Revolt Leader Miss Patten Calls Session for Youth Democrats
Helena Patten Tucson schoolteacher and former national Young Democrats figure issued a call for a rump convention this Saturday to form a new state youth group. Delegates from Santa Cruz Cochise Yavapai Yuma Maricopa Apache and Pima counties to oppose Bert Campbell and break the old machine. Membership has fallen from 9000 to 1800 amid intra-party tensions at Nogales and county splits in Maricopa.
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Helena Patten
Tucson
Young Democrat Clubs of
Arizona
Santa Cruz
Cochise
Yavapai
Yuma
Maricopa
Apache
Pima
Bert Campbell
Nogales
Campbell
Young Democrats
Democratic Party
Miss Patten
Maricopa County
Young People Spend Day at Pepper Sauce Salvation Army Camp
Salvation Army runs a busy day camp at Pepper Sauce canyon for sixty youths from dawn to taps. The schedule includes flag ceremony, devotions, crafts, hikes, band practice for new musicians, tent-led programs, and toll of five dollars per camper to fund meals and activities. Donations are requested via P O Box 2424 in Tucson.
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Salvation Army
Pepper Sauce Canyon
Camp Tu-Sal-Ar
Taps
Peppersauce Canyon
P. O
Tucson
Federal Grand Jury To Reconvene Here Friday
The federal grand jury will reconvene here Friday to consider a case believed to involve smuggling of gold from Mexico. The panel has previously passed the case twice. earlier in May Bert Farnsworth Gilbert Vincent and John Woodward appeared but no indictment was returned. A Woodward piloted plane forced landing near Hachita New Mexico with gold allegedly aboard. One opium and one bootlegging case are also expected before the grand jury.
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Mexico
Bert Farnsworth
Sonora
Gilbert Vincent
New Orleans
John Woodward
Woodward
Hachita
WN. M
Horrid black insects spied during Germany’s air raids in Holland
A Minneapolis letter from Carl Schurmann, an attorney, describes brutal early May raids on The Hague and Rotterdam. He recalls parachutists, civilian fear, and a street vendor calmly selling strawberries amid the bombardment.
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Minneapolis
Germany
Holland
London
Carl Schurmann
Robert F. Pack
Northern States Power Company
Hague
Schurmann
The
Rotterdam
Hard of Hearing Group to Meet at YWCA
The Tucson Society for the Hard of Hearing will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the YWCA. Hostesses are Mrs. Roy F. Graesser and Miss Norma Grover. Mrs. Helen Swain and Mrs. L. C. Stones head official delegation to the American Society conference in Los Angeles next month. Other attendees include Mrs. Graesser, Mrs. C. A. Orloff and Dorothy Frey.
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Tucson Society For the Hard of
YWCA
Roy F. Graesser
Norma Grover
Los Angeles
American Society For the Hard of Hearing
Helen Swain
L. C. Stones
Graesser
C. A. Orloff
Dorothy Frey
U S Honey Production Expected Near 160 Million Pounds
The normal annual honey production in the United States stands at 160 million pounds, reflecting typical yield levels across states and hives. The figure serves as a baseline for beekeeping industry activity and agricultural planning.
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United States
Barking Dog Leads Rescuers To Youth Buried By Debris
New York May 30 A German shepherd named Tim may have saved 11 year old Charles Bossman by barking at a debris pile after a rear wall collapsed on the boy as he played in an abandoned east side tenement yard. Rescuers were guided to the wreckage and the boy was freed with broken legs and internal injuries listed as serious.
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New York
Tim
Charles Bossman
Bossman
Esthonia Zone Named By Reds
The Leningrad Soviet issued a decree creating a forbidden zone along the Estonian border amid protests over the alleged kidnaping of Soviet soldiers. Lithuania replies to Russian protests saying it will cooperate with any further clarification and a commission will investigate.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Lithuania
Estonia
Baltic
Kaunas
Arizona film work boosts April job openings nationwide
Arizona state employment service reports 630 jobs filled in April, largely extras for the film Arizona. Nationwide April placements total 2711, a high for 1939 comparisons, with March unusually strong due to cotton season. Officials note April decline from March does not signal a general downturn.
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Arizona State Employment Service
Arizona
Auet Wieden
Serv
Wieden
Arizona Unemployment Compensation Commission
State Employment Service
Phoenix
Insurance fight on U S promised
Phoenix May 30. Charles J. Zimmerman of Chicago warned that any federal attempt to take over life insurance supervision or sell cut rate annuities through post offices would be met with a united front from life underwriters and private companies. He spoke to the Arizona Life Underwriters association.
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Phoenix
United Front
Charles J. Zimmerman
Chicago
National Association of Life Underwriters
Arizona Life Underwriters Association
Prescott Plans 1940 41 Budget With Tax Increase
Prescott officials approve a tentative 1940 41 budget showing direct taxation of 121 999 73 dollars, down from 129 000 last year. The bonded debt interest and redemption rise to 81 301 73 dollars, with final adoption due June 21. Mayor E A McCabe guarantees the budget will not exceed the tentative total.
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Prescott
E. A. McCabe
Depth of Zion Canyon Reaches Ancient Measure
Scientists estimate the canyon’s current depth resulted from 90 million years of erosion in Zion National Park Utah, revealing the long history of geological shaping by natural forces.
Britain enacts drastic home front measures in wartime
London reports drastic government steps to curb defeatists and fifth column threats as Amalgamated Engineering union leaders fear Norway and Belgium style subversion. Home secretary gains press censorship power, banning defeatist material and printing plants. police charge Cyril Stephens for damaging national services machinery. new act forbids radios in cars and possession of uniforms or emblems.
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London
J. W. Little
New Labor Supply Board
Belgium
Holland
Denmark
Norway
Little
British Isles
Amalgamated Engineering Union
Morecambre
Vidkun Quisling
Hitler
Home Secretary
Tottenham
Cyril Desmond Stephens
Stephens
Unfair Sales Act Questioned as Unconstitutional
Superior Judge Arthur T. LaPrade said the Arizona unfair sales act appears unconstitutional while denying dismissal of an injunction against Walgreens to stop below cost sales. He suggested the inferior court should assume constitutionality unless the appellate court rules otherwise.
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Phoenix
Arthur T. LaPrade
Walgreen Drug Company
Mercia
Arizona
la Prade
Indictment Against Copper Mining Officials in Wichita
Three indictments naming Wichita officials of the Arizona Keystone Copper Mining company were handed to Judge Richard J. Hopkins by a federal grand jury. U. R. Miller president T. C. Miller secretary and C. W. Miller local oil man charged with using the mails to defraud and with conspiracy.
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Wichita, Kas
Wichita
Arizona Keystone Copper Mining Company
Richard J. Hopkins
U. R. Miller
T. C. Miller
C. W. Miller
U. R
Sedgwick County
Istrict
Kansas Corporation Commission
Pedestrians Granted Right of Way In Salt Lake City
Pedestrians in Salt Lake City are described as among the best treated in the nation. They are always entitled to the right of way crossing streets and motorists who deny it face fines and imprisonment.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mexico pledge to aid democracies by presidential seeker
General Manuel Avila Camacho, government endorsed to succeed Lazaro Cardenas, pledged unofficially that Mexico remains allied with democracies. He said the Americas share a democratic principle and denied being Communist or Fascist. He spoke after addressing 7,000 people in Mexicali and downplayed Fifth Column fears, noting German agents exist worldwide but not an influx into Mexico.
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Mexicali
Mex
Mexico
Manuel Avila Camacho
Lazaro Cardenas
All American Front
Americas
United States
Maricopa to Cut Tax Levy by 2.47 Per 100 Value
Phoenix May 30 The Maricopa county board of supervisors adopted a highway bond financing plan reducing the levy on direct taxation by at least 20 percent per 100 of value. The shortfall is to be offset by gasoline tax receipts and sinking fund balances totaling 265 000 dollars on July 1. Clerk James E. DeSouza said the method should meet needs for the next two years.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors
James E. DeSouza
Senate Approves Six Year Hospital Construction Bill
The Senate approved a six year sixty million dollar hospital construction program aimed at expanding rural and low income area facilities. Federal funding would build hospitals leased to states or communities with state and local grants. Senator Murray called it a valuable experiment likely to add about twenty five to thirty thousand beds. The vote was by voice with no objections. Newfoundland is Britain s oldest colony.
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Washington
Senate
House
Murray
Weber Seeks Democratic Nomination for State Secretary
Gilbert May 30 J B Weber drug store operator in Chandler Casa Grande Phoenix and Gilbert announces candidacy for Democratic nomination as secretary of state. Native of Nebraska he came to Arizona 26 years ago and serves as secretary of the state board of Pharmacy and president of the Arizona Democratic association. Campaign calls for government modernization limits on campaign contributions and run off primary election procedure. Dublin buildings booming.
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Gilbert
J. B. Weber
Chandler
Casa Grande
Phoenix
Nebraska
Weber
Arizona
State Board of Pharmacy
Arizona Democratic Association
Young Mormons Convene in Prescott For Fifth Annual Meet
Members of the M Men and Gleaner Girls from Arizona New Mexico Texas and Mexico will meet in Prescott June 14 to 16 for their fifth annual convention. The gathering will run through Sunday with activities planned.
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Phoenix
M Men and Gleaner Girls
Young People’s Organization of the
Latter Day Saints Church
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Prescott
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