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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1941
Page
4
Roswell Daily Record published by Record Publishing Company in Roswell New Mexico on a Wednesday in May 1941. The paper lists staff positions publisher editor city editor advertising manager and notes advertising rates subscription rates and mailing classifications with association affiliations. It announces May 7 1941 and mentions May 10 1903 filing as second class mail matter.
The report from Russia notes Stalin becomes premier while Molotov remains vice premier and asks if Stalin seeks to curb German and Japanese power. The piece links renewed Soviet leadership to global tensions and quotes Stimson urging secure delivery of U S munitions to Britain amid submarine threats.
June after graduation from college notes cadets at New Mexico Military Institute may be called to duty in the Eighth Corps area. The House defeated a move to bar transferring ships seized by the United States to Belligerents, a close vote that frees administration to aid Britain without provoking war.
Washington authorities arrest 160 German sailors for overstaying leave as raids seize rooms and taverns. Italians from Conte Biancamano moved to Fort Missoula, Mont, while new alien seamen rules limit shore leave to per-ship port time.
Across Europe and the Middle East reports describe RAF and German air activity over Hamburg Le Havre and the Dover Strait with various losses claimed. British troops eject Iraqi forces near Habbaniyah while Mo sul-Haiva oil pipeline is retaken. Stalin named premier of Soviet Russia with Molotov remaining foreign minister.
City leaders debated flood projects and drainage upgrades to protect residents along North Spring River and key streets. The mayor pressed for action, urging widening and deepening of the river, culvert changes, and removal of Blashek’s dam. Officials discussed highway 285 land purchases, condemnation, and two way radio for police funding.
Support grows that administration is weighing dynamic aid to Britain with a navy role. Secretary Stimson in a radio address warned Germany’s unrestricted warfare neared U S waters, urged freedom of the seas, and echoed 1917 measures. Pepper and Nye framed the talk as trial balloons on intervention.
Gates Rubber Company dealers and employees of southeastern New Mexico will hold a spring sales meeting here tonight after a dinner at the Nickson Coffee Shop. Sam Mullis zone manager from Fort Worth and Tom Hendrick district manager from Lubbock will conduct the meeting. Mullis is brother of Sen. J. H. Mullis of Roswell and a former Roswell resident who served in France with Battery A in the last war. Attending dealers include Steele Service Station Roswell Lowrey Auto Co Roswell Calvin Dunn Tire Co Artesia D W Curry Garage Hagerman Rainbow Courts Service Station Tatum.
Weather forecast for New Mexico calls for fair tonight and Thursday with scattered clouds this afternoon and tonight, while Colorado expects scattered clouds tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Arizona sees fair tonight with Thursday increasing high cloudiness.
The passage notes there is no precedent to support the supposition that the government or the people of the United States would tolerate such irresponsibility and indecision. It argues that neither branch has given cause to doubt their capacity for decisive action.
The piece argues Stalin may sense an imminent crisis and positions himself to act. It weighs tensions between Axis and United States, Nazi moves in the Balkans and Dardanelles, possible Soviet concerns over Ukraine, and a potential German push against Russia. It notes Stalin’s foresight and readiness amid mounting global tensions.
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