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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
19
The Pima county USDA war board ordered no more civilian meat releases from large packers to preserve army supplies. Local slaughterers would handle needs if a local inspector replaced the government one, saving $2.50 per hour plus travel from Phoenix. Beefs and pork are scarce at camps as eggs and beans supplement meals.
The U S treasury reports a record annual outlay exceeding 80 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending tomorrow with war costs at 71 5 billion. Revenue fell short by about 1 billion though receipts rose to a record 22 billion, aided by war bond sales as the public debt rose from 76 to over 140 billion.
Mrs Mabel Saxon Kelly obtained an annulment of her marriage to Kelly in superior court and then pleaded guilty to bigamy before Judge William G Hall. He gave a suspended three year sentence with probation including a ban on heavy drinking. The bigamy charge arose after Saxon's parents learned of the marriage in a local paper while he served in the South Pacific and noted she still drew about $50 monthly allotment from Saxon’s Marine corps pay.
War Department in Washington signals a major switchboard change with the largest private firm involved. Details are sketchy in the fragment but indicate a sizable upgrade or reorganization affecting communications.
Bill Mahoney a 43 year old Chicago street car conductor chased an armed killer for five blocks then aided by officers pinned the suspect Ernest Nadutski 35 at a downtown intersection. Nadutski admitted robbery but denied killing jeweler Joseph Schulte 79 whose shop was shot during a holdup. Ballistics tied the gun to the crime.
Dr. Paul S. Burgess leads the Postwar Planning Committee meeting in Phoenix with about 40 Arizona agriculture representatives and officials. They discuss future agricultural plans, note no exact acreages will be fixed, and anticipate a usable report before the war ends with a possible ten to twelve member working group and bimonthly sessions.
Allied airmen report the ninth round against the St Nazaire U boat pens and their first strike on Beaumont Le Roger airfields. They claim direct hits, light enemy fighter opposition, and heavy smoke over the targets as bombs and fires blaze for miles.
EAST ALTON Ill June 29 A housewife Mrs Fred Olsen displayed a rust spotted towel to her husband explosives chemist Spencer T Olin of Western Cartridge Co crediting her with a clue to a new process for purifying nitro cellulose to make smokeless powder stable in all climates.
June 29 Chickasha Okla Eugene George Troxel 19 a Phoenix sailor stationed at Norman naval base died from a neck fracture after a swimming pool dive. He sustained the injury Saturday while on weekend leave in Chickasha.
Dr Melvin T Solve head of English at the University of Arizona lectures on Norway at 8 pm in the library patio. A subsequent Office of War Information film Wings for Norway about the Norwegian air force will be shown.
The Department of Latin American Cultures will be headed by Dr John Brooks starting July 1. Approved last spring by the board of regents the department will offer courses in Spanish Italian and Portuguese with cooperation from history business fine arts and other departments. Its purpose is to accelerate Latin American relations.
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Tucson will host its first USO affair of the summer tomorrow from 8 to 10 p.m. under Miss Anne Chardeau. Prizes total $25 with homemade cake and punch served after.
PFC Robert L. Kohler, stationed at Kelly Field in the Army Air Corps since January, is home on furlough visiting his parents Mr and Mrs L G Kohler at 1001 E 9th St.
PIMA LODGE NO 3 I O O F holds a regular meeting at the hall July 1 at 8 p m Grand Master R S Taylor of Douglas Arizona will make his official visit and the first degree will be conferred Members urged to attend.
PFC Gee N Sing, formerly of 114 S Meyer Street Tucson, is now stationed at the Dodge City East Army Air Field per a public relations office announcement. He previously served at Sheppard Field Texas.
CPL. ARAM E. PHILIBOSIAN of Tucson has been promoted from private first class and assigned to the tank destroyer replacement training center at North Camp Hood Texas.
PFC Phillip Yvarre is spending a few days furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs J T Yvarre at 1217 Niagara Street.
Carl E. Herfurth of the Coats and Herfurth firm of actuaries in Los Angeles arrives to aid in establishing a pension plan for city employees not covered by the police and fire plans. He will attend the citizens' pension committee meeting at 8 p m in city hall with about 190 employees outside the current plans.
The police announced that beekeeping inside the city is prohibited by ordinance. Four keepers were notified to cease and desist as complaints from residents mounting. Officials said the shortage of sugar has little to do with the ban and urged others to remove their hives.
The commissioner stated Allied anti submarine efforts have turned the tide against Axis Uboats in the north Atlantic. He described this shift as a prelude to a European assault and called for completing the conquest of North Africa to shorten sea routes to the Middle East. Michigan's area is 57 980 square miles.
At the 23rd National Education Association meeting in Indianapolis, officials warn of a predicted 75,000 teacher shortfall next fall as many educators leave for war jobs or military service. Experts expect over 100,000 of 250,000 needed hires to be underqualified, with math science and shop courses hardest hit. The NEA endorses the Thomas-Hill bill providing 300 million dollars annually to raise salaries, awaiting Senate action this week.
A 10 year old girl from Cordova was hurled into a windshield and hospitalized after a collision at Court and Pennington streets about 4 30 p m. The car driven by Frances O Dias 23 of 1101 Huron struck another vehicle driven by George J Qhlea ger 56 of 503 East Ninth Street. Police report the girl suffered facial cuts with Dias saying Mary had head lacerations both drivers reportedly not speeding and did not see each other until impact.
Madagascar's key agricultural products are coffee and rice. The note highlights coffee and rice as the country’s primary outputs.
News arrives that Lt Rex Chamberlin, a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines, died June 18. He came to Tucson in 1938, studied at the University of Arizona, enlisted in 1941, and was captured at the fall of the Philippines. Details of death unavailable. He lived with Mr Hinds during university days.
The average locomotive in service in the United States has approximately one mile of boiler tubing.
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