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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1948
Page
9
Barbara “Mother” Belle, 23, a manager and songwriter, argues bands must add energy and a TV ready look to revive the dance band industry. She urges reducing to 12 musicians, cutting costs, and embracing a livelier, contemporary style to attract audiences and television interest.
Sydney reports describe a large retail store offering incentives to attract young employees. Promises include a $15 000 retirement fund after 25 years, internal promotions to key posts, an earn while you learn training plan, flexible annual leave, housing assistance, staff club social facilities, and 3 percent savings interest through banking facilities.
Hollywood December 24. Virginia MacPherson profiles John Alton the cameraman who popularized dirt-cheap natural lighting. He saves money by lighting from the floor, avoiding top lamps, boosting speed and safety, and drawing praise from Dore Schary at MGM who pays him to keep production costs down.
Francis B. Sayre and his secretary Miss Anna Belle Newcombe Sayre testified that copies of secret state papers and others from his office were stolen. Sayre named four people with access including Alger Hiss who faces charges of lying about passing confidential information to Whitaker Chambers. He avoided blaming any employee.
A posse of officers pursues a khaki clad man believed to have killed four people. A fugitive warrant for Murdock Hinton of Lucedale Mississippi was sworn by Sheriff Holcombe as the manhunt shifts to Alabama. A Mobile fireman who knew him identified him as Hinton. Lucedale lies about 30 miles north of Mobile where a family and a sheriff were shot Tuesday night.
Salvador will develop hydro electric resources of the Lempa river at a cost of 15 million dollars to supply Salvadorian agriculture and industry with additional power.
Japan releases several prominent industrialists and generals from trial for atrocities. Among those freed are Yoshihisa Kuzu Gen. Toshizo Nishio and Eiji Amau, with others including Genki Abe Fumio Goto Koichiro Ishihara Yoshio Kodama Ryoichi Sasakawa Sankichi Takahashi and Masayuki Tani. Two remain on trial Adm Soemu Toyoda and Gen Hiroshi Tamura charged with command responsibility and war prisoner mistreatment.
Holiday barbed wire and fog hinder travel as Nazareth prepares for Christmas. In Nazareth churches decorate and pilgrims from northern Palestine arrive with special passes. The Church of the Annunciation broadcasts a high mass on Kol Israel. American troops abroad celebrate with dinners and services in Germany and Vienna. Thousands of German and Austrian children are entertained by U S and British troops, with funds over twenty thousand dollars raised. Moscow hosts yuletide religious services in Catholic and Baptist churches as Russians observe year-end celebrations.
President Truman will spend days with his family in Washington and is due back Sunday. Brig. Gen. Robert B. Landry said he would accompany the two secretaries to the capital. He plans to remain here until next Wednesday.
Visitors from Singapore report Malaya under Communist control with fear per neighborhood and spies among villagers. They describe hundreds of thousands living under intimidation in rubber and tin districts with killings of opponents and widespread suppression. Turkey announces 90 percent of its American road building equipment used on the Iskenderun Erzurum route and calls for more deliveries.
New York December 24 gifts for men with everything include a Hewitt Robbin sand casting mold shaker, a $40 000 Redman shrinking machine for underwear, and mechanized coal processing plants. Other offerings cover continuous hard soap making, a lifetime journal box lid for rail yards, an oil resistant steam hose, and a New Holland side delivery rake.
The Abagail Adams captain reports a run of marriages among his crew as they voyage from the United States. Radio operator, mess boy, steward, and third officer wed girls met ashore in Canada and South Africa. Most brides plan to join husbands in the United States as the captain hastens to sea again to dodge more champagne parties.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Susie Elizabeth Mary White 78 who died Thursday will be announced by Reilly funeral home. A Gloucester England native who moved here 12 years ago she lived at 3809 North Country Club road. She is survived by three sons, five daughters, 23 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
Phoenix police distributed more than 200 Christmas trees to underprivileged children. The price was cooperation with the city driving safety program, with Chief Earl O Clair noting the pledge to pass along safety messages as the cost.
Insurgent Republicans discuss realigning top posts with Taft retaining the leadership while Sen. Vandenberg heads the policy committee. They seek Lodge as assistant floor leader and oppose leaving Wherry out, noting Vandenberg’s tacit support and Libs’ push for a top rank spot. Millikin calls the matter wide open.
An advertisement for a new wife drew a reply from the husband in Bavaria who sought a divorce on grounds of infidelity. His plea was rejected, and the case highlights a domestic dispute and remarriage attempt in the region.
In December 1947 a B-29 taking off from Davis Xirban for Jamaica crashed near the city edge during a training mission killing twelve airmen of the 29th Squadron of the 2nd Bomb Group. In July another B-29 from Davis Monthan fell into the Gulf of Aden with 17 dead and one survivor Master Sergeant Sigur R Gustafson. In September a B-29 from Davis Monthan was lost over Holland during maneuvers with the British air force and a parachuting crewman later died.
Phoenix police sought a young small woman with a dark complexion who cashed 1800 worth of bogus checks at local stores last Saturday. The checks were for 76 or 37.97 and claimed to be from Sunnyscrope Realty & Investment Co, which Inspector Arnold said does not appear to exist, signed by J. H. Roberts, manager.
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