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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
3
Senator Wheeler confirms Birch Creek CCC camp in Beaverhead County will remain operating for the summer after talks with forest service and CCC officials. In Dillon, the Pheasants edged the Fire Department 8 to 7 in 8 innings in a tense extra-inning softball game.
Male members of the Dillon Country Club will host the annual Fourth of July party on Wednesday evening July 3 in the clubhouse for members and out of town guests only. Reservations close July 1 via roundup committee chairmen Jack Barrett Sam Langdorf W G Gilbert and J W Deputy.
Harvey Mc Donald of Dillon pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Judge Louis Stahl's court. He was fined $25 and paid instantly after arrest near Glen by State Patrolman Robert Wright.
Mr and Mrs A F Waldorf returned from a motor trip to Pacific coast points and attended Scripps College Claremont California commencement where their daughter Miss Jane Waldorf earned an A B in music.
The Republican platform denounces the Roosevelt administration for delaying war readiness and criticizes tax policy and government spending. It calls for increased old age benefits, farm support, and stronger relief control, while pledging to place faith-based leaders in official positions. Eggs are so plentiful in Tokyo that some distributors propose to hardboil the surplus.
The Gardens program adds ball games and a dance on Sunday with public admission. The Butte Mines band will provide music all day. A panel of 28 judges, led by E. H. Denny, will evaluate contest features. Cash prizes totaling 1400 will be awarded to winners.
Moscow reports six day calendar scrapped and longer hours to accelerate production for defense against capitalist encirclement. Red Star and Pravda pledge united effort with millions of workers to produce planes tanks guns tractors oil and coal as Stalin warns of a second imperialist war and imminent danger.
Leo L Croonenberghs through his attorney filed for a divorce from Edna Maye Croonenberghs. The couple wed in Butte on June 9 1926 and have no children. Judge J J Lynch set hearings for estate matters as administratrix petitions and real property sales, with dates in July. Japan’s cellophane experts reach new highs despite shortages and government limits.
The article notes German air raids on central England and continued raids on Germany, with casualties and strategic targets cited. It mentions Adolf Hitler at the Eiffel Tower, warns of new armistice provisions, and reports on torpedoed ships southwest of Ireland and a transport hit off Bayonne.
Four traffic defendants failed to answer in city police court and forfeited bonds totaling eighty seven dollars and fifty cents. Francis McColl faced driving while intoxicated forfeit fifty dollars, David Anderson reckless driving twenty five, Jim Brown speeding ten, Mary Smith stopping at a stop sign two dollars and fifty cents. A judge sent a man to county jail for ten days on a drunk charge after a prior fine and immediate reoffense.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday at the clerk of the court's office to David Peacock 50 of San Francisco and Mabel Rieck 48 of Salinas Calif Gusta Fkola 61 of Butte and Vivian Pechenuk 49 of Butte Malcolm A Porter 26 of Butte and Helen Elizabeth Bull 23 of Washington D C
The notices report the funerals of William A. Carruthers and William P. Connors. Carruthers’ service is at 2 o’clock from Duggan’s Merrill mortuary with interment at Mount Moriah. Connors’ funeral is 9 o’clock from Duggan’s Merrill mortuary to Sacred Heart church for a 9:30 requiem, interment Holy Cross cemetery. A card of thanks from the Bertrand family expresses gratitude for sympathy and floral gifts.
At 1111 West Park Street William A. O'Brien prominent retired Butte building contractor died last evening. Body remains at White's Funeral Home with time and place of funeral to be announced later.
Police arrested a man claiming the name Juan Ostorga Renterea in a late Saturday stabbing. Walter P. Tierney funeral services were set for Thursday at Richards funeral home and Immaculate Conception church, with interment at Mount Moriah. Manuel Soto, wounded in the attack, was released from St. James hospital. Renterea was jailed on assault charges after being captured on West Granite street.
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