Three City Council Seats Renominated in Primaries
Incumbents in wards 3 5 and 6 won renomination with Dr Samuel T Adams leading ward 3 at 284 90 Fred J Brown defeated Adams in ward 3 90 A L Slonaker 33 ward 3 F G Priser beat Frank C Quiroga 275 179 ward 5 William H Codd unopposed 135 Ward turnout low 1115 of 6979 voters Alarm over unrecorded votes and voting machine confusion noted by city clerk Carl Hitt with pointers returned to up position before curtain pull.
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Samuel T. Adams
Fred J. Brown
Dr. Adams
A. L. Slonaker
F. G. Priser
Frank C. Quiroga
William H. Codd
Slonaker
James D. Landon
Dean F. Hill
Codd
Carl Hitt
Udall Victor In Capital City
Nicholas Udall, 34, elected mayor of Phoenix after a primary victory with 603 votes to 3284 for Emory J. Hurley. Udall hails from the prominent Udall family. his uncle Levi S. Udall sits on the Arizona Supreme Court and others hold judge positions.
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Phoenix
Mar
Nicholas Udall
Emory J. Hurley
John H. Udall
Udall
Arizona
Udalls
Latter Day Saints
Utah
Levi S. Udall
State Supreme Court
Don T. Udall
Holbrook
Jesse A. Udall
Safford
Brigham Young University
Provo
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
W. F. Tate
H. W. Bisine
Slaver Seeking To Reduce Sentence
Granville Johnson, imprisoned for the 1926 hatchet murder of his wife, asks for a commutation heard by the state board of pardons and paroles. The hearing also includes Herbert Martin Oliver, serving life for murder in Phoenix since 1941. Johnson’s case follows a hanging sentence commuted to life imprisonment after the body was found near Williams.
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Phoenix
Mar
Granville Johnson
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Walter Hofmann
Johnson
Herbert Martin Oliver
Coconino County
Welfare Revision Bill Introduced in Arizona Legislature
Debates opened in Phoenix on a social security and welfare law revision with six measures on the table. The house passed a loan bill for the Arizona Power Authority and approved funds for the Arizona Corporation Commission. A budget modification bill would let cities and counties call special elections to exceed budgets. The name change to the state department of social security and welfare was approved, while a dependent children welfare revision and medical aid limits faced scaled scrutiny. Senate members questioned flags for Flagstaff science facilities and university funding.
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Phoenix
Mar
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Arizona Power Authority
Arizona Corporation Commission
al Lindsey
Social Curity and Welfare Board
Arizona State Department of Social Security and Welfare
Dependent Children Welfare
Sens. A. L
Prescott
Earl Platt
College
Flagstaff
University of Arizona
Platt
John T. Babbitt
Czech Envoy resigns to fight for free Czechoslovakia
Czech Ambassador Juraj Slavik resigned his post in Washington to oppose the new Communist government in Prague. He said he would inform the State Department and suggested Eduard Benes was coerced into offering support. Slavik, ambassador since 1946, urged fellow patriots to pursue freedom for Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
Mar
Juraj Slavik
Czechoslovakia
Dot
Shavik
Inzechoslovakia
Slavik
Welfare officials oppose enforcement of family support law
County welfare executives and boards urged deletion of a provision forcing financial support from children to parents. They backed removing a proposed cap on aid to dependent children and argued income from minor children should not count as a resource for eligibility.
Truman Pounds Down On Florida Vacation Diet
President Truman, weighing 173 pounds, has lost three pounds since arriving in Key West for a vacation. His physician Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham says he is in excellent shape as Truman plans a five hour return flight to Washington tomorrow morning to resume work at the White House desk.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Wallace H. Graham
Ayers
Graham
Ade
Boca Chica
Washington
Hi White House
Arabs Die As Haifa Bomb Blast Rocks Arab Neighborhood
A truckload of dynamite exploded in an Arab section of Haifa killing 11 Arabs and wounding 27, with two Arab policemen among the dead. The Stern gang claimed responsibility as rescue workers searched rubble and fear of more casualties persisted.
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Jerusalem
Mar
Haifa
Stern Gang
Ben Yehuda
Salameh
Aral Division
Government Welfare Office
Courts Building
United Nations Secretariat
Holy Land
Russia
Lake Success
Nh. Y
Paleaine
Aral
Magdiel
Sharon
Davis Dam Power Applications Open Through March 31
Davis dam power applications are being accepted through March 31, announced E. A. Moritz regional director of the bureau of reclamation. The interim rates set the monthly demand charge at 75 cents per kilowatt and the energy charge at 3.5 mills per kWh for the first 250 kWh, then 3 mills per kWh for excess usage. Davis dam lies about 67 miles below Hoover dam on the Colorado River.
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Boulder City
Davis Dam
E. A. Moritz
Bureau of Reclamation
Secretary of Interior
Moritz
Bureau
Hoover Dam
Colorado River
Nationwide meat packers strike call shocks industry
In Chicago a 100000 worker walkout is set for March 16 at 12:01 a.m. Ralph Ficsstein of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers announces the action. The union previously shut the meat business in 1946 until federal intervention.
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Chicago
Ralph Ficstein
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
Airliner crashes in fog at London airport. 19 dead
A Sabena DC-3 crash at London Airport in dense fog killed 19 people including Guido Benenti of Milan, with three survivors injured. Survivors were all Britons, and authorities questioned why the plane missed the runway as pilots signaled for an emergency landing before ignition and explosion.
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London
Mar
Sabena Airlines
Brussels
Guido Benenti
Milan
Szyga Schnitzer
Sabena
Brig
O. W Nicholson
Britain
O.K
Heathrow
Hurn
Benenti
Saccoi
Italy
United States
Meat shortage looms as Tucson butchers strike widens
Tucson stores warn meat supplies will run out by Thursday or Friday as the butchers strike closes market departments. Safeway at 948 North Stone opens briefly to sell fresh meat, then plans to close. Pickets halt some clerks while unions in Phoenix and Tucson coordinate a wider lockout tactic.
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Safeway
North Stone Avenue
C. W. McKay
Retail Clerks International Association
Butchers Union
United Press
Phoenix
Tucson
McCabe Denies Ordering B 25 Tails Cut in China Sale
Senate hearings into Thomas G. McCabe's wartime surplus sales reveal claims he ordered destruction of 11 surplus B 25 bombers sold to a private firm linked to T L Soong. Tobey alleges McCabe acted without authority to forestall bad publicity.
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Washington
Mar
Thomas G. McCabe
China
McCabe
Tobey
R-Nh
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
T. L. Soong
T. V. Soong
Hie
McCabead
Greece Turkey Aid Fight Seen As Essential To Freedom
Secretary Marshall and Secretary Forrestal told Congress there is grave danger Greece and Turkey cannot remain free without more US military aid. They urged a $275 million request for arms and equipment, citing Communist expansion and guerrilla warfare spiraling in northern Greece.
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Washington
Mar
Marshall
Forrestal
Congress
Greece
Turkey
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Defense Forrestal
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Eagle-Picher Buys Housatonic Insulation Plant
Eagle-Picher company announced the purchase of Rockdale Insulation company assets at Housatonic Massachusetts. The deal includes the plant and other physical assets with the price not disclosed.
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Eagle-Picher Company
Housatonic
Cincinnati
Mar
Rockdale Insulation Company
Mass
Snow Snow Hampers Aerial Search Over Arizona
Snow halted a second day of aerial search for two Tucson airmen missing since Saturday. CAP planes from Tucson and Prescott scoured Verde Valley, while B-29s and AT-6s joined the effort as six inches of snow covered runways Tuesday night.
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Arizona
Tucson
Grand Canyon
Civil Air Patrol
Gilpin
H. S Jacobs
Gilpin Airport
James Shields
Walter Douglas
Gilpin Airlines, Ltd
Prescott
CAP
J. S. Kipnis
Tucson Cap
Verde Valley
Jacobs
Shields
Davis-Monthan
Associated Press
Sorrell Denies Communist Ties Under Oath
Hollywood labor leader Herbert K. Sorrell testified before a House subcommittee that he is not now nor ever a member of the Communist party. He said if he had joined he would disclose it due to fears of deportation and argued there is no law against being a Communist. He aimed to expose filth in labor relations in the movie industry.
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Washington
Mar
Herbert K. Sorrell
Hollywood
Communist Party
House Labor
Missouri
Sorrell
Rep
Kearns
Communists Demand Immediate Finnish Russia Treaty Talks
Helsinki reports say five Communist Democratic Union leaders led by Hertta Kuusinen urged President Paasikivi to begin negotiations for a friendship and military alliance with Russia at once. Paasikivi opposes a clause forcing Finland to aid Russia's war effort, while opposition parties back talks without that provision.
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Helsinki
Juho K._ Paasikivi
Russia
Paasikivi
G. Savonenkov
Finland
Communist Democratic Union
Hertta Kuusinen
K. L. Kulo
Democratic Union
Helsinki Stock Exchange
Savonenkov
Balkan
Reds Cite Hitler Style in Czechoslovakia Coup
Lord Pakenham condemned the Communist seize of Prague as Hitlerite in technique and damnable. He warned the fate of Czechoslovakia should warn fellow travelers elsewhere as Finland nears danger. Bevin said no further steps beyond the US France joint declaration.
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London
Lord Pakenham
Czechoslovakia
House of Lords
Finland
Lord Salisbury
Britain
Europe
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
United States
France
Prague
Bevin
Labor
College enrollments to double prewar peak in five years
Dr. Alfred Atkinson forecasts Arizona college enrollment growth based on an American Council on Education study covering four western states. He cites 4 756 enrollments in 1939 and 8 491 now, projecting 9 576 in 1953 and 14 148 in 1964, suggesting more junior colleges and closer housing as solutions.
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Phoenix
Mar
Arizona
Board of Regents of
The
University and State Colleges
Alfred Atkinson
University of Arizona
Regents
Atkinson
American Council On Education
California
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
University
Arizona State
Flagstaff
Tempe
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