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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1940
Page
3
The new decade opens with Roosevelt’s message as Congress debates foreign policy, trade treaties, and domestic issues. He links trade accords to peace while calling for defense budget increases and new taxes to fund national defense amid war uncertainty.
J Edgar Hoover told Congress demands on the FBI in the 1939 fiscal year were the heaviest in 15 years due to espionage cases totaling 1651 up from 250 in 1938. Attorney General Murphy called federal procedure highly unsatisfactory and urged rules revision.
Washington Jan 3 The roundup of more than 10 000 non productive Navajo horses last summer and fall established the right of the secretary of interior to control grazing on Indian lands. Frank Murphy said in his annual report to President Roosevelt that the cases showed the United States won all 12 in federal courts. Injunctions ordered reduction of excess stock and the judgments upheld the secretary s right to protect tribal lands and curb waste. Voluntary cooperation with the Navajo in the current grazing rules is growing and aids conservation efforts across other Indian reservations. The grazing regulations of 1937 were issued with Navajo tribal council consent to prevent desertification and monopolization of the range by a few stockowners.
A blaze in the three section Marlborough Apartment Hotel in Minneapolis killed at least 18 and left 25 injured, with rescuers finding bodies on the upper floors amid zero weather. Fire started simultaneously in all three sections as hoses froze, trapping residents and hampering efforts.
Butler Pennsylvania judge John H. Wilson, famous for telling thieves they cannot steal cars in Butler County and get away, arrived at his office with tingling ears and chilled ankles after his own automobile was stolen.
In Twin Falls Idaho Sam Wagner requests his phone line be marked temporarily out of order after repeat calls asking if the number 1940 is correct. The number 1940 has caused ongoing confusion especially on New Year’s night as neighbors repeatedly inquire about the line.
New York records show Otis Thompson a 32 year old nesto arrested annually on New Year’s Day for violent crimes. On January 1, 1938 he faced assault charges, on January 1, 1939 felonious assault, and on January 1, 1940 felonious assault related to his wife’s stabbing in serious condition. He has repeatedly been the first to be arrested for a felony each year.
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