University To Teach Summer Flying Course
The Civil Aeronautics Authority asks the University of Arizona to train at least 20 students in primary flying this summer. Dean G M Butler announced the ground school will be four two hour periods weekly with flights by Gilpin Air Lines staff. Students pay 20 dollars total and must commit to complete the course and stay in Tucson until finished.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
University of Arizona
G. M. Butler
Butler
College of Mines and Engineering
Tucson
CAA
Army
Navy
P. M. Thornburg
M. L. Thornburg
Walter Douglas, Jr
Gilpin Airlines
Dean Butler
Mines
Indian Army to grow by 100000 troops and air force
General Sir Robert Cassels announces 100000 additional men for the Indian army and a quadrupling of the Indian airforce. He warns of a possible war spread from France. New formations will include motorized and medianized units as Indian forces total about 240000 native and 57000 British troops. Some units already deployed to France Palestine and Egypt.
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Simla
India
Robert Cassels
Cassels
France
Palestine
Egypt
Pima Supervisors Open Ten Day Tax Equalization Session
Pima County supervisors begin their ten day tax equalization session with hours 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow. The afternoon session is canceled as the board does not meet Saturday afternoons. Property owners may seek consideration of tax matters.
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Pima
Gladstone Mackenzie
Allies Defeated By Plight Of Refugees
Eyewitnesses describe the impact of mass refugees on Allied logistics and Belgian morale in Belgium and northern France as Germany maintains clear supply routes. They recount chaos on roads, panicked refugees blocking columns, and Belgian troops facing hard choices amid retreat and surrender.
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Bern
Switzerland
Germany
Leopold III
Belgium
France
Calais-Abbeville
Leopold
Army To Have New Division
The War Department announced a new division of mobile infantry to be called the fourth division. Brig. Gen. Walter E. Prosser will command from Fort Benning Georgia. The division will have peacetime strength of 8000 to 9000 and wartime strength around 13000, with three infantry regiments and two field artillery regiments.
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Washington
War Department
Fort Benning
Walter E. Prosser
Sixth Division
Fort Francis E. Warren
Wyo
Prosser
Louisiana
350Th Field Artillery
France
Field Artillery
Philippine Department
Supply, Engineers and Signal Corps
War tax on Chinese firecrackers in Singapore
A new war tax in the Singapore Colony targets Chinese firecrackers. Every time a Chinese resident lights a cracker he or she helps fund Allied munition purchases. Thousands of crackers are imported annually for Chinese holidays and semi religious ceremonies.
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Singapore
U.P
Johannesburg Extends Underground and Street Railways
Johannesburg announces expansion of its underground network and street railways. The move aims to improve urban transit and reduce congestion by extending existing routes and adding new lines. Authorities project phased openings over the coming years.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Refugee convoy menaced as British advance continues
Eyewitness accounts from the Arras to Cambrai route in northeastern France describe refugees and soldiers lying dead along the road. A well dressed businessman near a car in a ditch was found among the fallen as the column of refugees, previously within German occupied territory, pressed forward.
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Arras
Cambrai
France
Nazi Wives Urged to Write Only Good News
Berlin May 31 Das Schwarze Korps, the Nazi stormtrooper paper, urged soldiers wives to tell the party their sorrows and not mention them in letters to front line husbands. It advised letters should reassure him and avoid disturbing him so he can continue the fight to victory.
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Berlin
Storm Troopers
Ghostly Gang Plans Memorial Day Band Set
James Lanagan, director of the North La Fayette Township High School student band, supplied a list of numbers for Memorial Day services. Last year, a cemetery request led the band to play "Hail Hail the Gang's All Here" at a graveyard gathering.
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Pittsburgh
James Lanagan
North la Fayette Township High School
Eighty-One Year Old South African Man Becomes Father Again
A Lamprecht Fauresmith from South Africa welcomed his twenty-third child at the age of 81. His first wife previously bore twenty-one children.
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A. Lamprecht Fauresmith
South Africa
Archashoot club forms at San Jose State College
San Jose State College co-eds organize an Archashoot club to shoot at stray parachute troops with bows and arrows. Peggy Kidd Frances Grunswald and Helen Lettergran say they will puncture parachutes and watch enemies fall and break their necks.
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San Jose, Calif
San Jose State College
Peggy Kidd
Frances Grunswald
Helen Lettergran
Algiers hosts postponed eighth annual sample fair
Algiers conducted its delayed eighth annual sample fair, drawing local exhibitors and visitors amid renewed community interest. Organizers touted vendor diversity and a focus on regional products, with a tentative schedule announced for the weekend event.
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Algiers
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