Boston Man Is Found Dead In Arizona Desert
Benjamin P Cheney, 76, a Boston financier and former head of the United States and Canada Express estate, was found dead beside a road 49 miles south in a northwestern Arizona desert after a 20 mile water search. His body was brought to KINGMAN. an empty canteen marked his trail and an inquest was planned for tomorrow.
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Boston
Arizona
Kingman
Benjamin Pierce Cheney
West
Lee Eaton
E. FE. Wishon
Cheney
Bill Williams
Wishon
Ida Lewis Cheney
Julia Arthur
The
Stage
California
Benjamin P. Cheney
United States
Canada Express
American Express
Harvard
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Old Colony Trust Company
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Frank Murphy
Phoenix
Prescott
Arizona Pioneers Historical Society
Perishon
Meet On Y Camp In Groom Creek Arizona
Parents of boys headed for the YMCA camp at Groom Creek Arizona are called to a 7 30 p m meeting at the YMCA. Grant Howard chairs the committee. Ferron Troxel distributes cooperation and physical examination blanks to establish tighter home camp ties. The first trip departs Tucson Monday at 6 20 a m on the Golden State Limited. Six 10 day sessions begin Monday with five first session openings remaining.
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Groom Creek
Arizona
Grant Howard
Ferron Troxel
Troxel
Phoenix
Hervey Smith
Tucson
Jim Dillon
Mike Mahoney
Jim Miles
Golden State Limited
Hitler Henchmen Plan For Escape From Berlin
Neutral sources close to Berlin report Field Marshal Hermann Goering and Paul Joseph Goebbels have chosen Turkey as a potential refuge if Germany collapses. It has long been understood that Goering and Goebbels were placing large fortunes abroad in anticipation of the regime's end.
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Ankara
Turkey
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Goering
Goebbels
Pickerel Reels In Trout Swallowed by Bait
Edward Webster fishing in the Mousam River, Kennebunk, Maine, felt a tug and reeled in an 18 inch pickerel that had swallowed a six inch trout which had taken the bait.
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Kennebunk, Me
Edward Webster
Mousam River
England estimates waste paper for munitions drive
England projects that one ton of waste paper weekly from each home would yield about 1,000 tons daily on weekdays for munitions. The plan links household paper collection to industrial needs as wartime production accelerates.
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England
Big Turnover Shakes Tucson Schools With 26 Appointments
The Tucson school system reports its largest teacher turnover since World War I. 26 new teachers were appointed while 38 resigned from 375 in the grade and high schools. Several left to join the Army or defense work or for marriage, and 3 return after leaves. Names and positions are listed. at least 10 more appointments are planned.
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Robert Morrow
Tucson
Morrow
James W. Black
Gilbert C. Brown
Marvin I. Christianson
Paul Lonsdale Grimes
Ernest Mariscal
Harold Nichols
Frank Ott
James van Horn
Phillip Terry
Gordon A. McLean
William W. Westervelt
Tom K. Burges
Barbara Barron
Claire Bryant
Mildred Corbett
Helen Frankl
Faye Huetson
Betty Light
Betty Rigg
Irene Spinster
Verna White
Maybelle Wisdom
Madeline Kelsey
Elsie Swingle
Margaret Handley
Alice Mullins
Julia Williams
Suzanne Hamilton
Frances Coleman
Barbara Warren
Charles W. Carlin
Dorothy Rosenfeld
David Clavner
Luella Jones
Elizabeth Lemmon
Margaret F. Morris
Eli Davis
Ruth L. Davis
Bess Dooley
Piles Harper
Virginia V. Arnold
Helen Bayne
Harriett L. Bean
Ina May Booth
Virginia Bryant
Philip N. Beahman
Buelah Mac Cobb
Alice Constance
Ruth V. Cooper
Ralph A. Futrell
Hazel Goodwin
Mary Jo Grimes
Betty Kennedy
Immunization Push Urged as Arizona Sees Diphtheria Risk
The Arizona health department reports over half of local children lack protection against diphtheria and smallpox due to mobility and gaps in immunization. It notes Arizona accounted for 0.76 percent of diphtheria and 1.1 percent of smallpox cases in 1941 and urges vaccination for all children over nine months.
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Phoenix
Arizona
State Health Department
Department
It Always Hangs Outside Firehouse Letter From Arizona Visit
A Citizen letter from GEORGE B. WILCOX corrects a published interview about his time in Arizona since 1885. He explains a misstatement regarding his rank and command at Davis Monthan field clarifying there was no captaincy or vacancy.
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Arizona
Davis-Monthan Field
George B. Wilcox
WEFW Sponsors Radio Program Promotes Speak Up For Democracy
The 19th Speak Up For Democracy program airs Thursday at 6 p.m. on station KVOA with Tucson Veterans of Foreign Wars post No. 549 speaker Joseph K. Rogers. The national W F W sponsored series seeks to counter enemy propaganda and urges loyalty to Allies and United Nations forces. The June program reaches 478 stations, the largest monthly radio network in history.
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America
KVOA
Joseph K. Rogers
Nicaragua
Tucson
Rogers
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
Pearl necklaces and gold watches found in streets trigger police search
Police in Buenos Aires Argentina investigate several recovered pearl necklaces and gold watches found in public streets. Authorities seek owners and urge reporting of missing items.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Four American Field Workers Safe In Port
Four American field service workers survived a torpedo strike that sank a British freighter June 2. They reached an Atlantic port in a damaged lifeboat after the ship went down three minutes after a second torpedo hit. Eight other passengers and the ship’s 59 crew also reached port safely.
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North Atlantic
Atlantic
Charles Fagan
Seattle
Robert Bailey
Liverpool
Phoenix to Hold Tax Rate at 1.79 per Hundred
Phoenix officials proposed a 1942 43 budget of 2 833 756 dollars with a tax rate of 1 79 per 100 valuation unchanged from the current year on a 69 million valuation. Revenue from non tax sources rises to about 1 599.20 dollars as the budget grows by 163 328 dollars. The AFL CIO asked a wage scale revision to meet living costs, but officials fear another increase would raise the levy.
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Phoenix
American Federation of State
Censorship Orders Bar Mail Confirmations Abroad
The office of censorship directed firms and individuals to stop sending confirmation copies of telegrams cablegrams radiograms and telephone messages with international mail. Byron Price announced that confirmation messages would be refused or returned to the sender.
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Washington
Office of Censorship
United States
Byron Price
Norwegians Defy Occupation Force
A report by Louis P. Lochner profile details of Norwegian resistance under occupation. The piece highlights acts of defiance, underground networks, and civilian resilience amid German control.
Norway under Nazi rule fuels resistance and executions
News from New York reports a civil war in German-occupied Norway with Quisling governance faced by widespread resistance. Executions occur for aiding escapes, listening to foreign radio, or distributing aid. bishops resign in protest. teachers resign en masse risking pensions. sabotage and clandestine broadcasts persist as Norway bears occupation costs estimated near 3.9 billion crowns through January.
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Britain
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Fjelibu
Oslo University
Seip
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Einar Gerharnsen
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Switzerland
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National Theater
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Bergen
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Stockholm
Herrington Made Flagstaff Mayor
George Herrington, manager of three northern Arizona utilities, was elected mayor at the first city council meeting. He won by two votes over incumbent Joseph J. Waldhaus, 302 to 300, after May elections. Herrington also heads Flagstaff Electric Light, Arizona Electric Power of Winslow, and Holbrook Light and Power.
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Flagstaff
George Herrington
Arizona
Joseph J. Waldhaus
Waldhaus
Herrington
Hollywood Police Issues Daily Hot Tire Bulletins
Chief C B Horrall of Hollywood issues daily hot tire bulletins mirroring the hot car system to speed recovery of stolen tires amid department efficiency overhaul.
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Hollywood
Cal
U.P
C. B. Horrall
Increase In Cigarette Tax Likely
Washington July 10 Members of the house ways and means committee predicted today that moderate increases in excise taxes on cigars cigarettes and smoking tobacco probably would be approved. Treasury proposals would raise cigarettes to 3 50 per thousand on 10 cent brands and 4 on 15 cent brands and tobacco to 36 cents a pound with revenue about 236 300 000.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Morgenthau
Congress
Treasury
70 Million Sought for JAP War Relocation Plan
Washington reports the War Relocation Authority needs 70 million dollars to move about 130000 Japanese inland from west coast military areas by September 1. Nine communities of about 10000 each and eight of 5000 each will be built on the Pima and Colorado River Indian reservations in Arizona. The Indian Service will operate the project under agreement with the WRA.
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Washington
War Relocation Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
Harold Smith
Pima
Colorado River
Arizona
Smith
Sacaton
Indian Service
Coal Rationing Limits Householders in Scotland
Householders in Scotland face coal limits as most of the supply is reserved for railways and industry. The restriction prioritizes essential services and industrial needs amid shortages.
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Scotland
Kingman Man Dies in Flaming Shack
Kingman, June 10. Joe Chevez, longtime Mohave County resident who worked many jobs over 32 years here, died in his burning shack Monday night. Born 1883 in Albuquerque his only known relative is sister Elena Chevez in Albuquerque. A coroner's jury ruled death from burns and the fire's origin remains undetermined.
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Kingman
Joe Chevez
Mohave County
Albuquerque
N. M
Elena Chevez
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