French War Trials Settle Grudges in Riom Proceedings
Paris trials target former French leaders including Daladier Reynaud Blum and Chautemps as the Riom court weighs guilt. Sentences likely life terms with some calling for death. De Gaulle condemned in absentia. Petain's era cast as scapegoating amid vendettas from prewar turmoil and postwar collapse.
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Associated Press
John H. Martin
Paris
London
John Martin
New York
France
Germany
Supreme Court
Riom
Edouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Leon Blum
Camille Chautemps
George Mandel
Yvon Delbos
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Reynaud
Sedan
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Marshall Philippe Petain
Daladier
Petain
Chamber of Deputies
Blum
GOP hopeful Armstrong for Arizona secretary of state
Victor C. Armstrong Jr a Phoenix pie crust maker and distributor wins GOP bid for secretary of state promising strong governor cooperation. He notes discord hinders government and cites Mesa prep school Princeton education. The piece also mentions Petain Laval cabinet figures Weygand Marquet and Ybargaray with Weygand portrayed as Catholic Royalist. French fascists eye him as a white hope.
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Victor C. Armstrong, Jr
Phoenix
Armstrong
Mesa Ranch
Arizona
Princeton University
Petain- Laval
Maxime Weygand
Adrian Marquet
Jean Ybarnegaray
Weygand
France
Architects Of Arizona Join Defense Plan
Arizona members of the American Institute of Architects join the national defense effort. Richard A. Morse says questionnaires are filed at institute headquarters and architects are classified by capacity and district for immediate service. The institute will aid in selecting and organizing architects into groups to suit defense projects.
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Arizona
American Institute of Architects
Insitute
Richard A. Morse
Institute
Morse
Washington
Mysterious Epidemic Kills 30 in Mexican Farming Colony
Government health experts in Mexico investigate a puzzling outbreak that killed 30 people in 20 days in a farming community near Torreon.
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Mexico
Torreon
Ghost Towns Mark Northern France After War
Northern France remains largely deserted a month after fighting ended with unharvested crops and ruined towns. A Geneva tour with foreign correspondents shows Strasbourg sparsely populated while Alsace and Lorraine repopulation lags, and Givet barely 300 of 80 000 people have returned as Belgian towns revive faster.
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Luxembourg
France
Flanders
Karlsruhe
Strasbourg
Reich
Alsace
Lorraine
Brussels
Givet
Belgium
Clifton Prepares For Coronado Fiesta Pageant
Clifton, Aug. 10. A Spanish fiesta kicks off Coronado celebrations with street dancing a costume parade and a whiskering contest. The entrada on Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 will crown the season as residents don Spanish attire and grow beards for the big pageant.
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Clifton
Coronado
Joke writer claims six million jokes in collection
Duke Atteberry, Hollywood joke writer, said during a visit to his former home in La Grange that his file holds about 6,000,000 jokes. He has more than 385,000 jokes cataloged under titles like Mother-in-law Automobiles and Bride's Cooking. He cites about 10,000 jokes on automobiles alone.
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LA Grange
U.P
Duke Atteberry
Hollywood
Railroads Surpass Locomotives in Automobile Truck Ownership
Railroads now own or operate more automobile trucks than locomotives reflecting a shift in freight capacity. The change signals growing diversification of rail company fleets and investment in road transport assets.
Fleeing gunmen toss woman from car in Oklahoma chase
Oilton police chief wounded and a farmer kidnapped as two prison fugitives Bill Hall and Joe Lovelace flee in a gun battle from Dilton to Drumright. They surrender west of Dilton after a high speed pursuit. Jeanne Culp 30 of Asher identified as the slain woman. Hall wounded five times.
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Dilton
Okla
Oilton
Bill Hall
Joe Lovelace
Here
Hall
Bill Glimp
Drumright
L. L. Fisher
Lovelace
Jeanne Culp
Asher
Ben D. Clark
Fisher
Clark
C. L. Irwin
Irwin
J. D. Hurley
Earl Williams
Glimp
Henson Seeks Republican Nomination for Congress in Arizona Platform
Denver pharmacist Phoen Ix druggist Denver C. Henson outlines a platform emphasizing an immediate survey of Colorado River resources for Arizona, higher tariffs on copper, priority for American farmers, expanded old age pensions, and greater Arizona administration of federal programs.
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Arizona
Colorado
Border Units To Speed Passports For Mexicans
NOGALES August 10 Chambers of commerce secretaries from seven border cities in Arizona Texas and California will meet in El Paso to urge the State Department to speed passport issuance for Mexicans visiting the United States. They seek extra consulate clerks after 12000 west coast Mexican passports were invalidated by July 1 regulations and only about 700 were renewed in July.
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Nogales
Chambers of Commerce
Arizona
Texas
California
el Paso
State Department
United States
Don Smith
Nogales Chamber
Mexico
Smith
Henry F. Ashurst
Eliot B. Coulter
Karl Barfield
C. Edgar Goyette
Tucson Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Procter
Tucson
Highway commission names and debt figures prompt briefing
Officials including Mike McCue and C. S. Reynolds from Calexico and Eagle Pass met with W. E. Talbot and L. P. Bloodworth to discuss highway projects in Texas and New Mexico. The article notes the American national debt has risen by 20.4 billion dollars since 1933.
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Highway Commission
Mike McCue
Douglas
C. S. Reynolds
Calexico
Calif
J. M. Mabe
Eagle Pass
Tex
W. E. Talbot
Brownsville
L. P. Bloodworth
el Paso
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Fixer
Italy
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Joker
City Recreation Department
Parent's
Oklahoma
Cimarron River
Perkins
John Boyd
J. R. Butler
Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
John M. McBride
Valley Nat'l Bank
Hackett & Whitting
North Stone Ave
Pontiac
Hubert H. D’autremoni
Pima County
Jimary
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