Stabbing amid zoot suit clashes marks Los Angeles scare
In Los Angeles, a sailor was stabbed amid zoot suit violence as police and crews curb unrest. Navy patrols banned sailors from the city after a seaman was attacked, with arrests including a 16 inch knife carrier among youths. Police note many suspects are of Mexican descent.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Harlem
Los Angeles
Navy
11Th Naval District
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Nevada
Donald J. Jackson
Opening Pan American Highway date to be fixed
Mexico City June 9 report states President Avila Camacho will be asked to fix a date for opening the Pan American highway between Mexico City and Oaxaca where construction continues. Oaxaca Gov Vincente Gonzales Fernandez reports mining subsidence has split a mountain at Cwmparc Wales in half.
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Mexico City
Avila Camacho
Oaxaca
Vincente Gonzales Fernandez
Cwmparc
Wales
Families With Wives Working To Be Asked To Put 25% In Bonds
New York June 9 Morgen thau says the third war loan will start in September asking households with both spouses employed in war industries to invest 25 percent of incomes in war bonds. He cautions the target may be high but expects the voluntary drive to outperform prior efforts.
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New York
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Mission Of Mercy Delays Delivery Of Flying Fortress
Washington reports a Flying Fortress arrived in Europe after seven months, a B-17 flown by Capt. Kenneth H. Turner and a crew of five completed missions over Greenland. Turner’s team dropped 225 supply packages during 34 icecap trips starting December, aiding Capt. Armand L. Monteverde’s stranded crew. two Monteverde crewmen and three rescuers were killed. The bomber was delivered as planned.
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Atlantic
Greenland
War Department
Kenneth H. Turner
Cheyenne
Wyo
Air Transport Command
Armand L. Monteverde
Anaheim
Calif
Turner
Monteverde
Tunner
Women Serve On Two Fire Lookout Towers In Arizona
In the Tonto national forest two of six fire lookout towers are staffed by women. Mary P. Tallant, 18, heads the McFadden peak post, 50 miles northwest of Globe, while Mrs. Margaret Sparks, 31, is stationed on Colcord mountain, 25 miles north of Young.
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Phoenix
Tonto National Forest
F. Lee Kirby
Mary P. Tallant
McFadden Peak
Globe
Margaret Sparks
Colcord Mountain
Young
Helicopters May Become Flying Ambulances in War Zones
Brig. Gen. David N. W. Grant, chief air surgeon of the Army air force, said experiments with helicopters could yield flying ambulances to move wounded from front lines. If successful, they would land behind fighting areas and airlift patients to base hospitals. He did not disclose locations of the tests.
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Chicago
David N. W. Grant
Army Air Force
Grant
Mexican railroad repairs planned between Nogales and Guadalajara
San Francisco June 9 The roadbeds of the Southern Pacific of Mexico between Nogales Arizona and Guadalajara Mexico are to be rehabilitated by the Utah Construction Company under contract with the railroad.
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Southern Pacific of Mexico
Nogales
Ariz
Guadalajara
Mex
Utah Construction Company
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