Black man captured after fatal attack near Tucson
After a 10 hour search near Jaynes Station two miles from Tucson on the Casa Grande highway, Roy Ramey 38 confessed to killing Loreto Escalente with a 12 gauge public safety item during a domestic dispute. Ramey surrendered after deputies surrounded him in a ditch. Escalente's body was found outside the bunkhouse. his hat was found with the weapon nearby. Mrs Ramey was hospitalized in poor condition.
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Jaynes Station
Tucson
Casa Grande Highway
Southern Pacific Section
Roy Ramey
Glenn Troutman
Ramey
Loreto Escalente
Juan Mendoza
Escalente
Troutman
Florence
Ed Troutman
U. of A
Jack Wollard
Don Hinman
Ben Mariscal
Sheriff's Office
C. W. Gardner
Mendoza
Wollard
Hinman
Gardner
Manny Herrera
Herrera
AWOL Sailors Seek Release After Navy Desertion
Two young men turned themselves in at the sheriff's office claiming they are AWOL from the Navy. Deputy Lon Chapman detained Andrew J. Bailey and Robert F. Vernants for investigation after they said they deserted from the USS Turner in San Diego six days ago.
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Lon Chapman
Navy
Chapman
Andrew J. Bailey
Robert F. Vernants
USS
Turner
San Diego
Two Masked Gunmen Rob Ray Roberts on North Stone
Friday night two masked gunmen robbed Ray Roberts of $156 on North Stone avenue at Ft. Lowell road. They forced him to surrender the cash, then fled in a nearby sedan. Roberts described both suspects as dressed in dark clothes with masks, making facial details unavailable. The men remain at large.
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Ray Roberts
East Navajo Street
North Stone Avenue
Ft. Lowell Road
Roberts
Cowboy Echols Portrait Moves to Courtroom
A familiar courthouse image shows Sheriff Ed F. Echols and his Palomino moved from his office to the courtroom of Justice of the Peace C. W. Gardner. Echols retires at midnight December 31, and courthouse staff approved placing the picture in the courtroom.
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Pima County
Ed F. Echols
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Gardner
Echols
LDS President Seeks More Indian Schools in Navajo Nation
President George Albert Smith of the Mormon church planned a Boston Christmas visit after a Friday call on President Truman. He spent time with Acting Commissioner Zimmerman at the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Navajo education, noting the need for more schooling on the Arizona reservation where thousands of Navajos are illiterate.
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Washington
George Albert Smith
Latter Day Saints Church
Mormor
Boston
George Albert Smith, Jr
Truman
Smith
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Zimmerman
Arizona Reservation
Piccard To-Go 19 Miles High
Dr. Jean Piccard plans a June ascent to 100000 feet about 19 miles in a 400 pound gondola lifted by 100 balloons. Financed by the Navy Office of Naval Research, the flight from Ottumwa Iowa aims to reach a new record for cosmic ray data in the upper atmosphere with a Navy airman aboard.
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Washington
Jean Piccard
Navy
Office of Naval Research
Naval Air Station
Ottumwa
Piccard
Army
National Geographic Society
Tries Again To Obtain License Indications
A large northside delegation plans to protest the 2 30 p m Monday Pima County Supervisors hearing on beer and wine license for Joseph T Pugliese at 2602 North Balboa Avenue. Last March a similar protest at the same location failed. The court upheld state liquor control official John Duncan who refused the license. Proximity to Coronado Heights Baptist Church is cited against the petition.
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Northside
Pima County
Joseph T. Pugliese
North Balboa Avenue
Pugliese
R. H. Martin
G. T. Alley
J. Homer Boyd
John Duncan
Duncan
Coronado Heights Baptist Church
Forum To Discuss Church In Peace
The University of Arizona forum will broadcast The Function of the Church in Building Peace over KTUC at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Participants include Rabbi Joseph, Rev. Leland Koening of Trinity Presbyterian, and Dr. Glen Nelson from the university College of Education. The farm and ranch hour is canceled and the 11 a.m. Tuesday slot will air the Tucson boys' choir NBC program.
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Church
University of Arizona Forum
KTUC
Ben Markland
University Radio Bureau
Joseph Rev. Leland Koening
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Glen Nelson
University
College of Education
Farm and Ranch
Tucson Boys’ Choir
NBC
UA May Lose 16 Classrooms
An order suspends construction of 9 537 veterans temporary housing projects in California Utah Arizona and Nevada to concentrate resources on near completion units. It affects 7 845 in California 796 in Nevada including 15 colleges with local fundraising option.
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San Francisco
California
Utah
Arizona
Nevada
Langdon W. Post
Federal Public Housing Authority
Post
FPHA
Arizona State College
Flagstaff
Buckeye
Chandler
Mesa
Phoenix
Tempe
Winslow
Tucson
University of Arizona
Prescott
Yuma
Regents leader warns order halting housing may affect Rivers project
Jack B. Martin of the Arizona university system cautioned that the suspension of veterans housing construction could impact 16 temporary classrooms planned at the Rivers relocation center site. The Rivers project had aimed to build two classroom buildings on the parking lot west of the men’s gym. Quonset huts housing 124 families west of the polo field have been completed and will be occupied. 124 families already live in Quonset huts and temporary dwellings on the practice polo field.
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Jack B. Martin
Tucson
Board of Regents of
The
University and State Colleges of Arizona
Rivers, Ariz
Polo Field
Annual Christmas Party Staged by San Xavier Division
San Xavier division No. 241 GIA to BLE held its annual Christmas party in the IOOF hall on Friday followed by installation of new officers. Installed were Mrs. Tom Collins past president and Mrs. Joe Blaise president with a full slate of officers and appointed posts. A New Year’s Eve party was planned at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Codd 749 South Fourth Avenue.
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San Xavier
GIA
Tom Collins
F. E. Woodworth
W. H. Codd
W. C. Patterson
W. W. Schupp
South Fourth Avenue
Pope to Recite Special Low Mass at Christmas Eve
Vatican announces Pope Pius will celebrate a midnight low Mass in the Mathilde chapel at St Peter's on Christmas Eve. He will receive greetings from the College of Cardinals and deliver a radio address on church activity in 1946, likely referencing communism and pursuit of a just peace.
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Vatican City
Pius
the Mathilde
St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican
Sacred College of Cardinals
Pope Pius
Peter
Out-of-state eighth-grader seeks Arizona admission in 1950
A letter from an out-of-state eighth-grader asking to file an admission application to the University of Arizona has been received by registrar C. Z. Lesher. The university, with peak enrollment of 4484, is not accepting additional out-of-state students at this time.
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University of Arizona
C. Z. Lesher
Vets' Project Costs To Rise With Building Rule Changes
The Tucson Heights veterans housing project on North First Avenue may face higher costs and altered sale prices as federal residential building controls end on December 24. Contractors say non veteran buyers will drive up demand for lumber steel roofing and other materials. Ten of 168 planned houses near completion and awaiting sewers. landowner is Monte Mansfield.
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Tucson Heights
North First Avenue
Great Western Construction Co
Monte Mansfield
Ernest Atwood to be Buried in Iowa
The body of Ernest L. Atwood, 55, who died Friday morning at his home, will be sent to Council Bluffs, Iowa for services and burial. He will lie in state Saturday evening at Reilly's chapel. He was a Southern Pacific employee and a member of the American Legion. He had resided in Tucson for 11 years. Survivors include his wife Betty Lee Atwood, a brother Walter of Fort Worth, and his mother Belle Atwood of Council Bluffs.
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Ernest L. Atwood
North Tyndall Avenue
Council Bluffs
Reilly's
Miss Sperry To Be Buried In Phoenix
The body of Hazel Judith Sperry, 44, who died at her home on East Kleindale Road, will be sent to Phoenix for a 4 p m service Monday at A L Moore & Sons funeral home. She came here from Phoenix two years ago and is survived by her father C Frank Sperry of Philadelphia. Arizona mortuary handles arrangements.
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Hazel Judith Sperry
East Kleindale Road
Phoenix
A. L. Moore & Sons
Miss Sperry
C. Frank Sperry
Philadelphia
Arizona
New Army Unit Packs Wallop
Washington December 21 The Army ground forces announce a reorganization creating a new transportable by air division with 250 percent more firepower and 20 percent more manpower than WWII divisions. In four to five months it will be fielded. It is not an airborne division.
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Washington
Army
Jacob L. Devers
Devers
Big Trans
Public Can Attend Choral Broadcast Sunday Night
The Junior Choral Society will broadcast a Christmas Cantata under Harold B Turney from a poem by Laura Spencer Porter with music by Joseph W Clokey. Soloists include Florence Novick Elsie Marie Martin James King and Larry Wilson. The string quartet is led by Clokey and includes Kathleen Robertson Hal Goodman Morton Ailt schul er and Anita Kalis. Mrs Dorothy Sayre accompanies.
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Howard Pyle
Arizona High Lights
Safford Junior High School
KVOA
Junior Choral Society
Harold B. Turney
Joseph W. Clokey
Laura Spencer Porter
Florence Novick
Elsie Marie Martin
James King
Larry Wilson
Clokey
Kathleen Robertson
Hal Goodman
Morton Ailtschuler
Anita Kalis
Dorothy Sayre
Yule Decorations At Utility Plant In Tucson
Christmas decorations including a lighted tree and Santa Claus have been placed outside the Tucson Gas Electric Light and Power plant at West Sixth and North Meyer. Superintendent John Saunders says the tree will be lit each evening and visible to motorists, located just outside Saunders' office.
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Tucson
Stalin Observing Birthday Secretly
Stalin marked his 67th birthday in secrecy as Soviet radio avoided mention of the event. He has not appeared publicly in Moscow since the Tank Day parade on Sept. 8, with reports suggesting a vacation at Sochi.
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London
U.P
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Moscow
Sochi
Black Sea
Manders in Germany Send Stalin Messages Friday
Yugoslav newspapers praised Stalin for his birthday and noted the celebration as a source of inspiration. The Moscow radio did not mention the event.
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Manders
Germany
Stalinn
Moscow Radio
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Euclid Ave
Maurice Ballenger
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ST. John's
Veterans
S. 7Th Ave
Hilka D. Green
William M. Orr
Arizona Clinic For Crippled Children
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R. W. Gustafson
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