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Evening star., 1940-03-01
EVENING WASHINGTON, c., FRIDAY MARCH l. eo

BY the still unsettled economic tug.
of-war that has gone on between
the British-French allies and Ger
many for her favor in natural
resources, particularly oil and oil
products.
There are, however. no immediate
international signs Of trouble for
the Balkans.
Went become Pawn.
Only last night Turkish Premier
Refik Saydam told his coumtrymen
emphatically that Turkeys rela-
tions with Soviet Russia are NOR
NAL and good" His broadcast was
regarded IS notice to the allies and
Russia alike that Turkey would
stay out Of war unless her security
is threatened.
"Our position out Of war is based
on national inviolability," Saydam
declared at Ankara. I'VE are not
and never will be disposed to be-.
come the pawn of any combination
OF any kind"
Saydam denounced "evil inten.
toned propaganda" against Tur-
keys peace policy and disavowed
aggressive intentions" by his coun-
try against Russia.
Recent national economy meas
ures designed to prepare Turkey
for any emergency, he insisted, had
been interpreted falsely by certain
agencies" as meaning that Turkey
wanted war.
Denies Incidents Occurred,
HAS Soviet Russia any intention
OF acting against us?" he asked.
up to the present there have been
no events or evidence to support
such an intention"
He asserted all stories of any Rus
sian-Turkish border incident were
untrue.
Turkeys policies always have
been frank" Saydam continued.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
johnson Promises Coon Huntinq
Won't Pull Him Out of Race

live now at Germantown. thought
I was going to retire and enjoy life
and never dreamed I would ever get
interested in politics.
Nowadays everybody has to be
interested in politics, paying the
taxes we are paying"
He had decided to run at the in
sistence of friends, he said, but is
mot affiliated with any group" and
can represent everybody in the dis
trict.
Il am not going to make any
promises" he declared, "but I don't
have anybody to take care of. That's
the only way want to run"
John P. Reeves, club president,
presided and r. Duncan Clark and
Walter Dawson, members of the Re-
publican State Central Committee,
spoke. Both stressed the need for
getting out the Republican vote in
the primary May and asserted Mr..
johnson would be able to win the
general election if he can win the
nomination. The meeting was held
in the Leland Junior High School.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
Mrs. James Roosevelt,
To Push Divorce Action
By the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press =
LOS ANGELES, March Mrs.
Betsey Gushing Roosevelt has com.
pleted plans to push her suit for
divorce against James Roosevelt,
film producer and eldest son of the
President.
Attorneys for Mrs. Roosevelt, who
arrived here yesterday, said she
would ask that the decree be grant.
ed on her cross-complaint to the
action filed two weeks ago by her
husband.
Mrs. Roosevelt's legal advisers,
Neil Mccarthy and Basil O'Connor,
former law partner of President
Roosevelt, were seeking a stipulation
from young Roosevelt's attorney 50
that they might go into court today
and ask for an uncontested decree.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who is in the East,
was not expected to oppose the dt-
vorce proceedings.
The film producer first filed suit
for divorce, charging desertion. In
her answer and oss-complaint Mrs.
Roosevelt charged cruelty and de-
Sertion.
Under terms Of a settlement an.
nounced when the action began,
Mrs. Roosevelt will retain custody
Of the couples two children, Sara
Delano, 7, and Kate, 4.
The couple also said that an un.
disclosed property settlement has
been arranged.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
Coal

CONTINUED From First Page
Evening star., 1940-03-01
BY BEN H. PEARSE.

Coon hunting or no coon hunting,
the Big Train is in the congress
sional race to stay.
Speaking before the Walter p.
Johnson-for- Congress Club in Chevy
Chase, Nd, last night. the former
Washington pitching star declared:
"One Of my opponents has said I
ought to be out hunting coons or
foxes and not running for Congress,
and I'm not denying I like little
coon hunt now and then. But used
to do that while I was pitching base
ball, too. and I managed to win
game now and then"
Launching his campaign for the
Republican nomination for the 9th
Maryland congressional district in
Montgomery Countys 7th election
district, Mr.. johnson told the story
OF his life and how he became in
terested in politics in about so words.
II came out here in Montgomery
County about Is years ago. First
lived out on Old Georgetown road
not so far from this section and
later moved up to the farm where I
Evening star., 1940-03-01
Italy Is Reported
Seeking u. S. Coal

ROME, March R.-Italy,
spurred by the British blockade of
coal shipments from Germany, was
reported yesterday in commercial
circles to be negotiating for the pur-
chase Of some 100000 tons of
bituminous coal in the United
States in order to avert fuel short
age.
Although the negotiations were
said to have been conducted by pri-
vate interests, government de-
cision rejecting or approving the
terms is considered likely within a
few days..
The decision probably will be in
duenced by credit facilities, which
might be extended by the Export
Import Bank, it was said.
Gtaly is angling for $100 ,000,-
900 credit from the United States,
1t was reported in neutral quar-
ters In London, the Chicago Daily
News foreign service reported)
Informed circles intimated that
the coal deal, If consummated
might pave the way for revised trade
relations between Italy and the
United States. They indicated that
Italy probably would seek tariff
concessions on Italian wines, silks,
fabrics, fiber, felt and hats.
Interested in Machinery.
In addition to coal, Italy is inter-
ested in machinery for use in ex-
plotting her own supplies of crude
oil, scrap iron and steel. Shipment
of about 10000 tons of American
made steel plates was said to have
been contracted for already for con-
struction of four tankers ordered
from Italy by belligerent nation.
Italians said they understood that
German coal shipments to italy by
sea would be halted beginning to-
day. British sources recalled that
the intention of halting the ship
ments in the near future was an
nounced 10 days ago in London, but
said no definite date for clamping on
the blockade had been mentioned as
yet.
The House of Commons was in
formed last week that Britain was
keeping watch on several Italian
ships loading German coal in Rot
terdam harbor.
Commercial circles here explained
that limited rail facilities made it
impossible to import sufficient coal
from Germany by overland routes
Evening star., 1940-03-01

some exporters said they had been
advised that Italy wanted to build
up a reserve Of three months sup
ply Of import coal in event the
European war should fdrther re-
duce available European supplies.
The 5000, ,000-ton order which
Rome business circles said today
was being negotiated through pri.
vate agencies. would be approxi-
mately three months supply.
Evening star., 1940-03-01

Italy. They Represented a jump in
reeents months frons an average
oceansfate Of $3.50 y ton. =.
Shipments to Italy never have
been large, but in the last few
months have moved up slowly. In
January records show $4,000 tons
of Unanimous went to Italy. d
,Goalmen generally said no direct
Inquiries had been received for fu-
ture shipments to Italy. However,
Evening star., 1940-03-01

LOS ANGELES.-SILENT ON
DIVORCE PLANS-Mrs. Bet
sey Cushing Roosevelt pic
tured here yesterday as she
completed proceedings to di-
vorce the Presidents eldest
son, James Roosevelt. She
parried all questions about her
plans with a smile when re-
porters sought to interview
her on the train.
"A. P .Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1940-03-01

to meet Italian needs, and that the
development Of new sources was
imperative.
Italy imported approximately H.
100000 tons Of coal in 1899, of which
about so per cent came from Ger
many and the remainder from Brit
ain. Lapse of Italian British trade
negotiations as a result of Italy's
unwillingness to sell certain types
of arms to Britain eliminates the
possibility Of obtaining more coal
from Welsh mines to meet the con-
tingency.
There was no indication here
whether the subject of American
coal imports had been touched on
last Monday during United States
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles' conference with Premier
Mussolini.
Political quarters said. however,
Mr.. Welles' visit had produced an
atmosphere Of cordiality which
would create conditions favorable to
new trade negotiations.
Since failure to renew an Italian
American trade treaty three years
ago trade relations between the two
countries have been conducted on a
year -to-year basis. A factor in that
failure has been American unwil-
lingness to recognize the Italian con-
ollest of E,thiOpia
Evening star., 1940-03-01

Turkey never has yielded and never
will yield to any combination con-
Trajectory to her own line of con-
duct"
Evening star., 1940-03-01

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extended to cover German exports
as we'll as imports.
At the time the blockade was
extended, Britain announced that
German exports were liable to seiz-
ure regardless of whether they were
carried in ships flying neutral flags.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
$13,500, 900 Business
Mulc olpe to U.s.

.s@sx STts5Ss&@ sa-r~a3@
A $13,50o,0O0 piece of business
would 60 to American mines and
railroads if Italy carried out pro-
posals to buy coal here.
The estimate was given by coal.
men after reports came from Rom>
commercial circles that negotiations
were under way for the purchase OF
5000, 900 tons of bituminous coal in
the United States.
Another $50 500 900, coalmen said,
would be required to move the coal
across the Atlantic on the basis of
current ocean freight rates. A large
portion OF that sum, they estimated,
would go to American-owned ship
ping.
The figures they used were based
on an estimated selling cost of $2.15
a ton for the coal itself, rail rates
to Hampton Roads amounting to
$235 and ocean freight rates of
$17.50 a ton.
The unusually high ocean rates
have been posted on the last two
contracts for shipment of coal to
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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
NYA CAREERS NOT WANTED.

Very few Montana youths seek
careers" on NYA, it is announced
by William A. McMurphy, NYA di-
rector of employment, in revealing
the results of a statewide canvass
by NYA's zone supervisor.
Frequent complaints that NYA
workers were refusing jobs in pri-
vate industry and preferring to re-
main. in 'NYA careers" prompted
the general inquiry, McMurphy said.
The concensus Of the zone super
visors' reports indicated that young
men and women are in general will
ing and anxious to accept private
employment and leave NYA rolls.
Only where wages offered are UNI
justifiably low and working condi-
tons generally unsatisfactory have
NYA youths refused to accept pri-
vate employment, according to the
supervisors reports.
Temporary and irregular farm la
Dor, and homework entailing low
wages and long hours each day, are
the types of jobs most frequently
found to be in question when NYA
youths refuse private employment,
McMurphy said.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Lions Win First
SoftboIl Come of
Season Tuesday

The softball season got off to q
sizzling start Tuesday evening when
large crowd gathered at the ball
park to witness the two leading
teams of last year play off a fast
game after their winter hyberna-
ton.
The Lions team, pretty much in
tact, started the ball rolling the first
inning by scoring 3 runs and add
ing $ more scores the second inn
ing with Percy Baker hitting I
home run.
Manager Len Browns Hi Power
team hitched up their belts notch
in the third inning and hit the ap-
pie by Bill Erickson just about as
fast as he could toss it to rally Z
scores over home plate. From then
on both teams settled down to real
ball playing but the Lions slipped
in another run in the fourth and
fifth innings to place the Hi Power
team on the short end of a LOT
score.
The next scheduled game will be
on Friday evening at o'clock when
Gale Weidner's Merchants VS. De-
Molay play.
Rules and regulations of the Lib
by Softball League will be govern
ed by the Montana Softball Assn
and affiliated with the WPA Divi-
sion of Recreation and Education.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Mojor Kelly
Regional Forester
Will Speak

Monday evening the members of
the highway committee of the Lib
by Commercial Club met at the
city hall to make plans for the final
meeting of that organization in this
fiscal year and until next fall.
Walter Neils, chairman, appoint
ed George Wood as chairman of
tickets sales and those who will sell
tickets are. K. A. Klehm, r. r.
Veldman, M. E. Sturm, Walter Neils,
George Wood, Ernest Wood and
Dexter Shaurette.
The dinner will start promptly
at $50 o'clock at the Moose hall
and will be served by the Women
of the Moose. After the dinner the
group will adjourn to the main
floor Of the building where Mr..
Neils will take charge of the meet
ing. Major Evan Kelly, regional
forester of Missoula, will deliver
the main address Of the evening and
will be followed BY the United
States Chamber OF Commerce movie,
Free Men Build a Nation The
school will furnish the motion pic
ture machine and Carl Crane will
operate.
All citizens are urged to attend
the meeting for Major Kelly will
talk on Sustained Yield" and
kindred subjects which are of vital
interest to every person in this
cOmmunity
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
KelIer-Nclson NuptiAIs.

Sunday, May 70 Miss Ardyth KEEL
Ter, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hubacher, became the bride
Of Clayton Neleon, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Nelson. The wedding
took place 1t o'clock and Rev.
Cookson OF Kahspell officiated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fenton attend
e the brida md groom and the
flower girls were Dorothy Fenton
and Darlane Delzer who carried
silver baskets filled with forget-me-
nots and tulips. \
The bride was beautifully gowned
in a pale blue net over tafetta and
carried q lovely bouquet Of sweet
peas and roses. She was given In
marriage by her uncle, DR.. Fred
Keller OF Kalispell. Mrs. Keller
played the wedding march.
After the ceremony wedding
dinner was served Immediately fol-
lowing which the bride and groom
left the party for honeymoon in
Spokane.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson are
well known in Libby and their many
friends congratulate them and send
best wishes for q happy married
life. Both are graduates Of the local
high school and Mr.. Nelson is en-
ployed by the ]. Neils Lumber COM
pany.
Upon their return to Libby they
will live at the McKane residence
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Attend Kalispell Meeting.

Mrs, ]. P. Fuller, Mrs. E. A. Rice,
Mrs. Russell Collier, accompanied
by Mrs. Lee Nixon, drove to Kalis-
pell May 10 to attend the Hecae
Demonstration council.
Plans for the Demonstration pro-
gram of 1871 were mate .nder
the expert guidance OF Miss Frances
Smith OF Bozeman.
DR.. Henrietta Burton, Washington
d. c., representative to the County
Women OF the World convention in
London in 1899 was the guest
speaker
Mrs. w. VoeIkner was chairman
Of the program committee which
will take place July 70, 80 and 81 at
Rollins. The cost is one dollar per
day plus the registration fee which
will be determined later.
Every womans' club, home dem
onstration club, church, A. A. w.
W., Auxiliary, PIT. A. or social
group in Flathead, Lincoln and Lake
counties are invited to send two
delegates and others may attend
also.
The guests will be Mrs. Lydia
Anne Lynde, child development and
parent education specialist and Miss
Ella Gardner, recreation specialist
The camp program will include ed
vocational programs in the field OIL
child development, nature study
handicraft and plenty OF recreation
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Spectacular
Operation
Successful
Story Is Years Old Tells of
Unusual Surgical Work
By DIR. Aud.
FROM 1915 FILE OF
WESTERN NEWS

With a dull jack knife, two or
binary tea spoons and a putty knife,
DIR. r. w. Aud, of Libby, on Thurs
day night last, performed one of
the most extraordinary and spec
tacular surgical operations ever
recorded. It was an operation
which stands in a class by itself.
Seldom, if ever, has anything like it
been recited. With but these in
struments to work with. DR.. Aud
saved the life of Ted Sherman, a
lumberjack who had come to Libby
from Standpoint.
Sherman had gone into a restau-
rant in Libby, known as Johns
place "a modest eating house, and
ordered a beefsteak for his sup
per. He was under the influence
of liquor and in that condition
started to eat the steak. Instead OF
cutting it into the usual chunks
he evidently tried to get the major
portion of it into his stomach with
out any more manual labor than
necessary and evidently without
much mastication. The result of
this effort came within an ace Of
costing him his life.
Those who saw the piece of mea,
taken from the mans throat with
surgical instrument say it was as
large as an ordinary hand. In. his
effort to swallow this Sherman had
succeeded in getting it as far as the
gullet. There it stuck. He couldn't
swallow it and he could not get ii
back. His efforts finally resulted
in his slowly choking to death. With
gasp, his eyes bullying fairly out
of his head and turning purple in
the face he fell from the stool upon
which he had been sitting to the
floor. Others in the place thought
the man was, having fit and nat
urally there was commotion and
a doctor was hurriedly summoned.
DR.. Aud was the first on the
scene, he having been found on the
street nearby riding motorcycle.
Arriving at the restaurant he grasp
ed the situation in an instant. BY
that time life had just about become
extinct, the man having made what
everyone present thought was his
last struggle. DR.. Aud called to
some one for a knife, sharp knife.
Several bystanders in an instant
had opened and offered theirs. TAX
ing one of them most readily within
reach DR.. Auld grasped the man $
windpipe with his left hand and
with the pocket knife which had
been handed him sunk it into the
windpipe. The knife was SO dull
that it took three efforts to get
through the windpipe.
Immediately air was drawn into
the lungs, the color began to leave
the face and there was relief. Fol-
lowing this the man began to cough
and spout of blood shot upward
through the incision and hit the
ceiling. Having opened the wind
pipe, the next problem was to hold
it open until an instrument could
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Bitter Roots Bloom.

The first part Of the week Will
liam J. Darlington was in the north
end of the county and said Sec
ton of the flat land near Gateway
is covered with Bitter Root, the
Montana state flower.
Seldom is this flower seen around
Libby but it grows in great masses
near Gateway. Mr.. Darlington
brought back few of the plants
and one is on display in the Power
company window.
One of the residents of Gateway
told Mr.. Darlington that Indians
from Canada journeyed to this patch
every year about this time to get
the root of the plant which they use
for medicinal purposes.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
New Depot To Be
Of Rustic Design

E. C.. Warren, general agent of the
Great Northern Railway, was bus
mess visitor in this city Tuesday
In speaking of the new depot Mr.
Warren said it was his opinion that
construction would begin in the very
near future, that is, as soon as the
proper authorities had ben consult
ed and financial matters gone into
1t is expected that the depot will
be very nearly completed by the
end OF the summer.
Mr.. Warren stated that the archi-
lecture of the new depot will be
rustic and similar to the depot 1T
Bolton.
There it no doubt in my mind
but what the new depot will be a
structure that the citizens Of Libby
will be proud Of 1t is my opinion
that the Great Northern Railroad
will bend every effort to make the
building as attractive as possible
and to include every possible mod
ern convenience" Mr. Warren
stated.
AT the present time we have no
definite information but expect to
receive it most any. day. As soon
as this information is received we
will pass 1t along to Libby people
so they may know exactly what the
details are"
The building will be erected on
the present depot site for according
to needs of the railroad and their
customers the present site is best.
Last week c. o. jerks, vice pres
ident in charge of operations, and
Superintendent l. E. Manion were
through Libby but did not express
any opinions on the new depot for
publication.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

rotary, and : George Thompson,
banker, treasurer.
BY 10 o'clock on the morning this
report was read, papers were wiring
in for 800 to 1900 words on the
cat farm" and one New York pa
per through its Chicago correspond
ent worked up full-page feature.
The story went over the country
like Wildfire. The metropolitan
dailies and the rural weeklies, the
paragraphers and the cartoonists
took it up. Other "cat farms" were
actually started, and INSCRIPTIONS
promoters sold stock to a gullible
public.
Until this day it has not been
generally known that the thing was
a hoax. 1t originated in the mind
OF Willis B. Powell, Lacon editor
Powell had tried to make Lacor
as popular dateline for nature
taking as Winsted, Conn, was te
become. He had fed Chicago, Kan.
sas City, St. Louis and Cincinnati
papers with the doings of the wild
man OF Thenius Hollow" got Yer
mont exercised over Skaters Corn
cob Maple Syrup" and the Scien
tific American had taken issue with
his statement that mules in tn,
Sparland coal mine were as blint
as bats and las eyeless as bar
Der pole" Without ever havinI
seen the Klondyke, he had WRITER
some 80 articles telling the worl'
|
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
MINES ALUMNUS 10 RECEIVE
DEGREE.

Chester H. Steele, prominent
Butte resident and alumnus Of Mon
tana School of Mines, will be award
ed the professional degree of geo
logical engineer at the 38th annual
commencement of the Butte engi-
neering college, to be held Friday
evening, May 81.
Steele, who graduated from the
School of Mines in 1915, is senior
geologist on the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company staff. He will be
awarded the professional degree in
recognition of his achievement in a
responsible capacity and notable
contribution to the knowledge of
the field of geological engineering,
according to President Francis A.
Thomson. !.
Senator Key Pittman OF Nevada
will be speaker at the commence
ment exercises which will start at
8 o'clock.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Smithbcrxcr New President.

r. w. Smithberger was elected
president of the Montana Bankers
Association, Group three, at Mis-
soula last Thursday when the an
nual meeting was held.
Mr.. Smithberger has been presi-
dent of the state before and is
again working his way to that prom
inent position.
He stated that the meeting of
that branch would be held in Libby
next year, probably some time in
May.
DR.. Harry Turney High, university
professor, was the main speaker on
the program and talked on the
method Of loaning used. by the In
dians.