Defense tax rise and ROTG move dominate House actions
The House Ways and Means Committee boosted the defense tax bill to about 1 billion dollars annually and approved raising the national debt limit to 49 billion. President Roosevelt seeks authority to mobilize the National Guard if needed, with guards serving domestically while regulars move to emergency fronts.
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House
Washington
Roosevelt
Ways and Means
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Puerto Rico
Filing Deadline Nears for State and County Posts
State and federal nominating petitions must be on file by midnight tonight as 92 candidates compete in Helena for 15 federal and state offices and Silver Bow county races intensify. County petitions are due by June 15 with the primary set for July 16, and the secretary of state will stay open 10 p.m. to midnight for late filers.
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Helena
Silver Bowl County
Sam W. Mitchell
Addis A. McGrath
Montana
United States
U. S
State Supreme Court
Two Men Die In California Gun Affray
In San Leandro a liquor store dispute ended in a double gun murder. Joe Pellerini and A O Ormond died after a close range exchange with a .38 revolver and a .38 automatic. Money and two weapons lay on the floor, with authorities noting possible revenge over accounts.
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San Leandro
Calif
U.P
Mary Costa
Pellerini
Miss Costa
Ormond
Blake Building
Oakland
Joe Pellerini
East Butte Road to Be Lighted with 21 or More Lamps
Specifications for lighting two overpasses and a bridge on the new East Butte road will be completed today and sent to Helena. 21 or 22 incandescent lights of 6000 lumens each will be installed to fully illuminate the project. The state highway department will install lights with the county road department maintaining them at about 550 dollars yearly. Specifications are being drawn by Montana Power Company officials state highway engineers and County Surveyor Jack Healy. The new road will provide a safer route to Columbia Gardens and the eastern suburb and should be ready in seven to eight weeks.
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East Butte Road
State Highway Department
Helena
Jack Healy
Montana Power Company
Healy
Columbia Gardens
Five Die as Nebraskan Flood Swamps Omaha Creek Valley
A cloudburst triggers a wall of water across northeastern Nebraska wrecking towns along Omaha Creek and the Missouri, inundating 100000 acres. Five killed and seven missing believed drowned. Winnebago Indian Reservation submerged with four dead and five missing. Communications crippled as rivers overflowed after days of heavy rain.
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Homer, Neb
Omaha Creek
Nebraska
Missouri River
Winnebago
Red Cross Relief Drive Surpasses Goal in Butte Chapter
Butte’s Red Cross chapter the state’s largest continued leading the relief effort with funds rising to 11314 47. The drive keeps the headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce open as long as contributions arrive. Rotary Kiwanis Veterans of Foreign Wars Lions and other groups finalize districts while American Legion Active club and Exchange club await reports.
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Butte
Red Cross
J. D. Newman
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs
Kiwanis Club
Clark Veatch
Archie Adams
al Lautman
Herman Dover
Matt Christy
August Grunert
John Hauck
Edgar Strasberger
Rotary
Eugene Savage
Rev
F. B. Logee
Gene Kallgren
Lowell Johnson
Ray Ruhle Jr
William Cregg
John Maris
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lions Club
American Legion
Active Club
Exchange Club
H. A. Kenck
The
American le
Dillon Readies Montana Women's Conclave Opening
Mrs. H. B. Mussigbrod of Wisdom, president of the Montana Federation of Women's Clubs, met with Dillon hostess group to finalize plans for the state federation meeting at Dillon Thursday through Saturday. More than 390 visitors are expected, with registration at the Montana State Normal College auditorium.
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Dillon
Mussigbrod
Wisdom
Montana Federation of Women's Clubs
Dillon Shakespeare Club
State Federation
Montana State Normal College
Montana Forecast: Partly Cloudy Wednesday and Thursday
Partly cloudy skies are expected in Montana on Wednesday and Thursday with little change in temperatures. The outlook calls for modest variation and no significant precipitation.
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Montana
Exiled Thyssen Sees Nazi Defeat Despite Early Gains
Fritz Thyssen, exiled German steel magnate who funded Hitler, says Germany will be defeated despite initial successes. He cites lack of industrial prep, blames Hitler for reckless war and sidelining experts, warns of Bolshevism risk, and predicts Hitler’s fall once betrayed by the people becomes clear.
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New York
Fritz Thyssen
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Thyssen
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Hitler
Reichstag
Churchill pledges help from the new world as war extends
London reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares rescue of 335000 Allied troops from Flanders and vows Britain will fight on even if Germany overruns the Isles until the new world comes to the rescue of the old. He notes no direct US reference but signals grim wartime resolve.
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London
U.S
Winston Churchill
Flanders
Britain
Germany
British Isles
Churchill
United States
Churchill Statement Praised as Guarantee to U S
Winston Churchill said Britain will not surrender its fleet and would keep fighting from Canada if necessary. Senators Pittman Pepper Norris termed the pledge a substantial guarantee against a Nazi attack on the western hemisphere and urged continued U S defense meanwhile.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
England
Western Hemisphere
Pittman
D.-Nev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Churchill
British Isles
Hitler
Canada
United States
Nye
R.-N.d
Pepper
D.-Fla
Europe
Senator Norris
Trigger Man in Murder Ring Declared Insane
Albert Ives 21 known as trigger man in a holdup gang was found insane at the time of the murder of Robert Sherrad 19. Co-defendants Mrs Juanita Spinelli Gordon Hawkins 21 and Mike Simeone 32 were convicted of first degree murder with Hawkins and Simeone sentenced to death at San Quentin. Spinelli withdrew plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and faces Friday sentencing.
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Sacramento
Cal
Albert Ives
Robert Sherrad
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