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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
2
OPA announces a national drive against home canning sugar frauds. Local ration boards may suspend home canning sugar issuances to review applications, as Bowles warns that chiseling harms wartime supplies. He cites a 37 percent cut in average family rations and a 40 percent cut for legitimate home canners, noting impact on small bakers and essential wartime producers.
Five year old George Gregor narrowly foiled a prison breakout at Western penitentiary. convicts dug a 32 foot tunnel from the laundry to within two feet of the exterior surface before the child’s stumble exposed the exit. An investigation found unidentified prisoners used improvised picks and shovels to dig the tunnel.
San Francisco report says a two-engined Army plane carrying four men vanished after taking off from Hammer Field Fresno at 9 49 p m Wednesday on a one hour flight to San Francisco Fourth Air Force listed the craft missing Thursday.
The Sixth War Loan campaign reports strong statewide effort led by war bond volunteers. Montana topped E bond totals and quotas, with Silver Bow County highlighting sales amid praise for clerks Enid Sparks and May Vanderloos. Local booths list groups and stores contributing, including Hennessys, Penneys, Woolworths, Safeway, Shiners, and area druggists. The Serbian Sisters group plans a costume program to boost sales. The note closes with a surprising line about the world’s largest sea animals, whales.
News from Beirut and Paris recounts French cease fire amid British demand for withdrawal. Churchill orders intervention to prevent bloodshed, with Eden reading a note to De Gaulle. U.S. notes warn against coercive French policy and lend-lease use in Syria and Lebanon.
General MacArthur announces operations against Japanese troops in the Philippines. American planes drop 204 tons of bombs in support as Mindanao drives push toward Malaybalay and Davao. In Formosa, 160 heavy bombers join 520 tons of blasts. Keelung and Takao targeted along coasts.
Former Iowa senator Guy M. Gillette resigned as chairman of the Surplus Property Board after a meeting with President Truman. He said the role was meant to be temporary and that the President did not act on the resignation immediately. Gillette reported no definite plans for the future.
The War Production Board on May 31 lifted farm machinery production limits earlier than planned. Restrictions ending July 1 were removed to boost 1945 output by about 30 percent. Manufacturers may use existing materials and any obtainable without WPB aid to exceed quotas.
The Eighth Air Force will add B-29 Superfortresses to its power against Japan under Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle. Gen. H. H. Arnold announced the move, with Arnold likely retaining control of the B-29s. Three B-29 formations will operate, joining the 20th and 21st bomber commands already in the area.
Victor C. Rice, 338 East Broad Way, died Thursday evening after being found ill at his residence and rushed to the hospital. Coroner Richard Rogers ruled natural causes. A Missouri native, Rice worked as a miner and is survived by a sister, Mrs. L. G. Barcus of Kansas City Kansas. Body at Duggan's Merrill Mortuary.
Chinese forces report capture of Ishan area near Liuchow while presses push on Pinyang. Northeast of Ishan near the Kwangsi-Kweiyang railway, Japanese withdrawal noted from Chongon. Wedemeyer cites a few prisoners and a discouraged view Japan may have lost the war. Further east Chinese troops advance beyond Ningteh toward Foochow, crossing the Kiao river.
London, May 31. The admiralty announced that 730 vessels of the Royal Navy were sunk or destroyed during the European war, including five capital ships and eight aircraft carriers.
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