Dixiecrats invited back to party fold
Sen. Lucas invites southern Democrats to return to support Truman's domestic and foreign programs while warning any reentry may be temporary. He cites key allies for rent control and European recovery, but doubts lasting southern backing for the Taft-Hartley substitute. The White House sees no rebellion, though a countryward fight remains possible.
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Washington
Mar
Sen
Lucas
D-Ill
Truman
Dixie
Senate
Illinois
Mr. Truman
Sens
Maybank
D-Sc
Sparkman
D-Ala
Connally
D-Tex
George
D-Ga
Congress
Ellender
D-La
Bisbee Murder Car Located By Mexican Authorities
The missing auto linked to the Bisbee murder was found in Hermosillo by Mexican officials. Miss Rivera, missing since Sept 12, 1948, was found Dec 13 on a highway west of Bisbee. Sheriff Pruitt says the car’s altered motor number aids the investigation.
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I. W. Pruitt
Sonora
Miss Rivera
Here
Pacheco
Bisbee
Rivera
A. O. Peterson
National Auto Theft Bureau
Hermosillo
Pruitt
Cochise County
Rankin Pension Bill Faces Major Revision Push
Washington reports Rep. Huber plans a drastic substitute to the Rankin pension bill. The alternative would limit pensions to World War I veterans, require financial need, mandate an honorable discharge, and extend benefits to disabled veterans. Projections of savings are unclear.
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Washington
Mar
Rankin
Rep
D-Miss
Huber
Ohio
House
Rent Curb Bill Seen Assured by Senate Action
Rent control backers predict swift Senate passage of a 12 to 15 month extension before the March 31 deadline. The measure would permit up to 10 percent increases, with total boosts since June 30, 1947 capped at 15 percent, and allow states to decontrol or assume control. Debate and House differences loom in a race to final approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Banking Committee
Sparkman
D-Ala
House
Lucas
III
Sen
Tobey
Sen. McGrath
D-Ri
McGrath
Billy Mann Signs as Coach at North Phoenix High
Billy Mann, 24, University of Arizona senior and athlete, signs to serve next fall as assistant football coach at North Phoenix High School. A Prescott native who grew up in Tucson, Mann played three years on the university basketball team and was a two year letterman in baseball.
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Phoenix
Mar
Billy Mann
University of Arizona
Phoenix North High School
Tucson
Tucson High
Com
Crash At Crossing Reveals New Mystery Streamliner
BERWICK Pa Mar 19 UP The American Car and Foundry Co refused to reveal details of its stream lined caterpillar train after it struck a car at a grade crossing on a Delaware Lackawanna and Western trial run. The 16 car, powered by a 1000 horsepower diesel, is built for Spain and features a rear wheel in each car, a caterpillar effect, light weight metal and porthole windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berwick
American Car & Foundry Co
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Spain
Railroad Robber Sues B and O Citing Alcohol Fueling Claim
In Washington a 20 year old robs a B and O streamliner and sues the railroad for 50 000. He claims an employee provoked the incident after serving him drinks and that the assault followed an argument on the Ambassador limited. The other culprit is hospitalized. both men are charged and await trial in Fairmont West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashton
Ramsdell
West Virginia
Fairmont
W. Va
Martinsburg
Legislature Set To Quit After Voting Money Bill
Phoenix Arizona senate votes 10 to 8 to override governor Garvey’s veto on creating a separate real estate department. Sen Sam Head of Yavapai notes no reason for veto since the governor promised to sign if allowed to appoint commissions.
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Phoenix
Mar
Arizona Senate
Sam Head
Yavapai
Garvey
Commission
Arizona Senate prepares for adjournment amid key bills
The 19th Arizona senate aims for a late afternoon adjournment with face control and appropriations bills on the table and possible override of Gov. Garvey’s veto of the real estate commission bill. Legislation includes Tempe stadium bonds, a 75 bed tuberculosis sanatorium funded at 750000, and a transfer-condemnation bill for universities. The racing control bill moves through, with a conference agreement reducing days and trimming the commission, while a state government efficiency study is set to report findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Brooks
Phoenix
Mar
Arizona Senate
Senate
Tempe
State University
State
House
Conference Committee
Myron R. Holbert
Department of Education
Department of Library and Archives
Gove. Garvey
Real Estate Commission
Robert Wallace
Phoenix Republican
Dan E. Garvey
State Hospital Board of Control
Garvey
Racing Commission
Maricopa
Pima
Sevenman Commission
The
Schoolbook bill sent to governor in Arizona
Arizona senate, under suspension of rules, sent to the governor a bill allowing school districts to buy supplementary textbooks with money from the 800000 dollar text book fund for the next two years. The measure removes limits on copies while requiring state board approval and superintendent oversight.
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Phoenix
Mar
Senate
Robert Hart
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Hart
House
President Truman Ends Key West Vacation
President Truman returns to Washington from a two week Florida trip still confident his programs will pass Congress. In Key West five hotel billboards showed exclusive photos of the president with Leonard Hicks, prompting a clash over White House censorship of vacation pictures.
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Key West
Fla
U.P
Truman
Washington
Congress
Florida
White House
Swank
Casa Marina
Leonard Hicks
Clint
Dobry Plan Wins Approval
Amended building plan for Prudential Investment Corp approved by referee Stanley A. Jermain in Arizona bankruptcy court. Plan envisions constructing 10 or more houses on three land tracts at Country Club Manor with commitments for 25 homes in the first tract and three separate builders ready to begin within two weeks at $6.25 or less per square foot. Dobry seeks FHA approval and creditors retain right to later claims if financing falls short.
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Prudential Investment Corp
U. S. District Court
Stanley A. Jermain
Phoenix
Arizona
Jerman
John F. Molloy
Committee of Creditors
Dudley A. Dobry
Country Club Manor
Dobry
Works Molloy
Rudolph W. Dvorak
Edgar F
Isley Confirmed To Dairy Commission
The Arizona senate unanimously approved Gov. Garvey's nomination of Phil A. Isley of Mesa as state dairy commissioner to succeed Angus Johnson. Isley's term runs until the first Monday in January 1951. The senate also approved George Locke Fred Blair Townsend and Mulford Winsor for the Uniform Legislation Commission with terms from May 15, 1949 to May 15, 1951.
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Phoenix
Mar
Arizona State Senate
Dan E. Garvey
Phil A. Isley
Mesa
Isley
Angus Johnson
Senate
Johnson
George Locke
Fred Blair Townsend
Mulford Winsor
Congress Ready to Okay Atlantic Pact on Capitol Hill
Washington reports indicate Senate will debate the North Atlantic security treaty but likely approve it. The pact pledges the United States and eight allied nations to resist an armed attack and may involve rearmament costs. Russia is not named, but the alliance aims to deter Soviet influence with about 3.42 million allied forces.
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Washington
Mar
Capitol Hill
Senate
State Department
United States
Russia
U. S
Canada
Norway
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Congress
Frank Pascoe Killed In Crash Near Cananea
Douglas Mexico Mar 19 an air crash in the Sonora mountains 30 miles south of Douglas killed Frank Pascoe 32 a native of Los Angeles and former major in the air transport command He flew for W C Greene of Cananea since 1945 Funeral services were pending Pascoe survived by his wife Thelma a three year old son Robert and a sister Mrs Mae Pascoe Davis of Phoenix
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Douglas
Mar
Mexico
Arizona
Frank Pascoe
Pascoe
Here
Cananea
Sonora
Navojoa
Jack Evans
Nogales International
W. C. Greene
Robert
Mae Pascoe Davis
Phoenix
Oak Ridge Opens to Public Amid Atomic City Jubilation
Oak Ridge Tennessee prepares for public access as gates finally open. A civic celebration features Vice President Barkley and AEC Chair Lilienthal with Hollywood figures including Alexis Smith and Adolphe Menjou. The event marks a transition from secrecy to growth as residents enjoy new sidewalks and housing amid a $20.66 million expansion for about 36 000 residents.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Mar
Washington
Hollywood
Alben W. Barkley
Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Gordon Browning
American Legion
Perry Brown
Alexis Smith
Adolphe Menjou
Lee Bowman
Rod Cameron
Marie
Atlantic pact sparks international debate and concern
Russia denounces the North Atlantic pact as a war on the Soviet Union while Britain’s Bevin defends it as Western protection. Leaders in France Britain Belgium Norway Italy and Portugal weigh legal obligations and military strength amid early reactions to the pact.
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London
U.P
Russia
Soviet Union
Ernest Bevin
Kremlin
Europe
North America
Radio Moscow
West
Moscow
Daily Worker
Western
Bevin
Britain
Dominions
House of Commons
Robert Schuman
Brussels
Paul- Henri Spaak
Oslo
Einar Erhardsen
Rome
Alcide de Gassperi
Italy
Lisbon
Jose Caeiro de Matadis
Snow In East Greets Spring
Snow blankets eastern and middle Atlantic states as spring arrives at 1 49 p m Sunday. Frigid weather extends from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast with six inch falls in New York Boston and Hartford. Temperatures plunge in the gulf states and northern plains while light rain falls in the Pacific Northwest and warm readings reach 87 in Yuma Arizona.
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Chicago
Middle Atlantic
Rockies
Atlantic Coast
South
Weather Bureau
New York
Maine
Pennsylvania
Seaboard
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Ohio
Hartford
Conn
Boston
Gulf
Gulf States
Northern Plains
Great Lakes
Ohio River Valley
Pacific Northwest
Mercury
Yuma
Ariz
Phoenix
Miami
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Gen. Meyers
H. Lamarre
Aviation Electric Co
Dayton
Donald Weed
Robert C. Knee
Lamarre
Bennett E. Meyers
North Phoenix
Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
L. “Duke” Ashton
Luman
Skip” Ramsdell
Ruth Ungar
John M. Webster
B. and O.’s
Ambassador Limited
TB Sanatorium
Bulletin
Dobry Plan
Dairy Commission
Atom Age
Moscow Radio
R. H. Shackford
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