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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13
Dramatic Picture

Dramatic Picture
 The official communique gave this picture of the attack:-''Bombs hit their marks and caused such havoc aboard two Italian battleships they had to run ashore to prevent sink ing. .'~One Of these, belonging to the 23,000 ton Cinte de Cavour class, is under water, stern up, including the turret. Another battleship, of the 35,000 ton Cinte de Cavour class, 35.000 ten Littorio class is badly down by the bows, forecastle under water and with a heavy list to star beard. Two auxiliary warships were successfully bombed and are under water It is also believed that shore batteries were also hit and damaged although the British bomb CTS paid their attention principally to the Italian naval craft.
 The victory apparently clinches Great Britain's command of the Mediterranean
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13
THAT BLACK CAT
 BUSINESS AGAIN

KANSAS CITY, NOV l3. - One thing about a coach, he certainly learns the art of alibi making. Said Ralph Conger, Wentworth Military Academy coach. when he turned
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13
TAXES UP
 ELECTRIC BICYCLE

PARIS, Nov. 13.-A bicycle pow cred with a storage battery motor is the latest contribution to the transportation problem here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. showing air route from Seattle to. Nome. On sale at j. 5. Burford x. Co. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13
BINGO.

KANSAS CITY Donald Durham of Wentworth Military Academy thought the serial num- Der on his rifle, 532-645, looked familiar. When his parents came to visit him he noted the license number on the car. It was 532,645.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-13

Today's news today in The Empire
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Wildlife Refugees To
Hove Uniform Names

President Roosevelt has
signed an executive order desig-
mating 252 refugees administered
by the Fish and Wildlife service
as National Wildlife refugees,
Secretary of the Interior Har-
old L. Ickes announced recent
ly. The order affects all but
IL of the areas in the 1885, OOO-
acre system of bird and man.
NAL sanctuaries that extends
from Puerto Rico to Alaska and
Maine to Hawaii.
In recommending the uniform
naming of areas administered
by the Service, Secretary Ickes
explained that the new desig-
nation will indicate the national
character of the wildlife refugees.
The former varying designa-
lions did not indicate that the
areas are owned and admins
tered by the federal govern
ment.
Previously federal wildlife ref
uges had been identified vari-
ously as reservations, bird res
ervations, migratory waterfowl
refugees, migratory bird refugees,
and game and wildlife preserves
It was pointed out that though
an area is sometimes established
Eprimarily for the benefit of a
single species or of a group OF
animals, all wildlife is protected
on the refuge. Thus National
Wildlife Refuge" is considered
a more appropriate name.
No confusion is expected in
the change of title of the 252
areas affected because the local,
or identifying, portion of the
name remains as before. The
Pelican Islands bird refuge in
Florida, for example, becames
the Pelican Island National
Wildiife Refuge, and the Lower
Souris Migratory waterfowl Ref
uge in North Dakota changes to
Lower SouriS National Wildife
Refuge.
Twelve refugees administered
by the Fish and Wildlife will
not change title under the ex-
ecutive order. These are: Alaska
Railway Muskrat and Beaver
Refuge and Curry Bird, Game,
and Fish Refuge, Alaska; Kofa
Game Range and Cabeza Prieta
Game Range, Arizona; Desert
Game Range and Charles Shell
don Antelope Range, Nevada;
Sullys Hill Natiolan Game Re
esrve. North Dakota; Upper
Mississippi River Fish and Wild
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08

higher than q month earlier.
The ratio of prices received to
prices paid in mid-July was rs
per cent of the 1910-14 level
compared with IT a month earl
lier and IA a year ago.
Prices of grains and fruit led
the decline during the month
ended July is but they REL
manned substantially above a
year earlier, the report shows,
Meat animal prices advanced
points from the mid-June level
and again averaged higher than
a year ago. Prices of dairy pro.
ducts in mid-July averaged one
point higher than a month ear
lier while chicken and egg pri-
ces we're up seven points.
Prices paid by farmers de-:
clined one point during the
month ended July IS to 122 per
cent of the 1904 average.
This lowered the index prices
paid, interest and taxes to 127.
Thus the index is now only one
point higher than on July IS,
1889, according to the price rel
view.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Hardin News

A. S. Randall and son, Buddy,
were Hardin business callers
Thursday.
Mike Herman visited with his
neighbors Thursday.
Mrs. Fred Dewald and. two
younger children Shopped in
Hardin Saturday.
Elnora, Doris, and Buddy
Faust were guests of Marian
and Joyce Gray Saturday NOR
ming.
Mrs. J. A. Plummer and dau-
ghters, Vera, Marguerite and
Joyce made a trip to Hardin
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Scabery
and family attended the circus
and carnival in Hardin Satur-
day.
Jacob Herman was a business
caller in Hardin Saturday at
ternoon.
Mrs. Charles Peck and Mrs.
Hugh Hamilton visited friends
in Hardin Saturday.
A fire, thought to have been
ignited by sparks from a freight
train, became a good-sized pra-
irie fire about a mile and a
quarter from the Hardin depot
Sunday. Section men, CCC boys
from Crow Agency and nearby
farmers brought the blaze un-
der control before it had
reached any crops or houses. It
burned over several acres of
stubble and pasture land.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Smell. of
Hardin assisted in fighting the
prairie fire from the railroad
track south to Williams cou-
lee Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bowers
and children visited relatives at
Lodge Grass Sunday.
Roy Riley was a dinner guest
at the Tom Gibbs home Mon
day.
Mrs. E. c. Simpson and sons,
George and Isaac, called at the
Earl Gray home Monday,
Mrs. Bill Reed and children
were in Hardin on business
Thursday.
George Ffnkbinder threShed
grain Tuesday. The Tom Gibbs
machine was used.
a.. E. Ellis threshed for Art
Randall this week. Among those
assisting at the Randall ranch
were L. M. Sorenson, Taylor
Elder, August Gabriel and Earl
Gray.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Report No Change In
Nutionul Form Prices

Prices received by United
States farmers for produrts sold
in local markets averaged the
same on July is as a month
earlier, states the Agricultural
Marketing Service. Prices of
fruits, grain, and cottonseed
declined during the month, but
advances in prices of other pro-
ducts were sufficient to offset
these doWnturnS and maintain
the index at IS per cent of the
1904 average.
Meat animal prices advanced
sharply with seasonal increases
also occurring in prices of eggs
and dairy products. A year ear
ller The index was 80. Prices
paid by farmers for commodities
averaged one point lower on
July IS than a month earlier
with feed prices down three
points. As a result, the per unit
exchange value of farm pro-
ducts on July IS was one point
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Income Prices
Show l-Pt. Increase

The index of prices received
by Montana farmers for agri-
cultural products rose one point
in mid-July compared with a
month earlier and was nine
points higher than a year ear
lier, according to the monthly
price review of the Agricultural
Marketing Service.
During the month, prices of
dairy products, chickens and
eggs advanced seasonally and
there was an advance in prices
of beef cattle and hogs, which
raised the index of meat ami
NAL prices above that of a
month earlier.
On the other hand, prices of
most other products showed lit
tie net change. The general
level of prices paid by farmers
declined one point during the
month and the ratio of prices
received by Montana farmers to
prices paid rose two points.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Urges DdirYrnen
To Attend Fdirs

To the dairyman the agricul-
tural fair offers an excellent
opportunity to study the i'm
provement being made in the
quality of dairy animals and
enables him to obtain a stand
ard or ideal which he can use
as a goal in his own dairy
breeding program, says J. o.
Tretsven, extension dairy spec
ialist at Montana State college.
From the educational stand
point the man who exhibits his
animals and then watches them
judged in competition with
those of his neighbors gains
much, Tretsven said. Exhibitors
and non-eXhibitors alike will
obtain valuable information if
they will inspect the cattle on
display, talk shop with the sue
cesSful breeders and exchange
ideas with fellow dairymen in
attendance. It also pays to
watch the judges place the an
imals, noting the type of ami
mails selected for first place
and why one animal is placed
ahead of another, Tretsven
pointed out.
New standards of perfection
are frequently being set up by
the breed associations, based on
| past experience in improving
their particular breed. Up-to-
date judges make their selec-
lions on the basis of the new
standards as laid down by the
breed associations. This offers
a splendid opportunity for the
progressive dairyman to Obtain
information on the latest ideas
relating to the best type of an
finals to breed and what inner
emit weaknesses to avoid.
Close study of the preferred
types, or what may be termed
the latest models, helps to es-
tablish an ideal in mind which
Is essential in building a good
herd. Without an ideal or stan
dard to work toward, little, il
any, progress can be made ir
developing a herd of good dairy
cows, the dairy specialist said.
The many off-colored, Off
type, inferior cattle seen in this
country today are largely the
result of discriminating breed
ing without an ideal to breed
toward. In contrast. the good
highly efficient "1940 model
dairy herds are the result oil
several years of effort in breed
ing and selecting toward
standard or ideal in the minc
of the dairyman. The good fail
offers the dairymen an excellent
opportunity to compare his owl
animals with those shown anc
to get firmly in mind a desir-
able standard as his goal If
dairy. breeding.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
Upper Rotten Grass

Chester Wiley was a caller in
Lodge Grass Thursday.
Russell and Darrell Mcdaniel
were in Lodge Grass Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Denver Sherman
and Miss June and Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Ball spent a few days
in Yellowstone National park.
Phil Spear was in Lodge Grass
Wednesday.
Frank Gregory called in
Lodge Grass Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Chath-
am and children were shoppers
in Lodge Grass Friday.
Harold Anderson attended to
business matters in Lodge Grass
Thursday.
Carole, Jean, and Jack Cha
than were visiting their grand
mother in Lodge Grass Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Miss Joyce Sherman returned
to her home after spending the
past month with her sister in
Joliet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Pease
were Lodge Grass visitors on
Wednesday.
The Misses June and Joyce
Sherman and Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Ball attended a show in Lodge
Grass Tuesday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Joe Schneider
line and children called at the
John Chatham home Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Martha Chatham, Mrs.
Cal Gorden and Ed Schneider
line called at the Dell Stand
ish home Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Gregory visited at
the Luther Chatham home on
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chatham
and baby daughter, Patty Joan,
spent a few days in Yellowstone
National park last week.
Mrs. Martha Chatham, Mrs.
Cal Gorden and Ed Schneider
line were dinner guests at the
John Chatham home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chatham
and children were business call
ers in Sheridan Monday.
Miss Joyce Sherman was a
Lodge Grass caller Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buster Green
and children were in Lodge
Grass Tuesday.
Bill Sharp is hauling grain
for the Anderson brothers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08

life Refuge, Minnesota; Nation
al Bison Range and Fort Peck
Game Range, Montana; Wichi-
ia Mountain Wildlife Refuge,
Oklaohma; and Bear River Mi
gratory Bird Refuge, Utah.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08

promises to be fairly good ex-
cept in local dry areas and Sec
lions short of irrigation water.
Feed crop production in the
large feeding areas Of western
Nebraska and Colorado are on
ly fairly favorable. Present pros
poets are for a good supply of
feed crops in the Corn Belt, the
report concluded.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08
The Lighter Side

Three gulls sat on a yardarm:
1st gull: who's that below
us?"
End gull: That's the guy who
tried to feed us soap today"
3rd gull: well, what are we
waiting for?"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-08

Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from Is countries in the Wes-
tern Hemisphere will attend ON International encdmpment at
Camp Andree, New York, for two weeks beginning August IA.
The encmpment wos designed as q gesture OF ~inter-Americom
friendship. Mrs. Elednor Roosevelt, os honorary president Of
the group hos attended monY girl scout events in former years:
Evening star., 1940-06-28

James but with a split that spilled
more votes to Mr.. Willkie on each
ballot.
But Pennsylvania's timing was
bad. The delegation was outside
IN a caucus when it was called and
David Reed, the former Senator,
passed.
Eight more States were called and
each piled up more votes for Mr..
Willkie. After Virginia had heaped
more upon the total, it stood at 499
for Mr.. Willkie, with the race
squarely between him and Senator
Taft-and the Senator slipping fast.
At that dramatic point the Penn
sylvania delegation stepped in to
redeem the opportunity it seemed
1t had lost. 1t filed back into the
hall from its caucus and Mr.. Reed
reported that his State wanted to
cast its vote. The 70 votes were
dumped upon the Willkie band
wagon. The New Yorker was nomi-
mated.
Galleries Roar Approval.
The galleries roared. Time and
again, Chairman Martin threatened
TO have the $4,000 visitors ousted..
!. The nomination would have gone
over moment later anyway, for
washington threw 10 more after
Pennsylvania's 70.
Gov. Bricker of Ohio sought, after
the delegates began to fall away
from Senator Taft, to make Mr..
Wilkes nomination unanimous.
Convention Chairman Martin
ruled that Gov. Bricker's motion was
not in order, since the convention
was still in the middle of a roll call,
Gov Bricker sat himself down and
waited while the roll call proceeded
with tiresome delays, for Wisconsin
and Washington delegates demand
ed that their delegations be "polled"
by the chair. The crowds groaned
their disapproval of these delays,
since it was apparent to all the
world that Mr.. Willkie had received
enough votes to be nominated.
Texas Changes Vote.
When it was all done, the State
delegations that had cast any votes
on this ballot for candidates other
than Mr.. Willkie requested their
Evening star., 1940-06-28
G. O. P.
Continued From First Page.)

floor managers conferred feverishly,
polling one another and trying to
anticipate the outcome
Showdown at Hand.
1t was obvious the showdown, the
final fight between Senator Taft
and Mr.. Willkie had been reached,
for Mr.. Hoover had sent word to
his supporters in the California
delegation to swing to the Ohio
Senator. And California, we'll up
in the list of States, voted 26 for
Senator Taft, II for Mr.. Willkie.
But in a poll four Hoover votes
We're Weaned from Senator Taft.
The Michigan delegation, stanch
for Senator Vandenberg through
out the successive ballots, heard the
galleries shrek with glee as the
New York utilities man picked up
votes in the States preceding it in
the roll call. 1t passed hat. Into it
each Vandenberg delegate dropped
a slip of paper that bore the name
OF his second choice. -p~. ~s.. Ha.s
Then, as Maine passed and the
count stood neck-and-neck, Mr..
W1llkle 140 and Senator Taft lat,
Michigan was reached.
Vandenberg Releases.
Howard G. Lawrence, the Grand
Rapids banker who had managed
Senator Vandenberg's campaign.
asked to make an announcement
from the platform.
I wish to thank the supporters
of Senator Vandenberg," he said
In tired voice. Senator VAN
denberg has just authorized me to
release the Michigan delegation.
In obedience to his instructions, we
have just taken a poll. I will now
reead the result of that poll.
1T reads, Hoover l, Taft 2, Will
kie 35."
The band wagon was on its way.
A tremendous roar went up from
the massed galleries. The crowd.
sensing a quick nomination, leaned
forward to catch the next change
of significance, which occurred when
New Jersey tossed all its 80 votes
into the Willkie total, a net gain
of 6 from the fifth ballot. State
after State began to join the rush,
although Ohio was adamant in its
loyalty to Senator Taft.
Pennsylvania Big Moment.
Then Pennsylvania had its big
chance, an opportunity to become
the key delegation to turn the
nomination to Mr.. Willkie. When
the State was reached Mr.. Willkie
had 438 votes. He needed only SO
more. The Pennsylvanians had
been giving the majority Of their
72-vOte Support to Gov Arthur
Evening star., 1940-06-28

Joseph N. Pew, jr., regarded as the
angel of the Republican party in
the Keystone State that the dele
CATION stick by Gov. James, Is of the
delegates determined to vote for Mr..
Willkie on the third ballot, leaving
81 for the Governor.
Kansas also held a caucus. It
had been voting for its favorite son
candidate, Senator Capper. When
1t voted on the third ballot, how
ever, the chairman of the delega-
ton, former Gov. ALI M. Landon,
Republican presidential nominee in
1896, announced IL votes for Mr..
Dewey, two for Senator Taft and
four for Mr. Willkie.
Senator Bridges Of New Hamp-
shire, who had % votes on the first
ballot, had only nine on the sec
ond. He released them and most
Of them went to Mr.. Willkie, who
was proving his strength in all the
New England States. On the third
ballot, Senator Bridges received
only one vote, from his own State.
When the count on the third bal
lot was announced, Mr.. Dewey's vote
had shrunk to 315, Senator Taft
had gone up to 2l2, and Mr.. Willkie
to 259. The New York power mag
mates steady gains as the ballots
proceeded, and the losses of Dewey,
were the outstanding feature.
Evening star., 1940-06-28

votes be changed and all given to
the New Yorker. Texas, led by
Col. r. B. Creager, Taft floor man
ager, was the first to so move and
all the others followed suit.
Before the chair announced the
result of the final ballot, J. Russell
Sprague of New York, manager of
the Dewey campaign, arose and
moved to second Gov. Bricker's mo-
ton to make the nomination unan-
imous. He told the convention
that Mr.. Dewey had asked him to
express to the delegates and to the
voters generally his appreciation of
the treatment that had been ac-
corded him during his campaign for
presidential nomination.
"Mr. Dewey wants to assure Mr..
Willkie and you of his support in
the coming national campaign" he
said.
David S. ingalls,, manager of the
Taft campaign; Gov. James Of
Pennsylvania and Senator Thomas
OF Idaho, who had been a stanch
opponent Of the Willkie candidacy,
also seconded the motion to make
the nomination unanimous. ..,...s..y
This brought to close one Of
the most bitterly contested races
for a Republican presidential nomi-
nation. At times, during the last
two DAYS of the convention this
feeling ran high, resulting in fist
fights on the floor and demonstra-
tions in the galleries that have been
foreign to G. Q. P. conventions for
many, many years.
What had been a short time be-
fore an arena of fierce political
battle, with passions riding high,
became almost in the twinkling of
an eye a scene of utmost political
harmony.
Mr.. Willkie, president of the Com
Evening star., 1940-06-28
Wilkes Early Prominence
Recalled in CoffeyviIIe
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
COFFEYVILLE, Kans., June %
Coffeyville High School youngsters
marked Wendell L. Willkie for
greatness long before the Repub-
lican National Convention got
around to acclaim him.
In 1918 Mr.. Willkie came to Cof-
feyville High to teach history. Ver-
satile and energetic-and not yet
22-he coached track, boys and
girls basket ball and debate teams.
sponsored the first Hi-Y group and
advised literary societies.
The school annual carricature6
him as flower, with this caption:
Just coming into bloom"
Pictures and sketches of Mr.. Will
kie almost monopolized the an
nual.
Because of the late hour Coffey-
vile did not demonstrate publicly
after MIR. Willkie was nominated for
the presidency early today, but many
citizens cheered as they heard the
news and predicted he would carry
Coffeyville 100 per cent" in No
Vember.
Evening star., 1940-06-28

monwealth g. Southern Corp, is
the antithesis of his possible demo-
cratic opponent, President Roosevelt.
He is big business" man, a
member Of the group which Presi-
dent Roosevelt in a closing speech
in his campaign of 1896 predicted
would meet its master. AS head of
an electric power company he has
fought the President and his T. v. A.
in season and out.
The meteoric rise of Mr.. Willkie
to the proportions of a leading con-
tender for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination is unprecedented
In the party's history. Mr.. Willkie
until a year ago was considered a
Democrat. Although he voted
against President Roosevelt in 1886,
he voted for him in 1882. Mr..
Willkie had never held public office,
and what part he played in politics
was in the Democratic party in the
days when he lived in Indiana, his
native State, and in Ohio. In ad-
dition, he is the head OF great
utility corporation.
Despite all these circumstances,
and perhaps because of some of
them, Mr.. WILKES candidacy was
hailed all over the country with a
tremendous campaign of publicity in
newspapers and magazines and over
the radio. Millions who had never
heard of Mr.. Willkie listened to his
voice or read of him in the press.
He himself discounted his recent en-
trance into the Republican party,
saying that if he were nominated
the Democrats who did not like the
New Deal could the more easily vote
for him, as we'll as the Republicans.
Edward F. Colladay, Republican
Evening star., 1940-06-28
Indiana Home Town Goes Wild
Over WiIIkie Nomination
Whistles Shrek,
Streets Jummed in
EIwood Celebration
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ELWOOD, Ind, June 28-Elwood
slept late today, but 1t was proud
and happy-for a home town boy
who has been making good in New
York made good in Philadelphia as
we'll.
So the 10000 residents of this
North-C Central Indiana city whooped
and shouted and reminisced until
the wee small hours after the Re-
publican National Convention nomi-
mated Wendell L. Willkie for the
presidency.
The scene in the business district
when radios blared the result of
that sixth ballot was reminiscent
of the gay 90s era when this indus
trial city-now in the heart of
rich farm belt-was the center of
Indiana's natural gas boom.
Streets Jammed.
Factory whistles shrieked, auto
horns footed, towns-people jammed
sidewalks and streets, talking, shout
ing, trumpeting on horns, pounding
on pans, drums or whatever was
handy. Neighbor slapped neighbor
on the back and told about when
win" Willkie was a kid or used
to drive the bakery truck or
played football at Elwood High
School or practiced law with
his parents, Herman and Henrietta
Willkie, after his graduation from
Indiana University.
The whole celebration was en-
tirely spontaneous. Plans for a
more formal celebration may be
started as soon as Mayor George
M. Bonham, an alternate delegate,
returns from Philadelphia.
Given Free Reign.
The towns-people were given free
reign until they decided they had
celebrated enough and finally strag-
gled of home. The police decided