Weygand dismisses 15 generals in Meuse rout reshuffle
General Maxime Weygand removed fifteen generals involved in the Meuse retreat and replaced them with new leaders for the Channel campaign. Colonels promoted include Henri Martin Jean Besse Andre Durand Charles Mast Charles De Gaulle Gustave Nesny and Louis Buisson as Nazi forces drive heavy tanks and infantry toward the English channel coast.
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Associated Press
Paris
Maxime Weygand
Meuse
English Channel
War Ministry
Weygand
Henri Martin
Jean Besse
Andre Durand
Charles Mast
Charles de Gaulle
Gustave Nesny
Louis Buisson
Stockgrowers Elect Officers as 56th Convention Adjourns
Editorial urges vigilance against saboteurs amid national defense preparations. It warns of alien influence and calls for loyalty to government plans to keep the nation out of war in Europe. Continues on Page 22, Col. 6.
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America
Europe
United States
Congress
Washington
Sabo
Flanders
Britain
Winston Churchill
Trades Union Executive Council
Allied and Nazi Forces Battle for Channel Corridor
Paris reports say Allied air units bomb German lines in northern France while heavy artillery aims to cut off supplies and reinforcements. Calais and Boulogne reportedly in French hands as fighting rages along the channel coast.
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Channel Region
Paris
U.R
Channel
Calais
Boulogne
France
L'Intransigrent
Bapaume
Perrone
Maxime Weygand
Aisne
Meuse
Red Cross War Relief Drive Opens in Butte Monday
The Red Cross drive for 7120 to aid war relief officially begins Monday with an advance gifts committee report of success. Division chairs and solicitors meet 7 30 PM at Red Cross HQ in the Chamber of Commerce to finalize plans. Contributions go to direct relief, not salaries, per William M Baxter Jr of the Midwest Red Cross. Leo Walsh and Rev F E Logee lead first district teams.
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Red Cross
Butte
Turday
Chamber of Commerce
William M. Baxter Jr
St. Louis
Leo Walsh
F. E. Logee
Walsh
Paul
Mines School to honor Sen Pittman at Friday exercises
The Montana School of Mines will hold its 38th commencement next Friday with Senator Key Pittman of Nevada delivering the address on The United States and the War. He and western senators will receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Governor Ayers will present Pittman. The event marks the largest graduating class, 53, and will be broadcast due to the war topic.
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Mines School
Sen. Pittman
Montana School of Mines
Key Pittman
Nevada
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
Senate
Mining College
Roy E. Ayers
State Board of Education
Senator Pittman
Memorial Day Parade and Monument Dedication Planned in Butte
Butte prepares for a large Memorial Day event with a 9 am parade from the courthouse through the business district to Wyoming street. Thousands will witness the dedication of a permanent monument honoring Silver Bow county men and women who served in American wars as bands from two high schools perform the national anthem.
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Wyoming Street
Silver Bow County
America
Fourth Estate Pledges War on Fifth Column
Bozeman Montana May 25 The Fourth Estate meeting of the southern district of the Montana State Press association passes a resolution pledging support to subdue activities detrimental to Americanism. The measure cites democratic nations ravaged by war and warns against internal tools of warring powers undermining peaceful lands.
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Bozeman
Montana State Press Association
Montana Weather Forecast Brightens Behind Storm Line
Partly cloudy Sunday with scattered showers or thunderstorms east of the divide. Monday settled and cooler, with fair conditions inland and in the eastern portion.
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Montana
Divide
Read Montana Stockgrowers elects officers at fifty sixth annual convention
The Montana Stockgrowers Association concluded its 56th annual convention with re elected officers and a series of resolutions. About 500 attended as Jack Arnold of Birney was re elected president and new executive committee will set the 1941 meeting place. Resolutions urged government action on foot and mouth disease embargo and ratification of future trade agreements, bond requirements on state land leases, forest range improvements, American market policy, wildlife acts, and Farm Credit Administration safeguards.
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Montana Stockgrowers’ Association
Jack Arnold
Birney
Carl K. Malone
Chateau
George M. Mungas
Philipsburg
E. A. Phillips
Helena
Montana
U. S. Senate
State Land Board
Commissioner of State Lands
Congressional
Bureau of the Budget
Forest Service
Pittman-Robertson
Farm Credit Administration
Uprising by IRA Slated for Weekend in Ireland
Documents seized from an arrested officer of the outlawed Irish Republican Army suggest plans for a weekend uprising in Ireland, possibly with German aid, as a preliminary blow at England. London reports a vast roundup underway with hundreds to be arrested and several prominent figures detained including a person connected to the United States embassy.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Ireland
England
United States
Deer Lodge Man Receives Medal for Gallantry in WWI
Thomas F. Walsh of Deer Lodge, former sheriff and Montana deputy registrar, received a citation medal for gallantry in World War I. Serving with the Fourth Engineers, he fought in five major engagements including Chateau Thierry, St Mihiel, and Verdun.
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Cial
Europe
Thomas F
Guy) Walsh
Montana
Deer Lodge
Fourth Engineers
Anaconda
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Verdun
Journalism seniors feted by Butte Press Club tour day
Twenty one seniors from Montana State University Missoula School of Journalism and faculty toured the Leonard mine and newsrooms in Butte. They visited police facilities courthouse and city hospitals, rode in patrol cars, and attended the third annual Press Club banquet at the new Moxom cafe where talks by local journalists were held.
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Montana State University
Missoula
Butte Press Club
Leonard
Moxorma Cafe
Butte
Court House
Mining City
Early Butte Resident Mrs J A Lewis Dies in Los Angeles
Mrs Joseph A Lewis an old-time Butte and Anaconda resident died yesterday at her Los Angeles home. Harriet Evans before marriage she was social leader in Butte and Anaconda. Survived by two sisters Mrs Marcus Daly of New York and Mrs J Ross Clark of Los Angeles. Funeral plans unavailable.
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J. R. Clark
Marcus Daly
Los Angeles
Calif
Joseph A. Lewis
Butte
Anaconda
T. J. Murray
Park City
Utah
Lewis
Mining
F. W. C. Whyte
Zenas Evans
Park
Mr. Lewis
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Committee On Foreign Relations
Weather Forecast
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Carol T
Bucharest
Rumania
Bessarabia
I.R.A
Spe
Thomas F. Walsh
U. Journaliom School
J. A. Lewis
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