Civil rights panel urges repeal of land and race bans
President Truman's civil rights committee recommends repealing laws in Arizona California Idaho Oregon Montana and New Mexico banning alien land ownership and removing race as a naturalization barrier It cites segregation in the North and West and outlines minority groups Mexicans Indians Hispanos Japanese and Negroes with regional duties and voting disenfranchisement in New Mexico and Arizona negotiations.
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Arizona
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Idaho
Oregon
Montana
New Mexico
Truman
Kansas
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U. S
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Office of Indian Affairs
Bank of Douglas to Open Tucson Branch in Historic Church Site
The Bank of Douglas group plans a new North Stone avenue Tucson branch on land once owned by the First Church of Christ Scientist. The church, now for sale at 100000, moved services to Mansfeld junior high as remodeling for vaults and safety deposits proceeds by 1948.
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Church of Christ Scientist
Village of
Ulysses S. Grant
Southern Pacific Railroad
Samuel Drachman
Max Zier
Zier
Germany
Drachman
Church
Lucille Drachman Birnbaum
Mansfeld Junior High School
Bank of Douglas
North Stone Avenue
Brophy
Brophy Bank
M. J. Cunningham
Bisbee
H. W. Williams
Douglas
Bank of Douglas Group
Peasant leaders plan world anti Communism drive in exile
In London representatives of Yugoslav Romanian Bulgarian Czechoslovak and Polish peasants map an all out propaganda campaign against Communism. They seek a world peasant International to coordinate the fight against Cominform and the Soviet led Eastern bloc as Mikolajczyk travels from Poland to London or Washington.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Washington
World Peasant “International
Cominform
Communist Information Bureau
Soviet Union
Europe
Comintern
Third International
Lavery
Screen Writers’ Guild
Vail
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stalin
Hughes invites group to witness flying boat tests in Los Angeles
Hughes invites a group to Los Angeles November 5 to 10 to see floating and taxi tests of the large wooden flying boat in drydock. Tests may be delayed after Hughes’ appearance. Ferguson said the hearing schedule is convenient and required by Congress.
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Los Angeles
Hughes
Ferguson
Congress
Snyder signals Truman to discuss taxes in special session
Snyder said President Truman will talk about taxes in the upcoming special session of Congress on November 17. He stressed there is no inside knowledge of the President's exact remarks and linked price controls to foreign aid funding, noting higher prices undermine aid effectiveness.
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Truman
Congress
Sen
Buck
R-Del
Europe
Alaska pilot reports turbulence delaying landing at Annette Island
In Seattle preparations were underway for a long flight to Annette Island when Pilot Alf N. Monson radioed from the Annette vicinity that extreme turbulence prevented the scheduled landing. Monson, a veteran Alaska flyer, issued the final radio report Sunday.
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Annette Island
Annette Vicinity
Alaska
New Mexico Delegation Backs Central Arizona Project
The New Mexico state delegation at the National Reclamation convention in Phoenix adopted a resolution supporting the Central Arizona project stalled in Congress. California and Nevada oppose the project amid regional disputes.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
New Mexico
National Reclamation Convention
Arizona
U. S
California
Nevada
Valencia Named Chief of Police in Nogales
In Nogales Sonora Mexico Municipal President Miguel Vasquez announced Pablo Valencia as chief of police after Aurelio Terminel resigned Monday. Valencia previously served as district attorney and as a crime investigator in Hermosillo and Cananea as Vasquez ordered a campaign against undesirables.
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Nogales
Pablo Valencia
Miguel Vasquez
Valencia
Aurelio Terminel
Hermosilo
Cananea
Phoenix firm wins bid for Arizona Highways office
Grand Construction Co of Phoenix bids 18000 dollars to build an Arizona Highways office. The legislature appropriated 18000 dollars for the project. The site is the state highway department yard at 17th Avenue and Jackson Street in Phoenix. Completion deadline is February 15, 1948.
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Phoenix
Grand Construction Co
Arizona Highways Magazine
State Highway Department
17Th Avenue
Jackson Street
Journals of the House Booklets Delivered to Secretary Garvey
Phoenix report states three hundred copies of Journals of the House detailing 18th legislature actions were delivered to Secretary of State Dan E. Garvey and will be distributed to legislators upon request.
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Phoenix
House
House of Representatives
Dan E. Garvey
Dempsey Urges NY Athletic Commission to Join NBA
Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey arrived in New York and urged the New York state athletic commission to join the National Boxing Association saying national control is needed to establish proper oversight. He argued that the NY commission should ally with the NBA to achieve unified boxing governance.
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New York
Jack Dempsey
New York State Athletic Commission
National Boxing Association
Dempsey
Los Angeles
New York Commission
NBA
Democrats confront convention issues and New Hampshire seating
The committee settled a controversy by seating Harry Carlson as national committeeman from New Hampshire. It also plans to consider a new delegate apportionment plan and a potential increase in delegate bonuses to boost Southern and Democratic strongholds. Philadelphia is favored for the 1948 convention amid cost and publicity incentives, though California faction tensions linger.
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New Hampshire
Harry Carlson
Henry A. Wallace
Carlson
Charles Burke
Manchester
Frank M. McHale
Indiana
McHale
Philadelphia
California
Supervisors and Council Plan Joint Conference
A joint meeting of the Pima county board of supervisors and the city council will be held at city hall at 7 p m Wednesday. John Carollo of the engineering firm Headman Ferguson and Carollo will discuss a joint sewage system to serve Tucson and nearby areas with their lawyers and engineers present.
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Pima County Board of Supervisors
City Hall
John Carollo
Headman, Ferguson & Carollo
Tucson
Truman Proclaims Armistice Day Observance
President Truman issues annual proclamation designating November 11 as Armistice Day to honor veterans and mark the end of World War I with national observance and reflection.
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Washington
Truman
Film Figures Clash as Contempt Cites Rise at Hearing
The inquiry focused on Communist ties among film figures. Samuel Ornitz Herbert Biberman and Emmett Lavery testified or were questioned about party affiliations and guild membership as the committee pressed for disclosures. A photostatic card and instructions from the ILD framed contempt warnings, while Lavery defended constitutional limits and urged noncoercive, positive civic portrayal in theater.
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Ornitz
Louis J. Russell
Sam O
Russell
Communist Party
Samuel Ornitz
Herbert Joseph Biberman
Kenny
Biberman
Screen Writers’ Guild
Thomas
Herbert Biberman
Rep
Vail
Bill
International Labor Defense
ILD
Emmett Lavery
Lavery
Reclamation Bill Tops Convention Agenda
A bill to lift the 160 acre reclamation farm limit is advancing in congress. Stone notes the issue is repeatedly raised at associations conventions. The convention opened with delegate registration and state delegation caucuses to set positions and select representatives for the resolutions committee. Robert W. Sawyer urged that the meeting be seen as the most important.
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Congress
Association
Stone
Resolutions Committee
Robert W. Sawyer
Heaven Hill to Resume Whisky Production After Injunction
Louisville lawyer says Heaven Hill distilleries plans to resume whisky production as soon as possible in compliance with a Jefferson Circuit Court injunction. Company does not plan to appeal Judge W Scott Miller ruling on a contract to supply whisky to a sales concern.
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Louisville
Heaven Hill Distilleries
Bardstown
Jefferson Circuit
W. Scott Miller
John K. Skaggs, Jr
Miller
Pakistan Leader Hails Cordial U S Ties In Talks
Jinnah praised the American reply as warm and cordial and said Pakistan seeks two way markets and aid, stressing Pakistan’s credit is good. He noted deficits depend on government statistics and the asset division with India.
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America
Jinnah
India
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