City to issue bonds for defense fund repayment plan
The council plans a April bond election to repay the state defense fund and to settle $6,510 owed to N M M I for land used in the airport project. Total payments to N M M I would reach $40,000 after bonds issue, with ongoing elections if the measure fails. The state finance board restored a 10 percent budget cut totaling $4,700, boosting the school’s building program funding to $44,700.
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National Defense
State Defense Fund
Defense Fund
Institute For Institute
State Finance Board
Hinkle
Britain Votes One Billion Pounds for War Effort
Military reports note uncertainty over Russia's strengths but agree the Red Army, though large, cannot withstand seasoned German blitz troops. In Parliament, the Commons approves a one billion pound aid measure to support Britain's war effort.
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Mussia
Red Army
Britain
House of Commons
London
Moscow
Reich
Cologne
Duesseldorf
Kiel
Germany
Reuters
Ankara
Black Sea
Berlin
Bratislava
Slovakia
Russia
Kaunas
Lithuania
Baltic
Estonia
Latvia
U.S.S.R
Finland
Helsinki
Italy
Syria
Catana
Beirut
Lebanon
Ethiopia
Rome
Cairo
Middle East
Agaro
Bedelle
Lake Tana
Soviet Russia
Bern-Switzerland
Roswell blackout urged for Flying Cadet Week
Roswell residents were urged to participate in a citywide blackout from 9:30 to 9:39 PM on Saturday during Flying Cadet Week. West side lights go out first, east side follows. radios urged to stay tuned to KGFL for instructions. Hospitals and essential services stay lit. A street dance with a four-speaker system will follow the blackout, with Army Air Corps recruits and Gov and Mrs Miles as honored guests.
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Main
Main Street
KGFL
Roswell
Army Air Corps
Miles
Santa Fe
Bob Crosby
Carl Arnold
San Juan
Mayor Hall
Air Corps
Yucca
Roy Rogers
Marshall Maps Steps to Knit Defense Forces
General Marshall outlined plans to integrate army air forces and navy marines into joint task forces for potential wartime landings. A marine corps officer leads a task force for western hemisphere defense, while Brigadier General Henry W Harrs commands air defense bases in Newfoundland. Alaska bases may shift to air officer control after construction. The Army Navy Joint Board operates almost continuously, chaired by top officials including General Arnold, and mirrors Germanys Nazi staff approach in coordinating defense efforts with cabinet oversight.
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Marshall
Marine Corps
Army Marine
Henry W. Harrs
Army
Newfoundland
Great Britain
Alaska
Army-Navy Joint Board
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Navy
Air Corps
Congress
Stimson
United States
Germany
Joint Board
Hitler Has Returned to Mein Kampf Reflections
Dewitt Mackenzie’s daily feature notes Hitler rereads Mein Kampf while abroad. The piece argues Hitler betrays himself, cites his reluctance toward treaties with Russia, and warns that his pursuit of eastern soil could threaten England and Italy, with Japan pulling back in the Pacific as Germany shifts toward Russia.
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Dewitt Mackenzie
Fred Vanderschmidt
Moscow
Rome
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Britain
Italy
Russia
Germany
England
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Pacific
Roswell tax levy urged for flood protection plan
The Roswell city vote set for July eighth would approve a five mill property tax over three years to fund flood protection and drainage improvements. Officials warn floods harm residents, businesses, parks and streets, urging voters to back the measure amid rising flood risk. The piece also notes railroads facing wage demands and national defense priorities amid potential strikes.
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Roswell
Farm Bill Funds Agriculture Programs and Parity Aid
The farms bill allocates about 1.35 billion for broad agricultural programs including a 590 million soil conservation payment to 6 million producers of cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco. It also reserves 212 million for parity payments to restore relative purchasing power to prewar levels, amid Senate House funding debates and parity dynamics.
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Administration Farms
Senate
House
Miners Boards designate 22 to represent employes
Washington reports selection of twenty two mine workers to represent on each bituminous coal district board in line with federal price and marketing regulations. Frank Hefferly of Denver heads district 17 Southern Colorado and Eben Jones of Raton heads district 18 New Mexico. Whitten Loses purse at courthouse lawn. three ten dollar bills missing, appeal for return to Roswell’s The Record office. Home grown blackberries offered by Albert in Atkinson with contact numbers.
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Washington
Bituminous Coal
Southern
Colorado
Frank Hefferly
Denver
New Mexico
Eben Jones
Raton
N. M
Whitten
Louis Whitten
Roswell
Budget Slash Affects Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Funds
Budget actions cut the Gallup inter-tribal Indian ceremonial funding and other allocations from the Employment Security Commission. The measure reduces the commission's total appropriation near twenty thousand dollars, impacting ceremonial and related programs.
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Gallup
Employment Security Commission
Commission
New Mexico Budget Restorations and Military Fund Allocations
The employment service fund list shows restorations to state institutions including 4500 to State Teachers College for vocational education, 4050 to State School of Mines for an airplane hangar, 4477.50 to Highlands University, 13000 for building repairs and a women’s dormitory, and 4700 to New Mexico Military Institute. The Institute received a 33490 indirect allotment from the state defense fund, drawn from a Roswell airport loan. The defense fund direct allotment was refused. military department got 46620 for July to September. Additional items include 4000 for an WPA airport signage project and a denied 6000 request for the state industrial school. Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial’s 10000 two-year appropriation was not advanced.
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the Employment Service Fund
State Teachers College
State School of Mines
Highlands University
Las Vegas
State College
New Mexico Military Institute
The
Military Institute
State Defense Fund
Hiram Dow
Rolla Hinkle
Roswell
Defense Fund
Institute
State Military Department
Military Department
Adj
E. L. Stafford
New Mexico
State Industrial School
Fred Allen
Gallup Inter-Tribal
Flashes of Life Nose For News in Findlay and Portales
Findlay Ohio Robert Rosencrans a reporter for the Findlay Republican Courier filed a draft board call story noting a new quota with one man slated for around July 11 Robert Rosencrans In Portales on June 24 a gift to Eastern New Mexico College a historic flag once in the Senate chamber during the Lease Lend era was presented by Mrs. W D Sawyer of New Mexico to the college Senator Dennis Chavez arranged its transfer and it will be housed in the college vault before mounting in the campus museum.
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Chaves County
Philip E. Larson
Taxpayers Association of New
New Mexico
Democratic Party
Chaves
Findlay
Ohio
Robert Rosencrans
Findlay Republican Courier
E.n.m.c’s
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