Roswell Daily Record Publisher and editors list
Roswell Daily Record details staff roles and contact information for the Roswell publishing office including publisher Thomas G. Summers editor E Mason city editor Edw L Scarritt advertising manager H B Cooley and the newspaper’s advertising rates and mail circulation notes. The note confirms association with The Associated Press and dates to December 12 1941.
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Roswell
New Mexico
Hay
Associated Press
Focal News
New Mexico Newspaper Association
War State of Mind Grows Across Nation
Reports from across the country and local actions show a nation entering a war state of mind. While noting a wartime blow to defenses, the piece asserts resolve, urging unity, sacrifice, and a united front with Britain and democracies to crush tyranny and secure victory.
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Europe
America
Britain
War Comes Home Message From The Nation
The piece foresees casualties and wartime privations in America with lists of the fallen and shortages of luxuries while food remains plentiful here. It contrasts American luck with civilian suffering abroad under German occupation and stresses resilience and gratitude.
Vichy France Pens Ships for Italy in Mediterranean
The report states Vichy France agrees to furnish warships transports and Mediterranean ports for Italy. If true the Vichy regime would be an enemy to anti Axis nations worldwide and compel Free France to aid against its own allies under Hun dictation.
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Vichy France
Mediterranean
Italy
France
War Years Call To Duty Strains on Home Front
The passage notes nations rushing to aid France, wartime measures including tire sales limits, production cuts for autos, price ceilings on coffee and other imports, mined harbors, blackouts, troop build up, drafts, seven day work, and heavy wartime funding. It argues unity and intensified effort will hasten victory and global freedom.
Propaganda and rumor control in wartime morale effort
The piece warns against unfounded rumors spread to undermine national morale and highlights Axis use of propaganda. It stresses vigilance, checks on reports, and the civilian duty to support war efforts through morale, resources, and funding, comparing Americans to the British in resisting propaganda.
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Axis
France
Norway
Red Cross
World War II Allied Axis and neutrals list snapshot
The document lists nations aligned in World War II, detailing the United States Britain Canada and others against Germany Italy Japan and allies. It names neutrals such as Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico Portugal Spain Sweden and Turkey among others.
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United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Manchukuo
Britain
Canada
Union of South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
Free French
China
Finland
Romania
Croatia
Hungary
Russia
Norway
Luxembourg
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Greece
Ethiopia
Rumania
Costa Rica
Cuba
Haiti
el Salvador
Honduras
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Panama
Argentina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Mexico
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Uruguay
Venezuela
Nation Elated Over Early War News and Plans
The nation welcomed naval successes against Japan and quick Allied momentum. Officials cited sinkings and damage to Japanese warships, Wake Island actions, and renewed Russian stance while plotting federal war measures. New arms funding, auto production cuts, and a proposed labor-management pact aimed to accelerate the war effort.
Heavy Fighting Locations In Philippines Continue On Page One
Army commander in chief reports 113 Japanese bombers in this morning’s attacks centering on Batangas province and surrounding areas in the Philippines.
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Philippines
Batangas Province
Weather Map Shows Snow and Rain Across Wide Area
Overcast skies brought snow or rain to a wide region last night. Central and northern Great Plains from Nebraska northwestward into the upper Mississippi valleys and Great Lakes saw snow. South of the belt, rain or drizzle and fog affected Texas Oklahoma Kansas, with continued rain in New Mexico and Arizona. Fair weather persisted in Wyoming Colorado Utah and southern Nevada. Temperatures moderated in the Great Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley while turning quite cold in New England.
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Wea Bureau
Great Plains
Nebraska
Upper
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Mississippi Valley
New England States
Institute Arizona Polo Postponed After Wet Field
A two game polo series between Arizona University and New Mexico Military Institute scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Tucson was postponed due to a wet field. The series is expected to be rescheduled for January.
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Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Roosevelt
Hull
Kiubvsheyo
Soviet Union
Soviet Socialist Republics
Litvinoffi
State Department
Tucson
Ariz
Arizona University
New Mexico Military Institute
War bulletin: Japanese planes shot down and gains reported
Eleven Japanese planes were said to be shot down while Tokyo headquarters claimed Japanese forces could launch a pincer attack from north and south Luzon. U S. communique acknowledged improved Japanese positions at Luzons north end but said the overall situation remained materially unchanged. Admiral Hart reported sinking a Kongo class battleship off northwest Luzon plus a light cruiser and destroyer near Wake Island and declared Haruna sunk. Imperial claimed minesweepers sunk and damage to a light cruiser with nine naval planes lost. British sources noted a Malay advance on Singapore.
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Manila
Legaspi
Imperial Tokyo
Luzon
Admiral Hart
U.S
Wake Island
Haruna
Imperial Headquarters of
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Philippines
Domei
Hartuna
Far East
Britain
Singapore
Germans Smashed By The Russians
Moscow reports Soviet forces shattered several German divisions on the central front with Stalinogorsk and Venev retaken and advances noted west and southwest of Moscow. Army communique cites 30,000 German dead, recapture of 400 inhabited places, 386 tanks, 4,000 motor vehicles, 305 guns, and large quantities of other equipment and vehicles destroyed.
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Moscow
Russia
Stalinogorsk
Venev
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