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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1954
Page
1
A Phoenix woman Evelyn Ann Smith freed after a $75,000 ransom. armed suspect pursued by a large coalition including FBI Arizona Highway Patrol and two counties. Bloodhounds tracked footprints near Apache Junction and Florence Junction while ransom notes and equipment sparked a desert manhunt.
Five year old Bobby McCord and his cocker spaniel Taffy were found after a long search in Santa Catalina mountains four miles from Camp Lawton. Airman Roy Appleton spotted the boy at 7:50 a.m. near Sycamore canyon, tired but unharmed. Deputies, forest rangers, and 75 volunteers aided in the search as Bobby described sleeping against a tree through the night and asking for food and water. He was reunited with his parents at Palisades ranger station and given a meal.
The weatherman reports a cool June day in Tucson with a high of 92 degrees, nine years since such low heat for June 10. The morning low reached 62, and tomorrow faces clear skies with rising temperatures, ideal for a picnic.
Washington Republicans forecast passage of most of President Eisenhower's proposals to curb aggression and boost national strength. Democrats pledged support for social security health and unemployment measures while opposing tax reform and flexible farm aid. The address urged rapid action on tax cuts 7 billion total this year with 1.397 billion pending, farm supports, extended unemployment compensation, broader social security, and a national health program.
Senator Flanders calls for Senate to remove McCarthy as chairman of the investigations subcommittee and its parent group unless McCarthy purges himself of contempt and answers 1952 charges. He cites McCarthy's alleged contempt for a 1952 three member subcommittee that investigated Benton and countercharges. The subcommittee could not rule due to McCarthy's absence, leaving questions about misuse of funds and a $10,000 housing-fee acceptance unresolved.
The first 20 bus loads of wetbacks were rounded up in western Arizona and California and reached Nogales Sonora today. About 800 men were in the buses with an estimated 70 000 Mexican nationals to be sent back across the border. Returnees are left at the Mexican customs building and will be loaded on trains to central Mexico. The deportation train was delayed and no arrival time was given.
Massachusetts beat Oregon 5 to 3 behind Don Swanson’s steady pitching to stay alive in the NCAA baseball World Series. The report notes late-night MLB summaries and box details on Chicago and New York games with Hearn Wilhelm and Klippstein, plus a Chicago home run by Jackson.
Hearing Counsel Ray Jenkins told Senator McCarthy that his sworn testimony about an army official's statements on Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton's possible removal at Ft. Monmouth was in direct contradiction with a December memorandum McCarthy filed. McCarthy disputed the claim as the hearing concluded.
Sen. McCarthy said his investigations subcommittee is conducting a preliminary inquiry into what he called a very dangerous situation at the CIA, the government’s central intelligence agency. The remark framed a broader probe into agency operations.
On the thirty second day of the McCarthy army hearings the cross examination of McCarthy continued. The report notes ongoing questioning and testimony as the inquiry proceeds.
In New York a reliable source reports Robert R. Young has captured control of the New York Central Railroad by about 1,070,000 votes from the White-led management. In Washington a day late the House approved a one year extension of the President's authority to negotiate trade agreements with foreign nations.
Cananea Sonora was calm as officials pursued investigations into Tuesday’s riot and jailbreak. Seven land squatters released by a 2000 strong mob are back in jail while a Communist rally was postponed as 15 state police patrolled the city. Soldiers on duty battled a forest fire nearby. The squatters were placer miners seeking gold on Cananea Cattle Co. property, a subsidiary of Anaconda Copper Co., about eight miles south of Cananea.
Tonight and tomorrow present two one act operas by the Tucson Civic chorus at the El Conquistador band shell. Tonight 8:30 P.M. Starlight theater. Tomorrow 8 P.M. baseball benefit at Hi Corbett field followed by 8:30 P.M. Starlight theater.
Geneva index reports the Reds demand all strategic territory in the Red River delta except the cities Hanoi and Hai Phong. United States monitors the French government crisis with concern as Secretary Adams obituary appears later.
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