Friends honor Charles M Bair on 84th birthday in Martinsdale
Martinsdale special to Harlowton Times recalls Charles M Bair born 1857 in Ohio. The longtime rancher and wool producer received many guests as family and friends praised his career from Michigan Central railroad to Crow Reservation sheep work and a landmark 47 car wool shipment to a Boston commission house in 1910.
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Martinsdale
Mont
Harlowton Times
Montana
Charlie Bair
Bair
Michigan Central Railroad
Michigan Central
Billings
Northern Pacific
Lavina
Musselshell
Yellowstone Valley
Paul Etchepare
Little International
Mr. Bair
North American
Boston
Bairs
Bill Hart
Will James
Will Rogers
Charles M. Russell
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Sale of gasoline to motorists rises in 1940 Montana report
Montana motorists used 133,654,533 gallons of gasoline in 1940, an increase of 8,123,602 gallons from 1939, according to a Montana advisory and defense commission study. Diesel fuel also rose to 1,514,761 gallons in 1940 from 732,820 in 1939. figures reflect total state gallons sold regardless of crude origin.
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Helena
Montana Advisory and Defense Commission
Montana
E. Emerick of
Conrad
Ai and Gas Research Survey
Billings Commission Merchant Dies in Los Angeles
Charles O. Robinson a longtime West live stock commission partner died Friday in Los Angeles. Funeral services set for Monday at Hollywood Cemetery. Robinson helped build the early Billings livestock firm and is remembered by pioneer stockmen.
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Billings Gazette
Charles O. Robinson
Livestock Commission
West
Los Angeles
Hollywood Cemetery
Robinson
Billings
21 Year Olds Must Register July 1
State Director E. M. Birely announced that all 21 year olds in Montana born after October 16, 1940 and before July 1, 1941 must register with local selective service boards on July 1. Aliens and citizens aged 21 on July 1 must register. aliens 21 to 36 who arrived since Oct 16, 1940 and not yet registered must also appear. Registration in the county will be at the draft office in the city hall from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Montana
Congress
Selective Service Board
E. M. Birely
Birely
United States
Morrison Cave to be dedicated Sunday in Montana
Governor Sam C. Ford will speak at the Morri son Cave State park dedication in Helena. Rutledge Parker and Major A F Sullivan will offer remarks as the CCC camp crew and Montana officials note the cave’s accessibility and park work begun in 1935 with national parks service involvement after its 1902 discovery by Dan Morrison.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Morrison Cave State Park
Montanans, Inc
National Parks Service
CCC
State Chamber of Commerce
Hitler Declares War on Soviet Russia and Mobilizes Front
Germany orders a sudden invasion of Soviet Russia across a 1500 mile front from Norway to Romania. Hitler proclaims the Reich’s fate to the armies and cites Russian frontier violations. Italy is prepared to aid. Berlin lists German Finnish Norwegian and Romanian forces massed for the campaign. Russia reports a total of about 7.15 million armed troops, with Allied forces totaling roughly 6.85 million from Germany and 1.41 million from Finland and Romania combined.
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Hitler
Soviet Russia
Norway
Rumania
Adolf Hitler
London Radio
Moscow
Britain
Rome
Germany
Berlin
New York
East Prussia
Finland
Soviet Union
Reich
Russia
Long-Time Livingston Rodeo Director Charlie Murphy Dies
Charlie Murphy 50 prom inent Livingston area rancher was found dead in his car in a used car lot Monday with a pistol nearby. Coroner says self inflicted wound and a note indicated suicide. He helped found the Livingston Roundup and directed its arena since 1924. He is survived by his widow two sons and other relatives. Funeral services planned here Thursday.
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Charlie Murphy
Livingston Rodeo
Livingston
Robert Franzen
Murphy
Gallatin Valley
Gallatin County
Charles Ancony
Emigrant
Livingston Roundup
Dude Ranch Section
Montanans, Inc
Dude Ranchers’ Association
Jack
Notre Dame University
Jim
Notre Dame
John Murphy
Mount Vernon
Wash
Senate Approves Relief Fund For Fiscal Year
The Senate approved a 936.39 million dollar relief fund for the new fiscal year starting July 1 without a record vote. The measure returns to the House for consideration of 50.485 million dollars in Senate increases and other amendments. Both chambers approved the 875 million dollar WPA request to aid about one million jobs for the year, with a projected cut from the prior year and 400,000 relief workers slated for dismissal by early July. The vote also upheld a ban on employing David Lasser, former Workers Alliance head, who now serves as a WPA inspector at 4400 dollars annually.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
House
WPA
David Lasser
Workers Alliance
Lasser
Dies warns America must face emergency now
U S Representative Martin Dies, chairman of the House committee on un American activities, predicts Hitler will control Russia in 30 days and urges preparing for an unprecedented national emergency. He warns the Soviet Nazi split will boost American communist influence and calls for mass firings of defense workers and government employees with totalitarian leanings.
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Orange
Texas
United States
Martin Dies
Adolf Hitler
Russia
America
Dies
House
Hitler
Germany
Communist Party
Stalin
Ryegate Teacher Grace Disbrow Dies in Billings
Miss Grace Gertrude Disbrow died at 12:25 a.m. Monday in a Billings hospital after a long illness. A 59 year old seventh and eighth grade teacher at Ryegate school for 13 years she was born January 4 1882 in Toygan Wisconsin. She held teaching certificates in Montana Washington and Wisconsin. Disbrow taught two years at Rothiemay before moving to Ryegate.
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Billings Gazette
Grace Gertrude Disbrow
Ryegate
Miss Disbrow
Toygan
Wis
Eugene B. Disbrow
Oskosh Normal School
Wisconsin
Eastern Washington Normal School
Cheney
Wash
Montana
Washington
Senator Pat Harrison Dies After Operation
Washington junio 22 Pat Harrison longtime Mississippi Democrat and senate president pro tempore 59 died at Emergency hospital after an intestinal obstruction operation. He had rallied then worsened. died at 6 35 am surrounded by his wife Mary Edwina and son Pat Jr two daughters a brother and a sister. Colleagues recommended a state funeral but the family preferred simplicity.
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Washington
Pat Harrison
Senate
Congress
Harrison
Sterling Ruffin
Mary Edwina McInnis
Legheeville
Miss
Pat
James W. Cummings
Bethesda
Irvin Miller
Nashville
Disabled Veterans Rank in Membership Great Falls Montana
At the Montana Dis abled Veterans of the World War convention closing session John Gold of Hibbing Minnesota praised the state as a leader in membership growth. Resolutions urge full presidential power for defense mobilization, draft of necessary wealth and resources, funds for a 150 bed Fort Harrison hospital unit, and inquiry into the state soldiers home in Columbia Falls.
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Great Falls
John Gold
Hibbing
Federal Hospital Board
Fort Harrison
State Soldiers Home
Columbia Falls
Ten New Spotted Fever Cases Reported in Montana
Ten new spotted fever cases were recorded in Montana over the last week, raising the 1941 total to 86. Fifteen deaths from the tick borne disease have occurred this year, according to state epidemiologist Dr. B K Kilbourne. The 1935 peak had 105 cases by June. New cases emerged in Big Horn Powder River Beaverhead Cascade Fallon and Rosebud counties.
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Helena
Montana
B. K. Kilbourne
Big Horn County
Powder River
Beaverhead
Cascade
Fallon
Rosebud
Shipyard strike ends in San Francisco dispute
Twelve hundred striking A. F. L. machinists voted five to one to return to the jobs they quit in San Francisco shipyards May 10. Observer reports the decision came at a closed meeting late Wednesday night.
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San Francisco
Lutherans Dedicate Memorials At Sunday Service
Members of the Lutheran congregation and friends gathered for an all day service centered on dedicating a Hammond electric organ in memory of Signa Crest Bailey. Albert Crest funded the initial payments with a $1,200 balance donated by him. a missal stand was dedicated to Mrs Holbeck. Rev A A Holbeck led services with Dr J A Aasgaard delivering the morning sermon.
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Signa Crest Bailey
Albert Crest
San Bernardino
Bailey
Deer Creek
Holbeck
A. A. Holbeck
Ray
N. D
Gertrude Ann
Axel Anderson
J. A. Aasgaard
Minneapolis
Julia Tuell
Calif
C. S. Crest
Lethbridge
Alberta
Can
George Kline
Helena
Mont
Agnes Grande
Ness Voldseth
Lennep
Erasina Middleton
Anaconda
Knute Haugan
Mary Gaustad
Thora Gaustad
Absarokee
Chris Ness
Wilsall
Howie
Floyd Bailey
Sweet Grass High
Court House
Lutheran Church Choir
Big Timber Express
Walter Aitken
Stray Bullet Wounds Livingston Laborer
Curley Perdue a 47 year old city employee was critically injured when a stray bullet from a gun held by S Brannon discharged inside his home struck him as he rode a patrol grader along a Livingston street. Sheriff officers said Brannon was cleaning the weapon at the time.
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Livingston
Warm Springs Hospital dormitories cost trimmed to 460000
Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell said estimates for three dormitories and two service buildings at the Warm Springs state mental hospital were reduced to about 460000 from an initial 498000. Architects and hospital superintendent Dr P L Pampel presented the revised figures at a Montana board meeting. The 500000 bond issue to cover the project had been authorized by the 1941 legislature.
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Helena
Sam W. Mitchell
State Board of Examiners
Warm Springs
P. L. Pampel
Interior Department Granted Large Sum
Washington June 19 The House approved a 188 325 923 appropriation to carry on Interior Department activities for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The measure funds western reclamation projects and was sent to the Senate after rejecting a land withdrawals ban without Congressional consent.
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Washington
House
Interior Department
Senate
Two Young Bandits Leave Trail of Auto Thefts Across Three States
Two young bandits hunted in Montana Idaho and Washington have stolen multiple vehicles over ten days. They robbed a service station in Ellensburg Washington kidnapped a driver and fled, then attempted a station robbery in Couer d Alene Idaho before returning toward Montana. A Bozeman Miles City and Livingstone linked trail shows several stolen cars and a kidnapping.
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Montana
Idaho
Washington
Boulder Country
Livingston
Forsyth
Billings
Worden
Ernest Howard
Lock Boyles
Clarence Hoffman
Molt
Bozeman
Hardin
Henry Ulrich
Big Horn County
Alfred E. Coles
Miles City
Ellensburg
Wash
Couer d'Alene
Ida
Bozeman Street
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San Diego
West Coast
Charles L. Eagleton
del Norte
Colo
Henry J. Gunn
Garr
Bernard J. Venhaus
Seaman
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Livingston Laborer
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