Secretary Knox Buried at Arlington With World Leaders
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox rests with the nation’s war dead in Arlington National Cemetery. Diplomats, cabinet members, and military leaders attended as Churchill sent a message to Roosevelt. Knox, 70, died Friday after heart attacks, and President Roosevelt and Mrs. Knox joined the service in tribute.
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Washington
Frank Knox
Arlington National Cemetery
United Nations
Navy
Marines
Arlington
Fred Buschmeyer
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Britain
Knox
Hundred Foreign Missionaries Released in New Guinea
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports in New Guinea at Hollandia the release of one hundred foreign missionaries captured during the 1941 Japanese invasion. General MacArthur says operations are complete and the group, including 13 Americans 7 Dutch 3 Poles 1 Australian 1 Czecho Slovak and the rest Germans, endured privations with 23 carried from jungle hills on stretchers.
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New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea
Hollandia
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Jimmy Wilson Quits As Cub Manager
Chicago May 1 Jimmy Wilson resigns as manager of the Chicago Cubs during a conference. The 43 year old leader earned about 20000 dollars annually and quits as the team had started the season with one win and nine straight losses.
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Chicago
Jimmy Wilson
Chicago Cubs
Phil Wrigley
Cubs
Nineteen Killed in Transport Plane Crash Near Flagstaff
Nineteen people were killed, two seriously injured, and two less seriously hurt when a transport plane crashed about 15 miles east of Flagstaff Arizona according to the Coconino county sheriff's office on Friday.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Here
Coconino County
Old Age Assistance Averages $28.91 in Montana May
In Helena on May 1 11 243 Montanans received old age assistance averaging 28 91 dollars per person total payments 325 079. Administrator J B Convery of the state public welfare department announced that aid checks were mailed to 1501 recipients supporting 3472 dependent children and 298 blind recipients. Child aid averaged 13 38 dollars totaling 50 074 while blind aid averaged 30 15 dollars with further payment details noted.
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Helena
B and C Drivers May Buy New Tires
Washington April 28 All motorists holding B and C gasoline books will be allowed to buy new synthetic rubber tires starting Monday May 1. The order from the Office of Price Administration follows increased synthetic production and also makes A book holders eligible for used tires. Light delivery trucks and other commercial vehicles, previously ineligible, may now purchase tires.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Fort Missoula Selected as Disciplinary Barracks Site
The War Department decides to use Fort Missoula Montana as disciplinary barracks under the Provost Marshal General. Senator Murray notes the fort will be operated by the immigration service as a detention center for enemy aliens. The plan removes Missoula as a hospital site for now and places civilian administrators and Army guards in charge.
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Washington
War Department
Fort Missoula, Mont
Sen
Murray
D-Mont
Immigration Service
Missoula
Veterans' Administration
Provost Marshall General's Office
Army Guards
Gasoline Rationing Extended to Campaign Seekers
Helena May 2 The Montana Office of Price Administration announced extra gasoline rationing for candidates seeking public office. Administrator A T Peterson cautioned only bona fide candidates receive the fuel and warned there will be no extra for campaign managers or band wagon riders.
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Helena
Montana
Office of Price Administration
A. T. Peterson
State Office of Price Administration
Deer Creek Ladies Aid Marks Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Dinner
The Deer Creek Ladies Aid celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary with a Turkey Dinner at the Parish hall for about 45 attendees. A program of music and speeches featured reminiscences from nine charter members and current leaders.
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Deer Creek Ladies Aid
Flattum
E. Hauge
John
E. J. Nd
Anton Grant
Fred Egeland
Esp
Win Operat
Fee Totel
Weekend Scrap Drive Reels In 31 Tons For Boy Scouts
A Timber Lions club rally loaded 58 023 pounds of scrap paper into a freight car for the Boy Scouts. Newspapers and magazines totaled 53 443 pounds at 12 per ton FOB Big Timber and cardboard 4 580 pounds at 17 per ton for about 360 dollars. Salvage work wrapped by 4 30 Sunday and remaining material to Billings by truck later.
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Timber Lions Club
Boy Scouts
Dorman Kellogg
Billings
Calcite Explorations Underway at Deer Creek and Boulder
The U S bureau of mines begins exploration of calcite veins in Sweet Grass county to find new optical calcite sources for war needs. Cartwright deposit 12 miles south of Grey Cliff and Boulder deposit nine miles south of Big Timber are active with ten men on site and more expected.
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Jennie Esp
Ronald Halverson
Tom Hoyem
Floyd Nepstad
John Boe
Harold Branne
Clarence Flattum
Deer Creek Ladies Aid
Annie P
Ole Birkeland
Hans Tiasland
Pete Egeland
Knudson
Big Timber Ladies Aid
Berne
Roheritios
Helena
United States Bureau of Mines
Sweet Grass County
E. W. Newman
Cartwright
Grey Cliff
Boulder
Big Timber
Montana
Clyde Park
Wilsall
Park County
Army
Navy
Newman
United States
E. O. Overland
W. L. S. McConnell
Demos See Victory in Alabama Returns
Washington May 4. Early returns from Florida and Alabama primary ballots signaled a Democratic victory for the Roosevelt camp ahead of November. In Florida Senator Claude Pepper held a wide lead in a four person race with no run off, and in Alabama Senator Lister Hill widened his margin as James A. Simpson conceded.
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Washington
Florida
Alabama
Roosevelt
Claude Pepper
Lister Hill
Pepper
Hill
James A. Simpson
Liquor Board Transfers $600000 to General Fund
The Montana liquor control board ordered $600000 held in a frozen account to be moved to the state general fund. The funds stem from a $1100000 special account at the state treasurer after a 1943 ruling that the treasurer acts as liquor board treasurer in his capacity, with earlier allocations of about $150000 each for checks.
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Helena
Montana Liquor Control Board
Liquor Board
Asteece
State Supreme Court
State Board of Examiners
Yellowstone Park to Open May 30 This Year
Kemmerer Gazette reports Yellowstone National Park will open on May 30 with no bus service and no hotels lodges or cafeterias. Tourist cabins will be available only at Fishing Bridge as snowplows begin clearing park roads. Superintendent Edmund B. Rogers notified the paper of the arrangements.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Kemmerer Gazette
Yellowstone National Park
Edmund B. Rogers
Yellowstone
Fishing Bridge
Vegetables Added to Free Point List
Washington reports April 28 that tomatoes corn beets asparagus and four other vegetables will join the free point list for processed foods. May values from the Office of Price Administration set a zero point rating for canned spinach leafy vegetables blackeye peas and Garbanzo beans as a foreign dish ingredient.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
British star Leslie How ard missing since June
London reports that British actor Leslie Howard, missing since last June after a transport plane from Lisbon to Montevideo disappeared, left an estate valued at 251000 dollars.
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Howard
London
Leslie Howard
Lisbon
I Moenest
Orman
Meat Ration Changes Cut Points and Scope
Washington dispatch reports that all meat except beef steak and roasts becomes ration free at midnight Wednesday. However red points are cut in half as 30 points per person every four weeks replaces the previous two week allotment. Three stamps issued May 7 are worth 10 points each and run to June 4.
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Washington
Allied air assault pounds France and Belgium in May Day raid
Up to 3500 Allied warplanes struck targets across France and Belgium from dawn to dusk on May Day, aiming at rail centers and fortifications. Early Tuesday German radio reported RAF formations again over Germany. US Eighth and Ninth Air Forces sent bombers and fighters. several planes missing amid widespread destruction and fires.
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London
Europe
France
Belgium
Adolf Hitler
Germany
United States
Eighth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
General Coxey Proposes War Finance Plan
Washington April 27 General Jacob S Coxey aged 90 arrived by train to explain a war finance plan. He recalls his 1870s march with 1000 jobless men and a proposal for noninterest bearing bonds. The plan involves issuing currency to fund the war and veteran rehabilitation with no interest payments.
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Washington
Jacob S. Coxey
Massillon
Ohio
Burial Proposal for Unknown WWII Soldier in Arlington
Representative Fish of New York introduced a resolution proposing the burial of an unknown World War II soldier in an identical tomb beside the unknown World War I figure at Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. The measure also suggests the burial of the World War I unknown from the Takeomackie affair.
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Washington
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater
Representative Fish
Bridge School Wins Rural Track Meet for Second Straight Year
Bridge school captured the 69 point rural track meet at Sweet Grass county, ahead of Grey Cliff with 48 and Rapstad with 23. Billy Cosgriff of Grey Cliff led scorers with 14 points, while Donna Myers and David Duffey of Grey Cliff and Selma Mosness of Bridge each totaled 13 points. District No 7 scholastic winners included Connie Pullman and Philip Leitner in reading contests, with further results noted before continued on Page Four.
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Sweet Grass County
Bridge School
Bridge
Grey Cliff
Rapstad
Billy Cosgriff
Donna Myers
David Duffey
Selma
Edward Vandervoort
Stephen Ollestad
Stuart Hammersmark
Melville
Gerald Christensen
Ruth Myrstol
Howie
Violet Widdicombe
Connie Pullman
Otter Creek
Robert Stark
Kent
Philip Leitner
Montana Delegation Heads to Washington for Water Amndts
Governor Sam C. Ford and four Montanans travel to Washington on Wednesday to back amendments to two federal bills concerning Missouri River water use. The proposals aim to safeguard upper basin rights for irrigation and are led by state reclamation and water conservation figures from Great Falls Hardin Wilsall Chateau Worland and joined by another water board member.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Washington, D. C
Congress
Ford
Wesley O’ewart
Wilsall
Montana Reclamation Association
H. W. Bunston
Hardin
Yellowstone Basin Association
Ralph Bricker
Allied Air Offensive Reaches Twentieth Day
Allied air operations continue for the twentieth day as strikes hit Nazi rail lines in northern France and Belgium and extend night raids from Italy to Germany. Mosquitos bomb Leverkusen near Cologne dropping 4,000 pound bombs in steady streams at night.
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London
France
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Leverkusen
Cologne
Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold to keynote Montana GOP
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska will keynote the Montana Republican convention in Helena on May 16. He arrives the morning of the convention with Mrs Griswold, tours Glacier National Park after the meeting, joined by National Committeeman Dan Whetstone and his wife.
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Helena
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Montana
Helens
National
Dan Whetstone
Cut Bank
Griswold
Glacier National Park
Park
Whetstone
Girl to Serve as Law Clerk for Supreme Court Justice
Justice Douglas named Miss Lucile Lomen of Seattle as his law clerk for the next term beginning in October. An honor student at the University of Washington she joins the Supreme Court staff as the first girl to hold the post in memory.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Douglas
Lucile Lomen
Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
Gripsholm to Make Another Exchange
The Gripsholm will sail from New York for a further prisoner exchange with Germany to be held at Barcelona around May 17. The ship is to return to New York with American repatriates in early June. Spanish cooperation is sought and identities of Americans to be exchanged remain undisclosed until after departure. The exchange covers seriously sick or wounded POWs and other personnel entitled to repatriation under Geneva conventions.
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Washington
State and War Departments
New York
Germany
Barcelona
Spain
State Department
Smith Files for Lieutenant Governor Nomination
Helena attorney Paul W. Smith filed for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor at the July primary. John D. Gillan of Great Falls also filed nominating petitions with Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell. They were the first candidates for the office.
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Helena
Paul W. Smith
John D. Gillan
Great Falls
Smith
Sam W. Mitchell
498 American Soldiers Die As Troop Ship Sinks in Mediterranean
The War Department reported 498 American servicemen died when their troopship was sunk by enemy action in the Mediterranean. Next of kin have been notified. It marks the third worst U. S. disaster of this war, with prior heavy losses noted in North African invasion and other Atlantic sinkings.
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Mediterranean
Washington
War Department
United States
North Atlantic
Navy
Army
President Coolidge
South Pacific
Tasker
H. Bliss
Hugh L Scott
Edward Rutledge
Compee Hewes
Leedstown
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Secretary of Navy
Cub
Ft. Missoula
Boy Scouts’ Treasury
Deer Creek
Donald B. Hoiekram
John B. Hopkins
Yellowstone Park
Greg
Selma Mosness
Arlene Holland
Gripsholm
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