Rate Increase Sparks Arizona Industrial Insurance Debate
Phoenix business and professional groups form a nine member committee to pressure the Arizona industrial commission to halt a 1950 rate rise of 1,200,000 dollars. Gov Garvey and Commission members ONeill and Edwards face sharp criticism over alleged mismanagement and losses.
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Phoenix
Arizona Industrial Commission
Gov. Garvey
Raymond G. Langham
House of Representatives
Langham
Record Fails To Bear Out Garvey's Claim
Governor Garvey cited death claim data to argue compensation finances, while 1942–1948 reports show varying death claims and dividends, including 1948 with 78 death claims and no dividend. ONeill cites 49 death claims year to date, questioning the governor's view of better finances.
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Garvey
Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
Arizona Commission
J. J. O'Neill
Fred Edwards
Industrial Commission
O'Neill
Tucson and Phoenix Unite to Seek Air Force Academy Site
Tucson and Phoenix align to back or swap support for the Air Force Academy site amid a two year drive. Prescott backs its own bid as more Arizona cities join the effort and Tucson weighs endorsing Maricopa county options if it is passed over.
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Tucson
Air Force Academy
Phoenix
Old Pueblo
Prescott
Arizona
Capitol
Arthur E. Boudreaux
French Assembly Considers Recognizing Communist China
Paris reports the foreign affairs committee urged the cabinet to seek international support for recognizing Mao Tsetung's government. The motion passed 23 to 14 despite opposition from Communist members who want immediate recognition.
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Paris
French National Assembly
France
Mao Tzetung
Gov Garvey To Visit Mother Over Holiday
Gov Dan Garvey will fly to Vicksburg Mississippi for Christmas with his 89 year old mother Mrs Johanna Garvey. His six siblings will attend including Frank Garvey a Vicksburg city commissioner. It will be his first trip to Mississippi since taking office and he plans to return to Phoenix on December 27.
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Phoenix
Dan Garvey
Vicksburg
Miss
Johanna Garvey
Garvey
Frank
Mississippi
Tucson Braces as 22 Degree Chill Shrugs Off Snow
A Tucson cold snap brought temperatures as low as 22 degrees with 1.40 inches of snow and .16 inch of precipitation over 14 hours. Forecasters expect a brief continuation of the cold with slight warming tomorrow while highways remain open though travel warned to be cautious.
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Tucson
Pablo
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Municipal
Magnetic Observatory
Tanque Verde Road
Clark Gable Weds Lady Sylvia at California Ranch
Hollywood reports Clark Gable, 48, married his fourth wife Lady Sylvia Stanley at the Alisal guest ranch in Solvang California. The ceremony was held in a ranch library before 25 relatives and guests, with Howard Strickling as best man and Basil Bleck giving the bride away. The couple planned a secret honeymoon and a possible trip to Honolulu.
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Hollywood
U.P
Clark Gable
Douglas Fairbanks
Sylvia Stanley
Sylvia
San Luis Obispo
Alisal Guest Ranch
Solvang
Bride
Basil Bleck
Gable
Howard Strickling
MGM
L. B. Mayer
Carole Lombard
Honolulu
Aage Moller
Vera Bleck
Lynn Gillham
Tucson
Gillham
Santa Barbara
Arizona Inn
Schwamb spared death in first degree doctor killing
Ralph Blackie Schwamb a former St. Louis Browns pitcher was found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Long Beach physician Dr Donald Buge. A life sentence was recommended with the option of death averted. co defendant Ted Gardner pleaded guilty and faces murder charges in January. The doctor was robbed of 35 dollars after being beaten following a Gardena poker parlor meeting.
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Los Angeles
Ralph “Blackie” Schwamb
St. Louis Browns
Long Beach
Ted Gardner
Schwamb
Donald Buge
Gardner
Gardena
Lion Kills Woman Trainer In Ringling Ring Fatal Attack
In Thousand Oaks California Mrs May Kovar Schafer 42 a noted animal trainer was killed by a lion named Sultan in a cage as her children 18 year old Michael and 14 year old May and 3 year old Sandra watched Rudy Muller an elephant trainer acted to subdue the animal with a pitchfork and pipe. The tragedy followed Schafer a former Ringling Barnum and Bailey performer moving to the ring with the lion. Schafer widow of Harry Kovar had recently worked in a motion picture sequence and had arrived from Australia with plans for the funeral. The fate of Sultan will be decided by Schafer.
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Thousand Oaks
Calif
May Kovar Schafer
Sultan
Michael Kovar
May Kovar
Muller
Little May
Ringling
Schafer
Madam Kovar
Wirth Circus
Australia
Louis Goebel
Pasha
Texas
Fred Schafer
Ft. Worth
Tex
May Brown
Liverpool
England
Goebel
Dunbar School Head Defended Amid Ouster Drive
Tucson's Dunbar junior high and elementary schools faced a heated school board meeting as Co. F. Wilson and eight Tucson Civic League members pressed for principal Maxwell’s removal. The board demanded concrete affidavits and denied hearsay while praising Maxwell’s decade of service and community involvement.
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Co. F. Wilson
Morgan Maxwell
Dunbar
Maxwell
Topeka
Kas
Tucson
Wilson
Tucson Civic League
Robert Morrow
Missionary Baptists State Convention of
Kansas
E. B. Hicks
J. H. O'Kelly
League
Charles H. Phinizy
Charles Young
American Legion
Fred W. Fickett
Oliver Drachman
Phinizy
Morrow
L. W. Spiller
Alice Preston
D. X. Armstrong
Annette T. Wooten
A. J. Stout
School of
Board of Education
C. F. Wilson
U S Greeting to Stalin Clarified by State Department
Washington briefing explains that President Truman sent a personal birthday greeting in line with protocol, but the actual message to Stalin came from Ambassador Alan G. Kirk in Moscow. Officials note Stalin is not Russia’s chief of state, affecting personal diplomacy.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Joseph Stalin
U. S
Moscow
Charles G. Ross
State Department
Alan G. Kirk
Stalin
Mr. Truman
Schvernix
Stalin Hailed In Moscow As Peace Friend
Moscow marks Stalin’s 70th birthday with a lavish celebration. Pravda proclaims peace between communism and capitalism and announces a Stalin peace prize to be awarded annually. Molotov targets Tito and the United States while foreign leaders arrive for the festivities.
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Stalin
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Georgi Malenkov
Pravda
Communist Party
Supreme Soviet
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Molotov
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Malenkov
United States
Britain
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations
New York
Bomb Plot at UAW Headquarters Foiled by Defective Fuse
Detroit police halted a dynamite bomb plot aimed at the CIO United Auto Workers international headquarters after a defective fuse prevented detonation. A box containing 39 sticks of dynamite was found near the basement stairway, leading to investigations of links to past attacks on Walter and Victor Reuther.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers International
Henry Russel
Police Special Investigation Bureau
Tucson
UAW
Joseph Krug
Police Department
Special Investigation Bureau
Walter P. Reuther
Victor
Walter
Roy
Walter Reuther
Krug
Jack Pickering
Detroit Times
Pickering
General Motors Research
Frank Krasnika
George Tho
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Air Force Academy Committee
Phoenix Request
China
California Ranch
Josephine Dillon
Read Langham
Miss Lombard
Army
Lord Ashley
London
Fairbanks
Cmdr
Edward John
Baron Stanley
Dunbar School
Tito
Matyas Rakosi
Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej
Romania
Ana Pauker
Palmiro Togliatti
Hilding Hagberg
Sweden
Ville Pesse
Hertta Kuusinen
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