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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1947
Page
1
Arizona faces an average 12 percent phone rate increase proposed by Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph to balance higher costs. The Arizona corporation commission will hold hearings around March 6–7 with final approval needed for any change. The plan seeks about $507,000 yearly, with varied increases across communities and service classes.
The Daylight Limited crashed into a loaded gasoline truck near Kingsburg, killing four people including Katherine Ann Hansen, 17, of Pasadena. Ninety passengers were injured, with about a dozen in serious condition, as flames gutted most of the cars and authorities aided victims.
Regents will select a new University of Arizona president at a 10 a m meeting in Phoenix after confirming Lynn Laney and Walker Bimson. Cleon T. Knapp leads the committee to choose a successor to Dr. Atkinson. The board considers a $250 000 two year salary fund for raises and other university business.
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. asked the Arizona Corporation Commission for authority to raise exchange and toll telephony rates to cover rising operating costs. Despite a 140 percent revenue rise since 1940, expenses rose 190 percent, leaving net earnings in Arizona at a 25 year low and under one percent on total investment. Labor costs, materials, and equipment drive the increases with 2,100 Arizona employees by year end, up from 781 in 1940, and wages in 1946 at 4,246,500.
President Truman asked Congress to change the presidential line of succession placing Republican Speaker Joe Martin first in line. He argued a democracy should not allow the President to nominate his immediate successor and reiterated this stance in a letter to Speaker Martin and Sen. Vandenberg. Democrats criticized Republicans for handling the issue as a political maneuver ahead of a floor vote.
Charles E. Wilson head of General Motors told the Senate labor committee he would never sign a closed shop contract. He urged revision of the Norris-LaGuardia act and criticized federal conciliation service as biased. He also called for devolving labor matters to state and local courts.
At the United Nations in New York on Wednesday Andrei Gromyko and Warren Austin met privately and then with four other council members to resolve their dispute over initiating the arms limitation program. The six delegates and a subcommittee of six nations including Australia Belgium Colombia France the United States and Russia began a nine thirty a m session to move the study forward.
Phoenix February 5 Lewis W. Douglas president of Mutual Life Insurance and former Arizona congressman told the 18th Arizona legislature that the United States must help secure lasting peace or risk destruction. He urged a German provincial confederation with wide sovereignty and warned against isolationism. He argued nationalism and trade barriers hinder scientific progress and cross border exchange.
One of Santa Cruz county's largest ranches, the McPherson ranch of about 20,000 acres including forest lands and 800 head of cattle, was sold to the Janus investment company of Los Angeles. Nogales businessman Wirt G. Bowman announced the deal on February 5. Purchase price not disclosed.
Four bills to regulate unions and reinforce the right to work were introduced in the 18th Arizona legislature. SB 65 bans employment denial for nonmembers and limits coercive acts. SB 66 targets secondary boycotts. SB 67 allows unions to sue as entities. SB 68 restricts interference with the right to work. Emergency clauses demand swift passage.
Russia seeks arms control but prioritizes industrial capacity over manpower. The USSR aims to expand its workforce to support production, trailing behind Britain and the United States in mobilizing labor for war needs. The piece notes Russia’s heavy army but limited mobility and three-year plan delays.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek recalled Gen Ho Yin-Chin from the United States after a breakdown in peace negotiations. Ho, China’s UN staff committee representative, may return home this month. Ho and Ambassador Wellington Koo met Secretary Marshall for a courtesy call as U.S. mediation contends.
Communist headquarters at Yenan ordered troops to stop attacking the Peiping Tientsin railway as the American branch evacuates. The line links Tientsin and Tangku port from which about 2000 American personnel and dependents will sail soon. Evacuation of Americans was ordered last week ahead of U S marines withdrawal.
Moscow dispatch says Tass reports rumors from north China that U S troops being moved there are not returning home but heading to Tsingtao on the coast. The notice cites a rumor from Wednesday.
Governor Sid ney Osborn attacked a bill in the Arizona legislature, warning it would emasculate the Arizona power authority and shift public power resources to a private monopoly. He criticized lawmakers for probing social welfare while aiding the power interests, calling it an economizing policy at the expense of the underprivileged.
Federal Judge Picard deferred his decision on whether the United States may join the Mt. Clemens pottery case. The case, a precursor to nearly 5 billion dollars in portal claims, could be sent to the Supreme Court. The government seeks early intervention and swift resolution.
In Prescott on February 5 Esther B Stringer 56 was found dead after her husband was killed in a Mile High park house fire. Her body was found Wednesday in a boarding house bathroom hanging from water pipes near a lipstick note and checks including a 15000 cash order. An inquest deemed Stringer’s death an act by himself or unknown persons.
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