City council weighs police pension fund plan and legal vote
Tucson officials move to finance a new police pension fund with voluntary officer contributions tied to an emergency ordinance. Mayor Jaastad and five council members supported the measure after a legal opinion. The talk includes a proposed $40,000 total annuity with about $20,000 returning to the city.
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Tucson
H. O. Janstad
Beverly Williamson
Jaastad
J. O. Niemann
William Stuart Nicholas
Halburt W. Miller
Fred D. Lee
Homer Shantz
William H. Codd
Warren and
Martin Avenues
Hampton and
Seneca Streets
Traffic Commission
Driscoll Street
Pennington
Alameda
Alexander Grant finishes journey on the Colorado River
Alexander Grant Jr an adventurous cousin of President Roosevelt completed a 150 mile kayak cruise from Lee s Ferry Utah to Lake Mead. He crossed 175 rapids from July 15 reaching Pierce s Ferry near the Grand Canyon with the Norman D Neville scientific survey party.
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Los Angeles
Alexander Grant, Jr
Roosevelt
Colorado River
Lake Mead
Union Pacific
Grant
Lee's Ferry
Utah
Pierce’s Ferry
Grand Canyon
Boulder Dam
Roosevelt Heads To New London On Potomac Voyage
President Roosevelt will leave Washington tomorrow for New London Connecticut to board the yacht Potomac for a week long vacation in New England waters. White House secretary Stephen Early says the cruise proceeds day to day with railroad equipment on standby to return if the international situation requires.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New London
Conn
New England
Stephen Early
White House
NBC Waits Approval of ASCAP Music Use
NBC waits for affiliated stations approval of an ASCAP music use agreement to place ASCAP songs on NBC networks for the first time since January 1. ASCAP ratified terms but NBC president Niles Trammell said the contract awaits affiliate consent to refund 2 percent of stations' compensation on network business where not prohibited by law.
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New York
U.P
National Broadcasting Company
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP
Niles Trammell
NBC
Women Told Not To Pay More For Silk Hosiery
Washington August 2. Harret Elliott head of the consumer division of the office of price administration warns women not to pay above their normal price for hosiery and urges against large stock purchases. She says heavy buying is a selfish raid on supplies and blames retailers who raise prices as exploiting the national crisis.
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Washington
Harret Elliott
Office of Price Administration
Senate Debates Longer Draft Service Amid Standoff
Senators push to extend Army service by up to 18 months with a bipartisan majority backing a compromise allowing selectees guardsmen and reserves to stay in uniform longer while Taft opposes more than six extra months. A joint committee also advances a measure to allow older selectees to leave the Army.
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Washington
Senate
House
Military Committee
Congress
Taft
Taft (R
Ohio
Wheeler
Dmont
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate-House
Gullion Appointed Provost Marshal General in Army
Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion is named to lead the newly recreated provost marshal general post to oversee military police duties inclining internment camps for aliens. He will also continue as judge advocate general as the War Department expands police battalions beyond regular MP units.
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Washington
War Department
Allen W. Gullion
Army
Enoch Crowder
Gullion
Carrollton
Navy uses blimps for Atlantic patrols again
The United States Navy has returned to operating lighter-than-air craft for Atlantic patrols. After the disasters of Shenandoah, Akron, Macon, and Hindenburg, the new blimps are now on duty with more on order.
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United States Navy
Atlantic
Red Navy Launches U S Coast Invasion Drill In War Games
In San Francisco August 2, a theoretical Red Navy begins the conquest of Hawaii as part of the fourth Army war games tying 100000 troops to be involved. Blue defenders at Presidio of Monterey prepare with 3rd 7th 40th and 41st divisions facing 17th Infantry as possible invasion points include Puget Sound Columbia River area and Los Angeles San Diego.
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San Francisco
U.P
Red” Navy
Hawaii
United States
Fourth Army
Red
Presidio of
Monterey
Blue
John L. DeWitt
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Los Angeles
San Diego
Aluminum may be mined in Arizona
Arizona may become an aluminum producer as the state department reports a large firm studies a potential alunite deposit. The Reynolds Manufacturing Co has developed a process to make aluminum from alunite with two deposits located in central Yuma County and Graham County, one under examination.
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Arizona
Phoenix
State Mineral Resources Department
Osborn
Reynolds Manufacturing Company
Yuma County
Graham County
Stockton singer Battilana jailed on rape charges
Marcel Battilana, 38, a Stockton California figure, was jailed to face charges from 22 year old nightclub singer Joyce Marlow that he kidnapped and raped her three times in a hotel. He was arrested in a downtown hotel and booked for investigation of rape.
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Stockton
Calif
U.P
Marcel Battilana
Joyce Marlow
Battalana
District A1
Miss Marlow
Battilana
Dunn
A R MacLeod and wife injured in highway wreck
A R MacLeod Arizona Otis Elevator manager and his wife suffered serious injuries when their car overturned on highway 60 ten miles west of Salome. They were taken to Wickenburg hospital with severe head injuries shock and possible internal injuries. Mrs MacLeod to stay in hospital at least a week while MacLeod expected to be released tomorrow.
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Phoenix
Ariz
A. R. MacLeod
Arizona
Otis Elevator Company
Highway 60
Salome
Wickenburg
Defense Plant Strikes Halt Four Major Jobs
AFL laborers at four defense plants totaling 190 million dollars stayed off the job to protest overtime cuts. Plants include an 89 million St Louis area small arms plant and a 34 million Weldon Springs TNT factory, with 32 million Plum Brook Ohio ordnance works and 35 million Ravenna Ohio ordnance plant also affected. Additional stoppages were noted at a 10 million munitions plant near Kansas City and a New York Ford Instrument Navy contract site where workers agreed to return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
St. Louis
Weldon Springs
Plum Brooks
Ohio
Ordnance Works
Ravenna
Ordnance Plant
Kansas City
New York
Ford Instrument Company
Long Island City
Harry van Arsdale
Chicago
John Coyne
AFL Executive Council
Building Trades Department
National Defense
Washington
Caso Is Named Choir Director
Eduardo Caso, director of the Tucson Boys' choir, was named choir leader at the First Methodist church and will begin duties September 1. He helped organize the Tucson group in November 1939, which now has 40 voices and starts rehearsals August 19 at the church.
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Tucson
First Methodist Church
Eduardo Caso
Caso
University Methodist Church
Case
Pacific Coast
Robert Mitchell
St. Brendan's Choir
Los Angeles
Lewis Boys
San Diego
Pasadena
Miami
Fla
Public Hearing On Bridge Canyon Work Set For September
The Federal Power Commission will hold a Washington hearing on September 22 to consider Arizona's application for a preliminary permit for the Bridge Canyon water power project on the Colorado River. The hearing aims to determine jurisdiction and Arizona's readiness for examinations surveys and financial arrangements amid Interior Department questions on license authority.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Arizona
Bridge Canyon
Colorado River
Secretary of the Interior
NYA allocates funds for 1941 42 part time student work
National Youth Administration head Aubrey Williams announces an $21 088 125 plan to provide part time jobs for about 500 000 students in 1941 42 with pay ranges from 3 to 6 dollars monthly for secondary students 10 to 20 dollars for undergraduates and up to 30 dollars for graduates allocations list Arizona 86815 California 1371247 Nevada 15882 and overall reduction from last year.
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Washington
Aubrey Williams
National Youth Administration Today
Arizona
California
Nevada
Hannah Miller Dies At Local Hospital
Mrs. Hannah Miller of Tucson aged 50 died this morning in a local hospital after residing in Tucson for 35 years. She is survived by her husband Albert Miller and children Clinton and Anita, all of Tucson. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Tucson Mortuary.
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Hannah Miller
Tucson
Miller
Wood Street
Greenville
Tenn
Albert Miller
Clinton
Anita
Lumber workers strike pushes for higher hourly wages
Officials of the lumber and saw mill workers union an AFL affiliate demand wage increases from 74 to 95 cents hourly for sawers and 36 to 55 cents for firemen. Louis Carr president of Southwest says strikers demanded a 2.5 cent rise per dollar rise per 1000 feet in lumber price.
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AFL
Gulf Coast Metal Trades District Council
Tampa
Fla
Gulf Coast
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
West Coast
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
CIO
New Mexico
W. J. Jaeger
Alamogordo
N. M
Southwest Lumber Company
Fort Bliss
Texas
Fort
Army
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union
Louis Carr
Southwest
Gas Tax Diversion Debate Signals Constitutional Action
At the Arizona Good Roads convention in Winslow the proposal of a constitutional amendment to prohibit diverting gasoline tax revenues from highway projects was presented by Riney Salmon. Other speakers included Vic Housholder, James E. Babbitt, George T. Grove, W. J. Jamieson, and Frank E. Pooler, with mayor J. A. Greaves and city engineer Frank Goodman welcoming delegates.
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Winslow
Arizona Good Roads Association
Riney Salmon
Phoenix
Arizona
National Highways Users Association
Vic Housholder
Good Roads Association
Arizona Municipalities League
Housholder
Municipal League
League
James E. Babbitt
Coconino County
George T. Grove
Pima County
W. J. Jamieson
Arizona Works Projects Administration
Frank E. Pooler
Albuquerque
J. A. Greaves
Frank Goodman
Association
Majority Approve Blocking Japanese A Key Shift in Public Opinion
A Gallup survey shows 51 percent favor steps to curb Japanese power even if war risk rises, with 31 percent opposed and 18 percent undecided. The study tracks a four year shift from neutrality to anti-Japanese embargo support as East Asian tensions escalate.
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Princeton
N. J
Far East
Indo-China
Philippines
Pacific
China
South Pacific
American Institute of Public Opinion
Orient
Japan
United States
Panay
Germany
Italy
Indoshina
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
U. S
Dutch Indies
The
Indies
Jon
Cordell Hull
Institute
Australia
New Zealand
Rosenbaum Funeral Set for Sunday Morning
Bennie Rosenbaum, 38, who died yesterday at a local hospital, will have funeral services Sunday morning at 10 at the Arizona Mortuary chapel. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. A New York City native who lived on North Oracle Road, he worked in window cleaning. his wife Lillian survives.
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Bennie Rosenbaum
Arizona Mortuary Chapel
Evergreen Cemetery
Rosenbaum
New York City
North Oracle Road
Lillian Rosenbaum
Costa Rica Purse Seiner Radioed Distress Off Pt. Reyes
The 80-foot purse seiner Costa Rica from San Diego radioed that it had lost its rudder and was in distress five miles off Pt. Reyes. With a crew of 13, the Coast Guard dispatched a cutter to assist, though no immediate danger was believed.
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San Francisco
U.P
Costa Rica
San Diego
Pt. Reyes
Coast Guard
Too Late to Classify SPECIFY HOPE'S The leader in Steel Windows
Classified ad fragment listing various local services and items for sale including steel windows, fur niture purchases, thrifty furn, flower shop, rental listings, appliances, and poultry market notes. Mentions addresses and phone numbers for multiple merchants and a used car sale.
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HOPE
MFG. Sales CO
S. Park
4Th Ave
Hubbard
S. 4
University
Cote Lewes Ave
Bath
Fremont
Stone Ave
Hue
Neil's
Electrolux
Pdultry
Red Roosters
W. Lincoln
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