Dry Friday Saves New York Water Supply
New York City officials report 8,000,000 residents conserved about 90,000,000 gallons in 17 hours as part of a water holiday against a drought. Totals lifted reservoirs to 88,410,000,000 gallons while rationing debates continue. Trygve Lie of the United Nations explains he shaved but had no bath.
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New York
Stephen J. Carney
Fire Department
New Yorker
United Nations
Lake Success
Trygve Lie
Mao Tze-tung arrives in Moscow signaling Sino Soviet pact drive
Mao Tze tung arrives in Moscow amid talks with Stalin and top officials. Observers see a near certainty of a Chinese Soviet friendship pact with trade and mutual aid agreements likely on Mao's first Moscow visit.
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Moscow
China
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
Joseph Stalin
Kremlin
Peiping
Stalin
Russia
Soviet Union
Siberia
V. M. Molotov
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Politburo
Michael A. Menshikov
Andrei A. Gromyko
Molotov
Bulganin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Rain Lifts as Sun Returns to Tucson Weather
Rain fell sparsely in Tucson with a trace by the weather bureau. Some areas saw more rain while a weekend forecast promised clouds but no big temperature change. The high reached near 58 degrees, frost damage was minimal, and outdoor recreation resumed as winter receded.
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Tucson
U.S. Weather Bureau
Shippers Warned On Shanghai Run Zone of Danger Declared
The United States designated Shanghai approaches a zone of danger and warned all American ships to stay away. Nationalist warships and shelling of two American merchant ships prompted the security advisory issued by the State Department.
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Washington
United States
Shanghai
State Department
Department
Department of State
Hong Kong
Jewish relief agent Jacobson arrested in Hungary
Israel Jacobson, director of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary, was arrested by Hungarian police after returning to Budapest from a six week U.S. visit. Vienna officials confirmed the arrest but gave no charges. Jacobson, 37, had been based in Budapest since September 1947 and his family recently moved from Rochester to Chicago.
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Israel Jacobson
American Joint Distribution Committee
Hungary
Harold Trobe
Jacobson
Budapest
United States
Trobe
Rochester
N. Y
Chicago
Florence
Federation of Jewish Charities
AJDC
Legation
Robert A. Vogeler
Student Aide Fired At U. C.
University of California fired Irving D. Fox a 29 year old physics student and teaching assistant for refusing to say if he was a Communist to the House on American Activities committee. Fox testified on September 27 and declined to answer questions about Communist party affiliations, fearing self incrimination.
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Los Angeles
University of California
Irving D. Fox
House On American Activities Committee
Board of Regents
Fox
Berkeley
Calif
Mistrial Declared in Deep South Civil Rights Case
In Rome Georgia the first mass civil rights trial ends in a mistrial for 10 Dade county defendants charged with flogging seven Negroes. Reports from San Francisco and Pittsburgh note unrelated Navy critique Crommelin arriving for a Pacific coast assignment and coal mine owners reportedly agreeing to wage fund remittance despite protest over a three day work week.
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Deep South
Dade County
San Francisco
U.P
John G. Crommelin
Navy
Pentagon “General Staff
Pacific Coast
Crommelin
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Inventory cut up to counties inventory cut up to counties
Arizona tax officials refused to approve a 60 to 45 percent reduction in inventory tax for merchan dis. Assessors agreed to value merchandise at 45 percent but county supervisors and Yuma board opposed the cut. Thad Moore urged uniform cuts for mines railroads and utilities. debate continues. See INVENTORY on Page 2.
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Arizona State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Joe Baldwin
Yavapai
Thad M. Moore
Warren Peterson
Joe Hunt
Commission
County Supervisors Association
Peterson
Yuma
Moore
Pima
Leo Finch
Sidney Olcott Dies Pioneer Screen Director at 76
Hollywood December 17 Sidney Olcott a pioneer silent film director died last night at age 76. He began in 1905 with Mutoscope Co in New York and later worked in Europe. Olcott directed the first five reeler From the Manger to the Cross and guided stars such as Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. He left no known relatives.
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Sidney Olcott
Olcott
The
Mutoscope Co
New York City
Europe
Christ
Mary Pickford
Rudolph Valentino
Chief Asserts $250 Returned In Pension Board Hearing
Police Chief Don J. Hays told the pension board he returned a $250 reward check to the insurance company and that he acted as a trustee for the company. The board debated jurisdiction and sought guidance from the state attorney general, with no counsel secured.
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Don J. Hays
Police Pension Board
Pension Board
B. T. Cheek
Hays
State Pension Board
Assurance Company
Insurance Company
Colny
Carl H. Hitt
Hitt
Cheek
Atty
Fred O. Wilson
Thomas J. Elliott
James
Bulgarian Leader Is Hanged In Red Purge
Sofia reports former Premier Traicho Kostov confessed to treason and espionage and sought mercy before his execution. He was hanged in Sofia central prison after the Bulgarian supreme court condemned him. the assembly rejected clemency.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Traicho Kostov
Kostov
Supreme Court
Presidium of
The
National Assembly
Soekarno Sworn In As Indonesia's President
Soekarno was sworn in as the first president of an independent Indonesia at Jogjakarta after being elected by the national preparatory committee in a 40 minute session at the sultan’s palace. He pledged to serve the people and the country.
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Batavia
Java
Soekarno
Indonesia
Jogjakarta
Tucson YMCA project gains four donors to dig the hole
Four Tucson contractors join forces with the YMCA board to dig the site free of charge for a 600000 dollar YMCA building. M M Sundt Pioneer Constructors L M White Contracting and San Xavier Rock and Sand provide 25 percent each in labor and equipment. Digging starts January 10 with bids opening February 20.
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Tucson
YMCA
Ymca Board of Directors
M. M. Sundt Construction Co
Pioneer Constructors
L. M. White Contracting Co
San Xavier Rock & Sand Co
North Fifth Avenue
East Sixth Street
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Lafleur
Sierra Madre
Gulf of Mexico
Luis Boyer
Boyer
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el Viento
U. C
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Atlanta
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Sixth Street
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