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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
14
A $6,700 damage suit filed in superior court accuses Rev. R. S. Beal of causing the death of Edna May Flower in an Oct. 28, 1946 crash at East Speedway and Jones boulevard. Sanford J. Allen, executor, represents Flower’s estate in the action. The lawsuit seeks medical, hospital, nurse and burial costs but no punitive damages. Beal serves as pastor of the First Baptist church.
Funeral services for James B. Davy age 49 a former Tucson sports figure who died Saturday at his Chicago home will be held in Rochester New York Wednesday afternoon Davy a polo referee and former Arizona Polo Association president was a Rochester native educated at the university there and Cornell he served as a naval aviator in World War I and was a plane courier for the Army He is survived by his wife Mrs Billie Stephens Davy and a sister Mrs Walter J Salmon of New York City.
Judge Howard J. Speakman sentenced nine defendants for federal offenses including illegal entry and forged checks. Leon Carillo Valles and Antonio Gonzalez Pacheco received two years and $100 fines each. Dorothy Beiswanger got one year and $1 fine. Gustavo Mendoza Guevara six months. Melquiades Benites Pelcastre one year. Juan Ramirez Meza one year and $100 fine. Others faced varying terms for entry offenses and past deportations.
Two Mexican nationals Eduardo Arias Zavalas and Jose Noriega Gallegos pleaded guilty to smuggling 14 pounds of crude opium and 12 ounces of prepared opium into the United States from Mexico. They received three years’ imprisonment and $1 fines on each count, to run concurrently for illegal entry. Carlos Trejo waived indictment and pleaded guilty to illegal re entry from Mexico with a prior deportation in 1936 and a 1935 grand larceny conviction in Pima County.
Henry Barnett Johnson 87 died Sunday at his home 98 East Ft Lowell Rd Tucson where he lived 40 years. A requiem mass is set for 9 a m Tuesday at Sacred Heart church with burial in Holy Hope cemetery. A rosary will be said 7 30 p m Monday in Reillys chapel Survivors include wife Elizabeth Paul son and May Bake. Pallbearers listed.
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