Three French wartime leaders arrested in Vichy crackdown
In Vichy France three top prewar leaders Maurice Gamelin Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud were detained under administrative internment amid Petain regime prosecutions for France s defeat. Daladier told his son not to blame him as arrests extended to other ex ministers including Cot La Chambre Mandel and others charged or sought for state security plots.
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Vichy
France
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Edouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Chateau Chateron
Chatel Guyon
Philippe Petain
Daladier
Reynaud
Gamelin
Maxime Weygand
Vauclause
Ministers’ Council
Petain
Air
Pierre Cot
Guy la Chambre
United States
House approves Burke-Wadsworth bill with 60 day delay provision
Washington dispatch reports the House passed the Burke-Wadsworth peace time draft bill 263 to 149 with a 60 day postponement of the actual draft to test voluntary enlistment. The measure would require men 21 to 44 to register while the Senate relaxed age limits to 21 to 30. The bill goes back to the Senate for concurrence as conferees seek to unify the two versions.
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Washington
House
Senate
War Department
Fisher
R-N.y
Western Hemisphere
Philippine Islands
Mighty aerial assault rages over London in wartime raids
London endures the savagest daylight and night raids as German planes blast the city. German sources claim heavy British losses while asserting new targets in the east end and harbor works suffered. 87 British planes downed against 26 German losses.
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London
Air Ministry
Britain
Berlin
East End
DNB
High Command
Reich
Thames
Willkie to Stop in Butte for Two Hour Visit
Wendell Willkie Republican nominee for president will speak at Butte High School stadium around 8:30 PM on September 24 then attend a Butte Press Club dinner. He then travels to Miles City, with his western itinerary including Sandpoint Missoula Spokane and trains through Chicago to the coast and Northwest.
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Wendell Willkie
Butte
Butte Press Club
Miles City
Willkie
Associated Press
Chicago
Kansas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Portland
Seattle
Spokane
Sandpoint
Missoula
Northern Pacific Railroad
Butte High School
Philadelphia
Democratic State Meeting Set for Saturday at Falls
The Democratic state convention will convene next Saturday in Great Falls. State Chairman Arthur Lamey of Havre issued the call, with County Chairman W. T. McCarthy receiving it. Delegates include all legislative candidates and hold-over state senators. The agenda covers adopting a platform and electing a state chairman, with Lamey presiding and naming a secretary. The Silver Bow county legislative slate and county central committee officers will attend.
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Great Falls
Arthur Lamey
Havre
W. T. McCarthy
Silver Bow County
Democratic County Central Committee
Huge Reservoir of Electric Power Will Meet Defense Needs
Montana power interests announce a vast intermountain Northwest power grid. Thirty power stations across five states will join to create a 3,000,000 horsepower reservoir adequate for national defense and regional growth. Construction starts this week after contract approvals.
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West
Frank W. Bird
Montana Power Company
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Washington
Oregon
Bird
Montana Power
Utah Power and Light Company
Idaho Power Company
Utah Construction Company
Butte and Montana Forecast: Partly Cloudy Then Showers
Partly cloudy today and Monday with showers or thunderstorms. In western Montana showers favored west of the divide, cooler east of the divide today and warmer for the east and central areas Monday.
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Butte
Montana
West Portion
Divide
Fugitive Bandit Captured After Missoula Manhunt Near Greenough
George Slim Franklin, exhausted and hungry after a two day flight through Ovando area marshes and hills, was captured near Greenough by Sheriff J F Shoblom and a small group after a tip from forest service smoke chaser Hubert Hunt. He admitted taking part in the Drummond service station robbery and the attendant kidnapping. He had two pistols, wore worn shoes, and was to be moved to Philipsburg for charges.
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George
Slim) Franklin
Ovando
J. F. Shoblom
Missoula
Drummond
Shoblom
Lloyd Stringer
Glen Morgan
Greenough
Hubert Hunt
Forest Service
Franklin
Hunt
Hugh Copenhaver
Copenhaver
Missoula County
Philipsburg
Gus McDonald
Granite County
Art McDaniels
Clearwater
Edison W. Kent
Mrs. Butte Customer to Be Selected for World's Fair Trip
The Butte Merchants association will choose a representative Mrs. Butte Customer from local shoppers. A $150 trip to the San Francisco World's Fair and plane travel will be awarded to the winner chosen from store questionnaire responses.
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Mrs. Butte
Butte Merchants’ Association
United States Aims Unified Pressure on Japan
Washington reports a triple defense plan by US diplomatic military and economic agencies to unite the western hemisphere against Japan. The move includes a proposed complete embargo on steel scrap exports and tighter limits on gasoline supplies while Secretary Hull invites American nations to use bases seized from Great Britain to bolster hemisphere defense.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Indo- China
Roosevelt
Advisory Defense Commission
Cordell
Hull
Western Hemisphere
Great Britain
U. S
Hemisphere
Rope kills boy in tragic fall
Twelve year old Bobby De Woody died in Denver after a rope looped around his neck when he fell from a tree and was jerked aloft. The accident occurred today as he swung from a limb, leading to his death shortly after.
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Denver
Bobby de Woody
23 Young Women to Start Nurses Training Thursday
Twenty three young women will begin a three year nurses training period tomorrow afternoon at St James hospital school. Fourteen are from Butte, two from Whitehall and one each from Philipsburg Boulder Missoula Whitefish Laurin Gladstone North Carolina and Buffalo. The class size matches previous years and will be smaller than next fall when hospital expansion begins.
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St. James Hospital
Butte
Whitehall
Philipsburg
Boulder
Missoula
Whitefish
Laurin
Gladstone
N. C
Buffalo
Virginia Binney
Helen Darragh
Julietta Davis
Ellen Dougherty
Lorraine Green
Helen Keith
Virginia McCormick
Helen McIntee
Hazey Murray
Elaine O'Leary
Lillian Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
Rose Thompson
Marie West
Montana
Rose Carey
Geraldine Flanigan
Lois Lindstadt
Elizabeth Ryan
Dizella Ginal
Mary Austin
Jeanette Parker
Anna Hollinger
Dorothy Kirkland
Wyo
Glow of Fires Shrouds London as Nazi Raiders Strike
Reporter describes London during a night raid with fires lighting streets from Fleet Street to the Strand. Taxis crowd curbs, buses lash through, and pressmen watch searchlights as bombs fall south of the river. The Temple Bar griffin and Temple emerge in fiery illumination.
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London
Strand
Fleet Street
Temple Bar Monument
City of
Victoria Embankment
Temple
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Jose Estigarribia
Asuncion
Paraguay
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Estigarribia
Chaco
Bolivva
Falls
Art Lamey
Bozeman
Agricultural Economics Department
Montana State College
R. R. Renne
O. H. Brownlee
Treasure
Union
Mississippi
Weather Forecast
Pudot
George Franklin
U. C
West Hemisphere
Drew Middleton
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