American Subs Cut Jap Supply Lines in Pacific War
Secretary Knox said American submarines sunk 15 Japanese merchant ships in one operation, part of a broader effort that destroyed 12 more Japanese vessels by British subs and Allied planes. The tally brings total Japanese ships sunk or damaged by submarines to 642, with Allied losses at 22 subs. In India and Cassino, fighting intensified as Allied forces push toward the Burma front and Cassino.
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Washington
Secretary Knox
Pacific
Knox
Southwest Pacific Allied
Atlantic
Bombers Sink Japanese Convoy Near New Guinea
More than 100 American bombers and attack planes sank a five-ship Japanese convoy off WeWak New Guinea. General MacArthur reported many hundreds of troops and ships crews lost. Liberator and Mitchell bombers destroyed two transports and three corvettes 70 miles northwest of WeWak. American losses were three planes.
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Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Tuesda
New B C Coupons To Be Checked Closer
Sena Lake City March 21 old non numbered rationing coupons will be exchanged April 1 for new numbered B C coupons. OPA mileage rationing official E H Asbill said new coupons require vehicle serial number license plate and state of holder. Motorists with old coupons urged to exchange at war price and rationing boards before April 1.
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Sena Lake City
H. Asbill
OPA
Arbill
Red Lodge Man Named First Cowboy of Nation
Red Lodge rider Bill Linderman awarded "first cowboy of the nation" by the Rodeo Association of America at Salinas California. He leads Oklahoma’s Jess Goodspeed by 30 points in March standings. Linderman, a southern Montana cowboy, shines in bareback bronc riding.
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Red Lodge
Bill Linderman
Rodeo Association of America
Salinas
Cal
Linderman
Jess Goodspeed
Oklahoma
Montana
Red Cross Fund Quota Seen Met in Sweet Grass County
Donations arrive with hopeful tone as Sweet Grass County nears a $2,500 Red Cross quota with eight days left. Melville reportedly contributing its share and some communities still unreported. The campaign urges residents to give freely, noting no ceiling on gifts.
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Red Cross
Sweet Grass County
Melville
Osmund Mosse Dies in Sleep at Big Timber Home
Osmund Larson Mosse died in his sleep Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs. Andrew Egeland where he had been cared for months. He was born May 4, 1867 near Stavanger Norway and came to the U S in 1887 later settling in Sweet Grass county. He lived on a Swamp creek ranch until 1931 then moved to Big Timber. Funeral today at the Lutheran church with Rev. Axel Anderson officiating. Survived by son Under Sheriff Louis Mosse and daughter Mrs Freda Allestad.
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Osmund Larson Mosse
Louis Mosse
Freda (Thorvald) Allestad
Plains
Mont
Andrew Egeland
Lutheran Church
Axel Anderson
Lowry’s
Elnor O. Overland
Sam Fallang
Thorvald Gunderson
Sivert Mydland
Jacob Johnson
Harold Roe
Sven Thompson
Mountain View
Stavanger
Norway
United States
Minnesota
Sweet Grass County
Christine Berland
Sweet Grass High School Third Quarter Honor Roll
Sweet Grass High School announces the third quarter honor roll for Sweet Grass county. Seniors include Harold Tetlie, Agnes Krone, Russell Fiattum, Bill Esp, Neil Sylling, Inez Holland, Adeline Bainter, Edward Hanson, and Betty Platt. Juniors feature Rosetta Laubach, Nels Olin, James Sargent, Marjorie Sargent, Emma Westre, Olga Johnson, Gladys Idland, Harriet Lamp, and Alice Duffey. Sophomores Oliver Hammers mark, Marian Olson, and Betty Harper. Freshmen Ma Peterson, Virginia Swing, Veda Bryan, William Cole, Thomas Flanagan, and Hazel Wheeler.
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Sweet Grass County High School
Harold Tetlie
Agnes Krone
Russell Fiattum
Bill Esp
Neil Sylling
Inez Holland
Adeline Bainter
Edward Hanson
Betty Platt
Rosetta Laubach
Nels Olin
James Sargent
Marjorie Sargent
Emma Westre
Olga Johnson
Gladys Idland
Harriet Lamp
Alice Duffey
Oliver Hammersmark
Marian Olson
Betty Harper
Ma Peterson
Virginia Swing
Veda Bryan
William Cole
Thomas Flanagan
Hazel Wheeler
Father Who Never Saw Son Killed at Anzio
Lt Otis Webb Davey Jr 24 a Ranger officer killed at Anzio after his father Otis Webb Davey Sr a World War I casualty in France never met his son The elder Davey from Orange N J and his wife Theodoria Andrews of Canton Ohio are named in the war department notice The infant son born last December lives with his mother at Hempstead New York parents grandparents are identified in the report
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Orange
N. J
Otis Webb Davey
France
Anzio
War Department
Otis Davey
Rudolph Eberstadt
Canton
Ohio
Otis Webb Davey, Jr
Theodoria P. Andrews
Edward Preston Andrews
Hempstead, N. Y
Yellowstone Flood Ravages Miles City as Red Cross Cares
Floodwaters from the Yellowstone river inundate miles of Miles City. Ice jams and a five mile flood surge force evacuations as Red Cross sets up a disaster relief center to house up to 150 people. Tongue river feeds the rising waters from near the Montana Wyoming border.
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Miles City
Yellowstone
Minden City
Red Cross
Tongue River
Montana- Wyoming
Tongue
Forest grazing vote ends Absaroka area sheep trial
A Livingston conference produced a 1.25 to 1.55 vote against opening the Absaroka primitive area to sheep for one year. Voting was allocated by group: Stockmen and ranchers, Farm Bureau, Sportsmen and recreation, and Civic organizations, with each body holding fractional votes.
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Absaroka
Livingston
Sweet Grass
Park County
Farm Bureau
Gardiner
Park and Big Timber
Montana Wildlife Federation
Dude Ranchers Association
Gardiner Commercial Club
Livingston Chamber of Commerce
Livingston Junior Chamber of Commerce
Big Timber Lions Club
New Books On Library Shelves
Mrs. Fallang reports new additions across fiction and non fiction shelves. Non fiction includes titles on war exploration biography and history such as Guadalcanal Diary Ris k Here Is Alaska and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. Fiction selections include The Human Comedy A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Robe among others.
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Skinner
Willkie
Curie
Call
Philippines
Romulo
Seabrook
Alaska
Stefansson
Saroyan
Marquand
Hungry Hill
DuMaurier
Flint
Bernadette
Werfel
Robe
Douglas
Brook
Glor
Patton Gets New Command in War Shuffle
Washington reports that Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr. who led the Seventh Army in Sicily is reassigned to command another army. Major General Alexander M. Patch will take over the Seventh Army in Naples. Officials do not specify Patton’s new field or location, but the move aligns with preparations for a Western Europe invasion.
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Washington
War Department
George S. Patton Jr
Seventh Army
Sicily
Alexander M. Patch
South Pacific
New Caledonia
Guadalcanal
Patton
Naples
Europe
Former French Official Executed at Algiers
Pierre Pucheau, ex Vichy interior minister and prominent industrialist, was executed at dawn in Algiers after a special French military tribunal found him guilty of treason for alleged collaboration with the Germans. He declined a blindfold and gave the firing command.
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Algiers
Pierre Pucheau
Vichy
Pucheau
Large Northern Duck Migration Invasions Reach Montana
Great Falls March 21. Contrary mallard ducks, absent most of the fall hunting season, have invaded northern Montana by the thousands. A northern migratory flight swept the area during a spring snowstorm, creating a feeding problem eased by sportsmen clubs.
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Great Falls
Montana
Reclamation Meeting Here Tuesday Night
Local water users are invited to a meeting in Big Timber on Tuesday April 4 at 8 p m at the courthouse. J F Clark district director says the gathering will explain how the Yellowstone Basin Association and the Montana Reclamation Association formed and report on protecting Montana water interests in the upper Missouri system. Wesley O Ewart president of the Montana Reclamation Association will also speak with other speakers invited.
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Yellowstone Basin Association
Montana Reclamation Association
Big Timber
J. F. Clark
Court House
H. W. Bunston
Hardin
Herb Buck
Billings
Navy Loses Two Warships in Pacific and Atlantic
The navy reports the loss of the 2000 ton submarine rescue ship Macaw after hitting a coral reef in the Pacific on February 13 and the 1300 ton destroyer escort Leopold sunk in the Atlantic March 10 after an underwater explosion. Lieutenant Commander Paul W. Burton of Asbury Park New Jersey and Commander Kenneth Cov Phillips of Glenbrook Connecticut are listed as missing. Casualties are not disclosed.
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Washington
Navy
Macaw
Leopold
Pacific
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Paul W. Burton
Asbury Park
N. J
Kenneth Cov Phillips
Glenbrook
Conn
Evacuation Ordered For San Sebastiano And Massa Di Somma
Evacuation of San Sebastiano and Massa di Somma on Mount Vesuvius was under way with urgency after a warning that lava from the cone could obliterate the towns before morning. Scientists at the royal observatory said the eruption matched the April 1872 event in scale with red hot stones causing fatalities.
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Mount Vesuvius
San Sebastino
Massa di Somma
Royal Observatory
Hull outlines 17 point postwar world plan
Secretary of State Hull presented a 17 point policy for a postwar world of international cooperation. He urged liberty loving peoples to fight for freedom, backed a revised Atlantic charter, and called for international surveillance of aggressor nations until they prove a commitment to peaceful, lawful conduct.
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Washington
Hull
United Nations
Germany
Japan
Italy
America
Soviet Union
Great Britain
United States
China
Moscow
Ates
Philippines
Last Rites Today for Mrs. Jean Sinclair
Funeral services were held at 1 30 this afternoon at Lowry's chapel for Mrs. Jean Sinclair who died Tuesday forenoon at the Nils T Petersen home where she had lived the past two and a half years. She was 78 last November 11. Interment was in Mountain View. Jean Williamson Sinclair was born in Perthshire Scotland. She was a nurse. Her husband died in Scotland in 1898 and in 1906 she brought their only child Larry W Sinclair to the United States making their home with a brother at Dubois Wyo. In 1940 the son purchased Clydehurst on the Boulder and she came here with him. Mrs. Sinclair had mothered two other boys J P and Russell F Kimball of Casper Wyo Both are in service the former at Woodmont Conn and Ens Russell at Camp Beale Calif. Two sisters Misses Maggie and Nellie Williamson live in Cathcart Glasgow Scotland.
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Lowry’s Chapel
Jean Sinclair
Nils T. Petersen
Axel Anderson
Lutheran Church
C. E. Davis
Jack Shaw
C. C. Nicholson
Wm. Rutledge
B. F. Henry
C. E. Smart
Mountain View
Jean Williamson Sinclair
Perthshire
Scotland
Larry W. Sinclair
United States
Dubois
Wyo
Clydehurst-on-the-Boulder
England Coast Strip Prepared for Invasion
London reports that over 700 miles of southern and eastern England were declared a protected area effective April 1 with strict civilian movement limits. A 10 mile coastal belt from the east wash to Land’s End will see entry restricted. fines up to 400 dollars and three months imprisonment apply. Residents within the zone over 16 must carry ID and equipment limits include binoculars and telescopes.
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London
Europe
England
Firth of Forth
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Montana taxpayers submit 5.85 million in federal revenue
Helena Montana March 18 Montana income taxpayers turned in 5 846 504 10 in federal revenue according to Lewis Penwell collector of internal revenue Total taxable returns reached 72 800 Nontaxable forms 63 964 and an additional 40 800 forms await review which Penwell said could add about two million dollars to the total
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Helena
Montana
Lewis Penwell
Internal Revenue
Pennell
New Postage Rates Take Effect Next Week Across Nation
Washington reports new postal and excise taxes raise prices on stamps air and parcel mail money orders and registry fees while liquor beer wine and luggage taxes rise. Domestic air mail moves to 8 cents an ounce and new 8 cent stamp appears olive green. Telegraphs radios and wire services taxed at 8 to 25 percent with broader scope.
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Washington
Treasury
Continental United States
Parcel Post
Surance
Post Office Department
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India
Upper Chindwin
Burma
Cassino’s Edge
New Zealand
Bac
Richard Heidrich
Cassino
Sweet Grass High School
Miles ‘City
Red Cross Cares
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Carl W. Stoessel
John George Neumayer
Gibson
Stoessel
SEC
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