Sailor Rips Nazi Swastika From German Consulate Flag
In San Francisco a 23 year old U S Navy sailor climbed to a ninth floor flagpole with four companions and torn down a Nazi swastika flag at the German consulate crowd cheered. Harold James Sturtevant and E J Lackey aided him as patrols watched. The flag was up to mark a German national holiday.
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San Francisco
U.R
U.S. Navy
Washington, D. C
Fritz Wiedemann
Harold James Sturtevant
S. Craven
E. J. Lackey
Charlotte
N. C
Seaman
U. S
Perkins
Navy
Mare Island Navy Yard
Mare Island Hospital
Churchill Sees Britain Ready Now to Repel Invasion
Prime Minister Churchill told a Glasgow audience that Britain is better prepared to repel invasion than last year due to wartime air defense and the North Africa campaign. He cited needs from the United States for guns planes and ships, and noted seven months of endured bombardment with continued air superiority over England. Harry Hopkins sat beside him as he reviewed the war’s balance and the miracles of endurance.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Winston Onarchi
England
Hitler
Britain
Italy
Churchill
Glasgow
North Africa
Suul Renly
Brittain
United States
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
Kennedy urges aid to England but opposes current lend lease plan
New York January 18 Joseph P Kennedy retiring ambassador to Britain urged the United States to give utmost aid to England but said the present lend lease bill should not pass in its form. He warned against surrendering Congress authority and believed hearings will propose less drastic means to empower the President. He spoke on NBC saying Americans must rally behind the President once a bill becomes law.
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New York
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
United States
England
Britain
Roosevelt
Congress
Kennedy
National Broadcasting Company
Austorian Declares Britain Can Win War in Two Years
eminent American historian Albert Bushnell Hart, age 86, predicts Britain can defeat Germany within two years if supplied continuously by the United States. He stresses that public opinion in the next four weeks must align with fortifying Britain to deter invasion of the United States. Continued on Page 8, Col 4.
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Austorian
Britain
Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Acme
Roosevelt
Knudsen Says U.S. Cannot Avoid War If Britain Falls
Defense Production Director William Knudsen warned Congress that America cannot avoid war with the Axis if Britain falls. He urged immediate aid to Britain using existing facilities, ahead of new arms production in late 1941, and endorsed the lend lease approach as insurance for democracy.
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Washington
William 8. Knudsen
America
Britain
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U. S
Rep
Hamilton
Nazi Stukas Bomb Malta Airdrome Saturday
German sources report large squadrons of Stuka dive bombers attacked the Malta airdrome Saturday afternoon. The raid targeted the British Mediterranean outpost, with heavy bombing reported and no immediate details on casualties.
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Malta
Berlin
Mediterranean
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Regions
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with snow on Sunday. Little temperature change expected.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Inauguration Ceremonies Set For Today
Washington crowds gathered for the third inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt. spectators crowded hotel lobbies and streets to glimpse celebrites and the White House as flags and bunting marked the day ahead of the oath on Monday. The weather outlook forecast clear and cold as Roosevelt stayed at the White House without visitors.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Capitol
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Woolgrowers Elect New Officers in Montana Meeting
The 40th annual Montana Woolgrowers Association convention in Great Falls ended with adoption of resolutions and the election of officers. W. G. Gilbert of Dillon was reelected president for a third term, J. E. Foster of Harlonton as vice president, and Paul Etchepare of Helena as secretary-treasurer.
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Great Falls
Montana Woolgrowers’ Association
W. G. Gilbert
Dillon
J. E. Foster
Harlowton
Paul Etchepare
Helena
R. T. Clark
Montana State College Department of Animal Husbandry
Curtis Hughes
F. R. Marshall
Salt Lake City
National Woolgrowers Association
R. R. Renne
Forestry and Grazing Committee
Soft Ice Postpones Skating Finals To Next Sunday
Old Man Chinook delays the annual municipal skating carnival for grade schoolers as warm winds ruin ice depth at Clark Park. Finals and remaining preliminaries move to next Sunday with Greeley and Emerson among top contenders after yesterday's qualifying rounds.
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Chinook
Butte
Clark Park
Frank
Curran
John Kennedy
Greeley
Emerson
State Industrial Capacity to be Surveyed in Montana
An exhaustive state wide survey will map every square foot of industrial capacity for national defense in Montana. The effort runs January 19 to 25 with the Associated Industries of Montana and cooperating groups led by George S. Martin of Butte. Coordinated with the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Industrial Council, it aims to inventory all manufacturing facilities to aid defense. Governors Ford and Knudsen urge cooperation as forms are distributed to ten city associations for local surveys.
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Montana
Associated Industries of
George S. Martin
Butte
National Association of Manufacturers
National Industrial Council
United States
Defense
William 8. Knudsen
Ford
Martin
W. W. Gall
Billings
D. A. Nash
Bozeman
D. P. Bates
Missoula
Lee Thurston
Great Falls
D. F. Barloga
Helena
C. F. Hansen
Kali
Hitler Mussolini Expected to Confer Today
Reliable sources say Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler may meet within 24 hours to discuss countering United States aid to Britain. The meeting likely in Munich or Salzburg with official timing kept secret amid an Axis economic conference opening Monday led by Kurt Clodius.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
United States
Great Britain
Munich
Salzburg
Germany
Kurt Clodius
Mussolini
Hitler
Africa
Auto and train collision kills two near Helena
Helena report says William Burch aged 20 and his nephew Eston Middleton aged 25, both workers at the Jay Gould mine, died in a collision between their automobile and a Great Northern passenger train on a grade crossing 14 miles northwest of Helena.
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Helena
Jan
William Burch
Eston Middleton
Jay Gould
Here
Great Northern
Juvenile Legion Band Planned in Joint Meeting
Bons of the American Legion and the junior auxiliary will meet Monday at 7 PM at the Sons of the Legion hall 205 East Park Street to organize a mixed juvenile band. Seventeen boys and seven girls have signed, with six more girls expected to register tonight to finalize instrument arrangements.
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Bons of the American Legion
Sons of the Legion Hall
East Park Street
Knox Urges Total War Aid to Britain and Allies
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the Canadian Society of New York that the war abroad is an irreconcilable conflict to be fought to a finish. He urged all-out aid to Britain and democracies without dollars and cents constraints, and warned against negotiated peace.
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New York
U.S
Frank Knox
United States
Britain
Knox
Canadian Society of New York
Roosevelt
America
Navy
Capper to Sponsor Federal Grants for Health Insurance
Kansas Senator Arthur Capper announced he would sponsor a bill to provide federal grants in aid to states for health insurance. This move aims to expand coverage and support state programs in health care funding.
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New York
Arthur Capper
Actress Brenda Joyce Weds Childhood Sweetheart Owen Ward
Actress Brenda Joyce marries her childhood sweetheart Owen Ward an accountant whom she met in junior high. The ceremony took place Saturday with Joyce tying the knot in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Brenda Joyce
Owen Ward
Mining Association Banquet Details Set for Helena
The Montana Mining Association schedules its legislative banquet in Helena on Wednesday January 22. Sessions run 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Placer Hotel with chairs Stanley R Moore and Paul W Smith. Topics include economic and technical mining issues and workmen compensation with invited labor leaders.
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Mining Association of Montana
Helena
Carl J. Trauerman
A. Strojan Jr
Placer Hotel
Stanley R. Moore
Wilborn
Paul W. Smith
James D. Graham
Montana Federation of Labor
Clements
Industrial Board
House Senate
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Hanford McNider
Iowa
Hugh 8. Johnson
London
William C. Bullitt
France
Bloom
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lawrence F. Arnold
Gerald Campbell
Viscount Halifax
Neville Butler
Woolgrowers
Stockyards and Transportation Committee
McCarren
Portland
Ore
Predatory Animal Control Committee
National Congress
Atlantic
Juvenile Legion Band
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