Death of Alfred E Smith the Happy Warrior of Politics
Alfred E Smith known as the Happy Warrior died in New York at Rockefeller Institute at age 70. Dr Raymond Sullivan cited lung congestion and heart disease. Plans for his body to lie in state at St Patrick's Cathedral and a high requiem mass were announced.
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New York
Alfred Emmanuel Smith
Raymond P. Sullivan
Smith
Catherine
John Healy
St. Vincent Ferrer’s Church
Rockefeller Institute
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Brooklyn Bridge
Albany
Assembly
New York County
Board of Aldermen
Tammany Hall
Charles S. Whitman
Nathan L. Miller
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happy Warrior
Hoover
Montana Hospitals Win Federal Nurse Home Grants
The Federal Works Agency announced nearly 3 million dollars in grants and loans to build nurse homes and support child care and recreation facilities for war industry centers and near military bases. Includes 153,617 for St Patrick's hospital in Missoula and 88,200 loan 87,000 for Jane Bozeman Deaconess hospital.
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Montana
Washington
Federal Works Agency
St. Patrick's Hospital
Missoula
Mont
Grant
Jane Bozeman
Deaconess Hospital
Helena
St. John’s Hospital
Bute
St. James Hospital
Billings
St. Vincent’s Hospital
New Nazi Weapon Reported From France
American Third Army troops report information on a 14 ton V-2 type projectile slated as Hitler’s third vengeance weapon. The weapon measures just under 60 feet long with a diameter of five feet five inches and weighs 14 tons at launch. It uses liquid air and alcohol propulsion, launches vertically, and is guided by radio.
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France
Third Army
Hitler
Mrs Flack Celebrates 96th Birthday With Friends
Mrs W J Flack honored at a Friday birthday gathering hosted by Mrs John Satre in her home. Attendees included longtime locals like Mrs A Whitney and Mrs S A Perrine as she marked 96, formerly known as Mrs Spencer Jarrett, with gifts and a dinner. She rivered from ranch life to Minneapolis after 1915 then returned to Montana a year ago.
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W. J. Flack
John Satre
A. Whitney
S. A. Perrine
George Alden
Ralph S. Jarrett
L. E. Webb
May Sandage
Clara Severance
Carl Fredrickson
Satre
Montana
100000 Acre Gallatin Ranch Sale Shocks Montana
Bozeman reports George Linton of Manhattan linked with Irvine company men announce the purchase of the Childs Anceney ranch of over 100000 acres in Gallatin and Madison counties for about 1500000 dollars. The buyers plan immediate possession and to double Hereford cattle from 8000 to 16000. The Flying D ranch lies between the Madison and Gallatin rivers and dates to 1887, once owned by W H Childs and Charles Anceney. W M Nichols, related to Childs, now leads Yellowstone Park involvement.
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Bozeman
George Linton
Manhattan
Irvine Company
Santa Ana
Cal
Gallatin
Madison
Montana
Sinton
Childs- Anceney
Northwest
W. H. Childs
Charles Anceney
W. M. Nichols
Nichols
Childs
Yellowstone Park Company
Scalpers Seek Hefty Prices for World Series Seats
In St Louis on October 2 the price for six reserved World Series seats ranged from 125 to 150 dollars from scalpers. Browns and Cards offices reject more reservations while 4000 bleacher and 3000 pavilion seats go on sale each game day. Internal revenue agents monitor downtown for unregistered speculators. scalpers face 20 percent penalties plus an additional 25 percent if caught.
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ST. Louis
Browns
Cards
Internal Revenue
Escalpers
Uncle Sam
Nelson resigns as War Production Board chair
President Roosevelt accepted Donald M. Nelsons resignation as WPB chairman and named Julius A. Krug as his successor. Nelson will remain in government in a high post of major importance. Krug has been acting WPB chairman during the transition.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Early
Patrick Hurley
China
Europe
Krug
Sears Roebuck Vicent
Citizens meet with city council on local policing effort
A citizens group met the City Council to discuss thefts and window-breaking in Big Timber. They favor a prowl car and consider raising the 17 to 18 age limit for curfew. Officers cite citizen reluctance to sign complaints as a major enforcement hurdle. A daytime pickup for Chief Busha and water duties is being pursued.
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Great Falls
Busha
Browns Take 2 1 Victory in All-St. Louis World Series Opener
The St Louis Browns beat the Cardinals 2 to 1 at Sportsmans Park in the first game of the World Series. George McQuinn hit a first inning homer and Gene Moore added a fourth inning single, accounting for all Browns' runs off Mort Cooper and Blix Donnelly. Denny Galehouse pitched six innings of solid relief, weather and crowd of 33,342 plus gate receipts of 149268 marked opening day.
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Browns
Sportsman’s Park
St. Louis
George McQuinn
Cardinals
Kings
Gene Moore
Mort Cooper
Ace of the
Mound
Blix Donnelly
Denny Galehouse
Record Turkey Crop This Year in Readiness for Market
Washington reports a record turkey crop for the season likely surpassing 500 million pounds about 8 percent above last year. Chicken meat marketing may fall short of late 1943 levels and poultry prices could near ceilings while egg production may dip this quarter versus last year as war demand eases and stockpiles grow.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Japanese claim Guam and Tinian garrisons destroyed
Tokyo announces in a London broadcast that Japanese troops on Guam and Tinian were destroyed on September 27 and that about 15,000 civilians on Tinian formed a voluntary battalion and died on the battlefield. The broadcast adds that the aged women and children also took their own lives when defense fell.
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Guam
Tinian
London
Tokyo
Tinian Islands
Japanese Information Bureau
Appointments to Academies Made
Senator Wheeler announced the appointment of Pvt. Hugh Cato Butler of Helena to West Point and Patrick F. Hooks of Townsend to Annapolis. Alternates for Butler are Pvt. Robert J. O'Hearn of Billings Sigurd K. Hjermstad of Great Falls and Wallace West of Helena. Alternates for Hooks are Donald L. Christman of Butte William R. Curry of Butte and Maurice J. Condit of Browning.
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Washington
Wheeler
Mont
Hugh Cato Butler
Helena
West Point
Patrick F. Hooks
Townsend
Annapolis
Butler
Robert J. O'Hearn
Billings
Sigurd K. Hjermstad
Great Falls
Wallace
Hooks
Donald L. Christman
Butte
William R. Curry
Maurice J. Condit
Browning
Montana Aide Ireland and Moe to Attend Rural Education Conference
Elizabeth Ireland state superintendent of public instruction and M. P. Moe executive secretary of the Montana Education association will represent Montana at the White House conference on rural education in Washington October 4 and 5. The event, sponsored by the National Education association, aims to help rural communities build a postwar economy.
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Helena
Montana
Elizabeth Ireland
M. P. Moe
Montana Education Association
White House
Washington
National Education Association
Six More Burglaries Reported Over Week End
Six more break ins were attempted during the weekend in Big Timber. The grade school lost $120 last week but nothing was taken this time. The high school office was entered through a front window after a rear window attempt and the door was locked. no money was taken. At Smart's service station a pane was broken but no cash was stolen. The Motor Inn was accessed via a glass pane in the alley door. the cash register remained locked and nothing missing. Norman Ostenson reported ammunition stolen from his butcher truck and a .22 Special rifle from a rear shed. Sunday evening the Big Timber bakery till was rifled. about $4 in small change taken. No clues yet.
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Smart
Motor Inn
Norman Ostenson
Fifth Avenue
Big Timber Bakery
Successful Russian Relief Campaign Reaches Portland
Sweet Grass county volunteers packed 1200 pounds of garments blankets and shoes at the library and courthouse. Committees from the grade and high schools Womans club Legion and Superintendent Deegan assembled four boxes destined for Russian Relief headquarters in Portland Oregon. The relief items will be shipped to Russia aboard Russian vessels with no transportation charge.
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United States
Sweet Grass County
Russia
Womans Club
Legion
Deegan
Court House
Portland
Ore
Britain Rolls Out Social Security Plan
London reports a sweeping British plan to cover cradle to grave welfare. It includes unemployment and sickness insurance health service widows and retirement pensions family allowances orphans motherhood grants and death grants. The plan aims to end extreme poverty and lift welfare for Britain's 47 million people.
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London
Britain
Beveridge
Thomas to retire from politics after current campaign
Norman Thomas, five time Socialist presidential candidate, plans to withdraw from politics at the end of the present campaign. He told a Socialist gathering that this will be his last campaign and that he will retire from active politics at a Chicago party meeting in January.
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Thomas
Los Angeles
the Examiner
Norman Thomas
Chicago
Allies Break Siegfried Line to Storm Rhine Front
Allied forces breach the Siegfried Line north of Aachen with U S tanks and infantry advancing in three strong columns toward the Rhine. Shafts of action unfold as Canadian and Polish units push toward Antwerp while German resistance weakens in parts of the front.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
United States
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Rhine Line
Finkenrath
Freienberg
United States First Army
Uebach
Rhine
Metz
Third Army
Briant Fortress
Antwerp
Schalde
Brenda Road
Witehof
Baarle-Nassaau
Turnhout
Poppel
Reussel
Holland
Henrys Relocate to Colorado from Montana
Dr. Roy M. Wolf credits a Canon City audience with guiding Mr and Mrs B F Henry from Big Timber Montana to settle in Colorado. The couple, long-time Montana merchants, bought 432 College and plan to reside there. They have three sons Wayne Franklin and Gaylord with ties to the military and education.
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Roy M. Wolf
Canon City
Colo
Daily Record
B. F. Henry
Big Timber
Montana
College
Henry
Colorado
Henrys
Wayne
Air Corps
Piota
Texas
Franklin
Wentworth Military Academy
Gaylord
Uncle Sam
Attempt Made to Poison Hitler
A German informant claimed Hitler narrowly escaped a poisoning in mid August when his private astrologer pulled poisoned coffee from the Fuehrer. The report, unconfirmed elsewhere, said a bomb plot preceded that attack and that Hitler ordered an investigation with no culprits named.
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Madrid
Stuttgart
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hitler
Gestapo
Berghof
Rudi Wanger
Adlon
Berlin
Germany
Predicts Delivery of 97 Percent of Orders
The War Production Board forecasts 97 percent of the 1944 weapons schedule, worth 67.3 billion dollars, will roll from U.S. assembly lines. October through December output must exceed December 1943’s record $5.6 billion, with progress shown in bombers and attack craft programs.
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Washington
War Production Board
Inquest Ordered in McPherson Death
Oakland California September 29 an inquest into the death of Aimee Semple McPherson was ordered by Coroner Mark L Emerson after an autopsy failed to determine the exact cause. Sleeping tablets found near her body described as hypnotic sedative by Inspector Henry Palazy set tentative inquest date for October 6.
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Oakland
Calif
Aimee Semple McPherson
Mark L. Emerson
McPherson
Henry Palazy
State Board of Pharmacy
Roosevelt Plans Only One More Speech
President Roosevelt said he has no political speaking plans beyond a radio broadcast to Democratic Party workers on Oct. 5. Democratic National Chairman Hannegan suggested two speeches in New York, but the president indicated his plans center on the Oct. 5 engagement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Hannegan
New York
Ey Chen
War Fronts Pressed Along Chinese Coasts as Allied Air Losses Rise
Japanese forces drive toward Foochow on the east coast while expanding a push toward Kweilin in Kwangsi. U S airmen evacuate seven bases in eastern China leaving one airfield as Allied losses mount. Stilwell reports 14 Japanese planes down with no American losses. Southeast Asia HQ cites 9,746 Japanese dead or captured in six months.
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China
Foochow
Kweilin
Kwangsi
Associated Press
United States
New Guinea
Philippines
Celebes
Moluccas
Makassar
Ceram
Dutch New Guinea
High Command
East China Seaport
Ints
Kien
Hingan
Hunan
Changning
Hengyang
Joseph W. Stilwell
Allied Southeast Asia
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al E. Smith
Alf Landon
Wendell L. Willkie
Empire State Building
Thomas E. Dewey
Mrs. Flack
Kiug
City Council
Ireland
Moe
Sigfried
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