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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
25
A new World War II memorial honoring Japanese soldiers killed on Wake Island will be erected this summer on Wake Island, a small atoll between Guam and Hawaii. About 50 relatives of the fallen are involved in the project.
Soldiers who died on Wake Island will see a new concrete monument replacing the crumbling one. The 5 foot high 26 foot wide structure is to be sent to Wake by end of July. Wake’s American garrison capitulated to Japan on December 23, 1941 after a two week defense. Americans bombed the island through 1942 45 and Japanese surrender followed in September 1945.
Police hunt a man accused of writing checks totaling $750 in six local stores. The checks, drawn on the First Loan and Thrift Co., were passed at grocers, clothiers, and other businesses.
A United Press survey covers 48 states revealing quirky rules on alcohol. It notes differences in serving practices, drinking positions, age provisions, and food requirements, with examples from Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, South Carolina, and more.
A spokesman for Glover's Cleaners at 2643 N Campbell Ave told police a reported theft from a company delivery truck is unfounded. An initial report claimed two chair covers and four pairs of trousers were taken from a truck behind the Pioneer Hotel. The items were later recovered at the cleaning plant.
FAIRBANKS Alaska The third man killed in the crash of a twin engined C47 ferry plane near the McGrath airstrip on Monday night was Capt William K Wallace Fort Worth Texas Ladd Air Force Base headquarters announced Wallace was chief of the intelligence division at the Ladd base Killed outright in the crash were Lt Col Herbert J Saabye Jr of Longmeadow Mass and Capt Thomas G Crackley 35 Dallas Tex both attached to Ladd Six other airmen were injured one seriously when the 5001st operations squadron plane crashed and burned on a 20 mile flight.
The text places the path from Tatalina to McGrath as 290 miles southwest along the Kuskokwim River illustrating remote Alaska travel.
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