Senate Filibuster Threat Looms Over FEPC Funding
Southerners warn of a senate filibuster to block FEPC funding in the war agencies supply bill for 1946 and threaten to use similar tactics against an anti poll tax measure. Sen Chavez said a rescue attempt will be made in the Senate as past moves preserved FEPC.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Senate
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Roosevelt
FEPC
House Appropriations Committee
House
Sen
Chavez
Jeny
Red Cross To Aid Prevention Of State Fires
In Phoenix on June 2 the Red Cross and forest service announce a statewide fire prevention drive. Twenty one Red Cross chapters will cooperate with forest officials as drouth raises fire risk across Arizona. Junior Red Cross and college units will join the effort to alert disaster and relief committees and prevent forest and range fires.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Forest Service
Washington
Red Cross
Woods
Arizona
F. Lee Kirby
Tonto National Forest
Red Cross and
Kirby
George F. Miller
Maricopa County
Red Cross Chapeter
ASTC Teacher Supervises Tonto Planting Plan
PHOENIX June 2 Dr B ra Judd agricultural instructor at Tempe State college employed for the summer to supervise range planting on the Tonto forest reserve announced by F Lee Kirby supervisor of the national forest The forest service is experimental reseeding depleted range land with new grasses not native to the area including alfileria indigenous to Mediterranean countries grown widely in the Southwest Kirby said such experiments are conducted to develop valuable plants beyond their native ranges and notes nature has often selected vegetation but could benefit from human assistance
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Phoenix
B.ra Judd
Tempe State College
Tonto Forest
F. Lee Kirby
National Forest
Kirby
Forest Service
Mediterranean
Governments Move to Right Hand Drive in Philippines
Additional governments pushed motorists in the Philippines to switch from left to right hand drive in a broader regional alignment. The policy aims to improve road safety and vehicle standards amid evolving traffic regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Combat Use Of Equipment Is Taught At Davis Monthan
The Davis Monthan field communications school trains aerial radio operators for B 29 combat use. Trainees study code radio procedures and B 29 equipment then practice on an interplane trainer to be added to the curriculum. The program includes a midcourse conference and student suggestions shaping instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio Communications Ground School
Davis-Monthan Field
Davis-Monthan
Second Air Force
Army Air Force
Robin Bergreen
New York City
Raymond Stoneburner
Pocatello
Ida
Elmer Winter
Sewickley
Paul E. Schneider
Brooklyn
N. Y
Robert Carlson
Chicago, Ill
Henry Garber
Beaver Falls
Earl Kay
Chicago
John Goeppelt
Saginaw
Mich
Sheldon Hayes
Ill
Ted Klub
Cicero
David Mason
25 000 4 F s Of Age 18 25 Facing Draft
Washington reports the war department will draft 25 000 men aged 18 to 25 with slightly substandard physicals. Inductions loom for June and July to free veterans with over 85 discharge points for noncombat duty in the United States. Affected men may include slight eyesight issues. those with hernia or foot and joint problems are excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
War Department
United States
Fire Chief's 'Sub' Finds Own House Afire
LAS CRUCES New Mexico June 2 Special Officer Jack Bowers stood in for Fire Chief J B Cammenz during lunch hour and faced a tough call only to have it strike his home Volunteers confined the damage to one room as the fire department battled the blaze at his residence and Bowers said the job is hard on the nerves
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Cruces
N. M
Jack Bowers
J. B. Cammenz
Bowers
Woman Held for Receiving Two Allotment Checks
Lavada Pauline Rainwater of Goodwater Oklahoma was held for federal court action after admitting receipt of two $50 and $40 allotment checks. She claimed the $50 payments came as wife of Richard Kenneth McStott while the $40 allotment was for a child from a former husband L Z Rainwater. Both men are in the Army, one in Germany and the other in the South Pacific. Rainwater says she believes she was divorced from Rainwater in Nevada before marrying McStott.
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Lavada Pauline Rainwater
Goodwater
Okla
U. S
C. Wayne Clampitt
Richard Kenneth McStott
L. Z. Rainwater
Germany
South Pacific
Rainwater
Nevada
McStott
Tucson YM Plans To Celebrate National YMCA Week
The Tucson YMCA joins nationwide events noting the 177th birthday of the movement founded in London in 1844. KTUC will air 15 minute German POW camp transcriptions at 4 30 p m on three days. The organization highlights Learn to Swim with 425 enrollments and a Family Social Night weekly.
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Tucson
YMCA
American Red Cross
Dave Hartman
Marana
Hartman
Ball Player's Heroism In War Radio Drama on KTUC
The story follows a young baseball talent who joins the Marines and helps land troops on Tarawa by throwing back enemy hand grenades. It centers on his wartime achievement featured on Mondays Treasury Salute program at 5 15 p m on Station KTUC in a dramatic broadcast.
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Tarawa
KTUC
Halsey Returns to Japanese Theater in Pacific Rise
Admiral William F. Halsey resumes command of the Third Fleet off Okinawa marking a new phase in the Pacific war. Vice Admiral Harry W. Hill and Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner III shift to new commands as Nimitz reorganizes forces around the Ryukyus and Marianas areas.
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Richard W. Johnston
Guam
U.P
William F. “Bull” Halsey
United States
Japan
Ryukyus
Chester W. Nimitz
Halsey
Third Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Fifth Fleet
Okinawa
United Press War
E. G. Valens
Naha
Valens
Coral Sea
Nimitz
Harry W. Hill
Richard K. Turner
Fifth Amphibious Force
Simon Boliver Buckner
10Th Army
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean
Buckner, Jr
Western Pacific
McCain
R. A. Spruance
Richmond Kelly Turner
Pacific Fleet
Hill
Marianas Area
John H. Hoover
Buckner
Spruance
Summer School At Tucson High Sees 700 Students Enrolled
About 650 to 770 students register for six week sessions at Tucson High. Registration closes Wednesday June 6 and tuition rises Monday morning from 7.50 to 8.50 for one course and from 12.50 to 15 for two courses. Fourteen instructors offer courses in English history biology physics algebra Spanish typing and radar training for Navy Eddy test candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson High School
C. A. Carson
Carson
Conciliator Seeks End To Arizona New Mexico Lumber Strike
June 2 Flagstaff reports a U S conciliation official in San Francisco works to settle a strike by about 1 100 sawmill workers and loggers in Arizona and 500 in New Mexico. The union seeks 22 percent raise to at least 65 cents hourly and two weeks paid vacation with severance pay.
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Flagstaff
Lyman Sisley
U. S. Conciliation Service
San Francisco
Arizona
New Mexico
H. C. McQuatters
New Mexico-Arizona Pine Association
McQuatters
War Labor Board
Washington
New Cases
Sisley
Strike at McNary and 500 in Flagstaff impacts multiple mills
A strike at McNary and 500 in Flagstaff involves Southwest Lumber Mills Inc and Saginaw Manistee mills with Arizona operations. New Mexico mills affected are listed but incomplete.
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McNary
Flagstaff
McQuarters
Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc
Saginaw Manistee Mills
Arizona
New Mexico
Factory shutdowns hit New Mexico lumber firms
Whitmer Mills in Albuquerque reports 80 employees quit. M. R. Prestridge Lumber in Alamogordo sees 225 workers out. Southwest Lumber Mill in Alamogordo lists 250 absent as labor unrest affects operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitmer Mills, Inc
Albuquerque
M. R. Prestridge Lumber Company
Alamogordo
Southwest Lumber Mill
East Gulf Shipping Times Now Available
Washington reports the maritime commission lifted restrictions on news of ship departures and arrivals at Eastern and Gulf ports. Security rules stay for West coast ports and troopship movements, restricted-area merchant vessels, and casualties unless cleared by authorities.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Eastern
Gulf Coast
West Coast
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Nathan Mur
Optometrist
East Pennington Street
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Rudo P. Cabrera
Frances Campuzano
South Convent
Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Tucson Daily Citizen
Harold Leroy Bridgman
C. E. Bridgman
East Elm Street
Young Bridgman
Wake Island
Fukuoka
Kyushu
ONARC
Tomato Juice & Reid
Murdoch & CO
E. Sixth Street
L. C. Payne
W.S. Lackner
Stone
Pioneer Hotel
United States Employment Service
East Pennington
M. J. Harrold
Schilling
YWCA
5Th Ave
Kathryn Jones
Mrs. Jones
Girl Reserve Committee
Laura Davis With
Busiess
Enon
East
Gulf Shipping Times
W. Congress
Grocery
Grandma Cakes
Langendorf Cakes & Cookies
Fritos Mazitas
Beeman's Potato Chips
Beeman
Tater Flake CO
Ea Sith
Tucson Federal
America
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Congress Street
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