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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Lad With Single Lung
Wins Fight With Death

LONDON, ONT.-For two and a
half years physicians and surgeons
fought to save the life OF little three
year-old Robert O'Dell OF Petrolia,
Ont, who had a peanut lodged in
lis lung. They tried every method
known to the medical world but
couldn't move it.
Slowly the lad failed. He was
brought to Victoria hospital here
where specialists studied his case.
They knew he would die il they
could not remove the peanut. But
by this time it had grown into the
lung.
There was only one chance left.
The whole lung might be removed
in delicate operation. But it would
be dangerous. Such an operation
had never been tried here as far
MS surgical records showed.
The boy is recovering in the hos
pital after q successful operation.
He has only one lung, but it is doing
the work OF two. Unless some un-
expected complications set in the
child win make a complete recov-
cry.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Bold Buck Benny Rides
Hard in Daily Western

It's hard riding, straight shoot
ing, two listed Jack Benny, mighty
tough hombre, who appears in
Buck Benny Rides Again" the
newest screen vehicle of the famous
film and radio comedian, which Par
amount will present here Sunday
and Monday at the Kootenai thea
tire. Wild Bill Hickok and Billy the
Kid were tenderfeet by comparison
with the rip-snorting buckaroo, the
terror of the plains, the mad man
of the west, Buck Benny of Bar
None.
It's new dynamic Benny, with
scowl on his face and CLINT in his
eye-a hero to everyone except his
valet, who happens to be Rochester.
Rustlers quail at his approach
they were paid to quail and they
earned their money.
Poses AS Bad Man
For Buck Benny Rides Again"
tells the story of harmless, inof-
fensive radio performer, Jack Ben
ny played by himself, who discovers
that his girl friend adores the West,
diiO tiiVN oiiiy Woy " WILL IiCI ID W
make like Hopalong Cassidy.
With the aid of Andy Devine, who
actually owns a dude ranch in the
West, Benny is enabled to pose as
rancher of the old school. He pays
Andy's cowhands to pose as BAN
dts, SO that he can put them to
rout He brides them to let him
bully them in badman style. Ev-
erything works out until Benny,
who hates horses, is forced to mount
one of the diabolical animals for
the roundup. His performance on
horseback gives the show away, but
he redeems himself--if accidentally
when genuine bandits appear on
the scene.
Benny's supporting cast includes
virtually all the members of his
radio program, with the exception
of Mary Livingston, who joins his
old rival, Fred Allen, in some off
screen heckling. Ellen Drew, Par
amounts new star, plays the femi-
nine lead, with Virginia Dale and
Lillian Cornell in other principal
feminine roles. Eddie Rochester"
Anderson, Phil Harris, Andy De-
vine and Dennis Day play the radio
characters they have made famous.
Carmichael, the polar bear, has
bit part.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

be brought which would keep it
open. DR.. Aud asked that two tea
spoons be brought. With the little
finger inserted in the incision he
slipped the small end of one of the
spoons into the hole alongside the
/ finger. Then the small end of the
other spoon was likewise placed in
the hole The next problem was to
+ hold ii open to insure air until the
permanent instrument could be OBJ
tanned. This task was turned over
TO man named Manning, one of
the bystanders. Manning took the
two spoons and held them in place
until the doctor could 60 and get
the silver tube used in such OPP
erations.
Following the insertion of the
spoons DR. Auld made an attempt to
get the meat from the throat with
his fingers. Here again another
eool-headed bystander offered a
service of which DR.. Auld speaks in
the highest terms. Realizing the
dangerous situation and just as the
man began closing his teeth Al
Beager thrust the handle of putty
oknlfe into his mouth in time to
save the doctors fingers from. IN
all probability, being badly LAGER
ated if not bitten off The teeth
were soon sunk deeply into the
handle.
The doctor realized the futility
of removing the meat without pro-
per instruments and went togNhe
hospital to get them When he re-
/ turned the place looked more like
a slaughter house than a restaurant.
He inserted the silver tube and the
spoons were removed, and an at
tempt was made to get the meal
which resulted in the breaking of
the tube. Another tube was OBJ
tanned and the meat was bought up.
The man was removed to the Bax-
ter and Phillips hospital.
Taking it in its entirety. the man
in his last gasp for life, his eyes
out of their sockets in his strug-
gle to get air, the surroundings,
the crowd Of bystanders looking on,
the instruments used in saving the
life, the quick and nervy decision
VI tiiC dO1tOl, Tie assistance rem
dered by those who witnessed the
operation, it is questionable if any
thing could be more spectacular.
A dull jack knife, and it with to-
bacco on the blade, tea spoons
turned to surgical instruments in
the emergency, the handle of put
ty knife to save the doctors fin
gers at critical time, were the in
struments. The operating table was
the floor of a small wooden res
taurant.
Three times the doctor jabbed the
knife into the mans throat before
he could force the steel through the
Windpipe. With life about gone
and saved under these circumstances
it is but fair to say that DR.. Auld
performed, on Thursday night last
in the city of Libby one of the
most spectacular and nervy surgl-
cal operations ever rendered.
The list Of graduating seniors in
the class of 1915 includes Miss Amy
Gibson, Miss Margaret Christie and
Archie Thompson.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

tConttnued from Page !.
that the further one went into
Alaska the richer the gold strike
might prove. Lucky prospectprs
returning from the region congratu-
lated him on his intimate" knowl-
edge of the situation.
Powell, who later turned his pro-
motional efforts to Florida as gen.
eral secretary of the Sarasota Cham
Der of Commerce, supplied these ad-
ditional details about the cat ranch
hoax:
AS Lacon was getting on the
map through the stories ! was send
ing out, the local boys said, Go the
limit, Powell, we will back you up.
I conceived the cat farm and called
meeting in due order for the cit
izenry to meet at Horizons Hall to
consider the project. The mass meet
ing consisted of six fellows with an
aggregate capital of 81 cents, more
or less.
But the comeback at Lacon was
more than we anticipated. Lew
Woods, the secretary, received thou
SANDS Oh letters, ana tnen cats began
to pile up in the local express of
flee. When Mr.. Carr, the express
agent, used up all available cat
meat to be had in town, and express
collect bills had totaled about 5000,
he called upon the humane society
of Peoria which came down and
chloroformed the cats that we'll
meaning folks had forwarded with
out order. Some cats were from
poor people who expected a high
price for the animals, but mostly
they came from humorists who
would write that there were other
cats on their back fences we could
have for the asking.
1t took some months before the
cat fan mail ceased, and in the
meantime the express companies
placed an embargo against cats for
the Cat Farm, Lacon, Ill
And this is the story. You have
revived it again, and with your
circulation it will start its merry
rounds in the papers again.-Ex
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Device That Tests
Surface Accuracy Is
Mechanical Marvel
BY WATSON DAVIS

New York.-A human hair
about Is feet across. That is
what it would be if it were mag
nified with one of the latest test
ing devices for automobile
parts.
One OF the wonders of modern
mechanical engineering is the rou-
tine measurement of finely finished
surfaces SO smooth that magnifica-
ton of the order of $4,000 times is
necessary. So exacting have be-
come the demands of modern ma
chine shop practice that the working
surfaces of anti-friction bearings,
for instance, require great accuracy
and smoothness. Surface irregular
tiles less than hundred thousandth
of an inch Go micro-inches) are
cause for rejection.
A machine that measures SO finely
with the rapidity necessary in &C
tual production, has been achieved.
The proflometer, as it is called, has
tiny point that traces the almost
molecular surface Irregularities.
This varies the current flowing
through a magnet and this current
is sent through special ,amplifiers
and circuits. Thus, electrically,
there is created that high magnifi-
cation necessary.
Record Written by Light.
The magnified replica OF the sur
face desired is the light-written rec
ord of the oscillograph into which
the current is fed. pIf a permanent
record is desired, motion picture
camera is aimed at the waving light
line of the oscillograph.
How far machine shop precision
has travelled during the age Of pow
er will be realized when it is re-
called that Watt, inventor of the
steam engine, was elated when he
found that Wilkinsons boring mill
could machine an engine cylinder
true to within the thickness of a
shilling.
The dawn of precision in machin-
cry came when the system of inter-
changeable parts was adopted early
in the last century. Arms factories
in Connecticut pioneered in measur-
ing accurately with gauges.
With accuracy increased many
fold, this is the principle that under
lies the machine age of today.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Kansas Colds Prefer
Their Men Tall and Dark

LAWRENCE, KAN.--Coeds at the
University of Kansas still prefer
their men tall, dark and handsome,
but they are not as particular as
they used to be.
That at least is the consensus as
revealed by poll of university
women in which they were asked to
describe their Ideal man."
Several Of the girls said that looks
were not of primary Importance and
at least one coed said that short,
fat man. would be all right with her
"just SO he was my man."
A number merely specified
"clean-looking boy as their ideal.
Most of the goods preferred to mar
ry professional men, but one said
she was looking for a farmer.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
College Students Convert
Junk Into Store Displavs

BRIDGEWATER, MASS. - Junk
Tor the dump yards is being used
BY Stafe Teachers college students
here to provide window displays for
local stores.
The work is part OF the art ap-
pfeciatlon course and the displays
are offered free to any storekeeper
who wants them.
One Of the window displays con-
sisted OF old soup cans, which were
dissected and then put together
again In the form Of two figures
slipping soup from a bowl. The
backdrop for the scene was q Vene-
tan blind, rescued from an attic
and painted green and silver.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
LATEST NOTES FROM MONTANA
STATE UNIVERSITY.

Special Correspondent, Bob Fletcher
Lieutenant Colonel Irving H. En-
coleman, United States Army re-
tired, will join the military science
faculty at Montana State Univer-
sity, June |, according to informa-
ton received here from the war
department. The appointment fills
out the staff of the military science
department with one officer for each
four classes
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30


for Boomers Ferry where she will
make her home.
Mrs. Carl Stocking was here from
Fairfield, Mont, last week for grad
uation
Mrs. H. ]. Fowler of the Fisher
River district visited with friends
and relatives in Libby Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Southwick of
Spokane were in Libby on business
Friday. Both are we'll known in this
vicinity.
WILL SACRIFICE SMALL Pr
ANO FOR BALANCE DUE. $4,000
HAS BEEN PAID ON SAME.
WRITE BOX 551, KALISPELL.
Fred Clark. Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred F. Clark. returned Sunday
evening by rail from Iowa where
he has spent the past year in school.
Mrs. L. S. Welch left Libby yes
terday noon on the train for Min
nesota to join Mr. Welch who is re-
ported to- be seriously ILL., Mr..
WEIGH went to that state last week.
A card from John l.. Blackford
states he has toured the coast parks
and has reached Nogales, Arizona.
He intends to spend some time in
Old Mexico before returning home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James c. McCollum
were Spokane visitors from May II
to % They visited friends at Occur
d'Alene and Dishman before return
ing to Libby. Mr.. McCollum was
having some dental work done in
Spokane.
Mrs. George Neils entertained the
day at which time contract was
played Mrs. w. N. Curtis won high
prize and Mrs James Christie re-
ceived low Mrs E. P. Woodwork
won the high prize for the guests
of which there were three.
Lee Harmon returned Tuesday
from Billings and points in the
eastern part of the state where he
has been for the past several days.
While there he made the trip over
the Cooke City-Red Lodge highway
and said he enjoyed it very much
although the weather was not as
good as it might have been.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Monks of
Bonners Ferry were guests at the
Vernon Paddock home Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. Monks said they enjoyed
the Lions spring and Kootenai Falls
park very much. This is the first
time they have been to Libby since
it was completed.
Tickets for Gone With the Wind, ]"
playing June % and % at the Koo-
tenai Theatre will GO on sale June
1st at the theatre box office. No free
passes admitted at this picture. 1t
Sunday approximately 30 Rain
bow birls and DeMolay boys held
picnic at Savage lake. The young
people enjoyed swimming and base
ball and ate heartily of fine lunch
provided by the DeMolays Dad
Jimmy Blackford, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Kemp and Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Hargreaves were guests of the
younger group.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Krall re-
turned Sunday evening from trip
to Alaska. They drove from here
to Seattle and took a steamer from
that port. The route they took I
was on the inside channel and is
supposed to be the most scenic.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Krall stated that
they enjoyed the trip very much I
and were very glad to have had the I
opportunity to see that section Of I
the country.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

Coach Douglas Fessendens grid
ders topped off spring drill with
an inter-squad game the other morn
ing before large crowd of track
meet visitors. This game winds up
the season for the team which
should click smoothly next fall
when Fessenden has asked 81 back.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

Thirty-tWo senior foresters and
three professors rolled into Missoula
Tuesday having completed a 3,196
mile field trip covering five south
western states and Is national for
ests. En- route they visited nine
colleges, Zion, Grand Canyon,
Bryce, Boulder dam, Painted Desert,
Bonneville Salt Flats, Great Salt
Lake, the Mormon tabernacle and
Crater-of- the Moon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Five-Year Egg Mark

TRENTON, N. J.-"Her Majesty
r. v. P. 318' has tied the national
record Of 1000 eggs in five years.
The imposing title is that OF a hen
on Daniel H. Mahar's poultry farm
at Cranbury.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

Coach George "Jiggs' Dahlberg
called 20 hoopsters out for spring
drill yesterday to experiment with
an offense to fit his personnel of
next year. Dahlberg said he is in
terested in seeing how the freshmen
will work with the varsity. He
plans to keep the squad working
for two weeks but will not drill
on fundamentals.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

Blondes were invented to keep
married life from running too
smoothly.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

Early Day Mexican Police
In the early days of Mexico there
were few police. Each home tradi-
tionally was its own fortress. To
day iron-barred windows everywhere
remind Mexicans OF those times.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

COME on in! See If this isn't the
~ finest Kelvinator ever builtl
Look It it-from cleaning out
side, finished in lons-life Permalux
-. to spacious 1l11 square feet Of
shelving. Get the facts about~<he
POLARSPHERE sealed Unit that
uses current len than 7O% Of the
time under average household
conditions.
Look It the price you'll
hardly believe Id
And remember this i Just on Of
keivinatof's amazing 1910 values
that save you $50 to so.
Come ia and see these beautiful
new kelvinators n new low prices.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30

The raving beauty is the one
that lost the contest.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Moral: Cut Your
Beefsteok Smoller

Continued from page u
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-05-30
Cats Plus Rats
Equal Big Money

Continued from Page y
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Stock Averages
By VICTOR EUBANK,
60 Stock Range Since 1927:
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, March 4-Steels and
aircrafts tilted forward in today's
Stock Market, but numerous issues
continued to doze in narrow terri
tory.
1t was another of those sessions
when neither good nor bad news
seemed to have much effect on spec
ulative sentiment. The majority Of
traders leaned toward small COM
mitments either way and. except for
a few low priced issues, sluggishness
prevailed throughout.
Of the approximately 450,000
shares which changed hands in the
five hours, Seaboard Air Line ac-
counted for Sizeable proportion.
This stock turned over in 10000
share blocks and advanced 1919
cents at 37l2 cents share in the
forenoon.
Gains of fractions to about point
were fairly we'll distributed at the
close. but numerous issues finished
shade behind or at the same as
Saturdays final quotations.
An officially estimated drop in this
weeks steel mill operations Of 13
points at 646 per cent of capacity
failed to trip up stocks IN this
group. although most ended under
the days tops. The production de-
cline had been expected.
Stocks in favor the greater part
of the time we're United States
Steel, Bethlehem, Douglas Aircraft,
aoeing,, Glenn Martin, American
Telephone, Johns-Manville, Ana
conda, Kennecott Phelps Dodge and
Standard Oil Of New Jersey.
Bulova Watch directors voted an
extra dividend and the stock got
up a point. Square ID" was up as
much as the concern disclosed a
sharp jump in earnings.
Bonds were moderately steady, as
were commodities. Wheat at Chi
cago was Off ls to S of a cent a
bushel, but corn was unchanged to
ahead IS. Cotton, in late transac-
tions, was up Is to 40 cents bale.
European securities markets were
mixed.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
ChieagoGrain
By the associated Press.

by the k-SSOCldleu fIeSS.
CHICAGO, March 4-Gains of
about a cent in wheat prices were
lost during the final hour of trading
today and the market closed frac-
tionally lower than Saturday.
Selling associated with rather
large receipts at principal markets,
particularly in the Northwest, off,
set purchasing credited to mills and
cash grain dealers. Some of the
selling was believed to have repre-
sented hedging of loan wheat pur-
chased by commercial interests.
Wheat closed 1s-ss cents lower
than Saturday, May. 1.0011 IS; July,
$751;; corn, unchanged to 50
higher; May, 561s-14 July 56s4;
oats. unchanged to Is lower.
Cash wheat prices were 1a-34
higher; basis unchanged to 1a up;
receipts, 80 cars; corn, unchanged
to l. higher; basis unchanged to L
up; receipts, 70 cars; shippings sales.
10000 bushels: booked to arrive, ST.
900 bushels; oats, steady.
Evening star., 1940-03-04

a stake in private enterprise, wheth-
er stockholder, consumer or en-
ploye"
Noting in the last decade radical
changes in judicial interpretations
of the Constitution, in previous con-
cepts of money, tariff making,
financing, labor relations and the
relations of Government to busl-
ness" Queeny asks:
Must industry face further
changes or will those changes that
have proved unwise be sifted from
those that have proved good?"
Further. what social and eco
nomic problems will the end the war
PRESENT." he continued. "* Will
painful adjustments be necessary
in our price structure, and in our
wages, which already have been
pushed to levels unsupported by
chronological advances?
What does the administration
mean when asking for an extension
of the power to make trade treaties
by emphasizing the leadership
which this Nation can take for a
renewal of world peace that such
influence will be greatly weakened
If this Government becomes a dog
in the manger of trade selfshness? I?
will American industry be asked
to sacrifice share of its domestic
market? If this is wise from a ma
tional point of view, is it wise for
industry to engage now in new ven-
lures or add to existing capacity
and give sorely needed employment?
AS debt piles on debt, what addi-
tional taxes do we face?
And, above all, what attitude will
Government assume toward busi-
ness, for no problem or group of
problems is beyond solution in an
atmosphere of understanding and
tolerance. Will it recognize that the
consumer, Government. capital and
industry do have interests in COM
mon and that all gain when venture
is encouraged?"
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Home Loans Reveal
Rise in January
Over 1889 Record
$50, ,9S6,000 Put Out
In Fourth District;
$4,054, 900 in D. c.
By EDWARD C. STONE.

Home mortgages on non-farm
property recorded in the Fourth
Federal Home Loan Bank District in
January by all types of lenders num-
bered 1902 and amounted to $780,
$4,000, it was announced today by
o. K. La Rogue, president of the
Federal Home Loan Bank of VIM.
ston-Salem. The figures compared
with l2,028 mortgages, valued at
$26,5l6,000 in January, 1899.
Savings and loan associations had
the largest share of this home
financing, $11,139,O0O, in January
this year. Other lending groups and
their figures were: Insurance COM
panies, S2,sOO,0oO; banks and trust
companies. s5,70l,000; mutual saw
ings banks, $4,000; individuals, So
$4,000, and other mortgages,
$4,7l0,000. BY States the total mort
gage recordings were as follows:
Evening star., 1940-03-04
International Nickel
Will Improve Plant
BY the Associated Press

bS the ASSOCldleC PTeSS.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, March
4.-The International Nickel Co. will
spend s125,000 on Improvements at
its Huntington plant within the next
go days, A. j. Hanlon of New York,
company production manager, an
nounced last night.
Hanlon said improvements in
cluded doubling the size of the
chemical and physical laboratories,
installation of an additional normal
izing furnace in the cold-drawn mill
and erection of six copper plating
tanks and two new cranes.
Shipments from the plant in Feb
bruary were the largest for that
month of any year, Hanlon said, and
represented the second largest
months business in the history of
the plant.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
New Director Named

NEW YORK, March 4 (SpeciaD -
At meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors Of Union Bag & Paper Corp.
M. E. Cody, resident manager of
the company's Savannah plant, was
elected director. Mr.. Cody, who
has been active in the kraft paper
industry in the South for the past
Is years, took charge of the COM
pany's Savannah operations in July
Of last year.