Destructive Russian raids threaten Finland as Helsinki cut off
Finnish officials report Soviet air attacks across the south and interior, hitting Aabo Turku, Hanko, and Lahti. A two hour alert shook Helsinki while the capital lost radio and telephone service. On the Karelian Isthmus Soviet forces warned Germans will come unless Finns retreat within 48 hours.
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Karelian
Helsinki
U.P
Aabo
Turku
Hanko
Lahti
Wallace urges trade pacts to sell farm output abroad
Secretary Wallace told the House Ways and Means Committee that foreign markets are essential to absorb U S farm production. He warned that halting reciprocal trade agreements would be unfortunate and pressed for a postwar trade program to expand overseas sales.
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Washington
Wallace
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Naval plane crash near San Diego leaves two survivors
Two Navy torpedo planes fell in mid air 75 miles east of San Diego. Radioman second class Charles W. Post was brought to Brawley Community Hospital with a sprained ankle and shock. Radioman third class Elmer Edwin Jackson walked to Borego valley road and awaited a salvage crew. Two other crewmen reportedly leaped from the planes but fate unknown.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Here
Naval District
Charles W. Post
Brawley Community Hospital
Elmer Edwin Jackson
Borego Valley Road
Camp
Naval
House Approves Defence Fund For Army Navy
Washington report notes the House passed a $264,611,000 emergency defence outlay to fund Army Navy and Coast Guard personnel increases ordered by President Roosevelt. The vote was largely for the measure with few noes, with Rep. Taber offering a minor cut. Continued on page 3 col 4.
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Washington
Jan
House
Coast Guard
Roosevelt
Rep. Taber
R.N. Y
First Ski Game Stalk Staged in Park
Yellowstone National park will inaugurate its first ski game stalk in connection with the buffalo show on Sunday Acting Superintendent J W Emmert announced today. Visitors to the buffalo show may see buffalo elk deer mountain sheep and antelope along the plowed out highway between Gardiner and the buffalo ranch.
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Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone National Park
J. W. Emmert
Gardiner
Buffalo Ranch
Federal Employees Must File State Tax Returns For 1940
State income tax forms will be mailed late January or early February to last year filers and others required to file. Federal workers now must file, with returns due by April 15. Single filers earning 1000+ and married filers earning 2000+ must file. details at the courthouse first floor.
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John Lorenzen
State Board of Equalization
Lorenzen
Helena
State Board
Mr. Lorenzen
Former Police Patrolman Recalls Slaying of 14-Year-Old
Benjamin Franklin, 30, a former Pennsylvania state police patrolman, testified at his trial in Mauch Chunk Pa that he killed 14-year-old Joan Stevens last June 5 after she brandished a toy pistol he believed was real. The testimony was punctuated by a sobbing woman in the courtroom as he described the fatal encounter.
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Mauch Chunk
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
Joan Stevens
Japan faces cabinet crisis as Abe resignation looms
Tokyo reports Premier Nobuyuki Abe expects to resign after a special cabinet session and most ministers will quit. Nomura may be reappointed foreign minister to maintain U.S. talks, with trade treaty issues and January 26 looming as a deadline. A stop-gap cabinet is anticipated due to factions' disagreements.
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Tokyo
Japan
Nobuyuki Abe
Abe
Domei
Kichisaburo Nomura
United States
Joseph Grew
Nomura
Finnish Needy Near Million Says Hoover
New York January 12 Special Herbert reports nearly a million Finnish non combatants including women children and aged men will soon need outside assistance due to war related conditions. The statement indicates growing humanitarian needs and calls for relief support.
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New York
Herbert
Fur coats sent to Finnish refugees in New York
Billings furrier Gordon Bay donated 100 slightly used coats to the Finnish Relief Fund to aid 100 Finnish women refugees facing Arctic winters. The coats will be shipped to the Finnish consul general in New York, via Mrs. Harry C. Carpenter, state director for the fund.
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Billings
Harry C. Carpenter
Finnish Relief Fund, Inc
Gordon Bay
Finnish relief fund report predicts growing homeless crisis
Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish relief fund, heard from F Dorsey Stephens in Finland that over 500,000 civilians have already lost homes in the invaded area and refugee numbers rise daily. He warned the trend would worsen if it continues.
Cofee predicts House approval of Senate ratification amendment
Representative Harry B. Coffee of Nebraska told the American National Livestock association that the House will approve his amendment requiring Senate ratification of reciprocal trade agreements. He said a coalition opposing the program and supporting Senate ratification can muster enough votes to pass the amendment.
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Coffee
House
Senate
Denver
Harry B. Coffee
Nebraska
American National Livestock Association
Montana tourism drive seeks funds for ad program
Approval of an appropriation of several thousand dollars to advertise Montana as the ideal vacation land was voted yesterday by the advertising committee of Montanans Inc. The plan calls for ads in sporting magazines educational journals and newspapers starting next month and running through June.
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Montana
Advertising Committee of
Montanans, Inc
Charles W. Towne
Silver Bow Lassies Miss Leap Year Plans
Silver Bow County records from the district court clerk show no notable push by the Butte lassies to urge marriage during leap year. The piece notes local expectations and humorous commentary on women and suitors, with continuation hinted on the next page.
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Silver Bow County
Gentle Rex
Elmer Shea
Labor Groups Propose 1940 Programs in Congress
The Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor presented differing 1940 legislative aims while agreeing on keeping the United States out of war and making unemployment the top domestic issue. The CIO praised the Wagner Act but urged three amendments, while the AFL opposed the labor board, called for abolition and a new five member board, and backed Walsh-Barden changes to alter bargaining units.
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United States
Washington
U.P
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor Tonight
Congress
Federation
NLRB
Walsh-Barden
120 Men Organized for Start of the Better Business Drive
In Bartley West Virginia 92 miners perished in a blast at Bartley No 1 mine with 65 still missing and 47 escaped. Rescue officials said air was insufficient and all trapped men likely died. Meanwhile in Butte 120 volunteers join the Better Business Finance drive to recruit 660 prospective chamber members.
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Bartley
W. Va
Bartley No. 1
Raymond E. Salvati
Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Corporation
Better Business Finance Team
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Screen Actress Joan Bennett Weds Movie Producer
Phoenix report January 12 describes screen actress Joan Bennett marrying film producer Walter Wanger in a justice of the peace ceremony. After the nuptials the couple went to the Arizona Biltmore hotel where a wedding breakfast with Edgar Bergen was planned for tomorrow.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Joan Bennett
Hollywood
Miss Bennett
Walter Wanger
Harry Westfall
Arizona Biltmore Hotel
Edgar Bergen
Weekend Montana Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy to cloudy Saturday and Sunday across Montana with local snows in the west. Warmer conditions are forecast for the northeast portion over the weekend.
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Montana
Superintendent named for Flint Creek CCC Camp
Howard Halpin formerly of the Custer National forest is named superintendent of the Flint Creek Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the Deer Lodge National forest. He replaces L. L. Scharmota, who transfers to the Flathead National forest. The Deer Lodge forest supervisor Sharmota will join the Flathead forest at Kalispell and has served since 1936 beginning as Thunderbolt camp superintendent on the Boulder river. Halpin’s prior CCC service is noted.
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Howard Halpin
Custer National Forest
Flint Creek
Civilian Conservation Corps
Deer Lodge National Forest
L. L. Scharmota
Flathead National Forest
Charles A. Joy
Deer Lodge
Sceharmota
Flathead Forest
Kalispell
Thunderbolt
Boulder River
Halpin
Montana Cited In Trade Pact Benefits By State Dept
Washington report says Montana benefits from foreign markets for surplus factory farm and forest products. Representative O’Connor criticizes it as one side of the picture and questions the broader impact of the trade agreement policy.
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Washington
State Department
Montana
O'Connor
D-Mont
Mesopust Festivity Set by Slav Colony in Butte
The Slav population of Butte’s Boulevard district will stage Mesopust on February 4 5 and 6 at Rose Garden hall South Montana street. Open house and feasting begin Sunday with two days of celebration before the mock trial and burning of the effigy on the final night.
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Rose Garden Hall
South
Montana
Butte
Montana Street
Boulevard District
Mesopust
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REP
Harry Coffee
Coal Company
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