Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-02-07
News Briefs
From, Worldwide Points

LONDON-Despite air raids and
other war conditions, more than 5000
900 children are registered for school
instruction in England and Wales, a
board of education survey disclosed.
MADRID-Britain aided Spain in
meeting an acute wheat shortage by
agreeing to permit $1,000 tons of grain
previously acquired by Britain to go
to Spain.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.-Rob-
ert L. Chambers so, professional Mon
tana buffalo hunter in the early days
and an attorney here the last As years,
died at his home after brief illness.
LOUISVILLE, Ill.-Dr. B. F. Steely
said he delivered Mrs. Homer Paris, q
farm wife, twins weighing II pounds
each. He said search OF records indi-
Gated the twins were the largest ever
born.
MORTIFIED, Minn.-Constructio
of new 100000 alumni library build
ing has begun on the St. Olaf college
campus. II will hold 10000 books. The
present library, built 40 years ago. has
$4,000 volumes.
PIERRE, S. D.-The state game and
fish division is putting beavers to
work building ponds for South Dakota s
trout. Game wardens have been trap
ping beavers in eastern South Dakota
and tranSplanting them in the Black
hills.
WASHINGTON-JeS H. Jones, fed
eral loan administrator. said the RIG
and its subsidiaries had purchased 81
600 tons of rubber, 100 900 tons Of cop
per and 10000 tons of tin. Another lO0,-
900 tons of copper may be bought, he
added.
CAMP SHELBY, Miss.-Private Nor
man Smart of Portsmouth, O., really
wanted to be bugler in the 37th
division. When the examination for
bugler was held he entered and tried
so hard he loosened two teeth. He
didn't get the job.
OLYMPIA, Wash-The Washington
state senate. by q to II vote, refused
to seat Senator-elect Lenus Westman
on grounds it believed he still belonged
to the communist party, in which he
had admitted membership two years
ago.
LEOMINSTER, MaSs.-Seventy-tw
years ago friend of the family de-
posted $50 in a savings bank for a
little girl on her fourth birthday. The
fund never was touched and today.
Banker Raymond l. Middlemas re-
scdleu, ~ has grown 10 $SI6.34. Inc
little girl Is still alive.
FRESNO, Calif-The lusty cries of
three tiny boys announced the birth
OF triplets to Mrs. Ester Diaz, IS, the
wife OF Victor Diaz, Fresno laborer,
now on relief The Diaz babies were
born within 10 minutes. Mrs. Diaz Is
the mother OF four other children. A
fifth child died.
GOLDSBORO, N. CT. o. Parker
and Harry Tatum are Goldsboro fish
ermen. II had a struggle to land a
small whale weighing 1853 pounds" re-
lated Parker. Il had bite. too" re-
piled Tatum. But. when finally got
him in. it was lantern. 1t had en-
graved on 1t the name Of ship that
went down about $50 years ago. And
the lantern was still burning"
NEW YoRK-Kenneth F. Simpson,
a. republican Congressman from the
New York republican chairman, died.
Simpsons death, doctors said, was
apparently due to heart trouble. He
had returned Ill recently from wash
tngton, but his condition was not
thought serious. Former associates Of
Simpson attributed his Ill health to
overwork during the recent national
political campaign
HAZARD-Death came to Andy
johnson the other day and found him
ready and waiting. Its arrival was on
the schedule set by the 6S-year-old
man In . prediction some time ago.
Johnson's preparations were complete
With the final announcement that
today would be -the day." he put on
his best clothes and warned others at
his home that he must not be dis
pulled a quilt over his head. An hour
or 30 later he was dead. johnson had
been in Ill health since his son, w. H.
johnson, was slain last fall.