Probe Started In Sea Crash Deaths Of 28
Investigators opened inquiries into the C-46 crash that killed 28 Puerto Ricans offshore Miami. The Saufley on route Charleston with 37 survivors begins search as coast guard and air force cut remaining hopes. Migrant workers from Puerto Rico were aboard. Westair and aviation officials defend aircraft and crew credentials.
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Miami
Fla
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Juan
Charleston
S. C
Saufley
Tucson
Atlantic
Aurora
Coast Guard
Air
Wilmington
N. C
Fernando Sierra
The
Aviation Corp
Seattle
Wash
Westair Co
CAA
Irving H. Mansfield
Mansfield
San Juan-Wilmington
Pan American World Airways
Mae West
P. R
Sheltons Lose Roy in Farm Attack Amid Illinois Gang History
Fairfield Illinois June 7 An unseen gunman killed Roy Shelton about 59 as he cultivated a Pond Creek bottom farm. Frank McKibben 49 drove nearby and escaped injury while Roy was mutilated by harrow after being shot twice. The Shelton clan once led southern Illinois gang warfare linked to the Charley Birger feud and prior slayings remain unsolved.
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Fairfield
Shelton Brothers
Illinois
Roy Shelton
Pond Creek Bottom
Frank McKibben
McKibben
Roy
Carl
Bernie
Big Earl
Dalta
Cisne
Shelton i
Little Earl
Dellos Wylie
Tucson
Shelton
Bernie Shelton
Peoria
Big Earl Shelton
Brother Dalton
Sheltons
Charley Birger
Birger
Roy Walker
Charles Harris
Charlie
Harris
Earl
Wylie
Art Earl
California Governors Race Signals Clinton Era Contest
California voters head to a November clash between Republican Earl Warren and Democrat James Roosevelt. Roosevelt leads the Democratic count early, with Warren dominating the Republican vote. Down-ballot races show incumbents and several congressmen contesting runoff spots. Roosevelt relies on Los Angeles strength as Roosevelt seeks broad urban support.
East Speedway Valuation Sparks Board of Equalization Critique
The Pima County board of equalization faced a second day of sharp protest from business property owners led by Solot and Minarik over the 1950 valuations. Attacks highlighted alleged inequities on Speedway Broadway and nearby streets with arguments that section line proximity and lease returns skewed assessments. Deputies defended that 1950 figures reflect new equalization aims and not last year values, while acknowledging possible errors in the vast program.
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Pima County Board of Equalization
Broadway
Speedway
6Th Street
Solot
Ben Solot
Frank S. Minarik
Country Club
Maple Boulevard
Minarik
Gorm Loftfield
W. J. McLean
Dodge Boulevard
East Sixth Street
George Pottorff
Speedway and
J. Homer Boyd
Special Equalization Board
Boyd
Two Americans Freed Under Guatemala Amnesty
Glenn Rothe and Walter Glenn, both of Tucson, Arizona, were released from San Marco jail after 14 months awaiting trial. They claim innocence and say they were coerced by a rebel leader. Rothe plans marriage in Guatemala and a return to the United States. Glenn is expected to go to Nicaragua.
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Guatemala
Harry Rothe
Walter Glenn
Tucson
Ariz
San Marco
Juan Jose Arevalo
Rothe
Lydia Moreno
United States
Glenn
Nicaragua
Senate votes probe into government homosexuals report
The Senate approved a $10,000 inquiry by the executive expenditures committee to investigate reports of hundreds of homosexuals and moral perverts among government employees. Sen. Hill and nine colleagues led the measure after police estimates cited up to 3,500 such workers, with the State Department noting 91 perverts resignations.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
Rules Committee
Sen. Hill
D-Ala
State Department
Sen. Wherry
R-Neb
Miles Clinches New Mexico Democratic Gubernatorial Nomination
In Albuquerque on June 7 U S Rep John E Miles secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with backing from the state administration defeating Sen Dennis Chavez and his brother Judge David Chavez Jr unofficial returns showed Miles leading by more than 10 000 votes. Major figures included Lake J Frazier and Ingram Pickett with two at large congressional nominees Dempsey and Fernandez winning their races.
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Albuquerque
N. M
U. S
John E. Miles
Dennis Chavez
David Chavez Jr
New Mexico
Chavez
Miles
Lake J. Frazier
Roswell
Ingram Pickett
Congress
J. J. Dempsey
A. M. Fernandez
Joe M. Montoya
Dempsey
Fernandez
Robert H. LaFollette
Joe A. Montoya
Mesa And Tempe Double In Decade
Phoenix June 7 The populations of Mesa and Tempe east of Phoenix have more than doubled since 1940. Mesa now 15 940 and Tempe 7 645 with Mesa up over 120 percent and Tempe up 163 percent in the period.
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Phoenix
Mesa
Tempe
County Iensus Bureau
Acheson Opposes Western German Rearmament
Secretary Acheson said the United States opposes rearming western Germany as a security measure, calling Bradley’s testimony a strictly military judgment. He voiced willingness to consider any proposals by U Thant for East West settlement but said there is no path to ending the Cold War now. He urged Western powers to strengthen defenses and criticized Soviet policies as obstructionist.
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Washington
Acheson
United States
Western
Germany
Omar Bradley
Bradley
West
Achesorf
Trygvele
United Nations
Moscow
Rain Threat Passes in Tucson As Warmth Rises
A Tucson forecast says the threat of rain has passed and skies should be mostly clear tonight with rising temperatures tomorrow. Yesterday reached 92 degrees with a cool 60 degrees measured today. other national reports include 4 inches of snow in Blue Canyon California and 50 mph winds at San Francisco and New Orleans.
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Blue Canyon
Calif
Donner
San Francisco
New Orleans
Lie Seeks U.N. Council Action On 10 Point Peace Plan
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie plans to push his 10 point peace program before the Security Council likely in July as new secretary-general trial president Arne Sunde begins. He distributed the plan to all U.N. members after outlining it in memoranda to Truman Stalin and leaders in London Paris. The program calls for periodic Security Council meetings, international control of atomic energy, arms reduction, a USN army to enforce decisions, admission of all 14 member states, and expanded technical assistance, among other measures to speed up international law and world peace.
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Lake Success
N.Y
WUP
United Nations
Trygve Lie
U.N. Security Council
Lie
U.N
Truman
Josef Stalin
Britain
France
Security Council
Arne Sunde
Pdonal
Norway
China
Russia
West
California election returns show Warren ahead in governor race
In San Francisco on June 7 California totals show Warren leading Roosevelt 627,905 to 67,714 for governor with 10,731 of 18,022 precincts reporting. Roosevelt leads Democratic governor race with 555,481 to Warren 436,481 among 10,885 precincts. Republican U S senator Nixon leads Roddy 310,919 to 64,947 and Douglas 75,028 from 8,453 precincts. Democratic senator results show Douglas 318,488 Boddy 147,366 Nixon 148,951 from 8,417 precincts.
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San Francisco
California
Warren
Roosevelt
U. S
Nixon
Roddy
Douglas
Boddy
Truman rails at Dewey and scare stories in cross country tour
President Truman assailed Dewey and GOP scare tactics during a cross country campaign tour. He defended federal hydroelectric projects as essential to wartime victory and praised Democratic policies as expanding production and private enterprise. He labeled opponents as defeatists and reactionaries resisting progress.
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Washington
Truman Republican Party
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Columbia
Tennessee
Truman
House Votes End To Horse Troops
Washington report states the House passed a measure ending horse troops and sent it to the Senate. The article notes political dispute and legislative action with limited readable details.
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Washington
House
Senate
Anthony Eden Seeks Divorce in London Suit
Anthony Eden former foreign minister of the Conservative party sues his wife for divorce in London. The action appears in the divorce docket for tomorrow. The report notes Eden’s high profile in British politics.
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Anthony Eden
London
Oneent Eence Conservative Party
Baseball Scores American League Action Slows
In a tightly contested slate, St Louis defeated Boston 6 to 4 with a rally in the later innings while Detroit and New York posted mixed results. Key pitchers included Derish Kretlow Moan and Lollar for St Louis and Dobson Tebbetts for Boston. Newhouser and Robinson worked for New York.
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St. Louis
Bostog
Derish
Fime
Kretlow
Moan
Lollar
Dobson and Tebbetts
Comic strip notes and political tease across pages
The index lists eS a ne oe on page 10 and Howard Pyle notes a GOP lift on page 15. Arizona faces Texas on page 19. A string of eeeee on page 4 and Li'l Abner appears set for trouble on page 22. Comics page 23 and politics page 21 referenced.
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Howard Pyle
Arizona
Texas
Abner
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Fresno
Ernest K. Bramblett
Pacific Grove
Clyde Doyle
Long Beach
Harry R. Sheppard
Yujcaipa
Clinton D. McKinnon
San Diego
Gordon McDonough
Frederick N. Howser
Edward S. Shattuck
Douglas MacArthur
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
East Speedway
U. N
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U.N. Council
World Healthization
Merriman Smith
Detroit
Cofesa
Newhouser and
Robinson
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