British War Relief Units Open Joint Tucson Office
The British War Relief Society and the Committee Defending America by Aiding the Allies will open a shared office at 34 East Congress street Tuesday morning. Local leaders outline aims to aid England through knitting for refugees and funding ambulances and surgical instruments. Sixteen officers and many volunteers pledge support, with knitting groups meeting Mondays and Fridays to supply wool and instruction.
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British War Relief Society
Committee For Defending
William Allen White
East Congress Street
George Amos
Cecil le Mesurier
Harry Berger
Auslines
Ames
England
Germany
Amos
Bundles
Britain
American Red Cross
Arizona
Oscar Colcaire
Grover Sykes
J. W. Smith
Gertrude Murphy
John Murphy
Mildred Zukor Loew
Guy Thackery
Colcaire
Harold Steinfeld
John Garrett
Fred Winn
Monte Mansfield
James Boyle
Tucson
America
Hobart Molson
Frederick Patterson
Arthur Little
Molson
United States
East Eights Street
Congress Street
Sales Tax Revenue Up Over Year Ago
Phoenix December reports show 338,736.67 in November sales taxes collected. counties share 165,845.47 an increase of 13,040.62 from November 1939. Cochise 16,733.81, Pima 28,641.51, Santa Cruz 2,224.82, Yavapai 13,094.35.
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Phoenix
State Tax Commission
Cochise
Pima
Santa Cruz
Yavapai
Grading For Runways Nearing Completion At Army Airport
WPA official P. M. Bradbury reports Tucson Army airport runways 90 percent complete with fills and asphalt surfaces to start Monday. Project aims to ready port for heavy bomber use before February 28 per War Department. Gravel sourced from Pantano wash. 150000 cubic yards of aggregate, 90000 cubic yards top coating, 3000 tons in two shifts, about 125 workers. Camp set on Pantano wash banks with dining tent meals.
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Tucson
U. S. Army Airport
P. M. Bradbury
WPA
Washington War Department
Pantano Wash
City County Dance Tonight Fetes Officials and Children
The annual city and county employes dance runs 9 30 p m to 12 30 a m at the American Legion hall. Proceeds go to the Pima County Preventorium for a Christmas party for children. Merle Webb’s orchestra plays. Notable entertainers appear in the floor show and all events are free. The design includes a box office fundraiser for the Preventorium.
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American Legion Hall
Pima County Preventorium
Merle Webb
Santa Rita
Carroll Sisters
Rose Maria Marsten
Lodge
Natalie Mistal
Andreani
la Jolla
Hal Ross
Walkathon Derby
Riverside Auditorium
Tucson Hosts Record Fluid Drive De Soto Across Nation
Tucson welcomed the De Soto fluid drive car that completed a 3000 mile New York to Los Angeles journey without using its gear shift or clutch. Pilots Miss Virginia Campbell and Miss Joselyn Reynolds were presented to Sheriff Ed Echols who deputized them. The car toured Bowen Motor Company showrooms alongside a standard transmission car with 8259 gear shifts.
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Tucson
New York
Los Angeles
Virginia Campbell
Joselyn Reynolds
Ed Echols
Bowen Motor Company
Army suspends most training during long holiday period
The War Department announced a Christmas New Year holiday furlough liberalization with training for active service members paused from December 21 to January 2 for pre November 1 entrants and split leave for November 1 entrants. Local commanders decide holiday leave levels, and railroads offer one cent per mile furlough fare for identified personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Painting Show Set for Arizona Museum Exhibits
Eben F. Comins brings 24 paintings of southwestern, Mexican and South American Indians to the Arizona State Museum under Dr. E. W. Haury. Comins painted Yaqui scenes in Tucson last summer and also portraits of figures in Washington, D. C. The show opens next week with a public evening and runs through January, using conte crayon with hard pastels.
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Arizona State Museum
Eben F. Comins
E. W. Haury
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Comins
Tucson
Washington, D. C
Benjamin
Cains
Conte Crayan
United
New Benedictine Convent Opens For Visitors
Visitors toured the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration as it nears final completion on North Main Street. The chapel opens to the public for adoration while the convent section closes for nuns to move in December 15 at 3 30 pm. The ceremony includes blessing by Bishop Gercke and the first mass on December 16 at 8 am. The order began in Tucson in 1935 and constructs the Spanish Renaissance building with silent work by the nuns.
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Benedictine Sisters
Tucson
North Main Street
Daniel J. Gercke
Mother M. Dolorosa
Clyde
Gercke
Italy
Paper Circulation At All Time Peak 1940 Report Shows
New York Dec 7 editor and publisher reports 1940 newspaper circulation poised for an all time high. Six month period ended Sept 30 from Audit Bureau of Circulation shows daily up 4.77 percent and Sunday up 3.16 percent over 1939. Morning papers lead with 4.99 percent gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Audit Bureau of
Ickey
Record-Breaking Potato Grown at Eastern State Hospital
Officials at Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake Washington report a record-breaking potato weighing six and a quarter pounds. The find follows comments on press critics forfeiting public confidence by not backing President Roosevelt and his administration policies.
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Roosevelt
Medical Lake
Wash
U.F
Eastern State Hospital
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East Congress
J. P. Nobles
Messrs
Roderick Smith
Richard Morse
Walter Hillyard
Laurence Schwab
Stanford Stevens
William Walsh
J. A. Logan
Stanley Kitt
R. J. Graf
M. A. Strange
Peter Rook Ley
Gerald Palmer
W. A. Sayre
Harry Drachman
Dorothy Musser
Pearl Sayles
Non
James Aspell
Alfred Atkinson
William Bacon
T. S. Brush
Bird Brooks
Leonard Bradbury
Henry Boice
Mary Jane Breathitt
Charles B. Byram
Mable Life Barton
Mead Clyne
Wm. D. Carrell
H. S. Corbett
John H. Carroll
H. G. Crowe
Arthur Copperthwaite
Albert Drachman
George L. Dixon
Thos. L. Daily
James B. Davy
de Laney
Louis de Rochemont
Roy Drachman
Frank Drachman
Dorothy de Sanchez
B. B. Edwards
Sam Elrod
L. B. Emmons
R. E. Ellinwood
H. H. Flickinger
Arch G. Yee
Clyde Flood
George Ferguson
Victor Gore
Thomas Griffin
Nelson Dines
Maude Don
Jack Holliday
Toney Hardy
Edward Hayden
Glen Harrison
C. H. Harding
Lesley Johnson
R. C. Howell
Ok Johnson
S. H. James
R. J. Jaf
Mesdames
Harold Kohl
Killan
Anne Langdon
Alexander Knight
Carmen Lee
Titcomb Lee
B. J. McKinney
Ione Miller
Merrill
Montgomery
G. F. Matthews
Howell Manrning
Charles Mansur
Jack Mets
J. M. Migel
J. A. Mulcahy
Henry Mayhew
Douglas Pierce
Lee Perry
Page
Marguerite Palmer
Edward Reveaux
Roy Place
Epes Randolph
Morris L. Reid
Aden Stonecypher
Harry Skattaboe
Nona Shelton
Lucy Switten
Stanley Secrist
Susanne Strauss
Perry A. Strong
George Stonecypher
Pat Tidmarsh
S. H. Watson
Ralph Wood
Morgan Wood
Sidney Warner
Jack Weadock
Sherman Wright
Byron Ivancovitch
W. J. Young
Zoe Franz
Kearney
F. Hansen
Henry Weddell
Ted Shoenhair
George Smalley
Leonard Pfieffer
Andrew Wessell
Tucson Title Insurance Co
Title Insurance
Pittesporum
Monterey
Carl Monthan Nursery
West
Army
States
Mexico
Peru
Guatemala
Bolivia
United States Department of the Interior
Old Pueblo
India
FHA
Catalina
F.H.A. Office
East Elm Street
Walsh
Rancho Palos Verdes
the Rancho
Oracle Road
Orange Grove
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