Reds Report Gains in the Caucasus
London reports Russian troops breaking through Axis defenses near Novorossisk as a coordinated Soviet offensive pushes toward the port. Moscow says 21 German planes were shot down, 190 German losses in air battles, while Berlin notes Red amphibious forces and barges entering the Kuban lowlands as part of a widening assault in the Caucasus.
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London
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Tunisia
Moscow
Monitor
Black Sea
Taman
Crimea
Red
Berlin
Reuters
Red Army
Kuban
Sea of Azov
Axis
Africa
Mothers to Get Tributes Today
Butte families join a national second wartime Mother s Day observance as chairs sit empty around tables. Churches will honor mothers with services and songs while women cook the Sunday meal or take a brief rest. Rationing of food and leisure dulls the day, shortening traditional outings.
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Butte
Mother
Food Price Ceilings Set For Butte Anaconda Area
The Office of Price Administration announced new ceiling prices for a wide range of food items in Butte Anaconda Helena Great Falls. Prices take effect May 10 with stores required to post ceilings on items. The plan includes top prices for brands sizes and containers and calls for enforcement against undercutting ceilings.
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Helena
Office of Price Administration
Wseeewes Sree
Butte- Anaconda
A. T. Peterson
OPA
Butte
Anaconda
Great Falls
Peterson
Welfare board authorizes 50000 for Warm Springs Boulder
Montana welfare board, in a special meeting at Helena on May 8, authorized using up to 50 000 from general relief and contingency funds to support Warm Springs state hospital and Boulder training school until July 1 new appropriations take effect. Governor Ford recommended the action to avoid a special legislative session. O A Bergeson of Dillon, board chairman, stated the measure.
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Helena
U.P
Montana Welfare Board
Warm Springs
Boulder
Sam C. Ford
O. A. Bergeson
Dillon
British expect summer assaults around Europe after Tunisia
London reports Britain believes Hitler plans a summer series of attacks around Europe from Norway to Greece following the Tunisian campaign. The Daily Telegraph says Africa was a prelude to larger actions, with some feints and some decisive strikes likely this year. Conferences for a final strategy may be underway as Roosevelt sends Joseph Davies abroad.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Norway
Greece
Tunisia
Daily Telegraph
Britain
Telegraph
Hitler
Roosevelt
Joseph E. Davies
U. S
Japanese Troop Transport Sunk Off Madang New Guinea
Allied air attacks sank a Japanese transport crowded with troops near Madang on New Guinea's north coast. A second vessel, a small cargo ship, began sinking after bombing. Japanese fighters contested the raid. one interceptor fell, two damaged, and another destroyed on the ground.
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Vern Haugland
Australia
Madang
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Lae
Salamaua
Huon Gulf
Rabaul
Gazelle
New Britain
Charge Nazis Using War Prisoners as Live Targets
Moscow radio reported by CBS in New York claims Germans use Russian war prisoners as live targets to train recruits. A prisoner testified that at Schwiebus Germany the commander ordered five prisoners used in shooting practice and killed after wounding them in many places.
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Moscow Radio
CBS
New York
Schwiebus
Germany
Truman committee to probe service airplane crashes
Washington May 8. Chairman Harry S Truman said the Senate war investigating committee is examining crashes of service airplanes but will not announce conclusions before thorough review. The remark came as the group pursues a careful, stalled inquiry into aviation incidents.
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Washington
U.P
Harry S. Truman
Dmo
Senate War Investigating Committee
Japanese Threaten British Bases East of India
New Delhi May 8. Reinforced Japanese columns widen the wedge between imperial forces in western Burma and pose a direct threat to the two main British bases east of India. A communiqué says the foe has entrenched along the Maungdaw Buthidaung road four miles west of Buthidaung, isolating the town.
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New Delhi
India
U.P
Burma
Archibald Wavell
Maungdaw - Buthidaung
Buthidaung
Polish Division Approved by Soviet on Red Army Front
London dispatch reports Moscow announced Sunday that Russia approves forming a Polish division on Soviet soil to join the Red army in the fight against Germany, a decision broadcast via the Soviet monitor.
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London
Red Army
Moscow
Monitor
Sugar Outlook for Montana Beet Growers in 1943 Season
The Montana sugar beet crop faces a sour consumer market but hopeful prospects for growers. With an estimated 748,800 tons and roughly $9 million in value, 1943 prices average about $12 per ton, higher than 1942. Government payments plus factory incentives push growers toward about $12 per ton, while a 65,000 acre goal contrasts with 77,000 harvested in 1942. Labor shortages, delayed seeding, and slow price and acreage decisions cloud certainty, with Billings projecting about 20,000 acres and Missoula aiming for 12,000.
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Montana
Uncle Sam
State War Production Board
Billings
Missoula
Rum Plan Wins Approval in Senate Finance Vote
The Senate finance committee approved 13 to 7 a Ruml Carlson pay as you earn tax bill excusing the 1942 or 1943 taxes whichever is lower for new incomes, despite Treasury opposition and Democratic dissent. Debate on the measure is expected to begin soon with a possible floor passage by next weekend. The House previously rejected the Ruml Carlson plan and passed a partial Forand Robertson abatement bill.
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Washington
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Randolph Paul
Treasury General Counsel
Barkley
Kentucky
George
D.-Ga
Seader
Doughton
D.-N.c
Forand-Robertson
Mussolini Orders Strengthened Italian Police Force
Swiss police force and weapons were to be expanded under Mussolini to suppress any disorder in Italy, according to the Basle National Zeitung report dated May 8.
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Bern
Switzerland
U.P
Basle
National Zeitung
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Narvik Raided by British Bombers Heavy Night Assault
British bombers heavily raided Narvik last night focusing on the harbor area and unloading many bombs, according to reports from Stockholm. The Norwegian port city faced intensified bombardment amid ongoing World War II operations.
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Narvik
Stockholm
U.S
Death of Herman Haller Ends Noted German Producer Life
London May 8 Herman Haller aged 71 once hailed as the Ziegfeld of Germany a millionaire producer of musical shows before the Nazi era died in poverty in London on Friday His rise to wealth followed by the fall during the Nazi takeover is sketched in a concise obituary notice noting his former fame and current destitution in exile.
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London
U.P
Herman Haller
Germany
Says America Again Will Ban Liquor
Westerville Ohio May 8 Dr Howard H Russell predicts America will be bone dry again by 1950 on the eve of the Anti Saloon Leagues fiftieth anniversary He says public sentiment is swinging back toward prohibition after a decade of repeal and it wont be stopped
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Westerville
Ohio
America
Howard H. Russell
Anti- Saloon League
Big French Army Is Being Built
In Casablanca French Morocco on May 8 the United States announced plans to arm and train a growing French force in North Africa. A French army of at least 11 divisions will mirror American structure and receive the newest weapons and combat methods from U S Fifth Army experts. Five French divisions already exist in the region along with tank and anti aircraft units and various support services.
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Casablanca
French Morocco
United States
North Africa
U. S
Americans Hit Kiska and Attu in New Aleutians Raids
American airmen hammered Kiska five times and Attu seven times from the Amchitka base as part of a continuous assault. Attu saw the heaviest single day air strike this month, with fires started at the target.
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Washington
U.P
Kiska
Attu
Aleutians
Amchitka Island
Navy
U. S
Amchitka
Paramushiru
Kuriles
George Vivian Elected President of Mines Alumni Association
George Vivian, chief sampler for Anaconda Copper Mining, was elected president of the Montana School of Mines Alumni Association at its annual business meeting Saturday afternoon. Wallace O'Brien retired as president and presided over a banquet at the Finlen hotel for the 1943 graduating class.
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George Vivian
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Montana School of Mines Alumni Association
Wallace O’brien
Finlen Hotel
Butte
Montana
United States
Axis Prisoners Are Counted in Thousands
Allied pursuit in Tunisia tightens as remnants of the Axis African army retreat toward Cap Bon. American armor and infantry close in from the Gulf of Tunis while Tunis and Bizerte streets are cleared. Axis prisoners are counted by the thousands as Chouigui and nearby towns fall under Allied control.
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North Africa
Gulf of Tunis
Cap Bon
Africa
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Creteville
Yap Bon Peinsula
Hammamet
U. S. Army
Chouigui
Chouigui Pass
Tebourba
Allies Sink 17 More Vessels
Allied airmen intensified a near nonstop campaign in North Africa striking between Tunis and Bizerte and along the Cap Bon peninsula. On Friday they sunk 17 enemy ships and damaged around 30 more despite bad weather, while fighters targeted highways and patrolled the Gulf of Tunis to hinder retreating Axis ships and personnel.
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Tunis
Bizerte
Cap Bon
North Africa
U.P
Gulf of Tunis
U. S
Marettimo Island
Sicily
U.S. Army Air Force
Royal Air Force
Tunisia
Mediterranean
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International Soundphoto
Butte, Anaconda
Europe
By E. C. Daniel
United Press
Treasure State
By Jack Bell
By Don Whitehead
Mines Alumni Association
North
William B. King
Pont du Fahs
Medjez-el-Babe- Ksar Tyr
Ain El-Asker
Bir M’cherga
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