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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
1
Thirty seven rural eighth grade pupils completed their grade school tasks in the high school auditorium at 2 pm with Miss Elizabeth Ireland state superintendent giving the address. Awards went to Norma Jean Knapp as valedictorian and Nels C Olin as salutatorian.
Attorney General John W. Bonner ruled that county commissioners may set compensation for the under sheriff and deputy sheriffs but may pay no more than 80 percent of the sheriff’s salary. The opinion was issued in Helena on Tuesday in response to a Powell county request.
Chicago May 20 Alderman Jim McDermott recalls old days and pushes ordinance banning liquor sales to women unless seated at tables citing crowded bars. He argues women are limiting elbow room for men and aims to restore decorum with a seating requirement.
Funeral services were held at the Church of God for Dale Perce Cook who died Monday night in a Billings hospital from embolism after a goiter operation. Interment followed at Mountain View with pallbearers named. Cook, born April 10 1888 in Haigler Nebraska, lived in Montana since 1915, with survivors including his widow and daughter Margaret now Mrs Floyd Benson, two granddaughters, his mother Julia Cook in Joliet, and brothers in Seattle Alaska and elsewhere.
Secretary Hull on May 18 argues Axis aims for world domination and control of the seas. He says U S defense requires Britain receive adequate supplies for resistance and that steps necessary will be taken, or the world’s lawlessness must be halted to avoid being surrounded by aggressors.
In Madison Square Garden on May 16 Bob Montgomery outpointed Lew Jenkins over ten rounds weighing 13614 to 135. The crowd roared as Montgomery endured Jenkins early righthands and then dominated the slugging affair earning a future shot at Fritzie Zivic's welterweight crown.
A letter from Jim Brannin of King City California describes a large Army maneuver with 9th Corps units at Fort Lewis Washington. He lists men heading to Jason California for six days of convoy action including 3 500 trucks 45 000 men and planes and artillery. He notes individual assignments with units and preparations for a May 19 movement and provides a temporary California mailing address.
The annual district No 2 Royal Neighbors of America convention drew the largest attendance besides Billings. One hundred sixty women from Billings Bridger Bozeman Emigrant Livingston Laurel Red Lodge and Big Timber attended. Mrs Louise Ellingson presided at the Masonic temple sessions.
RED LODGE May 15 Two Carlton county high school sophomores died after a car carrying classmates overturned while returning from a class picnic. Kenneth Jenkins 15 and Howard Cartwright 15 died of head and chest injuries after the crash on Yellowstone park highway near West Fork bridge. John Risvold 16 driver of the death car said he lost control. six other youths escaped with minor injuries. A coroner verdict later found reckless driving by Donald Lane 15 and Risvold 16 caused the deaths and urged revocation of their licenses.
In Worland Wyoming during the last week, wool clips totaled about 35 000 pounds from Alex Healy Jr to Hollowell Jones & Donald of Boston via Mrs Eve lyn MacQueen, plus 11 000 pounds from Ewen to Charles Webb Co of Philadelphia. MacQueen bought 19 000 pounds from Sam Hyatt at 34 34 cents, 2 800 fleeces from Claude Lewis at 33 cents, 750 fleeces from Redland and Weintz at 33 4 percent cents, and 44 000 pounds from George Coutis at 35 cents.
Egyptian steamer Zamzam with 201 aboard including 120 Americans sinks in the south Atlantic between Pernambuco and Cape Town. The convoy carried missionaries and ambulance drivers en route to Egypt and central Africa, plus fertilizer and machinery. The ship sailed from New York to Alexandria and bore Egyptian non belligerent markings.
The Senate on May 16 approved a measure giving the office of production management power to allocate United States resources to the defense program and set the sequence for armaments orders. A section creating a separate priorities division outside the OPM was stricken after defense officials opposed it. Senator Hill of Alabama led the floor effort, citing a War Department letter from Secretary Stimson to avoid confusion and delays. The House had added the proviso. lawmakers expect quick acceptance and prompt submission to the White House.
More than 400 Townsend club members from Montana gathered in Billings for the state Townsend convention. The final sessions featured talks by Attorney General John W. Bonner of Helena, Otis J. Bouma longtime head of the national Townsend bureau, Miss Gertrude Mae Rogers of Miles City, Mrs. R. T. Martin from Lewistown, and Ernest Albright, an Oklahoma newspaperman, ending with a banquet and dance.
Alex Greig wires from Wyola Montana with a Glasgow sister’s March 18 letter describing one of the worst air raids, mass debris, and families digging bodies as sirens sound and shelters provide brief safety. She expresses fear yet gratitude America remains a shield to endure through winter and beyond.
A nationwide roundup of aliens illegally in the United States began overnight under the justice department. Immigrant agents and police targeted eight seacoast cities led by New York Boston Baltimore Miami Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland Oregon.
London reports show thousands of German sky troops dropping on Crete failed to seize key positions. Casualties include 1,000 killed or captured. gliders wrecked on landing. Major General Bernard Freyberg led British, Greek, and naval forces in defense as 7,000 paratroops were said to be involved.
Earl Heikka a 29 year old artist with national notice killed himself with a rifle early Sunday beside his father in law E W Middleton's residence in Great Falls Sheriff Andy Loberg said an investigation found Heikka drove into the yard sounded his car horn rammed the home and then fired a fatal shot The body and rifle were found in the car with the door opening after the shot Heikka had been despondent and had quarreled with his wife who lived with her children at her father’s home
John L. Sullivan told the House Ways and Means Committee that a 66 percent income surtax and revised excess profits tax could raise about 1.096 billion dollars from corporations. He outlined proposed rates: 33 percent on excess profits up to 15 percent invested capital, 52 percent on 15 to 30 percent, and 65 percent above 30 percent, versus current rates starting at 25 percent on the first 20,000 of excess profits and rising to 50 percent beyond 500,000.
Four members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Clark Missouri Reynolds North Carolina Pepper Florida and Murray Montana urged the United States to assume control of French island possessions in the hemisphere. They argued this in light of Marshal Petain's collaboration with Berlin and spoke in separate interviews with reporters.
Arthur Mueller 32, a former Butte resident and linguist, was among volunteer ambulance drivers aboard the Egyptian steamer Zamzam, reported overdue in the South Atlantic. Telegrams reach Charles G. Mueller, his brother, noting Mueller declined Columbia University teaching offer to join the British American ambulance corps in the Egyptian Sudan.
Five members of the Johnston Agrue family were found dead from a large gauge shotgun blast on their Laughery bottoms farm near Lawrenceburg Indiana. Identified victims include Johnston Agrue 65 Nantha 60 Leo 22 William 29 and granddaughter Mary Elizabeth Breeden 11. Neighbors reported hearing five shots during a windstorm around 5 p.m. yesterday.
Sweet Grass County high school's farm shop class under instructor Ben Slanger completed numerous practical projects during 1940 41 including construction repairs and farming gear. Students built stock corrals barns tables bunk lines and chests repaired saddles and harnesses and processed livestock with many concrete jobs awaiting next year as ranchers from the county contributed work.
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