Willkie Urges Central Authority for Defense to Aid England
Wendell Willkie called for a coordinated centralized authority under one man responsible to the president to direct national defense and ensure safe delivery of American production to England. He warned England cannot survive without stopping or greatly reducing shipments losses and urged unity across government industry labor and agriculture. He criticized political blacklists and urged a master priority plan allocating industrial capacity to military and civilian needs, with emphasis on aiding Britain and uniting the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wendell L. Willkie
Great Britain
America
England
Chicago Stadium
All-Chicago Citizens’ Rally Committee
Willkie
Washington
Britain
Draftee Age Limit May Be Lowered
Senate military affairs committee approved a bill giving the president power to defer induction and narrow the draft age to 21 through 27. The measure would not affect men 28 or older already inducted, nor permanently exempt others. Selective Service head Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey warned about about seven million registrants affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Senate
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Morgenthau Praises Defense Bond Sales Start
Secretary Morgenthau announced June 7 that defense savings bonds and stamps sold in May raised 441 782 dollars in receipts. Bonds ranged from 25 to 10000 dollars with 10 cent to 5 dollar stamps, many sold at discounts yielding about 500 million face value. Over a million people reportedly participated in the initial campaign. He called it a fine beginning and urged continuing effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgenthau
Defense
C I O Heads Suspends Three Organizers Inglewood Calif
C I O aviation chief Richard T. Frankensteen suspended his aide Wyndham Mortimer three international organizers and all officers of the United Automobile Workers local at a strikebound North American Aviation plant. John Orr Sr Stanford Douglas Arthur Kearns and John Orr Jr were named in the action. An army takeover order awaited Roosevelt signature as workers were urged to resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inglewood
Calif
Richard T. Frankensteen
C. I. O.’s Aviation
Wyndham Mortimer
United Automobile Workers
North American Aviation Corporation
Frankensteen
Roosevelt
Philip Murray
John Orr, Sr
Stanford Douglas
Arthur Kearns
John Orr, Jr
Union
Stephen Early
Branshaw
Early
Mr. Roosevelt
War Department
North American
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers Aviation Division
White House
Hershey
San Francisco
Northwest
Robin Moor Reported Sunk in South Atlantic
A Brazilian steamer Osorio relayed a report that the American steamer Robin Moor was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the South Atlantic. The navy has not confirmed the claim, which said 27 crew and eight passengers were aboard when the ship went down near Cape Verde.
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Robin Moor
South Atlantic
Washington
Osorio
Lagos
Maritime Commission
Jefferson Caffrey
Brazil
State Department
Jeffrey
Fortaleza
Cape Verdue Islands
Librarian Acknowledges Receipt of Williams' Book of Poems
The Library of Congress in Washington, DC, acknowledges receipt of Jerome Williams's limited edition poetry collection Ole and Tillie Olson and Maud Muller parodies. The Montana publication, Big Timber 1941, is a valued addition to the collection. Archibald MacLeish signs the acknowledgement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Librarian
Jerome Williams
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C
Ole and
Tillie Olson
Maud Muller
Big Timber
Montana
Big Timber, Montana
Golden Anniversary Honor for Tom Egeland Couple
A large crowd at Parish hall celebrated the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Egeland on June 7. The event featured lemon lilies and golden tapers, a Norwegian menu, and a program with readings, music, and speeches by relatives and friends. The couple, who married June 7, 1891, immigrated from Norway and Sweden in the late 19th century and raised nine children with many grandchildren and great grandchildren in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Egeland
Harold Roe
Carl D. Paulson
Axel Anderson
Mary Carol Reid
Paulson
Theophil Strobel
Theodore Olson
E. H. Ellingson
Arthur Berg
Anton Grande
Harold Boe
John Bai
Hans Tjaaland
Sigurd T. Lavold
Anderson
Egeland
Hjalmer Beeland
Harold
Ellen) Boe
John Roger Boe
Wee Kay Boe
Mrs. Grande
Mrs. Tjaaland
America
Norway
Minnesota
Big Timber
Hjalmer Egeland
Donald
Kenneth
Livingston
Toby Osen
Glasston
Ommund
Tom
Gordon
Albert Osen
Kenneth Boe
Kay Elaine
Theodore Egeland
Bill Koch
Alice
Teddy Lee Egeland
Albert Egeland
William
Richard Egeland
Arnold Egeland
Douglas
Oscar Eseland
Jerome
Rudolph Egeland
Gilbert and
Rosamond
George Hauge
Roger
Peder Egeland
BRITISH BOMBERS CLAIM 83 NAZI SHIPS DESTROYED
London June 7 British RAF bomber command reports destroying 83 axis ships and severely damaging 18 others in a daylight offensive begun March 12. Air Marshal Peirse said the raid also hit land targets with severe damage and casualties in Germany and occupied territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
R. A. F. Bomber Command
Richard E. C. Peirse
Bomber Command
Germany
Occupied
Air Ministry
Uncle Dan Beard Dies Founder of Boy Scouts
Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of the Boy Scouts of America known as Uncle Dan, died in Suffern New York at his 14 acre estate The Brook Lands He would have turned 91 later this month Ill since April 20 his daughter Barbara Price was at his bedside and he died in his rustic woodland home
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Suffern
N. Y
Daniel Carter Beard
Boy Scouts of America
Dan
Brooklands
Barbara Price
Evansville heir dies penniless after cigars with cash
James Law Mackey, 78, once noted for lighting cigars with $100 bills, was buried in a potter's field after funeral services at a rescue mission in Evansville Indiana. He was the son of David J. Mackey Evansville's first millionaire who lost his fortune in Wall Street around the turn of the century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
James Law Mackey
Potter's Field
David J. Mackey
Wall Street
Telephone Rate Cuts to Save Public $14 Million Annually
Washington June 5 announced by the Federal Communications Commission reductions in long distance telephone rates, effective July 10. The FCC said $12,500,000 of the cuts affect American Telephone and Telegraph and $1,475,000 apply to interstate rates of 21 Bell System associates, totaling about $45,000,000 in annual toll savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Bell System
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Adams Convicted of Burglary at Billings
James C. Adams formerly of Portland Oregon was convicted of burglary in the first degree by a Billings jury for breaking into an office at the Billings club west of the city where Louis J. Turner was shot. He received a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison from Judge Guy C. Derry.
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Billings
James C. Adams
Guy C. Derry
Portland
Ore
Adams
Billings Club
Louis J. Turner
Tornado kills eight on Kansas farms near Wichita
A June tornado on farms north of Wichita claimed eight lives during a joint wedding anniversary observance at the Guy Scrivner home. Victims include Mrs. Guy Scrivner and family members Betty, Margaret, and Janet Paulson, Mrs. Ralph Kruger, Marie Penner, Haskell Keyes, and the infant son of Christ Thieristine Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Guy Scrivner
Betty Scrivner
Margaret Scrivner
Ralph Kruger
Scrivner
Janet Lee Paulson
Scrivners
Marie Penner
Haskell Keyes
Oklahoma City
Christ Thieristine, Jr
Work or fight order ends aviation plant strike
Washington reports the army now in charge of the North American Aviation plant after a sweeping work-or-fight decree. 2,000 workers on the day shift return as Hershey orders reevaluation of deferments for defense workers no longer at defense jobs. Roosevelt accepted the move and Congress backs penalties to enforce mediation board recommendations.
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Washington
Army
North American Aviation Corporation
National Defense Mediation Board
Mediation Board
Lewis B. Hershey
Holmes Named Agent for Southern Papers
The Southern Montana Press association met in session and unanimously opposed federal increases in gasoline and liquor taxes. O. H. P Shelley introduced the resolutions and J. Defrees Holmes was named agent for the newly formed Southern Montana Newspaper Advertising association, representing multiple Montana papers including the Midland Review and Roundup Record-Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Lodge Picket - Journal
Southern Montana Press Association
O. H. P Shelley
Southern Montana Weekly
Advertising Association
J. Defrees Holmes
Combine
Midland Review
Billings
Meagher County News
White Sulphur Springs
Roundup Record-Tribune
Harlowton Times
Columbus News
Boulder Monitor
Laurel Outlook
Jefferson Valley News
Sweet Grass News
Big Timber
Montana Clarion
Ryegate
Bozeman Courier
Gardiner Gateway-Gazette
Hardin Tribune
the Picket-Journal
Carbon County News
Floodwaters Ravage Southeastern Nebraska Towns
Flooded streams and rising rivers sweep through southeastern Nebraska leaving livestock drownings and mass evacuations. Hubbell in Thayer County reports two thirds of residents displaced as Beatrice endures eight foot flood above stage with the Big Blue at 22.30 feet. Communities along Nemaha Big and Little Blue and Republican rivers face isolation and property loss as Old Muddy looms upstream.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Hubbell
Thayer County
Rose Creek
Nemaha
Big
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Nebraska City
Beatrice
Funeral rites held for ex Kaiser Doorn burial
Wilhelm II former Kaiser of imperial Germany was buried at noon Monday in Doorn after 23 years exile. He died Wednesday at 82. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Bruno Doehring who spread earth from Potsdam’s Sanssouci on the coffin.
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Doorn
Netherlands
Wilhelm II
Germany
Potsdam
Bruno Doehring
Wilhelm
Kaiser
Sans Souci Park
Auguste Viktoria
Reed Point Gun Club Contest Results Reported
Reed Point Red and Gun Club secretary George Nute announced the close of a junior vermin hunt last Saturday. Prizes went to Leroy Bovee first Harold Schmitt second Owen McKeith third and Harry Hawks consolation. Ten boys started but six participated as they gathered 1205 young magpies 949 magpie eggs 70 young crows and 78 crow eggs.
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George Nute
Reed Point Red and Gun Club
Leroy Bovee
Harold Schmitt
Owen McKeith
Harry Hawks
Memory of Lou Gehrig Will Bolster Yankees' Play
The article notes the enduring 26 man Yankee roster and the irreplaceable impact of Lou Gehrig. It recalls Gehrig’s return from Mayo Clinic and moments with reporters, highlighting how his legend endures beyond his death and informs future generations.
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Lou Gehrig
Yankees
Whitney Martin
New York
New York Yankee
League
Rizgrutos
Priddys
Iron Horse
Mayo Clinic
Newark
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C. I. O. Head
United States of America
Archibald MacLeish
BRIT
Uncle Dan Beard
Scout Fame
Kansas
Aviation Corp
Holmes
Southern Papers
Reed Point Gun Club
Lou
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