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Newspaper

Roswell Daily Record

Location

Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America

Date

Oct 16, 1939

Page

5

French Front Reports Set for Big Offensive Amid Peace Broadcasts

French scouts report lights behind German lines and moving troops as bombardment intensifies. German fronts remain quiet to mask new gun positions while banners proclaim Hitler’s peace. Rain and fog hinder operations. Meuse and other rivers flood hindering communications. Sears clerk Charles Morton overwhelmed by merchandise for Southern Industrialization Sale.

No-Man’s Land Rhine Germany Eace Fuehrer Hitler France Lorraine Meuse Mouzon Laonelle Charles Morton Sears

Congress Wants- Arms Embargo Debate Continues

Washington scenes in the neutrality clash centered on the 90 day credit provision. Administration leaders push repeal of the arms embargo while House members split over limits and the possibility of restricting arms to defensive weapons. Senate leaders plan to limit debate and propose amendments to bar all wartime credits.

Ment Roosevelt United States House Senate Clarke D-Mo Schwellenbach D-Wash Clark D-Idaho Capper R-Kans Shipstead FL Minn Ellender D-La Hoover Col Charles A. Lindbergh Vandenberg R-Mich Byrd D-Va Washington Pittman D-Nev Senate Foreign Relations Committee Taft Ohio

3000 Bales of Cotton for Ward Sheets

Montgomery Ward advertises Ward Week with 3000 bales of cotton used for sheets. If laid end to end the sheets would form a white road 81 inches wide and over 500 miles long from Chicago to St. Paul. The 2,700,000 feet of sheets could banner half the United States or cover a tent more than two miles square in a year.

Montgomery Ward Ward Chicago St. Paul Denver Salt Lake City United States

Nazi Submarine Attacks and Lindbergh Criticism Lead War News

Report from a wartime page notes a Nazi submarine sinking the Louisiane with seven killed and survivors rescued after the attack. It also covers Lindbergh drawing criticism in British papers for his America-first stance and Berlin's claim of torpedoing the Repulse alongside the Royal Oak. Officials report ongoing Polish campaign results, floods hindering French fortifications, and Turkish-Soviet relations as key international context.

Louisiane Lindbergh Col Charles A. Lindbergh United States The Sunday Express Peter Wilson Sunday Pictorial America Berlin Supreme Army Command Royal Oak Poland Rhine Lorraine Meuse Mouzon Sacnelie Fuehrer Turkey Russia

Loyola Plays Arizona Saturday In Tucson

Loyola University plans a football game with the University of Arizona in Tucson next Saturday night despite two stars in hospital from infantile paralysis. The team was due for release from isolation today. Yesterday's game with St. Mary's Moraga was moved to December 3. Butch Donahue and Bob Link were described as improving by their nurse.

Loyola Arizona Los Angeles Loyola University University of Arizona Tucson St. Mary’s of Moraga Calif Butch Donahue Bob Link

Prohibition on War Credit Attribution in Belligerent Nations

The text argues that crediting private firms and belligerent governments for wartime actions should be prohibited. It discusses the fairness and implications of assigning economic or moral credit across nations during conflicts and calls for clear restrictions.

Court to Tucumcari Judge McGhee to sit in and travel

Judge James B. McGhee presided in Tucumcari today substituting for Judge Patton and plans to remain in chambers here tomorrow. He is scheduled to travel to Alamogordo Wednesday to sit for Judge Frenger, continuing his assignments in the region.

Tucumcari James B. McGhee Patton Alamogordo Frenger

Hold 'er Newt says Dave Agnes fuels Southern industrial push

Dave Agnes of Sears Roebuck and Co remarks on Southern industrialization, predicting a transformative period with confident optimism as regional development accelerates. The quote captures enthusiasm for manufacturing expansion and economic growth in the South.

Newt Dave Agnes Sears Roebuck and Co

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