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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1941
Page
8
A narrator reflects on names like Percival and Marathon and a wary Sraxus avoiding Santa Fe taxes. The piece notes Sunday churchgoers who work hard during the week and still attend worship, arguing the inner impulse to seek church makes one better off than the wholly secular.
The Rio Grande Truckers of Albuquerque, with New Mexico University substitutes, defeated Socorro 44 to 36 to claim the Gold Medal Independent tournament championship. Ralph Bowyer scored 20 for the Truckers while Edgerton led Socorro with 15. Romero's Inn took third by beating Los Lunas Merchants 27 to 25.
Clara Guffey, 13, daughter of Alf Guffey, was slightly injured Saturday at home 517 East Third while burning trash and cleaning the yard. An explosion struck her chest, causing a deep cut. authorities believe a trash fire bottle fragment caused the injury, though no glass was found upon probing. Her right arm was injured but she attended school today.
Germans urge Yugoslav exit via Hungary and Romania as Belgrade sees mass departures of Axis diplomats families. Belgrade press notes Serbs and Croats drawing closer, while Croat leader Vladimir Macek awaits foreign policy clarity before backing the government.
Mrs. Opha Burrows wife of Felix E Burrows died here late Saturday afternoon at 73 after a week of illness. A Texas native born in Pleasanton in 1867 she lived in Roswell since 1897 raising four children with her husband. Funeral services tomorrow at 2:30 from Ballard Chapel with Rev T W Brabham officiating. interment in South Park.
Walter J. Muzzy announced today that he purchased the Shady Grove filling station from Mrs. Effie Edgel, enlarging his local business holdings.
Ever bearing strawberries asparagus rhubarb dewberries gooseberries cabbage and onion sets offered for sale by a local seller.
Mrs. Walter Hackett of Carver School will lead a Red Cross first aid class for colored citizens tonight at seven. There is still room for a few more attendees who are not yet enrolled.
Strike actions and bargaining moves surface at Harvester plants and Cambria Works. AFL workers plan to resume talks at Cornell Dubilier in South Plainfield New Jersey, with mediation if needed. CIO at Bethlehem Steel Johnstown ratifies settlement after walking out over ERP election disputed as a company union.
Two Chamber of Commerce committees set meetings this week to plan activities for the rest of the year. The tourist committee will meet at 10 a.m. Friday and the parks and recreation committee at 4 p.m. Thursday.
For Rent box notice seeks a highway service station with living quarters and asks $200 to handle. Note requests character and financial references and directs inquiries to care of Record 3-31112x.
Britain presses for demobilization of the Yugoslav army now estimated at 1.2 million. Failure to demobilize would spark immediate hostilities. Berlin voices patience but warns that Yugoslavia must end its stance. British forces report losses for Italy in the Mediterranean and RAF raids on Brest and Le Havre plus shipping strikes. Africa dispatch notes capture of Diredawa near Addis Ababa.
Gospel services will be held this week at the North Hill Mission at 17th and Washington beginning at 7 30 each evening. Services will be conducted by L Douglass and H M Dawson and will not be unduly prolonged. Everyone is welcome.
New Orleans on March 31 reported cotton markets steady with an 8 point decline. Sales totaled 2,784 bales as middling prices stood at 11.32 cents per pound.
New York stocks close with diverse gains and losses across AmAil to USSteel, led by mixed results in industrials and utilities. Kansas City livestock reports show hogs mostly lower, cattle slow with buyers cautious, and light activity in sheep with opening bids weak.
W. G. Welter of the army air corps visits with family en route to Marshall Field Montgomery Ala for transfer from the Ryan School of Aeronautics at Hemet Calif.
March 31 reports scattered rains only in the Mississippi valley and northern Rockies with heavy rain in the Pacific coast area. Eastern half cloudy, west mostly clear, temps little changed since Saturday, with freezing in New England to Maryland and 40s in New Mexico and western Texas. Roswell travel expected fair, unsettled in southern Arizona Tuesday. Cleve Hallenbeck.
N Y bonds show 3 1/4s and 4s trading around 108.6 to 112.9 with current quotes. Federal Farm Mortgage and Home Owners Loan issues listed with around 102.15 and 102.18. Curb market in New York also lists Ark Nat Gas Carrier Cities Service El Bond and Sh Hecla Humble Oil Ins Co N Am with varied prices.
Cotton futures ended the session lower by 1 to 8 points with May at 11.28, July 11.33, and December 11.07 to 11.08 while Middling spot in New Orleans or nearby markets quoted 11.58, off 3. A house fire at 207 West 5th Street prompted noon dispatch to the scene. kitchen wall damaged by a leaky gas-stove hose, with limited damage. LEAF LETTUDE Anderson's Gardens.
Prices held firm in the forenoon but drifted and closed with small declines. Transfers totaled 426000 shares as brokers noted war worries after the United States seized German Italian and Danish ships. Top performers included Pere Marquette General Steel Castings Chicago Great Western and Gulf Mobile Ohio with bonds showing continued loan gains. Wheat and corn fell in Chicago while cotton dipped in late trade.
Prices for butter eggs and poultry listed with receipts and local grades. Includes butter at 33 3/4 to 34 cents, eggs graded extra firsts with local charges, and various live poultry weights and prices for hens leghorns rocks and turkeys with multiple weight categories.
In Boston on March 31 domestic wools drew scattered inquiries. Small lots of greasy combings and quarter blood bright fleece sold mostly 44 to 45 cents in the grease, delivered. Western fine and half blood wools offered in Boston at 39 to 40 cents in the grease, with scoured basis estimated at 1.03 to 1.05 delivered, higher than buyers' willingness to pay.
Chicago on March 31 reports May wheat at 91 1/8 to 1/4 and July and September ranges. corn and oats also show bid prices and futures values across May July and September contracts with old and new figures for oats.
Grease wool futures ended modestly up with May at 96.0 cents, July 95.7, and October 95.7 while top futures rose a similar amount, May 125.7, July 122.8, October 119.7. Certificated spot wool tops traded at 127.08. B bid noted for grease wool spot.
In Santa Fe March 31 a real estate licensing bill failed in the New Mexico Senate without a record vote. The chamber also defeated a tax moratorium measure and a house approved constitutional amendment to pay legislators $600 yearly and bar other public employment. Debate centered on delaying property taxes while some urged rewards for on-time payments. Senator Morrow defended his party loyalty while clarifying his stance as a Democrat by choice.
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