Senate approves flood control as postwar job making plan
The Senate approved a major flood control authorization aimed at postwar employment. The measure authorizes construction costing about one million dollars across the nation’s river basins, with actual appropriations to follow. The bill moves back to the House and may go to a conference committee to reconcile differences.
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Senate
Washington
House
Overton
Murray
Mont
Missouri Basin
Missouri Valley Authority
Murae
Pension Bill Passes for World War I Widows
The Senate approved the first pension bill for World War I widows and orphans without debate. Benefits up to 74 dollars monthly, costing about 37 million dollars in the first year, would go to widows and children of veterans with rates set for various family roles and increments per extra child or additional orphans. The measure, already passed by the House, awaits likely amendments before final passage.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
University Army Training to End at Montana State
Major G W Misevic announced the army specialized training reserve program at Montana State University will end December 31. About 200 reservists aged 17 years have been at the campus since July 5 and will be withdrawn by year end, leaving ROTC as the sole military program. Ninth service command officers said the AS T A P program would be curtailed nationally after January 1 with remaining units consolidated at fewer schools.
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Utah
Pioneer Sheepman Dies at Great Falls
Leslie H Pioneer Hamilton, 91, renowned Montana sheepman and philanthropist, died Friday at his Great Falls home after a heart attack. Born December 6, 1852, in Vermont, he spent 64 years in Montana sheep industry and was a life member of the Wool Growers' Association.
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Great Falls
Leslie Hioneer
Montana
Hamilton
Els
Montan
Ermont
U S Destroyer Sunk by Torpedo Amid Night Battle
A large aerial torpedo struck a U S destroyer near Ormoc Bay in Leyte Gulf during a nocturnal clash with Japanese forces. The ship sank amidships within seconds, most crew rescued by Catalina planes and fighters. Navy Blackcat planes later reached survivors despite bad weather.
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Leyte Gulf
United States
Ormoc Bay
Catalina
Blackcat
Used Passenger Car Tires Removed From Ration List
The Office of Price Administration announced that used passenger car tires will be removed from rationing next Tuesday. The tires stem from 6.3 million purchased by the Defense Supplies Corporation and were deemed poor quality with uneven distribution. Truck tires remain rationed. Grade 1 tires now include factory seconds and synthetic rubber tires.
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Chicago
Office of Price Administration
Defense Supplies Corporation
Native Sweet Grass County man leads Red Cross in Marianas
Joe Miolsness, a native of Sweet Grass County tied to the Great Falls area, has been appointed Grant field sit and acting area director for American Red Cross activities in the Marianas. He led a staff of Red Cross field workers who accompanied the first Marianas invasion forces and will supervise staff on Saipan Tinian and Guam.
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Pyote Army Air Field
Pyote
Tex
Wayne B. Henry
Arthur C. Ward
Camp Crowder
Bill Ernst
Src
Pacific
Charles W
J. K. C. Jones
New Guinea
Raymond Hogemark
England
R. E. Hauge
Donald
Holland
Chas. R. Deegan
San Antonio
Emmett Deegan
Pfc
Paty Deegan
Washington
Joe Mijolsness
Great Falls
Red Cross
Pacific Theater
Marianas
Saipan
Tinian
Red Cross Service
Mjolsness
Montana
Cut Bank
Mont
Karen
Miolsness
Fort Custer
Battle Creek
Mich
Dalhart
Fort Sumner
N. M
Boulder Valley Calves Boost USO Fund at Billings Auction
Boulder valley ranchers donated calves for auction in Billings to support USO and Red Cross drives. Twenty seven calves and a lamb averaged 60.07 dollars with a total check of 1682.07 dollars. Buyers included Pierce Packing Co and Midland Packing Co as the community pledges to match the average with cash.
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Sweet Grass County
Boulder
Woods Bros
Elk Creek
Boulder Valley
Billings
USO
Red Cross
Ed Braaten
Billings Livestock Commission
Smart
Ben B. Miles
Wm. Rule
Albert Hoyseth
Herman Moers
Clarence Farnsworth
Raymond Waener
Claude Doig
Merrill Fink
W. O. McKinsey
Mikkel Breck
George O. Rostad
Rasmus Boe
G. Decker
S. J. Craft
Lloyd Broughton
Lester P. Work
Philip Philipson
Howard Mason
H. Baldridge
L. Esp
O. H. Ernst
Death Claims Five This Week in Local Death Notices
Five deaths span Dec 2 to the week, detailing Hi Baker of Boulder and others. Obituaries list survivors, births, marriages, and service details with Lowry’s chapel handling arrangements at Mountain View.
Civil Aeronautics Plan Includes Big Timber Airport Funding
The Civil Aeronautics Administration recommends a postwar airport program totaling a billion dollars. Big Timber is listed in class 2 with a $50,000 allocation for airport construction and improvement.
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
Congress
Green Reelected President of AFL
William Green was reelected unanimously as head of the American Federation of Labor at the AFL convention in New Orleans. The session backed a no strike pledge and opposed quick universal postwar conscription plans while Green denounced the national labor relations board and outlined goals to create 60 million postwar jobs and raise 1 million to aid workers in liberated and distressed regions.
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New Orleans
William Green
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Viedge
Green
National Labor Relations Board
Goa
Europe
Asia
Central
South America
Bottomly Rules on Sheriff's Duties
Helena December 4 The county sheriff must levy upon and sell personal property for taxes if directed to do so as deputy treasurer Attorney General R V Bottomly ruled Monday.
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Helena
R. V. Bottomly
American Troops Push Front on Leyte and Saar Fronts
Allied forces resumed the Leyte offensive with six U.S. divisions driving along the Ormoc corridor and breaching a Japanese river line. MacArthur reported Japanese forces of the Thirty-Fifth Army cut off by air and naval blockades as U.S. Third Army crossed the Saar at six points capturing Sarreguemines and tightening the siege of Saarbrucken.
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Allied
Leyte
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Walter Krueger
United States Sixth Army
Ormoc
MacArthur
Daily War Bulletin
Thirty-Fifth Army
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Paris
Third Army
Saar River
Sarreguemines
Saarbrucken
Saarland
Thirty-fifth Infantry
Saar
McLeod Drilling Operations Stopped
Stanolind halts drilling at McLeod site and begins dismantling gear. Workers filled the hole with cement, about 5,500 bags, to seal hot water and prevent flooding toward the Boulder river. Operations paused near 3,000 feet as Glen Hash works to restore the area.
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McLeod
Stanolind Company
Glen Hash
Boulder River
Big Timber
McLeod Plunge
Keeley Becomes Acting Governor in Ford Absence
State Senator W. E. Keeley of Deer Lodge Republican and Powell county leader assumed acting governor duties in Helena when Governor Sam C. Ford left for a western governors conference in Phoenix. Lieutenant Governor Eaton, on an eastern trip, may extend his return to December 17 as Ford plans to return after the conference.
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Helena
W. E. Keeley
Deer Lodge
Powell County
Senate
Montana
Sam C. Ford
Phoenix
Ariz
Ernest T. Eaton
Billings
Chicago
Washington
Ford
Eaton
Sugar Shortage Deepens as Caribbean Shipments Decline
The commerce department reports a worsening sugar situation with reduced raw sugar shipments from the Caribbean. Refineries, already facing a backlog of orders, may see curtailed operations as the shortage extends.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Caribbean
Department
Albert B. Fall Dies Former Interior Secretary at 83
Albert B. Fall longtime Harding era secretary of the interior died in El Paso Texas at age 83 after a long illness. He had health problems since 1929 and spent his final years in a hospital before retiring to a ranch. He was linked to the Teapot Dome scandal and was convicted of bribery in a 1929 case, receiving a $100000 fine and a one year sentence, of which nine months were served.
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Alvin LaForge
Big Timber
Lowry’s
H. S. Tool
Evangelical Church
A. Ronald McDonnell
Mervin Sell
Lawrence Peterson
Lewis S. Brannin
James B. Kratzer
Stanley Hanson
Ed Hower
W. O. McKinsey
Flora Bahney
Amy Teets
Billings
Thomas H. LaForge
George L. McCluskey
Cardwell
Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital
Edna C. Duncan
Lowrys
Congregational Church
Tool
Busha
Warry Wordal
Mountain View
Graham P. Woolsey
Stuart H. Nicholson
Raymond Wagner
A. T. Euion
Floyd Pierce
Albert JD
Belleville
Ark
Montana
Burlington
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Whitehall
Hawaii
California
Arkansas
Willard McComb
Herbert Dutton
Taylor
Greybull
Wyo
Clare Wm. Flatt
Frank Carpenter
Elk Creek
Carpentera
Lowry
Forsyth
Mr. Flatt
Bismarck
N. D
Helena
Elizabeth Lewis
Hysham
Sanders
Anderson Springs
East Boulder
Herbert
Helen Mayfield
Bozeman
Flatt
Wild Rose
Melville Road
Albrt B. Fall
EL Paso
Texas
Albert B. Fall
Harding
Fall
No Court Martial For Army Navy Officers In Pearl Harbor Aftermath
The War Department ruled against court martial proceedings for any army officer tied to Pearl Harbor. Navy Secretary Forrestal will continue a broader probe but found evidence does not support general court martial action. Secret inquiry boards will keep findings private during the war. Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter C. Short led Pacific Fleet and Hawaii forces respectively and were relieved after the 1941 attacks.
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Washington
Army
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Navy
Forrestal
Naval Service
R. Adm
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Hawaii
Walter C. Short
Federal Land Bank Allocates War Bonds for Sixth Loan
Sweet Grass county nears its sixth war bond goal by $16,000 as the Spokane based Federal Land Bank credits $4 million in bonds and allocates among four states Montana Idaho Washington Oregon. Allocation to counties follows land bank borrower numbers with Sweet Grass receiving double the prior county amount.
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Sweet Grass County
Federal Land Bank of
Spokane
M. B. Yates
Billings Group
National Farm Loan Associations
Billings
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Spokane Bank
Divorces and Estate Actions Dominate County Court
Judge Berg presided as two divorces and multiple estate matters occupied the term. Ed Howard liquor case and Herman Utermohle vs Northern Pacific were dismissed. Elaine Cole faces concealed weapons charges. Guardian changes noted. Josephine Peterson estate sale confirmed. Lamp estate probate completed. Webber estate inheritance tax actions handled. Eddy and Freeberg divorces granted with child support orders.
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B. E. Berg
Fred Gibson
Livingston
Horace S Davis
Billings
Emmett O’sullivan
Harlowton
Overland
State of Montana
Ed Howard
Herman Utermohle
Northern Pacific
Horace S. Davis
Eleanor Cole
H. L. Brockway
Willis Clark
Missoula
Frank Miller
Berg
Josephine Peterson
Frank M. Lamp
Citizens Bank & Trust Co
Ella Webber
Frank S. Webber
O'Sullivan
John Cremer
Jaggemeyer
Delia Pmeyer
Ethel M. Eddy
Albert J. Eddy
Marie Freeberg
Charles Freeberg
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Missouri
Roosevelt
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
U. S
Joe Miolsness
Harmon Baker
Harry
Galen
Dean Tardeville
Anaconda
John Haffey
Lowry’s Chapel
E. E. Tollefson
J. A. Post
Lena B. Clark
George
Mrs. Adelbert Whitney
Adelbert Whitney
St. Mark’s Church
George N. Taylor
Frank W. Chase
Chas. W. Campbell
R. A. Bray
Roy Webber
Paul van Cleve II
Dorman Kellogg
Belfast
Lena Haney
Lake Basin
Whitney
Inez Gorton
Ruth Zurcher
Oakland
Calif
Fred Lawrence
San Diego
Ethel Lowell Parkhurst
Etta Lowell
Archie Sanborn
Teo
Bottomly
London
Red
Lake Balaton
Hungary
Austria
Moscow
Budapest
Danube
McLeod Drilling
Keeley
Federal Land Bank
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