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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1940
Page
8
The Republican Women's Club will meet Thursday at noon at the Herring Cafeteria for lunch. This will replace the regular 3 PM meeting. The regular business will be conducted and all are welcome.
The final downtown parade of the Roswell school band was scheduled for this afternoon at 3 30. Autos damaged when cars driven by Mrs L A Sanders and Miss Jane Spencer collided at 4th and Sea, occupants escaped with minor injuries.
Official Coronado Cuarto-Centennial celebration publication will be available tomorrow. Illustrated by Peter Hurd and Manuel F Moseley, the magazine costs 25 cents. Also noted are gift items and a piano accordion ad from Carl Johnson.
A meeting of District Five nurses was held last night at St Marys hospital. Walter Fulbright showed scenic motion pictures before a business session. Refreshments were served by the Sisters of St Marys. Attending were Miss Eva Bourne Miss Ella Yeager Miss Marjorie Fairly Mrs Esther Schaubel Mrs Jean Thompson Mrs Mathilde Oglesby Mrs Wilcoxon Mrs Ella Mae Plummer Mrs J G Anderson Mrs Verdi Gill Mrs Wattam Mrs Elsie Beasley and Mrs Lucille Hood.
A mass meeting of Chaves County Democrats is called to meet in Roswell New Mexico at 7 30 p m Tuesday May 21 for electing delegates to the State Convention in Santa Fe on May 27 at 10 00 and to revise organization rules to conform with changes in election laws County Chairman John Tweedy 5 14tfc
Roswell barber shop at 301 North Main Street advertises selling several deer guns. The note urges customers to pick theirs now while demand is lower. Carl Johnson is referenced in the ad. Advertising language uses period t3c and date-like markers.
Miss Eva M. Bourne Roswell city school nurse outlined annual health work in Roswell schools and the impact of the Kiwanis Milk Fund. H A Poorbaugh urged support for the Eastern New Mexico State Fair and rodeo drive with a goal of four to four thousand two hundred dollars. A B Cotton spoke on Ford Good Driver League. Paul Wilmot led the program as J E Patterson presided.
Geo E French leads Red Cross relief drive urging immediate subscriptions as refugees flood Holland and Belgium and exhausted surplus funds push national needs to 10 million dollars. Committee members include Beers McCune Minton Samson Vandewart and Lawrence.
The German advance speeds 40 to 60 miles daily into Belgium and toward Sedan, crossing the Meuse as Dutch defenses around Rotterdam face a Fortress of Holland. Dutch detachments waver as French and English aid lags, while German air power appears to wane.
Mrs. Thos. J. Hall presents a bouquet of snapdragons among entries in the City Beautiful Contest highlighting floral display and civic participation.
For rent a furnished two room apartment at 406 West Hendricks. Call 5-1413c for details.
In north Belgium German armored units reached Liège, historic battlefield of 1815, as they pressed a pursuit of the retreating enemy, while Holland was said to be crushed and thus spared further destruction.
Dr. T. E. Boggs offers eye examinations at 309 North Main Street. Glasses fitted and ground in the shop by expert technicians. Broken lenses duplicated immediately. Phone number 21 for appointments.
A marriage license was issued to Asa Geo Paschall of Ramon New Mexico and Tishia Maye Raney of Lon New Mexico. The record lists both applicants as the parties to the license with their respective places of residence.
L. B. Chamberlain receives a building permit for repairs and an addition of one room at 600 South Michigan. Project valued at $300.
A German thrust advances toward Sedan and Paris along the Little Maginot line amid fierce fighting. The advance threatens Allied defense and could isolate Holland, as German forces drive from Namur through Dinant toward Sedan while Britain, France, and Belgium hold the line. A farm laborer on the Steve Lanning farm near Artesia was killed by lightning yesterday afternoon.
Allied and German forces clash along the Meuse front as Rotterdam and Utrecht reportedly surrender. Dutch commander Wilkelman’s radio proclamation says resistance broken by German power. Reports from Brussels Paris and Berlin describe battles, civilian casualties, and shifting riverfront positions.
The Roswell Chamber of Commerce plans a June issue of The Roswell Way with seven pages of ads already reserved. Advertising space closes tomorrow night and five thousand copies will be printed. The issue will feature new pictures including Cahoon Park entrance, be free to Roswell residents for out of state mail, and copied by libraries nationwide. Claude Simpson edits. Hall-Poorbaugh Press prints.
Berlin reports that German fighters claimed 70 Allied aircraft were shot down in the Sedan area on French soil. The victory statement notes ongoing combat in the French sector as German planes engage near the border.
Belgrade reports that Yugoslavia has sounded out Greece on possible aid the Greeks could provide if Italy attacks. The U S informed Greek officials of Yugoslav interest and the potential for regional support in the crisis.
In Belfast on May 14 police mobilized large forces to maintain order after a sequence of bomb blasts attributed to the outlawed Irish Republican Army shattered storefronts of four newspaper vendors.
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