James Annin Named Commander Montana Group American Legion
James T. Annin of Columbus was elected Montana department commander of the American Legion defeating Chauncey Biffle. Frank E. Flaherty of Great Falls named site of the 1942 convention. Other officers named include Carl Lindquist Scobey and Charles Semmens Anaconda. Roundup drum corps won state title. Miles City led Sons of the Legion drum and bugle event.
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Red Lodge
James T. Annin
Columbus
Montana
American Legion Today
Frank E. Flaherty
Great
Butte
Hugh Marron
Wolf Point
Louis J. Lemstra
Oliver Phillips
Richey
W. John Fouse
Belfry
Dee A. Patton
Glasgow
Floyd Ertel
Hamilton
Annin
Flaherty
Herb
Kibler
Helena
George Gosman
Dillon
James H. Higgins
White Sulphur Springs
Charles
Roundup
Great Falls
Bozeman-Livingston
Miles City
Billings
Sons of the Legion
B F Thrailkill Dies Sudden in Helena
Benjamin F. Thrailkill 63 chief of the dairy division Montana department of agriculture died in a Helena hospital Sunday night. Appointed 14 years ago he attended the American Dairy association meeting in Chicago last Thursday. Born in Helena April 28 1878 he worked for Anaconda Copper Mining at Bonner and lived in Butte Billings Hamilton Missoula. Survivors include his widow of Missoula two sons Franklin Camp Silvert Nev Lu Spokane Wash and three daughters Peggy Ann Mrs Gene Reardon Missoula and Mrs Stroller White Fullerton Calif.
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Helena
Lumpkin Named Successor to Byrnes in Senate
Columbia July 10 Governor Burnett R Maybank appointed Federal District Judge Alva M Lumpkin of Columbia to the U S Senate and set a special election for August 26 to fill the remaining term of James F Byrnes who resigned to join the Supreme Court. The appointment lasts up to six months under state law.
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Columbia
D. C
Alva M. Lumpkin
U. S. Senate
Burnett R. Maybank
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Supreme Court
O Daniel Wins Seat as Texas Senator
The Texas canvassing board officially declares Governor W Lee O Daniel elected to the United States Senate to fill the late Morris Sheppards term. He defeats Representative Lyndon Johnson by 1 311 votes in the final tally, 175 590 to 174 279.
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Austin
Texas
W. Lee O’daniel
United States Senate
Morris Sheppard
O’daniel
Lyndon Johnson
O'Daniel
Johnson
Two More Spotted Fever Cases Reported in Montana
Helena July 14 Two new Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases appeared last week, raising Montana's yearly total to 89. The cases were reported from Carbon and Custer counties. Chicken pox led communicable diseases with 29 cases, followed by measles 21, mumps 14, scarlet fever 14, whooping cough 10, and single cases of German measles tuberculosis diphtheria encephalitis tularemia and erysipelas.
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Helena
Rocky Mountain
Montana
Carbon
Custer
B. K Kilbourne
University Psychology Professor Frank Lin O Smith Dies
Dr. Frank Lin O. Smith, 74, longtime Montana State University psychology and philosophy professor, died in Missoula after a yearlong illness. A native of Macon County, NL, he taught at Cornell and Colorado universities earlier, studied at Iowa University, and held fellowships at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Iowa.
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Missoula
Franklin O. Smith
Montana State University
Smith
Cornell
Colorado
Macon County
Iowa University
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
Iowa
State firemen to meet in Glendive early August
The state firemen's convention will be held in Glendive August 7 8 and 9. Registrations have been received from Spokane Helena Great Falls and other cities.
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Glendive
Spokane
Wash
Helena
Great Falls
Mrs. Daly Dies at Summer Home in Bitterroot Valley
Mrs. Marcus Daly widow of the Montana copper magnate died suddenly at Riverside a summer home in Bitterroot valley. She was in her late eighties and survived by two daughters and several grandchildren. A noted benefactor, she aided the relocation of a statue of her husband to a new base at the school of mines campus.
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Marcus Daly
Bitterroot Valley
Hamilton
Montana
Butte
Riverside
New York City
Daly
James Gerard
Germany
Countess Sigray
Contost
J. Ross Clark
Los Angeles
Marcus Daly, III
Missoula
Margaret and
Carol Brown
Baltimore
Margaret Sigray
Budapest
Mr. Girard
Count Sigray
Ohio
Utah
Margaret Evans
Mr. Daly
Copper King
Walker Brothers
Salt Lake City
Mary
James W. Girard
Hattie
Sigray
Margaret
Walter Brown
Marcus Daly, Jr
William Andrews Clark
President Proposes Universal Daylight Saving Plan
President Roosevelt asks Congress for authority to extend daylight saving time nationwide or regionally to save electricity for defense. He wants executive orders to set new time standards where needed, possibly advancing clocks up to two hours for all or parts of the year. A federal table estimates total annual energy savings at about 736 million hours nationwide. Regional breakdown shows the Midwest leading with 292 million kilowatt hours saved.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Federal Power Commission
Midwest
Northeast
Pacific Southwest
Southeast
Mountain and Plains
Pacific Northwest
Nicholson Elected Secretary of Montana Postmasters
Cletus J. Walsh named president of the Montana Association of Postmasters at Silver Gate convention. Officers elected include Godfrey Johnson and Sylvia Vincelette as vice presidents, C A Smith as treasurer, and Charles Nicholson as secretary. An executive committee and two state directors were chosen. a retirement plan was approved and next year’s convention bids were set for Butte Great Falls and Missoula.
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Billings
Cletus J. Walsh
Polytechnic
Montana Association of Postmasters
Silver Gate
Mearl L. Fagg
Godfrey Johnson
Ronan
Sylvia Vincelette
Albert Schammel
Scobey
George Williams
Pryor
Charles Nicholson
Big Timber
C. A. Smith
Hamilton
Herman Webster
Custer
Harry Howard
Bozeman
Robert Middling
Deer Lodge
Floyd L. Derosia
Libby
Pete Snelson
Great Falls
J. M. Astle
Hardin
Edna Leonard
Camas
P. F. Morrison
Columbus
Fagg
National Association of Postmasters
Montana
Charles Westphal
Forsyth
Fred Stimson
Pablo
Montana Association
Butte
Missoula
Bert Smoot
Salt Lake City
The
National Association
County Sues Over Relief Fund Allocation
Lewis and Clark county filed suit in the Montana Supreme Court to force apportionment of the $250000 relief fund to all 56 counties. The court issued an alternative writ demanding the welfare board rescind its allocation or show cause by July 21.
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Helena
Lewis and Clark County
Montana
State Welfare Board
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Welfare Board
Headon Collision Injures Eight In Missoula
Eight persons were injured in a headon highway collision near Missoula. Three from one car including Mrs. Hattie Perry were charged with drunken driving. The other car, driven by Mrs. Paul Kiger of Spokane, carried her husband and child plus Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kiser and 11 year old daughter. all were hospitalized with facial and arm cuts.
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Missoula
Post Headon
Ere
William Johnson
Hattie Perry
James F. Doyle
Thomas Youlton
Bonner
Paul Kiger
Spokane
R. W. Kiser
Montana AG rules anti nepotism blocks wife of board member teaching
Montana Attorney General John W. Bonner ruled that the anti nepotism act prohibits appointing a school board member’s wife as a teacher or for occasional teaching. The opinion states no exceptions exist and such contracts are void. July 14 Helena.
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Helena
Montana
John W. Bonner
Americans Work in Irish Factories in Belfast
In Belfast and London officials confirm United States technicians and laborers are employed by the British government on certain works in loyalist Northern Ireland. A New York firm Merritt Chapman and Scott was named to handle construction, while American visitors celebrate the Fourth of July in Dublin.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
United States
London
Ulster
New York
Merritt
Knox Commends Defense Committee in New York Rally
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox praised the Committee to Defend America for awakening the nation to looming perils. He warned that summer events may decide Americas future for years. The rally also denounced non interventionists Charles Lindbergh and Burton Wheeler as wheelbergs abusing free speech, per Judge Ferdinand Pecora.
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New York
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Committee To Defend
America
Charles A. Lindbergh
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
New York Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Robert H. Jackson Takes Oath as Justice of Supreme Court
Washington July 11 Robert H. Jackson took the oath of office today as an associate justice of the Supreme Court at a ceremony in President Roosevelt's office. Just before the ceremony Jackson attended his last cabinet meeting as attorney general. Jackson became the seventh Roosevelt appointee to the highest tribunal whose membership again is complete.
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Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
President Roosevelt
Jackson
Roosevelt
German bombers sink two freighters in Suez roadstead
The German high command said on Tuesday that Sunday night bombers attacked shipping in the Suez canal roadstead and sank two freighters totaling 12,000 tons.
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Berlin
Suez Canal
Postmaster General Walker Warns There Can Be No Peace With Hitler
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker told Butte residents that peace or security cannot come while Hitler's regime rules Germany. He opposed negotiated peace and isolationist aims, warned of a potential Axis invasion to the United States, and urged support for Britain and Russia to halt conquest.
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Butte
Frank C. Walker
Hitler
Germany
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Mont
Walker
Europe
United States
America
Iceland
Greenland
Britain
Russia
England
Canada clamps down on use of gasoline
Canada announced a ban on sale, delivery and distribution of gasoline and oil to motorists from 7 p m to 7 a m on weekdays and all Sundays, effective Wednesday. Federal Oil Controller G R Cottrelle announced the order and appealed for a 50 percent cut in car use amid a potential shortage. An increase of 1 cent per gallon was authorized and credit cards are prohibited. gasoline must be sold cash and carry.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
G. R. Cottrelle
Hopkins Again Sent on Mission to England
Washington dispatch reports Harry Hopkins, head of the lease lend program and close adviser on aid to Britain, has left for London. He had returned from England in February after a war survey as the president’s representative, and White House officials declined to detail the new assignment.
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Washington
High Administration
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Britain
London
Hopkins
England
White House
Lightning starts scores of forest fires in California hills
The forest service said lightning started at least 81 fires in Klamath National Forest and Siskiyou county on Monday. Several thousand acres of timber and brushland, plus cabins and ranch houses, were destroyed. No casualties were reported as volunteers contained smaller blazes while larger fires, including Mount Vernon, reached 4,000 acres by midafternoon.
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Yreka
Cal
Forest Service
Klamath National Forest
Siskiyou County
Mount Vernon
United States Consulate Moves Out of Germany
Berlin July 15 The United States consulate at Frankfort is closing as American consular authorities prep to depart Germany and reach Lisbon by July 22 in a wartime redeployment effort.
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Germany
Berlin
United States
Frankfort
Lisbon
Foreign ships confiscation ordered by Morgentau
Secretary Morgenthau ordered formal confiscation against 16 ships Italian and German. He cited probable cause under the espionage act for sabotage in U S harbors and noted the ships were among 30 seized by the coast guard on March 30 with others possibly to be taken by the United States under legal procedures.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Justice Department
United States
Coast Guard
Land Board proposes securities swap to boost state income
Helena July 15 The Montana land board decided to sell one government bond issue and buy another to net the state about 210000 in profit and raise annual income from a 3 million investment by 10438 The swap will replace a nontaxable issue with a taxable one reducing market price and avoiding taxes on the new issue
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Helena
Montana Land Board
J. W. Walker
Congress Works on Deferment Plan for Men Over 28
Washington July 10 The house approved the deferment provision for men aged 28 or older on July 1, granting them draft deferral under the selective service amendments. Debate focused on labor clauses tied to strikes, with the chamber removing strike seizure provisions, while the plan moves to a Senate-House committee for reconciliation. The vote on the deferment section was decisive and little opposition appeared.
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Washington
House
Chamber
Senate-House Committee
Senate
Congress
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Headon
SEC. Knox Commends Defense Committee
F.C. Walker
Turkey
U. S
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