New Bill Will Give Navy Big Sum For More Planes
A House appropriation includes 47 million dollars for naval aircraft and 26 millimeter cannon production to start this month with 100 output rising to 300 monthly next year. The plan targets 10,400 naval aircraft by June 1943 and expands plant capacity to meet defense needs. Additionally the bill funds 29 auxiliary ships for the navy and seven troop and cargo ships for the army, plus naval shore facilities. Roosevelt urges rededication to rights in the face of crisis and confirms airspace and scrap aluminum moves. The navy is authorized to sink obsolete ships during training.
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British Launching Greatest Air Attacks of War Continues
British sources report the RAF unleashed a new peak air offensive against Germany and occupied France, fueled by more US aircraft. In 24 hours ending dusk, bombers and fighters flew more sorties than any similar period since war began. Allied claims include 121 German planes destroyed in nine days of cross-channel bombing, with raids hitting Boulogne Calais Hazelbrook and bridges. German losses cited include 11 British aircraft and three German planes in a raid on the coast. A lone German plane over northwest England caused minor damage.
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U S Bomber Crashes Into Sea Off Peru
A U S army light bomber caught fire and plunged into the sea midway between Barranca and Hancho on the Peruvian coast. Three crewmen are missing after the crash as an accompanying plane cited a ruptured oil line that sparked the fire during an attempted sea landing. Lieut Leith X. Lynard, Visconcelios, and G. Josephs are listed among the missing.
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President to Address Nation on July Fourth
President Roosevelt will address the country by radio on the Fourth of July in a nationwide patriotic rally organized by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as civilian defense director. Bands nationwide will play the national anthem simultaneously and Americans nationwide will renew their pledge of allegiance.
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Roosevelt
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Hitler Foresees Great Success in Ukraine Amid Eastern Front Push
Interpreting Nazi war forecasts, reports from the Fuehrer’s headquarters suggest a personal pledge of swift victory as German forces encircle key western Russia defenses. Berlin hints at moves toward Kiev, with implications for Ukraine’s fall and broader Axis aims in Eurasia and beyond.
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Veterinarians Open Helena Convention July 7
Helena hosts a three day veterinary convention starting July 7 with university speakers on swine epidemic diseases protective antibodies from serum Bangs disease meat inspection and disinfectants. Sessions include lectures by H C H Kernkamp Herald R Cox and B E McCulloch with a dinner at the Montana club and a ladies tour and bridge luncheon. Officers named Hadleigh March president H G Roguet vice president I A Tunniclitt secretary treasurer with plans for a 1942 meeting place.
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University of Minnesota
Herald R. Cox
Public Health Laboratory
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Washington State College
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Helena
J. W. Safford
Missoula
Kernkamp
EB. A. Turncliff
Montana, Veterinary Research Laboratory
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Eddy
Hadleigh March
H. GC
Roguet
Ble Timber
I. A. Tunniclitt
Machinists Vote to Return to Work in San Francisco
In San Francisco six to one the machinists voted to resume work after quitting May 10 at local shipyards. An observer reported from a closed meeting just before midnight that the strikers would return to their jobs on Monday.
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Romanian ship Mangala seized by U.S. maritime commission
In New York on June 25 the two year old 3600 ton freighter Mangala, owned by the Romanian government and allied with Germany in the war against Russia, was taken over by the U S maritime commission under federal requisitioning law. Captain Granville Conway directed the seizure and an armed coast guardsman was placed aboard the vessel.
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Germany
Russia
U. S Maritime Commission
Granville Conway
New York Maritime Commission
Italian freighter Monte Piana seized by British forces
British maritime sources report the 5,880-ton freighter Monte Piana captured and being used to haul supplies to Allied troops fighting Axis powers. Built in 1926, the ship was a familiar figure in the Italy-Par Bast trade before the war.
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Yellan
Monte Piana
Portuguese freighter Ganda sunk by British submarine off coast
Survivors quoted by the Spanish news agency say the 4,033 ton freighter Ganda was torpedoed off the African coast by a British submarine. Forty one crew members and workers aboard the vessel landed here yesterday.
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Large Forces of Infantry Are Reported Cut Off
Soviet wartime communique cites heroism by airmen and infantry under fire near Memel and east Prussia. It notes Prut river defenses crucial to Russia as German and Romanian prisoners taken and two enemy companies annihilated. Parachutists and peasant captures referenced amid four days of heavy losses on a 1000 mile front with German penetrations in Lithuania and Poland. Turkish neutrality previously announced. Russia reports cavalry with planes repelled a German mechanized attack.
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Wheeler Wartime Alliance Faces Naziism and Communism
Senator Wheeler declared at an America First rally that World War II has become a death struggle between Naziism and communism as the war spreads to Russia. He urged Americans to avoid foreign wars and questioned sending money or troops to fight alongside Stalin to promote communism in Europe. He blamed English diplomats for pressuring Hitler into action and argued democracy must stay free of foreign entanglements.
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Livingston Citizen Accidentally Shot by Neighbor
Curley Perdue a 47 year old city employee was critically injured when a gun held by Braten fired accidentally from inside his home while Perdue graded a street. Braten was cleaning the firearm when the discharge went through a window striking Perdue. Both men are good friends and Perdue's condition was listed as critical by Dr. G A Townsend.
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Perdue
Utah Governmental Reorganization Watched
Secretary Bennion of Utah's state committee on reorganization said he watches with interest the experiment in governing. He cited information from Gov. Maw, former ally of reorganization, who led Utah's state government changes and supported the current reform.
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Réd jBennion
Sam G. Ford
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Bennion
H. B. Maw
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Finland poised between Germany and Russia amid evolving war plans
The report says German troops were set to transit Norway to Finland via Sweden to reinforce defense as Finland fears Russo Finnish clashes. Germany reportedly could act if needed, with armaments arriving and Swedish loans aiding fortifications. The strategy aimed at a cautious neutrality, reflecting tensions before Husso-German hostilities.
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Finland
Becgan
Germany
Sweden
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Rovaniemi
Dr Hall to Attend Health Meeting in Great Falls
Dr J F Hell city county health officer and Helena delegates join Montana Public Wealth association event in Great Falls starting today. State health officials L L Benepe N F Ger vie T L Hawkins Farner Kuhns Hershey Brown Getrie speak across sessions on vital statistics dental health industrial hygiene and nurses in health education with the Friday program noted.
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J. F. Hell
Helena
Montana Public Wealth Association
Great Falls
State Board of Health
L. L. Benepe
N. F. Gervie
Montana
T. L. Hawkins
L. M. Farner
Edith Kuhns
Edythe Hershey
County Council
Maud A. Brown
German Consulate Admits Burning Papers in Boston
Boston June 25. A German consulate official admitted it was burning papers and records after a fire department visit. Fire Lieutenant Hoar said a well dressed man, unnamed, claimed the act was to destroy papers and recognized material. The consulate on Mount Vernon Street had been ordered closed by July 10 under a State Department order.
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Boston Fire Department
John Hoar
Hoar
Mount Veronon Street
Beacon Hill
Sumner Welles
Camp Registration Opens for Girls Camp at M C A Lodge
Ellen started the registration for the girls camp to begin July 22 at the M C A lodge on Lake. Virginia Hudson co director said yesterday that Ellen will select junior and senior camp leaders from the currently registered list.
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Ellen
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Miss Hudson
Board of Health Action for Crippled Children in Great Falls
In Great Falls on June 25 the state board of health named Dr W F Cogswell temporary director of the division of crippled children, transferring the post from the welfare department per the 1941 legislature. Dr Marjorie Smith was made assistant director.
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State Board of Health
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State Public Welfare Department
Board of Health
Marjorie Smith
State Health Board
Three Crew Members Die In Big Four Collision
Killed in collision near Tien Illinois on June 25 three crew members died. Five other people were injured in the head on crash of two Big Four railroad locomotives.
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