Butte Honors War Dead While War Work Continues
Butte pauses to honor fallen service members with a parade and ceremonies while factories and mines keep producing arms and equipment for World War II. Memorial Day tributes, addresses by Lieut Col Ralph E Davis, and graveside ceremonies accompany a day of continued war effort.
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Butte
Associated
United States
War Department
Donald Nelson
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Ralph E. Davis
Marine Corps
Freedom of America
Davis
Butte High School
Mining City
Jack Duggan
Uncle Sam
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sheriff's Office
Silver Bow
U. S. Forest Service
Anaconda Copper Mining Co Officials List Expanded
The board of directors at a New York meeting on May 28 updated the official roster. New entries include Cornelius F Bg ad as Chairman, James R Hobbins as President, and James Dickson as Secretary and Treasurer, with several others in key roles across New York and Butte.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
New York
Cornelius F . Bg
James R. Hobbins
Robert E. Dwyer
Daniel M. Kelly
Butte
Po Ment
Western Op
Clyde E. Weed
Opredevick Laist
W. H. Hoover
Elbert
Army Headquarters to Move to Butte Confirmed
Major Nelson stated the transfer of Army headquarters to Butte is definite with orders to move on or about July 1. The command will include about 40 officers and men plus their families totaling near 100, with several sites under review. He met civil leaders in Butte to discuss relocating Army operations to the mining city.
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Butte
Nelson
Army
Butte Prepares to Welcome Air Heroes Here Tuesday
Butte the mining city plans a Tuesday welcome for air heroes Lieut. Com. Edward H. O Hare and Capt. Hewitt L Wheless. Patriotic banners and flags will decorate the business district for War Production day events honoring miners, smeltermen and workers producing essential war metals. Decorations began last night and should finish by Monday night.
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Butte
America
O’hare and
Wheless
Edward H. O’hare
Hewitt L. Wheless
War Department
Butte High Graduates Brace For Different Future
The 333 graduating class at Butte High listened as city superintendent Lowell W. Johnson warned today that today’s youth face a new reality. He rejected the idea that modern graduates lack pioneering spirit, saying they can meet the challenge. Musical selections included So Hear the Gentle Lark and Danse Bacchanaile.
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Lowell W. Johnson
Butte High School
Mr. Johnson
Joyce Callison
William Adams
Johnson
Charles Dickens
Unclear Weather Outlook With Weekend Showers
The forecast calls for showers and snow squalls Saturday with not quite so cold Saturday afternoon. Friday’s maximum temperature reaches 37 and the minimum is not stated.
Navy Reports Sinking of Three Vessels
The Navy department announced the sinking of three U S merchant vessels by Axis submarines in the Atlantic. One was sunk weeks ago in the north Atlantic, another within 200 miles of the coast, and the third in the Caribbean, bringing total UN vessel losses to about 233 since mid January. A separate report from New London details a German sub disguised as a lifeboat attracting the vessel Masaueraded, per Captain George Hazeleaf.
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United Press
United States Atlantic
Navy Department
U. S
North Atlantic
Caribbean
United Nations
Atlantic
Shortage of Labor Plea to Butte Miners
The Butte copper mines face an acute labor shortage as workers leave for farming or other work. The Labor Management Production committee urges men to stay on the job to boost copper output, essential for the war effort, urging steady work to help win the war.
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Butte
Labor Management Production Committee
Butte Mines Department
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
British Tanks Repulse Axis Force Near Tobruk
British tanks repulsed a German armored assault within 50 miles of the Egyptian border as fighting raged along the Libyan desert approaches to Tobruk. Air activity was reduced and a British defense held, with no fixed position yet fallen.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Ain el Gazala
Bir
Hospital Drive Advances Toward 50000 Goal in Citywide Campaign
The St. James hospital improvement drive reached two thirds of its 50000 target with 33240.50 raised as workers planned a weekend break. Payroll division canvassing urged every worker to donate at least one day’s pay to fund a modern Northwest hospital with 210 beds, maternal and surgical facilities.
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St. James Hospital
Rialto
American and
Fox Theaters
Gleason Candy Company
Butte Central Produce Company
D. M. Kelly
James J. Brett
American Association
Brett
Mexican Deputies Approve War Declaration
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies voted 108 to 0 to declare war on Germany Italy and Japan. Senate approval was anticipated soon before President Manuel Avila Camacho could promulgate the measure. The session followed four and a half hours of fiery debate denouncing "treacherous totalitarian aggression."
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Mexico City
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Italy
Japan
Senate
Manuel Avila Camacho
Chamber
Chinese Hold Chekiang Cities Lanchi and Kinwha
Central News dispatches report Chinese troops resist repeated Japanese onslaughts holding the strategic Chekiang towns of Lanchi and Kinwha. By Friday heavy rain and fierce fighting accompany Chinese claims of gains near Ichang and pushes against Japanese positions in Yunnan and Henan as air forces strike targets in Yunnan.
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Chungking
China
Chekiang Province
Kinhwa
Lanchi
Ichang
Yangtze River
Hankow
Yunnan Province
Lungling
Chekiang
Hupeh
Henan
Pushan
Linyang
Yunnan
Soviet Airmen Down 113 Enemy Planes
Soviet air forces claim 113 German planes shot down in two days as Red naval forces sink a 12,000-ton transport and a 9,800-ton trawler in the Barents Sea. Moscow reports continued Soviet success from Leningrad to the Black Sea amid weakening German attacks on the Kharkov flank.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Izyum
Red
Barents Sea
Es Sones
Les Manique
Russia
Leningrad
Black Sea
Kalinin
BBC
Moscow Radio
Kharkov
Izyum- Barvenkova
Central High Graduates 64
The Most Rev. J. Wilging bishop of the Pueblo diocese delivers a stirring address to the 1942 graduates of Girls Central High School at commencement in the Fox theater. He cites Lincoln on humility and prayer during national stress and stresses religious training as shaping love and altruism in youth.
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J. ©. Wane
Pueblo
Colorado
Girls Central High School
Fox Theater
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Wilging
Central High School
Maney Named Acting Assistant Scout Executive in Silver Bow
Leo Maney of Butte, 20, was named Friday as acting assistant Scout executive for the Silver Bow area council. He will direct the annual summer outing at Camp Lowlands 16 miles north of Butte and assist in organizing additional Scout troops and Cub packs across six counties. He will also help conduct boards of review and courts of honor.
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Leo Maney
Butte
Silver Bow
Herbert R. West
Camp Lowlands
Mr. West
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Anaconda Copper Mining Co
J. F. Nelson
Belleau Wood
Java Sea
Wake and Corregidor
David Orme
Hewitt L. Wireless
Butte High
Navy
New London
George Hazeleaf
Cabiond
Cal
Izyum-Barvenkova
Libyan
Hospital Drive
Bishop Willging
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