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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Admiral KissiEss Ell
NeuU Fleet Chief

HONOLULU. T II H., Feb. Il
QNS)-Rear Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel. So, today relieved
Admiral James o. Richardson as
commander in chief of the
United States fleet.
The simple but impressive
ceremony took place aboard the
flagship Pennsylvania at Pearl
Harbor. The first commandments
chief of Uncle Sans combined
United States fleet and the Pa
cific fleet. Admiral Kimmel in
his acceptance speech promised
the fleet would be ready for any
thing in the busy days ahead.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Ist Line of Defense

Knox insisted that the British
fleet is our first line of defense
in the Atlantic" and reiterated a
statement he made last week to
the House foreign affairs commit
tee that the Axis combined sea-
going strength. including Japan's,
was about two to one over the
United States navy.
would the japanese be In
cluded In the Axis powers fleet
strength" Nye asked.
Answering in the affirmative
Knox said that while the japanese
army was begged down" in China
Nippon's navy is free and has
control of the, China Sea"
How great part would the
Japanese play in any world con-
quest In event Britain fell?"
Nye asked.
81 can't answer that question
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Extortion Of SeIe(tee
CHARGED 10 Draft Aide

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. L
GNS)-Fred Kaplan. 20, employe
of a Philadelphia draft board. was
held in $4,000 bail today on a
charge of extorting $50 from
.conscriptee on the promise TO OBJ
tain deferment for him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Examples Offered

Smith pointed 10 the operation
by the city of the water board,
the DSR and the street lighting
system as proof that efficient OPP
GRAFTON Of large utilities by the
municipality is feasible He said.
None can deny that the city
of Detroit. a. owner and Oper-
ator oftutility properties greater
than the local gas utility Sys-
TEN. has won reputation for
efficiency and public profit un-
parallcled in America.
This in itself is adequate
guarantee TO DetrOit's citizen
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Peril Not Immediate

81 never felt that there was
immediate danger of a naval
attack IL Britain fell" Knox
conceded. 81 think they would
seek to establish bases first In
the Western Hemisphere"
"Our own navy could make 1t
a hazardous task to get supplies
from Europe to Dakar, couldn't
it," Nye queried.
THAT is a speculative ques-
tion." said Knox. He hesitated
a moment and said supplies
might be brought from Europe
to Dakar overland if necessary
for the Axis fleets.
Knox also said the German ant
Italian fleets were built chiefly TO
in home waters, but III
sisted they could carry bunker
for fuel to increase their area
of operation across the Atlantic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
u. S.DeIdy ofAiid
Feared Too Late
By Knox, Halifax
Lease Lend Program
Bickering Seen as
Barrier to Britai in
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Knox told the Senate committee,
the Axis powers will have a COM
bination of fleets superior to the
United States Navy and could take
South America like Dewey took
Manila" He conceded, however,
that no such naval attack would
be likely in the near future.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Only Useful Portions

Only Useful Portions
Through issuance of revenue
bonds, not by levying taxes, the
city would acquire only the used
and useful portions of the dis
tributing system at fair price,
which would be determined, IL
necessary, by court proceedings.
I'm addition to 'stream-lining'
valuation, the city would con-
fine executive salaries to
normal level for municipal serv-
i've, while maintaining a high
level for employees, which mark
present municipal utility opera
tiOns.
more important, the city
would be saved vast sums now
expended by the gas company
for rate litigation, lobbying, ETC.,
the purpose of which Is to
Illustrate the popular will.
THE local gas distribution
system would become a munich
pal investment for public use,
rather than an individual in
vestment for private profit.
With its own customers as
stockholders, its profits would
flow toward reduction of rates,
progressively, to retirement of
its bonded debt and, possibly,
toward reduction of city prop
erty taxes. due to municipal
light plant profits at Sturgis,
Mich, for example, the citizens
are tax free.)
"As gas distributor the city
would be able to press ener-
getically for further slashes in
the cost of natural gas pur-
chased from the pipe line in
terests. Certainly, the city would
not participate in or acquiesce
to an antitrust conspiracy
against its own gas users"
Extension of Service
Smith further expressed the
hope that a municipal gas system
in Detroit could push natural gas
service out to neighboring COM
which have artificial gas,
could seek the construction of a
second natural gas pipeline to the
fields. reduce the smoke
nuisance in Detroit and prov lie
the basis for an expansion of the
steel industry here.
To back his contention that
present gas rates in Detroit are
Smith produced the
following table:
Cleveland buys 10 therms for
Sal and sells them for S10s.
Pittsburgh buys 10 therms for
$40 and sells them for S100.
Toledo buys 10 therms for SAG
and sells them for SIS.
Columbus buys 10 thermS for
S.37l2 and sells them for $50.
Detroit buys 10 therms for $50
and sells them for S150.
so consider, now, the aver
age wage-suppOrted Detroit
family" Smith asked.
Spread Varies
"For the first 10 therms Of
natural gas, equivalent to 1000
cubic feet of natural gas, or two
ID. G. Us (as measured by the
gas company, Mrs. Detroiter
pays Sl.50 for quantity of
natural gas that cost the gas
company only S.33."
Smith added that the spread"
between purchase price of the gas
10 the company and sale price TO
the public is 400 per cent greater
in Detroit than in Toledo. 222 per
cent greater than in Columbus,
173 per cent greater than in Cleve-
land. and 1875 per cent greater
than in Pittsburgh.
These figures are based upon
the new reduced rates for Detroit
which became effective January d.
Smith stated
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
It's Asked by Barley

Senator Barley of Kentucky
Democratic leader, asked the navy
chief
'If England falls, the Axis
powers could take South Amer
lea like Dewey took Manila ?"
Correct: Like Dewey took
Manila" Knox said
Knox was a Rough Rider in
Theodore Roosevelt's h toriC
Spanish American War unit that
Stormed San Juan Hill in Cuba
He referred to Admiral Dewey's
capture of Manila without losing
man.
The secretary said "the Ger
mans might use the West African
French port of Dakar" to launch
their attack on South America If
they defeat England.
Nye insisted that even if the
Axis powers won the war that
ANY attempt at invasion of the
Western Hemisphere would not be
made Immediately"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Willkie Summoned

Willkie is returning here at the
cabled request of Secretary OF
State Cordell Hull. it was made
known. The Republican leader
sent word he would arrive in New
York in about seven days and
come to Washington to give the
Senate committee his first-hand
observations on the British situa-
ton.
He is slated to be the admins
trations final witness for the
leaSe-lend bill.
Secretary Knox appeared to en-
Joy the give-and-take with COM
mittee members during today's
session. Senator Nye (R) of North
Dakota, a leading anti-interven-
zionist, demanded whether the bill
would force the United States to
underwrite the British war costs,
1--WE have to see Britain saved
for our own interests" Knox re-
piled.
Have we time to save Eng
land?" Nye asked.
Il don't know" Knox said. II
am tremendously worried"
Asked whether the Germans
had obtained any ships of the
French fleet, Knox said:
II do not think so, but they
are still negotiating"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

owners that n similar success
would mark their distribution of
natural gas as municipal func-
ton.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

Dawson, Deer Lodge, Fergus,
Flathead, Garfield, Hill, Lake,
Lincoln, Madison, McCone, Mis-
soula, Musselshell, Phillips, Pow
der River, Ravalli, Richland,
Roosevelt, Sheridan, Silver Bow,
Valley and Yellowstone. All 9TH
erS were expected to finance
their own relief problem.
But while the welfare boards
proposed ALLEGATION of the relief
appropriation was in accordance
with the legislatures decree, it
was regarded as a virtual Ger
tainty that some one of the
counties left out in the cold"
would carry the ruling to state
supreme court. Some goSsipS
suggested it might be Lewis and
Clark county, or possibly Glacier
county which would file the test
suit. There was no immediate
indication here that either
county would take such action.
The proposed reorganization
of the state government moved
forward another step when Gov.
Sam c. Ford employed the Chi
cago firm of E. o. Griffenhagen
and Associates, nationally =
known governmental experts, to
conduct the survey on which
proposals to consolidate and ell
initiate overlapping functions
and duties will be based. The
firm was to receive $4,000 for
the survey, which was to be
completed by the end of Janu-
airy.
Governor Ford was to base his
report to the 1943 legislature on
the findings of the experts, but
said he and the reorganization
committee would take care OF
minor changes possible by exec
utive order as they were recon-
mended.
The state preparedness and
advisory committee got away to
a start during the week on a
sweeping program of compiling
defense information intended,
among other things, to secure
for the state a share in national
defense orders. The committee
hired Tom D. Caverly, former
newspaperman, to act as coor-
dinator. His salary was to be
paid from a WPA grant for the
survey. He was instructed to
start Immediately on a checkup
of the states human resource
es," and other surveys.
Gov. Ford, Agriculture Com
missioner Albert H. Kruse, R. E.
Towle, Helena; E. J. Kelley,
Butte and Claude c.. Gray, Big
Timber, were named executive
committee to handle day-to-day
DEVELOPMENTS.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
REGISTRATION MEANS
MILES OF WALKING

Walking down to the draft
board to register under the Sc
lective Service Act on July /,
because they had reached their
twenty-first birthdays since Oc-
tober 16, 1910, proved to be
quite a chore for Trailman John
E. Mikota and Lookout Layton
Jones, employed in the wilder
ness areas of Glacier National
park.
Trailman Mikota, who is sta
toned at Elizabeth lake in the
northeast corner of the park,
had to walk IL miles to the
nearest road for transportation
to the draft board registrar at
Many Glacier hotel, while Look
out Jones had to walk five miles
to the railroad for transporta-
ton to Kalispen, Mont, where
he registered with the draft au-
thorities. Both of their registra-
tions will be forwarded to thell
home county boards. Mikota
lives in Columbia Falls, Flat
head county, and Jones lives ir
Missoula, where he is a forestry
student at Montana State uni
verSity.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

Also along the lines of nation
al defense, the governor named
a 12-member advisory commit
tee for the national defense saw
ings program. It included state
officials, bankers, insurance
men, and representatives of the
livestock and agricultural in
duStrieS.
SHORT SHOTS - Atty. Gen.
John w. Bonner. reminded coun-
ty attorneys that gambling was
gambling, whether or not it was
sponsored in part by counties
or similar agencies. This meant,
he said, there was to be no
gambling at any of the carnivals
which follow the various fairs
and rodeos State auditor
John J. Holmes set up new &C
counts totaling $6,464, 087.25 for
the various offices and institu-
tons, their appropriations for
board of equalization reported
its tax and license collections
for the year ending June 80
amounted to So, 1882, OIL, or $751;
9O6.11 more than in 1910. The
gasoline tax accounted for &c.
719, 938.66 of the 1940-41 total
-. The state highway depart
ment bought 1,435 additional
warning signs for use on Mon
tana's roads The state liq-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
WILL BE
SPEAKER AT

Silver Gate, Mont, July o
(UP) - Postmaster General
Frank C. Walker will be prin-
cipal speaker at the annual con-
vention of the Montana chapter
of the National PostmaSterS' as
ISOLATION here July Gil.
The postmaster general and
Mrs. Walker were to be accom-
panied here by Harold Ambers.
division administrative assistant
to Walker, who also was to
speak at the sessions.
Other convention speakers
were to be Mearl L. Fagg, presi-
dent Of the Billings chapter;
Aubrey D. Lawrence, railway
mail service superintendent with
headquarters at Seattle; j. o.
Stevic, Denver postmaster;
James P. Cooley, manager of
the 18th civil service division at
Seattle; W. J. Cooney, postoffice
inspector; Fred E. Erickson,
traffic manager for Northwest
Airlines, and Albert T. Davis,
chief clerk of railway mail SER
vice at Helena.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
The Capitol
Week In Review

Helena, Mont, July -CUPl
- Twenty EIGHT of MOntana'S
Sc counties will receive the
$250,000 relief appropriation for
fiscal 1941, and % others will
receive nothing, the state well
fare board decreed.
The board, bowling to the leg
islature's edict that counties
that can finance their own relief
loads must do so, designated %
counties as eligible for state
grants-in-aid and announced it
would allocate the $250,000 ap-
preparation to them as soon as
the state board of equalization
had determined their taxable
valuations for 1941.
The board said it based its
selection of the % counties up
on the history of poor fund re-
ceipts and expenditures during
the past four years, upon the
present condition of poor funds
in the several counties 49,. up
on the average taxable valua-
ton per capita, and upon the
prospects with regard to relief
needs during the coming fiscal
year, and the revenue that may
reasonably be anticipated for
meeting these relief needs 49,"
The % counties designated as
eligible for state help were:
Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon,
Carter, Cascade, Custer, Daniels,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
BILLINGS FLOCK SETS
RECORD

The flock of 29O white leg
horns owned by G.. C. Hedrick of
Billings laid a total of 1903 eggs
or an average of 25.5 eggs per
hen during the month OF May
to top all extension demonStra-
ton farm flocks of more than
100 hens, according to Ha%rriette
E. Cushman, extension poultry
specialist at Montana State COL
lege.
In first place for flocks of less
than 100 hens was that owned
by Mrs. Katherine Guentner of
Eden, Cascade county. Her IS
white leghorns laid a total of
1850 eggs during the month, or
an average of % eggs per hen.
In the breeding classification
the flock of 118 Rhode Island
reds owned by Mrs. S. A. Met
calf of Stanford was high with
a total of $3.50 eggs or an av-
erage of 22.7 eggs per hen.
Egg prices received by demon
stration farm cooperators aver
aged 81 cents per dozen for the
month compared with IS cents
for May a year ago and 16 cents
for May 1889. Feed cost per hen
averaged 10 cents compared
with IL cents a year ago and 10
cents for May 1889.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
BICYCLE TRAVEL IN
PARK is

Bicycle travel in Glacier Ma
tional park is showing quite an
increase. Park Rangers at the
West Entrance checking station
adjacent to Bolton, recently reg
istered five cyclists in one day
all out to see the world. Each
carried his own camping equip
ment.
Travelling alone was Ralph
Stiles of Topeka, Kan, on his
way to Lake Louise in Banft
National park, Alberta, Can. The
Topeka youth had Travelled
through ten western states and
will now head home eastward
across Canada.
Miss Frances Webley and Miss
Mary Hesketh, both of Seattle,
Wash, registered in, travelling
together. They reported that
they had averaged 80 miles dali
ly form Seattle.
Two other Washington youths
seeing the west on a bicycle
were Phil Patterson and Jack
Hester, both of Thornton, Wash.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

sponsible persons may be filed
or the penalty may be paid in
cash.
Feeding the surplus wheat to
stock is Illegal. County commit
teemen will report any feeding
of the excess to the state AAA
committee, which will place the
facts of the alleged violations
before the United States district
attorney, who will institute pro-
ceedingS.
Farmers resent the red tape
they will have to unravel to dis
pose of their wheat and are
trying to figure out ways and
means of avoiding the regula-
tons. 1t will certainly lead to
much bootlegging and in some
localities there is talk of night
raids, sawed-off shotguns and
other proceedings of a similar
nature.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
WHEAT

Kansas farmers are in open
rebellion against the wheat
marketing quotas. AT Randolph
last week several hundred wheat
growers heard Dan D. Case
ment denounce the new AAA
program as totalitarian and pre-
dict that it would usher in ar
era of grain Bookkeeping.
Anyone who violates quota
regulations violates a law thai
prohibits a farmer from selling
his own wheat or feeding it tt
his hogs or his chickens" Case,
ment declared.
Wheat is selling at 70 cents
in Manhattan. The farmer who
flouts the law pays a penalty
of 40 cents a bushel which
leaves him 90 cents, or less thar
the AAA speakers predicted
would be the ruling price OF
wheat if quotas were not ad-
opted"
But Kansas is not the only
state in revolt. Illinois farmers
are also stirred up and from
Bloomington comes the report
that government farm program
officials have asked the cooper
alton of central Illinois grain
dealers to prevent the market
ing of "bootleg wheat" grown
in violation of the marketing
quota law. Such wheat is subject
to a penalty of 40 cents a bu-
shell.
The amount of wheat on
which the penalty must be paid
is determined by multiplying
the excess acreage times the
normal yield set for the farm
under the AAA program. Buy
ers and handlers will be held
responsible for the payment of
the penalty of any wheat they
accept which is not identified
by a marketing quota card or a
receipt from the county office
showing that the penalty re-
quirement has been met.
Marketing cards will be issued
to surplus wheat growers only
after they have made arrange
ments with their county AAA
committees to satisfy require
ments regarding penalty wheat.
The excess may be stored on
farms or in warehouses, or an
amount of money equal to the
penalty placed in escrow with
the county committee, or an in
demnity bond signed by two re-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
North Valley News

A picnic-party was held on
the lawn at the Dave Herbel,
ST., home July 4. Those attend
ing were Mr.. and Mrs. G.. J.
Dumler, Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Her.
bel, Jr., and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Metzker and family,
Ray Kurtz and Kenneth, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Herbel and
Jimmy, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
Kurtz and children, MIR. and
Mrs. R. w. Birk, Helen Ham,
mond, clyde McCafferty, Gayle
Bird, Ted, Leroy and George
Herbel, Billie Olenik and the
host and hostess, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave Herbel, ST..
Mrs. H. M. Hammond and
Miss Katherine Hammond of
Billings were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Hammond
Sunday of last week.
Ed and Billie Olenik and
Emanuel Herbel went on a fish
ing trip north of Custer on the
Fourth.
Dave Herbel, ST., Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Metzker, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Groskoff and MI. and
Mrs. Bernie Quigley were bust
ness callers in Billings Monday.
Jack Lackenmeier visited with
Dave Herbel, ST., Tuesday.
w. l.. Williams and j. E.
Weinberg were business callers
in the Foster vicinity Wednes-
day.
Lyle Hammond left Friday for
the Pine Hills ranch, where he
expects to stay about a week.
Mrs. John Olenik was hostess
at a party Wednesday after
noon at her home in honor OF
her daughter, Jeanette, on her
first birthday. Guests were Mrs,
Joe Olenik, Mrs. Walt Quest,
Mrs. Henry Kray, Jr., and son,
Donnie, Mrs. Jack Newell and
, children, Tommy and Raymond,
Mrs. Jake Schultz and daught-
err, Patty, Mrs. Harry Herbel
and son, Jimmy, Jackie Newell
and Helen Hammond. A dessert
luncheon was served by the hos
tess.
Clint Brewer, who recently re-
turned to his ranch home in the
Pine hills, called on Lyle Ham
mond Tuesday afternoon.
En- route to their home near
Foster after attending camp
meeting in Bozeman last week,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walt Quest, &C
companied by Gerald Hill OF
Custer, stopped in Billings to
! attend funeral services for Glenn
| Spencer. Mr.. and Mrs. Quest al
| so visited with friends while in
Billings.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. ]. Dumler and
daughter, Mrs. Laura Scheidt of
Hysham and Herman Schmidt
! of Sanders called at the Dave
Herbel, ST.. home Thursday
night. Mr.. and Mrs. Dumler re-
manned to visit with relatives
in the valley while Mrs. Scheidt
and Mr.. Schmidt drove on to
! Busby to join MIR. and Mrs
George Metzker on a Fourth OF
July fishing trip.
! MI. and Mrs. Bill Herbel drove
| to Custer to meet Mrs. Herbel's
father, who arrived from North
!. Dakota Friday morning to spend
the Fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kurtz
are the parents of a daughter
born July 2. The baby has been
named Mildred.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

uor control board ordered Ad-
miniStrator Ray Wahl not to
buy any more products of the
American Distilling Go. The or
der, the board said, was the re-
suit of the company's alleged
activities"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

Glendive, July - (UP) &C,
A. Thurston, Dawson county
banker and business man, was
well started on his 91st year to-
day following a celebration in
honor of his Goth birthday.
Nearly 500 friends from all
sections of the state attended
the party here to pay tribute to
him.
Thurston came here in 1883,
and became president of the
First National bank in 1904, a
position he has held since that
time.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
Ito NG CZHEk
(&Mt ]

(NOTE: To insure getting in
to the paper articles should be
short and to the point. If a
non-de-plume is used the real
name must accompany the ar
ticle for the editors informa-
tion.)
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

The following editorial was
clipped from a Kansas paper
This same editorial has been
run in several papers through
out the midwest. We believe it
would be timely to have it prin-
ted in this locality.
A Big Horn County Wheat