War Bond Drive Reaches $660400 In Butte
In Butte, individuals have invested $660,400 in war bonds since the Fourth War Loan campaign began. The sum buys E F and G series bonds toward a $1,425,800 goal. A Fox theater show Friday night will feature Hollywood stars to promote bonds. Tickets are sold where bonds are offered, and admission is by ticket at bond buyers.
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Butte
Ray L. Ruhle
War Loan Committee
Fox Theater
Fourth War Loan Committee
Lewis and Clark Leads Bond Drive in Fourth War Loan
Helena bulletin reports Lewis and Clark county leading the Fourth War Loan drive with 598 081.75 dollars, 54 percent of quota. Cascade and Silver Bow follow. state sales near 30 percent of 5 500 000 000 individual quota. A national total tops 1 044 000 000.
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Helena
U.P
Lewis and Clark County
Cascade County
Silver Bow County
Prairie County
Wibaux
Garfield
Broadwater
Yellowstone
Roosevelt
Hill
Missoula
Washington
Treasury
Support Price Pleases Solons
Congress members from sugar beet states welcomed the War Food Administration plan setting a $12.50 a ton support price for sugar beets, with potential exemptions from anti subsidies for sugar beets and cane. Senator Mahoney urged local campaigns to boost beet acreage and factory operation through community outreach.
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Washington
Congress
War Food Administration
WFA
Commodity Credit Corporation
O’mahoney
D.-Wyo
Bankhead
D.-Ala
O'Mahoney
Back Pay Checks for Butte Anaconda & Pacific Employees Today
Back pay for employees of the Butte Anaconda Pacific Railway will be distributed today at the Butte freight office Rocker Anaconda shops and at the Superintendent of M W & office 300 West Commercial Street Anaconda.
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Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company
Butte
Rocker
Anaconda
M. W
West
Commercial Street
Argentina Breaks Off Diplomatic Ties with Germany and Japan
Argentina in a sudden policy reversal ends relations with Germany and Japan amid an extensive espionage network tied to German and Japanese diplomats. President Ramirez cites serious facts harming sovereignty and vows arrests as authorities pursue implicated figures while warnings of societal upheaval loom.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Germany
Japan
Pedro Pablo Ramirez
Axis
Montevideo
Ramirez
Reds Capture Important Railway Hub
Russian troops seized Krasnogvardeisk a fortified rail hub 30 miles south of Leningrad and pushed five miles farther south. Moscow’s offensives claim heavy German losses on the Leningrad front and advances toward Vitebsk along the Moscow Leningrad trunk line. Stalin announced the victory with a 12 gun salute as Soviet forces broke through to reach the city streets at Krasnogvardeisk.
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London
Krasnogvardeisk
Leningrad
Moscow
Russia
Vitebsk
Moscow-Leningrad
Tosno
Volkhovo
Novgorod
Estonia
Latvia
Joseph Stalin
Soldiers Vote Dispute Flares Over Federal Ballot Push
President Roosevelt urged a federal ballot for armed forces and attacked a state ballot plan as fraud, drawing swift rebuttals from Senator Taft who warned of efforts to rally soldiers for a fourth term. Senate debate on a federal ballot intensified as Stewart shifted to support and McClellan signaled backing with modifications.
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William T. Peacock
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Taft
Ohio
WPA
Lucas
D.-Ill
Senate
Stewart
D.tenn
McClellan
D.-Ark
Soviet Probe Finds Germans Killed 11,000 Polish POWs
A Soviet commission near Smolensk announced that Germans killed about 11,000 Polish war prisoners in Katyn forest in 1941 as a provocation, not Russian actions in 1940. The report claims Germans buried and exhumed bodies to manufacture a motive for Soviet accusations.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Smolensk
U.S.S. R
Katyn Forest
Berlin
Goat Hills
London
Red Cross
Red Army
Yanks Smash Back Across Rapido In Cassino Drive
Allied headquarters report a second American crossing of the Rapido River near Cassino establishing a new bridgehead on the west bank. Despite heavy German fire and minefields, US troops push forward while Cassino resists from elevated positions nearby. Allied air and sea support continue as forces press toward Rome from the Cassino front.
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Algiers
Rapido
Cassino
Rome
Fifth Army
Appian Way
Via Casilina
Cairo
Velletri
Ford Discusses Water Resources in Missouri River Valley
Governor Sam C. Ford told the Great Falls Rotary club that Montana could reclaim 1,064,000 acres and generate over 21 million dollars annually by fully exploiting Missouri River basin waters. He criticized the Pick plan for prioritizing downstream navigation and flood control and noted 57 proposed Bureau of Reclamation projects storing 10.3 million acre-feet for irrigation.
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Great Falls
Montana
Missouri River Valley
Sam C. Ford
Corps of Army Engineers
Missouri River
Bureau of Reclamation
Missouri Basin
Sioux City
Missouri
Aerial Blows on France Continue
London reports a fourth day of air attacks on northern France targeting fortifications in preparation for a western invasion. R A F daylight bombing followed by night raids on undisclosed objectives and rocket gun coast actions. American airborne training intensified in the UK with glider and parachute units undergoing final tests. Beaufighter losses noted as coastal operations persist.
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London
Hitler
Europe
France
Germany
U. S
United Kingdom
Coastal Command
Russians Refuse Mediation Offer
The Soviet Union rejected an American proposal to mediate between Moscow and the Polish government in exile in London. Secretary Hull announced the reply, noting Russia does not feel the time is right for U S mediation and has criticized the Polish government, suggesting a renewed diplomatic gap may follow.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Moscow
London
Hull
United Nations
State Department
Allied Rear Admiral Led Anzio Nettuno Landings
Rear Admiral Frank Lowry commanded the full landing operation in the Anzio and Nettuno area below Rome last Saturday until Army corps headquarters were set up on the beachhead, the disclosure said.
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Algiers
U.P
Frank Lowry
Anzio
Nettuno
Rome
Army Corps
Mustering Out Pay Bill Heads to White House
Congress completed action on compromise mustering out pay for veterans. Overseas personnel will receive 300 dollars while those in the United States get 100 to 200 dollars. The measure passed the House 277 to 103 and the Senate without dissent, advancing on President Roosevelt’s war-to-peace plan.
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Washington
Congress
United States
White House
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Army to Release Motor Vehicles and Dresses
Government sources say soon about 20 000 motor vehicles will reach civilians including 10 000 used trucks and thousands of new cars and motorcycles. Potato stocks on January 1 totaled 138 million bushels, 38 percent higher than a year earlier. The Office of Price Administration relaxed limits on high priced garments, restoring access to low priced lines.
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Washington
Army
Agriculture Department
Office of Price Administration
Seven Die In Utah Plane Crash Near Quartzite
Seven crew members of a B-24 Liberator were killed when their aircraft crashed four miles north of Quartzite Arizona during a combat training flight from Blythe Army Air Base. Col Dave Wade announced the loss on Wednesday.
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Blythe
Calif
Quartzite
Ariz
Army Air Base
Dave Wade
U S Bombers Hit Three Marshalls Atolls In Fresh Raid
The U S Seventh Army Air Force and Navy Liberator crews conducted six attacks on three Marshall island atolls on Monday, with heavy fighter opposition and no losses. Additional raids targeted Mill and Wotje atolls, hitting airfields, gun emplacements, and barracks while encountering no interceptors in the first raid.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S. Seventh Army Air Force
Marshall Island
Adm
Chespn W. Nimitz
Mid- Pacific
Army Air Force
Mill Atoll
Mill
Nimitz
Wotje
Nelson reports all alcohol needed for essential uses
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson announced that all alcohol produced in 1944 will be reserved for military and essential civilian uses. He cited a drain on the 1943 stockpile and raised estimates for alcohol needed for synthetic rubber in the first half of 1944, making any resumption of beverage alcohol output impossible.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Surgical Dressing Unit Seeks Volunteers in Butte
The Butte American Red Cross surgical dressing unit is short of volunteer workers and behind quota. Officials urge women to call at the unit on the Montana Standard building's second floor for assignments, noting volunteers are unpaid and serve as a patriotic duty to aid Army needs.
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Italy
Red Cross
Butte
The
American Red Cross
Montana Standard
Greatest Toll From Rabaul Raid Across Pacific
Allied bombers sunk eleven Japanese ships and damaged five more in the southwest Pacific and off the Asiatic coast. At Rabaul harbor, five cargo ships and a tanker were sunk while two more were damaged hard. Twenty four Japanese interceptors were shot down, bringing total defending planes destroyed this month to 350. American dive bombers suffered light losses. other raids hit central China and Burma.
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Southwest
Pacific
Asiatic
Rabaul
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
China
Fourteenth Air Force
A Islands
Burma
New Guinea
May Compromise Food Subsidiaries
The War Food Administration outlined a price support program between 600 million and 800 million dollars to back farm product prices above OPA ceilings. Subsidies cover milk cheese processed vegetables canned fruits vegetable oils sugar and related crops, aiming to sustain producer returns and boost output. Congress would need funds and approval to authorize subsidies and may place limits on total spend or on individual items.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Congress
WFA
WPA
Marvin Jones
Commodity Credit Corporation
Butte Weather: Cloudy With Snow Flurries Thursday
A forecast for Butte and Montana notes increasing cloudiness with snow flurries in extreme south on Thursday. Temperatures rise to a high near 30 in parts, with -8 low, and little temperature change elsewhere. East of the continental divide sees more cloudiness and light snow in the southeast and extreme south, with warmer northwest conditions.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
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MacArthur
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Asia
Tokyo
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