Navy forms temporary Atlantic squadron for fleet problem
Washington reports a temporary Atlantic squadron of 14 new warcraft to be formed immediately, seven 10000 ton light cruisers and seven destroyers, under Rear Admiral Forde A. Todd. Admiral Leahy ordered the force to prepare for fleet problem 20 and visit designated ports as part of simulated defense of the Panama Canal against a transatlantic attack.
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Washington
Forde A. Todd
Pacific
William D. Leahy
Europe
Panama Canal
Assignment of public school teachers for coming year
Public school teachers for the coming year were assigned at a meeting led by Superintendent Lowell W. Johnson. The plan covers opening day next Tuesday with high school at 8:30 a m and elementary at 9. Parochial schools resume Tuesday. Christian Brothers only freshmen report Tuesday with upperclassmen Wednesday. Total enrollment across 29 schools is expected near 9 000.
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Lowell W. Johnson
Christian Brothers School
Fear Spreads As Mussolini Expels Jews From Italy
Rome reports a cabinet decree banishes all Jews who have resided in Italy since 1919 or in Libya and the Dodecanese, within six months. About 10,000 affected, many from Germany and Eastern Europe, face forced departure under Mussolini’s Aryan policies.
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Rome
Italy
Libya
Dodecanese Islands
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Austria
Poland
Russia
Hungary
United States
Mussolini
Monsignor Borgonicini Duca
Pius XI
Northwest Airlines to Open Radio Station at Butte Airport
Northwest Airlines plans to install an airways radio station at Butte airport to enter operation within a month. Officials K R Ferguson and A R Mensing confirmed. staff of at least three operators and attendants will be based in Butte.
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An Airways
Northwest Airlines
Butte
K. R. Ferguson
St. Paul
A. R. Mensing
Spokane
Ferguson
Mr. Mensing
A. i Stephenson
Salt Lake City
National Parks Division
Western Air Express
Northwest
Helena
Airlines
Flint Creek CCC Camp To Continue Winter Work
Civilian Conservation Corps camp No. F-75 at Flint Creek on Deer Lodge National Forest will stay through winter. It will continue road, camp and general forest improvements under Forest Service Supervisor Charles A. Joy. The Flint Creek camp has about 175 men with two smaller crews at Whitehall and Fisher ranger station.
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Flint Creek
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
Joy
Forest Service
Boulder Creek
Absaroka Forest
Birch Creek
Beaverhead Forest
Deer Ledge
Whitehall
Fisher Ranger Station
Butte
Chinese Triumph for Yangtze Front Forces
Chinese commanders announced a major victory over Japanese troops along the Yangtze valley. Counterattacks from Juichang southeast of Hankow reportedly caused about 4000 Japanese casualties as they pushed toward the Yangsin river. A follow up from Huichang reclaimed Anshan, a key point near Teian on the Nanchang Kiukiang line, while a fierce fight near Hwangmei north of Kiukiang ended with a standstill.
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Shanghai
Yangtze Valley
Juichang
Hankow
Yangsin River
Huichang
Anshan
Teian
Nanchang
Kiukiang
Yangtze River
Hwangmei
China
Mexico Rejects Hull Demand on Expropriation
Mexico President Lazaro Cardenas opened a new congress session to reject Secretary Hulls demand to halt expropriation of American owned farm lands without immediate compensation He affirmed continued agrarian reform and said foreign oil expropriation would be paid only for actual investments in Mexico He said no arbitration and no special foreign treatment due to Mexicans own citizens not yet compensated.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico
Hull
Congress
Viva
Cardenas
Potato growers reject quota in 15 states
Late potato growers in 15 states apparently rejected a proposed marketing agreement, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration said today.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Foreigners Told to Flee Rail Lines in China Drive
Shanghai dispatch reports a Japanese warning to Americans and other foreigners along the western Lung- Hai and southern Peiping-Hankow railways to flee immediately. The warning signals a likely intensification of Japan's drive toward Hankow with potential bombing of towns and cities still controlled by China.
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Shanghai
Lung- Hai
Peiping-Hankow
Japan
China
Hankow
Worshippers Move Just In Time To Escape Accident
The First Baptist church in Altoona Pennsylvania relocated its prayer service from the main hall to the basement due to heat. Fifteen minutes later a 300 pound stained glass skylight collapsed into the auditorium, but 150 worshippers resumed services thanking God for their escape.
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Altoona
First Baptist Church
Farmer Ill Burns Hay to Attract Aid
Libby Montana dispatch reports George Reynolds a Snowshoe Creek farmer and arthritis sufferer set fires to draw attention for medical help. A truckload of CCC youths arrived from a Hoodoo mountain lookout. Reynolds fired rifle shots then burned a haystack and a shack before the youths extinguished the blazes.
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Libby
George Reynolds
Snowshoe Creek
CCC
Reynold
Reynolds
Welfare Board Adopts Aid Grant Policy in Montana
The Montana public welfare board requires counties receiving grants-in-aid to place funds in a general relief fund and disburse by special warrant. It ties grants to specific tax and budget rules and denied several counties for not allocating enough to general relief. Cascade county received 25000 for July and August, Jefferson 750 for August, Sheridan 1200 for July and August. The board also pledges effort to provide shoes and clothing for children as fall approaches.
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Helena
Montana Public Welfare Board
Board of County Commissioners
I. M. Brandford
Cascade County
Jefferson County
Sheridan County
Typhoon Toll in Japan Reaches 99 Dead
Tokyo dispatch reports a 75 mile per hour typhoon leaving at least 99 dead with numerous injuries and missing persons. Property damage runs to as high as 100,000,000 yen with Yokohama shipping losses pegged at 5,000,000 yen.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yokohama
Convict Band Crippled as Trumpeter and Drummer Escape
CANON CITY Colo Sept 1 The Colorado penitentiary band lost its bass drummer Ignace Blaustein 35 and trumpet player Robert Marshall 27 in an overnight escape after a state fair concert in Pueblo The warden Roy Best cancelled an Arkansas Valley fair appearance at Rocky Ford and ordered no further outside engagements for an indefinite period He said the musicians did not take their instruments particularly Blaustein.
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Canon City
Colo
Colorado Penitentiary
Ignace Blaustein
Robert Marshall
Pueblo
Roy Best
Rocky Ford
Best
Blaustein
City Council Awards Tracks Removal and Police Cars
The Butte city council awarded key bids including $42,460.55 for removing streetcar rails and repaving West Granite street with asphaltic concrete. It also approved purchasing three 1939 Hudson sedans for the police department at a net price of $2,750 after trade-ins.
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West Granite Street
Butte
Price-Kearns Motor Company
Clark Park
Northwestern Mutual Fire Association
Mercantile Insurance Company of America
Graham Insurance Company
Council
Ways and Means Committee
Fire and Water Committee
France Plans to Increase Armed Forces Amid European Tensions
London reports France ready to mobilize reserves and bolster forces if Hitler prolongs the Czech dispute. Paris may keep recruits and call up reserves, depending on Hitler's Berchtesgaden meeting with Konrad Henlein and the Sudeten crisis outcomes before Nuremberg.
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London
U.P
France
Great Britain
Nuremberg
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Konrad Henlein
Henlein
Prague
Germany
Bavarian Alps
Sudetens
der Fuehrer
Reichstag
Berlin
Bancroft Leads Go California GOP Senate Nomination
Philip Bancroft an ultra conservative farmer led the California Republican race for U S Senate with 280,788 votes to Ray Riley's 267,060 with 11,999 of 12,438 precincts reporting. Bancroft appeared set to win the nomination to face Democrat Sheridan Downey in November.
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San Francisco
Philip Bancroft
U. S. Senate
California
Bancroft
Ray Riley
Sheridan Downey
Montana Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy Weekend
Montana forecasts show Friday and Saturday mostly partly cloudy with little temperature change. No significant precipitation expected.
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Montana
Month Truce Plan Rejected as Henlein Returns to Praha
The text reports that the month truce plan was turned down. Henlein goes back to Prague and also carries a counter proposal from the Nazi chief.
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Henlein
Fuehrer
Praha
Henlein carries Hitler backed counter proposals from Berchtesgaden
Konrad Henlein left Berchtesgaden for home bearing Hitler's rejection of Hodza plan No 3 and new counter proposals. The Reichsführer preferred a quicker solution to the Sudeten minority issue after talks with Henlein Goering and Goebbels were present.
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Berchtesgaden
Germany
Konrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Czech
Hitler
Milan Hodza
Henlein
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Paul Joseph
End of Lighting Campaign Sees Boost in Donations
Harrison avenue safety drive leaders hope to close the lighting campaign within a week as receipts near 5000 dollars. By mid day total reached 4857 dollars with more contributions expected. A benefit card party at Moose hall is set for Sept 10, with proceeds to the fund. Local service stations host the Butte high school girls drum corps to solicit donations this weekend.
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Harrison Avenue
Moose Hall
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Lodge
Butte High School Girls
Louis Kilberer
Merchants to Display Montana Products Ahead of Club Convention
Butte merchants will display Montana products in windows before and during the Montana Federation of Women's Clubs convention set for September 12 to 14. Two Montana Products luncheons will occur on opening day at First Presbyterian and Mountain View Methodist churches, free to visiting club members.
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Women’s Club
Butte
Montana
Montana Federation of Women’s Clubs
H. L. Lorentz
First Presbyterian
Mountain View Methodist
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