Pittman Urges Immediate US Defense Prep
Sen Key Pittman warned at Montana School of Mines that the United States must face facts and prepare for defense. He backed expanded air power, argued Hitler’s threat requires aviation strength, and urged backing for allies in the Americas while stressing duty to protect liberties. The remarks followed testimony on wartime risks and defense needs.
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Butte
United States
Key Pittman
Nev
Montana School of Mines
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
France
Hitler
Hiter
Great Britain
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada to send pilots to Royal Air Force
Ottawa June 3 Deputy Air Minister James Duncan announced a steady flow of Canadian pilots will depart monthly to join the Royal Air Force. He said recent Camp Borden graduates will go overseas immediately and that urgent action is underway to supply the United Kingdom with increasing numbers of fighter and bomber aircraft, some already dispatched.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Royal Air Force
James Duncan
Joint Service Clubs of
Duncan
Camp Borden
Western nations hold ample food supplies for Europe
Chicago June 4. An inventory of the Americas food reservoirs shows the western hemisphere well stocked, ready to aid war torn Europe. Millions of bushels of surplus wheat and other grains, plus plentiful meat, suggest ample supplies to meet any foreign demand and feed Europe’s refugees.
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Chicago
Europe
America
Three New Cases of Spotted Fever in Montana
Helena, June 3. Three new Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases were recorded in Montana in the week ended June 1. Cases appeared in Madison Powell and Prairie counties. The weekly report also lists tuberculosis five typhoid fever one scarlet fever five measles 31 whooping cough four chicken pox 21 mumps 12 influenza six tularemia one pneumonia one cancer three.
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Helena
Montana
B. K. Kilbourne
Madison County
Powell County
Prairie County
State game farms hatch 14689 birds at Helena sites
Montana game farms at Billings and Warm Springs have hatched 14,689 game birds this season, mainly Chinese and Mongolian pheasants, per the state fish and game department. Billings reports 6,970 birds hatched by June 1 with 9,720 eggs incubating and 800 eggs on hand. Warm Springs adds 7,719 birds hatched with 9,955 eggs under incubation and 500 eggs on hand.
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Helena
Montana
Billings
Warm Springs
State Fish and Game Department
Snyder Clip Sold to Merrion & Wilkins
Billings Montana June 4 W C Hart Pence of Merrion and Wilkins wool auction sales said his firm secured 16800 fleeces from the Snyder Sheep company 10800 from H A Snyder Jr and 5900 from Roberts Sheep company in one of the state s largest clips The plan is to grade each fleece at the shear ing corral to standardize commercial grades The government is expected to place contracts for about 45 million pounds of grease wool with domestic specifications.
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Billings
W. C. Hartpence
Merrion & Wilkins Wool
Montana
Snyder Sheep Company
Merrion & Wilkins
Eighty One Candidates Enter Fifteen Primary Nominations
Eighteen candidates filed for congressional and state offices as the July 16 primary deadline passed. The largest field is for lieutenant governor with eight Democrats and five Republicans. Incumbent Roy E. Ayers faces two GOP challengers. six Republicans seek the governorship, though two incumbents are unopposed for renomination. The list names candidates for all 15 offices across Democratic, Republican and nonpartisan lines, with ongoing pages for additional details.
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Helena
Secretary of State
Leutenant
Roy E. Ayers
Lewistown
James F. O’connor
Livingston
Howard A. Johnson
Butte
Judicial
John W. Bonner
Fred H. Padbury
Kirby G. Hoon
Missoula
Public Welfare Report From Big Timber Junior Womans Club
The Federated Junior clubs in Montana report two years of Public Welfare activities led by Big Timber Juniors. They aided a five member family with meals and care, donated clothing toys glasses and dental care, funded meals and Christmas dinners, and remembered the family year round. They sponsored Red Cross Roll Call and cancer drive, presented Armistice Day and health talks, hosted a Good Neighbor Tour, celebrated the federation’s fiftieth anniversary, held a Christmas party and Hallowe en dance, joined an international exchange with Johannesburg, and closed with a Rosebud Lake outing on May 25.
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Federated Junior Clubs
Montana
Big Timber
Red Cross
U. S
E. O. Overland
Frances Hager
Nordstrom
Clive W. Haas
Walter Osborne
General Federation of Womans Clubs
Pioneer Club
Foreign Exchange
Johannesburg
South Africa
McLeod
Rosebud Lake
Walter Ware Ends Life in Big Timber Despondent Over Health
Walter Ware 47, despondent over health, shot himself with a .22 rifle Friday near the Hans Benson home on Anderson Street in Big Timber. He had recently worked at the Pierson ranch and stayed at the Cook hotel. A note by Ware requested burial arrangements and mentions several family links in Indiana. Funeral services were held at the Lowry chapel with arrangements by Sheriff Jarrett and local clergy.
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Walter Ware
Hans Benson
Anderson Street
Doubhett
Ware
Pierson
John P. Campbell
Sweet Grass
Cook Hotel
J. D. Holly
L. W. Baskett
Helmar Cook
Gilmore
Cook
Benson
Walter Osborne
A. T. Ellison
Ed Crossfield
Patterson & Graff Undertaking
Billings
Lowry
State Prison Loses Eleven Inmates
Helena June 3 There were 11 fewer inmates in the state prison at Deer Lodge May 31 than on April 30 Warden Theodore R Bergstrom reported Monday There were 528 prisoners the last day of April and 517 at the end of May Dr Byron L Pampel superintendent reported a decrease of four in the number of patients at the state mental hospital at Warm Springs from 1897 to 1893
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Helena
Deer Lodge
Theodore R. Bergstrom
Byron L. Pampel
Warm Springs
Program Expands to 45 000 New Pilots in 1941
Chairman Robert H. Hinckley announced the Civil Aeronautics Authority will expand its primary training program to provide 45,000 new airplane pilots by July 1, 1941. The first step is 15,000 pilots by September with similar numbers in the next two fiscal quarters, funded by a proposed $32 million appropriation.
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Washington
Robert H. Hinckley
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Hinckley
Congress
Local Wool Growers Hold Monday Meeting in Sweet Grass County
A Gathering of 70 wool growers at the N P wool warehouse Monday June 3 featured Curtis Hughes from Montana Experiment Station on wool grades staples and texture Paul Orcutt extension livestock specialist on breeding for wool types and fleece weights Dr Nelson from Montana Livestock Sanitary board on common sheep diseases Mr Hartpence of Merrion and Wilkins wool auction company on sheep pelts care and treatment The program was described as interesting and well balanced and aims to deepen study of wool production to meet market demands.
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Sweet Grass County
N. P
Curtis Hughes
Montana Experiment Station
Paul Orcutt
Nelson
Montana Livestock Sanitary Board
Hartpence
Merrion and Wilkins Wool Auction Company
Jerry O Connell Seeks House Seat in Montana
Jerry J. O Connell of Butte announced he will file his petition in Helena for the Democratic nomination for congress in Montana's First District. He previously served 1937 to 1939 and lost reelection in 1938 to Dr Jacob Thorkelson, the district's first Republican since 1920.
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Butte
Jerry J. O’connell
Helena
Congress
Montana
Jacob Thorkelson
Schenck Indicted On Income Tax Charge
New York June 3 Joseph Schenck board chairman and ex executive director in charge of production of the Twentieth Century Fox Film corporation was indicted by a federal grand jury on 24 counts of income tax fraud conspiracy and making false statements to a government investigator The indictment cites defrauding the government of more than 400 000 in taxes for 1932 37 with bookkeeper Joseph H Moscowitz named as codefendant If convicted he faces up to 107 years in prison and 160 000 in fines
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New York
Joseph Schenck
Twentieth-Century- Fox Film Corporation
Schenck
Joseph H. Moscowitz
Holiday Death Toll Surprisingly Low
A nationwide survey reported 64 violent deaths on a May Thursday with 46 auto fatalities. New York led with eight auto deaths and four other violent deaths, while California followed with six auto deaths and four others. Ohio saw seven auto deaths and one drowning. West Virginia and Wisconsin each had four auto fatalities and two other deaths.
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United States
National Safety Council
New York
California
Ohio
West Virginia
Wisconsin
German Air Forces Strike Paris After Dunkerque Withdrawal
Paris reports 254 dead and 652 wounded from the first major German air raid, with French and British raids on Munich, Ruhr, and Frankfurt in reprisal. Casualties in Paris city and suburbs total hundreds, as more German planes attack Le Havre and the Rhone valley and Swiss fighters engage intruders.
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Paris
Munich
Ruhr
Frankfort
Rhone
le Havre
French
War Ministry
Air Ministry
Reich
Somme Front
Germany
Holand
Dunkerque
Flanders
Aisne-Somme
France
Rhine
Rhone Valley
Soliers
Welfare checks for June mailed in Montana
The state public welfare department mailed 288 421 93 in checks to help 17 987 Montanans in June. Administrator I. M. Brandford said 218 849 64 went to old age assistance, 65 457 54 to dependent children and 4 114 75 to the needy blind, with totals similar to May.
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Helena
State Public Welfare Department
Lovelace Files for Democratic Lieutenant Governor Bid
Bozeman businessman John A. Lovelace filed his petition with the secretary of state for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Lovelace runs wholesale motor supply outlets in Bozeman Helena and Livingston and owns properties in Bozeman and Billings with an active Park County ranch operation.
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Helena
John A. Lovelace
Bozeman
Montana
Lovelace
Livingston
Billings
Park County
Defense tax bill boosted to about one billion yearly
The defense tax bill was raised to roughly 1 billion dollars annually as the Ways and Means Committee revised the plan. The measure aims to fund the expanding defense program and includes a proposal to raise the national debt limit from 45 to 49 billion dollars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
Gold hoard shipped to New York Federal Reserve vault
A massive haul valued around 200 million dollars arrived in New York City and was moved under heavy guard to the Federal Reserve vaults from abroad via Canada. Observers noted ingots formed the bulk of the shipment believed to aid Allied war purchases.
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New York
Wall Street Financial District
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Canada
England
Billings Mourns Ward H Nye Former School Chief
Funeral services were held at Lettergren's chapel for Ward H Nye 68 former superintendent of Billings city schools for 16 years who died at his home on Polytechnic drive early Saturday Reverend George S Sloan officiated The burial was at Mountview cemetery Pallbearers included A L Hewitt W A Combs Grover C Cisel O R Stone George E Snell and Fred T Daylis He is survived by his widow two sons a brother and five grandchildren.
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Billings
Lettergren’s
Ward H. Nye
Polytechnic Drive
George S. Sloan
First Congregational Church
John Scheidecker
Richard Satorius
Mountview Cemetery
A. L. Hewitt
W. A. Combs
Grover C. Cisel
O. R. Stone
George E. Snell
Fred T. Daylis
Mr. Nye
House Approves 357 Million Highway Aid Program
Washington June 3 The House approved a federal highway aid program totaling 357 million dollars for fiscal years 1942 43 highlighting highways critical to national defense The bill goes to the Senate after the House cut the original 476 million proposal by 25 percent and state apportionments are reduced accordingly with listed allocations for Colorado Nebraska Wyoming among others
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Washington
House
Senate
Colorado
Eonoo
Nebraska
Wyoming
Communist Party Nominates Browder for President at Madison Square Garden
Earl Browder of Wichita heads the ticket with James W. Ford as vice president after a convention in New York. The party, opposed to Roosevelt’s defense program, advocates a 30 hour week and federal housing for low income groups while pledging labor cooperation. Broadcast faced opposition from a Democratic ex-representative and Catholic War Veterans urged a listeners boycott. Browder sought broad unity and condemned capitalism and imperialist war.
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New York
Earl Russell Browder
Wichita
Kan
America
United States
Communist Party
Madison Square Garden
Browder
James W. Ford
Alabama
N.B.C
Mutual
John J. O'Connor
New York Democrat
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Catholic War Veterans, Inc
O’connor
Federal Communications Commission
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
WPA
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Pat
Kloeckner
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Mr. Henery
The
Golden Rule
Edd Thompson
Ray Ramsey
Guyart
Lowry Chapel
Axel Anderson
Lutheran Church
Marion
Ind
Elwood
Kokomo
Sheriff Jarrett
Jarrett
Kalisvell
State Prison
Jerry O'Connell
John Lovelace
Billings Schools
Ford
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