Navy seeks 600 women monthly for WAVE SPAR service
Lieutenant Burke of the Coast Guard SPARs arrives to launch a state enlistment tour in Phoenix for Navy WAVE and SPAR recruitment. He cites urgent need for women in medical dental and public health fields with training to join hospital corps and free sailors for sea duty.
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Phoenix
U. S. Navy
Naval Hospital Corps
Navy
Leo Burke
Coast Guard Spar
Burke
Naval Service
SPAR
WAVE
Arizona
Tucson
Presco
Month's Work Reviewed by War Workers
Bundles for America at 933 East Third Street reports May 15 to June 15 activities. Mend ing for 175 service members. refreshment duty at USC club. shipping four large boxes of war relief items including 21 quilts 3 afghans 9 beer jackets 12 bath robes 22 gloves 10 chest protectors 74 helmets 12 scarfs 37 socks 40 sleevesweaters 29 watch caps 23 turtle neck sweaters. Stamp and bond booth at J C Penny store led by Mrs. Ballard Hill Filer Matteer Whiting McClellan Smith Allin Carothers Reeves Kohn.
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America
East Third Street
USC Club
J. C. Penny Store
J. C. Ballard
W.W. Hill
Gertrude Filer
M. J. Matteer
B. F. Whiting
George McClellan
Mac Smith
H. H. Allin
R. A. Carothers
Vivian Reeves
Fred H. Kohn
Roscoe Patton to Enter West Point This Year
Roscoe Patton son of Mr and Mrs Ellwood Patton of 527 North Park avenue leaves for the east to enter West Point after a year at the University of Arizona where he belonged to Alpha Tau Omega. Miss Mamie Zollinger who visited her sister Mrs Alice Zollinger Turner 2519 East Mabel departs for San Francisco California.
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Roscoe Patton
Ellwood Patton
North Park Avenue
East
West Point
Patton
University of Arizona
Alpha Tau Omega
Mamie Zollinger
Alice Zollinger Turner
Mabel
San Francisco
Calif
Miss Lillian Helm to Move to Milwaukee With Family
Miss Lillian Helm of 503 East Third Street will leave this week for Milwaukee Wisconsin to reside with her family for an indefinite period.
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Lillian Helm
East Third Street
Milwaukee
Wis
Forest fires blamed on locomotive sparks
Officials say about nine percent of forest fires are caused by locomotive sparks. The warning highlights the ongoing risk from rail traffic and arid conditions.
Winchell Highlights Deep Secrecy and Fascist Ties in War Era
Walter Winchell reports on FBI efforts to reopen McCormack Committee sealed records likely to reveal links between prominent Americans and fascist movements. He notes the criminal case of Nazi agent Viereck, Klan ties to labor strikes, and Gerald L K Smith's Buffalo rally including desecration of an American flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
McCormack Congressional Committee
George Sylvester Viereck
Gerald L. K. Smith
Buffalo
New York
Smith
George Washington
Lexington
Valley Forge
Continental Army
America
Detroit Center of Axis Plots and National Workers' League Indictments
In Detroit the city is described as a hub for dangerous plots with groups like the National Workers' League linked to the Black Legion and Axis armies. Leaders faced indictments over a year ago while members regroup under new names. The piece questions the delay in trials and action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
America
Black Legion
National Workers’ League
Mr. Dies
Anti-labor propaganda tied to Florida Tennessee groups
The piece accuses a surge of anti-labor material backed by hate groups led by the Constitutional Educational League and Joseph P. Kamp. It cites DOJ designation of Kamp as a mouthpiece for indicted seditionists and questions why authorities have not halted him.
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Florida
Tennessee
Constitutional Educational League
Joseph P. Kamp
Dep't of Justice
Kamp
The Enduring Flaw of Chronic Good Nature
A reflective monologue denounces perpetual good nature as cowardly and unjust. The author argues genuine citizens must see red and defend personal and principled stances, rejecting the silver lining creed as hiding unresolved misery and urging active, forceful response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mick
Pri
News Agency Opposes Anti-Trust Judgment
The Associated Press plans to file over fifty affidavits in federal court opposing a government motion for summary judgment in the anti trust case. Chicago Tribune joins with a separate answer to allow AP membership for those who pay their share. A July 8 hearing is set on the motion. Frank B. Noyes states AP founders did not intend universal newspaper membership but foster a true cooperative by allowing member choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Anti-Trust
Cooperative News Gathering Agency
Chicago Tribune
Frank B. Noyes
The
Washington Star
United States
Hospital inmates produce own food on state farms
Phoenix dispatch reports state hospital farms supplying inmates with fresh produce including okra squash tomatoes cucumbers melons and other vegetables. Thirteen tons of onions are dehydrated and stored four hundred gallons of pickles made one thousand hens produce eggs with plan to reach two thousand by fall and four hundred turkeys expected to yield 6000 pounds of meat by autumn.
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Phoenix
Harry Whitmer
Board of Trustees
Whitmer
Helpless Corn Threatens Die Out Without Human Aid
A remark notes corn cannot scatter seeds and could vanish in a season or two unless humans intervene to propagate it.
Miss Consair V Queen Crowned In Tucson Bond Drive
War bonds totaling about 20000 dollars are bought for Miss Consair V contestant entries at the Consolidated Vultee Tucson division. The winner will receive a crown and a 100 dollar bond, with runners up prizes. Mary Elias leads entrant standings as bond sales push 10 percent payroll deductions.
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Tucson
Consolidated Vultee
el Conquistador
Mary Elias
Madge Drews
Eloise Lobell
Anne Hellman
Rita Kennedy
Gladys Cobb
Charlene Deal
Caroline Hoehler
Miss Consair
Dead Japanese Snipers Hang In Tree Tops
Rudolph Coenen Soto a 19 year old Marine on furlough from Guadalcanal recalls air battles and the sight of dead Japanese snipers hanging from trees. He describes a dark night rescue by a fellow Tucson classmate Genaro Rubulcabago and notes his family roots in Tucson through his grandfather Anthony Coenen and the La Sierrita Rancho. Soto joined the Marines last August and hopes to return to duty in a month.
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Guadalcanal
Rudolph Coenen Soto
Rudolph Soto
Tucson
Rudy
Soto
Genaro Rubulcabago
San Diego
United States
the Young Marine
Anthony Coenen
Consolidated National Bank
The
Valley Bank
Maria C. de Soto
Ramon de Soto
First Assassination Attempt On President Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S. president, survived an 1835 attempt when Richard Lawrence drew two pistols at him during a funeral. Both weapons misfired, sparing the president from injury.
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Andrew Jackson
United States
Richard Lawrence
Hit the Dirt Under Fire at Attu and Foxholes Rush
Soldiers describe rapid training in "hit the dirt" during Attu fighting with Maj. Gen. Eugene Landrum's headquarters under mortar fire. The tale includes a foxhole rush during a kitchen strike and a sinkhole incident across the Sarana Valley as trials sharpened quick cover reactions. A separate Chicago piece recounts Lois Erickson, 11, fleeing after shattering her mother's favorite coffee pot and promising to repay, later finding help from Sisters of Mercy.
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Russell Annabel
United Press
Alaska Defense Command
U.P
Attu
Eugene Landrum
Sarana Valley
Chicago
Lois Erickson
Lois
Sisters of Mercy
Mexico to Aid United States Coast Patrol
Mexico plans to expand air force and navy to strengthen coast patrol cooperation with the United States Gen Heriberto Jara said during an unofficial visit to San Francisco He praised President Roosevelt and said there are no basic differences between the two nations and urged lasting friendship based on social justice for peace.
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San Francisco
U.P
Mexico
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Heriberto Jara
Jara
Roosevelt
Avila Camacho
Americas
Latin America
Full Capacity Of Coal Mines Badly Needed
OWI reports coal production must run at full capacity monthly to meet record 1943 demand. Shortages of manpower equipment and temporary stoppages threaten output. oil and gasoline rationing may tighten further. To avoid fuel shortages, convert large fuel oil users to coal and urge immediate coal orders and home insulation.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Ralph K. Davies
Davies
Oyster obstetrics and the birth of young oysters
Young oysters stay in their parents shells until they hatch and are released into the sea. They emerge as small puffs of life with a fringe that helps propel them during their first hours of freedom.
12 Year Old Enlisted as Marine Corps Recruit
12-year-old James P. Baker from Jacksonville enrolled in Orlando and posed as a marine recruit beyond the 17-year age limit. At Camp Pendleton he rose to private first class with a mortar unit before Marine headquarters found the truth. He was discharged but urged to try again at age 17 by Lt. Col. Coffenberg.
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Camp Pendleton
Cal
James P. Baker
Marine Corps
Jacksonville
Fla
Orlando
Marine Headquarters
Washington, D. C
James
B. M. Coffenberg
Coffenberg
Heaven and
Giraffe-like East African Dinosaur Stood Tall
An East African dinosaur from mil lions of years ago reached about 30 feet in length with a neck extending ten feet, resembling a giraffe in shape and scale.
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Albuquerque
Bea
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New Yorke
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Oomanis
San Antonio
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E. P. Norwood
Walter Winchell
Packard Company
Ku Klux Klan
Bund
New Jersey
Edward James Smythe
Howard J. McMurray
Wisconsin
Lambertson
Elsie Robinson
King Features Syn., Inc
Mary -Elias
Southern
Maurice - Ida
Beauty Shop
E. Alameda
United States Coast Patrol
Air Force
Oyster
Porter's
Hermosa Beauty
Hermosa
N. Campbell Avenue
Sedonia Shubert
Grace Zarnke
Stone
Porter
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