American civilian fliers join British and Canadian forces
More than 500 American civilian pilots have enlisted in England's Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force since July, with about 400 serving as instructors in Canada and 40 ferrying England bound bombers across the Atlantic. The Clayton Knight committee screened 3,000 applications, selecting roughly one in five.
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England
Royal Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Atlantic
Clayton Knight
United States
Dominion
Dallas
Chicago
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Oakland
Anthony Hanzlik
Flushing
N. Y
Great Naval Air Station completes at Corpus Christi
The $44,000,000 Great Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi is placed in commission marking the transition from construction to operation. Cadets will be trained in a seven month course with 3,600 pilots expected annually beginning next year. Navy Secretary Knox addressed officials and lawmakers as the station nears full completion. He linked air and sea power to national defense and warned Hitler would dominate if Britain’s sea power failed.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Navy
Knox
United States
Hitler
London
Yugoslavia Bends to Axis Demand Pressure in Belgrade
Belgrade reports Yugoslavia agreed in principle to join the Rome Berlin Tokyo pact under heavy Nazi pressure. Premier Cvetkovic and foreign minister Cincar Markovic would travel to Berlin to seek a transition period while demobilization and troop transit through Yugoslavia were negotiated. Germany seeks demobilization control of economy transport and communications and passage for forces to Greece.
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Yugoslavia
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Dragila Cvetkovic
Alesander Cincar- Markovic
Crown Council
Germany
Greece
Rumania
Bulgaria
Associated Press
President Seeks 7 Billion Aid for Democracies
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a 7 billion dollar appropriation to supply democracies with war material. He urged immediate enactment and said rapid aid was imperative to American security through continued material support to allied nations.Continued to Page Two.
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America
Congress
Germans Grabbed All Dutch Gold
Washington reports say German conquerors of the Netherlands requisitioned all Dutch gold, beginning with A and continuing alphabetically, with even Z-listing citizens surrendering their gold for Dutch paper money. The occupation aims to reestablish trade within the Nazi sphere, while a central bureau coordinates industrial production and exports for war needs.
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Netherlands
Holland
Netherlands Bank
Belgium
Germany
German Chamber of Commerce
Year 1941 forecast as measles epidemic by health official
Santa Fe reports 1941 may be a measles epidemic year Dr J R Scott New Mexico state health director warns parents to watch for colds that could develop into measles In the past week 216 cases raised total since January 1 to 1 064 compared with 76 last year Valencia county 68 Dona Ana 41 Bernalillo 28 Socorro 27 and Grant 26 cases were reported highlighting regional spread.
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N. M
J. R. Scott
Scott
Valencia County
Dona Ana
Bernalillo
Socorro
Grant
Churchill praises US aid bill as a new magna carta
Prime Minister Churchill thanked the United States for passage of the lend lease act calling it a new magna carta. He cited US support to defeat tyranny and read a Commons statement praising America’s role in ensuring freedom. Eight US Army mission members watched from the gallery.
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Churchill
United States
House of Commons
House
United States Army
Engineers Public Service Company Split Ordered
The Securities Commission rule requires reducing Engineers Public Service Company holdings from about 330 million dollars of utility assets to a single company. Hearings will resume March 25 after a year of testimony, with main operations in Virginia North Carolina along the Atlantic seaboard and nearby southern states.
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Engineers Public Service Company
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Atlantic
United States
Mexican
Securities Commission
Engineers
Virginia
North Carolina
Atlantic Seaboard
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Weather report outlines storm spread and clearings across regions
Snow has spread to extreme north western Texas and Oklahoma and continues northward over Wyoming and South Dakota with uniformly light amounts. Rain and snow extend from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, heavy along the New England coast. Clearing is seen in the northern plains while western areas stay fair. Cold is spreading southeastward with modest temperature drops. In the northern plains, readings run 10 to 15 degrees, Manitoba records below zero. New Mexico and western Texas report 20s to 40s. Travel from Roswell will face cloudy, unsettled conditions to the northeast.
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South Dakota
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New England
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Rocky Mountains
Manitoba
Roswell
More CIO Strikes Threaten National Defense Efforts
CIO strikes at Edgewater New Jersey Aluminum Company plant halt overtime payments claim under union contract. About 3 000 workers produce aluminum shapes for defense. Secret balloting March 6 and 7 authorized strike. settlement attempts failed. Concurrently Steelworkers and Bethlehem setback at Lackawanna NY plant. conciliation service chiefs Steelman and Finn dispatched to ease disputes. Separate New York talks involve CIO United Mine Workers and coal operators on a two year contract for 450 000 miners with wage rise sought and 35 hour week retained.
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Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Company
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Thomas Finn
Conciliation Service
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lackawanna, N. Y
New York
Cio-United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
UMWA
Legion Urges More Funds for New Mexico Schools
Artesia officer Charles Morgan, district commander, supports Governor Miles’ committee plan to tap federal land leasing act funds and the state deficit fund to ease school financial strain. The group warned lack of funds could cut the school year and salaries, with legislature to act.
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N. M
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American Legion
Charles Morgan
Miles
Morgan
State Engineer Thomas M. McClure Seriously Ill in Santa Fe
Word received by his mother Mrs. Mary Frances McClure says the condition of state engineer Thomas M. McClure remains unchanged after a recent heart attack. He is seriously ill at Santa Fe.
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Santa Fe
Mary Frances McClure
Scout Leaders Train at Church and Carrizozo
Eleven men of the First Methodist Church completed a Fundamentals of Scouting course led by H. P. Garrett. The final session of a Scout leaders training course will be held in Carrizozo tomorrow night with P. V. Thorson assisting Garrett. Thirty four are enrolled in the course.
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Carrizozo
P. V. Thorson
Roswell Play closes season at Ft Stanton Marine Hospital
The Roswell Chamber of Commerce sponsored entertainers wrap up their fall and winter program run tonight at the U S Marine Hospital Ft Stanton. The production He Ain't Done Right By Little Nell features Bill Purdy as the hero and Bill Taylor as the villain with a large cast including Janette Henson and Roberta Duffield in key roles.
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Roswell
Villian
Roberta Duffield
230000 More For Carlsbad Airport
SANTA FE New Mexico March 12 Gordon Herkenhoff director of New Mexico WPA operations division announced that President Roosevelt approved a $230 000 WPA project to improve Carlsbad municipal airport The plan includes an administration building hangar shop water facilities four paved runways and lighting equipment.
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Gordon Herkenhoff
New Mexico
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Roosevelt
Carlsbad
Buckingham Palace Damaged In Recent Air Raid
London reports Buckingham Palace was hit in a recent air raid with bombs landing in a courtyard and a lodge house blast killing a policeman and damaging walls. Incendiaries burned nearby. windows shattered. The Cardiff royal infirmary, Wales, also struck with no casualties, patients moved.
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Buckingham Palace
Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Wales
West Texas State Edges St Mary’s In N I C T Second Round
West Texas State from Canyon Texas defeated St Mary’s of Winona Minnesota 52 to 39 in the second round of the National Intercollegiate basketball tournament.
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West Texas State
Canyon
Texas
St. Mary’s
New York Group Buys Vallejo Polo Ranch Near Cimarron
Raton New Mexico, March 12. Civic leaders report the Vallejo polo ranch has been sold to a group of New Yorkers. The ranch, valued in the millions, was bought three years ago by Charles Roeser, Robert Windgren, and Charles Johnson of Fort Worth, Texas.
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Raton
N. M
Vallejo Polo Ranch
Cimarron
Charles Roeser
Robert Windgren
Charles Johnson
Ft. Worth
Texas
Navy experts urge reuse of WWI destroyers under lease plan
Washington officials report that naval experts favor releasing U S destroyers from World War II stocks to Britain under the lease lead program as new destroyers join the fleet. Seventy four old destroyers remain in service, with 39 converted to seaplane tenders, mine layers, and mine sweepers, and six repurposed as troop transports for the Marine Corps.
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Washington
United States
Navy
Marine Corps
Texans Extend Oil Compact Commission Participation
Austin, March 12. The senate approved a house initiated bill extending Texas participation in the interstate oil compact commission for two years from September 1, 1941. The measure now goes to Governor W Lee ODaniel for signing.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Bombing at Pera Plaza Misses Rendel in Istanbul
Four people died and more than twenty were wounded in a bomb blast in the lobby of the Pera Plaza Hotel in Istanbul. British quarters said the blast targeted George W. Rendel, the British minister who had just arrived from Sofia, but he escaped uninjured. The incident is seen as an attempt to hurt Turkish British relations. The report notes investigators believe the plot was engineered locally and continues on page five.
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Sofia
Plovdiv
Turkey
Europe
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Dede Agach
Grecian Thrace
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Ber
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Rendel
All Is Ready For Great Nazi Smash in The Balkans
Yugoslavia weighs capitulation to the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis as Hitler masss troops on the Balkans front. Crown council meets while Greece and Turkey watch, with regent Prince Paul and Czetkovic in talks. Ankara signals possible delay as Yugoslavia faces Axis overtures and pending Soviet notes.
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Yugoslavia
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Greece
Turkey
Crown Council
Hitler
Axis
Prince Paul
Dragisa Czetkovic
Alesander Cincarmarkovic
Great Britain
Ankara
Refik Saydam
Balkan
Albuquerque Hikes City Gasoline Tax
Albuquerque voters approved a one half cent hike in the city gasoline tax four to one after a heated meeting. The levy becomes effective March 15, raising the city rate to one cent per gallon to fund a state defense loan repayment and buy 320 additional acres for the municipal airport. Commissioner Clyde Oden was the lone vote against the increase.
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Albuquerque
N. M
State Defense Fund
Clyde Oden
Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Leaves Tokyo for Axis Talks
Tokyo reports a pivotal send-off for Yosuke Matsuoka as he departs for Berlin and Rome seeking to tighten Axis cooperation and explain Japan's foreign policy. An 111-man staff accompanies him as he leaves Tokyo Station at 10 35 p m local time.
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Tokyo
Yosuke Matsuoka
Berlin
Rome
Japan
Bomb drops reported near Donegal towns. no damage
Dublin reports that an unidentified aircraft dropped bombs near Corndonagh and Innishowen in County Donegal early today. Officials say there was no damage and no injuries recorded.
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Dublin
Eire Government Information Bureau
Corndonagh
Innishowen
County Donegal
Vatican Introduces Food Rationing For Residents
Vatican City begins wartime food and goods rationing affecting all residents including Pope Pius XII. The plan grants coffee 1 pound per month to residents while Italians cannot have any coffee. meat limited to 3 1/2 ounces daily and two small loaves of bread. butter 1/4 pound weekly. sugar 4 1/2 pounds monthly. gasoline 22 gallons monthly.
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Vatican City
Italy
Cat rescued after four days buried in Buckingham Palace wreckage
In London on March 12 a blue Persian cat was found alive after being buried four days in the rubble of a lodgehouse demolished by a bomb near Buckingham Palace. Workers heard the cat mewing and cleared heavy masonry to reach it.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Spain says unshakable friendship with Germany in Europe
Madrid, March 12. Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suñer stated that no one should doubt Spain's unshakeable firmness of friendship with Germany. He declared the two nations are pursuing a single goal, a new Europe, and are united in that cause.
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Madrid
Ramon Serrano Suner
Spain
Germany
Europe
Rotary Pictures At Ad Club Meet Havana Trip
Rotary pictures of the 31st convention of Rotary in Havana were shown at the Roswell Advertising Club meeting. Will Lawrence and Claude Simpson toured city attractions with Havana scenery. Fulbright provided commentary. George Evans of Willis Ford Agency attended. Romaine Birkmyer joined. John McBoyle directed. President Joe Huff presided.
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Havana
Cuba
Roswell
Gives You Ideas Read Record Classified Says Mrs Floyd Childress
Mrs Floyd Childress praises the Record classified for bargain ideas and inspiration. She notes its value for keeping up with trends and suggests everyone reads the section to stay informed.
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Floyd Childress
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