New Japanese Burma Push Disclosed In Axis Dispatches
Axis reports reveal Japanese thrusts in Burma and into China as Allied lines respond. Chinese authorities say Japanese columns on the Burma road have been checked and retreated toward Wanting, some reports claim Wanting abandoned. A German broadcast says Japanese troops advanced near Chittagong in the bay of Bengal and into India. In Yunnan, China, the deepest Japanese push reached 12 miles northwest of Lungling, 50 miles inside China, but Chinese counterstrokes have driven them back 30 miles.
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Associated Press
Allied Nations
China
Australia
Burma
Burma-China
Wanting
Bay of Bengal
Chittagong
India
Yunnan
Lungling
I Am An American Day Observance Planned
Major James R. Kelly will address Roswell on Sunday at 4 p m on the New Mexico Military Institute parade grounds to honor new citizens and 21 year olds. The event, sponsored by Company 21 N M S G, features cadet music and a parade review with naturalized and near majority citizens. Local residents are urged to attend and show patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Kelly
New Mexico Military Institute
Department of Justice
Roswell
Company 21
New Mexico State Guard
Louis M. Prager
Col. D. C. Pearson
Kelly
Nazis Seek Longer Work Week in Occupied France Action
In unoccupied France on May 12, German military authorities in occupied zones issued a decree to extend working hours and require employers to report the number and categories of workers shifted to other tasks. The move targets expanding Nazi control over French labor forces as shortages of forced labor continue. Petain returned to Vichy the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Occupied
Popular Front
Otto von Stuelpnagel
Petain
Nazis Declare Hell Let Loose On The Kerch Peninsula
Nazi forces launched a major offensive on the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea, supported by Luftwaffe. Soviet reports said German and Romanian troops struck Friday as Russians reported heavy fighting aimed at seizing oil-rich Caucasus front. Berlin acknowledged the operation but framed it as a limited action rather than a full spring offensive.
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Hell
Kerch
Associated Press
Russia
Crimea
Great Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Kerch Peninsula
Fricay
Berlin
Erch Peninsula
Kerch Cemnsula
Sea of Azov
Nazi Push Into The Crimea Dies Down
Moscow reports a German offensive against Soviet lines on the Kerch peninsula of Crimea has ceased for now. A mid day communique stated nothing important happened last night, leaving whether Red Army defense or German tactics caused the pause unclear.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Kerch
Crimea
Toqany
Red Army
Local Weather Readings and Extremes for Today
Weather data shows readings at three hour intervals over 24 hours ending 11:30 am with highs near 85 and a low around 57. Normal highs and lows for the date are 81 and 51. Precipitation totals: today 0, month to date 33, year to date 2.94.
Martinique In Limelight With New Vichy Move
Washington May 12 suspense rose over Martinique and other French overseas possessions as Marshal Petain cut short a Rivira vacation and hurried back to Vichy. State officials offered no clarity while others speculated Axis pressure on Vichy to act against French colonial possessions in response to Madagascar and the American challenge in the western hemisphere.
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Washington
Martinique
Marshal Petain
Vichy
State Department
Petain
Madagascar
Pierre Laval
British and
Free
Squarely formatted baseball scores for youth league
National League U11 action shows Chicago yielding to Boston 0 0 0 3 in a ten hopeful innings. Pittsburgh a 2 0 0 0, New York 0 0 4 0, Cincinnati 0 0 0 1, Brooklyn 0 0 0 1, St Louis 2 0 0 0 and Philadelphia 1 0 2 0 with various battery pairings listed for Schmitz Hanyzewski McCullough Tost Errickson Sain Johnson Lombardi Heintzelman Lanning Lopez Melton Danning Thompson Lamane Allen Casey Sullivan Lanier Krist W Cooper Hoerst Warren.
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Chicago
Boston
Schmitz, Hanyzewski & McCullough
Tost
Errickson
Sain, Johnson & Lombardi
Pittsburgh
New York
Heintzelman
Lanning & Lopez
Melton & Danning
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Lanier
Krist & W. Cooper
Hoerst & Warren
Seavue Tenney Teams Pushed Back by Weather
American Seavue lists Philadelphia and St Louis batteries Marchildon Wag ner R Harris and Swift. Several games postponed due to weather with New York at Cleveland Boston at Chicago and Washington at Detroit rescheduled or delayed.
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American Seavue
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Marchildon & Wagner
R. Harris & Swift
New York
Cleveland
Boston
Chicago
Washington
Detroit
Most Of 80 Airliners In Use By The Army
Airliners stripped of passenger fittings and painted olive drab have joined the army to carry troops and military cargo. Officials said most of the 80 or more liners surrendered to the war department and diverted to domestic and overseas routes for military use. Crews remain from peacetime commercial service, with lines setting up separate aerial cargo agencies for army operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
USO Campaign Opens With 38 Teams Reporting
Thirty eight of thirty nine teams began work this morning at the Chamber of Commerce for the USO financial drive in Chaves county. County chairman Will C. Lawrence praised the response of workers while Mayor Tom Hall urged support, noting the effort funds recreational and morale services for armed forces personnel.
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USO Financial
Chamber of Commerce
Will C. Lawrence
J. B. McGhee
Chaves County
Tom Hall
United Service Organization
Hall
Roswell
Madison
Mrs Moult Addresses Kiwanis Club On Humanity
Mrs Thomas Moult noted writer and lecturer gave a masterful address "Whither Humanity" at the Kiwanis luncheon. She traced Hitler's philosophy and Jewish persecution, urging a Christian democratic path over totalitarianism. She and her family, emigrants from England in 1938, now reside in Albuquerque. She will speak on KGFL at 10 45 tomorrow and at the Woman's Club luncheon at 1 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Moult
Kiwanis
England
Moult
America
Albuquerque
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Fermin Sanchez Fined In Assault Case Plea Guilty
J P Court judge fines Fermin Sanchez ten dollars plus costs after he pleads guilty to assault and battery against Moses Romero. The case records a plea of guilty and the payment of the specified sum as ordered by the court.
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J. P
Fermin Sanchez
Moses Romero
Estimated Addition Of Water To Artesian Basin In NM
New Mexico state engineer T. M. McClure reported that last year's heavy precipitation added about 333000 acre feet to underground reserves in the Artesian basin. He cautioned that such recharge is unlikely to recur and should not drive expanded irrigation. Ground water pressure rose by an average of 15 feet statewide, with Luna County showing a 0.3 foot decline.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
T. M. McClure
Artesian Basin
McClure
Luna County
Japs Suffer More Casualties From Allied Air Attacks
Allied headquarters in Australia reports further Japanese losses from air raids, with two to possibly three more ships damaged as pursuing fliers strike remnants of the invasion fleet and other units. Continues on page eight.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Coral Sea
Solomon Islands
Deboyne Islands
New Guinea
Imperial Tokyo
Tokyo
Allied
MacArthur
Allieq
House Votes Raise Soldier Pay To $50
The House tentatively raised army enlisted pay to 50 dollars monthly for privates and apprentice seamen, 54 for first and second class ranks, after a 102 to 40 vote of the committee of the whole. The plan targets avoiding a postwar bonus fight, with a roll call later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Rev. Rankin
D-Miss
Rep. Sutphin
D-Nj
Flight Strips To Be Built Adjacent To Main Highways
War Department says construction has begun on the first of several flight strips to be built under Army Air Forces and Public Roads Administration auspices as auxiliary landing fields adjacent to main highways near Roswell. Colonel Alvan C. Kincaid, commanding officer of the Roswell Army Flying School, provided the advisory update.
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Alvan C. Kincaid
Roswell
War Department
Army Air Forces
Public Roads Administration
British Fury on Japs Aids Burma Retirement Drive
British forces retreating along the Chindwin in western Burma have turned fury on Japanese troops, driving a column of over 300 enemy soldiers south from Shwegya. RAF bombers and machinegunned transports disrupted enemy lines during reconnaissance over northern Burma as British units guard routes toward India.
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New Delhi
Cindwin River
Burma
Shwegya
Mandalay
Shwegyin
Kalewa
RAF
India
Chindwin River
Irrawaddy
Tucumcari Plants Irrigation Project Training Station
Sidelights On The News describes Tucumcari’s dry farm station expanding with an irrigation project from Conchas dam. A 32 acre tract near 2 1/2 miles from town will serve as an object lesson under C Goddard to teach water use and irrigation farming to reduce the number of crops needed. The effort aims to spare go brokers and heartbreaks, though success is uncertain.
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Tucumcari
Conchas Dam
Pajarita Creek
C. Goddard
Carlsbad
Elephant Butte
Salt River Valley
Hearing On Flood Control Project In Early June
City attorney Ross L Malone Jr says a hearing on the Pecos River flood control report by army engineers will occur in Washington early in June. Attending will be city and state engineers plus Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District reps.
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New Mexico
Army Engineers
Pecos River
Bureau of Rivers and Harbors
Washington
Ross L. Malone, Jr
Malone
Mayor Hall
Lea Rowland
Thomas McClure
W. A. Losey
Pecos , Valley Arte
White Lectures On Military Map Reading
Members of Company 21 of the New Mexico State Guard heard a lecture on military map reading last night delivered by Emmett D. White, a member of their unit.
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Company 21
New Mexico State Guard
Emmett D. White
Munitions Plant In Germany Blasted
The Soviet information bureau said a large munitions works in Munich, Germany, was blown up, blamed on German resentment toward the Hitler regime, and claimed the plant’s nizin departments were out of commission for a long time. Walls in the city bore anti Nazi slogans such as down with the criminal war and long live the Soviet union.
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Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Munich
Nizin
Soviet Union
Volunteer Lynn Croissant to Leave for Fort Bliss
Lynn W. Croissant, longtime Beard employee and Army volunteer, passed his physical in Santa Fe and was set to depart this afternoon for Fort Bliss. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Croissant of 506 East 4th Street.
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Lynn W. Croissant
The
Beard
Santa Fe
Fort Bliss
L. S. Croissant
East 4Th Street
State Construction Contracts In April Total 23,959,047
Construction contracts totaling 23,959,047 were signed in April for jobs in New Mexico. New Mexico ranked second among the eight mountain states in contract value for April. In the first four months of 1942, western states and Pacific territories logged 801,420,000 in contracts, the highest for any full year except the prior year.
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San Francisco
New Mexico
Daily Construction Service
Pacific Territories
Keen Elected Royal Arch Mason Official in New Mexico
Albuquer que May 12 For the forty sixth year Al pheus A Keen of Albuquerque has been elected secretary of the New Mexico Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. Mr Keen is believed to be the dean of grand secretaries of the order throughout the world. Robert Dennard of Gallup was named grand king last night and other grand chapter officers elected were John W Hall Roswell scribe Eric S Kintsel Raton deputy grand high priest Albert Noyes Deming high priest and Edward R Paul Santa Fe treasurer.
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Albuueruqe
N. M
Alpheus A. Keen
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Royal Arch Masons
Keen
Order
Robert Dennard
Gallup
John W. Hall
Roswell
Scribe
Eric S. Kintsel
Raton
Industry substitutes to cope with wartime shortages
In New York on May 12 industry displayed substitutes for materials diverted to wartime needs. Skim milk felt bats, cotton girdles, and vegetable quills showed firms can provide quality replacements. The exhibits argued households can still buy gadgets and luxuries as supply constraints persist.
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New York
Frances Cowan Dies After Long Illness in Roswell
Mrs Frances Cowan widow of Dr W G Cowan died last night after months of illness. The Cowans moved from Sedalia Missouri to Carlsbad in 1909 then to Roswell six years later. Dr Cowan died July 9 1940 and was buried at South Park. Survived by one grandson William Hall a University of Arizona student. Funeral at Talmage Memorial Chapel tomorrow at two with Dr Austin D Crile in charge. Casket bearers Reed Mulkey Carl McNally Lea Rowland Elmer Riemen H H McGee T Hall. Interment South Park.
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Frances Cowan
W. G. Cowan
Cowans
New Mexico
Sedalia
Missouri
Carlsbad
Cowan
Roswell
South Park
William Hall
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Talmage Memorial Chapel
Austin D. Crile
Otis Brenneman
Reed Mulkey
Carl McNally
Lea Rowland
Elmer Riemen
H. H. McGee
T. J. Hall
Classifieds Read at Wilkins Station, Record Adverts Killed
L T Wilkins of Wilkins Service Station at 501 S Main placed two classified ads in yesterday's Record and called this morning to cancel them. He stated he rented every bedroom and house and could have rented more, praising the classified section's reach and noting it is read.
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Co. L. Wilkins
Wilkins
S. Main
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U. S
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Cincinnati
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Allen, Casey & Sullivan
USO
Will Lawrence
Will Robinson
Roswell Daily Record
Mr. Malone
John J. Dempsey
Bill of Rights Committee
American Bar Association
White
Germany
Lynn Croissant
Royal Arch Mason
Mrs. R. L. Cullen
S. Ky
Lts
Mr. Wilson
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