Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-02-27
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HEIENA-The Helena aeronautics
and related trades school sent 96 grad
yates into war industries during jan
uary. Principal L. w. Fahrner reported
MISSOULA - Two Missoula boys
found the body of Dan ONeill, retired
blacksmith. on the outskirts Of the city
partially covered by snow. Exposure
was believed the cause Of death.
CASCADE-James H. Hughes, 81.
who died at his home here, had been
Cascade resident since 1898. He had
been a co-operator Of Hughes Bros.
store in Great Falls since 1900
BOZEAfAN-The annual conference
Of the Montana district OF Rotary In
ternational will be held here May 10
II, Harold Murdoch, general confer
ence chairman, announced.
HAMILTON-Ed L. Reed, Stevens
vile stockman, has been elected presi-
dent of the Ravalli County Improve
ment association, and George C. Dur
land. Como farmer, vice president.
GLASGOW-Directo of the Cham
Der of Commerce here have elected Leo
Hoffman, auto dealer, as president; H.
o. Morgan, vice president; Josef
! Shower, secretary, and A. B. Fried
lund, treasurer.
PHILIPSBURG-S Sheriff Angus Nc
Donald of Granite county, one of the
straightest shooting and most popular
peace officers in the state, has quit
his job and joined up with Uncle Sam
to fight the axis.
ANACCNDA-Dr. w. w. Woehler
has been elected president of the Ana
conda Gun club. Barney Larsen was
elected vice president; Walter Roy,
secretary-treasurer, and Joe Tonsor,
field captain.
RED LODGE-James P. VanHoose,
Carbon county stockman, who died
after paralytic stroke, had been a
resident of Montana for g. years. He
was born in Arkansas and moved with
his parents to Montana in 1880.
GREAT FALLS-The Rev. ]. l..
Hanson of Hogeland was elected presi-
dent of the Rocky mountain district
OF Norwegian Lutheran churches at a
pastoral conference here. He succeeds
the Rev. Olaf Engh of Spirit Lake,
Idaho.
BUTTE-For more than $50 years
the American newspapers have light
ed the way of freedom" because of
the constitutional guaranty of freedom
OF the press, James H. Dickey Jr, pub
Usher of the Butte Daily Post, told
the Rotary club here.
HELENA-Fred Hebert, who died in
Boise, Idaho, where he had lived for
seven years with brother, was q
Helena resident for more than so years.
For long time he owned ranch on
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cational school.
BUTTE-A munitions plant for
Butte was urged in discussions at
washington by Mayor Barry OLeary,
who returned recently from q three
weeks trip to the capital He was there
to attend the annual conference of
mayors.
RED LODGE-Seventy Carbon
county elementary teachers attended
the county's first institute in nine
years. The event was revived through
the efforts of Elizabeth Ireland, state
superintendent of public instruction,
and Mrs. Eva Gable, county superin-
tendent.
M1SSOULA-First Lieut. Harold w,
Peterson, Montana district army re-
cruiting chief, and Capt. Herman
Schwartzman and Supt. Frank H.
Burton, both of the medical corps.
Will make up the aviation cadet ex-
amining board stationed here, Leuten-
ant Peterson announced.
GREAT FALLS-John U. Sowa 33.
staff sergeant in the army air corps
and a native of this city, has been
killed In action in the far east, ac-
cordlng to word received by his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Sowa. SoWa
attended school here and enlisted IL
years ago.
HELENA-Mrs. John L. johnson. IA
who died here, where she was SPEND
ing the winter with a daughter. had
lived in the Bitter Root valley for 81
years. She and her husband came to
Montana from Missouri in 1888 by
emlgrant train, stopping first at Ell
liSton.
RED LODGE-The Olcott Wholesale
co. cigaret robbery case was written
OIL with the sentencing of James Ryan,
50, Salt Lake City, to a year at Deer
Lodge on a burglary charge. RYAN
pleaded guilty. A jury in December
found George Dunn, Harlem, guilty.
in the case and he was sentenced to
eight years. A third man implicated.
Tony Mangus, is in federal prison at
Atlanta, Ga.
HELENA-Carl Sandburg, famous
American author and poet, told Hell
ena Lecture Series audience that this
country is fighting for exactly the
same thing other Allied nations of the
world are fighting for-self -preserva-
ton. THE dank and clammy order
Of the dictators is as dark and cruel
as anything the world has ever seem"
ne said. Those who think we could
still be nation of free people II the
axis wins do not know anything of
the Japs or the Germans"
HE HAD 1T
A man had cello with one string