Ruhle Dies In Spokane After Brief Illness
Raymond Lester Ruhle 62 prominent Butte business and civic leader died after a brief illness in a Spokane hospital. He chaired Silver Bow county Fifth War Loan and led major bond drives including the recent Fourth War Loan. He collapsed at his Liberty Lake cottage and died about 10 15 p m Saturday. Funeral arrangements will be announced. Mrs Ruhle requests no flowers.
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Raymond Lester Ruhle
Butte
Spokane
Ruhle
Silver Bow County
Liberty Lake
America
Japs in China Gain Key Position Near Hengyang
Japanese troops push along the Canton Hankow railway piercing Hengyang defenses as Chinese reports warn of risk to Allied plans. The advance threatens the transport route spanning Peiping to Canton with heavy casualties from gas attacks and photos by American officers. In Seattle a bride is detained after a fatal shooting of Edward D. Rogers.
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Chungking
Canton
Hankow
Henegyang
China
Japan
Hengyang
Ningjiang
Changsha
Peiping
Saipan
Hereford Bull and Cattle Auction to Spotlight Butte
Butte will host a quality Hereford bull and cow auction and show in November at the Butte Public stockyards. Western Montana Hereford Breeders association officials say 100 purebred bulls and 50 cows will be offered with top stock prior to the sale on November 18, and a Friday show on the 17th.
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Butte
Western Montana Hereford Breeders Association
Butte Public Stockyards
Association
W. P. Stud
Allied forces report Saipan gains and Japanese losses in Saipan action
Adm Chester Nim itz announced Japanese losses in the Marianas include a light carrier and two cruisers damaged and 109 additional planes destroyed. U S losses rose to 63 planes but many crews were rescued. Eighteen Japanese warships were sunk or damaged, with six carriers listed. One heavy and one light cruiser were damaged, and one tank er previously listed as sunk moved to severely damaged. American forces held Garapan as Japanese troops tried to shore up defenses on Saipan.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas
Saipan
U. S
Joint Expeditionary Force
Navy
Garapan
Japanese Marianas
Jap Island Base Heavily Bombed
Allied reports say Liberator bombers dropped 45 tons of bombs on Yap at noon Friday destroying several planes on the ground. Gen Douglas MacArthur announced one Liberator lost in battle with 10 Japanese fighters as others hit Truk and Palau. Biak island casualties rose by 345 as mopping up continued Thursday and Friday.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Marianas
Biak Island
Russians encircle Vitebsk as new offensive opens
Moscow reports Russian troops trap five German infantry divisions near Vitebsk, with up to 75,000 men in street fighting. A fifth new White Russia offensive is launched while four Soviet armies push across a 285 mile front from Vitebsk to Bobruisk.
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London
U.P
Vitebsk
Moscow
Russia
Bobruisk
Berlin
Allied Air Offensive Pounds German Installations
Up wards of 3,500 Allied planes from Britain and Italy pounded German rocket sites, fuel dumps, airfields, and rail yards from the Normandy to the Mediterranean. American Liberators attacked power stations and other targets. U.S. Ninth and Eighth Air Forces faced Luftwaffe opposition with losses. In all, 13 American bombers and 13 other airmen were reported missing, as daylight and night operations continued against German installations.
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London
U.P
Britain
Italy
Germany
France
Normandy
Mediterranean
R A. F
U. S. Eighth
Ninth Air Force
Avord
Bourges
Francazal
Blagnac
Toulouse
15Th U. S. Air Force
Sete
Montepellier
Balaruc
Rhone River
Avignon
Ploesti Oi
Romania
Berlin
Moscl@ito
Eighth Air Force
Bond Show Tickets to Be Placed on Sale Here Today
Tickets go on sale Monday for a gala bond show of the Victory Labor Management Production committee to be held next Friday evening with a motion picture premiere and Gore Field Army band. The event supports the Fifth War Loan now past one million dollars in a two week push. The drive totals 1 215 479 25 from bonds sold with a Saturday rise of 230 295. The retail merchant clerk Third Army program has raised 321 874 toward a 300 per clerk goal. R L Ruhle Fifth War Loan chair died Saturday night. committee plans to push on with his work.
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Victory Labor-Management Production Committee
Gore Field Army Band
Third Army
Mount Cleveland Volcano Eruption Forces Evacuation
Mount Cleveland on Chuginadak Island in the eastern Aleutians has erupted since June 10 forcing evacuation of an Army installation. Four men were rescued. a fifth is believed crushed by falling rock and later covered by lava. Rescued were Pfc Billy J Cotton Pfc Kenneth L Tilsenberneer and Sgt William Bigger.
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Eleventh
Alaska
U.P
Mount Cleveland
Chugiadak Island
Aleutians
Eleventh Air Force
Billy J. Cotton
Commerce
Texas
Kenneth L. Tilsenberneer
Lead
S. D
William Bigger
Chapelill
N. C
Fuller awarded Silver Star for Dutch New Guinea action
Maj. Gen. Horace H. Fuller of Fort Lewis Washington receives the Silver Star for gallantry in action in the Humboldt bay and Cyclops airdrome area of Dutch New Guinea on April 24 and 25, the War Department announced Sunday.
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Washington
Horace H. Fuller
Fort Lewis
Wash
Humboldt Bay
Cyclops
Dutch New Guinea
War Department
Montana Weather Outlook West and East of Divide
West of the continental divide partly cloudy with small showers in mountains Monday. East of the divide fair and warmer Monday with some light mountain showers in the afternoon.
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Montana
Continental Divide
Divide
Defenses of Vital Naval and Commercial Basins Overrun
Allied forces breach Cherbourg from three sides and overrun its defenses. A spokesman calls it a 100 to 1 bet the city is in American hands as patrols reach central areas and most of the German garrison surrenders. It is the era’s largest prisoner haul since Cap Bon, with estimates of 30,000 to 50,000 captured.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U.P
Cherbourg
Operations Headquarters
Herbourg
Tunisia
Cap Bon
N. Bradley
Maine
Paris
Berlin
Robert Dunnit
Allied forces storm Mogaung and seize key rail link
Chinese and British troops assault the Japanese north Burma base of Mogaung on three sides and seize a vital railway segment between Mogaung station and the river bridge. Gurkha and British regiments enter from the east, Chindits attack from the south, and Chinese troops breach outer defenses to the north and south. American units push toward Myitkyina as the siege continues.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Mogaung
Louis Mountbatten
W. D. A. Lentaigne
Myitkyina
Mainga Ferry
Nomination of Dewey Seen on First Ballot at GOP Convention
Governor Thomas E. Dewey appears set to win the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot with 200 plus votes to spare. Earl Warren of California likely becomes running mate as convention officials plan to close the gathering by Wednesday and await Dewey's acceptance on Thursday.
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Dewey
Chicago
U.P
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
California
All-Out Attack in Italy Opens
British Eighth Army launched an all out assault on German positions east and west of Lake Trasimeno and north of Perugia in central Italy. American and French Fifth Army forces advanced up to six miles toward Sienal as Chiusi weakened. Pescia Sarteano and Castelvecchio reported captured with tanks entering Chiusi as the line set for a longer push.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Lake Trasimeno
Perugia
Italy
Chiusi
Rome-Florence
Fifth Army
Sienal
Pescia
Chins
Lake Trasiceno
Sarteano
Castelviejo
United Press
New York
Leghorn
Tyrrhenian
Fallonica
French Hero to Direct Forces
Gen Joseph Pierre Koenig, famed for Bir Hacheim, was named to command all resistance forces in France under Eisenhower. He will direct interior French forces to disrupt German supply lines as Allied plans target Paris via Cherbourg. A separate Vichy broadcast claimed Joseph Darnand ordered security forces in southern France placed under German command.
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Supreme Allied
London
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Bir Hacheim
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Paris
Cherbourg
Vichy
Joseph Darnand
Germany
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Parat firefighters execute second jump to fight Meadow Lake fire
Missoula June 25 Parat firefighting parachute jumpers conducted their second descent this year to battle a lightning sparked blaze near Meadow Lake. Four members of the parachute smoke jumping squadron dropped at the head of Gold Creek Fork and brought the fire under control.
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Missoula
Forest Service
Meadow Lake
Gold Creek Fork
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Dravesburgh
West Virginia
Seattle
Edward D. Rogers
West
Hereford
Marine
Percy Linch
Combined American Press
Jap Island
Don Caswell
By Robert Musel
Labor-Management Committee
R. L. Ruhle
Fifth War Loan
Victory Labor Management Committee
Yank Power
Edward W. Beattie
By Paul F. Ellis
Reynolds Packard
Butte Boys
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