Japan war lords cremated ashes scattered by US troops
Eyewitness Shinsho Hanayama recalls the cremation and scattering of seven Japanese wartime leaders ashes after execution. Tojo and six others faced death, leaving serene expressions, with last messages allegedly censored. Ashes were hidden in small boxes and dispersed in seven jeeps at Yokohama crematorium.
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Tokyo
U.P
Hideki Tojo
U. S
Shinsho Hanayama
Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
Hanayama
Sugamo
Yokohama Crematorium
Japan
Ameri
Larger Court Space Needed for Arizona Supreme Court
Phoenix dispatch reports that the 19th Arizona legislature will consider bills to fund enlarging the supreme court chambers to add two more justices. Eva De Concini and M. T. Phelps await space, while Chief Justice Standford has sourced chairs to match existing seating.
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Phoenix
U.P
Arizona
Supreme Court
Eva de Concini
M. T. Phelps
Arch Wilson Willcox Rancher Dies at 74
Arch M. Wilson 74, a longtime Willcox rancher born in San Francisco, died in Mesa on Wednesday. He moved to Willcox in 1902 and retired in 1938. Survived by two sons Arch Jr. Mesa and Oliver Tucson, daughter Mrs Francis Froelich Willcox, brother L G Wilson Prescott, sister Mrs E W Garnett Tucson, and eight grandchildren. Funeral and burial in Willcox.
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Mesa
Arch M. Wilson
Retird
Willcox
Wilson
San Francisco
Arch W., Jr
Oliver
Tucson
Francis Froelich
L. G. Wilson
Prescott
E. W Garnett
Bus Workers Hear Appeals in Tucson Arbitration
Union president Harry T. Matthews urged members to keep working during arbitration between Tucson Rapid Transit Bus Co and drivers, but the stance was not approved by attending drivers. The 65 drivers attend two Thursday meetings to hear arbitration results after a wage demand of 15 cents an hour. The company and union will be represented by L. A. Tanner, George Darnell, John Durkin, and Howard Grant.
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Harry T. Matthews
Tucson Rapid Transit Bus Co
Labor Temple
South Stone Avenue
Matthewson
National Headquarters
L. A. Tanner
George Darnell
John Durkin
Howard Grant
Grazing Land Committee to Meet in Phoenix
A committee chosen to draft grazing land legislation will hold its first meeting in the statehouse senate chambers January 4 and 5. State Land Commissioner O C Williams chairs, presiding. The group spans about 12 state and private agencies and follows a hearing on grazing fee increases.
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Phoenix
U.P
Senate
Statehouse
O. C. Williams
Rain Value Fixed at 100527.08 in Phoenix Weather Calculation
Phoenix officials assign a monetary value to rain at 100527.08 dollars after a day of irrigation. They calculate the figure using 241265 irrigated acres at 10 dollars per acre per year and 24 irrigation events annually.
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Phoenix
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Louis Jurwitz
Pay Raise For President Is Being Rushed
Washington reports Congress may vote a $25,000 annual raise for President Truman plus a $50,000 expense addition making him the first $100,000-a-year president. The plan also hikes salaries for Cabinet officers, the vice president, and other top officials to attract and retain talent.
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Washington
Congress
Harry S. Truman
Senate Civil Service Subcommittee
Mr. Truman
William Howard Taft
District of Columbia
Foreign Service
Sen. Flanders
R-Vi
Truman
Australia accuses Dutch of UN breach in Indonesia
Australian Delegate Hodgson tells the UN Security Council that the Dutch in Indonesia commit the first clearcut violation of the UN charter by a member. Expulsion from the United Nations is voiced as a possible consequence. China backs the US resolution for immediate Dutch troop withdrawal, signaling likely passage.
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Paris
U.P
W. F. Hodgson
United Nations
Indonesia
Hitler
Netherlands
Australia
Security Council
Hodgson
Southeast Asia
China
Russia
Ching Lin-Hsia
Philip Jessup
Ching
Good Offices Committee
Alaska Crews Return From Arctic Test Flights at Tucson
Two Davis-Monthan cargo planes returned to Tucson from Alaska carrying airmen of the 63rd bomb squadron who had joined arctic test flights since Nov 9. The B-50s to be flown home by Friday will allow families a Christmas reunion. the 65th squadron will depart for Alaska tests after Christmas for 45 days.
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Davis-Monthan
Tucson
Alaska
63Rd
Arctic
Old Pueblo
Eilson Air Force Base
Col
Dalene E. Bailey
43Rd
Alaskan
United States
Bilson Field
Soviet Authors urge Stalin to reform plays and scripts
A 12th plenum board of writers sent a letter to Prime Minister Stalin criticizing Russian play and screenwriting as backward and insufferable. They pledge to follow the 1946 party decrees to improve art in theater and film, wishing Stalin long health. Pravda also critiqued Russian plays, singling out the comedy Meeting With A Youth for lacking memorable characters.
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Moscow
Stalin
12Th Plenum Board of Writers
Communist Party
Pravda
A. Sofronov
The
Union of Soviet Writers
Sofronov
Clear Duggan Of Spy Taint
A House committee official cleared Laurance Duggan of espionage links. Autopsy found no criminality in his death from a 16th floor fall. Trial dates for Alger Hiss shifted. Sayre questioned. Nixon and Mundt defended release of testimony linking Duggan to the probe.
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New York
House
UN American Activities Committee
Laurance Duggan
Richard M. Nixon
R-Calif
Washington
State Department
New York City
Duggan
Manhattan
Thomas A. Gonzales
William O'Dwyer
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
House Committee
Francis B. Sayre
Hiss
Sayre
Nixon
Chambers
Karl Mundt
R-Sd
Mundt
Isaac Don Levine
Mexico City
Levine
Adolf Berle
Pudgy the dog on the way to Tucson from Philadelphia
Pudgy, a mongrel, was en route to Tucson to comfort an elderly woman, Mrs. H. Kessler, after leaping from a Philadelphia to Columbus express car. Officials traced a dog resembling Pudgy, crated him and sent him toward Tucson, expecting arrival by Christmas Eve.
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Tucson
Peace talks in China and a hitchhiking Santa story mix
A Santa named John Hatley travels from Arizona to Seattle with hopes of reaching Christmas Eve in Seattle. In a separate report from Nanking Chinese officials seek resumption of civil war peace talks with Communist forces, with Western diplomats hesitant to intervene. Sun Fo chairs a cabinet meeting amid talk of possible mediation and a looming Soviet veto.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Arizona
Santa Claus
Sacramento
Seattle
Santa
John Hatley
Tempe State College
Harley
Phoenix
Herb Brown
Wickenburg
Hatley
Nanking
China
Sun Fo
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington
United Nations
United States
Phone Strike Threat Ended
A threatened Christmas holidays strike by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co union members in five states was averted with a settlement reached four hours before a walkout. The agreement raises wages 3 to 6 a week for 50 000 workers, costing the company about 11.5 million dollars, with fringe-item adjustments. The one-year contract restores certain seniority rights and service credits from a 1947 strike.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Southwestern Division
Communications Workers of America
Union
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Gus Cramer
Anton E. Johnson
Cramer
Artillery and Air Duels Break Palestine Truce
Heavy fighting erupts in southern Palestine shattering the UN truce as Jewish and Egyptian forces clash in the Negev. Israeli armor and infantry push to clear Egyptian positions, with aerial duels over the front as Beersheba remains under Jewish control. An Egyptian column near Nirim engages Jewish units amid rains and mud.
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Tel Aviv
U.P
Palestine
Holy Land
Negev
United Nations
Faluja
Nirin
United Nations Security Council
Beersheba
Arizona Dairy Code Proposal Aims Broad Reforms
Arizona producers and distributors debated a proposed dairy code shifting milk inspection from the state dairy commission to the health department. The draft, led by Clyde Rowe, calls for posting placards on butter use, stricter labeling, pasteurization of cream and milk for cheese, licensing fee hikes, and a state dairy commissioner with deputies and a $4800 salary.
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Phoenix
State Dairy Commission
Health Department
Arizona
Clyde Rowe
Arizona Dairymen’s League
Greenland Icecap Veterans To Get Parachute Christmas
The U S Air Force prepared three more rescue planes to reach 11 men stranded for two weeks on the 7500 foot Greenland ice cap. Glider pickups failed previously but Christmas dinner is to be dropped as a precaution while officials press on with the rescue plan. Temperatures reached 40 degrees below zero and a radio from Goose Bay said all men are in good shape living in snow huts with parachute supplied heating.
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Washington
Air Force
Greenland
Goose Bay
Labrador
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