U S forces report record battle casualties and air clashes in Korea
Washington reports 3,287 American battle casualties in Korea in the week, total 73,604. U S fighters destroy or damage 10 Red planes over northwest Korea in a major aerial challenge. U N ground forces push North Koreans back near the Nangang River, while tank infantry reach toward Wonsan. Air battles in MIG Alley yield multiple enemy losses with no Allied casualties. B 29s raid Onjong airfield to deny use to redeployed Red air force.
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No-Man’s-Land
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Chorwon
Kamsong
Fifth Air Force
London
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Pyongyang
North Korea
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Manchuria
Marshall Proposes $30,874,600 Arizona Base Improvements
Defense Secretary George C. Marshall seeks 30.87 million for Arizona bases in the fiscal year starting July 1. Funds would go to Davis Monthan Tucson Naval Air Station Litchfield Park Williams Chandler Navajo Fort Huachuca Luke Flagstaff totaling 30.8746 million with detailed use to follow higher command orders.
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Congress
George C. Marshall
United States
United Press
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Tucson
Naval Air Station
Litchfield Park
Army Test Branch
Yuma
Williams Air Force Base
Chandler
Navajo Ordnance Depot
Flagstaff
Fort Huachuca
Luke Air Force Base
Comdr
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Litchfield Naval Air Station
Mickey Cohen Convicted on Income Tax Evasion Charges
A federal jury in Los Angeles found Mickey Cohen guilty of income tax evasion amounting to about 156,123 dollars. Judge Ben Harrison set July 9 for sentencing, denied bail, and noted the Florida gambler John O Rourke’s testimony as pivotal to the verdict. The case marks Cohen as the leading figure in Southern California’s underworld since Siegel’s 1947 murder.
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Mickey Cohen
Ben Harrison
Cohen
Florida
John O’rourke
O’rourke
California
Ernest Tolin
Hollywood Vice
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Hollywood
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
Beverly Hills
Kimball Admits Ordering Drug Labels Relabeled
Horace W. Kimball owner of Kimball Wholesale Drug Co admitted ordering the relabeling of a large drug shipment sold to Maricopa County. Deputy County Attorney Burch said the drugs were supplied under a fictitious firm label and used to fulfill a $10,088 county hospital contract. Kimball claimed he bought the drugs and labels from Crest Laboratories and that relabeling arose from price increases and hospital animosity. He did not detail the dispute.
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Kimball Wholesale Drug Company
Frank Haze Burch
Horace W. Kimball
D. P. Kimball
Central Drug, Central and Indian School
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Kimball
Crest Laboratories
Burbank
Calif
R&d Co
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the Gazette
Camp Well At Tolleson Still Dry
Tolleson June 20 Approximately 620 residents in two labor camps face a fourth day without water as the sole well serving Avondale Farm Labor and Garden Homes Park Farm Supply centers runs dry. Camp manager Felix Upson says irrigation pumping and the drought lowered the water level. the pump draws air. Residents receive a daily 600 gallon water truck and some travel to nearby towns for supplies. Upson calls the shortage temporary and expects to repair after obtaining pump experts and suitable tubing.
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Garden Homes Park
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Drouth
Avondale Circle
Upson
Pinal County
Bandits Strip Victims at Hillcrest Country Club
In Kansas City a friendly card game at Hillcrest Country Club ended with 17 men stripped and robbed by four masked bandits armed with a shotgun and pistols. They took about $10,000 in cash and jewelry, tied and left victims naked in a shower room. One man freed himself to call police. the club’s manager Wolf C. Rimann was previously slain in an unsolved gangland style murder two years earlier.
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Hillcrest Country Club
Sheriff's Office
Wolf C. Rimann
Complaint Filed Against El Doctor in Desert Clinic Case
Florence June 20 a complaint of practicing medicine without a license was filed against Ardashes Nighohossian 43 year old self styled doctor who ran a desert clinic six miles from town Donald McClelland Phoenix a state medical board representative filed the complaint with Pinal County Attorney William Scanland and a possible filing in Pinal County Superior Court was noted El Doctor drew hundreds of followers to his shack for treatment of various ailments pending outcome during the case by state medical officials and authorities
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Ardashes Nighohossian
Miles
Edule Lee
Donald McClelland
Phoenix
State Medical Board
Pinal
William Scanland
Pinal County
el Doctor
Nighohossian
J. H. Patterson
State Board of Registration In Medicine
Casa
House Group Rejects More Credit Curbs
Washington June 20 The House Banking Committee rejected administration requests to expand powers over commodity speculation and to extend credit curbs on housing sales as it nears a vote to renew wage price rent controls beyond June 30. The panel also near agreement on limited rent increases for over 6 million tenants while keeping ceilings narrow in new areas.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Senate
Committee
Senate Banking Committee
House
Phoenix healer faced potential 3 to 5 year prison terms
A Grande cobbler could face imprisonment or a fine at the judge's discretion after a comment cited in Page 15. An investigating party, including a Phoenix physician, toured Nighohossian's tent and trailer village where believers were treated daily until health authorities halted operations last week. The Phoenix doctors were told by Nighohossian that he had Turn to COMPLAINT on Page 2.
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Nighohossian
House Delays Tax Debate
In Washington on June 20 Rep. John E. Rankin pushed veterans benefits bills ahead of a record 7.2 billion tax increase. Rankin's bills had right of way under parliamentary rules. A bid to suspend the rules failed 138 to 72, two votes short of the two-thirds needed.
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John E. Rankin
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Rankin
House Veterans Affairs Committee
John W. McCormack
Wet Heat To Stick With Valley For Night Time Humidity
The Phoenicians face a second hot and humid night with no drop below 80 degrees and 106 degree high yesterday. The weatherman Louis R. Jurwitz predicts similar conditions tonight as a few dawn showers touched parts of the city. Cloudy humid weather will spread across the state with 24 hour temperature ranges from Flagstaff to Yuma and Tucson reaching 104 to 105 degrees in the south.
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Louis R. Jurwitz
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Payson
Prescott
Tucson
Yuma
Senate probes Mississippi job selling racket in 1940s
A Senate subcommittee report labels a vicious job selling racket tied to Mississippi politics and the Democratic National Committee. It says some local leaders extorted political contributions from postal job seekers but that the practice has ended, with possible prosecutions pending and no evidence the national committee kept any funds.
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Senate
Mississippi
Democratic National Committee
Jackson
Miss
Post Office Bet
Donald S. Dawson
Britain recalls Iran talks delegates amid oil dispute
London reports Iran seized Anglo Iranian Oil fields after failed nationalization talks. Foreign Secretary Morrison states Britain dispatches home its delegates and has taken steps to protect British lives and ensure oil supplies, stressing concern for Iran’s future and free world supply.
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Britain
Iran
Herbert Morrison
Comons
Tehran
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Morrison
United States restricts visas for World Peace Council delegates
The United States refused entry visas to World Peace Council delegates despite an invitation from Soviet delegate Jacob Malik to attend in New York. The Senate rejected a plan to cut the low rent public housing program to 5,000 units for the coming fiscal year starting July 1, by a 47 to 25 vote.
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World Peace Council
Jacob Malik
New York
Senate
Markets At A Glance New York Stock Decline Slows
Markets at New York show stocks lower amid slow decline while bonds stay irregular and narrow. Chicago wheat firm on export demand. corn mixed with July weak due to fears of delivery. Cattle mostly steady as trading remains cautious.
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New York
Chicago
Guide for Readers Classified 23 38 Hollywood Comics
A compact reading guide from the Hollywood area lists classified sections including comics, reader hints, and sports notes. It highlights Dorothy Dix, the entertainment column, and a short sports mention, reflecting a typical late edition layout.
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Hollywood
Dorothy Dixa
Indictment of 21 Communists tied to plot to overthrow U S
Twenty one members of the Communist Party secondary command were indicted in New York on charges of violent overthrow plotting. Seventeen arrested in an early morning FBI roundup, four sought. Most arrests in New York with one in Pittsburgh.
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Washington
Communist Party
United States
New York
FBI
Pittsburgh
McGrath
J. Edgar Hoover
National Committee
U. S
Supreme Court
Oak Ridge Strike Ends End of two day walkout halting atomic work
About 1 200 striking construction workers were scheduled to return to their jobs today to end a two day walkout which halted work on two key atomic projects in Oak Ridge Tennessee.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Hurley Attacks U S Policy in Senate Inquiry
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testifies at the Senate inquiry into Gen. MacArthur's relief accusing the State Department of appeasement and U S foreign policy weakness. He criticizes the 1945 Yalta concessions and labels Roosevelt's approach at Yalta as ill and waning.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
State Department
Russia
Yalta
Hurley
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations
U. S
Acheson
Baseball Scores From American and National Leagues
American League action shows New York Pierce and Lopat versus Cleveland and Boston with Wynn Tebbetts and mix of relievers. Detroit Philadelphia two games twi night. St Louis Washington night. National League Boston edges Chicago while New York St Louis Philadelphia Pittsburgh Brooklyn Cincinnati play night.
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