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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24
THE WESTERN NEWS, LIBBY, MONTANA

pcons The meaning we'll outlined by one speaker
this goods? that we could have been
Thmopyae was lost because there were
could goal by 100000 machine guns
Greece was Of
1000 arpanes
there
realize presented in those terms
face the repeat the same tragedes
through failure ultimate significance Accord
defense strikes declined lately in number and IN
that the great rank file
the safety above all other
beginning certain number OF misguided
understand their point of view
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24
MUST MOVE SUSIE.

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK.
Old Susie, black bear mother, and
her three cubs, who roam the Co.
Sun Highway west of Lo-
gan Pass. will have to be trapped
and moved to a remote section of
the park. This was the edict hand
ed down this week by park officials
after she had scratched four visi-
tors. Susie's sudden meanness is
attributed to her being fed by tour
lists in violation of National Park
Service regulations.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24
Wins Credit For Service to Nation

Congressman began
elements deal OF opposition to his
developed why this should be The
appointed concerning
safety Chairman Dies
with deal of publicity Some
he results and
did please certain quarters Of them
hical criticisms followed
of have been to the
that Dies speaking truth when
insisting from Fifth Column
oncsvely that the work by
Congressman Today
is being given work well
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24
Millions of Days Lost

An survey revealed
employment Army
the military that built in
remember
They take either
shipping
which admittedly tied quantities Of defense losses
which depended
operations going placed
] probably the whole truth
Delays significance worldwide
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24

Venzuela, China, England and Cuba.
Other states from which visitors
were numerous include. Minnesota,
1915 visitors; Illinois, lll9; North
Dakota. 1904; Idaho, 1856; Oregon,
366 and Utah, 1872.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24

Employment in the machine tool
which produces the "su-
per-machines' upon which mass
production for defense depends. is
now about 1853 per cent as great as
it was Is monthes earlier.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-07-24

Economy like that counts up into dolldrst
Change to Nth oil today at Your Mileage
Merchants Conoco station. Continental
Oil Company Pioneers in Bettertng
Americas oil with Synthetics
Evening star., 1941-11-23

The neatest trick in using sound to
locate an enemy submarine under water
Is somewhat like tossing rubber ball in
pitch darkness to find burglar moving
about your bedroom
You could throw a ball in the direc-
ton where the burglar seemed to be- and
If it bounced back into your hands, you
would guess it had hit him.
If, besides, you had magic timing ap-
paratus, you could tell just how far away
he was by the length of time the ball
took to come back to you
Well, navies have such timing ap-
paratus, and they have sort of bounc-
ing hall-an echo.
An underwater diaphragm in the hull
OF the ship sends out series OF beat
sounds. These travel fanwise. They are
sure to hit any underwater object IN
wide zone in the direction of the sound
ing-tossing.
When these sounds strike an under
water object. they send back echoes.
The echoes also fan out, SO that at least
some of them get back to the ship that
sent the original sounds.
The time the sound takes to echo back
tells the underwater objects distance. II
two ships work together, the pair can
measure the angles of the returning
sound and SO locate the hidden object
quite exactly.
But Is it submarine? Naval reports
tn this war have told Of locating whales
Evening star., 1941-11-23

In lesser degree, somewhat similar
type Of research was undertaken in the
first World War. The late Thomas A.
Edison headed a naval consulting board
which tackled all sorts OF projects on
direct assignment from the Navy. One
section of this same board handled sug-
gestions that came in from the public
This time suggestions from the public
are being studied by the National In
ventors Council. headed by Charles F.
Kettering, the inventive genius of Gen.
eral Motors. 1t gets about 300 ideas a
day.
Edison, with so helpers in his own
workshop, turned out some IS different
devices for the Navy before the war was
over. One of them was method of de-
tecting submarines by sound. Others
were aids to quick maneuvering of ships,
and for lighting and camouf1age
Many of the devices created by his
co-workers have come into wide usage
since the war. Elmer A. Sperry de-
veloped a searchlight for airplane de-
fense and bomb sight which is still
talked about. He improved depth charge
devices. Hudson Maxim worked out a
new method of driving torpedoes, new
firing devices for contact mines, did
much work on torpedo-proof ship.
David w. Brunton had four instruments
accepted for use in the war, one a fire.
control instrument for use on heavy
machine guns, another device for locat-
ing snipers.
These were only a few of the aids to
warfare that came from the consulting
board. And the research facilities and
army Of scientists now engaged in the
hunt for new weapons far overshadows
the equipment and small band of men
who furrowed their brows for Uncle
Sam in 1917.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Detective Bureau Is MOdernized

increasing importance as the defense
program enters the production stage.
This squad is under 1t. Horace Lineburg.
In the near future Inspector Mans
field plans to train his detectives in the
use of machine guns and gas equipmen'
which has lain idle at headquarters s.
long, officers say, that very few men
the force would know how to use it :.
the occasion arose.
This instruction will be given al L
new Police Academy, probably unc
direction of 1t. John Fowler, the
partments ballistics expert. The acc
emy is expected to open in few wee
In addition to this schooling. an il
creasing number of young police Office
are making application for training !.
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation
school
Were going TO modernize the De-
tective Bureau and keep it up to date
Inspector Mansfield said. And with
the able assistance of Capt. Robert J.
Barrett assistant to the chief Of de-
tectives), the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and other agencies. we hope
that word will begin to go out soon
among criminals that Washington is an
unhealthy city in which to operated"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
BY w. H. Shippen, Jr.

as of the usual run of prisoners and
suspects.
The flngerprint files are being slmpll-
fled and modernized to permit the 10
cation of any particular set of prints
with the least waste Of time In eX-
changes of information about fugitives,
prisoners and suspects between cities,
the local Detective Bureau is now asking
for more complete case histories for
their files.
Inspector Mansfield has backed up
his Identification bureau with an in
crease of four men on the homicide
squad.
There are now II instead of de-
tective sergeants on the new squad,
commanded by Acting 1t jeremiah P.
Flaherty.
The new inspector has instituted
a rotating system of assigning his 10
detective sergeants to the various squads
in order to develop investigators
familiar with more than one type of
police work.
A new group whose work is Of an un-
dercover nature is the subversive squad
which co-operates with Federal Bureau
of Investigation agents in the detection
and prevention of sabotage, a task Of
Evening star., 1941-11-23

to be easier than in northern waters.
Polarizing glasses also help the search,
by wiping out the glare of the sun on
the surface, even to the extent of seeing
beneath the waves.
Submarines use number Of methods
to escape detection, and sometimes, of
course, turn the tables on the hunters.
When a sub stops its engines, the de-
tectable sounds cease The bouncing
echoes then become the only known de-
tectors at night.
At sea, however, submarines can't stop
their engines while underwater unless
there is shallow bottom to rest on.
Otherwise, they would sing to unbear-
able pressures. Resting on shallow
bottom also offers chance of escape
from the bouncing echo method, since
there would be only slight difference
in the echo from the bottom and from
submarine on that bottom, and this
difference might not be detected. Of
course, if suspicion was aroused, a de-
stroyer would drop depth charges.
So sometimes submarines come Just
to the surface at night and lie awash,
with engines off The bouncing sound
method still would work, but detection
Is difficult.
the submarines have the same detection
devices-and use them for aiming tor.
pedoes 1t their hunters.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

at long distances. II any navy has
sound pickup which can distinguish be-
tween the echoes for U-boat, an ice
berg or whale and also distinguish
these from the propeller and engine
sounds of ships in motion, the informa-
ton is military secret
The underwater sound detector's prin-
cipal uses are to pick up the noises from
propellers and engines.
The new development Of this war, and
the one which is probably causing the
most trouble for enemy submarines, is
the airplane.
Flyers survey huge areas Of the sea in
a few hours-12,0O0 square miles has
been looked at in IL hours. The planes
fly a checker board course, so that
nothing af1oat in the whole area escapes
view.
The bigger submarines of this war are
spending more and more daylight hours
on the surface when far out at sea, fact
which embraces the air reconnaissance
results.
The submarines sometimes are spotted
without knowing plane is around. De-
stroyers and other anti-U-boat craft fol-
low up these plane clues.
The airplane observers sometimes are
able to see submerged U-boats, If the
oceans surface is not too rough. The
planes have to descend to about 1000
feet for this purpose. In southerly lati.
tudes this underwater hunting b said
Evening star., 1941-11-23

EATONTON. Ga.-Remember the de-
preston of 1928?
Just before the banks closed, Ted Dunn
left Detroit with his Yankee wife and
drove South to Putnam County farm
he had started buying but hadn't paid
for.
For II years, Dunn had worked In
Detroit hotels. Some of his jobs were
"in the money" until the depression
came with its series of demotions and
pay cuts. He and his wife, known now
throughout Putnam County as Yankee
decided to ride out the storm on their
Georgia property.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Dunn drove up
to the dilapidated dwelling on run
down cotton patch, they had Sl36.
I'VE were being smart" Dunn recalled
with a grin. 1--WE had talked over the
situation and decided to leave our money
in the Detroit bank, where We knew 1t
would be safe.'
One glance at the weather-beaten
farm dwelling, overrun with weeds and
grass, discouraged Dunn, even before he
got out of his car.
II thought my wife was going to faint,
and really wouldn't have blamed hsr 4
Evening star., 1941-11-23
A Success Formula

she had demanded to go back to town
to spend the night in hotel" Dunn re-
called. But she didn't say word"
The next day Dunn read in news
paper that the Detroit bank holding his
s136 safely had closed.
1t was planting time. Dunn didn't ex-
plain how he got together a mule and
harness, but he does boast that he did
all the plowing that year. starting that
very season to hauling rocks out of his
fields where before they had been rolled
from furrow to furrow by lazy wage
hands.
Today most of the rocks are gone.
The Dunns have moved out of their
farm shanty into new brick home.
Income from the property runs around
$500 a month.
Mrs, Dunn (Yankee) finds time TO
take in harness races with the Dunn's
pet trotter.
She drives the family automobile. not
in the low-price bracket but an $1,000
model
A native Georgian, Dunn sports
little mustache and the pleasant grin
Of Q man who knows where his next
meal h coming from.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
BY w. B. Ragsdale.

books are required to show the exact
dates of various stages Of the project.
Even attorneys who might be en-
ployed to handle patent negotiations are
not allowed access to information until
after their names and backgrounds have
been turned over to the Army and Navy
for a going over by the intelligence units.
Other rigid precautions are specified
to govern the delivery of secret reports
of progress. to make certain that per-
sonnel employed on the projects is trust
worthy
A slight clue to the nature of the work
being done may perhaps be cleaned from
the past experience of some of the
scientists on the research staff. One is
an expert on terrestrial magnetism.
Another has spent nine years on rocket
research, studying the rocket method
of reaching extreme attitudes. This
might mean anti-aircraft guns reaching
heretofore
Another is an expert on lenses and
hearing devices. One has done wide re-
search into atomic weights. Several
are sanitary experts Sanitation in bomb
shelters was quite a problem in London
during the bomb raids of last year. One
holds 80 patents on chemical products
and processes and is an expert on gases.
Another invented a gas absorbent and
gas detector. One has done long research
on gases and flame. Germany used flame
throwers a great deal in the march
through France.
Quite few of those in the chemical
division were in the Chemical Warfare
Service during the first World War. One
is an inventor of various electrical ap-
paratus, vacuum seals, glasses and chem
ical processes. And another is an expert
on devices for submarine detection.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Vate industries. There are heads OF
science departments in colleges and great
universities. obscure professors In small
schools, great men with famous organi-
zations, men who have more medals
than they care to talk about
They have been called to the task
by DR.. Vannevar Bush of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington. He is di-
rector of the Office of Scientific Research
and Development. which is the con-
tracing and spending agency that ar
ranges for the projects.
Back of it stands the National De-
fense Research Committee, headed by
President James B. Conant of Har-
ward. Allied with O. S. r. D. also is
an advisory council and a Committee on
Medical Research.
Projects flow regularly through N. D.
r. c. to @. S. R. D. to the laboratories.
The Research Committee is organized
INTO TOUR main divisions and each divi-
sion comprises several sections, thus
breaking broad scientific subjects down
into topics which fit the specialties of
the men handling them.
DR.. Richard C. Tolman, dean of the
graduate school of California Institute
OF Technology, directs armor and ord
nance studies. DR.. Conant leads the
assault upon chemical problems. DR..
Frank B. JeWett. chairman Of the board
Of Bell Telephone Laboratories, heads
the communication and transportation
division. DR.. Karl T. Compton, president
OF Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
directs the hunt for new detection con-
trolS and instruments. Each is aided by
an eminent group of scientists.
Army and Navy Problems
Army and Navy needs are submitted
to the Research Committee by the con-
tact men for the services, Mai. Gen.
Richard c. Moore and Capt. Lybrand
Smith.
What happens is that the Army or
Navy collides with a problem which it
has no present mechanism to handle.
IL passes lIldI piOUleIil OH lO GIlc tIc-
search Committee, which decides upon
procedure and turns its recommended
tons over to o. S. R. D. to have the
work done.
The detailed study of the problem is
made by the advisory division section
within whose scope the problem falls. 1t
tears away the husk, gets to the kernel
of the problem and wraps it up into
research proposal. This goes back to
N. D. R. c., which puts it into a neat
official package for o. S. R. D. to pass
along to a laboratory.
AS the work progresses in the labora-
tory the section keeps an eye on the
Job, making suggestions, giving scientific
supervision. The fact that 104 labora-
tories are already busy on projects is
evidence that at least that many secret
scientific jobs are being done. o. S R. D.
pays the actual cost of the experiments.
A very carefully worked out patent
clause is incorporated in the contracts.
1t recognizes the equities of the contrac-
tor and the Government in the develop
ment of any patentable inventions under
contract and defines those rights. In
order to establish those rights, work
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Coal Bootleggers Are
Ten>Year Problem
BY Tom Reedy.

POTTSVILLE, Pa, Nov. 22.-Twelve
thousand men dig stolen coal and haul
it to market from the heart of the
worlds leading anthracite producing
area.
And 10000 wives and children live
from the income of these bootleg coal
miners
For 10 years now men have been living
by taking coal without permission from
the property Of others. Pinched by un-
employment. they have won the approval
of their neighbors for this illicit trade.
Almost every attempt to halt the prac-
tice arbitrarily has met with violence.
Governors, businessmen, judges and
labor leaders have thrown up their hands
at the problem.
II little band Of anthracite engineers
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Science Musters Army to Beat Hitler

The war against Hitler will be won or
lost with test tubes behind locked doors,
by men who never see the field of battle
an army of scientists that has been
mustered into hundred laboratories.
For war is no longer the simple busi-
ness of swinging club and heaving
stone. Metal with cutting edge brought
problems of tempering and sharpening.
Gunpowder introduced chemistry to war;
fare
Electricity, poison gases, the submarine,
the alrplane each new invention through
the ages made mass killing more COM
plicated. multiplied its cost, demanded
new skills to master its intricacies
The soldier of today goes into battle
with a Garand rifle, which fires fast,
aims easily and is long, loud shout re-
moved from its muzzle- loading ancestor.
Tanks plunge across fields, leap bitches,
smack down pines Machine guns spray
hot lead Flame throwers scar the
enemy. Bombers carry tons of ex-
plosives, dump them automatically on
targets. Fighting planes have bullet
speed. Armored battle craft call into use
hundreds of skills in their hunt for the
elusive submarine.
All of these come from assembly lines,
or slide down ship ways, built With the
sure knowledge that has mastered the
art of turning a blue print into things
of cleaning metal And the blueprint
comes from a craftsman.
But the craftsman sets down on paper
only the lines that define something he
knows about. His blueprint is the fin
ished and proven product of months,
often years, of experimentation behind
closed doors. If the weapon he draws
be just one step behind the weapon used
by the enemy in speed, accuracy or de-
vastating power whole armies may perish
and war may be lost.
Back of the Blueprints
All of which lends point to the job
that is being done in 104 laboratories
over the Nation by thousands of trusted
scientists. The laboratories are the
breeding ground for the scientific knowl-
edge which puts the spark of life into
the blueprints.
Those fine scientific and engineering
talents that have produced the peace
time miracles of modern America are
being turned into the greatest research
task the Nation has ever undertaken.
Exactly what they are doing. the
progress they are making on the prof.
ects assigned them by the Army and
Navy-these are the biggest secrets in
America today, secrets well guarded by
careful men.
The men? There are already 100000
Of them listed on the roster of scientific
and specialized personnel The list is
steadily being heightened. 1t may reach
100000 eventually They are men who
have delved into every field and every
fence corner of science. Some head the
scientific research departments of pri-
Evening star., 1941-11-23

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15
Pitfalls oil Love By Adele Garrison
A Sequel TO Marriage Meddier.

her II II isn't cleared up soon.
Don't you agree with me-"
YES 1 do" / told him, for I
already had entertained the fear
that Lillian might not survive
this horrible ord al, should
Marion not be restored 10 her.
well. then" he said. ''if you
think anything could break that
girl down. I'm going to rush her
to the farmhouse instead OF
home, take her TO your fathers
rooms. and personally assist him
In going through the whole
schedule OF Interrogation She
won't have any black and blue
marks on her when she gets
back home, but every muscle
and n lot Of her fair flesh will
be good and sore. Personally,
I'm going TO beg Dad to let me
do some really artistic stunts In
arm twisting and rubber hosing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15
RECALLED CHANCES

! remembered the exchange OF
glances. openly admiring from the
young police officer, furtively APP
preciative from Carolyn, and ST.
lently agreeing with my husband.
let him guide me TO the stump,
and seat me upon il.
''In the first place." began
Dicky slowly. and spacing his
words, do you think there's any
chance Of breaking that little
devil down and getting the truth
out of her, by putting her
through n physical third degree,
not the mental one you've been
giving herr"
/ was so astonished at this pro-
poSal from my chivalrous husband
that for the instant l could not
answer him. He did not appear
to notice the omission, however,
but rushed emphatically on.
Look here!" he said explo-
sively. Here's young girl we
love In the power of some man
who probably hasn't harmed her
yet, and won't until he gets the
information he wishes out Of her,
but who, without a doubt, IL
planning unutterable things for
her.
Here's her m o [ h e r." he
rushed on, "our very best friend,
virtually at deaths door-for, IL
the worst happens to Marion, L
can't imagine LIS going on liv-
ing. Can you?"
The query was as explosive as
small bomb, and this time he
Y'aited for my answer.
"She might, physically" I
said. "for she Is very brave, and
she probably would figure that
Harry needed her."
WOULDN'T DO THAT
Dicky regarded me witheringly.
I'm not talking about her
going out under her own power,
and helping the power along"
he said. ILL wouldn't do that
as long as she figured anybody
needed her. But-she isn't overly
strong, and this thing will finish
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15

II she proves obstinate, I'll even
be glad to try"
please. Dicky" I said, SILVER
ing as ] always do at the thought
of the interrogation" which my
fathers men sometimes are COM
PEELED to use on the alien con-
spirators against the country, so
many of whom have been cap
tured and their ''fangs drawn"
by his organization.
"You don't mean you have
any tender feelings for that
little rat?" he exploded.
NO. 1 haven't" / said en-
phatically, for. indeed. my, heart
was hot against Carolyn for
what appeared to be callous de-
sertion of Marion, with the
view of saving herself. But, I
don't know, I'm afraid that third
degree wouldn't work"
Continued Monday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15

I shot a glance back at the car
and Dicky promptly interpreted
the look.
Don't give a thought TO your
beauteOus-and fendish charge.
She's not so terror-stricken-
\ nor yet 80 remorseful-that she
5hasn't an eve out for hand
some young man in a uniform,
even though II he a state troop
er's instead OF an army shave
tails. So YOU can listen TO me
with n mind. II not at rest and
Mt ease, still not actively wor-
rying."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15

m @ to I h
Ct aS>y banl
Dor crlng I h
road.
II can see
q IN o y [
e o IN I o r l.
able stump in
three states"
I've said. "Sup-
pose YOU sit
down on IL
while I eluci-
date I'm words
of one or two
or more syi-
tables exactly
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-15

I TOOK my hand from Dicky's
arm. and faced him in startled
attention.
"You mean" I faltered,
bewildered.
He smiled down at me, and.
taking my arm again, guided