Compensation Report Denied By Commission
The Arizona industrial commission faced a costly year 1948 with 57 fewer claims paid but a $425,814 rise in total funds set aside. The Coates Herfort Eng land study warns that large awards threaten the catastrophe reserve and future premiums, while noting a liberal law and court interpretations drive the payouts.
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Phoenix
Arizona Industrial Commission
Coates, Herfort & England
Actuaries
Los Angeles
Commission
Arizona
Easy Credit May Aid U S
The federal reserve board cut reserve requirements to free about 1.8 billion dollars for loan or investment this month. The move aims to spur borrowing and cap a year of rising credit. government borrowing may benefit as the income-outgo gap grows toward 3 billion dollars.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Baseball Results Am League and Rivalries
Cleveland and Philadelphia split a doubleheader with Cleveland taking an 8 0 win in five innings as Philadelphia bounced back 2 7 in seven innings. Detroit blanked Boston 5 0 while Boston routed Chicago 10 4. Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh 4 8 in a varied scoreline. New York at St Louis scheduled for night game.
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New York
St. Louis
Bomb kills and wounds at Damascus synagogue on eve of Sabbath
News dispatch reports a bomb thrown into a Damascus synagogue killed six or seven and wounded 27 as police hunt three suspects. Witnesses identify possible attackers while detectives and government forces act under urgent orders.
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Damascus
Syria
German agents sentenced in Berlin kidnapping bid
Five Soviet zone secret police agents were given prison terms of one to three years by American military judge John A. Sabo for attempting to kidnap a German from the American sector of Berlin. In Pennsylvania, a factory blast at Balliet & Sons in West Nanticoke injured twenty people.
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Berlin
Juige
John A. Sabo
Wilkes-Barre
Balliet & Sons
West Nanticoke
State Tax Rate To Be 60 Cents
State tax commission tentatively adopts a 60 cent rate for 1949 with possible revisions before official adoption. Officials cite net valuations, mine adjustments at Bisbee and Prescott, and a projected $32 million spending need.
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Phoenix
State Tax Commission
Arizona State Tax Commission
Commission
Board of Equalization
Phelps Dodge
Bisbee
Showers Possible This Weekend On Mt Lemmon
The forecast urges caution for weekend plans as scattered thundershowers are likely in the Catalinas and surrounding areas. Saturday night and Sunday in Tucson show partly cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms and similar temperatures, high 90s.
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Mt. Lemmon
Catalinas
U. S
House May Get Arms Cut Fight
Washington news report notes Chairman Kee may urge the House Foreign Affairs Committee to send the arms for Europe program to the full chamber with the $1.45 billion total intact or cut. Republicans and Democrats push for reductions while urging prompt approval to bolster Western Europe against Communism. The administration proposes changes and the scope of aid remains a key battle ahead of a new congressional session.
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Washington
Kee
D-Wva
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Senate
Rep. Vorys
Ohio
Rep. Richards
Congress
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Truman
Vandenberg
North Atlantic
Western
Europe
Quake Towns Hit as Ecuador Reports 400 Dead
Rescue teams said more than 400 people were killed in a string of earthquakes that destroyed Ambato and surrounding valleys. Ambato authorities reported heavy casualties with much of the city damaged and fears of higher tolls as infrastructure failed and looting surfaced. President Galo Plaza Lasso traveled to Ambato to oversee relief, while troops aided civilians and sheltered the frightened population.
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Quito
Ecuador
Ambato
Guayaquil
Galo Plaza Lasso
Chimborazo
Five Per Center Prober Points To White House Aide
Senate subcommittee hearings reveal Detroit executives of Austin Metal Products and associate Maragon used a White House appointment to speed a $280,000 army windshields contract. Witnesses claim the deal was cleared before returning to Detroit and paid no fees to Maragon.
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Prober
White House
Washington
John Maragon
Detroit
Senate
S.n
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Austin Metal Products, Inc
Maragon
Mundt
Defense
Louis Johnson
Nicholas K. P’sachos
Edgar Roger Snyder
Harold Freedman
Austin Company
P’sachos
Snyder
Freedman
Subcommittee
Clyde R. Hoey
Judge Rules Patio Light Is Nuisance
Superior Judge Lee Garrett ruled that Robert A. Quinn may have parties wash dishes after them and play his piano but his patio spotlight cannot shine on the sleeping porch of neighbor G. R. Vance. The ruling followed more than four hours of testimony Friday as Vance, an art instructor at the University of Arizona, said the late parties and piano disturbed his peace.
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Lee Garrett
Robert A. Quinn
E. Indio St
G. R. Vance
E. India St. Garrett
Vance
Quinn
University of Arizona
Aid To Education Measure Stalled By Religion Debate
Washington August 6 government officers said passage of a 300 million aid to education bill this session was unlikely. Eleanor Roosevelt and Cardinal Spellman urged conciliation in a dispute over funding for parochial schools and shared services for all schools.
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Washington
Congress
Eleanor Roosevelt
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Roosevelt
My Day
Graham A. Barden
D-Nc
Package Of Money Awaiting Its Owner
A substantial sum of money found on North Main street near West Washington street by Mrs. D. A. Knipe 223 N Main st is at the police station awaiting its owner. Mrs. Knipe asked John McLeod to take the money to police headquarters where the owner can identify and reclaim it.
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D. A. Knipe
Moscow Radio Urges Liquidation of Tito
A Moscow radio broadcast heard in Trieste urged the liquidation of Yugoslavia Premier Marshal Tito. The broadcast claimed Yugoslav émigrés asked Moscow for help to remove Tito in the name of human principles, amid reports of anti Tito underground activity in Yugoslavia. Tito had been expelled from Cominform last year.
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Trieste
Free Territory
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Soviet Union
Tito
Astra
Cominform
Communist International Information Bureau
Congress Split Over China Policy After White Paper
Washington lawmakers divided on how to stop Communism in Asia after the state department’s white paper on Chiang Kai shek’s government. Senators urged varied approaches from backing Nationalists to providing arms while warning of possible collapse of China to communism. A $4 million earmark was approved to fund Chinese students in the United States.
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Shading
China
U. S. State Department
Acheson
Washington
Congress
Asia
State Department
Chiang Kaishek
Capitol Hill
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Department
Chiang
Sen. McCarran
D-New
All Asia
Japan
Philippines
Bridges
Sen. Dulles
R-Ny
Low Copper Price Seen Extending
Santiago Chile August 6 UP Low prices in the world copper market are here to stay for time Rodolfo Michels vice president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co said Saturday The world is returning to the prewar period and a balance between production and demand must be struck He said the entry of the United States government into the market to buy large quantities of copper would not solve the problem though it would help to tone up the situation Michels said U S government purchases would not exceed 120 000 tons less than 10 per cent of American consumption alone in 1948
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Santiago
Chile
Rodolfo Michels
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
United States
Michels
U. S
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Burma
Formosa
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Yangtze River
South China
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Guerra
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McCullough
Fitzgerald
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Frank L. Howley
Taylor
Howley
Lansing
Mich
Ford Motor Co
Michigan Supreme Court
GOP
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New Jersey
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Thad Moore
Joe Hunt
Moore
Phelps Dodge Bisbee
Shattuck Dean Iron King
Prescott
Inspiration
Ann Frohmiller
Black Panther
Paris Zoo
Spokane
Wash
William R. Higginbotham
Red Banner
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R-Nh
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D-Wash
Armed Services Committee
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R-Conn
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D-Cole
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