Nearly 3 000 Helena students prepare for new school year
About 2,935 Helena youngsters are set to return to public and parochial schools as classes reopen. Upperclass high school registration runs at 8 45 with freshmen to start tomorrow, while elementary registrations at six schools begin this morning for roughly 1,550 students. Mass at St Helena Cathedral for 110 Cathedral high students precedes classes.
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Hawthorne
Broadwater
St. Helena Cathedral
Cathedral High School
Invasion Season Opens as England Battles Axis Attacks
The September invasion season begins with RAF raids from northern Europe to Africa while Luftwaffe bombers hit Hull and a northeast English town. German planes strike Ruhr Rhineland and Bremen with fortress planes used by Americans. Night fighters engage as another town faces heavy raids.
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Africa
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Rhineland
Bremen
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England
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Mediterranean
Runaway Car Injures Bridal Party in Pottsville
A runaway car plowed into a wedding party outside the bride’s home in Pottsville Pennsylvania injuring the bride and groom and seven guests. Four year old Earl Brown was most seriously hurt, run over by the vehicle. Bride Rose Pappeteire 22 suffered severe bruises. Groom Mark Piccioni 24 sustained possible brain concussion and leg injuries. Others had minor bruises.
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Pottsville
LPA
Earl Brown
Mark Piccioni
Rose Pappeteire
Roosevelt Urges Full American Effort To Stop Tyrants
President Roosevelt warns Americans to do their full part in crushing Hitler and Nazi forces. He cites growing war production, hints at shipping more weapons overseas, and rejects appeasement while leaving specifics to aides. The Labor Day program at Hyde Park features Hollywood figures and Sidney Hillman as part of a broader national effort.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Benedict Arnold
Isleners
Rand
Atlantic
United States
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Office of Production Management
Hollywood
New York
Sidney Hillman
Tax Bill in Senate Faces Key Debates by Week's End
Senate leaders push to approve the $3.67 billion tax bill by Saturday night amid four major controversy points. The measure seeks higher taxes to fund defense, with debates over income exemptions, community property tax issues, excise hikes, and a proposed $80 monthly pension for everyone over 60. The finance committee plans final approval and formal reporting to the Senate, with debate set to begin Wednesday.
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Senate Finance Committee
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Arizona
New Mexico
California
Idaho
Nevada
Finance Committee
Butte Attorney T. J. Davis Visits London
Thomas J. Davig of Butte Montana president of Rotary International arrived in London to study the British war effort and report back to Americans with unbiased facts. He said his goal is to learn all he can and tell Americans the truth about the war.
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T. J. Davis
Butte
London
Thomas J. Davig
Butte, Mont
Rotary International
Russian Flying Boats in Alaska Await Weather to Resume Trip
In Nome Alaska General Mikhail Gromov chief of 47 Russians secret mission to Washington said they would likely depart tomorrow weather permitting. Two seaplanes would fly south via Sitka Seattle and San Francisco awaiting Russian Consul Fedotoff from Fairbanks to set a departure time. Officials in Washington kept silent on mission details while noting possible technician composition to review American war machines and discuss technical problems with U S experts.
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San Francisco
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Two Men Held for Failure to Meet Draft Rules
Two men given as Paul Gardi ner of Philadelphia Pa and Raymond Burris of Tobias Neb.
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Phildelphia
Raymond Burris
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J. W. Johnson
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Churchill's Aunt Dies in Surrey Car Crash Near Cobham
London Sept 1. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill Winston Churchill’s great aunt died in an automobile crash near Cobham Surrey. Her daughter Beryl Lady Cowdray was injured in the same incident. The accident occurred as a motorist collision on a rural road.
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Edward Spencer Churchill
Winston Churchill
Beryl Lady Cowdray
Cobham
Surrey
Montana Weather Outlook: Cloudy Conditions and Rain Likely
The forecast shows Montana mostly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with occasional rain in the western regions and scattered showers east of the divided line. Cooler temperatures are expected in the eastern portion Tuesday.
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Divide
Holiday Mishaps Take Many Lives in U S
AAP tally shows 576 killed in holiday incidents as motorists rush home from weekend trips. The toll includes 384 traffic deaths, 71 drownings, and 120 from other causes, with highway accidents leading. Many deaths linked to fine weather and seas and lakes saw swimmers in danger.
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U.S
Jfven
Associated Press
Settlement Near in Greyhound Bus Strike
Minneapolis sept tentative agreement offering arbitration on one of two disputed points and contingent upon management approval of the second, aims to settle the strike of 800 Greyhound drivers and allied workers of Northland Greyhound Lines in eight states including Montana. The walkout began Sunday at 12:01 am, called by AFL local 1150, and the proposal covers pension plan issues the company enacted without union submission.
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Upp
Northland Greyhound Lines, Inc
Montana
AFL
Tus
Heat Prostration Causes Death at Rhode Island Race Meet
Pawtucket September 1 two hundred people were overcome and one man died of heat prostration as Narragansett race track set an attendance record of 56000. Stretchers cars track attendants and volunteers aided victims in the crowded grandstand and field hospital shelter as 92 degree heat made Labor Day the hottest in 37 years.
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R. I
Narragansett
Gasoline Retailers May Close Over Quota Rules
Philadelphia on September 1 AP report quotes Benjamin L. Jacoby president of the Associated Gasoline Retailers of Philadelphia and Vicinity. He warns that nearly all eastern seaboard gasoline stations may close unless dealers receive a living margin. The concern follows new government quotas set at five percent under July sales, prompting an eastern conference of retailers to meet tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Eastern Seaboard
Benjamin L. Jacoby
Associated Gasoline Retailers
Vicinity
Jacoby
Ralph K. Davies
Hess
Army Fliers May Leave Service to Aid Foreign Countries
Washington dispatch reports fliers released from military service may join Pan American Airways to operate ferry and transport routes to the Near East and Africa for British forces. Arrangements reportedly guide pilots and crews to resign and join Pan American, aiding transatlantic and Far East efforts while offering strategic benefits and practical flight experience.
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Africa
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Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
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Far East
China
Britain
Soviet Bombers Hit Berlin and German Cities In Night Raid
Moscow reports Soviet bombers struck Berlin and nearby German targets including Koenigsberg Danzig and Meinel with fires and explosions reported. Berlin claims Russian planes failed to reach the capital after coming from the Baltic. The communiqué notes one bomber rose over Versailles. Paris dispatch references Pierre Laval.
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Berlin
Koenigsberg
Danzig
Meinel
Baltic
Red Army Makes Its Strongest Stand of War Report
Moscow reports the Red Army holds firm along the front with tenacious Soviet units behind German lines. Marshal Timoshenko’s central front counterattacks continue as Leningrad and the lower Dnieper fronts resist. A Finnish regiment of 2000 men was trapped after cutting a highway, with only 600 escaping. Captain Khigrin posthumously named hero of the Soviet Union.
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Red Army High Command
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Khigrin
Terms for Peace An Iran Are Signed Now But in Fear East Situation
News from New York reports NBC’s Martin Agronsky announcing Iran Britain and Soviet and Russian reps signed final peace terms in Teheran and Moscow. Soviet troops halt advance as negotiations with Britain and Iran proceed. Japanese leaders signal urgency, while Tokyo rejects pacifist hopes amid war supply routes to Russia via Iran.
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Moscow
Britain
Finland’s Fight Not Finished Says Finn Shield Leader
Helsinki dispatch reports Finnish leaders vow the struggle continues until old territorial claims are satisfied. General Oesch praised retaking Viipuri and rejected separate peace talks while hinting at possible negotiations if Finland’s aims are met. Rumors of Russian-Karelian concessions and U S mediation circulated in Europe.
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Lennart Cosch
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Moscow
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Stak
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Russia
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Russian
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Hango
Gulf of Finland
London
Winant
President Roosevelt Leaves Hyde Park for Washington Night Ride
President Roosevelt departs Hyde Park for Washington by special train after a weekend at home. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, who resides nearby, travels with the party along with Mrs. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, the lease-lead supervisor, aboard the presidential special.
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Ringling resident killed in highway accident near Irvingston
In Irvingston on September 1, Emmett A. Terebaugh, 46, a Ringling ranch worker, died when his car overturned on U S Highway 89 about 12 miles north of town. His companion, a man about 60, was critically injured. Terebaugh was from Chadron Nebraska.
German Bombardment Report On U S Ships Near Suez
Correspondent Gordon Raskill reported Nazi paratroopers mounted a failed nighttime raid on three unarmed American merchant ships at Suez on July 14 after unloading war supplies for Britain. One vessel, carrying 5 million dollars in goods, endured multiple bombings though no direct hits. ships endured damaged plates and portholes as anti aircraft fire and aircraft defenses intensified until a British fighter shot down the raider over the mountains.
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Gordon Raskill
Gaskill
Auto Racer Killed In Car Crash at Oakland Speedway
Ren Bray, 43, Los Angeles racing car driver, was killed in the 500 mile Labor Day race at the Oakland speedway when his car crashed through the wall and over an embankment on the south turn after completing 356 miles. He was seventh at the time.
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Oakland Speedway
British Hope Convoys From Roosevelt Speech Stir War News
London reports that President Roosevelt’s address is seen as signaling imminent convoys to escort American war supplies to battlefronts by U S ships. British papers say his pledge to crush Hitler could trigger a broader wartime effort, with optimism about US involvement rising. In Rome, Fascist circles quote Hitler forecasting a decisive war, claiming Germany and Italy will prevail.
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