The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-04-22

4 Montana Newspaper man gave
the first story Of the allied invasion
Of Germany 70 the world.
Al managing editor Of the Amaroc
news and special correspondent OF
New York and Chicago newspapers,
Sergeant Archie Clark, native OF
Butte, and former star reporter for
. Butte daily. scooped Europe and
America when he beat their highest
paid correspondents to the wire.
But that's only half of it. His re-
porter, Corporal Caryl Coter McGill
Of Detroit, led the allied troops into
Dusseldorf, preceded the French and
Bolgians to Duisberg and Ruhrort,
and then burned up the roads and the
wires In relaying his end Of the story
to Clark.
Sergeant Clark Is q son OF Mrs.
Anna CLARK, 924 Colorado street, st.
Paul, and Z brother Of Mrs. William
Mclaughlin, Of that city.
Like every other reporter, Clark
had often dreamed OF putting over
scoop Of sufficient importance to
make a couple Of continents sit up
and take notice. When his big
chance came he found that he had
the ground floor advantage, for the
story was breaking on his own beat.
The odds were against him. however.
for the big fellows. the high salaried
correspondents. the kind who write
under by" line and are privileged
to use the personal pronouu, had the
advantage Of superior forces. numer-
ically speaking. They had sufficient
men ct their command to run down
every loose thread and investigate
every angle Of the case. AZ Clark
veil knew, these men have . discon-
certing habit OF syndicating-work-
ing gang tactics. But the undaunted
Montanan marshaled his forces, less
than halt . dozen, including the Ger
man linotype operators. One or two
could boast Of slight newspaper ex-
perience. The rest were the kind
who used to write high school notes
or assist the editor Of their college
annual.
It was feverish, nerve-racking
work. Every line of copy had to be
edited, rewritten. and then the game
was only half won, for the big fight
was in getting it across the Atlantic.
Couriers. motorcars, wireless and
Morse operators were pressed into
service. but it was not until New
York congratulated him next day
that he realized he had scooped the
world.
Sergeant Clark is a graduate Of the
Butte high school. and he covered
courts, special assignments and labor
for q Butte paper three years before
existing. In his senior year in high
school he won prize offered by
Montana newspaper for the best short
story, which was later accepted by
q magazine of national prominence.
In the army his ability was soon
recognized. He was assigned to duty
with the Amaroc News, the official
publication Of the American army Of
occupation, and soon became the
managing editor Of that enterprising
daily.
His latest exploit, however, is not
his first journalistic achievement to
bring him to the attention of New
York and Chicago publishers. His
interviews with Foch and other mill
tary leaders won him praise from
managing editors on this side of the
Atlantic.
On the Amaroc News he is not
only the high mogul-he's the whole
cheese. He writes editorials. edits
copy. handles the makeup: he has
the copy desk all to himself: he's the
telegraph and Sunday editor. And
he does get out Sunday paper
comics and all-which are furnished
BY special arrangements with the
Paris edition Of New York paper.