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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Notes Regarding
National Gronqe
Convention

For the first time in the history
Of the National Grange is a city Of
less than 100000 to have the honor
of entertaining its convention. This
year Wenatchee. The Apple Capt.
tai of the World will be given that
honor on November 18th to 18TH.
In a way this session will take
place in a setting that is more APP
propriate to an agricultural organ
ization than any previous city, for
Wenatchee was created to serve ag-
rlculture and the citizens of that
city have as great sympathy for the
interests of the farmer as the farm
er himself said Washington State
Master Carstensens.
On Thursday Nov. II, at 7:30 p.
m. the fifth degree will be given,
followed by the sixth degree. If
necessary the sixth degree will be
given again on Friday morning.
Friday will be Montana Day. The
seventh degree will be given as
many times as necessary to az
commodate those wishing to take
it. The annual Assembly Of De
meter will be held Saturday. witt
nationwide radio program al
1880.
TIE memorial services will be
Sunday evening Monday through
Thursday will be given over tt
business sessions.
Accommodations will be found fol
all desiring to attend but the nous
ing committee is asking that yoi
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
RED HEART SALE BY w. O. T. NJ.
VERY SUCCESSFUL

At the regular meeting Monday
night Mrs. Ira Peterson, Service
Regent of the w. O. 7. NJ, called
upon Mrs. Melvin Paulson, chair
man of the Red Heart Sale, for a
report on the drive to raise funds
to assist the Shodair Crippled Chill
drens Hospital. She announced that
S58.05 was realized. The workers
of the entire chapter greatly ap-
preciate the support given them by
the citizens Of Libby.
During the evening. another new
member, Mrs. Melvin Peterson, was
initiated
The first quota of kit bags having
been completed, Mrs. Jim Brown
was instructed to secure more from
the Red Cross. These will be dis
tributed at Sewing Circle, which
will be held Thursday evening at
the home of Mrs. Harold Burse.
PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

Courtesy U. s. Department OF Agriculture
II is a smile of Victory this young
miss has. For with the eggs from
her own chickens for consumption
here, and abroad where they are
sent in powdered form, the neces-
sary energy to carry on the great
fight against the enemy is being
partly supplied.
greater than it would be if egg pro-
duction were low during a period
of poor prices.
For good egg production at this
season of the year. the pullet flock
should have.
|. A poultry house which provides
four square feet of floor space for
each bird.
2. Some form of insulation in the
house.
3. A good ration in small feed
ers, which are freshly filled every
day, or at least every other day.
4. Two water containers in
room approximately 20 by 20 feet.
5. A ration featuring some form
of milk, whole oats, good grade
of alfalfa, and vitamin-D oil.
9. A supplemental feeding of
moist mash once day. If neces-
sary This practice is not essential
for all fiocks, but in the case of
focks going stale" or losing weight,
and for late, immature pullets.
7. Lights if necessary. Lights
might be used in the same situa-
tons in which moist mash feeding
is suitable. A successful practice
has been to use two l0-Watt lamps
all night in room 20 by 20 feet.
8. Fresh litter to keep up the
spirits of the flock and for the main
tenance of health.
8. Regular attention; irregularity
plays havoc with egg production.
10. The benefit of some good COM
mon sense. II is not bought in bot
ties and bags.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Tells Where to
Dump Tin Cans

As was announced last week,
preparations are under way for the
salvaging of all tin cans in this dis
trict. Those who have this work IN
hand ask that the public comply
with a request or two in the haul
ing of the old cans to the city dump.
Please dump the cans on an open
space at the right of the road as
one drives to the dump and just
before reaching the dump ground
The dump grounds are fenced in
such a manner that it will be i'm
possible to move the heavy machin-
cry inside the fence when the
equipment comes for the pressing
and baing of the cans Therefore
please dump the cans outside the
fence in the open space to the
right Of the road. Signs will be
posted soon at the proper place.
The further request is made that
nothing but tin cans be dumped in
that place All other garbage must
be hauled inside the fence and
dumped as usual
The public is requested TO comply
with this request. and thereby help
in war work and at the. same time
keep the grounds around the city
dump as neat as possible.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRY
q
Peat Moss
BY FLORENCE WEED

(This is one Of series Of articles show
ing how farm products are finding an i'm
portsnt market in Industry
Peat miners, you might call them,
those farmers who are lucky enough
to find bed of peat located on their
land. Domestic peat is needed now
to supplement the reduced supply
being imported from Europe.
Most of the beds in this country
are located in northern states.
Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Ohio and northern Wash
ington.
Moss, sedge and reed peat are
considered safe as fertilizer for
gardens and golf course greens. 9th
er kinds which have an acid reaction
and are not chemically adapted to
combination with soil are found use
full as insulating material, as stable
litter, and as an absorbent layer for
poultry houses in winter. Peat dust
is found to be an effective deodoriz-.
er. Peat can be used as a substi-
tute for medicated cotton in the
making of surgical dressings. It
has been used in the making of
paper.
Peat mining is not a difficult job.
The peat is first ripped up from the
earth, shredded in a machine,
pressed or dried to get rid of excess
moisture. then cleaned and sacked
For some uses, the peat is pull
verified to powder All of these
are farm operations that can be done
by one man.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
PAGE THREE

write for reservations, stating time
of arrival, how you are travelling.
days you wish to attend and enclos-
ing one days rental deposit Adj
dress Grange Housing Committee,
Chamber of Commerce. Wenatchee.
Wash.
GRANGE REPORTER.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
EUREKA YOUTH PROMOTED

An I8-year-old Eureka, youth
Dale G. Torrey, this week was pro
NOTED to hospital apprentice first
class and assigned to duty at the
Marine Corps hospital at Camp FL
Lott near San Diego.
A graduate of Lincoln County
High School at Eureka, young Tor
rey enlisted in the Navy November
4, I941, and was well trained for
duty with the Marine Corps.
His father is Cleo w. Torrey OF
Eureka.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Agricultural Notes

Wet mash has been used from the
beginning of the poultry industry to
encourage the birds to eat more,
and to increase or maintain produc-
ton.
The u. S. department OF agricul-
tnre has recommended to war
emergency officials that increased
amounts OF dairy equipment be
made available to farmers in l942.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
High Egg Production
While Prices Are Coed
Suggestions Given for
Improved Pullet Floclss
BY III. II. ALP

BY III. II. ALP
Extension Pouftrymah. College of Agricul
ture. University OF IHinois)
In times of good prices one is not
likely to think in terms of losing
money, certainly not so much as
when prices are low. There is a
great deal more at stake, however,
when prices are high, or favorable to
the producer. IT low egg production
exists then, the loss is actually
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
The Methodist Church

Choir this Thursday evening at
800 in the parsonage.
Church school GAS a. m.
Worship service II a. m.
Troy worship service 8 p. nj.
Libby Official Board meeting
Wednesday evening, November II,
at 7.30 in the parsonage.
4. ROY FORT, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Church News

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church
Teachers Training Course this
evening, Thursday, at TOO.
Choir practice this evening at
800.
Sunday school at GAS
Morning worship at 100 Sunday.
Family Night at 300 Sunday ev-
ening.
Confirmation class at TOO Mon
day evening.
Ladies' Aid on Thursday, Nov. IL,
at $50 p. m. Mrs. Melvin Paulson
hostess.
Welcome TO our services.
NORMAN BENSON,
Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Anti-Aircraft Searchlights

The army's anti-aircraft search
lights penetrate the lower atmos-
phere and reach into the strato-
sphere as a beam. The lights have
a range of SIS miles and the reflect
ing mirrors, so inches in diameter,
cast beam of 300, 100000 candle
mower
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Is Years AQo

Lincoln county's quota in Lib
erty Loan bonds was SIPS, 10000
and it was ver-subscribed AZ per
cent.
Plans were being discussed re-
garding a program for the dedica-
ton of Libby's new high school
building.
The new school building at Me-
Ginnis Meadows that has just been
completed by E. B. Holt, was dedi-
Gated Tuesday
Letters were published from Lib
by's soldiers including those from
J. c. Ketridge and Corporal {. {.
Gompf
A Warland item said that Mrs.
VESSEL, who had been operator
there for some time, was married
to Pete Costich in Spokane last
week
Mrs. ] A. Kennedy brought her
six-cylinder Buick car TO Libby
Sunday, William Kemp driving il
over from Helena The car has
been at Helena for the last year.
Mrs. |. D. Busy. postmistress OF
Eureka, visited Libby Sunday.
The Libby Womans Club is plan
ming to send box of stationery,
dish cloths and stamps to the SOL
diers Saturday. These are the ar
ticles that seem to be most in de-
mand among the boys.
John P. Wall is on the program
for four minute talk at the Koo-
tenai theatre tonight. Leo Faust
made a talk Tuesday night. The
subject of the four minute talks is
food conservation.
Robert L, Lambkin who has spent
the past summer and fall in Libby
on his fathers ranch, known as the
Barr ranch, left the latter part of
last week for Seattle, where he will
make his home this winter.
Mrs. Ole Nygaard entertained the
ladies of the Norwegian Lutheran
Aid at her home in East Libby Mon
day afternoon.
Word received by Mrs. l. c.
klenck from her son, Kenneth.
states that he is in the American
University at Washington, d. G..
training for the End forestry corps
for engineers.
The Halloween dance in the opera
house last night, the sixth annual
event of its kind, given by the
Womans club for the benefit OF
the local library, lived up to all
traditions of the affair by being a
decided success.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

The Assembly of God Tabernacle
New Log Church
Sunday school 10 a. m. Classes
for all ages.
Sunday morning worship II
o'clock.
c. A. Young Peoples service $50
p. m.
Sunday night evangelistic meet
ing in the church at 7.30.
Thursday night Cottage Bible
study in the home of VI. Bauer,
Troy, 7:30.
Friday evening Bible teaching in
the church at Tbs.
Welcome to our services.
REV. F. A. DALTON,
Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
First Church of God

Services
10 A. M.-Sunday School.
IL A. M-Church.
TOO P. M.-Young Peoples meet
ing.
800 P. M.-Church.
300 P. M.-Wednesday-Cottage
prayer meetings.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

st. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Sunday Masses 300 and 1000 a.
m. Baptism after 1000 a. m Mass.
at 7.30.
Sunday School after 1000 Mass.
Confessions Saturday evening
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
pOkeWeed Poisonous


The pokeweed, a common plant
eaten in the spring time for its
greens, has very poisonous root.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

The Halloween dance in the opera
house last night, the sixth annual
event of its kind, given by the
Woman's club for the benefit of
the local library, lived up to all
traditions Of the affair by being a
decided success.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

Mrs. Ole Nygaard entertained tine
ladies of the Norwegian Lutheran
Aid at her home in East Libby Mon
day afternoon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

Robert 1. Lambkin, who has spent
the past summer and fall in Libby
on his fathers ranch, known as the
Barr ranch, left the latter part of
last week for Seattle, where he will
make his home this winter.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

GRANGE REPORTER.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

Word received by Mrs. l. c.
klenck from her son, Kenneth.
states that he is in the American
University at Washington, D. G.,
training for the End forestry corps
for engineers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
Pay Increases For City Employees Considered
Mayor ScuIy Believes Raises Are Expected in l043 Have Been Under Consideration for Some
 .5 Time Says Chief Executive @

Pay increases for city employees seem certain for 1943, judging from indications at city hall. Mayor Vincent A. Scully said tocay that possible raises for city workers "have been under consideration" for several months, while other sources said that preliminary steps toward preparation of the city budget for next year are based on the assumption that pay increases of some amount will be granted.
 Policemen, firemen and teachers, unsuccessful in their efforts to win general pay increases last year, have renewed their campaign this year. They have pointed to large increases in average wages in industry and to the higher cost of living as argu- ments in favor of their claims.
 The 1942 budget made provision for some raises in lower wage bracket jobs but the board of fi- nance refused to approve any gen. eral increase. Mayor Scully said at that time that a general increase could be given only through im- position of a higher tax rate.
 Cannot Be Sidetracked
 The prevailing feeling at city hall is that the pay increase issue can not be sidetracked this year, and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
American Fighting Forces Reach Three ''Key Islands"
May Have Used Parchutists in Their Landing-Furious Japs Hurl Every
 thing at 'Devil Dogs"
BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent)

Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, Aug. 12.-(UP)-United States Marines fighting their way into the interior of three key Solomon Islands against a desperate Japanese defense and under a furious attack by enemy bomber and 6shter planes, reports indicated today Details of the fighting were awaited eagerly at headquarters especially because of belief that the Marines, in efecting their first landings used parachutists.
 LAPS FIGHT DELAYING ACTION
 On the sixth day of the first great American offensive in the Pacific it was indicated that the Japanese were fighting desperate delaying action while from bases all the Southwest Pacific they rushed every Warshp trOOp-sp and plane they could in determined attempt break the fOothold the Marines in combined American naval land and aerial attack had at the southern end of the SOlOmOnS
 FIGHTING WILD BATTLE
 Allied naval and land based planes reported fight ing wild battle with increasing numbers of Japanese landbased fighter planes and their only landbased those of the United Nations forces in the Australian based 900 miles from the nearest Allied flying field to the battle area.
 BATTLING THEIR WAY INLAND boats believed to have secured their footholds on TuIag Florida and GuadalcanaI Islands and fighting their inland with bayOnet and hand grenade against strong Japanese forces They battling through man. grove swampS cOcOnut groves unduatng grassands and clumps of trees and Altering the streams where crOcO diles lurked waiting to attack the wounded There every indication that despite losses which the United States the United States forces naval land and aerial approaching their objective of occupying islands in the Tulag the first step in pushing the Japanese back toward home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
More Rioting, Deaths Taking Place In India
Police Repeatedly Fire Upon Independence Groups Police, COnstables Attacked Disturbances
 Are Increasing
BY JOHN R. MORRIS United Press Far Eastern
 Mana UANl

Bombay, India, Aug. 12.-(UP)- Serious new rioting in which police repeatedly fired on independence demonstrators was reported today in dispatches from Wardha, Luck now, Delhi, Poona, Nasik, Caron- pore and Madras today as the total death roll mounted to an estimated GO in spreading disorders.
 At Wardha, a center of the All India Congress party, police fired four rounds after vain charges with their batons to disperse meeting which had been declared illegal.
 Many constables were injured when attacked by the crowd, which hurled stones at them after a stu dent had addressed the meeting and urged the people to disperse. The crowd refused to leave. Wardha is only six miles from the home of Mohandas K. Gandhi, interned Congress leader, at Sevagram,
 After a comparatively calm morn- ing in Bombay, disorders were re- newed in the afternoon and ex- tended to the heart of the city where police fired on a mob, wound- ing several. British troops armed with machine guns moved about the city in trucks, aiding police, but there were no reports that machine guns had been used.
 Revised casualty tolls showed at east 3l dead in the Bombay area up to noon today and 12 killed at Del hi, where fresh disturbances were reported this afternoon on the ap- breaches to the new Delhi sectson in which British and American
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
CLARK GABLE IS
 JOINING ARMY
Machine Gunner on Air. plane His Ambition
 Too Old to Be Pilot

Hollywood, Aug. 12.-(UP)-Clark Gable joins the Army today as a bucl: private. The man with the ears and the wide grin, who was, until the tragic death of his wife, Carole Lombard, Hollywood's most carefree star, told the Army he wanted to sell no bonds, make no speeches, entertain no soldiers.
 What I want" Gable said, "is to be machine gunner on an air. plane. I want to be sent where the going Is tough"
 The Army, apparently and event. ually, will oblige. Immediately after the swearing-in ceremonies this afternoon, Gable will entrain for the Army Air Force officer candi- dates School at Miami, Fla, His Al years will prevent him from be- coming pilot, but will have no ef- feet on his making use of his trigger finger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12

ArmaVlr-BaKu rallrOdQ, the N1er- mans carried their attack into the mountains In an effort to clear the southern flank of their forces strik- ing simultaneously toward the Rus sian fleets Black Sea bases to the west and the rich Grozny oil fields and the Caspian coast to the east.
 From the Nivinomoniskaya junc- tion on the Armavir-Baku rail line, the German Panzers swung south ward and pushed the Russians back into the mountains along branch line which runs through Gherkess.
 Today's Soviet high command communique reported intense fight ing" against enemy tanks and mo- torized infantry around Cherkess. Other fronts dispatches revealed that the Russians were being forced back upon Mikoyan Shakhar.
 Mikoyan Shakhar is close to the provisional boundary of Georgia, the home of Josef V. Stalin, adjoin- ing the Turkish border.
 A mountain highway leads from Mikoyan Shakhar across the high mountains to the Black Sea port ot Sukhumi, north of Batum and about 11O miles from the Turkish border.
 Eastward from Mikoyan Shakhar lies the Caspian and the port Of Makhach Kala, 280 miles away.
 A thrust to Sukhumi on the Black Sea might cut off Russias Novoros- sisk and Tuapse naval bases and ports.
 Turks Are Warned
 (The German radio claimed, on the basis of "rumors abroad" that the United States and Britain are urging Turkey to permit the Rus sian Black Sea fleet to pass through the Bosphorus Straits and escape into the Mediterranean. The Ger man statement was coupled with an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
MINISTER HAS CONTRAD|CTED ALL TESTIMONY Never Went to Germany to See Higher-Ups in
 Nazi Party DR. OTTO PLATTER
 HAD ACCUSED HIM Did Not RecOIlect Having Political Talks With
 State Witness
BY JACK AMMAN

(Unfted Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Hartford, Conn, August 12 = (UP) = The Rev Kurt E. B. Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran pastor, accused of spying for Germany and Japan, denied today before a Federal Court jury that he was a member of the NaZi party and that he made a trip to Germany in 1887 to see ''higher up" Nazi officials,
 This testimony was in direct con tradiction to that of Dr. Otto Flat ter, New York, head of the Excel sior Laboratories. Staten Island, whc said last week as government wit ness that the pastor told him he was Q Nazi party member and was on bis way in 1887 to talk With higher ups" at Berlin.
 The minister said Dr. Platter must have been suffering from 8 persecution complex"
 He denied he had told Dr. Platter on shipboard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that the latter was In the "bad graces" of the Nazi party and that he would intercede to get him his job back in Germany
 q recall no such conversation, the pastor testified. denying he ever had talked politics with pr. Platter during their conversations on the trip.
 The clergyman also denied Dr
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
Incumbent Congressmen Win, With Two Exceptions, In Primaries Yesterday

In New York City, Rep. William B. Barry, attacked as pre-Pearl Harbor ISolationist, was renominat- ed in the second congressional dis trict Democratic primary. Tn the goth ct trict, Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who followed the Communist party's hands off policy before Germany attacked Russia, won the Democra- tic Republican and American labor party nominations.
 Ohio--Rep. Martin L. Sweeney. D.. Cleveland, who defended his former Isolationist record, conceded the Democratic congressional nomina- ton in the 20th district to Michael A. Feighan. Reps. Cliff Clevenger, John M. vorys, Charles H. 1lston. J. Harry McGregor and Thomas A. Jenkins Republican pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationists-- -tallied margins |as high as tour-and ttve-to-one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
.NAZI PILOTS ARE
 FRENCH VICTIMS
Hand Grenades Hurled by French Patriots Into
 Group of Flyers

Vichy, August 12 (UP) = French patriots in Paris killed two German warplane pilots and wound- ed 18, eight gravely, when they at tackled a group of 60 with hand grenades, 1t was reported today.
 The 60 German pilots were exer- cising in the Jean Bouin Stadium on the western edge of Paris when the attack was made. The men reportedly were closely grouped when the hand grenades fell among them.
 The attack, one of the boldest ever made in occupied territory against the German occupation forces, climaxed a week of intensi- fled sabotage and terrorism.
 The attack occurred last Wednes- day. The patriots had stalked the Germans, watched them go to the field and then hidden behind a higli hedge until the aviators trotted past on the cinder path. As the group raced up two grenaders were thrown.
 One German was killed instantly. A second died en route to a hos- pital. French police and German (Contiuued on Page O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12
(BY UNITED PREss)

Returns from four or five States Primary elections today showed in cumbent Congressman, with two ex- captions, winning over opponents who had charged them with pre- war isolationism. Voting in all elec- tons was light.
 The primaries were held in New York, Ohio, Nebraska, Idaho and Arkansas.
 New York--Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., nationally prominent pre-war Isolat tionist, won the Republican nomination in the 26th compression al district, President Roosevelt's home district, by better than 6 two- to-one margin over three opponents. Wendell L. Willkie, titular leader of the Republican party, said '"The fight for his elimination must con- ttnue."