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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1943
Page
2
NEA frontline artist Caral Johnson’s drawings document American troops in Tunisia. The pieces depict air base activity with Spitfire fighters taking off in four plane groups and a rugged mountain front where mule trains replace jeeps, supplying water and ammo to advancing units.
Mrs. C N Dickinson Sr longtime Great Falls resident dies at age 70 after more than half a century in the city. Wife of GC N Uieh kon Sr she was among the area’s earliest aldermen and a longtime local businessman and council member.
Byrnes says attacks will continue on multiple fronts in Europe and the Pacific until the enemy’s treachery and tyranny are crushed. He warns of a long, hard road ahead and calls for greater unity, sacrifice, and efficiency as the war mobilization office is created to unify home-front efforts. In New York, Rear Admiral Monrie Welly succeeds Rear Admiral J. J. Marquart as commandant of the New York Navy Yard, with Marquart moving to third Naval District command.
A new governing body for France emerged in Algiers under joint presidency of Generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle. The assembly created itself to manage freed French territories and lead with Allied victory, Giraud presiding first as per seniority while all actions require collective committee decisions and joint responsibility. Each member will head a ministry mirroring an established government.
Roy Stahler 26 a lifelong Silver City resident died late last night at St Peter's hospital after a brief illness. Born in Silver City on November 22, 1917. Survived by his mother Mrs Frances Stahler and three brothers Harry Howard and Raymond in the armed forces, two sisters Mrs Fred Szewczak and Mrs Pauly Hennessey, and a half brother Charles Simpson, all of Silver City. Body at Opp and Conrad funeral home with arrangements pending.
The Upper Musselshell Woolgrowers association opposes raising Flathead Lake’s level, arguing it would destroy valuable sheep range. At the annual meeting Trifoerd Sedgwick was elected president, Gemund Berg vice president, and C A Johnson secretary.
An economist predicts a possible real postwar prosperity only with conservative financial control in Washington and business. He notes a wage and price ceiling not constant, potential inflation from wartime purchasing power, and high income taxes likely for years. He guesses Europe’s end may occur within a year, with Germany’s defeat potentially earlier or later, stressing phased conversion of war industry to civilian output. DETOUR ON NO 10 Miles City reports a route diversion on highway 10 due to a washed out bridge at Falcon.
Major General Davenport Johnson of the Second Air Force outlines a large upcoming flight effort totaling over four billion miles, stressing the vigorous safety program. He notes 32,000 bathtub deaths in 1939 and far higher military aviation injuries in 1942, while asserting that the fatal accident rate is very low per mile flown.
Allied air forces conducted extensive bombing of Sardinia and Pantelleria targets. Axis losses included 14 planes in aerial combat and a day’s operating cost seen as low. In Naples the Fortresses sank a merchant vessel and set a tanker ablaze, while bombing hits hit a roundhouse, repair shop, and oil tanks.
Gov Sam C Ford of Montana and Dan Whetstone Cut Bank publisher and Republican national committeeman have been named members of the Republican postwar advisory council. The formation of a 24 governors and 25 congressmen and party officials council was announced today by Chairman Harrison E Spangler of the Republican national committee.
Washington May 31 The Aleutian battle shifts to eradicating scattered Attu snipers as the next offensive moves loom. Two main options emerge for a North Pacific push: a strike on Kiska or a westward campaign toward the Kurile island chain from Japan, made more feasible by the annihilation of Japanese forces on Attu.
Billings May 31 A proposal by Senator Wheeler seeks to permit memorial markers forU.S. service members buried at sea abroad or unknown sites. A Billings couple asked for a stone marker for their son who died in the South Pacific, but current law restricts markers to graves. County Clerk Osten informed Wheeler, who introduced legislation after learning of the case.
New York May 31 report announces the appointment of Joseph F Ringland as a vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Ringland formerly led the Empire National Bank and Trust Company of St Paul Minn and earlier served as vice president of the Great Falls National Bank in Great Falls Montana.
London May 31 Lieut Gen Joseph W Stilwell on a brief stopover en route from Washington to China conferred with Lieut Gen Jacob E L Devers United States commander in the European theater Maj Gen Ira C Baker commander of the eighth army air force and various British leaders Stilwell leader of American forces in China India and Burma is expected to visit other theater commanders and it was assumed Algiers would be his next stop
A 48 year old Spanish American mother, Mrs Ajanita Lucero of Pompeys Pillar, died of convulsions during childbirth. Within two minutes the attending physician performed an operation saving the baby, whose condition is described as satisfactory. The mother had nine prior children. the eldest son is reportedly a prisoner of the Japanese captured on Corregidor.
F J Cole of Red Lodge was elected president of the Montana Short horn Breeders association at its annual meeting held here on May 31.
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