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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
5
County recorder reports daily influx of absentee ballot requests from service members using government form cards. More than 223 names have been received, but many are not registered, requiring relatives to register them before ballots can be mailed. A long list of named individuals appears for verification and action by families to secure voting rights.
The article notes Allied air campaigns crippling Western Europe and Paris being flanked by Patton’s columns. It discusses the Maquis taking over Paris, Hitler’s possible retreat to the Rhine, and renewed pushes on the Vistula and in East Prussia as the Russians threaten Romania and the Balkans.
In a move to aid the neighboring Union of South Africa amid a critical salt shortage caused by unfavorable weather South-West Africa speeds up its salt mining operations to boost supply to the regional market.
Phoenix union high school graduate Walter J. Smith is credited with saving 14 crew members after their merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South Atlantic. Smith aided by launching a raft and cutting a rope to detach it from the sinking vessel as Lt. Harold J. McCormick praised his actions.
The Navy department announced an Arizona marine died in action and five others were wounded. Pfc. Loomis C. Stevenson of Phoenix was killed. Wounded include Pfc. Kenneth K. Oliver and Pfc. Willard V. Oliver of Phoenix, Everett Eugene Peters hospital apprentice from Phoenix, Pfc. Clarence L. Phillips of Phoenix, and Pfc. Wallace Quetta from Peach Springs.
Fernand Bouisson, 71, former president of the French chamber of deputies and ex mayor of Marseille, is in Draguignan jail awaiting punishment after being found as a collaborationist. He was paraded before a film crew as partisans jeered while rifle-toting youths kept order.
Bouisson, once navy minister and later information minister to Petain, later joined Dent in editing L Oeuvre. He walked among prisoners with bowed head and a fixed gaze, amid a group of captives during the period.
War correspondent Tom Treanor of Times NBC was killed on the road to Paris. An NBC reporter said Treanor’s jeep was run over by an American tank and that another American correspondent was killed with three wounded. Treanor had sought to reach Paris and report back, and had published a book about his war experiences.
Zirconium, once obscure, is being used as a substitute for scarce tantalum in certain war products as nations seek alternative materials.
Pay Clerk Herbert Sain of the Clearfield naval supply depot can tie 40 knots used by the Navy both past and present. A naval veteran of Tunisia, Sicily and Salerno, Sain learned naval knots at age six from his father, a marine engineer.
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