Doctor On Stand In Fight For Life
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr testifies at his trial for stabbing Byron C. Hattman to death in a Cedar Rapids hotel. He relates his wife Sydney Goodrich Rutledge confessed an affair with Hattman and described events leading to the confrontation. The doctor recalls threats and a late September call to Hattman’s mother as the case unfolds.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert C. Rutledge Jr
Byron C. Hattman
Rutledge
Hattman
Fancy Rutledge
Sydney Goodrich
R. S. Milner
Dr. Rutledge
Urge Mails Handle Scorpion Shipments
Senators Carl Hayden and Ernest W. McFarland introduced legislation to permit use of the mails to send live scorpions for medical research. The statement said scorpions aid serum development used to treat children’s scorpion bites and the mails provide the only safe fast transport method.
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Washington
Carl Hayden
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
New York Beats Cincinnati as National League Results Rolled In
National League action saw New York defeat Cincinnati D. 5 to unknown. Brooklyn played at St. Louis in night action. Boston met Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at Chicago were postponed past midnight.
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National League
New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Boston
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Chicago
Major League Baseball Schedule Paused by Rain
Chicago at New York postponed. Cleveland at Boston postponed. St Louis at Washington and Detroit at Philadelphia listed for night play.
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Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Washington
Detroit
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Boston
Ford refuses pace for talks during UAW strike
Detroit May 20 report that Ford Motor Co refused to open simultaneous union contract talks while negotiations continue to settle the CIO United Auto Workers strike now in its sixteenth day. Glendale inventor Howard F E Bixby, 68, was found shot to death in his laboratory. coroner rules death by own action with no inquest to be held.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Los Angeles
Howard FE
Bixby
Glendale
Ben Brown
Southern Baptist convention to meet in Chicago in 1956
Oklahoma City report notes the Southern Baptist convention voted to hold its 1956 gathering in Chicago, breaking a 104 year precedent of staying in predominantly northern territory. Page 19 coverage referenced.
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Oklahoma City
Southern Baptist Convention
Chicago
Western Germany forms federal republic uniting 11 states
Western Germany Friday ratified a constitution creating a federal republic for 11 states outside the Soviet zone. In Nogales Sonora the Manuel Ortiz boxing match scheduled for Friday was postponed as Ortiz was summoned to Chicago on urgent business and will be rescheduled. In Lincoln Nebraska the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association faculty representatives voted 5 to 2 against Oklahoma A M joining the Big Seven. executive secretary Reaves Peters said ballots were secret.
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Munich
Germany
Nogales
Sonora
Manuel Ortiz
Ortiz
Chicago
Lincoln
Neb
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Big Seven
Oklahoma A&m
Reaves Peters
U S Rebuffs Soviet Offer Over Greek Peace Efforts
The United States told the Soviet Union that Greece peace depends on the Communist satellites halting aid to Greek guerrillas. Washington insisted on UN discussion and rejected a Great Power compromise, with ongoing non Communist support for Greece.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Greece
State Department
United Nations
Soviet Union
Britain
U. S
Dean Rusk
Hector McNeil
Andrei Gromyko
Rusk
U. N
Gromyko
Shanghai Evacuation Reaches Peak as Frontlines Shift
Reports from Shanghai indicate fluctuating front actions near Pootung and Whangpoo with four Red shells landing in the city and airfield at Lunghwa remaining open. Foreign observers note limited troop evacuations and no large ship landings amid crowded departing planes.
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Shanghai
Pootung
Whangpoo
Rue LaFayette
Yangtze
Woosung Fortress
Lunghwa Field
China
Acheson Heads to Paris as Parley Emphasizes No Compromise
Secretary of State Acheson leaves for the Paris foreign ministers conference pledging a no compromise stance toward Russia on Germany. He aims to protect Western Europe’s economic recovery and stability and will not barter Western gains for empty promises. The trip includes Dulles and aides, with the meeting set to open Monday.
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Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
London
Acheson
Dean Acheson
Washington
Moscow
Paris
John M. Hightower
Russia
Germany
Europe
Tass
Truman
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Lucius D. Battle
Robert G. Barnes
Fire kills man in Wickenburg
Lloyd Willis 26 of Wickenburg died in a hospital from burns suffered when a water heater ignited gas after he finished filling a bottled gas tank at Mrs. Daisy Dickie’s home. The residence and Willis’s clothing caught fire. bystander Bert Matchette helped extinguish the flames. Willis collapsed after attempting to move his truck to the street. He survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Warren Willis of Wickenburg.
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Wickenburg
Lloyd Willis
Willis
Daisy Dickie
Bert Matchette
Dickie
Warren Willis
Vermont Debtors Law Jails Two World War Veterans
In Rutland Vermont Edward J. Shea counsel for Ralph J. Fugatt 29 formerly Springfield Mass and Bernard J. Smith 23 of Fair Haven Vermont defend against debt judgments of over $2 000 each the century old law allows life imprisonment for nonpayment. The two men confined to the county jail about two months while their lawyers plan constitutional challenges and potential legislative fixes. They occupy a small jail cell and await public action as veterans groups weigh steps to free them.
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Rutland
Edward J. Shea
Ralph J. Fugatt
Springfield
Mass
Fugatt
Bernard J. Smith
Fair Haven
Shea
Phelps
Smith
Massachusetts
Vermont
Budget Boost Planned for Amphitheater Schools
Amphitheater residents will see a 1949-50 budget of 504,500 dollars an increase of 60,000 over 1948-49 to fund 12 new teachers two deans a new assistant principal a language arts supervisor and more funds for supplies The district projects daily attendance around 2650 with state county and tuition revenues totaling about 282 400 and 177 400 respectively for elementary and high school units
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Amphitheater
Paul E. Guitteau
Amphitheater School Board of Trustees
Guitteau
Mentary
Flood Funds Lose Vote on 200 Million Cut to Flood Bill
The Senate rejected a Douglas proposal to slash 200 million from the flood control and waterways development appropriations, with a 59 to 15 roll call in tabling the plan. A Ferguson bid to cut 1 percent and resend to committee failed 48 to 29.
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Washington
Senate
Army
Sen
Douglas
D-Ill
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Agriculture Department
House
Congress
Three Outstanding Amphitheater Seniors Honored
Principal Nicholas Paynovich congratulates three Amphitheater high school seniors at the honors assembly. Larry Hart, Phyllis Barr, and Ed Cottingham are cited for athletic scholarship, citizenship, leadership, and ROTC and cancer society prizes.
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Nicholas Paynovich
Larry Hart
Phyllis Barr
Ed Cottingham
Larry
Paul D. Hart
Navajo Rd
Commercial Printers
Reggie Russell
Rotary
University of Arizona
Phyllis
H. O. Ft. Lowell
American Cancer Society
Ray E. Cottingham
E. Mohave
Flood May Hit Texas Farms
The Trinity river flood threatens thousands of Ellis Kaufman county bottomlands south of Dallas causing levee breaches near Hutchins and Ferris. Officials warn crests near 41 feet by Saturday with $5,000,000 to $25,000,000 in damage and 13,200 people evacuated. Ft Worth works to restore drinking water and rebuild levees as the river recedes toward normal by Saturday.
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Dallas
Trinity River
Here
Ft. Worth
James A. Cotton
Army Engineers
Ellis County
Texas
Hayden Seeks 1 250 000 for Pima flood project on Senate floor
U S Senator Carl Hayden reports that the army civil functions bill with a 1 250 000 Arizona appropriation for Pima county flood control is under Senate discussion. Local officials push for completion, planning work funded, rights of way to be secured, and federal aid to cover most costs. Preliminary maps and aerial surveys guide the effort as Congress decides.
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Army
Pima County
U. S. Senate
Washington
Congressional
U. S
Carl Hayden
Chamber of Commerce
Arizona
Senate
Hayden
Congress
J. Homer Boyd
Board of Supervisors
Bruce Ellis
Boyd
Ellis
U. S. Army Engineers
House of Representatives
Board of
Sers
Tucson
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