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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24

joined the engineers as a civilian
engineer. He was engaged on the
Wilson dam of the Muscle Shoals
project.
He left the engineers in 1925 to
engage in private engineering prac-
tice with the firm of Huff 81 Rob-
erts at Miami, Fla, during the
Florida boom. He was engaged in
development work in and about
the vicinity Of Miami until 1913.
when he rejoined the engineers,
with whom he has served in vari-
ous engineering construction and
administrative capacities since that
time.
Assigned to the Missouri River
division of Kansas City in 1928, he
took an important part in engineer
ing and design for the Fort Peck
dam near Glasgow, and was head
engineer for the division in Febru-
airy, when he waS called from civil
ian to military status with the rank
of major. Shortly thereafter he be-
came executive officer to the div
ision engineer.
Major Roberts held the rank of
captain in the engineer reserves
from 1920 until his orders to mill
larry service and promotion this
year.
He is married and has two sons,
IA and II years old, away at school.
Mrs. Roberts accompanied the
major to Fort Peck.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Farm Implements
Are Rationed in
New Freeze Move

Distribution of available farm
equipment and placement where it
will do the most good in wartime
farming production will be made by
county rationing committees follow
ing a temporary freeze" order
which became effective Sept. II.
Farm machinery which can no
longer be purchased without a ra-
tioning certificate issued by the
county rationing committee in
cludes beet lifters and leaders,
combines, corn pickerS, disc har-
rows, feed grinders, fertilizer, lime
and manure spreaders, grain drills,
grain elevators. hay and pickup
balers. milk coolers, milking ma
chimes, potato diggers, shredders
and tractors, including garden
tractors. Machinery in another list,
group B, can be sold upon certifl-
cation by the farmer to the deal
er that such machinery is requir-
ed to meet current agricultural
needs.
Rationing committees will be es-
tablished Immediately in all counties
with the chairman of the county
war board as chairman Of the COM
mlttee, assisted by two farmers
selected by the county USDA war
board. Headquarters of each ra-
tioning committee will be at the
appropriate county agricultural
conservation association office, &C
cording to local Triple A release.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Is JAPANESE
.BEETWORKERS
COMING HERE
Fey Receives Word Group to
Arrive by Train in City
Friday.

Seventy = eight Japanese from a
relocation center will arrive here
Friday morning to be put to work
harvesting in Valley county beet
fields, it was stated in a letter re-
ceived this morning by A. j. Fey.
local manager for the UnKeH
States employment service, from
Edward Berman of San Francisco,
field investigator for the war re
location authority.
Mr.. Berman,, who was here last
week, will spend several months ir-
the Milk river valley coordinating
work of the Japanese evacueeS. At
that time he expected they would
reach here earlier and said that
at least 100 will be sent to Valley
county.
The letter added that 100 Jap
aneSe will be on the same train
with Malta as their designation. Mr.,
Berman will be at Malta to meet
them, while a representative OF the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company will be
here to assist in the ALLEGATION OF
the workers to farmers.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Dakota Youth Is
Returned to Face
Charges at Home

A IA = year = old Noonan, N. D..
youth, who was arrested in Hins-
dale Thursday by Deputy Sheriff
Bob DrabbS, was returned to his
home Friday by North Dakota Of
ficers, who said he will face charg-
eS there.
The boy admitted he stole a
coupe in Noonan Sept. 10, driving
to Glasgow. While working in a
Westland oil company station here,
he took $23 from a cash register.
He took a car belonging to MIS-.
Harald Siqueland the same night.
last Wednesday, and drove west.
The car ran out CT gas near Hins-
dale, where the boy stayed all night
to be traced and arrested the next
morning.
In the group here from North
Dakota were Sheriff Luther Gill
bertson of Crosby. Neils Nielsen,
farmer near Noonan, whose a
was stolen and recovered here, and
Calvin L. Andrist, publisher of the
Divide County Journal at Crosby.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
EXHIBITION
GAME TO Be
HELDFRIDAY
Highlander Squads Will Play
on Local Field at 8
That Night.

After a cancellation of the VIII
liston game last week and faced
with the necessity Of competition
before an expected tough contest
with Malta there next week, Coach
Bob Murray announced today that
his Glasgow squad will play an eX-
hibition contest on the local field
at 8 Friday night.
With transportation an increas-
ing problem and with some can
collation. CT games previously plan
NED, the Highlanders will play a
curtailed schedule this season.
Games now carded are with NAL
ia there, Oct. 2; Wolf Point there,
Oct. 8; Havre there, Oct. IT; Glen
dive there, Oct. "a, and Havre
here, Oct. 81. Thus. there is but
one home game scheduled.
Coach Murray expects tc have a
light and inexperienced, but speedy
starting group.
Friday nights game, he said.
should give fans some idea of the
squads potentialities this year and
will also give him opportunity to
try a number of players who have
been showing promise in scrim-
mage sessions.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
PROGRAM FOR
SELECTEES IS
MONDAY NIGHT
Almost Fifty Will Leave for
Utah Induction Center
Tuesday Morning.

Forty = four Valley county men
of the september call and
five other men who accompanied
the Valley county group of Selec-
lees to Butte last week, having
been transferred here by other
boards, were accepted for service
in the army. A program in their
honor with an old time dance will
be presented at the civic center
Monday night, beginning at 9. Sid
ney Fried, group leader, will call
the roll and the men will leave
Tuesday morning for Fort Douglas,
Utah.
The Valley county men accepted
were Amos Anderson, Waino Ant
tonen, Dean l.. Bruce, Lewis E.
Bell, Lloyd CT. cameron, Milton F.
Chester, Lloyd P. Dassonville, Rich
ard K. Eaton, Chester G. Fossum,
Sidney Fried, Lincoln A. Gam
rath, Bernard B. Heinrich, Law
renee J.. Kctkin, Elmer M. Kari,
Emil B. Kravik, Leo A. Larson,
Leroy Larson, Thorkild, R. Larson,
Laurence r. Larsen.
Also Jack N. Lien, Hugh Nc
Ginley, Donald S. McNulty, Joseph
M. McNulty, Gordon G. G. Nc
Maxwell M. Miller, Les
ter L. Miller, Oliver H. Moen, Dan
zyl G.. Morris, Arthur R. Omdahl,
Paul H. Olson, Lester H. Pippin,
Paul j. Pischke, Peter F.. During,
Carl w. Reilly, Francis c. st. Ger
maine, Raymond r. st. John, Paul
c.. Schmidt, Gerhard E. Skolrud,
Sidney A. SimorSen, Daniel F..
Thoeny, Elmer Tweten,, John A.
Wigdahl, Donald c.. Wlgmore ana
Joseph c.. thinner.
The transferees accepted were
Clyde E. Draper, Robert K. Eaton,
Leslie r. Jones, Henry B. Sanford
and Merrill Van Enron.
Foley Will Speak
The Rev. FIR. A. E. Foley will be
the speaker at the program at the
civic center Tuesday night. There
Will be music by the high school
1and. Later there will be old time
with music by an old-time
lance band. Both the program and
lance are free.
Orders fer The October call will
,e mailed before october l, MIS-.
ella Nybakken, secretary of the
ocaI draft board, said. This call
Will include a number OF married
but not those with children,
Inless they have been married
ince Pearl Harbor.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24

OMAHA A, Neb. - Promotion OF
Maj. Howard H. Roberts of Omaha
to district engineer for the Fort
Peck, Montana, district, was an
cunced here today by the office OF
Colonel Lewis A. Pick, Missouri
River Division engineer. The Fort
Peck district, whose territory ex-
tends into North and South Dakota
and Wyoming as we'll as Montana.
is one of three districts operating
under the Missouri River Division
engineer.
Major Roberts has been with the
division engineer office, in Kansas
City and in Omaha, since 1928, and
has been division executive officer
since last March. His new assign
ment takes him to headquarters at
the famous Fort Peck dam, which
in 1888 as division head civilian en-
gineer he directed in its initial
stages of engineering and design.
He reported this week end to sue
coed Col. Richardson Selee, who
mas been district engineer at Fort
Peck since November, 1910. Colonel
Selee goes to Kansas City to take
ever similar duties for the Kansas
City district.
Major Roberts was bern in Col
umbia, Tenn, May 20, 1895. He was
graduated from Vanderbilt Univer-
sity in Nashville, Tenn, with a B.. S.
degree in civil engin n g
in 1916. but before that time
had been associated with the
work of the Umted States engin-
GERS to which he has devoted most
of his career since that time. He
interrupted his college studies in
1918 to work with the engineers on
rivers and harbors.
Upon receiving his degree from
Vanderbilt. he went to Miami, Fla,
where he was assistant to the city
engineer until May, 1918, when he
enrolled for world war service with
the 47th engineers. He was sent
overseas, serving in railroad con-
struction and operation for the S.
o. S.
Returning to the United States
after the armistice. he was demob-
ilized in 1919, and Immediately re-
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Group shipping
Date i'm County
Set FOR Oct. II

Stockmen and farmers CT the
county who wish to join in a CO.
operative shipping plan for live
stock were asked this week to re-
port the number of head and their
shipping point in a bulletin issued
by James K. McGibney, county
agent.
The cooperative plan is an x
tension of the activities CT the Milk
River Valley Shipping association,
with headquarters at Nashua.
The date set for assembling is
Oct. IA, and. if enough stock can
be shipped, shipping points will be
Hinsdale, Vandalia, Glasgow, Nash
ua and Frazer or OSwego. Buyers
may be at each point and, if stock
is not sold, it will be shipped Oct.
Is.
With his bulletin, Mr.. McGibney
enclosed a QUESTIONABLE asking
each shipper to state the number
of head OF cattle or sheep he will
ship and the shipping point to
they will be taken.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
HELLSTERN IS
AGAIN FARM
UNIONLEADER
Chosen at Annual South Valley
Unit Meeting Held in
Hinsdale.
Organization Asks Deferment
of Key Farm Workers
and Producers.
BY Courier Correspondent

HINSDALE - Marion HellStern
of HlnSdale was reelected president
of the South Valley County Far
mers Union at its fall quarterly
convention Saturday. Ben Rice OF
Glasgow was elected vice president,
succeeding Robert S. Cotton, and
Mrs. Francis Rusher was reelected
secretary.
John Amestoy, Charles Barth
and Walter Hoerster, the first two
i~ncumbentS, were elected to the ex-
ecutive beard and Mrs. Everett Nc
Inerney succeeds herself as educa-
tional director. o. B. Risley was
named doorkeeper and Ben Eaton,
conductor.
Mrs. Ben Eaton and Amy Jean
RiSley were chosen as senior and
junior delegates to the state Far
mers Union convention at Billings
next month.
More than 80 delegates, members
and visitors attended the ccnven-
ton, which was held at the HinS-
dale community hail. A noon din
ner was served by women OF the
Hinsdale local.
The farm labor situation was
discussed at length from the floor
and resolutions were passed asking
for relief in the form of draft de-
fermentS fer key workers and &C
tual producers. Grazing regulations
as they apply to small farmers and
ranchers were also discussed and
plans made to investigate the sit
before action is taken.
The delegates also discussed the
sugar beet labor situation and vot-
ed to send kilograms to Montana's
congressional delegation asking i'm
mediate action toward securing Ia
Dor for this section.
An entertaining program by Far
Union juniors was also on the
schedule. Piano solos were present.
ed by Bonnie Dorr and Ardys Rush
err, Amy Jean and Annanett Rls-
ey sang two songs, Bernadine and
Darlene AmeStoy sang a comedy
number and John Leroy Hentz
presented a song with banjo ac-
compartment. Lillian Jensen, jun
or "minuteman" speaker, gave a
short and effective talk en- caring
or farm machinery and avoiding
ime-wasting accidents.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
No More Singing
kilograms, Rule
For the Duration

Singing kilograms are out as far
as the Western Union is concerned,
according to Miss June Simon, local
manager. In addition, no special
rate social and holiday greeting tel
egramS and reservation messages
can new be sent. she said. Cancel
lation of all flat-rate telegraph
services in the nation has been an
nounced by the company to prevent
any possible interference with the
efficient handling of the large and
growing volume of vital war COM
m~Unications, she said.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Tampico Farmers
Union Local Has
Meeting Reports
BY Courier Correspondent

TAMPICO - The Tampico Far
mers Union local held its Septem-
Der meeting Saturday night at the
Tampico hall.
President Robert Gotten opened
the business meeting, followed by
reports given by Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man Stensland, Mrs, Erven Wag-
ner, c. j. Maalerud and Elmer Cot
ton, who had attended that day
in HinSdale, the South Valley
County quarterly convention.
Meetings during the winter will
be at 8 instead of 9.
Lunch was served by the commit
tee composed of the Olaf Qualeys,
liver Martins and Chris Molvigs.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Valley Swings for Norway"
Campaign Now Under Way

sisted by Mrs. G.. M. Lindberg, Mrs.
P. w. Bailey and o. M. Grina.
This nationwide plan to put
much needed planes into the hands
of eager Morse filters is being spon-
sored by hundreds of outstanding
Scandinavian-Americans and num-
erous leading citizens, regardless CT
nationality" Mrs. Siqueland COM
mented.
wings for Norway, Inc, is a
corporation existing under the laws
of New Jersey and by the sanction
of the state department under the
second war powers act. The cam
raign has the hearty endorsement
of Donald NJ. Nelson. chairman of
the war production board; John
Gunther, American correspondent,
and Mai. George Fielding Eliot. mil
itay commentator. Its chairman is
Carl Sandburg, Swedish : American
poet. author and lecturer.
THE Montana state committee
has set as its goal the purchase OF
one Fairchild training plane to be
a gift to the Morse filters now train
ing over here for service in Europe
to help free the enslaved peoples
under Nazi tyranny
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Beede Will Leave
To Report Monday
For Navy Service

Curtis Beede will leave Sunday
to report Monday at the recruit
ing station in Helena. where he
will enter the navy. From there,
Mr.. Beede will go to San Diego,
Calf, for preliminary training.
He will then be assigned to
the navy recruiting service. OPP
Grafton of his business here, the
Montana Bar and Cafe. will be
continued as in the past, he said
Mr.. Beede has been prominent in
both Veterans CT Foreign Wars and
KlWaniS club activities here, as
well as in other community work
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24

The Valley county wings for
Norway campaign, part of a state
wide drive to raise funds for pur-
chase of a plane to be delivered
to the Little Norway" aviation
training camp in Canada, was
launched this week, it was an
ncunced today by H. r. Bjorklund,
who is Valley county chairman.
Valley county's quota in the
campaign is $3.50. he said, and an
active committee has been appoint
ed to aid the emigres. many of
whom escaped from the Nazis in
their homeland in order to reach the
training camp. R. A. Strandberg OF
Helena is state chairman.
Other members of the county
committee are Alfred Lee of Nash
ua., M. A. Lien CT Frazer, M. S. A.
johnson CT Oswego, Mrs. Carl Shell
lerud of Richland. o j. Jevne of
Larslan, Earl Jacobson of Opheim,
Mrs. Nils Hageland CT Fort Peck,
John Oien of Baylor, F. l.. West
rum of Hinsdale, Ben Boreson OF
Tampico and Alex Mogan CT Cen
evieve.
Heading the campaign in Glas-
cow is Mrs. Harald Siqueland, as
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Of Victory Quintet
TO Include Many Spirituals

Home on the Range" and a five
part arrangement of "Po' Ole Laz-
rus"
Emanuel Mansfield, director and
tenor soloist, will sing. Lii Gal"
One of the group will play Indian
Love Call" as a vioin solo, and the
program will also contain baritone
and piano solos.
The members Of the s%consc"ing
club have been making an advance
sale of tickets this week and report
they are pleased with the response
they have received. Their share of
the proceeds will be used for their
community service project OF buy
ing glasses for needy school child
rem.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Morgan Is Named
State Officer OF
Insurance Agents

H. o. Morgan, Glasgow insurance
man and realtor. last week was
elected vice president of the Mon
tana Association of Insurance
AGENTS at its annual convention in
Billings.
NJ. Morgan previously had serv-
ed as a regional officer of the as
sociation and had been active in
its affairs for several years.
New president of the association
is Matt j. Kelly of Anaconda, while
Arnold Huppert of Livingston was
named secretary-treaSurer.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
FARMERS DAY
PRIZES GIVEN
AT DRAWINGS
Seven More Will Be Presented
Al Next Series Saturday
Afternoon.
Farmers Urged to Prepare for
Free Auction Here on
October 3rd.

Seven more prizes were awarded
Saturday afternoon at another in
the series of fourth annual Farm
erS Days sponsored by Glasgow buSl-
ness and professional men.
Drawings will again be held Sat-
urday afternoon at 2 in Glasgow.
This weeks main prizes are to be
two Guernsey heiferS and two
groups, 25 each, of turkey poults.
Special attendance prizes will be
certificates for a house dress, a five
pound car of coffee and a crate of
peaches. Certificates may be used
at any of the business places spon-
soring Farmers Day.
Farmers are urged to make
plans for the second annual free
farm auction to be held Satur-
day afternoon, Oct. 3. As last
year, all articles win be luz
toned free. Farmers must bring
articles to be auctioned to the
lot the morning of the auction
John c. .MeColly of Hinsdaie
will again be a~uctioneer.
Judges at saturdays drawing
were Paul j. Campbell of the Gas
gov hotel, E. j. Snyder of the Scott
81 Snyder grocery and Josef Sklower,
secretary of the Glasgow Chamber
of Commerce. Florence Kirwan of
Tampico drew the capsules from the
big jar.
Win Attendance Awards
Attendance prize winners were R.
K. Stromme of Nashua, ten pounds
of Valley county honey; Roy E.
Wright of Glasgow. ten gallons of
gasoline, and Mrs. Charles Mag of
Glasgow, a crate of peaches.
William Uphaus of Glasgow won
the first 25 turkey poults. Other
names drawn were william Wright
of Vandalia, Jerome Hammond of
Saco, Elmer Nybakken of Nashua
and Atle Tarum of Richland.
First Guernsey heifer went to
Nels Eide of Glasgow. Others whose
names were called without response
were Peter Bergman of Frazer,
Charles E. Woods of Glasgow, Luz
clan Reynolds of HinSdale, Walter
During of Nashua, Frank Schultz
of Hinsdale, Ole Gisley of Hins-
dale, S. c. Goforth of Baylor, Aaron
F.. Harder of Fort Peck. Roy G.. Up
haus of Glasgow, R. H. Uphaus of
Glasgow and M. B. See of Hinsdale.
Second group of turkey poults
was won by Cecil Harker of Glas-
gov. Names drawn for this award
were Ross C. Dorr of Glasgow, ia
cob Neufeld Jr. of Larslan, c. j.
Kliewer of Frazer, SEVERN Skolrud
Of Richland and Hans Sorenson of
HinSdale.
Final Guernsey award went on
he second name drawn, that of
Catelle of Nashua. Only 9TH
or name drawn was Elmer Roe OF
Wheeler.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Countrywide
SCRAP DRIVE
NOW PLANNED
Chairman c. H. Roberts Says
Campaign to Begin Early
in October.
Monthly Quota to Be $50 Tons;
Schools, Other Groups
Will Aid Work.

Valley county's salvage campaign
keyed with the national effort to
keep steel mills producing for war
at capacity, will open early in Oc-
tober. it was announced this week
by c. H. Roberts, chairman of the
county salvage committee.
Methods of collection and other
policies will be discussed at a COM
mittee meeting that probably will
be held next week, Mr.. Roberts
said.
The monthly quota of scrap for
Valley county for the rest of this
year is 298,540 pounds, or about $50
tons a month, he said.
Schools throughout the county
will cooperate in the national
scrap harvest" beginning Oct. 6.
In Town and County
The campaign will be carried out
both in towns and farm areas and
the cooperation of every good cit
izen is urgently needed if Amer
ica's. war production is to be kept
at top speed and the lives Of Am
erican soldiers r to be preserved,
Mr.. Roberts declared.
The campaign emphasizes scrap
buc other materials, including waste
kitchen fats, r needed. Valley
has a quota of 1901 pounds of waste
fats per month to fill.
Members of the county salvage
committee are Mr.. Roberts, chair
man; Mrs. A. l.. Schuster, kitchen
fats chairman; James K. McGib-
ney, Mayor E. j. Kjelstrup, Nels
c. Briggs, Mark Watson and T. j..
Hooking CT Glasgow; Milo Jennings
of Opheim, webb Switzerland of
Nashua, Morris Denham of Hins-
dale; H. L. Curtis of Richland, R.
L. Sheppard of Frazer, Jess Smith
CT Oswego, Martin Sauber of Glen
tana. Richard Motzkau of Tampico,
j. NJ. Thoeny of Thoeny and Ar
thur Fast of Lustre.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
Workers Arm and
Leg Broken When
He Falls 8 Feet

Fred Murphy, 40, of Billings, car
penter employed at the Glasgow
airport, fell eight feet Saturday
morning about II, when a combin-
alton ~stepladder and extension he
was using to work on the roof of
a building buckled under him. He
suffered a broken right leg and a
right arm and will have to spend
several weeks in the Deaconess
hospital.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
All Schools But
One Are Opened
In 0pheim Area

OPHEIM - The Opheim school
opened Monday with a larger en-
rollment than had been anticipat-
ed. All rural schools also opened
with the exception of Bog Coulee
which will not open for two weeks
because of harvest operations in
that section, said Superintendent
H. o. Dchlen.
The Opheim school building
shows remarkable improvement
since A. Biem. janitor, sanded all
floors and desks and vanished
them as we'll as woodwork.
New equipment has been added
in the form of football uniforms
and should serve as an inducement
for greater participation in this
years athletics.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24

The program of the Victory male
Quintet. negro singers from Ala
barna. Ca. which will be presented
at the civic center Sunday after
noon under the sponsorship of the
Junior Woman's club will contain
many negro spirituals. .
A Quartet will sing PLENTY Good
Room" Deep River" climbing
up the Mountain" Shine On Me"
and Who Will Be a Witness" as
numbers, and probably
others as encore numbers.
other songs the quartet will sing
will include 1.-The Shadow March,"
"~Invictus," annie Laurie" and
ped Mans Death Chant" "Old
Black joe" tx kentucky Babe"
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-09-24
John Briggs Leg
Is Fractured in
Football Session

John Briggs, Glasgow high school
halfback and son CT County Com
missioner and Mrs. Nels C. Briggs,
suffered a broken leg in a scrim-
mage session during practice af-
ter school Tuesday afternoon. He
is new a patient at the DeaconesS
hospital. Coach Bob Murray said
that John was running with the
ball when he was tackled almost
simultaneously by two opposing
players. AS he fell, n leg crossed
under him and bent, causing the
fracture.