Local Firms Face Wage Violations Hearing in Tucson
Three Tucson employers Monte Mansfield Motors Austad Steel Construction Co and Tucson Iron Works face a Thursday hearing on Wage Stabilization Board complaints alleging above lawful wages under the Defense Production Act. Regional Counsel E H Norback signed the cases, first such action in Arizona.
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Tucson
Wage Stabilization Board
Monte Mansfield Motors, Inc
FE. Broadway
Austad Steel & Construction Co
W. Congress St
Tucson Iron Works
E. 17Th St
E. H. Norback
Arizona
Phoenix
Postoffice
Monte Mansfield Motors
Monte Mansfield Jr
Koje Island roundup near end of Red compounds
Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner moves to break up compounds 602 and 603 on Koje Island as he consolidates prisoners. British visitors Lord Alexander and Selwyn Lloyd tour compounds 66 76 and 77 amid Red songs and an escape tunnel found in compound 66.
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Koje Island
Korea
Haydon L. Boatner
Koje Ielanaa
Koje
Britain
Lord Alexander
Rose
Selwyn Lloyd
James ‘A
van Fleet
Eighth Army
Boamer
Alexander
Lloyd
Churchill Quits- Night Club Closed for After Hours Service
London reports a judge shut down Churchill’s night club after hours for violating licensing laws. Prosecutor Christmas Humphreys said the venue repeatedly served liquor until 4 a.m., despite legal closing times, with Princess Margaret noted as among patrons.
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London
Churchill
Princess Margaret
Christmas Humphreys
West End
Forty nine women seek Rockport man with $28,000 offer
Rockport Indiana reports that 49 women responded to a letter from Jesse L. Garrett, 49, of Scott Depot West Virginia, who says he will come back to find a wife and will provide $28,000. Garrett, recently divorced, lists the qualifications for the woman who would mother his two sons. The Rockport Democrat notes 45 letters, three calls and one telegram received since publication.
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Rockport
Ind
Rockport Democrat
Jesse L. Garrett
Scott Depot
W. Va
Hunter
Ninth Grader Suspended Over Mustache Not Shave
In Binghamton New York Anthony Valda a 16 year old ninth grader refused to shave his mustache after shaving only his goatee. He wore a week growth to Christopher Columbus School prompting Principal James H Galvin to suspend him for an indeterminate period citing disruption of classes.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Anthony Valda
Christopher Columbus
Johnson City
James H. Galvin
Anthony
Rocket Firing Brain Developed At Phoenix Plant
Airesearch Manufacturing in Phoenix is producing an electronic brain that will automatically fire rockets when a jet fighter locks on a target. The device remains secret in many details. Vice president Murray S. Gelber announced mass production will begin this fall and an expansion to manufacture a new gas turbine engine.
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Phoenix
Airesearch Manufacturing Company
Murray S. Gelber
Gelber
Pima County considers rent control hearing and road actions
The Pima County Board of Supervisors ordered a public hearing on decontrol of rents within 30 days after a request from the property owners protective association. They approved or scheduled multiple road actions including widening East Broadway and establishing several county roads. The meeting also touched on a trash disposal program and six liquor license applications with mixed actions.
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Pima County
Board of Supervisors
Property Owners’ Protective Association
East Broadway
Alvernon Way
Wilmot Road
Teton Road
South Sixth Avenue
Nogales Highway
Pueblo Gardens
Grant Road
Campbell Avenue
Via Alcalde
Glenton Sykes
Jack Pemberton
San Xavier
Mineral Hill Mines
Pima Mining Co
VFW Auxiliary Hosts Regular Meeting Tuesday Night
The auxiliary to post No. 4903, VFW, will hold its regular meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the club rooms on East Speedway.
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VFW
East Speedway
Judge Orders Crew Cuts for Two Teen Gas Thieves
Judge H. L. Russell of Coconino County Superior Court sentenced two 16 year olds charged with stealing gas from parked cars. The youths, described with long hair in a zoot suit style, received six month suspended sentences and were ordered to obtain crew cuts.
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Flagstaff
H. L. Russell
Coconino County
Chandler Appoints Dixon as Mayor Amid Council Boost
Sere Owner Dixon, co owner of a local store, is named mayor of Chandler by the town council. An alternate mayor, Ed Dossey, is designated to stand in if needed.
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Maine
California
Mexico
Canada
Tucson Warehouse & Transfer Co
Dixon
Chandler
Otho L. Dixon
Ed Dossey
Bengal famine death toll reaches four million
An estimate cites about four million people starving to death in Bengal during the 1943 famine, according to government compiled figures.
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Bengal
India
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