Pilot Training Program Bogs Down At U A
Professor M L Thornburg acting coordinator said the university may not join the accelerated pilot training plan. A June 18 aero nautics announcement outlined enlistment for men under 37 with 75 trainee slots but the contract from Santa Monica limited to 25. Thornburg cited contract terms as the obstacle and left open the chance to start if a larger quota and different conditions are offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Thornburg
G. M. Butler
Civilian Aeronautics
Proggam
CAA
Santa Monica
Navy
Army
Gilpin Air Lines, Ltd
Thornburg
University of Gilpin Air Lines, Ltd
Trick Program Of Vichy Radio Fools People
Report from Vichy details two government run clandestine stations De Gaulleist and Revolution broadcasting from the casino studio to mislead listeners. Jamming around Vichy impedes Allied broadcasts while US programs in the area remain less affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy Radio
Ralph Heinzen
Vichy
France
Europe
Radio Revolution
National Petain
Radio
Toulouse
Brazzaville
Bevrout
London
Cohen
Col
Subsidies May Hold Ceiling Price Level
Washington June 24. Price Administrator Leon Henderson and associates say holding price ceilings at March levels this winter requires subsidies totaling about 500 million dollars for hard-hit industries. Plan to revive subsidy legislation expected soon. estimates say 500 million dollars for year one may be sufficient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Congress
OPA
Atlantic Coast
New Mexico Diet Kills Off Fowl
Instructor Alton Poole of New Mexico Highlands University finds the typical New Mexico diet, based on pinto beans, blue cornmeal, and white bread, not fit for chickens. Seven weeks on the diet killed two chickens and caused three others to have nervous breakdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
N. M
Alton Poole
New Mexico Highlands University
New Mexico
Arizona Entomologist Named to Western Plant Board
Salem June 24 The western plant board named J. L. E. Lauderdale Arizona State entomologist as its representative on the national plant board D. B. Mackie Sacramento was elected chairman and the 1943 conference of the 11 western states was awarded to Riverside California where the group organized 24 years ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Ore
Western Plant Board
J. L. E. Lauderdale
Arizona State
National Plant Board
D. B. Mackie
Sacramento
Calif
Riverside
Uintah Range A Westward Spanning Utah Landmark
The Uintah range in Utah is one of three mountain ranges worldwide that run from east to west, marking a notable geological orientation among mountain systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uintah Range
Utah
Friction over broadcasts and Vichy ties in colonies
A fragment notes colonial tensions around the Voice of France and jamming efforts that would sever colonies from Vichy era links, highlighting the risk to imperial channels of communication between metropole and colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Vichy
Sugar Ration Cards Stolen in Poultry Market Burglary
The Drive In Poultry Market at 238 North Fourth Avenue was robbed Tuesday night in the fifteenth burglary. Robbers pried the side door bolt, ransacked the cash register, and fled with about 50 sugar ration stamps and razor blades. Police found no money and, tracing footprints, suspect a small boy aided by an adult. The missing stamps cannot be replaced and hinder restocking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry Market
North Fourth Avenue
California Farmers Face Labor Shortage Hallmarking Looming Harvest Losses
In San Francisco on June 24, farm agencies warn California crops risk heavy losses from a labor shortage. Proposals include a federal farm labor authority and a standing army of workers. Ray L. Wiser of the California Farm Bureau cites a May shortage of 15 000 workers with July and August peaks ahead. Early surveys show significant losses and plowed under acreage, with dairy cow sales signaling possible milk shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
U.P
California
Farm Labor Authority
State Agricultural Planning Committee
Ray L. Wiser
California Farm Bureau
Wiser
Express Agency to Advertise Air Corps Training Drive
Four Tucson trucks of the Railway Express agency will display posters advertising Army aviation cadet training. Sgt. Ralph L. Sage, local Army recruiter, announces the effort as part of a nationwide program involving 14,000 trucks in 3,000 cities displaying War Department notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Railway Express
Ralph L. Sage
Comn
Augus Sea Ghutten Me
War Department
Youths Form Green Guard to Patrol Oregon Forests
One thousand boys and girls from all parts of Oregon form Green Guard squads to protect forests and farm lands from fires this summer across the state in a youth led conservation effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Guard
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Latin American Methodist conference assigns new district pastors
The second annual Latin American Methodist conference in California and Arizona ended in Gardena with Bishop James Chamberlain Baker presiding. He reappointed Rev. S. D. Athans as superintendent of the Arizona Imperial Valley district and announced ministerial appointments across the district including Douglas Otoniel Camarena and Primitivo Villanueva in Phoenix. Athans will continue as pastor at the West Fifth Street Mexican church and oversee the South Tucson Mission and the district. A preacher's institute and district conference are planned for Tucson in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California-Arizona
Friendship
Spanish American Institute
Gardena
Calif
James Chamberlain Baker
California
Baker
S. D. Athans
Arizona-Imperial Valley
Douglas
Otoniel Camarena
Flagstaff
Alfredo Macias
Jerome
Sabino Gonzalez
Mesa-Tempe
Marcos de Leon
Wesley Foundation and high school league plan pool party
The Wesley Foundation and the first Methodist church high school league announce a swimming party and supper at Mission pool this Friday. Cars leave church at 5 30 p m and members should bring their own food. The Catalina council Boy Scouts meet at 8 p m today at Dr Carlton E Towne’s residence 2127 East Grant Road to discuss troop problems membership growth rubber drive and grass seed collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Foundation
High School League of the First Methodist Church
Mission Pool
Boy Scouts of America
Catalina Council
Carlton E. Towne
East Grant Road
Tucson
YMCA pool sees 143 soldiers use facility in a day
General Secretary Hervy F. Smith reports 143 soldiers used the Y swimming facilities yesterday, the largest daily total this year. The boys’ entrance undergoes first major revamp in 28 years, and a new diving board is being installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hervy F. Smith
YMCA
Charles Young Unit 38 Legion Meeting Tomorrow
Charles Young Unit No 38 of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting at 8 45 p m tomorrow at 167 South Meyer Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Young
The
American Legion
South Meyer Street
Priority expert Hartford to meet Phoenix merchants
Fred D. Hartford from the Phoenix office of OPM will visit the Chamber of Commerce building today and tomorrow to discuss priority problems and provide advice to local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred D. Hartford
Phoenix
OPM
Chamber of Commerce
Arizona graduate promoted to captain at Fort Riley
First Lieutenant Andrew E. White, a 1935 Arizona graduate, receives a captain's commission and serves as aide de camp and assistant special service officer at the cavalry replacement training center, Fort Riley. He earned BS and MA in music from the university and performed with Fred Waring's glee club. his home is Seale, Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew E. White
Arizona
Cavalry Replacement Training Center
Fort Riley
White
Fred Waring
Glee Club
Seale
Alabama
Flagstaff Lieutenant Buck Promoted to Captain at Fort Riley
First Lieutenant George E. Buck of Flagstaff is promoted to captain and assigned to the weapons department at the Cavalry Replacement Center at Fort Riley. Buck is a graduate of the University of Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Buck
Flagstaff
Cavalry Replacement Center
Fort Riley
Buck
The
University of Arizona
Colorado’s 80-Year Tale of $3 Billion in Mining Riches
Over eight decades Colorado has produced more than three billion dollars in industrial metals and precious metals. The figure highlights the state’s long running mining legacy and economic impact across multiple metals and regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Negro Soldier Faces Riot Trial At Fort Huachuca
Russell House a Negro soldier from Ft Huachuca stands bound over for superior court on a charge of stabbing Patrolman Bohardt five times with a pocket knife during a riot at the American Legion dugout on South Meyer street. Bohardt testified that after securing gas guns he found House trying to reenter and was stabbed in the arm in the ensuing melee. Bruce corroborated the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul G. Denney
Bohardt
Denney
House
Claude C. Bruce
Justice Gardner
San Francisco
Gardner
Lighthouse Keeper Douses Beacon Saving Estevan From Attack
Victoria June 24 The quick action of lighthouse keeper Robert Mitchell Lally who climbed a 50 foot tower to extinguish the beacon under shellfire is credited with saving Estevan from damage during an enemy air raid. Residents hid as shells exploded near the lighthouse and in the surrounding woods. a four inch shell nose cap with white Japanese script was recovered at Esteban point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Vancouver
Estevan
Robert Mitchell Lally
G. M. Campbell
Port Albernie
Sally
British Columbia
Campbell
Esteban Point
Port Alberni
New Zealand Hit by Big Earthquake Shocks Wellington
A severe earthquake struck New Zealand's northern island with Wellington reporting the strongest tremor in years. Chimneys toppled and windows shattered as authorities reported no casualties so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Wellington
Contract For Building Davis Dam Approved
Washington June 24 the interior secretary approved an 18 966 392 construction contract to Utah Construction company for Davis Dam and power house on the Colorado river between Arizona and Nevada. The ruling permits possible government termination and priority delays to aid wartime needs with partners Morrison Knudsen McDonald and Kuhn J F Shea J H Pomeroy Winston Brothers Raymond Concrete Pile Griffith and J Stanley Bent. The 220 foot high 1600 foot long dam will include a 220 000 kilowatt hydroelectric plant supplying Los Angeles war industries and growing southwest demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Utah Construction Company
San Francisco
Davis Dam
Colorado River
Arizona
Nevada
Reclamation
J. C. Page
Morrison- Knudsen Company
Boise
Idaho
McDonald and Kuhn, Inc
J. F. Shea Company, Inc
Los Angeles
J. H. Pomeroy and Company
Winston Brothers Company
Minneapolis
Raymond Concrete Pile Company
Griffith Company
J. Stanley Bent
Boulder Dam
California
Southwest
California goat delivers rare kidruplets at Nubi an farm
In WogodsIde California James O Laughlin reports his Nubian goat birthed three nanny kids and two male kids, a rare five offspring known as kidruplets. The same doe produced quadruplets a year earlier, highlighting exceptional fertility.
Anti-Soviet French Legion Pledged To War Against Allies
The Anti-Soviet French Expeditionary Force has been converted into a legion that will fight American imperialism and Anglo Saxon greed and the Russians. It will henceforth fight wherever French interests are involved in Europe or Africa. The Paris paper Aujourd hui described it as an enlarged officialized legion of French volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Europe
Africa
Paris
Aujourd
Pierre Laval
Germany
Legion
Los Angeles Woman Killed In Car Crash
In Holbrook Arizona a car three times overturned near the New Mexico line killing Mrs. Thomas Doey aged 19 of Los Angeles. Ruth Gifford 47 also of Los Angeles was injured and taken to Gallup hospital with shock and bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holbrook
Arizona State Line
New Mexico
Thomas Doey
Los Angeles
Arizona Highway Patrol
Unclear War Rhetoric Promises Revenge Against English
The fragment vows vengeance on the English for crimes and rapine, naming Mers el Kebir Dakar Damascus and Diego Suarez as affected sites. The text shows hostile exhortation and calls for punitive actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mers-El-Kebir
Dakar
Damascus
Diego Suarez
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Sugarland
Tex
Imperial Sugar
M. G. Thompson
Houston
Galveston
Express Agency
Air Corps
Russell
Mexico
Ae UL Vision
E.R. Munson
Daniel’s 9 East Congress
Kentucky
Schenley Distillers Corporation
New York City
Sente
suoGe
Death Valley
Conoco
Supce
supGe
sueGe
Continental Oil Company
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