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CITY eUUlIC MAIL July 17, 1954 Page 16 The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona- Pact Progress Slight In 'Maryland, Illinois Lie Detector Dennis The Menace By Hank Ketcham mmmmmmm Tests Asked In Tliorhe Case 10,000 French Drive Reds Back In Delta By Associated Press French Union mobile infantry units spearheaded by tanks drove 2 Fireworks Plant Explosions Kill 13 MCME FENCE CO. CHICAGO (AP) Pretty Suz- By Associated Press Two fireworks factories one 3,100 directly across Marvland and the other Wpeake Bay from Baltimore, Viet Minn troops from entrenchments west and northeast of Hanoi yesterday. "It was the biggest offensive in weeks against Communist-led Anne Rooks, 23, last known person to see Montgomery Ward Thome alive offered yesterday to forces in the Red River delta and sought to seal a Communist breach Illinois blew up yesterday, kill- take a lie detector test in the of the French lines. thought for a moment they had been atom bombed. ABOUT 10:30 there had been a ing at least 13 persons.

baffling case, if other principals, ported Vietnamese and the Red- Ten thousand French and Viet including Thome's socialite moth muffled explosion in Building, supported Viet Minh, were shown to Molotov. er, do the same. Una Xllcxr namese troops, DacKea Dy artillery and American-supplied war-planes, smashed Viet Minh positions near Luc Nam, 35 miles But the Communists were re putting together M-80 training shells for the armed forces. Her offer was made through her father, Attorney Irvin Rooks, who NURSERY SERVICE ported holding out for the 14th ruins of the Kent Manufacturing Co. Between 50 and 60 were injured, but only seven were hospitalized, and their condition was not serious.

issued a bitter blast against lawyers representing Thome's moth' er, wealthy Mrs. Marion Thome. parallel. The French drawn partition The plant burst into flames and the shock started a chain reaction through the 65 buildings line would give the Viet Minh All houses near the plant were Thorne, 20-year-old heir to a osions rocked in the 2-acre Plant site' Bundles plosions rocKea CVninHcH in th air- evacuated as ex $1,300,000 mail order fortune, was the town for 90 minutes. northeast of Hanoi, and Son Tay, 25 miles west of Hanoi.

A French briefing officer said the fighting raged on, with both sides suffering appreciable losses. FRENCH FORCES closed a pincer on rebels dug in along a river bank six miles west of Luc Nam. Supporting infantry units from nearby Phu Lang Thuong, found dead in his one-room studio apartment June 19. His strange death first was attributed to narcotics and alcohol. three-fifth of Viet Nam, including the rich Red River delta.

The French were reported, contending, however, for continued control of the delta port of Haiphong, if not Hanoi as well. The Communist line would push the French out of virtually all but the province of Cochin China, around Saigon, in the south. BUT A TEAM of consulting Damage was put at $500,000. The 10 bodies recovered came from Building," one of eight larger structures destroyed. The victims were mostly elderly women who worked on assembly lines there.

RICHARD GEORGE, assistant chief of the Chestertown Fire Department, said he believed all pathologists overruled the finding 15 miles to the west, rolled across country to join a Luc Nam force iff I 1 and now is conducting new tests in an effort to fix tlje cause of which opened the battle inure day. death. The coroners office said Viet Minh pressure has been The blast- slacked off just as authorities were preparing to evacuate the entire city. ABOUT 275 were at work in the plant. Most of the force was on hand because it was pay day.

In Chicago, three men were killed at the Melrose Fireworks Co. One was injured and one listed as missing. An explosion destroyed the one-story frame plant and the ensuing fire sent a towering plume of black smoke rising above the western suburb of Schiller Park. Residents of Chestertown, a farm and college community of yesterday it has received no re Bermuda Grass Seed Fertlliier FREE Delivery Open Sunday WHEAT NURSERIES Phoenix: 1930 S. Central AI S-3988 Phoenix: 3414 North 40th Street Mesa: 1140 East Main.

WO 4-4550 After the three-hour meeting it port yet from the pathologists and was announced that no regular none is expected for two weeks. 'It's Dennis. He wants to know if you're still sore at him." session of the conference would be held today. Rooks's blast followed a request of Coroner Walter E. McCarron Prettv Is As that the police seek agreements the victims had been found, although it is possible another body or two might turn up in the rubble or the marshy area near the plant.

Twenty-two small buildings, 15 feet square and spread out for safety's sake, disappeared. Many housed the treacherous explosive Not one case of typhoid fever from major witnesses in the case building up against French outposts in the area around Xuc Nam and Phu Lang Thuong for 10 days. Only Thursday the French rushed a mobile unit to evacuate an 80-man garrison from Camp Derulin, located between the two centers. The camp had fought off Viet Minh assaults for four consecutive nights. Meanwhile at Geneva East-West negotiators met for three hours yesterday in hard bargain to submit to lie tests.

Enjoy Republic Comics has been traced to a public water supply in Michigan since 1934. Bartlett Marimon, an attorney for Mrs. Thorne, promptly com Beauty Contest Peaceful As United Nations Meeting LONG BEACH, Calif. (ENS) The third annual Miss Universe con mented that one of the first to undergo a lie test should be Miss Rooks. test to select the most beautiful girl in all the world got oif to a The father of the girl snapped ing lor an maocnina armistice roaring start yesterday with one Latin beauty missing, another and made no progress.

back that "I cannot permit Mr. charmer 24 hours late, and a sizzling feud between two of the do Marimon or anyone else to impugn the honor or veracity of my French Premier Pierre Mendes- mestic queens. -SUMMER is the time lead azide, a nitro-glycerin com-; pound used in detonator fuses. i Lillie Mae Miller, 54, was one the 30 or 40 who got out of Building." "I STARTED to run and a falling timber hit me across the leg," she said. "I saw many of the older ladies knocked down but I couldn't stop to pick them up.

was terrible." The blasts were felt at Centre-ville, 16 miles away. W. H. Thaw- France, Soviet Foreign Minister JUST SAY: "CALL ME AT THE FlamingoIIoter' YUMA PHOENIX TUCSON V. M.

Molotov and British For eien Secretary Anthony Eden tobuyahme conferred in private in the show down stage in an effort to reach Post Sought By Armstrong wOKER NOW. daughter. She has nothing to hide." HE SAID MISS Rooks would be willing to take a lie test if Mrs. Thorne and two other persons do likewise. He named the other two as Mrs.

Thome's nephew, Jerry McDougal an aereement on a division of Viet Nam. Missing was the as yet unidentified Miss Venezuela. Tournament officials are not too worried as the 1953 Miss Venezuela was missing for two days before arriving. The tardy arrival was Miss Korea, Keh Sun Tuy. She was put on the wrong plane at Honolulu and ended up in Seattle.

She arrived during the night completely tuckered out from her de SEE WUR REAL ft. m. ume. YVny wc neooie THE DELEGATES were work ley said he was blown out ot nis chair a block away. I LJI ing against a Tuesday deadline H.

C. Armstrong (D-Maricopa) has announced he is seeking re when, Mendes-France has de buy i numDer i nur iina, ana cnaries Magistro, a classmate of Thorne at Fordham election to the Arizona House of the large clared, he will resign if he has ittvs. wi Representatives. University. not achieved a ceasefire.

to fcwu'r Armstrong is a candidate for Magistro, testifying at the wVto come V.a marVet tor Documents putting down in black and white French pro tour of many thousands of miles and extra hours of travel. the. Democratic nomination in hectic, marathon inquest into the i are are Mancopa County District 36. OT -V nil Will death, was the only witness to link Thome directly with the use FAYVW-7 ff ff VVien posals, which were reported to divide Viet Nam at the 18th parallel between the French-sup- District 36 comprises 7 pre sK YOUR to oner 7 of drugs. cincts: Cartwright.

Cash ion, he has some gooa pur. l. 1 property, Te Fowler, Isaac 1 and 2, Orme, and Tolleson. It includes the western part of metropolitan Phoenix and agricultural communities to the you Title Insurant, rhase with our poUcy west. Charles MicUe.

Present The feud is raging between two fetching beauties from Pennsylvania. There is a Miss Pennsylvania, Helen Vidovich, and a Miss Philadelphia, Elaine Dufeen. They refuse to speak, not even to exchange a remark about the 93-degree weather. They are rivals as the result of a Pennsylvania rhubarb. Two Miss Greeces also popped up.

Attorney General Brownell ARMSTRONG is a Tolleson FOR YOUR OFFICE REQUIREMENTS FURNITURE SUPPLIES ACCOUNTING FORMS resident. In the 21st legislature he served on the livestock and lands and ways and means com I I PHOENIX mittees of the house and was vice chairman of the committee on agriculture and irrigation. TRUST lifted U.S.1 objections to Grecian TiTtf beauty, Rita Diahna, 22-year-old "The requirements of govern ment have grown and will continue to grow," he said in his Can Athenian. Congressmen had taken up cudgels for her after the state department refused her entry to this country because she announcement. lU Avenue and Adam.

once illustrated a Communist Office Supplies Office Equipment IfeS- NorthCentCame kmum book. WHwmtV MESA scum KOROSEAL GARDEN HOSE $095 25 it. REGULARLY $5.75 NOW $95 30 ft. REGULARLY $9.80 NOW 75 ft REGULARLY $13.85 NOW 7 Already on hand is Grecian runner-up, Effie Androulakaki. "With the growth comes Increasing demands for governmental services and, as a natural consequence, the necessity for more and more taxes.

"THIS BEING so, I fear that we are rapidly arriving at the She said Rita "is welcome." Don B. Stone Co. 501 W. Adam AL 4-2307 and AL 4-2984 $800 Reported Lost By Local Waitress point where property ownership for the private citizen will be a liability instead of an asset." Mary Fimbres. a waitress of If re-elected, he said, "I will work for legislation to transfer more of the school district tax burden to the state level and will vote 'no' on appropriations not definitely essential to the func 241 S.

Second told police yesterday she lost $800 at a local bar. She had given her purse, containing the cash, to a bartender for safe keeping, she said. She claimed that when she got the purse back the cash was gone. tioning of bur state government." $198 $198 HOE I $1.93 RAKE I Yuma Taxes May Drop SAVE $140 Tho King of Refrigerators Automatic Defrosting 2-Door Refrigerator WHEEL BARROWS GARDEN CARTS COMPLETE LINE OF ORTHO PRODUCTS INSECTICIDES AND BUG KILLERS SPRINKLERS FERTILIZERS CO i with separate tood treezer YUMA (UP) A drop of 29 cents in City of Yuma property tax rate appears probable for the 1954-55 fiscal year. City Councilman J.

B. Bailey Sr. said yester day. UyJ Bailey said that would fix the tax rate at $2 per $100 assessed 12 large cu. ft.

of storage space. KELV1NATOR Regular $529.95 YOUR PRICE $38995 TRADE-INS WANTED SUNNY FURNITURE CO. YOt'R STORK OF NATION AL KVntt BRANDS valuation. An anticipated in crease in property valuation of $2 million would boost the total for the city to $11,642,227. DEPARTMENT AND VARIETY STORES 4104 N.

Avenue 4314 N. 7th Avenue 6011 N. 7th Avenue 7015 N. 7th Street 2711 W. Camelback Rd.

FARM AND HOME CREDIT AVAILABLE The proposed city administration budget for the new period is $525,022, compared to $477,000 for last year. The council is expected to give tentative approval 500 E. Dwilap Wl 3-9342 Open from 'til Daily to the budget at a meeting Mwt day. AIR COOLED BY REFRIGERATION FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND SUPPER BARGAINS CHECK OUR DISPLAY WINDOWS FOR DAILY SPECIALS ALONG WITH OUR DAILY SPECIALS, PATRONS OF MILLER'S CAFETERIA RECEIVE FREE PARKING AT SUNJUICE PARKING LOT, FIRST STREET AND WASHINGTON, AND TONY'S AUTO PARK, SECOND AVENUE AT ADAMS. ipp Well OPEN DAILY INCLUDING SUNDAY 7:00 A.M.

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