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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1918
Page
3
The column outlines Red Cross aims and activities including knitting, refugee garment production, and civilian relief overseas. It notes over 36,000 nurses enrolled for the army and navy, Christmas roll call efforts, and volunteers across the Pacific Division with names and cities listed.
The International Woman's Association of Commerce was organized at a Chicago conference to promote women's roles in commercial and professional services across the United States. Elected officers include President Florence King, Secretary Ann Ranes, and Treasurer Laura Gifen with headquarters in Chicago.
Red Cross reports about 5000 flu masks produced by local women under wartime orders. After a week of steady work, volunteers ask Tucson residents to make their own masks to aid Belgium and France relief by following standard directions, including six layers of gauze and nightly sterilization.
Red Cross shop announces weekly soup sale from the food department starting next Wednesday. Bring a container and place orders for pumpkin pies for the day before the big feast. Also stocked are bedsteads, mattresses, blankets, pillows, and influenza masks. A court case involving George P. Myers receiver vs Emercon Stratton and others was continued in superior court with a dismissal motion under advisement. a related Bababi Mining matter will be tried next.
Sergeant Jesse Downs of Fort Huachuca escorted Ed Millman to the fort for court martial on desertion. Millman had earlier been arrested on charges of fraudulently using a railroad pass obtained while he was a passenger brakeman with Southern Pacific. His wife Pearl Millman, who posed as his spouse, was fined in federal court recently.
Gilbert Burgess of Nogales was released on his own recognizance by order of a federal court. He faced draft evasion charges. His uncle S W Higdon, accused of aiding evasion, remains jailed.
Joe V. Prechaska of Miami a noted Republican and Elk arrived Thursday over the new Globe-Winkleman highway with his wife and Mrs. M Mathanseriff of Omaha who went to Los Angeles praising the superb road.
Augie Kieckhefer defeated Robert Cannefax 50 to 25 in 34 innings, breaking the world three-cushion billiards record of 36 innings held by Charles McCourt and Frank Day. Tucson Tent and Awning Co. advertises garage tents.
An elderly reader credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with curing years of stomach pain gas and constipation. After four years without trouble the 80 year old states they feel like a young man and are now fit as a fiddle.
Lieutenants Ralph Wo Keone and Weinger visit the Congress hotel along with Fo Love and others. Miss Louise Whitney departs for Phoenix as Arizona Eastern offices relocate. Joe Prochaska and family arrive by car from Miami via the Globe to Tucson highway, with Los Angeles plans afterward. Jenkins and Dr Clifton J Larie begin a ten to fourteen day geology recon through Bisbee and Matagania as prep for a state geological map.
Eliot Wadsworth, acting chairman of the Red Cross executive committee, declares in Philadelphia that the Red Cross force of mercy must never be demobilized and that America will continue to help wherever suffering exists. He notes the U S Red Cross raised over 300 million dollars in a year and a half plus extensive volunteer service, and cites Great Britain as the largest overseas Red Cross effort with more than 60 million raised in four and a half years.
Mrs Dick Harding succeeds Mrs M F R Pendleton as head of Tucson Organized Charities after Pendleton resigns. Harding is a prominent Tucson figure active in civic patriotic and social service movements.
Dr dD T McDougal has returned from Carmel by the Sea California and will stay about a week before heading east for Carnegie Institute conferences where he is director of Desert Botanical Laboratory. Charles R Hoffman former head of freight bureau Arizona Eastern at Cson has been transferred to Phaen as freight claim agent 1/C. Corcoran and F J Smith also moved to the capital with their families. Dr Stamfield H Keeney Stratton Copper stockholder and Myers Stratton trial witness has returned to Indianapolis due to a new influenza outbreak.
Two Arizona clubwomen are selected to represent the federation in France and Belgium during the war service era. The nominees will sail from New York for France on January 24 after government and YWCA approval. Selection by mail due to dispersed members, with government quotas limiting eligible candidates.
The remains of Anthony Denny of Toronto Canada who died recently in a local hospital will be returned to his former home. He was described as a health seeker.
Tessie Martinez filed for divorce in the superior court on Friday alleging cruel treatment by her husband Albert Martinez. The complaint seeks a divorce and related relief in a case reflecting a marital dispute.
Lord Weardale at a London luncheon honoring James M. Beck urged erecting statues of Washington Lincoln and President Wilson in London to mark the war's end and called for Wilson to consent to a matching statue alongside the U S leaders in a prominent site.
Denver officials announce a sure seven cent rise in city tramway fares with a possible option for an upper fare level. The report notes the measure is under review by the Denver Tramway Company as of November 22.
Secretary Houston told Congress that 15 Agriculture Department employees were exempt as indispensable workers while 248 others gained exemptions on grounds of dependency or other causes.
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