Pauly Re elected Montana Woolgrowers President
Pauly of Deer Lodge was reelected president of the Montana Wool Growers Association at a meeting in Billings following remarks by G Nor man Winder of Craig Colorado National Wool Growers president. Wallace Kingsbury was named vice president and trustees reelected were Wallace Ulmer Ernest White and Gene Etchart to fill a vacancy. The group discussed subsidies stockpiles labor shortages and a 1944 program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Montana
Winder
National Livestock Tax Commission
Packinghouse
United States
G. Curtis Hughes
Helena
Association
Paul
Ciano Executed by Axis in Verona
The German D N B news agency reports Count Galeazzo Ciano former Italian foreign minister and Mussolini son in law was executed for high treason in northern Italy. Also executed were Marshal Emilio de Bono Giovanni Marinelli Carlo Pareschi and Luciano Gottardi former Fascist grand council members who opposed the Duce. All were sentenced to death by an Axis tribunal in Verona and executed before 9 a.m. local time.
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Ciano
London
Galeazzo Ciano
Miister
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Emilio de Bono
Mussolini
Rome
Giovanni Marinelli
Carlo Pareschi
Luciano Gottardi
Grand Council
I Duce
Verona
Warm December Across Central and Eastern Montana
State Meteorologist A. D. Robb reported Monday that central and eastern Montana endured the third warmest December since 1895, when state records began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Central
Montana
A. D. Robb
Planning Board to Meet January 20 in Big Timber
County planning board along with the U S War Board and local economic groups will meet at the Big Timber courthouse at 1 pm to address postwar employment for servicemen and returning residents. The session will review the 1944 food production program and adjust agricultural balance for postwar changes, with E P Orcutt from Montana State College representing the college.
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County Planning Board
U.S.D.A. War Board
Committee On
H. M. Oefstos
Court House
Sweet Grass County
Oefstos
E. P. Orcutt
Montana State College
Farm Bureau Banquet Brings Nearly 300 To Fra ternity Hall
Four Sweet Grass county Farm Bureau groups joined for a Tuesday banquet in Fra ternity hall serving nearly 300 attendees. Seven turkeys topped the feast with shrinking leftovers as group singing and reports from the national convention closed the evening. Claude C. Gray state president and Mrs. Ray Angell Belgrado spoke on the convention and Woman's Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Sweet Grass County
Fraternity Hall
McLeod
Lower Boulder
Deer Creek
Big Timber Creek
Claude C. Gray
Ray Angell
Belgrado
Woman’s Auxiliary
Chicago Selected For G. O. P. Convention
The Republican National Committee unanimously chose Chicago as the site for the 1944 G O P national convention to open June 26. New York Republican J Russell Sprague proposed the plan noting a defense transportation request for a centrally located city. The committee also urged full voting access for armed services personnel in the 1944 elections.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
J. Russell Sprague
New York
Office of Defense Transportation
Armed Services
Citizens Bank & Trust Co. Reelects All Officers for Third Year
The 17th annual stockholders meeting reelects Dr Claiborn as president Charles McDonnell as vice president R L Duba as cashier and Emil Frang as assistant cashier Duba is newly elected director. The bank credits growth to livestock prices wages and local efforts while urging conservative policy and war bond purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Bank & Trust Company
D. Clabhorn
Charles McDonnell
A. Ronald McDonnell
Elmer Arneson
Carl Bue
D. J. Walvoord
R. L. Duba
Dr. Claiborn
Emil L. Frang
Sweet Grass County
Kingman Bus Train Crash Kills 27 including Cadets
In Kingman Arizona a bus carrying 25 aviation cadets and a gunnery instructor collided with a Santa Fe freight train near the airfield injuring all on board. The death toll reached 27 including the driver, with eight cadets critically injured.
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Kingman
Ariz
Arizona
Kingman Army Airfield
Mrs. Jacob Wagner Dies After Cancer Battle at Park Hospital
Mrs. Jacob Wagner a Big Timber resident since 1889 died Sunday night in Park hospital Livingston after a year long illness. The funeral was at St Josephs Catholic Church with high mass and burial at Mountain View. Surviving are husband Jacob Wagner five sons 15 grandchildren and several siblings.
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Jacob Wagner
Park Hospital
Livingston
Lowry’s
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Wolframski
Mountain View
Arthur Michels
Graham P. Woolsey
Ed Schmidthofer
Harry McComb
Frank Ault
Joseph Spannring
Gertrude Haensgen
Mount Calvary
Wis
Johnsburg
Montana
Big Timber
Boulder
Albert
Harry
Ralph
Raymond
Edgar
Fond du Lac
Nick Haensgen
Anna Wagner
Calvary
Emma Michels
McLeod
Wagner
Americans Lose 64 Planes in Big Raid
London dispatch reports the US air task force of about 1200 heavy bombers and long range fighters sustaining a record loss of 64 planes while hammering German aviation sites. Losses include 59 four engined bombers and five fighters. claims of 123 enemy planes shot down by US formations are unconfirmed.
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London
Germany
Rene
United States
Hitler
German International Information Bureau
United States Army
New Induction Method In Effect January 20
Helena Montana January 11 Preinduction physical examinations for all men subject to the draft begin January 20 as ordered by national selective service headquarters Colonel S H Mitchell says the January draft call is being filled in the regular manner Inducted men will receive thirty day furloughs Beginning January 20 all men called will be given preinduction examinations and sent home Those examined will have at least 21 days to prepare for induction and those not called within 90 days will be rereadied
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Helena
National Selective Service Headquarters
Montana
S. H. Mitchell
Selective Service
Mitchell
Army
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Senate Keeps Social Security Tax at One Percent
The Senate on Tuesday voted 48 to 17 to retain the social security tax rate at 1 percent for employees and employers through January. The move blocks Secretary Morgenthau's push for the $1.14 billion revenue, needed for war financing and curbing inflationary spending power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Triaty
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Two Melville area siblings die within a week
S. S. Marshall of Livingston died January 2 at about age 83 after a career spanning Melville ranching, the Marshall Brothers Camping Company and a Livingston justice of the peace post. His sister Nellie Kretling died in Denver the following Saturday. another sister Cora Woods lives in Long Beach California.
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Melville Country
S. S. Marshall
Livingston
Nellie Kretling
Denver
H P
W. P. Franklin
Sweet Grass
Cora
Woods
Long Beach
Calif
Sim Roberts
E. H. Ellingson
Iowa
George
Melville Ranch
Marshall Brothers Camping Company
Yellowstone Park
Livingston Eonenip
Submarines Sink 10 More Japanese Ships
American submarines raided enemy shipping lines and sunk 10 Japanese vessels. Some subs operated within sight of the Japanese coastline. The total ships sunk or damaged by U S submarines now stands at 546, with 396 sunk, 36 probably sunk, and 114 damaged.
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Washington
Pacific
Russians 35 Miles Inside Polish Border Advance Near Sarny
London dispatch reports Russian forces pushed along the Sluch river on the eastern edge of Sarny and seized positions north and south of the railway town, about 35 miles inside the prewar Polish frontier. Moscow meanwhile claimed 15,000 German deaths over four days of heavy resistance after Kirovograd victory.
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London
Sluch
Sarny
Moscow
Kirovograd
German blockade runner scuttled near Brazil
A German blockade runner, pursued by American and Brazilian forces, was scuttled by its crew on January 3. One hundred forty five crewmen were captured and placed in a prison camp at a northeastern Brazilian base, per the Hewanapero Globo report.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Hewanapero Globo
Monay
William Vanderbilt Dies at 65 in New York
William Kissam Vanderbilt son of the family fortune and former president of the New York Central railroad died Friday in New York of heart disease at age 65. He was a great grandson of the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune.
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William Vanderbilt
New York
William Kissam Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
New York Central Railroad
Stanford senior Anne Brokaw killed in Palo Alto crash
Anne Clare Brokaw, daughter of Clare Boothe Luce, died Tuesday in an automobile accident in Palo Alto California. She was a senior at Stanford University.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Anne Clare Brokaw
Clare Boothe Luce
Stanford University
Roosevelt urges national service plan in wartime message
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a national service act to prevent strikes and mobilize workers for war effort. He outlined five wartime measures including tax reform, renegotiation of war contracts, price supports for farmers, reenactment of the stabilization statute, and a national service law to ensure essential production. The proposal drew mixed reactions from lawmakers amid debate over labor conscription and unity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Key Pont
Rome
Berlin
Tokyo
Johnson
Colorado
May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Reynolds
North Carolina
Senate Military Committee
Grippe
Senate
House
Porton
Teheran
Cairo
Treasury
George C. Marshall
White House
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Aged Women Die in Fire at Helena
Helena January fire at the old Montana Bank building killed two elderly women on the fourth floor. Elizabeth Clarke 81 and Mrs. Laura Clarke 83 were found after a daylong search. Norman Edden 10 survived severe burns while sisters Mary Esther 6 and Irma June 4 recovered from minor injuries. Five others remained hospitalized with serious injuries.
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Helena
Montana Bank
E. R. Munger
Elizabeth Clarke
Laura Clarke
Munger
Norman Edden
Montana National Bank
W. F. Cashmore
Mary Esther
Irma June
Philomina Belgrade
Eddens
William Staniger
Thomas Williams
Will Desonia
Patricia Desonia
Trade Treaty Signed By Germany and Sweden in Stockholm
Sweden and Germany signed a trade pact in Stockholm promising reduced exchanges of goods in 1944 and a lifting of the blockade on Swedish shipping to the Americas next Saturday. Sweden will ship 7,000,000 tons of iron ore to the Nazis in 1944, about 3,000,000 tons less than 1943, with coal and coke imports from Germany cut accordingly to balance trade.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
North
South America
Expect 1 250 000 Sale at Denver Stock Show
Denver January 11 Purebred cattle earmarked for auction at the National Western Stock Show next week should bring their owners more than 1 250 000 John T Caine the show's new general manager estimated Tuesday Last year's show sale of registered stock netted cattlemen about 1 000 000 About 3 000 bulls will plod into the auction ring this year compared with 2 500 in 1943.
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Denver
John T. Caine
Morton Salt Fire Destroys Major Plant in Marysville
A large fire at the Morton Salt plant in Marysville Michigan destroyed six principal buildings and several smaller structures. General Manager Fred Philbrick stated losses would exceed 2.5 million dollars. The Marysville plant is the Midwest's largest Morton facility with a 250,000 ton annual capacity.
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Morton
Marysville
Mich
Morton Salt Company
Fred Philbrick
Midwest
Lou Henry Hoover Dies at 68 in New York Home
Former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover died of an acute heart attack Friday night in her Waldorf Towers apartment in New York at age 68. Former President Herbert Hoover was at her side as she prepared to go to dinner. She had recently returned from California and the Hoovers kept an apartment in Waldorf Towers. Her long life balanced work and family, and she was noted for guiding the White House years with grace.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Hoover
Iowa
Lou Henry Hoover
First Ladies
White House
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Pauly
Deer Lodge
Woolgrowers
Citizens Bank & Trust Co
C. L.hickey
Needles
Herbert C. Hoover
St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church
Presdent
Bural
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