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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
1
Montana voters approved the $12,000,000 highway debenture issue by about five to one in a Tuesday special election. The $46,000,000 postwar road program funds primary routes, farm to market roads, grade crossing eliminations, and city constructions, with debt retirement included.
Pvt. Richard Hauge transferred to Fort Meade Maryland. Tom Osen remains in Italy promoted to master sergeant. Ralph Faw in Austria commanding a tank. Kermit Luttschwager to Seabees now at Great Lakes. Marie Hanson now pharmacist mate third class at Pasco Washington. Lt. Raymond Dodge stationed at Rosencrans Field Missouri. Stanley Phillips moved San Diego to Camp Pendleton California to take a mechanic course and qualified as expert rifleman. Arthur Hanson back in the States after South Pacific service. Terland family hears furlough possible in the States before Pacific theater duty. Terland visited German concentration camps. Edwin L. Wheeler writes from Germany noting candles in packages, troops camped in pup tents then open field. Donald Hauge reports no V E Day celebration due to ammunition roundup. he is a paratrooper enlisted 1941 overseas since 1943. First Sgt. Richard Dodge touring New York state with seventh band drive. 46 servicemen in group, 28 units on similar trips.
First Lt. Stanley M. Lyman Jr., a former Sweet Grass county man now a Marauder pilot from Minneapolis, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a B 26 Marauder flight in a February attack on a railway bridge north of Linzig Germany. He safely brought his damaged aircraft home after collision damage from another plane in formation.
Issuance of canning sugar coupons is temporarily suspended in the county by orders from Helena until further notice. Don’t contact board members or the ration office until new orders arrive. Applications should be turned in but coupons will be delayed. List all family members with ages for those under two.
Cpl Berent Satre was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds in action in France and Germany and received the decoration this week from his parents Mr and Mrs John Satre. He served as a gunner on an armored tank since October 1943 and went overseas in early 1944. He is currently in Austria writing from Linz on May 20.
The American council on education reports 47 percent of college administrators oppose universal military training fearing mind regimentation. Most educators favor delaying a peace time draft decision until after peace is established, per a poll released on the eve of House hearings on postwar policy.
The treasury begins mailing an estimated 20 million income tax refunds for 1944. Officials expect to complete the distribution to taxpayers by the end of September, aiming to finish sooner than last year.
Montana men serving with the armed forces purchased $647,000 worth of bonds during the seventh war loan. The state war finance committee reports the total will be credited to Montana’s quota, with $273,000 subscribed in the last week to be added to Montana’s next report.
A rural electrification association met at the courthouse to push a line serving Boulder valley and parts of Big Timber creek, Deer creek and Dry creek. A. B. Ellison of REA and Fred Hart explained procedures while Park Electric Coop directors led by F. L. Kistner outlined plans. survey and staking will begin when engineers arrive, poles may be ready in July, and farmstead wiring should start now.
The Montana district collector announced that the new $5.00 automobile use tax stamps for the 1945 fiscal year start July 1 and will be sold over the counter at all post offices in cash and by mail orders at the Helena office with cash or money orders. Vehicles must display the stamp on the windshield beginning July 1, 1945, with penalties for noncompliance.
Mr and Mrs J F McIntyre report their son Pfc Douglas McIntyre was wounded in action in the Ruhr Germany on April 7 a shot in the left shoulder caused concussion four broken ribs collapsed left lung another shot across his chest one bounced from a hand grenade He was treated in Paris flown to Camp Kilmer then Walla Walla Washington after 72 hours overseas in January with the Ninth Armored Division First Army Infantry.
About 10,000 American officers and soldiers visited Berchtesgaden on a sunny Sunday turning Hitler’s former retreat into a popular GI resort. They photographed landmarks labeled Hitler's House and SS Hotel and climbed to the Eagle's Nest with guided signs and casual tourist interest.
A four story Bremen police HQ building used by the U.S. military government was rocked by two delayed action bombs. At least 15 people died and 80 were injured, including Americans and Germans. Three Americans were confirmed dead and two missing. many Germans feared buried under rubble as rescue teams worked through the debris.
Private First Class Merle Jones of Dayton Washington caught a Japanese hand grenade on his head during a counter attack in Cebu Philippines. The grenade bounced off his head and exploded outside the fox hole injuring him while killing a Japanese soldier nearby.
King Haakon leaves London for Norway ending five years of exile since German occupation. He will arrive aboard a British warship in Oslo on June 7, marking the fifth anniversary of his departure and Norway’s break from Sweden. The king, born Prince Carl of Denmark, was chosen in 1905 and escaped to Britain amid Nazi bombardment.
London dispatch cites Tokyo Sun expressing concern for Emperor Hirohito while noting the war hampers his horseback riding. The Japanese broadcast urges that the only solution is to totally annihilate the enemy.
Cpl Carl F Eder Jr son of Mr and Mrs Carl F Eder ranchers north of Reed Point was killed in action on Okinawa May 20 he enlisted in the marines at Billings in 1942 served in the South Pacific and on Emirau Bougainville and Guam and landed at Okinawa on April 1 Surviving are his parents a brother Wayne Eder and a sister Mrs Dora Nyhart The Wayne Eders were in town Saturday
President Truman asked Congress for a new lend-lease appropriation of 1.975 billion dollars to help end the war with Japan. The request would add to unobligated balances to total 4.375 billion for the next fiscal year. He also proposed expanding the Export-Import Bank’s lending authority.
Sir Alexander Fleming said penicillin is effective against gonorrhea but warned against using it as a cure-all for unrelated ailments. He cautioned that improper use could lead to microbes developing resistance to the drug.
NORFOLK Va June 3 The 27 500 ton aircraft carrier Lake Champlain was launched Sunday to join the world s mightiest fleet It is the eighteenth carrier of the Essex class launched since 1942 and increases the navy s total carriers to 28 exclusive of escort carriers The ship had one major voyage to the Pacific in the autumn of Our record shows the Lake Champlain s launch adds a newer Essex class vessel to active service amid postwar expansion.
The Office of Price Administration ordered woolen and worsted mills to revert to 1943 average prices to cut civilian garment costs. Bowles predicts wool fabrics down about 7 percent and wool knit fabrics about 4 percent. Effective June 9, the move aims to reach the goal of affordable essentials with wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers passing savings to buyers.
Washington June 2 The American Red Cross announced it has been notified by the army that enough nurses are available to care for sick and wounded soldiers and no further applications will be accepted until further notice.
Republican Wesley A. D Ewart won Montana eastern district’s special congressional race, defeating Democrat Leo C Graybill as voters rejected a Missouri Valley Authority plan. D Ewart succeeds the late James F O Connor, boosting Republicans to 190 seats in the House.
TOKYO has not been ruled out as a target for B 29 attacks Major General Curtis E Lemay said on a Guarn broadcast. He noted there are individual industrial targets on Tokyo outskirts that Japan may rebuild after raids and stressed B 29 aims to drop a concentrated bombardment to smother defenses and start fires, with four incendiary types used for different building types.
Senators postponed hearings on the Missouri Valley Authority bill for nearly four months. Senate irrigation and reclamation subcommittee chairman John H. Overton said hearings will begin September 17. Senator James E. Murray, sponsor, Montana, leads the measure patterned after existing authority models.
The budget bureau informed the House Civil Service Committee that about 250000 federal employees may be reduced in the next year. The plan calls for about 20000 job losses each month as part of the overall decrease.
More than 1,000 officers and men of the United States First Army, the first to land in Europe and invade Germany, returned home as a unit. They were among 10,000 veterans who landed in New York harbor aboard three troopships and four liberty ships. Lieutenant Paul Hartman of Great Falls Montana, who parachuted over Hamburg in 1943 and was liberated from a Mossburg Austria prison camp, disembarked early.
Lieutenant Harold W. Goad returned home to Portsmouth Ohio with his wife Helen 23 who had married Ensign Robert A MacDowell in Long Beach California after the war department announced Goad dead a year earlier. He had been listed as missing for a year before the reappearance.
Larry Smith promoted the seventh bond drive at a Big Timber gathering with Sen. Leon C. Olmstead as master of ceremonies. He spoke on Japan, warned of a longer war, and urged bond purchases. Local figures Bray’s sound, E. B. M. Harris, and M. L. Parcells attended with Smith.
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