Booth Shortage Slows City Primary Balloting
Complaints arose that 53 polling places in the municipal primary and charter amendment election lacked sufficient voting booths. Councilman Charles N. Walters noted three booths per precinct, well below the six or seven in past elections. The City Clerk said all available booths were distributed and extra booths would be borrowed from the county to match voter registration.
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Charles N. Walters
Walters
Charter Government Committee
Phoenix Precinct
West Lynwood Street
The
Gazette
Insane mother slashes four children in Sterling
In Sterling Illinois a 35 year old mother, Mrs James Moughan, told investigators a saint urged her to kill. She admitted slashing her four children Mary Ellen two months Richard twenty months Michael three James four next month. She was declared insane and sent to East Moline State Hospital after a night sanity hearing.
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Sterling
Ill
James Moughan
Mary Ellen
Richard
Michael
James
Missing 15 year old girl feared foul play in Northeast
A handsome 15 year old boarding school student Maureen McCarthy from Springfield vanished Sunday while traveling alone for the first time. She studied at St Anne's Academy and is being sought throughout Massachusetts and New York amid fears of foul play.
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Worcester
Mass
Massachusetts
New York
Maureen McCarthy
Springfield
St. Anne’s Academy
Polish Court Rules Ex Nazis Die For Mass Killings
In Warsaw an appeal court sentenced former SS Commander Richard Hildebrandt and the ex police chief at Bydgoszcz to death for murdering thousands of Poles and Jews during the German occupation. The verdict states the accused sought total extermination of Poles.
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Warsaw
Poland
Navy
Richard Hildebrant
Bydgoszcz
Car Victim Identified Near Picacho
The body of a man killed when struck by a car near Picacho was identified by fingerprints as Eutimio Sanchez, 45, Fort Hancock, Texas, a farm worker. The Pinal County sheriff's office identified him, and the Arizona Highway Patrol reported the car was driven by Marion Daniels, 26, Eloy.
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Phoenix Gazette
Picacho
Here
Eutimio Sanchez
Fort Hancock
Tex
Pinal County
Arizona Highway Patrol
Marion Daniels
Eloy
Library Head Nominated to Succeed County Librarian
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors consider Miss Maria Siedentopf to succeed Mrs. Evangeline Berryman as county librarian. Berryman, who ran the county library since 1928, resigned for health reasons and is a former Arizona Library Association president. The library maintains 83,000 volumes and 67 branches. Mulford Winsor endorses Siedentopf citing her qualification and experience.
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Maricopa
Berryman
State Capitol
Arizona Library System
Arizona Library Association
Siedentopf
Capitol
Mulford Winsor
State Library and Archives
Fair Concluded Highlights Prescott Exhibits And Prizes
Doris, the junior champion, led a strong showing as Mrs. James Cramer of Prescott entered 156 items winning 15 firsts, 10 seconds and nine thirds. Betty Billingsley of Congress earned 65 ribbons. The Arizona Museum Exhibit features Phoenix band artifacts from 1880, an old organ from Fort McDowell, a folding chair, military post fashion, and a German trunk. A Minerals Building display offers a plastic traffic-flow map of the state highway system.
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Doris
James Cramer
Prescott
Betty Billingsley
Congress
Alice Jane Quick
Arizona
Phoenix
Central Avenue
Washington Street
Fort McDowell
Germany
Baby Smothers In Crib In Los Angeles
Five month old John Daniel Coon died of suffocation in his crib in Los Angeles. Family members attempted to revive him but the effort was unsuccessful.
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Los Angeles
John Daniel Coon
Gold Fever Grips Castiac as Gold Flecks Sit in Well
In Castiac California a small town of 300 watches an assayer’s report on a well containing gold flecks. Charley Allen, who mined in the Mother Lode, says the material tests with acid and hammers like gold, drawing others to pan with improvised tools while four claims await records. locals recall the 1849 rush at Sutter’s Mill and note the vein likely won’t yield profitable mining.
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Castric
Calif
California
Charley Allen
Allen
Mother Lode Country
County Recorder’s Office
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Castaic
Placerita Canyon
San Fernando Mission
John Marshall
Placerita
Wage Hike for Stock Yard Workers in Chicago
Stock handlers in Chicago's stock yards won a 41 percent or 4 1/2 cent hourly raise retroactive to Sept. 26 after a near strike. Local 44 CIO United Packinghouse Workers and Union Stock Yard and Transit Company settled the contract seven minutes before the deadline, with other yard workers agreeing to honor picket lines to support the showdown.
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Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse
Union Stock Yard and Transit Company
Armistice Day Observances Across Arizona Communities
Armistice Day activities unfold in Wickenburg Flagstaff and Kingman with parades and speeches. Mayor Joe Walters proclaims Community Hospital Day in Wickenburg while Flagstaff High School faculty address crowds after the morning parade. Kingman’s Mohave Chamber of Commerce votes to close all businesses for a three day holiday to visit the Phoenix State Fair, honoring ties to the Phoenix Chamber over the Air Force test center project. Governor Garvey and Kingman officials traveled to Washington to advocate Kingman’s case. Armistice Day is a state legal holiday with government offices and banks closed. The Kaibab National Forest spans about 750,000 acres and holds the world’s largest virgin timber stand.
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Wickenburg
Joe Walters
Community Hospital
Flagstaff
Company I
State National Guard
Flagstaff High School
Kingman
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
United States Air Force
Arizona
Garvbey
Phoenix Chamber
Washington
Air Force
Former Plane Inspector Held For Extortion
FBI arrested Joseph R. Roth 40 of Washington on charges of sending a 200000 extortion letter to Sherman Fairchild a Fairchild Aircraft director. Roth also tried to extort 25000 from A J Eckhardt an inspector at the Ranger engine plant. He warned both to pay by Armistice Day or be dead by Christmas.
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Washington
FBI
Army
Fairchild Aircraft Corporation
Joseph R. Roth
Sherman Fairchild
Fairchild
Roth
A. J. Eckhardt
Baldwin, N. Y
Eckhardt
Ranger
Air Force
Chennault Hails Buying of Bombers in China
Hong Kong November 8 AP Retired U S Major General Claire Chennault said the purchase of 100 B 25s from the California Fleetways Company would decide the Chinese war outcome. He denied involvement in the purchase while American civilian fliers ferry the bombers from California to Hong Kong via Guam and Formosa.
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Hong Kong
United States
Claire Chennault
Chiang Kai-shek
California Fleetway Company
Chennault
Flying Tigers
China
Doolittle
Tokyo
Van Nuys Craps Handwork Case Heads To Trial
In Van Nuys California four people appeared before Municipal Judge Walter C. Allen on charges of shooting craps. J P Howard 40 claimed he works with his hands and does not gamble. Howard was jailed in lieu of $2000 bond while Harold L Neatetre 46 Morris M Miller 24 and Mrs Holda M n 35 were freed on $50 bail each pending trial November 28.
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van Nuys
Calif
J. P. Howard
Walter C. Allen
Howard
Harold L. Neatetre
Morris M. Miller
Morris M. Miller, 24, and Mrs. Holda M. N
Ex-Sailor King George Visits Yank Flagship
King George VI, formerly a Royal Navy cadet, visits the American flagship Columbus in Portsmouth England, guest of Admiral Richard L. Conolly. They are joined by U S Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas as bombardment salutes echo above the bomb-wrecked city. The King recalls his World War I service aboard the Cumberland during Jutland.
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Portsmouth
England
George VI
Columbus
London
Adml
Richard L. Conolly
United States
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Admiral Conolly
U. S
Britain
Lewis W. Douglas
Columbus Land
Mr. Johnstone
Royal Navy
George V
Prince of Wales
Jutland
Cumberland
$2386 Theft Charge Filed Against Phoenix Mother
Marian M. Petty, 30, of 934 West Turney Avenue, is charged with grand theft of 2386 dollars. The Williams Air Force Base post exchange officer's complaint, signed by 1st Lt. Monte M. Page Jr., alleges embezzlement during her stint as special order clerk. Petty appeared in Phoenix precinct court for bond, set at 1500 dollars, ahead of arraignment.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
Monte M. Page, Jr
Williams Air Force Base
Marian M. Petty
West Turney Avenue
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