Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Treasure State News Briefs

+ Mr.. Severtson is the second Butte
clergyman to be accepted for a chap
lain's post in the navy. The first was
the Rev Frank Burns, Catholic
priest, who left for the service several
weeks ago.
YELLOWSTONE PARK-C. L. An
derson, 49, Long Beach, Calf, drowned
in Yellowstone lake after q boat in
which he was returning from fishing
trip capSized His companion, r. A.
Crawford Of Greenville, Tex, was res
cued by park rangers after he had
floated In a life belt for eight hours.
HELENA-W. @. Ferguson, director
of the state defense commission, has
called attention to national fire pre-
vention week Oct 4 to 10, pointing out
that one of the duties of air raid
wardens is to see that fire hazards
are eliminated to as great an extent
as possible.
( HELENA-Ldeut. W. E. Kimbrough,
before returning to his headquarters
( in Seattle, expressed satisfaction at
/ the progress In navy recruiting in
Montana and praised the civilian re-
] GEINlCGs AaUAALAAC4 ACNEAANAls
! through which civilians dispense in
formation to potential naval recruits.
BUTTE Martin P. Moe of Helena
was elected district governor for 1913
Of the Montana district of KiwaniS
international at the 22d annual con-
vention of the organization held here.
Moe succeeds James W. UncleS of
Butte in the governorship and win be
installed next January.
BOzEAdAN-The 1912 convention of
the Montana w. G. T. q. viii be held
here Oct. IS to Is with Mrs. Ida B.
Wise Smith, national president, as the
principal speaker. The meeting orig |
inally was scheduled for Great Falls |
but was shifted because of crowded |
accommodations there.
HELENA-No public warehouse or
grain dealers license Is required Of a |
flour mill operator who purchases all |
his grain directly from a bonded pub
lie warehouse, mills it into flour, and |
uses all Of the flour so milled in
his bakery business, Attorney General
r. V. Bottomly. ruled.
GREAT FALLS-A tWin-motored
army bomber crashed five miles north
of Shelby, killing the pilot, Second
Lieut.. Robert Gustafson, %, of Isling-
ton, Mass Maj. Thomas Fletcher, adj
jutant at the Seventh ferrying COM
mand base here, said the bomber was
on a routine ferrying flight.
BUTTESThe Rev. Frank l. Har-
rington, active Butte Catholic cleric
ff1n 10 or no cTYrnnnrnd .
the late Rev. Edmund G. Hanna as
pastor of the st. Helena parish in
NIeaderville and resident chaplain at
St. James hospital. The appointment
was made by the Most Rev Joseph M.
bishop of the Helena diocese.
LASGOW-Private Howard Kon-
Kin, 81, formerly of Glentana, was
at Camp Bragg, N. c., where
he was serving with the armed forces.
News of the death was received by ]
MS grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Draper of Glentana, with whom he I
had made his home since infancy. He
entered the army last March. (
FORT BENTON-Karl K. Louther,
Fort Benton, was listed among 212
officers given temporary promotion to
he rank of lieutenant colonel IN the
marine corps. Several of the officers,
he corps said, were missing in action
" prisoners of war and their promo
ions would not become effective at
present.
BILLINGS Edwin E. Sande, GA. Bill
ings Hardware Co. treasurer, died of
! heart ailment. Sande came to Mon
ana in 1899, and except for brief in
ervals when he was employed by the
Hotter Hardware Co. in Helena and
IS boolkkeeper for the Joliet Milling
Co., had resided In Billings contin-
Iously since.
HELENA Edward r. Foord, super
Isor of music In the Helena public
chools and director of high school
horuses, has resigned his position and
rome to Los Angeles where he will
york toward an advanced degree N
music at the University of Southern
california and accept employment in
defense industry.
GREAT FAILS-LeSs than week
fter local friends we're advised that
le had been commissioned a second
lieutenant in the service pilots divi-
ion of the air transport command,
lieut.. Earle Eugene Hansen, Al, Of
Sreat Falls is presumed to be dead
the crash Of his plane in a