Washington Liner Captain Recalls Near-Torpedo Moment
Captain Harry Manning recalls the June 11 threat from a German submarine near dawn as the Washington carried 1,600 aboard. He ordered women and children to lifeboats, kept radio silence, and sped to maximum power to avoid capture. The ship is due in New York Friday.
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Joseph E. Sharkey
Associated Press
Washington AT
Harry Manning
Washington
Manning
Sharkey
Cuir
New York
Assessment work on mining claims required continues
Western senators announced that assessment work on mining claims would not be suspended this year as in most years since World War II, keeping miners responsible for maintaining their claims. The statement underscores ongoing federal oversight and potential penalties for noncompliance.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Attractive luncheon for Atherton Home Garden club
Members of the Atherton Home Garden club gathered Tuesday at Mrs. M. A. Brady’s home at 3103 Burlington for a luncheon. A lace draped table and garden flower arrangement highlighted the event with talks on flowers by Mrs. Regan, a third contest honors for Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Scully, and the group sang America to close. The next meeting is July 9 at Mrs. Davis’s home with Mrs. Tom Oxley as co host.
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M. A. Brady
Burlington Street
Atherton Home Garden Club
Henry Motsch
Carl Ensrud
Fred Davis
Harold Satter
al Hoard
H. W. Funston
James Cummings
Guy D. Pratt
A. A. Evans
C. W. McKenna
Dan Scully
Ellsworth Cardey
George Johnson
Maurice M. Moore
W. J. Regan
Luke Dunn
George Tompkins
Cecil Helstrom
Leon Pinkerton
P. Puginis
Leon Gratiot
Brady
Regan
Evans
Davis
Scully
Jolly Nine Club
Mabel James
West Prophyry Street
Matt Smith
van Janoff
Rollo McDonald
Albert Skoog
Lily Gilbert
Roland Gilbert
Cecil Langon
Bessie Honey
James
Arbeide Thimble club hosts and honors members
Emma Williams hosted the Arbeide Thimble club at 2104 Utah avenue with assistances. Mattie Bell led a business meeting followed by contests with prizes and a luncheon. Members and guests attended including many named ladies and the Jolly Nine club met at Mabel James’s home. Englewood-Emerson Rocky Mountain Garden club to meet June 25 at Columbia Gardens with self transport urged.
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Floral Park Division
Rocky Mountain Garden Club
Columbia Gardens
EB. Russel Smith
Emma Williams
Arbeide Thimble Club
Utah Avenue
Edith Abbot
Eileen Sullivan
Mary Coombs
Anna Gatzke
Lois Cole
Mattie Bell
Cams
Bill
Jennie Bauman
Mary Dean
Ethel Dunstan
Margaret, Rowling
Susan Irvine
Kate Keane
Ida Stamsos
Anna Thomas
Minnie Bouley
Nancy Krabler
Ann Kilham
Gladys Kramer
Ada Medlyn
Laura Pasquill
Ethel Rogers
Emily Edwands
Louise Renie
Englewood-Emerson Division
Park and Main
Britain expands coastal military zone and calls for mobilization
In a wartime broadcast Duff Cooper asserts Britain will fight from a strong defensive wall as Canada and the United States bolster aid. A private parliamentary group led by Clement Davies backs mobilization measures including home defense volunteers and a foreign legion. Cooper warns that holding off the invaders buys time for growing supplies as German losses rise.
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Britain
Duff Cooper
Canada
United States
Clement Davies
Winston Churchill
Lewis Attacks F. R. Proposal as Fantastic
In a national preparedness debate Lewis denounces Roosevelt’s compulsory service idea as harmful to capital and employment. Alf Landon calls the plan half cocked while questioning youth labor battalions. Lewis criticizes both parties’ labor and unemployment records amid rising investment figures in Romania.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Hitler
Kansas
Lewis
Landon
Roosevelt
T. O
Butte Events Shuffled with Postponement and Meetings
The regular meeting of Butte Lodge No. 11 Scandinavian Fraternity was postponed to June 27 to allow members to attend Lodge No. 1's social. Butte Men's Garden and Improvement Club plans an 8 PM meeting at the Y M C A. Mr and Mrs James P Donahue and son visited Butte en route from Glacier to Yellowstone. Mrs Donahue is aunt of Countess Haugwitz Reventlow. Neighbors of Woodcraft Ways and Means will hold a 1 PM luncheon at Moxom cafe.
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Butte Lodge No. 11
Butte Men's Garden and Improvement Club
Y. M
New York
James P. Donahue
James II
Butte
Glacier National Park
Yellowstone
Donahue
Countess Haugwitz- Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Ways and Means
Woodcraft
Moxom Cafe
Butte Finn Colony Plans Sunday Picnic in Toll Mountain Canyon
Members of the Butte Finn colony will hold a picnic Sunday in the canyon south of U S highway No 10 on Victor Mattila's summer ground in Toll mountain district. The site lies about half a mile south of the highway and 17 miles from Butte. The event will start in the morning and run through the day. Coal deposits in Manchuria have just been estimated at 4 800 000 000 tons.
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Butte Finn Colony
Victor Mattila
Toll Mountain District
Butte
Manchuria
Bretherton Returns From East After New York Study
Bernard Bretherton former member of the Montana School of Mines Glee Club and son of Mr and Mrs H H Bretherton of Columbia Gardens returns to Butte after a year studying in New York under Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Aulthouse. In New York he appeared as a guest artist at a musicale hosted by Granville English at the Fairway Yacht Club.
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Bernard Bretherton
Montana School of Mines
Camp Fire Girls open plans for Camp L. O. Evans
Preparations for the opening of Camp L. O. Evans of the Camp Fire Girls will be made Sunday by committee members led by director Miss Janet Ralph. George Moser will oversee work including repairs to buildings and the addition of a new shower room. The Luxemburg frontier roads will feature floodlit letter L at three mile intervals.
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L. O. Evans
Fire Girls
Janet Ralph
George Moser
Ralph
Luxemburg Frontiers
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