Tucson Derby Champ Arrives for Big Race
AKRON Ohio Aug 15 Special Howard King Tucson's entrant in the eighth annual All American Soap Box Derby arrived after his first cross country train ride and spent a day resting meeting other champions. He looked over his racer and rivals while touring Derby Downs and the Ohio rubber city. King and other champs were guests at a ping pong exhibition and later attended a baseball game before official inspections.
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Akron
Howard King
Tucson
Mayflower
Arizona
Young King
Derby Downs
Ohio
Kansas City
Chicago
Indiana
King
Santa Fe
N. M
Niagara Falls
Alaska
Fred King
Jack Kastner
Some In Army May Be Freed By President
Senator Thomas says a substantial number of men may be released from the Army before serving 18 additional months under the extension measure. The President can order longer service for some or all selectees and reservists, but unlikely a blanket 18 months for all three year enlistees.
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Washinton
Thomas
Utah
Senate
Roosevelt
Convalescents Offered Jobs at Pike's Peak Center
Tuberculosis convalescents aged 17 to 24 may enter the Pike's Peak Experience Work Center in Colorado Springs. Daily light work totals five to six hours with 70 hours of shop work and 30 hours of house duties monthly. Transportation provided. $40 monthly pay with about $30 deducted for subsistence. Information from NYA area director Charles Fowler Jr. and the Tucson federal building.
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Pike’s Peak
Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles Fowler, Jr
NYA
Fowler
Tucson Federal
Peddler Repeats Call With Household Gadgets
Housewives report a persuasive peddler in Seattle calling with signs promising no ped dlers or agents. After an initial failed sale he returns minutes later peddling handy household gadgets.
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Seattle
Germans ask eight questions on Roosevelt policies
Berlin dispatch reports authorized German quarters rejected the Roosevelt Churchill declaration as an insignificant pamphlet and posed eight direct questions to President Roosevelt about freedom of the seas, naval bases, concessions to Japan, raw material access, colonies, Monroe Doctrine, Bolshevist doctrine, and blockade policies.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Berlin
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Germany
Europe
Russia
Negro Soldier Held After Lordsburg Attack
Orris Harper, 22, a Negro soldier from Fort Huachuca, is jailed in Silver City for allegedly bludgeoning a 24 year old mother, Mrs Chester Reynolds, who remains in critical condition. Harper reportedly admitted striking her with an electric iron after seeking shelter from rain. He traveled with two battalions en route to Louisiana maneuvers.
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Silver City
N. M
Orris Harper
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Lordsburg
Chester G. Reynolds
J. R. Wrinkle
Harper
Louisiana
Arizona crops to suffer this year
Farmers will take losses on several crops this year due to plant rusts Texas root rot and other diseases says Dr. R B Streets associate plant pathologist at the University of Arizona. Low temperatures and moisture have caused this condition not much worse than last year. Angular leaf spots and rusts attack cotton rusts seen on beans. Virus diseases are attacking melons and squashes.
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Texas
R. B. Streets
University of Arizona
Tucson Policeman Among Top Candidates for City Personnel Director
Albert Hesselberg, city court clerk and identification officer, ranks among the top three for Tucson’s personnel director post. Austin S. Bratcher leads, with James F. Ingle second. Parley H. McNeill is fourth. Eleven applicants took written tests. six underwent oral exams. Bratcher, 39, formerly University of Arizona business professor, now oversees federal personnel training in Phoenix. Ingle, 36, served 15 years in the U S consular service and led Bata Shoe personnel, Delcamp, Md. McNeill, 32, is a Tucson patrolman.
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Tucson
City
Civil Service Commission
Albert Hesselberg
Austin S. Bratcher
Federal Works Projects Administration
Phoenix
James F. Ingle
Leesom Steel Products Company
Parley H. McNeill
City Civil Service Commission
Bratcher
University of Arizona
Ingle
U. S. Consular Service
England
Scotland
Czechoslovakia
Bata Shoe Company
Delcamp, Md
Hesselberg
McNeill
Nazis Warn France Against Red Activities
German authorities in occupied France warn the population that they will be held responsible for Communist activity. A decree bans Communist activity, imposes death for supporters, and orders seizure of anti German tracts with punishments up to 15 years at forced labor. The general command in France appeals to public restraint to prevent further violence and harm to the nation.
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Associated Press
Vichy
France
Paris
Germany
Chicken Pie Labeling Rule Applies in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County authorities require chicken pies offered for sale or making to contain chicken meat. Pies made with veal must be labeled accordingly to indicate veal content.
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Los Angeles County
Calif
Byrd Seeks Accounting of War Aid Costs
Senator Byrd demands a detailed accounting of lease lend expenditures to date as Congress weighs a possible 7 billion dollar request to aid nations fighting Nazi Germany. He cites a June report showing about 75 million spent, urges reporting before any new money is approved.
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Byrd
Washington
D-Va
Congress
Harry Hopkins
Virginia
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pepper
D-Fla
Airport paving begins at Tucson Air Base extension
A 700 foot concrete extension to the tie down apron at the Tucson Air Base started yesterday with 100 workers under WPA supervision. WPA official Robert A. Jarrett said sidewalks curbs and street paving total 145000 square yards and paving also starts on Craycroft road two miles from the air base to East Broadway sponsored by Pima county with the WPA.
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Tucson Air Base
WPA
Robert A. Jarrett
Jarrett
Air Base
Craycroft Road
East Broadway
Pima County
U. S. Chamber Official Attacks New Tax Bill
Fred R. Fairchild of Yale told the Senate Finance Committee that the 3.236 billion dollar tax bill unfairly burdens about 7 million high tax payers. He urged a broad based levy collected at the source to reach non income taxpayers and defend capital for production.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Senate Finance Committee
Fred R. Fairchild
Yale University
Chamber
Fairchild
Canada
Rationing Of Gasoline Seen In Short Time
Washington August 15 Secretary of the Interior Ickes warned that gas rationing could be ordered within three weeks as eastern motorists face a fuel shortage. He cited tankers diverted to Britain and urged stricter oil conservation measures while noting a sales rise due to hoarding and increased travel.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Icries
Washington State
East
Britain
Ickes
New England
mid-Atlantic
South Atlantic
Tucson Title Loses Income Taxes Appeal
The Tucson Title and Trust Co. lost its appeal from an Arizona Tax Commission ruling on $1,666.08 in income taxes for 1934 36. Judge William G Hall dismissed the suit, holding the refund statute of limitations had run. The firm had argued it is a domestic insurer exempt from taxes. The commission had earlier granted refunds for 1937 39.
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Tucson Title and Trust Company
Arizona State Tax Commission
William G. Hall
Superior Court
Sheriff holds three hunters for killing a cow in Siskiyou
In Yreka California Sheriff Ben Richardson has jailed three hunters accused of tracking down and slaughtering an elderly Guernsey cow in Siskiyou County. The incident prompts local concern over wildlife and livestock protection.
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Yreka
Calif
Siskiyou County
Ben Richardson
Battle of Smolensk Costs Germans Untold Casualties
Moscow dispatch cites Gen. A Yeremenko detailing the 30 day battle for Smolensk on the road to Moscow. Germans faced hundreds of thousands killed or wounded as street by street fighting tore the city. Yeremenko notes divisions reduced to regiments and corpses covering the land along approaches.
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Moscow
Smolensk
A. Yeremenko
Smolensk- Neved
Yeremenko
Root Rot Report on Yuma Valley Pecan Orchards
Dr. R. B. Streets of the University of Arizona issued a mimeographed eight page report on root rot affecting Yuma valley pecan orchards. The document covers planting soil treatment and prevention and will be mailed to regional growers. Streets presented the work at the Pasadena science meeting in June after four years studying pecan rot controls.
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Yuma Valley
University of Arizona
R. B. Streets
Streets
Texas
Pasadena
Circus Man Sees First Rain After 8000 Mile Trip
Edward F. Kelly advance man for Ringling circus traveled 8000 miles from Detroit through the middle west and mountain states to southern Arizona. He noted a desert downpour while inspecting site records in the county assessor’s office and said yesterday’s rain was his first since leaving in May.
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Edward F. Kelly
Ringling Circus
Arizona
Charles M. Taylor
Kelly
Detroit
Middle West
Mountain States
Pacific Coast Area
McFarland urges forward for war effort at graduating Arizona teachers
Senator Ernest W. McFarland warned 70 summer graduates of Arizona State Teachers College that the nation must press forward in defense. He linked lend-lease to closer steps toward war, urged education as the bulwark of democracy, and said the country needs teachers as much as soldiers.
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Flagstaff
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Arizona State Teachers College
Washington
McFarland
America
United States
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Hitler
Examinations Open for Border Patrol Jobs in Nine States
Civil service examinations for border patrol men in two districts will be given soon, the civil service commission announces. Closing date is Sept. 11, 1941. Applications and information available at room 238-B, post office building. Open in California Nevada Utah Hawaii Arizona Colorado Kansas New Mexico Oklahoma. Initial patrolman salary $2 000 per year. Age limit 21 to 35.
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U. S
Commission
California
Nevada
Utah
Hawaii
Arizona
Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Parker Jr. Receives Second Lieutenant Commission in Arizona Unit
Sergeant Alexander M. Parker Jr. of Tucson has been commissioned as a second lieutenant. He is attached to Company K, 158th Infantry, Arizona National Guard, stationed in camp near Bagley Louisiana for maneuvers. Parker previously worked with the U S soil conservation service at the Tucson nursery and joined the guard a year ago.
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Alexander M. Parker, Jr
Tucson
158Th Infantry
Arizona National Guard
Bagley
Parker
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
National Guard
Sabine River
Tex
Looters Take 277 Suits From Robert Jones Store
Thieves backed a truck to the door and carried off 277 suits valued at 4126 dollars. They also stripped wax models in the display windows of the Philadelphia shop.
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Philadelphia
Robert Jones
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Henry Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Robert A. Boyer
Ford Plastics Developments
Third Arizona Mortuary, Inc
Johnson
R-Calif
Grabe
U. S. Chamber
A. M. Parker, JR
Los Angeles
Biltmores
Alegal
Monterey
Mayflower Hotel
South Grand Ave
Lal
Dy-Dee Dolls
Dy-Dee
Trousseau
Steinfeld
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