Arizona Vote for Telephone Strike Seen
Sixty three thousand telephone workers in 13 Western and Midwest states threaten to strike against Bell system. District 6 CIO CWA with 51,000 members set midnight deadline in wage talks with Southwestern Bell in St. Louis. District 8 CWA with 12,000 members plans vote against Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Denver with June 10 deadline.
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Bell Telephone System
Midwest
District 6
CIO Communications Workers of America
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Illinois
Denver
District 8
CWA
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
Idaho
Arizona
West Texas
Leroy Purdy
Southwestern Bell
Frank P. Lonergan
Mountain States Company
Invalid Goes Berserk Fights 50 Policemen
New York news reports a 60 year old invalid, Rosario Virgadamo, battling 50 police officers for over an hour after he wounded his landlord Philip Figario. Officers used gas bombs and axes to breach the room. Virgadamo was found dead with five bullets.
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New York
Rosario Virgadamo
Philip Figario
Virgadamo
Figario
Bronx
Abraham Braneman
Milton P. Smith Rites Conducted
Funeral services for Milton P. Smith a Phoenix realtor and civic leader were held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral at noon conducted by the Very Rev W F Carman. Smith 54 was burned to death Saturday when a light borrowed plane he piloted crashed in a field at Lat 15 and Grand Canal after a takeoff from Airhaven Airport 4050 Grand. Private cremation was to be held at Greenwood Memorial Park.
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Milton P. Smith
Phoenix
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
W. F. Carman
Smith
Lateral 15
Grand Canal
Airhaven
Grand
Greenwood Memorial Park
Mary Edith Gray Dies At Her Home
Mrs Edith Gray 81 died at her home 2324 East McDowell on Sunday of natural causes. She came from Toledo Ohio 13 years ago and is survived by three daughters Mrs Russell Cable and Mrs D B Wallace of Phoenix and Mrs Joe Noel of Toledo a son Lawrence of Erie Mich one brother and one sister both of Ohio seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services are pending at A L Moore and Sons Mortuary.
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Edith Gray
E. McDowell
Gray
Toledo
Ohio
Russell Cable
D. B. Wallace
Phoenix
Joe Noel
Lawrence
Erie. Mich
A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary
R. Davis, Retired Pharmacist, Dies
Richard Davis aged 45 of 1121 S Fifth Ave died this morning at Memorial Hospital after treatment since May 26 for a heart condition. He once owned Dick Davis Pharmacy at 10th Ave and Buckeye Rd. A native of Oklahoma he is survived by wife Lillian and three children. Funeral services are being arranged at Ragsdale Mortuary.
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Richard Davis
S. Fifth Ave
Memorial Hospital
Dick Davis
10Th Ave
Buckeye Rd
Oklahoma
Lillian
Ragsdale Mortuary
Swim Pool Injury Fatal To Veteran
Melvin Ray Henderson age 21 died after a head injury suffered while swimming in a Bagdad pool. He was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital since Tuesday and died there. He lived with his sister Mrs Ernest Dickie in Bagdad. his parents live in Slaton, Texas, where funeral services will be held.
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Bagdad
Melvin Ray Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ernest Dickie
W. C. Henderson
Slaton
Texas
R E Ashby Rites To Be Tomorrow
Funeral services for R E Ashby 72 of 5282 S Sixth St set for 10 am tomorrow in Memory Chapel of A L Moore and Sons. He died Saturday at home after living in Arizona and Phoenix 23 years, formerly from Webster County Kentucky, in the poultry and hatching business. Survived by wife Ada of Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Ashby
S. Sixth St
A. L. Moore
New Mexico Forest Fire Controlled
A forest fire near Alamogordo in the Sacramento Mountains burned for four days, blackening about 12,000 acres of timberland and damaging at least one house. About 1,000 firefighters, mostly Fort Bliss soldiers and Hollowman Air Force Base personnel, contained the blaze with early damage estimates near $500,000 and one injury. State Patrolman A. J. Smith, uninjured in fire control duties, broke a collar bone in a car crash on the way home after 40 hours of fighting.
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Alamogordo
Mex
Fort Bliss
Texas
Hollowman Air Force Base
A. J. Smith
Ruidoso
N. Mex
Sacramento Mountains
Here
Best Cyclists Are Named at City Bike Rodeo
Bob Hornsby 14 of Phoenix Technical High won top honors at the first city bike rodeo held at North Phoenix High School field. More than 35 Phoenix youths aged 5 to 17 competed for prizes over 500 dollars donated by local merchants. The Valley Kiwanis Club with state traffic safety division, city police and state highway patrol sponsored the event. Winners included Carl Warner and Gilbert Summers both 12 eighth-graders at Washington School and J Dale Miller 6, pupil at St Gregorys School.
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Bob Hornsby
Phoenix Technical High School
North Phoenix
Phoenix
Valley of the San Kiwanis Club
State Highway Department
City Police
State Highway Patrol
Hornsby
Carl Warner
Gilbert Summers
Washington School
J. Dale Miller
St. Gregory’s School
Talbot, Cora Irene Dies After Illness at 69
Mrs. Cora Irene Talbot 69 of 1901 W Buckeye Rd died early today at St Josephs hospital after a month long illness. Born in Sully Town she lived in the area 30 years. Survivors include two sons Carroll R and Merlyn F both of Phoenix, three sisters and two brothers of Newton Iowa and one grandson. Service Wednesday 10 am at Memory Chapel A L Moore and Sons Mortuary with Rev Branson G Stillion officiating. Burial Greenwood Memorial Park.
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Cora Irene Talbot
W. Buckeye Rd
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Talbot
Sully
Town
Carroll R
Merlyn F
Phoenix
Newton
Iowa
A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary
Greenwood Memorial Park
Branson G. Stillion
The
Arizona Church of the Nazarene
Edgar P. Latham Services Tonight
Funeral services for Edgar P. Latham 48 killed in an automobile accident near Nogales will be held at 8 pm at the Carr Mortuary Chapel Tempe Rev A M Engle of Mesa will officiate Body to be sent to Jackson Tennessee for interment He was a native of Missouri had lived in Mesa Tempe five years from Detroit Michigan attendance officer and bus driver at Tempe Grammar School Survived by wife Estelle and a son Kenneth
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Tempe
Edgar P. Latham
Nogales
Carr Mortuary Chapel
A. M. Engle
Mesa
Jackson
Tenn
Missouri
Latham
Detroit
Mich
Tempe Grammar School
Estelle
Kenneth
Pine Funeral Rites Planned In Glendale
Special to The Gazette Glendale June 4 Funeral services for Charles R Pine 73 of Glendale will be held at 10 am Wednesday at the Veteran's Hospital Whipple chapel He a Pennsylvania native retired grocer and farmer has lived in Glendale since 1927 His wife Minnie survives him.
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Glendale
Charles R. Pine
Veteran’s Hospital
Whipple
Hospital Chapel
Pennsylvania
Pine
Minnie
Two Men Sentenced For Drunk Driving In Phoenix
Fred C. Berry aged 33 of 101 W. Pierson paid a $100 fine after pleading guilty to driving while drunk at West Phoenix Precinct Court. James Clarence Bagwell, 21 from San Pablo California, was sentenced to $100 fine or 10 days for drunk driving and $50 fine or 10 days for reckless driving, and jailed when unable to pay $150.
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Fred C. Berry
W. Pierson
West Phoenix
James Clarence Bagwell
San Pablo
Calif
Rites Set for Mrs Eliza Graham Arizona Pioneer
Funeral services for Mrs Eliza bet h Frances Graham 86 Arizona pioneer will be held at 2 p m today in A L Moore and Sons Mortuary She lived in Phoenix until five years ago died in San Diego She came to Phoenix in 1886 from McFall Missouri Her husband died in 1929 was a West Phoenix Precinct constable a supreme court bailiff and held other public posts She was a member of First Baptist Church Rebekah Lodge Missouri Women s Club Survived by five sons one daughter a brother 26 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren Dr Theron Chastain and Rebekah Lodge members will officiate Burial at Greenwood Memorial Park
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Elizabeth Frances Graham
Arizona
A. L. Moore and Sons
Graham
Phoenix
San Diego
McFall
West Phoenix
Supreme Court
First Baptist Church of
Rebekah Lodge No. 1
Missouri Women’s Club
Martin
H. J
Ralph
Frank
Earl
J. M. Hughes
Glendale
Death by own action noted in Prescott
Prescott reports the death of 83 year old John Stanley a retired rancher in his home by bullet wound in the heart authorities say the death is listed as death by own action. He had suffered ill health for two years.
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Prescott
Edward S. Lyman
John Stanley
Stanley
Bargain Battle Mob Storms New York Stores
All out price war draws hundreds into Herald Square and Macy's as department stores slash prices up to 50 percent. Shoppers push through windows at Roger's in the Bronx, two injured with arm and shoulder cuts amid chaotic opening at 9 30 a.m. Police reinforcements called as crowds surged for cut rate Lewys vacuum cleaners and other goods.
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New York
New York City
Manhattan
Herald Square
Gimbels
Macy’s
Roger’s Department Store
Bronx
Three Killed In Two Air Crashes Near San Francisco
Two separate airplane crashes Sunday killed three people. At San Jose State College athletic field a midair collision killed Emmett Laub a 48 year old San Jose manufacturing executive and James Mathis 24 a San Jose airline ticket agent. Thirty miles north of the city L. James Lyle 30 a staff writer for the San Francisco Bureau of United Press died. Witnesses said Mathis plane was in a spin when Laub's rented training plane brushed by causing the collision. Mathis formerly lived in Wichita Kansas and was an air force control tower operator in the Berlin airlift. He was unmarried.
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San Francisco
San Jose State College Athletic Field
Here
Emmett Laub
San Jose
James Mathis
L. James Lyle
United Press
Mathis
Laub
Wichita
Kans
Air Force
Berlin
LDS Leader's Widow Dies in Utah at 94
Augusta Winters Grant, widow of Heber J. Grant the seventh president of the LDS Church, died in Salt Lake City aged 94. Born July 7, 1865 in Pleasant Grove, she was a Utah native and former teacher. Her ill health had persisted for some time.
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Salt Lake City
Augusta Winters Grant
Heber J. Grant
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chilleen Funeral Rites Held for Naomi Marie Chilleen
Funeral services for Naomi Marie Chilleen 51 of 8315 N 19th Ave Phoenix were at 2 p.m. in the Chapel in the Garden of Mercer Mortuary officiated by Rev Ragnar Eastman. Burial followed at Greenwood Memorial Park. She moved to Phoenix over four years ago from New York City where she wrote for NBC for 17 years. Survivors include her mother Caroline Chilleen of Phoenix three sisters Allen Jackson of Chicago Mrs Charles Clements of British Columbia Mrs Dorothy Nay of Phoenix and four brothers Joseph in Chicago and Simon Dolf and Bernard in Phoenix.
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Naomi Marie Chilleen
N. 19Th Ave
Garden
Mercer Mortuary
Ragnar Eastman
Greenwood Memorial Park
Miss Chilleen
Phoenix
New York City
National Broadcasting Company
Caroline Chilleen
Allen Jackson
Chicago
Charles Clements
British Columbia
Dorothy Nay
Joseph
Simon, Dolf
Bernard
George H Barfoot Services Planned
Last rites for George H Barfoot will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Palms Chapel Grimshaw Mortuary with burial at Greenwood Memorial Park. Barfoot, 51 W Cambridge, moved to Phoenix from Holstein Iowa in 1943 and worked as a station agent for the Chicago and North Western Railway until 1943 and for the Southern Pacific here until 1945. Survived by wife Ida and son Dr C Robert Barfoot of other survivors include a brother, five sisters, and three grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Barfoot
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Palms Chapel
Grimshaw Mortuary
Greenwood Memorial Park
Mr. Barfoot
W. Cambridge
Phoenix
Holstein
Iowa
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Southern Pacific
Acme Lodge No. 45
Order of Eastern Star
Barfoot
Ida
C. Robert Barfoot
Mrs. Goldie Sharp Funeral Planned
A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary to handle services for Goldie Sharp who died at home Saturday after a lingering illness. The 26 year old was born in Terre Haute Indiana and came here in February for health. Survived by husband a son Edward her father Sam D Sharp of Celina Ohio and two brothers stationed in Korea.
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A. L. Moore and Sons
Goldie Sharp
E. Washington
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Mary Edith Gray
R. Davis
Monroe
Wards Fabric Fair
Petaldowns, Reg
Rayon Faille
Steven
Mrs. Graham
Theron Chastain
Rebekah Lodge
Chilleen
Bemberg
Percale
Gannon
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