Annexation Fight Over Eastern Tucson Suburbs
Residents and property owners clash as eastern Tucson area petitions for annexation face opposition. Signatures show a 51 percent control of real property but anti annexation lawyers argue taxable wealth must exceed 51 percent. City officials delay formal action amid informal talks and court threats.
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Tucson
East Broadway
Country Club Road
East Sixth
East Highth Streets
R. E. Stallings
John L. van Buskirk
Supreme Court
Stallings
el Encanto Apartments, Inc
van Buskirk
H. O. Jaastad
Janstad
Chamber of Commerce Annexation Committee
Eden and Eden Moscow trip yields hopeful war outlook
United States Ambassador Winant met with Foreign Secretary Eden in London to hear Moscow trip results. Reports suggest strong signals from Eden’s talks with Stalin on munition production and Russia’s reserves, with a broadcast promised to reveal conclusions next Sunday night. Eden reportedly believes conversations will bolster the Allied war effort and hasten victory.
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London
United States
John G. Winant
Anthony Eden
Moscow
Russia
Eden
Stalin
Divot Digging for Gold Unearths 19th Century Coins
Herb Smith a golf club caretaker in McCloud California found a bottle with sixty dollars in gold coins dating from 1838 to 1884 while digging with a shovel at the club. The find was reported by United Press.
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McCloud
Cal
Herb Smith
Man Arraigned On Car Theft Charge
Harold R. Brown, 21, was arraigned this morning before U. S. Commissioner C. Wayne Clampitt on transporting a stolen car from Memphis Tennessee to Duncan Arizona. He is held under $1,500 bond for grand jury action. Brown said the car was rented by friends who posted $10. He admitted a trans continental drive was unusual.
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Harold R. Brown
U. S
C. Wayne Clampitt
Memphis
Episcopal Churches Set Thursday N Y Day of Prayer Rites
Episcopal churches of Tucson plan services at 10 o clock Thursday morning in response to President Roosevelt’s call for a national day of prayer. Rev Francis T Brown will officiate at Grace church Rev C E Huntington at St Philips in the Hills and Rev R Earl Dicus at St Andrews church. Roosevelt urged a day of asking forgiveness and consecration to the nation.
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Episcopal Churches of
Tucson
Roosevelt
Francis T. Brown
Grace Church
C. E. Huntington
St. Phillips-in-the-Hills
R. Earl Dicus
St. Andrew’s Church
Hair Color Tied to Savage Temperament in Rats
Scientists report a link between hair color and conduct in rats, suggesting a gene controlling pigment also affects behavior. The discovery by Keeler and King at the Wistar Institute notes black hair genes suppress aggression in white rats, while gray rats remain sly and biting. They caution human applicability remains uncertain due to many factors.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Dallas
Tex
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Clyde E. Keeler
Helen D. King
Wistar Institute
Philadelphia
House Renter Alleges Theft of Guns and Equipment
Mrs. Jerome P. Martin filed a complaint alleging a rental scam after two men and two women rented her house on Partano road then left with a saddle two shotguns a rifle and gear valued at 136 Police found the group had stayed at a Tucson hotel possessed a Doberman and 12 love birds and were driving large sedans with California plates A grand theft warrant is issued for the two men.
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Jerome P. Martin
Seventh Street
Tucson
California
Arch Bishop Calls Britain to National Day of Prayer
The Archbishop of Canterbury invites all Britons to participate in a national day of prayer and seek divine help for current and future challenges. The appeal emphasizes communal faith and reflection across the country.
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Canterbury
All
England
Great Britain
Mother of Tucson Man Dies in Ohio
Mrs. Alice McCarty 83 of Portsmouth Ohio, mother of Charles H McCarty of 1127 North Sixth Avenue, widow of former Police Chief W T McCarty, died after visiting Tucson in 1925. She leaves son Tom McCarty of Portsmouth and daughters Mrs Will Miller and Mrs Kline Dawson. Charles cannot attend due to illness.
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Alice McCarty
Portsmouth
Charles H. McCarty
North Sixth Avenue
McCarty
W. T. McCarty
Tucson
Tom McCarty
Will Miller
Kline Dawson
Charles McCarty
U.S. Share Of Vehicles Shipped In 1941 Report
In the first ten months of 1941, the United States supplied 1,356 of 1,363 motor vehicles shipped, indicating a dominant national role in vehicle exports during this period.
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United States
New 1942 Book Infinite Wisdom Commands Daily Joy
A 1942 work framed as a 365 page book by God, each page delivering a terse command. Read a page daily, interpret the message, and apply it to seek happiness, wisdom, and prosperity.
Radios and cameras surrendered by enemy aliens in San Francisco
In San Francisco, police collected radios and cameras from Japanese and other enemy aliens under a Biddle order. Over 3,000 radios and many cameras were turned in citywide, with notable seizures including a ceremonial sword and a pocket-watch encased camera. Alameda farmers surrendered rifles and pistols while facing ownership limits. Hearing on enemy alien arrests in the district ends tomorrow.
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San Francisco
U.P
Pacific Slope
Francis Biddle
San
Francisco
Seattle
Harry Misumi
Natura Makamura
Irving
F.wixon
N.D. Collaer
Aliens Turn In Cameras Radios to Sheriff in Arizona
On December 30 a group including Japanese nationals surrendered 17 cameras seven guns and three radios to Sheriff Lon Jordan under an order by the U S attorney general requiring German Italian and Japanese nationals in Arizona to turn in short wave radios and cameras by 11 pm. Most items were from Japanese residents with one German camera also returned to its owner after confiscation.
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Phoenix
Lon Jordan
U. S
Arizona
Jordan
Winter Visitor Sends $100 To Wife Of Hero
A $100 check was enclosed in a December 22 letter received by Congressman William M. Whittington of Mississippi. The donation to Mrs. Colin P. Kelly Jr. from Gidwitz of Chicago was sent to Mrs. Kelly, widow of Capt. Colin P. Kelly Jr., praised as the first hero to die in Manila for sinking a Japanese battleship.
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Wcongressman
William M.” Whittington
Mississippi
Colin. P. Kelly, Jr
Byw. Gidwitz
Chicago
Santa Rita Jin
Tucson
Kelly
Colin P.keily, Jr
Manila
Fort Missoula camp reports arrivals of Japanese and Italians
The Fort Missoula government camp notes 236 more Japanese and 20 Italians arriving, raising totals to 1028 Italians and 638 Japanese with capacity for 2000. In Los Angeles a Japanese man donated a radio so large two officers needed to move it into the station house, estimated at 700 dollars.
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Missoula
Los Angeles
Keil Leaving Deputy Post Clark Named Successor
Robert H. Keil will leave as deputy sheriff on January 1. Cecil H. Clark, former superintendent of Grand Canyon and Mountain CCC camps, will take the post. Sheriff Ed F. Echols announced the transition. Clark has lived in Arizona since 1911 and served in World War I.
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Robert
H. Keil
Cecil H. Clark
Grand Canyon
Tucson
Mountain
CCC
Ed F. Echols
Keil
Southern Pacific Lines
Clark
Arizona
Miami
Meuse - Argonne
France
Army of Occupation
Germany
Hunters fined for misidentifying swan as goose
Portland reporters note two hunters Sam Piazza and A E Sherell boasted of bagging two snow geese and describing their feast to friends. The pair turned pale when the game was identified as whistling swan and each was fined fifty dollars by the judge.
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Portland, Ore
Sam Piazza
Bernard J. Harrison Dies at 66 in New Jersey Residence
Bernard J. Harrison, 66, winter visitor and New York businessman, died yesterday at his home 1277 East Lester Street. His wife Jane Randolph Harrison was with him. A son Bernard J. Harrison Jr. of Short Hills will take the body to Richmond for burial. another son survives in Short Hills. Local arrangements are being handled by Arizona Mortuary.
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Bernard J. Harrison
East
Lester Street
New York
Short Hills
N. J
Jane’ Randolph Harrison
Short ‘Ais
Richmond
Arizona
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Pearl Harbor
U. S S
Tucson Clearing House Association
Ohio
Shaoa
Alvin
Coast
Los’ Angeles
Hero
Mary, Jane
el Conquistador “Hotel
Bernard Jr. Harrison
Langers
Lambert’ Pharmacal: Company
St. Louis, Mo
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