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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1945
Page
14
Judge Eva De Concini refused to act on a petition urging leniency for Tempe Harris a 43 year old Black former vice agent. About 120 Black signers were named in the unsigned document presented to the judge in his private office prior to sentencing. Harris was taken to Florence to begin an 18 month to four year term and a $500 fine.
The 248 page Desert yearbook edited by Eleanor Rice will be distributed at the Co op book store at 7 am tomorrow and mailed to out of town residents. Norman the cover cartoon appears on each division page, with Norma Webber as art editor and Dan Ricker as business manager.
Six members of the new state apprenticeship council were named by B F Vickers manager of the labor department. Labor representatives are A E Williams John T Weir and John P Nash. Employer representatives are Clifford Maddox Jote Peters and R W Hughes. A seventh nonvoting member will be chosen to represent the public.
Tucson stayed unusually dry with 5 pm humidity at 4 percent and cloudless skies. E P Norwood of the Weather Bureau notes yesterday was exceptionally arid, contrasting with the usual 7 to 15 percent range.
Antonio B. Grijalva aged 40 was ordered held for action of the federal grand jury after pleading guilty to possession and sale of marijuana. Police say four marijuana cigarettes were bought at his home 197 South Meyer street and a quart jar of marijuana found, valued about $40. He has prior convictions for bootlegging and armed robbery and is held on $1,000 bond.
Paul Magnus, 59, was arrested after neighbors reported him luring pigeons into his yard and trapping them for eating. Judge Erwin J. Hasten fined Magnus $50 but suspended the penalty on condition he desist trapping birds.
Kingman Army airfield will not close after the flexible gunnery program ends. Col Lance Call, former commander now deputy commander of Lakefield, is assigned to Kingman to join the Continental Flying Training Command as a staging area to assemble combat crews for overseas service. Call will arrive after completing a course at an eastern A school. Williams Field will inherit the Kingman field band, replacing reliance on Luke field musicians for ceremonies.
A Tucson city county planning office meeting included William Edmondson Gorm Leftfield and Harry A Gerard to discuss airport locations near the Tucson Mountain area. They focused on the De Moss Petrie road pre commercial airstrip between Silver Bell road and the Santa Cruz river and future neighborhood airfields in the foothills.
Plans for a traffic survey in the Tucson area were discussed by Phil J. Bradbury of the Arizona highway department Glenton G. Sykes city engineer and George Grove county engineer Automatic counters are in use at selected sites and will collect vehicular and pedestrian traffic and parking data for one week at each point The survey aims to aid the use of federal grants for secondary road construction Coal mines operated in Eire during the war are to be continued.
We thank friends for kindness and beautiful floral offerings after the death of son and brother John V. Lee Jr. John V. Lee and family.
Thomas Davis, operator of a West Congress street restaurant, pleaded guilty in superior court to contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and paid a $100 fine by Judge John D. Lyons Jr. The juvenile, a 16 year old girl, had given part of her earnings as a prostitute to Tempe Harris, a 43 year old woman. Harris was sent to Florence to begin serving an 18 months to four year sentence and a $500 fine.
Captain Burr reports Tucson drivers comply with 1945 license plate rules after swift warnings. In two weeks only three cars still bore 1944 numbers. Phoenix area officials note higher enforcement with over 50 passenger cars and 100 trucks impounded for missing 1945 tags.
Two local youths were enlisted in the Navy yesterday per the local recruiting office. Edward Gold Arntzen, 17, son of Dr and Mrs Julius L Arntzer, 516 East Third street, will study radar in naval training schools after graduating from Tucson senior high school. Richard Benedict Canfield, 17, route 1 Tucson, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph H Canfield, was on-
A report lists an individual yesterday as being wasted as assignment to active duty in the naval training school at San Diego California.
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, famed for heading the Flying Tigers, faced rejection from the Air Force during World War I, a setback noted in historical records.
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