$2000 Prizes Planned for First Gas Model Plane Meet
A control line gas model airplane meet at the Davis-Monthan field Aug. 3 will offer over $2000 in prizes to up to 300 entrants from California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Col James C. Selser Jr. announced the event as an annual affair. Prize money includes $1000 from the base, $500 from the city, with the remainder raised by the Chamber of Commerce.
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California
New Mexico
Arizona
James C. Selser, Jr
America
Field Public Information Office
Ernest Moser
Chamber of Commerce
Davis-Monthan Field
Capt Moser
Bus Terminal Plan Approved in Tucson
City Building Inspector E. D. Herreras approved a shelter for passengers at the Tucson Rapid Transit Co. terminal at 121 East 10th street. The aluminum and steel structure costs about 1500 and will attach to the terminal with a concrete apron and seats. The terminal will feature loudspeaking systems for arrivals and departures.
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Tucson Rapid Transit Co
East 10Th Street
E. D. Herreras
Jones Drug Company
Herreras
S. H. Kress
East Third Street
Betty Thompson
East Mabel Street
Long Flights Made Safely to Barber Point and Jamaica
Five B 29s from the 43rd bomb group completed nonstop training flights to Barber Point Hawaii and to Jamaica and will return to Davis Monthan Friday. Jamaica flight leaders were Capt Eric E Jenstrom and First Lt William E Leith of the 63rd squadron. Hawaii leaders were Lt Col Frank L Luschen, Capt George M Lockhart, and First Lt John P Priecke of the 64th bomb squadron. The group conducts weekly long range overwater navigation and cruise control drills.
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Barber’s Point
Hawaii
Jamaica
Davis-Monthan Field
Eric E. Jenstrom
William E. Leith
Frank L. Luschen
64Th
George M. Lockhart
John P. Priecke
43Rd
Neat and professional burglary hits city drugstore
Police described the Mars Street district robbery as a neat and professional safe-cracking at Martin's drugstore No. 5 on South Sixth Avenue and East 22nd Street. Burglars pried open the office safe, stole $1,200 plus narcotics and merchandise, and left few fingerprints.
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Martin
South Sixth Avenue
East 22Nd Street
Joe Ingle
Stole Auto To Escape Charge
Floyd Wesley McPeak, 18, of Dallas, faced a Dallas court on a car theft charge after being bonded on prior arrest. He admitted fleeing to avoid punishment and was jailed in Pima County awaiting federal action on a Dyer Act case for transporting a stolen 1940 Ford from Fredericksburg to Benson. He allegedly stole another car en route to Chandler before arrest in Benson.
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Floyd Wesley McPeak
Dallas
Durance Vile
U. S
Thomas H. McKay
Fredericksburg
Tex
Benson
Pima County
McPeak
Chandler
Tucson
Charles W. Lilywhite Dies Pioneer Arizonian
Funeral services for Charles W. Lillywhite 72 longtime Arizonan and former state legislator will be held Friday in Mesa. He died Tuesday night after a life that included guiding cows as a boy on a wagon train from Beaver City Utah to Arizona and serving two terms in the legislature before 1920. Survivors include his son J W Lillywhite of Tucson.
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Mesa
Charles W. Lillywhite
Lillywhite
Beaver City
Arizona
Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association
J. W. Lillywhite
Tucson
Mayor Houston Turns Tables On Brother On City Hall Visit
Mayor E. T. Houston once took orders from his younger brother S. M. Houston at Southern Pacific. On an inspection trip with SP officials E. E. Hinchman and H. E. Carter, the mayor ordered his brother around in city hall, provoking joking threats of arrest as police arrived for show.
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E. T
Houston
Southern Pacific Railroad
S. M. Houston
San Francisco
E. E. Hinchman
H. E. Carter
Tucson
Five Smallholders Read Out Of Party
In Budapest on June 18 the Smallholders party political committee read out five more deputies, amid expectations of further requests for voluntary resignations from party members.
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Budapest
City man warned: no street business in Tucson
H Sussman a keymaker and knife sharpener based at 78 West Broadway was ordered to cease operating anywhere in Tucson except that address. He received a suspended sentence after pledging to comply, with the magistrate reiterating the 78 West Broadway location as the sole allowed site.
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H. Sussman
West Broadway
Tucson
C. V. Budlong
Sussman
Paul J. Cella
Meyer Street
Cella
Captain Wesley S. Fee Returns from Medical Corps
Captain Wesley S. Fee of the Medical Corps, U S Army, has returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley S. Fee
Medi Cal Corps
U.S. Army
Captain Fee Returns Home From Manila on Terminal Leave
Captain Fee, son of Dr and Mrs Arch Fee of 1904 East Fourth Street, has arrived home from Manila and is on terminal leave.
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Manila
Capt. Fee
Arch Fee
East Fourth Street
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Charles W. Lilywhite
Arizonian
Ecclesiastes
Harry W. Short
S. Stone
T. ED
Walgreen
S—Jones Drug CO
Pinafores
E. Sixth St
Los Carlistas
Winter King Heavy
Winter King
May and
Elaine
Gifit Shop
West Alameda Street
Turson Baily
Kaiser
Germany
Speedway
Schaimer’s Pit
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