Both British And Japs Moving Troops To Vantage Points
British and Indian troops including RAF personnel arrived at Singapore while U S warships reached Australia on a training cruise. Reports from Bangkok say Thailand faces decisions under pressure from Japan and Britain as Thai air base demands near Singapore are discussed. A Chinese army massed on the Burma border ready to join British forces against potential Japanese actions.
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Associated Press
United States
Australia
Navy Department
Orient
Russia
Thailand
Singapore
Saigon
Indo-China
Burma
Malaya
Far East
Navy
U.S
Northampton
Salt Lake City
Brisbane
South Pacific Ocean
Bangkok
Japan
Britain
London
Kokumin
Domei
Manchoukuo
Food Prices Are Still Climbing Newspaper item on price rises in mid July
Prices for meats canned vegetables and navy beans rose in the last half of July per the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 18 cities. Pork chops up about 5 percent chuck roast and round steak around 3 percent. Butter fell about 3 percent while oranges and canned pink salmon rose around 2 percent.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor
Local Weather Readings Through 11 30 am Today
Temperature readings at 3 hour intervals over 24 hours end at 11 30 am today with highs and lows noted. Highest 87, lowest 64. Normal for date 91/65. Precipitation 0 in 24 hours ending 11 30 am. Month to date 0. Year to date 19. Sunrise 5 13, sunset 6 55. Day length 36.7 hours.
Huge Defense Tax Bill Faces Senate After House Vote
The $3.206 billion defense tax bill cleared the House 369 to 30 and moved to the Senate with early talk of revisions. A defeated joint filing provision, opposed by President Roosevelt, would have shifted higher taxes on many married couples.
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Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Weather forecast for four states with scattered thundershowers
Partly cloudy conditions prevail in New Mexico with scattered thunderstorms and little temperature change. Colorado sees clear to partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures. Arizona expects considerable clouds and thunderclouds at higher elevations, little temperature change. West Texas remains partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and minimal temperature variation.
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Aeik
Cercbaie
Ciees
Oes
Associated Press
Roswell
New Mexico
Russia
Far East
Colorado
Arizona
West - Texas
Extended forecast for the period August 5 to 9
Period covers Arizona New Mexico and West Texas with below normal temperatures in Arizona rising toward near normal western New Mexico and above normal in eastern New Mexico and western Texas. Occasional Kefht Sowers noted early in western arapha and scattered fragments elsewhere during the period.
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Arizona
New Mexico
West Texas
New Alexico
Texas
Arapha
American ships may take war goods across the Pacific
The United States moved two heavy cruisers into Australian waters on a training cruise while pledging all possible economic aid to Soviet Russia. Washington opened the door to using American ships to transport supplies and grant licenses for items aiding Russia’s defense, signaling potential tensions with Japan amid unfolding routes to Vladivostok.
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Pacific
Washington
United States
Russia
Brisbane
Australia
Japan
Vladivostok
State Department
Constantine Oumansky
Roswell Resident William S Murrell Dies at 82
William S Murrell longtime Roswell dairy farmer dies at home at 112 East Albuquerque at 2 a m aged 82 after a year and a half of illness. Born January 7 1859 in Oxford Ohio he leaves a wife and one daughter. He belonged to Trinity Methodist Church. Ballard Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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William S. Murrell
Roswell
East
Albuquerque
Trinity Methodist Church
Ballard Funeral Home
Museum Board to Govern Roswell Museum
An ordinance to create a city museum board will be introduced at tonight's council meeting. The measure aims to suspend rules and pass it immediately so the board can be appointed without delay, transferring governance from the current lease arrangement to a city administered body.
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Roswell
Chaves County Archaeological
Board of and Historical Society
W. P
Bicnding
Kavitic
H. Board
Senate Rejects Taft Plan to Limit Army Service Time
The Senate voted 50 to 27 against Taft's substitute to cap selectee service at six months beyond the original one year. The proposal sought to limit retention of national guardsmen and reservists while allowing a regular army of 800,000. it would not extend regular enlistments beyond their terms. The measure aimed to test opposition to the administration bill extending service up to 18 months after training.
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Senate
Taft
Washington
Ohio
Army High Command
Army
Bandits rob bank messengers in Stroudsburg Pa
Four gunmen wearing dark sunglasses robbed two First National Bank employees in Stroudsburg at 9 am. They fled in a black sedan across the Delaware River bridge into New Jersey with $76,090 in currency. The money was insured and consisted of five ten and twenty dollar bills.
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Stroudsburg
First National Bank
Ralph Rheinfels
Lewis Heiney
Federal Reserve Bank
Philadelphia
Heiney
Delaware River
New Jersey
Easton
Ernest Olschewsky
Stroudsboro
Colombia Detains Suspected Nazi Influences Among Forces
Bogota Aug 5 Colombia announced action against anti democratic activities by arresting an undisclosed number of people and seizing documents in an inquiry into subversive ties. War minister Castro Martinez said Nazi elements were behind the moves and German nationals may be involved, while the government pledged no cause for anxiety. An informed source noted the German legation reportedly printed a Spanish edition of German army bulletins for Colombian armed forces.
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Bogola
Colombia
Castro Martinez
Bogota Radio
Congress
Eduardo Santos
Panama
Panama Canal
Legation
Nation Faces A Big Increase In Cost Of Living
Washington August 5 Leon Henderson head of the office of price administration tells the house banking committee the nation faces the strongest increase in the cost of living even if the price-control bill becomes law immediately. He warns of an enormous burden to prevent inflation as he cites charts showing prices rising toward 1919 peaks. The bill would grant the president power to set ceilings on most prices and rents in defense areas, but not wages or utility rates and farm prices tied to July 29 1941 levels. Republicans discuss a full substitute even before hearings open.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Congress
House Banking Committee
Henderson
Red Sox sweep A's as Fox lifts Boston with three doubles
Pete Fox leads Boston with three doubles as the Red Sox top the Athletics 6 to 5 in a two game sweep. Cro in's run scoring single in the sixth highlights the decisive rally. Philadelphia's 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 Boston 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6. Knott Harris Hayes Wagner Dobson Wagner Pytlak.
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Boston
Pete Fox
Boston Red Sox
Athletics
Philadelphia
Joe Cronin
Fox
Knott
L. Harris
Hayes
H. Wagner
Dobson
C. Wagner
Pytlak
Baseball scorecard fragment with players and pitchers
The entry lists several games with line scores and player lineups. Pittsburgh 000 300 Cincinnati 001 001 features Butcher and Lopez against Turner and West. Boston 013 000 6 Philadelphia 400 203 0 shows Errickson Javery Lamanna Masi Podgajny Beck Hughes Pearson Warren Livingston. St Louis 000 00 Chicago 000 04 notes Lanier Krnst W Cooper Olsen and McCullough.
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Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Butcher
Lopez
Turner and West
Boston
Philadelphia
Errickson
Javery
Lamanna
Masi
Podgajny
Beck
Hughes
Pearson
Warren
Livingston
St. Louis
Chicago
Lanier
Krnst
W. Cooper
Olsen
McCullough
Globe Trotter Sets Up Headquarters in Roswell
Edgar J. Smuthy arrives with his tame coyote Zippy and fox Snippy to establish headquarters in Roswell. His 13 year old son Edgar will enroll at N M M I for 1942 term while the globe trotter tours as violinist and naturalist giving concerts and lectures worldwide. The traveling duo live with Strutny and boy in a truck acted as their mobile home and studio. They also keep Wassie the one ear rabbit as a companion. The fox is a swift fox the smallest species known.
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Edgar J. Smuthy
Zippy
Snippy
Roswell
Edgar
N.M.M.I
Smuthy
Cattle Theft Moves to Federal Felony Charge
Washington August 5 194? House and Senate conferees agree on bill 2161 to make cattle theft a federal felony. The measure, narrowed to cattle, extends only to livestock and poultry in the house amendment. McCarran expects presidential signature after multiple vetoes.
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Washington
House
Senate
McCarran
D-New
State gasoline tax receipts hit July record in New Mexico
Receipts from the state gasoline tax division reached a July total of 529 761.21 dollars, topping the previous high set in September. Director Paul Culver noted continued growth in tourist and commercial travel, with June and prior July figures also surpassing prior months. Liquor stamp tax receipts for July were 54 603 dollars, down from June and July 1940.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Paul Culver
Liquor Control Division
Railways Reject Unions Demands For Higher Wages
Chicago reports chiefs of 14 non operating railroad unions authorized a strike vote among 850000 members after carriers rejected wage increase demands. Unions contend, carriers say no. Details continued on page eight.
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Chicago
Theft Of Tools No Delay To Defense
Detroit August 5. Tool makers Majestic Tool and Manufacturing and Central Machine faced thefts of precision instruments but continued defense production with quick aid from rival firms and citizens. Word spread rapidly and assistance arrived from as far as Minneapolis. Five thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of micrometers gauges and other tools.
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Detroit
Minneapolis
Majestic Tool and Manufacturine Corporation
Central Machine Company
Wer ‘Vedel
Condemnation Suit Filed For Highway Route Near Roswell
District Attorney G T Watts filed a new condemnation suit in district court for land owned by John Tweedy southeast of Roswell to obtain right of way for an alternate U S Highway 380 route. A prior suit was dismissed over failure to seek land before filing.
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G. T. Watts
John Tweedy
Roswell
Tweedy
Two Fierce Battles Now Raging Near Kiev and North
German panzer forces cut a 70 mile deep salient toward the Soviet defense between Moscow and Leningrad. Berlin claimed two vast battles of annihilation as encirclement and destruction of large Red Army units south of Kiev progressed, with a Smolensk breakout near completion.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Leningrad
Berlin
Kiev
Ukraine
Smolensk
Adolf Hitler
Eleanor Pogwist Air Hitchhiker Joins Roswell Stop
By Ed Scarritt reports Eleanor Pogwist the airplane hitchhiker breezed into Roswell on Sunday and aims for Santa Fe next, claiming a waiting list of rides while authorities found no sight of her arrival. She says California origin via John Johnson of the College of the Pacific and carries autographs from governors and state seals.
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Ed Scarritt
Eleanor Pogwist
Roswell
Santa Fe
Pogwist
California
John Johnson
The
College of the Pacific
Los Angeles
Three-Pound Baby Born At St Marys Hospital Here
A baby girl weighing three pounds was born at 5 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Marys hospital. She is in an incubator and fed by eye-dropper and is reported to be getting along fine. The infant is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John R Price.
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St. Mary’s Hospital
John R. Price
Woman sought for cabin work. ad quickly drew many calls
La Salle Courts resident Mrs H B Salee placed a classified ad in Record seeking a woman for cabin work. By morning she phoned to remove it, and the phone has rung roughly every ten minutes since the paper hit the streets.
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H. B. Salee
la Salle Courts
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Soe
Ader, Bork
Germany
Atter Cag
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