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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-13

The officer of the day stopped a
mess orderly as he was carrying
soup kettle out of the kitchen.
Here, you," he snapped, give
me a taste of that!7
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Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. McCallum,
Mrs. Cecil Gompf and Mrs. John
Grove visited Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
McCallum at the Brannigan mine
Saturday. They enjoyed looking
over the mill and the beautiful views
at that place.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-13

Mrs. Julius Botchek Of Omak,
Wash. and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nc
Crory of Kellogg. Ida, arrived in
Libby last Friday. leaving for their
homes Wednesday. They visited
here with relatives and took in the
Pioneers dance.
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28
Flashes
of Life


HOME AGAIN
. INDIANAPOLIS-When Will
liam H. Billens had a sandwich
shop at 500 West Washington
street, he lost his dog.
Then he moved FIVE miles
across town, to 26O6 East Tenth
street.
The dog, missing a year, turn
ed up in the new location
scratching at the door.
HOOTS AND SADDLES
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. -
Either" complains Rep. Clin-
ton An lerson (D.-N.M.), 81 don't
understand eastern horses or
they don't understand me-"
Further he asks "a saddle
horn and two stirrups and not q
hat saddle and four reins."
He intends to take several of
his New Mexico mounts and q
western saddle when he returns
to Washington.
%
HIGHER EDUCATION
oGARDEN CITY, Kas. - One
hundred primary school stu
dents peid . laboratory fee OF
seven cents each.
The experiment.
\ seven mile train ride 10
Holcomb.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

My best target was Is bull's-eyes
and one in the adjoining Airing
two clips fired in A seconds.
AS one who used to like to shoot
the Springfield, / was especially
impressed with the Garand's soft
recoil and the way it kicks
straight back with very little
wavering of the sights from the
target.
Presently 1t. Col. G.. A. Pollin
and his son came by. George
Pollin is a normal-sized 13-year-
old who never had fired a 80
caliber rifle. He lay down and,
with one clip at slow fire. PUNK
ed off six bull's-eyes and two
As. Some other visitors were 1t.
and Mrs. c. B. Wolfe She wasn't
dressed for the muddy firing
line. but she stood up and blazed
away with the 9-pound rifle and
didn't mind the recoil
Incidentally, having heard
various Army men pronounce
"Garand" in every possible way,
asked Colonel Wessles, who
knows the inventor. Proper pro-
nunciation is with a hard &c"
as in the first syllable of gar
age" and with the accent on the
land"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28
SAFETY IN THE WEST
CHAPTER TX

1t was obvious to Carolyn that
Leana Sormi was irrational
about the discovery in the
Schoenfeld Laboratory and vic
timized by her own emotions.
At the end of Leana's melOdra-
matte speech to Bob, Carolyn had
wanted to interrupt. But a la
tent. creeping fear of the woman
with the foreign name had
somehow become intensified in
that quarter-hour. 1t was a sense
less fear, she told herself. Leana
probably was just wrought up
over everything.
But no; no, she wasn't either.
She spoke too earnestly, too i'm
pressively: plainly she had been
thinking all this out. Plainest of
all now was the fact that Leana
loved DR.. Robert Hale.
"She's crazy about him.! Caro-
lyn half whispered to herself.
A flash of practical reasoning
told her instantly to quit this
strange new secretarial job and
60 back to her old position in the
bank or find new routine some
where with good. solid Ken
Palmer. Ken, the kindly plodder
who loved her sincerely, but who
had no more color than the
bookkeeper he was.
She knew in the same instant
that she would never do that
now. II all the x-999 in Bob s
laboratory was about to blow up
in her face shed stick to this
new job, even though she could
not have said why. Here was
too much potential; lot had al
ready happened, and every hour
gave promise of a great deal
more. 1t was like being in q
mystery play.
Intuition rather than practi-
cality also prevented her from
revealing her presence TO Leana
Sormi.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

Garand. That is a proportion pre-
viously undreamed of.
Here at Fort Benning, the
score is even higher among
classes of officers-many of
them reservists who haven't
fired a rifle in years. Colonel
Wessles said that of his last class
of 1873, who had scarcely any
practice because of bad weather,
70 rated expert riflemen, So
sharpshooters, SO marksmen, and
only 3 failed to qualify.
EASY TO HANDLE
IN RAPID FIRE
When we went out on range
to shoot a Garand l soon learned
it's advantages in rapid fire,
which is the part of the record
course which used to ruin the
scores of most novices who shot
the Springfield.
With the old rifle, you were
supposed to shoot 10 times in q
minute at 200 yards. The new
rule, for the Garand, is Is shots
a minute. Colonel Wessles,
though, began by loading and
firing four clips of 80 shots in
so seconds, and scored 154 of
possible 100. At any slower rate
of fire. he seemed never to miss.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

anew. That rearing accounted
for a lot of his physical appear
ance and his mannerisms. A boy
from the west!
"Of course, every conceivable
care must be exercised in moy-
ing it and. of course, I shall do
it myself" He was back at work
again. There must be no mis-
take this time. First thing, how
ever, is for me"
He talked for nearly an hour
more. talked and dictated notes,
and planned with Carolyn's help.
Eagerly, almost hungrily he
seemed to confide in his secre-
tary here, to seek her counsel
and advice, her cooperation.
She was touched by that; no
man could have paid her higher
tribute; at least, no employer
could have.
When it was done and he had
returned to his own office desk
and she was making her type
writer sing its hearty staccato
again, she heard the outer door
open for the second time this
morning. But 1t was a mans
voice this time and she recog-
nized II for one of the three ell
derby watchmen who made con-
slant night-and-day patrol of
the Schoenfeld Laboratory build
the Schoenfeld Labor tory
buildings. punching clocks and
keeping guard.
Letter, DR.. Hale" the man
said. From Miss Sormi, sir"
Miss Sormi?" Carolyn heard
Bob reply. why, she was just
in here an hour or 50 ago. And
her office is only" He paused.
"Hmmmm. Well she sent it.
She's the queer one anyhow, II
you ask me. Never laughs, nor
passes the time Of day with us
like you always do, sir. Say,
when you gonna tell us what you
got them cops guarding the main
lab for, DR.. Hale? DANCED il you
ain't got my curiosity up!" A
The old fellow ended on .
genial chuckle, but he passed on
when he saw that Bob was al
ready intent on beSt1as, letter.
p tie Ne COntlnued) .
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28
BY OREN ARNOLD

line runs over mountains and
things, and-look, couldn't we
maybe get the X-999 out there
even before you had laboratory
built? Maybe store it in cave
to ease our mind?
Goodness, Bob, you'll have
no peace as long as it stays in
this city laboratory here, you
know that. Any nearby farm
house such as you first chose
would be dangerous. But away
off"
That's the ticket" Bob had
hung one leg on a corner of her
desk, half sitting, but he sudden
ly got up to walk back and forth
as he did when intent on any
thing. That's exactly the right
bunch, Carolyn. lou are a
dream!"
That startled her a bit. She
looked quickly at him. But he
was gazing off, planning. 1t had
been simply a careless word of
thanks.
For another hour he did a
great deal of thinking out loud.
During that time he ordered
maps brought in. He surveyed
the western half of the United
States with minute care, measur-
ing the distance to cities, calcu-
lating mileages, estimating what
his laboratory needs would be
out there and how best to meet
those needs.
"Okay. l shall catch a plane
tonight" he suddenly announced,
relaxing. 81 don't know why l
never thought of this myself. l
was reared out there, you know.
I can"
"Were you Bob? In the west?"
Carolyn showed new interest in
him.
He nodded. "In Colorado. B. S.
degree from Colorado u. I'm
practically a COW boy" He
laughed at that. MY dad was an
Insurance supervisor over two
states out there. Transferred to
Pennsylvania when / was 19. l
really can ride, Carolyn. Could.
I mean. When I had time. In the
last year or two"
He ended a bit wistfully, she
thought. But she studied him
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

She heard Leana's plea; heard
Bob take a courteous, kindly, but
somewhat superficial reaction to
it. giving Leana very little to tie
to. Leana worked herself into
tears and so fled rather abruptly.
Bob came Immediately to
Carolyns office. Carolyn felt
herself blush guiltily, even
though she had no actual guilt.
To cover her confusion, she
feigned deep interest in her
shorthand notes, pencil and pad
in hand.
That was Leana Sormi,' he
said, unnecessarily. Did you
hear herr"
"Oh. Why-yes." She would
not lie about it! "She sounded
rather distressed, Bob. Naturally
so, of course. At least, I thought
l heard her voice indicate that,
uh-"
"She will be all right. She is
a brilliant woman. Girl. She is
only 20. I mean. we'll, that's q
woman, isn't it," He smiled q
bit. Exactly when does a girl
become a woman, come to think
of it,"
II wouldn't take that up to-
day il l were you. We still have
a moving job on hand"
That's very true. And you
were saying you had an idea"
my idea was about moving
the X-999. 1t seems to me that
the only safe place to store il is
away out on the plains or noun
tains. You said you would need
electric power toTun the expert
mental laboratory. mean, while
YOU and your helpers adapt the
stuff to-to factory engines, and
trains, and automobiles, and
whatever. Isn't that so?" a
yes"
bob, aren't there electric
power lines from dams and
things on rivers? saw in the
movies, or read somewhere"
II see what you meant"
Good! There's. well, Boulder
Dam. That's in Arizona. isn't It?
Mr.. O'Mallcy at the bank used to
talk about II. IT'S a long way
from any city. But the electric
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

ly to avoid a wabbling flip that
was given to the tails of bullets
as they passed the gas vent. The
MI is about as accurate as the
Springfield and was especially
commended for accuracy by the
sharpshooting Marines. There is
no trouble with fouling. Colonel
Wessles said that in test of the
new front end, rifle was fired
5000 times without cleaning.
Naturally, any fast-shooting
hand weapon gets hot during
sustained fire. The colonel said
he has shot the Garand until the
wood around the barrel burst
into flames, but it kept on work.
ing all right.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

He named some specific adj
vantages: /. The MI uses clip
of eight rounds instead of the
Springfield's five. At the last
shot, the clip is elected with a
resonant bong.
2. The MI is easy to take apart
and clean in the field.
3. The sights are in every way
stronger and superior. Adjust
ment is closer and easier. Eleva-
ton and windage are changed by
thumb screws that click, and
each click represents one inch
to each 100 yards of range.
4. The trigger stays in adjust
ment better than the Spring
fields.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

5. The she'll ejector is sturdier,
surer than the Springfield's.
6. A rifleman can conceal him.
self better with the Garand be-
cause he doesn't have to raise a
hand above the level of the bar
rel to operate a bolt.
7. The Garand has about one
third less recoil.
Performance of the MI in the
hands of troops should settle the
controversy about it, but the
Army has no official statistics
so far. At Fort Sam Houston,
Tex, I was told that more than
90 per cent of selectees and 9TH
er recruits were Qualifying as
marksmen or better with the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28
Firing Garand Rifle, Army Rockies Qualify
as Marksmen in Undreamed Of Number
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Csrpespsndent

FORT BENNING Ca April 28-A soldiers rifle is per-
vital Especially for u S. soldier is symbol
hertageo and wlderneses At least
should Military leaders know it would be bad thing
lacked pride and faith their rifles and there
msgvngs replacing the simple and reliable Springfield
with intricate and frankly less depend
ahle q automatic
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28
D SERIAL STORY
LOVE POWER

YESTERDAY: Carolyn and Robert
agree that the X-999 must remain . Sec
ret and the remaining portion safeguard
ed against danger. Leana Sormi comes
to Roberts office. Carolyn everhesrs
her imprisoned plea to Robert 10 seize
the power that Is theirs. Together we
can he the man and the woman Of the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-28

dDIe IdI anu, u -ScuII-outOHlotiS.
But nobody was quite pre-
pared for the hullabaloo that
arose about year ago and
which has been famed again
by publication of unfavorable
excerpts from a report of COM
petitive tests made by the Ma
rine Corps.
Visiting camps in the south,
this reporter heard selectees and
National Guardsmen, who had
not fired the Garand, wondering
whether Washington bureau
cracy was about to hand them an
inferior weapon. They said they
had seen no answers to criticisms
they had read.
Here at Fort Benning. home
of the Infantry School for Of
ficers and of the policy-shaping
Infantry Board. are all the an
swers about the new primary
arm of our fighting forces.
They're not exactly official, but
you could call them authoritative,
because the officer I interview
ed is Col. +. S. Wessles, rifle
instructor at the Infantry School,
test officer during part of the
Garand 15-year development,
and an exceptional marksman
who several times has gone to
the National Rifle Matches at
Camp Perry, o.
SHOOTS MORE EASILY
THAN SPRINGFIELD
Sitting in his office, Colonel
Wessles rapidly took apart a
Garand (now known as the MI
meaning Model One) and ex-
planned how it works. This is
the main idea: About two inches
from the end of the barrel, and
at a right angle to it, is a hole
smaller than the lead in a pencil.
Part of the expanding gas which
is driving the bullet goes through
this vent, whams into q tiny
piston, which in turn pushes
back the breech mechanism,
elects the old shell and puts in
a new one as it closes. All quick.
Nke-a-mouse. The rffleman
doesn't have to work a lever or
bolt; he just aims and squeezes
the trigger.
The reason the Army and Ma
rine Corps adopted the MI is
that it can fire from two to three
times as many aimed shots per
minute as the Springfield. Every
phase of modern warfare is a
race for superior fire power, and
no foreign nation has an infantry
rifle that can throw aything like
the amout of lead that the Gar
and does.
Down to the last screw and
spring, the Garand has II parts,
the Springfield "a. But Colonel
Wessles said there are more i'm
portant parts in the MI, and that
it really is more complicated.
Hence it is somewhat less re-
liable. But you just can't get
the same standard of absolute
dependability in q semi-auto-
matte that's possible in one you
operate by hand" he added.
He probably was thinking of
tests by the Marine Corps board
in which guns were doused in
gooey mud, dragged through
sand and sprayed with salt wat
er. The Springfield still could
be fired. The Garand, with more
intricate parts and closer toler-
ances, often damned. Regarding
actual breakage of parts, though.
the officer declared that ordn-
ance mechanics on the range are
no buster making repairs than
they were when the famed
Springfield was used.
The front end of the Garand
recently has been altered slight
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-18
Oil Trust

Continued from Page One)
House killed the proposed investiga-
ton. One of the few oil independents
told congressman that 1--WE have to
see that Japan gets enough oil to
fight us for two years at least if we
go to war with her." The agitation
has become troublesome enough to
force Standard of New Jersey to put
its publicity machine in full stride to
explain and to try to calm the crit
icism. And Standard now has begun
to explain also it's secret patent Ii
censes and pools with German groups.
This week congress begins hearings
on bills to divorce pipe lines from
trust domination. 1t is not likely that
anything will be done but the fires are
being built hotter and hotter. 1t is
possible that even the national de-
Tense" blanket may not smother the
growing difficulties for the oil trust.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-18
Weather
CONTINUED from Page One)

for hay. Grain crops as whole,
however, show an advanced growth
and have better than average pros
pects Winter wheat is heading out
quite generally and in a few cases
some of the early sown spring grains
are now beginning to head. Some
haying was possible during the week.
Livestock continue to make excellent
gains Shearing is progressing
Except in the extreme northwest
where reserves. are short, soil mois-
ture is generally adequate for the
present at least The late May and
early June rains came in time to
check and serious drouth damage, and
to smooth out considerably an other
wise uneven moisture map While
the growing season total to date is
still slightly below that of year
earlier, it has been better distributed
compared with that of 1910, when too
much of the total came in April and
too little in June. In some counties
to date almost a normal June rainfall
has already been obtained. From a
temperature standpoint, the present
growing season has been excellent
for the broadcast crops, but not so
favorable for the row crops such as
corn, beans, sugar beets and potatoes.
There is ample time, however, for
these later crops to improve with nor
mally high July temperatures. Sud
den hot weather in July would be UNI
favorable for spring grains which
have generally made a rather rank
growth and will need favorable wealth
er when the time comes to fill Win
ter grains, on the other hand, are so
well ahead of normal growth that
there is considerable less fear of dam
age from the usual July change to
dry hot weather.
The highlights in this weeks re-
ports from the various counties in
clude: slight shortages of hay hands
in Missoula and Lake counties; grass
hopper damage and batting i'll parts
of Chouteau, Pondera and Toole coun-
ties, together with continued reseed-
ing of damaged mustard seed fields in
some of this area; a trace of rust in
fields in Daniels county and heavy
early June rains delaying field work
in Valley county. A few cattle have
died from eating poisonous plants in
Cascade, while heavy June rains
helped winter wheat in Fergus and
Judith Basin. In southwestern Mon
tana, all livestock are in good shape
in Beaverhead; some weedy winter
wheat fields will be cut for hay in
Galatin. South-central Montana, too
much rain and too little sun has
turned some crops yellow in Carbon;
a little 1941 wool has been shipped
from Park. About 500 of the sugar
beets have been thinned in Yellow
stone and heavy infestation of web
worms is expected.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-18
FSA Report
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
manently self-supporting according to
the report.
Borrowers are encouraged to get
away from one-crop farming-part1c-
ularly of surplus crops, such as cot
ton, tobacco, and wheat-and to raise
as much as possible of their own food
and feed for their livestock. During
1910, the average Farm Security fam
lily in Montana produced 1924 worth
of goods for home consumption, as
compared with $205 before they came
into the FSA program. This produce
for home use included 81 gallons of
milk per family; 403 pounds of meat;
and 248 quarts of vegetables and fruit
canned for the winter. This increased
production of food did not, of course,
add to the supply in the commercial
markets, since virtually none of it
was offered for sale. 1t simply meant
a better diet, better health, and a
rising standard of living for these
families.
Often it has been necessary to work
out all adjustment VI the ldiiiiy D oiu
debts, before rehabilitation could be
successful Local Farm Debt Adjust
ment Committees have been set up
for this purpose. They have no legal
authority to compel adjustments, but
by bringing the farmer and his cred
itors together for a friendly discus
sion, they usually are able to arrange
a scale-down of the obligations, re-
duced interest rates, or extension of
the payment period
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-18
Report No. q

Report No. q
We feel that this convention and
the manner in which its program was
planned and executed has been of
great value to the member associa-
lions of the Cooperative Enterprises
Association by reason of the time
given to free and open discussion by
individual members.
The convention appreciates the care
care and thought given to the prep
aration of this program by the per-
sonnet of the Farmers Union Grain
Terminal Association and the Farm
ers Union Central Exchange in Great
Falls.
We wish to express our appreciation
to the speakers who have come for
long distances to give us the benefit
of their thought and experience and
information of value to us all.
Also to all others who have con-
tributed to the success of this conven-
ton by their attendance and participa-
ton in the program, the Cooperative
Enterprises Association expresses its
sincere thanks.