Long Machine Beaten As Huey’s Faction Loses Louisiana
In New Orleans on February 21, voters in the Democratic gubernatorial runoff rejected Governor Earl K. Long, brother of Huey P. Long, nominating Sam Jones of Lake Charles. Jones led 258,816 to 238,692 in unofficial returns from 1,508 precincts. Jones vows to restore democracy, recover state funds, and jail graftists. May 14 will see his inauguration as the Long machine’s grip weakens after 12 years of dominance. the state guards stood by with a martial atmosphere but violence was minimal.
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Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Sam Jones
Lake Charles
Jones
Long
Santa FE
N. M
State Education Association
New Mexico
R. J. Mullins
Association
Taos
Socorro
Valencia
Rio Arriba
Bernalillo
Dona Ana
Grant
District Offices NYA Closed in Albuquerque Plan
The National Youth Administration centralized district offices in Albuquerque. G. O. McGuire became director of division operations, joining Max Salazar as assistant director. Las Cruces and Roswell staffs moved to Albuquerque, and Jack Walton and his secretary resigned to enter private work. Savings in administrative expenses were expected.
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National Youth Administration Today
G. O. McGuire
N.Y.A
Las Vegas
Roswell
Las Cruces
Jack Walton
McGuire
Max Salazar
Raids Mark Western Front Clashes In Early Spring
Increasing raids and patrol clashes signal nervous tension on the western front in France as spring fighting looms. Small night actions aim to learn enemy dispositions and identify units, sometimes capturing a live prisoner for valuable information.
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Associated Press
France
Congress in recess as Senate acts on trade programs
House debate continues on reciprocal trade program while Senate rests. Labor committee hears CIO general counsel testimony. Smith committee advances labor board inquiry. Banking committee studies Finnish loan bill. Monopoly committee pursues insurance inquiry. Yesterday House debated reciprocal trade as Senate remained in recess.
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Associated Press
Senate
HOUSE
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CIO
Smith Committee
Labor Board
Banking
Monopoly
Reciprocal Trade Senate
Allies Succeed In Stopping Oil Going to Germany
London reports Britain and France pressured Romania into a decree banning aviation oil shipments to Germany. The Romanian control board over production, including British and French assets, prompted fear of German preference, but officials say the issue was settled with a morally satisfactory exchange.
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London
Great Britain
France
Bucharest
Britain
Karl Clodius
Viorel Virgil
Terday
Romanian Oil Control Board
Control Board
al Ex
Difficulties In Portraying G Washington
Historians say George Washington would be unrecognized today if he walked U.S. streets on his 208th birthday tomorrow the fault lies with Washington. As a portrait sitter he was jumpy and restless causing painters trouble.
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Washington
George Washington
America
Washington’s
Delinquent Taxes Top Seven Million Mark
City officials report delinquent taxes exceed seven million dollars with numerous accounts outstanding across multiple districts. Taxpayers are urged to settle outstanding balances before penalties escalate.
Clovis Publishers Buy Tucumcari Daily News
Rich ard Hindley and Earl Gray acquire The Tucumcari Daily News from Mrs Pauline Sartain and former owner Paul Dodge. Gray becomes active manager while Hindley remains in Clovis and continues as New Mexico Press Association past president and current Associated Press state president.
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Tucumcari News Clovis
Richard Hindley
Clovis News-Journal
Earl Gray
Tucumacri Daily News
News
Pauline D. Sartain
Paul Dodge
New Mexico
Tucumcari
New Mexico Gas Waste Said Held To Reasonable Minimum
Texas engineer Ralph J. Schilthuis told a House committee the New Mexico gas waste is kept to a reasonable minimum given gas oil ratio control challenges. He noted New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana hold 64 percent of current known oil reserves and that avoidable waste remains limited by practical constraints.
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Washington
House
Texas
New Mexico
Ralph J. Schilthuis
Houston
Louisiana
Electric Home For Tiny Babe
A three day old boy weighing three pounds and 12 ounces will be placed in an electric incubator at the Oscar Sullivan farm near Eaton Colorado after a 14 man crew extended electric lines to bring power to the remote home. Dr J H Clayton says the incubator heated by bulbs will be ready tonight and the baby will stay with his mother in a near body temperature room. The effort marks a record speed for Home Gas and Electric Company and the family includes two other children.
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Colo
Oscar Sullivan
J. H. Clayton
Farmer Sullivan
Home Gas and Electric Company
L. R. Storey
Paul Clayton Sullivan
Sullivan
Colorado
Sullivans
Coalition Taft and Vandenberg Against Dewey in Wisconsin
An informal Taft and Vandenberg coalition reported in Washington aims to slow Dewey by backing Vandenberg in the Wisconsin primary on April 2. Taft had said he would not compete there, but supporters expect quiet backing to improve Vandenberg’s chances. Taft's bloc excludes La Follette due to historical ties.
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Wisconsin
Washington
Taft
Vandenberg
Thomas E. Dewey
Ohio
Michigan
William Howard Taft
LaFollette
Bill in Congress to Protect Water Users
Washington Feb. 21 Representatives Dempsey and Thomason have introduced bills to shield water users and interstate compacts from federal funding for reservoirs hydro electric or flood control projects until government reviews show no interference with pact rights or until satisfactory adjustments are arranged
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Washington
Dempsey
D-Nm
Thomason
D-Tex
Frost Nips At The Southern States
Frost touched southern states with unseasonably cold air as the nation saw no storms. Forecaster Gordon E Dunn called the map uninteresting. Texas cities Houston and Galveston felt frost with Florida in the 40s to 50s. Light snow fell in Minnesota the Dakotas Iowa Illinois and Missouri.
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Gordon E. Dunn
United States
New England
Houston
Galveston
Tex
Florida
Miami
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa
Ilinois
Missouri
Middle West
Plan Talks Over Guard Conversion
Governor Miles scheduled conferences with national guard officials on plans to convert the 11th cavalry to anti aircraft. Adj Gen Charlton and Col Sage planned talks with the governor while state treasurer Rex French weighed a possible rehearing of a split supreme court decision. The court ruling held emergency rights to appropriate unspent funds and left the timing of the conversion uncertain.
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Santa FE
N. M
Miles
National Guard
Supreme Court
Adj
R. C. Charlton
Las Cruces
C. G. Sage
Rex French
A. M. Fernandez
French
High Court
Story of Crime Partners in Arkansas Murder Case
Federal agents in Warden Arkansas report Harold Tinnon Burkes and Mrs Claude Henry plotted bank robbery to fund freeing Henry. They abducted traveling salesman Joseph Calloway near Lake Charles Louisiana and killed him in a rice field after forcing him nude. Burkes claimed Henry shot Calloway at point blank and Henry urged him to flee.
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Ark
Houston
Texas
E. L. Richmond
Little Rock
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harold Tinnon Burkes
Joseph P. Calloway
Lake Charles
Richmond
Louisiana
Claude D. Henry
Beaumont
Calloway
Burkes
Adams
Russians Raid Pajala Swedish Town In Bombing
Russian bombing planes attacked Pajala on the Swedish frontier, destroying four buildings and setting many ablaze while residents fled. No casualties were reported as pilots dropped bombs from low altitude and the attack ended with planes moving toward Finland. Sweden protested to Moscow, while an investigation was ordered.
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Pajala
Moscow
Aftonbladet
Kengis
Finland
Roswell School Band and Orchestra Concert Review
A fine Roswell school band and orchestra concert directed by Woodrow Cameron lit the Junior High auditorium last night. The program featured a coronet solo by Robert Burdette with Lee Henrich, and a clarinet quartet by John Waggoner Jean Dickenson Dixie Dan Goode and Howard Bloom.
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Roswell
Woodrow Cameron
Robert Burdette
Lee Henrich
John Waggoner
Jean Dickenson
Dixie Dan Goode
Howard Bloom
Apathy Over The Trade Treaties In Congress
Washington February 21. House leaders faced a rare scene as members were asked to discuss extending the reciprocal trade program but only 25 lawmakers remained in the chamber. The body adjourned early amid paralyzing apathy while debate on the bill stretched for 12 hours. Voting shifts to Friday after George Washington’s birthday exercises. Senate recess continued and committees were quiet. A House committee questioned Benedict Wolf, former labor board secretary, about a drive claiming AFL opposition to Wagner Act revision.
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House
George Washington
Senate
Labor Board
Benedict Wolf
Congress
AFL
Car Stolen From Busy Bee Cafe, 1934 Ford Coach
The sheriff's office reports a 1934 Ford coach owned by C. M. Elrod was stolen last night from behind the Busy Bee Cafe. The vehicle carries New Mexico license 50 673 for 1940.
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Busy Bee
Sheriff’s Office
New Mexico
War child urged as duty by German paper
Berlin broadcasts a Schwarze Korps editorial urging German women to bear more children to populate annexed territories and colonies seized from Britain. It claims greater Germany needs a larger pioneer generation and even mothers with several children should consider another. A mother of eight cited in the piece says all must want a war child. Courthouse offices closed tomorrow for Washington's birthday.
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Schwarze Korps
Vurgan
Blackshirt
Reich
Germany
Russians Press Offensive On Mannerheim Line As Blizzard Approaches
Finnish officials reported simultaneous Red Army assaults on the western Isthmus and Taipale sectors, with two divisions attacking across much of the frontline. Despite claims of Koivisto’s capture being denied, heavy losses and aerial combat were noted as the battle persisted into the night. Russian air raids prompted alarms in Helsinki, with hundreds of planes cited in yesterday’s wide-ranging attacks that killed and wounded dozens across numerous communities.
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Mannerheim Line
Finland
Red
Gulf of Finland
Viipuri
Taipale
Lake Ladoga
Isthmus Front
Deaths Last Night Jervis Spencer Jr 63
Baltimore authorities report Jervis Spencer Jr a noted turf authority and longtime chairman of the Maryland racing commission since 1930 has died at age 63.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Jervis Spencer, Jr
Maryland Racing Commission
German World War Hero Von Stuelpnagel Dead at 63
Major Benno Von Stuelpnagel, 63, long a prominent German world war hero and former head of German veteran organizations in North and South America, based in Bronxville N Y, passed away.
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Benno von Stuelpnagel
North
South America
Nicolay Grevstad 88 Former U S Minister and Editor
Nicolay A Grevstad aged 88 served as managing editor of Skandinaven the nation's leading Norwegian language newspaper and was a former United States minister to Uruguay and Paraguay.
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Chicago
Nicolay A. Grevstad
Skandinaven
United States
Uruguay
Paraguay
Australians and New Zealanders Ordered to Dardanelles
Twenty five years ago today on February 21, 1915, Australians and New Zealanders were ordered to the Dardanelles, signaling a major Allied campaign moment in World War I with troops dispatched to Gallipoli.
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Associated Press
Dardanelles
Boosters Club Form Planned For Coyotes Broncos
A banquet at the Woman's Club endorsed organizing a Boosters Club to support Roswell high school and N M S athletes. The group aims to enlist 500 members next summer before football season. Tom Hall chaired the event, with John W. Hall delivering the main address to about 235 attendees.
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Broncos
John Hall
Woman's Club
Roswell High School
Tom Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Hall
Booster Club
John W. Hall
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