SEC Extending Disposal Time for Tucson Properties
The SEC issues a one year extension from Aug 17 1944 to dispose of Federal Light and Traction properties including Tucson Gas Electric Light and Power. The city debates purchase terms with the holding company while Duff Phelps valued the assets at nine million dollars. Mayor Janstad reported no prior notice of the extension.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Light & Traction Company
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Company
City of
Tucson
C. H. Nichols
Henry O. Janstad
Duff & Phelps
Federal Light & Traction Co
Chicago
Real Taxpayers of
SEC
Tucson Gas Electric Light & Power Co
Henry 0. Janstad
Gala Welcome Planned For Legion Team
Tucson's junior American Legion baseball team champions of the west arrive tomorrow night at 8 20 p m on the Southern Pacific Californian. A gala home welcome is planned with the Davis Monthan band Junior Chamber of Commerce vigilantes and KVOA providing sound. The team will be introduced with Manager Chuck Hollinger and Athletic Director Joe Hanson as part of abbreviated ceremonies at the Tucson railroad station.
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Tucson
American Legion
Southern Pacific
Old Pueblo
Nationals
Davis-Monthan
Junior Chamber of Commerce
KVOA
Chuck Hollinger
Legion
Joe Hanson
Germans Accused of Readiness to Use Poison Gas
London reports say Germany intends to deploy poison gas on a mass scale to force a peace. Swedens Dagens Nyheter notes Berlin boasts of a mysterious weapon, possibly a refined V type rocket, with Nazi optimism seen as propaganda amid war fatigue.
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William R. Higginbotham
London
U.P
Germany
London Daily Mail
Hitler
Daily Mail
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Berlin
Joachim Fernau
Waffen
Fernau
France
Bomb Tons Slugged At Amboina Island In Pacific War
General Headquarters reports a 188 ton bombing of Amboina Island, the heaviest so far in the Moluccas, as MacArthur’s air campaign pushes toward the Philippines. Nimitz announces a fresh raid on Iwo Jima. Liberators strike Halong seaplane base. bombers hit Ceram and Halmahera. Palau and Davao also targeted.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Amboina Island
Moluccas
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Halong
Moluccas Chain
New Guinea
Ceram Island
Kape Village
Halmahera
Palau
Carolines
Davao
Civic groups press mayor to attend cruiser launching
Civic clubs urged Mayor Henry Jaastad to attend the launching of the SS City of Tucson at a west coast port in early September. Jaastad said he would decide tomorrow, while the Chamber of Commerce and other groups pressed for his presence at the keel laying.
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Henry
Bulgaria Accepts Allies Terms for Armistice Signatures
Cairo reports say Bulgaria has accepted Anglo American terms and may sign an armistice at Cairo within days. The agreement would be proclaimed by Lord Moyne for Britain and Lincolne MacVeagh for the United States. Meanwhile Hungary’s Col Gen Geza Lakatos vows to stay with Germany and outlines a three fold program.
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London
U.P
Bulgaria
Cairo
Istanbul
Hungary
Geza Lakatos
Germany
Lord Moyne
Middle East
United States
Lincoln MacVeagh
U. S
Greece
Yugoslavia
Lakatos
Russia
Bulgarya
Americans Press Germans Near Loriol in Rhone Drive
American forces battled German remnants of the 19th army at Loriol as they pressed along the Rhone and Drome rivers near Montelimar. Allied reports said 800 trucks and two batteries of SS mm guns were seized, with 45 000 prisoners taken in southern France to date. Maj. Gen. Otto Richter of the 198th Infantry was captured at Montelimar.
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Rome
Rhone
Drome
Montelimar
Loriol
Grane
Allex
Jackel
France
Marseilles
Otto Richter
198Th Infantry Division
Red Cossacks Race Pell-Mell Through Nazis
Russian Cossacks with tanks and mechanized infantry pushed rapidly through German lines near Bucharest and toward the Bulgarian border. They captured Constanta, the Black Sea naval base, and pushed toward the Ploesti oil fields, threatening Hitler's war machine as eastern Romania fell under Red Cossack advances. Turkish reports cited by CBS claimed Romanian forces surrounded enemy positions.
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Moscow
U.P
Romania
Bucharest
Constanta
Black Sea
Ploesti
Adolf Hitler
London
CBS
Speed Of Allied Push May Bring Chaos In Reich
Allied mechanized forces drive through France in a fluid advance that could force a chaotic retreat by Hitler's regime. Observers warn a disorganized Nazi leadership might seek neutral havens, leaving Germany fractured and fighting in isolated units under fanatic officers.
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Reich
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
France
Washington
Hitler
Germany
Ploesti Oil Center Falls To Red Army
London reports Stalin announced the capture of the Ploesti oil region by the Red Army. He said the Second Ukrainian Front under Gen Rodion Malinovsky secured the town and main center of the Romanian oil industry and completed the liberation of the oil regions from German invaders.
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London
Ploesti
Stalin
Red Army
Germany
Second Ukrainian Front
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Buzau
War's Biggest Explosion May Be V-2 Rocket
Report from Folkestone England notes a massive blast on the French rocket coast last night. Residents heard a tremendous rushing sound and felt the shock as houses rattled and windows cracked. Officials ponder if the Nazis attempted a V-2 launch during the event.
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War
Folkestone
England
U.P
Allied Bombers Hit Pas de Calais and German Ports
Escorted American Fortresses and Liberators struck Nazi robot bomb bases in Pas de Calais as about 1,000 British night bombers attacked Germany from Berlin to Stettin and Koenigsberg. Lancasters supported Russian troops by dropping 1,300 tons on Stettin. Mosquitos hit Berlin and Hamburg. 41 British planes were lost.
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London
Pas de Calais
Germany
Berlin
Stettin
Koenigsberg
France
RAF
Bomber Command
East Prussia
Hamburg
Two German Prisoners Escape At Safford
PHOENIX Aug 30 Two German prisoners of war escaped last night from the work camp at Safford the FBI announced. They are Herbert Fuchs 21 5 6 240 green eyes light brown hair a front tooth missing and Earl Heinz Frenzel 21 5 8 149 green eyes fair complexion wearing light blue trousers and dark blue shirt. FBI said it is believed the escape occurred after 11 p.m.
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Phoenix
Safford
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Herbert Fuchs
Earl Heinz Frenzel
FBI
Destruction of 17 Japanese Vessels Reported
The Navy reported that American submarines in enemy waters destroyed 17 Japanese vessels, including two warships. The announcement was issued from Washington on August 30.
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Washington
Navy
Bradley Equal To Monty By New Command
Washington reports a new France command would place Lt. Omar N Bradley on equal footing with Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery as an Army group commander. Britain viewed it as a potential demotion for Montgomery despite reassurances from Supreme Headquarters.
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William Frye
Washington
France
Omar N. Bradley
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eisenhower
Britain
Bradley
Montgomery
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Supreme Headquarters
12Th Army Group
Dewey Plans Coast to Coast Campaign Swing
GOP presidential nominee Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will tour 21 states on a coast to coast trip beginning Sept. 7 with a Philadelphia address. He will meet governors and leaders, speak in Louisville Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, with radio coverage on NBC CBS. The train trip ends Sept. 28 in Albany.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
GOP National Committee
Dewey
Owosso
Mich
Philadelphia
Brownell
NBC
CBS
Pennsylvania
GOP
Edward Martin
Underground Czechs Form Open Fighting Unit Capture Town
The Czechoslovak underground army declared itself an active force today. In a first communique delivered by underground radio in London it said it had captured one town and was engaged in fierce battles with German forces in four sectors.
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London
Allied tank drives reach Laon Reims as forces press toward Rhine
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS reports two American tank armies racing toward Germany and Belgium burst into Laon and Reims. Berlin says Rouen has fallen to retreating troops guarding northern France. Armor from the 1st and 3rd Armies punched the Aisne line and spread into the surrounding farmland, with Nazi resistance limited to scattered rear guards. The advance could reach the Belgian border within a day or two.
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Supreme Headquarters
AFF
Germany
Belgium
Laon
Reims
Berlin
Rouen
France
Aisne
Chalons-Sur-Marne
Rhineland
Allies reach Laon Rouen falls amid rapid advance
Allied forces surge beyond the Aisne as Americans reportedly seize Laon 36 miles from Belgium and Rouen evacuates under German pressure. British and American columns push toward Le Havre and Dieppe while Reims is enveloped. Hodges' 1st Army assumes command of the northern drive toward Belgium.
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le Havre
Rouen
Dieppe
Longchamps
Seine
Amieng
England
London
Britain
Belgium
Germany
Reims
Paris
Hodges
Courtney L. Hodges
1St Army
Bel
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National Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
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