DeMolays Take Over City Hall For One Day
DeMolays administer city government for a day with Bert Reeb as mayor and Frank Powers as manager. Included are Councilmen, police chief Roy Coulson, fire chief Dillard Schroeder, and multiple department heads filling all offices and committees.
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Bert Reeb
Square
Reeb
Robert Slate
Jack Murray
Harry Ackerman
Robert Blaise
Charles Whitfield
Mickey Sanders
Frank
Smokey” Powers
Roy E. Coulson
Dillard Schroeder
Saul Gold
James Corbett
Paul Present
Warren Jost
Franke Keefe
Jack Eardley
Board of Health
Ross Magee
Art Poor
Civil Service Commission
Jimmy Gump
Gordon Bell
Robert Miller
Dick Franklin
Bob Howell
Jerry Manes
City Electrician
Jack Neff
William Schulmeyer
Gordon Matteson
Raymond Plank
Churches Vote Soon On Consolidation Merger Plans
The First Methodist and University Methodist churches prepare a merger plan with united boards and committees. If approved, co pastors supplied by the Southern California Arizona conference would begin July 1 and a larger church building may be erected on the First church property. A May 25 vote was delayed to June 1. Rev. Williams predicts approval at the First church. An opposing leader at University church notes nine of nineteen conference members disagree.
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First Methodist
University Methodist
First Church
Southern California-Arizona Conference
United Official Board
First
Williams
Frank S. Williams
University Church
Airmen May Get Navy Cross for Ocean Rescue of Marine
Two naval airmen Lieut. W. W. Lowrey and Aviation Machinist's Mate J. R. McCants rescued Marine Lieut. Walter S. Osipoff from death after a parachute failure. They chased the transport 1500 feet above the sea, pulled Osipoff aboard, and sliced the static line to free him as the chute fouled.
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San Diego
Calif
W. W. Lowrey
Dallas
Tex
J. R. McCants
Jordan
Mont
Lowrey
Walter
S. Osipoff
Akron
Ohio
Osipoff
M. Johnson
McCants
Con
Bureau to Close Artillery Peak Manganese Project
The U S Bureau of Mines will close the Artillery Peak manganese project in Arizona after producing 2500 tons of ore. Three new sites are slated for exploration in Butte Montana for manganese Willows California for chromite and Dunsmuir California for chrome. A fourth western project near Patterson Idaho tungsten is under consideration.
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U. S. Bureau of Mines
Artillery Peak
Arizona
Butte
Mont
Willows
Calif
Dunsmuir
Patterson
Ida
Ann Cutting Named President Of Los Aspirantes at Arizona
Ann Cutting of Aquitoa Sonora Mexico was elected president of Los Aspirantes honorary Spanish society at the University of Arizona for the coming year. Augustin Pesquiera of Mexico City is vice president with Adeline Calles Phoenix secretary treasurer and Mary Louise Kreidler Tucson as historian. William Tye of Tucson heads the program and activities committee with Ima Robles and Conchita Delgado also on the panel. The Anita C. Post scholarship recipient will be announced at the May 26 honors assembly.
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Ann Cutting
Aquitoa
Sonora
Mexico
Los Aspirantes
University of Arizona
Augustin Pesquiera
Mexico City
Adeline Calles
Phoenix
Mary Louise Kreidler
Tucson
William Tye
Anita C. Post
Church split over measure invites congregation view
Delegates argued the church should not force a vote yet some urged the congregation to express itself. Unification supporters expect the congregation will approve the measure at the meeting June 1.
Williams to Head State Land Board
Phoenix May 16 Williams will become acting state land commissioner May 20 when Albert leaves for Randolph Field Texas to join the Army finance department announced by the state land board Williams a former Navajo county sheriff resigned his law enforcement post in 1936 to take a traveling assignment with the Latter Day Saints church He returned to Arizona about a year ago Lefebvre W C Phoenix was appointed deputy commissioner an office Williams has held for several months
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Phoenix
O. C. Williams
William Alberts
Randolph Field
Tex
Army Finance Department
State Land Board
Williams
Navajo County
Latter Day Saints Church
Arizona
W. C. Lefebvre
Uruguay highway program to boost motor vehicle use
Uruguay implements a broad highway development plan likely raising motor vehicle use, with infrastructure expansion and growth in transport activity anticipated as a result.
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Uruguay
Germans Offer Turkish Islands to Aid War Effort
German envoy Franz Von Papen presented Adolf Hitler’s letter to President Ismet Inonu proposing exchange of Greek islands near Turkey for cooperation allowing weapons and later troops to move through Turkish territory to Syria and Iraq. Turkish leaders reportedly refused citing loss of independence. British sources confirm German air arrivals in French Syria and axis shipping movements through the Dardanelles with several freighters in the Aegean.
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Dana Schmidt
Istanbul
Turkey
U.P
Germany
Syria
Iraq
Ismet Inanu
Baron Franz von Papen
Adolf Hitler
French
Black Sea
Aegean
Dardanelles
Metals For Defense Sees Shifts In Home And Industry
William H. Eisenman of Cleveland says there will be no major metals shortage in the U S while defense needs rise He predicts a revival of old steel skillets more glassware in kitchens and longer use of used cars Aluminum may yield to copper in power lines and plastics will replace rarer metals for many uses He notes substitutes and new alloys will develop and mining of strategic metals like mercury tungsten aluminum magnesium will boom
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Los Angeles
William H. Eisenman
Cleveland
Ohio
American Society For Metals
United States
Eiseman
Society
China
Colorado
Witness jailed over 2 fee and 94 court costs in 1934 case
A Somerset Pennsylvania report states a criminal court witness who sought a $2 fee for testifying was jailed after records showed he owed the county $94 in court costs from a 1934 case. Clerk Ivan Lambert ordered the confinement.
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Somerset
Ivan Lambert
Chandler to Mark 29th Anniversary
The town of Chandler will celebrate its 29th birthday with Dr. A. J. Chandler and Governor Osborn taking part in the gala. The founder began development of the town on May 17, 1912. South Africa plans free grape distribution to the poor.
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Chandler
Osborn
Dr. Chandler
South Africa
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Scaamtig
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Cotton
SEARS
Turkey Isles
Langendorf
Golden Stars
At All Good Grocers
Beeman’s Tater Flake Company
Sears, Roebuck
North Sixth Ave
Pennington
Baby Club
Fox Theatre
Virginia K. Manzo
Peggy Adair
Oxford
McKay
Brown
Sandy Nevin
White
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N. Sixth Ave
Mennington St
Fia
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