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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1944
Page
12
London nightlife shifts with transport and labor shortages as American troops adjust routines. Pub culture and night clubs shape social life with high costs and limited hours. Jokes and lighter anecdotes reveal Allied morale amid wartime strain.
Washington reports a 66 percent rise in draft evasion convictions for the first ten months of the 1944 fiscal year. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced 4,474 convictions, up from 2,693 in the previous corresponding period.
The defense ministry decided that officers of the rural defense corps may remain in the zones of the republic to which they were assigned. This abrogates the January 16 1942 order requiring transfers at least every three years. The decision favors officers being thoroughly acquainted with their operating territory.
Governor Osborn asks the Arizona Highway Patrol to extend the search begun by Coconino County Sheriff's Office for Sgt. William Rucker of Wichita Kansas who vanished May 16 after reportedly falling from an Army bomber near Meteor Crater. Authorities note the plane was at 18000 feet en route to California and the exact location of the fall remains undetermined. Rucker was visiting his mother on Mother's Day when he disappeared.
Chinese officials say Loyang in Henan Province may have fallen after communications were cut. Tokyo claimed the capture in a broadcast. Chinese Army spokesman Maj. Gen. C. C. Tseng cautioned that confirmation was lacking as Japanese troops retreating toward the Burma border are pursued after battles at Tatangtzu.
Walter Carroll a 49 year old hold up fugitive from Tacoma Washington became engrossed in a detective magazine and stopped outside FBI headquarters to finish it. He was detained and returned to Tacoma for further questioning.
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