Churchill Receives Harvard Honor in Cambridge
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Harvard Faculty and Overseers that the United States bears equal responsibility in postwar peace, calling greatness born of shared effort and stating it would be foolish to dismantle the allied command structure after the war. He accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws from President James Bryant Conant amid cheers.
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Cambridge
Mass
Winston Churchill
United States
Harvard University
Churchill
James Bryant Conant
Harvard
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Admiralty says seven U boats sunk in Bay of Biscay
The admiralty reported Allied air and sea forces sank seven U boats in the Bay of Biscay, including three in a six hour battle that may rank as the war's biggest victory over U boats. A Liberator spotted the U boat formation as it circled and sprayed heavy anti aircraft fire while a group of U S Army coastal command planes and Royal Navy sloops completed the kill.
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London
U.P
Admiralty
Bay of Biscay
U. S. Army Coastal Command
Royal Navy
Labor Day Press Schedule In Montana Standard
Edition went to press early so employees could observe Labor Day. Readers will find the usual news coverage, though somewhat abbreviated.
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Montana Standard
Butte crowd packs stadium for Army war production pageant
More than 14 000 fill Butte high school stadium for a sham battle titled Salute to Victory Labor Management for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company event. Officials from labor and management, War Production Board, War Department, and local government praised workers and urged higher metal output to win the war. Continued on Page 2.
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Butte
Victory Labor Management
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte High School
Ieee
Neces
War Production Board
War Department
Senator Wheeler Visits in Butte
Senator Burton K. Wheeler told Butte residents that Congress will ease regimentation in Washington. He praised Montana farmers and crops, planned a brief Sojourn in Butte before September travel to Washington, and expressed hope the European war ends this winter.
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Senator Wheeler
Butte
Congress
Treasure State
Billings
Wheeler
Montana
Belton
Washington
Europe
Hitler
Deadline Set For Fathers In Non-Deferrable Jobs
The Selective Service set September 15 as the deadline for fathers in non-deferrable jobs to signal a transfer plan or register for equivalent work to gain warded immunity. Those failing to prove registration by that date face induction chances after October 1. Draft boards' authority over critical occupations is sharply limited requiring Employment Service referrals before any induction.
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Washington
Selective Service
U.S. Employment Service
Allies Break Inland From Italian Toe In Major Action
Allied forces push 10 miles inland from a 40 mile beachhead in Calabria through demolitions and reach Aspromonte. About 3,000 Axis prisoners taken as tidings say Calabria evacuated. Straits of Messina opened to Allied shipping. Bombers strike Viterno area and Naples airfields as rail lines are targeted.
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Allied
North Africa
Aspromonte
Melito
Ionian Sea
Straits of
Messina
Italy
Viterbo
Rome
Naples
R. A. F. Wellingtons
Group Inducted Into Service In Montana
Silver Bow County’s September contingent was inducted into Army Navy and Marine service at a swear in ceremony Monday at the Montana induction center in the old Butte high school. Most inductees were from Butte with a few transfers from Idaho Washington and other towns.
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Silver Bow County
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Montana
Meaderville
Thomas A. Mulholland
Schley
Maximillian Nardoni, Jr
Sanders
Foster L. Porter
Massachusetts
Wilfred Dobb
Whitman
Frank R. Konda
Jay
Robert E. Fleiner
Nye
Roddy M. Kovick
Philipsburg
Bernard R. Rask
East Galena
John J. Rudman
Evans
James G. White
Walnut
Dawson A. Wright
Rexburg
Idaho
Telfer S. Adams
James R. Cashin
Butte
Leo Rooney
One Hundred Fifty Reported Killed in Train Wreck
Philadelphia, Sept 6. One hundred fifty persons were reported killed and more than 90 injured when the Congressional Limited wrecked on a curve in northeast Philadelphia. The crash left the steam locomotive and first six cars on the tracks while the next six cars derailed and the last four remained on rails. Hospitals overflowed as crews asked for blood donors and licensed nurses to help.
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Philadelphia
Congressional Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
Matthew A. Ross
Wreck of Congressional Limited Deadliest U.S. Rail Disaster
The wreck of the Congressional Limited in Philadelphia is believed to be the worst U.S. railroad disaster, with about 150 deaths. The only comparable crash was in 1918 at Nashville, where 115 perished.
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New York
Congressional Limited
Philadelphia
U. S
Nashville
Tenn
Washington to New York Railway Crash Kills Many and Paralyzes City
A midland disaster halted traffic as a Congressional Limited derailed in a dense residential area near Philadelphia. Six cars derailed, four wrecking trains responded, and hospitals reported multiple dead and many injured. Civil defense volunteers aided in rescue as priests gave last rites.
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Frankfort Hospital
Episcopalian
Washington
New York
Capital
Metropolis
Reading
Bernard Samuel
City Electrical Bureau
Pennsylvania
Congressional Limited
Frankford Hospital
St. Joachim’s Church
Invasion Coast of Europe Heavily Bombed
Allied air power pummeled western Europe with heavy raids from France to the Rhineland. American Flying Fortresses and RAF bombers struck Ludwigshafen Mannheim and targets across southwest Germany while daylight missions hit northern France Belgium and Holland. Over 70 Nazi fighters were shot down amid sustained operations and radio silence in Paris and Berlin.
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London
United States
Germany
France
U.P
Europe
Rhineland
Paris
Berlin
Ludwigshafen - Mannheim
Reich
Belgium
Holland
Channel
Eighth Air Force
Radio
Portland Librarian Climber Killed on Mt Hood
Miss Helen Lowry a 32 year old Portland librarian and mountaineer was killed Monday when she fell from a cliff on Mt Hood onto the Eliot glacier in Oregon.
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MT. Hood
Ore
U.P
Helen Lowry
Portland
Eliot Glacier
Ring Closed Around Lae as Allied Forces Trap 20000
American paratroopers and Australian artillery sealed a ring around the Japanese garrisons at Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea. General MacArthur led the operation, flying at the head of air forces that struck the Markham valley defenses. The move aimed to trap about 20,000 Japanese soldiers in a pocket along the northeastern coast.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Markham River
Lae Sunday
New Guinea
Lae
Salamaua
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Vital Defenses Fall to Reds
London report says Kono top near Kiev and parts of the Donets Basin fell to Russian armies. Moscow says forces head toward Bakhmach and Konotop with Makeevka near Stalino, as over 90 towns and villages were captured south of Bryansk in a 12% mile advance.
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London
U.?i
Konotop
Kiev
Donets
Bakhmach
Makeevka
Stalino
Russia
Bryansk
Axis Anticipate Other Invasions
Axis reports claim Allied forces including the U S Seventh Army are moving toward new invasions of southern Europe with possible assaults on Italy's Adriatic coast Naples Greece and Crete The Italian fleet reportedly fled to Pola The Berlin radio suggested the southern Italy landing may be a feint and a larger operation could occur elsewhere soon
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London
U.P
United States
Seventh Army
Europe
Italy
Adriatic
Naples
Greece
Crete
Pola
Berlin
City Schools Open For 1943 44 Term In Butte
Schools across Butte reopen with bells summoning pupils after a three month layoff. Butte high, Girls Central high, parochial schools, and rural schools begin with 9 to 8:45 start times. Faculty meet at 7:30 with advising at 8:30 and classes from 9:30 to 3.
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Butte High School
Central High School
Butte Business College
Scott Fries
Mary Evelyn
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America
Britain
By Frank Quinn
Axis
Northeast
Armada
Markham Valley
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