Musical Thief Sentenced To Year In Jail
Jack Ward a Tucson defense plant mechanic pleaded guilty to burglary after stealing a slide trombone and a piano accordion from the Salvation Army headquarters on West Council street. He pawned both instruments for 25 dollars and borrowed 10 dollars in total before being sentenced to not less than one nor more than two years in the state prison. Ward had returned the items to authorities after borrowing money and making varied statements.
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Salvation Army
Tucson
Jack Ward
Superior
William G. Hall
Ward
West Council Street
Knox College Bestows Doctor of Law on Columnist Westbrook Pegler
GALESBURG Ill June 16 UP Westbrook Pegler newspaper columnist was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree at Knox College 98th commencement. Dr Merritt H Moore praised Peglers writing defending the common man and attacking governments and policies he dislikes. He noted Pegler began as a reporter, served as a foreign correspondent in London and with the AEF, and joined the U S Navy in 1918 before gaining fame as a sports writer and relentless critic of Italy, Germany, and other power structures.
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Galesburg
Ill
Westbrook Pegler
Knox College
Merritt H. Moore
Pegler
Moore
Moore Said In Bestowing the Degree. “Mr. Pegler
London
United Press Association
AEF
U. S. Navy
Roscoe Pound
Noted Speakers At Refresher Course In Tucson
The three day food processing refresher course hosted by the state nutrition council and the University of Arizona opens tomorrow with Dr. B Eleanor Johnson and Dr. George Barr among speakers. 25 state leaders attend sessions on food situations nutrition and canning equipment with Dudgeon guiding demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Nutrition Council
University of Arizona
Lola T. Dudgeon
Lorene Craft
B. Eleanor Johnson
School of Home Economics
George Barr
Ethel M. Thompson
Jean M. Stewart
Isabella McQuestan
Dudgeon
Man's Eye Weight Ratio Cited In Study
A scientist notes that an eye accounts for about one ten thousandth of a man's total body weight. The remark appears in a historical discussion on proportional anatomy.
Parachute Pilot Targeted by Jap Zero Over Russel Islands
June 7 over the Russel Islands the Japanese Zero used a plane propeller to strike at parachuting Marine Lieut. Samuel S. Logan, who survived multiple passes and lost his right leg above the ankle after a fourth attack. Fellow pilot Lieut. James G. Percy survived a 2000 foot fall, damaged a Zero, but parachute failed to open and he sustained a pelvic fracture.
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Sayed
Russel Islands
Samuel S. Logan
Paola
Kan
Logan
U. S
Marine Corsair
James G. Percy
San Francisco
Calif
Percy
Greyhound Plans Helicopter Bus Service Across Major Routes
Greyhound Corp applied to the civil aeronautics board to operate helicopters over about 60 000 miles of bus routes using existing terminals as landings. The plan aims to serve 70 million people in cities not served by air lines and feeds to current air networks. If equipment becomes available after the war, service could begin between Detroit and Flint and between Detroit Cincinnati and Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
WUP
Greyhound Corp
Civil Aeronautics Board
C. E. Wickman
Greyhound
Detroit
Flint
Mich
Cincinnati
Louisville
Wickman
Army
Sikorsky
United Aircraft
Bridgeport
Conn
Consolidated Aircraft Company
Arizona teachers retirement plan names officers
The Arizona teachers retirement plan board elected E Montgomery as chair and Miss Georgia Hunter as vice chair at its June organization meeting in Phoenix. Other members named include Alfred C Lockwood Sherman Hazeltine and Spencer Kimball.
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Phoenix
Arizona Teachers’ Retirement Plan
E. ’. Montgomery
Phoenix Union High Schools
Georgia Hunter
Jerome
Osborn
Alfred C.lockwood
Supreme Court
Sherman Hazeltine
Prescott
Spencer Kimball
Safford
Fernstroms Learn Son and Daughter-In-Law Safe From Philippines
Shortwave listeners in San Francisco relayed a message from Mr and Mrs Raymond E Fernstrom prisoners in the Philippines. The note from the couple at Santa Thomas university internment camp said they are well fed and cared for and asked their parents to inform Dorothy. Fernstrom, who went to the Philippines as a chrome mine superintendent, was captured at Corregidor after joining Army forces. The June 10 message was the first word since a prior October war department notice.
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E. Fernstrom
South Third Avenue
Philippines
San Francisco
Fernstrom
Mainland
Dorothy
Raymond E. Fernstrom
Santa Thomas University
Corregidor
War Department
Many Fail To Mail Income Tax Payment
Washington reports rising delays in June 15 installment payments under the old income tax system. Treasury aims for 3.5 billion dollars this month, but by June 11 only about five percent had been paid. Notices mailed late due to printing delays. The new pay-as-you-go plan begins July 1 with higher staffing, mostly women, to support field offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury
Internal Revenue
War Department
Armed Services
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Office of War Information
South Tucson Re Elects City Officers At New Session
At the first meeting of the newly elected South Tucson council, all current city officers and employees were re appointed. The staff includes Louise Ellis as clerk and treasurer, Frank Benitez as marshal and tax collector, William S. Martin as police judge, Harry Juliani as attorney, A. M. Lemon for street maintenance, and M. C. Estes as garbage collector. Plans discussed to move city hall, fire department, and all offices to a new location on South Sixth Avenue.
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South Tucson
Louise Ellis
Frank Benitez
William S. Martin
Harry Juliani
A. M. Lemon
M. C. Estes
South Sixth Avenue
Spectacles Introduced Around 1300
The article notes that spectacles entered use roughly around the year 1300. It highlights their emergence as a pivotal moment in optical aid history, marking a shift in how people viewed distant and close objects.
Witness Tells Jury Story Of Carrying Dope
Federal trial opened against Herminia Ahumado for importing opium with co defendants Noriega and Navaro. Francisco Noriega testified he carried opium across the border and left it with Ahumado after a Tucson bus ride. Police recovered the 32 ounce opium in a tin can buried in Ahumado’s back yard at 313 West Seventeenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francisco Noriega
U. S
K. Berry Peterson
Herminia Ahumado
Ahumado
Noriega
Mercedes Navaro
United States
Phoenix
Tucson
Senate rebuffs Roosevelt plea on civil aviation trainees
The Senate passed a $226,105,758 appropriations bill with $33,940,358 for civilian pilot training during the next fiscal year. The chamber approved a McKellar measure requiring confirmation for most federal workers earning $4,500 annually or more, despite Roosevelt’s protest. McCarran proposed adding civil aviation pilot trainees to active Army duty, with 8,648 student pilots and an estimated 7,200 instructor graduates from the Army program.
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Washington
Senate
McKellar
Roosevelt
Chamber
Sen. McKellar
D-Tenn
House
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Green
Rhode Island
Maybank
South Carolina
Sen
McCarran
D-Nev
State, Justice, and Commerce Departments
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Army
Appropriations Committee
Gas Plants Seen Key to Ireland Transport Solution
The Emergency Scientific Research Bureau states producer gas plants offer the sole route to solving Ireland's motor transport problem.
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Eire
Consolidated-Vultee Finds Women Suit Plane Industry
W. Gerald Tuttle of Consolidated Vultee told the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that women have proven successful in aircraft fabrication and assembly, now making up 45 percent of the San Diego plant workforce. He noted both challenges and strengths, including deft handling of small assemblies and good endurance, while acknowledging temperament differences and fatigue needs.
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Los Angeles
W. Gerald Tuttle
Vultee Aircraft Corp
San Diego
Calif
Consolidated Vultee
Tuttle
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fighter pilot claims world title as Short Snorter
Maj. Donald Green on leave in Oakland asserts he is the world's Short Snorter champion. He carries a five foot string of signed bills from more than 100 fellow Short Snorters, airmen with combined 300 Japanese victories.
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Champ
Oakland
Cal. U.P
Donald Green
Southern Pacific
Public Records Divorces and Arson Sentence Details
Cases include William G. Hall and Pri Mable Gatlin versus Cecil L Gatlin divorce judgments. Ruth Frey versus Wilbur Frey divorce judgment. Geraldine Howton versus Frank L Howton divorce judgment. Leroy Love versus Constance Love divorce judgment. Eva de Concini presiding Alice Mitten first degree arson sentence suspended for four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Hall
Mable T. Gatlin
Cecil L. Gatlin
Ruth Frey
Wilbur Frey
Geraldine Howton
Frank L. Howton
Leroy Love
Constance Love
Eva de Concini
Alice Mitten
Marriages Licensed For Four Couples In Wisconsin and California
Belle D. Hall and Frederick P. Matte both of Milwaukee to Pearl G. Kaufhold of St. Louis. John Sturtevant Gullman of Alameda to Dorothy J. Staton of Tucson. Tommy W. Whaley of San Diego to Margaret C. Hall of San Diego. Richard A. Meek of Tucson to Lora M. Reneer of Tucson.
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Belle D. Hall
Frederick P. Matte
Milwaukee
Wis
Pearl G. Kaufhold
St. Louis
John Sturtevant Gullman
Alameda
Calif
Dorothy J. Staton
Tucson
Tommy W. Whaley
Negro
San Diego
Margaret C. Hall
Richard A. Meek
Lora M. Reneer
Police Court Roundup Justice for Simple Assault and Drunkenness
Paul J. Cella presides over cases including Aaron Coleman simple assault with 20 days or 20 dollars. Joe Cone drunk resisting arrest with 30 days or 30 dollars. Rita Bautista vagrancy 30 days. Rita Frank vagrancy 30 days. William S. Reed petty larceny 10 days or 10 dollars. Bill Adams drunk and petty larceny 30 days.
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Paul J. Cella
Aaron Coleman
Joe Cone
Rita Bautista
Rita Frank
William S. Reed
Bill Adams
Parrot Sells War Bonds in Syrian-Lebanon Colony
In Los Angeles a trained parrot used by the Syrian-Lebanon colony to promote war bond sales shouts patriotic cries including Awrrk God Bless America Wannta buy a bond and often secures many purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Calif
U.P
America
Price Control Necessary In Winning Peace
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown urged food industry leaders that the OPA price control program must work to avert a defeat on the home front. He warned inflation and rising costs threaten the war effort and the peace, citing four reasons for past failures and stressing stabilization as essential to the broader program.
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Washington
Prentiss _M. Brown
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Brown
War Labor Board
Protein content comparison in forage varieties
The text compares leguminous hay with early-bloom and late-seed timothy, noting protein yields from 156 to 224 pounds per ton for legumes versus 84 pounds for early-bloom timothy and 42 pounds for late seed timothy.
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Timothy
Shay
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