Twelve Tucson Men Enlist in Navy V-12 Program
The Eleventh Naval District announced 72 Arizona V-12 enlistees, including 12 from Tucson, who passed tests and will train as apprentice seamen. Classes begin July 1943 or March 1944 at Flagstaff and Western colleges, with naval service integrated into college life and athletics.
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Navy
United States
Eleventh
Naval District
Arizona
Tucson
U. S. Naval Reserve
Walter H. Singleton
Harvey Senturia
W. Adams
Richard B. Miller
E. 7Th St
William H. Epperson
E. 6Th St
Alfred W. Addis
S. Delmar
Nelson I. Beck, Jr
E. Linden
David B. Brannen
E. Speedway
Charles L. Hines
N. Norris
Lawrence H. Sanford
Comdr
R. S. Kaiser
USN
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Flagstaff
Medical
Engineering
Chaplain Corps
Naval Academy
Naval Engineering
Supply Corps
Prescott Druggist To Be Buried In Phoenix
W Ross Denman former operator of a Prescott drug store will be buried in Phoenix today by members of the Arizona pharmaceutical association. Funeral services will be at a local chapel. Denman died Thursday and had owned stores in Gila Bend Warren Flagstaff and Phoenix.
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Phoenix
W. Ross Denman
Prescott
Arizona Pharmaceutical Association
Denman
Gila Bend
Warren
Flagstaff
Allies Plot A Major Multi Front Drive Against Axis
London dispatch outlines a flexible Allied plan to attack Axis Europe through Mediterranean operations and intensified bombardment of German industry. It foresees a summer of static fronts in Russia, Italian base use for Balkans flanks, and a crescendo assault timed with a Russian offensive.
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Harrison Salisbury
London
U.P
Europe
Germany
Italy
Mediterranean
Reich
Russia
Balkans
Dodecanese
Ruhr
RAF
Grim Soviet Revenge On Nazi War Lords Will Follow The War
London reports Soviet officials list six German leaders for atrocities. Details include poisoning 1000 mental patients at Sapagov hospital, looting Rostov art, and 248 executions at Kupyansk. Source warns vengeance may be grim enough to frighten German children for a century. Russia also seeks millions of roubles in reparations.
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London
U.P
Reich
Sapagov
Kursk
Fine Arts Museum
Rostov
Germany
Kupyansk
Kharkov
Russia
Safford Votes to Buy Public Power Plant in $450000 Plan
Thatcher voters authorized 165 to 8 the sale of Arizona General Utilities electric system for 450000 to Safford municipal government. The deal includes 465309 revenue bonds and a 10 percent rate cut within a year, with management to remain unchanged and tax payments preserved to subdivisions. Residents of Safford previously rejected a municipal purchase offer.
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Thatcher
Arizona General Utilities Electric System
Safford
Solomonsville
Central
Pima
Sulphur Springs
Associated Electric Company of
New York
Four Arizona Soldiers Are Prisoners Of War
War Departmentlists four Arizonans among 292 U S soldiers held as prisoners of war. Second Lt John J Ward of Tucson is interned by Germany. Privates Dono C Brinkerhoff of Woodruff Lewis N Wallace of Eloy and Horace White cotton of Fort Thomas are held by Japan.
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Washington
War Department
United States
John J. Ward
James J. Ward
North
Martin Avenue
Tucson
Germany
Japan
Dono C. Brinkerhoff
Levi Brinkerhoff
Woodruff
Lewis N. Wallace
Rufus F. Wallace
Eloy
Horace
Tucson Soldier Joins Jungle Glee Club for Troop Morale
Sgt. Frank R. Lopez of Tucson serves in a glee club that performs native jungle music for troops. The group rehearses between duty servicing P-40 fighters or during lulls in ground fighting to boost morale.
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New Guinea
Frank R. Lopez
Tucson
Water Gauge Boosts San Pedro Valley Development Efforts
The U S Geological Survey completed a new water recording gauge station at Redington to measure runoff and absorption between Charleston and Mammoth. The Redington station covers two thirds of the valley drainage, aids flood flow estimates, and guides future irrigation and storage plans near Tucson.
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San Pedro Valley
Redington
U. S. Geological Survey
Charleston
Mammoth
Tanque Verde Pass
Geological Service
Geological Office
John H. Gardiner
Tucson
San Francisco Bay Area Tops World as Shipbuilding Center
The San Francisco Bay Area has emerged as the world’s largest shipbuilding center. The development reflects substantial growth in local yards, employment, and industrial output.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Solons Hear OPA Admission Grade A Doesn’t Mean Best
A House Interstate Commerce subcommittee studied an OPA admission that hosiery grade labeling is unfair and misleading. Norman Becker testified that Grade A did not guarantee the best quality, risking misrepresentation and penalizing manufacturers of higher grade hose.
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Solons
OPA
Washington
U.P
House
Interstate Commerce
Office of Price Administration
Lyle Boren
Ohia
Cials
Norman Becker
Boren
Becker
Boret
Promote Local Man To First Sergeant At Camp Claiborne
Corporal Bill A. West of the 803 Ordnance Company in the Cactus Division has been promoted to first sergeant. West, a former president of the Tucson 20-30 club number 82, enlisted May 22, 1942, in Phoenix. He and his wife Jean P. West live in Tucson at 1531 East Prince Road, with brother Don V. West serving as a lieutenant in Africa. He has been accepted for the Quartermaster Officers training school at Camp Lee, Virginia.
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Camp Claiborne
Bill A. West
Ordnance Company
Cactus Division
West
Army
Tucson
Jean P. West
East Prince Road
Don V. West
Africa
Quartermaster Officers Training School
Camp Lee
Venezuela tightens control over food price system
Venezuela moves to tighten oversight of food prices as authorities expand regulatory powers. Government agencies enforce compliance, aiming to curb inflation and stabilize essential goods for consumers nationwide.
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Venezuela
Warns Japs Will Offer Phoney Peace Proposal
Joseph C. Grew former ambassador to Japan warned in Buffalo that Japan would push a phony peace to preserve militarism. He urged destroying the tradition of militarism to avoid another war and said the Allies could conquer Japan’s military capacity if needed.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Grew
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el Paso
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E. P. Norwood
Victory
FT. Huachuca
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Caruso
Venice Gardens
Congress
Sixth
Ft. Lowell and
Swann
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Nogales
8Th St
Greyhound
Banks Bridge
Citizen Terminal
Citizen Auto Lines
City Soldier
Jungle Glee Club
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Richard Greene
Ciws
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Lalito
Sergeant York
DR. Renault
Speedway Lanes
Stone Avenue
Pioneer Hotel
Arthur Crowell
Hammond
Loretta LiAsersem
Bert Gordon
Jinx Falkenburg
Bendix
PAN Health
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Walter Brennan
Humphrey Bogart
Casa Blanca
Mickey
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Rutherford Pee Williams
Strange Case
Dr. Rx
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Fonda
Basa Andrews
MaryBeth Hughes Anthony Quinn
Jane Darwell
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