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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1944
Page
9
The piece reviews Bodley’s Sahara exile and his later writings on Asiats life, plus Leslie Ford’s All for the Love of a Lady set in Washington with murder. It covers Churchill's role, Michelson’s travels for a bear tale, and a brief critique of pacing and clarity in Michelson's book.
A book review of Charles Michelson's The Ghost Talks from G P Putnam’s Sons. It discusses how presidents use inner circle aides to craft speeches and the mystery of sourcing material. The piece highlights Michelson’s early reporter years under William Randolph Hearst and his Cuba coverage during the Spanish American War.
A Tucson writer promotes the satire Mr G Strings Along as entertaining. A store librarian reports strong reader interest with mixed reactions including a customer who found no amusement and quipped about the New Dealers.
Margaret Vail and her infant face resistance from a French family as German occupation looms. A American born wife to a French husband battles religious and cultural barriers to secure a home amid war and upheaval in occupied France.
A memoir recounts Mrs. Vail during the phony war and early invasion period. She details German agents, her pursuit to free her husband from a prison camp, a winter in Paris, and escape to unoccupied France and North Asia before returning to the United States.
James Y. Forrestal, seaman second class in World War I and former under secretary of the Navy since 1940, is named number one naval man after President Roosevelt nominated him following Knox's death and Senate confirmation yesterday. He held his first news conference and noted a destroyer will be named for his predecessor and that Japan’s outer Pacific defenses have been reduced to a line of defense in name only.
The budget bureau asks for 2.5 million more for a second transmission line from Parker dam to Davis dam in Arizona. Total interior department supplemental funding would reach 106 168 768 for the coming year, with a bill in the Senate after House passage. President Roosevelt forwarded the request to the Senate.
The piece outlines arguments for and against continuing harsh terms toward Italy after liberation. It cites Italy's wartime role, the need for Allied aid, the question of civilian self rule, and the balance between military and civilian governance while suggesting a more democratic, cooperative path with liberated Italians.
AP dispatch describes German forces constructing a new rear defensive line as Allied advances press in. Report notes fortification work, trenching, and mine fields, with troops digging in along a widening front amid shifting front lines. Wary observers say the move aims to stabilize supply routes and slow pursuit.
Aboard the Grips Holm at Barcelona on May 19 the Nazi regime eyes completing a second French fortification line to hold the coast as invasion nears. Germany claims the line must be held until the last man despite heavy Allied bombing, with vast communications and railroad hubs still largely intact.
An editorial argues Axis satellites unlikely to surrender to Allied control and urges promoting a co-belligerent enemy to ally status. The piece claims UN principles lack application and frames Italy as a potential ally to advance shared interests.
A former prisoner of war describes his eight months in German camps and a year in Italian captivity. He notes the German communications network and rail system, reporting no major railway station destruction from the Polish corridor to Marseilles and claims high train volumes on several routes. He details bombed cities and quicker repairs in the Rhineland.
Warren Thomas Hanne of Wickenburg, Ariz., has been promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant, as announced by the War Department. The report notes the Neanderthal men were about five feet tall.
Leonard Thomas Dale, a husband on five years' probation for manslaughter, sues in superior court to contest Amelia Dale's final will that leaves her personal property to two sisters. Testimony before Judge W. C. Truman of Pinal county is continued. Amelia requested an inquiry into her death, saying she had reasons for that request.
April in Arizona was cooler and wetter than normal with a 54.8 degree average temperature, 3.6 below normal, and precipitation at .86 inches, .18 above the long term average.
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