Supervisors To Convene Today In Arizona Meeting
Douglas August 2 Special to the Daily Citizen Supervisors of Arizona counties prepared to hold their association meeting in the afternoon after a three day joint session with the tax assessor and good roads associations. J B Mead to preside at a banquet at Top Hat as Rev Francis Donnellan offers invocation. State officials reviewed tax data from 1900 to recent years and noted shifts in mining, railroads, lands, utilities, and sales and income taxes with varying revenue trends and proposals for revision.
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Douglas
Daily Citizen
Arizona
Glen Hoopes
Tax Association
State Good Roads’ Association
J. B. Mead
Good Roads’ Association
Francis X. Donnellan
Genn Smoot
State Highway Department
State Tax Commission
D.C. O'Neil
Revenue O'Neil
Territorial
Tax Commission
Hotel Plan May Need Special Law
Tucson faces zoning disputes as a proposed 2.5 story hotel and theatre on East Mabel and North Seventh faces B-2 zoning. No protests were filed, but owners seek protections and waivers with other B-2 and R-2 requests affecting nearby parcels. Decision dates set for Aug 9 and related Church Pennington rezoning also under review.
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Tucson
Robert Brickman
East Mabel Street
North Seventh Avenue
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Brickman
Mabel Street
Seventh Avenue
East Helen
Mabel Streets
East Drachman
Joseph Cacioppo
Frederick G. Knoll
George Dyer
C. E. Duvall
North
Stone Avenue
Rev. Knoll, Oyer
Land Otho Books
Cacioppo
Commission
Church
J. J. O'Dowd
Harold Steinfeld
Church and
Pennington
McKellar Secures Sixth Term in Tennessee Senate Race
Unofficial returns place 77 year old Senator Kenneth P D McKellar far ahead in the Tennessee Democratic primary ending. Alabama shows a runoff possibility between Sparkman and Simpson. Governor race totals include Browning McCord and Richardson with potential runoff date August 27.
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Associated Press
Kenneth PD. McKellar
Tennessee
Alabama
John Sparkman
James A. Simpson
Sparkman
McKellar
E. W. Carmack
John R. Neal
Herman H. Ross
Gordon Browning
Jim McCord
Leah Richardson
Frank Boykin
Ted Allen
Thomas H. Maxwell
Baseball Scores From The National and American Leagues
National League results Pittsburgh 6 New York 2 and New York 0 Chicago 3 Boston postponed by rain. Three night games scheduled in the American League with two night games noted.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Chicago
Boston
Jews Assail British Holy Land Division Plan
Paris reports say Jewish agency sources accuse Britain of striking a deal with the Arab league to evacuate Egypt in exchange for Arab backing of a Palestine settlement. The plan would divide the Holy Land into communal provinces with Britain retaining sovereignty over the Negeb.
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Paris
Jewish Agency
Britain
Arab League
Egypt
Palestine
Holy Land
Negeb
Poliomyelitis Epidemic in Texas and California
Phoenix report notes one of the most severe poliomyelitis years. Warren T. Kingsbury, Pacific coast regional director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, calls Florida Texas southern California Colorado Minnesota and Michigan epidemic areas. Arizona reports 37 cases this year 27 since July 1.
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Phoenix
Warren T. Kingsbury
Pacific Coast
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Florida
Texas
California
Colorado
Minnesota
Michigan
Arizona
Truman signs bill boosting Congress pay and reshaping committees
President Truman signed the congressional reorganization bill raising lawmakers salaries from 10 000 to 12 500 plus 2 500 expense allowance and providing retirement benefits after six years. It cuts 33 senate and 48 house committees to 15 and 19 and merges military and naval affairs into a national defense panel.
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Washington
WUP
Truman
Congress
Congressional
Senate
House
Jackson Home From Germany
Associate Justice Robert Jackson returned today from Nuernberg and declined to discuss resuming his supreme court duties. He said he would comment only on the war crimes trial where he serves as the U S prosecutor.
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Washington
Robert Jackson
Nuernberg
Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Jackson
National
United States
Fred Vinson
Harlan F. Stone Jackson
Black
Germany
Arizona Republicans seek water, labor reform in 10 point platform
The Republican platform denounces Gov. Osborn for water failure and alleged subservience to labor and leftist groups. Bruce Brockett leads the bid, promising basin cooperation, new industries, jobs, and balanced budgets. It calls for labor reform, veterans protections, child welfare, and civil rights expansion. Water allocation aims to renegotiate river rights with other basin states and revise the Mexican treaty.
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Phoenix
Republican Party Today
Sidney P. Osborn
Osborn
Colorado
Arizona
Bruce Brockett
Rimrock Rancher
Atomic Power For Ships Seen
OFF BIKINI ATOLL, Aug. 2. Vice-Adm. Blandy predicted ships will be powered by atomic plants in the 1950s with planes following later. He said the Navy will push development vigorously while noting the two Crossroads tests are not final. He cited the blast as a weapon that can sink or severely damage ships in close formation.
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Bikini Atoll
W. H. P. Blandy
Joint Task Force 1
Navy
Bikini
Poland Withdraws Motion in Open Peace Conference Test
At Paris the open peace conference saw a divided stance as Poland sought to sit on Hungarian treaty commissions. Byrnes announced opposition, Tass accused him of betraying the Big Four, and Poland then withdrew the motion to avoid a formal vote on the east west split.
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R. H. Shackford
Paris
Poland
Procedure Commission
Hungary
V. M. Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Britain
Tass
Byrnes
Big Four Council
Warsaw
Kielce
Senate votes to limit World Court jurisdiction on domestic matters
The Senate approved a Connally amendment 50 to 12 allowing the United States to decide which disputes are essentially domestic and excluded from the World Court. The vote followed broad support for the court’s international jurisdiction while preserving domestic autonomy. The measure aims to keep purely domestic issues from international adjudication.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Senate
United States
New World Court
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
America
International Court
United Nations
Congress Clears Social Security Bill Approves Tax Freeze
Congress approved a compromise social security bill preventing a payroll tax rise to 2.5 percent and freezing it at one percent until after adjournment. The measure adds larger federal grants for aged, blind, and dependent children, and offers three years of survivors insurance for World War II veterans families at $160 monthly.
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Phoenix
Ernest W. McFarland
Congress
Arizona
Francis M. LE May
Washington
Truman
Senate-House
Garsson Aid May Loan Disclosed by Walker
Elisha Walker of Kuhn Loeb testified before Senator Mead that in 1941 he loaned $5,000 to Rep. Andrew J. May at the request of Murray Garsson. Walker said the loan remains unpaid and that May acknowledged the accommodation. He noted the matter was shared with the Senate War Investigating Committee.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Elisha Walker
New York
Kuhn Loeb
Sen. Mead
DNY
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
Murray Garsson
Walker
Mead
Senate War Investigating Committee
May
Garsson
Earps Battle Reenactment Set In Tombstone
Tombstone hosts a re-enactment of the Earp Clanton gun fight by the Roy Fourt post of the American Legion. The event marks WWII veterans return and city milestones including bonded debt paid, paving completed, and a new fire truck purchase. Other programs include a baseball game parade barbecue and street dance.
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Tombstone
O. K. Corral
Roy Fourt
American Legion
U. S
Wyatt Earp
Virgil Earp
Morgan Earp
Jim Earp
Doc Holliday
Ike Clanton
Billy Clanton
Tom McLowery
Frank McLowery
McLowery
Boothill Cemetery
Germ of Peace May Grow From Hopeless Ideas
AP Foreign Affairs. Analyst notes a new clause in peace treaties aiming to reach defeated nations’ people with universal human rights. The idea faces varied interpretations across nations, with debates on its practical impact beyond rhetoric as the Paris talks wrestle with postwar terms.
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J. M. Roberts, JR
AP Foreign Affairs
Paris
United States
Peace
Soviets Criticize Allied Reparations in Germany
Tass reports claim that American and British zones in Germany lack or lost reparations equipment. Aircraft plants of Messerschmitt and Dornier show no usable equipment, while Flensburg stores hold usable gear not yet handed over. Similar shortages are noted in the British zone.
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Moscow
U.P
Tass
Berlin
Germany
Britain
United States
Russia
Messerschmitt
Landsberg
Dornier
Flensburg
Keller and Manz
Anspach
Bus Plunges From Memorial Bridge Into Potomac Drive
About 60 people were injured when a commuter bus crashed through a heavy stone railing on Memorial Bridge over the Potomac and landed upside down on a driveway 30 feet below. The crash happened near the Lincoln Memorial during the morning rush hour as the bus traveled from Arlington, Virginia toward Washington, D C.
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Washington
Memorial Bridge
Potomac River
Lincoln Memorial
Arlington
End of the 79th Congress Nears Adjournment
As the 79th Congress moves toward sine die adjournment, an 11th hour tax compromise and world court debate loom. A new 80th Congress will convene in January with all 435 House seats and 32 Senate seats up for election in November.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
79Th Congress
Roosevelt
Truman
House
Senate
Memers
Oil Land Veto Sustained in Congress Clash
President Truman's veto of the tidelands bill was sustained by the House in a 139 to 95 vote, falling 17 short of the two thirds required. Rep. John R. Murdock and Rep. Richard F. Harless opposed overriding, while the measure would grant states clear title to oil lands between the three mile limit and low tide along the coast.
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Washington
House
Truman
John R. Murdock
Richard F. Harless
Arizona
Supremes
Congress
Three Mile
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D-Colo
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R-Conn
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D-Conn
Holy Land Division
Joseph L. Myler
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Syria
Jerusalem
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Trans
Jordan
Near East
Garsson Aided
Earps
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Republican Party
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Mr. Truman
Japan
Edwin W. Pauley
Great Britain
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