witherspoon spotted a gunman holding up the Lucky Market. He slipped inside, surprised the robber, fired three shots in the air, and captured 23-year-old Otis Cobb after a brief pursuit.
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San Francisco
INS
Sterling Witherspoon
Otis Cobb
Temperatures Today at Sky Harbor Readings
Readings show a sequence of temperatures across times from 12 30 A M to 9 30 A M with values ranging from mid 30s to high 50s. The data appears scrambled with several illegible entries but includes measurements around 54 55 56 degrees at early morning hours.
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Sky Harbor
Nighttime rain soaks Valley and state with light snow
A warm rainstorm drenched Central Arizona from dusk to after midnight with amounts up to over an inch in Phoenix. Snow mixed with rain fell in Flagstaff and Grand Canyon reported an inch of snow. Minor electrical and telephone troubles followed, no major damage. Forecasts call for intermittent rains in Phoenix tonight and cooler daytime temperatures statewide with a 70 to 46 degree Phoenix range.
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Central Arizona
Phoenix
Weather Bureau Office
Airport
Stannard
Flagstaff
Grand Canyon
Central Arizona Light and Power Company
Seventh Street
10Th Street
McDowell Road
Seventh Avenue
Buckeye Road
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States Weather Bureau
Carl R. Erickson
The
Weather Bureau
Salt
Verde
Stewardess Grabbed By Suction In Airliner Window Break
A Pan American Airways stewardess, Josephine Pou, was blown partway through a 15 inch cabin window after it blew out on a ferry flight from New York to Miami at 20 000 feet off South Carolina coast. Purser Michael Mann pulled her to safety as suction pulled. Earlier incidents included a steward blown out over New York state and another dangled 2500 feet over Tampa Bay before a safe landing.
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Miami
Fla
Pan American Airways
New York
Josephine Pou
Michael Mann
South Carolina
New York State
Tampa Bay
House Halts Action On Anti-Lynch Law
Washington February 27 AP House leaders indicate anti lynch legislation likely dead for this session of Congress. Only two civil rights measures have passed the House poll tax repeal and the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Fate now rests with the Senate and potential filibuster threats.
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House
Washington
Congress
Senate
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
White House
Administration Democrats
Margaret Truman to Sing in Phoenix Concert
Margaret Truman will be presented in concert at the Phoenix Union High School Auditorium on March 16, announced by Mrs. Archer E. Linde. She will be accompanied by her secretary, manager, piano accompanist, and a Secret Service agent on the tour.
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Margaret Truman
Phoenix Union High School
Archer E. Linde
Secret Service
Treed Cat Comes Down
Sammy the cat climbed down a 50 foot palm after 20 days aloft and dodged a chasing tomcat. Mrs. Hilton Pryor described him as wild and scared and hoped to bring him inside before rain or work. He braved rain while perched above in the palms until a tree trimmer began clearing fronds.
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Sammy
World Mourns Harry Lauder the Scot Minstrel
Sir Harry Lauder the famed Scot minstrel died at 79 in Strathaven Scotland from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage. He planned burial at Hamilton and leaves Greta his niece and devoted companion who cared for him after his wife’s death. Friends around the world mourn his loss as tributes pour in.
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Harry Lauder
Strathaven
Scotland
Sir Harry Lauder
Sir Harry
Hamilton
Bonnie Banks
Clyde
Lady Lauder
Greta
Alex
Willie Blackwood
London Evening Standard
Lauder
Train Rams School Bus West of Grinnell
An eastbound Rock Island Rocket collided with a school bus three miles west of Grinnell Iowa. At least one child was killed and four others including the bus driver were seriously injured in the crash.
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Grinnell
Rock Island
Here
Five killed eight injured in outlaw bus attack near Lipa
An outlaw band fired on a civilian bus near Lipa City Batangas Province killing five and wounding eight. Constabulary said the attackers mistook civilians for soldiers in the夜 incident reported by AP on February 27.
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Manila
Lipa City
Batangas
Constabulary
Seven Inch Snow Paralyzes Berlin Traffic
Berlin confronted a seven inch snowstorm that halted travel and disrupted schedules. Overnight airline flights were delayed and the interzonal Autobahn to Western Germany was nearly empty while Allied and German trains ran two or more hours late.
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Berlin
Germany
Noted Figures Comment on Conferences and Atomic Energy
Washington Senator Margaret Chase Smith calls for more conferences to settle differences. New York atomic scientist Dr Harrison Brown warns hydrogen bomb could make mass extinction easier than targeting individuals. Chicago Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Sumner Pike doubts atomic energy will power cars or locomotives and questions its use in airplanes.
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International News Service
Washington
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
New York
Harrison Brown
Chicago — Atomic Energy Commission
Sumner Pike
Welcome Giants Arrive In City For Spring Invasion
Giants arrive for their fourth annual Spring invasion in Phoenix with 27 players arriving on a Southern Pacific special to Union Station. Leo Durocher heads a parade to the Adams Hotel with civic leaders and the Thunderbirds band providing the welcome. The roster includes rookies and notable players like Alvin Dark Eddie Stanky Ray Mueller Kirby Higbe and Jack Kramer along with Hank Thompson Monte Irvin and Sal Maglie among others.
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Nicholas Udall
Durocher
John McAfee
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
J. E
Brick) Miller
Thunderbirds
North Phoenix High School
Fred Fitzsimmons
Frank Shellenback
Herman Franks
Adams Hotel
Fourth Avenue
Washington Street
Central Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
Union Station
Phoenix
Johnny Mize
Walker Cooper
Willard Marshall
Sid Gordon
Buddy Kerr
Boston
Alvin Dark
Eddie Stanky
Ray Mueller
Kirby (Kolby) Higbe
Brooklyn
Jack Kramer
Boston Red Sox
Giants
New York
Hank Thompson
Monte Irvin
Sal Maglie
Nap Reyes
Roy Zimmerman
Kenny Washington
California
Washington
Jackie Robinson
Ucla
Los Angeles Rams
Sheldon Jones
New Yorkers
Bill Rigney
Jones
Buckhorn
Mesa
Rigney
Coed Murder Trial Set After Arraignment
Robert E Bednasek pleaded innocent at arraignment in Iowa City on a formal information charging murder in the strangulation death of University of Iowa coed Margaret Anne Gee Jackson. District Judge James P Gaffney scheduled the trial opening for 10 a m March 14.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
Margaret Anne (Gee- Gee) Jackson
University of Iowa
Unidentified planes strike American ship Pioneer Dale
The freighter Pioneer Dale, with 50 crew aboard and commanded by Capt. James Milton, was strafed by unidentified planes en route from Hong Kong to Tsingtao near the Chinese Communist harbor. One crewman was slightly injured and damage described as very slight. The attack follows recent gunboat assaults on two other U S freighters serving Shanghai and a Nationalist blockade of the mainland.
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New York
United States Line
Pioneer Dale
Tsingtao
Liine
Sir John Franklin
Shanghai
Hong Kong
James Milton
Yellow Sea
Coal Miners Refuse to Work as UMW Pleads Innocent
John L Lewis and United Mine Workers pleaded innocent to contempt for 372,000 miners not returning to work under court order. The union waived a jury trial, leaving Judge Keech to rule on evidence and law. Government seeks to show union responsibility for the idle mines amid ongoing wage talks and a national coal shortage.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Richmond B. Keech
Keech
Joseph M. Friedman
Welly K. Hopkins
Lewis’ Union
White House
Charles Ross
Richardson Phoenix Newsman Honored with Polk Memorial Award
Associated Press reporter Wayne Richardson won the George Polk Memorial Award for courage and enterprise. The 51 year old sailed on the Flying Arrow during heavy shelling off Shanghai to file exclusive dispatches. He is on home leave in Phoenix after four years in Hong Kong and will receive the award in New York.
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New York
Associated Press
Wayne Richardson
Overseas Press Club
Richardson
George Polk
Flying Arrow
Isbrandtsen Line
Shanghai
Phoenix
Hong Kong
Tom Thurman
West Adams Street
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Frazier
Zoo
Valley
State
Bulletin
By Ben Foote
Leo Durocher
Santa Monica
Calif
Will
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