Montana lawmakers deadlock on gambling and highway bonds
Montana's senate blocked slot machine licensing and Hickey law tweaks while the house killed open elk season and apple grading bills. The senate backed a June special election on $8 million highway debentures with a 1-cent gasoline tax, but the house rejected amendments and sent the measure to conference. Debates centered on tax fairness for small vehicles, bond costs, and postwar needs.
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Helena
Montana
Senate
House
Horrigan
Granite
Bricker
Cascade
O'Connor
Carlton
Williams
Yellowstone
Stout
Fergus
Committee
Ten Men Killed in Bomber Crash Near Casper
A four engine bomber from the Army Air Base crashed about 30 miles northeast of Glenrock Wyoming on a routine training flight killing all ten crew members. The crash near a county road was investigated by local officers. identities withheld pending next of kin notices.
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Casper
Wyo
Army Air Base
Glenrock
Clyde Ivester
Douglas
Ivester
Ford praises Bearcreek residents for bravery and aid
Governor Sam C. Ford praised Bearcreek rescue workers as organized and marvelous. He highlighted Bearcreek women operating a coffee canteen for workers, noting their courage as husbands remain trapped and crews work at the shaft head.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Bearcreek
Allied Air Forces Victorious Over Japanese Convoy
Allied air forces destroyed a Japanese convoy, sinking all 22 ships totaling 90 000 tons and wiping out 15 000 troops aboard. One Allied bomber and three fighters were lost in the battle, described as the greatest purely air action naval victory to date.
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Allied
Australia
Senate approves Farm deferment bill amid debate
Senate military committee votes 9 to 7 for the Bankhead bill to defer draft induction of men in farm work. An Holman amendment limits deferment to December 31 next year. War department and selective service oppose the measure. Bankhead says the bill ensures farm manpower and avoids a food shortage.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Bankhead
Holman
War Department
Selective Service System
Need of additional hospitals stressed in wartime
New York Feb 25 A million Americans will be wounded in this war and the nation must prepare hospital facilities. Maury Maverick director of the government division of the war production board told the hospital bureau of standards and supplies meeting that the United States should mobilize beds immediately. He cited Russian and German casualty figures to warn that even a fifth of those losses would strain American care capacity.
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New York
Maury Maverick
Government
War Production Board
Hospital Bureau of Standards and Supplies
Maverick
Fire kills 36 at Cavan Brevnage Orphanage in Ireland
A blaze at the Cavan brevnage orphanage in Cavan Ireland killed 36 orphan girls aged 4 to 18. The fire started in a laundry, spread to a dormitory, and a building section collapsed burying victims as the institution housed 82.
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Eire
Cavan
Erie
Cavan Brevnage Orphanage
Rums Tax Plan Faces Senate Favorable Consideration
Washington March 1 Congressional Rum plan backers seek to attach a skip a tax year provision to a bill imposing a 20 percent withholding on wages for over 30 million earners. The house subcommittee approved the levy to start July 1, with funds applied to current tax due.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Congress
War ration book drive reports tally from five boards
Housewives across the county reported ration book 2 supplies for the war effort. County totals show 2923 books issued 3867 cans with stamps removed 5299 pounds of coffee with stamps removed. Schools and faculty distributed 130?0 books with numerous staff assisting in Grey Cliff and Big Timber.
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Five Boards
H. C. Olson
Andy McDonald
Big Timber
Elsie Olson
Jean Howlett
Genevieve Brunckhorst
Mary Jane Darland
Beverly Galin
Grace Marshall
Sigrid Haugstad
J. F. Howlett
P. G. Gehan
H. M. Oefstos
W. W. McArthur
Mesdames
C. W. Haas
Dick Armstrong
A. R. McDonnell
L. W. Baskett
LeRoy Harris
Misses Elgas
Lois Williams
Mildred Wagner
Grey Cliff
Barbara Duffy
Thelma Anderson
Ruby Peterson
Oscar Fallang Sr
Melville
Charles E. Crum
Mary Strong
McLeod
S. H. Nicholson
Lee Dunning
Special Election June 8 Will Decide Postwar Road Plan
Montana voters will vote June 8 on issuing 8 million dollars in highway debenture bonds to fund a postwar road building program. The plan adds gasoline and Diesel taxes to finance the bonds, with gasoline at 6 cents a gallon and Diesel at 7.14 cents. The legislature also saw the veto of three bills and 27 others signed by Governor Ford.
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Helena
Montana
Sam C. Ford
Ford
State Finance Department
Interhouse
Senate Liquor Control Board
Wheeler Proposes Exemption for Fathers with Dependents
Senator Wheeler of Montana introduces a bill to exempt all fathers married before Pearl Harbor from military induction. The measure would cover men with children under 18 living at home and aims to protect domestic stability while keeping armed forces intact. Investigations into draft deferments by five House committees widen to include local boards and civilian employes.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Wheeler
Montana
Senate
America
Uncle Sam
Eleven Die Violently in Montana as Bearcreek Miners Mourn
Helena reports a week of violent deaths across Montana. Eleven people died and 68 coal miners remain unaccounted after a Bearcreek mine explosion. Alfred Jones and Andrew Lar perished in a Roundup mine collapse. Louis Christian died from stable fire burns. Claude Moffatt is missing and exposed. Luigi Faroni and Mrs Morello died in an auto crash near Butte.
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Helena
Montana
Alfred Jones
Andrew Lar
Louis Christian
Claude Moffatt
Galata
Luigi Faroni
Peter Morello
Pipestone Springs
Butte
Philadelphia family overstocked with war ration stamps
A Philadelphia family of three on the main line reported 4502 excess cans in its war ration book 2 application. All 728-point coupons from the three books were canceled leaving 4430 eight point coupons to be used later. The school principal noted at the current coupon rate it would take over 41 years to exhaust the remaining coupons.
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Philadelphia
James Beighle
Shoe merchants urged to limit nonrationed sales
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown asked stores to limit nonrationed shoe sales to one pair per customer. With play shoes removed from rationing starting Thursday he urged cooperation so available supply goes to those who truly need them.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Fierce Fighting Across 65-Mile Tunisian Front
Allied sources report heavy Axis attacks along a 65 mile front from Cape Serrat to Djebel Mansour in northern Tunisia. In two days allies say they beat off assaults in six sectors and captured over 850 prisoners. Middle East air forces claim 11 German planes shot down in southern Tunisia. French troops repelled coastal assaults near Cape Serrat, taking prisoners in the process.
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North Africa
Cape Serrat
Djebel Mansour
Tunisia
Middle East
Mediterranean
Eating at Restaurants Not Restricted in Washington
The OPA announced restaurants may serve meals without ration restrictions on Feb 25. Restaurants will receive about half as much canned and processed foods as last year with a separate formula to determine allotments. OPA plans to restrict patrons similarly to home meal limits, described by head Prentiss M. Brown as less than half of last year.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Government Questionnaires Hampered by Budget Office Rules
In Washington on February 26 the government paused most information requests. Director Harold D. Smith said the public may ignore standard agency quizzes unless the Budget Bureau approves them. The order pushes a before-issue review to assess practicality necessity and public burden.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
Harold D. Smith
Kompetent labor on farms urged amid draft dispute
Oklahoma City February 26 Federal Judge Edgar S Vaught condemned drafting a competent farm laborer and replacing him with inexperienced help He urged briefs to determine jurisdiction in the case between Allen L Bullard a Major County farmer and his local draft board calling it idiocy to remove a capable man from a farm and replace him with someone unqualified
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Oklahoma City
Edgar S. Vaught
Bear Creek mine disaster leaves 74 missing feared dead
Rescue teams recover 36 bodies to date as carbon monoxide fills the Smith coal mine. Officials say the 74 miners entombed after Saturday’s explosion died from gas, with few identifications possible among workers from nearby copper and chrome mines.
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Bear Creek
Smith
Bearcreek
Bill Romek
Butte
Roundup
Benbow
Mount Chrome
William A. Romek
Red Lodge
Smith Mine
Foster Mine
Rickenbacker Predicts Three More Years of War
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker warned of three more years of global conflict with hundreds of thousands of American casualties. He urged 3,000 Red Cross campaign workers to raise 125 million dollars for the year's relief effort, noting the organization aided his Pacific crash recovery. Four returning marines and seamen joined him as a torpedoed shipmate recounted a sinking that sent the crew upward rather than down.
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New York
Edward V. Rickenbacker
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Pacific
Bearcreek Families to Receive Compensation
Helena Montana February 27 J Burke Clements chairman of the Montana industrial accident board called the Bearcreek coal mine accident a major disaster but assured compensation payments would be made. He said the event appears to be the worst disaster in state fund history with heavy drain expected yet the reserve was built for such catastrophe. He added hope the loss of life will not be great.
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Helena
J. Burke Clements
Montana Industrial Accident Board
Bearcreek
Clements
Montana Coal and Tron Company
Montana
Fourth Term For Roosevelt Considered
Chair man Sabath of the house rules committee indicated he supported the idea but found the president not very keen. The Chicagoan, dean of the house, said he discussed the proposal with the president and advised he owes it to the country to run again.
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Washington
Sabath
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Chicagoan
House
Red Cross War Fund Drive Opened Sunday
President Roosevelt urged a 125 million dollar Red Cross drive as war raged. Norman H. Davis announced the appeal read on four networks while Roosevelt recovers. He recalled visiting the north African theater and pledged Red Cross aid to service members worldwide. March was proclaimed Red Cross month.
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RED Cross War Fund
Washington
Roosevelt
Nation
Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
O'Connor Assures Montana Farmers of Support
Montana farmers received assurances from Representative O'Connor Democrat that he will push for favorable disposition of farm problems. He was chosen by the state house delegation to join a new agricultural group in the House. He noted nine in ten constituent letters lately cited farm issues and promised an early favorable hearing.
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Washington
Montana
O'Connor
Montana House
House
Wickard seeks mandate for all out war food program
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard urged Congress for a clear mandate to push 1943 food output, pledging that farmers will be paid for higher costs. He favored incentives on nine war crops and expanded use of purchase and resale by the Commodity Credit Corporation, with price ceilings and continued price supports for war need.
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Washington
Wickard
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Appropriations
Credit Corporation
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