Champions to Emerge From Rugged Bouts at Garden Tonight
Tonight at Madison Square Garden the Golden Gloves crowns real fighting champions. Arizona’s tourney ends in Phoenix with ten bouts starting 8:30 pm, welterweight semifinals and title fights across divisions. Tickets at 2 pm, KRUX broadcasts planned, featuring Vaughn Bennett Hafner and a slate of championship showdowns.
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Phoenix Gazette
Optimist Club
Phoenix
Madison Square Garden
Ex-Prisoners of War Organization
the Garden
KRUX
Ed de Forest
Willie Vaughn
WEW Post 6306
Eloy
John Bennett
Howard and Stofft
Tucson
Arnulfo Hafner
PBSW
Jimmy Martinez
J. H. Welsh
Son
Manuel Carbajal
Martin Reed
VFW
Vincente Rivera
Alex Fimbres
Henry Chavez
Luke-Greenway
Families Die As Home Fires Claim Ten Lives
Ten people in multiple states perish in early morning fires. Ralph Schmitz and family die in Woodstock Illinois stove blast. Two boys Larry and James Banks perish in St Paul Minnesota. Jersey City three story blaze kills four, a mother and infant survive. Velma Walker and daughter Jeanetta die in Rawlins Wyoming from a gas filled bedroom. husband and toddler gravely ill.
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Ralph Schmitz
Inez
Woodstock
Ill
St. Paul
Minn
Larry
James Banks
Laverne Banks
Jersey City
N. J
Anna Henry
Rawlins
Wyo
Velma Frances Walker
Jeanetta Frances
Thomas A. Walker
Thomas Henry
Y Workers Begin Building Fund Drive
Phoenicians about 600 strong rallied at 7:15 a.m. for the YMCA building campaign kickoff at First Presbyterian Church. J. Howard Pyle called the drive a once in a lifetime chance to build a youth monument. Dr. Fred G. Holmes predicted reaching 380000 in gifts, leaving 120000 to be raised by 470 volunteers as public solicitation starts.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
First Presbyterian Church
J. Howard Pyle
Pyle
Phoenix
Fred G. Holmes
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Big Advance Gifts Committee
YMCA
President's Forces Move to Showdown Over House Control
The Truman administration faces a pivotal House vote after a 193 to 191 defeat on Korea aid. The 21 day Rules Committee rule is at stake with a vote expected late today or next week. Republicans seek to regain power with Southern Democrats to influence legislation.
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House
Korea
Rules Committee
Truman
Rules‘ Committee
Dope Smuggling Talk At Nogales Bridge
A 16 year old Spanish American youth told county juvenile officers it is easy to bring marijuana into the United States from Nogales Sonora with delivery possible via the fence. He said he could net about 40 dollars per trip and admitted involvement after being arrested with companions on a downtown street for smoking narcotics.
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Dennis Farrell
Nogales
Son
Phoenix
Youth details marijuana trafficking across border into Phoenix
A Phoenix youth describes buying 25 marijuana cigarettes in Mexico for six cents each then selling halves for a dollar after crossing the border. He says kilo deals cost forty dollars plus ten for delivery and that Nogales serves as a narcotics feeder point for Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern California. He admits starting marijuana use at 13 and says the aim was not to work.
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Arizona
New Mexico
California
Bulgarian communists purge leadership amid espionage arrests
In Sofia the Bulgarian Communist Party expelled one Politburo member Dobri Terpeshev and six Central Committee members for poor work and vigilance. Yugoslav envoy charges follow arrests of Josip Djerdja Marko Vayatic and Svetozar Savic as leading a Bulgarian espionage ring. U S Minister Heath questioned over recall.
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Bulgaria
Bulgarian Communist Party
Washington
United States
Donald R. Heath
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Czechoslovakia
Heath
Communist Party
Dobri Terpeshev
Boris Kopchev
Krastyo Dobrev
Gocho Grozev
Ivan Bachvarov
Valko Gochev
Krastyo Stoychev
Rabotnichesko Delo
Temperatures Recorded At Sky Harbor Station
A sequence of hourly readings from Sky Harbor Station shows low overnight temperatures from 12:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. with values around the mid forties to low fifties in Fahrenheit. The data reflects a cool night proceeding a mild morning.
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Sky Harbor
What Noted People Are Saying
Secretary of State Dean Acheson condemns ambassador withdrawals from Spain as a mistaken pressure tactic. House Majority Leader John W. McCormack warns that losing South Korea would erase democracy in northern Asia, endangering Japan and Philippine interests.
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Dean Acheson
Spain
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
South Korea
Asia
Japan
Philippines
Lost Boy Found Alive After Night Outdoors Near Verbank
David Berry seven was found alive by New York State troopers in a pig pen near Verbank after spending the night in near zero weather. Sheriff C Fred Close said the boy suffered shock and exposure but was walking and treated.
Coplon and Gubitchev Ordered To Stand Trial
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan ruled the espionage case against Judith Coplon and her Russian partner Valentin Gubitchev was not based on illegal wire tapping and ordered them to stand trial. The trial date was set for next Tuesday.
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New York
Sylvester J. Ryan
Judith Coplon
Valentin Gubitchev
Sudden Death Strikes Again In Motor Traffic Toll
A 23 year old Phoenician rider was killed at 2 am when his motorcycle collided with a car at 14th Street and McDowell Road. Passenger Wilfred Piercey died. operator Elmo Owens survived injuries. The car driver James Troxel and another passenger Danny De Vincent escaped harm. Police described the crash sequence and noted fuel spill cleanup. The incident follows rising state and city fatalities this year.
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Kenneth Arline
14Th Street
McDowell Road
Arizona
Wilfred James Piercey
East McKinley Street
Woodrow Gibson
Bob Bahr
Elmo G. Owens
West Sherman Street
Owens
St. Monica’s Hospital
James Troxel
East Brill Street
Troxel
Danny de Vincent
de Vincent
Boulevard
Piercey
Veterans of Foreign War
Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers Union
Albuquerque, N. M
Francis H. Piercey
McKinley Street
14Th, Street and
Military briefing on hydrogen bomb views by services
Two high policy spokesmen for the armed services testified before the Congressional Atomic Committee in Washington to present the military perspective on the hydrogen bomb. The session highlighted strategic implications and the ongoing assessment of nuclear deterrence during the early 1950s era.
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Armed Services
Congressional Atomic Committee
Act Extension Urged To Curb Communism
Defense Secretary Johnson urged extending the draft law beyond June, arguing it preserves NATO credibility and European morale. He warned termination could signal weakness to allies and undermine the military posture in the North Atlantic pact. He noted a ready 300,000 monthly induction rate and estimated annual costs under $11 million.
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