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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
7
HAL BOYLE notes that English common people and even barbers are exceptionally talkative. He observes initial reserve melts into long anecdotes about family, life, and politics, with vivid, period-voiced impressions of Fleet Street chatter and a tongue wagging through daily conversations.
Jesse H. Snyder, 68, retired Arizona cattleman living in Murfreesboro Tennessee, wrote to President Roosevelt three months ago proposing the term Tyrants War for the current conflict. He based it on frequent use of tyrants aggressors and oppressors in war coverage. Stephen Early disclosed the letter to the president, revealing Snyder’s role in the naming idea.
Phoenix June 1 F Lee Kirby supervisor of Tonto national forest urged rest or lighter use of Arizona range to aid vegetation recovery He warned the national cattle total is high but Arizona herds are about 3 percent of their 10 year average and a combined peak cattle numbers feed shortage and breuth could devastate the market
A Senate commerce subcommittee weighs omnibus flood control legislation with hearings on Middle and Far West projects approved by Army engineers. The plan authorizes postwar construction costing 810 million dollars, with Col. George R. Goethals as chief witness as hearings run through June 7. Notable projects include the Colorado river basin and Bill Williams River in Arizona.
A shop dialogue shows a weary customer and a polite clerk negotiating hair care, oil, and drying towels with a wartime purchase price of one shilling and sixpence. The exchange ends as the clerk thanks the customer and calls for the next in line.
A United Press survey finds 38 Civil War veterans in California including Captain Alden Howell 103 and Charles Ellis 107. The group includes Union and Confederate survivors with long lives and notable histories across Los Angeles Fresno Fullerton and other cities.
Henry Mingay, 95, of Tujunga, sole survivor of the original Fighting 69th New York volunteer infantry carried over from the Civil War. Other listed individuals include Sylvanius Oldfield and Eli M. McKenney of Long Beach, and Marcus Getter of Tujunga, with birth dates in 1847 and 1848. William S. Adams, 98, Santa Monica, also noted.
More than 4 000 tons of enemy weapons including more than 1 500 items have been received at the Army Ordnance proving ground at Aberdeen Maryland for study and test.
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal said he personally opposed a court martial trial during the war for Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. The remarks were made in Washington on June 1 as the war continued.
Forrestal, asked at a news conference about Kim mel's plea for a trial at the earliest practicable date, said he would not personally favor conducting such a trial during this war, or this phase of it.
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