Predicts End Of Atom Bomb By McAuliffe At Bikini
Aboard USS Mt. McKinley at Bikini on June 28 Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe predicted Operation Crossroads may be the last atomic weapon test if nations agree to peaceful use of atomic energy. He said further tests would occur only if international relations collapse and the United States resumes warfare.
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Joseph L. Myler
MT. Mckinley
Bikini
Anthony C. McAuliffe
McAuliffe
Army
W. H. P. Blandy
United States
Bikini Lagoon
Nevada
Saratoga
Marshalls
Kwajalein
Appalachian
Blue Ridge
Dave
New York
Bikini Atoll
Weather favorable for Bikini atomic test Monday
The Army air forces head weatherman predicted favorable weather for the upcoming Bikini atomic bomb test on Monday. Maj Delmar Crowson said an uptick in high pressure and a southward movement of an intertropical front improve chances for a clear day. Official forecasts will be issued Sunday morning and evening.
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Kwajalein
Army Air Forces
Bikini
Delmar Crowson
Glendale
Calif
Operations Crossroads
Italy Elects New President
Enrico De Nicola, veteran Neapolitan statesman, was elected provisional president of the Italian republic by the constituent assembly with 396 votes of 504. He is 68 and was seen as a compromise after Christian Democrats, Socialists, and Communists backed him. De Gasperi’s six party coalition poised to resign. he may form a new government.
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Rome
Enrico de Nicola
Constituent Assembly
de Nicola
Christian Democrats
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
Umberto II
Royal House of Savoy
Nicola
Chamber of Deputies
Giolitti
Orlando
Vittorio Emanuele
Stage Set For Sunday's Historic Atom Bomb Test
The program for the Bikini atoll test lists a 9 30 a m Bikini time launch on Sunday July 1 with a nuclear fission bomb dropped from a Superfortress six miles up. Targeted are fifty warships including two old battleships and two old carriers in Bikini lagoon. The Navy says the test will determine atomic effects on naval vessels and provide defense data with secondary aims to train Army air forces in ship attack and study effects on military installations.
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Associated Press
Bikini
U. S
Navy
Army Air Forces
Miners End Long Southwest Strike with Wage Increase
The 99 day Phelps Dodge strike by 3200 to 3500 workers in Bisbee Douglas Morenci and Tyronne ends after contracts. A general raise of 1 8 14 cents per hour with retroactive pay and two year term through Sept 27 1947. Mines to resume Monday with possible staff increase and new night shift differentials.
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Phelps Dodge
Bisbee
Douglas
Morenci
Tyronne
N. M
Arizona
Phelps Dodge Corporation
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
Harry M. Lavender
Ajo
CIO
AFL
Louis S. Cates
OPA
Reed Robinson
Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation
el Paso
Tex
Laurel Hill
N. Y
Cates
Southwest
Long Copper Strike Ended
The CIO mine unions strike at Phelps Dodge copper mines in Arizona and at Laurel Hill New York and El Paso Texas smelters and refineries ends. Louis Cates reports a wage rise of 18 14 cents per hour under the national pattern, with plants expected to resume operations soon and copper output rising through July.
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New York
Louis Cates
Phelps Dodge Corp
CIO
Arizona
Laurel Hill
N. Y
el Paso
Tex
Anaconda
Cates
Phelps Dodge
General Electric
Utah
Kennecott
Metals Reserve Corp
United States
Chile
Officials dispute highway minutes amid Tucson Ajo funding talk
At a Phoenix highway meeting J M Smith, Arizona highway commissioner, said the minutes of a prior session are in error and that he did voice support for moving more funds into the Tucson Ajo route. He noted no motion followed the claimed utterance.
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J. M. Smith
Arizona
Highway Commission
Phoenix
Commission
Tucson- Ajo
Smith
Flagstaff Backing Reported in Arizona College Row
The Greater Arizona Inc board adopted a resolution urging the state university system to reconsider blocking Arizona State College at Flagstaff from awarding liberal arts and science degrees. Jack P. Martin of Tucson told Gordon Evans the regents would meet July 22 to discuss the issue.
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Flagstaff
Greater Arizona, Inc
Board of Regents
University and State Colleges
Arizona State College At
Jack P. Martin
Tucson
Board of
Regents
Gordon Evans
Coconino Board of Supervisors
Two OPA Price Suits Settled By U S Court
The U S district court ordered Otis E. Phillips Co and R L Algeo Co of Phoenix to keep records showing proper lumber prices. Two of three OPA suits were settled. In the remaining case the OPA seeks treble damages of 15000 dollars from Fish Lumber Co of Mesa for overcharges on 40000 feet of lumber.
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Phoenix
U. S. District Court
Otis E. Phillips Co
R. L. Algeo Co
OPA
Fish Lumber Co
Mesa
City Zoning Proposals Move Ahead With Streamlined Subdivision Rules
City planning board approves faster subdivision decisions from months to weeks and trails residential zoning changes. The panel also approves industrial zoning for a 45 acre tract near East 16th Street and West of South Park Avenue, rejects business zoning at East Mabel Street and North Cherry Avenue, and denies a R-2 to R-3 change at East First Street and North Sixth Avenue amid protests. The action is a recommendation to the city council with a required public hearing.
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City Planning and Zoning Commission
Feldman Addition
Herman Rasche
East Drachman
North Second Avenue
Rasche
East 16Th Street
South Park Avenue
Edward Vander Vries
William A. Small
East Mabel Street
North Cherry Avenue
Charles
Frank Czapar
Dorothy Peycke
East First Street
North Sixth Avenue
Commission
Andre Faure
M. H. Starkweather
Starkweather
Dan Brewster
George Grove
Glenton Sykes
H. E. Heighton
Byron Ivancovich
Brewster
Grove
Casa Solariega
East
Glenn Avenue
Country Club
Trent Avenue
Parkway Vista
Tucson Boulevard
East 15Th Street
el Campo
East 22Nd Street
South Country Club
Treat Avenue
Siam King Ananda Mahidol death may be murder says doctors
From Bangkok a 19 member committee including an American and a Britisher completed a post mortem and submitted findings to the royal commission. The group examined X rays of the king’s head and a ballistics test on a pistol found near the body, raising murder as a possibility.
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Shanghai
U.P
Central News Agency
Bangkok
Anananda Mahidol
Siam
Royal Commission of Inquiry
Truman Urged To Accept OPA Bill
The Senate passed a price control extension to keep the OPA for another year while allowing higher prices on food clothing autos and many manufactured goods. Administration leaders urged President Truman to sign, arguing it is the only viable option despite inflation fears.
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Truman
Washington
U.P
Senate
White House
Congress
Alben W. Barkley
W. Lee O'Daniel
D-Tex
Barkley
Rayburn
Kenneth D. McKeller
D-Tenn
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Ten
John W. McCormack
Mass
Texas
Pappy
OPA
Chester Bowles
Jap Admiral Admits Guilt Over Pearl Harbor Attack
Former Japanese Fleet Adm Osami Nagano admitted full responsibility for the Pearl Harbor raid in a letter to defense counsel Hachiro Okuyama. Nagano, indicted for murder linked to the attack, said the plan was his alone as naval operations. Mainichi reports Yamamoto proposed the strike but the staff opposed it as risky.
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Tokyo
U.P
Osami Nagano
Pearl Harbor
Mainichi
Nagano
Hachiro Okuyama
Nagamo
Isoruku Yamamoto
General Staff
Unions Endorse Arizona Political Slate in Primary
The railroad brotherhoods and CIO back a unity slate for state and national offices in Arizona's July 16 primary. They oppose right to work and favor wage protection and broader social programs, with AFL not endorsing any candidates. No county candidates endorsed.
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Railroad Brotherhoods
CIO
Arizona
Phoenix
U. S. House of Representatives
AFL
Brotherhoods and
Brotherhood
The
Colorado
Brotherhoods
Ela
U. S. Senate
Harry J. Valentine
Supreme Court
Joseph H. Morgan
Sidney P. Osborn
Dan Garvey
John L. Sullivan
Ann Frohmiller
E. T. Williams, Jr
Nolan D. Pulliam
J. E. Zimmerman
Carl Hickerson
W. J. Eden
University Plans GI Furnishings for Camps at AZ Colleges
Phoenix June 28 The War Assets Administration will purchase furnishings for GI housing at University of Arizona Tempe and Arizona State College Flagstaff. State education department arranged surplus property purchases. Top priority for permanent structures. University aims for 2000 GI students. Equipment available at wholesale prices minus 40 percent.
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Phoenix
University of Arizona
Arizona State
Tempe
Flagstaff
War Assets Administration
State Department of Education
Baseball scores from Major League games
In the American League Washington lost to Boston 1 to 12 while in the National League Boston defeated Brooklyn 3 to 1. The results highlight heavy Boston offense in the AL and a tight NL matchup at Brooklyn.
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Washington
Boston
Brooklyn
Russia Eyes Germany by J M Roberts Jr AP
The article analyzes Soviet aims in postwar Germany, weighing a unified state versus federated regions and possible Soviet dominance. It notes English fears of a revived Germany as a Western buffer and considers the Socialist Unity Party’s push for a united, indivisible republic as a potential flashpoint.
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J. M. Roberts, JR
Russia
Germany
Berlin
Moscow
Ruhr
Rhineland
England
Europe
Rhine
Socialist Unity
Social Democrats
Socialist Unity Party
State Power Probe Upheld by Arizona Supreme Court
Arizona Supreme Court upholds a $50,000 appropriation for a power rate survey, ruling it exempt from referendum when used to support existing department functions. Justice Morgan authored the decision with concurring opinions by Justices La Prade and Stanford, reversing the Maricopa County superior court.
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Phoenix
Arizona Supreme Court Today
Joseph H. Morgan
Arthur T. la Prade
R. C. Stanford
John L. Sullivan
Dan E. Garvey
Maricopa County
Secretary of State
Stanford
Corporation Commission
Federal Power Commission
Arizona
Central Arizona Light & Power Co
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Co
Arizona Edison Co
Arizona Power Corp
Morgan
Commission
Public Service Companies
RAE
Justice Morgan
Executive
Bureau of Reclamation
Five Haulers Boost Rates In Arizona Ruling
Five Tucson transfer companies were approved by the state corporation commission to raise hauling rates July 1 by an average 20 percent. Five Phoenix firms sought a 25 percent hike. their application was kept under advisement after a two day hearing. The Tucson firms affected are Citizens Transfer Storage Lightning Delivery Transfer Ralphs Transfer Terminal Transfer and Tucson Warehouse Transfer.
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Phoenix, Ariz
U.P
Tucson
State Corporation Commission
Phoenix
Citizens Transfer & Storage Company
Lightning Delivery& Transfer Company
Ralph’s Transfer
Terminal Transfer
Tucson Warehouse & Transfer Company
Last Rites Held For Old-Time Cowboy William McCarty
William D. McCarty 78 a longtime Arizona resident born in Texas had his last rites today in Phoenix. He came to the Salt River Valley as a cowboy in 1886, served as foreman for the Pat Hurley ranch, and later farmed for himself.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
William D. McCarty
Arizona
Texas
McCarty
Salt River Valley
Pat Hurley
Parley Drafting Pacts Near European Peace Conference
Paris reports indicate Secretary of State Byrnes told the foreign ministers council he will press for a decision tomorrow to call a general European peace conference. An American informant provided the briefing.
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Paris
Byrnes
Foreign Ministers Council
Big Four Ministers Work On Five Peace Treaties In Paris
Five foreign ministers gather to draft skeleton peace pacts for Italy Bulgaria Romania Hungary and Finland ahead of a 21 nation peace conference. Talks touch on Trieste reparations Danube navigation and Balkan commerce with Britain noting slow progress toward a July 15 conference date.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
Dodecanese
Italy
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Finland
Trieste
Danube
Aegean Sea
Greece
Tenda
Briga
France
Mt. Denis
Little St. Bernard
Lareche
Barconneche
Modane
St. Bernard Pass
Mt. Blane
Larche Pass
Britain
Somaliland
Eritrea
Libya
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Rome condemns loss to France as betrayal headline
The Paris news that France will receive the Tenda and Briga territories triggers Italian anger. La Capitale calls the act a stab in the back while L Indipendente denounces Paris as unjust and questions French democracy.
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Rome
France
la Capitale
Paris
Foreign Ministere Council
L'Indipendente
Greece Rejoices Over Dodecanese Return Decision
Greece hailed the foreign ministers council decision to return the Dodecanese islands to Greece. Premier Tsaladaris said the move marks the beginning of satisfaction of national claims and honors Greece’s role in aiding the Allied cause.
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Mediterranean Islands
Athens
Greece
Foreign Ministers Council
Dodecanese Islands
Tsaladaris
Yugoslavia Reiterates Claim to Port of Trieste
Moscow radio quotes Premier Marshal Tito saying an unjust Trieste settlement could cause grave changes in Yugoslavia's attitude toward the United Nations.
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Yugoslavia
Trieste
London
Moscow Radio
Marshal Tito
United Nations
Senate Approves Rice as Fry Postmaster
President Truman nominates James M. Rice to be postmaster at Fry Arizona and the Senate has approved the appointment in Washington on June 28. Rice will oversee Fry postal services and related operations.
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Senate
Rice
Fry
Washington
Truman
James M. Rice
Fry, Ariz
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