Germans Press in Russia After Six Day Drive on Moscow
German forces claim a 15 mile advance from Maloyaroslavets toward Moscow with heavy tank battles and near Mozhaisk and Kalinin, while Soviet defenses along Mozhaisk, Maloyaroslavets and Kalinin resist strongly. Hull urges changes to U.S. neutrality act as Moscow reports an ironclad defense on approaches to the capital.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Stalino
Rostov-on-Don
Moscow
London
Maloyaroslavets
Red Army
Kalinin
Iver
Local Weather Readings and Daily Averages
Readings at 3 hour intervals show today’s high 82 and low 64 with a normal high of 72 and low 42. Precipitation for 24 hours ending 11:30 a.m. today is 0. Monthly total 81 and year to date 29.77. Sunrise 6:07 sunset 5:18 length of day 11.2 hours.
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Seasaee
Axis Forces Take Important Russian Keys To Caucasus
Berlin reports German and Italian troops seized Stalino near Rostov, calling it a major armament center in the Donets basin. Alpine detachments also claimed Stalino, formerly Yuzovka, as Rostov looms as a potential encirclement hub. Soviet losses followed after a clash near Bryansk and Moscow and Leningrad targets were bombed.
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Berlin
Stalino
Rostov
Donets Basin
Yuzovka
Bryansk
Moscow
Fiftieth Army
Petrov
Supreme Soviet Council
Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Rail Unions Refuse Arbitration By Federal Board
Fourteen railroad unions with 900,000 members rejected an offer by President Roosevelt s emergency board to arbitrate the wage dispute between carriers and 1 260 000 organized employes a spokesman announced today. Five operating brotherhoods with 369 000 members turned down the arbitration offer yesterday. Oral arguments before the presidential fact finding board were begun by Mulholland after five weeks of testimony. The unions have authorized a strike but a walk out is delayed while railway mediation machinery operates. Steel production in the Birmingham area was hampered by a strike that began in Alabama coal mines and spread to blast furnaces.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Frank L. Mulholland
Congress
Mulholland
Birmingham
Alabama
Germans Arrest French Prefect in Loire Region
In unoccupied France on October 21 German forces reportedly arrested the Loire prefect, Nantes capital, after the assassination of German General Holtz in Nantes. German authorities silence the incident as a roundup of suspects proceeds while Admiral Darlan departs for the occupied zone. An 81st firing squad execution was announced in Paris, Hubert Tuffery of Beaugency cited for illegal firearms and nine sticks of dynamite.
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Vichy
France
Loire Inferieure
Nantes
Holtz
Jean Darlan
Occupied
Paris
Hubert Tuffery
Beaugency
Hull urges changes to Neutrality Act provisions
Secretary of State Hull urged repeal or modification of key Neutrality Act sections limiting arming merchant ships and restricting entry to certain combat zones. He testified that arming ships is essential for self defense and warned that clinging to the law could be criminal negligence. Senate hearings on neutrality legislation would proceed with plans to lift the arming ban.
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Washington
Hull
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
United States
Senate
Barkley
White House
Roosevelt
Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
Kansas Farms Flooded With Less Crops Livestock
Water engulfed homes crops and livestock across northern and central Kansas as cloudbursts dumped heavy rain. Salina Emporia Abilene McPherson Council Grove Dumlap marooned families, 21.2 inches in 48 hours at Emporia, Neosho river rose to 28.5 feet. Army engineers evacuated 235 families at Salina. rail service disrupted with trains hours late or canceled. Roy Poland feared drowned near Junction City amid rescue efforts.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Smoky Hill
Cottonwood
Neosho
Salina
Emporia
Abilene
McPherson
Council Grove
Dumlap
Yesteray
Roy Poland
Geary County
Junction City
Camp Funston
U. S. Highway 99
Marquette
Lindsborg
Marion
Lyons
Coyote Football Players Guests At Kiwanis Club
Coach Poe Corn and Roswell high school football squad visited the Kiwanis Club luncheon. Corn urged town support as key to wins, noted many juniors and few spring graduates, and lamented sophomore football interest. A. B. Cotton elected president for next year with Norman Savage and Ray Platt as VPs and several directors named.
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Poe Corn
Roswell
Kiwanis Club
Ray Platt
Wayne Adams
J. M. H. Callender
Bob Wakefield
Paul McEvoy
W. C. Taylor
Bosweat
Dr. VU. S. Marshall
Fire crews extinguish trash fire on North Kentucky street
The fire department responded yesterday afternoon to a trash fire in the 1300 block of North Kentucky. No injuries reported and cause under investigation.
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Ee 1300 Block
North
Kenucky
Lehigh Torpedoed Off West of Africa Near Equator
President Roosevelt announced the torpedoing of the American merchant vessel Lehigh Sunday night. The attack occurred just north of the equator near the bulge of Africa, west of Africa, with the ship involved in transatlantic trade during World War II.
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Africa
Washington
Roosevelt
Lehigh
Equator
Attending N M M I Becomes Tradition for Families
New Mexico Military Institute enrollment highlights family ties with 74 cadets being second sons and 13 with two or more elder brothers. Alumni and friends contributed 224 of 258 new cadets, 182 relate to alumni or cadets, and the 619-student roster includes 35 states, four possessions and four foreign countries.
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United States
New Mexico Military Institute
Special Meeting Of G P A Thursday
Chaves County Game Protective Association calls a 7 30 PM meeting at the Chamber of Commerce chaired by president B B Wilson to discuss closing the quail season and other important matters urging all members to attend
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Chaves County Game Protective Association
Chamber of Commerce
B. B. Wilson
New Continental Airlines Schedules Between Denver and El Paso
Continental Airlines unveils a new schedule effective November 1 linking Denver to El Paso via Roswell with six minute stops at Roswell and six to eight minute stops at other stations except Albuquerque. Flight 4 northbound departs El Paso 7 15 a m arriving Denver 1 52 p m with meals at Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
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Continental Airlines
Denver
el Paso
Roswell
Carlsbad
Hobbs
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Las Vegas
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Colo. Springs
Alamogordo Shooting Ties Texas Youth to Fatal Quarrel
A 20-year-old youth from Far Paso Texas remained in custody in Alamogordo after a fatal shooting of 19 year old Melton Starley. Assistant district attorney Allan D. Walker identified the suspect as James Marr formerly of Tulareosa. Investigators said Marr and Starley had a quarrel Sunday before the shooting.
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Alamogordo
N. M
FE Paso
Texas
Melton Starley
Allan D. Walker
James
Marr
Tularosa
Walker
Stara
Starley
Housing survey plan for Roswell air base officers
A Roswell Chamber of Commerce committee plans an immediate housing survey to meet the goal of 300 housing units for commissioned and non commissioned officers at the army air base. Data will be compiled at a meeting next Tuesday. First Lieutenant Herbert A. Von Tunglin is transferring from Luke Field to Roswell to oversee housing arrangements, with arrival around November 1 and assignment starting November 15.
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Army Air Base
Special Chamber of Commerce
Roswell
Army
H. A. Poorbaugh
Roy Vorhees
H. E. Samson
Roy Norton
Harry Moberly
Herbert A. von Tunglin
Roswell Air Base
Luke Field
Phoenix
Ariz
von Tungin
DeMolay Public Installation Honors Father and Mother Theme
Major John McClure spoke at Roswell DeMolay Chapter’s public installation at the Masonic Temple on the theme Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. Officers installed include Master Councilor Don B M. Chappell and Senior Councilor Charles Malone, with Chev. Joe Fowler as installing officer and Morris Carper assisting.
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John McClure
Roswell
Robert Owens
DeMolay Dewey Burnworth
Marshall
Charles Lee Gant
Homer Buchanan
Bob Kisker
E. L. Lusk
John Wryly
Don B M. Chappell
Charles Malone
Ben Kelly, Jr
Dixon Bullock
Ted Brown
Jerry Owen
John Bill Powers
Joe Fowler
Bill Thompson
H. C. Buchanan
Robert Lancaster
Luther Land
George Losey
Charles L. Gant
Owens Dunnahoo
Yerby Chambers
Fred Burkstaller, Jr
Ralph Burnworth
Odie Bynum
Billy Hereford
Lucius di Lorenzo
Sentinel
Morris Carper
New Uniforms For The State Guard Have Arrived
State guard uniforms arrived at Price and Company today comprising shirt trousers and mackinaw. Officers uniforms ties caps belt and state guard insignia are pending. Guardsmen praised the all wool blue gray outfits with grayer mackinaws. Made in Conshohocken Pennsylvania by the Philadelphia Uniform Company. Shoes to be furnished by guardsmen. the state will buy the uniforms.
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State Guard
Price and Company
Signia
Conshohocken
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Uniform Company
Nazis Smash Into Donets River Area In Russia Drive
German and Italian forces reported to have captured Stalino as part of a broad offensive on the Donets river basin while Soviet forces along the Moscow front held under heavy bombardment. Tass noted a major tank battle near Mozhaisk and Russian counterattacks across several sectors as the battle for Moscow continued.
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Associated Press
Russia
Domets River
Stalino
Rostov-on-Don
Moscow
Semeon Budyonny
Ukraine
Taganrog
Rostov
Taganroeg
Dago Island
Baltic Islands
Baltic
Red Army
Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
Tass
Mozhaisk
Mozhaisk- Moscow
Napoleon
Ped
Kalinin
Maloyaroslavets
Orel
Right Time for Classified Ads Moral from Mrs Curry
Mrs A L Curry recalls reading the Record classified ads as a lifelong habit. She found a wheelbarrow in her yard and after three weeks placed a found ad. the owner claimed the wheelbarrow within three hours of the paper’s issue. Moral: don’t wait to place an ad in Record classified.
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J. E. Pritchard
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James Crocker
Richard Lowe
O. C. Graves
William Taylor
Luther Lund
Jimmy Short
Sherwood Grossman
Paul O'Meara
Bob Thompson
Paul Dollahan
W. C. Coleman
Bob Hall
Ben Kelly
Arthur Wishard
Donald Newberry
Job Melendez
Raymond Ayalla
Tom Hoover
Ed Keller
Harry Bissell
Skelly Oil Company
J. B. Mitchell
Huntsville
Ala
Bernie Payne
Carlsbad Kiwanis Club
Frank McCarthy
Hagerman
State House of Representatives
N.M.M.I
G.P.A
New Continental Airlines
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