Child Widow Is Sentenced To 20-Year Term
In Morristown Tennessee a 14 year old girl Mat tie Pearl Manning was sentenced to 20 years for second degree murder in the shooting of her 35 year old husband Matt Manning and her father Frank Morgan was also given 20 years for aiding and abetting. The jury deliberated under an hour after Mattie Pearl testified she shot in self defense as he threatened to kill her.
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Morristown
Tenn
Attic Pearl Manning
Mon Manning
Frank Morgan
Morgan
Mattie Pearl
Herusband
Ben A. Creech
Manning
A Iater
Committee Forms to Gather Scrap Rubber in Pima County
A Senate style group organized by the Pima county U S department of agriculture war board to collect scrap rubber from farms ranches and outlying places like arroyos dumps and abandoned mine shafts across the county. Members include James W McDonald Rincon and Pantana Charles Beach Vail W A Stockwell and many others from cities towns and rural districts. The effort targets scrap rubber in the county including remote sites to support wartime needs.
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Pima County
U. S. Department of Agriculture War Board
James W. McDonald
Rincon
Pantana
Charles Beach
Vail
W. A. Stockwell
Davidson District
W. T. Dudgeon
Flowing Wells
J. A. McLeod
Reddington
E. R. Harris
Sierrita Mountains
Richard Pacheco
Silverbell
Corbell Promoted to Head of Motor Vehicle Division
Phoenix June 17 E C Corbell named superintendent of the state highway department motor vehicle division succeeding B H Mc Ahren who resigned Corbell has 11 years with the department and was previously chief clerk of the division Mc Ahren will join a bus service in the Miami district.
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Phoenix
E. C. Corbell
State Highway Department
B. H. McAhren
Corbell
Highway Department
McAhren
Miami
Fire damages car of air base men on Craycroft Road
Two air base employees Ralph Thompson and H W Day had their car burst into flames due to a gasoline leak in the carburetor on Craycroft road near Broadway. They tried to put out the fire with sand but the car was badly damaged.
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Craycroft Road
Broadway
Ralph Thompson
H. W. Day
Sheriff's Office
Tucson Radio Classes Lauded For War Effort
Tucson radio classes organized last December at the high school have trained three groups with about 100 students starting and many entering the armed services or teaching in technical schools. Eight hundred pages of practice. students learn code to 18 wpm and radio theory to pass government tests for operators. Teachers C R Salter J W Taylor and J W Priester, guided by H O George, report strong demand with new class slated to begin by July 1 once registrations reach target.
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Tucson
H. O. George
George
Armed Services
United Nations
Army
Navy
The
Elks
Uncle Sam
Army Signal Corps
C. R. Salter
Arizona
J. W. Taylor
J. W. Priester
KTUC
One Held After Bellemont Fight
A 40 year old white man was held in Coconino county jail after a night fight at the Bellemont defense project near Bellomont. Guns and knives were used but no serious injuries occurred. about eight men were involved and Sheriff Peery Francis said deputies were dispatched to quell the riot.
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Flagstaff
Coconino County
Bellemont Defense Project
Peery Francis
Bellomont
Here
Francis
Butler's Copper Prospecting Told on National Radio
Dr. B. S. Butler head of geology at the University of Arizona will be featured on the national program Unlimited Horizons The topic Questing for Copper covers Butler's copper prospecting methods The show airs locally Monday on KVOA at 9 30 p m.
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B. S. Butler
University of Arizona
Unlimited Horizons
Butler
KVOA
Dempsey Quits to Seek New Office
Washington June 17 President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Interior Undersecretary John J. Dempsey who will seek the New Mexico governorship. Dempsey, ex Democratic congressman and former maritime commissioner, said he would be glad to serve again if desired. Francis B. Sayre also planned to resign as high commissioner to the Philippines after returning to the United States.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John J. Dempsey
New Mexico
Dempsey
Democratic House
Maritime Commission
Francis B. Sayre
U. S
Philippines
Sayre
Phillippines
Howth Declares First Time City Exits Debt
Howth in Eire reports a historic financial milestone with expenditures for last year lower than income, leaving the city free of debt for the first time in its long history.
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Howth
Eire
Soldiers Ship 300000 Pounds of Turkeys to Army
John R. Renna shipped eight carloads of turkeys to the army commissary department totaling over 300000 pounds. A suggested summer dessert mixes fresh strawberries and diced pineapple with a light honey sweetening and coconut topping.
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Porterville
Cal
U.P
John R. Renna
Army Commissary Department
Traffic officers teach schoolchildren safe crossing in Mexico
During Education Week in Mexico City traffic officers were stationed at schools to instruct children on safe street crossing.
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Mexico
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