Ford Erickson Lead In Montana Primary Returns
In Montana a widespread primary returns show Governor Sam C. Ford leading in the Republican race with 37,075 votes from 1,001 of 1,175 precincts while Leif Erickson tops the Democratic ballot with 27,596 from 1,020 precincts. Other races include Dan Maddox mating with F. F. Haynes for eastern congressional nomination, and Lou Boedecker contesting Paul Cannon for attorney general.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Esday
Montana
Leif Erickson
Supreme Court
Ford
J. Thorkelson
Butte
Erickson
Austin B. Middleton
Lou Boedecker
Deer Lodge
Cannon
Boedecker
Ernest T. Eaton
Billings
Paul W. Smith
John D. Gillan
Great Falls
R. W. Bottomly
Bottomly
Harrison J. Freebourn
Joseph J. McCaffery
Freeurn
McCaffery
George A. Davis
Horace F. Casey
Casey
Murray
Schoenborn
Carey
Cullen
Republican
Davis
Hoon
White
Reynolds
Violet M. Eastman
John Sasek
Sidney
Eastman
Sasek
Albert H. Angstman
E. K. Cheadle
Shelby
Albert Anderson
John A. Matthews
Montana Supreme Court
Enor K. Matson
Angstman
Cheadle
Anderson
Matthews
Matson
Hanley
Ryan
Malee
Roscow
Sweet Grass County
Congress
F. F. Haynes
Dan Maddox
Thorkelson
Eaton
Gillan
Smith
Railroad and Public Service
Hazelbaker
Foot
Porter
Ireland
Leon C. Olmstead
Leo J. Esp
Ben Clark
Tom Anderson
Newton Pierson
E. O. Overland
Beulah Patterson
Cc. F. Ullman
A Ayres
Middleton
Freebourn
An Murray
Basil O'Connor to Head Red Cross
President Roosevelt appointed D Basil Oconnor head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross to succeed the late Norman H Davis. Oconnor, a former New York law partner of Roosevelt, will serve the remainder of a term ending December 11 this year. Davis died at Hot Springs Virginia on July 2.
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Washington
Roosevelt
D. Basil O’connor
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Central Committee of the American Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
O'Connor
New York
Davis
Hot Springs
Warden Reminds Fishermen of Limit
Deputy Game Warden Burke reminds fishermen that the possession limit is one day’s legal catch specifically 15 fish or 15 pounds and one fish, with no more than five under seven inches. This limit applies to fresh fish and those dried salted smoked or cured or stored in locker plants.
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Burke
Volunteers Open Cooke Highway to Yellowstone
In RED LODGE on July 14 a three man lumber crew and six volunteers from the Billings Commercial Club cleared snow and ice from the Cooke City highway toward Yellowstone Park. Roy Donaldson, owner of a lumber company, provided three workers and joined in when federal officials admitted lack of equipment slowed progress. The volunteers labored two days before the road reopened for travel.
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Cooke Highway
Red Lodge
Lumber Company
Billings Commercial Club
Cooke City
Yellowstone Park
Roy Donaldson
Donaldson
Billings Club
Six Die in Denver Amusement Park Fire
Six people died in a two alarm blaze at Elitch's Gardens Denver old mill on Sunday evening. Deputy Coroner Gas Economy reported the fire started about 4 58 p m. Names of the dead were not immediately released. The mill is a tunnel system with boats moving in the dark.
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Denver
Elitch’s Gardens
Mrs. A. K. Lewis 90. longtime resident dies at hospital
Mrs. A K Lewis aged ninety died at Community hospital after a brief illness. She had lived in Livingston and later Big Timber with her son Richard L Lewis and friends. Funeral services were held with a Bozeman minister officiating. She was born July 17, 1854 in Blue Lick Kentucky and married Asa Lewis in 1876. She is survived by her son, two nephews and other relatives. Known as Sissie by friends, she opened her home to all and was famed for biscuits and jam.
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K. Lewis
Community Hospital
Livingston
Richard L. Lewis
Livingaon
Arorn Incer Chapel
Neriscopal
Bozeman
Frank W. Chase
Mountain View
John P. Campbell
W. K. Amery
Harold Roe
Oscar D. Forsythe
Ronald Donnell
Ae “McDonnell
Elizabeth Lindsay
Blue Lack
Omen
Citizens State Bank
Belgrade State Bank
Dan Lindsay
Mandan
N. D
Richard H. Lindsay
Butte
Kentucky
Lewis
Sissie
Community Canning Project to Begin Soon in Sweet Grass County
Sweet Grass County will operate a community canning project by next week after the high school board approved using equipment sent in January. Principal Kneeland and Ag Instructor Hoskinson will lead, with lessons at a July 25 food preservation demonstration in the home economics room.
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Sweet Grass County
Kneeland
Yo- Ag
Hoskinson
Simms
Port Chicago Ammunition Ship Explosions Kill Hundreds
Port Chicago area reels from twin naval ammunition ship blasts that killed about 322 to 350 people, injuring up to 1,000 as 14 counties felt the shock. The Quinault Victory and E A Bryant, each laden with explosives, were destroyed near the Port Chicago depot northeast of San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Navy
Naval Depot
Port Chicago
Calif
E. A. Bryant
San Francisco Bay
Rors Chicago Ammunition Magazine
Bryant
Quinault
Coast Guard
Coast
Vacaville
Montana First in Meeting Quota in War Bond Drive
Helena July 17 Montana gained first place among 48 states by meeting and surpassing its $41,000,000 quota in the fifth war loan campaign with a total of $45,243,015. Four more counties Lewis and Clark Ravalli Valley and Stillwater also topped their quotas, bringing the number of counties over the top to 40.
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Helena
A. T. Hibbard
State War Finance Committee
Treasury
Montana
Lewis and Clark
Ravalli
Valley
Stillwater
Hibbard
Admiral Nagumo Dies in Saipan Defeat
U S Pacific Headquarters reports the death of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Pearl Harbor attack, along with 16,000 Japanese dead on Saipan. The admiral was commander in chief of the Central Pacific for Japan's navy.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Nippon
Western Pacific
Tokyo
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Tornado destroys ranch buildings at Herman Ryde place
A tornado near Capitol on July 16 destroyed the Herman Ryde ranch structures. The house barn granary corn crib windmill tower and a large watering tank disappeared. Windmill fragments and tool parts were scattered with planks driven into a creek bank.
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Ekalaka
Capitol
Herman Ryde Place
Sheepherders to Receive Larger Sugar Ration
Washington July 13. The Office of Price Administration allows sheep herders an extra pound and a half of sugar per month in addition to the standard ration. The ruling notes herders consume more cereals and lack outdoor kitchen facilities, necessitating more sugar than stamp relief.
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Washington
OPA
Antelope Permit Draw Set for August 21
Montana fish and game officials announce a drawing for 1944 antelope permits to be held August 21 in Helena. Letters must be postmarked by August 15. Applicants need a 1944 big game license and a $1 money order. 650 antelope may be taken across six counties with season dates in Carter Powder River Blaine Hill Valley and Phillips.
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Montana Fish and Game Department
J. S. McFarland
Carter
Powder River
Blaine, Hill, Valley
Phillips
Prisoners of War Numbered in United States
Fort Douglas Utah July 15 196 948 prisoners of war were recorded in the United States on July 1 with 146 101 Germans 50 278 Italians and 569 Japanese Briga dier General B M Bryan provost marshal in charge of POW activities said there have been over 400 escapes with eight still at large no sabotage reported from escapes and only two suspected sabotage cases in prisoner labor camps outside army posts
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Fort Douglas
Utah
United States
B. M. Bryan
Bryan
Ninth Service Command
General Clarks PT Boat Accident Sparks Navy Inquiry
Rome July 15 The navy disclosed that a United States minesweeper accidentally fired on a PT boat killing one officer and one man and wounding three aboard the boat carrying Lieutenant General Mark W Clark and other army officers to the Anzio beachhead on January 2 The incident occurred during a red alert for a suspected Nazi raid and the PT boat was not identified as friendly.
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Rome
Navy
United States
Mark W. Clark
Anzio
Ringling Circus Fire Victim Dies in Hartford
The death toll from the July 6 Ringling Brothers fire rose to 163 with the passing of 22 year old Rosalyn Kruh of West Hartford in a Hartford hospital. More than 100 victims remain hospitalized across the city.
Scrap Over Second Place Name Warms Up Bourbon Convention
At the Chicago Stadium the Democratic convention opened amid a party row centered on Roosevelt and running mates. Key moments include Byrnes bowing out of the vice presidency, Wallace resisting, Kerr delivering a keynote, and Roosevelt weighing Truman, Douglas, and Wallace as possible choices.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Robert E. Hannegan
Wallace
Harry Truman
Missouri
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Hannegan
James F. Byrnes
Chicago Stadium
Byrnes
Truman
Senate War Investigating Committee
Oregonian
Douglas
United States Supreme Court
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Navy Reaches Scheduled Strength for Armed Forces
As of June 30 the navy, marine corps, and coast guard total 3,632,381 personnel, about 18,000 short of the September 1 goal, with the navy at 2,987,311. the army has operated on a replacement basis after hitting 7,700,000 on April 1.
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Washington
Navy
Naval
United Press
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Army pilot given life sentence for buzzing plane
At Marana Army Air Field Arizona on July 15 Second Lieutenant Howard E Stittsworth of Wakefield Kansas was found guilty by an army court martial board of buzzing his plane so low that it decapitated a motorist. He was sentenced to dismissal from military service and confinement to labor for life.
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Marana Army Air Field
Ariz
Howard E. Stittsworth
Wakefield
Kan
Stittsworth
Fire at Douglas Aircraft Plant Park Ridge
A large fire destroyed the administration building at the 33 million dollar Douglas Aircraft plant in Park Ridge outside Chicago. The blaze briefly threatened the vast factory that produces the C 54 cargo planes.
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Chicago
Douglas Aircraft
Park Ridge
Teddy Roosevelt Dies in Normandy in Military Burial
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr aged 56 died of a heart attack in a captured German tank near Normandy. Assistant commanding general of the Fourth Infantry division he had led in Europe after serving in Africa and Italy. He is to be buried in the Fourth division military cemetery beside his son Quentin, and his death follows a visit with the captain in the Fighting First division. The general's career included service in the New York assembly, Navy secretary, and leadership roles with the American Legion and Boy Scouts.
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Normandy
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Roosevelt
Fourth Infantry Division
Quentin
First
Fourth Division
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
New York State Assembly
Navy
New York
Asia
Puerto Rico
Philippines
American Legion
Boy Scouts of America
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Mitchell
Pilgeram
Holmes
Dick Armstrong
J. D. Holly
G. W. Briley
Judicial
State Supreme Court
Basil O’connor
Red Cross
A. K. Lewis
U. S
Clark
Bi Timber
Syent
Cler Stee Ose
Police Dept
Eeaeneane Vegue
Teddy Roosevelt
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