Churchill Roiling Talks as Egypt Aid Seen Slow
United States observers say Egypt’s defense will rely on internal resources for weeks. Any American reinforcement would take six weeks by slow convoy from Atlantic ports, making timely aid unlikely amid Churchill Roosevelt discussions on Libya and Tobruk.
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Washington
Egypt
Churchill
Middle East
London
Roosevelt
Libya
United States
Atlantic
Suez
South Africa
Mediterranean
Tobruk
Woman in Critical Condition After Car Crash
Mary Joe of Arizona at St James hospital after a two car collision on Harrison avenue Light 43. George Thomas and Mary Franich drove separate cars. Miss Joe a passenger with Joseph Davis Baker Montana. Thomas slightly injured Franich couple lightly hurt. Davis uninjured. investigation by Captain Ernett Sullivan and officers.
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St. James Hospital
H Avenue
Ernett Sullivan
Joe
George Thomas
East Park Street
Mary Franich
East First Street
Harrison Avenue
Joseph Davis
Baker, Mont
Thomas
Cripps Promises Western Attack On Hitler From Weston
Sir Stafford Cripps pledged that Britain and the United States will launch a great and successful attack on Hitler in the west. He gave no timing or place. Britain readied preparations, with the Army taking over a 36 square mile East Anglia training zone as a possible cross Channel leapoff. Churchill discussed with Roosevelt by telephone as allied forces arrive in force.
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London
Stafford Cripps
Churchill
Britain
United States
Hitler
West
East Anglia
Roosevelt
Russia
Cripps
Transatlantic
Clement R. Attlee
Dominions
Chinese forces strike Yuntan in key Canton-Hankow rail city
Chinese forces with strong artillery launched a counteroffensive in Kwangtung province storming the strategic city of Yuntan, 31 miles north of Canton, after cutting the railroad to Canton. They crossed the Pa River and entered the city outskirts as Japanese effort to reopen the railway faced Chinese resistance.
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Kwangtung Province
Yuntan
Canton-Hankow
Canton
Central News
Chekiang Province
Tokyo
Central
South China
China Sea
China
Russia
Chuhsien
Japan
United Nations
Sales Tax Plan Is Killed In House Panel
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected sales tax proposals and approved a payroll tax collection plan to fund federal revenue. The committee backed a January deduction from wages, aiming to raise at least 6.64 billion dollars, far short of the Treasury’s 8.7 billion target. Final action on sending the bill to the House was expected next week.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress
Fog and Snow Slow Up Alaska Battle
A Seattle report quotes a 13th Naval district spokesman saying weather fog and snow are the main factors in the Aleutian battle, with Japanese forces repeatedly exposed in clear patches. He suggests the fighting continues as weather hampers both sides, and notes the strange, fogbound landscape complicates operations.
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Seattle
Aleutian Island
13Th Naval District
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Xing
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Aleutians
Dutch Harbor
Navy
Army
Pearl Harbor
Two Die and Four Missing in Kokomo Tornado
A tornado hit Kokomo Indiana Saturday evening killing two people, injuring ten seriously and leaving four others missing. The storm struck shortly after 7 p.m. damaging numerous residences and prompting a call for medical teams from nearby cities.
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Indiana
Kokomo
Ind
U.P
Montana 42 Farm Production Value to Top 200 Million
Montana agriculture faces a record year with an estimated 1942 farm and livestock production value of 212.85 million dollars. Prices, acreage and livestock numbers rise from 1941, signaling a historic prosperity for Farmers and associated industries in the state.
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Montana
Helena
Fifty-Eive Candidates Seek County Nominations
Eighty-five candidates seek nominations for 28 county offices with 31 running for the House seats. Democrats lead in most races. several offices have no Republican candidates. Sheriff McLeod faces challengers John E. Shone and Garfield Harris on the Republican slate.
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House of Representatives
Senate
al McLeod
John E. Shone
Garfield Harris
John Malin
Edward Mason
Pete Taylor
Dan D. Sullivan
Frank Craig
Evin Scott
Tim Kearney
Frank Roe
James F. O’brien
Addis A. McGrath
Anton Mufich
Republcan
Jack Healy
Thomas McGuirk
War Stamp Sale to Be Pushed by Merchants
City merchants will gather at 7:30 p m Tuesday in the Finlen hotel main ballroom to discuss a July 1 15 minute business suspension and exclusive sale of war bonds and stamps. A skit by the Federal Reserve staff in Helena will illustrate bond value as Butte aims to join the national mass push for war financing.
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Finlen Hotel
Federal Reserve Bank
Helena
E. L. Samsel
Butte
Allied Planes Bomb Air Bases at Rabaul and Lae
Allied bombing planes penetrated Japanese defenses and attacked air bases at Rabaul in New Britain and Lae in New Guinea. At Rabaul the night raid hit wharf installations. at Lae two enemy bombers were destroyed on the ground while Zero fighters rose to oppose the attack.
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Australia
Rabaul
Lae
MacArthur
New Britain
New Guinea
General Salvage Campaign to Open Monday in Silver Bow
The General Salvage Campaign starts Monday in Silver Bow County to meet Roosevelt's plea for wartime materials. Mayor Barry O Leary, Mayor James R Shea, and County Chairman Dan D Sullivan signed the proclamation urging residents to contribute scrap rubber and metals. About 260000 pounds were the local goal, with over 170000 pounds already collected in the week. 70000 pounds were under roof by Saturday noon at Hansen Packing plant. Residents should have iron, steel, copper, brass, aluminum, tin foil, lead foil, leather, and rubber ready for pickup by calling 5481. tin cans glass jars paper are not accepted.
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Silver Bow County
Barry O'Leary
James R. Shea
Walkerville
Dan D. Sullivan
Roosevelt
Hansen Packing Plant
General Salvage Committee
Oak County
United States
Weekend Showers Forecast With Temperature Fluctuations
Showers and thunderstorms expected Sunday with little change in temperature. Saturday’s highs near 52 and lows around 30.
British Eighth Army Turns Back Axis Columns Near Tobruk
British Eighth Army holds a line 30 miles inside Libya near the Egyptian frontier after repelling two Axis columns aiming at Tobruk. Axis forces withdraw. Rommel’s supply lines strain. patrols continue in Circenaica as analysts compare with Auchinleck’s 1942 push.
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Egypt
Britain
Libya
Tobruk
Bardia
M. Ritchie
Ain el Gazala
Bir Hacheilm
Circenaica
Erwin Rommel
Claude Auchinleck
Tripoli
el Agheila
Nazis Register Advance on Kharkov Front
The Soviet communique says the Red Army repulsed repeated German attacks around Sevastopol while launching a new push on the Kharkov front. On the Bryansk front southwest of Moscow Soviet forces killed 600 Germans and captured weapons after clearing a mine-field gap. Black Sea Fleet pilots kept the air over Sevastopol, and Russian fighters and ground batteries reportedly tallied about 2,000 enemy losses in ten days.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Black Sea
Red Army
Bryansk
A W V S Tickets On Sale For Butte Rodeo Show
The American Women's Voluntary Services will sell advance tickets for Butte's annual rodeo—the wildest show on earth—at 5 N Main St on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The event runs July 16 to 18 and is sponsored by the Citizens' Navy Relief Committee led by C J Burns. Profits go to the Naval Relief fund.
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Butte
American Women’s Volunt Services
Main Street
Tion A. W. V
Citizens’ Navy Relief Committee
C. J
Doc) Burns
Naval Relef Fund
Dear Old Dad Honored as Butte Celebrates Fathers Day
The article salutes fathers as heads of families across Butte and the nation on Father’s Day. It portrays hardworking men from mining to railroading as the primary providers who deserve recognition through picnics, parties, and family celebrations.
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Butte
Pop
Daddy
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