Bookie Joint Operated As Loan Company
Eight officers and employees of Guarantee Finance Corp. face Monday sentencing for conspiracy to violate gambling laws. Two acquittals included bookkeeper Handley and office manager Gemmill. others were convicted including President Kobey and secretary Cobert. The case stemmed from a grand jury probe labeling the firm a multimillion dollar bookmaking front.
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Los Angeles
Uph
Guarantee Finance Corp
Guarantee
C. L. Handley
Bruce Gemmill
Marvin Kobey
Phillip Cobert
Albert Kogus
Kobey
Donovan Himebaugh
John W. Buford
Nathan H. Kletnick
Harry Conn
Harry Kogus
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Harry Sackman
Maurine Jaynes
Earl Warren
Commission On Organized Crime
Joseph Powers
Governor’s Crime Commission
Hotel Officials Cite Losses For Adler and Draper Libel Suit
Hartford May 5 hotel chain official says bookings for harmonica player Larry Adler and dancer Paul Draper were canceled due to adverse publicity from a libel letter. They sue Mrs. Hester McCullough of Greenwich for 200000 dollars. Depositions in New York related to damages follow a recessed federal trial.
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Hartford
Conn
Larry Adler
Paul Draper
Draper
Adler
Hester McCullough
Greenwich
William J. Friedman
Chicago
Hilton Hotels Corp
Friedman
Palmer House
Hotel Plaza
New York
Hilton Hotels
McCullough
John T. McCullough
Time Magazine
Greenwich Time
New York Journal-American
Journal-American
Igor Cassini
Cassini
Maxwell Arnold Kreindler
Cafe Society
Kreindler
Fight For Freedom
Germany
Lightning injures Tigers on Pittsburgh street car ride
In Pittsburgh a lightning strike on a Fourth Avenue street car bound for Knoxville injured 23 people, 3 seriously, with about 40 aboard when sparks and fumes filled the car and passengers kicked out a window. Two other items note a Los Angeles heiress acquitted in past dynamiting, a nurse saving a boy with a scarf, and other brief health and crime notes.
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Pittsburgh
Fourth Avenue
Smithfield
Kusvurga
Arizona Sole Threat To California Water
State Sen Bradford S Crittenden of Stockton warned that Arizona's bid in Congress for more Colorado River water could threaten southern California. He said California's existing development program should meet needs for 30 to 40 years as his interim committee reviews state water problems. He spoke to metropolitan water district officials and praised progress by California agencies to accommodate population and industry growth.
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Los Angeles
Bradford S. Crittenden
Stockton
California
Crittenden
Metropolitan Water District
Arizona
Fire Hits Hollywood Hills Home. Phillies Members Visited Patient
J E McKinley, visiting a Los Angeles television factory, saw a video of a blaze at a Hollywood hills home. He rushed home to find his three story house destroyed but his wife and daughter were safe with neighbors. Phillies players Eddie Waitkus Curt Simmons and Bob Miller were visiting the hospital room of a patient.
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Philadelphia Phillies
Eddie Waitkus
Curt Simmons
Bob Miller
Los Angeles
J. E. McKinley
Hollywood Hills
McKinley
California woman seeks $76700 from 21 year marriage annulment
Betty Norcom sues Fred Norcom after an annulment ends their 21 year marriage. She claims damages for housekeeping totaling 57200 plus 2000 for a Long Beach home and 17500 invested in his poker business. Their 19 year old daughter is cited. annulment granted on his cross complaint. The couple wed in Yuma Arizona in 1929 after she says he said California divorce could not be finalized yet.
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Los Angeles
Betty
Fred Norcom
Yuma
Ariz
Norcom
California
Long Beach
Thailand crowns Phumiphon Aduldet king in mystic ceremony
Boston born Phumiphon Aduldet was crowned Rama IX of Thailand in a grand Chakri ceremony. The 22 year old king received the nine tiered crown and married Sirikit in a formal holy rite as guns boomed and eastern music filled the palace.
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Bangkok
Phumiphon Aduldet
Rama IX
Thailand
Siam
Phumiphon
Phumphion
Ananda Mahidol
Switzerland
Tanque Verde 4-H Boys Invite to Insect Club Meeting
Pima County 4-H activities invite all to Tanque Verde School at 7 30 p m next Tuesday to view clubwork and exhibits at the PTA event. Boys will receive pins certificates and point awards for the year. Leading point holders are Roy Compas Bobby King Rafael Espinosa. Also notes past week meetings and a play Bugs and More Bugs by Mrs Schreiber.
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Tanque Verde
Tanque Verde School
PTA Mantin
Ilittull
Roy Compas
Bobby King
Rafael Espinosa
Margaret Schreiber
Arizona Streams Receive 750000 Legal Size Trout
Arizona fishermen will find 750000 legal size trout planted in the state streams before the season opens May 27. A W Yoder states mild weather and good road conditions allowed earlier planting this year. The fish were raised at Page Springs Tonto Creek and Pinetop hatcheries.
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Phoenix
U.P
Arizona
A. W. Yoder
Page Springs
Tonto Creek
Pinetop
Cities seek excess budgets in Mesa Chandler and Pinal actions
The Arizona state tax commission approved Mesa and Chandler excess budget requests. Mesa seeks 62300 for electric 32000 gas 20000 admin. Chandler requests 2850 with 1500 for prisoners' meals. A Florence hearing was set on Pinal County's 38000 request for hospital health welfare and attorney's office.
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Phoenix
U.P
State Tax Commission
Mesa
Chandler
Electric
Gas Department
General Administration
Florence
Pinal County
Rooks Buy Ranch Five Miles North of Nogales
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Lowell W. Rooks became owners of the Mary Bettwy ranch five miles north of Nogales. Gen. Rooks, with the United Nations assignment, plans retirement next year. His wife, Martha Phillips, is from Nogales and Bettwy serves as Santa Cruz County recorder.
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Nogales
Lowell W. Rooks
Mary Bettwy
Here
Rooks
United Nations
Martha Phillips
Bettwy
Santa Cruz
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