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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
3
The article critiques multiple works including Lonely Boy Blues by Alan Kapelner and Katherine Anne Porter’s The Leaning Tower, plus Agatha Christie Crime Reader. It comments on prose quality, plots, and the author Craig’s adventurous nonfiction, detailing various tales and their strengths and failings.
A rugged diver named John D. Craig performs a staged underwater duel off the California coast. Sharks circle as two divers fight, one is wounded and the other hauled to the surface. The piece blends danger with a homely origin story of Craig’s engineering family and his rise in California.
A basement blaze in the downtown warehouse district destroyed a five story brick building and damaged four others. The fire at Seventh and Central streets drew 25 fire companies. Four firefighters were injured, none seriously, as owners estimated total losses at 2 390 000 dollars. The blaze gutted a wax company a drug firm and several clothing firms.
Paris dispatch reports a military firing squad executed Henri Chamberlain alias La Fonte Pierre Bony and six other Vichy Gestapo members for collusion with Germans against French patriots during the occupation. The December 28 date marks the sentences and executions.
Claude Brown, a law instructor at the University of Arizona, was admitted by the Arizona Supreme Court to practice law in the state on credentials from Iowa.
Thirty U S medics describe hiding 12 hours in a church during a street battle near a small town on the Siegfried Line. They heard Nazi SS and armored troops shoot down captured American drivers, with three medic witnesses naming casualties among their litter teams.
Santa Barbara reporter UP states Ray C. Swain aged 58, a seasoned California hotel man and newly named manager of Hotel Samarkand, died today of an apoplectic stroke while being transported to a hospital. Swain was a St. Louis native.
Frederick C Othman reports ghostly activity beneath the Capitol and in the Senate office building. Witness James E Preston recounts eerie footsteps, electric-ghost sightings, and a phantom trolley ride ending in a damaged car. Herman and Vice President Curtis are tied to unseen typing.
A moderate earthquake shook Honolulu and the island of Oahu yesterday but caused no damage. Windows rattled and many residents were awakened as newspaper offices and radio stations received numerous telephone calls.
Fred Warren Green a former Seminole Oklahoma minister was sentenced by Federal Judge Dave W Ling to three years in prison and a $1000 fine for refusing to obey the Seminole draft board order to report to a work camp in Three Rivers California last June. Convicted by a federal jury last week.
Washington December 28 The house military affairs committee calls results reassuring after surveying nine hospitals in 20 states and the District of Columbia It cites 28 specific cases but does not name hospitals stating corrections have been made The report notes generally good building care but some uncov ered pine floors needed painting and minor fire safety gaps remain
The glowworm and the firefly have a secret that a man has sought for years the ability to imitate producing bright light without heat.
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