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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-22
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EUREKA
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ENTERTAIN GRAND WORTHY
MATR0N

Mrs. Bertha Welloff OF Lewis
town, Mont, worthy grand matron
of the order of the Eastern Star,
arrived in Eureka Friday evening
and on Saturday night paid her Of
fetal visit to Lillian Chapter No. 81
for the purpose of inspecting the
ritualistic work of the local chap
Ter. During her stay in Eureka
she was entertained at the home
of Mrs. Frank Thomas. An ex-
cellent dinner given by the Ladies
Aid of the Baptist church in their
parlors preceded the evening meet
ing. The tables were very attract
i've in the colors of green and yell
low, Mrs. Weiloff's favorites. DAT
fodills were used in profusion
along with green candles.
At the chapter room daffodils
were also used along with pussy
willows which gave the room a
CHEEKY, spring-like appearance.
Della Martin, worthy matron, pre-
sided at the session ably assisted
by her efficient officers. Mrs. Inez
Madden of Rexford was initiated
during the evening.
Out of town guests were not as
numerous as in former years but
Mr.. and Mrs. Baney and Mr.. and
Mrs. Nordstrom of Libby were in
attendance. From Whitefish were
Mr. and Mrs. Crook, Mrs Rose
Smith. and Mrs. Serene Swanson
Mrs. Judy James, a member of the
Standpoint, Idaho, chapter and Mrs
Katie Young, who is visiting her
daughter in Rexford, were also al
the meeting. Some of Lillian chap
ter members who were here from q
distance were: Mrs. ]. R. Rice from
Glacier Park, Mrs. Jess LaByer Of
Summit, Mrs. Ed Richardson OF
Spokane, and Mrs. Tom Smith Of
Troy.
Mrs. Weiloff proved gracious
visitor apd very pleasing. Hel
address on Our Obligation was in
teresting and timely At its close
Mrs Albee in her usual entertain
ing manner presented Mrs. Wei.
loft with gift from this chapter
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-22

A public card party will be Civ
en- by the Royal Neighbors at the
CYO hall on May l.
The American Legion is giving a
dance at the Community Hall on
May /. There will be a good lunch
and door prize; 81 admission.
Continued on page y
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ADDITIONAL EUREKA WAR
FIND CONTRIBUTIONS

$5.00-Mr. and Mrs. John I. Hall.
S1.00-Mrs. Lester Roose, Mrs.
Eva Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Tom CUT.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-22

to resist acid corrosion, have your
engine oIL-PLATED-q quickly
simply economically by
changing this Spring to Conoco
Nth motor oil-patented. 1t in
cludes q great advancement IN
synthetics, invented to maintain
orL-PLATING up and down your
engines insides, during many
hours or days when such resist
ance against acid can help. Your
Spring oil change is a must"
but the worst acid effects are not
not when you get Conooo Nth
motor oil. Continental Oil Co.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-22

DATTLE lines begin in the tall
II timber. Wood builds hangers,
planes, ships, factories; and houses
millions of soldiers and war workers.
Rank upon rank, the forests were
ready at the first bugle call. Their
products have been used to relieve
the pressure on more critical materials
for front-line jobs. The forest indus
tries needed no retooling' =. no
plant expansion.
Like the machinists, the welders,
and the puddlers of steel, our fallers,
buckers, and leaders have stepped
up their pace in order to provide our
country quickly with vast quantities
of this abundant resource.
Our trees are fighting, TOO. They
not only stand behind the eagle, but
are the source of an endless process
sion of the sinews of war.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-22
CHITRCH OF GOD

Easter services at III o'clock.
Prayer meeting next week in Eu-
reka at the Bill Quilting home and
at Fortine at the Ed. Leonard home.
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Dismissals - Mrs. May Kearney,
Donna Lee Brock and Mrs. Chas.
Graves.
Admitted April 15-Mrs. Bern
hard Rodel of Trego, w. M. Robbie,
April 20.
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GRANGE VERY ACTIVE

Tobacco Valley Grange met April
I3, with 46 members present. Anna
Robbie, Jay Fletcher Robbie, Marie
Bolin, Albert Green, Phoebe Green
and Fred P. Knott took the third
and fourth degrees.
Sister Alverson announced the
sending of another scrapbook to the
u. S. o. She also announced that
entries in the state contest must
be in by June lst. The ladies are
asked to bring any special seeds
or plants to the next meeting for
a seed and plant exchange.
The ladies are bringing recipes
and household hints to fill the
Grange cook book we are making.
She read long list of interesting
items that can be made from kit
chen cardboard and tin cans.
Our sports correspondent an
nounced the correction wished for
by the fish and game commission
in regard to the error made by
news papers on the closing of lakes
and streams to fishing. They will
be open as usual
Spokane has raised the top hog
weight to 240 pounds. The little
Bitter Root Grange wrote to our
Grange urging us to stress a need
for a still higher top weight.
The national Grange Hour, on the
Blue net work, has been discontin-
ued. If the demand is great enough,
the program can be reinstated.
A discussion of the card index
system followed with a final de-
cision to disregard it.
Our Grange plans to make a try
for the National award A commit
tee consisting of Sisters Mabel
Shea, Maye Roose and Clara Flem-
ing was appointed to take charge of
the projects.
A new Ceres was elected to fill
the vacancy left by Jean Henning-
sen. Sisters Betty Van Lishout,
Rachael Helms, and Elsie Helms
were nominated. Sister Betty Van
Lishout was elected.
Zelmar Moses, George Shea, Sr.,
and Alfred Peltier were appointed
on the agricultural committee. They
will take care Of our local man
power problem.
The Red Cross has suggested that
we cheese a Granger ger as as a eandi-
date for the Red Cross chairman.
Master Howard Helms expressed
his appreciation to those who
helped in soliciting for the Red
Cross drive. The Grange donated
100 per cent.
Brother Roose suggested we in
vestigate the recap and tube reduc-
ton of rs per cent. Flathead coun-
ty Grange was trying to make Q
deal with a vulcanizing company in
Kalispell to that effect.
A short program pertaining tc
the 4th birthday of the Grange
brought our meeting to close.
Lunch was served by group four
The men will serve next time
with Brother Mackey as chairman
GRANGE REPORTER.
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
(rood FRIDAY service aft O'CLOCK
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ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

Good Friday service at 3 O'CLOCK
sponsored by the Guild to which all
are welcome.
Easter Day-Inquirer's Class at 7
o'clock; Holy Communion at 8
o'clock. Fasting Communions may
be arranged for Monday morning
for those who desire.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
A NON-POlITICAl
PRESIDENCY

it mas zen suggested that both parties
unite, in the coming presidential election,
upon joint platform which would eliml-
nate internal political disunity, and thus
combine both major parties in a single
minded effort to win the war, before
adding heated political issues to the al
ready over-heated world issues.
Part of the plan would anticipate a
pledge by President Roosevelt to avoid
all internal social-improvement effort
for the duration, and one by one specifi-
cally eliminate this and that subject or
New Deal program item which heretofore
has divided the national political groups.
Nothing could sound more enticing;
yet nothing could be more impossible.
This conclusion can be reached speedily
by anyone who gives the idea more than
passing attention, though certainly the
objective of this wishful thinking is de-
sirable indeed.
One characteristic of our American
system is that once elected. the new presi-
dent and party is given free hand only
long enough for the other party to es
tablish a long line of grievances which
become the targets of attack. Usually,
as soon as the line becomes long enough
and the grievances big enough, the ins
go out and the outs come in.
Desirable as unity might be, such is
not possible in this country as long as
there is difference of opinion-and that
will be forever There must always be
those to watch eagerly for errors or mis-
takes or places of improvement. There
is an affirmative place for criticism in
our scheme; it guards against lethargy,
it stimulates to bigger and better effort.
If there were no critics of government,
government would go down hill. And in
this country there will always be critics
because the gulf between the parties is
much too broad and much too full of
grudges and honest disagreement upon
many salient issues.
No. this mellineal idea is nice to toy
with, but it is not susceptible of actual
operation.
1t is far better to follow our regular
custom, and let the people publicly choose
whether to condone and commend, or
condemn and replace the party in power
upon its record. Only in that way can
the majority express itself and the force
of our sovereignty make itself felt.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS
(Christian Science Monitor)

The airplane company maps showing
how easy it would be to leap from Chicago
over the Arctic ocean to Calcutta are
intriguing to look at, but mustn't be TAX
en- too seriously just yet. Despite the
fact that. largely unknown to the general
citizen. American air transport has grown
to a volume almost undreamed of before
the war. the routes still are influenced
measurablv by established sea and land
courses simply because of the absence of
navigation aids and refueling facilities
away from the population centers.
1t will require some years of weather
study and route mapping, and much.pro-
duction of specialized equipment, before
optimum use can be made OF the planes
ability to surmount many of the physical
limitations of surface transportation.
However. men are thinking in freer terms.
Todav's dreams are tomorrow'S facts,
especially when the dreams are backed
by the realistic efforts now being extend
ed.
We get but wisps above the censorship
of the drama of these exertions: An Air
Transport Command pilot is overheard
complaining in Washington, My laun-
dry's in India-can't get it until next
week. The Office of War Information
describes pilot who crossed the Atlantic
four times within three days!
At Middle Western flying fields, veter-
ans of the ferrying service who were milk
ing cows or jerking sodas only very
few months ago, glibly lecture still
younger beginners on landmarks, air
ports, weather conditions in Australia,
the Pacific Islands, Newfoundland, India.
Africa, England, where-not! American
facilities are rising in all parts OF the
globe; at least the beginnings of usable
plant will be available after the war.
America does not yet have really sat
isfactory freightcarrying plane. But
Howard Hughes has designed promis-
ing one for Henry Kaiser, and Donald
Nelson has approved the building Of one
for trials Others no doubt will enter
the competitive field. The postwar op-
portunities appear to be boundless.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09

LONDON. July 9. UP)-Power-
full formations of Britain's big four
engined bombers. roaring back into
action after five-night rest. heav-
lily attacked Cologne, industrial
capital of Germany's Rhineland,
last night.
Only eight bombers were lost de-
spite the weight of the assault, the
10th of the war on the third larg-
est city in the Reich.
Hardly had the -engined
Strings, Halifaxes and Lancesters
returned to their bases, than British
fighters in strength swept across the
Channel for a breakfast time attack
on Northern France, apparently
inland from Boulogne.
NO DETAILS
The air ministry gave no details
description of the raid as heavy,
indicated that hundreds of tons of
bombs, many of them four-ton su-
per block busters, were dropped on
Colognes sprawling war factories
and network of railways.
Cologne is one of the most
bombed cities in Germany and was
the target of the RATS first 1000
plane raid last year.
A German broadcast said British
planes made terror raids on resi-
Dental quarters in the Rhineland.
particularly in Cologne. Bombs
were dropped through thick clouds,
the broadcast said, adding that
many planes" were shot down.
THIRD RAID
The raid was the third on Cologne
in IL nights, upwards of 1900 tons
of bombs having been dropped on
the city on each of the two pre-
yious attacks. Bad weather had
grounded the RAF bomber COM
mand since the last attack Satur-
day.
other British planes joined in the
nights offensive with mine-laying
and intruder patrols over France
and Northwest Germany, where ar
fields and railway targets were hit
Fleet air arm planes, operating
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE
COUNTY BOARD OF
EOIIALIZATyO

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN tnat
the Assessor OF lmperlal
County, California, has delivered 10
the Clerk of the Board OF super
yisors of said County the assess
mcnt books, together with the map
books, and statements for the fiscal
year 1943-44, and
The said Board of Supervisors,
sItting as Board of Equalization
will meet for the purpose OF equaliz-
ing said assessments on Tuesday,
july 6, l943, at one o'clock P. M.
and said Board will continue IN ses'.
SION from time to time until the
business of eaualizing is disposed
OF but not later than Monday,
July 10, 1943, at 500 O'Clock ').m.
The Clerk of said Board will be
in his office in the Court House at
Ell Centro, California, each busi-
ness day between Tuesday, July 6.
1943. continuously until and includ-
ing Monday, July 10, 1943, at 500
O'Clock P NJ, except on Saturdays
after 1900 o'clock noon and On
other legal holidays, for .le pur-
pose of receiving requests for equal
ization of assessments by tax pay
ers. and all persons are notified
to appear before and file with said
Clerk any petitions requesting
equalization which they desire. On
such receipt the same will be re-
ferred to and considered by said
Board.
Dated: Ell Centre, California, July
6, 1943.
w. J. McCLELLAND
Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors.
(No. 800 (,J6 to 13)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09

, advancing wedges. Russian losses
were given as 42O tanks, many guns.
and 1T planes.)
GA Rome broadcast said the Ger
mans already had achieved their
immediate objective of shortening
their line on the southern front
and forestalling possible Russian
offensive. The broadcast discount
ed reports that the fighting was a
prelude to general offensive)
British military experts said the
Soviet position in the Belgorod area
appeared "precarious. A German
broadcast said Axis forces pierced
the Russian line at so many points
that the defenses had been over
come in great depth and length)
FOURTH ADVANCE
Seeking to exploit their fourth
advance in as many days. the Ger
mans poured constant stream of
tank and infantry reserves into the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Allied Conveys in
Endless Streams

ALGIERS, July 9. (UP)-Allied
conveys are plying the Mediterran-
can in seemingly endless process
sion, bringing new piles of war ma
terials for the invasion armies bas-
ed in North Africa, an airplane trip
over the coast disclosed today.
A journey over the coast line in
an American DC-3 transport plane
made it plain why Axis radios are
pouring out speculation on when
and where the Allies will invade
Europe.
Months ago the stockpiles began
increasing-landing craft Of every
description, tanks, vast stores of
munitions, food and Red Cross sup
plies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Toll Of Jap Ships
In Pacific Is $40

WASHINGTON. July g. UP)-
The sinking of 10 more Japanese
ships by Submarines today brought
the total Of enemy ships sunk by
Americans in the Pacific since Pearl
Harbor to $40 of which 1874 are war
ships.
Announced American losses are 93
vessels, of which II are warships.
Significantly, the little-publicized
submarine has accounted for an
even 200 of the $40 enemy ships
sunk. In addition 80 enemy ships
are listed as probably sunk and Sd
damaged by submarines.
A navy communique late yester-
day revealed that these Japanese
vessels recently have been added to
the submarine toll-one large trans
port, one medium sized transport.
two medium-sized cargo vessels, one.
| large tanker, one medium sized
tanker. one large cargo vessel, one
medium-sized passenger-cargo yes
sci, one small cargo vessel and one
small schooner.
The communique also revealed
that four more medium sized cargo
vessels have been damaged by sub
marines.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09

preached Russian lines in des-
perate attempt to achieve a de-
cisive break through that might
lead to encirclement OF huge Rus
sian forces in the Kursk salient.
Even while their comrades gave
ground before the southern arm
of the giant German pincers, now
ever, Red armies 165 miles to the
north seized the initiative ana
blunted the Axis northern spear
head with shattering counter
attack that dislodged the enemy
from several key points between
Kursk and Orel.
The battle of the southern 'front.'
went into its fifth day with the
Germans still stepping up the
tempo of their assault despite the
los of 1,843 tanks. $40 planes and
more than $4,000 men in four days
of some of the fiercest fighting OF
the entire war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Warren to Use
Pardoninq Power

SACRAMENTO, July 9. UP)-
Gov. Earl Warren, who has yet to
pardon a law violator, will use his
pardoning power rarely in the fut-
ure, he announced today in letter
to Lieut.. Gov. Frederick F. Houser.
Warren declared he would grant
executive clemency to convicts still
in prison only where the prisoner
was unlawfully convicted or has
shown unusually meritorious con-
duct" during his confinement. The
letter outlined the governors policy
for guidance of the advisory pardon
board, meeting today in Los Angeles,
which is headed by the lieutenant
governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Rotarians View
Actual War Scenes

Actual battle scenes from Stain
grad and Tunisia were shown in the
wartime motion pictures at the El
Centre Rotary club at its weekly
meeting Thursday in the Barbara
Worth hotel.
The pictures were presented by
Jim Nesbitt, with Malcolm Macur-
da handling the protector. Percy
Thacker presided in the absence of
President Earle Davis.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09

Schools for ground observers are
being conducted throughout Impe-
rial county this month by the men
and women trained i'm special class
e6 for instructors in this work
which we're held in San Diego last
month.
The II Imperial county residents
who took the course all received
their certificates as instructors,
Earl Northrop, director of the air
raid warning service in the county,
said Friday.
BEGIN TUESDAY
A school will begin next Tuesday
at Imperial High school at 8 pm.
with w. NJ Kent as instructor. This
school Is especially for instructors
on duty at desert posts whether
they come from Imperial or Ell
Centre, Northrop said. Recognition
of aircraft will be featured. w. j.
Meagher will start similar classes
in Ell Centre later this month.
Reeda wilkinson will finish her
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
ENEMY OF LABOR
(San Bernardino Sum

The International Teamster, the publ
cation of the Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, WarehOusemen and Helpers,
has written strongly on the subject of in
reference with the war program on other
occasions, but the manner in which it rips
into John L. Lewis for his coal mine strike
provides a demonstration of the attitude
of one of the very important union organ
izations of the country.
Under the heading, "John L. Lewis
Opens His Big Mouth" the publication
declares:
Does John l.. Lewis know that the
United States of America is fighting for
its life?
as he aware of the fact that American
blood has been spilled on many battle
fields, and that much more is certain to
be spilled before the conflict ends?
Does he realize that those young men
who have given their lives for their coun-
try have done so to protect the privileges
of free Americans, one of which is the
right to join labor unions and to bargain
collectively to improve their working con-
ditions?
HAS he considered the effect of the
coal mining crisis on the morale of Amer
leans. particularly the members of the
armed forces who know that their chanc-
es of survival are lessened every time he
opens his mouth?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Ii. Wins Silver
Star Decoration

us. SUBMARINE BASE, NEW
LONDON, Conn, July .. UP)-Lt.
William S. Farrell, Chula Vista
Calf, celebrating his 26th birth
day anniversary, was decorated to-
day by Admiral Freeland A. Daubin
with the Silver Star medal.
AS damage control officer aboard
a destroyer struck by Japanese
bombs Farrell entered a burning
compartment to remove explosives
and extinguish the flames, keeping
the ship in action throughout the
engagement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
WE FAIL TO
COMPREHEND

The big demand of war calls for more
of everything including food
Normally, this country must produce
sufficient food to feed about 140 to $50
million people. In both the present and
future of this war, our country is to feed
as many as possible of some 800 or 400
millions of people
In view of this fact, it is difficult to
understand why the fertile soils of the
East and West Mesa haven't already and
hastily been surveyed, prepared for de-
velopment, and put into production.
Records show that one acre here pro-
duces as much as many acres elsewhere.
The addition of a hundred thousand
acres, or two hundred thousand, could
mean much to war effort calling con-
stantly for more crops, and more barn
yard products including chickens, beef,
pork, etc.
Oddly enough, from no source has
there come an explanation why this has
mt been done, though much new acreage
has been opened up in the area sur
rounding Yuma.
We wonder if Imperial Valley has been
asleep at the switch.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Sicily Rocks as
Allied Bombs Hit

LIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, July 9. UP)-Sicily
rocked under its sixth day of nom
stop aerial bombardment Yesterday
as flight after flight of Allied
bombers pounded its airdromes and
communications in a pre-invasion
offsnive against the outer defenseS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY

WASHINGTON, July CUPD-
President Roosevelt today said he
may have something to say soon
about the food subsidy program
which congress almost stopped but
finally permitted to continue.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
PAPER SPECULATES
ON ACTORS DEATH

LONDON, July 9. (UP)-The Ger
mans may have shot down the plane
bearing the Actor Leslie Howard
over the Bay of Biscay as personal
revenge for Reichsmarshal Her.
mann Goering for Howard's anti
nazi film 'Pimpernel Smith" the
periodical New Statesman and Ma
ton suggested today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Observer Classes
Scheduled i'm |. y.

classes in Calipatria Friday and
start classes in inland next Thurs
day. on Friday William A. Shep-
pard will start classes in the Holt
Vile civic auditorium Friday. Miss
Nora Cartwright will begin classes in
Bard July 81. Mrs. Harry Anderson
is conducting courses in Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Phone 800
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiiowing edit
oriais are presented as interesting Opfn-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-09
Hundreds Of Huge
Nazi Tanks Ab|aze

MOSCOW. July tUP)-South-
ern front dispatches reported today
that hundreds of cotton German
Tiger" tanks were ablaze in the
Belgorod sector, rejecting grow
ing belief that the Red army was
gaining the upper hand in the big
geSt armored battle of all time.
I'VE have tanned the terrible
Tiger" was the war cry ringing
through the field reports which
said Russian tanks had stormed
into the titanic battle to reinforce
Soviet artillery. armor-busters, and
grenade throwers against the Nazis'
steel monsters.
The great armored battle swirled
through penetrated Soviet defenses
in the Belgorod region at the
southern end of the laundering
battle line. where the Red army
was throwing in every ounce of
available strength to stem the Nazi
onruSh.