President Says Spy Trials Are Just Hysteria
President Truman said postwar hysteria fuels spy investigations and urged readers to study 1790s alien and sedition laws and their outcomes. He cited Jefferson releases and noted hysteria after wars, adding Hoover has not resigned and defense cases unfold in New York and Washington.
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Truman
Jefferson
Indiana
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Justice Department
Tsagen
Judith Coplon
Russia
Alger Hiss
State Department
New York
Mr. Truman
Providence
A.I
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Clark
Ownership Of Phones Sought By Staff In Phoenix
Assistants Atty. Gen. Edward Jacobson and Joseph P. Ralston sought to show that American Telephone & Telegraph Co. largely controls Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. but the noon recess cut off a decisive answer from R. M. Morris. The hearing before the corporation commission questions whether costs and depreciation are properly obtained.
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Phoenix
Edward Jacobson
Joseph P. Ralston
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
American Telephone &Telegraph Co
Mountain Company
R. M. Morris
Morris
Corporation Commission
William T. Brooks
Commission
Clay Simer
Winslow
Simer
Brooks
Jacobson
Ralston
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Mountain States Company
American Company
Mountain States
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Official Order Bars All Curbs In City At Once
Tucson rent control is lifted as Housing Expeditor Tighe Woods acts on a city council and governor backed recommendation. The move ends controls in Pima county and signals a state wide removal, with Meenan warning the September school opening could test the decision.
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Tucson
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Dan E. Garvey
Pima County
Arizona
Military Pay Hike Expected
Washington June 16 The Senate is expected to follow the House in approving a military pay raise totaling 302 million dollars a year The bill would boost pay from three percent for privates to 37 percent for brigadier generals with a top monthly pay of 1096 dollars for major generals Defense Secretary Louis Johnson will testify as hearings open The pay measure passed the House by voice vote and other congressional items include anti Communist labor provisions social security expansion and an atomic energy inquiry
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State Department
Europe
Communist International Information Bureau
Bucharest
Romania
United States
Cominform
Scott W. Lucas
Senate
House
Lucas
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services Committee
Defense
Louis Johnson
National Labor Relations Board
Ways and Means
Truman
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Congressional
Walter H. Zinn
Senate Banking Committee
Burnet R. Maybank
D-Sc
John W. McCormack
Mass
Senate House
Hoover Commission
Carl Vinson
Dga
House Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Congress Talking Big But Economy Cut Up To Truman
Washington report notes six months of talk on reducing government spending while Congress seeks to pass cuts The piece explains the budgeting process with Truman’s figures and committee work and reports a Senate resolution urging a five to ten percent cut for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Congress
Truman
James Marlow Washington
Harry
Budget Bureau
Appropriations
Appropriations Committees
House
Senate
Washington
U.P
President Truman
Big Four Conference Hopes Russian Guarantee On Berlin Blockade
At Paris the Big Four foreign ministers near final talks after four weeks of debate. They seek a Russian pledge not to reimpose the Berlin blockade and progress on an Austrian peace treaty. A new deputy foreign ministers' committee would study the German problem.
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Paris
U.P
Berlin
Moscow
Andrei Vishinsky
Heat Strikes Tucson as U of A Registers 107
Tucson endures a severe heat wave with 107 degrees recorded at the University of Arizona weather station. Officials report heavy water use and high electric demand but no shortage or planned cutbacks. Forecasters expect no immediate relief and warn residents to stay hydrated and cool.
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Tucson
University of Arizona
Nogales Highway
Christopher Columbus Cooke
City Water Department
Cooke
John Saunders
Tucson Gas & Electric Co
Saunders
Man Returns $100 For A One Dollar Fare
James Poole of 341 East Twelfth Street refused a $100 bill for a $1.70 cab fare near the SP depot in Tucson. He returned the bill and asked for a dollar. Five hours later a $10 tip appeared at the Tucson Cab Co., likening Poole to a friend of Tucson.
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Tucson
James Poole
E. 12Th St
East Pastime Road
Poole
Tucson Cab Co
Real Property Taxes To Rise In Arizona Says Expert
Herbert A. Leggett of Valley National Bank warned that taxes from non real property sources will fall about 10 million dollars over two years, shifting the burden to homeowners and commercial property owners. He urged a statewide standard assessment method and suggested a minimal survey budget to train county assessors, noting Arizona’s position versus California, Nevada, and Florida.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Herbert A. Leggett
The
Valley National Bank and Authority On Arizona Economics
Daily Citizen
Leggett
California
Nevada
Florida
FHA
Baseball Scores From AMERICAN AND NATIONAL Leagues
Chicago blanked New York 10 to 6 as Pierce Surkent and teammates led offense. Detroit beat Philadelphia 8 to 7 in a high scoring affair. Cleveland and Boston played a low scoring duel, while Philadelphia topped Chicago 4 to 2 in the National League action.
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Chicago
New York
Pierce
Surkent
Tipton
Byrne
Marshall
Shea
Page
Berra
Phelps Dodge Plans Layoffs in Bisbee and Douglas
Phelps Dodge announced major cutbacks at its Douglas smelter with about a two thirds reduction in operations and a 50 percent staff reduction. Only one reverberatory furnace will run five days a week. Copper production had ceased at Copper Queen mine in Bisbee and lead and zinc milling continues as concentrates move to other plants.
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Bisbee
Douglas Emg
Phelps Dodge Orge Ee
Douglas Smelter
Copper Queen Ane
Phelps Dodge Corp
Douglas
Dou
Nacozari
Mexico
Arizona House to Get 72 Chairs and Desks
Speaker Raymond Langham said the Arizona house will be refurnished with 72 chairs and 72 desks purchased from Peterson, Brooke, Steiner and Wist for 8336.30 dollars. The report notes separate items from New York and Chicago about stock market drift and a nationwide strike backing a Bell Telephone System recognition campaign.
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Arizona House of Representatives
Raymond Langham
House
Peterson, Brooke, Steiner and Wist
Chicago
CIO Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone System
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E. Toole St
R. H. Shackford
U of A
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Charles A. L. Stephens Jr
E. Pima Ave
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American Medical Association
el Paso
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Guerra
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