Roosevelt Outlines Postwar Plan For World Peace
President Roosevelt unveiled a postwar framework backed by peaceful nations and an international council to settle disputes. The plan calls for a world organization with a council, an international court, and jointly maintained armed strength for deterrence and, if needed, action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
World Council
United States
Great Britain
Russia
China
State Department
Congress
Ball
R.minn
Real oatmeal boosts growth with protein and energy gains
It proclaims real oatmeal as superior for growth by providing vital protein and energy. The text notes oatmeal is unrationed, offers high protein and vitamin B, and that children prefer Quick Quaker Oats cooked quickly like coffee, encouraging daily serving.
Halsey Named New South Pacific Post As Newton Succeeds
Allied headquarters in the South Pacific announces Adm. William F. Halsey Jr. relinquishes command to Vice Adm. John Henry Newton. Halsey to take a new Pacific role. Newton assumes leadership of the South Pacific force and area. The ceremony formalized the change of command. The report recalls Halsey’s key battles at Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal and Newton’s prior roles in Pacific strategy. Coal formation note appears as an unrelated line about geology.
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Allied
South Pacific
William F. Halsey, Jr
John Henry Newton
Halsey
Pacific
United States Pacific Fleet
Santa Cruz
Guadalcanal
Newton
South Pacific Command
Pacific Areas
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Adml
Ernest King
Atlantic
China
Montana
Patterson
Farm Labor Boost Expected in Montana War Labor Plan
Helena reports a quicker improvement in farm labor as 400 Mexican nationals are due to relieve shortages near Missoula Townsend Great Falls and Chinook. Over 900 German POWs arrive from Bismarck NC to work in Missoula district forests and fields and Italian POWs are already in Billings beet fields. Great Western Sugar manager Lyman Andrews says 65 more Mexican workers will ensure beet growers have ample labor.
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Billings
W. F. Ledbetter
War Food Administration
Missoula
Townsend
Great Falls
Chinook
Bismarck
N. C
Lyman H. Andrews
Great Western Sugar Company
Increased Salvage of Paper Urged
Helena report says James J. Flaherty of Great Falls urged more waste paper collection and reuse of cardboard containers paper bags and wrapping paper to support the state salvage and conservation program.
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Helena
James J. Flaherty
Great Falls
Fund Distribution Allocates 334500 to Montana Schools
Helena report states School Superintendent Elizabeth Ireland announced a $334,500 distribution to state schools. The total average per classroom reaches a record $247 for the year across 4,460 classroom units in Montana.
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Helena
Elizabeth Ireland
Montana
Veteran Montana cattleman dies at 68
Helena Montana suffered the death of John Franklin Six 68 a veteran cattleman who founded a Wolf Creek Dearborn area ranch in 1906 Services are set for Saturday in the Dearborn district with arrangements pending.
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Helena
Montana
John Franklin Six
Wolf Creek
Dearborn
Idaho Primary Vote Tie Shifts as Taylor Leads Clark
From 730 of 845 precincts in Idaho, Glen H. Taylor leads D. Worth Clark 10,282 to 10,267 in the race for the U S senatorial nomination. The margin stands at 15 votes in Taylor’s favor as results trickle in.
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Boise
Idaho
U.P
Sen
D. Worth
Clark
Glen H. Taylor
Pocatello
U. S
Taylor
German Elite Soldiers Dead in Carentan Combat
War correspondent reports German SS troops killed around Carentan as U S burial squads recovered fallen soldiers. He notes intense fighting by machine guns and armor, with villagers seeking shelter and defences collapsing before Allied advance.
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U.P
Carentan
U. S
S. 8
Heinrich Himmler
Schutz Staffel
S. S
Carent
Saint Sauver
Montebourg
Cherbourg
Douve River
U. S. Forces
Three Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases so far in Montana
Helena report notes only three Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases this year, none fatal, a sharp drop from 28 cases in 1943 with nine deaths. State epidemiologist Dr. B. K. Kilbourne calls the year likely to set a record for absence of the disease.
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Helena
B. K. Kilbourne
Montan
Bond Sales in State Total $2,170,637
Helena reports the Fifth War Loan drive brought $2 170 637 in state bond sales with Montana's quota at 20 million. Prairie surpassed its target, while several counties trail. Powell and others show low percentages of quota funded via the Federal Reserve Bank. Governor Ford appoints Harry Peterson to the veterans' memorial fund commission for a term to 1945.
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Helena
State War Finance Committee
Montana
A. T. Hibbard
Prairie
Federal Reserve Bank
Daniels County
Powell
Golden Valley
Carbon
Big Horn
Cascade
Roosevelt
Dawson
Custer
Phillips
Sam C. Ford
Harry Peterson
Veterans’ Memorial Fund Commission
Peterson
De Gaulle Returns to Free France With Warm Reception
General Charles de Gaulle was greeted by cheering crowds in Bayeux and Isigny on his return from exile. He toured liberated towns, spoke from a main square rostrum, and urged continued resistance until French sovereignty is restored and a free world prevails.
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United Press
Bayeux
France
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Isigny
Italy
Finland Makes Semiannual War Debt Payment to U S Treasury
Finland paid 14445 dollars and 6 cents into the United States Treasury on Thursday, the regular semiannual payment on its World War I debt to the United States, reported from Washington.
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Washington
Finland
United States Treasury
Great Traffic Control System Shuffles Troops About Britain
An underground Allied buildup control post in West England demonstrates a complex system that schedules troop and supply movements across Britain and to the French coast. Generals rely on charts and colored dots to track ships and units, with rapid “red ball” replacements when urgent needs arise.
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Great Traffic Control
Britain
Channel
West
England
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Youngsters urged to start Victory gardens
The Food and Victory committee of the A. W. V. &. calls on Butte boys and girls to plant Victory gardens without delay. Mrs. W. S. Higgins says cash prizes will be awarded at a Junior Victory Garden show on September 1. She lists tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, head lettuce, spinach, carrots and radishes as suggested crops.
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Butte
Food and Victory Committee
Victory Gardens
W. S. Higgins
Letters Mailed in a Fire Alarm Box in Butte
A man dropped air mail letters into a fire alarm box at Park and Arizona and fled. J. R. Crawford noted the letters during inspection and Acting Fire Chief John C. Seitz placed them in a mailbox. A separate Denver dispatch reports a Japanese-American sister awaiting treason trial was released on bond.
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Butte
Park
Arizona
J. R. Crawford
City Electrician
John C. Seitz
Denver
French Patriots Spread Resistance Across Southern France
French sources say hundreds of German troops killed and over 1,000 captured by French patriots after more than 50 battles in southern France. Guerrillas reportedly control many towns, with major actions near Marmande, Pau, and Lourdes. Reports also hint at a possible collaborationist coup against Petain and Laval in Paris and Algiers.
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London
U.P
France
Henry Philippe Petain
Pierre Laval
Joseph Darand
Berlin
Petain
Laval
Germany
Emmanuel d’Astrier de la
Marmande
Pau
Lourdes
United Press
Alde
Preview of Flaming Hell for Nazis and Japanese New Incendiary
A New York report describes a two foot long six and a half pound hexagonal incendiary bomb that launches burning jelly up to a hundred yards. The oil bomb proves more effective than magnesium and thermite in tests at Dugway Utah, predicting widespread use to burn enemy cities and industrial targets.
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Gareth Much
New York
America
Tokyo
Dugway
Utah
Japan
Europe
South Pacific
Forte in Bern challenges French partisan strength claims
Forte in Bern dismisses reports of partisans circling Toulouse as imagination due to insufficient force. He notes Haute Savoie as the main patriot stronghold with 7,000 to 10,000 heavily armed members.
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Forte
Bern
France
Toulouse
Haute Savoie
Japanese Hammer at Changsha Advances Reported
Japanese troops outflank Changsha on the southeast, storm across the Liuyang river and close in on Chuchow and Liling, 28 and 50 miles below the Hunan capital. Battles near Liling and Churchow, with mechanized units hammering at Changsha’s southeastern suburbs.
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Chungking
U.P
Changsha
Liuyang
Chuchow
Liling
Hunan
Churchow
Kiangsi-Hunan
Turkish Foreign Minister Resigns in Crisis After Naval Passage
Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu resigned amid a government crisis sparked by the passage of German naval vessels through the Dardanelles. Premier Sukru Saracoglu personally took over the foreign ministry after a cabinet meeting criticized the policy.
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London
U.P
Numan Menemencioglu
Turkey
Radio Ankara
Dardanelles
Sukru Saracoglu
Foreign Ministry
Menemenciolgu
Mercerized Cotton Named After John Mercer Discovery
Mercerized cotton takes its name from John Mercer who found ordinary cotton could be strengthened and given more luster by treatment with caustic soda.
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John Mercer
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