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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1944
Page
12
A large turnout is expected for the opening meeting of Tucson’s 1944 Red Cross war fund campaign co chaired by Albert Lent. The session at 7 30 p m Monday March 13 in the Pioneer hotel ballroom will brief 56 regiments teams and aim to raise a record 164000 with a brief business focused program. المتوقع.
Capt Willis Bumgarner of Davis Monthan Field pleaded guilty to reckless driving after he cut in on a state patrol car and ignored siren warnings. He paid a $50 fine instead of jail, was jailed briefly, then bonded and turned over to the provost marshal for further court action.
Staff Sgt Tony Fierro son of Ricardo Fierro and Mercedes Arriaga de Fierro of 621 South Fourth Avenue will arrive in Tucson today from San Francisco where he is stationed with the medical headquarters of the Fourth Bomber Command. He entered active service while a University of Arizona student and was among the first to leave Tucson with the Arizona National Guard. He has seen action in New Guinea and the Solomons, was stationed in Brisbane, Australia, and participated in the Coral Sea battle. His brother Dick Fierro is overseas with the U S air force.
The modern American aircraft carrier is described as the largest class of ship afloat. It highlights size, capability, and strategic role in naval power projection. The statement underscores the carrier’s prominence in maritime defense and power balance.
On Bougainville Pt. Wilson Kinney a full-blooded American Indian from Wewoka Oklahoma used pistol and bazooka to halt two Japanese while guiding an American patrol through an ambush on the Numa Numa trail. He risked his life to warn the squad and may have saved teammates. Kinney is the son of Rev. Cheney W Kinney of Wewoka.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey leads in Connecticut and West Virginia as the preferred GOP nominee, with MacArthur and Bricker also showing support. Nationwide findings place MacArthur at 19 percent and Bricker at 7 percent among Republican voters.
In yesterday's primary voting M. H. Babby backed by the Republican central committee defeated incumbent W. Stuart Nicholas in ward five by more than two to one. Nicholas had held the seat for four years as the central committee recently reevaluated endorsements.
Miss Kathryn Caroline Jones daughter of former Gov. Robert Taylor Jones married Lt. Orval Graham son of Mrs. Graham and the late Dr. Graham at noon in San Antonio Texas. Ceremony held at the home of Mr and Mrs Lynn Lockhart with Lockhart noted as former Arizona official and oil executive.
A $3,000 Linotype machine will be set up next week in the graphic arts department at Tucson High School. Otis Chidester announces the factory rebuilt unit as the first of its kind at the school for advanced students to test talent in this field. It features Garamond type sizes 8 10 and 14 and will aid in publishing the Quarterly, the school's literary publication.
The piece notes a refusal to endorse Nicholas and condemns his practices as contrary to Republican ideals. Harry W. Harham won the ward five Democratic nomination with about 15 write-in votes. Ward five faced the sole contest among the three wards.
County prisoners meals cost the county about 0.21198 each, with 4,318 meals served in February at a total of 915.31 dollars. Since May 3, 1943, to February end, 58,700 meals have cost 11,602.91 dollars for supplies and labor, averaging 0.19766 per meal.
The 1943 U S shipbuilding programs employed roughly 1.5 million workers across American yards, reflecting a surge in manpower tied to wartime production and ship construction efforts.
The German and Vichy press report 53 additional Frenchmen killed or executed and 46 arrested amid ongoing clashes between French patriots and Nazi controlled police in Occupied France. Periguex district saw 41 killed in a police patriots fight. at Saint Marie De Chignac patriots ambushed German soldiers, three killed and five arrested.
The Pima County Farm Bureau will hold its first meeting of the year on Thursday March 16 at 1 30 p m in C B Brown's office the county agricultural agent. It will be mainly an organization meeting with committees to be appointed and officers to report suggestions on study for the year.
The report notes tuberculosis deaths are higher in males than females with gender disparity in mortality.
Advertises Bellans Tablets promising relief from excess stomach acid pain gas sour stomach and heartburn within five minutes or double your money back. Claims no laxative effect and offers a money back guarantee on return of bottle. Available at all druggists.
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