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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1944
Page
3
Bertha Autenrieth of Phoenix, who won a superior court ruling striking the no marriage clause, was denied re election to a faculty post for the coming year. The board gave no reason, with the Arizona Education Association noting the policy allows annual contracts and no hearing on dismissal.
Flying Fortress base in England reports eight German fighters shot down in four waves over Berlin. Two Fortresses were lost. crew weathered heavy flak and about 60 fighters, mostly ME109s, with 190s also present. Pilot Lt. John Gibbons led the remaining plane. several crew members credited with destroys.
Oakland naval supply depot supports Pacific fleet with supplies from darning needles to bombers. It employs over 2,000 enlisted personnel 300 officers 150 WAVEs 150 marine guards and about 8,000 civilian workers. The 21 million dollar project began December 15 1941 after congressional approval. The depot runs a coffee plant boxing box factory cold storage library and large food and clothing shipments for Navy use.
The office of price administration said May supplies of tires and tubes will increase for passenger cars small trucks and farm tractors due to more synthetic rubber tires. New rules allow all B and C gasoline ration card holders and operators of small delivery trucks to apply for new tires. Only 47000 new passenger cars remain in the national stockpile and rationing will tighten until auto production resumes.
A seasoned observer surveys Jerusalem’s old and new quarters noting Arabs form the majority yet Jews, though peaceful, pursue rapid colonization. He argues British aims center on regional security and civil interests, while preparing for renewed conflict after World War II with the Palestinian question unresolved by the White Paper.
The Oakland depot stores soap as a key toilet article while ship fittings, plane parts, and machine guns are shipped to the Pacific for assembly. Specific cargo figures are classified as military secrets.
In the Sierrita mountains near Tucson, the McGee and Harriss families farm fruit orchards alongside ranching. E. R. Harriss grows red and golden Delicious apples, peaches, and Green Gage plums in dry conditions, with minimal losses. The McGees, 2-4 years in, cultivate citrus at 4000 feet and apple trees in bloom, showing a viable high elevation dry farming model. County agent C. B. Brown endorses their approach as replicable.
Lt. Norma D. Chambers told the California state nurses association that only 12 deaths occurred among 6 000 casualties evacuated from the Guadalcanal area by the hospital ship Solace. She recalled a 19 year old mariner who survived 12 hours at sea after a shell hit his destroyer, then swam to safety until rescued.
Carmel California known as the Greenwich Village of the West voted to install gas heaters in city hall. The building was previously heated by four wood stoves and one will be kept as a museum piece.
Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney awarded the Air Medal to Staff Sgt. Manuel W. Nevares of Tucson and Staff Sgt. Harry L. Compton of Coolidge for meritorious sustained flight missions in the Southwest Pacific. The citations note long range bombing against enemy airfields and ships.
Better Homes and Gardens urges burning wrappings and packings as packages arrive from service members overseas. The note underscores sanitation to prevent foreign insect pests. It also mentions that canoe burials were practiced by American Indians.
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