Finnish Hold At Taipale River In Fierce Battle
Finnish forces claimed the Soviet assault along the Taipale river failed after a 10 day barrage. They reported hundreds of Soviet casualties, 14 tanks destroyed and four tanks captured. Finnish shore batteries sank a Russian patrol ship and a destroyer was later reported sunk.
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Taipale
Russia
Lake Ladoga
Taipale River
Lake Suvanto
Kotka
Salmijarvi
Pitkajarvi
Norway
Butte Youth Dies in Harrison Avenue Car Crash
A car went out of control on Harrison Avenue yesterday at 6:30 am, killing Roderick D. Leggat, 21, of 416 South Crystal Street. Harold Perkins, 22, of 63412 Colorado, survived. Leggat's funeral is set for Richards Funeral Home at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. Thomas Ashworth officiating.
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Roderick Dhu Leggatt
South Crystal Street
Harold Perkins
Colorado
Young Leggat
Richards Funeral Home
Thomas Ashworth
Phillip Mischkot
Butte
Amherst and
Leggat
Perkins
Three Charged With Serving Soviet Agency Indictment names Liskin Weinberg Rush
A federal grand jury indicted Morris Liskin Norman Weinberg and Raphael Rush for serving Mezhkino ga the Soviet state literary agency without State Department registration. The case alleges the group organized Booknig in New York to distribute propaganda in the United States.
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Washington
Justice Department
State Department
Morris Liskin
New Rochelle
N. Y
Norman Weinberg
Mount Vernon
Raphael Rush
Mezhkniga
Moscow
Booknig A Corporation
New York State
United States of America
Garner Declares He Would Accept 1940 Nomination
Vice President Garner announced he would accept the Democratic nomination for president in a 44 word statement. He said he would not seek to control delegates and urged the people to decide through primaries and conventions as provided by law. He trusted all Democrats would participate.
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Garner
Washington
Uvalde
Texas
Sanyo Maru Tested Allied Blockade Of Nazi Goods
British blockade officers examined the 970 ton Japanese freighter Sanyo Maru off the British coast after it arrived from Rotterdam with German nitrate. The ship tested the allied blockade of German exports as 10 more merchant ships were sunk in two days, and British authorities warned the blockade applies to all ships including the Japanese vessel. The admiralty also warned of German mines near the Tyne and Tees mouths as the test unfolds.
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London
Reich
Rotterdam
Admiralty
Tyne
Tees River
Suit to End All Suits Is Started
Hollywood report says Freddie Bartholomew won a first round in a dispute with his parents and three lawyers. A temporary injunction was granted by Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson preventing further suits against the English child star.
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Hollywood
Freddie Bartholomew
America
Emmet H. Wilson
Ceil L. Bartholomew
Montana Weather Forecast For Sunday And Monday
Partly cloudy conditions expected Sunday and Monday in Montana with showers confined to the west portion. Temperatures remain little changed across the state.
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Montana
Butte Elks to honor Mines band and leader Treloar
Butte lodge No 240 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will host a dinner at the Finlen hotel to honor the Butte Mines band and its conductor Samuel H. Treloar. The band marks its 52nd anniversary this week. Attendees include 18 lodge members, 34 band members, and several guests, with James T Finlen Jr. presiding. Dinner is at 7 p.m.
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Butte
Butte Lodge No. 240
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Butte Mines
Samuel H. Treloar
Finlen Hotel
W. J. Sullivan
James T Finlen Jr
Ramuel H. Treloar
Mr. Treloar
Butte Elka Lodge
Big Shopping Army Augurs Happy Season
Butte lies under a holiday rush as stores flood with crowds. Sidewalks clog downtown and out of town cars swarm the city as neighbors join in the Christmas shopping surge.
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Butte
Smith to Stand Trial for Murder Next Month
Robert A. Smith, 20 year old OCC worker, faces murder charges in the death of Knight C. Wickiter, a Ramsay salesman found dead in a local hotel room October 21, 1938. Judge T. E. Downey set winter trial dates and opened a calendar with 52 civil cases and a panel of 75 jurors.
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OCC
Knight C. Wickiter
Smith
PBS
St. Louis
Wickster
Judge Downey
District Court
Housing Authority of
Butte
Man Injured in Hit Run Near Warm Springs
Weldon Martin prominent Deer Lodge junior high school instructor was struck on U S Highway 10 near Warm Springs. He suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and other injuries. presumed victim of a hit-and-run driver sought in Butte. Martin was taken to the Warm Springs state hospital.
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Weldon Martin
Deer Lodge
Warm Springs
Butte
Martin
B. L. Pampel
Former Governor of Iowa Succumbs
Louisville obituary reports B. F. Carroll aged 79 dies at home at Louisville. Carroll served as Iowa governor from 1899 to 1913 and was a prominent state political figure. He led during a period of growth and modernization and was known for public service.
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Iowa
Louisville
B. F. Carroll
Graf Spee Threatens Breakout From Montevideo Harbor
An urgent cabinet session in Uruguay was convened by President Baldomir to handle Germany’s request for more time to keep the raider Graf Spee in port. The Graf Spee set nose toward the harbor breakwater as dawn approached, with small craft cleared away and a large plate welded over a damaged bow after a recent battle with British cruisers.
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Montevideo
Alfredo Baldomir
Germany
Graf Spee
Western G U P Conference Adopts Resolutions
The western regional Republican conference condemned the Labor Relations board and urged states in the region to send uninstructed delegates to the 1940 national party convention. The two day meeting included leaders and workers from Washington to Utah and discussed not forming a permanent western regional group at this time.
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Republican Conference
Labor Relations Board
Washington
California
Montana
Nevada
Colorado
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Communist Leader Kuusisen Labeled Traitor in Finnish War
The New York News reports Otto Kuusisen, head of Finland's puppet government, is fighting against his own people in Russia. It notes his exile during Finland's independence fight, his wife and three children left in Finland, and his daughter Hertta who rejoined Finland after being imprisoned on suspicions of spying.
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Finland
New York News
Butte
Otto Kuusisen
Russia
Heikki
Tani
Hertta
Paradise
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