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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Too Much Regulation
From WASHINGTON

1.-THE thing that bothers US most
Is that there is too much regulation.
The farm program has a tendency
to tell the farmer exactly what he
can do-and that applies pretty
much to the business man too. These
regulations were put on when times
were hard and prices low, and con-
ditions were benefited by regulation.
There seems to be no tendency to
drop them when times show i'm
provement. The men in Washing
ton made their program SO that
man was penalized If he didn't go
along with it. He was almost forced
to follow to be in good standing
with his neighbors.
In the grain business we were
forced to take whatever the Com
modify Credit corporation allowed
US to handle, do, what they ordered
us to do and wait until they got
good and ready to pay us for that
service. When a fellow is used to
doing what he likes, and then some
one comes along and tells him what
he has to do-Well, that gets under
the skin.
What we liked about the old free
competition system was that fore
sight and intelligence were worth
something. You might lose money
in hard times, but you were allowed
to make it in good times, and If you
didn't waste it you generally came
out all right in the long run. Now
they don't let us make money when
times are good, and they can't give
us any assurance that times will al
ways be good. II they could do that
we wouldn't mind giving up some
freedom.
when you once start trying to
control economic conditions Won
have to slap on more and more
controls to cover the situations Won
couldn't foresee, and the thing
grows and grows. That's the direc-
ton the New Deal seems to be
headed in now, and most Of US
around here think It's time to cali .
halt and 60 in the other direction
for while"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
FREEDOM FROM REGULATION
IS WHAT PAXTON, ILL.,, WANTS
Dislike Of Government Rulings and Redtape Evidenced
BY Citizens Of Midwest Community.
By BARROW LYONS

EDITORS NOTEThs Of series Of articles ften for this
paper by Baro Lyons staff correspondent Of Western Newspaper
Union He has completed extended through the nation and
these his frsthand OF hat rural America
thinking the third and ME first weeks OF
presidential election Any opinions expressed the writers and
necessarily those OF this ne,UspdperJ
PAXTON ILL-Dske of Washington and all its works could
hardly be found concentrated form than Paxton ILL
town of 5000 in the heart of the corn belt Only
few citizens will admit there anything the New Deal has done
has helm
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
CHURCH OF GOD

Pastor-Rev. B. H. Apologize.
Sunday:
Sunday morning-classes for all
ages-10 a. m.
Evening worship--8 p. m.
Young Peoples meeting p. m.
Wednesday prayer meeting at the
church--8 p. m.
Young Peoples prayer meeting,
Friday evening, 8 p. m, at the
Arthur Martin home.
Everyone welcome to our serv-
ices.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
THE LITTLE CATHEDRAL IN
THE PINES
st. Johns Ev. Lutheran Church
Mn Cyn0d

Mid-week Lenten services, We'd
nesday, 730 p. m.
Sunday service Ii a. m.
Sunday School, $50 a. m.
Bible Class. 10:l5 a. m.
Ladies' Aid, Thursday, at the
church, Mrs. Martin Botchek, host
ess.
Adult Lecture Course, Tuesday, 8
p. m.
Choir rehearsal, Thursday, p. m.
You have standing invitation.
H. HASSKAMP, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
As Paxton, Illinois, Views II =.

stalling batteries Of chick brooders
and pig hrooders. and poultry iaht-
ing Is increasing. Farmers around
here say this is the greatest serv-
ice they have received through the
government, although they organ
lied this cooperative themselves
provide the control Of management
and pay for all the service thew Get
There IS not subsidy Of any kind
in il.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

Let T. M. Brady, manager, ex-
plain Paxton's REA cooperative:
1--WE have paid all interest and
principal when due, and have made
advance payments on principal. Our
kilowatt-hour consumption is grow
ing steadily with increased use Of
electricity on the farm. War has
given an additional impetus to. the
introduction of electrical labor-sav-
ing devices. Farmers are now in
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Publisher Looks Ahead
To Postwar Years

Herbert N. Stevens, joint owner
with his brother, Harold H. Stevens,
of the Paxton newspapers and print
ing shop, says they are running
their plant now with IS employees
instead of the customary 20. But
Mr.. Stevens is certain that after the
war good times for the printer will
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
THE METHODIST CHURCH

Church School 9:45 a. m.
Worship service II a. m. Rev. M.
E. Van de Mark, district superin-
tendent, will preach.
Troy worship service 7.30 p. m.
Rev. Van de Mark will preach.
E. ROY FORT. Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

The subject for the Lesson-Ser-
mon Sunday, Feb. q, Christ
Jesus"
Wednesday evening meeting at
800 o'clock.
Sunday school GAS a. m.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

Use milk as base for vegetable
chowder Mix in cut up onions, car
rots, turnips, potatoes, green pep
per, celery, tomatoes-add leftover
vegetables, too.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC
CuTTRCH

Sunday Masses 800 and 1000 a.
m. Baptism after 1000 a. m. Mass.
Sunday School after 1000 Mass.
Confessions Saturday evening
at 7.30.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

Exceeding the Red Cross goal here
and everywhere will tell the
world" that America stands stead
fast and united, backing the boys
not only to the final shot but
through the ex-service days that
will come with peace.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Is Years Ago

The Rose apartment house was
the scene of a fire Saturday. 1t
started from hot water heater in
the apartment occupied by the
Mitchell family, in the center of
the one-story building =. Ex-
tensive repairs will be necessary to
put the structure back into habit
able condition.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
ST. LUKES, LIBBY
(EpiScOpal)

On the 4th Sunday of each month
there are no services at St. Luke's.
The next service will be on Sunday,
March S, at 7:30 p. m. Church
school at every Saturday after
faon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24


George Neils, another son of J..
Neils, is expected to come here in
April to take an executive position
in the office Of the company He
has q family andSwill occupy the
Pival residence noWused by ]. S.
Pitts. Mr.. Pitts has bought the house
occupied by Lionel Shaurette and
family, and will take possession
about April l.
A car jumped the tracks in the
Troy freight yards Wednesday
morning and split its contents,
Buick cars.
= A deal is being made this week
for the sale of Don Schanck's ranch
on the other side of the river, to a
newcomer named Stephenson, from
Butte.
Oscar Brendgard Of the ]. Neils
sales force, is in town from one of
his thousand mile trips.
The receipts of the Great North
ern railroad at the Libby station
during the month Of January were
$2,002.54 A very good showing for
one of the dullest months Of the
year.
s Machinists of San Francisco, de-
string to provide work for return
ing soldiers and sailors of the craft,
are striking for the right to take
Saturday afternoons off.
Bill Johnson, the inventor, is in
stalling his log checking devices in
the chutes at Camps s and 3, as a
demonstration Of the practibility of
his invention and reports are fa-
vorable fnr his elreess.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

The marriage of Miss Helen L.
Callow daughter of Fred B. Callow
Of Troy, took place there Wednes-
day evening to John E. Hills, of
Chicago. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev David Hardy.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Church News
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sunday school at 10 o'clock
Preaching services at 7:45 p. m,
conducted by the Rev. r. ]. Prem
tice.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

. LIldt lldo uclpcu uIlo OOuuty oSo'
But Ford county holds one OF the
most prosperous rural communities
in Midwestern United States. Be-
fore the war, in January, 1899, the
deposits in Paxton's two banks to-
tailed 81 ,63l 900; but today they sum
up to $4,532, 900, an increase Of ITS
per cent in four years, Paxton is
one Of the most conservative places
in conservative Illinois, which Wen
dell Willkie has called "the blacklist
spot on my map" Paxton spurns
Willkie as nothing but New Deal
err
Clothing merchants In Paxton
are making more money than
At any time since the boom days
Of the '20s. A farmer recently
calculating his income tax 6g-
ured he had made clear profit
before taxes OF more than $c0,-
600 In this crop year on gross
income Of 81 Ooo-and he hadn't
sold his 1943 corn crop yet. Most
Of his income was realized on
last years corn he had held.
So easy is it for shops to sell
what merchandise they can get that
advertising is at minimum. New
ertheless, Paxton boasts both daily
and weekly newspaper. The Paxton
Daily Record, four-page paper,
sells enough advertising space to
break about even, but the Paxton
Record, weekly, makes money in
spite OF the fact that national auto
motive advertising has virtually dis
appeared, and the oil companies
bly, only about one-tenth of the
ssPace they used to take.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

Ray Wollaston returned from the
military service Tuesday.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

A car jumped the tracks in the
Troy freight yards Wednesday
morning and split its contents,
Buick cars.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24

Oscar Brendgard Of the ]. Neils
sales force, is in town from one of
his thousand mile trips.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
Kansas Correspondent
Has His Troubles Too

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 19.-Tne
Associated Press this week asked
one of its correspondents, a Kan.
sas editor, to cover a politica
speaking in his town. No report
was received but today the edi-
tor explained:
Sorry to have failed you. I was
unable to hear the speakers be-
cause I was on a typesetting ma
chine that afternoon, as usual, and
Immediately afterward delivering
papers to trains and postoffice.
While doing this I passed the
speaking place and saw between
Is and so persons listening, but
today couldn't locate anyone who
could give any kind OF a line on
what they said. I was unable
even to have a line On the meet
ing in our own paper-which is
very bad but unavoidable in these
days when the help shortage puts
the old man himself in the back
shop. Hope some day to do bet
ter
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
CHINESE RETAKE
IMPORTANT TOWN

CHUNGKING, Oct. 49, Up -
The semi official Chinese agency
central news said today that Chi.
nese troops had recaptured Ia.
jungkiang, a town % miles north
Of the Kwangsi province capital Of
Kweilin, and that the retreating
Japanese were being pursued
northward.
There was no confirmation from
the Chintse high command, whose
latest communique indicated a Jap
anese advance to a point 81 miles
north of Kweilin had been achiev.
ed as the result of an enemy col.
umn push to positions about Il
miles southwest of the Human.
Kwangsi railway town Of Hingan.
Fighting ensued there and W
continuing yesterday morning, the
communique added.
Japanese troops who have been
attacking Chinese positions IL
miles west Of Hingan have been
halted, the high command an.
nounced.
Fighting continued against til e
northern and southern arms of the
Japanese west river drive toward
Liuchow, 100 miles southwest OF
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20

II (COntl0UGQ IIOW rake OuCJ
| icy association in New York to
morrow.
Dewey made no comment on the
State departments statement be
fore leaving Albany for Pittsburgh
where he will make labor speech
tonight. Paul Lockwood, his secre
tary, said tonight's speech woulo
be discussion Of what happens
to free labor under personal one.
man government and what labor
in America has a right to look
forward to under a new admins.
tration.''
Dewey endorsed a state depart
ment warning to Nazi leaders that
they will pay the penalty for their
heinous crimes" if they carry out
reported plans to exterminate
Poles, Jews and other no Ger
mans in concentration camps.
The vice presidential nominees
continued campaigning on the west
coast with Gov. John w. Bricker
telling Bakersfield, Calf, au-
dience he had been informed that
agents of the CLIO Political Action
committee had launched a cam
paign of threats and intimidation"
to line up labor voters for the
New Deal.
In New York, Sidney Hillman,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
Foreign Affairs Take
First Campaign, Place

chairman Of the CIO.PAC, said
Brokers statements were t h e
Charges of a candidate gone wild
with fear at the sight Of the grim
spectre OF defeat constantly stalk
irg him and his running mate. Gov
ernor Bricker knows that he has
no evidence to prove this"
| Senator Harry S. Truman NOV
ed from Oregon into Washington
for an automobile tour of the state
clinaxed by major address at
Seattle.
Other developments:
Former Senator William H. Sma-
Tiers told reporters on the White
House steps that President Roose-
velt would carry New Jersey by
100000 votes. Last Tuesday, for
mer Democratic governor Charles
Edison, after a White House call,
said it appeared Dewey would car
ry the state by a substantial mar
gin. Smathefs said he had told the
President that 1.-The former gover-
nor's judgment las been warped
ever since he started an intra-par-
ty fight with Mayor Frank Hague
(of Jersey City,"
Secretary of agriculture Claude
Wickard, speaking at Sioux City,
Ia, said President Roosevelt was
the best friend agriculture ever
has had in the White House."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
II. RS REELECTION
ADVOCATED BY COX

DAYTON, o., Oct. 49, tR -
James NJ Cox, a staunch advocate
Of the league of nations which the
U. S. Senate rejected after the last
war, declared tonight 1.-The powers
that directed the conspiracy Of 1920
control the Republican party still. "
The former Ohio governor a n d
Democratic presidential nominee
who campaigned in 1920 on a plat
form calling for participation in
the league, urged the re election
Of President Roosevelt, saying:
"The Allied nations which are
winning the war together must lead
in winning the peace together. And
that trio, Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stain, whose united leadership is
winning the war, are not they,
standing together. the best guar.
antee of the victory for peace for
which our people yearn?"
Speaking on a coast-to-coast CHS
broadcast sponsored by the Demo-
cratic national committe, Cox said
in a prepared text released by his
office:
The American people are to de.
eide whether, at the crisis Of the
war and the hour of opportunity
for the peace, we are to dissolve
the leadership which has brought
us thus far SO gloriously on our
way. I believe our people know
their duty too well to desert this
great cause now"
He asserted that a minority Of
Senators" blocked Americas en-.
trance into the league in 1920, and
the Republican convention adopted
that year a platform ambiguous
enough to insure a Republican
president by gaining the support
OF both friends of the peace and
isolationists." -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
BERLIN SEES FRESH
ALLIED DRIVE NEAR


CONTINUED from Page One)
the ground for a big smash into
the northern Siegfried line.
The British drove to points ap-
proximately three miles north Of
America, while American forces
pushing steadily eastward from
the Deurne area continued to roll
across the Deurne canal and stood
about the same distance west OF
the town.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
American First army in hand to-
hand and house.to-house fighting
through Aachen won control Of
more than half of the city, find
ing German resistance as stub
born and strong as it was on the
first day of the siege Of the big
German center II days ago.
At the channel end of the west
ern front Canadian troops ad-
vanced northward to within a mile
of the key German fort Of Bres-
kens on the south bank Of the
Schelde estuary and also closed
in on the town from the east,
reaching an unnamed bay two
miles away.
The rest of the. front was. rela-
lively static on day Of continue
ed bad weather. worst toward the
south; 1t. Gen: George S. Pat
tons American Third army in
eastern France was begged in
mud, the doughboys lying in ma
ny Of the same trenches their ia.
theirs used in the. first world war,
while American and French
troops in the Vosges foothills fur
Their to the south consolidated ana
improved their positions despite
German counterattacks.
The focal point of the entire
front. was the British-American
drive against the enemy's Mas
salient and particularly against
the railroad town of America. Ly-
ing six. miles south of Venray.
Amerika is on the railroad from
Helmond leading southeastward
through the border city of Venlo
and on into Germany through Gre
field to the Rhineland. America
is just eight, miles northwest of
Venlo, an important prize in it.
self.
Northeast of Venray where the
Germans had dug in as if for. the
winter, the determined onslaught
Of the British Tommies and the
Allied success in Venrav appar-
emily forced the enemy to change
his strategy, for the Nazi troops
were pulling out Of this sector to-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
JAPANESE REPORT
PHILIPPINE LANDING
CONTINUED from Page One)

ments to the north, was silent or
the Tokyo claims.
Tokyo, in a broadcast recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission, said American forces
had landed on the tiny island o:
SULTAN at the entrance Of Leyte
gulf on the eastern side Of the cen.
trail Philippines.
(The Blue network also reported
Tokyo broadcast Of a japanese
imperial communique shortly at.
ter 10 a. M, Pacific war time
which said Americans ''stsrted
landing attempts, on the big is
land of Leyte between Mindanao
and Luzon).
Confronted with the necessity Of
backtracking on claims of an IAN.
Initiating victory" over the Amer
lean navy off Formosa claims
repudiated in Toto by Nimitz-To.
kyo radio SAID today:
Despite his serious losses sui.
fered in the waters off Taiwar
Formosa), the enemy has com.
menced his reinvasion Of the Phil.
ippines."
/ Tokyo attempted to explain
away the alleged destruction = Of
Americas task force So by saying
the American Fifth fleet, under
Adm. Raymond A. spruance had
regrouped itself with the THIRD
fleet OF Odm. william F. Halsey to
make the invasion possible.
Macarthur said his Liberators
blasted Davao and Zamboanga on
Mindanao Tuesday, unloading LOG
tons of bombs and that his fight.
ers went over the next day to hit
Cotobato on the west-central coast
The landing on SULTAN was coy
erec by powerful Allied fleets
from the southwest and central
Pacific, Tokyo said, and by Al.
lied warplanes based on Morotai
and Peleliu islands, to the south
and southeast.
Coastal areas about Leyte gulf,
Tokyo reported, were being sub.
jected to heavy naval and air
bombardment.
For days, carriers Of Adm. Will.
liam F. Halsey's mighty Third
fleet have launched furious air
attacks on every enemy base that
could oppose a ground invasion Of
the Philippines.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
MOVE OUT.

ELIZABETH CITY. Oct. 19.-(R)
Residents of the coastal village
of Avon on the outer banks, just
recovering from havoc wrought by
the September IA hurricane, were
evacuated to Manteo and Eliza
beth City late today as another
violent tropical storm swirled up
from the south.
Old and infirm men and women
were brought out in two patrol
planes Of the coast guard which
cooperated with the Red Cross in
carrying out the evacuation. 9th
ers came out on trucks, jeeps, and
other vehicles.
Avon with a population of 200,
was evacuated, officials explained
because the last storm had left
practically no houses standing in
the community. In other villages
on the banks, all Of which suf-
fered severe damage last month,
the residents decided to stay
home and let the hurricane do
its worst.
Red Cross workers, who have
been in the area for the last
month aiding in the rehabilita-
ton Of the storm-wrecked ham,
lets, remained in the zone as the
newest tropical storm approach
ed, prepared to render any help
needed.
Coast guard stations along the
fringe of islets comprising the
banks stood ready to receive the
inhabitants of the region if the
storm should be severe enough to
drive them to shelter.
The Hurricane was expected by
weather bureau officials to strike
in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras
around $3.50 am. tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
REDS SMASH EAST
PRUSSIA HEAVILY
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A midnight Soviet bulletin de-
scribed Belgrade as a 'Cauldron'
where several thousand isolated
and pocketed Germans fell in a
single day, and Marshal Tito's
Yugoslav partisan headquarters
said the Yugoslavs alone had kill
ed 5000 Germans there.
The liberation of Belgrade ap-
peared to be imminent, with the
enemy compressed into a narrow
portion of the Danube city.
In Hungary the Russians struck
to within seven miles Of Debrecen
after a violent ten-day tank bat
tie, Moscow announced, and in five
days ended Wednesday captured
more than 1000 German and Hun
garians, in addition to great stocks
Of equipment.
New gains also were reported in
southeastern Czechos1ovakia but
Moscow did not give the progress
of other Soviet troops and attached
Czechos1evak units battering their
way into Slovakia, the middle por-
ton of the Allied state which was
shattered by the Germans and their
Allies before the war began.
The smash into East Prussia
presumably was under the direc-
ton of the brilliant 37-year-old
Jewish tank expert, Gen. Ivan D.
Cherniakhovsky. This Third White
Russian army troops, using thou.
sands of Americ an-made jeeps and
trucks, swept over Eydtkau, half.
mile across the Lithuanian border
on the Kaunas-Konigsberg high
way.
The Russians broke through the
main German Notifications. But
Berlin fastened to assure the home.
land that the Nazi lines were
elastic and staggered" and that
the loss of German soil was not
necessarily decisive in the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-20
REP. H. P. FULMER
| dies SUDDENLY
Continued from Page One)

by the ''middleman' and an I'M
economical distribution system.
Among the agricultural laws en-
acted by Congress which bore his
name, are the United States Stand.
ard Cotton Grading act, and the
original Agricultural Adjustment
act containing the domestic allot-
ment plan, farm mortgage ref
nancing, and drainage district re-
financing.
Fulmer was born June %, 1875,
near Springfield, S. c., son Of
James Riley and Marthenia Full
mer, and was educated in til e
county public schools and Spring
field High school. Ee was grad
uated from Massey's Business col
lege, Columbus, Ca, in 1897.
He was married Oct. 20, 1901,
to Miss Villa E. Lybrand, of Ak
en- County, S. C., and they had
three children, Mrs. Charles Cor
don Smith and Mrs. William T..
Reed, both Of New York city, and
Mrs. John Benson Sloan of South
Carolina.
Himself a farmer, Fu1mer began
his political career in 1917 when
he was elected to the South Caro-
lima House of Representatives as
one of five elected from a ticket
Of Is candidates.
Reelected two years later, Full
mer served as a member Of the
Ways and Means committee Of the
South Carolina House, and in 1920
he was first elected to Congress.
He served in Congress continu-
ously since, though rarely was he
reelected without opposition, eth
err in the democratic primary or
in the general election.