Wanger Case Heads Toward Jury Today in Phoenix
Trial of John Wanger, 610 South 40th Street, for the fatal June 12 shooting of his wife Bessie Lee continued with 18 character witnesses and the defendant’s testimony. Judge Bernstein ruled there was sufficient premeditation for the jury, while the defense argued the shooting could have been accidental amid a heated dispute over another woman Jean Lockwood.
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John W
Bill) Wanger
South 40Th Street
Bessie Lee
Maricopa County
Charles C. Bernstein
W. L. Hash
Charles
Willie Mae Wanger
Wanger
East van Buren Street
Jean Lockwood
Hash
Bessie Wanger
Arizona
State Supreme Court
Bernstein
Armilda Caraway
Scottsdale
Agrin
Bessie
Gavin
Vernon la More
Shhriff
McCarthy and
Clark
Price Index Dips Slightly in Wholesale Figures
Washington report shows the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale price index fell three tenths of a percent for the week ended Sept 20. The index stood 1.4 percent above the prior month and 9.1 percent below the same week in 1948.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Lowell Thomas Hurt in Himalaya Horse Accident
Lowell Thomas, 57, noted author and broadcaster, was seriously injured after being thrown from a horse in a Himalayan mountain pass near Gyantse. His son Lowell Jr., 25, was with him, and the Air Force was asked to assist in the rescue. Thomas had recently left Tibet with a Dalai Lama message for President Truman.
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New York
Lowell Thomas
Himalayas
Air Force
Gyantse
Thomas
Tibet
Dalai Lama
Truman
Lowell, Jr
Jack Tatum Admits House Burglary
Jack Tatum, 27, admits breaking into the home of Harry E. Johnson at 726 Encanto Drive Southeast on August 24. Sheriff L C Boies said fingerprint evidence tied him to the burglary after he was arrested by FBI agents at Florence Junction following a Tuesday car seizure. Tatum is the brother of Joseph Tatum, 29, jailed in Arizona State Prison, who had been sought since an August 13 jail escape from Minden, Nevada.
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Harry E. Johnson
Encanto Drive
Jack Tatum
Maricopa County
L. C
Cal
Boies
Tatum
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Florence Junction
Joseph Tatum
Arizona State Prison
Minden
Nev
Murdock Reports on AZ Reclamation Tour and Policy
Arizona congressman John R. Murdock draft a report for the House Public Lands Committee after a tour of the Colorado River and Yuma Project with Norris Poulson Wayne Aspinall and Fred Marshall. The trip spurred talk of reforming reclamation law to allow non reimbursement charges for evaporation and sediment control while Poulson softened on the issue. Haroldo Patten pursues early hearings on a fence along the US Mexico border and the Navajo Hopi rehabilitation bill alongside pending conference actions.
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Murdock
Norris Poulson
California
Arizona
Colorado
Poulson
Wayne Aspinall
Fred Marshall
Minnesota
House Rules Committee
Harold A. Patten
House
United States-Mexico
Increase in United States big game animals alleged
It is believed that the number of big game animals in the United States is increasing.
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The
United States
Truman Nominates Pickett to 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
President Truman named John C. Pickett of Wyoming to the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals serving Colorado Wyoming Utah Kansas Oklahoma and New Mexico. He also nominated four federal district judges for newly created posts James V Allred Ben C Connally James M. Carter and Harry C. Westover for Southern Texas and Southern California respectively.
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Washington
Truman
John C. Pickett
Wyoming
United States 10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Colorado
Utah
Kansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Congress
James V. Allred
Ben C. Connally
Texas
James M. Carter
Harry C. Westover
California
The
United Press
Westover
University of Arizona
Yuma
Orange County
State Senate
Los Angeles
Death Of Women Adjudged in personal crisis
A coroner's jury ruled Mrs. Grace E. Bakes death at 58 was self administered poison after testimony at West Phoenix inquest. The body of Mrs. Bakes was found at home with her husband Dr. E. C. Bakes. An inquest into Miss Selma A. E. Carlson 52 found dead in a Bel-Aire Motel room and also ruled poison self administered.
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Grace E. Bakes
al J. Flood
West Phoenix
Bakes
E. C. Bakes
Selma
Carter Tucson Garageman Dies at 72
Robert E. Carter founder of Apache Motors and Apache Tire Company in Tucson died yesterday at age 72. He moved to Tucson in 1923 and entered the automobile business. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.
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Tucson
Robert E. Carter
Apache Motors
Apache Tire Company
Carter
Unemployment Benefits Hit New Arizona Peak in Aug 1949
Arizona unemployment payments rose to 457,335 in August 1949, a record high since March 1938, as readjustment allowances ended for many veterans and state unemployment compensation surged. Bruce Parkinson notes 22 percent of claimants were veterans formerly on readjustment allowances, with total benefits reaching 569,118 for the month across programs.
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Arizona
Bruce Parkinson
Unemployment Compensation Division of
Employment Security Commission
Employment Security Commission of Arizona
Cancer Board To Hear Report On Arizona Drive Results
The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Arizona Division American Cancer Society will be held at 2 pm tomorrow at division headquarters 25 East Van Buren Street. Attendees include Phoenix doctors Drs E Payne Palmer Sr Robert S Flinn Preston T Brown J P Ward J D Hamer Henry G Williams and others from Phoenix Tucson Prescott Flagstaff Tempe Kingman and Yuma with special delegates Mrs Caroline Mills and Mrs Sophia Smodot among those listed.
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Arizona Division
American Cancer Society
East
van Buren Street
E. Payne Palmer, Sr
Robert S. Flinn
Preston T. Brown
J. P. Ward
J. D. Hamer
Henry G. Williams
Phoenix
Arthur J
Harold W. Kohl
Royal Rudolph
Tucson
T. A. Hartgraves
Robert E. May
Palmer
Mary E. Caldwell
George R. Seaman
Inspiration
Charles Sechrist
Flagstaff
Ozell M. Trask
Robert Davenport
Walter Bimson
Robert Goldwater
Fred Dragonette
Herbert L. Stahnke
Tempe
Joseph A. Coppa
Kingman
Caroline Mills
City to Break Ground for $500,000 Fire Alarm System
City to break ground at 9 a m Monday for Phoenix new fire alarm system. City Manager James T. Deppe said the project starts with underground cable work in the alley between Seventh and Ninth streets north of Van Buren. Five hundred new boxes will be in operation citywide upon completion.
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Phoenix
James T. Deppe
Seventh
Ninth Streets
van Buren Street
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