Newspapers Rage At Britain In Attacks On Britain And United States
The Tokyo press denounces Britain and the United States over wartime tensions. It cites Washington abandoning the commercial treaty and seizing German sailors aboard the Alma Maru, fueling anti British sentiment while seeking a working pact to replace the treaty. Officials say Washington uses the move to derail Japan’s East Asia order. Diplomats note efforts for last minute talks with Japan and the United States ending without a stopgap deal.
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Tokyo
U.P
United States
Great Britain
Washington
Japan
East Asia
London
Britain
Roosevelt
Germany
Hachiro Arita
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Kensuke Horinouchi
State Department
Soviet bombers sink Finnish ship and threaten German vessel
Soviet air attacks over Finland hit the Notung of Finnish registry at Sottunja in the Aland archipelago and damaged a building in Kuhmo. German ship nearby was bombed but not hit. crews were machine-gunned as they rowed to shore. Finnish land forces maintain a tight hold around a Soviet force cut off northeast of Lake Ladoga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Finland
Aland
Lake
Ladoga
Notung
Sottunja
Houtskar
Kuhmo
Vuokatti
Taivalkoski
Holland Assails Churchill Radio Speech in Parliament
In The Hague the upper chamber debated the foreign office budget and warned Holland must not be drawn into British politics. Prof Lohman, senate leader of the Christian Historical party, urged emphasis on Dutch national interests over the fate of smaller states after Churchill urged neutral nations to join the Allies.
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Hague
Netherlands
Holland
Eerste Kamer
Foreign Office
Jonkheer Lohman
Senate
Christian Historical Party
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Germany
Russia
Lohman
Butte Weather Sees Mercury Stay At Zero In Cold Spell
Butte residents endured frigid conditions as temperatures failed to rise above zero all day. The federal forecast promised milder weather for today and Friday, bringing relief after a week of subzero highs, with optimism warming amid the wind and snow.
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Butte
Federal Weather Bureau
Temperatures in Butte Hourly Readings
Federal weather bureau hourly temperatures for Butte yesterday show morning lows around 11 degrees and afternoon highs near 7 below zero, with readings from 6:30 a m to 11:30 p m in 1 to 6 degree increments.
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Federal Weather Bureau
State Seeks Death Penalty in Unita Trial
The state opened its case against Robert A. Smith, a 21 year old former CCC worker, charged with the murder of Knight C. Wickiter in Butte on October 20, 1938. County Attorney W. E. Coyle asked for the death penalty and outlined evidence linking Smith to Wickiter's hotel register, car theft to Pocatello Idaho, and later CCC camp location near St. Louis.
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State
Robert A. Smith
CCC
Knight C. Wickiter
Ramsay
Butte
Husky
W. E. Coyle
Smith
Wickiter
H. E. Jorgenson
Pocatello
Idaho
St. Louis
Phil O'Donnell
James E Higgins Prominent Montana Resident Dies
James E Higgins a prominent Montana mining man died at St Josephs hospital after weeks of declining health. Born in Philadelphia he moved to Montana as a child and educated at St Mary academy Butte high school and Columbia University class of 1902. He worked for Anaconda in Butte before moving to Deer Lodge in 1921 to run the Blue Eyed Maggie mine until illness halted his work. Surviving is his daughter Lulu with details continued on page 2 column 1.
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Deer Lodge
James E. Higgins
Montana
St. Joseph's Hospital
Mr. Higgins
Philadelphia
Treasure State
St. Mary Academy
Butte
Columbia University
Higgins
Anaconda Company
Emery
James E. Higgins Sr
Bell and Diamond
Bell Mine
Jane Sullivan
Charles Sullivan
Lulu
Lewis warning sparks talk of Wheeler aid in Roosevelt contest
John L. Lewis warned that a Roosevelt third term would face ignominious defeat and stirred talk he may back Senator Wheeler for president. The Columbus speech was seen as shaping the Democratic platform and drew reactions from Norris and other lawmakers while Republicans praised the rift in labor support.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Wheeler
D.mont
Columbus
Ohio
Norris
Ind.-Neb
Lewis
Davis
R.-Pa
White House
Stephen Early
Green
William Green
Mr. Roosevelt
Senators Open Path for Finland Loan Aid
The Senate banking and currency committee backed a bill to raise the Export-Import bank revolving fund by 100 million dollars, signaling possible non military loans to Finland and other Nordic nations. Approval faces obstacles and final passage across committees and houses remains uncertain. If funds rise, loans would be at the discretion of Jesse Jones the Federal Loan Administrator guiding credit if Finland applies.
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Washington
Jan
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Finland
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
House
Jesse Jones
Montana Forecast Shows Fair Weather and Rising Temps
Montana crews forecast generally fair conditions on Thursday and Friday with slowly rising temperatures. Expect mild afternoons, cooler mornings, and light breezes across the state.
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Montana
House fails to override Roosevelt veto on Ohio relief bill
The House voted 171 to 153 to sustain President Roosevelt's veto of an Ohio relief refund, denying reimbursement of 1,388,000 dollars after the Social Security Board withheld funds for alleged irregularities in the old age assistance program. The vote ends the effort to override the veto.
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Ohio
Social Security Board
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Dewey Attacks New Deal Fiscal Policies in Boston
In a mass meeting broadcast by radio, Thomas E. Dewey criticized the New Deal as mismanaged and spendthrift, accusing the administration of maladministration and a defeatist attitude toward the economy. He urged a new broom to clean the budgetary litter and warned seven years of maladministration have slowed growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Thomas FE. Dewey
New Deal
New England
New York
Washington
America
Butte Chamber of Commerce Stag Dinner Caps 1940 Campaign
The Butte Chamber of Commerce campaign closes tonight with a stag dinner at the Finlen hotel as teams race to meet the 23000 goal. Current total 22593, $407 short, renewals at 95 still to report, and 12 new memberships needed.
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Workers of
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Finlen
Charles Gallagher
Charles W. Towne
Ray J. MacDonald
Chamber
Harvey
E. G. Leipheimer
R. J. Ruhle
J. H. Dickey Jr
Dave Kilroy
N. L. Richmond
R. G. Rawls
J. H. Rowe
N. A. Bunch
Henry Hiren
R. L. Ruhile
Roosevelt to speak at dirt farmer radio dinners
President Roosevelt may deliver a radio address to dirt farmer dinners planned for early March in Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri and possibly other states. Stephen T. Early said Secretary Wallace discussed the dinners with the President, though they were still in the idea stage.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Stephen T. Early
Wallace
Boiler-Maker Who Caught Falling Steeplejack Wins Award
Theodore Bennett, 34, of Mobile Alabama, received a Carnegie Hero Fund bronze medal for catching a 75 year old steeplejack, Charles Von Gossett, who fell 55 feet from a mobile smokestack May 8 1938. Bennett saved the man while injuring himself for 10 weeks.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Theodore Bennett
Mobile
Ala
Charles von Gossett
Bennett
von Gossett
Sabotage in the Montana State University faculty probe
In Missoula a state education board inquiry into Montana State University heard a telegram alleging faculty sabotage. President George Finlay Simmons said the telegram referenced dismissing leaders of an underhanded insurrection and praised Simmons as capable under difficult conditions amid campus rifts and a prolonged investigation.
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Missoula
F. C. Scheuch
Montana State University
State Board of Education
Scheuch
George Finlay Simmons
George Gosman
Dillon
Education Board
Gosman
Simmons
Elliott
15 Year Old Floyd Devilbiss Convicted of Manslaughter
A Brainerd district court jury convicted 15 year old Floyd Devilbiss of first degree manslaughter in the death of his father Mergil Devilbiss. The confession stating he shot his father in the back after his father failed to provide for his 12 children was admitted. The boy testified he did not know how the fatal shot was fired.
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Brainerd
Minn
Floyd Devilbiss
Mergil Devilbiss
Western wool growers push for state control over public lands
At the 75th National Wool Growers Association convention in Casper Wyoming J Elmer Brock president of the American National Livestock Association urged unity to turn over public domain lands to states and revise tax structures for private land purchase He called federal supervision un-American and urged western states to band together to gain actual statehood and autonomy for grazing districts and stressed need to limit federal bureaus.
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Casper
Wye
Jan
National Wool Growers Association
J. Elmer Brock
Kaycee
Wyo
American National Livestock Association
Nels H. Smith
Tom Cooper
F. M. Kavanagh
Interior Department
W. L. Dutton
Forest Service
Brock
Montana highway bids set for 11 projects
The Montana highway commission will award contracts tomorrow in Helena for 11 road and bridge improvements. Bids cover regrading and oiling 3.332 miles of the Billings Pompey’s Pillar road, building a 125-foot timber trestle over Fly Creek, and regrading two Livingston Wilsall road sections of 2,293 and 9,888 miles in Park county.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
Yellowstone County
Fly Creek
Livingston- Wilsall
Park County
KIWANIANS MARK THEIR 25TH BIRTHDAY WITH DINNER
O B Silvey of Anaconda spoke at Meaderville as Kiwanis clubs in Butte celebrated the 25th anniversary of Kiwanis International. He reviewed Kiwanis achievements and stressed service to community and nations through international goodwill. W E Pierce chaired the event. the celebration drew a large delegation from Anaconda.
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O. B. Silvey
Anaconda
Division A
Montana
Kiwanis
Anaconda Club
Meaderville
Butte
Kiwanis International
Silvey
W. E. Pierce
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U. C
H. C. Thompson
China
King Winter
Moscow
Wade Werner
Mercury Beach
Aalio
UNITA
K. C. Wickiter
Senators
Export-Import Bank
DLA
William H. Boyd
William CC. Boyd
Glendale
Cal
M. Elizabeth Parkhurst
Miss Parkhurst
Pacific
To. Obhuegh Ayo
Federal Control and
National
Wool Growers’ Association
State Highway Department
Butte-to-Whitehall Road
Jefferson County
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