Russian spring offensive drives toward Viipuri amid Finnish fires
Moscow reports troops entering Viipuri outskirts as Leningrad HQ says the offensive continues from two directions. Finnish defense collapses with captured fortifications, guns, machine guns, tanks, rifles, and ammunition. Air losses cited include Finnish planes downed and Red planes lost.
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Mannikkala
Red Army
Student Plunges Fifty Feet Into Old Mine Shaft
Fred Lines, 21, Montana School of Mines junior, fell 50 feet into the Black Warrior shaft north of Rocker while measuring a head trace. Saved by a plank, he was lifted by firemen and police after a heroic rescue led by fireman James Roe. Lines suffered a fractured shoulder, rib injury, and concussion but is expected to recover. fellow students Wendell Erickson and Eric Moum assisted.
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Fred Lines
Montana School of Mines
Rocker
James L. Roe
Butte
Wendell Erickson
Eric Moum
Wolf Point
Lines
Bermuda
St. James Hospital
Limes
Erickson
Fire Department
William Breen
Tom Calpin
James Clark
City
Carl Smith
Fred Martin
James Roe
James Goggin
Southgate Attacked by Submarine Near Puerto Rico
British freighter Southgate, 4826 tons, reported being attacked by a U boat about 130 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. No details on outcome. U.S. Coast Guard Unalga and three destroyers dispatched to aid, first definite submarine attack in American waters.
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Southgate
Puerto Rico
Mackay Radio
Miami
Fla
Central America
Europe
United States
Tenth Naval District
Coast Guard
Unalga
Navy
McLeish
Statterlee
Mason
Coulmore
Boston
Regional Ski Meet Opens In Anaconda
Skiers from 15 Montana cities converge on Anaconda for the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Association championship slalom and downhill events. Downhill races start Saturday at 1 p.m. at Blue Grouse hill on Upper Warm Springs creek, 10 miles west. The two day meet closes Sunday with a Class A jumpers contest to benefit Casper Oimoen after his leg injury last year. Led by Alf Engen of Sun Valley, seven to ten ski teams participate.
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Montana
Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Association
Blue Grouse Hill
Forest Service
Warm Springs Creek
Here
Casper Oimoen
Wraith Hill
Alf Engen
Sun Valley
Hero Fireman Leads Rescue From Abandoned Mine Shaft
J L Roe of the city fire department played the key part in rescuing Fred Lines a Mines student who fell 50 feet into an abandoned shaft and survived the peril.
Salt Lake City weighs $300000 hangar for United Airlines
Salt Lake City officials indicated the city would consider building a $300000 hangar for United Air Lines new 40 passenger Douglas planes if the company agrees to pay at least $23000 annual rent. The city commission signaled this today.
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Salt Lake City
United Air Lines
Montana Weekend Forecast Turns Partly Cloudy
The Montana forecast calls for partly cloudy skies on Saturday and Sunday with toasty warmth on Saturday. Residents should expect warmer daytime temperatures and light winds across the region.
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Montana
Long fails to summon legislature for special session
Baton Rouge March 1 Governor Ear K Long failed to assemble a six day special session to repeal laws expanding the attorney general's power as lawmakers did not appear before the noon deadline. Jones the governor designate faced the unfolding maneuver as Democratic officials met to discuss the next steps.
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Baton Rouge
Ear K. Long
Sam H. Jones
Long
Eugene Stanley
Huey Long
Stanley
Governor Long
Montana postal employes to hold convention in Butte
More than 300 Montana postal employes are expected to gather in Butte June 8 and 9 for a joint two day convention of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks and the National Association of Letter Carriers. State auxiliary meetings will also be held. A joint arrangements committee has begun planning.
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Butte
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
National Association of Letter Carriers
John Lynch
Thomas Foley
John Jackson
Ray Arrigoni
John Gilmore
al Burke
James Duncan
Robert Sheridan
Tim Barrett
Welles To Meet Hitler This Morning Amid Air Raids
German bombers attacked British and neutral shipping off the British Isles in convoy action said to be dispersed with no ships sunk during the raid. The German agency claimed several large ships sunk and noted attacks on trawlers from Yorkshire to the Thames. The British reported losses including men on the Pyrrhus and damage to neutral vessels.
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London
British Isles
Britain
Berlin
Yorkshire
Thames
Solon Presses Fight to Omit 1940 Census Personal Queries
Washington March 1 Senator Tobey challenged inclusion of personal census items, targeting divorce questions as a possible barrier to employment. Census statistician defended the historic divorce query while others warned elimination could discredit the census and spark public backlash. The subcommittee plans a vote on Tobey’s income question repeal Monday.
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Washington
Tobey
R.N.H
Senate
Leon FE. ‘Truesdell
Census Bureau Statistician
Edward J. Noble
Commerce
Maloney
D.conn
Davis
R.-Pa
Ralph M. Houser
Indiana
Truesdell
Welles to Press Hitler on War Aim in Berlin Visit
Sumner Welles, U.S. Undersecretary of State, arrives in Berlin on a fact finding tour to Roosevelts administration. He reports Germany intends to fight on until liberated from British economic power and rejects peace talks unless on German terms. Welles meets Joachim von Ribbentrop and Ernst von Weizsacker amid strained German American relations.
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Berlin
Sumner Welles
Adolf Hitler
Germany
United States
Roosevelt
Italy
Welles
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Baron Ernst von Weizsagener
Foreign Office
Hitler
Sunday Standard Preview Promises Broad Reading Hours
Montana Standard presents the Sunday Standard featuring a prize play condensation on John Peter Zenger and America’s fight for press freedom. It also covers acute alcoholism arrests, legal tax tips, and Big Hole basin women’s effort to build a modern highway, with illustrations throughout.
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Montana Standard
Sunday Standard
Big Hole
Cohan Daughter Delays Elopement Under Three Day Law
Mary Cohan daughter of George M. Cohan ran into Pennsylvania three day marriage law while attempting an elopement with a nightclub accordion player. She said tonight she was glad the marriage hadn’t occurred.
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New York
Mary Cohan
George M. Cohan
Pennsylvania
Girl Bride in Columbus Home as Kidnapping Charge Looms
Adeline Guse, 14, the bride in a Columbus elopement, remained at her parents home near Columbus Mont last night sobbing yet hopeful for parental blessing on a marriage planned for Wednesday noon to Frank May, a school bus driver. Her father had returned her from Butte, where May was jailed on kidnapping charges.
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Schoo
Columbus
Mont
Frank May
Adeline
A. E. Guse
Adeline Guse May
Butte
May
Frank Murphy
Mr. Guse
Murphy
Final Plea Made to Public as Milk Drive Nears Close
The Rotana milk fund drive ends today with a large shortfall. Contributions are still needed to provide milk for Butte's undernourished children next year. Donations accepted at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters until 5 p.m. today.
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Chamber of Commerce
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