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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1949
Page
2
Mrs. Jennie Winchell, 77, mother of Walter Winchell, fell or jumped from the 10th floor of Doctors Hospital last night. Her nurse found a window open. the body lay on the 87th Street sidewalk. She had been admitted Oct. 24 for heart ailment. Winchell, in Miami, flew home after being notified.
Safford reports a severe jail crowd due to seasonal workers and bootlegging to Indians in cotton fields. The county jail often runs at three times capacity on weekends and midweek. City officials considered a one room tank behind city hall, but it proved impractical. Officials from the city council and Graham County board of supervisors met without firm solutions, with more meetings planned.
The incoming city council plans a purge of old campaign posters. A clambake fundraiser offered ten cents per poster removed, with prizes for oldest and most posters brought in. Hazy speculation surrounds rare left over images and a lighthearted air rides incentive.
Washington records show Sweden gaining a $410,000 Marshall Plan grant for electrical equipment purchases as part of $8.33 million in EU recovery aid to seven European nations. The aid raises Sweden’s total ECA assistance to $63.289 million since April 1948, amid ongoing U.S. senatorial tour controversy in Stockholm.
Seven persons were treated after late yesterday’s road incidents. Kenneth Hamm and John Dawson were in a car that went out of control six miles south of Sunflower on Bush Highway, the vehicle toppled into a canyon. Hamm was temporarily blinded by antifreeze from damaged containers. Dawson suffered back and rib injuries. Three others were hurt in a two‑car crash at 19th Avenue and Indian School Road, including Howard and Barbara Allen and C. E. Johns. Johnny Sexton and Donald Sexton received early care after a car driven by Johnny collided with a parked vehicle on East Lincoln Street, near the owner James A. Allen’s home.
Walter Carl Anderson 32 head of Ideal Detective and Private Patrol Agency was to be arraigned in police court this afternoon on a charge of failing to register as an ex convict Investigators said his agency opened last May and had access to at least 21 county businesses His arrest followed a bid for deputy sheriff and FBI checked his photo and fingerprints showing a 1937 burglary sentence at Illinois State Penal Farm and a 1946 Tucson theft arrest with charges dismissed for lack of evidence
The Labor government yielded to the Conservative House of Lords and delayed nationalizing the British steel industry. This clears legislative checks for an early general election, likely in February or March, where government ownership of steel mills will be a major issue.
International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers spokesmen said unofficial returns show the four top officers reelected. President John Clark and VP Orville Larson were unopposed. Reid Robinson defeated Stanley Wenham for Vice President. Secretary Treasurer Maurice Travis defeated James Corriveau. Board members elected span districts 1 through 7 in Butte Carlsbad Cleveland Bridgeport Henryetta Bessemer New York San Francisco.
Prague reports that at the urging of the Communist government, Czechoslovak workers are preparing a long list of gifts for Russia's Prime Minister Stalin for his upcoming 70th birthday next month.
MIAMI Nov. 15 AP Mrs Mittie N Welch 75 mother of Miami Chief of Police John Welch died here. She born Brownwood Texas lived Miami 32 years. Survived by three other sons Arthur Miami Amiel San Francisco Bernard D Welch Los Angeles three sisters two brothers and four grandchildren Funeral services set for tomorrow at 4 pm Miles chapel by Rev Walter Sadler First Baptist Church Burial in Pinal Cemetery
Dense fog blankets London and much of the British Isles causing widespread disruption. Buses trains ships and aircraft were slowed or stopped as transportation systems face major delays and groundings.
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