Fourth Of July Fireworks Here At University Stadium
The 14th annual In Day celebration sponsored by the Tucson Junior Chamber of Commerce will feature fireworks valued over $1 000 at University of Arizona stadium on July 5. Maj William A Fairfield the wounded Philippines veteran is guest. Kimball will MC. event aims to boost war bond sales with music displays and WAAC units. Admission is 15 cents. program to run about two hours ending before the war goods restart.
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Tucson
Army Air Force
Davis-Monthan Field
WAAC
Davis-Monthan
Marana
Philippines
Fairfield
Manila
Australia
San Francisco
Lettermen General Hospital
Army Air Corps
Clarkfield
New Haven
Conn
Paul E. MacCready
George T. Hall
Marine Corps Base
San Diego
California
MacCready
Hazel F. MacCready
University of Arizona
de Molay
Willis
Tolley
F. Tolley
North Granada Street
Hal C. Wayte
Harold C. Wayte
East Fifth Street
David Dodson
Douglas Cozard
Mike Pratt
Frank Boice
Harry Talmadge
Don Scott
Elliot Poston
Dan McKinney
Bill Burrus
Larry Sanford
Bill Densmore
Stella Densmore
East Helen Street
Densmore
Monkey Stew Formed Diet Of Soldiers At Jungle Outpost
U S Army base in Northeast Assam reports 13 days of arduous escape for eight American soldiers after eight months under siege by vastly larger Japanese forces. Sgt Peter J Kunz led a 9 man defense slipping from the post with Kachin allies as support arrived three days later and they retook the outpost. Soldiers recount deer and monkey stew meals and scarce soap while observing refugees and native food scavenging and shrine building for parachute drops.
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Albert V. Ravenholt
U. S. Army Base
Assam
India
Peter J. Kuns
San Francisco
Calif
Kunz
Martin G. Thrailkill
Dallas
Tex
Naga
Thrailkill
Texas
Burma
James E. Griffin
Los Angeles
Asid Pvt
John F. Korycinsky
Detroit, Mich
Mother Chao Leads Guerrilla War Against Japanese
Madame Chao Yut Yung known as Mother Chao, 68, heads a growing guerrilla force in Manchuria, directing about 30,000 fighters in raids on Japanese convoys since 1931. She has sworn to drive invaders beyond the Yalu River and has killed thousands of Nipponese. The Japanese offer a 40,000 dollar reward for her capture.
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Carl Eskelund
United Press
Chungking
Madame Chao Yut Yung
Mother Chao
Yalu River
Manchuria
Iron Blood Army
Chao Yang
Kenji Doihara
Secret Service
North China Peoples
Japan Army
Peiping
Overseas Service Uses Thirty Four Languages On Air
The main British broadcasting station uses thirty four languages in its overseas broadcasts expanding reach and cultural outreach abroad.
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British Broadcasting
Will Fight For Nothing Conscientious Objector At War Bond Drive
Cpl Hattias Branter now at March Field declares a conscientious objection to accepting pay for fighting. Army officers investigated uncashed pay checks and eventually persuaded him to buy war bonds. He was granted a three day leave to visit Hollywood movie lots.
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Hollywood
Cali
Politicians In Meetings Stir Political Brew
Washington reports politics edging toward the 1944 White House race as Democratic fund raising claims curb dissension rumors in the South while Republican governors convene in Chicago and Ohio to discuss issues and potential White House contenders. Private talks among leaders are expected at the Columbus gathering hosted by John W. Bricker. Democrats cite campaign totals and Hatch Act limits to explain lower contributions than past years amid South region tensions.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
White House
Chicago
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Buckeye
Democratic National Committee
South
Georgia
Georgia State Committee
National Committee
Willkievtes
Louisiana
New Executive Officer Named At Army Base
Captain Manuel Carlin is appointed assistant executive at Marana Army Air Field with prior service at Barksdale field and Moffett. Captain Tilden becomes second in command after Lt. Col. Willis transfers to Santa Ana California. Tilden a WWI veteran served with the French army and earned a Silver Star.
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Manuel Carlin
Tilden
Andrew W. Willis
Army Air Forces West Coast Training Center
Santa Ana
Calif
Arizona
758Th
Marana
Aafwctc
U. S. Army
Marne
Tilden Engineering Company
San Francisco
Air Corps
Stanford University
Woodside Heights
Redwood City
Carlin
Marana Army Air Field
Barksdale Field
Louisiana
Allbrook Field
Canal Zone
Moffett Field
Chico
Army
Miami
Fla
Randolph, Moore
Foster Fields
Texas
Ohio
Kernan
T. A. Kernan
Springdale Street
Akron
Dunipace to Lead Citizenship Coaching at YMCA
Dunipace will teach a citizenship coaching course at the YMCA on West Congress Street starting Monday evening June 21. The program provides all books and materials at no cost, meets twice weekly from 8 to 9 p m, and aims to prepare participants for naturalization in about six weeks with support from immigration officials.
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YMCA
West Congress Street
Hervey Smith
R. A. Scott
Immigration and Naturalization Service
O. W. Nanney
Dunipace
Atty
William Dunipace
Petitioners dog confinement plan bites back in Montebello
G Newlove was circulating a petition to confine all dogs to their owners premises when a dog at a house where he called bit him. The owner refused the idea and added a bite of unfriendly advice.
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Montebello
Calif. U.P
G. Newlove
Yankee ingenuity yields gas substitute for park buses
Edward J. Carroll of Riverside Amusement Park near Springfield Mass and supervisor Vernon Trigger devised a vapor gas made from waste gases to power trailer buses. A Defense Transportation permit was issued for experimental use as engines respond to acceleration, enabling six nightly trips with up to 100 passengers.
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Washington
W.P
New England
Riverside Amusement Park
Springfield
Mass
Edward J. Carroll
Vernon Trigger
Trigger
Defense Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
Carroll
Allied Fleet Concentrates at Gibraltar in North Africa Push
Spanish dispatches from La Linea report Allied landing barges with bow cannons arriving at Gibraltar from the Atlantic. An Allied convoy sails for North Africa as Gibraltar harbor forms with two British aircraft carriers two battleships 12 destroyers and three American destroyers concentrated offshore.
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Madrid
U.P
la Linea
Gibraltar
Atlantic
North Africa
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