Kin Of Winter Visitor Dies In Air Service
Mrs. J Vernor Scaife reports the death of her nephew John G Magee Jr killed in action while serving with the Royal Air Force in England. Magee born in England, educated there and at Yale after a period with the Royal Canadian Air Force, was noted for poetic gifts and authored High Flight. He was the son of Rev John G Magee of Pittsburgh and a Protestant Episcopal missionary in the Far East.
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Magee
England
United States
Yale University
Royal Canadian Air Force
Great Britain
City Escapee Sought by F B I
Moses Irving Watson a six foot Negro who walked from a city work gang is sought in the Tucson area by police and the F B I for draft evasion He was arrested on vagrancy charges Tuesday and is urged to be picked up again by the acting police chief order to the force.
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Moses Irving Watson
Tucson
Watson
Harold Wheeler
Reds To Continue Pursuit Of Nazis
On the Moscow front Maj. Gen. A A Vlasov declares the Red Army will press its offensive indefinitely as German resistance weakens. Reporter Henry Shapiro describes rapid advances toward Klin Volokolamsk, ruined villages, and morale in Solnechnogorsk with civilians cheering allies.
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RED Army
Moscow
U.P
Russia
A. A. Vlasov
Vlasov
Klin-Volokolamsk
Solnechnogorsk
America
Berlin
Leningrad
Opasno Miny
Mobilization of Scouts Planned by Catalina Council
E G Stowell scout executive of the Catalina council announces a test mobilization of all Boy Scouts and leaders at their troop headquarters. Scouts will train for messeng er service first aid refugee camp sanitation crowd and traffic control and aid to refugees. Each scout needs written parental permission to participate.
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E. G. Stowell
Catalina Council
Aviator Imprisoned After Low Flyover of Mexico City Bull Fight
Civilian aviator Antonio Furlong faced a three day confinement after flying too low over a Sunday bull fighting show in Mexico City, drawing official scrutiny and public concern.
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Mexico City
Antonio Furlong
Submarine Attacked by Plane From U S Mainland
Spokane dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon says a submarine was attacked by an airplane based on the continental United States. Time and place and vessel nationality were not disclosed. The attack followed the December 7 Hawaii strike and was praised as alert aerial action.
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Spokane
Wash
United States
Millard F. Harmon
Second Air Force
Hawaii
County Heads Endorse Plan for Tucson By Pass and Subway
Pima county supervisors notified the state highway commission that they endorsed a city council plan for a by pass around Tucson and a subway under Southern Pacific lines at East 17th street. The proposal aims to ease military traffic and divert convoys from central streets to faster lanes along the EP and SW route and Hwy 80 in southern suburbs.
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Pima County
State Highway Commission
Tucson
Southern Pacific Lines
East 17Th Street
Commission
Stone and
Sixth Avenues
Defense Motion Denied In Conway Libel Suit
Superior Judge Levi S. Udall denied a defense motion to dismiss Atty. Gen. Joe Conway's 100000 libel suit against the Arizona Daily Star. With the plaintiff's case completed, Star publishers rested their defense after the morning session.
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Phoenix
Levi S. Udall
Joe Conway
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson
of the Star
Judge allows libel case to go to jury in 1937 Star article
Testimony shows Conway contends the December 7 1937 Star article damaged his reputation. Judge Udall denies dismissal and lets the jury decide malice in publication.
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Conway
the Star
Udall
Puppy wins Chevrons camp Barkeley headline tale
Butch the five month old spaniel pup earns his chevron rating at one month. He serves with Service Company of the 158th Infantry, 45th Division, stationed in Abilene Texas.
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Camp Barkeley
Abilene
Tex. U.P
Butch
158Th Infantry
45Th Division
Defense demands curb U S industrial concentration says Commerce
The Department of Commerce reports that geographic concentration of U S industry is diminishing under the pressure of defense production impacting regional economic patterns.
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United States
Department of Commerce
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RAF
Royal Air Force
By Henry Shapiro
Feinfelds
Fucsons
U. S. Mainland
Pup
Nogales
Fast
Citizen Auto
N. Ash
Arthur J. McGuire
Beldhing Heminway
Wiss
Teinfelds
By Marguerite Steen
Bristol
Matthew Flood
William L. Shirer
Germany
Central
Europe
Meere
Sahey
By Pierre van Paassen
van Paassen
Riekal As
Nashe
By Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman
Fadiman
Poursana
Gwen Bristow
Louisiana
By Gwen Bristow
South
Steinfeld
Athny Pie Royos
Louis Bromfield
New Orleans
Birds of America
John James Audubon
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