Denver Firm To Get Gas Chamber Job
Special to The Phoenix Gazette. At Florence State Prison the warden announced Eaton Metals Company of Denver will be awarded the contract to construct a new gas execution chamber. The firm will build a steel cylinder with bullet proof glass for witnesses, at an estimated cost near eight thousand dollars, well under the nine thousand five hundred dollar appropriation. The old chamber, built by prison labor in 1934, is described as unsafe for officials and witnesses required by law.
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Phoenix Gazette
Florence
Lon E. Walters, Jr
Eaton Metals Company of
Denver
Walters
Insurance Commission Sees Higher Loss Ratios and Rates
The Industrial Commission reports a loss ratio of 104.8 percent, exceeding earned premiums and signaling the need to raise rates. A 10 percent flat increase is proposed for most classifications, with 54 categories targeted for higher premiums due to poor claim experience. The fund holds about 24 million dollars, and debates continue over responsibility for the 1948 deficit.
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The
Industrial Commission
Commission
Special Legislative Committee
Storm Heads Toward Guam
A typhoon with winds up to 115 mph swept across the Caroline Islands heading toward Guam. Recon planes located the storm 180 miles north-northeast of Truk with winds expected to rise to 130 mph and its center to pass 60 miles south of Guam by Friday afternoon.
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Tokyo
Caroline Islands
Guam
Truk Island
Carolines
Prisoners Escape From Arizona Prison After Fence Breach
In Maricopa and Cochise Counties three prisoners, Shultz Doulamis and McCormick, testified at a hearing after an escape from a prison annex. They claimed joking remarks and disputed car theft links as guards fired five shots. Risner Thomas and Robertson were sentenced to hard labor for the escape.
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Doulamis
McCormick
Maricopa County
Cochise County
Earl Risner
Cecil Thomas
Dan Robertson
Rail hearing on Tucson Nogales SP service continues
A State Corporation Commission hearing in Nogales entered a second day on Southern Pacific proposed discontinuance of the Tucson Nogales passenger run. Witnesses reported 1949 nine month revenues at 20 769 against 23 968 last year with expenses at 49 319, while SP officials argued bus service would ease traveler impact.
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Nogales
State Corporation Commission
Southern Pacific
Tucson
Commission
William T. Brooks
Fort Huachuca
J. B. Egan
San Francisco
Bureau of Transportation Research
Egan
Tucson-Nogales
L. T. Crockett
Rooming House Fire Kills Two in Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania a three story rooming house fire last night left two men dead and three others injured. Coroner P E Kubasko identified the deceased as Howard Hawks 55 and John Dudane 70 who suffocated while trying to escape the blaze.
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Scranton
P. E. Kubasko
Howard Hawks
John Dudane
Male narrator notes rival of silk purse from turnip blood in theatre show
A male voice in a Sunday paper style column laments male reluctance to watch women lead their spouses into a charity musical at Phoenix College auditorium. He teases his own susceptibility to wife influenced theater, praising the Junior League production supporting cerebral palsy victims as a strong cause and predicting an impressive show.
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Shakespeare
Phoenix College Auditorium
Drunk Driver Involved In Two Collisions On North 16th
Clarence A De Vore, 34, of 4209 North 18th Street, was arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct and reckless intoxicated driving after a 1934 sedan collided with two cars on North 16th Street near Roosevelt and McDowell. Vivian Zaebst, 45, was hospitalized but not seriously hurt as a passenger in a car driven by her husband. De Vore allegedly ran a red light at McDowell while at high speed on the wrong side of the street.
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North 16Th Street
Vivian Zaebst
West Campbell Avenue
St. Monica’s Hospital
Lawrence Smith
Francis Grundy
Clarence Austin de Vore
North 18Th Street
de Vore
16Th
Roosevelt Streets
McDowell Road
Tion
Benjamin F. Osborne
Altona Park
Truck Hits Culvert Injures Illinois Driver Near Marana
Charles Riddle of Ashland Illinois was treated for head cuts and chest injuries after his truck struck a culvert near Marana while carrying merry-go-round equipment. Another accident near Marana involved Mrs Nell Starr of San Diego California whose car collided with a cotton trailer.
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Tucson
Charles Riddle
Ashland
Marana
Nell Starr
San Diego
Calif
Grid Lottery Fine Is Paid
Allen Rosenberg, 44, a bar manager, paid a $50 fine in City Court after reversing a not guilty plea for possession of lottery tickets. He was arrested earlier this month with more than a thousand football lottery tickets and linked to circulating them in Phoenix stores, prompting a crackdown by Police Chief Earl OClair. Rosenberg listed the Morrison Hotel as his address.
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Allen Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Phoenix
Earl O’clair
Morrison
Crews Work to Clear 18 Car Santa Fe Derailment
Wickenburg erailed cars on a 75 car Santa Fe train blocked the route 35 miles west of town. Traffic between Los Angeles and Phoenix rerouted via Cadiz Ash Fork and Phoenix during repairs. The wreck occurred Monday night and an investigation began. One filled car a refrigerator and an oil tanker were among the derailed cars with about 1000 gallons of oil spilled. Remaining derailed cars were moved by truck.
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Wickenburg
Santa Fe
Here
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Cadiz
Calif
Ashfork
Inmate Slashes Wrists Twice In One Day at City Jail
Thelma Rose Gibson also known as Velma Doty a 23 year old parole violator attacked herself twice with broken glass from a cell window at a city jail. She was treated at St Monica s Hospital then returned to custody. Gibson Doty has prior manslaughter time and was arrested for reckless and intoxicated driving after waiving extradition.
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Thelma Rose Gibson
Velma Doty
St. Monica's Hospital
14Th
Adams Streets
New Mexico State Prison
Young Democrat to Attend National Convention
Harry Ackerman of Tucson travels to Chattanooga Tennessee to attend the national convention of Young Democrats. Ackerman serves as president of the Young Democratic Clubs of Arizona as the national meeting opens tomorrow.
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Young Democrat
Tucson
Harry Ackerman
Chattanooga
Tenn
Young Democrats
Ackerman
Young Democratic Clubs of
Arizona
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Redewill's
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