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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1949
Page
3
Police in Prague arrest thousands in dawn raids reported to target doctors, lawyers, small business owners, former factory owners and big real estate holders. Victims are said to be sent to labor camps for moral and cultural education with confiscation powers over their property. Relatives left behind are told to depart as blue clad militia seize homes.
President Truman pressed Democratic congressional leaders to speed a farm bill agreement after an hour-long White House meeting. Ross said no agreement was reached and hinted at differences over price supports and a bill he could sign. Representative F White voiced Truman's support for 90 percent parity price supports on basic crops.
A hurricane strength storm killed 31 across the Midwest and West as it moved north into Canada. Winds up to 100 mph damaged crops and buildings. heat spared the East while New Yorkers sought relief at Coney Island. Eleven named victims include airmen from a B 17 crash near Great Salt Lake and a West Point fire from an overheated stove.
Governor Dan E. Garvey prolonged the deadline for State Land Commissioner O C Williams to resign until next Monday after Williams sought more time following a review of an attorney general report. The report cites misfeasance and nonfeasance in office, not malfeasance, and Williams plans to contest any ouster while the Senate’s failure to confirm a successor keeps him as hold over.
Meade Kansas October 11 many injured in the Rock Island Imperial derailment near Meade as four coaches left the track. Five dead include Mrs. Clarence Moon 57 Liberal Kansas Mrs. B G Fraser Decatur Illinois Joe Robinson Los Angeles unidentified man Junior Mitchell Tucumcari New Mexico Crystal Lee Dutton 23 believed trapped in a coach Pfc Eugene Dutton and Mrs Dutton were traveling with her. Selah Brown Tucson Arizona suffered fractured pelvis lacerations and bruises.
Los Angeles police said missing actress Jean Spangler, 27, may be the tenth victim in a string of unsolved mutilation murders since the Black Dahlia case in 1947. She disappeared Friday after being seen with a clean cut young man near a Vine Street market. A cryptic note in her purse mentioned Kirk and Dr Scott, while detectives said the case echoes the Elizabeth Short slaying and remains highly puzzling.
Wilhelm Pieck, 73, chosen as first president of the new Soviet Zone republic in Germany with Moscow blessing. Russians end military rule, establishing civilian control under a high commissioner. Western allies denounce the move as an artificial government lacking legal basis.
Russia prepared to present new disarmament proposals to the United Nations Security Council possibly offering to trade an accounting of atomic weapons with the United States.
In Washington Representative Dewey Short urges keeping aircraft carriers active despite Russia's atom bomb threat. In Berkeley novelist Thomas Mann criticizes Allied sympathy toward Nazi elements over democracy in Germany. Major General Harry Vaughan says his only obligations are to Mr. Truman and Mrs. Vaughan.
Denver October 11 AP Planes from four states searched for Harry E Polk of Wil liston North Dakota president of the National Reclamation Association who vanished while flying from Manhattan Kansas to Rochester Minnesota He left Manhattan in a private Cessna 140 Polk was due in Rochester yesterday his son Leslie a University of Colorado student said his mother reported no word since last Thursday Polk was expected in Phoenix Saturday for Arizona reclamation sessions at the Hotel Adams
A 26 year old farmer Thomas Henry Schindorff was arrested with a gun after ambushing a tavern and killing Vaughan Wilmott 39 and his son John 18 on a farm near Pleasant Hill Missouri. He planned to kill four more including his sister in law and tavern owner. Ellsworth Farrell 26 was with him and said he survived a planned shooting. Police found a three bullet pistol and there were three empty chambers. Schindorff surrendered meekly and said he had aimed to kill in Kansas City but saw a marshal. City Marshal Henry Stalnaker confirmed the Wilmott killings.
The list shows a series of times from twelve to nine thirty in the morning with varied temperatures including values like 34 50 and 54, indicating a dataset of hourly readings across early morning hours.
Navy expert Capt J H Sides told the House Armed Services Committee that Germanys rocket secrets fell into Russian hands after World War II and that guided missiles may soon threaten bombers flying above 40 000 feet. He warned it would be folly to rely on the atomic bomb and big bombers alone for security. The testimony questioned overemphasis on the obsolete B 36 and suggested a revolutionary shift in anti air defenses is near.
In Martinsville Indiana a fire at Whiting Mineral Springs Sanitarium forced patients to flee. Attendants and volunteer firemen saved 26 elderly residents, many with arthritis undergoing mineral spring treatment, as the building burned.
Washington report on the Senate five per center committee shows the government seeking a perjury indictment against John Maragon. Hoey said the Department of Justice acts on his suggestion and Fay will pursue charges while noting Maragon’s bank deposits far exceed his reported income.
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