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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
11
In Salt River Valley 2000 lettuce shed workers returned to work across 17 sheds ending a four day strike. John Jacobs said harvests would return to normal as a mass meeting planned a secret ballot on resuming duties with unionists agreeing to field nonparticipation if replacements arrived.
Washington December 4. Priorities Director Donald M Nelgon ordered further curtailment of domestic mechanical refrigerator production for January and February. The cuts will range from 30 to 52 percent.
Pilot Officer Lance C Wade of Tucson Arizona, a Texas A and M graduate, shot down four Axis warplanes in ten days of North African fighting with a Royal Air Force desert squadron. He credited his success to bold attacks amid the campaign. Wade previously ran a small freight service in the United States before joining RAF.
Thomas B. Mc Cutchen a 19 year old Canadian soldier who deserted after eight months training was arrested in Los Angeles as he claimed Canada was at war and the United States neutral. He admitted going AWOL four months ago after visiting Milwaukee and Hollywood. Police brought him to headquarters for questioning.
Italian authorities in Rome and officials in Berlin reacted to the extension of United States lend-lease aid to Turkey. They called it part of a British American effort to pull Turkey from Axis influence and accused Roosevelt of interfering in non American affairs to distract Americans from North Africa.
British official announcement states that Christmas cards mailed to prisoners of war must carry only the names and postal addresses of the sender and the recipient. No other writing or markings are permitted on the cards.
McCutchen declared he should be serving in the American Army and claimed he is into the war. Police detained him for federal authorities and suggested he may serve further time in Canadian forces. He stated his home as St. Louis Missouri.
Robert G. and Martha Nelson file a complaint for damages against Madame Dai-Chu H. Quo in Superior Court before Judge William G. Hall presiding. A hearing is scheduled as part of the case proceedings.
Judge W Gardner presides as Robert Lee White Erwin White and Lawrence Brothers face grand theft and nighttime burglary with $1000 bond set. Tommy Ferguson and James Scanlon charged with grand theft and await arraignment.
Paul Cella presiding deals with Elaine Harris vagrancy continued. Jim Brown handles Lavhan Watson speeding with $10 bond continued. Ernest Verney disturbing peace discharged for lack of prosecution. J S Rice disturbing the peace $10 bond forfeited.
Belle D Hall as clerk lists Bill Hawk 22 of Tucson and Ger aldine Gables 18 of Walnut Grove Missouri as a couple. George Brown 22 of Negro Tucson and Edris Hamilton 20 of Negro Tucson appear. Joseph C Tappero 22 of Tucson weds Maxine Audna Fischer 20 of Tucson.
Howard W. Honeycutt, 25, a former Ajo railroad fireman, was acquitted of murdering Isabel Olquin, a 29 year old Papago Indian farmer, in a December 1939 fight over a cowboy hat near Gila Bend. Honeycutt testified he learned of the case only after his arrest last September.
In Tunisia a lack of insecticides allowed widespread grape crop destruction this year, jeopardizing a harvest that would supply substantial amounts of alcohol for motor fuel.
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