Italy’s Plea to Prevent Balkan Conflict Shocks Budapest
Extension of war to southeast Europe grows plausible as Turkish and German troop movements surge around Greek Bulgarian frontiers. Italian activity near Yugoslavia and Dodecanese reported while Russian reinforcements appear near Ruthenia. Allied landings in Salonika feared. battle fleet in Aegean. spy arrests rise. Diplomatic strains mount as Germany and Britain seek assurances.
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Supreme Court Rules Price Fixing Unlawful Under Sherman Act
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 2 that price fixing by 12 major oil companies and five individuals violated the Sherman Act. Justice Douglas said price fixing is unlawful per se and upheld a Madison Wisconsin district court decision. The ruling departs from the 1911 rule of reason and signals a broad anti monopoly stance.
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Federal District Court
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Murphy
Mid-Continent
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Baseball finals prompt chaotic ledger of scores and outs
In a chaotic baseball recap the American League results show Chicago a 29 run explosion over Philadelphia 39 runs with mixed innings listed alongside pitchers Rigney Tresh Potter Hayes and Cleveland. Other leagues feature Boston and Detroit tallying wins while New York and Washington allocations mix in a jumble of names and innings.
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Philadelphia
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Tresh
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Ask Cabinet Change As Three Destroyers Are Sunk
British and Allied losses rose as three destroyers the Afridi Bison and Grom were sunk off the Norwegian coast by German air power. reports say 65 men were lost on the Polish ship with rescue operations ongoing.
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Chamberlain
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Train Greeted On Arrival At Rocky Point
A seven car train arrived at Rocky Point Sonora May 6 drawing 1500 spectators including Arizonans. National minister of communications Melquiades Angulo dedicated a 160 mile link connecting Sonora and Baja California, with a second phase to Santa Ana 180 miles inland. Angulo noted harbor dredging cost 1.6 million dollars and projected two years to finish the Santa Ana extension and harbor works.
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Angulo
Santa Ana
Mexicali
Rodolpho Sanchez Toboada
Baja California
Anselmo Macias
William Strode
Arizona Highway Department
Bob Jones
Southern Pacific seeks test of Arizona rail limit law
Attorneys for Southern Pacific say the railroad will renew its bid to have Arizona train limit law declared unconstitutional. A motion will be filed in the U.S. circuit court of appeals in San Francisco asking remand to the federal district court for trial amid a dispute with Attorney General Joe Conway over enforcement of the 28 year old act. Conway filed suit in Tucson Superior Court charging the railroad with violations and seeking fines of 100 to 1000 dollars per count. The case on appeal is described as the S P matter.
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Southern Pacific Company
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Baker, Whitney and Howe
U. S. District Court
Joe Conway
Tucson
Conway
Southern Pacific
S.P
Hitler Sweden pact on neutrality signed in letters
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Adolf Hitler and King Gustav of Sweden expressed full agreement on future political attitudes toward each other via exchanged letters. Meanwhile Alpine troops began a 200 mile highland trek to aid the Narvik Nazis as British and French forces push north from Namsos through rugged terrain toward Narvik.
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Maniac Killer Sought In Two Girls Deaths
Police and CCC youths searched for a tan sedan linked to the slayings of Fay Gates a 25 year old factory worker and Rachel Taylor a 17 year old coed. Head of the state motor police said the Fay Gates murder and the Taylor case appear connected.
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Spook Hollow
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Census data appeal urged Tucson residents to respond
Mrs. Pearle S Anklam supervisor of the southern census district appealed to residents of Tucson city and metropolitan district who have not been visited by the enumerator to mail their names and addresses to her 401 Federal Building Tucson. People missing counts should state where they lived April 1 this year. Tucson must avoid an inaccurate 1940 census as cities register their populations only once every 10 years.
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Tucson
Federal Building
Senate Takes Up Logan-Walter Bill For Court Review
Washington May 6 The Senate judiciary committee recommends acting this session to subject federal agency orders to court review. Chairman Ashurst says members oppose delay and a subcommittee will study amendments. Other major bills target foreign silver purchases and transfer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Commerce Department. Barkley argues against postponement while Democrats and Republicans forecast anti administration coalition.
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Latin America
No Executive Meet Planned By Council
Mayor H O Jaastad announced there will be no executive session tonight, saying one was held last week and that the council’s program was reviewed during a tour of city streets. He noted the practice of private pre sessions has not occurred for the new council.
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Air Supremacy Debate Still Lacks Proof Of Fact
DeWitt MacKenzie analyzes British denial of Nazi claims of sinking ships and questions whether air superiority over the sea is established. He notes that individual ship losses or plane sinkings do not prove overall dominance and stresses the war may hinge on air versus sea power, with Allied fleets growing stronger.
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A. P
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Norwegian
Hitler
Allied cruisers arrive as Italy weighs war option
Alexandria reports a new squadron of Allied cruisers and warships arriving amid Britain readiness to meet Italy on land sea and air if she chooses war. Mussolini conferred with the Prince of Piedmont on Italy's war preparedness as the Pope urged peace and the Vatican pursued pacification efforts with Roosevelt's aid.
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Corriere Padano
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Victor Emmanuel
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Germans Push Northward In Control Drive
German warplanes penetrated northern Norway in large numbers as the Narvik area faces renewed attack. Observers expect offensives toward Narvik Hammerfest and Kirkenes to force Allied capitulation while securing Arctic routes to Soviet Russia.
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Kirkenes
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Mexico Holds Oil Seizures Are Justified
Washington May 6 The Mexican foreign ministerGen Eduardo Haydeclares seizure of American owned oil properties a domestic matter and rejects arbitration by the United States government He says American oil firms have not exhausted Mexican legal remedies Sinclair interests reached a settlement agreeing to three year payments for Sinclair properties amounting to 20 000 000 barrels of oil and 8 000 000 to 10 000 000 dollars in cash
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Mexico
United States
Eduardo Hay
Sinclair Interests
Sinclair Oil
Zepeda New Head of State Lions
Rudolph G. Zepeda of Phoenix was elected governor of the Arizona district of Lions International at the two day convention in Nogales. The 1941 convention will be held in Tempe with about 125 delegates from 22 Arizona clubs attending.
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Rudolph G. Zepeda
Phoenix
Arizona
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