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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
4
Sweet Grass county spent about one dollar per vote with 6658 votes cast for governor on July 18. A 27 mill tax levy was set for the year with allocations for General fund roads bridges poor cemetery airport and bond interest. The cemetery levy of one mill funds caretakers and planned improvements.
Governor Sam C Ford proclaims filing of petitions to place Initiative Forty Eight on the November 7 1944 ballot. The measure would define osteopathy regulate practice of osteopathic physicians and surgeons and repeal conflicting codes. Secretary of State Sam W Mitchell attests the proclamation in Helena. Parodies and Poems by Jerome Williams priced at 50 cents.
Mr and Mrs H L Brockway received a letter from their son Bob Brockway in a tank battalion in France. First Lt Charles R Deegan earned the Distinguished Flying Cross as navigator on a B 24 Liberator with 30 missions over Germany and Europe overseas since Feb 1. John Kremper sent Pioneer issues to his brother Sgt William S Briner at Camp Maxey Texas. Pfc John Franklin serves with the Fourth Marines on Saipan. Pierre Franklin and Ronald Swanson, second class seamen, aboard a carrier in the Pacific. Oscar Elgen, son of Mrs Pete Elgen Grey Cliff, promoted to cargo port at Bartow Fla. Marie Hanson is a second class hospital apprentice at the U S S Naval Hospital San Diego. Cpl Clarence McMahon ill with asthma at Camp Adair Ore. William R Hokanson promoted from corporal to sergeant in the Pacific. Cpl Emil Hauge in the South Pacific, some time in New Guinea, wrote July 11 that ten copies of The Pioneer caught up with him the night before. They ran from December to April. He is feeling fine.
Five GM war plants remained idle Tuesday night after a brief return to production and a fresh back to work order from the regional war labor board. UAW leaders and GM traded charges of bad faith as Walter Reuther said the union would appeal to the National WLB to overturn the directive and reinstate seven fired leaders from Local 235 in Detroit.
The army recovered control of Philadelphia Transportation and kept buses, trolleys, elevated lines, and subways running with no soldiers on duty. Four transit leaders were dismissed after a wildcat strike sparked by a move to upgrade eight Black employees to motorman roles, while 13 workers did not report for duty amid widespread “sickness” claims.
Brigadier General Nelson M. Walker native of Pittsfield Massachusetts and assistant commander of a US infantry division was killed leading an assault on a German machine gun position in a hedgerow. A machine gun bullet severed a thigh artery and he died within a few hours.
San Francisco August 8 The navy plans a major expansion of war material output as Pacific theater operations rise. Rear Admiral Woodward said the west coast will become a vast production and supply hub with Los Angeles and San Francisco as staging bases for a massive Pacific offensive. Production will include 40 millimeter guns aircraft carriers high octane gasoline base gear assault ships tankers forgings and castings. By year end 10 000 men will be needed at Hunters Point and Mare Island. The main obstacle is wartime workers assuming the war is nearly over and migration on the west coast has worsened the manpower shortage.
The senate edged toward a contentious war mobilization proposal on August 7 as Taft led a GOP block against a Baruch backed plan. The measure would create an office of war mobilization and adjust unemployment standards, signaling a major expansion of federal authority and a looming political clash.
Mrs Harvey Coit returns from a three month visit. George M Blair and Mrs J Twenty eight candidates for county offices announced. Gordon Huyser was kicked by a horse with a near miss above the eye. Brannis of Gibson secured a marriage license. Lillian Nepstad resigns Western Union job in Helena to attend University of Missoula. Dorman Kellogg to open the Arcade theatre next Tuesday night with 15 cent admission after opening.
Pioneer f Sigurd Olson of Chicago is visiting his brother Tom Olson. Clarence Caulkins Jr. returned to Berkeley after visiting his parents C. A. Caulkins, his sister Jessica accompanied him. The proposed three cent gasoline tax faces strong opposition as commissioners set tax levies in Big Timber for general fund high school and schools.
Stockholm Aug 7 A new Finnish government has been formed with Antti Hackzell as premier. The cabinet includes Carl Enckell interior minister Kaarl Henrik Hillilae finance minister Onni Liltonen social affairs minister Eero Varoi and Ernst von Born minister of justice. The lineup is seen as strongly conservative raising questions about peace with Russia and Moscow’s likely reaction. Mannerheim appealed to soldiers to endure as the country pursues its future.
Governor Homer M. Adkins officially concedes after partial returns show him trailing J. W. Fulbright by about 18 000 votes in the Arkansas Democratic senatorial runoff. With 1 470 of 2 087 precincts reporting Fulbright leads 69 801 to 52 080, and turnout includes a strong Negro vote estimated at 5 000.
Warner Bros presents Make Your Own Bed at the State Sunday a timely comedy about wartime domestic help shortages. Leading the cast are Jack Carson Jane Wyman and Irene Manning delivering lively slapstick and wit in a season’s comedy.
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