Five and a Half Billion Europe Aid Nears Senate Vote
Congress moves toward final approval of the 5.58 billion Marshall Plan for Europe with Democratic leaders blocking cuts. Senator Taft leads a GOP drive to trim the package by up to three billion, while Majority Leader Lucas expects no amendments. House action shifts to a 558 million flood control and navigation bill for the coming year with potential boosts amid talks of adding 81 million. The measure also funds Panama Canal operations, the national cemetery, and Alaska signal corps communications.
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Washington
Europe
Congress
Senate
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Lucas
Ill
House
Passman
D-La
Panama Canal
National Cemetery
Army Signal Corps
Alaska
Mass Picket Looms Around Waldorf Astoria As 50 000 Prepare
The Friends of Democracy urged Atty Gen Tom Clark to indict World Peace Conference organizers for failure to register as Cominform agents. Catholic war veterans and 28 anti Communist groups plan a 50 000 strong picket around the Waldorf Astoria where delegates from 16 nations assemble. police set limited entry and vow full force to prevent disorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Friends of Democracy
Tom Clark
Waldorf- Astoria Hotel
Champion Horses Selected At Fair
Friday at the Pima county fair and Tucson live stock show highlighted the cattle day and quarter horse events. Champion horses included Ranchero Joe Cartorze and Cowboy G with owners in Winkelman Tucson and Sasabe. An auction of range cattle followed the day’s minimized judging while top horses prepare for weekend speed trials and a Sunday championship race. Fred Chandier of Chariton Iowa appears in a short postscript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pima County Fair
Tucson
Pete Gillham
Arizona
Ranchero Joe
Buster Naeg
Fire at Tucson High School Lab Quickly Doused
A chemistry classroom blaze at Tucson High School started by burning charcoal at 1:15 p.m. Friday was extinguished by the city fire department. Smoke filled the first floor hallways and damage was limited to a burned venetian blind and ruined equipment with no alarm for students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson High School
Elbert Brooks
City Fire Department
Police Guard Rep Rogers After Death Threats
Police guard Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers after she received letters threatening death. She said threats began around Valentine’s Day and continue, with authorities investigating. Nearby, Capt Harold Latta-Lawrence was served with divorce papers seeking $300 monthly separate maintenance as his wife accuses him of close ties to Rogers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edith Nourse Rogers
House
Navy
Harold A. Latta-Lawrence
Eilene Diana Lattta-Lawrence
New England
Yuma County Seeks Funds For Hospital
Phoenix Date Mar 25 The state tax commission schedules a public hearing for Apr 14 on Yuma county’s 43000 emergency expenditure petition. The funds would primarily cover operation of the county hospital in the current fiscal year.
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Phoenix
State Tax Commission
Yuma County
British Film Wins Oscar as Laurence Olivier Tops
Hollywood reports Laurence Olivier wins best actor for Hamlet and Jane Wyman best actress for Johnny Belinda at the 21st annual Academy Awards. Olivier also wins best picture as Hamlet. Wyman updates the red carpet moment with a party of cheers and jokes. Walter Huston and Claire Trevor grab supporting acting honors, while John Huston wins best director for Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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Resen
Hollywood
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
Claire Trevor
Jerry Wald
Irving Thalberg
Jane Wyman
Walter Huston
Olivier
Missouri
Laurence
Miss Wyman
Lew Ayres
Academy
Lady Tippler
Key Largo
John Huston
Papa Walter
Sierra Madre
Robbery killer Sampsell captured by FBI at Phoenix airport
Lloyd Edison Sampsell 41, once among the top 10 fugitives, was arrested at Sky Harbor on arrival from Los Angeles where he admitted the $8,700 Bank of America holdup. Wanted for prior murders and multiple bank crimes, he earned the nickname yacht bandit and had served 18 years in Folsom.
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FBI
Phoenix
Mar
U.P
Lloyd Edison Sampsell
Sky Harbor
Sampsell
Bank of America
Los Angeles
Phoenix Federal Building
San Diego
Calif
Folsom
San Francisco
Harold C. Sandren
Arthur Smith
Seaboard Finance Co
Fresno
Anglo Californian Bank
Churchill Dines At Blair House
Winston Churchill spent a Washington evening dining at Blair House after a British embassy reception. He joined President Truman and family for dinner with guests including Vice President Barkley Chief Justice Vinson and Mrs Vinson British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks and Lady Franks Secretary of State Acheson and Mrs Acheson General George C. Marshall and other officials and relatives.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
U. S
Churchill
Blairhouse
Truman
Barkley
Vinson
Oliver Franks
Lady Franks
Acheson
George C. Marshall
Max O. Truitt
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Phoenix Police Nab Mobsters in Los Angeles Transfer
Two henchmen of mobster Mickey Cohen were arrested in Phoenix at gunpoint and brought to Los Angeles in police custody. James Rist and Eli Lubin denied guilt, with charges of assault with a deadly weapon and intent to murder filed by Los Angeles authorities. A grand jury session was convened to probe the beating of Alfred M. Pearson amid a wider investigation of Cohen associates and ex convicts.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Mickey Cohen
Phoenix
James Rist
Eli Lubin
Rist
Alfred M. Pearson
Cohen
Palm Springs
Calif
Swoose To Take Last Trip Immortality Assured
Los Angeles reports the Swoose, the Flying Fortress born Dec 7 1941, begins its final flight to Chicago then to Washington D C for the national air museum. Col Frank Kurtz leads the crew including Maj Harry Schrieber Capt Ricoland Boone Maj Charles Reeves and Capt Harold Warner aboard. Mayor Fletcher Bowron to receive the plane for the air force with a stop at Omaha en route.
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Los Angeles
Flying Fortress
William L. White
Chicago
Smithsonian Institution
National Air Museum
Washington, D. C
U. S. Far Eastern Air Force
Frank Kurtz
Harry Schrieber
Galveston
Tex
Ricoland Boone
Hemet
Calif
Charles T. Reeves
Bakersfield
Bombardier
Harold Warner
San Rafael
Col. Kurtz
Margo
Riyal
Margo Jr
Swoosey
Municipal
Fletcher Bowron
Air Force
U. S
Circle Hamilton Field
Gen. H. H
Hap) Arnold
Army Air Force
Omaha
Truman Accepts Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith Resignation
President Truman accepts the resignation of Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Russia. Smith will receive a field command but his new assignment is not disclosed. He served as Moscow ambassador for three years and returned to Washington for medical treatment before the resignation was announced.
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Washington
Truman
Walter Bedell Smith
Russia
Smith
Moscow
White House
First Army
Governors Island
New York
Walter Reed Hospital
Charles G. Ross
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Bulganin
Cold Front Brings Snow Across Arizona
A sudden cold front moved through southern and northern Arizona on Friday, bringing snow flurries to Tombstone and Benson with light rain in Tucson and snow on the Catalinas. Snow covered northern and western areas. temperatures fell to 43 in Tucson and 24 at Flagstaff with other readings including 42 at Yuma and 49 at Phoenix. American Airlines reported all Tucson flights operating with instrument landings ongoing.
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Arizona
Tombstone
Benson
Tucson
Catalinas
Rockies
Central Plains
Yuma
Phoenix
Flagstaff
Grand Canyon
Mercury
American Airlines
Gillars Sentenced to 10 to 30 Years for Treason
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally was sentenced by Judge Curran to 10 to 30 years in prison for treason and fined $10,000. She faces possible parole after ten years and loss of citizenship upon conviction. The case noted she did not participate in high level Nazi policy meetings unlike Chandler and Best.
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Washington
Mildred E
Axis Sally) Gillars
Edward M. Curran
Miss Gillars
Curran
District of Columbia
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Edna Mae Herrick
Douglas Chandler
Robert Henry Best
Chandler
Best
Kansan Slain Gang Fashion Kansan Slain
Three out of town killers fled after their overheated getaway car failed near an east side Kansas City intersection. The slain man was Wolf amenia a 45 year old businessman socialite and former golf professional. Detectives found the hot radiator car abandoned downtown with a siren and an arsenal under the back seat linking to an assassination.
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Kansas City
U.P
Wolf Amenia
Rimann
Can Exceed Budget As Result Of Snow
State official Thad Moore recommended allowing Coconino County to exceed its budget by 50245 for emergency snow expenditures after a commission hearing. No opposition emerged. The city sought 15700 for snow removal costs, supported by city officials.
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Flagstaff
Mar
Wpp
State Corporation
Thad Moore
Coconino County
Moore
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James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mines
Interior
Julius
Boyd
Associated Press
ECA
Veterans
Foreign Affairs Committee
China
Post Office Committee
By Bob Stirling
Rep
Rogers
Virginia MacPherson
Blair House
Phoenix Police
Traitor
Kansan
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