Dorsey Balcony Battle Leads to Felony Complaints
Hollywood area reports District Attorney Fred N. Howser has prepared felony assault complaints against three participants in the Dorsey balcony fight sparked when Jon Hall touched Grace Dorsey. Hall may sign. grand jury to review if he does not. Jury convenes Sept. 5.
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Hollywood
Fred N. Howser
Tommy Dorsey
Acor
Jon Hall
Howser
Hall
Criminal Complaints Division
County Grand Jury
Dorsey
Antonio Icaza
Jesus Castillon
Eddie Norris
al Smiley
Pate Dane
RIBELIS TO ATTEND VFW NATIONAL CONVENTION
Senior Vice Commander of the Arizona Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ribelis representing Tucson post No. 549, departed by plane to attend the national VFW convention in Chicago August 22 to 24. Also a color film program will play at Amphitheater on Prince Road featuring The Silk Route, Safe Roads and Ride Em Cowboy.
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SD. Ribelis
Department of Arizona
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Chicago
Rebelin
Tucson
Europe
Prince Road
Stonevenue
Fraternal Order of Engle Hosts Open Meeting
The Fraternal Order of Engle invites women to attend an 8 p m open meeting this evening as part of the ladies auxiliary outreach.
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Order OF Engle
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Armistead recruits for Kingman Army airfield engineers
DPD. B. Tex Armistead, known Tuc son carpenter and former carpenters' union agent at Kingman Arizona, is in Tucson most of this week recruiting at the U S employment service for Kingman Army airfield post engineers.
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DPD. B
TEX” Armistead
Tucson
Kingman, Ariz
Allied Reinforcement Build-Up Lands In France Postsward To Toulon
Allied navies and merchant fleets land reinforcements on a 40 mile front near Toulon. Troops move ashore in hours with tanks and jeeps rolling inland. Cap Negre seized and traffic cut near Hyeres as paratroops link behind lines.
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Italy
North Africa
Corsica
Sardinia
Normandy
Cap Negre
Toulon
Radio Atlantic
Marseille-Cannes
Hyeres
Mayor Opposes Pay Rise Levy Fond From Surplus Receipts
Mayor Henry O Jaastad and City Manager Phil J Martin Jr say pay increases for city workers should be funded from surplus receipts rather than a special levy via the tax commission. They note underexpenditure in July 1943 may affect available funds and emphasize awaiting full budget figures.
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Arizona Tax Commission
Henry O. Jaastad
Phil J. Martin, Jr
Tax Commission
Janstad
Martin
J. T. Manders
Slow Enrolling New System At Tucson High
Principal C A Carson reports 257 students already registered for the upcoming year under a new system aimed at better counseling when filling schedules. The plan should reduce long lines for physical exams and at the bookstore. Registration for employed students is set for tomorrow and next Thursday at 7 pm, with counseling slots filled.
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C. A. Carson
Tucson High School
Carson
Robert Morrow
Morrow
McDermott Leads Tucson to Legion Regional Title
The junior American Legion nine from Tucson Arizona surprised Long Beach California 11 to 4 to claim the Western regional baseball championship in Las Vegas. Vasey went 3 for 3 for Tucson while Long Beach committed nine errors. Joe Tully closed out the sixth inning by fanning Muir and Crutchfield to end a Long Beach threat.
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Las Vegas
American Legion
Tucson
Ariz
Long Beach
Calif
Joe Tully
Bob Swanson
Fanning Muir
Crutchfield
Vasey
Minor
Muir
Burgess
Swanson
Tully
Dodson
Germans Endure Flank Attacks Near Warsaw As Soviet Forces Hold
Soviet communique reports German wedge into Russian lines near Praga, but Soviet counterblows from the north and south restored the line. German losses tallied 32 tanks and self propelled guns destroyed with about 800 killed.
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Warsaw
Praga
Overtime Starts With Partial Attendance At Plants
At Enterprise Engine and Foundry in San Francisco only 28 of 280 workers reported for overtime. In South San Francisco all employees worked overtime. Federal Mogul Bearing reports 29 additional strikers returning to work, totaling 46 of 111 strikers back.
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San Francisco
Enterprise Engine & Foundry Company
Federal Mogul Bearing Corp
Mrs James J Mason Dies In San Francisco
Mrs James J Mason died in a San Francisco hospital and will be buried in Ohio. She lived with her telegrapher husband at 439 East Mabel Street. A former Bowie Arizona teacher, she sang in Fairbanks Gilbert and Tucson church choirs and was a soloist in a Christian Science church. She is survived by her husband father a Dayton Ohio pastor a sister and three brothers.
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James J. Mason
San Francisco
Ohio
First Congregational
Grace Episcopal
Christian Science Church
Mason
Sando
Dayton, O
Scouts Present Highest Award To Fred Boice
The Boy Scouts awarded Fred Boice the Eagle Scout rank at a summer court of honor on the First Methodist church lawn. Captain Wilmer J. Garrett, a B-24 pilot, spoke after 85 local boys received merit badges and ranks. Garrett lists his decorations, while Lee Warner of Troop 39 earned a recommendation for helping capture three Italian war prisoners.
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Boy Scouts
Fred Boice
First Methodist Church
E. H. Bruening
Henry S. Boice
Wilmer J. Garrett
Garrett
Mediterranean
Reporters And Bosses Labor At Convention
Mrs. Bernice Cosulich recounted at a Rotary luncheon how reporters and party bosses did most work at the 1944 Democratic national convention. She noted the focus on the vice presidential nomination and suggested a Wallace demonstration was staged with paid participants and bribes. Arizona’s early roll call position kept its delegates in high demand from many candidates’ agents.
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States
Bernice Cosulich
Rotary
Pioneer Hotel
Wallace
Arizona
Canadians Break Through Toward Falaise in Normandy Fight
Canadian forces push two and a half miles toward Falaise, assaulting the city from the north as the escape route narrows. German resistance at the pocket’s edges weakens, with field estimates of encircled troops revised from 100 000 200 000 to about 50 000, sparking confidence that Falaise may fall soon.
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Berlin
International Information Bureau
Nazi Propaganda Agency
St. Malo
Normandy
Falaise
Seventh Army
von Kluge
Supreme Headquarters
Patch the son of an Army officer rises through ranks
The passage traces the career of an Army officer's son and his brother Joseph D. Patch a Fort Huachuca native and major general. The younger Patch serves with the 18th Infantry in Texas City Naco and Douglas before going to France in World War I. He graduates West Point in 1913 becomes first lieutenant in 1918 and receives temporary promotions to major lieutenant colonel and beyond through 1935. He reverts to captain in 1920 then earns successive temporary and permanent promotions up to major general.
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Joseph D. Patch
Ft. Huachuca
18Th Infantry
Texas City
Tex
Naco
Douglas
Patch
Outfit
France
West Point
Bombers Hit Spice Islands as Air War Rages in the Pacific
Allied air forces pressed raids in the Pacific theater as heavy bombers from China attacked Takao Formosa and coastal freighters, while Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Liberator and Mitchell aircraft continued raids on Halmahera and Ternate in the Spice Islands amid heavy anti aircraft fire. The strikes set warehouses ablaze and targeted ammunition dumps.
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Spice Islands
Equator
New Guinea-Carolines
China
Takao
Formosa
China Coast
Douglas MacArthur
Halmahera
Ternate
Bombers Claim Heavy Losses in Allied Air War
Aerial reports say 20 bombers destroyed as squalls cut support for Normandy action. A 1,900 heavy bomber force and fighters damaged 21 German air bases. About 14,000 fliers aided D-day operations in southern France with 71 German planes downed and 56 Allied planes lost on Russian French and Italian fronts.
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Normandy
France
Chinese bread from wheat and wine from rice claim
A historic note asserts Ching-Noung first taught the Chinese to make bread from wheat and wine from rice, dating to 1998 a.
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Ching-Noung
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