Senate panel approves Burke-Wadsworth draft bill
The Senate Military Committee approved a Burke-Wadsworth plan registering 42 million men with 1.5 million drafted in year one starting Oct 1 1940. The bill calls for universal registration 18 to 64 and a one year training for those selected with base pay of 21 dollars monthly.
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Senate Military Committee
South Dakota
Washington
Sheppard
Texas
Senate
W. E. Shedd
War Department
Congress
Shedd
National Guard
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Women Start Competition at Blue Ribbon Classic
The 1940 Blue Ribbon Classic opens at Butte Country Club with women qualifying for 18 holes medal play at 6 30 am today. Nearly 300 entries are expected across men and women as finals are set for Sunday and defending champs await strong challengers.
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Montana State Golf Association
Butte Country Club
State Association
US protests Soviet action against Baltic states
Washington reported that the United States condemned Russia for annihilating Baltic independence as Estonia Latvia and Lithuania moved to join the Soviet Union after Red Army occupation. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said the US would not recognize absorption into the Soviet system and would continue to recognize Baltic ministers as sovereign under duress.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Sumner Welles
Hull
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Baltic
Welles
Baltic Republics
Pan American nations study mandate plan
Havana July 23 The United States proposed that all American republics join in a mandate over European possessions in the western hemisphere to keep sovereignty inviolable until Europe’s war ends or independence is granted Bolivia was reported seeking a transcontinental South American railroad to act in emergencies as an
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Havana
United States
Europe
Bolivia
Willkie Attacks Roosevelt At Frontier Days Rally
Wendell Willkie in Cheyenne and Colorado rodeo settings mocked Roosevelt and warned against Democratic support as he canvassed crowds in Brighton and Greeley. He said there is no indispensable man and warned the nation could follow a totalitarian road if political machines prevail.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wendell L. Willkie
Frontier Days
Roosevelt
Willkie
New Deal
Colorado
Denver Post
Denver
Brighton
Colo
Greeley
United States
Eight and Forty Plans Two Affairs for National Head
Mrs Ellen Lou Warren national head of the American Legion auxiliary Eight and Forty will visit Butte Saturday arriving 8 15 am and leaving 7 pm She will be entertained at a breakfast at the home of Mrs Fred Lehn at 9 am and at a banquet that evening at the Savoy night club Meaderville Committees were announced for the visit.
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Ellen Lou Warren
Washington, D. C
American Legion Auxiliary
Butte
Sidney Bray
Warren
Fred Lehn
Savoy
Meaderville
Bray
Appetite Begins to Win War of Attrition at Alcatraz
San Francisco July 23 Appetite reports indicate a hunger strike by Alcatraz convicts is fading as more than half resume eating meals. Warden James Johnston says no punishment planned and aims to isolate ringleaders while noting some strikers have weakened from hunger.
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Alcatraz
San Francisco
James Johnston
Johnston
Blitzkrieg May Be Directed Against Britain
Nazi Germany warned that weapons will speak as neutral reports from Belgium and Holland hint at an imminent invasion of Britain. Only Hitler and his inner circle know the timing, while Britain rejects his last peace appeal.
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Britain
Associated Press
Nazi Germany
Great Britain
Belgium
Holland
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hiner
Germany
President Roosevelts jab at Willkie backers prompts laughter
President Roosevelt spoke in Hyde Park about Democrats Edward Burke Lewis Douglas John Haines and James Reed aligning with Wendell Willkie. He said the party bolted Burke and teased whether the word bolt fit his offer of support, then smiled as the room roared. The article notes the context of anti third term Democrats and the ongoing political clash.
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N. Y
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Edward R. Burke
Lewis W. Douglas
John W. Haines
James A. Reed
Wendell L. Willkie
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Douglas
Hanes
Reed
Bolt
Willkie
Venomi
U S Pilots Leave for Canada to Join Air Corps
More than a score of Southern California pilots have left for Canada to join the Royal Air Force. Daily more seek to enlist, Capt. E. L. Benway said. Enlistees are not to be sent abroad and will not lose American citizenship.
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Los Angeles
California
Canada
Royal Air Forces
E. L. Benway
Heat Wave Grips Northwest and Midwest With Record Heat
Temperatures soared across Butte and Glendive with 92 and 106 degrees as heat wave conditions persisted. The federal weather bureau forecast generally fair skies and continued warmth today and tomorrow, with gusty winds offering no cooling effect. In Sioux City and Minneapolis readings reached 111 and 103 degrees, while overnight lows hovered around 52 in Butte.
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D. C
Nebraska
Pierre
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Calif
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South Dakota
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
Federal Weather Bureau
Butte
Glendive
Middle West
Sioux City
Minneapolis
Fire Quelled in Butte Chinatown Building
Firefighters extinguished a blaze at the Corner of Mercury and Colorado destroying basement rooms in an old Chinatown lodge at 28 West Mercury. Spectators watched as the fire burned shortly before midnight and fire officials suspected incendiary origin pending investigation.
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Mercury
Colorado
West Mercury
Butte
Chinatown
Fred Martin
Martin
Montana Weather: Generally fair and warm midweek
The forecast calls for Montana to remain generally fair with continued warm temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday. No significant precipitation is expected as high pressure remains overhead.
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Montana
Final honors for Captain Louis Sanders in Helena
Hundreds attend the funeral of Captain Louis Sanders in Helena at Forest Vale cemetery beside his father Colonel Wilbur F. Sanders. Services were at the family home on West Broadway with the Rev. Floyd E. Logee officiating and a guard of honor from the Spanish-American War Veterans. Active pallbearers were uniformed American Legion members A. J. Livingston Hugo A. Kenck James H. Sennett John J. Burke and Dr. Gordon T. MacPherson.
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Louis Peck Sanders
Forest Vale
Helena
Wilbur F. Sanders
Montana
Captain Sanders
Butte
West Broadway
Floyd E. Logee
The
American Legion
A. J. Livingston
Hugo A. Kenck
James H. Sennett
John J. Burke
Gordon T. MacPherson
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