Largest West Point class graduates 853 cadets
At West Point on June 5 853 graduates received diplomas from Gen Omar Bradley the largest class ever at the academy First Capt Robert Woods led the color guard as Bradley Clark and Keyes attended The ceremony honored graduates including family lines and 24 marriages among the corps with notable father son diplomas in attendance
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West Point
N. Y
United States Military Academy
Omar N. Bradley
English Channel
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
Robert E. Woods
Corning
Army Field House
Bradley
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Geoffrey Keyes
Twelfth Army Group
Japan
Dwight Alban Riley, Jr
Athens
Ohio
Francis B. Wilby
Academy
William D. Clark
Gen. Clark
Gen. Keyes
Andrew J. Gatsis
Birmingham
Ala
Daniel Nelson
Billings
Mont
Winnifred Mahan
Newburgh
Electronics Topic of A I E E Meeting in Montana
The Montana section of A I E E presented a program on Industrial Electronics using a General Electric sound film. W H Blankmeyer and C A Beardslee led the talk after a class they conducted on electronics. Frank Gardiner opened the meeting and Williams announced the July session.
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Montana
Montana Power Company
W. H. Blankmeyer
C. A. Beardslee
General Electric Company
Frank Gardiner
E. W. Williams
Harrington Brothers End Visit Here
Michael P. Harrington left by plane for San Francisco during the week after being called home on his father Patrick D. Harrington’s death. His brothers Lir. James P. Harrington and Patrick Harrington of Hunter's Point also returned by plane from the Naval Air base. Alexander Graham Bell urged Mark Twain to invest 500 in his telephone invention, but Twain loaned the 500 to a friend who soon went bankrupt.
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Michael P. Harrington
San Francisco
Patrick D. Harrington
Lir
James P. Harrington
Naval Air Base
Patrick Harrington
Hunter's Point
Alexander Graham Bell
Mark Twain
Curbing Japanese Suicide Bombings Improves Navy Outlook
Adm Halsey and Vice Adm Mitscher say Japan s suicide bombing tactic is being reduced as ships receive redesigned gear and better air defenses. They estimate only about 1 of 100 enemy attackers break through, with even fewer surviving to cause damage, signaling progress before the next major Okinawa phase.
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Okinawa
Adm
Halsey
Third Fleet
Washington
Marc Mitscher
Navy
Mitscher
Japan
Europe
Pacific
Deer Lodge News Prince Hale Jarabek Correspondent
Deer Lodge report by Prince Hale Jarabek notes local events and community happenings from the correspondent desk. The column covers neighborhood updates and civic notes of interest to residents.
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Deer Lodge
Princes Hale Jarabek
Women of Moose to Elect Officers in Deer Lodge
The Women of the Moose will meet Friday at 8 p.m. to elect officers for the upcoming term and conduct initiation ceremonies. A social hour follows the lodge meeting with hostesses Florence Chessmore Edna Curn Kate Kelly Georgia Anderson and Mina Rice assisting.
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Deer Lodge
Women of the Moose
Florence Chessmore
Edna Curn
Kate Kelly
Georgia Anderson
Mina Rice
Daughters of Nile Luncheon Set in Deer Lodge
Daughters of Nile will meet Friday at 1:30 PM at Mrs. L. C. McElwain's home for the annual initial luncheon. Members bring a dish starting with their last name initial and a social hour follows. Sgt George Burks arrives on furlough to visit parents and sisters after three years in India.
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Deer Lodge
George Burks
Army
Burks
India
Shugrue Couple Return From Midwest Visit
Mr and Mrs W J Shugrue return from a trip to Chicago and Flint Michigan where they visited their son William Jr who is in the service. Robert A Steinberger of the Army Air Forces has arrived from Las Vegas Nevada to spend a furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs J V Steinberger.
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Midwest Deer Lodge
W. J. Shugrue
Chicago
Flint
Mich
William, Jr
Las Vegas Deer Lodge
Robert A. Steinberger
Army Air Forces
Las Vegas
Nev
J. V. Steinberger
Dillon approves $12,000,000 highway debenture
Dillon five precincts back the $12 million highway debenture program by 204 to 13 in unofficial Tuesday results. Beaverhead county has 20 precincts, with 15 rural precincts not yet tallied, returns due Wednesday.
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Dillon
Beaverhead
Montana voters back debenture plan to fund road system
Montanans approve a $46 million three year highway program by debenture to retire $1.5 million in debts and match federal funds for an extended farm to market and primary road network. State officials say bids can be let after V J day and emergency ends with funds allocated for primary and farm to market lines.
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H. O. Bell
Montana Automobile Association
Montana
Highway Department
All War Prisoners Are Liberated
Paris reports virtually all American prisoners of war recovered including in Russian-occupied areas. Lt. Col. W. P. Schweitzer says 89,776 Americans have been recovered. about 64,000 sent home and the rest near transport to the United States with 3,000 to 4,000 awaiting processing.
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Paris
W. P. Schweitzer
Schweitzer
United States
Patton to Return to Bedford from Europe
General George S. Patton Jr and 50 Third Army officers and men will fly into Bedford air base from Europe late Thursday, according to army officials. The article notes a separate historical fact about the Venetian Republic leading the glass industry in the fifth century.
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Patton
Bedford
Mass
George S. Patton, Jr
Third Army
Bedford Air Base
Europe
Venetian Republic
D Ewart Wins Congress Seat in Montana Special Election
Helena June 5 Wesley A D Ewart of Wilsall won Montana s Second district special election delivering a Republican victory in a tight race amid drizzle and light turnout. The campaign featured Graybill Spriggs and Yellowtail with national party figures backing their candidates as D Ewart campaigned against centralization and a Missouri Valley authority.
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Montana
Graybill
Great Falls
D’ewart
Montana Reclamation Association
Yellowtail
Spriggs
James E. Murray
Mike Mansfield
Democratic
Robert E. Hannegan
Truman
Sam C. Ford
E. V. Robertson
R-Wyo
Missouri Valley Authority
Washington
Helena
Wesley A. D'Ewart
Wilsall
Congress
Beaverhead County Superintendent Resigns. Christine Opp Named Successor
Miss Margaret Sweeney resigns as Beaverhead county superintendent of schools and the board of commissioners names Mrs. Christine Smith Opp of Dillon as her successor. Sweeney served since 1938 and led rural Red Cross drives while Opp is a Montana educator with prior posts in Jefferson County and Helena schools.
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Dillon
Margaret Sweeney
Beaverhead County
Board of Commissioners
Christine Smith Opp
Miss Sweeney
Red Cross
Beaverhead
Montana Leads in Bond Drive Ahead of Mississippi
Treasure State News reports Montana tops Mississippi in the seventh war loan E bond drive with a 70.3 percent sales rate, a 1.5 point lead. Eight counties reached quotas in the $16 million effort as Alabama trailed in third place with many counties poised to surpass 100 percent in the next days.
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Helena
Montana
Mississippi
Alabama
Hamilton Youth Is Gunshot Victim
The body of 18 year old John Donaldson was found in the Skalkaho valley woods near Hamilton after a search. He had been shot through the head and had left home with a .22 rifle, appearing despondent. His mother recalled his mood and the discovery was made by two neighboring youths. He was a Hamilton high sophomore and a future Farmer of America member.
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Hamilton
John Donaldson
Skalkaho
John W. Dowling
Young Donaldson
Martin Jones
Robert Brennan
Donald Hobbs
Donaldson
Hamilton High School
Farmer of
America
Missoula
Sgt
Buster Donaldson
England
Highway boosters meet to back route linking Wyoming and Montana
Highway 87 boosters from Wyoming and Montana met Tuesday in Lewistown to press for designating the Wyoming Great Falls route as part of the international road. The meeting listed tourist benefits and endorsed another Idaho Montana mining district route for consideration with Buck of the Billings Commercial Club urging the case.
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Lewistown
Wyoming
Montana
Wyoming-Great Falls
Idaho
Herb Buck
Billings Commercial Club
Buck
Wyoming Great Falls
Man and Wife Suffer Similar Injuries in Separate Accidents
Great Falls June 5 Poundmaster A J McKenzie 90 was hospitalized after shocking himself with a wet dog in a canine electrocutor device. The device replacing older dog execution methods was invented by E L Shields of Great Falls. McKenzie fractured his pelvis and his wife also lies in hospital with a fractured pelvis from a recent fall.
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Great Falls
A. J. McKenzie
E. L. Shields
McKenzie
Mansfield in Favor of U. S. Co operation With Other Nations
Great Falls Montana June 5 Rep Mike Mansfield urged cooperation with other nations as essential for future peace. He recalled traveling to New Delhi in three days and cited his China visit last year representing the late President Roosevelt. He warned China’s political schism hinders Pacific victory.
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Great Falls
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Atlantic
Pacific
New Delhi
India
China
Roosevelt
Bids Open on Four Montana Highway Projects
Bids on four Montana highway maintenance projects totaling 112,260.12 dollars will be opened at the state highway commission meeting in Helena on June 28, state highway engineer Howard W. Holmes said Tuesday.
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Helena
Montana
State Highway Commission
Howard W. Holmes
Montanan Returns from Nazi Prison in Ravalli County
Staff Sgt. Robert A. Templeton 21, the first liberated G I from Ravalli county to arrive from Germany, came home Tuesday met by his wife and brother. He was captured April 8 when his plane was shot down over Germany and liberated three weeks later. He enlisted November 3, 1943.
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Hamilton
Ravalli County
G.I
Germany
Robert A. Templeton
Templeton
Montana youth John Manley joins Merchant Marine in quest to avenge brother
A 16 year old Montana ranch youth missing since September when he left to avenge first Lt. Jim Manley shot down over Germany has been located in the Merchant Marine. Clifford Manley says a card from San Francisco in care of the Merchant Marine service confirms he is alive. The father had previously said John disappeared from the Hill Military Institute in Portland after learning of Jim Manley’s fate.
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Helmville
Montana Ranch
Germany
Merchant Marine
Clifford Manley
John Manley
Hill Military Institute
Portland
Ore
Jim
Jim Manley
Manley
Sweden
United States
Santa Monica
John
Butter Output in Montana Drops in April
Montana creamery butter production fell to 790000 pounds in April, down 19.2 percent from a year earlier and 23.9 percent below the five year average. Cheese output rose 5.7 percent from March and 27.7 percent from last April. Ice cream dipped 5.9 percent from 1944 levels while cottage cheese rose 28.4 percent.
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Helena
U.P
Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
WPB Approves $23,015 Huntley Railroad Job
Helena June 5 The War Production board approved a $23,015 railroad construction job at Huntley and another project at Rosebud totaling 1 425 the WPB office announced.
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Helena
War Production Board
Huntley
Rosebud
WPB
Legionnaires to Meet Tonight in Legion Hall
Officers to be nominated for Silver Bow post No. 1 at 8 o clock tonight in Legion hall Commander Walter Barnard announced All members urged to attend. Annual election set for June 20 A talk on Alcohol in the War by Gordon Teach representative of a distilling company will be heard. Legion drum corps resume practice Thursday for Flag day June 14 program with Elks.
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American Legion
Legion Hall
Walter Barnard
Legionnaires
Gordon Teach
Legion
Elks
Third Degree Burns Fatal to Alder Boy
Bruce Kender a two year old Alder child died in Murray hospital from burns suffered when he fell into hot water at home. He was taken to Virginia City for care by Dr Farnsworth and later moved to Butte where attendants reported extensive third degree burns.
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Bruce Kender
Murray Hospital
Virginia City
Farnsworth
Butte
Butte Briefs: Admits and Dismissals at St James and Murray
Admissions to St James hospital include Belle Papich, Edgar Turner, Delores McCarthy, Joseph Barry, John Weir, Tom O'Brien, Edward Borcherdt, Ed Wadel, and Frank Dunn Jr. Dismissals from St James include Ruth Featherly, Bruce Risley, Emery Harris, Joseph Mulligan, and Loren Findly with son. Murray hospital saw admits Delia Halloran, Margaret Plenty, Tom Redfern, Baby Donald Wheeler, and Signild Yeager. returns include Robert Mack, Mary Curtin, J A Jones, and Sivert Bakka. Nurses aides and various social events announced. Shoshone Redmen social. Moose Women social. three births at Murray hospital.
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ST. James
Belle Papich
West Porphyry
Edgar Turner
South Dakota
Delores McCarthy
West Quartz
Joseph Barry
Harvard
John Weir
Shields
Tom O'Brien
Edward Borcherdt
Ed Wadel
South Arizona
Frank Dunn, Jr
Corn Terrace
Walkerville
St. James Hospital
Ruth Featherly
North Excelsior
Bruce Risley
Dillon
Emery Harris
East Park
Joseph Mulligan
Bayard
Loren Findly and Son
Grand
Murray
Delia Halloran
East Fourth
Anaconda
Margaret Plenty
Garden
Tom Redfern
Nine Mile
Donald Wheeler
Livingston
Signild Yeager
Elm
Murray Hospital
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By Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
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Carter
Cascade
Custer
Daniels
Dawson
Fergus
Garfield
Glacier
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Judith Basin
Liberty
McCone
Meagher
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Petroleum
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Powder River
Prairie
Richland
Sheridan
Teton
Republic of Venice
Venice
Adriatic
R.A. F
G. I
Eileen Lipkin
Red Cross Corps
Staten Island
Treasure State News
Highway Boosters
U. S
Montanan
Brother
Boulevard Fire Department
Boulevard Fire Hall
South Montana
V.F.W
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Veterans Hall
South
Arizona
Robert Thomas Mack
Mary Curtin
J. A. Jones
Rocker
Sivert Bakka
Order of Redmen
Carpenter Hall
Edward West
Colorado
Russell Gammel
Argyle
George Salovich
McCarrolls
Velduro
W. Park
Veldura
W. P. Fuller & CO
S. Montana
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