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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1941
Page
5
Nine men escaped from the city work gang yesterday and were recaptured this morning. City marshal Celia sentenced nine others to ten days or ten dollars on vagrancy charges. Tucson police, railroad and military authorities cooperate in arresting large numbers of vagrants daily.
Former Detroit mayor Richard W. Reading and 22 others faced up to five years in prison and fines after a circuit court jury convicted them of conspiring to obstruct justice in a $10 million-a-year numbers and policy gambling racket. Detailing of acquittals and trial origins are noted.
Funeral services for George J. McClain 49 of Tucson will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Bring's Funeral chapel Rev C L Cartwright of Warren Ariz officiating American Legion to conduct grave side rites at Evergreen cemetery He is survived by his wife Clennie Beatrice McClain.
Mrs. L. L. Caldwell pursues early American pressed glass collecting in Hammond with more than 200 pieces and about 50 patterns. Items include "Westward Ho" "Egyptian" and "Rose in Snow" examples.
Ankara December 15 report from United Press says Adolf Hitler has gone to his Berchtesgaden mountain retreat under medical orders to rest. German physicians warned he has seriously overstrained his nervous system in recent months and urged a thorough rest cure.
In Superior Court Judge William G. Hall presiding, Marguerite Frey Rudolph prevails in the divorce against Charles William Rudolph with a judgment for the plaintiff.
Leon Castillo faces disturbing the peace with a $25 fine or 25 days in jail. E R Wilson has a preliminary hearing for aggravated battery on December 17. Manuel Garcia and multiple others face reckless driving fines and jail terms, including J R Birdwell and Mary Jane Murphy. Vader Whitworth and Mena L Garcia appear in theft and speeding matters with dated actions.
Defendants including Kenneth Jackson Charles Boyle Wesley Penry Bennett Whitehead John Easton and others charged with vagrancy received fines of 10 dollars or 10 days in jail. Several entries show pleas not guilty or continuances. Additional counts include Stanley Krzyzanowski failing to report secondhand articles with 25 dollar fine or 25 days jail and Mike Reyes for breaking glass with similar penalties. Public order offenses also listed against Weldon Burke Robert Grant Kenneth Fain Jesus Figueroa and John Gray.
The list names Richard M. Jackson and Elizabeth Harrison both 22 from El Paso and Ft Lauderdale respectively, Clarence and Carolyn Brennan both 48 from Fort Worth, and a trio involving Richard Lancaster Jones 23 from Tucson Victoria Fimbres 22 and Charle Davidson 40 with Jennie May Blakeley 36, all tied to Poteau Oklahoma in what appears to be a community notice.
The Census reports about 564000 inmates in U S mental institutions with 54 percent male and 46 percent female. Prison occupants excluding county and city jails total 161000.
In Los Angeles on December 16 authorities detained Ernst Frohlich De Meyer a 27 year old German suspect in wartime espionage. FBI agents found Army Navy and Marine uniforms a short wave transmitter and over 200 letters to American service members in his apartment. He faces trial under the 1918 espionage act with potential death or 30 year imprisonment if convicted. He is held incommunicado as investigators pursue further details including entry date authenticity and the meaning of the letters. Police halted him after a harbor area traffic stop when he swapped an officer’s coat for a civilian one. He awaits military court proceedings.
Tucson Lions Club safety patrol awards were given last night at Safford school auditorium to boys and girls from 21 city junior high and elementary schools. New schools San Agustin and Immaculate Heart were represented.
Word arrived of the death of Howard J. Hall in Palo Alto California returning as the last surviving member of the original University of Arizona faculty. He joined in 1891 as head of the preparatory department and became English professor librarian and dean of the faculty before moving to Stanford in 1904. He authored books on American literature and early colonial authors. He is survived by his wife an adopted daughter a niece and a half sister.
Census reports show that the top five states by provisional birth rates are New Mexico 27.7 Utah 24.6 Mississippi 24.1 Arizona 23.5 and South Carolina 22.7. The District of Columbia had a rate of 23.1.
The Huntington tomato canning plant, a major Indiana industry, shifts from packing tomatoes in summer to serving as a skating rink for the winter season.
Major General Freyberg reports Rommel visited a British dressing station near Gam in North Africa but spoke to no surgeons. The site was later re captured and found occupied by German and British wounded, with doctors from both sides at work.
Census figures name 1,133 establishments in the United States engaged in bookbinding and related trades with annual production totaling $102,591,000. The data reflect the scale of the sector and its economic value in the period reported.
The board of control of the state hospital for the insane will hold its December meeting at the institution Saturday.
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