Allied planes down 13 Japanese in New Guinea Timor action
Allied airmen claimed 13 enemy fighters destroyed or damaged with two allied planes lost in New Guinea and Timor operations. Japanese submarines reportedly attacked an allied vessel off the southeast coast without success. Large fires erupted near Lae Salamua in New Guinea as an aerial assault pressed amid anti aircraft fire.
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Australia
New Guinea
Portuguese Timor
Douglas MacArthur
Tasman Sea
Ermera
Timor
Darwin
Lae-Salamaura
Southwest Pacific
Steer Roping Trophy Displayed At Huff's Jewelry
The World Championship Steer Roping trophy, backed by the Lions Club and Roswell merchants, is shown in Huff's Jewelry window at 222 North Main. Carl Arnold of Buckeye, Arizona, and Bob Crosby of Roswell contest the June 21 Roswell event for permanent possession after three straight wins. Crosby aims to dethrone Arnold and will practice at the Fair Ground after roping 10 to 20 steers each Sunday at his ranch.
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Lion’s Club
Roswell
Huff’s
North Main
Carl Arnold
Buckeye
Arizona
Bob Crosby
Arnold
Crosby
Fair Ground
Local Weather Readings and Temperatures Summary
Readings at three hour intervals show values from 11:30 a m to 6:30 p m with highs near 91 and a low around 58. Normal highs and lows for the date are 90 and 60. Precipitation totals 0.40 inches month to date 3.35 year to date with normal 0.72 and 4.54 respectively. Sunrise 5 48 am Sunset 8 06 pm Day length 14 3 hours.
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Tony
Bitter Fighting With Heavy Losses In The Crimea
Moscow reports say Russian defenders of Sevastopol resist a heavy German onslaught. Red Star dispatches claim Germans penetrated to a hilly sector while aerial bombardment and ground assaults continue. Soviet forces report massive casualties on approaches to the fortifications as Kerch falls and Sevastopol remains contested.
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Moscow
Sevastopol
Crimean
Red Star
Red Army
Kerch
Crimea
House Debates Ending the WPA in Wartime Budget Fight
Washington reports a fierce House battle over continuing the WPA as war needs cut WPA funding. Rep Taber argues for eliminating a 250 million appropriation to employ 400000, while Rep Cannon defends keeping jobs for those displaced by peacetime cuts. The appropriations committee warns a large WPA reduction would affect 573000 workers.
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Washington
WEA
House
Civilian Conservation Corps
Rep
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
New Yorker
Cannon
D-Mo
Stage coaches and horses to replace buses in Kansas City
John Moore, park board president, plans to use stage coaches and horses to serve a beach area after defense transportation rules block a bus line. He seeks to assemble teams and draft the historic transport method to keep access open despite the new swimming pool’s completion.
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Kansas City
John Moore
Park Board
Defense Transportation
Petain Believes Axis Cannot Win War Now
Washington reports from Vichy today state Marshal Petain now believes the Axis cannot win the war after two years of fighting since Dunkirk. He previously viewed a German victory as inevitable but is said to be convinced Germany and its allies will be defeated. Laval reportedly continued on to Page Five.
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Washington
Dunkerque
Marshal Petain
Vichy
France
Petain
Germany
Pierre Laval
Motorist Dies Of Thirst In Desert
KINGMAN Arizona June 10 A 76 year old Benjamin Pierce Cheney of Boston died after a 20 mile desert search for water when his car stalled in a northwestern Arizona wash A cowboy found the body 49 miles south a canteen lay empty A justice of the peace and ex officio coroner E E Wishon located the car from the air Cheney wandered east while the Bill Williams river lay to the west His wife Ida Lewis Cheney once Julia Arthur was prostrated at home after hearing of his death in Boston she said he left for California weeks ago and had not been heard from for two weeks.
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Kingman
Ariz
Arizona
Benjamin Pierce Cheney
Boston
Lee Eaton
E. E. Wishon
Justice of the Peace
Cheney
Bill Williams
Ida Lewis Cheney
Julia Arthur
Stage
California
City defers bond sale for library and airport building
Roswell city council last night deferred selling bonds authorized by voters to remodel the Carnegie library and to erect an airport administration building until work feasibility is confirmed. The council approved a separate $40,000 bond issue to repay State Board of Finance funds used for land purchases for the airport and for land acquired from the New Mexico Military Institute.
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Roswell
Carnegie Library
State of New Mexico
Salem Curtis Leads New Mexico VFW
Salem Curtis of Roswell will head the New Mexico Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the coming year after being elected state commander at the encampment. National commander Max Singer called for a complete peace, not another armistice, as other officers were chosen: Guido Zecca senior vice commander Ed Laughlin junior vice commander William C. Alexander adjutant quartermaster D F Monacce department surgeon and Rev Harry P Staggs department chaplain.
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Clovis
N. M
Salem Curtis
Roswell
New Mexico
Steps To Increase Beef Slaughter Considered In New Mexico
HIOT SPRINGS New Mexico June 10 Steps for meeting the governments requested increases in beef slaughter were discussed by the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association executive committee. About 300 cattlemen attended with 107 new applications expected to boost membership to 1500. The group planned to explore an 18 percent rise in beef production despite wartime priorities and labor shortages with Adjutant General Charlton set to speak on ranch labor issues.
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Hiot Springs
N. M
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association
H. B. Henning
Association
Adjt
R. C. Charlton
State Selective Service
Boy Scout Board To Meet Saturday
An executive board meeting of the Eastern New Mexico Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America will be held next Saturday at the Nickson Hotel at 4 30 o clock. James M Murray Sr president of the council said a good attendance was requested since decisions were to be made on several matters of importance.
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Eastern New Mexico
The
Boy Scouts of America
Nickson Hotel
James M. Murray
Sidelights On The News Associational Changes
The New Mexico County Officers association held its annual convention in Santa Fe and Taos, with several other assemblies abandoned. Many in the press favor canceling the New Mexico Editorial association, and suggest re organization if it reconvenes. Critics note alcohol over ink at meetings and a lack of constructive program items.
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New Mexico County Officers Association
Santa Fe
Taos
Fourth Estate
New Mexico Editorial Association
Kirby of
Portales
Two Week Drive For Collection Of Old Rubber
Washington reports a B F Goodrich executive demonstrated synthetic rubber handling to astonished senators. K D Smith of Akron described liquid Amerpol latex, poured it into a beaker, added acetic acid, squeezed and bounced it to illustrate quality. He suggested 240 cents per pound as a fair price.
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Washington
B. F. Goodrich
K. D. Smith
Akron
Ohio
Ameripol
McNary
R-Ore
German People Will Be Happier For Hitler Defeat
Louis P Lochner, former AP Berlin chief, said in a NBC radio talk that Germans will be happier after Hitlers defeat. He warned Hitler is not the genius he is cracked up to be and urged belief that he can be beaten. Lochner recalled 1940 coast observations showing Nazi conditioning and suggested a United Nations landing was possible.
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New .York
Hitler
Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
NBC
Lochner
United States
Iice
United Nations
War Workers Increase Travel on Two Roads
War workers replaced tourists on two New Mexico highways last month. The highway department recorded a 143 percent rise on U S 54 70 south of Alamogordo near the new bombing range and a 26 percent increase on U S 285 south of Roswell due to the Roswell air base construction. Elsewhere traffic fell sharply.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Highway Department
Alamogordo
Roswell
U. S. 285
Calf Roping At Carlsbad Sunday
Special matches and jackpots highlight a Brahma calf roping program in Carlsbad New Mexico on Sunday afternoon. A six-man Carlsbad versus Clovis contest features eight calves between Bill Bomar and Dub Hardin, with other matches including Joe Welch against Homer Bennett and Derrick versus Slick Derrick. The event opens a series sponsored by Carlsbad Rodeos and Races Inc.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Clovis
Bill Bomar
Dub Hardin
Hagerman Flash
Joe Welch
Homer Bennett
Jim Derrick
Slick” Derrick
Lake Arthur
Carlsbad Rodeos and Races, Inc
Reds And Nazis Battle For Sevastopol Rages On
Allied and Soviet reports clashed over the Crimea front as German troops pressed deeper into Sevastopol while Red Army dispatches claimed 2,500 Nazi dead in a single day. Soviet papers conceded some infantry penetration but said the battle remained largely at the city’s approaches.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Crimea
Red Star
Great Black Sea
North Africa
Neil Ritchie
Bir Hacheim
Erwin Rommel
Taranto
English Channel
RAF
Germany
Baseball Scores From the American League and Leagues
Today’s box scores show Detroit blanking New York 0 0 while St Louis and Boston split with 3 0 1 and 2 0 0. Chicago beat Philadelphia with 2 0 0 and 0 0 0. Cleveland at Washington was listed as a night game. Batteries included Niggeling Ferrell Hughson Conroy Benton Tebbetts Breuer Rosar Humphes Turner Knott Swift.
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St. Louis
Boston
Niggeling
Ferrell
Hughson
Conroy
Detroit
New York
Benton
Tebbetts
Breuer
Rosar
Chicago
Philadelphia
Humphes
Turner
Knott and Swift
Philadelphia Chicago Batteries Podgamny and Livingston
New York at Cincinnati night Boston at Pittsburgh night Brooklyn at St. Louis post poned will be played Aug. 26.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Livingston
Lee and McCullough
Brooklyn
St. Louis
State Leasing Act Amendment Clears Election Path
President Roosevelt signed an amendment to the New Mexico enabling act allowing the state to amend its constitution on grazing land leases. The change, urged by the last legislature, would extend the maximum lease period from five to ten years, aligning state leases with federal and national forest standards, with action possible in the November general election.
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Santa FE
N. M
Roosevelt
New Mexico
Land Office
National Forest
Japan claims losses in battles. U.S. losses disputed
Tokyo reports one aircraft carrier lost and two damaged in the Midway Dutch Harbor actions while claiming two U.S. carriers and a large transport were sunk. Imperial headquarters lists heavier Japanese tolls and says U.S. carriers Enterprise and Hornet were sunk, with 120 enemy planes downed as operations continue in the Aleutians.
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Tokyo
Japan
Midway
Dutch Harbor
United States
Navy
U. S
Pacific
Imperial Headquarters
Midway Island
Aleutians
Aleutian Islands
James R Shields Killed In Roswell Air Base Accident
James Ralph Shields a 35 year old mechanic working for Nolan and Wagner Construction at the Roswell air base project was killed when he slipped and fell into an asphalt mixer. He lived at 312 South Main Street with his wife and leaves a mother two brothers and five sisters. Funeral services expected tomorrow with Talmage Mortuary in charge.
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Roswell Air Base
James Ralph Shields
Shields
Nolan and Wagner Construction Company
Air Base Project
Odessa
Texas
South Main Street
Roswell
Talmage Mortuary
Seeing s Believing Mrs. Liston remarks on classifieds briskness
Mrs. Margaret Liston of Mode O Day praises front page stories about classifieds as a business barometer. She says the recent uptick confirms the point and thanks the publication for its accurate coverage.
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Margaret Liston
Mode O” Day
Classified
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Huff
Laval
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VFW
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Boy Scout Board
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Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
James R. Shields
T. C. Feagan
N. Lea
N. Apt
Mrs. Liston
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