NYA Builds Defense Trades Site in Tucson Planned
NYA supervisor Charles Fowler Jr and city manager Phil Martin plan to select a Tucson site in the industrial area for a $60 000 NYA defense trades building after a in house advisory board meeting. Construction may take 25 days once the site is ready and equipment could be installed within about three weeks after completion.
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Charles Fowler, Jr
NYA
Phil J. Martin, Jr
Tucson
NYA Defense Trades
R. J. York
H. H. Dinwiddie
York
Army
Navy
Four Injured In Pima County Auto Crashes
Four people were injured in separate auto accidents in Pima County. Roger M. Daisley and his wife sustained minor injuries after colliding with a vehicle driven by Claude Brown at South Sixth Avenue and 40th Street. Vernon Piggie, 21, suffered serious chest and head injuries when his car left the road at East Speedway and Wilmot Road. Rex Palmer, 29, was treated for a broken leg after his motorcycle overturned on St. Marys Road.
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Pima County
Roger M. Daisley
East Hawthorne Street
Claude Brown
Route 3
South Sixth Avenue
40Th Street
Vernon Piggie
North 10Th Avenue
East Speedway
Wilmot Road
Piggie
Wilmot and
Speedway
Rex Palmer
Route 1
Box 188
St. Mary's Road
Thompson Dies From Abdominal Hemorrhage In Autopsy
Autopsy by Dr. Ludwig A. Lindberg found Fred 8. Thompson aged 35 of 1026 North 10th Avenue died from an extensive abdominal hemorrhage caused by a gunshot wound to the liver. Coroner C. W. Gardner filed the report as Thompson's wife Anna May 33 was held in county jail awaiting inquest.
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Fred 8
Thompson
North 10Th Avenue
Ludwig A. iLndberg
C. W. Gardner
Anna May
Justice Court
James Bonnelly
Charles N. Clark
Major King
Don H. Bell
Roy Confer
Ed Henry
Utility line projects approved for Tortolita Mountains and county roads
Permission was given to Stonewall Electric, affiliated with Tucson Gas Electric Light and Power, to install electric lines into the Tortolita Mountains north of Tucson. Pima county supervisors also approved Catalina Water Company’s petition to use county roads for laying pipe lines.
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Stonewall Electric Company
Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power Company
Tortolita Mountains
Tucson
Pima County
Catalina Water Company
College Humor salutes University of Arizona on NBC May 13
A NBC radio program College Humor will salute the University of Arizona with a musical pow during its May 13 broadcast. A photograph from Tucson Little Theatre's St. Joan will appear in Theatre Arts Monthly July issue, chosen from 20 submissions as the second image published from the local group.
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NBC
University of Arizona
Tucson Little Theatre
St. Joan
Theatre Arts Monthly
Arizona Law College to elect officers Thursday
Students at the University of Arizona law college will vote to choose officers for the next school year during Thursday’s election.
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University of Arizona Law College
Veterans' Post 9 Special Meeting Tonight at Hospital
A special meeting of the Veterans' association Post No 9 will be held at the Veterans' hospital at 7 30 p m tonight.
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THE
Veterans’ Association
Veterans’ Hospital
Tucson V.F.W. Boys Band Wins Parade Honor
The Tucson V F W boys band took first place among five bands in the parade at the V F W encampment. Miami finished second in the five band event sponsored by V F W.
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Tucson
V.F.W
Miami
Reverend George R. Wilson and wife to attend Southern Baptist convention
Reverend George R. Wilson pastor of the First Southern Baptist church and Mrs. Wilson will leave Friday to attend the annual Southern Baptist convention in Birmingham Alabama. They will be gone two weeks.
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George R. Wilson
First Southern Baptist Church
All Saints Parish Plans Confraternity Organization
Members of All Saints parish will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o clock in the parish hall to organize the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.
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All Saints Parish
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Tucson Methodist prayer service announced for Wednesday
The Regular Union of Methodist churches in Tucson invites the public to a prayer meeting on Wednesday at 7 30 PM at the Mexican Methodist church located at West Fifth Street and North Ninth Avenue.
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Tucson
West Fifth Street
North Ninth Avenue
Midweek Union Methodist Service Scheduled
A mid week union Methodist service will be held tomorrow evening at 7 30 at the Mexican Methodist church. Dr Robert E Dickenson pastor of the University Methodist church will speak.
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Union Methodist
Mexican Methodist Church
Robert E. Dickenson
University Methodist Church
Social Hour for Indian Youth at Mission Manse
A social hour for Indian young people is set for this evening at the Indian Presbyterian mission manse on West 23rd street. Rev and Mrs S D Athans of the mission oversee the program.
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Indian Presbyterian Mission
West 23Rd Street
S. D. Athans
Mission
Appeal of Dr Roy McGee for house construction
The municipal board of adjustment will consider tomorrow at 10 30 a m the appeal of Dr Roy McGee to erect houses at North Trent avenue and East Fifth street.
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Roy McGee
North Trent Avenue
East Fifth Street
Municipal Board of Adjustment
Disabled American Veterans Elect Officers and Delegates
Chapter 4 of the Disabled American Veterans elected officers and delegates for the state department convention to be held May 15 16 17. Officers named were Hamilton Keddie commander Ed Wiles senior vice commander Father G F Jonaitis junior vice commander Pierce M Brown chaplain A Smith sergeant at arms and Arthur Brinkmeyer Ian McLaren Malcolm Huff as chapter executive committeemen. Retiring commander is Herbert Dillender.
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State Department
Hamilton Keddie
Ed Wiles
G. F. Jonaitis
Pierce M. Brown
A. Smith
Arthur Brinkmeyer
Ian McLaren
Malcolm Huff
Herbert Dillender
Stenographer Clerk Eligibles Named in City List
The city civil service commission clerk P H McNeill announced an eligibility list of 11 junior stenographer clerks and one senior. Names on the first list include Florabell R Lynch Catherine E Johnson and Mrs Maria Arias Munoz among others with Irene G Love as the senior eligible.
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P. H. McNeill
City Civil Service Commission
Florabell R. Lynch
Catherine E. Johnson
Maria Arias Munoz
Lucille G. Turner
Estelle Castellan
Imogine Knost
Claire R. Farrow
Mary M. Clark
Lolette M. Knost
Armida Carlin
Delia Ojeda
Irene G. Love
Civil Service Ordinance May Be Presented
City council may pass an ordinance bringing the city engineer, superintendent of streets and other charter designated workers into civil service. John D. Lyons Jr. prepared the measure and it is ready for adoption. Also on the agenda are traffic signal objections, a $850 damage claim, sewer district petitions, annexation of Monterey, War Department airfield targets near Sahuarita, and protests over quarry blasting by Menlo Park residents.
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John D. Lyons, Jr
North Park Avenue
East Speedway
Alice Roberts
East 12Th Street
Monterey
War Department
Sahuarita
Menlo Park
Damage Suit Over Fatal Accident Began Today
Jury trial of a 25200 damage suit filed by William S. Martin as administrator of the estate of the late Robert C. Wetzel 49 of Topeka Kansas against Frank W. GeMeiner of Tucson began in superior court. Wetzel seeks damages for his death in an auto crash involving GeMeiner and Lamar Bryant on January 16 on the Casa Grande highway about 20 miles northwest of Tucson.
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William S. Martin
Robert C. Wetzel
Topeka
Kan
Frank W. GeMeiner
Tucson
Wetzel
GeMeiner
Lamar Bryant
Bryant
Casa Grande Highway
Typhus Epidemic Spreads as Vaccine Shortage Hits Tunis
In French governed Tunisia a typhus outbreak grows with scarce medical supplies. Doctors plead for 2,000 white mice to improve vaccine production while interior regions report most cases. Tunis imposes drastic controls and rounds up nomads due to food scarcity and public health risk.
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Tunis
Tunisia
United States
Marriage and Death Reported Same Day
Vista California May 6 A letter from James McGinnis told of his marriage to an English girl while a cable from the air ministry announced the death of the young lieutenant in action to Mr and Mrs C H McGinnis.
Government Enters to Break Iraq Highway Transport Control
Until the government intervened, one company held about 90 percent of Iraq's highway transport. The shift signals a regulatory move to diversify carriers and curb market dominance.
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Iraq
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