Grand jury reports 58 indictments in district court
Fifty eight indictments including 32 in the Phoenix Division were on file in United States District Court, plus one secret indictment. Notable cases include Wilma Lenore Hughes accused of embezzling 4267 dollars in 1948, inmates charged with fraudulent tax refunds, narcotics offenses by Chinese nationals, jail escape and grand theft in Maricopa County, and multiple drug importation cases from Yuma and Tolleson.
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Phoenix
United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
Wilma Lenore Hughes
The
Valley National Bank
Arizona
Carver Home-Coming Day Highlights Football Game
Carver High School observes Home-Coming Day with the Monarchs facing Nogales Apaches. A postgame homecoming dance will feature Bennie Steele directing the music and motion pictures of the game sponsored by Tempe College. The day also includes Business and Industry Week activities and several student outings with local clubs.
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Carver High School
Monarchs
Carver
Bennie Steele
Audio Visual
Tempe College
Agua Prieta Man Held In Slaying
Agua Prieta police hold Pedro Avila for questioning in the slaying of Alfonso Montano of Douglas. Avila says they were approached by robbers near the Agua Prieta Airport. Montano was shot in the shoulder and torso during the attempted robbery. Avila was arrested after reporting the incident.
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Agua Prieta
Sen
Pedro Avila
Alfonso Montano
Douglas
Avila
Montano
Hiram Pitts Patent for Early U S Threshing Machine
Hiram Pitts patented the first noteworthy threshing or separating machine invented in the United States in 1837 marking a milestone in agricultural technology and industrial progress.
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Hiram Pitts
U. S
Mandile Plans Printing Career After Business Week Visit
Tony Mandile a Phoenix Union High School senior visited The Republic and Gazette plant during Business and Industrial Week sponsored by local service clubs firms and industries. Nine clubs funded a student from six Phoenix schools for a business tour and luncheon. Mandile aims to become a printing instructor.
Film at Heard Museum opens winter season
A motion picture tracing a voyage across the Mohave and Colorado deserts will be shown at the Heard Museum tonight as the opening event of its Winter season. Lloyd Mason Smith, director of the Desert Museum at Palm Springs, Calif., presented the lecture last night and will repeat the program. Admittance is by ticket only.
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Mohave
Colorado
Heard Museum
Lloyd Mason Smith
Desert Museum
Palm Springs
Calif
County Moves To Harden Jail Cells At Maricopa County Jail
Maricopa County Sheriff L C Boies outlined plans to install wicket doors to protect jailers from escaping prisoners after two inmates at the jail plotted to break out. Oliver Wayne Coursey and Jack Tatum were found attempting to saw through bars using improvised tools during a jail inspection by Supervisors George Frye and Dave Kimball. Coursey, 31, already faces a minimum 20 year sentence for kidnapping and robbery and has previously failed an escape attempt by sawing through two bars with a string treated with cleansing powder.
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Maricopa County
L. C. Boies
Maricopa
Oliver Wayne Coursey
Jack Tatum
Tatum
Minden
Nev
H. E. Green
William la Faver
Coursey
Green
George Frye
Dave Kimball
Superior Court
Pisa Tower Leans Slightly More, New Measurements Say
In Pisa Italy Nov 11 the Leaning Tower of Pisa already 16 percent feet out of plumb has tilted an additional three tenths of an inch over the last 12 years according to measurements by the state commission for the tower s care. The marble circular tower stands 179 feet high.
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Pisa
Italy
Armistice Day Reflections From World War I Veterans
The piece recalls Armistice Day 1949 with quotes from survivors and officials about 1918. Veterans like Howard Horn and Maj. Gen. A. M. Tuthill discuss quiet fronts after the war's end, battles endured losses, and the need for preparedness to avert future conflicts. It ties past memories to ongoing costs of war and readiness.
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Temple White
South Second Avenue
American Legion
Tuthill
Four Phoenix charter amendments head to governor for signature
Voters approved four city charter amendments this week will go to Governor Dan E Garvey for signature after the official canvass by the City Council on Tuesday. The magistrate appointment amendment becomes effective on July 1950.
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Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
Contempt Citation Halted in Van Ness Case
The Arizona Supreme Court paused a Maricopa County contempt citation against Phoenix businessman C. E. Van Ness pending ad judication. Judge Bernstein ordered an inventory of private property by Nov. 15 or risk contempt. Van Ness argues jurisdiction to require separate property inventory differs from community property in a divorce action.
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Arizona Supreme Court
Maricopa County
C. E. van Ness
Phoenix
Superior Court
Charles Bernstein
van Ness
Supreme Court
Bernstein
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East
Washington Street
Daniel J. Gercke
Diocese of
Tucson
U.S
Harry L. Barr
Walter Jackson Davis
Edward Karl Garver
Jack A. Hopkins
Porter Russell
Tang Car Jung
Johnny Tang
Madison Street
K. B. Wong
Peking Cafe
South First Street
Henry Tin Tang
Chee Bud Hae
Poy Yee
James L. Tatum
Las Vegas
Juan V. Ramos
Gila Bend
Luis Cortez Rojas
Alejandro Valencia Calderon
Tempe
Valley
Tolleson
John Balderrama
Ray Sesma
Joe M. Mendoza
Thomas Howard Ryan
William A. Jacob
United States
Nogales
Ralph Read, Jr
Elizabeth
Whiteriver
Yumans
Treasury
Manuel Medrano
Edward Solomon
Rudolph E. Solomon
Robert Chavez
Mario C. Abad
Claude W. Wilson
Abelardo Noriega
Sherman G. Mullins, Sr
Veterans Administration
Papago Park
van Blackman
Business Men's Clubs
Eldridge Gonaway
Central Arizona Light and Power Company
Phoenix Advertising Club
KOY
Kiwanis Club of
Hayzel B. Daniels
James Newman
Madison Motors
A. H. Shaw
Physical Education Department
Walter White
First Presbyterian Church
Fourth Avenue
West Monroe Street
White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Led Agar Opp
Glendale
BUICK
GMAC
Walt Adams Buick Co
Glendale Avenue
Museum Tonight
I Miller
By Lloyd Clark
Webb Miller
United Press
London
Howard Horn
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 720
Miller
Horn
107Th Combat Engineers
32Nd
Lassey
Verdun
A. M. Tuthill
Meuse River
Bailey H. Bruce
van Buren Acres
James T. Duhane
Department of Arizona, American Legion
1011St Infantry Regiment
Papago Veterans Administration Hospital
France
Jeremiah Skeen
Thomas Gordon
Lulu Engstrom
Steser
Sav
and Loan Association
First Avenue
Adams
East Pierce
Armstrong
Phoenix Shade and Linoleum Co
Hanny
Texas
Peta
Perez
Betty Jameson
Perez Precision Tailoring
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