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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1941
Page
1
NBC report cites London radio that Yugoslav anti aircraft batteries fired on unidentified planes near the Yugoslav German border early Saturday Yugoslav time. Italian consul at Zagreb and staff left for Italy per DNB report from Bern dated Saturday.
NBC quotes Budapest radio reporting Friday night that about 5 000 civilians including women children and the aged have left Zara on the Italian Dalmatian coast separated from Italy by the Adriatic. Zara has a population of roughly 13 000.
London expresses chagrin over rapid evacuations as German Italian forces press in North Africa. Graziani led about 360,000 at his Suez bid. current Italo German strength in Libya estimated near two divisions around 20,000. Evacuation of Bengasi seen as minor in impact on grand strategy unless Axis forces escalate.
President Roosevelt signed another 1 billion dollar lend lease allocation. Half funds 212 new merchant ships and 50 to 60 shipyards. half aids Britain and allies with war supplies. He noted possible easing of combat zone rules to allow routes around Africa to Egypt and onward to the Balkans.
In Mill Valley California a heavy storm triggered a landslide that buried two houses in Homestead valley killing two workmen. Rescue efforts were hindered by washed out roads and mud as officials and volunteers including American Legion members Boy Scouts police and sheriff's deputies responded to the disaster.
In Tacoma on Friday a masked robber forced two Pierce county welfare department employees into a car, took seven thousand dollars, and abandoned them at Titlow Beach. Gene Ryan, an errand runner, and Joe Lee, head cashier of the surplus commodity stamp division, were transporting the funds to the bank for federal stamp redemption.
Engineering students at the Montana School of Mines will be deferred individually by local boards to finish their technical training. Dr. Francis A. Thomson announced at a undergraduate convocation that deferments will not be group based and depend on academic record, time in training, and likelihood of completion. Deferments apply under selective deferred training until July 1 1941 or end of the current school year, after which reclassification occurs. A supplemental questionnaire was distributed to students and will be sent to Helena for certification of credits and grade points.
Polls open at 8 a m for district No 1 trustees election. 25 603 eligible voters up from 23 193 last year. Candidates Scott Lyle Robert Quayle Arthur Lehwalder Mrs Ralph Rand on party tickets. Polling places listed across 32 precincts with morning and afternoon voting blocks.
Mild spring weather allows nine new state highway projects in Helena to begin, costing 250,988 dollars. Howard W Holmes, state highway engineer, reported, with 19 projects resuming and 29 still suspended or not started as spring opens. A total of 67 road and bridge projects worth 4,659,784.05 dollars are under contract, employing 351 workers on 26 active projects.
The Mexican senate in secret session Friday ratified the Mexico United States convention allowing each nation to use the other's air bases.
Partly cloudy conditions with occasional showers in Butte Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures remain steady with little change. Montana forecast shows similar partly cloudy skies and scattered light showers over the weekend.
Malcolm Gillis 79 a pioneer Butte businessman former postmaster and civic leader dies after months of illness Funeral rites under the Masonic lodge will be held at 2 pm Monday at Mount Moriah cemetery Rev Floyd E Logee of the First Presbyterian church will officiate Relatives at the bedside included wife daughter Mrs Francis B Silsbee of Washington DC and son Herman D Gillis Mrs Silsbee arrived by plane last week and citywide sorrow was voiced by residents of all walks of life}.
British forces fall back along the Libyan coast as they withdraw to stronger positions to face German Panzer divisions. The Middle East communiqué notes ongoing concentration of advance elements and German transports from Sicily with losses. East African sources mention a potential counterattack against Egypt and British redeployment from the theatre. The Red Sea action reports five Italian destroyers sunk in four days, two scuttled by crews.
Helena mourns the death in Seattle of Henry Ricketts once clerk of the Montana Supreme Court from 1899 to 1904 He had resided in Seattle for about 20 years His widow a daughter and two grandchildren survive his passing in early Friday news from Helena.
In Camilla Georgia on April 4 the Mitchell County draft board voted unanimously to grant indefinite 3-A deferments to all men called, despite objections that the board lacks authority. Chairman W B Grant said the policy will stand unless the board is removed or government stops strikes, while state officials denounced the move.
Dr. John R. Steelman said that some bituminous mines in the eight state Appalachian region would reopen next week. He noted operators as a group refused to comply with the government plan to allow miners to return at their prior wage scale pending contract signing with retroactive wage adjustments.
German bombers raided Bristol and western England in a second night of attacks, hitting industrial premises and homes with incendiaries and explosives. Casualties were reported as few, with three planes shot down and crews captured or at large, while fires were largely controlled by local firefighters.
Mass mobilization in Yugoslavia as King Peter II orders the entire military to readiness. Government takes over railways and issues travel restrictions while frontiers tense near Hungary. Reports of German air activity and border clashes escalate the crisis.
Britain reports a military coup in Iraq ousts Prince Abdul Illah, installs Rashid Ali Al-Gailani as premier in a government pledging non belligerency and upholding the 1930 Anglo Iraqi alliance. Abdul Illah flees to Basrah. Friday marks king Feisal II’s accession anniversary.
Joseph Bird 12 dies after a horse team bolts from a downtown parking lot and runs four miles south of Great Falls. Companions Arnold Walker 10 and Marvin McDonald 8 were with him. Bird and Walker were rushed to Columbus hospital by county road workers Robert Waugh Victor Arnaud and Ed Oliver.
Yoshio Muto Japan's consul general tells Commonwealth club Japan must have freedom of trade access to raw materials and emigration rights to survive. He says Japan does not seek conquest but must live amid giants China Russia and the United States. He calls current eastern Asia conflict a war for national existence, not conquest.
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