Limited National Service Bill Gains House Committee Approval
The House military committee approved a limited national service bill for men ages 18 to 45 with a key change removing the anti closed shop clause. A new provision allows registrants a reasonable choice of employers when directed by draft boards. The panel also gave local boards power to assess job essentialness and to defer discharged veterans from orders to take essential jobs. Ex veterans would be treated as in service while in essential roles, preserving reinstatement rights within 90 days after discharge. May aims to bring the bill to debate in the House next week, with final action not expected until late next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
May
War Mobilization
Butte and Missouri Headwaters Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions Thursday and night with little temperature change. Friday brings light freezing rain or snow flurries in Montana west of the divide with highs near 20 to 30. East of the divide Missouri headwaters remain largely unchanged with highs around 40 to 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Montana
Divide
Missouri
Berlin Refugees Swamp City Straining Food and Clothing
STOCKHOLM reports Berlin's food and clothing situation has grown critical as refugees flee the eastern front. Berlin authorities cannot care for the influx, forcing many to move west hungry and inadequately clothed after Wednesday night dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Berlin
Postwar Bills Aim to Boost Montana Development
Helena Jan 24 legislative action opens the 29th assembly with bills to fund postwar road construction via 12 million in state debentures and a special election to approve, plus measures for a two cent per pack cigarette tax and permitting divorces after 30 days residence. The house also heard about a 1000000?appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Assembly
Montana
House of Representatives
Jones Declares Wallace Is Not Qualified
Senate hearing centers on Henry Wallace's fitness for Roosevelt's cabinet role as Jesse Jones, citing lack of experience. Jones maintains his own status as rotary of commerce and loan administrator until Wallace is confirmed, clashing with Senator Pepper over asked facts.
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Tom Reedy
Washington
Jesse Jones
Henry Wallace
Senate
Roosevelt
Jones
Rotary of Commerce and Loan
Wallace
Senator Pepper
D-Fla
Pepper
Americans Take Bamban Stronghold in Luzon Advance
Allied dispatch reports American forces penetrating toward Clark field and capturing Bamban and Mabalacat as U S ground troops push 10 miles south from Capas on highway 3. MacArthur cites 6 499 enemy killed and 423 prisoners taken. US casualties total 657 killed 187 missing and 2301 wounded.
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Luzon
U.P
Clark Field
U. S
Corregidor
Fortress Island
Manila Bay
Capas
Bamban
Clark Air Center
Mabalacat
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Prisoner of Japs Writes Mother
Pfc. Harry T. Simms, a Philippines prisoner of war since 1942, told his mother he is fine and hopes to see her soon after being moved to Fukuoka Japan. His brother in law Pfc. Grant L. Sims, a Marine veteran wounded at Saipan, was visiting family during a fur lough.
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Pfc
Harry T. Simms
Philippines
Anna Simms
South Main
Butte
Simms
Butte High School
Grant L. Sims
Jeanne Simms
Marines
United States
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Saipan
Roosevelt Memorandum Guides US Policy Toward Liberated Europe
British experts study a memo from President Roosevelt to Churchill on US aims in Poland and liberated European countries, signaling active U.S. involvement and a clear stance for the upcoming Allied talks. The document hints at potential Stalin access and a fluid approach to Mediterranean affairs including Italy. Roosevelt seeks a democratic Europe and asserts his fourth term mandate to assume responsibility in European matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.D.R
London
U.P
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Poland
Europe
Joseph Stalin
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Churchill
France
Britain
Times
Lisbon
Russia
Black Sea
America
Soviet Troops Capture City of Oppeln in East Prussia Drive
Soviet forces seized Oppeln the Upper Silesia fortress city as Red army tanks and infantry pushed toward Breslau. Berlin reports battles in Gleiwitz and expanding drives threaten Konigsberg and Poznan with several key Polish fortress cities also falling to the Soviets.
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London
Oder River
Oppeln
Upper Silesia
Stricker
Junker
Poland
Kalisz
Rawicz
Berlin
Poznan
Silesia
Ruhr
Breslau
Germany
Margareth
Oder
Notice of 1944 Earnings Statements for Butte Mines Employees
Statements of earnings of employees of the Butte Mines for the year 1944 will be given out at the Mines Pay Office 18 East Quartz street on Thursday and Friday January 25 and 26 from 9 30 a m to 6 p m. These statements are necessary for preparation of your Federal and State Income Tax Returns.
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Butte
East Quartz Street
German Submarine Packs May Again Be on Prowl
The RAF coastal command reports a probable sinking of a German U-boat 400 miles from Britain signaling possible submarine packs resuming. Norwegian sources say 100 new U-boats were stationed at Narvik ports to restart the undersea campaign. A Sunderland aircraft attacked the submarine with depth charges amid flak. an explosion followed and oil appeared as the U-boat vanished.
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London
Atlantic
Britain
R.A.F. Coastal Command
Narvik
Churchill
Coastal Command
Sunderland
F. G. Fellow
Ontario
Canada
Twin Traps Set by Yankees and British in Burma Action
American Mars Task Force and British commandos mounted simultaneous operations to halt Japanese retreat from the Ledo Burma road and Arakan fronts. A road block near Hosi traps units from Wanting Namhkam while a British landing on the Arakan coast targets the Myohaung Taungup escape route. About 600 Japanese remain in the Wanting Namhkam Hosi triangle fighting to break through.
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Calcutta
Burma
Arakan-Kaladan
U. S. Mars
Hosi
Wanting
Wanting-Namhkam
Southeast Asia Command
Myebon Peninsula
Arakan
Kangaw
Akyab
Myohaung-Taungup
Myitkyina
Mars
John P. Willey
San Antonio
Texas
Wanting- Namhkam-Hoss Triangle
Triangle
Namhkam
Northern
Burma Combat Command
Storm Siegfried Fortress siege near Heinsberg reported by Allied forces
Paris dispatch reports British Second Army tanks penetrating up to ten miles into the Siegfried fortress at Heinsberg as German resistance thins. RAF bombers pound eastbound rail traffic, destroying locomotives and rolling stock. Allied forces push from the Ardennes bulge toward the Reich border with gains of one to three miles along a 35 mile front.
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Paris
U.P
Reich
Siegfried
Heinsberg
B. L. Montgomery
Rhineland
Munchen-Gladbach
Rheydt
Dusseldorf
Rhine
Montgomery
Aachen
Second Tactical Air Force
21St Army Group
Hanover
Berlin
First
Third Army
Ardennes Bulge
Ninth Tactical Air Force
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
Clerf
Luxembourg
U. S
First Army
St. Vith
Ardennes
Seventh Tank
Strick
MVA Arguments Presented at Helena Hearing
Sen W A D Ewart of Wilsall, president of the Montana Reclamation association, told a public legislative hearing on Missouri river basin development plans by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and Army engineers. The session outlined irrigation, soil resources, navigation, power and flood control as key goals, with Rep Leonard Espis of Sweet Grass co chairing.
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Helena
W. A D'Ewart
Wilsall
Montana Reclamation Association
Federal Bureau of Reclamation and
Army Engineers
Missouri
Senate
House
D’ewart
R-Park
Leonard J. Espis Sweet Grass
Espis
Nazi SS Drives Germans Westward in Bitter Weather Flight
Nazi SS troops push German men women and children westward in a forced flight along a 250 mile front from the Baltic to Silesia in bitter weather. Towns and villages burn as wells and remaining food stocks are said to be poisoned amid panic in Berlin. Moscow and Stockholm reports note clashes with Volksturm units and resistance from Breslau miners awaiting Russians. Diplomatic reports cite Baron von Papen’s arrival in Portugal and other talks as Red Army advances reshape the front.
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Czechoslovakia
Latvia
Joseph Stalin
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Carpathian
Kosice
Kassa
Berlin
London
Baltic Sea
Silesia
Moscow
Stockholm
Volksturm
Radio
Paris
Breslau
Atlantic
Portugal
Baron Franz von Papen
Turkey
Superfortresses Hit Iwo and Formosa Areas in Pacific Raids
U S forces reported a B 29 bombardment of Iwo Jima while Third Fleet carrier planes struck Formosa and Okinawa regions. Tokyo claimed Japanese losses and that several Allied aircraft were shot down, with mixed combat reports and claims from both sides.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Iwo
Tokyo
Adm
Willliam F. Halsey
United States Third Fleet
Formosa-Okinawa
Marianas
Curtis E. Lemay
21St Bomber Command
Cone Junction
Honshu
Nagoya
FCC
Third Fleet
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Formosa
Okinawa
Korea
Big Honshu
Seven Montanans Die in Action
The War department released the names of seven Montanan soldiers killed in Europe among 2,087 total. Listed by next of kin include Sgt. Floyd M. Baldry of Conrad. Pvt. Eugene C. Brent of Helena. Pfc. Francis Heavy Runner of Browning. Lt. Norbert W. Herriges of Whitefish. T/5 Thomas J. Louk of Crow Agency. T/5 Arthur S. Newton of Malta. Pvt. Herbert K. Smith of Great Falls.
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Washington
War Department
Floyd M. Baldry
Myrna L. Baldry
Conrad
Eugene C. Brent
Joseph J. Brent
Helena
Francis Heavy Runner
Angela Old Person
Browning
Norbert W. Herriges
Jean E. Herriges
Whitefish
Thomas J. Louk
Stephen Louk
Crow Agency
Arthur S. Newton
Victor N. Newton
Malta
Herbert K. Smith
Elizabeth Hartman
Great Falls
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William F. Arbogast
Nip
William B. Dickinson
Prisoner of Japs
By Philault
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Free City of
Danzig
Riesenburg
East Prussia
Miswalde
Baltic
Elbing
Lodz
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
McQuown Wright
West Wall
James F. McGlincy
By Robert Dowson
By Frank Tremaine
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