Allied Columns Press Forward Toward Palmyra
Two allied columns push toward Palmyra in the Syrian desert while one reaches the town outskirts after bombing from a French air base. French forces retreating from Damascus hold positions toward Barze and Jebel El Charki as battles continue near Mezze and Kattaneh. In Lebanon, Australian troops advance north amid inconclusive fighting near Merdjayoun.
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Jerusalem
Palmyra
Damascus
Barze
Jebel el Charki Range
Mezze
Kattaneh
Lebanon
Merdjayoun
Santa Fe Paper Carries Story On Larson Report
Phillip E Larson reported a survey of Chaves county government not accepted by the county Taxpayers Association. A meeting voted to withhold acceptance until a committee of R H McCune Warren Cobean and Larson reviews errors. The Santa Fe New Mexican published Asplund's article without noting the association’s rejection.
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Phillip E Larson
Chaves County
R. H. McCune
Warren Cobean
Phillip E. Larson
Asplund
Santa Fe
Larson
Local Weather Temperature Readings and Sun Times
Weather report shows 24 hr temperature readings at 3 hour intervals ending today 11 30 am with highs 86 and lows 66. Precipitation totals from 24 hours 0 00 inch, month to date 0 71 and year to date 15 23. Sunrise 4 50 am sunset 5 10 pm length of day 14 3 hours.
Blackout schedule announced for Roswell city's defense drill
City officials released an exact plan for Roswell’s Saturday night blackout. Main Street sections will keep power to street and window lights while residents must turn off lights on cue. The 9 0 0 p m signal blocks streets, 9 30 p m whistle triggers west side lights off, with a 9 32 p m full five minute whistle followed by east side lights off ending at 9 37 p m.
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Roswell
Main
Main Street
Public Service Company
Aluminum From La Slot Machines
Baton Rouge Louisiana police announce 1 200 illegal slot devices seized and smashed yielding 5 000 to 6 000 pounds of scrap metal mainly aluminum. State police superintendent Steve Alford says the metal could build a military airplane and offered the scrap to Britain.
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Baton Rouge
Great Britain
Louisiana
Steve Alford
Alford
Britain
Farm Bill Eyes Record Aid for U S Farmers
Washington June 24 a record breaking 1 060 500 063 farm bill to aid about 30 million persons in agriculture awaits final action in the senate. Coupled with a mandatory crop loans act the measure aims to provide prices support and likely bring farmers their most prosperous year since the war era. Senate leaders expect swift approval probably this week after more than three months of maneuvering.
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Washington
Senate
Plenty Fireworks Now Scarce in 1942
Washington reports fireworks for this Fourth of July are plentiful due to materials made last year but warns that 1943 supplies may be restricted. Charles H. Fleming of the Association of Pyrotechnic Manufacturers explains magnesium aluminum and other chemicals are on restricted lists and civilian use hinges on defense needs.
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Washington
Charles H. Fleming
The
Association of Pyrotechnic Manufacturers
New Mexico Military Institute Receives Defense Fund Grant
The New Mexico Military Institute will get 33,490 from the state defense fund for the completion of its building program. Secretary Rolla R. Hinkle announced the allotment after a Santa Fe finance board meeting. Plans include two new barracks to raise capacity to 700 cadets, to be finished by September 1942, with other facilities already completed or under construction. The funds are provided via a Roswell city borrowing used to retire a mortgage on the municipal airport and acquire additional airport land.
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New Mexico Military Institute
State Defense Fund
Rolla R. Hinkle
Institute Board of Regents
State Finance Board
Santa Fe
H. M. Dow
N. M. M. I. Board of Regents
Hinkle
Roswell
Dow
Lea Hall
State Agencies Face 10 Percent Budget Cuts in New Year
Santa Fe reports 1941 42 deductions approved by the finance board, offset by restoring some current year cuts. The general fund ends the year with an overdraft of 40 60 thousand dollars, far better than last year, and funds exist to liquidate. Exemptions include fee funded offices and agencies and police, auditor, secretary of state, attorney general, supreme court, and other state bodies.
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Santa FE
N. M
Finance Board
Bureau of Revenue and
State Land Office
State Police
State Auditor
Secretary of State
Attorney General
Supreme Court
Vocational Education Division
Capitol Custodian Commission
Steps Taken to Weld Defense Forces in A Fighting Team
General George C. Marshall announced new steps to tightly coordinate American land sea and air forces. Navy dive bombers will work with ground troops in late summer maneuvers, arranged with Admiral Harold R. Stark. War games with 350000 troops are planned in Louisiana in August and Army field training tops off in November with further maneuvers in the Carolinas.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
Navy
Harold R. Stark
Naval
Louisiana
Carolinas
Marshall
Urton Called by Brother's Illness in Clovis
W C Urton was summoned to Clovis today due to his brother Ben Urton's serious illness. Ben, a former well known resident of the Cerrendo area, is on a Portales farm and has been taken to a Clovis hospital where he received a blood transfusion.
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W. C. Urton
Clovis
Ben Urton
Berrendo
Portales
Russians Battle Germans on Baltic to Black Sea Front
Moscow reports the Red Army has repulsed German mechanized columns and captured 5,000 prisoners while destroying 300 tanks and 127 warplanes in two days of fighting. Soviet losses include Brest-Litovsk, Kolno, and Lomza. Pravda urges crushing the Fascist beast as reports describe frontline guards fighting hand to hand.
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Moscow
Russia
Red Army
Black Sea
Pravda
Communist Party
Brest-Litovsk
Kolno
Lomza
Lithuania
Poland
Fourth of July Program At The Bottomless Lakes
Roswell plans a July Fourth celebration at Bottomless Lakes State Park sponsored by the Twenty Thirty Club. Activities include swimming contests bathing beauty review and motor boat races with an evening fireworks display from Sea lake bluffs funded by community contributions. Final plans are set at the club’s Wednesday meeting.
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Roswell
Twenty-Thirty
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Sea Lake
Bath-House
Twenty-Thirty Club
Chamber of Commerce
Lea Lake
Great Success claimed by Nazi attack on Soviet front
Berlin reports the German push into Russia following a planned course with great successes as Panzer columns and Luftwaffe thunderbolts break through Soviet bunkers along a 2000 mile front. DNB notes a break through and German front-line pictures show Red forces in disarray. Cross Prut River advances German Romanian forces push into Bessarabia with Antonescu leading mixed units. Continued to page eight.
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Germany
Russia
Fuehrer
DNB
Red Army
High Command
Adolf Hitler
Balkan
Baltic
Windau
Latvian
Red
Red Air Force
East Prussia
Prut
Bessarabia
Bucharest
Ion Antonescu
Associated Press
Ukraine
Japan
Spain
Russian
Odessa
Black Sea
Ankara
Turkey
Fort Sumner Rodeo Ad Seen In Roswell Visit
A Fort Sumner delegation came to Roswell to promote the third annual Fort Sumner amateur rodeo set for July 3 and 4.
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Fort Summer
Roswell
Fort Sumner
Condemnation Hearing Set For U S Highway 285 Route
A condemnation suit by Chaves county commissioners seeks land for the alternate route of U S Highway 285 south of Roswell. District Judge James B. McGhee will hear the case in Lovington at 9 a m tomorrow.
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James B. McGhee
Lovington
Chaves County
Roswell
Crude Oil Output Up in Most States
Daily crude oil production rose 29,925 barrels to 3,864,145 for the week ended June 21, with Kansas up 12,900 to 231,450 and Texas up 16,200 to 1,422,200. Louisiana gained 8,660 to 331,910, Michigan 2,150 to 40,200, Illinois 160 to 343,005, and the Rocky Mountain area 370 to 109,460, while Oklahoma fell 1,425 to 414,000 and East Texas slipped 200 to 373,000.
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Tulsa
Okla
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Kansas
Texas
Louisiana
Michigan
Illinois
Rocky Mountain
Oklahoma
Pad
East Texas
Travis Alexander Sentenced to 60 Days in Jail
In police court, Travis Alexander received a 60 day jail term for vagrancy marked as a third offense.
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Travis Alexander
Military reports claim German advance across Ukraine
Conflicting war briefs describe German forces sweeping 120 miles in Ukraine while Allied air operations intensify. Military men cite large gains by Germany, alongside British successes in Africa and Syria as the fighting continues in Russia.
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Ukraine
Russia
Africa
Syria
German drive claims 280 Soviet tanks destroyed
Berlin reports 280 Russian tanks destroyed in Nazi eastward push with 180 tanks in one sector and 100 in another, plus the destruction of one Soviet division as German forces break through border positions. German losses said to be exceptionally small while Soviet tank forces were scattered by the Luftwaffe. Vichy notes Turkey massing troops on the Syrian frontier amid growing British French operations.
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Berlin
DNB
Vichy
France
Turkey
Japanese mission head sent to Bangkok from Indo China
Colonel Jiro Saito, chief of the Japanese military mission in Indo-China, received orders from Tokyo to depart immediately for Bangkok Thailand. The reason is undisclosed though some suspect it relates to Japan's new position in the anti Russia war context. The Thai government has cooperated with Tokyo and there have been no prior signs of trouble.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Jiro Saito
Tokyo
Bangkok
Thailand
Japan
Red Sox wallop Indians in first game of series
Boston dominates Cleveland 13 to 2 on 18 hits with homers from Dom Dimaggio Bobby Doerr and Jim Tabor including a grand slam off Mel Harder in the third inning. Also Yankees crush Browns 9 to 1 as Joe DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 36 games and home run streak to 19 straight. Detroit at Philadelphia scheduled for a night game.
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Red Sox
Indians
Boston
Boston Red Sox
Cleveland
Dom Dimaggio
Bobby Doerr
Jim Tabor
Mel Harder
Harder, Brown, Jungels & Hemsley
H. Newsome
Pytlak
Yankees extend home run streak as Rolfe hits opener
New York Yankees beat Cleveland Browns 9 to 1 anchoring a 19 game home run streak when Red Rolfe homers in the first inning. Joe DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 36 games with a single in the eighth. record stands at 41 by George Sisler in 1922.
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Yanks
Browns
New York
Joe Dimaggio
New York Yankee
St. Louis Browns
Red Rolfe
Tom Henrich
Joe Gordon
Lefty Gomez
St. Louis
Muncrief
Kramer & Ferrell
Gomez
Dickey
New York Yankees
Yankees
George Sisler
Crosby Trophies Displayed At Price And Company
Spectators flocked to Price and Company window to view part of Bob Crosby of Roswell world champion cowboy trophies. The centerpiece is Crosby’s 27 ruby saddle set from Pendleton plus other rodeo prizes. Crosby defends his steer roping title next Sunday afternoon against Carl Arnold of Buckeye Arizona drawing visitors from across the country.
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Bob Crosby
Roswell
Crosby
Pendleton
Carl Arnold
Buckeye
Ariz
New York
Price
Fryers for sale advertised by Mrs Raymond Lewis
Mrs Raymond Lewis of 510 South Union placed a Record classified ad boasting how three lines drew many readers to buy her fryers. She praised the ad saying a single short line can move crowds and drive sales.
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Raymond Lewis
South Union
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