Russians' Work Order Designed To Disrupt Vote Casting In Berlin
A Yuma superior court jury upheld Nellie Martin nurse's claim to a $6,000 check she received from patient J. W. McLaughlin before his death. The bank refused cashing and the estate administrator rejected the credit claim. Attorneys argued the services were within duty at the hospital and the extra task valued at $150. McLaughlin died last February.
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Yuma
U.P
Nellie Martin
Miss Martin
J. W. McLaughin
Gadsden
Attys. Alph Brandt
John McGuire
McLaughlin
Airliner lands after engine fire near El Paso on coast flight
An American Airlines DC-6 en route from El Paso to Los Angeles diverted to Columbus New Mexico after dropping a burning right engine on the way to Tucson. All 41 passengers and four crew members were uninjured. plane landed smoothly at a CA A emergency field and passengers continued homeward.
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Columbus
N. M
U.P
American Airlines
Tucson
Ariz
el Paso
Los Angeles
R. K. Pfender
M. D. Ator
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Mexico
Pfender
H. L. Whitmore
George Berry Dies In South
George L. Berry 65 year old president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union AFL died at his PRESSMAN'S HOME Tennessee. He had led the union since 1907 and served in Roosevelt era posts including assistant administrator of the national recovery administration. He was briefly a U S senator appointee in 1937. Berry helped build a trade school and home for indigent pressmen. He was orphaned young and began as a newsboy before pursuing the trade.
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Pressman
Tenn
George L. Berry
The
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Recovery Administration
Tennessee
Berry
Senate
Gordon Browning
Tom Stewart
U.S
Jackson
Miss
Expect Hike In Price Of Milk
Phoenix and Tucson may see about a one cent per quart milk increase as a butterfat price rise is possible. Harold Bowles of the Arizona Dairymen league cites feed shortages from water scarcity as the cause, noting Phoenix dealers pay around 1.50 a pound and Tucson about 1.60 with some adding a 10 cent premium.
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Phoenix
Tucson
Harold Bowles
Arizona Dairymen’s League
Bowles
Dick Smith Recovering After Hernia Operation in Phoenix
Dick Smith former Arizona United Press manager and now aging editor of the Arizona Times is reported recovering at St. Monica's hospital in Phoenix after an emergency operation for a hernia Friday night. Hospital officials say he will likely stay about three weeks.
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Phoenix
U.P
Dick Smith
Arizona United Press
The
Arizona Times
St. Monica’s Hospital
Smith
Weather Postpones Rodeo Grounds Races
Rain forced postponement of Saturday horse races at the Tucson Rodeo grounds. Officials scheduled a nine race program to run Sunday beginning at 1 30 p m with the same card intact.
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Tucson Rodeo Grounds
Spy Hunt to Reopen Hearings Over Chambers Microfilm
House American activities committee prepares to reopen espionage hearings using microfilmed papers from ex spy Whitaker Chambers. Documents allegedly show state and navy secrets passed by a prewar Communist underground hidden on Chambers Maryland farm. Alger Hiss seeks libel damages for naming him in the case.
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Washington
House
Whittaker Chambers
State
Navy Department
Chambers
Red Underground
Maryland
House An American Activities Committee
United States
Robert E. Stripling
Time Magazine
State Department
Alger Hiss
Baltimore
Hiss
Lowery Named To Alumni Post At Arizona Regents
Regents appoint A Lee Lowery executive secretary of the UA Alumni association. A large endowment from James Baird of Tucson will fund scholarships and yield about 10 000 annually. The board plans 5 013 205 in new buildings and improvements and adds 18 scholarships. McCormick notes postwar enrollment pressures and 1643 applications awaiting review.
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Tempe
University of Arizona
University and State Colleges
A. Lee Lowery
UA Alumni Association
Lowery
Phoenix
New York City
Tucson
Mel Goodson
Goodson
State Highway Commission
James Baird
New York
Alfred Atkinson
Arnold Condon
Department
Paul B. Brown
Citrus
Roy R. Young
Yuma County
J. Byron McCormick
Regents
Arizona
Crovf
Louis Mayer Weds Lorena Danker in Yuma Ceremony
Louis B. Mayer, 66, the multi millionaire film producer, marries Mrs. Lorena Danker in a Justice of the Peace ceremony in the Yuma county sheriff's office. Witnesses include Howard Strelling and W. P. Henry, with 11 year old Suzanne Danker and Sheriff J. A. Beard present.
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Yuma
Ariz
U.P
Louis B. Mayer
Lorena Danker
Danny Danker
Yuma County Sheriff's Office
Justice of the Peace
R. H. Lutes
Howard Strelling
W. P. Henry
Beverly Hills
Mrs. Danker
Suzanne
J. A. Beard
Traveling Trumans' Polka Lights Up Press Club Dinner
President Truman and daughter Margaret wowed guests at a national press club dinner with a duet of the Jenny Lind Polka. They recalled learning the tune in childhood and drew a standing ovation. The event also featured a skit by Secretary Snyder and a Secret Service moment. The Trumans then sailed for Norfolk to present a silver service to the battleship Missouri.
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Washington
Dec
Truman
Margaret
Jenny Lind
National Press Club
Fathers and Daughters
Trumans
Miss Truman
Secret Service
Henry Nicholson
Mr. Truman
Davis-Monthan Air Crews to Practice Dayton Bombing Run
The 2nd and 43rd bomb groups at Davis-Monthan AFB will join a simulated high altitude radar bombing over Dayton Ohio beginning Monday. A mobile radar scoring unit will track crews as they practice radar navigation and bombing without actual bombs.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Dayton
Strategic Air Command
15Th Air Force
Rapid City
S. C
Merced
Calif
8Th Air Force
Roswell
N. M
Ft. Worth
Tex
Tampa
Fla
United States Air Force
Denver
Sacramento
Spokane
San Diego
Birmingham
Blimp Displays and Inland News Cache
The Tucson blimps faced weather and mooring issues with the Goodyear Volunteer delaying flights at Gilpin airport while KTUC’s dirigible broke from its mooring and landed on a street pole. In New York, Secretary Sawyer warned higher military budgets may require inflation controls and urged business-government cooperation to keep prices down.
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Tucson
Goodyear Volunteer
KTUC
Phoenix
Gilpin Airport
R. H. Hobensack
el Centre
Sirigible
East Broadway
Lee Little
New York
Charles Sawyer
National Association of Manufacturers
Sawyer
Truman
Washington
80Th Congress
Cortaro Farms to Add Four Wells and Expand Ginning
Cortaro farms announce a 100000 expansion led by Robert S. Odell and George W. Paulin with J. W. Nordyke authorized to erect a new gin doubling capacity and drill four heavy duty gas driven wells. Crop is about 12000 bales with ginning past halfway and 2000 pickers working as harvest stays ahead of schedule.
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Cortaro Farms
Robert S. Odell
George W. Paulin
The
Farms Company
Marana
Cortaro Project
J. W. Nordyke
Nordyke
Cortaro
UN to Adjourn in One Week at Paris Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly plans to adjourn in a week, winding up the meeting around December 11 or 12 after three months of debate. The political committee approved a watered down Palestine conciliation plan and rejected staying longer to finish the program. The British resolution was trimmed and approved 25 to 21, moving toward a final Arab Jewish settlement framework.
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Paris
United Nations
Palestine
General Assembly
Asa
Freezing Weather Hits Arizona with Snow Reports
Freezing temperatures were forecast for Tucson Sunday night after light Saturday showers. Snow fell on Mount Lemmon as Hurst Amyx, owner of Mount Lemmon Lodge, reported early Saturday. A cold front across Arizona brought winds and flurries in the north, with Flagstaff at 30 degrees and slick highways warned by the patrol. An inch of snow accumulated at the Grand Canyon, with Prescott seeing a rainfall trace. The front was to move south Sunday, with clear skies forecast.
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Mt. Lemmon
Hurst Amyx
Mt. Lemmon Lodge
Amyx
Arizona
U.S. Weather Bureau
Mercury
Flagstaff
United Press
Arizona Highway Patrol
Grand Canyon
Prescott
Weather Bureau
French plan for Ruhr sparks clash with American view
France presented a plan for international supervision of German coal iron and steel output to the State Department. The scheme would create an Ruhr authority excluding Russia to decentralize industry oust Nazis and direct investment while Britain favors only distribution controls.
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Washington
Germany
Ruhr
State Department
Henri Bonnet
Lovett
Bonnet
Russia
Hitler
State reports $21 million bet on racing. seeks funding
The Arizona state tax commission announced that $21,815,716 was wagered on horse and dog racing in the fiscal year ending June 30. The commission complains it lacks funds to supervise racing and urges a stronger racing law. The governor’s program may create a separate racing body or director.
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Phoenix
Thestate Tax Commission
Commission
Joe Hunt
Hunt
Dan E. Garvey
Corporation Body Is Fined For Smoking In Nogales Hearing
Wilson T. Wright, chair of the Arizona corporation commission, said the panel was fined $10 for allowing smoking at a Santa Cruz county courthouse hearing in Nogales. He received a $10 repair bill from Judge Gordon Farley for furniture and linoleum damage caused by smokers, which state auditor Ann Frohmiller honored.
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Phoenix
U.P
Wilson T. Wright
Arizona Corporation Commission
Santa Cruz County
Nogales
Wright
Gordon Farley
Ann Frohmiller
Shipwreck of Kiangya Kills Thousands of Chinese Refugees
Shanghai dispatch reports the overloaded Kiangya carrying up to 4,000 refugees from Shanghai and Nanking exploded and sank near the Yangtze mouth. Survivors and bodies were being recovered as authorities blame overloading and possible sabotage amidst ongoing civil fighting nearby.
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Shanghai
Central
China
China Merchant Steamship Co
Yangtze River
Nanking
Ningpo
Ninghsien
Here
Chekiang
Sinking May Be Death Record
New York reports that an explosion sank a Chinese ship near the Yangtze mouth may be the worst marine disaster in modern history with at least 3,000 feared drowned. The item lists other major disasters from 1865 to 1926 including the Empress of Ireland and the Titanic with death tolls over a thousand.
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New York
Yangtze River
Hsin Yu
China
Canadian Pacific
Empress of Ireland
Storstad
St. Lawrence River
Kickermaru
Japan
Titanic
North Atlantic
Gen. Slocum
East River
New York City
St. Thomas
West Indies
Sultana
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tenn
Old Age Checks To Carry $5 Increase
Phoenix reports nearly 11 000 old age assistance checks were mailed after federal matching funds arrived Friday. A total of 470 992 dollars in matching funds was received. Monthly payments to the blind are due December 15 and those to dependent children December 8. This is the first month pensioners benefit from the $5 increase recently authorized by Congress and matched by the state.
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Phoenix
U.P
Congress
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Thomas Shane
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CIO
United Steelworkers
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Shakespeare Companies
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