New Exchange of Messages Between Roosevelt and Mussolini Is Reported
A major German air raid struck southern France with at least 46 deaths and about 100 injuries as 56 raiders were claimed destroyed or damaged. The raid hit Lyon region and Marseille harbor, with ships sunk and several towns suffering casualties.
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Italian War Moves Intensify as Roosevelts and Mussolini Exchange Courteous Messages
In Rome on June 1 diplomats note a new exchange of courteous messages between President Roosevelt and Premier Mussolini amid escalating Italian war preparations near the French border. The Fascist council urges breaking the foreign stranglehold and asserts Italy's readiness for any test, while Britain pushes sanctions over Ethiopia.
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Marshall urges granting Roosevelt request for National Guard duty
General George C. Marshall defended the President's bid to mobilize the National Guard amid Congress opposition. He warned that dangerous developments in this hemisphere require troops trained and ready, to avoid stripping the United States of ready ground forces. Senator Minton speculated the move could involve occupying British, French and Dutch possessions.
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Governor Ayers to Deliver State of the State Address
Gov Rov E. Ayres will give a radio address from Helena on Sunday at 3 30 p m. The topic is The State of the State and the broadcast will originate there for stations across the state.
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Solon Urges Reds and Nazis Outlawed
Representative Dies proposed congressional action to outlaw the Communist party and the German American Bund, with penalties for membership in those groups or their foreign-controlled affiliates. He said the bill would be introduced next week, arguing Moscow and Berlin control these groups. A home defense council under Roosevelt was also suggested to coordinate counter subversive efforts.
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Missing Butte Man Sought Along With Score
Police search wooded country west of Melrose for Paul Score as they issue a broadcast for George Gratzer 26 missing since Thursday from 430 North Main street. Gratzer has a white cap gray shirt gray trousers and work shoes with knuckles scars and a nose scar. Score, 45, a Northern Pacific railroad policeman, vanished May 21 after being seen on the Butte Anaconda highway driving west in a 1935 sedan later found abandoned west of Melrose and possibly fatally hurt or drowned.
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Butte Exceeds Red Cross War Refugee Relief Goal
Butte surpassed its $7,120 quota in an American Red Cross drive raising 8,771 by yesterday. The effort continues through Thursday with excess funds held for the next war relief appeal. Donations include Montana Power Co and staff 1557.15, booths in seven stores 101, Anaconda Copper Mining Co employees 220.50.
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Radio Boycott of Communist Program Urged
A nationwide listeners' boycott against three major network broadcasts of the Communist party national convention was urged today as more than twenty radio stations declined to carry the broadcasts. Thomas Walsh of the Catholic War Veterans called for the boycott as part of the veterans' Americanism program, targeting speeches by Earl Browder. Stations in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta, Syracuse, Rochester, Lincoln, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, and Wichita dropped the programs.
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Ireland Faces Immediate Danger Warns Neutrality Fears
Irish Premier Eamon de Valera told the nation by radio that Ireland faces imminent peril from the European war. He warned neutrality may fail if great powers seek advantage, urged immediate national defense preparations, unity, and voluntary service for armed forces and security units.
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Northern Front Line Flaming Torch Seen From French Warplane
From a nighttime French air view the northern front of France glows like a flaming torch with red city lights and constant fires along the Somme and Aisne lines. Bombs and parachutists have left Cambrai St Quentin Arras Peronne Valenciennes lit by incendiaries.
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Alumni of School of Mines Hold Annual Dinner Party
The Montana School of Mines Alumni association held its thirty fifth annual meeting at the Butte Country club with the full graduating class in attendance for the first time paying initiation fees and dues for one year. Sherman Lang presented Treasurer George Vivian with a covering check as he spoke. Frank Curran, Butte city engineer and 1916 class member, gave the welcome address. Lang described the senior class trip to Juarez, Mexico.
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Renamed Head of Alumni Re-elected Montana School of Mines Leader
AUGUST GRUNERT of Butte and secretary of the Mining Association of Montana was re elected president of the Montana School of Mines Alumni association at the annual dinner meeting last night. It was the first time in the 35 year history of the organization that a president had been returned to office.
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German Claims Sinking Allied Warships Near Dunkerque
Berlin reports that German planes bombarding retreating French and British near Dunkerque claim three Allied warships sunk and eight transports destroyed, along with 40 aircraft downed. The high command says dive-bombers hit four additional warships and 14 transports, many set afire, amid the Flemish campaign's final hours.
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Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus Gather in Butte Dinner
The Fourth Degree assembly hosted 60 visiting members and wives at a Finlen hotel dinner dance. Father E. J. McGowan spoke, with Monsignor J. Willying and others in attendance. A summer conclave was tentatively planned for Anaconda.
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Elmer Harrington
Joe Binney
Rose Ann Conners
Fred Lenz
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Montana Weather Outlook for Sunday and Monday
Partly cloudy Sunday in Montana with cooler conditions in the extreme east. Monday brings fair skies and rising temperatures in the afternoon.
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