District 2 Race Heats Up In Tucson Primary Fight
The district No 2 supervisor contest narrows to a house to house battle between incumbent Lambert Kautenburger a restaurant owner and challenger R H Martin a contractor on the Democratic ticket. They spar over a $100000 county recreational fund and county finances as the race moves toward the Sept 7 primary.
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Lambert Kautenburger
R. H. Martin
R. C. Locke
Kautenburger
Martin
State Tax Commission
Supreme Court
Tucson
Ajo
Tom Alley
Charles W. Rasmussen
Phoenix Polio Cases Reach 10
Phoenix reports two more poliomyelitis cases at St. Monica's hospital, bringing the Phoenix area under treatment to 10. The patients are Enarnia Torrez, three, and Arthur Estrada, two, both sons of Sonora residents. Arizona totals include 67 cases and 12 deaths for the year. Doctor J P Ward says an epidemic outbreak is unlikely.
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Phoenix
St. Monica’s Hospital
Enarnia Torrez
Guillermo Torrez
Sonora
Arthur Estrada
Estaban Estrada
Arizona
J. P. Ward
Baseball scores from national league and American league matchups
The National League games include Chicago 3 Brooklyn 0 in the first, with Philadelphia at St. Louis and New York at Pittsburgh listed as night games. American League matchups feature Cleveland at Philadelphia, Detroit at Boston, St. Louis at New York, and Chicago at Washington as night contests.
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National League
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Chicago
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
American League
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Contempt Action Hits Peters Over Spy Hearings
New York August 31 A potential contempt action looms as J Peters refuses to answer questions before the House Un American Activities subcommittee Peters identified by Whittaker Chambers as a top communist underground figure faces possible jail if convicted for contempt The hearing shift to New York intensified efforts to fill gaps about Red spying and Peters was summoned after Chambers named him as a 1934 underground spy director before federal officials
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J. Peters
Whittaker Chambers
U. S
Stephen Birmingham
Left
House
UN American Activities Committee
Immigration and Naturalization Service
New York
Peters
House un-American Activities Subcommittee
House Committee
Washington
Chambers
Time Magazine
Subcommittee
Rep
McDowell
R-Pa
Nixon
Calif
Schuman Seeks Premiership Revival in France
Paris Aug 31 Robert Schuman plans to ask the national assembly to reinstate him as premier and form a new cabinet to end France s political crisis He favors the three center parties his Popular Republicans Socialists and Radical Socialists and will exclude Communists and De Gaulle followers with most of his former cabinet likely to return.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
National Assembly
France
Ani
Popular Republican Party
Schuman
Elysee Palace
Vincent Auriol
de Gaulle
Andre Marie
Marie
Paul Reynaud
Charles de Gaulle
Robert Howard Rites Held in Douglas
Services for Robert Chapman Howard, 65, killed when thrown from a horse, will be held Tuesday in Douglas. Howard came to Cochise County from Texas 35 years ago. Survivors include his wife Ora Gertrude McDonald Howard, a son Eli Howard of Douglas, and a sister Mrs. Lee Turnbow of Texas.
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Douglas
Robert Chapman Howard
Howard
Cochise County
Texas
Ora Gertrude McDonald Howard
Eli Howard
Lee Turnbow
CIO Leaders Back Truman Endorsement By Vote
The CIO executive board voted 35 12 to back Harry S Truman for president praising his record and labeling Dewey the candidate of big business Senator Barkley also received endorsement. The walkaway line notes no CIO split and mentions Henry A Wallace supporters among some unions.
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Washington
CIO
Harry S. Truman
Truman Record
Gov. Dewey
New York
Sen. Barkley
Kentucky
Henry A Wallace
Albert J. Fitzgerald
CIO Electrical Workers
Truman
John L. Lewis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lewis
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Murray
United Mine Workers
Tobin
AFL Teamsters Union
Chicago
Friends of Labor
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters
AFL
William Green
Dewey
Mr. Truman
Americans For Demo
Bandits Elude Road Blockade
Bandits tied to the ambush robbery of Billie Bob Lane evaded Coconino and Yavapai deputies as roadblocks failed to halt them. Lane, reporting from Sedona to the Coconino sheriff, said a man leapt from weeds near Grasshopper Flat and robbed him before escaping in a grey sedan with an armed partner. Amount stolen not disclosed.
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Flagstaff
U.P
Billie Bob Lane
Coconino
Yavapai County
Lane
Coconino Sheriff's Office
Sedona
Grasshopper Flat
Finds Some Frenchmen Lean Toward Mild Dictatorship
In France the month-old coalition government collapsed and Bretons voiced desire for greater stability. Editors note that Britany backs De Gaulle and that wartime style executive power is being discussed as a remedy for political and economic crisis across the country.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Andre Marie
Paris
France
la Belle France
Western
Europe
Preston Grover
Bureau
Brittany
Charles de Gaulle
Maine
Louisiana Senatorial Runoff Tightens With Johnson Leads
Coke Stevenson maintained a narrow edge over Lyndon B. Johnson in the Texas Democratic U S Senate runoff. Incomplete returns gave Stevenson 494,532 to Johnson 494,166 with about 400 votes remaining from six counties. Officials expected final results to wait for the state convention certification on Sept. 14.
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Dallas
Tex
Coke Stevenson
U. S. Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Stevenson
Johnson
Kimble
W. Lee
Pappy) O’daniel
O’daniel
Louisiana
Long Family
Earl K. Long
Russell Long
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
U. S
Austin
Ernest Boyett
Telegraph
Hurricane May Miss Seaboard
A tropical hurricane moving up the Atlantic coast should miss the mainland if its current path holds, but winds and seas will rise along the coast. The U S weather bureau placed the storm 140 miles south southeast of Cape Hatteras with 115 mph winds, evacuations under way, and Red Cross facilities opened in Morehead City and Beaufort.
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Hatteras
N. C
Atlantic
U.S
U. S
Bureau
Red Cross
Morehead City
Beaufort
Coast Guard
Atlantic Beach
Carolinas
Virginia
Washington
Naval
Little Girl Saves 50 Trapped In Bus Crash
In Athens Georgia on Monday a 14 year old farm girl Annie Ree Huff heard screams at the scene of an overturned school bus. She seized an ax and hacked open the door freeing 50 occupants with 11 injured. Sheriff Ralph Baird cites the rescue praise for Annie Ree Huff.
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Athens
Ralph Baird
Madison County
Annie Ree Huff
Major Martin
Annie Ree
Martin
Wallace Campaign Faces Hostile South Afield
Henry A Wallace and the Progressive ticket ran a southern campaign in North Carolina with planned stops in Lexington Salisbury Concord Charlotte Newton Hickory and Asheville. Police protection was tightened after egg and tomato demonstrations in Burlington Greensboro High Point and Winston-Salem where crowds booed and shouted down speeches.
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Asheville
N. C
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Washington
Truman
Progressive Party
Wallace
South
North Carolina
Lexington
Salisbury
Concord
Charlott
Newton
Hickory
Burlington
Greensboro
High Point
Winston-Salem
Unions Back No Governor Candidate In Arizona Race
Organized labor in Tucson backs no single governor candidate with some endorsements split among Democrats. Teamsters endorse Marvin E. Smith while Richard F. Harless gains AFL support though others claim authority limits. Harless to speak at Armory Park rally Tuesday with county candidates to follow.
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Bob Brooks
Tucson
Teamsters Union
Marvin E. Smith
Arizona Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Richard F. Harless
National Railroad
Congress
Harless
U. S
Lawrence L. Moore
John Durkin
Southwestern Labor Record
Dan E. Garvey
AFL
Teamsters
Stuart Udall
Frank Drachman
Armory Park
Thad “M. Moore
Tito Promotes Moscow Foes in Yugoslav Leadership Shakeup
Premier Marshal Tito elevates trusted lieutenants Edward Kardelj and Alexander Rankovic, replacing Stanoje Simic as foreign minister while Rankovic becomes vice premier and remains interior minister. Kardelj and Rankovic were targeted by Cominform as opponents of the Moscow line in Yugoslavia.
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London
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Eduard Kardelj
Alexander Rankovic
Stanoje Simic
Kardelj
Control Commission
Rankovic
Tito
Fear Child In Burning House
Phoenix firemen searched the ruins for five year old Bobby Wood believed trapped in a two story home. He was visiting the Hitchens family when the fire broke out and his mother could not be identified as officers noted the nurse mother may be from Tempe. The Hitchens woman saved her other three children but could not reach the upstairs room.
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Phoenix
Bobby Wood
Tempe
R. F. Hitchens
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Rasmussen
Ajo Improvement Co
Pima County
Schiman
Robert Howard
Executive Board
Kremlin
Berlin
Germany
Brian Robertson
Britain
Lucius D. Clay
Marshall Wassily Sokolovsky
Russia
Pierre Koenig
Allied Control Authority
Control Council
Molotov
Stalin
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Seaboard
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