Fort Peck power plant opens in Montana ceremony
The Fort Peck dam near Glasgow Minnesota? Wait, Montana. Lt. Col. Freeman announces the Fort Peck power plant is in operation at 9:30 p.m. The massive project spans 1933 to 1939 and will send electricity to Great Falls and the northwest power pool for war industries. Remarks from Col. Pick and other officials praise the project as a logical first step in Missouri river basin development.
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Glasgow
Fort Peck
Glasgow Civic Auditorium
D. B. Freeman
Missouri River Division
Corps of Army Engineers
Freeman
Great Falls
Northwest
Montana
Col
Lewis A. Pick
Army
Colonel Pick
Missouri River
O. S. Warden
Mont
National Reclamation Association
Harry E. Polk
Williston
N. D
H. H. Johnson
Federal Reclamation Bureau
Dan P. Thurber
Allies Sweep Atack Islands Near New Guinea Bases
Allied air land and sea forces struck three island groups guarding the southern approaches to the Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Trobriand and Woodlark islands were occupied, with landings on New Georgia Rendova Nassau Bay and the coast near Salamaua.
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Rabaul
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Trobriand Islands
Woodlark Island
New Georgia
Rendova Islands
Solomons
Nassau Bay
North New Guinea
Salamaua
Arrow
Air Warfare Sets Record During June
Britain completed a sixth day with no enemy sightings as Mustang and Typhoon sweeps over northern France felled 20 locomotives. The RAF dropped at least 13 500 tons of explosives on German targets in June. American Flying Fortresses hit Le Mans at twilight with no losses, while RAF damaged three German ships off Dunkerque for one plane lost. Thunderbolt escorts claimed at least two enemy fighters down.
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London
Britain
France
le Mans
Dunkerque
England
Paris
U. S. Thunderbolt
Butte War Manpower staff reports strong local response
WMC and U S Employment Service head John J. Hanley say 120 local men and women answered the call for war workers. About one third qualify for nonferrous metals jobs in Butte and Anaconda. others to civil service and railroad posts. Recruiting routes include Dillon Anaconda Deer Lodge and Missoula, with emphasis on staffing copper mines and smelters as precious war production grows.
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Butte
War Man Power Commission
John J. Hanley
Wmc-U. S. Employment Service Office
West
Granite Street
Anaconda
Dillon
Deer Lodge
Missoula
Hanley
Martinique envoy request from Vichy official
Admiral Georges Robert, the Vichy high commissioner of Martinique, asked the United States to send an envoy to fix terms for a change of French authority on Martinique. He said the move aims to avoid bloodshed and requests U S guarantees to maintain French sovereignty and non intervention by American forces.
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New York
Georges Robert
Martinique
United States
Caribbean
Federal Communications Commission
Robert
2 a m Closing Time Starts in Butte
The Montana Liquor Control board ordered Butte liquor bars to close at 2 a m and prohibited sale of intoxicants from 2 to 8 a m. On Sundays, bars must stay closed from 2 a m to 1 p m. The statewide order affects all retail liquor establishments.
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Montana Liquor Control Board
Butte
July Induction List From Silver Bow Selective Service
Silver Bow county Selective Service Board No. 1 announced the July quotas and listed registrants called for induction on Monday, July 5. Report times and addresses accompany each name, including Harold H. Stuehmer Bozeman Hilary J. Nickel Stanley Trethewey James McDonald Clarence Ruedin Leo Miller Lee Johnson Algiers Fordmeir James Allen O Hagan LaPalm Pearce Koivisto Mulholland Kearney Ennesh Harlass Byrnes Mc Continued on Page 2 Col. 4.
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Silver Bow County
Argyle
Clarence L. Ruedin
Lowell
Leo J. Miller
Grand
Lee M. Johnson
South Gaylord
Algiers L. Fordmeir
James R. Allen
Butte
Joseph S. O'Hagan
East Broadway
John P. LaPalm
Howard
William B. Pearce, Jr
Wing
Sulo C. Koivisto
Washington, D. C
Thomas A. Mulholland
Schley
Eugene J. Kearney
Steve Ennesh
Nevada
Edward G. Harlass
Tacoma
Joseph Byrnes
Seattle
John Mc
Five Branches of Armed Services in Butte July Fourth Parade
Major Barry O Leary announces the Army Navy Marine Corps WAAC and Women s Marine Reserv es will march at the head of the Fourth of July procession in Butte. Color guards and bluejacket detachments will follow with officers leading from mounted positions and city employees marching with flags. Legion members meet for final parade planning.
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Armed Services
Butte
Barry O'Leary
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
WAAC
Marine
Ree
R. J E. Smith
Montana Army Recruiting and Induction Station
Joyce Burton
Montana
Laura E. Mack
J. S. Skinner
Gray P. Minor
Silver Bow Post No. 1
American Legion
Legion Hall
Five War Bills Drift In Budget Gridlock
Congress left five major appropriation bills unresolved as the new fiscal year began. The Senate passed a 2.93 billion war agencies measure, trimming 5 million from the War Relocation Authority fund. The Army fund of 71.5 billion was sent to the White House, while conferees worked on farm, labor security, interior, and urgent deficiency bills.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
War Relocation Authority
WRA
House
Labor department-Federal Security Agency
Interior Department
White House
Office of War Information
OWI
Wheeler says OPA to study meat situation in Butte
Senator Wheeler of Montana says the Office of Price Administration will send an agent to Butte to survey the local meat situation. He has sought a higher meat allowance for copper miners and reports Price Administrator Brown will dispatch a San Francisco labor representative to conduct the survey, with action expected after the report.
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Wheeler
OPA
Butte
Washington
D.-Mont
Office of Price Administration
Butte, Mont
Brown
San Franciso
Allied Convoy and Landing Barges Enter Mediterranean
Spanish dispatches report 24 Allied merchant ships and many invasion barges heavily loaded with guns trucks and men entering the Mediterranean from Gibraltar. Rommel commands 350 000 troops in Lyon as a third European defense line. From Cairo three Nazi divisions move to Greece from the eastern front. Madrid says the invasion barges left Gibraltar around noon followed by the convoy.
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London
U.P
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Erwin Rommel
Lyon
Europe
Cairo
Greece
la Linea
Madrid
Motorists Rush To Renew War Time Ration Books In Butte
Butte motorists queued at the Silver Bow county ration board as hundreds filed renewal applications for basic A mileage rations. The board urged returns by week end to issue the second book by July 22, with more than 8,000 applications already processed. Stamps N P Q become valid Thursday for canned goods and coffee, through August 7, while stamps K L M remain valid until July 7. Stamp 24 for coffee in war book No 1 expires tonight, followed by stamp 21 through July 21. A chart detailing current coupons and expiration dates appears on page two.
Krupa Convicted of Narcotics Charge
San Francisco report: Gene Krupa found guilty by a nine man and three woman jury of using a minor to transport narcotics. Deliberation lasted two hours five minutes. Potential sentence ranges from one to six years in San Quentin for possessing marijuana cigarettes.
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San Francisco
U.P
Gene Krupa
Rug-Cutters
Superior Court
San Quentin Prison
John Pateakos
British Bombers Hit Messina Ferry Links to Sicily
Allied air forces report major raids on the Messina ferry terminal and Calabria rail facilities in Sicily’s isolation effort. Wellington aircraft from North West Africa and Middle East bombers targeted Messina and Reggio Calabria as part of a coordinated strike.
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North Africa
North African
Middle East
Sicily
Cairo
Messina
U. S
Straits of
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Suez
Alexandria
England
Cape
Messina Strait
Wellington
Northwest Africa
Milar
Reggio Calabria
Deserters From German Front Held in Norwegian Camps
Between 1,200 and 1,500 German deserters from the northern front are imprisoned in camps in Norway. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency said shooting deserters was abandoned by the Nazi high command as the deserters became too numerous.
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London
Norway
Norwegian Telegraph Agency
MacArthur directs Allied air land and sea action in SW Pacific
Allied forces under General Douglas MacArthur launched combined operations against three island groups near Rabaul in New Britain and landed at Nassau bay near Salamaua. Trobriand and Woodlark islands were taken with no opposition, while New Georgia Rendova and combat at Nassau bay continued. The operations, coordinated under the Southwest Pacific supreme command, mark the first major combined strike in the theater.
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Brydon C. Taves
Australia
U.P
Southwest
South Pacific
Douglas M Arthur
Gro
Japar
Rabaul
New Britain Island
Trobriand Islands
Woodlark Island
New Georgia
Rendova Islands
Solomons
MacArthur
Nassau Bay
Rendova
New Georgia Islands
Southwest Pacific
Washington
Navy Department
United States
Rendova Island
Congress Bans Subsidy Use to Cut Retail Food Prices
Congress barred subsidies aimed at lowering retail food prices and extended the Commodity Credit Corporation for two more years while boosting its lending authority by 750 million. The measure passed 160 to 32 in the House and 62 to 13 in the Senate, with potential presidential veto concerns. It aims to curb inflation without subsidies and may halt farm lending programs if vetoed.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate
House
No Action to Be Taken on City County Sewer Dispute
The city council meeting announced no immediate action on closing cross city county sewer connections. Mayor Barry O Leary said the county has extra time to meet its 1943 rental payment after a July 1938 agreement allowed county sewers to join the city disposal system for 4500 dollars annually.
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Barry O'Leary
Mountain View Cemetery
Butte
Long Expected Offensive Lands on Rendova Island
American forces launched a long awaited campaign and landed on Rendova in the Solomons as Navy announced. Admiral Halsey directs air, land and sea forces toward Munda New Georgia as fighting looms and official details remain scarce.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Japan
Pacific
Rendova Island
Solomons
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
Rendova
William F. Halsey
Halsey
U. S
New Georgia
Four British Time Bombs Reported in Cologne Cathedral
The Berlin radio broadcast from Cologne reported NBC recorded that four large British time bombs remain buried in Cologne Cathedral. It said precautions are in place to minimize damage when they detonate.
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Cologne
New York
Berlin Radio
NBC
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Yankees
Bismarck Archipelago
New Ireland
Greenwich
Guadalcanal
Perronal
Elas
San Cristobal
WMC
Board One
Krupa
Gen. MacArthur
Trobriand
Woodlark Islands
New Guinea
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