Big Three Meet Hinted As Molotov Leaves Paris
Paris dispatch reports Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov flying to Moscow on October 4 for talks amid strong speculation of a Big Three summit. U S Ambassador Smith also trips to Moscow as the conference nears final plenary with gag rules to speed adjournment by October 15.
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R. H. Shackford
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Molotov
le Bourget
Josef Stalin
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
New York
United Nations Assembly
Smith
Truman
Italy
Balkan
Finland
Navy air record flight Dreamboat seeks 38 hour polar crossing
The Pacusan Dreamboat, an Army B-29, took off from Hickam Field Hawaii bound for a 10 000 mile nonstop flight to Cairo Egypt to test polar air routes. Co pilot Lt Col Beverly H Warren Omaha commanded with Col C S Irvine plane commander. Weather was favorable and the crew estimated about 38 hours to Cairo with possible extension to Lake Victoria in Africa. The mission follows a recent record by the Truculent Turtle and aims to evaluate equipment and personnel under polar flight conditions.
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Willard D. Eberhart
Hickam Field
Hawaii
North Pole
Cairo
Egypt
John Rogers Airport
Beverly H. Warrent
Omaha
Neb
Great Circle
C. S. Irvine
Paul
Boeing Aircraft Co
Irvine
Navy
Boeing
Lake Victoria
Central-West Africa
John Rogers
Greenland
London
Truculent Turtle
Sitka
Alaska
Reykjavik
Iceland
Foggia
Italy
Algiers
Guam
Washington
D. C
Perth
Australia
Columbus
Col. Irvine
Eight Die in Sun Oil Refinery Blast at Marcus Hook
The Sun Oil cracking plant fire near Marcus Hook, Pa, killed eight people and injured nearly 200. Victims include De Witt Haynie and William Ward from the Chester area and Woodburn James, Mike Burke, Leland Bailey, Glen Jones, Griffith Davis, and William Gallagher. Firefighters battled the four hour blaze as spectators were sprayed with burning gasoline. Official word blamed an initial pump leak and a tower explosion amid the refinery inferno.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus Hook
Sun Oil Company
Chester
DeWitt Haynie
Woodlyn
William Ward
Linwood
Griffith Davis
William Gallagher
Bethel
Road
Glen Jones
Woodburn James
Claymont
Del
Mike Burke
Leland Bailey
Laurel
Delaware River
Bailey
Butoseph Diaz
Marine Wounded in China Raid Near Tientsin
A U S marine unit repelled an attack on an ammunition depot between Tientsin and Chinwangtao. One marine wounded and at least one Chinese killed, with another Chinese suspect being questioned. The 80 minute battle ended with the depot secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peiping
U. S
Tientsin
Chinwangtao
Tangku
Eight Speeders Are Fined in Aviation Boulevard Crackdown
Highway patrol and Justice of the Peace court fined eight speeders for speeding on Aviation boulevard near Davis Monthan field. Fines totaled 230 dollars with several more arrested and slated to appear before Justice Gard ner. Officials pledged to continue enforcement to curb habitual speeding in the area.
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Highway Patrol
Justice of the Peace Court
Aviation
Davis-Monthan Field
JP Court
C. W. Gardner
W. W. Burr
The
Walter Sheets
Earl Keenum
Burr
Gardner
JP Gardner
Virgil Koenig
North Orchard
Joseph Bronegel
West 19Th Street
Clarence O. Gilbertson
South Sixth Avenue
Michael Pleshko
Davis- Monthan Field
Denzil Poston
William H. Shanks
West Third Street
J. W. Smith
Welfare program costs rise in Arizona with state and federal funds
Arizona reports 1945-46 welfare costs totaling 3.63 million dollars from state and federal sources. breakdown shows aid to the blind and dependent children, old age assistance, direct relief, and administration. liquor taxes and sales tax earmarked funds contribute to financing, with overall costs climbing from 1940-41 to 1945-46.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
State Tax Commission
Ann Frohmiller
Truman Sets Urgent Jews Immigration Goal for Palestine
In Washington President Truman urged immediate substantial Jewish immigration to Palestine and suggested Congress liberalize U S immigration laws for European refugees. He backed the Jewish agency plan for a self governing Jewish state in an adequate Palestine with rapid entry of 100 000 Jews and rejected Morrison’s four autonomous units concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Palestine
Congress
U. S
United States
Holy Land
Clement Attlee
Morrison
Jewish Agency
Van Buskirk Undergoes Operation After Wounding
Wounded criminal lawyer John J. Van Buskirk was taken to St Marys hospital Friday afternoon for further surgery. He had shown some improvement since Tuesday when he was shot at 84 West Pennington street by Peter Newton, who is jailed on two counts and faces possible first degree murder charges if Van Buskirk dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. van Buskirk
St. Mary's Hospital
van Buskirk
West Pennington Street
Peter Newton
Newton
J. Mercer Johnson
Johnson
Sfde
Helicopters Set for Arizona Service Inauguration
Gov. Sidney Osborn and the state group to ride from Phoenix to the statehouse by helicopter as Arizona Helicopter Service begins operations under Southern Arizona Airlines. Edwin J. Montgomery said the two place Bell helicopter will be delivered, and the firm eyes air mail, charter trips, and rapid rescue uses across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Osborn
State Corporation Commission
Phoenix
Statehouse
Thous
Arizona Heliccopter Service
Southern Arizona Airlines, Inc
Tucson
Edwin J. Montgomery
Airlines
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell
Civil Aeronautics Board
Arizona
Montgomery
Mont
Acquitted Nazis barred from zones raise new fate questions
Paris and London forbid Hjalmar Schacht Hans Fritsche and Franz Von Papen from entering their zones leaving the US and Soviet sectors as possible residences. Appeals to the Allied council loom for Frank Rosenberg Frick Hess Streicher and others while a U S hangman arrives at Nuernberg to prepare the executions slated for October 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muernberg
U.P
Hjalmar Schacht
Hans Fritsche
Franz von Papen
U. S
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Hans Frank
Occupied
Poland
Frank
Wisa
Alfred Rosenberg
Wilhelm Frick
Rudolph Hess
Julius Streicher
Nuernberg
John C. Woods
San Antonio
Tex
Rosenberg
Frick
Bohemia and
Moravia
International Military Tribunal
Martin
Jon Ribbentrop
D W Turnbull Dies Suddenly at 56
David W. Turnbull 56, city plumbing inspector since 1936, died suddenly Friday at his home 1107 East Ninth street from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born March 30, 1890 in Kansas City, he lived in Arizona years and served in World War II as a plumber executive at the atomic bomb test camp at Alamagordo New Mexico with M M Sundt Construction of Tucson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David W. Turnbull
East Ninth Street
Kansas City
Arizona
Alamogordo
N. M
M. M. Sundt Construction Co
Tucson
Upper Basin States Move To Divide Colorado River Water
Utah Colorado Wyoming and New Mexico seek a compact to divide Colorado river water. R Gail Baker city engineer reported before traveling to Denver for a meeting with upper basin state representatives.
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Phoenix
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
R. Gail Baker
Denver
War department awards to Whitehead and Bates noted
Oak Leaf cluster to Lt. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead and the Legion of Merit to Col. Graham M. Bates for airfields and pilot training leadership. Bates formerly commanded at Marana and Lake fields and at Gila Bend.
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Washington
War Department
DSM
Ennis C. Whitehead
Graham M. Bates
Whitehead
Lakefield
Col. Bates
Army
Marana
Lake Fields
Gila Bend
First Arizona Frost Forecast Warns of Snow
The Associated Press reports that the U S weather bureau predicts the first fall snow and frost in Arizona. Snow squalls are expected over higher peaks with frost in the north Friday night. Temperatures drop, 37 at Grand Canyon and Flagstaff, 38 Prescott, 44 Winslow, 58 Phoenix and Tucson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U. S. Weather Bureau
Arizona
San Francisco
Flagstaff
Grand Canyon
Prescott
Winslow
Phoenix
Tucson
Legion Proposes 10 Point Defense Policy At National Convention
The American Legion urges the 28th national convention to adopt a universal military training law a unified combat command and retention of atomic secrets. The report calls for expanded nuclear research a strengthened merchant marine a permanent world intelligence service and robust civilian protection measures.
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San Francisco
U.P
American Legion National Defense Committee
Legion
United States of America
American Legion
Department of World Intelligence Service
Robert Patterson
General Reserve
Hull Passes Restful Night Yet Grave
Washington. The Navy said former Secretary Cordell Hull had a more restful night but remained in grave condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital. A 7 a.m. bulletin offered little hope as Hull, 75, fights a losing battle after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage Monday night during a hospital checkup.
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Washington
Navy
Cordell Hull
Hull
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Byrnes Speech Seen as Warning to Russians in Paris
Secretary Byrnes urged restraint in Paris clarifying that no nation seeks war while warning that any state pursuing its own aims risks conflict. He echoed Stalin’s view that no immediate war danger exists and rejected encirclement charges against the Soviet Union.
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Byrnes
J. M. Roberts, JR
Paris
Russia
Oldfield Dies at 69 After Stroke in Beverly Hills
Barney Oldfield, once the dirt track speed king, died at 69 at his Beverly Hills home. The Wascon, Ohio native had a noted racing career, first hitting a mile a minute in 1903 at Indianapolis and marrying three times, with his latest wife Bessie Goody Oldfield.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Bessie
Hulda Rae Braden
Russia Denounces U S Move On Reparations Supervision
Paris Oct 4 The Soviet Union angrily charged the United States and Britain with violating Big Four accords by backing an Australian amendment to establish an international commission to supervise reparations payments Italy would owe to non Russian states. The measure passed 12 to 8 with France China and Slavic states opposing. American delegate Willard Thorp and British spokesman Glenvil Hall emphasized the amendment was a new article not a change to the draft.
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Paris
Russia
United States
Britain
Italian Economic Commission
Italy
France
China
Yugoslavia
Albania
Greece
Ethiopia
Poland
A. A. Arutinanian
Soviet Union
Willard Thorp
Glenvil Hall
Krug Reveals Itinerary for Western Inspection Tour
Secretary of the Interior J A Krug will undertake two air tours in October to inspect department enterprises. He departs Monday for a week in the Northwest to study reclamation and power needs, then visits New Mexico Arizona southern Oregon Nevada and California with stops including Boulder City Las Vegas Kingman Davis Dam Needles Blythe Parker Dam El Centro Yuma and Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. A. Krug
Northwest
New Mexico
Arizona
Oregon
Nevada
California
Boulder City
Las Vegas
Nev
Kingman
Davis Dam
Ariz
Needles
Meat Scarcity To Last Months
The agriculture department warned of a lasting meat shortage into next spring and summer. Prices are set to rise again in January and April under price controls. President Truman warned the shortage may worsen this winter, with limited improvement before mid 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Truman
Department
Danube Conference Blocked by Russian Boycott
At Lake Success, U S efforts for a Vienna conference on Danube navigation stalled as Russia Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia oppose the move. UN ECOSOC approved a resolution to convene before Nov 1, but nonattendance and a rules challenge by Yugoslavia dim the chances of action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
N. Y
U. S
Vienna
Danube River
John G. Winant
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Russia
Danubian
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Andrija Stampar
Council
Trygve Lie
McCormick Kiwanis elects new president and officers
J Byron McCormick dean of the University of Arizona law school was elected Friday as Kiwanis president. He will take office January 1 with vice president Royal B Irving and treasurer H E Heighton re-elected. Three new directors will join the board while several holdovers stay on. The meeting also featured Frank Drachman speaking on newspapers as public service and a newsprint making film during Newspaper Week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Byron McCormick
University of Arizona
Kiwanis Club
McCormick
Charles M. Nielsen
Martin Drug Co
Wiliam G. Hall
Royal B. Irving
H. E. Heighton
Frank Drachman
Jack Johnson
Dick Jacome
John Lyons
Andrew Tolson
Tom Talmage
Charles Nielson
C. Zaner Lesher
W. B. Pyle
Paul H. Bennett
William Kimball
A. L. Slonaker
Kiwanians
Tucson Newspapers, Inc
Canada
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Dreamboat
Pacusan Dreamboat
Army Airway Communication Service
Honolulu
Hsinho
Clement R. Attlee
Attlee
President Truman
Mr. Truman
Bar
Edward W. Beattie
D. W. Turnbull
Norton H. Pearl
Detroit
Mich
American Legion Auxiliary
Walter G. Craven
Charlotte
N. C
Western Division
Esther Gaston
Melbourne
WUP
trans-Australian Airlines
Laverton
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
Gander
Nfld
American Overseas Airlines
Newfoundland
Krug
Trip
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