Tucson Radio Classes Fuel War Effort Seek $100 for Equipment
Tucson's largest radio class born from the short wave group trained civilians for war. H O George led code and radio theory lessons at the high school with Elks aid funding part gear. About a dozen trained for Army and Navy, more teaching nationwide, now seeking $100 for new equipment.
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Tucson
Short Wave Association
H. O. George
Army
Navy
Marine
George
Elks
Navy Signal Corps
Defense Workers Get First Gas Ration Preference
The Office of Price Administration ruled that gasoline supply shortages may favor defense workers trucks and ambulances under the emergency rationing program. The amendment to rationing regulations requires dealers to post notices of preferred classes and defines defense workers as executives or employees at naval military or hospital establishments public utilities plants and war material producers.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Notic
OPA
Naval
Phoenix man held on murder charge
Phoenix man Thomas A. Duke 55 was named by a coroner's jury as the slayer of Arvil Cox manager of a Parker store. Duke was held in Yuma county jail after being brought from Parker by the sheriff and county attorney. The jury ruled a dog from Duke's gun caused the fatal shooting in a cabin behind the store.
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Yuma
Thomas A. Duke
Phoenix
Arvil Cox
Parker
T. H. Newman
Peter C. Byrne
John Bellas
Duke
Cox
Communists Hit In Report By Dies Group
Washington June 24 UP The house committee on un American activities named 20 Communist front groups five magazines and two newspapers as discrediting Congress in a report led by Rep Joe Starnes It cites the Union for Democratic Action and lists organizations such as American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom and Friends of the Soviet Union along with PM Time New Republic and Daily Worker as part of the effort.
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Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities Today
Congress
Joe Starnes
Ala
Martin Dies
Time
New Republic
Champion
Soviet Russia Today
New Masses
The
Daily Worker
New York
Union For Democratic Action
Melvin Douglas
Union
United States
Henry Luce
Con
Luce
Marshall Field
American Committee For Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
American Committee For the Protection of Foreign Born
American League For Peace and Democracy
American Student Union
American Youth Congress
Conference On Pan American Democracy
Descendants of the American Revolution
Friends of the Soviet Union
International Labor Defense
International Workers Order
League of American Writers
National Committee For People’s Rights
National Federation For Constitutional Liberties
National Negro Congress
North American Committee To Aid
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Washington Committee For Democratic Action
And
Workers Alliance
New Civil Service Jobs Open Across Agencies
The U S civil service commission lists three new employment opportunities and exams adjustments for rotating internship psychiatric resident at St Elizabeths Washington DC junior medical officer at 2000 a year statistical clerks at 1620 a year in DC applications due by August 4 1942. Flight supervisor and ground school supervisor posts set wages 3500 3200 3500 with modified experience to fill civilian pilot training needs. Blueprint operator photostat operator multilith crew and other roles updated for ongoing applications. Navy aviation instructors 2600 to 3800 a year plus aircraft mechanics engine mechanics and sheet metal work. Applications available from C J Gorman secretary at the post office.
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U. S. Civil Service Commission
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington, D. C
Photostat
Navy Aviation Service
C. J. Gorman
Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners
Postal Rates May Go Up On Some Services
Washington reports the House Ways and Means Committee voted to raise third class postage for periodicals and advertising to cover handling costs, citing a $26 million annual loss. Second class rates for newspapers would rise $78 million, with exemptions for sensitized photographic paper and unexposed film. The panel also approved tax changes on photographic equipment and proposed duties exemptions for Axis prisoner aid and goods for the UN armed forces. Protests grow over postwar refunds and a 5 percent freight tax.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Post Office Department
Cooper
D-Tenn
State, War, Navy
Treasury Departments
United States
United Nations
Six Japs Removed From Santa Anita Center
Six Japanese aliens were moved from the Santa Anita assembly center to internment camps. Five American Japanese residents were questioned by the FBI for federal statutes violations. The WCCA cited a secret meeting held in Japanese, with no secretary or minutes.
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San Francisco
Santa Anita
Castoday
Civil Control Administration
FBI
WCCA
Japan
Bisbee Directory Shows 17 Percent Population Rise
The new Bisbee city directory shows a 17 percent population increase over two years. The 1942 edition lists 7,791 individuals and business concerns, up from 6,615 in 1940, with households counted as one unit and small listings omitted.
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Bisbee
Mrs. Hughes Resigns Democratic State Post
Mrs. Coit I. Hughes resigns as cochairman of the Democratic state central committee and submits the resignation to Henry M. Beard, treasurer and only member of the organization’s official family, in Phoenix on June 24.
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Phoenix
Cochairman
Democratic State Central Committee
Henry M. Beard
Douglas
Axis Claims 33 000 Taken at Tobruk
German broadcasts quoted by DNB claim 33 000 prisoners captured at Tobruk with ongoing operations near the Egyptian border. German sources later cited Tobruk total unofficially at 35 000, seven thousand higher than prior counts.
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AXIS
Tobruk
Berlin
Antepee
Atae Town
DNB
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Goro
Rich
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