Fort Peck Man Dies in June Snowstorm
Fort Peck, June 9. Charles Firino, 38, died from exhaustion and exposure after a snowstorm near the Fort Peck dam spillway. Four men, including Firino, started from Rock Creek fishing camp and became stranded 10 miles from the spillway. Firino crawled about 100 yards on his hands and knees before dying. the others were found soaked but in good condition. His mother is listed as living in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
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Fort Peck
Charles Firino
Fort Peck Dam
Charles F. Peterson, Jr
Firino
Missouri River
Peterson
Hockhalter
Eastman
Glasgow
McGillis
Farino
Canada to Mexico Highway Association Elects Billings Leaders
A. L. Dresser of Craig Colorado was named president at the annual meeting in Billings. He succeeds George R. Pierce of Billings. Frank Watson Worland Wyoming named first vice president and William Sullivan Globe Arizona second vice president. H. L. Buck Billings re-elected secretary treasurer as state highway commissions seek governors of five states to obtain a uniform route number.
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Billings
A. L. Dresser
Craig
Colo
George R. Pierce
Frank Watson
Worland
Wyo
William Sullivan
Globe, Ariz
H. L. Buck
Bill
Inventor Ichabod Washburn's 1849 wire gauge device
The device for standardizing drawn wire was invented in Worcester Massachusetts in 1849 by Ichabod Washburn. It established a measurement tool pivotal to wire production and industrial accuracy.
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Gage
Ichabod Washburn
Worcester
Mass
Treasure State School Law Revisions Sought by Condon
Montana public instruction superintendent Mary M. Condon urged the 1951 legislature to amend school finance laws. She called for higher levies for elementary and high schools, out of district tuition removal, tax relief for dual high school districts, a larger bonding ceiling, a state building fund, bus procurement by bid, county valuation equalization, and reorganized high school districts to ensure broader trustee representation.
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Helena
Mary M. Condon
Montana Public Instruction
Miss Condon
Indian Boy Marble Champ Heads to National Meet
Matthew La Mere, 12, Great Falls, Montana, is chosen to travel to the national marble tournament at Asbury Park New Jersey with a side trip to New York. Rev. Ralph Lindquist will chaperone. They depart June 16 by Northwest Airlines and Matthew will wear a full western outfit from boots to cowboy hat.
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Great Falls
Matthew la Mere
Asbury Park
N. J
New York
Butte Estate Appeal and Dawson County Abatement Case
The Montana Supreme Court received appeals from a Butte estate settlement and a Dawson county abatement case. Emmett Lyons, administrator of the Butte estate of John J. Scullin, sued Walter Freshman over 100 shares of American Power and Light stock. Freshman appealed. Clergymen sued Eloise M. Bradley over premises with alleged prostitution and a sheriff sale. Bradley appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Helena
Montana Supreme Court
Butte
Dawson County
Emmett Lyons
John J. Scullin
Walter Freshman
Genevieve Taylor Scullin
American Power and Light
John B. McClernan
Lyons
Freshman
G. K. Bergland
Eloise M. Bradley
Governor Bonner to Speak at MT Federation Dinner
Helena June 9 Governor John W Bonner will address the American Federation of state county and municipal employees at the annual Montana dinner. About 100 members from across the state expected. Glen C Hallam of Billings is president of the Montana group.
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Helena
John W. Bonner
American Federation of State
Montana
Glen C. Hallam
Billings
Montana Group
State Druggists Meet in Helena
Montana druggists gathered in Helena for the two day convention discussions. Officers Orrin M Hart of Billings as president and Orville W Peek of Missoula as first vice president presented annual reports. C H Walden of Missoula and university pharmacy dean spoke. Gerald J Skibbins of Helena was named to speak Saturday.
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Helena
Montana
State Pharmaceutical Association
Orrin M. Hart
Billings
Orville W. Peek
Missoula
C. H. Walden
State University Pharmacy School
Gerald J. Skibbins
Montana Chamber of Commerce
Montana Road Conditions Improve With Some Closed Passages
Montana state highway department says most main roads are in good to excellent travel shape for the weekend. Several routes remain closed by snow or construction including U S 12 near Red Lodge to Cooke City and multiple segments of U S highways 2 10 87 89 91 93 and Montana 6 8 19 20 with warnings posted and incomplete resurfacing projects noted across the state.
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Helena
Montana
State Highway Department
U. S. 12
Red Lodge
Cooke City
Montana 38
Skalkaho Pass
Tower Junction Canyon
Yellowstone Park
Glasgow
Kalispell
U. S
Three Forks
Toston
Ashland
Hilger
Ennis
Jennings
Malta
Roy
Rogers Pass
Montana Boy Falls From Auto in Wolf Point
A three year old boy named Tommy Kelly son of Mr and Mrs T R Kelly of Wolf Point fell from a moving car after striking a door handle on the highway He suffered a skull fracture but doctors expect a full recovery.
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Wolf Point
Tommy Kelly
T. R. Kelly
States Guardsmen Open Camp Today
Helena June 9 A two week training session for 1300 Montana National Guardsmen will begin here Saturday at Camp John W Bonner near Fort Harrison. Men from 30 guard units statewide attend the annual operation, now in its third session since the last war.
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Helena
UPR
Montana National
Montana Sheriff 32 Years Dies
Frank R. Baney 71 long time Lincoln county sheriff died at his Eureka stock ranch. He served as the county’s first sheriff from its organization until retiring December 31 1946. Funeral services will be held Sunday in his Eureka hometown.
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Libby
Puneral
Frank R. Baney
Lincoln County
Eureka
Baney
Montana County
Great Falls Bride Confesses Thefts
Mrs Willis Rien a 20 year old bride confessed to police in Great Falls on Friday that she stole over $500 in a series of thefts. The crimes include three unemployment checks totaling $33 from the mailbox of Mrs Cora P Nelson and numerous bad checks from local businesses.
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Great Falls
U.P
Willis Rien
Cora P. Nelson
Local Firms Form New Montana Corporations
Breck Motor Sales of Bozeman and Northwest Gold of Whitehall joined by Antho Products of Helena incorporated Friday per Montana secretary of state. Bozeman directors include W D Breck Alice Breck W H Thomas Mary Thomas. Gold HQ at Colorado mine Madison county. Incorporators Lloyd Thompson Robert Pruett Whitehall Walter Myers Virginia City. Helena firm authorized up to 60000 dollars directed by Virginia Thomas M J Thomas H W Bacon Helena.
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Helena
Breck Motor Sales
Bozeman
Northwest Gold Corporation of
Whitehall
Montana
Antho Products Company of
W. D
Alice Breck
W. H
Mary Thomas
The
Gold Corporation
Colorado
Madison County
Lloyd Thompson
Robert Pruett
Walter Myers
Virginia City
Virginia
M. J. Thomas
H. W. Bacon
Thelma Clark Golf Champion Shotgun Slaying in Pontiac
In Pontiac Michigan on a Friday morning Thelma Clark 39 a noted city woman golfer was killed by a shotgun blast in front of her home. Her mother Ray Gorsline 58 and escort Charles Moore 38 were wounded. Police hunt ex suitor Lloyd Gesch 50 contractor as a suspect.
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Pontiac
Mich
Lloyd Gesch
Oakland County
Thelma Clark
Gesch
Ray Gorsline
Charles Moore
Moore
Clyde Underwood
John Null
Pontiac Country Club
Waterford
Clark
Investigation expands in Amerasia case pressures anew inquiry
A federal grand jury questioned top witnesses as the FBI probes 1 700 secret documents seized in 1945 from Amerasia in New York. Senator Capehart plans a House resolution for a fresh congressional probe into DOJ handling of the original Amerasia inquiry.
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Forrestal
New York
U.P
Federal Grand Jury
Amerasia
FBI
Indianapolis
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
Heould
Justice Department
Department
Railroad Permitted to Cut Service Between Great Falls and Agawam
Montana's railroad commission authorized the Milwaukee road to reduce trains on the Great Falls to Agawam line. Tri weekly service will run Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays from the 66 mile northwest town. The road cites ongoing losses while two commissioners supported the curtailment and one opposed it.
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Helena
Montana
Railroad Commission
Milwaukee Railroad
Great Falls
Agawam
Austin B. Middleton
Paul T. Smith
Horace F. Casey
Girls State enrollment grows at Rocky Mountain college
On the Rocky Mountain college campus in Billings, 176 Montana high school girls registered for the third annual Girls State program. The total since the project began reaches 500 with eight days of activities including music and newspaper staff sessions, dormitory rallies, and a square dance hosted by the Billings Rotaract club.
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Billings
Rocky Mountain College
Montana
G. E. Chambers
Cut Bank
Girls State
American Legion Auxiliary Project
General Assembly
Emily Stewart
Fairfield
Tyler
Marie Hazelwood
Wibaux
Kimball
Emma Koenitz
Fort Peck
Alden
Charlotte Thompson
Kenny
Clara Gullickson
Paul O. Nilson
T. H. Burke
Billings American Legion Auxiliary
The
Legion
Billings Rotana Club
United Commercial Travelers Elect Great Falls Officers
C H Beall of Boise Idaho was elected grand counselor at the three state United Commercial Travelers convention closing in Great Falls. Also named were Thornton Provo Utah. Schilling Missoula. Peterson Salt Lake City. Bartley Great Falls. Reynolds Butte. Barnett Helena as grand officers with two-year executive committee members Barlow Twin Falls and Smith Helena and delegates Beall Jensen Prill Anderson and Hise to the Salt Lake City supreme council convention June 27 to 29.
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Great Falls
C. H. Beall
Boise
Idaho
United Commercial Travelers
Beall
J. W. Thornton
Provo
Utah
Paul Schilling
Missoula
Dewey L. Peterson
Salt Lake City
William Bartley
Ray Reynolds
Butte
Grand Page
Ben W. Barnett
Helena
Grand Sentinel
Milton Barlow
Twin Falls
Byron A. Smith
F. T. Peterson
Miles City
David Minnock
Ogden
Supreme Council
K. T. Jensen
L. M. Prill
Billings
Former Missoula policeman waives hearing in manslaughter case
Joseph M. Jensen, ex Missoula police officer, waived a preliminary hearing in justice court on a manslaughter charge connected to the May 7 pedestrian death of Oliver Perry Stoner. A coroner's jury found the death caused by a car operated negligently. Jensen resigned a week after the accident and pleaded not guilty at arraignment.
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Missoula
Joseph M. Jensen
Justice Court
Oliver Perry Stoner
Here
Stoner
Jensen
Fearn resigns from state aviation post in Helena
Dale Fearn quits as assistant director of the state Aeronautics Commission and will enter private business in Bozeman. He has bought a recreation center in Bozeman where he lived before coming to Helena. No successor has been appointed.
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Helena
Dale Fearn
State Aeronautics Commission
Bozeman
Frank Wiley
Fearn
Wiley
Movie Writers Ordered to Start Sentences
John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo were ordered to begin one year terms for contempt of Congress and to pay $1,000 fines for refusing to answer if they were Communists. The judge could reduce sentences within 60 days. probation was denied. Lawson led Hollywood Communist activity claims. Trumbo wrote the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
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Washington
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
Congress
House UN- American Activities Committee
Lawson
Hollywood
Edward M. Curran
David Apine
Trumbo
Curran
Pine
Screen Writers Guild
B 29 Bomber Shot Itself Down in North Sea
United States B 29 bomber crashed in flames in the North Sea during a gunnery exercise off the Norfolk coast. Four crew rescued, three bodies recovered, search for four others ongoing. Spokesman said self-inflicted fire from its own 50-caliber guns caused the crash.
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London
North Sea
Third Air Division
Norfolk
Air Force
Britain
Fairfield
Calif
Quarter Horse Show Opens in Bozeman County Fairgrounds
The third annual northern quarter horse breeders show race meet and auction began Friday at Bozeman county fair grounds after a one day rain and snow delay. Halter judging performance judging cow cutting and racing were held with more on Saturday including calf roping.
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Bozeman
County Fair Grounds
Porter of Helena Found Guilty in Grand Jury Case
Porter of Helena was found guilty in a grand jury case involving conspiracy to operate slot machines and extortion under threats to expose gambling in Helena bars. County Attorney Melvin Magnuson criticized the defense as irrelevant hogwash. Porter’s attorney, Stanley M. Doyle, urged against penitentiary, noting 11 months of attempts to seek justice and Porter’s effort to tell his story.
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Melvin Magnuson
Abraham Lincoln
Stanley M. Doyle
Porter
Deer Lodge
Doyle
Helena
Reds Move to Silence Voice of America Broadcasts
East Germany and Hungary intensified measures to block western radio and news. Neues Deutschland urged a tougher fight against listening to anti democratic broadcasts. Hungary ordered mass production of receivers that pick only Hungarian and Soviet stations.
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Berlin
East Germany
Hungary
Neues Deutschland
Budapest
United States State Department
Voice of America
British Broadcasting Corporation
East Berlin
A C M Club Dance Slated Tonight
The A C M Employes club hosts a monthly dance Saturday night from 9 to 12 with Fred Harvey's orchestra playing. Construction workers on the new skyscraper project wear metal helmets to guard against potential rivet injuries.
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A. C. M. Employes’ Club
Fred Harvey
John Good
Senate committee urges crackdown on speculative coffee trading
A Senate agriculture subcommittee chaired by Senator Gillette called for immediate justice department action to curb coffee price speculation. It urged injunctive relief against New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange futures, a civil anti trust suit over foreign stock, an investigation into George W Robbins 1948 Brazil coffee purchase, and a DOJ presence at future Inter American Commission meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Justice Department
Agriculture Subcommittee
Gillette
D-Ia
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
United States
George W. Robbins
Maxwell House
General Foods Corporation
National Coffee
Brazil
Special Commission On Coffee
Inter- American Economic and Social Council
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Mexico
Jensen Drug Store
S. Montana
W. Park St
Treasure State News
Supreme Court
Buttenec
Butte Brewing CO
Butte, Montana
State’s Guardsmen
S. Main
United Commercial Travelers Elect
East Pare
Joe Tom Herb Co
Joe Tom
South Main Butte
Mont
Phone
Parker and Sheaffer
Broadway
Eddy
Clifford Hosking
W. Daly
Walkerville
Mrs. Willaughby
W. Pacific
Margie Sullivan
Virginia St
John Huber
Ash St
Frances Vivian
Leatherwood St
Frank Shone
Main St
Meaderville
Gudy Gleksich
J. F. Petet
Copper
Frances Tomasi
E. Mercury St
Gun Rolfe
Elm St
Carl Heiner
Dakota St
Carrie Jones
Colorado St
Calebeer
Argyle
Frank Leprowse
Kemper
J. Lynch
E. LaPlatte
Thomas Sanders
E. Center
L. Buettner
Boardman
LON Lemler
Mrs. Hoare
Cottonwood
C. Barker
Ted Warren
Wing Ave
Vern Boucher
East Galena
Thomas Conley
S. Wyoming
Gertrude Govednik
Watson
E. Konda
Galena
Sandwi &S Wo Chest
Ches
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