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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1948
Page
7
Hiroshima marked its second peace festival with prayers for world peace and victims' repose at 815 am the exact time the atom bomb fell three years earlier. Mayor Shinzo Hamai led 230000 residents in solemn vows to aid global peace as a dove release symbolized rebuilding.
Lawrence Tibbett AGMA president and Metropolitan baritone calls unions to meet Monday to explore ways the Met can reopen next season. He warns the cancellation harms musical culture and the livelihoods of over 600 people amid a $220000 deficit and wage dispute with the unions.
Police in San Francisco say a note titled death by own action and women’s clothing found on the Golden Gate bridge were a Communist ploy to smear Elizabeth Bentley, the government witness at the Washington espionage hearing. A motorist saw clothing thrown from a car on the bridge, supporting the theory.
A fragment mentions Les Coe in a local column about deportment or behavior notes. The unreadable lines obscure full details but point to a community record or personal notice involving Les Coe and related conduct observations.
Frederick S. Pike 19 of Boston is held on open charges after admitting he killed 17 year old Paul Zayka and shot at Suffragan Bishop Raymond A. Heron at the bishop's Bolton home. He fled to Providence, was captured, and extradited. Pike said he robbed the bishop, cut wires, and waited for the bishop's return before escaping in the car with weapons found inside. Zayka had lived with the bishop for seven years and was an honor student from Hudson High School. The 71 year old Heron has served as suffragan bishop since 1938.
Colorado man Lee Dove Prettyman, 53, of Grand Junction, faces a preliminary hearing August 23 on charges of selling worthless stock for about 50 000 dollars. He was brought back from Kansas City after jumping bail on a charge of issuing a bad check and is also charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Detective Ed Jackson said Prettyman profited about 50 000 dollars last fall from sales in nonexisting companies.
Oscar the robin suffered a broken wing and could not fly to reach his tree limb retreat. Bernard Kehoes built a small ladder and the bird hopped rung by rung to climb back up until the wing healed and flight returned.
The Agriculture Department reports a 15 percent national rise in farm real estate levies from 1946 to 1947, the fourth straight year of increases. In the West North Central group Iowa farm taxes climbed from 1.26 to 1.44 dollars per acre.
Calv in Lee Jr lost his 1935 car after police flagged it unsafe. Patrolman Paul Tristle cited missing brakes head lights stoplight horn and floor boards along with loose front and rear fenders Bumpers wired license plate to gas cap cover and missing windshield wiper on the vehicle in San Diego August 6.
Houston Mayor Stanley Warnell orders all Galena park municipal recreation programs halted to curb a polio outbreak with four known and two probable cases. The ban covers softball games swimming lessons and indoor entertainments until the threat ends.
Four Maryland guinea pigs along with six co-eds joined an 11 week trial at College Park. After an initial three week standard diet, four participants consumed fish exclusively for seven weeks to test its value as brain food and as a source of human nutrition.
The report notes that the group’s main dinner course included fresh water fish salt water fish shell fish and various preparations while the other two diners ate ample meat. A weekly check mentions Dr Hugo W Wilson a fish and wildlife service pharmacologist and Shirley J Wilson.
Turson Baily Cutzeen appears in a Friday evening notice dated August 6 1948 with no further details.
A graduate assistant in fisheries conducted blood tests on six human guinea pigs. The report notes Belgian retail prices now run about four times pre war levels and 15 percent above last year, signaling inflationary pressure.
Market ad shows Birds Eye Lima beans in multiple package sizes with prices: 7 oz tin 25 cents, 49 cents, 1 pound 1.25 dollars, 14 pound tin 3.95 each.
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