Doings In Brief From Around Phoenix
A purse snatching at Third and Jefferson nets $101 for Ella Rita Silva of 1746 West Fillmore Street, who reports the thief fled into darkness. Vandalism at Oak Street and Chicago Avenue damages a vacant house by breaking every window and door for owner George Mutschler of 125 East Orange Road. J B Perchang, newly elected president of the Chicks Hicks Square Dance Club, announces a meeting at Madison School on North 16th Street at 8:30 pm Tuesday. A Colorado Club picnic and meeting is planned at Encanto Park Band Shell at 1 pm Sunday Nov 20. attendees should bring coffee and lunches. Roxey Jones of 1245 South 13th Avenue is in Maricopa County Hospital for a gunshot wound to the left shoulder from last night at Elite Cafe on Buckeye Road. a suspect is not yet in custody. The Irrigation Drowning Prevention Association sets Nov 22 for its next meeting to discuss covering open irrigation ditches. Arizona Illinois Society members plan a picnic at Las Ramadas area of South Mountain Park starting at noon Sunday Nov 20. attendees provide their own lunches. Details for the Elks Charity Ball on Dec 10 at Shrine Auditorium to be finalized at a committee meeting Mon. Gus Arnheim’s orchestra will play.
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Colorado Club
Encanto Park
Roxey Jones
South 13Th Avenue
Maricopa County Hospital
Elite Cafe
Buckeye Road
Arizona Illinois Society
Las Ramadas
South Mountain Park
Louis C. Rupp
Nation ally offers LINDSAY CHRONO-TROL AUTO MATIC WATER SOFT ENER
Promote the LINDSAY CHRONO-TROL water softener from the Nation ally option featuring automatic controls. Easy payment terms available and a showroom at 2209 North 16th Street with contact Ph 8 4140.
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16Th
U S Seeks Seizure to Secure Communists Fines
The government seeks to attach assets of 11 Communist leaders convicted of conspiring to advocate overthrow. Attorney Saypol said the move covers fines of 10000 dollars each, with total bail 260000 and no bond set for fines. Asset ties include salaries of officials like City Councillor Benjamin J Davis Jr, who condemned the action as harassment by a Tammany club flunkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United State
Irving H. Saypol
Saypol
Benjamin J. Davis
Davis
Tammany Clubhouse
Fraternity House Shooting On Campus Ends In Death
A shooting at a fraternity house near Ohio State Campus left McKeown fatally wounded and Heer later disarmed after police arrived. Heer claimed intoxication at the time. Joyce Crafton, a Cleveland resident, was held as a material witness. Eight fraternity members were detained for statements.
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Heer
McKeown
University Hospital
Anderson
Marine Corps
Joyce Crafton
Cleveland
Ohio State
Frank McKeown
Norwood
Sun Dial
The
Norwood News
Board grills 10 surviving B 29 crewmen in Indiana crash
A board of officers from 10th Air Force questioned ten surviving crew members of a four engine B 29 that exploded and crashed near Indianapolis killing two airmen. The crash victims identities were withheld pending kin notification. Ten aboard parachuted to safety with only a pilot among the injured. The four engine bomber exploded in air near Brownsburg Indiana scattering wreckage over a 40 acre area and narrowly missing a farmhouse before a second explosion in pastureland.
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Indianapolis
10Th Air Force Headquarters
Brownsburg
Ind
Air Force
Million Dollar Fraud Charge Faced By Pair
Two Mexican financiers Albert V. Aldrete Jr and Elroy Martinez pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court to four counts of grand theft each in a $1,000,000 fraud tied to the Pacific Vegetable Loan Co. The third man, John Alessejo, faces his plea on Nov 15. The case alleges the Tecate Brewing Co. lacked sufficient assets to support the loan and accuses the three of using it to cover bad Tecate checks. Trial for Aldrete and Martinez is set for Dec 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Albert V. Aldrete, Jr
Lower California
Elroy Martinez
Banco del Pacifico
John Alessejo
Mexico
Tijuana
Pacific Vegetable Loan Company
Tecate Brewing Company
Aldrete
Brewing Company
James Purcell
Vegetable Oil Company
Aldrete and
Martinez
Harry Neubarth
Pedestrian and vehicle accidents worsen in city incidents
Police report multiple injuries from separate crashes. Ray Callaway drives a car that struck pedestrians on Sixth and Van Buren, injuring Sandra Escelente and Artimisa Parra. William Bates, a laundryman, injured at Seventh and Van Buren in a pedestrian auto crash caused by Richard Miller. An inquest into Thursday night west of Gila Bend truck crash is set for Monday, with coroner Billy Meek presiding. witnesses include Charles Davis of Los Angeles and H K Harris of Angleton, Tex. Davis hospitalized, Harris unhurt.
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17Th Avenue
Helen Sever
West Coolidge
Lola Ryan
East Brill Street
George Leighton
Chicago
American Airlines
Sixth
van Buren Streets
Ray M. Callaway
East Fillmore Street
Sandra Escelente
South
First Avenue
Artimisa Parra
Grant Street
William T. Bates
van Buren Street
Seventh Avenue
Richard W. Miller
North Central Avenue
Gila Bend
Los Angeles
Tucson
Policeman Fired Over Apple Theft in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on November 12 AP reports Officer Ernest Young aged 34 was fired yesterday after taking an apple from markets while on beat. The incident followed patrol duties when he helped himself to fruit.
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Los Angeles
Ernest Young
Guilt Denied By Con Man Weil Admits $3 Donor Swindle
CHICAGO November 12 UP Joseph The Yellow Kid Weil 74 famed confidence man admitted taking $3 from the nuns of the Sisters of the Poor but said he was duped by two men who hired him to collect donations for a building fund for the Sisters. He claimed he did not know the names of the men who vanished. Weil was arrested on North Side as he spoke against crime and noted his book Yellow Kid Weil. Detectives Rusin and Conroy reported his bewilderment at the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joseph
Yellow Kid
Weil
Nane Sisters of the Poor
North Side
Walter Rusin
Martin Conroy
State Fair honors youth groups and cattle shows
State Fair executives with a P T Coe Insurance policy covering one hundred thousand dollars for personal risk and fifty thousand dollars for property. Youth organizations honored include Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Camp Fire Girls 4 H Clubs Future Farmers Future Homemakers and Y M C A Y W C A. Attendance yesterday reached 32910 versus 40206 on Armistice Day 1948. An Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibit display case was smashed with Navajo silver valued around ten thousand dollars scattered but recovered. Brahman beef cattle judged today with tomorrow’s awards for prize shorthorn cattle. top Hereford beef winners include champion bull SXR Royal the 18th reserve champion bull MV Larry Domino the Second champion female Miss Advancer Domino the Second and reserve Miss D the 15th from Seeple X Ranch. blue ribbon Shorthorns include champion and grand champion bull Sunbeam Emperor from Pierce Farms Phoenix and reserve Vindale Tip Eldon Smith Central. Champion female Lady Dorothy of Sunbeam the Second and reserve Sunbeam Bonita the Second from Pierce Farms.
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Royal
Steeple X Ranch
Springerville
Larry Domino
Harold Chapman
Domino
W. E. Patterson
Prescott
Seeple X Ranch
Sunbeam Emperor
Pierce Farms, Inc
Phoenix
Vindale Tip
Big Buck Crashes Into Two Bethlehem Homes
A six point buck deer burst through windows in two houses and a service garage in Bethlehem Pennsylvania stunning residents. Mrs Daniel Reynolds looked on as the animal leaped onto her sofa then bounded back outside and into the adjacent home garage before fleeing to the woods.
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Bethlehem
Daniel Reynolds
West High open house shows modern higher education shift
A tour of West High's open house reveals rooms with kindergarten size furniture and child guidance aided by Home Economics students. The speaker laments initial ignorance about nur series in high schools, noting the presence of child prodigy like settings and home economics involvement across campuses in Phoenix.
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West High
Lords of Creation
Phoenix
Shah of Persia to visit Salt River Valley in early December
The Shah of Persia plans a December 1 to 3 tour of the Salt River Valley. Agronomy specialist David A. Rogers says the visit includes inspection of the Salt River Project and Col. Dale Bumstead's ranch near Litchfield Park, with supervision by Charles A. Pickrell of the University of Arizona Extension Service.
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Persia
Salt River Valley
David A. Rogers
United States Soil Conservation Service
Saudi Arabia
Shah
Air Force
Salt River Project
Dale Bumstead
Litchfield Park
Charles A. Pickrell
University of Arizona Extension Service
Pastors Plan Union Thanksgiving Services in Phoenix
The Phoenix Ministerial Association schedules city wide union Thanksgiving services at 10 a.m. in six churches across the city with ministers coordinating plans. A special offering will go to the Arizona Council of Churches for interdenominational state work. Participating churches include First Church of Christ, First Baptist, St Pauls Methodist, Phoenix Christian, Garfield Methodist and Broadway Methodist.
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Phoenix Ministerial Association
Arizona Council of Churches
First Church of Christ
North Central Avenue
First Baptist Church
Bolivian Planes All Land Safely
In Cali Colombia officials say all ten Bolivian PT-13 trainer planes from a Panama to La Paz flight are accounted for. Three forced landings occurred near Cali with no serious injuries, three refueled there, four landed in Ecuador. The aircraft were purchased by Bolivia in the United States.
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Cali
Colombia
Panama
la Paz
Here
Ecuador
United States
Blackmer Freed to Use Millions in Frozen Assets
Washington officials disclosed that Harry M. Blackmer may dispose of his long frozen assets in American banks. Blocks against the funds were removed before his return from Europe, with standard and special blocks previously used to keep assets from Nazis. Officials cited deposits in New York London and Swiss banks and noted possible withdrawals or reclaims upon his return. Asset estimates reach up to ten million dollars, though no precise figure was given.
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Harry M. Blackmer
Justice Department
Alien Property Office
Blackmer
Europe
France
Teapot Dome
Denver
New York
London
Treasury Department
Can'Firm Guilty On Trust Charges
A United States District Court found American Can Company guilty of violating anti trust acts. Judge George B. Harris ruled that exclusive requirements contracts and rentals of can closing machines were illegal but allowed a limited right to make the deals. He ordered contracts shortened from five to one year and reserved ruling on banning rentals of closing machines.
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San Francisco
United States
American Can Company
George B. Harris
Harris
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Philippines
Cebu
Third
Jefferson Streets
Ella Rita Silva
West Fillmore Street
Oak Street
Chicago Avenue
George Mutschler
East Orange Road
Sheriff's Deputies
J. B. Perchang
North Ninth Street
Chicks & Hicks Square Dance Club
Madison School
North
16Th Street
Prevention OF
Shrine Auditorium
Elks Lodge
West
Washington Street
L. C. Austin
Gus Arnheim
East Clarendon
H. C. Peters
Pomelo Park
Tranpaatran
Douglas H. Driggs
R. C. Tanner
Adams
Eugene Burrus
Junius E. Driggs
U.S
Monterey
House OF Bargains
3Rd Ave
Robert D. Carlstrom
Minneapolis
Herman F
William R. Gillihand
Stephen Asarczuk
Ernest Nation
Earl J. Saunders
Edgar McMillan
Aedes
Allen A. Patterson
Norman E. Esch
Phoenix Association OF Insurance Agents
Arizona
State Fair
Big Buck
Jerome
First Street
East
van Buren
Second Avenue
Steak & Chop Shop
East McDowell Rd
Eve
Washington
Can
Arthur Murray
Bic
Miss Thomas
Vision
Clark Office Supply
N. 2Nd Ave
Johns-Manville
Diamond
Ciorith
Diamond's Cosmetics
Betty Lee
Diamond's
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