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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
Senators See Nazi Collapse
Any Time; War S End in as
Cumulative Effect of Defeats on All Fronts,
Plus Bombing of Cities, Expected to
Hasten German Defeat.
By BAUKHAGE
Nerps Analyst and Commentator.

The army air forces says the
general, "are now attacking the en-
envy on ten different fronts through
out the world. Their victories,
wherever they come in contact with
the enemy, testify to the gallantry
and skill of American pilots and
crews, to the mechanical efficiency
of the planes and to the leadership
of General Arnold and (the
other commanders).
History of the War
Go through General Marshalls
dramatic history of the war to date
and you will see again and again
how the Allied air might has gradu-
ally risen from the days in the
first phase" when, as the general
says, ION all fighting fronts we were
in a desperate situation due to
lack of MATERIAL" into the later
phase" when in the southwest Pa
cifc, "air superiority was demon
strated by loss ratio of four to
one in our favor" until today when
''the combined American British
bomber offensive against the CONT
nent of Europe gives promise OF be-
ing decisive factor in the ultimate
destruction of the German CITADEL
Now that the Allies are in posses
sion OF the Foggia air bases in Italy,
we can reach what the President de-
scribed as the area OF Germany
hitherto sinvulnerable. We are
nearer the southern German cities
now than the air force in the British
Isles is to many of the cities against
which it has hurled its most devas-
tating blows, and those cities of
southern Germany and Austria,
hitherto "safe" are now as "vulner-
able" as the cities OF the Rhine and
Ruhr, as Hamburg and Cologne.
The war is not over. The fighting
potential of the German army, in
number of men, equipment, general
ship, supplies, and morale is as high
as ever. But as sat in the Senate
Office building and heard the pre-
uiIiiUilf Lie IOlIdpcC VI lEiiiluiiJ
may come at any time" my mind
went back to the anxious faces, the
nervous inquiries, that came to me
the day that Britain and France de-
| clared war and I waited to leave
Berlin where | had been broadcast
ing to America
The greatest fear of the average
| German then was the fear of Amer
lean participation in the war. We
couldn't, the stupid leaders believed,
"get there in time if we wanted to. F"
They didn't guess we would come
via the skyways. Now they know
Mote: To anyone wishing a com
plete copy Of the record which
Americans will never forget which
Is what the President called Seen
eral Marshall's fine, soldierly rec
ord OF achievements OF our army
throughout two of the most tremen-
dous years OF our history" / shall
be glad to send copy. Simply send
me your name and address. No
charge. See address at head of col
umn.)
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. C.

Washington, d. C.
at is my guess that the war will
end by 1885," the senator said. 1.-THE
collapse of Germany may come any
time
Pencils slid over copy paper.
Mine, too. We sat around the long,
green, committeeman table in the
Senate Office building. Other press
and radio men (and women) and a
few visitors listened to the three
senator's who had made 10000
mile trip beginning in Maine, up
through Nova Scotia, through Green
land, Iceland, Great Britain, Africa,
the Near East, India, China, Aus
tralia, the Pacific islands, and back
home.
| thought as took down the notes
for my broadcast that I wished
many of the people who write to
me, calling congress dumb, were
there to listen to these men regaling
us with fifst-hand information, facts,
figures, impressions, which later
they were to pass on to their col
leagues in the form of long and de-
tailed reports. Much of the material
will never be printed.
The trip was spoofed by the pa
pers. when it was proposed. as AN
other junket." But sitting there, lis
tening to these men, there was no
doubt in my mind that they had done
real job. They had slept in gaudy
villas in Africa, they had camped in
the fields with the troops, lain un-
der matched roofs, in bamboo shell
tiers, taken their chances across wide
sweeps of water in planes unaccom-
panied by any fighter protection.
They had tried to find out the things
you and / want to know-hoW the
war is being fought.
Reasons Why
You have already read the gist OF
what those senators-and Senator
Lodge, who made the journey, plus
a side trip-said. The information
will come out in reports and
speeches before the senate and the
house.
1t was a long session but the
thing that struck me was the second
sentence which | quoted at the be-
ginning of this article.
1.-THE collapse OF Germany may
come at any time
These men didn't pretend to be
military experts or prophets. That
statement of one of them-Senator
Russell of Georgia-to which the
others, Senator's Mead of New York
and Brewster of Maine, agreed, was
based on what they had heard and
seen including photographs of what
Russell called "leveled Hamburg
by the time this is in print
there may be other German cities
leveled as fiat.
Another thing was the testimony of
a French official who believed Ger
many would crumble soon. He was
anxious that America be prepared
to step in and take control. Unless
we did, he insisted, chaos would
spread, perhaps anarchy.
| have heard that fear expressed
by other Europeans.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25

Enough steel goes into U, S. tin
cans every year to build 900 de-
stroyers. I"-
Another use for the all pur-
pose American army jeep has been
discovered. Converted from road to
rail by changing to steel-fanged
wheels, the jeep Is being used in
Australia as switch engine In shut
Ting cars around railroad yards, 4
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
Can't Eribe Probabilities

Aristotle said: I'm regard to the
confirmation of evidence and the
law of probabilities. when a man
has not witnesses he can say that
the decision should be given in ac-
cordance with probabilities and that
this is the meaning of the oath ac-
cording to the best of ones judg-
ment. For probabilities can
not be bribed to deceive and neither
can they be convicted of bearing
false witness"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25

The purchaser Of a 81 900 bond
pays for the whole cost of Amer
ica's global war for four-tenths of a
second.
To maintain its record of meeting
every invasion need, the Merchant
Marine must recruit from shore jobs
minimum of $4,000 experienced
,ers and men during the next
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
Agricultural Notes

Sunlight and soybeans are su3-
gested by the California college Of
agriculture to poultrymen searching
for substitutes to replace fish oil1
and meal In poultry rations.
Cannibalism in young chicks =
best controlled by keeping the brood
er house as cool as practical and ~
covering the windows with a sing1e
thickness of paper to prevent bright
ly lighted spots within the house.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
Kalispell, Mont.
Nov. 81, l943

Nov 81, 1943
Libby Western News:
| am an old timer, u.s. down and
out, that's why I am writing with
this Stub of a pencil, on this cheap
paper, with blue marks on it, |
have better tablet, but broke my
pen.
I have been reading quite bit
the past few weeks about the one
dollar bills
Naturally, when you are near the
end of the month, and you are down
to that last 30 cents that we used to
hear about, any kind of dollar
looks good-no matter what it's
made of. But I don't like the
things; the paper dollars | mean.
I have a sister in Wisconsin, lives
on a farm. Two or three years ago
she wrote for me to make my home
with her, SO I went back for a few
weeks-everyth was fine as far
vas home went, but | felt out of
place there, so one day | said te4n,N
sister, Nellie, think Ill 60 back
to Montana again. | want to see
the old mountains and the snow on
the hump" So I came back.
| didn't think anything about it,
but now | know it was not only the
snow-covered Rockies | wanted to
see, but I wanted to get back where
I saw more or the old silver" cart
wheels"
Let those wooden nutmeggers'
down in Connecticut have them
some of their faces look like a pa
per dollar that had gone through
the mill.
Yours truly,
AN OLD TIMER.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
THE FORUM

[This is a department for the dis
cussion of pertinent topics by anyone
who so desires. 1t is open TO every.
one and any suitable subject may be
considered. However. what appears
in this department does not neces
sarily reflect the views of this pa
per.-The Editor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25

1.-THE jungle was all around us
Ammunition, food, and whisky had
run out, and we were parched with
thirst!"
But wasn't there any water?'
Sure. But it was no time to
think Of cleanliness
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25
CiUiIion AW0rds

The war department has borrowed
an innovation of private industry as
well as one of the pioneers in develop
ing this idea. Ezra S. Taylor of the
Pullman Company, Chicago, Ill, will
operate it.
Mr.. Taylor has been appointed ex-
pert consultant to the secretary of
war and is chairman of the depart
ment's new board on civilian
awards. The board has been set up
to increase material economies and
generally improve efficiency by uti-
Hiking the ideas of the 100000 en-
ployees of the department.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-25

mo Trespassing" signs for sai1
at this officc.-Westcrn News. Il
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07
MANPOWER SHORTAGE
IN LUMBER INDUSTRY

Eu.-.. 'uul = The rtuppnc.
situate. " the lumhcr industry is
Jrn.u'..- 'NC critical -'agc ani
mpu " ...' industry arc urged H..
nc +. . !"r'"ymcnt Service tu lc.
mur Hnr.o they arc.
LrrncH- O., highly essential lm
the prosecution uf The war. Mr.
Gcp'rudr IS Clinic. state director u.
'Ic USES aid today. and She cited
~, ..' '.H' = l. one ul the rrdti, %
'..". fr.' ..'" been PIT on 10
hou, ..s.--Iu indication NJ 1ust
now e e.'.-I II Is.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07
Steel Workers
Go On Strike

Pittsburgh. "a. April i--LNID
NpproyimatClN 800 steel
workers went an strike today at
the Edgar Thompson plant Of
The Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
busy with war orders.
Company aud union SpokcS-
men said the cause al the strike
was the transfer NJ IL timc-tak-
rra tn other Jobs in ihe mil 1t
A reduction III plS,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07
FDR Opens
Lean Drive

Washington. April ;-(lry-
Ere id"nt EooScycIt sc"; the Scr-
ord war loan drivr-iI,iS one for
SiaJnH" GHD. D00--uf Ia y head
'tr. tnddH by selling i 50 war
bond 'o i veteran Negro mes
,crc'r dt the White House and
l., asking il,c American people
{, "i.r rVc this slogan:
"IhcN give their lives. We
lrrI our money"
~. drt,c upcus nationally
iHil T..
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07
E'c>st- War Pr Z . hi &. ms
Confront Com. Z >.ss:e,s
Z cries Statement
On Buffer States
AIouE cs CRITICISM;
Cthcr Capital News

3. ''"'" l"u. April .-t.Ir-
Hr.:. '::d!cat;un> that I.ncl.. sam
h.> hi .2.0ou 100000 gold ante
ready t. plank down on The posi-.
NiE currency NtahiIIIItiun tail,
i'!r Capitol today WAS ,0ntrnntrr
hS Il tiCkli>h new world pruh.
J H-thc future OF buffer state.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07
Japs Outflank
British Army
On MayuFro
tBv The Associated Pres,

wv IHV .NNNUVIIIVU FTt~NI
! new British setback on the
EninL front was disclosed today
~ iiTid Marshal Sir Archibald
i. WaNrii> lcsionS fell back on
the MiNu peninsula. along the
BhN ~ Bengal. To counter 4
threat by "utlllnking Japanese
irCup> from ,h" north.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-04-07

Continued "n Pogo Tvp
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

ucliIS ildu SpcIlJ 0U llllluCeS Ill COIl~
ference with Lieutenant General
Brehon B. Somervell, federal oper-
ator OF the railroads.
The unions-Firemen and engine
men, SWitchmen, and conductors
had precipitated federal seizure of
the railroads on Monday by refus-
ing to follow the lead of II other
rail unions in accepting presidential
arbitration of their wage dispute.
TIME WAS SHORT
With only 18 hours remaining be-
fore the deadline at 6 am. Thurs
day, the three unions rescinded their
strike call as the army prepared to
keep the railroads going with SOL
diers if necessary.
In releasing Stimson's announce
ment, the war department said it
was approved by the three union
chiefs.
The question Immediately arose as
to how long the government will
retain control of the carriers. 1t
was assumed that federal operation,
would end when the emergency
was over. The president declared
that he wanted to restore the roads
to private management as soon as
it became certain there would be
no strike
InaSmuch as he already has en-
barked upon arbitration of the wage
issue, however it was believed he
might wish to settle it finally be-
fore relinquishing federal control.
ON ARBITRATION
Thus far he has made an arbitra-
ton award to two operating unions
which previously rescinded their
strike call. He is ready to arbitrate
for the carriers and the Is nom
operating unions as soon as these
groups agree on the scope of issues
to be arbitrated.
To the two operating unions
engineers and trainmen-he award
ed increases totaling nine cents an
hour-four cents straight time and
five cents overtime. All five operat-
ing unions originally had asked
an increase of SO day.
The war department said
THE secretary of war announced
that there will be no railroad
Continued on page 6, col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Legion Meeting
Hears of Plans
For Getting Beds

Every effort is being made to find
or purchase 95 beds and bedding
for the sleeping quarters for service
men established in the Baird
Building, George Whitcher reported
to the American Legion. Boyce Aten
Post, members at their meeting
Tuesday night.
The Legion members plan to keep
the quarters open at least Saturday
nights of each week and y have
volunteered to be on hand in pairs
the entire night to supervise and
accommodate the men. Under the
plan, originated through the joint
efforts of the Legion and City
Recreation Commission, the men
will pay soc per night.
At the present several beds have
been obtained from the county Jail,
Hi-Pass camp and other sources but
bedding will be needed and until
then the men must bring their bed
rolls. The Red Cross, the Motor
Corps and similar organizations are
aiding the American Legion in the
project, Whitcher said.
Mark MCGEE was named by Com
mander Harvey Kenyon to check
the possible arrangement of mill
tary ball for the officers and one
for the enlisted men.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
U.S.. Hits
Rome
AirfieIds
Strong Air Force
Batters at
Holy City Areas

LONDON, Dec. 20. (UP)
Strong forces of American
medium bombers b ! a S t d
German a ir f j e | d S in the
northern and southern SUBJ
urbs of Rome Tuesday, an Algiers
communique announced Wednesday,
and a German broadcast reported
a heavy death toll and considerable
damage.
The Basilica of San Paolo Fuori
LIE Mura (St. Paul outside the
Walls), one of the five patriarchal
churches, in the southern outskirts.
of Rome was hit and damaged SER
iously, the German DNB agency
claimed.
HIT RAIL YARDS
The assault on the Roman air.
fields conceded with attacks by
Mediterranean-based heavy bomb
ers on strategic railway yards in
northern Italy and a resumption
of raids by British-based bombers
on Germany after a four-night
Christmas lull.
Two waves of Mitchells with an
escort of invaders heavily bombed
Continued on page 6, col. 5,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
(UP)-President Roosevelt's
disavowal of the term new
deal as the administrations S
reform trade mark was wide
ly regarded here Wednesday as the
first important move toward a win
the-war fourth term campaign.
But others regarded his triumph
ant accounting of administration
policies since 1888 as reply to
those critics who have accused Mr.
Roosevelt of having lost interest in
the reform era now that a war was
underway.
The president tossed the term
new deal overheard in casual
conversation last week. He made
it official at Tuesdays news con-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
District Orders
half Million
Of Debt Payment

The Imperial Irrigation District
board of directors authorized pay
ment by Treasurer Anna It. Me .
Manus of more than a half million
dollars in principal and interest on
the districts bonded indebtedness.
The stability of the district is re-
flected in the payment of the obli-
cations which total $536,32171,
which becomes due and payable on
January /, 1914, officials point out.
This total represents S177922.46
principal and $348399.25 interest.
Breakdown of the payments is as
follows:
REA Fifth Issue Electric Revenue
Bonds, $4,000 principal and So
21305 interest or total of $27,-
21305. These bonds were issued
July /, 1887, and financed the rural
electrification program of the dis
Continued on page 6, col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Soviiets
Rout
Nuziis
Russ Army Heads
For Rumania,
Old Polish Line
By UNITED PRESS

Massive Russian t orce S
streamed through a 65-mile
gap in the German defenses
west of Kiev today and fam
ned out in three directions toward
the old Polish and Rumanian 'front.'
les.
Surging westward through crum-
bling enemy resistance, RusSia's LIST
Ukrainian army fought its way into
the northeastern and southeastern
suburbs of Korosten in an l1-mile
advance that threatened momentar-
lily to engulf that key five-way
junction on the main Odessa-Len-
ingrad railway.
All along the 65-mile front the
Germans were falling back with
increasing speed as the Red army
pressed what appeared to be full
scale drive to break through to
the Bug river in Poland and to the
Rumanian frontier, thus trapping
hundreds of thousands of Nazi
troops pinned down in the Dnieper
bend.
The northern wing of the Rus
sian offensive captured Bekhi, 4
miles northeast of Korosten, while
a second column drove into Khotin-
ovka, 5A miles southeast of the
junction.
Less than so miles to the south,
the Russians cleared the Way for
direct assault on the enemy
stronghold of Zhitomir by captur-
ing the town of Korostishev after
a fierce street battle in which vir-
tually all the German garrison was
annihilated.
The southern flank of the Rus
sian offensive arc broke into Paw
loch, 38 miles northeast of Berdi-
chev and % miles northeast of
Kazatin, two important junction
Continued on page 6. col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Partisans Lose
DaImatia Isle

LONDON, Dec. 20. CUP)-A free
Jugoslav communique announced
today that units of a German rifle
division, supported by the Luftwaffe
and naval artillery, forced Marshal
Josip CTito) Brozovich's partisan
troops to evacuate the island of
Korcula off the Dalmatian coast
Evacuation of the 35-mile long
island was ordered, the communique
said, after four days of heavy fight
ing during which partisan forces
under British leadership killed 500
Germans.
German occupation of the island
was regarded as a precautionary
move to forestall possible invasion
attempts in the area. The Germans
ordered evacuation of Jugoslav civ
ilians last week from an area so
miles deep along the Dalmatian
and Montenegran coasts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
OPA Revises Plan
On Vegetables

ules were said to be the reason for
preparation of new order carry
ing roll-backs of considerably less
than planned for Is vegetables at
least.
The order is expected to be issued
in few days and the new prices
at the country shipper level prob
ably will go into effect next week.
Vegetables first to be covered
will be lima beans, snap beans, cab
bage, carrots, caulifloWer, celery.
cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, green
peas, peppers, Spinach and toma-
toes. Control of these will be fol-
lowed by reductions for five more
vegetables.
The roll-backs probably will
start affecting retail prices by the
middle of January under the new
orders. The extent of the changes
planned was not known The prices
announced in October called for a
schedule of 18 to IL cents a pound
for lima and snap beans, nine to
IL cents for spinach and peas, 18
to Il cents for tomatoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

had decided to risk it's shrinking
fleet in a desperate attempt to
throw the invasion off schedule.
The task previously had been
entrusted to submarines and planes
but their apparently total defeat
left only German surface WarshipS
to deal with Allied conveys.
The destroyers presumably came
from ports on the French west coast
which rims the bay.
The tWo-sentence communiquc
gave no date for the sinkings, but
indicated they constituted two op-
erationS. British casualties, if any,
also were not given.
His Majesty's ships, in cooper
alton with aircraft of the coastal
command, have sunk three Ger
man destroyers in the Bay of Bis
cay and damaged some others, u
the communique said. Other coast
al command aircraft attacked and
sank one homeWard- bound Axis
blockade runner"
There was possibility that the
deStroyers moved out into the Bay
of Biscay to screen the blockade
runners return, but most observers
inclined to the belief that they were
intended for use as surface raiders
Sagging morale among crews re-
sulting from prolonged inactivity in
French ports also may have played
a part in the decision to send the
destroyers to sea. 1t was, the first
mention in recent months of Ger
man warShips in the bay, though
there may have been some unan-
nounced actions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
WPB Aid Views
New War Needs

WASHINGTON, Dec 30. (UP) -
Charles E. Wilson,. executive vice
chairman of the war production
board, said Wednesday the amount
of war materials sent to North
Africa for the invasion of Sicily
and Italy was "a mere trickle" COM
pared to what is necessary for the
coming European operations.
Wilson said these new operations
will require ''all the planes we can
produce
He said any idea that the pro-
duction job is finished is entirely
erroneous. He added that the
ountry's 1914 production job will
be even bigger than "the miracle"
that was accomplished in 1943.
I'VE simply must meet the de-
mands of the military-and they'll
be bigger, much bigger, than those
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (UP) -
The office of price administration,
it was learned today, has had to
backtrack somewhat on its previous
plan to roll-back various winter
vegetable prices by 80 to so per
cent from prices of a year ago,
The OPA in October announced
proposed schedules for carrying out
the roll-backs on winter vegetables
but these have never been put into
effect. "MiscalculationS' made by
the OPA in figuring out the sched-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Ho|tviIIe Mans
Rites ARRANGED

Last rites for Fred C. Smith, &c.
who died recently in Holtville, will
be held at the Lemons chapel in Ell
Centro at 3 p. m. Thursday and
burial will be in Evergreen cemetery
Mr.. Smith was born in Odessa,
Mo, in 1874. He left there when a
child and thereafter made his home
in California. He finally engaged
in farming in the Holtville area
where he acquired considerable
acreage.
His survivors include a brother
George w. Smith of Bates City, Mo,
two half sisters, Mrs. Margaret
Reeder and Mrs. Katherine Nc
Donald of Kansas City; half
brother, Howard Smith of Mani
tou, Colo; his step-mother, Mrs.
Hattie Smith of Kansas City, and
nieces and nephews, including Mar
shall D. Smith who lived in I'M
perial Valley for several years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Churchill Makes
Steady Gains

LONDON, Dec. 29 CUPo Prime
Minister Churchill continues to
make very satisfactory progress" in
his recovery from pneumonia, his
office reported Tuesday, and "it is
not expected that any further bull
letin will be issued"
Churchill sent congratulations to
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser and the
home fleet Monday for brilliant
action in sinking the German bat
tleships Scharnhorst off Norway
Sunday.
"All comes to him who knows
how to wait Churchill's message
said.