Willkie Missteps Spark GOP Call for Clarification
In Colorado Springs, Wendell Willkie suggested Democrats should vote for him based on 1932 platform and Wilson principles. John W. Martin and other Republicans urged him to align with the 1940 Republican platform. The remarks sparked questions about Willkie’s party loyalty.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell Willkie
Woodrow Wilson
John W. Martin
Republican National Committee
Willkie
Wilson
Roosevelt
al Smith
Bankers view on Western Republican machines and state power
A prominent New York banker touring the West believes Republican machines can be rebuilt in Western states. He notes past strong Republican strength in Montana and outlines current party leaders, state offices, and the difficulty of restoring party machines, with several Democratic governors and few Republican incumbents across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
West
Montana
Thomas H. Carter
Joe Dixon
O. M. Lanstrum
Harry R. Cunningham
Cheadle
Sam Ford
Leonard C. Young
Kirby Hoon
H. L. Hart
Wheeler and Murray
O’connor
Mitchell
Holmes
O S. Warden
Great Falls Tribune
Arthur F. Lamey
Barclay Craig
Wyoming
Washington
Utah
Colorado
Nevada
New Mexico
Arizona
Idaho
California
Burke
Nebraska
Roosevelt
South Dakota
North Dakota
Oregon
Minnesota
Peacetime Draft Bill Clears Senate War Panel
Senate military committee approves a peacetime draft requiring all men 21 to 30 to register for compulsory service. House passes a broad appropriation bill for warships, aircraft, guns, and other preparedness items totaling about five billion dollars.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
House
National Labor Relations Board
Saddle horse chases bear up a tree in Yellowstone Park
In Yellowstone National Park an angry saddle horse pursued a large black bear during a patrol day. Fire Guard Ralph Kirby witnessed the scene as his mount suddenly bolted and drove the bear to seek refuge in a tree.
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Yellowstone Park
Woyo
Yellowstone National Park
Ralph Kirby
Norris calls Congress hysteria center urges adjournment
Senator Norris independent Nebraska denounces Congress as hysteria center amid a heat wave and urges adjournment claiming sessions would be dangerous. He says no member is fit to pass legislation and criticizes ongoing talking and bickering as fueling hysteria. Democratic leaders push for a test vote while others see defense and tax bills delaying any adjournment.
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Washington
Norris
Nebraska
Congress
House
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Harrison
Mississippi
Bear chase ends with freeing
A bear ambled across a trail and fled after a hectic chase. The bear eventually submitted to being freed, snorting and pawing at the base of a tree before calm returned.
Unrequited Love Blamed for Desert Killing
Ralph W. Griggs 45, a Los Angeles mechanic, confessed to killing Gladys Long 35, a divorcee, in the Mojave desert near Victorville. He led officers to the scene, said he killed her after she planned to leave, and then hid the body in his car, later found by station attendants.
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Los Angeles
Ralph W. Griggs
Mojave Desert
Victorville
Gladys Long
James W. Stocker
J. P. Hoffman
Warren Hudson
Aldo Corsini
Griggs
Grigg
China rejects Japanese offers to cede provinces and influence
Reports from Chungking say Chiang Kai-Shek’s government unconditionally rejected Tokyo's proposals. Japan would gain five northern Chinese provinces and veto a united China with Manchukuo while sharing economic opportunities with Britain and France in Asia.
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Hong Kong
China
Japan
France
Britain
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hopei
Tientsin
Peiping
Chahar
Shantung
Shasi
Suiyuan
Wang Ching- Wei
Manchukuo
Congressmen in Draft Debate as War Looms
Washington July 39 A set of eight naval committee members are retired or reserve officers including Hess Cole Magnuson Maas and Church. On the military side Faddis and Sparkman are army reserve colonels. Izac the only congressman Medal of Honor recipient, survived World War I and escaped captivity with crucial submarine warfare intelligence.
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Washington
United States
Army
Navy
House
Naval and
Naval Committee
Hess
Ohio
Cole
New York
Magnuson
Maas
Minnesota
Church
Illinois
Friends
Marine Corps Aviation Reserve
St. Paul
Minn
Robert Harper
Faddis
Pennsylvania
Sparkman
Alabama
France
Izac
California
Congress
Isac
United States Naval Academy
President Lincoln
Germany
Kattegat
Skaggerak
Birth in iron lung yields healthy son at L A hospital
In Los Angeles on July 29, Mrs. Virginia M. Mathews, 23, delivered a normal healthy son while confined in an iron lung for infantile paralysis. County General Hospital officials said the case appears to be the third of its kind in North America and the first where both mother and child survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Virginia M. Mathews
County General Hospital
Edwin 8. Bennett
North America
Weekly Violent Death Toll Reaches Eighteen
Montana records a week of eighteen violent deaths across causes including automobile crashes drownings and burns. Victims include Lucille Sandell 13 of Cut Bank Jack Starkweather of San Mateo and James Walsh 65 of Butte, among others with fatalities from a wagon collision, a drowning at a gravel pit, burns from a paraffin accident and a grass fire.
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Helena
Montana
Lucille Sandell
Cut Bank
Vaughn
Richard Ervin
Janet McDaniels
James McDaniels
Rimini
William Molter
Billings
Dillon
Kenneth Peterson
Joseph Morgan
Chester
Larry Vokes
Gerber
E. F. Lyman
Bruce Smith
Blaine County
Herbert Bader
Palmer Erickson
Sidney
Hanna Fields
Soldiers
Columbia Alls
For Sale or Rent Irrigated Ranch Near Limits
For Sale or Rent a small irrigated ranch with a 7 room house just outside city limits. Contact via phone 32-.
Board of Equalization Proceedings July 1940 Summary
County commissioners met July 15 to hear land assessments for Sec. 29 T1S R1E and letters from Moorehead Manis and Whitney, all without reductions. July 18 reviewed budgets then adjourned to July 25 for preliminary budgeting. Lende land adjustments set at 60 per irrigated acre, 30 per irrigated grazing, and 3 per grazing acre. adjourned to August 5–7.
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Board of Equalization
W. H. Halls
Theo. T. Olson
Thos. Anderson
Chas. O. Hathaway
E. R. Patterson
John Lende
H. G. Moorehead
Dusting Off The Old Ones
Eva M. Hunter county superintendent traveled Monday to inspect Sweetgrass and Melville schools. Hatch Bros. Co. of Big Timber reported $275 in forged checks signed by J H Lowell of Hunters Hot Springs. A forger posing as a hired sheepherder used the check for wages and obtained two additional checks for $65 and $200. One was cashed at Big Timber by Frank Bliss. the other traveled to this city and was cashed by Carver Mercantile. Local notice says the thief likely fled toward the coast.
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Eva M. Hunter
Sweetgrass
Melville
Hatch Bros. & Co
Big Timber
J. H. Lowell
Hunters Hot Springs
Lowell
Frank Bliss
Scherder
Carver Mercantile Company
Santis Forsythe
Gibson
North Coast Limited
Homestake
Butte
T. H. Busteed
Busteed
Montana
Tommy Miller
Farmer Burns
Livingston
Henry Klump
Yellowstone
High Wool Prices and Local Developments in Yellowstone Region
Wool prices this year peaked at 19 cents per pound. Local projects include a new 1500 dollar schoolhouse for School District No. 5 in Duffey neighborhood and a new tennis court on Mc Leod street at Fifth avenue. Other items note rainfall in Melville, a bridge incident at Otter creek, a post office robbery attempt, and local figures such as Samuel Blythe visiting Yellowstone National Park.
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Pioneer File
Jowest
McLeod Street
Fifth Avenue
Henry C. Moffett
Gibson
Retta M. Buck
Bozeman
Duffey
Samuel G. Blythe
Saturday Evening Post
Yellowstone National Park
Melville
A. T. Anderson
Wheatland County
Otter Creek Bridge
Strike ties up Pioneer Chicago street car lines
Dr Roy M Wolf and family will relocate to Kirksville Missouri Alfred Hermanson seeks Republican nomination for representative Mr and Mrs Clarence Flattum and son of Grey Cliff visiting Northfield Minnesota A touring car headed east turned on McLeod Street and left for Livingston Dr L H Lintz travels to Wichita Kansas for knee operation for their son Dr Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone dies at his Sidney Nova Scotia estate Born 1847 in Edinburgh The telephone began operation about fifty years ago August 3 1922 C D Paulson attends Market Week in Spokane Registered voters for the August 29 primary total 1858 Col A B Coit of Youngstown visiting son Harvey Several locals attend Sells Floto circus Sheriff Long notes license tag enforcement for 1921 cars First Tourmore car in Big Timber an outdoor house on wheels with beds kitchen electric light bath and folding dining table Mr and Mrs C F Rouze of Pontiac Michigan travel in it
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Chicago
Roy M. Wolf
Kirksville
Alfred Hermanson
Clarence Flattum
Grey Cliff
Northfield
Minn
McLeod Street
Livingston
L. H. Lintz
Wichita
Kan
C. D. Paulson
Spokane
Col
A. B. Coit
Youngstown
Whic
Harvey Oit
Sells- Floto Circus
Long
Big Timber
C. F. Rouze
Pontiac
Mich
Order to Show Cause in Estate of Edna Cross
Montana district court requires all interested parties to appear on August 7, 1940 in Big Timber to show cause why the administrator may be allowed to sell an undivided one half interest in Lots Six and Seven, Block Twenty-Eight, original Big Timber town site, to pay debts. Publication directed in The Big Timber Pioneer July 25 and August 1, 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Judicial District
State of
Montana
Sweet Grass
Edna B. Cross
Benjamin E. Berg
Harry Cross
Big Timber
Sweet Grass County
Big Timber Pioneer
Dick Armstrong
Summer Library Hours Listed For Week
The notice lists summer hours with Monday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 and Tuesday Thursday and Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 5:00 and evenings.
Meeting Notice of Sweet Grass County Democratic Committee
The Sweet Grass County Democratic Central Committee calls a meeting of newly elected precinct committeemen and committeewomen at Big Timber Cafe Big Timber Montana on August 15 1940 at 230 PM to organize elect officers and handle other business. Dated Big Timber July 26 1940 H Utermohle Chairman. Publication August 1 1940.
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Sweet Grass County
Montana
Big Timber Cafe
Big Timber
H. Utermohle
Democratic Central Committee
Notice of Final Proof for Reed Point land claim
United States land office announces that Harry John Flemming of Reed Point Montana filed for final proof to establish a claim to S14SE4 Section 24 Township 2S Range 15E Principal Meridian Montana. The hearing before Register William Riddell at Billings is set for August 23 1940. Witnesses include George Allen Irvin Miller Jerome Owens H T Flemming. First publication July 18 1940. Fifth publication August 15 1940.
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United States Department of the Interior General Land Office
Billings
Montana
Harry John Flemming
Reed Point
William Riddell
Register
United States Land Office
George Allen
Grey Cliff
Irvin Miller
Jerome Owens
H. T. Flemming
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Jerome Williams
J. L
Francis McKenzie
Bozeman, Mone
N. J. Tintinger
W. Main St
Laurel, Mont
Lew
C. J. Ellingson
Motor Ion Prompt Service
Democratic County Central Committee
Vic Christensen
Furstenberg’s
Bear Creek and
Fromberg Coal
R.A. Traver
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