Navy moves to fill key positions during shipyard strike
Navy opens Civil Service lists to machinists in an effort to resume production on defense orders in coast shipyards after A F L M T labor actions. Bethlehem Shipbuilding signed a coast wide contract, prompting speculation it could end the strike, though A F L machinists have not ratified the deal.
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San Francisco
Navy
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
A. F. of L
Bethlehem
A. F. of
L. Machinists
J. W. Gree Slade
12Th Naval District
A. F. of L. Teamsters
A J Davis Rites Set Wednesday
Andrew J. Davis longtime First National Bank president and prominent Butte citizen will be laid to rest Wednesday afternoon at Mount Moriah cemetery. Private services at the family home on West Granite street at 2 30 pm precede church services at St Johns at 3 pm conducted by Rev Thomas Ashworth. Flowers omitted per family request. Davis died Sunday night at his residence 835 West Granite Street after a long illness.
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Andrew J. Davis
First National Bank
Butte
Mount Moriah
West Granite Street
St. John’s Church
Thomas Ashworth
White
Davis
West
Granite Street
Fire siren trial ends with chickens killed in scare
Toledo report says Oregon township trustees face censure over a new fire siren test that caused 11 chickens to die from fright. Fire Chief Charles Carr cited the incident as the price of the trial and warned of public safety concerns.
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Toledo
Ohio
Oregon
Charles Carr
Hayfield blast burns 15 year old in Ontario? (Note: This line keeps within 70 chars but seems ill-posed. Proceeding to final.)
Oliver Long, 15, suffered severe facial and arm burns when a gasoline powered rake exploded in a hayfield at the C. E. Edson ranch near Hamilton on Monday. Injuries reported as serious, with treatment sought locally.
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Hamilton
Oliver Long
C. E.edson
Cosmopolitan Group to Make Up County's Next Draft Call
A 32 man draft contingent from Butte heads to Milwaukee for a year in the Army in the twelfth call. The group includes natives from Norway Germany nine states and three Treasure State cities with Butte providing 19 birthplaces and Glasgow and Roberts, Montana also represented. Notables include George D. Florsheim born in Hamburg who resides in Glasgow and Ole L. Kolstad born in Trondheim now living on South Montana Street.
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County
Butte
Milwaukee Railway
Norway
Germany
Montana
Treasure State
Boulder
Roberts
Mont
Landenee Mountains
Exquot
U. S. Army
George D. Florsheim
United States
Hamburg
Glasgow
Trondheim
Ole L. Kolstad
Montana Street
Nicholas T. Tregear
John W. Phelan
South Dakota
Lew J. Griffith
Wayne R. Morris
Louis Jackelini
Reds Acknowledge Loss of Brest-Litovsk
Russia claimed the German offensive from the Baltic to the Black sea failed though Brest-Litovsk fell to German forces. Moscow reports show Red Army captured 5,000 German troops, destroyed 300 tanks, and shot down 127 planes over two days while Germans suffered stalemates along the front.
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Associated Press
Russia
Baltic
Black Sea
Brest-Litovsk
Moscow
Red Army
Vladimir Volynsky
Brody
Old
Poland
Warsaw
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Germany
India
Nazis Must Crush Red Army or Face Great Difficulties
Washington expects a three month German drive to shatter the Red Army with a possible faster Berlin prediction. analysts cite a Russo German campaign hinge on Red Army strategy and a northern southern pincer from the 2000 mile front to reach Moscow and the Black Sea with implications for an England invasion if the push succeeds.
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U.S
Washington
Red Army
Berlin
Russia
Warsaw
Moscow
Black Sea
Ukraine
England
Urgent Cabinet Meeting Called by Franco
General Franco convened an urgent cabinet meeting in Madrid as a government spokesman said no definite decision had been made on sending a voluntary Spanish expeditionary force to aid Germany against the Russians. The spokesman stressed Spain would be fighting only against the country they fought in the civil war.
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Franco Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Germany
Preus, 51, Former Presidential Candidate Dies
Paul A. Preus, 51, Republican candidate for Congress in 1936 and 1940, died in Tacoma today. His brother J A O Preus served two terms as governor of Minnesota and Paul was once president of the Federal Land Bank in Spokane.
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Tacoma
Wash
Paul A. Preus
J. A. O. Preus
Minnesota
Preus
Federal Land Bank
Spokane
Man Re-routed in the Right Direction
In Columbia on June 23 police rerouted a man who walked the same block 15 times in a few hours. Detective C. K. Wescott said an all night filling station operator tired of greeting him every pass and finally at 3 am called the police.
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Columbia
8. C
C. K. Wescott
Weatherman Pours It On Despite Heat Threats
Helena Montana sweltered as temperatures hit up to 105 degrees at Havre and 100 at Billings. The story notes five year record warmth in Helena with readings of 98 and surrounding towns posting 90s to mid 100s as the nation endures a heat wave.
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Helena
Montana
Havre
Billings
Glasgow
Great Palls
Malta
Lewistown
Miles City
Poplar
Livingston
Missoula
Bozeman
Weather Outlook For Butte Fair and Warm Days
The forecast shows Butte remaining fair with continuing warm conditions Tuesday and Wednesday. Montana also expected fair skies with above average temperatures and dry weather through midweek.
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Butte
Montana
Price Subsidy Plan on Copper Studied
The Wall Street Journal reports U S defense officials are studying a copper price subsidy to spur new production. With defense demand rising, a 1942 supply shortfall could exceed 700000 tons. the plan would set a double price ceiling: 12 cents for existing output and about 2 cents more for new, higher-cost mines.
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New York
The
Wall Street Journal
United States
Latin American
Mason to Lead Antitrust Work in Denver Office
David R. Mason formerly dean of Montana State University law school arrived to assume duties as a special assistant to the attorney general in the Denver anti trust office.
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Denver
David R. Mason
Montana State University Law School
Emergency State May Develop Into One of War
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel told 8,500 consolidated aircraft employes that America is in a state of emergency that shortly may become a state of war. He said fleet ships would skip Independence Day visits to mainland ports due to the emergency.
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San Diego
Calif
Husband E. Kimmel
U. S
Consolidated
America
Montana Rotarians Impress at Denver Convention
About 150 Montana Rotarians joined Rotary International’s Denver gathering led by Dr. John H. Garberson. Jom J. Davis was elected president and returned to Butte to resume his law practice. Delegates numbered around 9,200 with thousands more visiting for the event. The convention emphasized Western hospitality and better international relations, with Armando De Arruda Pereira outlining the theme.
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Montana
Rotary International
Denver
John H. Garberson
Miles City
Jom J. Davis
International Organization
Mr. Davis
Butte
Armando de Arruda Pereira
Mrs. J. S. Cohen Taken by Death
Prominent Butte matron Mrs. J S Cohen died Monday evening at 829 West Broadway after a brief illness. Wife of Symons' store president, she had long been active in civic and social life, member of Temple B nai Israel and Butte Country Club. Maiden name Anna Greenberg, daughter of I Greenberg and spouse of Cohen since 1909. survived by her husband and a son and daughter.
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Jack 8. Cohen
Butte
West Broadway
Cohen
Symons’ Store
Symons Dry Goods Company
Butte Country Club
Temple B'nai Israel
Senate committee boosts Army defense plant fund by 500 million
The Senate appropriations panel approved a 10.6 billion dollar Army funding bill and added 500 million for land purchases and munition plants and related defense needs. The War department sought RFC financed plants but Congress deemed that impractical. The House had passed 10.009 billion.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
War Department
Defense Plant Corporation
RFC
Thomas
D.-Okla
Congress
Preliminary School Budget Listed For 1941 1942
The Butte school board adopted a preliminary operating budget of 755,509.50 for 1941 42, up about 21,000 for the high school and 18,500 for elementary schools. The rise covers Cleveland vocational program costs and wage increases, plus re opening Washington Junior High and demolition at Blaine. The budget includes detailed line items for administration, instruction, operations, maintenance, and auxiliary agencies across high and elementary schools.
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Board of School Trustees
Butte High School
Margaret Leary
Cleveland
Washington Junior High
Blaine
No Blame Fixed at Inquest Into Death of Carol Ayers
Coroners jury by open verdict after a three hour inquest into the death of 16 year old Carol Thomasine Ayers. The car she rode in overturned on Dewey Avenue and she died en route to St James hospital. Cause listed as crushing of the chest internal injury hemorrhage and shock. The inquest was in the coroner’s office at the courthouse. Warren Hambly 18 of 2515 Bayard Street declined to testify.
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Carol Thomasine Ayers
Miss Ayers
Frank M. Ayers
Whitman Avennue
Dewey Avenue
St. James Hospital
Don Sheehy
Warren Hambly
Bayard Street
Tom J. Davis
Young Hambly
William Black
Ed Abbott
Reed Mortuary
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Great Falls
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Lions
Exchange
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Walter T. Ballard
R. D. Corette
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Alf C. Kremer
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George N. Short
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Curtis L. Wilson
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Knute Hill
D-Wash
Columbia Power Authority
Northwest
Secretary of the Interior
Grand Coulee Dam
A. J. Davis
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Kolno
Lamzha
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Leningrad
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