Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-02-06

car collision which resulted in the
deaths of four Dillon high school stu
dents Jan. Is. James Hartwig, Russell
Miller. Shirley Hughes and Mary
Boomer lost their lives in the accident.
HAVRE William McKinnon, rs
who was fatally injured when struck
by an airplane propeller here, was for
mer Havre chief of police. A native
of Boston, he had lived here about
A years. He had served as a Great
Northern conductor and began a
seven-year period as police chief about
1916.
HELENA-Gov. Sam c. Ford has re-
appointed two members of the state
oil conservation board and appoint
ed three new members. Lee j. Yealey
Of Shelby and A. B. Cobb Of Cut Bank
were reappointed. Casper Oien of OIL
mont, M. R. Wagner of Cut Bank, and
Dean Chaffin of Bo0eman are new
members.
GREAT FALLS-Damages Of $6,747
are asked in a suit filed here as the
result of an accident by George Lopach
against William Davis, operator of the
Yellow Cab Co. Davis cab was alleged
ly operated by driver whose license
had been revoked. Lopach said he SUI
fered fractured vertebrae and other
injuries.
BOZEMAN-Three women students
at Montana State college were recent
ly named to Spartanians, women,s
physician education honorary, for high
scholastic and athletic accomplish
ments. They are: Jane Cole, Big Tim
Der: Elaine Rash. Laurel, and Char
lotte Ralph, Butte. All are senior
students.
GREAT FALLS District Judge H.
H. Ewing has ruled that defense bond
nights" as conducted here by the Fox
Great Falls Theater Corp, are legal
and are not lotteries. He said the ode
tense bond nights" differed from bank
nights conducted by Missoula theaters,
which were held to be lotteries In pre-
vious court actions.
BILLINGS Several wholesale mer-
chants here have moved to conserve
rubber and gasoline by pooling trucks
to handle intra-city freight shipments.
The secretary of states office at Hell
ena has issued license to sell stock
to the Billings Wholesalers Cooper
alive Trucking association, organized
with 100000 in capital stock
BUTTE+The Mining city lost two
pioneers recently with the passing Of
Napoleon M. Chatelle, 70, and Mrs.
~of {o1~ k@I1
born in Canada but came to Butte as
a child and lived here for more than
go years. Mrs. Mccormick was born
in Ireland and came to the United
States as girl. She lived in Butte
for Sc years.
BUTTE-The Rev. Norbert c. Hoff
will be the new pastor of the 1mmac-
ulate Conception parish here, accord
ing to an announcement made by the
Most Rev. Joseph NJ Gilmore, bishop
of the Helena diocese. Father Hoff,
former president of Carroll college, will
succeed the Most Rev. Joseph c. Will
ging, bishop-elect of the diocese of
Pueblo, Colo
BOHEMIAN disappointment of Flor
ence Schuerman as home demonstra-
ton agent for Lewis and Clark county
is announced by ]. c. Taylor, director
of the Montana extension service at
Montana State college. A graduate of
Iowa State college and a former ex-
tension worker in that state, Miss
Schuerman succeeds Lillian Stone who
was recently made Missoula county
home demonstration agent. Miss
Schuerman begins her new duties
Feb. 1.
GREAT FALLST. E. Hodges has
announced that he will not be a can
didate for reelection as football and
basketball coach at Great Falls high
school and will terminate his connec-
ton with the faculty at the close of
the school year. Hodges is history
teacher as well as coach Hodges has
been high school coach here since the
fall of 1884, when he replaced Frank
Jordan, now on the Wisconsin univer-
sity football coaching staff.
GREAT FAILS-Lanson A. Dia-
mond, state boiler inspector, who died
here as the result Of injuries suffered
in an automobile accident in Deem
Der. was native Of Pennsylvania. At
the age of he came to Helena with
his parents. The family moved to the
Deep creek area In 1888 and a short
time later to the Truly district. As q
young man Diamond herded sheep and
in 1893 went to work In . Helena
blacksmith shop. He later worked for
the smelter and the Great Northern
In Great FALL, ~ well - the city
water plant. From 1880 to 1885 he
served q engineer at tho water plant
hare.