Tucson Plane Crash Kills Lieutenant and Injures Seven
A B 24 bomber crashed eight miles southeast of Davis Monthan Field killing Second Lieut. Robert Barton Jr and injuring seven crew members. First Lieut. Robert Calleran piloted the plane which overturned after striking desert terrain. Named injured include Lt J W Davidson Lt Oro Dawson Jr Lt E L Bauder Sgt R E Avery Sgt John M Miller and Pvt S J Hutter. A Bisbee couple and daughter aided survivors. The crash happened near the Wilmot road Benson highway intersection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barton, Jr
Park Drive
Charleston
W. Va
Desert
Davis-Monthan Field
Robert J. Calleran
Calleran
South Ninth Street
la Crosse
Wisc
J. W. Davidson
First Ave
Huntington
Oro T. Dawson, Jr
Stillwell
Oklo
E. L. Bauder
Aliquippa
R. E. Avery
Levelland
Texas
John M. Miller
Franklin Blvd
Absecon
N. J
S. J. Hutter
E. 64Th Street
Cleveland
Bisbee
Tucson
Wilmot Road
Benson Highway
Barbara Hutton Weds Cary Grant in California Ceremony
Barbara Hutton and Cary Grant wed at Lake Arrowhead California. Grant, 38, known as Archibald Alexander Leach, rose to stardom after early career detours and breakthrough film This Is The Night in 1952. The couple had been companions at cinema colony events for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Arrowhead
Calif
Cary Grant
Barbara Hutton
Hollywood
Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach
Bristol
Arizona timber to be felled for war demand
The U S forest service announced bids opened on 22,000,000 feet of virgin ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in Sitgreaves national forest Arizona. Assistant Regional Forester Quincy Randles said the vast tract stretching from the Utah border north of the Grand Canyon toward the Rio Grande in New Mexico would be logged to support war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
U. S. Forest Service
Quincy Randles
Utah Line
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Names of crash victims listed near Trenton Ga
The Greenville Army air base released the names of five officers and enlisted men killed in a four motor bomber crash near Trenton Georgia. The list includes Second Lieut Earl Hobson 28 pilot Los Angeles California now San Carlos Arizona Second Lieut Earl B Wood 27 co pilot Corsicana Texas Beau mont Texas Staff Sergeant Warren E Mc Murtray 25 McComb Mississippi Sergeant Rolland F Carrigan 22 St Johnsbury Vermont Corporal Thomas R Thurman Jr 19 Palestine Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
S. C
Greenville Army Air Base
Trenton
Earl Hobson
Los Angeles
Calif
San Carlos
Ariz
Earl B. Wood
Corsicana
Texas
Beaumont
Warren E. McMurtray
McComb
Miss
Rolland F. Carrigan
St. Johnsbury
Vermont
Thomas R. Thurman, Jr
Palestine
Cotton Plantings Rise in 1941 With Higher Acreage
The agriculture department reports 24,005,000 acres planted to cotton and in cultivation by July 1, up 3.8 percent from last year. Last year planted area was 23,132,000 acres with 22,238,000 harvested and 10,741,589 bales produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Arizona
Roosevelt warns government may requisition tires if needed
President Roosevelt signaled that the government could seize automobile tires to preserve the nation, aiming to curb nonessential driving and stretch supplies. Officials noted rubber and gasoline issues are interwoven as the war effort strains resources and a synthetic program proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Western Union Plans Tucson to Marana Telegraph Line
The Arizona state corporation commission approved Western Union Tele- graph's request to lease Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph facilities between Tucson and Marana airport. Chairman Amos A. Betts told the Federal Communications Commission that the lease would aid the war program and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tucson
Marana
State Corporation Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Amos A. Betts
Federal
British Units Stab 30 Miles West Of Front
British lightning units pushed up to 30 miles west of El Alamein as Allied air attacks hit Axis lines. The dashed thrust destroyed tanks and captured prisoners while Rommel’s defenses bent along the coast and southeast flank. Heavy bombing targeted Bengali port and supply lines as Auchinleck seeks an opening before reinforcements arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
U.P
el Alamein
Erwin Rommel
Bengali
Cologne
Claude Auchinleck
Eighth
Rommel
Mediterranean
Malta
Hitler
Egypt
el Daba
Senator McCarran backs silver price rise to solve metal shortages
U S Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada urged raising silver to $1 per ounce from 71 cents to curb cash bonuses for copper, lead and zinc output. He argued higher silver payments would reduce incentives and tap low grade ore where silver is mixed with copper, lead and zinc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nev
U. S
Pat McCarran
D-Nev
McCarran
Treasury
United States
Tucson Man Fires First Libyan Shot
American tanks with crews from the United States engaged German armor near Capuzzo in Libya. Captain Joe Rhee of Tucson fired the first US shot against a German tank, helping to destroy four enemy vehicles with limited casualties. The battle showcased General Grant tanks and involved Italian and British forces amid desert sands South of Tobruk on June 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard D. McMillan
United Press
Egypt
Libya
Arizona
Joe Rhee
Tucson
Ariz
Capuzzo
Knightsbridge
Tobruk
el Adem
British and German guns clash over the Channel
German and British guns traded shells over the English Channel for over an hour after a first bombardment of the southeast coast in weeks. Dover issued a shellfire warning but no casualty reports. British planes laid mines in Nazi waters and attacked shipping off the Netherlands as weather kept RAF raids at bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
English Channel
Dover
Netherlands
Air Ministry
Tucson Youth Is Killed In Iowa Plane Crash
Sixty City air base officials investigated the Spokane Felts Field training plane crash that killed four men en route to Sioux City Iowa. The victims include Parker E Everett of Elk City Oklahoma and Jack R Jones of Tucson Arizona with two other crew members named as Robert W Shores of Bentonville Arkansas and Joseph H Plew of Des Plaines Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack R. Jones
Tucson
University of Arizona
Sioux City
Iowa
Army
Army Air Base
Felts Field
Spokane
Wash
Second Air Force
Felts
Parker E. Everett
Elk City
Okla
Robert W
Shores
Bentonville
Ark
Ariz. Corp
Joseph H. Plew
Des Plaines, II
Sergeant Jack R. Jones Retired Tuc son Press Photographer
Sgt. Jack R. Jones, longtime photographer for the Tuc sun newspaper, is noted as a former press photographer in a youth feature on page 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack R. Jones
Tucson
Turkish Premier Refik Saydam Dies at 61
Ankara July 8 premier Refik Saydam died suddenly today after a heart attack. He was 61 and had been in office since January 1939. Interior minister Faik Buztrak named acting premier until a replacement is appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ankara
Turkey
Refik Saydam
Faik Buztrak
Germans Aim to Isolate Russians and Cut Supply Lines
German forces on the Kursk Kharkov front press toward isolating Timoshenko’s southern army and severing Moscow Rostov rail lines. Von Bock drives toward Voronezh and the Don river aiming for Stalingrad and Astrakhan to cripple Russia’s oil, widen Allied Iran routes, and threaten Baku. A Don river drive may pair with offensives from Taganrog and Crimea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Desk
Kursk- Kharkov
Caucasus
Russia
Fedor von Bock
Don River
Timoshenko
Voronezh
Moscow
Rostov
Stalingrad
Volga
Astrakhan
Caspian Sea
Baku
Hitler
Iran
Taganrog
Crimea
Krasnodar
Don River Battle Rages as Red Army Halts German Drive
Soviet reports say Red Army firms a defense along the Don near Voronezh repelling German crossings and slowing a major onslaught. Front dispatches claim heavy fighting, tank clashes, and sustained bombardment with thousands of German casualties claimed and continued German advances in Crimea and the Kerch peninsula noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don River
Voronezh
Red Army
American May Be Made Head Of All Forces
Washington rumors float a possible American as supreme commander of all United Nations forces. Names mentioned include General George C. Marshall Admiral William D. Leahy and General Douglas MacArthur, with no official move yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Perimeter
Washington
George C. Marshall
United States Army
United Nations
Marshall
William D. Leahy
Douglas MacArthur
Leahy
Roosevelt
Deductions In Pay Of Troops Get Underway
The Army began deducting from soldiers pay for the family allowance law enacted June 23. Initial deductions start with June pay checks due July 1, though some posts postponed until August 1. Deductions and benefits may accumulate as lump sums and begin monthly payments Nov 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Col
Thruston Hughes
Louisville
Trial Of Nazi Saboteurs Opens In Secrecy Today
Eight Nazi saboteurs face possibly execution as the United States government begins a tightly guarded federal trial in a Washington justice department building. The accession of seven generals leads the military commission with Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Military Commission
George John Dasch
Ernest Peter Burger
Herbert Haupt
Heinrich Farm Heinck
Edward John Kerling
Herman Neubauer
Richard Quirin
Werner Thiel
Frank R. McCoy
Walter S. Grant
Blanton Winship
Lorenzo D. Gasser
Guy V. Henry
John
Third Restaurant In Flagstaff Picketed By Union
Organizers for the Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union extended picket lines to a third Flagstaff restaurant amid handbills by the Flagstaff Merchants association urging residents to boycott the picketed firms. The union had picketed two eateries since Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union
AFL
Peterson
Canada to Draft Men for Overseas Fighting
Ottawa July 8 final approval for a measure to draft men for overseas service was assured as the House of Commons voted 158 to 54 in favor of the second reading of an amendment to the National Resources Mobilization Act. The change would delete the prohibition on sending drafted soldiers abroad and makes final passage likely after a third reading soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
U.P
Canada
House of Commons
National Resources Mobilization Act
Germans Report Salient Enlarged Near Voronezh
German high command claimed the encirclement and capture of numerous Soviet troops northwest of Voronezh as a salient expanded in that district. Russian counter-attacks north and northwest of Voronezh and in the Orel sector were repulsed, with German air power deployed against the opposing forces near Rzhev west of Moscow.
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Berlin
Voronezh
Rzhev
Moscow
Orel
Kharkov
Kursk
Upper
Volga
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Hurton Army
Fdr
Western Union
Leeks
Joe Ahee
Channel
RAF
Germany
Don
Red Star
Soviet Information Bureau
Staryi Oskol
Buereau
Kerch
White House
MacArthur
Bataan
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