Cattle Growers Fight Bids For State Land Leases
Arizona cattlemen led by James Finley oppose Arizona Education Association plans to lease state lands to the highest bidder. At a public lands meeting, they argued against changing the land leasing system, urged study of laws, and warned auctions could let wealthy interests seize prime parcels. Finley and Carlos Ronstadt pressed for higher rents and legislative action, while public lands chief O C Williams faced sharp criticism.
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Bob Brooks
Phoenix
James Finley
Cochise
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
Arizona Education Association
Eva de Concini
Tucson
C. C. Williams
Carlos Ronstadt
Cattle Growers Association
The
Game Protective Association
Arizona Wool Growers Association
Ronstadt
Elmer F. Vickers
State Federation of Labor
O. C. Williams
William R. Mathews
Arizona Daily Star
Mathews
Harry Hooker
Willcox
Cattle Growers’ Committee
Lois Rogers
Arizona Education Association Public Lands Committee
Miss Rogers
Colorado
Cecil Miller
Central Arizona Cattle Feeders Association
Finley
Fire Hits Ford Rouge Plant In Detroit
A $500000 blaze tore through Ford Motor Co Rouge factory upholstery final assembly line B on Wednesday night. Three hundred workers were on site with 3800 employed temporarily laid off as crews from Dearborn Detroit and Ford fought the flames for about an hour. Firemen rescued three men and six women. no injuries reported. Materials for 200 Mercury cars were destroyed and skylights cracked from the heat. Investigations into cause and total damage continue.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Big Rouge
Ford
Dearborn
Ford Company
Second Bomb Group Replaced At Davis Monthan AFB
Davis Monthan air force base will stay near current strength after the second bombardment wing moves from Tucson to Chatham field Savannah Ga. Officials said the 43rd wing will be brought up to full strength and the total personnel at the base will remain about the same. The 43rd wing will receive new B 50 Stratobombers an 80 percent improved version of the B 29.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Tucson
Chatham Field
Savannah
Air Force Base
43Rd
Alianza Presidential Race Chooses Sedillo in Stipulated Testimony
In Hawthorne California on December 16 1950 the Alianza Hispano Americana presidential race sides enter a stipulation of testimony. Sedillo wins 16 to 12 over Garcia. 12 defense witnesses attest to the events at the election session and ensuing disorder while Garcia and Parker present supporting witnesses.
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Alianza Hispano-Americana
Judge Faires
C. B. Sedillo
Alianza
Sedillo
Greg Garcia
Phoenix
Fraternal Benefit Insurance Company
Garcia
Darrell Parker
E. T. Cusick
Fred Fickett
Francisco Cardenas
Cardenas
Fickett
Parker
Cusick
Alianza Hall
Hiss Pleads Innocent as Trial Date Is Set
Former policy adviser Alger Hiss pleaded innocent to two perjury counts accusing him of lying about passing state department documents to Whittaker Chambers. A Jan. 24 trial date was set after fingerprinting and photographing. bail set at 5000.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
John W. Clancy
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
State Department
Chambers
Red Intelligence
Grand Jury
Time Magazine
House
American Activities Committee
Washington
House Committee
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
Atty
Tom Clark
Ford
Boost Is Urged In Land Rates
Phoenix December hearing at the state capitol examined reclassification of state lands amid charges that revenues are too low for schools and state institutions. Land Commissioner Williams defends actions after a four year reclassification effort and notes illegal lease increases cannot occur while leases stand. Data shows 8,449,786 acres leased to 1,425 holders across 18,320 leases with varied section counts.
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Phoenix
State Capitol
Arizona Education Association
Dan E. Garvey
O. C. Williams
Sidney P. Osborn
Williams
Land Department
Allies Blow Up Soviet Towers in Berlin
French engineers destroyed two 600 foot antenna towers of the Russian controlled Berlin station in the French sector silencing the voice for two hours. Maj. Gen. Jaen Ganeval said the blast was ordered after Russia did not respond to a warning issued November 20.
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Berlin
U.P
Russia
Germany
Jaen Ganeval
Tegel
Rundfunkhaus
Marines Fire Hose On Peddlers In Shanghai Boarding
U S Marines return to Shanghai aboard the Bayfield from Tsingtao to guard Americans amid wartime jitters. Nearly 700 men under Col T B Hughes anchor at a pier where Chinese vendors hawk curios and chests while Marines observe and restrain commerce with a hose. No liberty details given.
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U. S
Shanghai
Whangpoo
Tsingtao
New York
China
Navy
Bayfield
Whang
T. B. Hughes
Kansas City
Hughes
James 8. Blass
Portland
Ore
Joe
GI's Hire Planes For Home Holiday
A Christmas air lift grows from a GI wish at Fort Lewis and spreads across posts as travel services and local units charter planes to fly servicemen home. Seventy planes are pledged with routes to New York Chicago Philadelphia and New England hubs. A growing number of men from multiple units sign up for the holiday flights.
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FT. Lewis
Wash
California
Pvt
Gerald Roberts
Peoria
Ill
Ninth Infantry Barracks
Chicago
72Nd Tank Battalion
New York
New England
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Paul G. Curreri
Brooklyn
Sailors Strike Threat Grows Over Wage Demands
In San Francisco on December 16, the AFL sailors' union of the Pacific filed a 60 day strike notice amid wage demands of 20 to 60 dollars per month up to a top 350 for boat wains. The Pacific American Shipowners' association offered 16 to 20. Negotiations may resume if federal conciliator Omar Hoskins calls.
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San Francisco
AFL Sailors’ Union of the Pacific
Labor Department
Harry Lunderberg
SAP
Pacific American Shipowners’ Association
Omar Hoskins
SUP
Lundeberg
Christmas decorations removed at 20 Tokyo stations
Tokyo police and the cabinet ordered removal of Christmas decorations from 20 government stations after protests by Buddhists who argued the displays violated the constitution by constituting religious activity. The Japan Buddhist Association led the protests.
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Tokyo
Japan Buddhist Association
Japan
Communist Abducted U S Engineer Freed Near Tempe
Carl A. Graessner, an American engineer from Portland, Oregon, who was abducted by Communist guerrillas on December 8, was released Thursday in the foothills of Mount Olympus near Tempe, about 20 miles north of Larisa.
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Athens
Carl A. Graessner
Mt. Olympus
Graessner
Portland
Ore
Tempe
Larisa
Forces Losing On 3 Fronts
Chiang Kai-shek’s forces suffer setbacks on three fronts in China. Peiping endures a Communist cordon of 120 000 to 160 000 troops and city gates are closed at night. A 40 000 strong Communist army pushes toward the Yangtze from the Grand Canal region, isolating Kaoyu. Pengpu Suchow fighting also stalls nationalists, raising talk of Chiang's resignation as coalition hopes grow.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Peiping
Yangtze River
Grand Canal
Kaoyu
Yangtze
Pengpu-Suchow
Chiang
Legislative Yuan
U. S
United States
Sun Yu
Tsinan
North China Bastion
Mentuokuo
Shihchinghan
United States Defends Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in Supreme Court
The U S government urged the Supreme Court not to permit U S review of the Tokyo tribunal that sentenced Tojo and other Japanese war leaders. Solicitor General Perlman argued against any power to overturn military and political decisions by the wartime alliance. The court’s ruling could come in a Saturday conference with a possible Monday announcement.
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Washington
United States
Supreme Court
International Tribunal
Tojo
Tokyo Tribunal
Philip B. Perlman
United Nations
Perlman
High Court
Tokyo
George A Furness
Boston
John G. Brannon
Kansas City
George Yamaoka
New York
Douglas MacArthur
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Edinburgh
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Hawthorne
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Charles Tucker
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Montgomery
Ala
Demps A. Oden
Childdersburg
Oden
Alabama Public Service Commission
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