Night Session Debates Money Bills
Washington June 20 The house sped to meet a Tuesday deadline by approving compromise versions of four departmental appropriation bills and holding a night session to debate a 2 billion dollar measure for the OPA and other new agencies. Votes on the latter were postponed until tomorrow as leaders plan to finish all regular bills before Wednesday’s new fiscal year. The Senate deferred action until tomorrow on several measures and postponed consideration of a 42.6 billion war supply bill. The House pressed three supply bills with little debate and sent them to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Office of Price Administration
Department of Agriculture
Federal Security Agency
Department of Labor
Senate
Work Projects Administration
White House
McNary
Oregon
Thomas D
Okla
Out-of-State Car Owners Need Not Be Licensed
Governor Sam C. Ford proclaimed that during the war and 60 days after, Montana will allow operation of vehicles licensed in other states without Montana plates. Officials must recognize reciprocity if the origin state issued a similar proclamation, ensuring unhampered commerce for the war effort.
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Montana
Sam C. Ford
Ford
Red Army repels Kursk tank onslaught near Kharkov
Moscow reports fierce fighting as the Red army repulsed wave after wave of German tanks in the Kursk sector north of Kharkov. German reserves were used and ground was yielded at Sevastopol where battles raged with heavy losses on both sides. The high command noted intensified violence around Sevastopol and continued German pressure in Kursk.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kursk
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Crimean
London
Liquor Board Yields 1.76 Million to Montana Treasury
Montana's liquor control system deposited 1,741,272.49 into the state treasury for the first half of 1942, a 227,171.23 rise over the same period in 1941. A 490,000 dividend was sent yesterday, half of the six month profits, with prior declarations totaling 800,000 for the period and 1,504,101.26 total deposits for early 1941.
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Montana
State Liquor Contral Board
Liquor Board
Navy Bares Details of Sinkings and Losses in Atlantic
The Associated Press reports a large American sea-towing tug sank after an underwater explosion with 14 dead and four survivors rescued near land. Survivors described life-raft blows and wreckage survival. Other ships sunk include a Norwegian merchantman a Yugoslav freighter and a U.S. freighter with multiple fatalities. A Yugoslav crew member accounts of the torpedo and rescue. A German U boat was cited with a black swastika on the conning tower.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Navy
U.S
William James Lacey
Staten Island
N. Y
Ims
Atlantic
US Airmen Strike Wake Island in Moonlit Raid
U S Army bombers attacked Wake Island under a full moon, leveling surface structures and crippling the installation. No American casualties, one minor aircraft hit. second raid aims to press western Pacific offensive. Col Art W Meehan, former West Point quarterback, praised navigators for a flawless flight. Wake lies 2,000 nautical miles west of Hawaii.
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T. H
U. S. Army
Wake Island
Japan
Pacific
Wake
Hawaii
Meehan
Coney Island
Wade
Fate of Saboteurs May Lie With Military Court
Washington reports indicate a military court may try eight men accused of landing from German submarines to sabotage the American war effort. Attorney General Biddle said war department officials are in substantial agreement on prosecution steps and a detailed announcement may come within 48 hours. Questions include whether two defendants are American citizens and if the Germans were military personnel, potentially making the case one of espionage with death as the penalty.
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Washington
Biddle
War Department
Helena Weather Continues Warm Tuesday Into Night
Continued warm conditions prevail in Helena with a warm Tuesday and mild temperatures continuing into early Tuesday night as forecasters track the evening outlook and potential cooling later in the week.
Government hints at priority on long distance phone calls
Washington on June 21 Chairman James L. Fly of the communications commission said the government may impose priorities on telephone calls, especially long distance ones, if voluntary cuts fail. He noted long distance use rose over 50 percent in 18 months and warned of possible undesirable alternatives.
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Washington
Jamesl. Fly
The
Communications Commission
German Report Says Greeks to Be Fed
Berlin radio quoted a DNB dispatch from Athens stating Prime Minister General Tsolakoglu said the occupation authorities have assured bread and vital food supply to the population. No details were given on German plans to improve food conditions in Greece, considered the worst Nazi-occupied territory with many starving and thousands already dead.
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Berlin
D.N.B
Athens
Greece
Tsolakoglu
Part of Beet Crop May Be Lost, Cleland Thinks
Missoula reports potential loss of about ten percent of the western Montana sugar beet crop due to labor shortages. Frank Cleland, manager of the American Crystal Sugar plant, said CCC enrollment efforts failed to salvage beet fields. Discussion included Japanese labor as an option, but action is needed soon to save remaining beets and other crops.
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Cleland
Missoula
Civilian Conservation Corps
Missoula County
Montana
Frank Cleland
American Crystal Sugar Company
CCC
Clelen
Advertising drive promotes national salvage program
The Advertising Council announced a nationwide campaign to promote salvage for government needs. Beginning July 1 through 11,000 newspapers, the council urged collection of junk such as old rubber rags rope burlap bags and waste fats with centers run by petroleum rubber and automotive industries.
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New York
Advertising Council
Tor
Bremen Bombed Again by the RAF in Night Raids
London reports Bremen, Germany’s port and submarine base, bombed again by RAF bombers for the third time in five nights. Berlin says fires hit residential areas as ten RAF aircraft were shot down. Earlier raids targeted Hazebrouck in northern France and the St Nazaire submarine base with mixed German and Allied losses.
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London
Bremen
R.A.F
Britain
Berlin
Germany
Ermany
Hazebrouch
France
St. Nazaire
Hazebrouck
Weston-Super Mare
Claims Issued on Fighting On Chinese Soil
The Chinese announced yesterday that they had saved the rich Tungsten fields of Kiangsi province from the invader, while Japan issued a long claim of successes in mop-up operations on the 40 mile North China frontier along the borders of southeastern Hansi and northern Honan.
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Associated Press
Wree
Kiangsi
China
Hansi
Honan
Seven Thousand Czechs Executed Reported by Radio
New York dispatch quotes pro Nazi Czech minister Emanuel Moravec estimating 7000 Czechs executed by Nazis. German authorities in Czecho Slovakia announce creation of a national court to try great politicians deemed enemies of the Czech people with no appeal.
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New York
Emanuel Moravec
Berlin
Czecho Slovakia
Gzeat
Jaundice Reported Among Army Troops
Washington reports the general health of the Army is excellent but the War Department disclosed that numbers of soldiers have been admitted to hospitals suffering from jaundice.
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Washington
War Department
British Admit Evacuation of Matruh Amid Fierce Desert Fight
British desert army reinforced by US planes and New Zealand troops fights stubbornly east of Matruh after evacuating the town to deny Axis forces a stand there. Rommel’s advance drives a funnel shaped spearhead toward the coast as fresh American air units arrive to bolster the Eighth Army.
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Great Britain
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New Zealand
Matruh
Alexandria
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean
Harry Crockett
Associated Press
Western Desert
Great Qattara
Batila
Egypt
Crockett
Eighth Army
Mrs. John N. Glass Dies at 88 in Helena Hospital
Helena resident Mrs. John N. Glass, 75, of the Electric apartments, died after a three week illness at St. Peter’s hospital. Born January 3, 1887 in Waco Texas to Prof Andrew Edgar, she came to Helena in 1889. Survived by husband and daughter Mrs. Tom W. Bogg of Great Falls. Funeral arrangements by Opp and Conrad mortuary.
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Electric
Helena
St. Peter’s Hospital
Glass
Waco
Texas
Andrew Edgar
Ward's Seminary
Nashville
Tenn
Austin
Helene
Alfred D. Edgar
Northern Pacific Railway
Alfred Edgar
Tom W. Bogg
Great Falls
Opp
Conrad Mortuary
Landis Warns US Coasts May Face Bombardment
Washington June 2 James M Landis civilian defense director says coastal areas may be bombarded but people will stand up under attack He testified before a house appropriations subcommitteer noting Army and Navy belief in grave bombardment possibility especially on the Pacific coast and perhaps the Atlantic coast
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Washington
James M. Landis
United States
Landis
House Appropriations
Tie
Army
Navy
Persic
Atlantic
Jap Ship Sunk Near Lae In New Guinea Harbor
Allied headquarters said a 4000 ton Japanese ship attacked last Friday in Lae harbor by Australian airmen has been sunk. Reconnaissance crews reported the fate as of Tuesday. The attack involved Australian forces based in Australia and New Guinea.
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Allied Headquarters
Australia
al Hed
Lae
New Guinea
Certain Farm Products May Be Given Subsidies Under President's Plan
Washington June 29 President Roosevelt has given the Commodity Credit Corporation limited authority to subsidize certain farm products to keep consumer costs within Leon Henderson price ceilings. The plan, a stopgap until Congress acts, may start with fruits and vegetables. The scheme would have the CCC buy farm goods at parity or higher and resell at lower prices, accepting losses to satisfy farmers and the Office of Price Administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Claude A. Wickard
Office of Price Administration
Britain’s Retreat in Egypt Deepens as Churchill Faces Critics
Britain’s army in Egypt remains pressed on the move eastward after Matruh fell, as Churchill returns to London from conferences with President Roosevelt to address parliament critics. The Axis advance narrows toward Alexandria while a broader German push in Russia threatens Timoshenko near Kursk, with no clear action plans in place yet. London observers warn of a Nagil offensive looming east of Kursk as the war widens on multiple fronts.
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Egypt
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London
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Russia
Timoshenko
Kursk
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