British Raids Across Denmark France and Norway Reported
London May 3. Aircraft over Copenhagen dropped bombs as anti aircraft batteries fired 45 minutes. R A F continued northern France raids with four German fighters destroyed. Targets included Pas de Calais docks at Dunkerque and Abbeville airfield. British losses were three fighters. Germans hit one southeast English coast town with casualties. Cross Swiss territory and mines laid. a large tanker off Alesund, Norway, was set ablaze.
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London
Copenhagen
Denmark
France
Norhern
Pas de Calais
Dunkerque
Abbeville
England
Reuters
Stockh
Sevensak Dagbladet
Sweden
Vichy
Baltic
Italy
British
Air Ministry
Stockholm
Luebeck
Bern
Coastal Command
Alesund
Norway
School of Mines to Confer Honorary Degrees at Commencement
The Montana School of Mines will award honorary degrees to two state citizens during the 40th annual commencement exercises next Friday evening. Fifty five candidates will receive collegiate degrees at the world famed mining college ceremony.
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School of Mines
Montana School of Mines
Mining College
Hartzell to Receive Honor At Mines Commencement
Prof Lester J Hartzell veteran chemistry professor at the Montana School of Mines will retire this year and be named professor emeritus An honorary doctor of science degree will be conferred and Chief Justice Howard A Johnson will receive an honorary LL D The awards will be presented by Dr Francis A Thomson with Governor Sam C Ford among distinguished guests at Friday ceremonies Hartzell has taught since 1904 and is the oldest serving faculty member.
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Lester J. Hartzell
School of Mines
Hartzell
Howard A. Johnson
Montana Supreme Court
Montana
A. E. Koenig
Sam C. Ford
Johnson
Francis A. Thomson
Montana School of Mines
State Board of Education
N. R. Leonard
Leonard
Charles H. Bowman
Charles H. Clapp
George W. Craven
Lake City
Colo
Justice Johnson
Governor Ford
Russians Plan Spring Offensive Amid Front Oaths
Moscow May 3. Red army troops along the 2000 mile front took oaths to make 1942 the year of final defeat for Germany. Pravda said spring conditions will change soon and the Red army will press the offensive. Stalin’s May Day order was read to troops and civilians near front lines. 1500 Germans killed on the Leningrad front with prisoners and gear taken.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalin
Pravda
Orel
Kharkov
Leningrad
DeWitt Orders 6500 Japanese Removal Across Pacific Coast States
Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt head of the western defense command ordered 6,500 Japanese removed from portions of California Arizona and Washington late next week in a wartime relocation plan.
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San Francisco
U.P
John L. DeWitt
Western Defense Command
California
Arizona
Washington
Community Concert Group Starts Local Membership Drive
Butte area residents are invited to join the annual campaign of the Butte Community Concert Association with offices at the Butte Chamber of Commerce on West Broadway. Campaign runs to May 23 with a meeting for captains and workers at 8 pm in the Finlen hotel. President Alf Kremer will preside and Mrs. G E Mill notes high public interest in concerts. The speaker links music’s role to a broader world in wartime.
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Butte Community Concert Association
Butte Chamber of Commerce
West Broadway
G. E. Mill
Finlen
Alf Kremer
Mill
Russia
Reorganization of Government in Spain Starts
Private advices report Spain moving to reorganize Madrid government with conservative factions opposing Axis collaboration. Anti Axis demonstrations and an assassination attempt target pro Axis labor minister. army-Falangist tensions grow, while many army officers avoid further Axis War against Russia.
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United Press
Spain
Germany
Italy
Madrid
New York
Falange Party
Russia
Ramon Serrano Suner
Francisco Franco
Falange
Jose Varela
Alcala Street
Brazil
Questa
Jose Antonio de Riviera
Japs Push Through Burma Front As Fighting Rages
Reuters from Chungking reports Japanese forces drive north from Lashio toward Yunnan and Mandalay as fierce battles rack Burma. Flying Tigers strike Lashio air drome while Chinese and British defenses reel amid heavy losses on both sides.
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London
Reuters
Chungking
Lashio
Burma Road
Burma
Kweichieh
Mandalay
China
India
Yunnan Province
Flying Tigers
New Delhi
Irrawaddy
Mandalay-Lashio
Domei
Former President Leads in Colombia Voting
Former President Alfonso Lopez is ahead of Dr. Carlos Arango Velez by a sizable margin after early returns from Sunday's presidential election. Lopez led in Bogota with 33 119 votes to Arango's 12 415 and held similar margins in other districts as he campaigns to become Colombia's 68th chief executive.
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Bogota
Colombia
Alfonso Lopez
Carlos Arango Velez
Lopez
Eduardo Santos
Arango
Army Bomber Crashes in Oregon. Nine Dead
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crashed in the Blue mountains near Pendleton Oregon on a training flight. Six of eight crew members died instantly and two others were injured, with Technical Sergeant Wallace surviving in a dazed condition after crawling two miles to warn a motorist. Surviving crew were identified by home towns including Philadelphia and Baton Rouge. Rescue teams from Pendleton Army Air Base recovered the scene and transported the injured.
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Pendleton
Ore
Blue Mountains
Here
Wesley FE. Wallace
Philadelphia
Pendleton Army Air Base
Wallace
John H. Starr
Littleton
Mass
Frank W. Wright
Joseph T. H. Laycock
Baton Rouge
James M. Brown
Pleasant Hill
Farmers Favor Wheat Program Continues in Referendum
Wheat growers' referendum results indicate over 75 percent vote to continue the federal marketing control program for another season. With about three-quarters of votes counted, 174,913 favored quotas and 56,745 opposed, across voting states including Colorado Montana Wyoming.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
Japan's Burma Advance May Aim at Kunming Front
War summary notes Japanese progress through Burma with Lashio and the Burma road reaching the China frontier. Analysts view the Burma campaign as aimed at closing China’s back door rather than a broader plan to seize China, with Kunming as the next critical target from Indo China.
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Japan
Burma
China
Malaya
Java
Philip
Lashio
South China
Kunming
Indo-China
War Department lists 121 new Philippines casualties
The War Department announced 121 additional American deaths in the Philippines, bringing total World War II dead to 3,395. The list includes 3 officers and 118 enlisted men, with Navy and Marine losses contributing to the tally. officials warned the Philippine casualties list remains incomplete with more names to come. No Montana casualties were listed.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Montana
War department seeks record $35 billion wartime appropriation
Informed legislators expect a presidential request of about 35 billion dollars for the War department to reach Congress within a week. The proposal would push total military appropriations and contracts past 190 billion in two years, funding 23,000 more planes, tanks, anti aircraft guns, and artillery for an army over 4 million.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Budget Bureau
Cochran
D.-Mo
Appropriations Committee
House
Sugar Rationing Registration Opens In Butte
Registration for sugar ration books starts at 9 am today in Butte with 400 teachers volunteers and Parent-Teacher group members aiding. Offices stay open 9 am to 9 pm in elementary schools through Thursday for every man woman and child to register, regardless of eligibility.
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Butte
Nazi warships out of action, Hitler fleet struck
London officials say the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen are definitely out of action and need extensive repairs after torpedo and bombing attacks, mines, and submarine actions in the English Channel. Only three vessels remain ready for combat at Trondheim.
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Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Pring Eugen
English Channel
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
United States
Adolf Hitler
Trondheim
Norwegian
Tirpitz
Admiral Scheer
Admiral Hipper
Goynia
A. F
US Fighters Down 15 Nipponese Planes Over New Guinea
US fighter planes with cannon and machine guns struck at Japanese forces around Lae and Salamaua. Lt. Col. Boyd Wagner led the mission and downed four Zeros, while the squadron leader claimed another, as Allied airmen reported sinking ships and damaging many enemy aircraft in a week of intense operations northeast of Australia.
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MacArthur
Melbourne
U.P
United States
New Guinea
United Nations
Australia
Lae
Salamaua
Port Moresby
Downs
Boyd
Buzz) Wagner
Philippines
Activians Name Montana District Governor at Meet
MISSOULA May 3. Paul T. Keller Helena attorney was named district governor of the Activians for the Montana and Alberta district as the gathering closed. Butte was chosen as the 1943 district convention site with date to be announced. Delegates came from Helena Butte Deer Lodge Anaconda and Missoula. The closing session focused on advancing the club objectives.
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Missoula
Paul T. Keller
Helena
Activians
Montana
Alberta
Butte
Deer Lodge
Anaconda
Florence
A W Anderson Elected Memorial Day Group Chairman
A W Anderson of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was named chairman of the joint Memorial Day committee at a Sunday meeting in Patriotic Hall. He will lead preparations for Butte’s Memorial Day observance on May 30 including rites in Butte Memorial Park.
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A. W. Anderson
Joint Memorial Day Group
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Chaiirman
Joint Memorial Day Committee
Patriotic Hall
Anderson
Paul A. Rooney
Margaret LaForest
Buttes Memorial Park
Butte
Jacksan
Pat Deloughery
William van Orden
United Spanish War Veterans
Wendell P. Johnson
Bion Hall
American Legion
Ed A. Wille
Leo Marvin
Anna M. Quinn
Women’s Relief
Ball
Pearl Head
Pearl Doherty
Earl Young
EF. A. Wille
Wendell Johnson
American Legion Auxiliary
Charlies Brazier
Marine Corps League
Ed Lappin
Oscar Puykonen
Ed Saladi
Navy
Anna M
Tee
Activitee
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Kipling City
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Farmers Favor Wheat
the War News
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