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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-13
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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-13
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motorists to use fuel "dopes,' re-
puted to increase mileage and 9TH
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Evening star., 1944-01-16

From American farms exclusively come
the essential ingredients of Nucoa-pure,
digesrible vegetable oils and fresh pasteur-
lied skim milk Nucoa's cultured milk fla
vor its evenly smooth-churned texture
delight you. And Nucoa supplies, so
economically, the nutritive values you
should get from your spread for bread
food energy that stays with you Vita
min A tempting richness to make other
foods more appetizing.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
The fine, fresh, "always-the-ssme''

The fine, fresh, ,"always-the-same
favor of Nucos spoils you for other
spreads. For Nucoa is freshly made the
year around, on order only. There is no
storage" Nucoa. On hot vegetables, or
hot breads (the severest test of sweet,
fresh havor), it tastes delicious Nucoa
gives the real richness of favor which
only table-quality spread can give.
And Nucoa is such bargain = both in
ration points and money.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Laurel Results

FIRST RAGIE-Purse.. s2,.ooo maieen
oyefssoesds Our Boss sRoo5 s1smins 5 Of aprlonss
Abiel tRudert) 800 ) eO
Land Cruiser (Kirkland) SO
Also ran-Pomperious, Vale Victory,
Post Boy. Ballyrae.
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ssst snd Tidy Tfdiim,Rs Reoo s9o fS5l04ss $50 400
Service Ribbon 1snellinssD -' SO SO
r. AiSe 5aRTntFfl, H I'D Doqss Gal Eleredna
DAILY double paid S34 800
THIRD RAcE-Purse, $500: s-y.sr-
elds and up: allowances; II. miles
Saxon Paul Huther) 6.1O 45O 2.aO
Still Pond (Scocca) $50 $50
Tagel tBowers) $40
Also ran-Aifred Stuart, saros, strollins
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FOURTH RACE-Purse. s. 900: a-year-
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Appeal Agent. Record March.
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Also ran-Gallant Witch Milk White.
Dog Day, Mabel Dauber. Bottle Imp
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olos and up. allowances furlongs
Baby Dumping tWalD 1.4O 40 350
Best Reward (Breen) 40 81
Reztips (Dodson) < IN,
Time-1 IA As
Gang, Director J. E. New Moon.
Entries for Tomorrow, Pare A-l3.}
Evening star., 1944-09-13
9th Army, Under Gen. Simpson,
Joins in Western Front Action
Greatest U. S. Force
Ever Assembled Reed,
To Invade Reich
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sept. 13.-The
American 9th Army has taken
its place in the Operations Com
mand in France, it was an
nounced today, alongside the
1st, Sd and 7th Armies, making
the mightiest American force
ever assembled on one fighting
front.
1t. Gen. William H. Simpson is
commanding the 9Th Army, the an
nouncement said. It was not dis
closed Immediately in what sector
the 9th Army was operating nor its
relation to the overall command
setup.
Gen. Simpson, a native of Wealth
erford, Tex, won the Distinguished
Service Cross in the World War, as
well as the Silver Star, the Croix de
Guerre and the Legion of Honor
He is 56 and was graduated from
West Point June II, 1909.
AS assistant chief of stan Of the
33d Division in the World War he
accompanied 1t to France in May,
1918, and subsequently became di-
vision chief OF stat.
After the war he served In various
posts, including the military science
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Americans Fighting on Holy Soil Find
Nuzi Resistance Lighter Than They Expected

diers shot Pierre just outside of a
house which one of our details was
preparing to reconnoiter.
Standing here under the unend-
ing thunder of our guns-they are
dropping shells far ahead of our
immediate area of attack-it is hard
to realize that we have come now
to the main objective of so many
months of war
Back of us the flag of Belgium
waves from every house in the vii
lagos between here and Eupen,
which the Nazis had incorporated
into the Reich after their victory
of 1910. Here not one flag or stand
ard is to be seen.
Railway tickets, some of them
stamped for Dusseldorf, swirl
around in the low wind along the
floor of the ruined station. AL
though this is a small town, there
are German "verboten" signs ev-
erywhere.
Coming here from Eupen was like
many another march in this cam
paign-endless dust, lurching We
hicles and always the roll of guns
and soldiers parked momentarily by
the roadside to eat. But there was
a tendency to sit lower than usual
and to glance always at forbidding
woods and dangerous hedgerows.
Finally the road dipped around a
bend and abruptly crossed q rail-
road track marked with high red
and white poles. This was Germany
Evening star., 1944-09-13

Il guess it's sort of new life" "
His companion, Pvt. Archie BEh-
man of Hutchinson, Mimi, inter-
rupted to say Its all right. I hope
we keep on going like we have
been"
1t. John H. Haldeman of Pitts
burgh added:
Il am feeling all right. I'm kick
ing along and I'm still alive"
Sergt. Joseph Clements of Sandia
Tex, had blood on his hands and
trousers-the blood of his lieuten-
ant whom he had just pulled
wounded from the road. He rubbed
his hands together and said nothing
at all.
1t. Col. william Lovelady of
Soddy, Tenn, commander of q tank
and infantry tank force which
swept into this area, came by and
said his initial opposition has been
confined almost entirely to machine
gun and rifle fire.
But now the enemy is defending
his obstacles and pillboxes much
more strongly. Just up the road, he
also is holding out In a big bomb
crater.
Jerry was a little thin at this
point" Col. Lovelady said, but at
that. We are losing men"
One of the first casualties here
was a little Belgian boy named
Pierre, who had attached himself
to one Of our outfits. German SOL
Evening star., 1944-09-13
BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

Associated Press War Correspondent,
ROTGEN, Germany, 7 pm, Sept.
II Delayed .-Germany's primary
defenses have been shattered by
American tanks and Doughboys in
this area near the Belgian border
and there we're many indications
tonight that the headlong German
retreat, begun in France and Bel
eium, was continuing back toward
the Rhine
1t is too early to draw general
conclusions on the invasion of Ger
many, but thus far resistance has
been far less than might have been
expected.
Backed up by bowling 105-MM.
self-propelled guns. the Doughboys
as this is written are assaulting anti
tank obstacles and pillboxes beyond
Rotgen.
The first American tanks entered
Rotgen at 4:50 pm. and this cor
respondent arrived in a jeep at sos
pm. The clock on the shell-riddled
railway station had stopped at IL :05.
The first man to cross this from
tier in our task. force was 1t. Lew
Burroughs of Ogden, Utah. The
first soldier l talked with was Pvt.
George .Eckstrom OF Brooklyn
Leaning down from the tuyret of his
armored car he said with q long
sigh Of excitement:
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Russians. Seize
Lon1za, Rail Hub
In North Poland
Fall Opens Way to
Mosuriun Lakes Area
Of East Prussia
BY the Associated Press.

OS aiic hSsOSldleC fT6SS.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-Premiel
Stain announced tonight the
capture of Lomza, 20 miles south
OF East Prussia. an important
rail center and one of the
strongest German positions in
North Poland.
Earlier the German high COM
mand said Lomza was given up
to prevent Russian breakthrough
on broad front.
Stains order of the day ordered
a victory salute of IL salvos from
124 guns.
Lomza lies on the Narew River n
miles northeast of Warsaw. It's fall
opens the way to the wild Masurian
Lakes region of East Prussia.
The Berlin announcement said
tersely:
Northeast of Ostroleka, our
troops frustrated an intended Rus
sian breakthrough on a broad front,
in the course of which the town of
Lomza was given up"
Ostroleka,s companion base on
the Narew % miles to the west,
fell to the Russian Army group of
Gen. G. F. Zakharov last week.
German and Hungarian troops
we're said by Berlin to have smashed
strong assaults in Southern Tran
sylvania on the Balkan front.
Southeast of Warsaw, the Rus
slams achieved a penetration, sup
ported by numerous fighter bombers
and tanks" the communique said.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Favored Our Boss Wins
First Race al Laurel
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
LAUREL, Sept. 13.-The form
players in the crowd of $500 who
braved the rain and who strung
along with Capt. Henry Hecht's Our
Boss collected $3.50 in the 512 fur
long opener.
The Christiana Stables Abiel led
Into the home lane Buddy Root
closed fast with Our Boss, but the
geldlng couldn't get his head in
front until few jumps from the
payoff line. W. w. Waters Land
Cruiser was third.
Neat and Trim. the property of
Mrs. Helene w. Boyle, wife of the
president of the Charles Town
Track, registered her third consecu-
tive victory in the three quarters
OF the second. She followed the
last early pace of Mrs. Mildred
Jacobs Service Ribbon into the
stretcfFand then stood a long drive
gamely to defeat Ella K. Bryson's
Run Bud Run, Service Ribbon was
third. The winner paid $3.50.
The daily double paid S34.2O.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Laugh|in Is Accused
By Witness Of Takinq
$1,000 in Hot Money
Robbery AeeompIiee
Tells Jury He Paid
Sum to Lawyer
BY NORMAN A. KAHL.
Star Staff corresnond.r.

|
BALTIMORE, Sept. 13.-One
of the men implicated in the
Hyattsville bank robbery in 194l
today told a Federal Court jury
here he paid James J. Laughlin
$4,000, some of which Mr.. Laugh
lin said was to pay for an alibi
that was being prepared for his
client.
The witness, Charles B. Wilcox,
now serving 10-year term in the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for his
part in the robbery, also told the
court he had previously informed
Mr.. Laughlin that the money
might be hot" and that the latter
had replied, That's all right"
What did you mean by 'hot'?"
asked Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney Thomas M. Keeney.
The proceeds, of the robbery"
Wilcox said.
Laughlin Attacks Testimony.
Mr.. Laughlin, on trial on charges
Of impeding justice in connection
with the trial of Hilliard Sanders.
now serving 20-year term for his
part in the robbery of the Prince
Georges Bank e. Trust Co. of Hy-
attsville. told the court Wilcox's tes-
timony was false.
Wilcox, brought into court under
guard, admitted it was he who had
overheard conversation concern
ing the method used to deliver a
pay roll by youthful messengers and
that he had passed this information
on to other persons. Some time
later he said these messengers were
robbed and that he received $500
from the proceeds
Before he was arrested, he said,
he got in touch with Mr.. Laughlin
in an effort to help Sanders and an
other man who had been arrested
for the robbery. He said he pro-
vlded $1,000 soon afterward and
another $1,000 later. He testified
that Mr.. Laughlin told him it had
cost considerable money to establish
an alibi because he had to pay of
several people.
The Government charges Mr..
Laughlin had knowledge that rec
ords at the Florida State Prison
Camp in Raiford. Fla, were altered
to show that Sanders had been a
visitor there on September Is, 194l,
the day of the robbery.
A woman who said she acted as an
emissary between inmates at the
Florida State Prison farm and Mr..
Laughlin, earlier had testified that
she was the first to inform Mr..
Laughlin of the alibi which alleged
ly was arranged in the robbery case.
Mrs. Elsie Cleo Steinberg. Louis
vile, KY, who said she lived in
washington in the latter part of
1941, told of visiting her husband,
Leon Steinberg. in October and No.
(See LAUGHLIN, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-09-13
New Overseas Edition
Ready for MoiIinq

The Stars new Overseas
Edition is available today at
The Stars business counter
and at the Victory Bond booth
OF Lansburgh's Department
Store. It is free, with an en-
velope, ready for mailing to
Washington men and women
In the services. The edition
will be limited.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
U.S.. 7th and Sd Armies
Meet in Force on
Seine al ChatiIIon
At Least 10000 Nozis
Believed Trapped. With
Little Chance Of Escope
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, Sept. 13.-The Ameri-
can 7th and Sd Armies have met
in force on the Seine River at
Chatillon, closing the last enemy
retreat route from Southern
and Western France, Allied
headquarters announced today.
The full-scale juncture of the two
forces cut off substantial" numbers
of Germans, an official announce
ment said. Patrols of the two armies
had met previously.
French troops of the 7th Army
surged 48 miles northwest of Dijon
in less than 48 hours and completed
the union. Chatillon lies 125 miles
southeast of Paris and 10 miles
west and slightly north Of the Bel
fort Gap pathway into Southwest
ern Germany.
Vesoul Captured.
American troops moved forward
again after capturing the Doubs
Valley town of Vesoul, 80 miles west
of the gap, in a bitter two-day
fight. but ran into stiff resistance
a few miles to the east and north
east. A German counterattack was
thrown bac kat Port-sur-Saone, 7
miles northwest of Vesoul.
On the 7th Army right flank near
the Swiss border, French troops
battered out an additional gain of
5 miles but ran into strong German
fortified positions at Pont de Roide,
Is miles south of the city of Belfort.
At least 10000 Germans were be-
lieved to remain behind the Allied
lines west and south of the Chatil-
lon junction point, and q head
quarters officer said they all are
faced with the likelihood of being
captured or killed" A total of u.s.
900 prisoners already have been
taken in the month since the inva-
sion of the South France coast.
Nazis Trying to Pull Out.
With the fall of Chatillon many
German garrisons in towns to the
east were reported desperately try
ing to pull out toward the Belfort
Gap, but few seemed likely to escape
as the Allies applied squeeze from
the north, south and west.
Although the juncture of the 7th
and Sd Armies left a great westward
bulge, 100 miles deep and IS miles
across the mouth between the We
soul and Nancy areas. there was
every indication it would be quickly
and sharply reduced.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 13.-A danger
Gus Atlantic hurricane with winds
reported up to 140 miles an hour
swirled today along a course which
offered its greatest immediate threat
to the North Carolina coast.
There was a somewhat lesser
threat to the South Carolina coast
the Weather Bureau reported, If the
great tropical disturbance con-
tinued its north northwestward
movement.
A2p.m. bulletin placed the center
about 300 miles east of st. Angus
tine, Fla.
The bulletin said the storm 'is
moving north northwestward about
IA to Is miles per hour, with indica-
tions it will continue north north
west TO northward movement.
Crewmen in an Army plane who
braved the intense winds to send
back observations which permitted
the storm course to be charted en-
countered winds of about 100 miles
an hour.
Another pilot last night estimated
that there were winds up to 140
miles an hour near the center.
The storm is the strongest in years
to head in the general direction of
the American coast.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Reds and Romonions Fight
For Railway Network

MOSCOW. Sept. 13 (P.-Powerful
Russian tank forces and Romanian
infantry emerged today from the
western foothills of Transylvania
and fought for control of the rail
network radiating from Timisoara,
40 miles south of the prewar Hun
garian border and IS miles north of
the YugoSlav capital of Belgrade.
(The Paris radio said the Red
Army had reached the outskirts
of Sofia and that the Bulgarian
capital was preparing a recep-
ton, having arrested all members
of the former prc-Nazi govern
ment)
Marshal Malinovsky's offensive
was rolling forward during his brief
absence to sign an armistice with
Romania in Moscow and his Rus
slams approached within Is miles of
CluJ, capital of Central Transvl-
vania and largest Romanian city
still in enemy hands. He broke
permanent fortified line which the
Hungarians had been building since
1910 when Hitler awarded them the
northern half of the Romaniaf1 n
province.
Arad Threatened.
His drive also directly threatened
Arad, another important rail center
10 miles from Hungarian soil on the
north bank of the Mures River
Cluj is a city of 100000; Timisoara
80 900 and Arad rs OO0
The battle in the Balkans for
Pennsylvania now is becoming a
campaign to envelop Serbia (South-
ern Yugoslavia) from the north and
reach the Tisza River, which flows
(See RUSSIA. Page A-4l
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Yankees Accepting Orders
For World Series Tickets
5x the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The New
York Yankees announced today they
would accept World Series tick
ct orders conditionally.
President Ed Barrow said certi-
fed checks or money orders should
accompany all orders. Prices for
three games at Yankee Stadium,
should the Yanke get into the Sc
ries, are s18 for reserved seats and
$2l go for boxes. Last years prices
were $3.50 and $3.50, respectively.
The first three games of the Sc
ries are scheduled in the park of
the National League flag winner,
with the remaining contests in the
American League winners stadium.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Late Bulletins
200 Jap Planes Boooed

More than 200 japanese
planes were destroyed and
an unannounced number of
enemy cargo ships and
smaller craft were sunk by
United States carrier air.
craft in an attack on three
islands on the western side
of the Central Philippines on
Monday. the Navy announce
ed late today. Strong enemy
resistance is being met, Ad-
miral Nimitz reported.
The attack is against the
islands Of Cebu, Negros and
Panay.
500 Americans Freed
THIRD ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS, France R.-Five hun
dred Americans, most of them
women, have been freed from
a German internment camp
at Vittel, Is miles southeast
of Neufchateau. Some men
and children were in the
group. Other nationalities
also were liberated.
Dr.. Hughson Found
PHILADELPHIA P'.-Dr.
Walter Hughson, nationally
known authority on deafness,
who disappeared from his
nearby Abingdon Hospital
laboratory Monday night, was
found this afternoon lying
beside his automobile in
dazed condition 8 miles from
his Chestnut Hill home. Po-
lice told r. Sturgis Ingersoll,
>the physicians attorney, that
"Or. HughsOn is a very sick
man." He was taken to the
Abingdon Hospital.
Earlier Story on Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-09-13
YANKS REACH AACHEN, PATTON AT BORDER
Oct. 81 Is Set
|As Last Date
For Wars End
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-United
States war planning chiefs were
reported tonight to have estab-
lished October 81 as the tenta-
tive outside" date for the COL
lapse of organized resistance in
Germany.
Without discounting the possibility
that victory may come more quickly,
responsible nom British source
said the date had been pinpointed
by the United States War Produc-
ton Board after consultation
through usual military channels in
plans for partial industrial recon-
version from war to civilian pro-
duction.
1t was emphasized, however, that
while plans were predicated on the
end Of wholesale warfare in Europe
by october 81, there would be no
tSee PLANNING, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Siegfried Line Denied Germans Admit;
10 900 Tons Of Bombs Poured on Reich
Bases in Britain,
ItoIy and France
Used in Attack
BY the Associated i-ress.

BY the Associated f-fes..
LONDON, Sept. 13.-Allied
bombers today dropped more
than 10000 tons of fire and ex-
ploSive bombs on Germany,
which Gen. Eisenhower has
warned to prepare for high and
low level air attack at any hour
OF the day or night"
An armada estimated to number
up to 5000 planes cascaded explo-
sives at the rate of 10 tons a minute
on the area between Berlin and the
Siegfried Line.
Thousands Of heavy, light and
medium bombers and fleets of fight
ers flew in fine weather against the
Reich from England. Italy and
France. Before dawn, massive fleets
of British heavy bombers had at
tackled Frankfurt and Stuttgart
behind the Siegfried Line, while
Mosquitoes plunged two-ton bombs
into Berlin.
oU FlAneS destroyed.
Preliminary counts showed at
least so German fighters destroyed
in this sixth successive day of heavy
air offensive against the Nazis.
These fell victims to 1000 Thunder
bolts, Mustangs and Lightnings
which accompanied an equal num-
ber of bombers striking deep in
Central, Southern and Western
Germany in quest of oil resources,
jet-plane plants and other military
targets.
The count of the Flying Fortress
and Liberator victories has not
been complete.
Thirty Germans were shot from
the sky; 20 more planes were de-
stroyed aground. American losses
were not Immediately tabulated.
Luftwaffe Forced Back.
The German air force has been
forced back from the Rhine to Cen
trail Germany and gave trouble to
the Americans only in the Leipzig
area.
The end was not vet. At 6 pm.
the German radio said bombers were
approaching Western and North
western Germany in another ma jor
assault.
The American heavy bombers to-
day dropped approximately $500
tons Of bombs on four oil centers,
two factories and a jet-fighter plane
field
The sunny Channel skies throbbed
to the propeller beats of more than
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Jack Benny's Wife
To Become Mother
BY the Associated Press.

HONOLULU, Sept 13.-Comedian
Jack Benny, concluding a tour of
Pacific island bases, told a Navy
audience yesterday he is expecting
to become a father.
my wife, Mary Livingstone, want
ed to make this trip with me, but
one Of us had to stay home and
have the baby" the comedian said.
We tossed a couple of diapers to
see who would 60 and I won"
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Army Cook Killed
At Anzio Gets
Highest Honor
By the Associated Press.

oy tnS AssOCiAlSo FISe0.
An Army cook who put down his
pancake turner to make lighting
history with q submachine gun has
been posthumously awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
The cook, Technician fifth grade)
Eric Gunnar Gibson, was killed on
the Anzio beachhead in italy after
desperate fight in which he single
handedly charged and captured four
German automatic weapons posi-
tions, killed five Germans and cap
tured two, and secured the left flank
of his company.
Technician Gibson lived in Chi
cago. The award will be given to
his father, Erland Gibson, of near
Rice Lake, Wis, at a ceremony at
Camp Mccoy. Wis, on Friday. The
Gibson family immigrated from
Sweden when Eric was 6.