City and County Tax Bill Totals Over Two Million
Taxpayers in Butte and Silver Bow county face a 1943 44 levy totaling 2 299 974 95 dollars with a combined rate of 96 375 mills. County clerk Addis Mc Grath notes city home owners pay roughly nine and a half cents per 100 of assessed value. The breakdown shows county budgets 729 180 97 school 846 079 80 city 724 714 18. total 2 299 974 95 with county mills 27 90 for schools and 68 485 for other funds. Increases come from poor and bridge funds while emergency relief and library funds decrease.
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Butte
Silver Bow County
Mina Gees Bees
Dugeeis Ana
Addis McGrath
Bow County Fund
Addis A. McGrath
Kidnap Case Shocks Albany Soldier's Wife Held on Charge
Albany August 10 A soldier's wife Catherine Wright is jailed on a child stealing charge after alleged kidnapping of Baby Judith Gurney from Albany General Hospital. District Attorney Weinrich set bail at 5000 dollars as FBI probes reports of her Pearl Harbor era injuries and possible lost husband. The husband Jesse Wright and others were questioned while a separate couple in the Wright home faced deception claims. The baby was later found at home with the Gurney family.
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Albany, Obe
U.P
Judith Gurney
Pearl Harbor
Jesse Wright
Catherine
Hickam Field
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wright
Harlow Weinrich
Justice Court
Oregon
Wrights
B. W. Gurney
Judith
Albany General Hospital
German Industry Receives Another Pasting
London reports Allied bombers hit the Ruhr and Rhineland again with heavy raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen as Berlin radio goes off air. RAF Mosquito intruders bomb France and Belgium railways while morale questions arise among German workers. No more than two Canadians missing from a large Canadian force.
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London
Calais
Berlin
Ruhr
Rhineland
Britain
Channel Coast
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
DNB
France
Belgium
Dingle M. Foot
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Colchester Rotary Club
Lindsay Wogan
Senator Moore Attacks Ickes Over Oil Price Move
Oklahoma Senator E H Moore charged in a Tulsa speech that Harold Ickes knew a crude oil price rise would fail and accused him of seeking industry control. He called Ickes a dictator in spirit and an ignoramus in practice during a national radio address.
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Tulsa
Okla
O.R
E. H. Moore
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Moore
Allied Forces Smash at Randazzo Line
Allied troops push toward Randazzo in Sicily driving to within seven miles of the ruined city as German defenses retreat. American, Canadian and British forces advance from Cesaro toward Messina while Rome radios report Italian troops withdrawal and heavy air power robs Randazzo of road links.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Mount Etna
Randazzo
Messina
Sicily
Harold V. Boyle
Associated Press
Cesaro
Sant’ Agata di Militello
Reuters
Sicilian
Rome
Italy
Schatel
14Th Corps
Long
Lewis Charged With Wrecking A F L If Readmitted
Progres sive Mine Workers of America president Lloyd Thrush told the A F L executive council that John L Lewis once tried to wreck the federation and would attempt to ruin it again if the United Mine Workers were readmitted. He pressed the case to block LMU re affiliation. The council weighs Lewis application as current charter rules allow only one union per craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Lloyd Thrush
Progressive Mine Workers of America
Lewis
United Mine Workers
A. F. L. Thrush
A. F. L. Executive Council
Mines President Heads to Wyoming Liquid Fuel Hearing
Dr. Francis A. Thomson president of Montana School of Mines travels from Butte to Sheridan Wyoming to join a United States Senate subcommittee hearing on coal reserves in Wyoming Montana and North Dakota for conversion to liquid fuel. The hearing is the fourth in a cross country series by the war minerals subcommittee to study coal and oil shales and potential synthetic fuels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Mines
Francis A. Thomson
Montana School of Mines
Sheridan
Wyo
United States Senate
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
Associated Press
Sam C. Ford
Thomson
War Minerals Subcommittee
Senate Committee On Public Lands and
Joseph C. O’mahoney
D.wyo
Russians Push Toward Sumy 13 Miles From Town in Ukraine
Soviet forces drive from the northeast into Ukraine reaching 14 miles southwest of Sumy, tightening around Kharkov and pushing along a 300 mile front. Seventy Kharkov area towns fell, 30 near Bryansk, as 1,500 Germans were killed and a rail line was seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red Army
Ukraine
Sumy
Kharkov
Bryansk
Moscow
Orel
Bolshoi Bobrik
Boromlya
Crop Prospects Improved Despite Overall Decline
The Agriculture Department reported July progress in crops totaling about a three percent gain, aided by cotton and late corn growth, while total food, feed, and fiber output is expected to be about six percent below last year's record. Livestock products will offset the crop drop, with July corn up 168 million bushels to an estimated 2.87 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Nebraska
Walker Outlines Party Policy
Walker, U S postmaster general and D N C chairman, said the Democratic National Committee will not enter state primaries but will back Democratic and liberal candidates where there is unanimity of support. He predicted Republicans will remain a minority party in Congress after the 1944 elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Paul
Frank Walker
U. S
Democratic National Committee
F D R Meets With His Capitol Aides
President Roosevelt meets with State Department and military advisers at the White House in sessions likely linked to preamble talks with Prime Minister Churchill. Attendees include Hull Welles Davis Bowman Pasvolsky Leahy King Marshall Arnold. Roosevelt notes postwar planning and says Churchill visit details remain limited.
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Richard G. Maslock
Washington
Roosevelt
State Department
Churchill
White House
State Hull
Welles
Norman Davis
The
Red Cross
Isaiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
Leo Pasvolsky
William D. Leahy
Ernest J. King
George C. Marshall
Army
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Bairoko Battle Opens As Allied Forces Advance
Allied communique says American jungle troops opened the battle for Bairoko on New Georgia island, moving on three fronts from Munda northwest southwest and south. Blackwater reports join near Bairoko harbor while Japanese seek sea links at Vila and Bairoko. Allied air forces pound Salamaua as the offensive presses.
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Allied
Australia
U.P
Bairoko
New Georgia Island
Munda
Bairoko River
Bairoko Harbor
Solomons
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Vella Gulf
Kolombangara
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Salamaua
French Liberation Committee To Be Recognized By Allies
Allied officials in Algiers report that the United States and Britain plan to recognize the French Committee of National Liberation as the de facto government for French overseas interests until Gen. Henri Giraud’s forces reach France. A joint Roosevelt Churchill statement on recognition may follow from their meeting.
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Algiers
United States
Britain
Committee of National Liberation
Henri Giraud
France
Roosevelt
Churchill
Draft Limitation Bill Aimed at Fathers Induction
Washington Aug 10 The House military affairs committee plans a bill to bar induction of any man who is a father of a dependent child, covering both prewar and post Pearl Harbor cases. Chairman Andrew J. May expects quick passage and may seek discharge of already inducted fathers to boost industrial labor. He also hints at a proposed Army cap around 10 million men amid ongoing inductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Andrew J. May
D.-Ky
House Military Affairs Committee
Congress
Paul V. McNutt
May
Roosevelt
Burton K. Wheeler
D.-Mont
McNutt
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Resigns Army Rank to Help Civilians
Brig. Gen. Robert W. Johnson resigned his Army rank to devote himself to stronger civilian production. The 50 year old businessman and SWPC chairman said he had no major quarrel with Army officials but warned war needs could outpace civilian supplies of manpower and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert W
Johnson
War Plants Corporation
SWPC
Army
Montana Sets Third War Loan Drive Quota at 35 Million
Helena August 10 The Third War Loan drive opens September 9 and runs to September 30 with a quota of 35 million for the state. A. T. Hibbard chairs the state war finance committee and district chairs outline county allocations led by Cascade 5,245,100 and Silver Bow 3,842,800.
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Silver Bow County
Helena
Montana
A. T. Hibbard
State War Finance Committee
Mis
Soula
Butte
Great Falls
Havre
Wolf Point
Glendive
Miles City
Billings
Bozeman
Hibbard
R. B. Richardson
War Finance Committee
W. H. Bartley
John A. Sanderson
Anaconda
Theodore Jacobs
Missoula
George H. Leick
George N. Lund
Reserve
Axel Nelson
Sidney
B. M. Harris
Columbus
Lee M. Ford
Cascade
Fergus
Custer
Flathead
Gallatin
Lewis and Clark
Park
Silver Bow
Yellowstone
Beaverhead
Big Horn
Churchill Arrives in Quebec for War Conference Plans
Prime Minister Winston Churchill reaches Quebec to meet Canadian leaders and then President Roosevelt for talks with the combined chiefs of staff. The discussions aim to accelerate Allied planning and address Italy’s collapse, Russian war aims, and German morale amid ongoing global developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
U.P
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Hiteler
Washington
Churchill
W. L. MacKenzie King
Mr. MacKenzie King
Chiefs of Staff
United States
United Kingdom
Italy
Germany
Japanese peace feelers rejected by Chiang Kai-shek regime
Chungking sources report Tokyo sent three separate peace feelers in two months, all rejected. Chiang Kai-shek’s government will not consider any peace offer and remains aligned with the United Nations. Tokyo allegedly offered a return to July 7 1937 status and economic rights in north China in exchange for dropping claims in central and south China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
United Nations
Tokyo
Marco Polo Bridge
Peiping
China
Vladimir Rogov
War and the
Moscow
Kuomintang
Rogov
Little Temp Change Forecast Wednesday Into Evening
A small shift in or near a mild range is expected for Wednesday. The forecast notes little variation from Tuesday with high near 177 and low around 42 degrees.
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Evans
Gurney
Gladwin Hill
Randazzo Line
A. F.L
Is Charge
Tottering
Europe
Belgorod-Orel
Lisbon
Belgorod
Kiev
J. Edgar Hoover
Donald Mahoney
Walla Walla, Wash
Walker
F.D.R
Capitol
American
Hitler
French Liberation Committee
Blaine
Broadwater
Carbon
Carter
Chouteau
Daniels
Dawson
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Garfield
Glacier
Golden Valley
Granite
Hill
Jefferson
Judith Basin
Lake
Liberty
Lincoln
McCone
Madison
Meagher
Mineral
Musselshell
Petroleum
Phillips
Pondera
Powder River
Powell
Prairie
Ravalli
Richland
Rosebud
Sanders
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Toole
Treasure
Valley
Wheatland
Wibaux
Canada
John A. Reichmann
Poland
Yugoslavia
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