Texas Senate Runoff Looms After War of O'Daniel Allred
In Texas the Democratic primary shows Senator W Lee O'Daniel and former Governor James V Allred in a tight race likely to go to a runoff. Moody sits third as returns from the Texas Election Bureau place O'Daniel at 42 percent, Allred 37, and Moody 19 with results lingering into night.
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Dallas
Texas
W. Lee O’daniel
James V. Allred
Texas Election Bureau
O’daniel
Allred
Moody
Coke Stevenson
Formr
Dan Moody
James E
Farmer Jim) Ferguson
Alfred and Moody
Columbus Scene of Exciting Mine Operations
In Columbus Montana miners race to open chrome deposits in the Bear Tooth mountains. Three mines are rapidly linked with railways and mills as thousands work around the clock to extract ore from 9 500 feet high peaks and build mining towns and refined facilities.
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Sigrid Arne Columbus
Mont
Wide World
Montana
Bear Tooth Mountains
Old Mother Earth
American Bombers Target Axis Ports and Bases
American bomber crews conducted seven mission raids in Libya Crete and Bengali over the past week inflicting heavy damage on dock installations and burning several merchant ships one large vessel at Bengali was set aflame by a direct hit. The Sixteenth Air Forces command announced that Liberators participated and that the RAF reported over 80 Axis planes destroyed in recent mass raids.
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Cairo
Tobruk
Libya
Crete
Suda Bay
United States Air Forces Command
Middle East
Lewis H. Brereton
Bengali
Brereton
Desert
Mediterranean
London
Erwin Rommel
el Daba
Plan to Survey Montana Refining Prospects Emerges
A meeting of about 35 Northwest refiners from Montana Idaho Colorado and Utah at the Finlen hotel developed a plan to survey Montana refining possibilities for aviation gasoline and synthetic rubber. Wright Gary directed the meeting with Washington experts and Henry Moyle of Salt Lake City. The survey will be led by the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator in Great Falls with R N Sears attending from Salt Lake City. EM Parkin of Cut Bank heads the synthetic rubber sub committee.
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Montana
Northwest
Idaho
Colorado
Utah
Finlen Hotel
Sata
Wright Gary
United States
Washington, D. C
Henry Moyle
Salt Lake City
Region 4
Northwest States
Great Falls
R. N. Sears
EM. Parkin
Cutbank
Mont
A Soldier May Relax in Portland
SGT. ED CHOUINARD reports Portland offers many service centers for soldiers off duty. The city runs the George E. White Service Center with multiple floors including a dance floor lounge and lunch counter. It plans to house 60 beds for the first arrivals, a rare bedding arrangement for servicemen.
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Portland
George E. White
Salvation Army
Willamette
Refugees Flee in Nazi Purge Across Occupied France
Large scale arrests sweep through German occupied zones as 15 000 to 18 000 refugees are rounded up for transfer to concentration camps in Poland France and Vichy leaders reportedly refuse to cooperate in the purge and recall the German Paris envoy.
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Occupied Zone
London
U.P
Europe
France
Poland
Heinrich Himmler
United Press
Adolf Hitler
Compiegne
Nacy
Paris
Henry Philippe Petain
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Count Fernand de Brinon
Bombers Hit German Targets and Dutch Plant in Daylight Raid
R A F bombers attacked Mannheim and Frankfurt in Germany and a chemical works at Sluiskil in the Netherlands in daylight Saturday. Fighters on offensive sweeps destroyed nine railway locomotives in Belgium, the air ministry announced Saturday night.
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London
Mannheim
Prankfurt
Germany
Sluiskil
Netherlands
Belgium
Air Ministry
Butte Weather Forecast Scattered Showers Sunday
Butte expects scattered showers Sunday with little temperature change. Saturday’s high reaches 82 and low 45 as residents plan weekend activities.
Nelson Says Production Has Tripled In Six Months
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson reported that June output of planes tanks ships guns and ammunition nearly tripled November levels and six months total dwarfed all 1941 production. He warned against undue optimism noting raw material shortages new bottlenecks and the need to sustain steel plate engines and shipyards for continued deliveries.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
The
Nation
Nelson
War Production Board
Fateful July for Russia Tests Allied Resolve
War analyst notes Russia’s dire position as Nazi forces close on the Don and threaten the Caucasus oil and Ukrainian breadbasket. Despite setbacks, the article asserts Russia endured 12 months of disaster and hints at limited prospects for Allied intervention. Continues on Page 10, Col. 3.
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Aes L. Simpson
Acai
Russia
Baltic
Caspian
Don Valley
Caucasus
Don
Moscow
Rostov
Siberia
China
Philippines
Malaya
Dutch Indies
Hitler
Berg pleads innocent to draft evasion charge
Donald H B Berg 24 of Roscoe pleaded innocent in federal court to a second indictment charging failure to report to the Red Lodge draft board for induction. He is free on a $1,000 bond. The judge ruled the case did not justify a jury trial.
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Billings
Donald HB. Berg
Roscoe
Red Lodge
Roy F. Allen
Berg
Charles N. Pray
Great Falls
Montana farmers near victory goals on most crops
Montana farmers and ranchers expect to meet or exceed the state's food for victory goals in most areas. Nine regions were analyzed with milk and sugar beets as the main troublesome crops due to labor and local conditions.
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Helena
Montana
A. H. Kruse
Wheatland
Musselshell
Garfield
Rosebud
Powder River
Golden Valley
Petroleum
Treasure
Custer
Carter Counties
Park
Sweet Grass
Stillwater
Carbon
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Dawson
Fallon
McCone
Prairie
Richland
Wibaux
Area Four
Daniels
Sheridan
Roosevelt
Area Five
Blaine
Phillips
Valley
Cascade
Chouteau
Fergus
Glacier
Judith Basin
Pondera
Teton
Bicycle quotas set for August rationing in U P A
The Office of Price Administration announced an August bicycle quota of 60 000 higher than July figures with Montana listed at 206 quota and a reserve of 72. The report notes a substantial increase in supply limits for the month.
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Washington
U.P
Office of Price Administration
Montana
U S Submarines Sink Six Japanese Vessels In Far East
United States submarines in Japanese waters destroyed five ships and damaged a sixth, including a modern destroyer. The U.S. Navy reports a total of 84 ships sunk or damaged by submarines since the war began, with renewed activity in the Pacific and far eastern theaters.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Navy
Ord
U. S
Pacific
Midway
Aleutian Islands
Far
Aleutians
Army
W. T
Far East
Far Eastern
Navy Department
Mrs. Lundeen Files for Farmer-Labor Senate Nomination
Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, widow of a Minnesota senator, filed Saturday for the Farmer-Labor nomination for the United States Senate, acknowledging the difficulties of campaigning for an office rarely held by women.
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ST. Paul
Ernest Lundeen
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor
United States Senate
Soviets Open Offensive Near Bryansk
Soviet forces launch a Bryansk front offensive drawing German troops away from Rostov and halting crossings around Novocherokassk while battles extend east along the Don. The Rostov defense tightens as Russian attacks threaten the German southern drive.
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Tsimlyansk
Voronezh
Berlin
Rostov
Don River
Caucasus
Don
Volga
Stalingrad
Sea
Moscow
U.P
The
Bryansk
Soviet
Fedor von Bock
Novo-cherokassk
Novocherkassk
Japanese Bomb Townsville and Papua New Guinea Action
Four Japanese planes bombed Townsville Australia causing no damage or casualties amid Allied strikes on the Buna Gona area. Darwin faced a light air raid with two Japanese shot down and one damaged. Townsville hosts 13 000 residents on Halifax Bay about 350 miles south of Australia’s northern tip.
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Australia
U.P
Townsville
Buna-Gona
New Guinea
Darwin
Halifax Bay
Legion Drives Nationwide Phonograph Record Campaign
The American Legion launches a country wide drive starting tomorrow to collect 37 million phonograph records for soldiers in camps. In Butte and Silver Bow county residents are urged to donate unwanted records at a center near the Butte Public Library on West Broadway. Collected records will be shipped to an East non profit to be exchanged for new records from famed American dance bands.
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American Legion
Butte
Silver Bow County
Nion
America
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