Rommel Defeated At Thala In Tunisia Retreat
Allied forces drive Rommel’s tank columns back from Thala marking their first Tunisian setback. In the north Atlantic, 850+ crew and passengers perished as two American ships were torpedoed, storms hindering lifeboats as the Navy reports known dead or missing.
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Rommel
North Atlantic
North Africa
Field
Thala
Tunisia
Kasserine Pass
Washington
Navy
United States
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Death of Thomas Burg After Auto Crash Injuries
Thomas Burg died at his home Sunday noon from injuries from an automobile crash twelve years earlier that left him with a broken back. Funeral services were held at Lowry's chapel then he was buried in Livingston. Ernest Berg of Roscoe conducted the service with music by Mrs. Airan ld McDonnell and Mrs. Frank Chase. Pallbearers were James H. Wick, T. S. Hansen, George Lamach, J. J. Lacklen, Harold Roe and C. E. Smart. Burg, born Sept 24 1886 in Stavanger Norway, came to America in 38 years, lived in Livingston, Grey Cliff, then Bic Timber. He married Christina Tangen in Livingston on July 9 1913. Five children Eugene Alice Leonard Alvin and Donald survived, with a sister Mrs. Bertha Walker of Portland Oregon visiting recently. He used a wheelchair for years and made horseradish for distribution.
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Thomas Burg
Lowry’s Chapel
Livingston
Ernest Berg
Roscoe
Jehovah's Witnesses
A. Rqanald McDonnell
Frank Chase
James H. Wick
T. S. Hansen
George Lamach
J. J. Lacklen
Harold Roe
C. E. Smart
Stavanger
Norway
America
Grey Cliff
Bic Timber
Christina Tangen
Eugene
Alice
Leonard
Alvin
Donald
Bertha Walker
Portland
Oreg
Lincoln County Senator Rowland Dies in Described Heart Attack
Lincoln County Republican state senator M. D. Paddy Rowland died Friday after a heart attack in the house of representatives lobby. The Libby lawyer and abstracter, 57, served two terms and previously sat in the 1931 and 1933 sessions. Rowland held prominent Masonic and Royal Arch positions. His wife Mrs. Rowland and son Lamar of New York were mentioned.
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Helena
M. D
Paddy) Rowland
Lincoln County
House of Representatives
Rowland
Libby
Milton
Towa
University of Iowa
Yale University
F. E. Baker
Lamar
New York
Masonic Lodge
Knights Templar
Rabban
Algeria Shrine
Royal Arch Masons
Lower House Backs High Wartime Salary Ceilings
Washington Feb 19 despite Roosevelts call for a super tax to cap wartime incomes the house ways and means committee backed a bill to repeal executive pay limits and set salaries at Pearl Harbor levels Rep Disney leading the measure argues it removes salary control from Byrnes and does not affect wage ceilings or the little steel formula.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Ways and Means
Pearl Harbor
Doughton
Dougehton
Disney
Coughton
Jimmy Byrnes
Yankee Clipper Salvage Underway After Crash
Salvage crews worked at the bottom of the Tagus River to lift the Yankee Clipper wreck after a crash from New York. Twenty of 39 aboard were unaccounted or sealed in cabins. three bodies were recovered yesterday and one died in hospital, with 15 dead or missing in total and most survivors hospitalized. Jane Froman of New York is among the injured.
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Lisbon
Tacus River
New York
U. S. Legation
Tagus
Jane Froman
Grocer Dies Over New Deal Regulations
A Montgomery death certificate cites worry over the new deal and OPA price ceilings as the cause of death. The groceryman’s identity and residence are not released by the Alabama health department.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Health Department
OPA
Roosevelt Warns Americans Face Reverses and Misfortunes
President Roosevelt cautioned that the nation still faces reverses and misfortunes in a Washington birthday address delivered during a Democratic fund-raising dinner series. He compared wartime triumphs to Saratoga and urged discipline of thought and speech while recalling Washington and Benedict Arnold in the context of the Revolution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
General Burgoyne
Saratoga
Mr. Roosevelt
Mayflower
Wallace
United States
England
Germany
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Guadalcanal
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
Wickard Lifts Wheat Acreage Quotas for 1942 and 1943
Secretary Wickard suspended AAA marketing quotas on wheat to secure war food supplies. The move ends penalties on excess 1942 crop wheat and allows overplanting for 1943 wheat without losing wheat loans or maximum benefit payments, provided farmers meet 90 percent of war crop goals.
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Washington
Wickard
AAA
Hathaway Died Sunday After Long County Life
Charles O. Hathaway, longtime Sweet Grass County resident, died Sunday evening at his son Vernie’s home on Big Timber creek at age 81. Born 1861 in St. Thomas Ontario, he came to Minnesota at age 9 and to Miles City then Sweet Grass County, helped pioneer the Northern Pacific railroad, and worked on ranches. He served as Sweet Grass County assessor for ten years, married Maria Lanphear in 1899, and leaves four sons Oren Orville Vernie and Lester plus ten grandchildren and a brother George. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery after services at the Evangelical church.
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Charles O. Hathaway
Vernie
Lester Hathaway
St. Thomas
Ontario
Mr. Hathaway
Minnesota
Miles City
Sweet Grass County
Northern Pacific
John
George Cook
Urner Bros
H. O. Hickox
Melville Merchant
Dier- Browning
Nils T. Petersen
Big Timber Creek
Maria T. Lanphear
Oren
Seattle
Orville
Spokane
Lester
Big Timber
Mountain View
Patterson & Graff
Rev. J . Tool
Evangelical Church
Carolyn
Betty Strand
Mervin Sell
C. E. Davis
Jonas Maitland
Dick Armstrong
Edgar Johnson
Sam Fallane
George Hathaway
Lyle, Wa
Montana Legislature Eases Training Center Cooperation Bill
In Helena on February 23 the Montana legislature passed a emergency bill in under an hour to allow the state university system to cooperate with the armed services for training student soldiers. The measure enables Missoula's state university Bozeman's school of mines Havre's Northern Montana college to enter federal agreements for care housing and training with federal funds covering costs repaid later to the schools.
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Helena
Montana
Greater University System
Dillavoy
Yellowstone
Ford
State University of
State Board of Examiners
O’ Connor
Pines
Bomber Crash in Seattle Kills 29
A four engine bomber crashed into the Frye and Company packing plant in Seattle during a test flight killing 11 Boeing technicians and pilot Edmund T. Allen among the dead. Fifteen bodies were recovered within twelve hours as flames raged through the four story building. It marked the worst aerial disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Boeing
Frye and Company
Boeing Field
Edmund T. Allen
Boeing Flight and Aerodynamics
Delinquency of Girls on Increase
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported 55.7 percent more girls under 21 were arrested last year than in 1941 attributing it to a deplorable lack of parental guidance and discipline in homes. Boys under 21 arrests rose 17.1 percent over 1941 despite many being drafted.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
House kills social security bill in Montana legislature
The Montana House of Representatives defeated a bill that would have cut county participation in social security services by about 400 000 dollars. The plan would reduce county payments for old age pensions and aid to dependent children and the blind from 16 2 3 to 8 1 3 percent of total state funds. Opponents warned of higher state costs, and the measure failed 36 to 54 on a Fewkes motion for further consideration.
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Helena
House of Representatives
Graybill
Cascade
Fewrise
Lincoln
Horrigan
Granite
Appropriations Committee
Fewkes
Buffalo roam Park County farmland as Yellowstone herd disperses
In Park county the herd of buffalo from Yellowstone National Park has left the park seeking food. About 25 head moved into the Carbella area, with several still headed toward Livingston and sighted south of Wanigan. Rancher Art Pfohl and helpers used a rock barrage to drive them away from haystacks.
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Livingston
Park County
Art Pfohl
Carbella
Yellowstone Park
Wanigan
Yellowston Park
Pfohl
Robert Stewart
Art Anderson
Stewart Ranch
Government states no clothing rationing planned
Luther Reid, director of rationing information for the office of price administration, said there are no plans to ration clothing. He warned reports claiming otherwise are untrue and noted there is no existing machinery to implement such a system.
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Washington
Luther Reid
Office of Price Administration
Red Cross War Fund Drive Opens Monday in Sweet Grass
The American Red Cross launches a nationwide march to raise 125 million dollars in March with Sweet Grass county quota of 1900. Local dinner meeting March 1 at 7 00 pm at Rig Timber cafe features Edwin Bennit of Chicago and mobilizes county workers for the drive.
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RED Cross
American Red Cross
R. A. Bray
Sweet Grass County
Sweet Grass County Activites
Edwin Bennit
Chicago
Rig Timber Cafe
Arizona Executes Brutal Murderer
Florence Arizona February 19 Big Jim Rawlings 46 died in the lethal gas chamber after being strapped in at 6 05 am. Witnesses watched as Warden A G Walker announced his death eight minutes later. Rawlings had murdered 11 year old Marylin Atkins in Morenci on August 29 1942 and spent last hour with two Presbyterian ministers before declining to speak.
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Florence
Ariz
Big Jim Rawlings
Arizona
Marylin Erma Atkins
Rawlings
A. G. Walker
Morenci
Elbert Nash
S. B. Hanah
Chapain
Ranee
OPA Sets Wholesale Egg Prices in New Control Action
The Office of Price Administration established wholesale egg prices today as part of an emergency move to curb scarce fresh vegetables. The measure covers about 95 percent of food on American tables, with a predicted immediate consumer cost dip but a higher year around average price by one to two cents per dozen under a forthcoming fixed mark up rule.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Local Friends Mourn James E. Spurling Death
James E. Spurling longtime Northern Pacific district freight and passenger agent with Billings HQ died in Los Angeles last Wednesday. He served 46 years with the company before retiring in 1932 and was born November 16, 1862 at La Grange Iowa. Local businessmen and stockmen remembered him as a likeable accommodating official during his years in Big Timber and Wyoming shipments.
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James E. Spurling
Northern Pacific
Billings
Los Angeles
Calif
la Grange
Iowa
Kelly Renominated for Chicago Mayor in decisive primary
Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly won renomination easily in Chicago's mayoral primary on Tuesday. Republican George B. McKibbin earned the right to oppose Kelly in the April final, while Kelly led over Alderman John S. Boyle by about four to one early in the vote count.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
George B. McKibbin
Kelly
John S. Boyle
Billy Potts
McKibbin
Dwight H Green
Arthur F. Albert
John H. Lyle
Mail Regulations for Overseas Servicemen Detailed
Limited facilities force the post office to cut mail volumes to troops abroad. Newspapers may not be mailed by individuals unless specifically requested, circulars are not accepted, and V mail letters are carried by plane where possible. Parcels must be 5 pounds or less, with a written request, and delivery authority rests with the Army and Navy.
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Post Office Department
Army and Navy Department
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Lester P. Work
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J. F. Clark
Carl W. Ewan Grey Cliff
J. G. McComas
Bertel Ichand Melville
Paul L van Cleve, Jr
D. D. Johnson
R. H. Eurich
Deer Creek
Leonard Esp
Sam Duffey
Howie
Ole Rostad
Ray Becken
Glasston
A. Olin
Walter Baker
Springdale
Carl Myrstol
Tor Jarrett
Julia Frederickson
Knights of Pythias
Morley Lamp
Pythian Sisters
Co. L. Crest
Masonic
Arthur L Schump
Eastern Star
H. C. Olson
Royal Neighbors
Hilda Coster
Ceryl V. O'Leary
Lions Club
F. M. Lamp
H. S. Tool
Axel Seenon
J. J. Kisser
J. F. Howe
The
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Axel Anderson
Je N MacFarlane
A. Bishop
F. Ullman
Lars Inga Litteeadcaed
Clarence Loftsgaarden
S. Oie
Ed Cole
Spurling
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