Fight Between Romanian and Hungarian Border Guards Reported
Moscow reports a two hour clash near Bretzky between Romanian and Hungarian border guards, Balkan satellites of Hitler. Twenty Hungarians died, Romanians carried the bodies back. Tass notes movements along the frontier as Romania seeks Transylvania and greater territory while Hungary challenges Romanian claims. Antonescu reiterates determination to regain former lands.
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Moscow
Rumania
Hungary
Balkan
Adolf Hitler
New
Europe
Eastern Front
Bretzky
Transylvania
Tass
Hitler
Budapest
Bucharest
Rumani
Russia
Reuters
Vichy
France
Ion Antonescu
Vets to Conduct Poppy Campaign
Post 1448 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsors the twenty first Buddy Poppy sale on Memorial Day weekend Saturday May 16. C B Skoog is drive chairman and Ed ward A Wille notes the funds will aid active service members and their dependents for the first time in 20 years.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Edward A. Wille
C. B. Skoog
Wille
Nurses Honor Mary With Colorful Mother's Day Ceremony
At St James Hospital on Sunday afternoon nurses gathered for a procession to the grotto statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. Miss Mary Brunzell led as queen with attendants and nurses in blue capes sang, a dedication followed by Ave Maria and a flower crown blessing.
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St. James Hospital
Virgin Mary
Our Lady of Lourdes
Mary Brunzell
Hospital Lawn
Tiny Harriet Sullivan
Carol McGee
Brunzell
Alice Morgenstern
Violet McNellis
Annabelle Hoepfner
Jean Sullivan
Geraldine Flannigan
Helen O’keefe
Sodality
Connie Gene Conway
Patriotic Dinner Set to Draw Crowd in Mining City
Butte expects a large turnout next Saturday for the first annual Patriotic dinner hosted by the South Side Democratic club. The FPinten hotel will host the event at 8 p.m. Speakers include William Meyer and possibly Postmaster General Frank C. Walker if schedules permit.
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Butte
South Side
Democratic Club
Fpinten Hotel
William Meyer
Democratic
Frank C. Walker
Walker
Arthur Lamey
Democratic Central Committee
Lamey
Washington
U S Partially Lifts Veil on Tokyo Raid
The War department disclosed that the April 18 daylight air attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities used American Army bombers. It said large fires burned for days and bombing targeted military, naval, and industrial plants near Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya and other localities. The communique noted enemy losses and casualties while withholding base locations and bomber losses.
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Washington
War Department
Tokyo
Yokohama
Nagoya
United States
Japan
Sweden Faces New Nazi War of Nerves
Sweden reports nine hours of interrupted telephone links with Germany as Berlin hints at forthcoming “good news.” The suspension echoes Nazi wartime nerve tactics used before the Russian campaign and around the May 10 blitz anniversary.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Germany
Berlin
London
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
France
Japanese Volcano Erupts in Major Outbreak Near Tokyo
Asama-Yama, Japan’s largest active volcano about 100 miles northwest of Tokyo, produced its greatest eruption in years on Saturday night. A thick rain of cinders covered miles, described by Brussels radio as a catastrophe. The crater is about three-fourths of a mile wide and the volcano stands 8,280 feet high.
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Berlin
Asama-Yama
Japan
Tokyo
Brussels
London
Pulitzer Prize Winner Dies at 79 Weston Home
Forest Wilson Pulitzer Prize biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe died at his Weston Connecticut home. He won the 1949 prize for Crusader in Crinoline, praised as a distinguished biography teaching patriotism and unselfish service. In Missoula Virgil Barry, 20, died from third degree burns after a fuel can exploded while lighting a stove.
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Weston, Conn
Forest Wilson
Fairfield County
Wilson
Crinoline
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Missoula
Virgil Barry
St. Ignatius
War News Boosts Pacific Fight Readers Hopeful
Reported daylight bombing by bomber fleets over Japan and the Navy claim of sinking or crippling two aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea lift spirits across the Pacific war. Churchill says American British sea power will seize and keep Japan down aided by overwhelming air power. The Coral Sea actions, if confirmed, could deal a severe blow to Japan’s western Pacific dominance. continuous coverage notes potential succession to Pearl Harbor era carrier counts.
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Army
Japan
Navy
Coral Sea
Churchill
War Department
Western Pacific
Pearl Harbor
United States
Reds Capture Strategic Nazi Defenses
Soviet reports say on the Kalinin front near Moscow the Red Army seized a strategic German defense line and destroyed a 2500-man tank-led regiment. Guerrilla actions expanded as northwest of Moscow and in Crimea bands attacked garrisons, killed hundreds, and seized villages. The Black Sea fleet reported a Soviet torpedo boat sinking a large enemy transport. Russia aims to surge tank production per Stalin’s 1942 May Day order.
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Moscow
U.P
Kalinin
Red Army
Moscow Radio
Central Front
Crimea
Black Sea
Alexander Gorelglyad
Russia
Josef Stalin
Germany
Gorelglyad
Annual Conclave Opens Thursday in Butte
Officers and members of the Montana Funeral Directors Association meet in Butte for a three day convention at the Hotel Finlen. H M Brundage of Dillon will preside with Ralph J Conrad as secretary treasurer. The executive board includes Brundage White Kendrick Clayton Bray and Conrad. Sam White Sr the oldest member will help arrange and welcome delegates starting Wednesday.
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Montana Funeral Directors’ Association
Butte
Sam R. White, Jr
Finlen
H. M. Brundage
Dillon
Ralph J. Conrad
Helena
Brundage
Mr. White
William Kendrick
Anaconda
Thomas Ashworth
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Barry O'Leary
L. M. Clayton
Wolf Point
Butte Weather Forecast Rain Snow Higher Elevations
A weather forecast for Butte calls for rain in the lowlands and snow at higher elevations with cooler conditions. Sunday temperatures are expected to reach a high of 52 and a low of 39 degrees.
41 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed in Malta Raids
Malta reports 41 enemy aircraft destroyed or damaged in raids Saturday night and Sunday. Thirty three bombers and eight fighters involved with mixed outcomes including 12 bombers destroyed 10 probably destroyed and 11 damaged. One fighter destroyed two probably destroyed and five damaged. Heavy fighting and full anti aircraft fire. 75 percent of Valletta property uninhabitable with losses across homes churches schools convents and hospitals.
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Valletta
Malta
Churchill warns Germany on gas warfare and vows retaliation
In a wartime address Churchill warns Hitler that Britain will wage gas warfare far and wide against Germany if gas is used against Russia. He pledges a major British American bombing offensive and asserts the shift of balance in favor of the United Nations. He notes Russia's concern over German poison gas and says Britain will respond decisively if provoked.
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London
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Britain
Germany
Russia
United Nations
Churchill
Tass
Crimean
Krasnador
Japanese Force In China Destroyed In Burmese Road Battle
Chinese troops and American flyers trapped and wiped out a Japanese mechanized column entering China via the Burma road near Chefang. About 4,500 Japanese were killed and the survivors fled toward the Burma frontier as another Chinese army moved from Mandalay to strike Japanese lines.
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Chungking
U.P
China
Burma
Chefang
Mandalay
Maymyo
Taunggyi
Allied Bombers Sink Submarines in Coral Sea Fight
Allied planes off northeastern Australia sunk or damaged two Japanese submarines, raising the tally of ships sunk or damaged since May 4 to 21. The bulletin notes attacks on seaplanes in the Louisiade archipelago and an Allied effort against Port Moresby as Japanese fighters engaged.
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Allied
Australia
General MacArthur
Coral Sea
Louisiade
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Coral
Afa
Mother's Day breakfast drawtCatholic alumni crowd at Finlen
More than four hundred attended the annual Mother's Day breakfast at the Finlen hotel sponsored by Catholic Central high school. Bishop Joseph M. Gilmore presided over mass at St Marys church and speakers included Miss Jane Marie Sullivan on the topic Mother.
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Finlen Hotel
Catholic Central High School
St. Mary's Church
Joseph M. Gilmore
Helena
Angeline O'Leary
Jane Marie Sullivan
Jane Quane
Anaconda
Elmer Harrington
Cyrilla Mead
Michael Harrington
Margaret O’neill
Anna Marie Peoples
Girls’ Central High School
Broughton MacCarthy
Christian Brothers’ High School
Bishop Gilmore
J. F. Sheehan
Girls’ Central
M. 8. Toohey
Christian Brothers
Margie Gilmore
Dan Holland
Margaret Connors
Julia
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