British Air and Sea Defenders Smash at Nazis
Foreign ministers of the American republics push measures to stamp out fifth column activity by foreign diplomatic agents. The Pan American Peace Preservation Committee explores limiting immunity and investigating consular agents while Cuba proposes a collective trusteeship over Western colonies and warning declarations against hostile encroachments.
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Havana
Peace Preservation Committee
Cordell Hull
Cuba
United States
Washington
Anti Third Term Forces Mobilize Across Fronts
Washington July 24 anti third term forces mobilize on many fronts with no sign of a Democratic bolt from Roosevelt Wallace. Senator Edward R Burke Nebraska plans a non partisan national organization independent of Wilkie or Roosevelt clubs to lure dissident Democrats to Willkie.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Edward R. Burke
D-Neb
Wilkies
Men with dependents assured no peacetime draft
Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd testified before the House military committee that men with dependents would not be drafted for peacetime military training under the Burke-Wadsworth bill. He noted a deferred classification for those essential to industry as the Senate committee approved revisions, and the Senate panel moved toward exemptions for conscientious objectors.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
William E. Shedd
House Military Committee
Senate
Shedd
Chronopolous Freed From State Prison After Clemency
Theodore Chronopolous, once condemned for the Butte slaying of Sylvester Prew, was discharged from Deer Lodge prison after the state board of pardons approved a commutation urged by Gov. Roy E. Ayers. The terms require him to forever leave the state. Continued on Page 3, Col. 7.
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Theodore Chronopolous
Butte
Joseph M. Dixon
State
Deer Lodge
State Board of Pardons
Chrono
Polous
Roy E. Ayers
Chronopolous
Sylvester Prew
Butte Eagles Lodge
City approves preliminary budget for 1940 41
City council adopts a preliminary budget of 835 thousand eight hundred fourteen dollars and 74 cents for next year, higher than last year’s spending but below departments' 1940 41 requests. Final budget and tax levies set August 12 with possible changes and page 2 continuation.
Bandit Jailed After Buying Victim Drink
A holdup man who used the victim's money to buy a drink at gunpoint was arrested late last night by Police Officers George Tomkins and Tom Calpin. The suspect Lloyd Smith, about 24, gave that name when booked as a holdup man. Victim Irving Levin, 24, identified the suspect.
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George Tomkins
Tom Calpin
Lloyd Smith
Irving Levin
Inter
Weather forecast for Montana fair and warm days
The forecast calls for general fair weather in Montana on Thursday and Friday. Temperatures are expected to rise with a warmer spell on Thursday across the Divide region.
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Montana
Divide
Butte Leads Field in State Golf Tourney Opener
Miss Sue Jeanne Gronley, a 15 year old Butte schoolgirl, captured medalist honors with an 82 in the opening women's qualifying round of the state golf tournament at the Butte Country Club. Eddie Collins of Livingston scored a hole in one on the 165 yard seventh while nearly 200 men begin qualifying rounds for the men's championship. Finals set for Sunday as dawn patrol stars tee off at 5 am and a second 18 hole round will cut to 16 in each flight.
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Sue Jeanne Gronley
Miss Gronley
Butte High School
June
Butte
Butte Country Club
Miss Granley
Eddie Collins
Livingston
Collins
Montana
Dawn Patrol
Trial Set for Former Sheriff Weir in Tax Evasion Case
Trial of Larry Weir former sheriff of Silver Bow county is scheduled for August 5 opening day of federal court in Helena A 60 member jury panel was ordered and all criminal pleas and arraignments in the local federal court will be heard that day Weir faces income tax evasion charges after a June indictment and has been free on a 5000 bond The heat wave reaching a new crest with eight days of extreme temperatures continued to drive up deaths to 286 including 100 heat fatalities and 186 drownings across prairie states
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Larry Weir
Silver Bow County
Helena
James H. Baldwin
Weir
Lewis A. Brown
U. S
Liberty
Preas
Midwest
Prairie States
Murder charge filed in Great Falls beer parlor killing
Ed Martell aged 82 was charged with first degree murder in the death of Dave Jenkins who died from a gunshot wound received last Wednesday in a Great Falls beer parlor. Bond was set at 5900. A coroner's jury found him responsible. arraignment not yet scheduled with possible insanity plea and sanity hearing.
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Great Falls
Ed Martell
Dave Jenkins
Martell
Jenkins
Nazi figures said in German custody over Munich bomb plot
Berlin dispatch reports Otto Strasser and Herschel Grynszpan have fallen into Nazi hands in Paris. Grynszpan awaits trial for killing diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris. Hermann Rauschning is said to have escaped to London.
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Munich
Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Otto Strasser
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Herschel Grynszpan
Germany
Paris
France
Grynszpan
la Santa
Ernst Vom Rath
Hermann Rauschning
London
Butte Youth Passes Naval Academy Entrance Exam
A Butte, Montana youth has passed the required mental and physical exams for entrance to the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Jack Ward of 632 South Clark street and left by air a week ago after a successful preliminary test and senatorial appointment. Ward, a 1939 Butte High School graduate, attended Montana School of Mines last year and was prominent in athletics.
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U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Butte
Jack Ward
South
Clark Street
Ward
Butte High School
Montana School of Mines
Forces Massed Around Britain Are Attacked
German raids against English ports and sea lanes cost the Nazis several aircraft as British Spitfires and anti aircraft guns drove off dive bombers. American made Chance Vought 156 planes were identified in the German formations and at least two raiders were shot down. The air ministry touted a “Spitfire day” as it battled Dornier Heinkel Junkers and Messerschmitt bombers and fighters from dawn into evening.
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London
England
North Sea
British
Air Ministry
Britain
France
State grain prospects cut by heat
A blazing heat wave across Montana worsened drought, trimming spring grain prospects per the Agricultural Marketing Service and Weather Bureau. Eastern Montana saw record temperatures as water supplies dwindled. harvesting of winter wheat is underway while oats and barley begin. Progress of spring grains varied through the week across regions.
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Helena
Montana
Agricultural Marketing Service
Weather Bureau
Nazi Propaganda High as Britain War Drums Grow
Berlin reports intensified German propaganda aimed at Britain as bombers raid England. The Luftwaffe claims heavy shipping losses for Britain and destroys multiple naval vessels while radio broadcasts denounce Britain’s leaders as vermin and criminals. Dutch casualties are cited from Amersfoort amid ongoing air clashes.
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Holland
Amersfort
Amsterdam
Germany
High Command
England
Canada
Lord Halifax
Back
Poland
Reynaud
Paul Reynaud
France
London Times
Willkie Praises Roosevelt While Attacks Rise
Wendell L. Willkie mingled with crowds at a frontier celebration in Salt Lake City and told reporters Roosevelt has climbed only slightly from the lofty pedestal. He cited Democratic defections and said anti Roosevelt groups grow fast with Willkie clubs led by Oren Root Jr. and Russell M. Davenport. Alabama Democrats under Mabel Jones West back his campaign as parades and rodeos shadowed the day.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
John W. Hanes
The
Treas
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J. C. Stark
Butte Girl
Weather Forecast
Mio Gronley
Ruth G. Lease
Leah FE. Afflerbaugh
Billings
F. B. Ross
Kalispell
Fred Young
Harriet Nash
C. A. Champ
M. F. Thompson
Missoula Country Club
A. B. Foutz
Bullitt
William C. Bullitt
New York
Chicago
Mil
Falls
Nazi Party
Hitler
Black Front
Gregor
Fuehrer
Strasser
Gorham Ward
Merce
Willkie
G.O. P
Salt Lake
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