Red Army claims vast destruction of German forces on front
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army slaughtering German troops by the thousands and destroying hundreds of Nazi tanks in assaults that pushed Hitler’s Wehrmacht back from Leningrad, Kiev, and the Dnieper. Soviet air forces claim 60 planes Wednesday and 61 Thursday, with seven Russian planes lost. The front extends 2000 miles from Arctic to Crimea as clashes continue.
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Moscow
Red Army
Adolf Mhitler
Leningrad
Kiev
Lower
Dnieper
Arctic
Crimea
Red
Odessa
Saki
Ukraine
Dniepver
West Bank
Davidson Sentenced 1 to 20 Years in Utah Penitentiary
Clifton Davidson begins a 1 to 20 year term in Utah for second degree burglary after pleading guilty to Roswell safe cracking. He had a life sentence in New Mexico for habitual criminal law and faced Oklahoma murder charges. He was captured in Salt Lake City after an escape from an Oklahoma jail.
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Clifton Davidson
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Utah
Frank Young
Davidson
Roswell
James B. McGhee
Miles
Wewoka
Okla
Salt Lake City
Gallup
Johnson-Lodewick
Local Weather Readings and Precipitation Summary
Temperature readings at 3 minute intervals cover 24 hours ending 11 30 p m Saturday with trace precipitation. Monthly and yearly totals shown with roxy month to date 1 for year to date 21 17 and normals 46 and 10 36. Sunrise 5 36 Sunset 6 16 length of day 12 7 hours.
Navy Declares Nazi Sub Was Attacked by Greer
The Navy department asserted that the initial attack in the Greer encounter was made by the German submarine. Officials avoided arguing over who fired first, while German accounts and U.S. statements differed. President Roosevelt planned a radio address Monday night as Senator Connally commented on the German admission.
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Navy
Washington
Navy Department
U. S
Greer
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
William D. Hassett
Connally
Tom Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Winter Gifts Site For New Temple Of Odd Fellows Lodge
Henry B. Maddux announced the local Odd Fellows Lodge will erect a new two-story fireproof temple 50 by 90 feet next year. Gus H. Winter offered to donate a site from several options, with the final lot to be chosen by the lodge. The donation allows construction sooner than expected.
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Odd Fellows Lodge
Henry B. Maddux
Noble Grand
Gus H. Winter
Winter
Maddux
Local Officers To Attend Convention
Sheriff Frank Young will head a delegation of local officers at the annual New Mexico Sheriffs and Police Association convention opening today in Carlsbad. Members from the Chaves county sheriffs department and Roswell police department will attend in shifts during the three day meeting. Judge James B and district attorney G T Watts will also attend.
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Frank Young
New Mexico
Roswell Pioneers in 1887 Portrait Highlight Local Figures
A Roswell historic photo from 1887 features pioneer citizens including Sidney Prager and Will Prager beside Jaffa Prager & Co flour and grain store location at Mabie Lowrey. Others named include Nathan Jaffa, Doctor Sutherland, Horace Clarkson, Sheriff Pat Garrett, and clerk F P Gayle. The Record thanks F B Goodwin for the copy.
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Roswell
Signey Prager
Price
Sidney Prager
Jaffa, Prager & Co
Mabie-Lowrey
Will Prager
Sidney
Nathan Jaffa
Las Vegas
Doctor Sutherland
Horace Clarkson
Pat Garrett
F. P
Soldier found shot in car near Roswell
Sgt. Milton H. Strickland was found in his car 35 miles northeast of Roswell with a chest wound and was expected to recover. Local sheriff and police, state police and army authorities at Fort Bliss, Texas, investigated after Strickland said two men in a black Buick stopped him and shot him. he gave conflicting statements. Car under police scrutiny with Texas license 416-348.
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Milton H. Strickland
Ft. Bliss
Here
Army
Fort Bliss
Texas
Strickland
el Paso
Roswell
Accident Victims From Pampa Recovering After Crash
Three members of a Pampa Texas family were injured in an automobile accident near Roswell Friday evening. W C Knizer sustained bruising, Mrs Knizer had a severe scalp wound, and son James broke a rib. None of the injuries were serious. The crash occurred on the Cross highway south of Roswell when a car turned over. they were taken to St Marys hospital.
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Pampa
Texas
Roswell
St. Mary's Hospital
W. C. Knizer
Dexter Highway
Pentain Pille
Rev Nelson Dies At His Home In Roswell
Rev. W. R. Nelson pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church died at his home 107 West 11th Street after four months illness. He lived in Roswell five years and served as pastor here. Born April 23 1881 in Lamar County Texas he was married June 7 1919 to Clara Wilcoxson. Survived by wife seven children and funeral set for Sunday at 2 30 pm at Tabernacle Baptist Church with Rev. Ben Johnson and Rev. Ben Waggoner officiating. Burial at South Park Mortuary by Mor tuary directing.
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W. R. Nelson
Tabernacle Baptist Church
West 11Th Street
Nelson
Roswell
Lamar County
Texas
Clara Wilcoxson
Armersville
Ernest Wardlow
Farmersville
Jack Brooks
Allen
Frank Hale
Dallas
Sidney Longham
Blueridge
Frank Oswald
Clifton
Bruce
Betty Nelson
Wardlow
Oswald
West Eleventh Street
Ben Johnson
Ben Waggoner
Clarence Guffey
Ed Stewart
Jack Miller
Vic Jernigan
Elton Grimes
Burton Grimes
South Park
Talmage
President Roosevelt to Speak on World Importance Monday
Hyde Park New York September 6 The temporary White House announced that President Roosevelt will deliver an address of world wide importance Monday.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
Roosevelt
Flight Plan For Bombers In State Blackout Drafted
Roswell will serve as one of four civilian air craft warning filter stations during a statewide blackout test next Friday night. Four flights of 4 metered bombers will simulate invaders, taking off from Albuquerque and tracking about 60 communities with alerts relayed to Santa Fe. Major R F Tate directs the exercise with the 19th bombardment squadron.
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Roswell
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Las Vegas
Las Cruces
R. F. Tate
Army Air Corps
Police Court Hearing Set On Peace Bond Plea
Bill Purcella pleads not guilty to a complaint seeking a peace bond. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p m.
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Bill Purcella
Nazis Spending Vast Sums In More Grab South America
In Buenos Aires on September 6, reports state more than 500,000 Germans, organized as storm troopers, are spread across South America in a campaign for Nazification. Paul Damonte Taborda, chair man of a congressional committee, is cited in the dispatch.
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South America
Buenos Aires
Paul Damonte ‘Taborda
Germans Execute Three For Attack On Nazi Soldier
In Vichy and Paris reports say a German firing squad executed three hostages in reprisal for wounding a German officer. The Vichy cabinet approved a state tribunal to punish instigators of terrorism, aiming to reach those truly responsible rather than the killers. Names were not released. sources said the victims were alleged communists, not Jews, among Jewish lawyers detained in a Paris suburb concentration camp. Henri Leveque sought their release.
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Vichy
Vichy Cabinet
Francois Darlan
Pierre Pucheu
Joseph Barthelmy
Puncheu
Paris
Saint Denis
Marcel Bimch
Henri Leveque
Law Court War Veterans
Kiwanis Club Offers Prizes for 4-H Livestock Winners
The Roswell Kiwanis Club will award special cash premiums totaling 50 to 4-H livestock feeding winners at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Prizes include 12.50 for first, 7.50 for second, and 5 for third in each of two Hereford steer classes, plus regular fair premiums. This marks the second year of Kiwanis special prizes for 4-H members.
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Roswell Kiwanis Club
New Mexico
The
Fair Association
Kiwanis Club
The Nazis Charge U S Destroyer Attacked U-boat
Berlin reports that Hitler led the press in alleging President Roosevelt ordered the destroyer Greer to attack a German U-boat off Iceland. U-boat incident claimed to be a deliberate move toward war, with headlines in Boerkischer Beobachter and other papers echoing the charge.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Roosevelt
United States
Greer
Iceland
U. S
Hitler
Boerkischer Beobachter
Mr. Roosevelt
Audit of City Books Completed in Roswell Report
The city of Roswell’s annual audit by Mansfield Tweedy praises accurate council minutes and bids on materials over 200. It shows disbursements of 110,433.26 against a 115,500 budget, receipts 129,304.21 above estimates, and a municipal water department profit of 32,850.22 with operating revenues 80,576 and costs 47,726.16. A 37,500 water fund appropriation to the general fund included 30,090 in the original budget, with 7,500 added later for a new city jail. The city borrowed 33,490 from the state defense fund for airport needs and land for extensions. A surplus of 719,760 is on the June 30, 1941 balance sheet, with assets totaling 1,045,925.72 and bonds outstanding at 248,000.
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City of
Municipal Water Department
State Comptroller and State Tax Commission
State Public Defense Fund
Roswell Airport Company
National Defense Improvement Program
Three Local Youths Enlist In Air Corps
Three Roswell youths Tim Wheeler Pete Brown and Johnny Bob O Neall were announced as enlistees in the army air corps by local recruiting chief Corp Eddie Walton. They will travel to Santa Fe for medicals then proceed to Sheppard Field Wichita Falls Texas for basic training.
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Roswell
Army Air Corps
Corp
Eddie Walton
Army
Air Corps
Tim Wheeler
Pete Brown
Johnny Bob O'Neal
Santa Fe
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Texas
Mayor Halil Outlines Rosweil’s Blackout Participation
Mayor Thomas J. Halil will discuss Rosweil’s role in the statewide blackout in a radio talk on KGPFPL next Tuesday at 6 30 PM.
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Thomas J. Halil
Rosweil
Orgs
Kgpfpl
Germans Admit Sub In Greer Incident Was A German Sub
TheGreer incident saw Germany admit a German submarine fired torpedoes at the American destroyer Greer claiming retaliation for an earlier Greer attack. Washington and Berlin signaled a stage of shooting incidents as battles raged on the Russo German front and Oslo faced a daylight RAF attack causing harbor panic.
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United Press
Germany
United States
Berlin
Washington
U. S
Greer
Iceland
Leningrad
Royal Air Force
Oslo
Merchants Dinner to Discuss Air Base Plans
Large attendance is expected at the Merchants Association dinner in Roswell next Tuesday as Ross L. Malone Jr. outlines community issues linked to the new army air base. The fair board will present matters and the merchants committee will explain Retailers For Defense Week. Tickets are available in advance at the Chamber of Commerce.
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Army Air Base
Roswell
Merchants Association
Air Field
Ross L. Malone, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Fair Board
Merchants Committee
Defense
Dexter Defense Meeting Tuesday
The local Council for National Defense will hold an open meeting at Lake Van Clubhouse Tuesday evening September 9 at 7 30. All town and community members are urged to attend as this is the final meeting before the state blackout on Friday night September 12. The chairman asks representatives from each organization church and club to be present.
Record Classified Proves Bargains For Mrs Bruce Connor
Mrs Bruce P Connor says she will always cherish the Record classified for leading her to a grand bargain on a Magic Chef range. She credits regular reading with securing good deals and urges others to daily check the classifieds for savings.
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Bruce P. Connor
Record Classified
Mrs. Connor
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Rae Een
Paoli Bie
New Temple of Odd Fellows Lodge
Kiwanis
Dexter
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