Kardelj Heads Yugoslav Delegation to UN Assembly
Belgrade dispatch reports Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj left for New York to lead Yugoslavia’s delegation at the United Nations general assembly opening September 20. Doris Hart of Jacksonville Florida defeats England’s Betty Hilton 6-1 6-3 to retain the United States Wightman tennis cup for another year. Hugh Briggs of London Ohio escapes Summers county jail by sawing a bolt from the window with a banjo string while being held on drunken driving charges.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Edward Kardelj
New York
United Nations Assembly
Philadelphia
United States
Doris Hart
Jacksonville
Fla
Betty Hilton
England
Miss Hart
Hinton
W. Va
Hugh Briggs
London
Ohio
Summers County
Senate confirms three assistant secretaries of defense
The senate unanimously confirms Paul H. Griffith from Pennsylvania Marx Leva from Alabama and Wilfred J. McNeil from Iowa as assistant secretaries of defense. In Canton China Communist commanders move 60000 troops toward Hengyang in what observers fear could begin a full scale assault on Canton.
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Washington
Senate
Paul H. Griffith
Pennsylvania
Marx Leva
Alabama
Wilfred J. McNeil
Iowa
Canton
China
Hengyang
Del Webb to Build $8 Million VA Hospital in Kansas City
The Del Webb Construction Co of Phoenix has won an $8,000,000 contract to construct a 500 bed veterans administration hospital in Kansas City. Work is expected to begin in about three weeks.
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Kansas City
del Webb Construction Co
Phoenix
Ariz
Veterans Administration
Three Powers Agree on Sterling Area Aid Plan
The United States Britain and Canada endorsed financing through the World Bank and the U S Export Import Bank to aid sterling area economies The final report urged removing barriers to private capital flows promoting viable project financing and joining the International Fund and Bank where possible The plan aims to ease Britain dollar shortages and balance sterling area needs with future dollars Snyder announced the next cabinet meeting will be Monday with other panels reporting later that day
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
World Bank
U.S
Canan
Faransea
International Fund and Bank
Tucson
Snyder
Lehman Says GOP is Deaf at CIO Convention
Former Gov Herbert H Lehman opened his bid for the U S Senate in Saratoga Springs charging Republican leaders are deaf to people s needs He urged that government be more than an administrative machine and meet the aspirations of the public insisting private privilege yield to public interest.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Herbert H. Lehman
U.S. Senate
CIO
Lehman
Franklin Roosevelt
New York
Vandenberg Expects To Undergo Surgery
Sen. Vandenberg of Michigan may face a major operation soon though his office says he will remain on the job until the foreign arms bill reaches the Senate. He is to enter the University of Michigan hospital after doctors advised a likely major operation. Further tests are awaited before a final decision.
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Washington
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
Vandenberg
University of Michigan Hospital
Detroit Citizen Seeks Night Sky Above City
Detroit resident Dr. J. King urges the city council to curb bright searchlights that sweep Detroit’s sky. He notes stars are visible by design and asks for a balance between business needs and stargazing.
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Detroit
Chance
J. King
Feldman Restored to Post While Waitt to Retire
The Army announces Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman will be restored as quartermaster general effective today while Maj. Gen. Alben H. Waitt will retire. Secretary Gray found no dishonesty by Waitt but cited lapses. Feldman showed judgment errors but no repeat, praising long service of both officers amid five percenters inquiry.
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Washington
Army
Senate
Gray
Alben H. Waitt
Chemical Corps
Herman Feldman
Asenate Subcommittee
James V. Hunt
Waitt
Feldman
Petain in Exile Denied Illness by Wife
ILE D YEU France Sept 10 Madame Annie Petain denies reports her 93 year old husband the former marshal of France is ill. She says he is fine though he suffered in hot weather and laments his loneliness. He is imprisoned on the island serving a life sentence and sees only his wife who visits daily. He cannot sleep well and paces his cell at night.
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Ile D'Yeu
France
Annie Petain
Marshal of France
Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain
Atlantic
Unions Urged To Oppose Amending Compensation Act
More than 300 Arizona labor union delegates at the Arizona Federation of Labor convention in Prescott urge opposition to any change in the workmen's compensation act. H. McCluskey, chief legal counsel for the Arizona Industrial Commission, criticizes actuary reports and deficits, while McCluskey defends current funding and cites high hospital costs in 22 recent compensation cases. Arch Humphrys calls for more political involvement.
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Arizona
Arizona Industrial Commission
Arizona Federation of Labor
Prescott
Associated Press
H. §. McCluskey
Commission
Arizona Catering Employer Alliance
McCluskey
United States
Arch Humphrys Tucson
Arizona Federation
Industrial Commission
J. J. O'Neill
Fred Edwards
O'Neill
Elmer Vickers
Arizona Labor Journal
Iaid
Rations in Shanghai amid unemployment and inflation
Shanghai reports show Communist leadership urging sharing of scarce rice as unemployment worsens. The Red press notes retrenchment pauses in offices and factories, pledges a minimum wage for rehiring discharged workers, and forecasts new currency notes up to 1 000. Inflation fears rise as the currency devalues and relief measures struggle amid factory closures and material shortages.
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Shanghai
Red Press
U.S
Missouri Pacific Strike Halts Large Rail System
The Missouri Pacific Railroad faced a near shutdown as 5,000 train workers struck and over 20,000 other employees were laid off. The walkout began at 1 PM Tucson time amid a dispute over operating rules, with no compromise in sight and unions resisting arbitration while seeking negotiations to resume.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Tucson
Brotherhoods of
Locomotive Engineers
Paul J. Neff
R. E. Davidson
Grand Ichief
Brotherhoods
Davidson
Col. Winn 88 Undergoes Operation After Derby Promoter Illness
Col Matt Winn, longtime Kentucky Derby promoter, 88, underwent minor surgery for a recurrent intestinal disorder at St Joseph infirmary after being rushed from his Churchill Downs apartment. His son in law Louis J Hermann said his condition was as good as could be expected. Mrs Herrmann was at his bedside and doctors could not comment immediately.
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Louisville
Col
Matt Winn
Winn
Louis J. Herrmann
Col. Winn
St. Joseph Infirmary
Churchill Downs
Aid For China Fight Continues
Washington reports Senators push to cut Europe arms aid and boost China assistance, with the Foreign Relations and Services committees approving 1.314 billion for free nations and rejecting several cuts. Key figures include Connally, George, Knowland, and Tydings as debate moves to a full Senate vote in two weeks.
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Washington
Europe
China
Senate
Tom Connally
Free Nations
Services Committee
Walter F. George
D-Ga
William F. Knowland
R-Calif
Pact Council and Defense Committee
Truman
Congress
Korea
Philippines
Iran
George
Knowland
Connnally
Millard Tydings
D-Md
Miss Arizona Leading For Miss America
Atlantic City report says Jacque Mercer of Litchfield Arizona is a strong contender after winning the talent prelim with Romeo and Juliet's potion scene. The pageant features 52 contestants who reset scores tonight, with Mercer sharing top honors earlier in the swimsuit prelim with Miss California Jane Ann Pedersen.
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Harmon W. Nichols
Atlantic City
N. J
Jacque Mercer
Bar X Ranch
Litchfield
Ariz
Juliet
Jacque
Jane Ann Pedersen
California
Teacher backs corporal punishment in certain cases
Indiana officials defend paddling like in the case of Mrs. Ethel Bell who was fined $1 for spanking a 12 year old. Superintendent Deane E. Walker argues discipline helps liberty and that children should learn boundaries. Bell suggests returning to old songs and home discipline.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction
Deane E. Walker
Ethel Bell
Richmond
Ind
William C. Dennis
Walker
Nts
Suburban Jail Move Favored by City Planning Panel
The city planning and zoning commission urged relocating city and county jails from their current sites in city hall and the courthouse to less crowded suburban districts. They cite modernization and better space for staff, while noting no immediate move. The panel rejected a plan for a county parking lot north of the courthouse.
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Tucson
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Byron Ivancovich
Commission
Postwar Planning Board
Justice Rutledge Faces another critical spell in illness
York Me Sept 10 Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, age 55, remains in critical condition at York hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage. He had slipped into a coma and is reported with left side paralysis as doctors say the condition is unfavorable.
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York
Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
Elmer Tower
York Hospital
Justice Rutledge
Congressman Welch Dies En Route to West Coast
Congressman Richard J. Welch of California died in Needles after a heart attack aboard a train en route east with his wife. He had shown early improvement but relapsed and passed away in a hospital. Welch had served in California's state senate and San Francisco city-county legislature, and was repeatedly elected to Congress. Norris Poulson and John R. Murdock left Kingman to assess the Bridge Canyon Dam site and the lower Colorado River basin. the trio’s public lands committee aims to halt its inspection trip.
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Needles
Calif
R-Calif
Santa Fe
Welch
California State Senate
San Francisco
Kingman
Ariz
Norris Poulson
John R. Murdock
Rep
Poulson
Murdock
Bridge Canyon
Hualapai
Colorado River
House Public Lands ‘Committee
Navy To Confine Ryan In Hospital Four Months
Seaman Patrick Ryan, who claimed he missed his ship and was shanghaied by the French Foreign Legion, was sentenced by a court martial to four months confinement at the naval retraining center in Norfolk Virginia for unauthorized absence from duty. The navy said the desertion charge was not proved and that he will receive a bad conduct discharge after serving the sentence.
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Washington
Patrick Ryan
Factfinding board backs 10 cent pension plan no wage rise
A presidential factfinding board urged a 10 cent an hour pension and insurance package with no current wage increase for CIO steelworkers. President Truman asked a 10 day truce extension while urging continued bargaining. The CIO had demanded a 30 cent package and a strike by a million workers starting next Wednesday.
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Washington
Truman
CIO
Philip Murray
Mr. Truman
Pittsburgh
Murray
Philadelphia Replaces Mounted Police with Motorcycle Patrols
Philadelphia's mounted traffic unit will be replaced by motorcycle patrols after Director Samuel H. Rosenberg ordered 16 positions moved from horses to bikes. He cited past usefulness but current mechanization as making the mounted unit less effective.
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Philadelphia
Director of Public Safety
Samuel H. Rosenberg
Nine Perish Two Safe In Storm Off Nantucket
Nine of eleven aboard the 38 foot cabin cruiser Constance perished when a Nantucket storm sank the excursion boat. Skipper Russell C. Palmer and survivor Hubert A. Allenby Jr. swam ashore, four socialites aboard a missing Newport sloop were later sought, and a large coast guard search continued near Dionis Beach as the bodies floated ashore in life jackets.
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Nantucket
Mass
Constance
Coast Guard
James F. Beaumont
Russell C. Palmer
Falmouth
Hubert A. Allenby Jr
Newport
R. I
Here
Hubert A. Allenby
Leighton
Alfred
Robert Nairn
Rochester
N. Y
Emily Foster
John Hadley
Jane Mange
Staten Island
Ida Lewis Yacht Club
Golden Fleece
Martha's Vineyard
Debutante
Brayton Marvel
Portsmouth
R. L
Peter Reed
Kenneth Shaw Safe Jr
Providence
Diana Davies
George F. Ryan
Miss Davies
Rhode Island Summer Society
Dionis Beach
Nancy Testimony: 10 Year Old Witness in Father Killing
In a trembling voice the 10 year old Nancy Falleta testified that she saw Carmine Petille, known as Charlie, approach the block after she put her baby sister to bed and looked out. She said she heard him plead with a man to stop shooting and that Charlie then shot her father Frank Falleta multiple times. Nancy identified Petille in court as the shooter. Judge Leibowitz later asked if she understood truthfulness and she replied that she would bear a sin if she lied.
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New York
Nancy Falleta
Charlie
Nancy
Carmine
Charlie) Petille
Frank Falleta
Kings County
Samuel S. Leibowitz
Tanmey
Young Democrats Name State Organizer for Arizona
Harry Ackerman, president of the Young Democratic Clubs of Arizona, announced Harry Ames of Douglas as state organizer during a Phoenix conference at the Hotel Adams. The meeting set plans for the 1950 campaign and the biennial convention, with Steve Langmade as principal speaker.
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Phoenix
Harry Ackerman
Tucson
Young Democratic Clubs of
Arizona
Harry Ames
Douglas
Hotel
Adams
Ames
Francis Ames
Arizona Retail Liquor Dealers Association
Ackerman
Steve Langmade
Arizona Democratic State Central Committee
Baseball Results From A Triple Header
Boston defeats Philadelphia 9 to 4 in first game with Parnell Tebbetts Fowler Harris and Guerra. Washington beats New York 4 to 3 as Raschi Pillette and Berra appear. New York loses to Chicago 8 to 3 with Scarborough Early and Pillette. National League action sees New York 4 Brooklyn 5, Chicago 5 Pittsburgh 7. Gallagher.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Parnell and Tebbetts
Fowler
Harris
Guerra
Washington
New York
Scarborough
Early
Raschi
Pillette
Berra
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Council
Gen. Feldman
Petain
F. F. McCluney
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Union Station
Senate Committee
Miss Arizona
Congressman Welch
Navy
Ryan
C1o
Young Democrats
Chicago
Hutchinson
Swift
Pierce
Pieretti
Judson
Ma Ilone
National League
Brooklyn
Kennedy
R. Mueller
Newscombe
Palica
Campanella
Leonard
Rush
Owen
Werle
Walsh
Gumbert
Masi
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