Berserk Unionist Opens Fire at AFL Marine Firemen HQ
Swede Berglund, 45, shot three colleagues at union headquarters after ousting from negotiations. He fatally shot himself after reloading. Victims John Hatton 46 and Stuart Hunt 38 wounded, Henry Walker 46 critically, Union President Vincent Malone and Treasurer Clifford Peterson escaped. Tense scene followed fist fights over master contract talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F
Berglund
John Hatton
Stuart Hunt
Hatton
Hunt
Henry
Johnnie) Walker
Vincent Malone
Clifford A. Peterson
James English
Malone
Marine Firemen
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
AFL Cooks and Stewards
Pacific Maritime Assn
Heavy Runoff Sets Numerous New State Records in July
July stream runoff across Arizona exceeded normal levels on most rivers. Gila near Safford Valley reached 328 percent of normal at 43,400 acre-feet, the best July runoff since 1921. Salt River ran 85 percent of normal. Verde 200 percent. Little Colorado 244 percent. San Pedro at Charleston 20,700 acre-feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Salt River
John H. Gardiner
U. S. Geological Survey
Safford Valley
Gila River
San Carlos
Verde River
Colorado
San Pedro River
Charleston
Sabino Creek
Santa Cruz
Tucson
Rillito Creek
Canada del Oro
Cortaro
Snyder to Study Ministry in Boston at Boston University
Robert Snyder president of the Wesley Foundation will travel to Boston next Friday to study for the Methodist ministry at Boston University School of Theology. He chairs the National Methodist Camp Commission and serves on the National Conference of Methodist Youth Executives Council. Snyder, a University of Arizona honors graduate, will preach tomorrow at the First Methodist Church on "We Have This Calling."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Snyder
Wesley Foundation
Boston
Boston University School of Theology
National Conference of Methodist Youth Executives Council
Snyder
University of Arizona
National Methodist Camp Commission
First Methodist Church
Dornbreite
Germany
Huge Villa Gold Cache Reported By Aged Spinster
Dolores Vasquez, 76, claims $1.5 million in stolen gold buried at sites in Corpus Christi Roma Cinema Robstown and San Antonio. She described graves, lime mines, a desert-square ranch, a slaughter-house gully, and a church orange tree where the caches lie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Centro
Calif
Pancho Villa
Corpus Christi
Tex
Roma
Cinema
Robstown
San Antonio
Dolores Vasquez
Brawley
R. P. Ostrander
Imperial County Veterans Service
Ostrander
Miss Vasquez
Veterans’ Adviser
Villa
Cemeery
Manuel Perreda
U. S
Mexico
Higher Tax Rate Seen For Arizona
The State Tax Commission concludes its work on Arizona 1955 56 tax rate with estimates ranging from 1.10 to 1.25 dollars per hundred. Hearings dealt with three utilities valuations Tucson Gas Citizens Utilities and Southern Union Gas with valuations rising for all three firms. Citizens Utilities urged lower valuations while Tucson Gas warned of higher rates if increases stand. Public Service’s valuation totals 46 5 million with protests expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State Tax Commission
Arizona
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Co
Citizens Utilities Co
Southern Union Gas Co
Tucson
Citizens Utilities
Arizona Public Service Co
Nogale S and
Kingman
Southern Union
Arizona Public Service
Public Service
U S Reds Trade Accusations In Korea Boat Incident
In Panmunjom Korea the Communist command accused the U S Army of sending armed boats into North Korean territory to abduct civilians. Maj Gen Harlan C Parks denied the claim and said Communists killed South Koreans with floating mines, while they alleged one boat and 24 crew were captured with American equipment aboard.
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Panmunjom
Korea
VA. S. Army
U. S. Army
Harlan C. Parks
United Nations
Korean Armistice Commission
Han
Imjim
Parks
Red Territory
Air Line Theater Weekend Package to Waldorf Astoria
American Airlines launches Theater Weekend at the Waldorf Astoria New York in cooperation with Paul Tausig and Son Inc. The three day two night package includes top Broadway seats and a Latin Quarter show with tours to Manhattan, Harlem, the United Nations, and a harbor cruise. Cost is $42 per person in double occupancy, airfares extra.
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The
Waldorf
American Airlines, Inc
Paul
Lower Manhattan
Harlem
United Nations
Phoenician Appointed Regional Postal Chief
Warner M. Straley Jr. of Phoenix named regional manager of the Denver postal region by Postmaster General Summerfield. A 39 year old with ties to the Phoenix Industrial Council he was top eligible candidate and will assume the Denver post late this month.
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Washington
P— Warner M. Straley Jr
Phoenix
Denver
Summerfield
Straley
Phoenix Industrial Council
Sand and Gravel Talks Resume in Arizona Shutdown
Phoenix set to host a Tuesday meeting to settle the 18 day shutdown of sand gravel and ready mixed concrete industries. Federal Conciliator W P Halloran arranged talks after unions AFL Operating Engineers Teamsters and Laborers and companies reached all issues but wages. Reeves Sand and Rock Co resumed deliveries after signing a new contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
W. P. Halloran
AFL
Arizona Sand and Rock Co
Reeves Sand and Rock Co
State agents cleared in liquor sale trial
A Superior Court jury found Deputy Joe Love Jr. and Bert Hill innocent of charges that they furnished liquor to minors. The pair were accused of giving two bows from Chandier wine to a minor last August.
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Phoenix
Joe Love Jr
Bert Hill
Long Island Rail Strike Delayed as Mediation Sits In
Long Island Rail Road trains ran normally after a threatened wildcat strike by rebel trainmen was halted by mediation. Mediator T. E. Schoonover will begin hearings in New York with the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Union leaders say rebellion faded as talks continue. key disputes include workday length pay and back grievances.
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New York
Long Island Rail Road
National Mediation Board
Washington
T. E. Schoonover
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Ind
Leverett Edwards
Long Island
Long Island Shore
D Line Daddy Calls It Quits
Francis Van Wie, once known as the Ding Dong Daddy of the D Line, divorces his first wife Mabel Joyce Van Wie and declares no more marriages. The 69 year old ex conductor faces seven years of probation with a no remarriage condition after a long history of marriages and troubles with widows including a five month term for bigamy in 1953. He states he does not want to marry again and wishes to die in peace.
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Los Angeles
Ding Dong
D Line
Francis van Wie
San Francisco
Mabel Joyce van Wie
van Wie
Samuel R. Blake
Irene
Jack Walton
Sarah
Ira Lockensmith
Ira
Grace Menn
P.S
Ronnie Nowell Comes Home After Life Fight With Lockjaw
Nine year old Ronnie Lee Nowell returns to Tucson from a Texas hospital after surviving a severe lockjaw infection following a foot injury on a New Mexico farm. He battled pneumonia, spent days in an iron lung, and overcame a doctors’ slim 1 in 100 chance of recovery. Ronnie’s return today aboard an American Airlines DC6 is welcomed by his parents, siblings, and friends.
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American Airlines
Tucson
Ronnie Lee Nowell
Ronnie
New Mexico
Texas
Lubbock Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Uncle Buck
John B. Wright
Palo Verde Baptist Church
Edisor St
Nowell
Deaths Today In The World
Carmen Miranda 41 Brazilian entertainer star of films and night life died yesterday in Beverly Hills. Suzan Ball 21 actress who battled cancer died yesterday in Hollywood. Coenraad V Bos 79 pianist and Juilliard visiting lecturer died yesterday in Mount Kisco. Michael J McDermott 61 former ambassador to El Salvador and longtime State Department news chief died yesterday. Hardage L Andrews 65 Fairfield Conn. president of Jones Owens Lamson Machine Co and former GE executive died Thursday.
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Carmen Miranda
Beverly Hills
Calif
Jimmy Durante
Maria da Carmo Miranda da Chunha
Marco Canavores
Portugal
Suzan Ball
Hollywood
Buffalo
N. Y
Coenraad V. Bos
Mount Kisco
Juilliard School of Music
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Leyden
The
Netherlands
Washington
Michael J
Mike) McDermott
el Salvador
State Department
Peabody
Mass
Hardage
University Teacher Completes Doctorate at Syracuse
Andrew W. Wilson, instructor in the University of Arizona College of Business Administration, earned a Ph.D. from Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has taught in UA business since 1950 after a Pomona College bachelor’s and Stanford MBA. His dissertation analyzed Tucson Livelihood Problems.
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Andrew W. Wilson
University of Arizona
Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
Wilson
UA College of Business Administration
Pomona College
Stanford University
Tucson Standard
Love For Men Prompted Wound Medal
Newburgh New York is the setting as a retrospective on the Purple Heart. Washington issued the original order on August 7 1782 and the medal’s history tracks its 1932 reinstatement and 1941 wartime eligibility. The piece notes the heart shaped purple cloth design and the Washington profile with the coat of arms on the obverse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburgh
N. Y
George Washington
New York City
Congress
Washington
Connecticut
Former Nogales Public Works Chief Dies at 64
David Lee Henderson 64, former Nogales public works superintendent, died Wednesday from a heart ailment. A Globe area native, he moved to Nogales in 1936, worked for the State Highway Department before taking the city post, and retired last June.
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Nogales
David Lee Henderson
Nogales Public Works
Henderson
Globe Area
State Highway Department
City Post
Mt Lemmon Chinchilla Ranch Offers Start Up Breeding Stock
The Mt Lemmon Chinchilla Ranch invites buyers to begin chinchilla breeding with one to one hundred pairs. Cash purchases are not required and trades such as land, houses, farms, contracts, mortgages, equities, cars, and trailers are accepted. For more information write P O Box 2244 or call the Tucson office at 7 3343.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Lemmon Chinchilla
Mt. Lemmon Ranch
P. O
Tucson
World Council of Churches seeks relations with Russian church
The World Council of Churches Central Committee asks the Russian Orthodox Church and Soviet churches to seek full and free relations with the council. The 2000 word message, sent to Moscow, notes past rebuffs and aims to foster contact while inviting future applications. The committee also plans studies on preaching the gospel amid industrialization in Britain and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davos
Switzerland
World Council of Churches’ Central Committee
Soviet Union
Council
Moscow
World Peace Council
Peace Council
Church Council
Franklin Clark Fry
United Lutheran Church of America
Willem A. Visser’t Hooft
Netherlands
Otto Dibelius
Berlin
Visser't Hoopt
World Council
Department of Evangelism
Britain
United States
Hotel Rebuffs Tourist Faces Fine in Mexico City
A Mexico City hotel was fined 5 000 pesos for denying a pre booked room to Mrs Patricia Mercer of Miami and her daughter. The Tourist Bureau acted after numerous complaints as crowded hotels cope with a historic tourist influx.
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Mexico City
Tourist Bureau
Patricia Mercer
Miami, Fla
Ontario
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Boy
Lockjaw
Norman Harrington
Ronnie Lee ‘Oowell
Associated Press
Public Works
MT. Lemmon Chinchilla Ranch
World Church Council
Russ
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Paw
South Scott Ave
Murphey Realty & Mortgage Co
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