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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1941
Page
4
Advertising rates listed and an application filed May 10 1903 in Roswell New Mexico is noted as second class mail matter under the 1879 act. The item is dated Friday August 22 1941.
Dewitt MacKenzie warns occupied Europe faces deep hunger beyond war needs. He cites food conservation edicts and prohibited foods, mentions signs of malnutrition in children, and recalls past Soviet-German maneuvers and the non aggression pact. The piece also covers naval ROTC expansion, US Japan tensions, and lists many El Paso area businesses.
The text reflects on Napoleon’s winter defeat in Russia and warns of a similarly looming disaster. It cites claims in a two month war where combined German and Russian forces report seven million killed, wounded, or captured, with diverging loss tallies between Germany and Russia and notes the enormous human cost of the Nazi Soviet conflict.
The largest eastern defense strike and the first major stoppage since Inglewood. Roosevelt ordered the navy to take and operate the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock plant at Kearny New Jersey. Disputes centered on union membership and a mediation board plan. Workers cheered as work was expected to resume Monday amid ongoing government plans for purchase lease or management. Governor Edison urged swift ship production to replace halted vessels.
Eddy Leadinglime at 3890 feet and the B J Rutledge Jr state 0 3 show initial potential of 100 barrels of oil in 12 hours. Through open 2 inches in lime at 3690 feet were other Lea county completions.
Reports from the eastern front say Red forces risk being outflanked near the Dnieper while claims of dam loss and urban recaptures circulate. Britain cautions about Turkish intervention and Iranian tensions grow over German removal. Guerrilla activity, Italian moves in Croatia, and Vichy measures against opponents add to a tense European scene.
New York reporting from August 23 notes British radio broadcasts warn against premature revolts in Europe. The French language feed quoted the warning that those who revolt too soon revolt in vain while promising to present their bill to the enemy.
In Vichy France Marshal Petain unveiled drastic measures including death sentences by special military courts aimed at crushing opposition as Nazi authorities push a broad campaign across occupied and unoccupied zones. The order lets courts sentence to death for acts against German forces with cases heard within ten days of arrest and applies to communists, saboteurs, and anarchists. 7,000 communists Jews detained near Paris plus 4,000 previously raided. The cabinet oath backed Petain as anti opposition drive intensifies. releases of syndicalists to counter communist activity were announced.
British observers expect a massive early clash over Leningrad as German Finnish forces press a multi pronged assault on the czarist capital. The city with nearly 3 million inhabitants faces a costly battle to defend the Soviet Union’s historic shrine while Marshal Voroshilov urges total defense to the last. Phone your classified to No. 11.
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