Tucson Headquarters Form New Air Group for Biggs Field
The Wing trains bombardment crews through three combat phases at bases within the Wing and readies them for duty in war zones. Colonel Agee relocated his staff to Tucson and will fly to all Wing bases to supervise training. key officers include Major Pancake, Major Rothchild, Captain Carlos, and Captain Liniger.
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Biggs Field
Texas
Agee
Tucson
Orson Secrist Jr
I. G. Moore
Davis-Monthan Field
William A. Wilson
E. D. Jenkins
Frank R. Pancake
R. J. Rothchild
B. C. Carlos
Davis-Monthan
R. L. Liniger
John W. Phenix
John W
Air Corps
Advanced
Olds
Second Air Force
RAF
Tucson Soldier Lt. Schultze Killed in South Pacific
Word from the war department confirms First Lieutenant Hermann J. Schultze of the U S Marine Air Corps was killed recently in an airplane accident in the Southwest Pacific. He was a Tucson native born in 1921 and survived by his father and sister. He enlisted in 1941, earned a second lieutenants’ commission in 1942, and had trained at San Diego before heading to combat duty in January.
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Hermann J. Schultze
U. S. Marine Air Corps
Southwest Pacific
Hermann Schultze
Pima County
North Oracle Road
Schultze
Lt. Schultze
Tucson
San Diego
South Pacific
Frank Higgins
Japan Compulsory School Attendance Policy
Japan maintains mandatory schooling for children aged six to fourteen, ensuring universal basic education. The policy establishes legal requirements for attendance and outlines the public education framework supporting early schooling and literacy nationwide.
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Japan
Frantic Japanese Holdout on Attu Pressed by U.S. Forces
US troops lunged against Attu Island positions as dawn broke with heavy artillery and air strafing. Alaska command lines pushed to gain ground while Jap defenders endured brutal shelling and stubborn foxhole resistance amid snow clad ridges and trenches.
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Sayed
Attu
Soynea
United States
Lake Cories
Alaska Defense Command
Eugene M. Landrum
Attu Range
Packard Workers Strike Over Race Upgrading
Detroit June 3 Ninety five percent of Packard Motor Car Co production halted by a strike protesting the upgrading of three Negro workers. Employees are United Automobile Workers CIO. Managers say walkout began when midnight shift workers walked out despite pleas to honor wartime nondiscrimination orders. Production of Rolls Royce aircraft and marine engines halted.
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W.P
Packard Motor Car Co
United Automobile Workers
CIO
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Air Corps
Labor Department
Rolls Royce
Second Victim Of Crash Dies In Arizona
The second death from the automobile crash 28 miles east of Tucson near the Benson highway reports Mrs. Lizzie Catherine Walker 68 of Bartlesville Oklahoma died at a local hospital. Roop driver of the car died after the crash when he allegedly tried to throw a lit cigarette through a half closed window. Other injured included Mrs. Walker's husband James W. Walker and Mr and Mrs William Sanford and their son William Jr. The group was en route to the West Coast.
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Tucson
Benson Highway
Lizzie Catherine Walker
Bartlesville
Okla
Walk- 17
Arizona Mortuary
Young Roop
Triplet Girls Born to Rael Family in Alamosa
Three baby sisters born early this month at the Rael ranch in Alamosa Colorado are named Maria Teresa Maria Rosalina and Maria Solome. The parents Mr and Mrs Eli Rael anticipate lively times as the trio grows and families nearby react to the unique naming.
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Alamosa
Colo
Eli Rael
Maria Teresa
Maria Rosalina
Maria Solome
Committee O K Sets Minimum Government Cotton Price
Washington June 3 The House Agriculture Committee chaired by Fulmer proposes that government held cotton cannot be sold below 23.5 cents a pound. The price would reflect grade type staple and quality using seven eighths inch middling FOB at mills or ports. The panel also approved selling 30 million bushels of wheat at corn parity for feed in June and July due to a corn shortage in South Africa.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
House Agriculture Committee
Fulmer
D-Sc
Commodity Credit Corporation
Weather Forecast for Tucson and Vicinity
Little change in temperature tonight and tomorrow. Historical temps show 92 yesterday and 104 on this date, with 70 yesterday and 48 as the low for this date. Sunset at 8 27 p m and sunrise at 6 18 a m.
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