Wage Policies Facing Another Test
Chicago May 3. A federal emergency fact finding board heard closing arguments in 15 non operating railroad brotherhoods demanding 20 cents an hour raises with a 70 cent minimum for 900000 workers. Railroads argue the program only allows increases to substandard wages and 15 percent above January 1 1941 levels. Arguments continue tomorrow.
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Chicago
Frank Mulholland
Toledo
Union
Brotherhoods
William Joyner
Butte Defense Review Praises Silver Bow Units
Major James R. Barker of the Ninth Service command in Salt Lake City lauds Silver Bow county Citizens' Defense for efficient operation and strong unit cooperation. The mass meeting at Butte High followed a city wide test with 800+ attendees, while Barker notes room for improvement in incident handling and dispatch timing.
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James R. Barker
Ninth Service Command Protection Unit
Ninth Service Command
Salt Lake City
Silver Bow County
Barker
Butte High School
Eugene Savage
W. G. Ferguson
Helena
Butte
Nazis claim sinking 84 Allied ships in April
Berlin radio tally reported 84 Allied vessels sunk in April totaling 423000 tons, including 63 merchantmen and 21 warships from motor torpedo boats to a carrier. U.S. Navy denied Ranger sinking and the claim noted ongoing air attacks on U-boats.
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Associated Press
High Command
Berlin
New York
Ranger
North Atlantic
United States Navy Department
Transocean News Agency
William Fox Freed After 514 Months In Federal Case
William Fox a former major motion picture producer was released from the Northeastern federal penitentiary in Lewisburg Pennsylvania after serving 514 months of a year and a day sentence for conspiring to obstruct justice and defraud the United States in bankruptcy proceedings.
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Lewisburg
William Fox
Northeastern Federal Penitentiary
United States
Jeffers Patterson Feud Nearing End
In Washington on May 3, William M. Jeffers and Undersecretary Patterson plan a joint tour of war plants to uncover bottlenecks. Patterson cites gasoline shortages hampering the war effort while noting aircraft losses are lower than anticipated and that both men share the goal to win the war.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Patterson
Jeffers
Truman Committee
Jeff
Butte City Council Reorganized With Five New Faces
The Butte city council reorganized at a special meeting with a 14 Democrat and two Republican majority. Alderman Emmet Malone was elected president and Alderman John Lindquist vice president, both chosen unanimously. Mayor O Leary urged strict economy and cooperation amid wartime uncertainty.
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Butte
Emmet Malone
John Lindquist
Malone
Frank Moran
Lindquist
Thomas R. Morgan
Barry O'Leary
Beryl Wilson
John
Montana Jack) Sullivan
John T. Sullivan
Dewey McGeehan
John E. O'Neill
Emmet Kelly
Walter Kinared
Fred B. Christy
Frank T. McCarthy
Pete Sodja
John Haggerty
Phil J. Doherty
H. B. Strasser
Ray J. Kunz
Frank McCarthy
H. B. (Heinie) Strasser
O'Leary
Helen Harstead
Mary McDonald
Gas Victims In Dallas Hospitalized After Chlorine Blaze
Twenty three soldiers and firemen were rushed to Dallas area hospitals after inhaling chlorine fumes while battling a blaze at the Blanco Products factory near Love Field. The plant manufactures chlorine laundry bleach and the fire destroyed the facility.
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Dallas
Texas
Love Field
Blanco Products Company
Silver Bow County to Send Large Army Contingent Monday
Silver Bow County prepares one of its largest groups in months for induction. Army and Navy selectees sworn in at the Montana Army Recruiting and Induction center will report to training stations next Monday. Board 1 Army names Frank J. Shone Jr and others. Navy names William Turk and Francis Cleary among several. Board 2 Army includes Dan Shovlin and Louis Hettick with multiple More names listed.
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Silver Bow County
Armed Services
Army
Montana
Frank J. Shone, Jr
Adams
Herman Hall
Silver Bow
Michael F. Stern
Warren
Edward G. Markovich
Elm Street
William Co. Burt
Whitman
Chris Kallas
East Platinum Street
Allied air losses in Darwin raid blamed on weather
General MacArthur’s headquarters reported that weather forced several Spitfires down at sea during the Port Darwin raid, while Allied fighters outperformed the Japanese despite being outnumbered. British long range fighters damaged two enemy bombers and two fighters on Timor, with three Allied pilots missing. Three Japanese planes were shot down and ten damaged.
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MacArthur
Australia
U.P
Port Darwin
Koepang
Netherlands Timor
Darwin
Librarians Elect at Montana State Library Meeting
About 25 librarians from across Montana attended the Montana State Library association convention at the Finlen hotel in Butte. Officers were to be elected, with a luncheon to follow, after a banquet led by Mrs. Julia McMullen. Mayor Barry OLeary spoke, and Miss Eleanor Dougherty discussed Latin America at the event.
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Montana
Montana State Library Association
Finlen Hotel
Julia McMullen
Butte
Inez Haskins
Butte High School
Guinevere Crouch
Montana School of Mines
Extensive RAF daylight raids on Ijmuiden and Holland
The Royal Air Force conducted two large daylight sweeps over northern France and Holland, losing 11 bombers and two fighters. Targets included the Ijmuiden power station where bombs exploded as claimed by the air ministry. Five enemy fighters were shot down, with three downed by escorting British fighters over Holland and two over northern France.
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London
France
Holland
Ijmuiden
Air Ministry
Boston
President Roosevelt Signs War Time Mining Suspension
President Roosevelt signed a measure suspending the annual $100 labor or improvement requirement on mining claims on public property for the war duration. The suspension ends on the first day of July after the war, addressing manpower and material shortages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Heavy Guns Opened Up Against Nazis
London reports Russian heavy guns opened fire on the Kuban bridgehead with infantry attacks amid Axis aerial bombardment. A Moscow radio communique said Russians silenced four enemy batteries, destroyed four machine guns, and killed over a company of German troops.
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London
U.P
Kuban
Germany
Moscow
Novorossisk
Red Army
Caucasus
Russia
Sevsk
Kursk
Bryansk-Kiev
Leningrad
U. S. Shipyards Set Record for April Production
Washington May 3 American Merchant Shipyards delivered 157 ships totaling 1 606 600 deadweight tons in April. The Maritime Commission announced the 1943 total through four months reached 536 ships 5 370 200 deadweight tons, surpassing the first nine months of 1942. April construction ran at an annual rate over 19 000 000 tons, near the year’s target.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Weather Outlook for Tuesday Scattered Showers
Scattered showers expected Tuesday and Tuesday evening with little temperature change. Monday’s highs near 62 and lows around 34.
Lewis Says Miners Not Bound by No-Strike Pledge
John L. Lewis declared the United Mine Workers will not honor the no strike pledge and will push for a $2 daily wage increase for bituminous and anthracite miners. He outlined talks with Harold Ickes and said the new wartime labor framework will come from the administrator rather than the War Labor Board.
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Lewis
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U. M. W. International Policy Committee
Solid Fuels
Harold L. Ickes
Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
United States
Utah Youth Convicted in California Teacher Murder
A Utah federal court jury found Leroy E. Ritchey of Gowrie Iowa guilty of murder in the first degree in the California schoolteacher case and recommended he be spared the death penalty. The verdict came from a 12 member panel including 10 men and two women after deliberating on the May 3 decision.
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Salt Lake City
U.P
Utah
Leroy E. Ritchey
Gowrie
Iowa
California
George F Nevin Funeral Services Set for Thursday
Funeral services for George F. Nevin 68 longtime Anaconda Copper Mining Company employee and assistant mechanical superintendent will be held Thursday morning. The cortege forms at 9 at Daly-Shea mortuary and proceeds to St Mary church for a 9 30 solemn high mass with burial in St Patrick cemetery. Fourth degree Knights of Columbus will post an honor guard. He died Monday at his home from a heart ailment after six months of poor health. His death prompted many tributes from the mining community on the Butte hill.
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George F. Nevin
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Daly-Shea
St. Mary Church
St. Patrick Cemetery
Knights of Columbus
Mr. Nevin
Anaconda Road
United States
Nevin
Butte Hill
Way Cleared for Tax Bill Vote
In the House a heated opening to pays go tax debate cleared a path for a Tuesday vote on a bill to wipe out at least half of the $10 billion 1942 individual income tax. Democrats back a pay as you go plan. Republicans denounce it as harming loan sharks.
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Washington
House
Senate
Representative Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
R.-Minn
Roosevelt seeks funds to finish Shasta Dam and Central Valley links
President Roosevelt asks Congress for 16.4 million dollars to complete California’s Shasta Dam and finance Friant canal and two linking canals as part of the Central Valley project. Representative Albert Carter plans to press for inclusion of the request in the Interior department appropriation bill under review.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
California
Shasta
Central Valley
Albert Carter
R.calif
House Appropriations
Interior Department
Mateur Falls After 14 Mile Plunge In Tunisia War Push
Allied forces push through northern Tunisia seize Mateur a key Axis communications hub driving toward Bizerte and Tunis. French and American units advance near Bizerte as Axis defenses collapse, with heavy losses on both sides and the news wired from Allied headquarters.
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North Africa
Mateur
Tunisia
Africa
Bizerte
U.S
Tunis
Garnet Achkel
Algiers
United States
Green
Jenna
Stockmen Advised by Ration Board
Isolated camps may obtain meat and processed foods in advance through a new program announced by Hugh O’Keefe, chief clerk of the Silver Bow county war and ration board. Managers may apply now. approved applications will cancel war block stamps and issue a certificate for immediate bulk buying. Applicants must state camp headcount and available storing facilities.
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Hugh O'Keefe
Silver Bow County
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State
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Pine Street
Martin Campanella
Holmes
Michael J. Jozovich
Galena Street
Board No. 2
Dan P. Shovlin
West Virginia
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Lincoln
Meaderville
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Butte London Mine
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North Washington
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Ramon E. Webb
Mullin
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Box
Walter F. Taylor
Howard R. Olson
West Park
Wilfred J. Brunell
West Daly
Walkerville
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U. S
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Pal
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War Labor Board
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