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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1944
Page
2
Marine patrols fought two nights and two days to hold a ridge near a newly won airfield. A sergeant directed a stubborn withdrawal, repelling 150 Japanese attackers with rifle, mortar, and close combat, leaving no enemy survivors in a gulley. The report notes the Indian population figure.
Montana war veterans offered a farming option with state and War Food Administration backing. The Montana State College extension service will run district conferences in July to train county agents and form veteran advisory committees on suitable farming, capital needs, and sound practices. District sessions headlined by R B Tootell with extension specialists, covering counties across the state in Missoula Butte Great Falls Havre Wolf Point Glendive Billings Harlowton.
Two hundred sixty students enrolled for six and ten week terms in the College of Education at Great Falls last week. In addition to the regular enrollment seventy five women registered in the U S cadet nurse corps for a ten week course in pre nursing.
Four petitions for naturalization were filed Saturday morning in the U. S. district court clerk Harold L. Allen's office. Applicants include Axel Larsen Nordhagen of 241 Garden, Norwegian. Peter Horan of 507 North Main, British. Jennie Morsillo of 1838 Philips Avenue, Italian. Levert Martinsen of 455 East Broadway, Norwegian.
Robert D. Braden aviation machinist’s mate second class of the Navy spent leave in Butte visiting his brother in law and sister Pfc and Mrs Thomas Barry and his fiancee Miss Rita O Leary He also visited his parents in Spokane Braden a Butte high school graduate and former Murray Motor employee entered the Navy in April 1942 and was an instructor at Norman Oklahoma before reporting to Daytona Beach Florida He will proceed to the west coast for duty assignment
Wesley Marans son of Mr and Mrs Ed Marans of 904 West Gold will depart Monday for DePauw University Greencastle Indiana to enroll in the Navy V-12 program. En route he will visit relatives in Chicago and attend the Republican national convention. A former state junior tennis champion and Butte high school graduate, he heads to college training.
Alleyn H. Beamish of the New York tax authority and Tax Foundation, Inc., stopped in Butte with local tax officials on Saturday en route to Helena to confer with Fred Bennion of the Montana Taxpayers Association.
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