Sheridan Warns Drivers of New Montana Traffic Laws
State highway patrol supervisor Charles L. Sheridan explains recent Montana legislature changes to traffic rules. Drivers must use prescribed arm signals, horn before passing, avoid riding outside vehicles, dim headlights at night, and expect written warnings and possible license revocation for unsafe operators. Pedestrians under liquor influence faced rising risk, with several fatalities cited.
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Charles L. Sheridan
Montana
National Safety Council
Jert Baha
America
Employment Rises to Record High in April
The National Industrial Conference Board reports total employment at 60.9 million in April, with nearly 900,000 of 1.3 million new hires in farm work. Industrial and factory employment fall, farm jobs rise, and compared to April 1942, overall employment increases by 7.5 million, while agriculture remains below WWI-era levels.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Pearl Harbor
Protest Bill Now Before Congress
Helena June 18 Montana joins western states in lobbying against a U S bill to alter federal highway aid apportionment. State Highway Engineer Howard W Holmes says $11 000 000 would shift from western to eastern road programs for postwar relief. Holmes, a committee member, will address the AA S H O executive committee meeting in Chicago next Friday.
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Helena
Montana
Congress
Howard W. Holmes
Holmes
American Association of State Highway Officials
Chicago
Henbane and Arnica Industry Notes in Missoula Region
The article reports a local push to harvest henbane and arnica for sale this season. George C. Campnell is the sole buyer, operating a Kellogg building kiln to dry 9¢ trays at a time, with 8 to 12 hour drying. F R Hickman oversees the works while Campnell supervises Missoula area. no extra workers are hired this season. The plant processes only blossoms, prices set at 6 cents per pound for henbane and 1 cent for arnica, with an estimated 8 percent evaporation.
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Henbane
Arnica
George C. Campnell
Kellogg
F. R. Hickman
Campbell
Missoula
Hickman
Allies Continue Smashing Raids Over Europe
London reports a moonlight raid by hundreds of R A F bombers on Maelheim, with German resistance claiming 35 British casualties. Late Wednesday twin engined bombers hit invasion coast targets while Boston and Typhoon escorts destroyed two enemy aircraft. The strikes marked 48 straight hours of bombings.
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London
Ruhr
Maelheim
Meaulte
St. Omer
Maupertus
France
Seven Army Crewmen Die In Bomber Crash Near Great Falls
Seven men were killed and four injured when a four engined bomber crashed near the Great Falls Montana air base during a routine training flight. Major Ellis E. Eno, commander at Rapid City Army Air Base, announced the casualties and said a board of officers will investigate the accident.
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Rapid City
Great Falls
Mont
Ellis E. Eno
Rapid City Army Air Base
Ravid City
Eno
Sicilian Ports Hit Hard in Allied Air Raids
Allied aerial assaults along the Messina strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland shattered docks and supply facilities in a 24 hour period ending yesterday. The Fascist regime shows renewed resolve in the Mediterranean fight.
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North Africa
Messina Strait
Sicily
Italian Mainland
Mediterranean
Senate Debates OPA Food Subsidy Plan Amid Price Rollback
Senators weigh restrictions on OPA funding as meat subsidies begin a second retail price rollback. Taft plans CCC finance for payments up to 250 million, replacing a 500 million subsidy cap. House budget cuts face Senate consideration this week with July 5 timing unclear.
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Taft
Commodity Credit Corporation
Banking Committee
CCC
OPA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Largest War Budget Passes House to Senate in Historic Bill
The house approved a record war appropriation of 71.51 billion for the army to wage an offensive in the coming year by a 345 to 0 vote. The total for the year brings congressional appropriations to about 110 billion, with roughly 95 billion for war efforts. Senate action on interior department funds followed, including irrigation and development programs.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Navy
War
Interior Department
Department
Bureau of Mines
Geological Survey
Bureau of Indian Affairs
California
Wyoming
Chester C. Davis
Postwar Employment Plans Formed At Nationwide Meetings
In Cincinnati on June 20 the first of a nationwide series of meetings will seek to map jobs for returning servicemen. Frederick C. Crawford of the National Association of Manufacturers says the conference will pool ideas from top business leaders on reconversion to civilian production and underscores business input in postwar planning. He warns of a gradual transition, continued rationing, and the need to retool assembly lines while avoiding excessive government control and ill advised tax changes.
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Cincinnati
Frederick C. Crawford
National Association of Manufacturers
Crawford
Thompson Products Co
Cleveland
Europe
Taking note of soldiers vote in 1944 campaign
Washington dispatch reports the soldier vote influencing legislation as Congress considers facilitating army and navy voting. Senator Lucas says servicemen will shape November 1944 outcomes and urges officials be instructed to ensure servicemen can vote on election day.
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Washington
Congress
Lucas
Navy
Illinois Democrat
Dozes While Driving Leads to Car Plunge Into River
Carlson Carl son, 31, a sawmill worker in Hamilton, dozed behind the wheel Sunday and woke to his car submerging in the Bitter Root river. He kicked from a window, climbed onto the roof, watched D L Ash and Sheriff Burrell fail to launch a rescue boat, then swam to shore after Dr C C Teft arrived. He had a lacerated foot and chills.
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Hamilton
Carl Carlson
Carlson
D. L. Ash
F. O. Burrell
C. C. Teft
New High Level in Income Payments
Commerce Department reports 1942 national income at 114 billion dollars, a rise from 92 billion in 1941 and 83 billion in 1929. All states showed record income payments during the first full year of U.S. involvement in the war. Montana reports 450 million dollars in 1942 with a 16.8 percent increase from 1941.
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Washington
Union
Commerce Department
Montana
Chicago janitor sets diaper changing record in public contest
Joseph Lansu a 27 year old Chicago janitor changed his one year old daughter Phyllis in 64 10 seconds claiming a new world record for the event. William L McFetridge CPA salvage director and judge said the prior record of seven seconds was set in 1998 at a New York fair.
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Chicago
Joseph Lansu
Phyllis
William L.mcfetridge
CPA
Chicago Filat
New York Fair
RFC to finance meat packers underwrites loans now
Washington today Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones ordered the reconstruction finance corporation to underwrite immediately any financing meat packers may need until federal subsidy payments begin. The move aims to prevent shutdowns of small slaughterers as many cannot secure private financing and banks seek RFC guarantees before the subsidy, with RFC ready to lend directly if local financing is unavailable.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Reconstriction Finance Corporation
RFC
Jones
Davis at Odds With White House Over Food Policies
War Davis clashes with President Roosevelt economic advisers over farm price policies. Differences with Wickard and Byrnes and Prentiss Brown mark relations before Davis’s appointment to the food post last March.
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Washington
Chester C. Davis
Claude R. Wickard
Davis
White House
Roosevelt
Wickard
James F. Byrnes
Prentiss Brown
Rch
Alaska Highway Closed to Tourists During War Control
Edmonton June 17. The Alaska military highway will not be open to tourists or promotional uses while under United States army control. Captain F C Bishop public relations officer Northwest Service Command said the road is part of the interlocking program to carry the war to the enemy. The highway will revert to Canadian control six months after the war ends.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alaska Military Highway
United States Army
F. C. Bishop
Northwest Service Command
Bishop
Feed outlook for livestock uncertain in Montana
Bozeman report says Montana livestock feed outlook is uncertain with potential shortages. Extension agronomist Ralph D. Mercer urges immediate haying of crested wheatgrass even at early head stage and stresses proper handling to help the 1948 supply.
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Bozeman
Montana
Ralph D. Mercer
Toneti
Mercer
Miners End Strike Return to Work Ordered by Lewis
United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis ordered 530,000 miners to resume work under Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes until midnight October 31. The policy committee said government control will govern operations and wages remain as set by the War Labor Board. The action preserves a possible legal remedy for portal to portal pay, and may be revised if agreements with operators change.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Harold L. Ickes
United States
Lewis
Ickes
War Labor Board
WLB
Ration stamp validity extended for July and August
Blue stamps N P and Q from ration book No 2 will be valid July 1 to August 7 for processed foods. June stamps K L and M stay valid through July 7. Six blue stamps will be valid for seven days. Red stamp dates for July pending, OPA urges spread purchases to ease rushes.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Assessors May Add Help Needed Helena
In Helena on June 21 the board of county commissioners considered authorizing the county assessor to appoint additional deputies to handle new duties from the 1943 legislature. Attorney R. V. Bottomly delivered a report Monday confirming the plan.
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Helena
Board of County Commissioners
R. V. Bottomly
Monay
Senate finance chief blasts waste in war effort
Washington June 18 Senate finance chair George warns we can lose the war through extravagance and waste. He urges elimination of unnecessary army and navy spending and fewer government personnel, proposing a board to scrutinize expenses and cut nonessential costs.
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Washington
George
Senate Finance Committee
Army
Navy
Six Japanese Sentenced to State Prison in Arizona
Six Japanese from relocation centers in Arizona have been sentenced to state prison here since February 1 for crimes against fellow evacuees. Five were arrested for assaulting another Japanese at the Poston camp. One defendant, Yasunori Tanaka, 23, a Montana native and farmer, received a sentence of three to four years.
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Florence
Ariz
Arizona
A. G. Walker
Poston Camp
Yasunori Tanaka
Montana
No Overtime Pay For County Workers
Helena June 18 County commissioners may not legally pay county employees time and a half for time beyond eight hours. Attorney General R V Bottomly ruled upholding Cascade County Attorney John D Stafford stating eight hours constitutes a day’s work in all government works and a contract in violation is void and unenforceable.
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Helena
R. V. Bottomly
Cascade County
John D. Stafford
Bridge Collapse Kills Three Men Near Missoula
A Bitterroot river bridge 24 miles south of Missoula gave way Sunday night, sending a log train into the water. Three Missoula men—engineer C A McFarland fireman C M McGregor and head brakeman F A Drazi—died, with conductor Ed Geis aboard. A work train and county officers were dispatched to the scene.
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Missoula
Bitterroot
Here
C. A. McFarland
C. M. McGregor
F. A. Drazi
Darby
Ed Geis
Montana live stock commission barred from buying war bonds
Helena June 23 Attorney General R V Bottomley ruled that the Montana live stock commission may not purchase United States war savings bonds with money held in its stock estray fund.
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Helena
R. V. Bottomley
Montana Livestock Commission
United States War Savings
Detroit Race Riots End as Army Quells Disturbance
Detroit police and United States army troops patrolled the city after 24 hours of racial violence that killed 29 people, wounded around 700, and led to about 1,300 arrests. Most dead were Black, with many workers staying home from plant floors amid 85 percent Black detainees.
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Detroit
United States Army
Michigan
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Sicilian
War Agency
Alaska
John S. Bugas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Axis
Bugas
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