Britain denounces Nazi naval aims in verses of conflict
Berlin reacts with scorn to Britain's note on naval limits, labeling it arrogant while Hitler presses forward on a road of destiny. German services call Britain humbug as they accuse London of misreading Hitler’s peaceful aims and warn of no concessions on naval restraint.
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Berlin
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Deutscher. Dienst
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
London
Deutscher Dienst
England
Voelkischer Beobachter
Danzig
Paris
Highway traffic shifts show New Mexico travel peak
New Mexico traffic patterns reveal July as peak travel time with U S 80 carrying most tourist cars. U S 66, 60 and 85 rise as challengers while paving boosted eastbound traffic from 100 cars daily in 1936 to 280+ by 1938. In Danzig a German free corps forms for emergencies. Parliament debates extending conscription to ages 21-24, potentially adding 800,000 men.
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New Mexico
San Jos
Danzig “Free Corps
Free
Reich
Chamberlain
Federal Farm Aid Allocations Mentioned by Russell
Russell highlighted federal funding benefits for the general public and farmers. He cited 191 million dollars for federal aid highways 7 million for weather forecasting 3 million for the food and drug administration and additional millions for wildlife refuges national forests and related programs.
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Russell
Food and Drug Administration
Senate Debates WPA Funding and Local Wage Rules
The senate rejected a bid by Senator Murray backed by Senator Pepper to raise WPA funding to 2.25 billion dollars. An amendment requiring prevailing local wage rates on WPA projects was accepted, and states must cover 25 percent of project costs approved after January 1 1940.
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Murray
D-Mont
Pepper
Dfla
Senate
Europe Faces Speech On Poland Crisis From World Leaders
Chamberlain said Britain and France would help Poland if its independence was threatened. Moscicki urged resilience and highlighted the vital Polish corridor and Free City of Danzig. Zhdanov accused the West of bargaining with Moscow. Japan blockaded Wenchow and Foochow, warning ships to leave.
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Great Britain
France
Poland
Chamberlain
Germany
Bohemia and Moravia
Danzig
Moscicki
Mescicki
Britain
Reich
Hitler
Zhdanoff
Moscow
Far East
Japan
Tientsin
South China
Wenchow
Foochow
United States
Clarence E. Gé&tss
Fugitive Slayer Olson Captured After Two-Week Flight
Slayer Olson, a 30 year old fugitive linked to stolen car charges, hid in Sawyer County woods after two weeks of roaming Bayfield and Sawyer counties. He entered the Anderson home, cooked a meal, and rested before being tracked down. Pursued to Namakagon river and Mooséo lake, Olson fled into a shack where he killed Indian John Blue Sky and mortally wounded Scott before being shot by posse members and dying in the lake.
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Sawyer
Bayfield
Anderson
Moore
Olson
Frank Flowers
Wisconsin
Hayward
Sawyer County
Namakagon
Mooséo Lake
George Seehuetter
John Blue Sky
Carl Johnson
Blue Sky
Scott
Oil drilling activity east of Roswell grows amid hopeful signs
Reports from Roswell indicate rising oil prospects 30 to 40 miles east, with Ted Reiner No 1 Hiram Dow Sec 27 T10S R30E showing 1012 ft cemented casing and 2185 ft open hole. Baker No 1 has built camp facilities and caliche road, Aladdin Oil Well Drillers contracted to drill, and major firms seismograph surveying the area.
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Roswell
Ted Reiner
Hiram Dow
U. S. 380
Hightower
R. M. Baker
Baker
W-G Construction Co
Hobbs
Lee C. Moore
Aladdin Oil Well Drillers
E. M. Walters
Mr. Baker
California
Hubert Staggs
Aladdin Tools
Los Lunas
N. M
Johnson-Lodewick Refining Co
Pecos Valley Lumber Co
el Paso Natural Gas Company
Weiner Well
Britain fears crisis in Danzig looms this summer
British officials and press warn of potential crisis in Danzig as negotiations stretch two and a half months. Churchill predicts a tense summer while Eden urges tough talk and action to preserve peace. Berlin paper dismisses reports of an immediate Nazi coup as wild rumors, despite overnight Warsaw dispatches.
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Danzig
Britain
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Rkiets
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Voelkischer Beobachter
Warsaw
Olson Killings Drive Pursuit Through Moose Lake Woods
A fugitive Olson fled through swamp and woods after robbing a Lake Namakagon store. Sheriff Seehuetter’s posse, aided by bloodhounds, tracked him across swamp and lake country until the odor of tobacco led to his hideout in the Anderson home outhouse where they flushed him out and killed him.
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Johnson
Olson
Moose Lake
Lake Namakagon
Seehuetter
Lake
Anderson
Anderson Home
Senate House panel seeks compromise on monetary bills
Morgenthau report notes bipartisan opposition and a five five conference committee of senators and representatives to bridge differing House and Senate monetary bills. The administration awaits a joint committee to finish relief bill shaping before WPA funds run out by July 1.
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Senate House
House
Senate
New Mexico Supreme Court Hears Bond Retirement Procedure
The state supreme court heard oral arguments in a test case over how Albuquerque bonds should be retired. James Munro sues Albuquerque for a declaratory judgment on the payment method, with the Bernalillo district court ruling to retire bonds by principal first and pay the rest of interest ratably.
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State Capital
Associated Press
Santa FE
N. M
State Supreme Court
Albuquerque
Bernalillo District Court
James Munro
Seven year term begun for Santa Rosa station hold up
Claude R. Russell began a seven year state penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty in district court to the hold up of a filling station near Santa Rosa early last week. He was brought to Santa Rosa by Sheriff A. P. Branch.
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Claude R. Russell
Santa Rosa
A. P. Branch
State attorney general rules county commissioner may hold state post
Filo Bedillo said a county commissioner can hold a state job if duties are not incomparable with county duties. A Jal New Mexico registration station construction will start soon with 361 state funds and 1768 WPA aid. Texas station nearing completion. 1929 signage rules cited to highway department. Illegally erected signs require permits and can be removed even on private land.
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Filo Sedillo
Miles
Jal
N. M
New Mexico
Texico
State Highway Department
Filo Bedillo
Highway Department
Weiner Well Progress Near Bottom of Hole
The project progresses with the hole creating feet of progress on its first day and expectations that the well will reach the bottom within about thirty days as operations continue.
President signs non military bill for war dept work
President Roosevelt signed an appropriation bill totaling 306 million dollars for non military activities of the war department. The act includes flood control river and harbor improvements with Congress adding 50 million to the president's estimates for such work.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Congress
Civil functions bill funds flood control and Denison dam
The bill designates 172 million dollars for flood control with 39 million for the Mississippi river and tributaries. It also provides just over 5.6 million to begin Denison dam construction on the Red River forming the Texas Oklahoma border.
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Mississippi River
Denison
Red River
Texas
Oklahoma
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Lester J. Smith
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