Flag Day Service Scheduled Sunday
A wartime Flag Day ceremony is set for 7 30 p m Sunday at the senior high auditorium in Tucson under the Tucson lodge of Elks with community groups assisting The event opens with a flag history and includes a pageant color guards from Davis Monthan Field and Army Air Corps music speakers and a mass pledge of allegiance with no admission charge
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United Nations
United States
Tucson Lodge of Elks
Elks National War Commission
Elk
John D. Frakes
Tony Blanton
Frank Michel
Ray Gage
Max Klinger
William Allen
A. B. Lieh
William H. Johnson
The
Daily Citizen
Air Force Band
Davis- Monthan Field
Robert L. Horton
Army Air Corps
Davis-Monthan Field
Hamilton Keddie
America
Cavalry
Carl C. E. Mellberg
Sister of General to Avenge Death
In Columbus Ohio on June 13 1942 Mrs Villa Tinker Rippel sister of Major General C L Tinker America's first air forces commander in Hawaii vows to serve the Army after her brother's reported death in the Midway battle She notes she was the first woman to pass WAAC preliminaries and would wear khaki to mourn and help as needed.
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Columbus
America
WAAC
Villa Tinker Rippel
C. L. Tinker
U. S
Hawaii
Tinker
Midway Island
United States
Former Tucson Man Quartermaster Grad Joins Fort Bragg Post
Lieut Allan B Jaynes of San Marino California arrived at Fort Bragg for duty with the post quartermaster He is among the first quartermaster officers candidate school graduates to join the post organization at the large training center Previously he spent seven months at Fort Francis E Warren as a clerk and earned a Tucson Arizona high school diploma plus two years at Pasadena junior college He was advertising manager for a West Coast newspaper before induction into the Army.
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Fort Bragg
N. C
Allan B. Jaynes
San Marino
Calif
Quartermaster Corps
Camp Lee
Quartermaster Officers Candidate School
Quartermaster
Fort Francis E. Warren
Wyoming
Jaynes
Tucson
Ariz
Pasadena
Cal
Pasadena Junior College
Army
West
Americans urged to turn in scrap rubber for war needs
President Roosevelt announced a national scrap rubber drive to boost supplies for planes and tanks. The campaign runs from 12:01 a.m. Monday through June 30, with 400 000 gasoline stations serving as depots and a one cent per pound payout to individuals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tokyo
Berlin
War Production Board
Petroleum Coordinator
United States
William R. Boyd, Jr
Petroleum Industry War
City approves sewer line to airport and land purchase
Tucson city council authorized a four and a half mile 10 inch sewer line to the municipal airport at about 61000 if 4000 of engineering work is provided by the city. The council also approved buying 40 acres at the airport for 1400 and extended paving deadlines to December 14.
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Tucson
U. S. Army
Rawleigh Stallings
Stallings
44Th Street
Nogales Highway
Louise Blenman
Two Suspended Sentences in Superior Court
Laura Nunez pleaded guilty to check forgery and received a three year suspended sentence in county court. Manuel Ochoa admitted grand theft and received three years probation recommended by the county attorney. Police say Nunez is the first Indian in the area charged with such a crime. Ochoa allegedly took a purse containing $58 from C. Bruce on South Meyer Street.
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Laura Nunez
Grey
William G. Hall
Superior Court
Hall
Manuel Ochoa
Ochoa
San Xavier
Olive L. Brown
Panama Boosts U.S. Merchandise Purchases in Year
Panama significantly increased its purchases of United States goods in the past year, highlighting a shift in trade patterns and stronger economic ties with U.S. exporters. The rise underscores growing demand for American products in the Panamanian market.
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Panama
United States
Ensign Sinks Cruiser By Mistaken Bomb Strike
Pearl Harbor report details a bashful ensign who abandoned bombing an aircraft carrier and scored a cruiser hit instead. Commander Murv E. Arnold relayed that the plane failed to drop on its target, but the bomb struck and sank a Japanese cruiser after he fled the scene. Nigeria shipped 4,603,200 pounds of rubber to other countries last year.
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Murv E. Arnold
Arnold
Pete
Nigeria
Martin Goyette Sit In On Arizona Rubber Salvage Parley
City manager Phil J. Martin Jr and Chamber of Commerce secretary C. Edgar Goyette joined Phoenix officials to hear A. H. Richards of the War Production Board discuss salvaging scrap rubber in Arizona. Regional WPB leaders Malcolm Carpenter and Louis Dreves outlined the salvage program, stressing material shortages as the key hurdle.
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Phil J. Martin, Jr
C. Edgar Goyette
Chamber of Commerce
Phoenix
Arizona
A. H. Richards
New Industrial Salvation Section
War Production Board
San Francisco
Malcolm H. Carpenter
Louis M. Dreves
Los Angeles
WPB Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Goyette
Richards
Oil Line Ordered to Span From Texas to Illinois Coast
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced a 550 mile 24 inch steel tubing order to National Tube company Pittsburgh to construct a giant pipeline from Texas to Salem Illinois. The line aims to deliver about 300 000 barrels daily to southern Illinois for eastern shipment to ease regional shortages. Estimated total cost 35 to 40 million dollars with rights of way. Financing planned by RFC and a new industry formed corporation will build the line.
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Washington
Ickes
National Tube Company
Pittsburgh
Texas
Salem
Illinois
Seaboard
RFC
The
El Paso Pair Wed at Douglas
Miss Jean Hendrickson and J. L. Young, both of El Paso Texas, were married yesterday at the Methodist parsonage in Douglas. Rev. W T Gilliland officiated. Attendants were Miss Margaret Askins and I A Smith, both of El Paso. Young works as a civilian employee with the U S engineering corps.
Construction Start Forecast for Conduit Miles
Deputy petroleum coordinator Ralph K. Davies said the plan calls for delivering 140 miles of conduit in July, 170 miles in August, 130 miles in September, and 110 miles in October with indications a start within 30 days.
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Der
Ralph K. Davies
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Parker Mortuary
Water Service
Rollings-Dawson Motor Company
Dodge
O'Reilly Motor Company
Pontiac
W. L. Garrett
Hackett and Whiting Company
GMC
O'Rielly Motor Company
Miller's
Pennington
Sevastopol
Lyudmilla Pavlichenko
Red Army
Crimea
Pearl Harbor
U.P
East
Hood Oil CO
Tuscon Gas, Electtric Light & Power CO
EL Paso
Douglas
Jean
Beauty
Chenault’s
Marinello School of Beauty Culture
6Th Avenue
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