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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1940
Page
4
The Record promotes Marian Martin Pattern 9323 for larger women with a front panelled dress and matching jacket. Features include V neck, gathered bust fullness, belt option, lace edging, and short to three quarter sleeves. Sizes 34 through 48. complete ensemble 5 5/8 yards of 39 inch fabric. 15 cents per pattern.
The Westminster Guild held an evening supper in the assembly room of the Presbyterian Church. Guests and members attended a devotional, short business meeting, and social time with floral table decorations and place favors.
A bridge party and shower were hosted by Miss Ladye Dee Jones and Mrs Ned Nickson at the A D Jones home 200 South Kentucky Avenue to honor Mrs Frank L Goodwin a recent bride. Bowls of roses and petunias decorated the rooms where games were played, gifts given, and a salad course served. Attending were the honoree and numerous guests including Edith French Edna Malone Lucille Hanagan Nancy Elizey Effie Jane Crosby Frances Schultz Genevieve Cooney Marion Roney Dorothy Lambeth Jane Lewis Marcella Lee Marion Sanders Ruth Jean Smith Bianda Greenwade Jane Reaves Diantha Davis and several named gentlemen.
Mrs. J P Church hosted the Southwestern History Club at 210 South Kentucky Avenue. President Mrs Harry R Andrew led a discussion of the first three chapters of Navajo Sand Painting and Legends with help from Mrs E F Hayslip and Mrs A G Lodewick. Current events were shared and an iced drink served. Also noted: Cooperative Concert Association memberships by mail and a Gen Platoff Don Cossack Chorus concert at Junior High auditorium next week inviting new teachers or residents to join.
The article notes a brief statement from tary Hall maintainee on Indo-China confusion and the status quo being upset under duress. Possible actions include reinforcing disapproval with fleet movements, recalling Ambassador Grew, embargo on oil and scrap iron, and boosting materiel to the Netherlands East Indies as Japan presses ahead in Tokyo.
Harold Hingst entertained his parents the Rev and Mrs R A Hingst at 605 West Third Street with a gay party in honor of his fifth birthday. After an hour of supervised play the children enjoyed ice cream and cookies. Colorful toy windmills were given as favors. Guests included Jean Ann Fields Patricia Lodwick Billy Sommers Jackie
Large turnout of about 900 parents, teachers, and students attended the Junior High School Back-to-School program. The evening featured a flag salute, Star Spangled Banner, a movie demonstration, student plays, and a closing song.
The Zink-Record Cooking School run by Frank De catur White filled the Basement Woman's Club with a packed audience. Attendees copied recipes for boiled Sponge Cake, tomato cheese luncheon salad, tuna egg scramble, and hot biscuits. Dances by Hebison School of Dancing pupils featured, with Laura Ruth Godfrey and others performing to radio music. Royal Crown Cola cooled attendees. next session at 2:30 pm with final day Wednesday afternoon.
A 2 1/2 year old boy Marc de Tristan was abducted on Friday and rescued Sunday, with a $100,000 ransom unpaid. The kidnapper Muhlenbroich was arrested by the FBI, photographed in a prison shirt, while speculation swirled about Alcatraz. Baby Marc returned to Hillsborough parents Count and Countess Marc de Tristan. Cecil Wetzel Day declared at the Golden Gate Exposition for a local hero who captured the kidnapper amid a broader wartime Indo-China update.
Rainfall spread from Montana and South Dakota through the plains to the Gulf coast, with showers in eastern New Mexico and western Texas. Cooler air has moved into the Plains as far as Nebraska and the Great Lakes, while the Southwest remains mostly in the 80s to 100s. Travel from Roswell may face unsettled conditions to the northeast and east.
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