Africans Prisoners Reach 175000 as Axis Surrenders
Allied forces report 175000 German and Italian captives in Tunisia with 1000 guns 250 tanks and vast equipment seized. Marshal Messe and Col Gen Jürgen von Arnim surrender as Mussolini claims the last Axis resistance ended in Africa. Rome and Berlin acknowledge the campaign’s end.
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Alexander
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Giovanni Messe
Eighth Army
Cap Bon
Ste. Marie du Zit
Jurgen von Arnim
Hitler
Extend Furlough for Inductees Brings 14-day Period
The Army extends new inductees furlough from 7 to 14 days with a plan to reach three weeks by September 1. Nine service command generals ordered to implement promptly, no later than July 1. Furlough helps drafted men wind up civilian affairs before reporting to reception centers.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Mussolini forms six marshal command for national defense
Rome reports a late Thursday communique says Premier Benito Mussolini has vested Italy’s defense in a six marshal hierarchy including King Victor Emmanuel and himself. The four others are Marshals Graziani Cavallero De Bono and Caviglia, veterans of campaigns in Africa Europe and World War I.
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Bern
U.P
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Victor Emanuel
United Nations
Africa
Europe
Rodolfo Graziani
Cyrenaica
Ugo Cavallero
Greece
Emilio de Bono
Enrico Caviglia
Rioting in Berlin signals unrest as invasion fears rise
A Reuters report from Stockholm cites Berlin riots as thousands of women and elderly outside the army information office seek fate of Africa corps members. SS troops reportedly moved to quell unrest while similar disturbances spread to Belgium and Holland amid disrupted rail arteries and martial law actions.
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Berlin
Reuters
Stockholm
Goteberg
Sweden
Handelstidningen
Africa Corps
Goteperg
Germany
Low Countries
Balkans
Europe
Belgium
Holland
Ickes press calls for action over WLB wage dispute
Fuels Administrator Ickes voiced impatience with the War Labor Board progress on wage disputes as a new coal mining crisis loomed. He announced a government step may be needed and began a price investigation of company stores in mining communities. Congress indicated no strike-restriction bill would likely pass before the coal truce expires next Tuesday.
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Washington
Ickes
War Labor Board
Office of Price Administration
Capitol
Ground Action Reported in New Guinea
Allied ground forces inflicted more than 95 Japanese casualties around Mubo New Guinea in the latest communique. Air attacks on Gasmata and other bases on New Britain disrupted enemy positions.
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Brydon C. Taves
McArthur
Australia
U.P
Mubo
New Guinea
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Port Moresby
Lababia Hill
Komatium
Green Hill
Lababia
Gasmata
Legion to Hold Citizenship Day Program Sunday
The American Legion Silver Bow post hosts a Citizenship Day program Sunday at Legion hall starting 2 30 PM under A G T club sponsorship. Howard Rich commands the post. Lt J G Minor will be the main speaker. invocations and prayers by Rev Floyd Logee and Rev Frank L Harrington accompany a musical program.
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Legion Hall
Roosevelt
A. G. T. Club
Silver Bow Post
American Legion
Naturalization School
The
Legion
Howard Rich
J. G. Minor
Marine Recruiting Office
Floyd Logee
Frank L. Harrington
World's best-paid unemployed man named Italian minister
Radio Moscow claimed in a Thursday broadcast, monitored by governments, that the Italian minister of colonies is the world’s best-paid unemployed man.
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Radio Moscow
Allies Stage Three Major Bombing Raids
Allied air forces conducted three major bombing strikes in 24 hours as RAF hit Duisburg in the Ruhr, American heavy bombers attacked Meaulte and St Omer in France, and Soviet long‑range bombers targeted Warsaw. Daring missions disrupted rail yards and key military targets amid high visibility air operations.
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London
Hitler
Royal Air Force
Duisburg
Warsaw
Meaulte
St. Omer
France
Omy
Hermann Goering
Red Air Force
Moscow
Praga
Eighth Air Force
Europe
Boulogne
Abbeville
Cherbourg
Netherlands
Belgium
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Bomber Command
MacArthur and Halsey Agree on Joint Southwest Pacific Ops
The two Allied leaders Gen Douglas MacArthur and Adm William F Halsey Jr met at a South Pacific base to pursue closer cooperation between their commands. A spokesman said MacArthur would command any joint operations and officials will exchange visits to coordinate the two zones and future offensives against Japan.
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MacArthur
Halsey
Southwest Pacific
Pacific Base
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
William F. Halsey
Southwest
South Pacific
Australia-New Guinea
Solomons
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
East Indies
Europe
Pacific
United Nations
Admiral Halsey
Death claims Patrick Wall former Butte mining man
Patrick Wall, about 80, a longtime Butte mining figure, died Wednesday night in San Francisco. He came to Butte from Michigan, worked at several mines, joined Alaska gold rush, and built wealth in real estate and placers at Gold Creek. He and Mrs Wall moved to California around 15 years ago. He was twice married with no children.
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Patrick Wall
Butte
San Francisco
Union Pacific
Daly-Shea Undertaking
Mr. Wall
Michigan
Rocker
Anaconda
St. Lawrence
Alaska
Klondike
East Butte Mining Company
C. S. Jackman
Gold Creek
Wall
California
May Thorne
Order of Hibernians
Insurance Department
Marcus Daly
Patrick
John Morony
Montana
Middle East Council Concludes Talks in Cairo
A four day Allied Middle East council conference ended with agreement on the shape and size of problems under discussion and recommendations for dealing with them. The issues were not disclosed but relate to the Middle East as a forthcoming war theater. Attendees included R G Casey and six high military officials along with ambassadors and civil officials. The conclusion noted no single necessary reason for the meeting beyond coinciding with Allied North Africa's final Axis defeat.
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Cairo
Middle East
North Africa
Weekend Snow Showers Forecast With Small Temperature Change
The forecast calls for snow showers Friday with little change in temperature. Thursday highs reach 44 degrees and a low around 20 degrees appear in the report.
Rome Says U-Boat Bases Were Virtually Destroyed
Radio Rome reported British and American raids had practically razed the submarine base towns of Lorient and St Nazaire on the French coast. It said entire sections of Le Havre Abbeville Dunkirk Brest Cherbourg Dieppe Rouen and Caen had been destroyed.
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Radio Rome
Lorient
St. Nazaire
French
le Havre
Abbeville
Dunkirk
Brest
Cherbourg
Dieppe
Rouen
Caen
Churchill to Address Congress for Second Time in War
Prime Minister Churchill will address a joint session of Congress Wednesday at 10 30 a m mountain war time after talks with President Roosevelt. It is his second wartime address since Pearl Harbor and follows Allied victories in Tunisia and rising Nazi resistance across occupied Europe.
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Washington
Churchill
Congress
Roosevelt
Rayburn
Senate
House
Pearl Harbor
Africa
Tunisia
Europe
Hull
Stimson
Cairo
Japan
India
Rural Scholarship Winners Named
Miss Maybelle Hogan announces 16 Silver Bow county students win rural scholarship honors after January and April tests. Winners will receive ribbons at the May 31 patriotic program at Ramsay school. Notable performers include Gerta Huber fifth grade and Rene Huber third grade with high scores, plus multiple first and second place finishers from Ramsay Meadow Gulch Browns Gulch Divide Gregson and Ram say.
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Silver Bow
Maybelle Hogan
Ramsay
Gerta Huber
Rene Huber
Bob Hardison
Meadow Gulch
Tinka Hardison
Jimmie Arnolds
Divide
Jeanne Erickson
Edward Harvey
Geraldine Demmons
Jimmie Young
Olive Earline Wahl
Rose Marie Miles
Nazi Raiders Trigger London Alert Amid Night Raids
German raiders prompted an hour long alert near London on Friday with no initial damage reported. A heavy barrage met the enemy and limited raids reached the city outskirts while a heavier strike hit eastern England for the seventh day in a row.
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London
England
Montana Society of Engineers to Hold 56th Annual Meeting
The Montana Society of Engineers announces its 56th annual meeting set for Saturday in Butte. Registration begins at 1 pm at the Montana Power auditorium with events to follow including talks by I J Buergey on mercury arc rectifiers and Dr Jesse Richardson on food preservation. An evening banquet features toastmaster W J McMahon and an orchestra with Dr Richardson as speaker.
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Montana Society of Engineers
William A. O’kelly
Butte
Montana Power Company
East Broadway
O’kelly
Fred D. Schwanz Butte
I. J. Buergey
Great Falls
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte Country Club
W. J. McMahon
Jesse Richardson
Montana State College
Ladies of the Engineers
Russian Breaks German Defenses Near Novorossisk Front
Soviet dispatches report 19 German artillery batteries destroyed north east of Novorossisk as Red Army presses toward the city. Luftwaffe air battles intensify with raids on Bryansk Orel and Warsaw. German positions falter under Russian bombardment and counterattacks near Lishchansk on the Donets.
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Moscow
Red Army
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Tass
Warsaw
Bryansk
Orel
London
Numerus
Lishchansk
Kharkov
Donets
Tax Showdown Seen Today
The Senate weighs whether to grant a full year tax abatement or limit to 75 percent. Senator George proposes 75 percent cancellation for 1942 and adjustments for 1943, with 20 percent withholding for lower brackets. President’s aides back the plan as support hinges on about five votes and a Friday decision.
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Washington
Senate
George
D.-Ga
Vandenberg
R.mich
Denberg
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Harold Alexander
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Hesse
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Bourbon
Edgar Rylack
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Bobdubi
Salamaua
Buna
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Lababia Ridge
Legion To Hold
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Oklahoma
Middle East Council
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