Roomer Found Dead in Chair at 1603 North Third Avenue
Police discovered Alex C. Lawrence dead in a chair at the rooming house on North Third Avenue. He had been ill, received meals from a landlady who aided him, and a wallet contained $576 in cash and two checks from the New York French Relief fund. Lawrence, born in Russia with no known kin, had arrived from New York on July 19. The minister said Lawrence had been ill and a physician was not summoned. Lawence’s body was sent to a funeral home while relatives are sought.
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Alex C. Lawrence
North Third Avenue
Lawrence
French Relief Fund
New York City
Milo Walker
Lawence
Walker
Russia
New York
Mndlady
Council Will Study Nichols Wire Monday
The mayor and council set a mid month meeting to study a telegram from C H Nichols president of the Federal Light and Traction Co. on setting the tax rate. Major items include zoning on Sixth avenue liquor licenses bicycle ordinance building code amendment a tractor bid for city farms and a Santa Rita avenue watbridge bid with two bids quoted at 1588 and 1545.
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C. H. Nichols
Federal Light and Raction Co
Sixth Avenue
Weir
Ie City Farms
Santa Rita Avenue
A. C. Larueonstruction Co
Martin Construction Co
Onvair to Discontinue Express at Texas Plant
SAN DIEGO CALIF Aug 19 The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp today said Liberator Express four engine cargo planes would be discontinued at the Ft Worth Texas division All future work will be performed in San Diego Ft Worth would continue B 24 Liberators pending a switch to the new B32 superbomber Preparations were under way for B 32 production in San Diego and in anticipation of the range here the volume of B 24 work was being reduced at the company's request
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San Diego
Calif
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Np
Ft. Worth
Tex
Divion
Ft. Worthould
Saniego
Roy Tricks Purchase Home Recorded by Recorder
Mr and Mrs Roy M Trick reportedly purchased a home at Warren Ave and Second Street for about 7500 through the Drach an Grant agency, with a Nob Hill home carrying a 5500 mortgage. Mr and Mrs H C Torren bought a lot from Mary One and Aurine Bergman for roughly 5000 in section 350 township 13 south.
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Roy M. Trick
Catherine Trickle
Warren Avete
Second Street
Drachan-Grant Agency
Nob Hilldition
H. C. Torren
Mary One
Aurine Bergman
Ction 350
Township 13 South
New Cases Of Contagion Reported During Week
City county health department reports few new contagion cases this week. No malaria bearing mosquitoes detected in the area though a few rest near Phoenix and Arivaca. Four pneumonia cases appeared after last week s decline, while whooping cough fell to one. Diphtheria and tuberculosis counts are low.
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Ilaria
Departmt
Angeles
Phoenix
Arivaca
Plane Production In U S To Be Slashed By 294000 Workers
Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Echols told the Senate National Defense Committee that employment in the U S aircraft industry will be cut by 294000 workers by next July. Ford Willlow Run near Detroit expected to halve output by December as part of the reduction. He noted surplus war materials totaling 109.5 million dollars since last June.
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Washington
Oliver P. Echols
Ford
Willow Run
Detroit
Senate National Defense Committee
Echols
WAC Mothers Host Leave Party for Local Tucson Girls
Four Tucson WACs home on furlough were honored at a patio party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Freeman at 3115 East Lester. The guests, plus relatives and Air-WAC recruiters, shared experiences and planned to discuss them again on KTUC Radio at 5 30 p m tonight.
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Tucson
WAC
F. L. Freeman
East Lester
Mothers’ Club
Corp
Dorothy Rosenfeld
Betty Swenholt
Sarah Henderson
Frances McMakin
KTUC
Amon
Fules Watson
L. S. Thomas
Philip la Vetter
Sydnie Barkowich
Bernath Rosenfeld
Helmer Swenholt
Carrie Kronnick
Henry I. Rahm
Pvt
June Rahm
Marana Army Airfield
Max Aldrich
Lizzie Henderson
Romaine Attick
Virginia Young
Freeman
John Rhodes
J. G. Kearney
Connie Taylor
Aerial War Action Reports Bombing and Tank Losses
Daylight sorties estimated at 300 against targets east of Paris. American and British heavy bombers conducted about 2,000 sorties on airfields oil depots bridges submarine pens and rocket depots. Cologne attacked again at night and RAF hit L Isle Adam and rocket sites in northern France. Fighter bombers destroyed 71 German tanks and damaged 91. river traffic along the Seine disrupted with barges sunk. Weather over the battle zone described as good.
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Bhut
Paris
Cologne
RAF Heavies
L'Isle Adam
France
Seine
Biak Island remnants face attack by Allied forces
Pacific remnants on Biak Island, attacked after invasion last May, confront early extinction as troops land on the island's west coast from the eastern Allied-controlled sector.
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Biak
New Mexico on early Spanish maps by 1546
A note records that New Mexico appears on Spanish maps of the New World as early as 1546, indicating the region's cartographic presence in the mid sixteenth century. The finding highlights early European recognition of New Mexico within colonial mapping efforts.
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New Mexico
New World
Rabbit Dog Team Amuse Yank Army
HAL BOYLE reports from Brittany on American troops with a dog and rabbit pair among military police. Major the dog and Bugs the rabbit, nicknamed Belgian hare, perform antics in camp, chase each other, and entertain soldiers, including a surprised chief of staff.
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Amuse
Brittany
Howell Dodd
France
Mack H. Hornbeak
Baton Rouge
Major
Bugs
John Hall
London Daily
Maf
Gillis Long
Winnfield
Long
Ofnce
Tucson Telegraphs and City Hall Clash Over Utilities Sale
City officials grapple with a 1943 price of 9.1 million for local utilities and a Duff and Phelps survey. Mayor and council waver over disclosure and negotiation powers while taxpayers rejected higher offers in 1943 and 1944 elections. Public interest centers on the report's release and the sale terms to Nichols and the Federal Light & Traction Co.
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Nichols
William R. Mathews
Mi Alatnens
Tucson
Stone and Webster
Boston
Duff and Phelps
Chicago
Duff
Phelps
City Hall
Mathews
Niemann
Shantz
Dawson
Financia
Federal Light & Traction Company
Securities Exchange Commission
Corporation Commission of Arizona
Mayor and Finance Committee
Agricultural Agents Endorse Ammonium Sulfate For Root Rot
County agricultural agent Glenn E. Blackledge urged use of ammonium sulfate to combat root rot on crops and landscape plants. Apply one pound per 10 square feet starting at limb ends during July and August. Affected species include apricot chinaberry Chinese privet roses cotton and alfalfa. palms and blue palo verde show resistance.
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Glenn E. Blackledge
Blackledge
Arizona
Cleaning a Pot Soaked in Soapy Water Method
Fill the pot with cool soapy water right away and let the food debris loosen. Remove loosened bits with a scraper or spatula and wash the pot as usual.
Ryan Instructors Club to Discontinue After August 30
The Ryan Instructors club at 23423 East Broadway will close after August 30 after a bulk sale. Operated since November 16, 1942 as a recreation center for instructors and families, the site at the former Mission Inn will be sold with furniture fixtures and equipment.
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Ryan
East Broadway
County Recorder
Ivan L. Anderson
K. R. Dixon
Mission Inn
Ryan School
Rabies Case Reported by Health Department
One new rabies case was reported, the 146th in 21 months. No human contacts occurred. several animal contacts were captured and killed. The rabid animal was found on the Casa Grande highway and died at the city pound.
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Health Department
Casa Grande Highway
Dewey warns wartime labor rules risk rights after war
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in a Labor Day proclamation warns that leaving wartime labor restrictions to the government after hostilities could end the right of collective bargaining. He cites scarce strikes since Pearl Harbor and urges effort to end wartime limits by next Labor Day. Dewey travels to his Pawling farm after meetings with National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. on campaign plans.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Philip Pearl
American Federation of Labor
AFL
New York
Pearl Harbor
Dewey
Tuscany
Normandy
Brittany
Provence
Pacific
Pawling
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Legion group unveils postwar security and policy aims
In Indianapolis on August 19 the American Legion commission urged retention of island outposts deemed essential to national security and called for world teamwork under current foreign policy principles. The group outlined plans to preserve America's way of life, promote free enterprise, settle war contracts promptly, and dispose of surplus materials as wartime controls end. Col Louis Johnson chairs the panel, which will present its report to Chicago meetings September 17 to 20.
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Indianapolis
U.P
American Legion Commission
America
United States
Louis Johnson
Clarksburg
W. Va
Legion
Chicago
Flaccus Withdraws From County School Superintendent Race
E W Flaccus a school teacher asked that his name be withdrawn from the November race for county school superintendent. His name was written in by Republicans at the primary and remains on the ballot though he has also been certified for superintendent of public instruction, the board said.
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Board of Supervisors
E. W. Flaccus
Flaccus
Superintendent of Public Instruction
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