Maricopa County Plans Drive to Reach War Savings Quota
Maricopa County launches a six day drive from December 9 to recruit investors for War Savings Stamps. County leaders Latins Laostas and J C Dob Wits oversee a countywide effort modeled on the Fourth Liberty Loan drive to meet a $222,000 target with county residents urged to invest to lift Arizona from its current national standing.
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Phoenix
Des
Maricopa County
War Savings
Game
Joseph A. Latins
Laostas
J.C. Dob Wits
War Savings Stamp Society
Yavayal
Ariona
Influenza Cases Drop in Phoenix as Theaters Prep Reopen
The Phoenix daily survey shows 251 influenza cases, 12 new, 38 discharged, and one death. Officials anticipate reopening theaters and other closed venues on Sunday December 8, amid improving epidemic conditions.
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Hoenin
Phoenix
Citizens’ Committee
Yuma Adopts Drastic Gambling Law In 13 Months
Yuma Arizona voters approved a referendum banning card playing and poolrooms where value is at stake. The new ordinance prohibits private or public card games with stakes including whist for prizes and social clubs must end games not played merely for fun. Police halted card games citywide as enforcement began today amid a crackdown on poolrooms and other gambling venues.
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Yuma
Arizona
Switchman killed under wheels in Douglas yard accident
Dec 7. HB Sparks switchman for El Paso and Southwestern railroad fell from a Neck Island refrigerator car and was instantly killed yesterday morning at the Twenty first street yard. While inspecting an attached end, the car coupler failed as the train neared the station. Yard foreman Ro Morrison shouted a warning but Sparks could not escape. The train passed over him, breaking the body. Sparks resided at 161 North Nineteenth street and is survived by a widow, a 16 year old daughter, and a naval son. He was a thirty second degree Mason and had served a year in the service.
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Douglas
Neck
HB. Sparks
el Paso and Southwestern Railroad
Twenty-first Street
Ro Morrison
Starks
Alneost
Sparks Neel
Nineteenth Street
Naval Service
Wee Star
Miner Picklick Fatally Injured in Czar Shaft Fight
Joe Pabloh and Francisco Velardo fought at the Queen branch Czar shaft. Velardo struck Picklick with a pipe, fracturing his skull. Pabloh remains in hospital with a fractured skull. Velardo was arrested. Picklick’s condition and marital status noted. incident occurred on the 400 level in a drift behind a car.
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Bisbee
Joe Pabloh
Queen
Phelps Dodge Compan
Czar
Company
Francisco Velardo
Frank Vela
Picklick
Picksick
Velard
Velart
Cesar
Tex Barton
Springs Canyon
Dividends Paid to New Cornelia Store Patrons
In Ajo Dec 7 the New Cornelia company store announced $31,000 in dividends for 73 employees out of 904 workers. Average checks exceed $50, covering a full year of business with last year’s eight months around $15,000. Company officials praise worker loyalty during the busy period.
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AJO
New Cornelia Company
Mining Corporation
Marriage Licenses and Tubercular Hospital Report
Bliss ticker lists marriages from Bisbee and Douglas with several couples to wed in San Bernardino and Phoenix. Also notes Augustus Redewill's death in Phoenix, Haley's resignation from Nogales War Trade Board, and ongoing labor and tubercular hospital developments in Prescott with new housing and staffing plans. Also reports a silver strike near Harshaw and copper discoveries at Miami Artz area.
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Prescott
Harshaw
Santagruz County
Ofc
J. E. James
Curt Vivian F Tt
Katie EH Donne
Bisbee
Verna D. Wetherhot
Adaline Hazel Modges
Lowell
Jo A. Thomas Gleeson
Nod. Snyder
San Bernardino
Cal
Robert H. Borchard
Kathryo Oneill
Lewis G. Knapy
Eddthe Wims
Douglas
Para Astino
Clifton Boy Killed on Battlefield in France
In a war department telegram this week Mr and Mrs Tom Wilson of the Drag Tanc learned their son Harold Erskine Wilson was killed in action on November 8 three days before the armistice was signed.
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Clifton
Nec
War Department
Tom Wilson
Drag Tanc
Harold Erskine Wilson
Promise to Repay Money Under Probation
Fred Ross aged 17 released on probation after two months on a charge of issuing worthless checks at a southern Arizona bank. A lumber camp assignment was found for him and he promised to devote his wages to repaying the funds he fraudulently obtained.
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Flagstaff
Fred Ross
Arizona
Agitate Road Bond Issue Runs Into Millions for Maricopa
Phoenix dispatch reports fresh agitation over county bonds totaling 2,000,008 to improve main highways from Florence to Agua Caliente and north toward Prescott. Funds strained by maintaining vast acreage roads, with ongoing work on a four mile segment between Phoenix and Tempe. The state also plans the Superior Miami road up Queen Creek canyon northeast of Superior.
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Phoenix
Florence
Agua Caliente
Vima
Prescott
Wickenburg
Tempe
Queen Creek
Superior
President Wilson Urges Fast Road Building and Jobs Plan
A published White House letter asks for speedy renewal and extension of federal aid road programs. It notes the need to resume and broaden highway work to provide employment and foster nationwide road development. Secretary Baker also argues continued cooperation between War and Agriculture to push fresh highways.
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Washington
Dev
Wilson
Houston
Mary Houston
Baker
War
War Department
Department of Agiculture
Army planes charting air mail lane fly Phoenix to Tucson
Four army planes under Major Albert Smith, flying at 4000 feet, completed the Phoenix to Tucson leg of the El Paso to San Diego air mail route in 1 hour 35 minutes without incident, arriving in Tucson at 4 50 this afternoon.
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Tucson
Army
Albert Smith
el Paso
San Diego
Phoenix
Smith
YUMA STARTS CRUSADE FOR Y M C A BUILDING
YUMA Dec 7 Mr F B Blake of the reclamation service aims to start a drive for a Yuma Y M C A building to serve as a headquarters for young men during irrigation project work and the Imperial Valley situation. He hopes to also host returning soldiers and has received an encouraging reply from the interstate secretary at El Paso.
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Yuma
F. B. Blake
Reclamation Service
Imperial Valley
Blake
el Paso
Camp Cody to be abandoned soon reports say
War Department plans to abandon Camp Cody at Deming while Camp Travis near San Antonio Texas will close. Demobilization and convalescent camp for Arizona and New Mexico troops seeks rail and information from Tucson chamber of commerce. Chambers of New Mexico and Arizona urge War Department to retain Cody as a demobilization camp.
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WAR Department
Camp Travis
Arizona
New
Mexico
Deming
N. Mu
Tucson
Der
Cody
Travis
San Antonio
Texas
Arizona New Mexico
Chamber of Commerce
N. M
Turson
Wer
New Mexico
Ouangs
Chamber of Symerce
Arizona Chambers of Commerce
Camp Cody
Patron Loses Scrap With Water Company
Phoenix December 7 A show cause proceeding in the Gila Valley Electric Gas and Water matter was continued after Charles Hobert of Safford sued to compel water service. The case involved a customer named Yett who claimed service was withheld after moving, and that he had paid for water to his former residence. The commission indicated the company lacked full information on the dispute.
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Phoenix
Gma Valley Electric, Gas and Water Company
Charles Hobert
Safford
Iy Yett
Ation
Opening bids for four Pima road bond issues Tucson
Dec TA decided bet terment of the bond market, due to the close of the war, was evidenced in the opening of bids for four Pima county road bond tastes, a presium meme bid In each case by four bidders. The bonds cover roads to Mount Lemmons, $25.01, to Gunsight and Ajo, $40.00, to Casa Grande, $40,000, and an extension of the Borderland route, $20.0)
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Tucson
Dec TA
Mount Lemmons
Gunsight
Ajo
Casa Grande
Borderland
Hole in Hun helmet reveals fate of its former owner
In Bisbee, a German helmet sent home by Private HS Ludford of Haq 340th field artillery bears a telltale back hole from a head shot. The helmet, picked from a dead enemy and sent to Ludford’s parents as a Christmas memento, is on display at Robey's Haberdashery. Ludford and 24 others from Bisbee left the city last February, many already in heavy combat.
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Robey’s Haberdashery
Main Street
Ladford
Binbee
Vover
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Cochise
Augustus Redewell
A. Redewill
Redewill Music Company of
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Neille Clark Redewill
Alice
Cass
Francis
Eugene
Victor
War Trade, Board
New York City
Mr. Haley
Whipple Barracks
Fnment
L. B Doane
Government Employment Service
United States Employment Office
Allen Block
Fort Whit
Nogales
Newsise
Patagonia
A. Pierce
Tom Gardner
Harchav
Pierce
Frank Stanfield
Willcox
Dee
Sierra Bonita Ranch
Stanfield
Government Service
Fort Grant
Porphyry Copper Company
Miami
Artz
France
Maricopa
Atlantic
Patron
Water Company
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