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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
I'M MEMORTAM
Directory of Libby in This Issue.

Calling your attention to new
feature of the Western News.
On page seven of this issue YOU
will find a directory of service or
CARNATIONS, lodges, churches, train
and bus schedules and emergency
phone numbers for the city OF
Libby.
The idea is Incorporated in the
paper with the thought that it will
be of use and help to the readers
On all sides of the directory will be
found advertisements of business
establishments in this city. They
made the idea possible SO if you like
it let them know it by patronizine
them.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Lincoln County Gets
Fine Write-up in Muscular

In the New Years edition of the
Muscular there is fine write-up
giving a resume of some of the out
standing developments in the coun-
ty during 1898. It is written by
Mrs. J. w. Farris of Libby. The
article covers a wide range of ac-
tivities, touching on highways, lum-
bering, agriculture, building. scenic
attractions, business in general
banking etc 1t was a valuable
piece of publicity for the county
and was written in a conservative
and truthful manner.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Farm Women Meet.

The Libby Farm Women's club
met at the home of Mrs. John Full
Ter January. Mrs. William Shawl
was assisting hostess.
A most tempting luncheon was
served at noon and the clubs colors.
green and white, along with the
clubs flower which is the tulip.
were used on the place cards.
Inc mystery package, which new
er ceases to be an amusement and
an excellent means of .replenishinq
the finances of the club. was won
by Mrs. Halstad Remp.
After the, luncheon Mrs. John Full
Ter, president, called the meeting to
.order. The recreational period
which consisted of singing, was I'M
der the direction of Miss Grand
jean.
The committee on constitution re-
VISION were asked to report next
month.
Mrs. Slausson gave an interesting
report on her trip to KalIspell at
which time she attended the Can
dleWicking Demonstration.
When business matters were dis
posed Of Mrs. E. A. Rice, project
leader for the day, discussed and
demonstrated the art of rug making
rms was very interesting and held
the attention of every club mem
Der Hooked rugs and braided or
woven rugs of three, fiveo and seven
strands were demonstrated.
Those who assisted Mrs. Rice
were: Mrs. Verna Mooney, Mrs. Au-
gusta Manicke, and Mrs. o. A.
Nixon. The next meeting will be
at the home Of Mrs. Jasper Riley on
February l.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Annual Pioneer Party.

The Pioneers VIII hold their an
nual meeting and dance on Friday
evening, Jan. 20, at the Moose hall
At o'clock preceding the dance
a program suitable for the occasion
will be presented by A. A. Wood
superintendent of schools.
All are invited to join the or
ganization and attend the party who
have Is years residence in Libby
or who lived in Flathead county
prior to 1900 and have 10 years
residence here. Also children of
such pioneers who are 81 years OF
age or over.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12

A number of Libby people report
that large numbers OF men,. women
and children had royal time at
Rainbow lake last Sunday One man
reports that he counted IS people
onNhe lake at one time Entire fam
lies were present. The youngsters
coasted on nearby hills, some skat-
ed, while dad, and mother fished
through the ice. Word Of the good
fishing had spread and number
were present from Somers, Kalis-
pell and Troy.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Drivers License Necessary Now.

George Mourar wishes to impress
upon the minds of all drivers that
drivers licenses for 1899 are now
necessary. Amy person who is ar
rested and does not have the proper
license will be subject to arrest and
fine.
February is the deadline for Ii
cense plates.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
T. B. Test
Planned Here

Mrs. Henrietta Crockett, state
chairman of the State T. B. AS
ISOLATION, gave some very interest
ing and pertinent information to a
group of parents on Thursday of
last week, as result of coopera-
ton with the local Womens club
Mrs. Crockett's duty is to contact
various communities and organize
the testing program.
The local T. B. sales for the past
several years has been building up
a fund which represents a refund
OF 10 per cent for community pur-
poses. At present over 5000 is avail
able for this program for our local
schools. This years seal sales
amounted to SI74.39, of which an
proximately IS per cent will be
refunded to our local fund. Over
5000 has been spent locally during
the past several years for local
needs.
Mrs. Crockett informs us that the
White Mans Plague assumed sec
dnd place a few years ago in the
number of deaths in the nation. AT
present 1t has dropped to 7th place.
Ii is a communicable disease that
can be prevented. Tests in grade
schools reveal an average of one
out of $500 grade pupils to react
One out of $50 college students and
one out of $50 high school students.
These figures indicate the greater
prevalence of reactions and need
for tests in the high school group
TWO diseases rank highest in the
lear OF nurses-T. B. and cancer
a greater number of nurses acquire
[. B. than would be supposed.
IN our own state sanitorium at
Galen, we have at present 2l2 pa.
tlents. The sum of $4,000 is avail
able for a new building to be erect
ed at Galen.
- l b. is as communicable as colds.
We would Immediately take action
10 avoid any contact whatever with
a dIphtheria patient but we appar
emily have no fear OF T. 3. patients.
the difference being that diphtheria
IS OF a short incubation period COM
pared to the long one of T. B. But
l. Is has by far greater number
or deaths, and is far more terrible
IN suffering caused over a long per-
lod OF time Last year over 80 coun-
ties submitted to the testing program
and an average of l. per cent were
found to react. Rarely however.
We're active cases found Reactions
DO not mean that the person re-
acting has an active case but that
he has had the germs in his system
at sometime or other but is not
IN immediate danger. The tests do
give reactors a. chance to give
bit closer observation to his own
personal Weff~being to prevent be-
coming an active case. Park coun-,
ty found only 9 per cent reactors,
and Of the students tested, approx
mately 200, the size of our own
local high school, the cost was
Slll.03 for the total testing pro-
gram.
Considering the amount avail
able for use and the fact that we
have our own local school nurse
available, and the low cost in other
places, we can consider ourselves
fortunate indeed to have the pros
poets Aof test for our own high
school. Every case stopped at the
present time is calculated to pre-
vent from eight to 10 cases.
This is social measure and is de-
signed to aid a community for its
own selt-protection. Further plans
VIII be made in the near future.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Commercial Club to Meet Jan. 10.

Karl Klehm, president of the
Commercial Club, has made ar
engagements for a meeting of that
organization for January 10. James
Harris, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, and his group will
be in charge of the meeting
The evening will be chiefly de-
voted to business matters and Mr..
klehm urges all members to be
present because there are many is.
sues which must be acted upon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
INTRODUCES ROAD BILL.

Senator B. K. Wheeler has intro
duced a bill in congress that. would
make $l,500,000 available for build
ing roads and bridges in mining
areas in national forests, according
to Carl j. Trauerman, president OF
the Montana Mining association
Passage of the bill would be great
aid to small mine operators. .Trauer-
man said.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12

The fire department was called
out shortly after noon today to
answer a'call at the Pete Peterson
home on Dakota Ave. The fire was
in the chimney and no damage was
done to the house.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-01-12
Legislature
Acts SLOWLY
First Week
Usual Number of Heated
Battles Expected Before
Session Closes.
BILLS TO LICENSE
GAMBLING, LOTTERIES

HELENA.-The legislature ran al
low steam through the first week OF
the session, but the nature of few
measures introduced and noticed
brought forebodings of heated strug-
giles to come before March. AS US
dal, there was one measure passed
by both houses during the first
Week-it was the bill appropriating
Sl65,000 SO legislators and employees
could get their first pay checks.
Representative Siegling of Cas-
eade introduced a bill to license
gambling before members of the
house had time to get their chairs
warm, and shortly afterwards Sen.
ator SWertelle of Musselshell noticed
bill to repeal the parts of the state
constitution preventing lotteries.
In the meantime Senator Mahoney
OF Garfield introduced the measure
ne has planned for nearly two years
"a bill to repeal house bill IS.
passed by the last legislature giving
the governor the power to appoint
employees of all boards, commissions
and departments appointed by him,
and to merge offices for economy.
New employment practices adopt
ed by the house committee on en-
ployment during the week have
completely changed the method of
giving jobs to legislative attaches.
First, Speaker of the House Man
nlng OF Treasure appointed repre-
sentatlves from small counties to
the employment committee, believ-
ing such move would eliminate the
pressure brought in the past on
large county representatives for
more jobs
Then the employment committee
decided to have every applicant
take an examination to prove fitness
Tor the work applied for. The COM
mittee also distributed application
slips requiring the certification of a
Justice of the peace that the appli-
cants actually need the work. The
entire employment system this SEES
SION has been TO give the legislative
Jobs to people who actually need
them,
Senator Simmons Of Carbon has
introduced bill to clarity the ques-
ton of four-year terms for county
officials. His bill specifies that all
county officers except attorneys and
commissioners shall be elected for
four year terms at the general cleo
ton in 1912. Passage of the measure
will require county officials elected
at the last election to be elected
again in 1912 if they are to benefit
by the four-year term.
Another senate bill that probably
will sail rough seas is the one by
Senator Montgomery Of Beaverhead
setting the maximum legal rate of
interest on written documents at /
per cent. The maximum rate on all
moneys unless otherwise specified
in writing, would be per cent. A
similar bill was defeated two years
ago
Other bills introduced are: By |
Representatives Mccarthy and
Brown of Silver Bow, to REQUIRE
mine and oil well operators to post
security for wages unless they own
the properties being worked; by
Senator Mahoney, to change the
law relating to abandonment of
school districts; by Senator Foor of
Roosevelt, to have law changes
printed in italics in the codes, and
by Senator Alvord of Sanders, to
change rates of tuition at the state
university at Missoula
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Te|evision, Radio Signals
Collide; Disturb Programs

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 20.-The
first collision" of television signals
in the history of the infant science
was reported yesterday by the
Philco Radio & Television Corp.
Philco said both sound and sight
in programs from its television sta
ton here had been disturbed be-
yond recognition" by interference
from the Columbia Broadcasting
Systems television station in New
York City. The Columbia programs
also were disturbed by the collision
of signals.
AS result, Philco has signed a
time-sharing agreement with G. B. S.
Both stations operate on the same
frequency band-channel No. 2 $50
to Sc megacycles). Programs from
the Philco station, W3XE. will be
transmitted between midnight and
noon daily and after 6 pm, E. S. T.,
on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sum
days. The Columbia station,
W2XAX, can transmit programs at
all other times.
Philco engineers said that until
the reported collision Of signals it
had been popularly supposed that
transmission of television waves at
high frequencies was limited to the
optical horizon, the point which the
earth's curve obstructs further
vision.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Alcoholism and Exposure
Blamed in Death Of Boy, 10
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HILLSVILLE, Va, Dec. 20-Price
Goodson. Commonwealth attor-
ney Of Carroll County, said a ver-
dict was returned by DR.. w. A. Por-
ter, coroner. yesterday that Marvin
Hanks, 10, came to his death from
the effects of "acute alcoholism, ag-
gravated by exposure to cold"
Mr.. Goodson said five children in
the party Of which the Hanks child
was a member had been cited to ap-
pear in Juvenile Court December 80
for further inquiry and that Ira
Fuller had been arrested on war
rants charging possession of liquor,
selling and contributing to the de-
linquence of minors.
The Hanks child was found along
the bank of a small creek near here
two weeks ago and died a few hours
later. A sister, slightly older, was
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Hemisphere Foreign Policy

Is the hemisphere foreign policy
successive conferences of Bueno Aires becoming
tangible and influential This extraordinary spectacle nations
Two peacefully cooperating in the interest
which does solid credit the foresight leadership
his Secretary of State Cordell Hull
In Wes fertile mind the notion hemisphere foreign policy
President Weles
honor of the execution
1t will be recalled that the Bueno Aires
occasion the frst tentative of hemisphere unity
Lima by the shrewd negotiation Hull
end unanimous declaration The
declaration of Lima included
taton time of danger On the this
called in the still
stronger declaration of Panama
Besides the Neutrality Committee which
lo Economic
Panama also produced
belt of water around the hemisphere off
warned all belgents This
Wel At the time badly explained
aton never proposed to patrol than
the impression got abroad that the Navy had been obligated
watch coasts all South
the fight to revise the Neutrality Act Secretary publicly
the security making
capacity of execution
Text for These Times
But the security remembered originao by
the public The Graf attacked the
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Missing Yacht Feared
Blown Far Out to Sea
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 20.-Coast
Guard omcials were Of the opinion
today that the missing auxiliary
yacht Centurion had either foun-
dered or been blown far out to sea
Coast Guard cutters Sebago and
Modoc and a plane from Charleston,
s. c., have found no trace of the
boat in six days of searching.
The Centurion, with two men
aboard, was last seen a week ago
off Cape Fear She was under sail
and signaled that her propeller had
been lost. A request also was made
of a passing ship to notify the Coast
Guard to search for her If she failed
to reach Wilmington, N. c., in two
days.
Evening star., 1939-12-20

Labor Board in terms far more
severe than had been issued before
and from judges who were friendly
to labor's rights, did not actually
get comprehensive coverage by the
press associations Of the United
States or conspicuous attention
from the newspapers at Cincinnati
where the opinion was handed
down.
The evidence derived from Mr.
Phillips testimony that members
of the Newspaper Guild were in
close touch with him and that he
claimed they helped him kill
stories already has been challenged
as to accuracy by members of the
Cincinnati Chapter of the News
paper Guild, who naturally resent
any inference that they would per-
nit their c. I. O. affiliations or
trade union status to color by omiS
sion or otherwise the news reports
of the American press.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Washington Observations
Dewey Boekers Expect Him to Urge
U. S. Cooperation for World Peace

presidential dark-horse possibility.
It looks as if he were casting an
anchor to windward In the direction
of business in order to whitewash his
left-wing reputation. Mr.. Roosevelt
is said by some of Wheeler's friends
not to lock with disfavor upon the
Senator's 1910 eligibility.
X X \ X
Homer Cummings Travelogue.s
Homer Cummings is distributing
unique Christmas remembrance in
the form Of handsome little book
let entitled THE Tired Sea-" 1t is
the log of the last trip abroad which
the former Attorney General and his
late wife took together in 1881, and is
dedicated to her in a limited edition
Of 300 personally inscribed copies. In
an introduction note Mr. Cummings
says: "This is a day-by-day account
OF our Mediterranean trip. Cecilia
(whose photograph is the frontis-
piece) liked it so much that 1t is now
published in her memory and for
private circulation among our
friends" "The tired Sea" narrates
the travels of Mr.. and Mrs. Cum
mings through Spain, Algiers, Italy,
Turkey, Greece and Palestine.
Murphy Graves Vindication.
According to associates qualified to
know the state of his mind, Attorney
General Frank Murphy has put
away the Supreme Court ermine
because his crowning ambition after
leaving the Department of Justice is
to return to Michigan State politics.
There, you'll be told, he desires
some day to seek vindication at the
hands of the electorate which denied
him a second term as Governor In
1888, and be reelected to that post
or as United States Senator Murphy
was beaten by the late Gov. Frank
Fitzgerald, Republican, by 10000
votes a year ago. Some l8 or 10
years ago he also made an unsuc-
cessful run for Congress. Subse-
quently he was twice elected Mayor
Of Detroit and then, after serving as
Governor General of the Philippines,
became Governor of Michigan
Murphy continues to rate as strong
1910 Democratic vice presidential
timber.
X X X
Promotion for Capital Scribe.
The Washington press gallery has
just lost one of its real adornments
Erwin D. Canham, brilliant young
correspondent of the Christian Sci
ence Monitor, has been promoted to
be his papers general news editor
and has just gone to Boston to take
up his duties. Canham also retires
as president of Overseas Writers.
Native of Maine. he began news
paper work under his father at the
precocious age of years. He was
Rhodes scholar at Oxford from
Bates College. His foreign journal
istic service included four years
residence at Geneva.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Giving Out Military Doto
Charged to Sin Canada

By the Associated Press.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Dec. 20.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
announced yesterday that four wom-
en- and one man have been charged
with attempting to communicate
by letter to persons in the United
States information likely to preju-
dice the safety of the state and the
efficient prosecution of the war"
Assistant Police Commissioner F..
j. Mead said the prosecutions were
exemplary cases" as warning
against indiscreet letter writing.
Evening star., 1939-12-20

p art OF the
answer to the
question OF Why
there are still
around 5000, 1000
persons unem-
ployed in private
industry.
The report
Is on industrial
production. 1t
takes the 1929
Is average as a
base 100 per
cent. For No
yember Of 1889
the seasonallv
Evening star., 1939-12-20

spontaneous throughout State Department
had take the lead consultations expected will
final warning
The Germans will immediate all
German waps armed merchantmen putting into American
Other will be that the awaits
them. if they, ignore the security
In times like these there something pretty stirring
nations
until recently butt Of ILL
for sensible
international dealing.
Release dby the Ameic ewsp
Evening star., 1939-12-20

IN WOrlQ auaTS
by espousing a
program for our
active participa-
ton in preserva-
ton of interna-
tional pea c e.
They believe it
would be a time
ly, popular and
politically STRAIT
egic move on
Dewey's part. AS
time is of the
essence, admir-
ers of the young
Nou, Vnrk q r
Evening star., 1939-12-20

found unconscious at the same spot,
but recovered
1t later developed. the Common
wealths attorney said, that a group
of children. walking toward Hills
vile, had obtained supply of liquor.
He said there was evidence that all
the children except two smaller ones
had consumed quantity of liquor,
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Sonto Claus ILL.,? AppIe
Takes Care of Situation
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. Dec. 20.-Mrs. Nina
Flynn, fearful that Christmas might
be slim for her three youngsters,
told them Santa Claus was i'll and
might not be able to visit them this
year.
Il thought they would forgive him
for not coming if he was in bed,"
she explained
Five-year-old Ronald Flynn was
pretty we'll disturbed by this tale,
however, and he showed up at City
Hospital little later with an apple.
"Apples make you well, ma said
so," he advised the doctors, who
stated that the good St. Nick was
in his usual good health-and
demonstrated with early Christmas
gifts.
Evening star., 1939-12-20

duct IN the En-
pire Furniture
Co. case, omitted
from the wires
of all three ma
jor press associ-
ations of the
United States?
T h e Hou S e
committee in
vestigating the
Labor Board and
the Wagner Act
has been trying
to find tn e
answer. @ u e S.
tioning of Philip
C. Phillips. re-
Evening star., 1939-12-20

think he would Frederic william Vile.
steal march on Vandenberg, Taft,
Bridges, ct al. by capitalizing with
out delay the country's sudden new
enthusiasm not to 60 to war, but to
play a more positive part in the
maintenance Of law, order and the
democratic principle. Finland is the
hallmark of this resurgence Of the
United States concern for justice
among nations, especially toward
smaller nations. 1solationism, at its
height during the recent neutrality
controversy, is unquestionably now
In diminuendo. 1t began to recede
with Germany's invasion of Poland.
1t has grown appreciably less since
Russia's brutal attack on Finland.
The League of Nations resumption
of effectiveness, in the Russo Fin
nish conflict. has helped to depopu-
larize isolationism. too.
Dewey's Wilsonian Adviser.
Mr. Dewey's Two paign
speeches to date have been utterly
silent on foreign affairs. Meantime,
there's a clue to his views in the
disclosure that John Foster Dulles,
international expert Of the Dewey
brain trust, Is a believer in some
form of collective action, under "the
peaceful leadership Of the United
States" to prevent wars. Mr.. Dulles,
member of the Woodrow Wilson
Peace Mission at Paris and kins-
man of the two American Secretaries
of State, John w. Foster and Robert
Lansing, voiced his creed in recent
address at Detroit. He favors some
dilution or leveling of of the sover-
eighty system as 1t prevails in the
world today" If Dulles thesis is
accepted by the G. o. P's youngest
favorite son, we may presently find
Dewey advocating our adhesion to
program corresponding in some
degree to the Wilsonian ideal. II
Dewey is out to become the stand
ard-bearer of a new" Republican
party, he would be on appropriate
ground in breaking with the Hard
ing Coolidge era Of Little American
ism which set in after the World
War.
Wheeler Coquetting With Business
Politicians do not fail to notice
Senator Burton K. Wheeler's recent
activities in making goo-goo eyes at
big business. The Montanan, who
for years ranked as an uncom-
promising foe Of power, oil, utilities,
railroads and other capitalistic
minions, blossomed out in New York
the other night at the American
Industrial Congress in brand-new
colors He identified himself
broadly with the progressive legis-
lation Of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, but favored no less vigorously
revision of the Wagner National
Labor Relations Act and other re-
forms desired by commerce and
finance. He definitely foreshadowed
that certain corrective steps" will
be taken by Congress as the result
of studies" which have been in
progress. Every intelligent business
man realizes. Wheeler said, that
we must have reforms to meet
changing conditions, but reforms
must be constructive and not de-
structive." Senator Wheeler is un-
doubtedly a top-hight Democratic