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of Southeast Alaska. He gives the name of the fighter as Lew Lovas who challenges the best men in Ju- neau.
 Billy McCann has accepted the challenge although he will have to 20 out of his class as he is now re- cognized as welterweight champion ion. McCann says he is after the middleweight title to add to his col- lection, just as Armstrong has done in the big fistic circles.
 McCann will probably fight for the middleweight title in smoker to be given in the A. B. Rink on the night of August 16.
 In the meantime, McCann has agreed to defend his welterweight title against Sammy Nelson in a Labor Day smoker. Nelson is already training but will have to bring his middleweight poundage down to the welterweight class.
 Plans are going ahead and the contestants are getting in shape for the mixed smoker, wrestling and boxing, to be given in the A. B. Rink on the night of July 26. Tickets for this smoker are now on sale at the Baranof Cigar stand, Imperial Pool room and Brunswick Bowling alley.
 Promoter Weaver announces the price will be $l65 for reserved seats, including the Defense Tax, and gen. eral admission at $110, also including the tax
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Reds Take Game by 1
 Run Again
Cleveland Drops Leader ship in American
 League
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Cincinnati Reds yesterday took another one-run victory, their second, from the Phillies in two days, as Bucky Walters out-stayed Ike Pearson for his thirteenth win of the year
 Dodgers Drop Down
 The Dodgers and Pirates divided doubleheader Monday with the net results that the Dodgers dropped to three games behind the pace setting Cincinnatians. Whit low Wyatt was on the mound for the Dodgers in the first game and he also hit homer.
 Chicago Beats Giants
 Chicago defeated the Giants yesterday on Hank Leiber's three run homer in the seventh inning.
 Slaughtered
 The Cardinals pounded out 20 hits off two pitchers yesterday to slaughter the Boston Bees for the liith straight victory.
 Cleveland Drops
 Cleveland lost the lead in the American League yesterday, also the game to Washington, being held to seven hits by Sid Hudson. Hudson pitched no-hit ball for five innings.
 Detroit Wins
 Detroit scored eight runs in the fourth inning yesterday but it took sixth inning homer by Rudy York and Paul Trout's relief pitch ing to give them victory over the Athletics.
 Uprising Stayed off
 The White Sox Staved off an eighth inning uprising by the Yan- keeS to defeat New York an q jap the Champions four-game win- ming streak.
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FIRST BA5ER {! NOW PITCHER
 FOR DETROIT
John Corsica Gives Tigers New Life-Is Sort of
 Spark Plug
By DALE STAFFORD AP Feature Service

DETROIT, July 16.-Scout Jack Teller, of the Detroit Tigers, watched first baseman whip the ball around in infield practice for Beckley, w. Va. club, of the Mountain State League, few years back and decided a guy with that kind of an arm should be pitcher.
 Today the ex-first baseman, John Corsica. is one of the most promis- ing rookie right-handed fingers of the Detroit Tigers and Zeller is general manager of the club.
 Should be "Gorzyca"
 My name really should be spilled Gorzyca," says Johnny,
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT JUNEAU.
 HOWARD H. .HUNGERFORD. Plaintiff, vs. EDITH ANNETT HUNGERFORD, Defendant.
 The President of the United States of America. To the above named defendant, Greeting: You are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, First Division, at Juneau, Alaska, within thirty days after the last publication of this summons, in case this summons is published, or within forty days after the date of it's service upon you, in case this summons is served upon you personally and answer the complain of the above named plain tiff on file in the said court in the above entitled cause. The plaintiff in said action demands the follow ing relief: Dissolution of the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff on the grounds of deser- tion and incompatibility of tenn perament.
 And in the event you fail so to appear and answer, the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof, and will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said Complaint, and as herein above stated.
 Witness the Honorable George F. Alexander, Judge of said Court, and the seal of said Court here unto affixed this 2nd day of July, 1940.
 HOWARD D. STABLER,
 Plaintiffs Attorney,
 Juneau. Alaska.
 ROBERT E.. COUGHLIN,
 Clerk of the above en-
 titled Court.
 By PEGGY MCLEOD,
 Deputy Clerk. Publication dates, July 2-9-16-23. 1940. adv.
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J. W. Leivers
 Dinner Hosts

A dinner party, followed by an ev- ening of bridge, will be given to- night by Mir and Mrs. J. w. Leivers at their Distin Avenue home.
 Honoring Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Wor- ley, who will leave soon for the south, the guests will include MT. and Mrs. c. M. Hirst, MT. and Mrs. M. s. Whittier, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Williams and MT. and Mrs. Homer Nordling.
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but printers are people, too, and so I changed the spelling to give them a break. The pronunciation is the same so what difference do few vowels and consonantS rsake?"
 Corsica, who stands six feet two inches and weighs 1855 pounds, is of Polish extraction and his pres ence has helped Tiger gates this season no little, Detroit having Q huge Polish population.
 Johnny was playing third base for a Bayonne, N J., high school team when he was signed for the Tigers by the late Billy Doyle Corsica went to Beckley where zeller took look at him and de- creed that he was to become a pitcher. Johnnys batting average at the time was only .299 so Zel- Ter felt he would never threaten either Hank Greenberg or Rudy York as custodians of first base for Detroit.
 Sinker Is Best Pitch Corsica developed his now famous sinker pitch and won Is and lost seven games for Beckley. At Beau
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GAMES MONDAY Pacific Coast League

Los Angeles O.; San Diego s. Portland 5; Hollywood 3. Seattle 4; San Francisco 0. Oakland O.; Sacramento II.
 Schedule This Week The schedule of games of the Pacific Coast League for this week opening today is as follows: Seattle at Oakland. Portland at Sacramento. San Francisco at Los Angeles. Hollywood at San Diego. ..8 National League Brooklyn 10, 3; Pittsburgh 1, 4 Philadelphia 3; Cincinnati 3. New York 8; Chicago 5. Boston 2; St Louis l2.
 American League Cleveland 6; Washington 8. St. Louis 6; Boston 10. Chicago 3; New York g. Detroit 9; Philadelphia 8.
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tr- . SEATTLE I5 ...
 WINNERBY / 40 SCORE
Youthful Souihpdw ChdIks Up Ninth Straight Vi1-
 tory Last Night
(By Associated Press)

Aldon Wilkie, youthful Seattle southpaw, chalked up his in h straight victory last night as he blanked7 the Seals in one of the Pacific Coast series of games for the Red Cross. Wilkie allowed seven hits.
 Sacramento defeated Oakland last night to end a disastrous series in which the Oaks have won seven out of nine games.
 Portland launched a three assault on Rugger Ardizoia in the
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seventh inning last night to de- feat Hollywood.
 z Walloping young Jack Fallon for six runs in the first inning last night, San Diego blasted Los An geles.
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mont, of the Texas League, the next year he won only nine games while losing IT but Beaumont was a last place club
 He showed much promise at Detroit's Florida training camp this spring and the Tigers de- cided to keep him.
 Corsica also found romance in baseball, meeting and marrying Edith Bruster, a pharmacist, at Beckleyi
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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-31
Oiling Contract
Let For Sll4,l60

County Commissioners Ray Frost,
accompanied by County Commits
sioner James Mahoney, journeyed to
Helena last Wednesday and was
there for the letting of the oiling
contract on the Eureka exford-
Rondo unit of No. 81. The contract
was let to Frank Haas for STA
10000. Haas has the grading con-
tract on the unit
The commissioners got the promise
of another letting in November from
the Jennings hill down stream for
distance of five miles; also letting
in December for the balance of the
Libby-Jennings project, and the one
and half miles from Eureka to
connect with the new part of No. 81
under construction there. These two
units will be built at the same time
and by the same contractor.
The commission promised us,
states Mr.. Frost, that the overpass
and bridge at Libby would be built
in l94l, stating that it was probable
No. 2 would be placed on the pre-
paredness program and would be
completed in the near future by that
set-up.
The two commissioners feel they
had very successful trip.
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Commercial
Club To Dine
AtCCC
Chairman Boyes Says Fish,
Game Meeting to be Best
Ever Staged.
SPORTSMAN'S AWARD
WILL BE PRESENTED

Tuesday evening members Of the
Libby Commercial Club Fish and
Game Committee met at the home
of Chairman E. M. Boyes to disc
cuss the annual meeting NovemA
Der % at the CCC camp.
A Sportsman Award" will be
made to some local person who has
done outstanding work in this VII
cinity for furtherance of game and
/ fish conditions. The names OF the
person will be kept secret until
] the meeting and at that time the
award will be made. 1t is the desire
of the committee to make this pre-
sentation every year to the most
/ deserving sportsman in Lincoln
county.
Preparations are being made for
the dinner to be at the CCC camp
as it was last year and the main
meeting will be held at the Moose
hall.
The dinner is expected to be more
than on an even par with that of
1889 but due to the fact that extra
/ expenses will have to be incurred,
the price of the tickets will be
raised to rs cents per plate Mem
bers and guests will not tip the
walters as they did last year but
rather the committee will take care
of that matter through the extra
charge Music will be furnished by
lads Of the camp during the dinner.
Several fine features have been
planned by the committee for the
meeting. Speakers of the evening
will be William Cady of Standpoint,
former resident of this city, |. "
Anderson, assistant regional forest
er in charge of wildlife, Ross Brown.
superintendent of hatcheries, state
of Idaho, Len Richardson, district
, game warden for northern Idaho,
and John Sehofield, superintendent
of fisheries, state of Montana. There
I is a possibility that Don Libbey,
superintendent of Glacier park and
G his chief ranger, George Miller, will
r also be present.
:, Motion pictures from the Canadian
G National Railway and the Great
. Northern Railway are being pro-
Cured and the fish and game COM
a mittee will previeW them before
: the meeting and show the pictures
I they believe to be the best. The
S Canadian films are entitled, Musk
e les" and Seeking Steel Heads" The
G others are Guardian of Gunsight"
: and Trout Fishing in Glacier" The
t latter films are in sound and tech
nicolor.
4 Another meeting of the committee
4 will be held at the Boyes residence
: November 7 at 7 o'clock to make
s final plans for the game meeting.
: Members of the committee are E.
M. Boyes, chairman, NJ X. Kedzie,
! Al Richard, Dexter Shaurette, Lloyd
= Burpee, Ernie Wood and M. E.
: Tester.
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Democratic Women
Will Sponsor Tee

Friday afternoon the community
room of the court house will be the
scene of tea sponsored by the Ia
dies of the Lincoln County Demo-
cratic clubs. The affair will begin
at o'clock and will last until 5.
The general public is invited to
partake of the refreshments and to
meet democratic candidates and
their wives who will be in the re-
ception line.
Short talks by prominent demo-
Gratis of the state and county will be
the feature of the afternoon. Ac-
cording to plans made by the COM
mittee, a number of state candi-
dates will be present. Invitations
have been sent to all of them.
Mrs. Timothy Miller is the chair
man of the gathering and will be
assisted by Mrs. Walter Bissell OF
Troy, Mrs. Wayne Shanahan, Mrs
Marshall Candee, Mrs. Harold
Gompf, Mrs. Don Orr, Mrs. Vernon
Bessey and Mrs. Eldon Schuck.
Another feature of the afternoon
will be the explanation of the new
ballot
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In Bad Auto Crash
But No Serious Injuries

Mr.. and Mrs. John Minde were
the victims of an unfortunate ac-
cident last Saturday while on their
way to Missoula. Approximately II
miles north of Poison they struck
a piece Of slick pavement and their
car slid off the road and crashed
into a pile of boulders. The car was
completely demolished but neither
of the occupants of the car received
serious hurts.
Mrs. Minde's feet were crushed
and she received several bad bruises
Mr. Minde's head was cut. Both are
feeling better at the present time
They were on their way to Mis-
soula to attend the funeral of q
relative when the accident took
place. Their son, Archie, was noti-
fled Immediately and drove to Pol
son to get them
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O'ConneII In
Characteristic ak

Saturday evening Jerry ]. O'Con-
nell, candidate for United States
congress, was the main speaker at
a democratic rally staged at the
Moose hall.
Austin Fraser was the master of
ceremonies and introduced the coun-
ty candidates on the democratic
ticket. They are Marshall Candee
for county attorney, Fred F. Clark
for clerk of the district court, Yer
non Bessey for representative, Ray
c. Frost for county commissioner
and Joe KujaWa for public admin
istrator. Some of the candidates
gave short addresses.
Former Congressman O'Connell
was introduced by Mr.. Fraser and
addressed an interested and atten-
tive audience for almost an hour.
Jerry, in his usual fiery manner,
condemned the vicious practices of
the various organizations and bust
nesses in the state and promised, If
elected, to fight them with teeth
and toenail."
MIR. O'Connell devoted great
portion of his speech to the presi-
Dental candidates and stated, Il
believe Willkie to be killowatt
candidate. He was selected in 1884
by the national association of manu-
facturers for the purpose of being a
presidential nominee in the 1910
election. This association led All
M. Landon to the political slaughter
/ in 1886, knowing that the election
was hopeless SO far as a republican
candidate was concerned They Sc
/ lected Landon from a farm state ir
order that they might convince the
voters that the republican party wa!
on the liberal side of the fence
By that campaign they intended t.
lay the groundwork for the 194l
campaign"
Continuing his speech Jerry said
when | was in Spain as membe'
of the commission on foreign com
merce | observed all of the horror
of war. Upon my return to tn,
United States | plead with the peo
pie and congress to increase prepare
tons for national defense. At tina
time agitation was very unpopula
in this country and very injuriou
in Montana"
Immediately following the talk tn
group of 200 people who had turne,
out for the rally enjoyed shor
dance.
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Another Mine
Neors Production

Another mining development that
has been going forward steadily
for some time is now nearing the
production stage. It is the Silver
Crown property, south Of Libby,
and the men who have been at the
head of this development are L. ].
Brown and Arnold Lee.
These two men recently bought a
35-ton mill and now have the ma
chinery installed on foundations at
the property. The next step is
erecting of a new building over the
machinery and this will be done
at once. When the building is com:
pleted, actual production will gel
under way.
The mill will at first be operated
by gas engine but later it is planned
to have hydro-electric power de-
veloped from Granite creek. The gas
engine will then be used only as
auxiliary power
Nine men have been employed
for some time at this property. The
values are in silver, lead and gold
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Tree Harvest
Under Way
Largest Percentage of Crop
Comes From kOOtenal
Forest.
CARLOADS OF CONIFERS
SHIPPED FAR AND WIDE

MISSOULA. - Commercial har-
vesting Of Montana's annual Christ
mas tree crop has been under way
in the northwestern part Of the state
since October Is and will continue
until about December 10. says M.
Brander, director of the Northern
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range
Experiment Station, Missoula. 1t is
estimated by the forest service that
it takes about 8 or 10 million trees
to satisfy the Christmas demand IN
the United States, and of that
amount Montana produced 1867 900
last year or roughly one-fifth.
Approximately As per cent of this
number came from Lincoln County
and A per cent from Flathead, while
the remainder was shipped from
Lake and other western Montana
counties. The railroads handled
385 carloads in 1889 or about L.
1923. 900 trees, which accounts for
the bulk of the shipments. Most OF
the trees cut (82 per cent? came
from private lands with the ma
tional forests providing about IA
per cent and State of Montana for
ests, per cent. Among the ma
tional forests, the Kootenai Nation
al Forest with headquarters at Lib
by is the largest producer of Christ
mas trees.
1t is believed that the use of
Christmas trees originated with
Martin Luther, leader of the Re-
formation, who lived from 1888 to
1876 Since then the practice has
spread to every continent and to al
most every nation. The joy which
Christmas trees bring to children
and the fond memories which are
rekindled in the hearts of older peo-
pie insure the continuance of this
! fine old custom 1t should be a
source of satisfaction to Montanans
to know that their forests contri-
butte so much to the happiness of
millions of American homes during
the Christmas season.
Trees from Montana are shipped
mainly to the upper Mississippi Val
ley, the Ohio and Missouri valley
country, and to Inland Empire
points. The cities of Chicago, Cleve-
land, St. Louis, and Minneapolis are
major markets. Before shipment the
trees are carefully inspected, sorted
Continued on Page 10.)
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F. R. Bdney
Kills Huge
Grizzly Bear
Bear Attacks Him, Quick Wit,
and Fine Workmanship
Saves Life.
BELIEVES ANIMAL
WEIGHED 600 POUNDS

No sir | don't care for that type
of hunting declared Sheriff Frank
Baney yesterday as he related ter
rifying story of his being attack
by a huge grizzly bear last Saturday
at the head of Foundation creek in
the northeast section of the county.
Mr. Baney was deer hunting in
that section when the unusual in
cident occurred. He said he was
hiking over a forest service trail
and had sharp eye out for pos
sible buck when he was confronted
by a huge grizzly bear which seemed
to rise from nowhere. The animal
was reared up on its hing legs and
believing ferociously. When Mr..
Baney first saw the bear it was APP
proximately so feet away. He said
the noise the bear was making was
terrible and that, along with the
suddenness of the affair, took him
very much by surprise. As soon as
he could get his wits together, he
took very careful air and shot at the
bear This bullet entered the body
right between the front legs and
knocked the animal down. He let
forth another terrific below and
started after Mr.. Baney again This
time the sheriff shot the bear in the
right side and knocked him down
again. The huge animal arose and
the sheriff fired once more. With
an almost super-effort the bear
tried to arise again and almost sue
ceded. The sheriff was goin to
shoot but to his CONSERVATION found
his 800 Savage contained no more
shells.
II was to the great relief of the
hunter that the bear stopped and
seemed to be trying to shake himself
clear of bounds, He was twisting
his head freFn side to side and was
Slowly sfnking to the ground. This
time he did not get up.
Sheriff Baney did not 20 near
the grizzly for almost half af1 hour
for he wanted to make sure he was
dead After he had made certain
that death had come he paced off
the distance from where he had
been standing and where the bear
had gone down and found 1t to be
only 20 feet He then walked lit
tie further up the trail and found
a bear track which looked to be
much bigger than the grizzly he
had just killed but decided not to
hunt the other bear for he had
had excitement enough for one day.
i have hunted bear many, many
times the sheriff said, land have
killed my share of them but never
before in my life have / ever seen
such huge critter in the woods. 1t
is my guess that he weighed near
to 800 pounds. After | get him to
Libby I measured his% head and
found it to be Is inchesgbetWeen the
ears. He was IS inches from the tip
of his nose to the top of his head
and the hide and head alone weighed
1872 pounds. After skinning him /
cut 152 pounds OF fat from his back
and didn't bother to take any from
the sides or stomach"
It is the belief of the officer that
the monster was about five years
old and had been fighting with an
other bear which accounted for his
eagerness to make a kill.
Sheriff Baney shipped the head
and skin to Whitefish where he is
having it made into rug.
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Over 4,000,0 900
People Wanted Him

An interesting statement was
made by Grin Root, one of the in
stigators of the Willkie for Presi-
dent Clubs, in a broadcast Monday
night. Root said that at the Phila-
delphia convention that finally nom
mated Willkie for president, petit
tons were presented that had been
signed by over four million from the
rank and file of American citizens
demanding that Willkie be nomi.
mated.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-31
On Libby
Jennings Highway

County Commissioner Mahoney
reports this morning that Engineers
Poore, Kunz and Wilcom of the staff
al the state highway department are
on Highway No. 81 today, doing
some work preliminary to the let
ting Of contract. They are working
on the Libby-Jennings section--the
five-mile project beginning at the
foot Of the Jennings hill.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-31
Troy To Play
Dixon for Championship

Word was received from Super
intendent A. L. Dean of Troy last
evening that the Troy six-man foot
ball team will play Dixon for the
Western Division Championship No
vember 6 at o'clock, at Dixon.
The winner of this game will play
Phillipsburg for the Northwestern
District Championship Neither Dix
on nor Troy have lost a conference
game this season.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-31

Mrs. Emma Schlickum Murphy of
Tacoma is visiting her old school
mates, Mrs. A. c. Herbst and Miss
Grandjean. Mrs. Murphy is return
ing to her home in Tacoma after
an extended visit with her nieces
in Saginaw, Mich.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-31
Hamilton Meets
Libby November s

Since the Libby team holds the
title of being champions for this
division, game between Hamilton
and Libby will be played here a
week from Friday, November 9th.
This will determine the winner of
the district.
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$50 Lincoln County Men Are Drafted in
First Drawing Of SeIective Service Act

public Lincoln
CONSUMPTION the national lottery
Libby preachers
being A. Dalton Rev. Norman E. Benson
Following the list complete as of this date
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