Montana Legislature Adopts Postwar Funding Plan
The Montana legislature adjourned sine die after approving a compromise two year allocation of 2.66 million dollars to six state colleges. The session produced about 16.18 million in total appropriations with measures for postwar planning, highway bonds, veteran benefits, and state reorganization while keeping taxes stable and preserving a large surplus.
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Helena
Montana
House-Senate
House
Senate
Conference Committee
State Experiment Station
University of Montana
Capitol Land Grant
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Treasury Reserve
Ceiling price on corn boosted eight cents to $1.08
Washington reports the government planned to raise the corn ceiling from $1 to $1.08 a bushel. Market feeders and processors cite shortages threatening milk beef and poultry output. The Office of Price Administration sets the new parity-based ceiling with related market differentials.
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Washington
Chicago
Office of Economic Stabilization
Office of Price Administration
No Ceiling Price on Cattle Anticipated
Washington March 5 The government has no plan to place price ceilings on live cattle. James C. Quigley Nebraska Democrat national committeeman and O S Warden Great Falls publisher said they received assurance from government spokesmen that ceilings were not planned until every other avenue of control and the black market are exhausted if ever.
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James C. Quigley
Nebraska
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
Mont
Father-Sons Banquet Planned By Local Club
The third annual Fathers-Sons banquet is scheduled for Friday evening March 19 at the Lutheran Parish hall. H B Tetlie will be toastmaster. The program features music by the Viking Male Quartet and talks including From Dads to Lads by Robert A Bray and Clifton Bryan. Tickets are sold by team captains Nicholson and Esp, with dinner provided by the Big Timber Ladies.
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Lutheran
H. B. Tetlie
Song—America
Tool Wecome
H. C. Olson
Men's Club
Viking
Billings
Robert A. Bray
Clifton Bryan
H. Brunsvold
E. A. Tessien
Standard Oil Co
Chas. C. Nicholson
Albert T. Esp
Big Timber Ladies
Wilsall Rancher Sells Herefords in Major Montana Deal
George M. Parker of Parker Livestock Wilsall sold 231 head of registered Herefords to Jesse E. Rodman of Fresno California. The cattle, including 100 bred cows 70 yearling heifers 60 bull calves and one herd bull were shipped by Northern Pacific stock cars bound for Rodman’s Fresno ranch. Beauford Meek managed the shipment assisted by Calvin Briggs. Parker kept about 200 head of registered stock including cows and 80 heifer calves. Prices were reported as highly satisfactory.
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Parker
Certificates for Good Farm War Service
Washington March 8 Farmers will receive certificates of farm war service from the agriculture department. Secretary Claude R Wickard announced that certificates 11 by 14 inches will bear the message This family is enlisted in all out war production as part of a drive to reach the 1943 food production goal. Wickard said the certificate is a simple word of appreciation to the fighting units of the food front the nation's farm families.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
Loans Available for 1943 War Production at FSA Office
Farmers needing credit to finance the 1943 war food program may obtain aid through the Farm Security Administration. John W. Clark outlines loans up to 2500 for livestock feed seed equipment and repairs with up to five years at five percent interest. Immediate applications urged as demand is expected to be heavy. county office in Big Timber open Thursday and Friday each week in March.
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Farm Security Administration
John W. Clark
FSA
Clark
Big Timber
Montana tops in wool income for 1942 clip
Montana wool growers received 13,186,000 for their 1942 crop ranking as the second highest state total after Texas and the largest annual income on record. The article notes 32,964,000 pounds produced from 3,583,000 sheep with an average price of 40 cents per pound, and suggests 1943 production may dip.
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Montana
Helena
Federal Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Texas
Jay G. Diamond
Red Lodge Honors 74 Miners Lost in Bear Creek Blast
A solemn high mass will be held for 74 victims of the Smith coal mine disaster at St. Agnes church in Red Lodge. Rescue efforts recovered most bodies. notes from victims describe brave acceptance and farewell messages to families as seven bodies were found that day.
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Bear Creek
St. Agnes Catholic
Red Lodge
Smith
Montana Coal and Iron Company
Buffalo Attacks Car On Gardiner Highway
Mrs. Erma McLachlan of Mammoth outran a rampaging bull buffalo on the Livingston Gardiner highway and avoided a crash while others report a herd movement. A previous charger shattered a window in another vehicle. drivers nearby logged sightings of 17 buffalo 500 600 elk and about 200 deer along Wanigan to Gardiner.
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Livingston
Erma McLachlan
Mammoth
Gardiner
Montana Highway Patrol
Milton Rogers
Yankee Jim Canyon
Wanigan
Russians Recapture Over a Hundred Villages in Soviet Drive
London reports a Soviet midnight communique says Russians freed more than 100 localities in two days southwest of Rzhev and near Smolensk as they push toward the enemy. Fresh gains stretch on the southern front where a 50 mile wide salient advances west to cut the Bryansk Kiev railway between Lgov and Sevsk. German losses are tallied at about 2,000 killed and 1,165 captured Friday. Donets basin remains contested with counterattacks claimed by Germany near Kramatorsk Slavyansk and Lishchansk.
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London
Rzhev
Smolensk
Bryansk-Kiev
Lgov
Sevsk
Bryansk
Orel
Donets Basin
Kramatorsk
Slavyansk
Lishchansk
Stalino
Kigf
Third Army
Kharkov
Essen Suffered Tenth Consecutive Night Raid
London reported the Royal Air Force conducted a very heavy and concentrated night raid on Essen, marking the tenth straight nightly assault on German targets. About 300 bombers took part, fourteen failed to return, and the German high command said residential areas and public buildings suffered extensive damage with civilian losses.
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London
Royal Air Force
Essen
Germany
Europe
Air Ministry
High Command
Bryson Proposes Wartime Prohibition
Representative Bryson of South Carolina launches a national prohibition plan for the war duration by congressional act to curb absenteeism. In Senate debate, Grenville Clark proposes liquor rationing as part of a compulsive manpower bill while Edward B. Dunford of the Anti-Saloon League denies backing the Bryson measure. Representative Rees suggests barring intoxicants near war plants as committees study absenteeism.
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Washington
Congress
Bryson
South Carolia
Senate
Grenville Clark
New York
Edward B. Dunford
Anti-Saloon League
League
Rees
Kansas
Cellophane Offered as Gas Protection for Soldiers
Boston reports the public relations branch of the city’s quartermaster depot announces that soldiers overseas will receive a large envelope of cellophane to wrap around the head and body for protection against skin-burning gas. The device folds to fit a pocket and works with a standard gas mask.
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Boston
Grocers Granted Emergency Purchases
Washington report states grocers with inadequate stocks of rationed fruits and vegetables may apply for emergency allotments from state or district OPA offices. Shortages must be more than minor and March sales and inventories must be provided.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Mother poisons two small children in Albert Lea
Sheriff H B Wulff said Mrs Della True, 4, of Albert Lea and a mother of two adopted children, poisoned her two youngest children aged 4 and 9. Taunts allegedly from the mother were named as the motive.
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Albert Lea
Minn
H. B. Wulff
Freeborn County
Della True
Anas
Merle
Charles M Bair Dies in Billings at 85
Charles M Bair a Montana stockman and financier died Monday at 8 55 a m in his Northern hotel room from heart ailment due to infirmities of age Funeral services set for Wednesday at 3 30 p m from Smith chapel with Rev George S Sloan officiating Pallbearers named including Lee Simonson E T McCanna Sterling M Wood Frank Mackey Robert Leavens and Ed Phillips Bair served as president and director of the Bair company vice president of Bair Collins Coal company director of the Midland National bank and The Gazette Printing company member of Masonic and Elks lodges and remained active until death Born June 18 1857 in Paris Ohio he was son of William and Mrs Bair of Paris Ohio
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Billings Gazette
Charles M. Bair
Montana
Northern Hotel
Smith Chapel
George S Sloan
First Congregational Church
Lee Simonson
E T. McCanna
Sterling M. Wood
Frank
Executions Ordered Regimental Nazi Mass Killings
British sources quote a Nazi general in Siberia ordering mass shootings in a regimented method with limited contact and burial edges. Officials also claim a Polish camp near Oswiecim sees 250 daily deaths from executions hunger and epidemics amid ongoing prisoner influx.
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London
Siberia
Oswiecim
Poland
Selesia
Red Cross Plans Parcels for American Prisoners
New York March 8 An 11 pound weekly parcel will go to every American prisoner in enemy camps worldwide. Contents include whole powdered milk processed American cheese oleomargarine with vitamin A pork luncheon meat corned beef liver paste salmon dried prunes orange concentrate biscuits soluble coffee two chocolate bars two soap bars and four cigarette packs.
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New York
American Red Cross
Woman arraigned for death of infant in Seattle case
Mrs Ardis Parmenter 23 formerly of Roundup Montana was arraigned on a second degree murder charge for the death of a 9 month old baby in her care and on a first degree assault charge for the death of her own baby last fall Both suffered broken arms and head injuries A signed confession indicates another child was taken by authorities in Helena Montana after an arm fracture and died following a fall.
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Seattle
Ardis Parmenter
Roundup
Mont
Marshall Scrafford
Helena
Entre
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Returns to Alma Mater at Wellesley
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, honor grad 1917, returned to Wellesley College in Massachusetts and delivered a speech to students. She nearly fainted twice during the talk as nurses used smelling salts, then urged students not to seek prominence but to help build a saner world and beware of machine-made thinking.
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Wellesly
Mass
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Madame Chiang
Wellesley
Fighting Roosevelts Not To Be Persecuted for Father's Politics
Washington report says Republican leaders urged Rep. Lambertson to drop criticism of President Roosevelt's sons service records. The letter from Elliott Roosevelt defending his brothers drew applause on the House floor as a party unity move amid wartime politics. Roosevelt urged colleagues to end attacks and support the war effort.
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Rep
Lamberston
R-Kan
Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Lanham
Texas
Lamberton
Lambertson
Roosevelts
Franklin Roosevelt
Navy
du Pont
New York
Elliott
United States
Lanaham
North Africa
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