Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-04-24
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bU lie Internal injuries SuIIcTco
in an accident involving runaway
horses caused the death of Ralph John
Rivera, 81. Of Elk Park.
BOZEAiAN-George Blddle has been
elected president of the International
council at Montana State college for
the coming year.
HARLOWTON The chamber Of
commerce here has voted $500 to fl
nance the work of obtaining priorities
to erect the first unit of proposed
steel mill here.
MISSOULA-Doroth Recon, Ana
conda, defeated Leona DeCock, Hy-
sham, for the presidency of the Asso-
ciated Women Students at Montana
State university by one vote.
BUTTE-First Butte baseball player
called by major league club in years.
Al Hockaday left recently for a tryout
with the Cincinnati Reds. Hockaday
is an outfielder.
HELENA - Eight hundred visitors
from Helena, neighboring cities and
nearby states registered here at the
opening of the new Helena art center
at Carroll college.
HELENA-Two-third of Montana's
grain storage capacity has been filled,
the bureau of agricultural economics
has reported. Grain in storage Feb.
Is totaled 17,144 900 bushels and the
state has space for 26,098, 900 bushels.
TROY-The city council has named
L. A. Hosea as mayor to fill the I'M
expired term of Smith Mcneil. who
left for army service. R. NJ. Russell
and John Sagen have been elected
school trustees for three-year terms.
HELENA-Sales of series E war
bonds in Montana in March probably
exceeded s1,600,O00. according to A. T.
Hubbard, state chairman of the defense
bond savings committee. The total
now exceeds 81 100000.
HELENA state board Of medi-
cal examiners elected DR.. P. E. Kane
of Butte president to succeed DR.. E.
S. Porter of Lewistown. DR.. A. r. Foss,
Missoula, was named vice president,
and DR.. Otto G. Klein, Helena was re-
elected secretary.
HELENA-Montana had Al percent
fewer traffic accident fatalities in
January and February than in the
same months in 1941, Col Charles L.
Sheridan, state highway patrol chief,
has been informed by the national
safety council.
DILLON-A. H. Bohen of New York
has purchased the mining property
of the former Boston Montana Mines
Corp. at tax deed sale for $21,5OO.
Several other mining properties and
claims near the Boston Montana site
were also purchased by Bohen.
HELENA-A large signboard carry
ing the names Of all Lewis and Clark
county men who have gone into the
armed services and with space for
names Of those who will enter the
services will be erected in Helena If
efforts Of the Lions club are successful.
GREAT FALLS Suits filed in dis
trict court here in January by Helen
and Arnold Hoffman to recover losses
allegedly incurred by Hoffman in
gambling at the Moose lodge rooms,
were dismissed following an out of
court settlement involving a cash pay
ment.
HELENA hundred Montana
men applied for enlistment in the
navy during March, Chief D. P. Crum-
ley said here. Twenty-seven of them
applied at the local recruiting office.
Montana led Utah, Wyoming and
Idaho in the number of enlistments
for the month.
GREAT FALLS-Ward B. Longeway,
Al, who died at Downey, Calf, was
the son of a prominent local physician
and surgeon, DR.. Albert F. Longeway.
attended local schools and
Shattuck military academy at Fari-
bault, Mimi, and operated a ranch
near Belt for several years.
LIVINGSTON-Af a search of 16
hours, relatives and officials found the
body of Mrs. Olive Sell Allen, 10, wife
OF State Highway Patrolman Ernest
Allen of Superior, lying in a shallow
of here. Mrs. Allen, a native Of Liv-
ingston, returned here from Superior
last July because of failing health.
GREAT FALLS 37th reunion
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonary of the Valley
of Great Falls will be held here May
II to IA. Degrees from the fourth to
14th inclusive will be exemplified May
IL; from the 18th through the 18th
May IL; from the 18th through the
30th, May -, and 31st and 32d, May IA.
GREAT FALLS Bennett Archam-
bault, former Great Falls youth, has
gone to England as London manager
of the office Of scientific research and
development for the United States
government. The OSRD Is charged
with the lob of co-Ordfnatinp American
development and research work on
war materials with British efforts
along the same line.
BUTTE-Joe L. Markham, prominent
In civic and sports enterprises here,
has been appointed as state director
of the Montana Citizens Navy Relief
committee. Markham was named by
Gov. Sam c. Ford, honorary chairman
of the group. Howard A. johnson, chief
justice of the state supreme court,
was named chairman and Alex Cum
ningham, Helena, treasurer. Members
Of the committee will serve for the