New York Fans Prepare for World Series
Berlin dispatches report German artillery shells Kronstadt guarding Leningrad as German forces push east after Kiev victory. Across the Atlantic the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees gear up for a subway series at Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field with 70,000 potential fans, all reserved seats sold, and top players cleared for action.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Dodgers
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Flatbush
Yankee Stadium
Ebbetsfield
Yankees
Pete Reiser
Charley Keller
Red Rolfe
Editor Dies in Boston at 70. Ex-Mayor William A. Bullivant
William A. Bullivant aged 70, former Brockton mayor and longtime night editor of the Brockton Daily Enterprise, died Sunday in Boston.
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Boston
William A. Bullivant
Brockton
U S and British Missions Reach Moscow
American and British missions arrived for three power conferences on aid to Russia. W Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook were received by Premier Stalin. Molotov and Litvinov joined talks at the Kremlin as supplies of American planes aviation gasoline and lubricants were reported reaching Russia. Harriman urged immediate work and speed on the talks.
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Moscow
Russia
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Beaverbrook
Joseph Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Maxim Litvinov
Kremlin
Britain
Harriman
Reorganization Committee to Meet Governor in Helena
The Montana Legislature authorized committee will meet Gov. Sam C. Ford to review nine state departments and institutions. The two to three day session aims at recommendations executable by order, without new legislation, with Griffenhagen and associates as survey staff.
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Helena
Montana
Sam C. Ford
Dowls
Bios
Soaumap
Charles H. Mahoney
Jordan
Leonard Plank
Chester
Ory J. Armstrong
Kalispell
James N. Dougherty
Elliston
Russell E. Smith
Missoula
Fred Bennion
Griffenhagen and Associates
Chicago
State Mental Hospital
Warm Springs
Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Galen
Department of Agriculture
Department of State Lands and Investments
State Historical Library
Rail Insurance Commission
Livestock Sanitary Board
Prominent Woman Golf Star Shot in Lexington
Marion Miley a nationally known 27 year old golfer was shot to death and her mother Mrs Fred Miley was critically wounded by robbers in their Lexington Country Club apartment just after 4 am. Coroner J Hervey Kerr said Miley was hit by two bullets, one in the back of the head and one in the back. The mother received abdomen wounds and was rushed to St Joseph hospital for emergency surgery.
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Lexington
Marion Miley
Fred Miley
J. Hervey Kerr
Lexington Country Club
Miley
St. Joseph Hospital
Union Refuses Agreement in Montana Contract Vote
Union members in Butte Anaconda and Great Falls rejected the proposed contract with the Anaconda company by 4 065 to 3 905 after a referendum. The deal would have raised pay 75 cents a day, granted a week of paid vacation, and created a central hiring system among other concessions, running one year from October 1.
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Butte Miners’ Union
Anaconda and
Great Falls
Anaconda Company
Butte
Anaconda
U Boats Sink 13 British Ships in Atlantic Route
Berlin reports U boats trailed a British convoy for days and sank 12 merchantmen and one escorting war ship between Gibraltar and England, totaling 67 000 tons. A 12 000 ton tanker was also sunk in the South Atlantic. Two more ships followed near the Faeroe Islands.
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Berlin
North Atlantic
Gibraltar
England
High Command
South Atlantic
West Africa
Faeroe Islands
Czech Premier Arrested by Germans
The German protectorate declared a six district state of emergency after the arrest of Slovak premier Gen. Alois Elias on charges of preparation for high treason. Reinhold Heydrich ordered the emergency within 24 hours after Neurath was formally relieved.
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Alois Elias
Bohemia-Moravia
Reinhard Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
Konstantin von Neurath
Norway
Heydrich
Oslo
Elias
Czecho-Slovakia
Slovakia
Czech
Czech Sabotage Slows Arm Factory Output Across Former Czecho Slovakia
London reports say sabotage in former Czechoslovakia has cut arms factory production by up to 50 percent, with trains blown and transportation disrupted. A tunnel collapse crushed a troop train in Viara pass Slovakia after entry. Rebel leaders are contacted via secret channels while Skoda works at Pilsen suffers a go slow. Peasants burn granaries at night and march hungry by day.
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London
Viara Pass
Slovakia
Skoda
Pilsen
Prague and Norway under German civil emergency orders
The German authorities imposed civil emergency measures in Prague Bruena Maehrisch Ostrau Klando Koenig radt and Olmuetz as part of ongoing control. Heydrich demanded explanations from Dr Emil Hacha about the emergency and arrests while noting no public reason for acts hostile to the Reich.
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Prague
Bruena
Maehrisch-Ostrau
Klando
Koenigradt
Olmuetz
Heydrich
Emil Hacha
Adolf Hitler
Republic
Roosevelt weighs neutrality act change after talks
President Roosevelt planned to decide this week whether to seek Congress modification or repeal of the Neutrality Act. He may ask to permit arming merchant ships and access to combat zones while pledging to protect ships from torpedo and shell fire. Senator Connally is expected to outline the law’s history and needs in a radio address, amid mixed support and strong isolationist opposition.
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Roosevelt
White House
Congress
United States
Tom Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Hitler
Goldfish blamed for trout decline in Crystal Lake
Los Angeles reports that pet goldfish released by a San Gabriel canyon resident years ago have proliferated and prey on trout and game fish at Crystal Lake, prompting warnings from Spence D. Turner, Los Angeles county chief forester, and the state fish and game commission to plan an extermination.
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Los Angeles
Spence D. Turner
Los Angeles County
Crystal Lake
San Gabriel Mountains
Turner
San Gabriel Canyon
State Fish and Game Commission
Post-Standard to Announce Louis Nova Title Bout This Evening
The Post-Standard will announce blow-by-blow details of the Joe Louis versus Lou Nova world heavyweight championship fight tonight. Wires will feed ringside color from New York City's Polo Grounds to the Post-Standard building at Galena and South Main streets. The title bout begins at 8 p.m. Butte time, with preliminaries reported beforehand.
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Lou Nova
Galena
South Main Streets
New York City
Polo Grounds
Butte
Police raid halts Balkan club barboot game operation
Police officers led by Elmer Powell raided the Balkan club at 264 East Park Street late Saturday, arresting operator Joe Alley on gambling charges after a lookout triggered a blackout. The second barboot raid at the same club since February ended with dice and small dice seized and Alley bonded out.
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Elmer Powell
Jim Clark
Bill Ryan
Bill Gouin
East Park Street
Joe Alley
Powell
Ryan
Clark
Govin
German Attacks on Kharkov Reported
Romanian General Virgil Bonomu said German attacks on Kharkov the Donets industrial area and rail center of Bryansk are in progress along a broad front. He cited Poltava near Kiev as a starting point for one Nazi column threatening Kharkov and the Donets basin.
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Virgil Bonomu
Kharkov
Donets
Bryansk
Poltava
Kiev
Donets Basin
Don
Butte Montana Weather Forecast for Monday and Tuesday
Butte shows mostly cloudy skies with a few light showers on Monday and Tuesday and no temperature change. Montana areas are partly cloudy in the east and mostly cloudy in the west with mountain showers and warmer conditions in the far east on Monday.
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Montana
Italy and Britain clash in western Mediterranean air sea battle
Italian high command reports a large enemy naval formation sailing from Gibraltar attacked by the Italian air force. Britain states raids hit seven Italian cities in Libya and Sicily, with civilians killed and planes shot down. A mid east briefing notes a freighter left nearly sunk near Taranto. Observers speculate ships may carry supplies to Malta or Auchinleck’s army.
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Kronstadt
Leningrad
Kiev
DNB
Baltic
Oraneinbaum
Neva
Lake
Ladoga
Lake Ladoga
Red Army
Black Sea
Ochakov
Odessa
Kharkov
Moscow
Volga
Rome
Italy
Britain
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Libya
Sicily
Sardinia
Bengasi
Bardia
Agrigento
Marsala
Trapani
Porto Empedocle
Cagliari
Middle East
Taranto
Malta
Sir Claude Auchinleck
Oil industry leader Axtell Byles dead at 60
Axtell Julius Byles, 60, former Tide Water Associated Oil president and president of the American Petroleum Institute, died Sunday after months of illness at his home in Ardson on the Hudson.
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N. Y
Axtell Julius Byles
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American Petroleum Institute
Tide Water Associated Oil Company of
New York
Soviet forces claim string of naval, ground victories
Soviet information bureau reports five German ships sunk or damaged in Arctic Baltic and Black Sea actions, plus land gains with 10 villages seized from Yelnya toward Smolensk. Pravda correspondent says Leningrad defenses attack relentlessly as siege press continues. Izvestia notes fierce German counterattacks after trench breaches.
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Moscow
Arctic
Baltic
Black Seas
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Army
Yelnya
Smolensk
Black Sea
Leningrad
Pravda
Soviet Union
Izvestia
War News Repeats Rhetoric As Axis Claims Turn of War
Edward Fe Bomar notes Berlin and Tokyo tout Axis gains while actual progress lags. Hitler’s proclaimed turning point follows months of failed push at Kiev and slow advance across Ukraine toward Moscow, and Japan faces wary optimism as Allied questions loom.
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Edward FE
Bomar
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Japan
Axis
Berlin
Kiev
Ukraine
Moscow
Matsuoka
Rome
Four From Butte Set to Attend State Police Convention
Four Butte police officers depart Wednesday for Kalispell to join the Montana Police Protective association annual convention spanning Thursday to Saturday. James A. Clark leads the Butte Police club delegates Joseph Blewett Cyril Kohn and Alex Cuthill. J H King of Helena presides. speakers include W Guy Banister federal agent Col Charles L Sheridan state patrol chief Judge Dean King and Kalispell Mayor David Cameron.
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Kalispell
Montana Police Protective Association
James A. Clark
Butte Police Club
Joseph
Blewett
Cyril Kohn
Alex Cuthill
J. H. King
Helena
W. Guy Banister
Federal Bureau of Invasion
Charles L. Sheridan
State War Patrol
Dean King
David
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