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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
Mrs Shirley Ca1laghan Honored al
Shower.

Mrs. Shirley Callaghan was COM
plimented with shower last Thurs
day evening at the Curtis home.
Hostesses were the Misses Alice
Clement, Dorothy Clement, Doro-
thea Smiley Shirley Knight, and
Emily Tyson.
Entertainment consisted of games
and skit arranged by June Sand
ers, Lois Sanders, Flora and Anita
Sagen. The honor guest opened the
gifts which were presented to her
and then lunch was served by the
hostesses
Guests present were: Mesdames
Charles Curtis, Bill Lindsey, Ella
Moore, Ashley Roberts, A. l.. Dean,
Roy Coffman, Ernest Bivins,r Wal
ter Morrison, Bert Thomas, Ed.
Henrichs Clark Hubbard, John Sa-
gen, Glen Thorn, Roy Maness, and
Miss Mary Nash.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01

District Officers of WOman's Club
Meet.
Mrs. j. B. Farris and Mrs. Roy
Maness attended a luncheon and
meeting of district officers and pres
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
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Grange Entertains.

Montana Treasure Grange No 98
held regular meeting Friday ev-
ening at Central school.
Twenty-Five members of Koote-
mai Valley Grange came from Libby
in the school bus to visit the Grange
A short meeting was conducted.
The meeting was then turned over
to the lecturer. A Truth and Con-
sequence party followed. Much fun
was had by the spectators as we'll
as those actively participating.
Dancing was enjoyed for a short
time after the party.
The Montana Treasure Grange
members are always happy to vel
come our good friends from Libby
when they can come to visit us.
Much fun and hilarity accompany
these get-togethers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Local Gas Dealers To
 Comply With Orders
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night" he said, should serve to make clear to all that the shortage of gasoline may become very seri- ous"
 The government was understood to be considering 8 ration system under which physicians, political subdivisions, food distributors and other vital services would be exempt.
 Fuel oil for ships, industry and for heating public buildings would re- ceive priority and heating oil for homes would be given secondary priority, it was understood.
 Motorists Out Of Luck
 Washington, Ave. 1-(UP)-Mo- torists who run out cf gas between p. m. and a. m. while filling sta- tions are "blacked out" on the east coast will be out of luck, officials said today.
 For the time being the only ex- captions made in Defense Oil Co., ordinator Harold IckeS, recommen- dations, which the leading oil com- panies accepted, that filling stations close during those hours starting Sunday night, will be for emergency cases involving public health or safety.
 Commercial vehicles which fill up at the pumps owned by their com- panies also will not be affected.
 The closing was not expected to have adverse effect upon filling sta- tion employment. Officials claimed that stations have had difficulty employing workers due to the de- mand for mechanics in defense in- dustries.
 Officials said travelling salesmen and vacationing motorists either would have to re-arrange their schedules so as to avoid night driv- ing entirely, or drive until their SUD- ply is nearly exhausted and then stop for the night. As for joy riders, officials said they would be out of luck if they run out of gasoline.
 Experts were not agreed as to the amount of gasoline that would be conserved. Some pointed out that motorists could obtain all the gaso- line desired during the day, but others said the restrictions on buy ing would have psychological effect and cause motorists to save.
 It was agreed that if the step did not end the gasoline shortage on the east coast rationing would be ordered,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Nazi Drive On Moscow Stopped By Russians
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attacks are beginning to dominate the action all along the front. Ger man accounts uniformly claimed the counter attacks have been beaten off.
 There was noticeable lessening of tension between the United States and Japan due to prompt and full Japanese apologies for the bombing of the gunboat Tutuila and Tokyo reports indicated 8 quiet Japanese effort may be underway to improve American relations.
 However, London indicated some concern over Thailand. Tokyo an- nounced that Thailand has granted diplomatic recognition to Manchu- kuo, part of the Japanese eastern Asia sphere and Japanese spokesman attributed great signifi- canoe to the action as indicating Tnailand is falling into line with the Japanese bloc.
 British reports said that the Jap anese had offered Thailand the Indo- Chinese province of Laos and the ancient Cambodian capital of Angkor in exchange for military and naval bases and a virtual mo- noply on Thailandis exports of rub Der, rice and tin.
 However, a Thailand spokesman has denied any agreement with either Japan or Britain concerning military bases.
 Reinforcing Burma
 Ths British Issued lengthy state. ments on the reinforcement Of their bases in Burma which would be Threatened immediately by any Jap- anese move into Thailand and l., s, .Amary, secretary for India, speak m ln the House of Commons, call- ~ attention to the danger Of war nnEnadang 10 IadiR within a few @aenfhs-bosh from the east and the =#Hss
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 Hartford, Conn, Aug. 1-tUP)- Gov. Eurley today sent this com pnunication to all state department heads:
 T request that you issue im- mediate instructions to all em- ployees of your department who drive state owned motor vehicles to take every step to conserve the con- sumption of gasoline.
 '@Tne conservation of gasoline has become a defense need of prime importance. I hope that we can succeed by voluntary action to oh- piate the need for any official steps to limit the quantity of this fuel for non defense uses.
 T am making this request in the belief that the state should be f1rSt in tightening the belt around its gasoline tanks. If we do this and If the people take similar precautions in their use of gasoline, we will have shown that even in this important area, Americans are capable of sac- rifice."
 3O,OOO Stations Affected
 Boston, Aug. -(UP)-About 30,000 gasoline stations in New England begin a 12-hour daily "Blackout" Suday in 8 voluntary National De- fenSe move to conserve petroleum.
 From D. m. to a. m. each day for an indefinite period some 2,000- 900 motorists in the siX-State area will be unable to purchase fuel for their autos at night.
 The request for the closing came from Secretary of the Interior Har- old L. Ickes as National Defense Petroleum Coordinator. He said that 'continued and deliberate fail- ure to observe the recommendation" might result in 8 shutdown of sup plies for violatorS.
 It was indicated that unless the 'tRlackout" proved successful as a conservation move, the filling sta- tions might be ordered to close dur ing the day on Sundays as well as during the daily period.
 Governors of the six New England states were drafting identical proc kalAtdtAOA4S UO bC AoohOO oAAAASAOeSA ously calling for dealers in their states to observe the request. Major pill company officials were asked to refuse to supply any filling station owners who violated the request.
 From Maine To Florida
 The "Blackout" will extend from Maine to Florida and will affect 100000 filling station operators in states along the eastern seaboard.
 New York, Aug. 1-(UP)-Lead- ing oil companies said today they would comply with Petroleum Co., ordinator Harold R. Ickes' request that they close the service stations they control along the Atlantic sea- board from p. m. to 2 a. m. start ing next week.
 Trade circles believed that 8 ra- tioning system would be put into ef- feet after the Labor Day holiday.
 It was learned that Ickes had intended to delay his request for night cloSings until August Il but advanced it when he found that the motoring public had failed to re- Spord to appeals for voluntary re- duction of consumption.
 oil company officials said that, although increases in transportation costs have thus far been absorbed by the companies, prices probably would go up If and when ration system is adopted. It was believed the government would approve of a larger margin for service station operators to compensate for smaller sales.
 Elmer Thompson, secretary of the Automobile Club of America ap- proved Ickes' action.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
NEW PARTY FOR
 SEN. WHEELER
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 Wheeler believed the party would be along the lines of the 1924 Pro- greSsive coalition which ran the late Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, ST., for president and Wheeler for vice president. He said that it was un- likely the party would be created in 1942, an of year politically, but that it has "an excellent prospect in 1914"
 "The present war issue has cut across the lines of both parties and introduced the cleavage of pro and anti-war," he said. We have always had conservatives and progressives in both parties and perhaps they could unite on this issue.
 "Of course, it all depends on whether the Republicans permit another man like Wendell L. Will kie to be placed before the people as their candidate in 1944. It will arise spontaneously if the present administration continues down the path to war with Republican sup port"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
German Control Slips In Many Countries
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 side of German staff car.
 The dispatch said about 70 Amer jeans remained in Athens.
 Sheer at British German newspapers suddenly started jeering at Great Britain to- day because 1t had not attempted to invade the continent, and reports from Norway said the Germans were engaged in a four-day maneu- vers program there designed to test defenseS against an invasion.
 Today was the 27tll anniversary of the start of the World war. A year ago today Dunkirk had fallen and the Germans were preparing to invade Britain.
 voelkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party newspaper, led the chorus against Britain's "timidity," United Press Berlin dispatches said. It headlined:
 "Churchill,s only diversion for So- yietS: unprecedent chatter ffen- sive! Where's that English tnYa- sion? British air forces 'not-stop' offensive collapses bloodily: short- lived childish illusion" The newspapers asserted that on June 9, the day Germany attacked Russia, inhabitants of the Dutch coast avoided the beaches" in the belief that the British would att tempt an invasion of the continent.
 Stockholm said reports from Nor- way indicated not only that exten- sive maneuvers were going on now to test anti-invasion defenses but that similar exercises would be held soon along the entire west coast at all points considered vulnerable to attacks from the sea.
 According to the Stockholm dis- patch, the four-day maneuvers started Wednesday and are to end tomorrow, on a 40-mile stretch of the southwest Norway coast from Stavanger to HaugeSund. Thousands of inhabitants were evacuated inland from all areas within 8 considerable distance of the coast, it was asserted, and all shipping was halted.
 The maneuvers included extensive practise by coastal fur1s firing live shells, 1t was asserted.
 Argentina Aroused
 Buenos Aires, Aug. 1-(UP)-Re- lations between Argentina and Ger many appeared more strained to- day as the result of the disclosures of the congressional committee in- vestigating subversive activities. It was learned that the commit tees full report on ramifications of the totalitarian movement in Ar gentina would be submitted to the deputies shortly. In the meantime, there was some talk in congression- al quarters of break in diploma tic relations with Germany.
 The foreign office announced last night that Germany's protest against the seizure of German dip lomatic mail" had been rejected and that the German embassy had been asked to explain why a pow erful radio set was in the diplo- matic pouches.
 It was pointed out that the in- stallation of radio stations by bel- ligerent powers in neutral states yi. plates international law. The gov- ernment said it regretted the incident but would not admit that any of Germany's rights had been violated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

cent days has been shifting its at- tention more and more away from the Russian campaign to other top ics, such as bitter attacks on Pres ident Roosevelt, today unleashed a scoffing blast at London, demanding to know why the British have not invaded the continent.
 That a British move into Europe would not be without support among the occupied peoples was evident from stream of reports from various sources. Stockholm re- ported the Germans have been forced to declare q state of siege in the Aelesund area Of the Norwegian coast, there was another report of the execution Of Communist" in Belgrade 90 this time and Turkey said the Nazls are moving 25,000 more troops into Jngoslavia because of persistent guerrilla war; fare.
 Other Turkish reports said that the Greeks continue to make no see eret Of their violent pro-BFitish sympathles and another dispatch revealed that three members of the former Rumanlan parliament have been confined t0 prison for uns known reasons, Moscow reports the gneFFillaA behind the German lines had captured an aIaFeme in Bessa. Fabla by lfleklng the oeFDlanslsus lnanlAil defenders,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

Inc, New York; W. Wagman & Co., of Pennsylvania; Frederick H Cone & Co.,, New York; Central Madeira Corp, New York, and Abouchar & Co., New York-filed libels in federal court yesterday demanding delivery of cargo as- signed to them. The consignments included egg yolk and albumen, bales of straw braid, bristles and cotton goods.
 The marshaps office issued writs of attachment for the consign- mentS and a hearing was set for August 6. The Tatuta would be de- layed that long. She docked We'd nesday night with PAT passengers, having waited six days of the coast for assurance the ship and cargo would not be seized.
 The ship could sail on schedule 6U posting a. bond one-haf to two-and-one-half times the value of the attached cargo. With Japa- nese credits frozen, N. Y. K. was expected to have trouble raising the money.
 OA4Ay OA1C O1 O1lC 44DClS OcS1SI1dUSQ the value of the consignment. The Arnold company's cargo would de- mand $42,000 bond. The value of the Tatuta's cargo totals more than $3,000,000 and most of it is raw silk.
 More "Jap" Regrets
 Shanghai. Aug. 1 U.P.) = Representatives eof the Japanes navy today rendered regrets to American officials in Shanghai for the bombing of the American Gum boat Tutuila.
 A navy spokesman said the Tutu- fla was not bombed deliberately. Tn high level bombing, such as the Japanese were making on Chung king, some bombs are bound to go astray, he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

In most instances the German reports claimed that these attacks had been thrown back with big Russian losses but whatever their outcome there was no doubt that Soviet offensive spirit was high and was continuing.
 London reported that there had been no essential change along the whole fighting front in "A hours but warned against the impression that the front is becoming static or stab ilized. A similar warning was given by s. A. Lozovsky, Soviet spokes- man. The British pointed out that as long as both Germany and Rus sia have large armored forces the front will be fluid with each side driving deep into the enemy lines and constant endeavors at encircle- ment and counter-encircleme
 The Nazi high command content- ed itself today with the statement that fighting continued without change and that the Luftwaffe again had attacked Moscow.
 For many days Nazi propagand- ists have been claiming that the high command is on the verge Of is- suing a big statement on the so- called "6molensk annihilation bat- tle." However. no such statement has been issued nor has the prom ised announcement that LeningFad Is about to fall been forthcoming, For nearly a month German troops, according to the NRzi high com. mand, have been standing before Kiev" but In recent days there has not even been any mention 0g fights Ing in the vicinity Of the Ukraine capital,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

caught there when the British ex- peditionary force left, held their fingers to their nostrils when Ger man and Italian troops passed in the streets, cheered all British war prisoners, and left restaurants and cafes when Germans or Italians entered.
 The Moscow radio, in a broadcast picked up at New York by the NEG, alleged that Count Werner Won Der Schulenberg, German ambassador at Moscow until the Russo German war started, had been put under house arrest at Ankara by the Nazi Secret Police.
 Schulenberg, 1t was said, had op- posed a German attack on Russia on the ground that it would fail.
 Germans Change Banks
 Radio Moscow, in dispatch pick ed up at New York by the United Press listening post, reported from Berne that Germany'S embarrassing position on the eastern front had caused many prominent Nazis to rush deposits to Swiss banks. Ball. dur Von Schirach, the Nazi "high commissioner at Vienna; Paul Goebbels, NaI propaganda minis ter; Robert Ley, Nazi labor front leader, and Baron Constantin Von Neurath, member of Hitler'S cab- met council on foreign affairs, were said to be among the depositors.
 The Stockholm dispatch on sabo- tage at Alesund said Norwegian patriots had damaged German communications and military estab- lishments and that the Germans had seized 10 leading citizens as hostages. When police took the hostages to a ship for transport to Germany, the dispatch said, a crowd of about 5000 persons gathered st the dock and tried to rescue them. It was necessary for police to call soldiers, the dispatch said.
 Greeks Cheer British
 The Ankara dispatch on disaf- lection in Greece said German au- thorities no longer sounded air raid alarms when British planes raided airdromes because Greeks at once climbed to rooftops to cheer the British riaders.
 The Germans have given up try ing to prevent Greeks listening to British broadcasts, the dispatch said, because they would have to shoot too many. It was added, how ever, that rifle shots could be heard often after the midnight curfew.
 "" for British victory has ap- peared on walls and windows every where, the dispatch said, often ac- companied by the letters "RAF" Royal Air Force.
 One traveller said he saw Hong live England" traced in dust on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

program.
 Russia thus far has not come un- der the lend-lease category, he said, adding that the reason is simply that they have the money to pay for the assistance they seek in this country.
 Aid to Russia
 He then said that he has not looked into the question of whether Russia could qualify for aid under the lend-lease act.
 Other sources disclosed, mean time, that the administration is studying a plan to give Russia pri- ority on deliveries of certain types of American munitions originally ordered by this government and Great Britain.
 Designed to encourage the Red army's stubborn resistance to Ger many, the plan also includes steps to overcome some of the difficulties of transporting supplies from the United States to Russia.
 MT. Roosevelt, under question ing, did not deny the possibility that lend-lease administrator Harry l.. Hopkins, who now is in Moscow, may have flown there from London in an American airplane.
 In response to a direct question on this point, he replied that for the sake of safety, movements of men, like movements of ships, are much better kept secret.
 He said he has had virtually no communications from Hopkins since the latter's arrival in Moscow. He explained that his only information was Hopkins report of his safe arr rival in the Soviet capital. He said he did not have the faintest idea whether Hopkins might return to this country by way of China.
 The second request for lend-lease appropriations, which has been an- ticipated for several weeks, will not be sent to Congress until after Hop kins' return. the president said.
 The waiving of British and Amer ican war materials priorities for Russia was said to have won con- siderable support in government circles here.
 Administration leaders, who had hoped to obtain Senate passage this week, conceded that final action would be delayed until Tuesday.
 Meanwhile, the first test of op- position strength was expected on an amendment proposed by Sen Ebert D. Thomas, D., Utah, who is floor manager for the bill, author izing the president to demobolize National Guard units and then or der them back into service. Under present law, they can serve only one year, and cannot be demobi. lized.
 Thomas proposed the amendment because the resolution as drafted made no provision for remobiliza. tion of the National Guard if the president decided to release it tenn porarily from service.
 The administration was reported to be attempting to simplify the Senate debate by eliminating g provision of the resolution eXcusing men 28 years of age and over fr'"~' selective service. They may put this provision in a separate pln. Ill o- l der to speed passage of the troor retention resolution.