Air Battle Off Guam Delivers Heavy Jap Losses
Aboard a carrier off Guam June 19 Navy Hellcats and ships blasted about 400 Japanese planes in eight hours, with two major dawn to dusk attacks. Interceptors claimed most captures, while Marine and Bluejacket batteries mopped up the remaining enemy dive bombers. Vanderhoof led the squadron with three shootdowns. Hoel parachuted after his plane was hit and was rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan McGuire
Guam
Tokyo
Jap Air Force
Pacific
Midway
United States Navy
Marianas
Vander
John Czerny
Tracy
Cal
William — Lamoreaux
San Marino
E. P. Aurand
Shamokin
Orson Welles Gets Only 2000 Monthly From 10000 Pay
Hollywood dispatch reports Orson Welles estimates his monthly earnings total about 2000 of a 10000 per month pay while facing charges of inadequate child support for his six year old daughter from a former marriage. Virginia Lederer, ex wife and now wife of Captain Charles Lederer, argues 133 monthly support is insufficient and alleges Welles was to leave 100000 in a will to her and Christopher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Orson Welles
Mars
Virginia Lederer
Christopher
Welles
Pastor Appointed For St Johns Methodist In Tucson
Rev. Roger B. Hamlin was appointed pastor of St. Johns Methodist church of Tucson at the Southern California Arizona Methodist conference session in Pasadena. Reappointments include Rev. Royal H. Reisner and Rev. Maurice G. Ballenger for Tucson churches. one Menlo Park post remained unnamed. The session also adopted a resolution supporting freedom of movement for loyal Japanese in the United States. Dr and Mrs Glen H Nelson attended as local lay representatives.
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Roger B. Hamlin
St. John’s Methodist Church
Tucson
Pasadena
Calif
Royal H. Reisner
First Methodist Church
Maurice G. Ballenger
University Methodist Church
Tucson Menlo Park
Arizona
United States
Glen H. Nelson
Navy Seabee Dies After Seeing Grandson Once
Jake Gallion a 43 year old Navy Seabee died at Long Beach naval hospital of leukemia after flying half way around the world to see his infant grandson Michael Smith then 14 months old. He had worked for Southern California Edison for 20 years before enlisting in 1943. Gallion known as Jake and born John Robert, had been in England nine months when diagnosed.
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Long Beach
Cal
U.P
Jake Gallion
Navy
Long Beach Naval Hospital
Gallion
London
Army
Michael Smith
Bette Smith
Seabees
Southern California Edison Company
Jake
John Robert
England
Japs Seek to Cut Hankow Canton Rail Line
CHUNGKING June 29 Severe fighting rages for the Canton Hankow rail line with heavy casualties on both sides. Chinese high command says Hengyang remains calm while Japanese columns prepare a concerted attack. A wide eastern flank near Hengyang could cut the line south of the city and enable a push toward Kweilin along the Hunan Kwangsi route.
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Chungking
Canton-Hankow
Hengyang
Hengvyang
China
Canton- Hankow
Kweilin
Watertown Railroad Worker Says Lockjaw Cured by Sock
John Andrews of Watertown, a railroad employee, asked for a sock in the jaw and received one, claiming it cured him of lockjaw. The unconventional remedy left him satisfied with the result.
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Fitchburg, Mass. W.P
John Andrews
Watertown
Pirate Captain’s Soft Heart Wears Silk For Baby Mary
In Henniker New Hampshire the Ocean-Born Mary House preserves a tale of a pirate captain who demanded a newborn be named Mary and kept a bolt of silk for the infant’s wedding gown. The silk later became part of Mary Wallace’s bridal dress when she married James Wallace and the couple built the house where she lived to her 94th year.
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Henniker
N. H
New World
Mary
Portsmouth
James Wallace
Appeal Filed Over Quashing Marihuana Case
The state appeals to the Arizona Supreme Court after Cochise county quashed charges against William Jake Wortham for possession of marihuana. Wortham was acquitted in Tucson federal court, and state authorities had the information dismissed after charges were pressed.
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Phoenix
Cochise County
William Jake Wortham
Arizona Supreme Court
Arizona Highway Patrol
Wortham
Tucson
Trucks Remove Villagers From Mexican Lava Flow
Urupan Mexico June 29 military trucks moved into Paran garicutiro to remove the remaining inhabitants as lava from Paricutin volcano breached a rock wall and advanced on the town again. A prior molten flow had solidified and dammed the path.
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Uruapan
Mexico
Parangaricutiro
Paricutin
Lava Threat Reaches Village As Evacuations Continue
Officials report renewed lava flow toward a village after months of activity. Lt. Col. Jesus Gaitan Esparza said the flow would arrive in about two weeks and expressed hope that the remaining villagers would depart during the day.
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Jesus Gaitan Esparza
Peacetime Draft Opposed by Methodist Conference
The Southern California Arizona conference of Methodist churches passed a resolution denouncing compulsory universal military training in peacetime. It backed the report of a minister poll showing 142 opposed to the training, eight in favor, and 13 undecided or unlisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Southern California-Arizona
Yuma Airbase Wins In Student Competition
In a Las Vegas event, instructors from Yuma Airbase earned the national crown after top scores in five events. Yuma Arizona base won the student competition against airbase teams from Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Texas. Sgt. R L Johnson posted the highest instructor score and Sgt. Russell McCaleb set a world record assembling a machine gun in 3 minutes 57 seconds. Pvt. A Gilbert of Kingman Arizona led the students with the top score.
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Las Vegas
Nev
U.P
Yuma
Ariz
Nevada
Arizona
Florida
Texas
R. L. Johnson
Russell McCaleb
Pvt
A. Gilbert
Kingman, Ariz
Midair reunion as Pvt Thurman nears cousin Lt Cowden
In Kilgore Texas Pvt Barney J Thurman of an airborne division in England spotted a passing plane during a parachute jump and found the pilot was his cousin Lt Clint Cowden, whom he had not seen in two years.
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Kilgore
Tex
Pvt
Barney J. Thurman
England
Pvt. Thurman
Clint Cowden
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Pirate
ILEX
Sieskiie Ntting
Glasbaker
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Apache Tire CO
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Westward Motors
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