List of Graduates at Institute Largest Class in School History
The New Mexico Military Institute announced the largest graduating class ever, consisting of 118 members. Graduation ceremonies are set for June 4, featuring five Roswell alumni and two from Ruidoso, with graduates from multiple states including Texas California Oklahoma and Colorado.
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New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
Thomas J. Hall, Jr
Hassell Lee Norton
George Sisneros
Frank L. Smith, Jr
Martin Byron Ballew White
Ruidoso
Frank Doe Boyce
Robert Lee Boyce, Jr
Joseph Clarence Adams, Jr
Burkburnett
Texas
Clyde Keith Alexander
Phillips
Stanley Archenhold
Denver
Colorado
American Republics Denounce Nazi Invasion of Neutral Nations
In Montevideo on May 18 the United States and 20 American republics adopted an official denunciation of Germany's invasion of neutral countries. Uruguay drafted the declaration, with Chile and Nicaragua approving to make the action unanimous. A street demonstration occurred with chants against Naziism. police clashed with protesters, shots were fired, and a German cafe was pelted. In Buenos Aires anti Nazi sentiment was noted.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
United States
Alberto Guani
Chile
Nicaragua
Buenos Aires
Nazis Close On Paris and Enter Antwerp
German forces pressed a western push toward Belgium and Paris with Antwerp entered and the Dutch resistance on Walcheren ending. High command said forces were within 60 miles of Paris, while Paris disputed the distance, as heavy German air attacks reportedly forced Allied withdrawals into retreats across Belgium and Zeeland.
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Berlin
Germany
Antwerp
Paris
Holland
Zeeland
England
France
Belgium
Brussels
Mechelen
Malines
Louvain
Walcheren Island
Schouwen
Beveland
Funeral services for R B Sanders Monday at Ballard Chapel
R B Bert Sanders who died in the Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle California after an extended illness will be mourned with funeral services Monday at 2 30 PM from the Ballard Funeral Chapel. Born November 2 1897 in Dumas Texas he was 42. He served in World War I from Amarillo and lived in Roswell after marriage to Willie King. He later worked for Hinkle Motor Company and was a former Roswell Lions Club president and American Legion adjutant. He is survived by his wife three children his mother two sisters and a brother. The body is returning from California and will arrive in Roswell Sunday afternoon.
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R. B
Bert) Sanders
Veterans’ Hospital
Sawtelle
California
Ballard Funeral
Mr. Sanders
Dumas
Texas
Amarillo
United States Army
Willie King
Los Angeles
Roswell
Sanders
Western Auto Supply Company
Hinkle Motor Company
Veterans Hospital
Albuquerque
Arizona
Margaret Gosnell
Kansas City
Neild Sanders
Roosevelt Within 45 Votes of Nomination Lead
President Roosevelt nears a Democratic renomination with 503.5 of 548 needed after Oregon and North Carolina delegates. New Jersey primary slated to push him closer. Farley Bankhead O Mahoney Garner among other delegates, Republicans led by Dewey. German advances race toward Paris as Antwerp falls and Belgium, Holland, and northern France feel the Nazi push.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Oregon
Garner
North Carolina
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Illinois
Nebraska
Farley
Bankhead
O’mahoney
Wyoming
McNary
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Seni
Jones-Wheeler Bill Attacked By Banker
Robert M. Hanes head of the American Bankers Association attacked the Jones Wheeler bill as a political credit system that would hurt farmers. He spoke at the New Mexico Bankers Association convention in Albuquerque. New Mexico bankers elected Walter, George, and Carson to convention posts as sessions closed.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Robert M. Hanes
American Bankers Association
Jones- Wheeler
New Mexico Bankers Association
Hanes
Las Vegas
Earl George
Tucumcari
National Nominating Committee
Co. W. Carson
Wreck Victim In Critical Condition
Juan Sanchez suffers a broken neck in a highway wreck 13 miles west of Roswell and remains in critical condition at St. Marys hospital. Roberto Perez also has a broken neck but is expected to recover. Both men from San Patricio were in a truck that left the road during heavy rain near Blackwater draw west of a bridge. The uninjured driver Gonzalez and Pedro Sedillo, with a minor gash, were also involved.
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Juan Sanchez
Roswell
Roberto Perez
San Patricio
St. Mary’s Hospital
Blackwater Draw
Gonzalez
Pedro Sedillo
Giants Rally Sparks 6-4 Victory Over Cubs
New York Giants beat Chicago Cubs 6 to 4 after a three run surge in the seventh. Giants totaled 11 hits off four Chicago pitchers with Olsen Root Raffensberger Mooty Todd Gumbert Braun Danning in the batteries.
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Giants
Cubs
NEW York
New York Giants
Chicago Cubs
Chicago
Olsen, Root
Raffensberger
Mooty
Todd
Gumbert
Braun & Danning
Yankee P win streak as Pearson shuts out White Sox
Monte Pearson limited Chicago to two hits as the New York Yankees, hosting the White Sox, won 3-0 for their third straight victory. Tommy Henrich homered, part of 11 Yankee hits off Thornton Lee. Batteries: Pearson Rosar for New York and Lee Tresh for Chicago.
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Yanks
Chicago
Monte Pearson
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Tommy Henrich
Yankees
Thornton Lee
New York
Pearson & Rosar
Lee & Tresh
Detroit 8 Athletics 6 ends Tigers skid
Detroit outslug Philadelphia 8 to 6 to snap a three game losing streak. Detroit scored four runs in the fourth and four in the seventh after two innings of offense, with Babich, Caster and Hayes on the mound for the Athletics and Brucker, Newsom and Sullivan for Detroit.
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Detroit
Athletics
Detroit Tigers
Philadelphia Athletics
Tigers
Phila
Babich
Caster
Hayes
Brucker
Newsom & Sullivan
Sanford Love Claim Opens New Gap in Murder Trial
In Tucumcari New Mexico on May 18 the state rested its case in the second trial of Dr. John H. Sanford former mayor of Santa Rosa charged with wife murder The prosecution portrayed Sanford as declaring love for Hallie May Wilson the day after his wife Hallie Sanford was buried The witness Walter M Wilson husband of Hallie Wilson testified Walt I love Hallie the doctor reportedly said He claimed to have loved her for five or six months provoking shock and challenging the defense to respond as the case moved to its next phase.
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Tucumcari
N. M
John H. Sanford
Santa Rosa
Sanford
Haltie Sanford
Walter M. Wilson
Hallie May Wilson
Dr. Sanford
Walt
Hallie
State Registration Director Dismissed
Mrs. Jessie M. Gonzalez secretary of state announced the dismissal of Earl Hennigan as state registration director due to lack of funds. She noted the registration budget has already been exceeded by 570 dollars during the state convention of Young Democrats.
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Jessie M. Gonzalez
Earl Hennigan
Gonzalez
Young Democrats
Watts And Neal Enter D A Race In Roswell Area
Watts and Melvin Neal of Hobbs announced they will seek the Democratic nomination for district attorney in the coming primary. Lake J. Frazier of Roswell said he will not run for the office.
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G. T. Watts
Roswell
Melvin Neal
Hobbs
Lake J. Frazier
Roswell Students Visit Carlsbad Caverns Today
A caravan of students from East Grand Plains School and Roswell’s senior and junior high schools traveled to Carlsbad Caverns for the Governor's Day program.
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Roswell
East Grand Plains
Carlsbad Caverns
Young Democrats close New Mexico state convention
New Mexico Young Democrats closed their state convention after electing a full slate of officers for the next two years. Paul Case of Socorro county was reelected president. James Murray Jr. of Hobbs won the national committee man post, while Mrs. Stanley W. P. Miller of Albuquerque became national committeewoman and Mrs. Elizabeth Zinn of Santa Fe was named Ist chairwoman. Pete Baca to serve as Ist vice-president.
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
Elizabeth Zinn
Santa Fe
Ist
Pete Baca
German drive widens pocket in northern France near Oise
German armored troops push beyond Vervins toward the Oise river as part of a two-pronged effort to widen a pocket in northern France. Premier Reynaud warns the situation is grave but vows duty for victory while Paris and Guise face air raids with four bombers shot down.
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France
Paris
Holland
Zeeland
Netherlands
Dyle River
Belgium
Bulge
Rethel
St. Michel
Maubeuge
Meuse
Namur
Antwerp
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Europe
Channel
Vervins
Oise
Paul Reynaud
United States
Guise
German Navy Mines South African Ports Reported
Berlin reports German naval units have laid mines before South African ports used as bases for enemy naval units. The terse communique notes the mining action and the Pretoria defense department confirmation follows.
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Berlin
High Command
South African Defense Department
Pretoria
Bicycle Journey Through France Front Lines By AP Reporter
H Taylor Henry returns to Paris after a week in the battle zone during which he rode about 70 miles through roads crowded with refugees peasants and convoys. The AP staff man born in Mineola Texas a 1933 USMA graduate turned publisher later worked in Austin and Blackwell before joining the New York bureau in 1934. He was assigned to Paris on March 17 1938 and reports fleeing refugees as German forces press the front.
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H. Taylor Henry
Paris
Associated Press
Mineola
Tex
United States Military Academy
Palestine, Texas
Austin
Texas
Blackwell
Okla
New York
Belgium
France
Observation Wells Drilled by Conservancy District
The Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District will start an observation well drill in the Berrendo area on Monday. They will repurpose an abandoned oil test hole between Dexter and Hagerman and add three more wells north of Orchard Park along Cottonwood and south of Artesia, bringing total wells to eight across the artesian basin. Automatic water level recorders will be installed. records have existed since 1925, enabling a fuller picture of basin water status. The new Berrendo well will be about a half mile east of the highway and south of the bridge three miles north of Roswell.
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Berrendo
Pecos Valley
Conservancy District
Artesian Basin
Roswell
Weather outlook steady for Plains with scattered showers
A storm system moved from the Rocky Mountains into the central plains, bringing rain from the middle Rockies to the Mississippi with heavy rainfall in parts of Kansas and eastern Colorado. Clearing skies spread from the northwest into the northern plains, with cooler areas and a generally fair forecast for the Pecos valley tonight and Sunday. Travel from Roswell should be mostly clear, except northeast routes likely to be unsettled in Oklahoma and Kansas. Cleve Hallenbeck.
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Kansas
Middle Rocky Mountains
Mississippi River
New Mexico
Plains
Colorado
Roswell
Oklahoma
Arizona
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Pecos Valley
Cleve Hallenbeck
Capitan Girls Camp PTA Week Beats the Capitan
Next week at Capitan Girls Camp in New Mexico features PTA programmes across the nation. A Monday dinner at 6 30 p m will showcase a Washington radio programme with addresses by WPA leaders. Wednesday night presents Know Your New Mexico by Lacy Robinson starting at 7 p m, followed by an visitors night with dancing.
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New Mexico
Capitan
Washington
WPA
Lacy Robinson
He. Capitan Girls Camp
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Thomas Worthy Ballinger
Santa Barbara
Calif
Carl Willis Bartlett
Artesia
William LaMoin Baum
San Mateo
James Edward Beckett
Needles
Robert Querinus Bekins, Jr
Dallas
William Francis Botterill
Coorado
William Jackson Bowen
Waco
Truman Osborn Boye, III
Long Beach
William Thomas Brown
Alfred Wilder Burnside, Jr
Wichita Falls
Elwood
Ellsworth Byers
Tulsa
Jack Whitney Churchill
Roger Leon Conarty
Carlsbad
Ralph North Coogan
Sayre
Bob Otho Cook
Little Rock
Arkansas
Stanley Haskell Cook
Courtney Holt Cowden
Midand
Joshua Moats Cruse
Woodville
Foster Henry Davis
Honolulu
T. H
William Dwayne
Argentine
First Air Line
H. P. Joyce
Joyce
Charles Butler
John C. Martens
Frank Morse
Continental Air Lines
Bill
Phillies
Reds
Philadelphia
Paul Derringer
Cincinnati
Hugh Mulcahy
Derringer
Moore & Hershberger
Mulcahy
Atwood
Brooklyn
Terry Moore
Johnny Mize
Ducky Medwick
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. Louis
McGee, Shoun & Padgett
Hamlin
Tamulis
Doyle & Phelps
Boston
Bucs
Bees
Pittsburgh Pirate
Pittsburgh
Butcher
Klinger
Heintzlemen
Bauers
Lanning & Schultz
Posdel
Piechota
Cleveland
Chase & Ferrell
Allen, Eisenstat & Hemsley
Red Head
Watts and
Neal
D. A
Young Demos
Paul Case
J. M. H. Callender
Conservancy Dist
Capitan Girls Camp
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