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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1951
Page
2
DETROIT March 5 AP Ford followed GM to grant 113000 production employees a five-cent hourly cost of living raise. Chrysler, other member of the Big Three, was expected to align with the new wage pattern shortly.
Duncan concluded a one-year pause on a license transfer to a new site where a prior application had been rejected. Gov. Pyle announced numerous appointments to state boards and commissions as the liquor department reshapes under a new health welfare and correction department plan. New wage adjustments push Ford and GM workers higher with five-cent cost of living boosts and lump-sum payments.
The Arizona committee heard plans to use Navajo labor to ease farm shortages and support a Central Arizona water project. Jacob s testified that 4,000 to 5,000 Indians could work in Central Arizona agriculture, relieving reservation congestion and aiding regional development. California trip organizers fund the study tour, with 17 committee members set to join a Palm Springs visit.
Paris March 5 AP Russia proposes a peace treaty with Germany troop withdrawal from that country and a reduction of great powers armed forces as items for discussion at a Big Four foreign ministers conference An official said Andrei Gromyko Soviet deputy foreign minister tabled these proposals for the agenda Western powers demand additional tension points besides Germany and warn they will block a conference unless Russia broadens talks U S Ambassador Jessup reaffirms readiness to negotiate with the Russians under President Truman and Secretary Acheson
The court noted no clear motive for the killing of 29 year old Virginia Langford as the boy Jimmie Williams confessed to slaying his aunt at 1924 West Palm Lane on September 26. Prosecutors cited psychological factors and a recurring gaze as part of the defense while detailing the morning visit and prior question about money from a piggy bank.
Key West March 5 A White House spokesman denied a published report that President Truman ordered the Caribbean Sea sealed against unidentified submarines. He said nothing like that was said and dismissed the claim.
Omaha AP report details a dramatic jail escape by Dewey Battershaw and Victor Sweet after an armed jailbreak on a jail sixth floor. They seized a bus, abducted hostages Deputy Hansen and Attorney Baldwin, then forced Nate Distefano’s car and later Otto Timm’s car before ending on a Gretna farm. The four hostages—Hansen, Baldwin, and two others—were released or escaped. The fugitives, aided by Clifford Battershaw, fled across multiple vehicles and remained at large as authorities pursued.
Tokyo March 5 AP William H. Graham aviation editor of the New York Journal of Commerce died after a plane crash into the sea. Navy reports he perished from exposure. Graham was aboard the destroyer Sickle, rescuing him after the crash from the carrier Princeton. Pilot’s fate not reported.
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan has shown no definite improvement but is resting better, according to his doctor Dr. A B Smith, a close friend and physician. He has been absent from Washington for over a year following lung ailment surgery and suffered a relapse last week. The improvement is viewed as a hopeful sign despite the lack of clear progress.
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