Planes Spread Chaos Among German Troops
Allied air forces pounded rail targets from the Loire valley to Normandy. Mosquito squadrons harassed reinforcements and supplies, destroying trains and rail hubs while Lancaster bombers struck a six ton block at Saumur. U S Ninth Air Force engineers laid the first D day emergency landing strip by sundown.
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Pontabault
Loire River
Normandy
Pontaubault
Selune
Rennes-Cherbourg
Fougeres
Oke
Bomber Command
Saumur
Tours
U. S
D-day
U. S. Ninth Air Force
France
U.S
Record Wheat Crop Seen This Year
The agricultural department forecast a record wheat crop despite a late start from unfavorable spring weather. It projects total wheat production around 1,084,785,000 bushels, higher than the 1915 record of 1,008,637,000, with other grain forecasts including oats 1,193,410,000 bushels, rye 31,608,000, corn 299,533,000, and barley 246,000,000.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Barney
Senate Extends Price Wage Stabilization Act to 1945
The Senate approved the bill extending the price and wage stabilization act to December 31, 1945. The Bankhead amendment directing OPA to adjust cotton textile ceilings to raise raw cotton prices was approved 39 to 36 before sending the measure to the House.
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Washington
Senate
House
Bankhead
OPA
Fifth Army Advances in Italy Near Lazio Front
Allied forces push north of Lake Bolsena and seize Tarquinia area while forcing German retreat toward the Rimini Florence Pisa corridor. Viterbo gains and nearby lake regions seen as under Allied pressure with towns like Vetralla Caprarola Vejano and Bracciano on the advance. Eighth Army rocks Montereotondo and Polombara Sabina as Rome highway five route strengthens eastward push.
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Lake Bolsena
Viterbo
Rimini
Florence- Pisa
Tiber River
Lake Vico
Rome
Berlin
Tarquinia
No. 1
Civitavecchia
Mark W. Clark
Lazio
Lake Bracciano
Vetralla
Caprarola
Vejano
Eighth
Monterotondo
Polombara Sabina
Adriatic
Japanese Attache Killed in Rome by Italian Partisans
The French Morocco radio said on Saturday that the Japanese naval attache to Mussolini's regime in Italy was assassinated by Italian partisans. It cited Milan as the source of the information.
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London
Morocco
Mussolini
Italy
Milan
German Cars in Use by U.S. Troops in Normandy
A Berlin broadcast said American troops in Normandy were using German cars captured in Tunisia. The cars were transported by gliders and stationed near Carentan.
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London
Berlin
Normandy
Tunisia
Carentan
Shocking Evidence of Death and Destruction Dominates Normandy Beach
AP reporting from Normandy Beach describes vast wreckage and casualties as Allied forces push inland. Soldiers advance beyond the initial shorehead while combat persists and supplies flood in under strong air cover amid ongoing demolition of underwater obstructions.
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Normandy
France
Allies gain ground around Cherbourg as heavy fighting roars
Allied forces pushed inland along a 100 mile battle line toward Cherbourg with Canadian, British, and Polish units advancing near Caen and Bayeux. German counter-attacks were contained as air support waned due to foul weather and naval gunfire shelled shore positions. Bradley went ashore to direct operations while airborne troops disrupted German defenses and glider troops kept pressure on coastal strongpoints.
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Dover
Supreme Headquarters
Carentan-Cherbourg
Caen
Ste. Marie Eglise
Valognes
Cherbourg
Valognes-Ste. Marie Eglise
Berlin
Stockholm
Carentan
Bradley
Omar N. Bradley
Bayeux
Dominion
Britain
Luftwaffe
Archduchess Maria Josepha Dies in Bavaria Castle
German radio reports Archduchess Maria Josepha mother of the late Emperor Karl of Austria died at a castle by Lake Starnberg Bavaria at age 77. Death date not announced.
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London
Maria Josepha of
Hapsburg
Emperor Karl of Austria
Lake Starnberg
Bavaria
Butte Man Heads Royal Arch Masons
Montana's grand chapter elected new officers for the coming year and conferred priesthood on candidates. Ray Vaughn Denslow of Missouri greeted the gathering. John S. Carkeet of Butte was chosen grand high priest, with Sterley Miller Glendive and others elected to key posts as the Knights Templar commandery met Saturday.
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Missoula
Montana
Royal Arch Masons
Ray Vaughn Denslow
Missouri
Order
United States
Johns. Carkeet
Butte
Frank E. van Demark
Cut Bank
Sterley Miller
Glendive
Grand King
Fred Brown
Bozeman
Grand Scribe
John S. Harrison
Helena
Luther T. Hauberg
Ralph Lodge
Earl Bardwell
Great Falls
Edwin Grafton
Grand Royal Arch
Alvin Lister
Third Veil
Ira Stam
Havre
Asa Wood
Libby
Herbert Lange
Grand Sentinel
Knights Templar
Democrats Will Dine Tonight at State Dinner
O'Connell announced a Democratic dinner to host candidates and party officials with Arthur Lamey as toastmaster. Key speakers include Lester Loble of Helena, with Mrs. W. W. Hamilton attending from Dodson. Miss Margaret Nagle chairs arrangements as local committee members prepare decorations.
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O’connell
Arthur F. Lamey
Billings
W. W. Hamilton
Dodson
Lester Loble
Helena
Judge McNamara
Margaret Nagle
W. J. Walsh
Paul Cannon
Tom McGarry
Selwyn West
Marguerite Montgomery
Stella Begovich
Kate Rockefeller
Jean Patterson
John Dudley
A. E. Anderson
Harry Mitchell
W. T. Ballard
Life of a Correspondent in France Amid Nazi Sniper Fire
Advanced Allied headquarters in France reports a correspondent recounting life under fire near a French chateau. He describes a silent manhunt in rose gardens, sniper bullets, battles on a beach, and shelter in trenches and armored cars as German snipers harass the advancing forces. The piece ends with a sergeant's terse claim of capturing a sniper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
France
Chateau
America
Hokay
Yank
Miners Day Baseball Game Set In Butte Copper League
The Miners Union faces McQueen Addition in a late afternoon baseball game that may draw a large Copper League crowd. Cash prizes include 10 and 5 dollars for first and second among unions by family size, with several novelty events and races listed in the OWS sports program. If rain delays, events move to a later date. The note adds a non sequitur about the hippopotamus as the largest aquatic hoofed animal.
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Miners Union
McQueen
Butte Copper League
OWS
Allies Destroy Two Destroyers In Channel Invasion Fighting
Allied forces reported sinking one German destroyer and driving off another unit near the Cherbourg peninsula as dawn broke on invasion beaches. British cruisers Belfast and Frobisher, aided by air spotters, inflicted heavy damage on enemy batteries and ammo dumps while a U S destroyer was lost after a German inland battery hit its hull before it could retreat.
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Salerno
Dwight D. Eisenower
France
Cotentin
Cherbourg
Caen
Bayeux
Berlin
Isle de Bas
Don Pardee Moon
U. S. Navy
Isles de St. Marcouf
Pointe de Barfleur
Belfast
Frobisher
Roosevelt
U. S
Refugees Stream Out of Europe
President Roosevelt announced that 1,000 refugees will be brought to Fort Ontario near Oswego New York to be housed. He noted 1,300 refugees reached southern Italy last week from Yugoslavia and said Mediterranean havens can care for 20,000 with plans to expand to 40,000. The move is described as a token of U.S. willingness to help.
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Washington
Europe
Roosevelt
Fort Ontario
Oswego
N. Y
Italy
Yugo Slavia
Casablanca
Mediterranean
United States
Helena war plants plan postwar conversion meetings
A. H. Campbell of the Smaller War Plants corporation will lead postwar planning sessions in Helena Great Falls Billings and Butte to convert Montana's smaller war plants to peace time production. Clyde H. Potter says conferences aim to minimize disruption as government contracts end and new termination policies take effect. Campbell will visit Helena Tuesday afternoon Great Falls Wednesday Billings Wednesday evening and possibly Thursday and in Butte Thursday evening and Friday.
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Helena
A. H. Campbell
War Plants Corporation
Great Falls
Billings
Butte
Montana
Clyde H. Potter
SWPC
Potter
Washington
Idaho Firm Purchases Great Falls Paris Fligman Store
Fred A. Fligman announced the sale of the Paris Fligman company to C. C. Anderson Co. of Boise for about 1.75 million dollars. The Boise firm, an Allied Stores subsidiary, will take over August 1 and operate 26 stores across Idaho and neighboring states. The deal includes all merchandise, accounts, and a 20 year lease on the building. The store, founded in 1894 by Samuel B. Singer and Fligman, becomes the first Montana venture for the new owners.
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Great Falls
Paris Fligman Company
Montana
Fred A. Fligman
C. C. Anderson Co
Boise
Idaho
Allied Stores Corp
New York City
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Utah
South Dakota
Ezra B. Hinsha
Paris
Paris Fligman
Samuel 8S. Singer
Fligman
May Shipping Losses Are Lowest of War
Allied shipping losses from U-boat action in May were by far the lowest for any month of the war. A lull in German submarine activity may signal preparations for a renewed offensive. Several U-boats are being sunk for each merchant ship destroyed, reversing earlier losses.
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Washington
Beck apologizes for unauthorized eight day taxi strike
Dave Beck, international vice president of the Teamsters union, ordered Portland taxicab drivers to meet contractual obligations and apologized to drivers' employers and the Portland public for the eight day strike that ended Friday.
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Seattle
U.P
Dave Beck
Teamsters’ Union
Portland
Chicago painter guilty of treason in harboring Nazi spy son
Hans Max Haupt of Chicago was found guilty of treason for harboring his son Herbert who was later executed as a Nazi spy. The case underscores wartime risks in civilian life as authorities pursued collaborators and informants in the city.
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Chicago
U.R
Hans Max Haupt
Herbert
Higher Education Seeks Tighter State System and Finance
A Montana committee urged a more closely knit higher education system with centralized financing. Proposals target unifying the Greater University, reducing the Board of Education to six with six year terms, and creating executive heads, unit boards, and a lump sum appropriation for six institutions. The plan requires constitutional changes and resists federal aid that would surrender state control.
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Helena
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Sam C. Ford
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Montana
Fighting Sports in Old Poland
Soviet reports from Tarnopol in Old Poland describe German infantry entering a populated area Friday but being driven out by strong Soviet counterattacks that destroyed 10 German tanks and two self propelled guns. Another Soviet thrust north of Iasi in Romania claimed to wipe out over a company of enemy and the front remained relatively quiet elsewhere.
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London
Tarnopol
Poland
Moscow
Red Army
Europe
Iasi
Romania
Stanislawow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Hitler
Berlin
Tasi
Retail and Labor Unite for Fifth War Loan Pep Rally
J 8 Cohen endorses a Montana theater rally at 9 am Monday to mobilize over 600 retail clerks and employees for war bonds. A city wide labor committee led by John R Crawford coordinates union support and pledges cooperation with business and professional groups to meet Silver Bow county quotas.
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Ben A. Myers
Ed Marans
R. D. Callahan
C. R. Mench
Emil Marans
Olaf Hansen
Boris Gershowsky
J. 8. Cohen
Montana
John R. Crawford
Dave Reese
Harry J. Grimes
James Quill
Walter Crase
L. D. Everett
John E. Cavanaugh
Henry V
William Mason
Clarence Blewett
Fred Searle
Stephen J. Harvey
Oscar Hills
Ed C. Vawter
John McLeod
L. H. Bradley
Dan Holland
J. J. Harrington
Elsie Whitehead
John O’elizale
R. M. Evans
Mary McNelis
Bridget Shea
Newell Evans
Paul Fall
Silver Bow County
United States
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Butte Man Heads
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Treasure State News
Old Poland
By Russell Landstrom
FUR Shop
Mercenans
West Park
James Lunney
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