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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Private Schultz
Now Recovering
From End Wound
By Courier Correspondent

Private James Schultz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Schultz of Hins-
dale, is up and around again at
a c~onvalescent hospital center in
England. Wounded in the stomach
in Germany, Sept. 20, Private
Schultz has received the Oak Leaf
cluster. He was awarded the Purple
Heart medal for earlier wounds SUI
fered in France while he was act
ing as a company first aid man.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
K0lStad
Is Graduate in
Air Force Class

The army air forces training com
mand has announced the gradua-
ton of Private John Kolstad Thurs
day from the department of arma-
ment at Lowery field, Denver. Colo.
Aircraft armament deals with the
operation and maintenance Of the
guns used on heavy bomber and
fighter planes.
Private Kolstad is the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Kolstad. who live west
of Glasgow. He attended Glasgow
high school and entered the SER
vice. Aug. 10.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Will Have Paper
Drive In Glasgow

Although the date cannot now be
definitely set. another w%astepaper
collection campaign is planned in
Glasgow, 1t was announced this
week. The joint Kiwanis-Boy Scout
committee in charge asked that
paper be saved until the next pick
up.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Former Railway
AGENT Passes On

News that Henry r. Cahan, former
Glasgow Great Northern agent, died
in Seattle Saturday was received
here this week by w. w. Hurd. sec
rotary of the Royal Arch Masons
chapter, of which Mr. Cahan was a
member. Mr.. Cahan left here more
than 20 years ago and recently had
been a travelling auditor for the rail-
way.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Papers Read at
HinS6ale WCTU
November Meet
Nv Courier CORRESPONDENT

Hinsdale.-.The Hinsdale WCTq
met Tuesday afternoon at the hom|
of Mrs. John Hentz. Several paper
were read. Mrs. Hentz read Dow
the Hatch Mrs. Oswald Waber. Il
Montana Sheepherder or An ARM
Chaplain; Mrs. George RUTHERFORD
What the Sub-Debs Say AbolI
Smoking and Drinking; Mrs. The1
esa Tuttle. Booze Bottlenecks
Our War Effort" and Mrs. RutI
Baker. The Serviceman's View
point" Mrs. Hentz served a luncl
The next meeting will be held d
Wednesday. Dec. q.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
IS Donald Reid
Suffers "Slight
wound" i'm France

Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Reid of Glas-
gov received word Wednesday from
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Donald
G. Reid of Seattle, that her husband,
Technician Fifth Glass Donald G.
Reid, had been slightly wounded"
while serving with his tank service
battalion in France. Nov. II. Mrs.
Reid, who is the former Miss Helen
Rice of Glasgow, is employed in
Seattle.
The Reds received a letter this
morning from their son saying he
had been hit by a piece of shrapnel
between the shoulder blades. and
had a flesh wound.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Oiens Are Leaving
For Winter Months
Ry Courier CorreSnOndent

OPHEIM - Mr.. and Mrs. Johan
p. Oien, former residents of the
Wild Rose Community, came Sun
day to attend the silver wedding
anniversary and remained overnibht
at Frank Redfield's. going to Ellis
jennings for Monday night and to
visit other neighbors before leaving
for the winter. They will visit in
oregon then go on to California to
spend the remainder of the winter
with their two sons. Mr.. Oien
purchased a home near Frazer the
east veal and farms there.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Worker Is Burned
En- Garage Blaze
OS Saco Utility
BY Courier Correspondent

SACO 49, Fire of undetermined
origin in the Montana-Dakota Uul-
tiles company's garage here early
Thursday morning resulted in burns
for Elwood Anderson, company
employe. when he attempted to put
out flames. He was taken to Hins-
dale for medical treatment. Several
truck tires were destroyed in the
fire.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
TAKE A S OPENER

NASHUA.-.The Nashua Porcu-
pines won their first basketball
game of the season, defeating OPP
helm, 80 to l6. at Opheim. Nashua
Reserves won from Opheim Re
serves, 40 to Z.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
WatGerudS Given
First News from
Son After Year
BY Courier Correspondent

OPHEIM Mr.. and Mrs. Axel
Watterud were happy last week to
receive first mail in more than a
year from their son, Pfc. Leonard
Watterud. nov in the jungles of the
Dutch East indies. A letter in Aug
ust, 1913. told them he would soon
be transferred and they had not
heard from him since. He said he
was well. He is a mechanic in an
air forces ground His most
fervent wish vas for his mother to
serve him plenty of steak when he
returns home.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-11-30
Cherry Creek 7. U.
TO Meet Saturday

The monthly meeting Of the
Cherry Greek Farmers Union local
will be held at the Cherry Greek
hall Saturday night, Secretary o. r.
McCleery announced. The meeting
will be followed by a party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Near Success orNozi Try
(BY HOMER BTGART

 Representing Combined U. S. Press
 Distributed by United Press)
 With the Fifth Army in Italy, Feb. 8.-(UP)-It may now be rec vealed that German counter-at@l tack on the night of Feb. 8 attained. initial success and succeeded for several hours in trapping thousand2I of British troops in a salient thah then existed north of Aprilia. Fortunately the enemy was able to interpose fewer than 1000 troopa! between the isolated British spear head and the main Allied forcos These troops were supported by six or eight Tiger tanks that appeared at dawn Feb. 4 on low ridge only few hundred yards from q high~ way the only possible route of ea@' cape.
 The remarkable work of American tank destroyers in knockong ouh. four Tigers aided in restoring tho situation. The fierce, confused fighting, the British infantry not only broke the trap but took 300 prisoners.
 The bulk of the British force vas extricated. Some equipment wA9 lost.
 Until late Friday afternoon the situation remained very disturbing. Reserves were put on the alert, hna the enemy's capture of high ground dominating the main highway rre@ vented tanks from coming to the aid of the fSOlafed fnrce A Mfx,xp.Anah attack, launched from the mzam
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Bad Month
 ForU Boats

Washington, Feb. 10. CUP)-The first month of 1914 found the Allies definitely out in front in the fight against the once-dreaded U-boat Scourge, a joint statement by Presi- dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill revealed today.
 They said Allied merchant losses to German submarines in January were among the lowest for any month of the war and that Ger man claims should, as usual he ignored"
 Despite greater caution used by the U-boats in their attacks, the two leaders said, more enemy under sea craft were destroyed than dur ing the previous month, they summed 1t up thus:
 ''The year 1914 has opened with a very satisfactory first month for the Allies in their continued cam- paign against the U-boat."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Conn. State
 DeoIs In Cool

Hartford. Conn, Feb. 10.-(UP)- The State of Connecticut went into the coal business today, purchasing 5000 tons of low volatile bitumlnous fuel which will be sold without profit to dealers in critical shortage areas throughout the state.
 State Fuel Administrator Seth w. Darley said it was planned to buy 5000 tons a week, with the $50,OOO revolving fund set up several months ago for this particular purpose.
 The carload lots, he said, would be diverted to the critical areas De- fore coming into the state and deal CTS will be billed directly by the fuel office.
 Darley said that despite the fair ly moderate winter thus far, a sur- vey showed that the average house. holder has burned fuel more rapidly than last year. Anthracite users, he said, were restricted to seven- eightS of the amount used year eES. and he warned that when this mss0tA was filled, there was no al-
 wnntive but to burn soft coal.
 re anthracite situation was re- Eeved a trifle, he said, when 25O tons were recovered from cellars of householders who stocked up be- fore the shortage and found they had no use for 1t. This was hauled by municipal and housing author1- ties and distributed in 100 pound bags on an emergency basis.
 He reported that emergency fuel offices secured deliveries for 13, 252 families and there still is a backlog of 1890 thrilled orders.
 Meantime, State. War Administra- tor Harold F. Woodcock said that factories had offered men and trucks to help out in emergency deliveries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
AH Claims Strikes Due
 To oFailure Of Gout. Program,

Washington, Feb. 10.-(UP)-An American Federation of Labor spokesman, adding to labor protests against the Little Steel wage for mula, blamed wartime strikes to- day on the "disgraceful failure of the stabilization program"
 The statement was made by Philip Pearl, editor of tine AFL News Serv- ice, coincident with report from Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins that there were 3,75O strikes last year, an increase of 25 per cent over 1942. The number of workers involved was more than twice that for the preceding year and the fig- ure for rnan-days of strike likeness was more than three times as great as in 1922.
 Miss Perkins report showed that strike idleness amounted to .14 per cent of the sYailahle working time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
British Join yuqos Fiaht

London, Feb. 10-UP)-British ground troops, fighting on JugoSlav territory for the first time, have joined Partisan forces in success ful operations" on Hyar island, 25 miles south of split on the invasion route to Dalmatia, Partisan com- munique revealed today.
 Though the communique did not identify the British units, they were believed to be small com- mando group which may have been landed by motor torpedo boats to help the Partisans sabotage German military installations an. generally harraSS the occupation forces.
 After capturing the neighboring island of Brac two weeks ago, Ger man marines moved south and landed on Hvar, 8 narrow island some 40 miles long, its eastern tip almost touching the Jugoslav main land. The Partisans withdrew to the center of the island and en- trenched themselves in the hills.
 Though the Germans had claimed the capture of Hvar, the Partisan communique made it plain that re- sistance continued and had been bolstered by the British units, prob ably no more than 100 to 200 con- mandoS.
 Disclosure of their presence on Hvar was buried at the end of a lengthy routine Partisan con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
 BATTLE SOFAR
 IN ITALY WAR

Fifth Army Headquarters, Italy, February 10. - (UP) = Repulsed in a series of bloody attacks, veteran American doughboys a e finding the assault on Cas- sino the toughest assignment on the entire Mediterranean war, an American Lieutenant said today.
 Utilizing the craggy hill terrain to the utmost, the Germans are resist ing successfully all Allied attempts to crack their defense lines of ready made steel pillbcxes and machine gun nests, the Lieutenant, just back from the mountain citadel, said.
 American casualties, especially among the officers, have been ser- iouS.
 Whenever the Americans attack from the south, the Germans, able to observe the troop and tank move mentS from above, have their big gest guns pointing right down the throats of the advancing doughboyS, other officers said.
 To the north, where the attackers have the advantage of height, the defenders are so we'll dug in and hidden in underground bunkers that Allied front line soldiers scarcely ever see or even hear them. The American lieutenant, who recently occupied 8 post 200 yards from the monastery above Casino, said the sound of machine guns firing through narrow sits from under ground positions was deadened by the earth above.
 Suggesting the intensity of the battle one American unit battled its way in and then was driven out of the beleaguered town three times ill less than 24 hours.
 Thud of Shells United Press War Correspondent Dana Schmidt reported that the mountains were reverberating con- Stantly with the thud of mortar shells and the rattle of machine guns and that tracer bullets floated from peak to peak above the city.
 Schmidt said the monastery and its spires seemed to be floating with out foundations above the fog of battle rising grotesquesly from the town. He said one corner of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
U. S. Destroyer Sinks A. Ships

Pearl Harbor, Feb. 10.-(UP)- The 12,0O0- ton American destroyer Burns, commanded by Cmdr. Don- lad P. Eller, of Petersburg, Va., shelled and sank a Japanese con voy of four vessels Jan. 31 during the pre-invasion softening-up of the Marshall Islands.
 An announcement by Admiral Chester w. Nimitz yesterday listed the ships as a tanker, a medium cargo vessel and two smaller. craft"
 The Burns, launched Aug. 8, 1922 at the Charleston, 8. O., Navy yard and carrying eight fiye-inch guns and 10 21-inch torpedo tubes acc cording to Jane's fighting ships, was attached to a carrier task force and was sent to rescue navy fliers forced town at sea.
 Returning to the task force, she encountered the enemy convoy and sank all the Jap9nese ships with gunfires
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Subsidy Bill
 To Be Passed

Washington, Feb. 10-(UP)-Leg- islation banning consumer subsi- dies today appeared headed for quick congressional approval. but prospects of a presidential veto in- dicated it may soon come hustling back for another showdown.
 Both friends and foes of subsi- dies in the Senate predicted that the Bankhead bill killing subsidy payments would be passed today. The House was expected to follow suit quickly.
 The real test, however, was ex- pected to come on the motion to override an expected veto. Con- gress failed to muster the required two- thirds vote to overcme sim- liar veto last fall. and administra- ton supporters believed the same thing will happen again this time.
 Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley conceded defeat. but promised the fight four subsidies would be renewed when and if" a veto brought the bill back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Suspended Terms For Two Store Managers

The managers of two local First National stores, said by police to be the Waterbury outlet for three State*ring of rationed-foot thieves received 60 day suspended jail sen- tences after they pleaded guilty to charges of receiving stolen goods be- fore Judge T. E. Conway in City Court this morning,
 The two men, Clarence R. Schulz inSky, 38, and Leo Charles Clement, 27, received the light penalties after James A. Gillen, supervisor for the concenz, interceded in their behalf.
 Prosecuting Attorney Frederick w. Palomba said the men were ar- rested after a month-long investi- gation by State Detectives John Doyle and Alvin Ezekiel attached to the special service squad of Capt John c. Kelly in Hartford.
 Detectvie Doyle said several cases of tuna fish, salmon, and Spam, goods with high ration point values, worth about $6O in cash, had been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Jops Pull Out All Worships
 From RubouI.

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Feb. 10-(UP)-The Japanese have withdrawn all war ships from Rabaul, New Britain, it was announced today as a con- munique disclosed that American airmen destroyed or damaged 34 planes and hit a submarine in new raids on the enemy's greatest base west of Truk.
 (The Tokyo radio, broadcasting a Domei Agency dispatch of an i'm perial communique and heard by United Press in New York, said that approximately 220 Allied planes raided Rabaul yesterday, and that 45, including II probables, were shot down, while five Japanese planes failed to return.
 CThe Melbourne radio, relaying a broadcast by Gordon Williams, it's correspondent in New Guinea, said today that reports of bomber pilots who returned from a Wednesday raid on Madang, indicated that the enemy many have evacuated that operational base on the islands northern coast.
 ('Pilots who have just returned say that the place is apparently de- serted, Williams said in a broad cast reported to the OWI.
 (''While it is yet too early to as- surne that the enemy has cleared out of Madang," Williams said, '"The strange silence of the ground de- lenses there and the absence of ob- served personnel movements sug- geSts that the enemy has decided that discretion Is the better part of valor and they are haStening before the pressure from the Australians, advancing up the New Guinea coast towards Saidor and from the Amer jeans, northwest of Saidor, becomes too dangerous
 Indicating that the Allied air blows against Rabaul were weaken ing Japan's supply lines, to the dan- ger point, a spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said:
 Shipping at Rabau1 has reached its lowest ebb. No warships were seen by our flyers following the Monday raid.
 "Only nine small cargo vessels and about 200 barges, which is less than half the normal number were photo graphed at Rabaul.
 Apparently Rabaul is becoming too much of drain on Japanese shipping for them to risk sending more in.
 A convoy just had left the base, 1t was revealed, and it would be pos sible for other ships to come in at night, unload and depart. Another possibility was that the Japanese, tContinued on Page 4l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Railroads Charged With Monopolistic Practices

Washington, Feb. 10 = CU.P) - Wendell Berge, chief of the Justice Departments antitrust division, charged today that monopolistic and colluSive practices among rail roads Severally retarded such im- provements as air-conditioned and streamlined trains.
 He denounced the practices be- fore a senate military affairs Sub- committee considering legislation to set up a federal agency to stimulate development and widest possible use of all technological improve mentS.
 Berge said the fact that the rail roads now were doing their best to meet war needs should not pre- vent us from surveying as objec- lively as possible certain policies and practices which have limited their capacity"
 He charged:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
ALLIES hURL BACK BATTLING FOE Smash Six Blows Against Beackhead
REDS CRUMPLE NAZI DEFENsES
 AT KR|vO| ROC

Moscow, February 10. = (UP) - Red armies crump- ling the German defenseS at both ends of the winding 2,0O0-mile battle line were closing an assault arc on the Ukainian mining center of Krivoi Rog today and sweep ing through or against the Baltic states on a broad front.
 (The German high command re- ported powerful Russian offensives in eight separate areas of the Soviet front, which appeared to be ablaze from the Baltic to the Black Sea in what approached the scope of gen. eral Red Army drive.
 Acknowledging scattered NaI re- serves in some sections and claiming defensive successes in others, the Germans said their troops fell back along the 100- mile front between Lake linen and Lake Peipus) , The heaviest fighting was in the Ukraine, where four Russian armies battered back the staggered German salient in the Dnieper Bend and drove over the outer approaches to Krivoi Rog, the northeastern prop of the looping bulge.
 Soviet artillery was believed al- ready shelling Krivoi Rog, city of nearly 100000, as Gen, Rodion Y. Malinovsky's forces drove through the black mud of the southern Uk- rAine to with eight miles of the stronghold, crumbling it's outer rim of defenses to the south and south east along a 15-mile front.
 The advancing forces appeared headed for the Kfrovograd-Hikolaev railway, whose severance would cut. the last practical escape route tor tha Krivoi Rog garrison. 1t was pos sfbie that the final direct attack on the stronghold would be delayed un- til the railroad, connected with kr1- vol Rog by spur line, has been cut.
 More than 40 towns and villages, including Radushnaya, eight miles southeast of Krivoi Rog, were over run in the advance, which carried nearly 100 miles beyond Nikopol, Manganese center captured Tuesday
 Krivoi Rog, whose mines have potential annual output of 10,OOO,OOO tons of the richest assault several months ago, but the liquidation or rout of 12 German divisions in the Nikopol area changed the strategic 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
Tanks Fight Fiercely At Cassinc
Spitfres, Bombers' Strafe Nazi Columns. Rake Supply Roads
Allied Headquarters. ]

Allied Headquarters, AltI giers, February 10. = (UPgl - Massive German arTmOre0l attacks broke against a stone wall Allied front yesterday on the plains below Rome, it was disclosed today, as American troops in the Casino sector battled with increasing fury to smash through the Nazi lines and relieve their 5tIK Army comrades on the irms' periled beachhead.
 Fighting under a hell-fire of German shells that rippe0 into every sector of the nar- row beachhead front, AneriS can and British units smashed back six powerful Nazi thrusts against tha' Hanks and center of their line.
 RAF Spitf1res, operating from newly fighter strips within the beachhead, bombed and strafed the attacking Nazi columns while American light and medium bombers raked the enemy rear lines and supply roads.
 The Germans again threw tha main weight of their onslaught against British veterans holding the northern flank of the beach~. head in the Aprilia sector. GA German communique broad~l cast by Radio Berlin today said the British counter attacked in th@, Aprilia area yesterday and lost 1 IT tanks in savage, daylong batA' tle.)
 | Other German tanks and assaylle lunged against the soathern end 04 the Allied line seven miles south- east of Anzio, and thrust threa times against American units dug in west of Cisterna at the center oG the beachhead perimeter.
 The Americans held their ground stubbornly against the German thrustS and then nter-attackcd savagely, regaining some recently lost positions.
 (Radio Rome gave two divergent accounts of the action, one broad@ cast asserting that the Allies werel attacking In great strength and an-| other that the German counter-of- fensive was in full swing. The late ter account claimed the Allied beachhead had been cut down to- 72 square miles, or less than two- (Continued on Page 4l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
NovySofer Than Home

Hartford, Feb. 10-(UP)-Anto1io Cantiello, 20, medically discharged from the Navy after surviving a torpedoing and 24 hours floating in the north Atlantic before being res- cued, wants to get back into the Navy where it's safer" than the home front.
 A wild night of joyriding with four youths, lodging police bullets, convinced Cantiello there were too many dangers in civilian life.
 Cantiello said he hitched ride at Avon with the youths to get to his job at Hartford war plant.
 He had hardly seated himself in the car when State Policeman Harry Leavitt saw the machine speed by and gave chase.
 The driver, a 15-year-old Spring field, Mass, boy, stepped on the gas and the car careened through Hart ford trafic at 70-miles-an-hour. crossed to East Hartford and South Windsor and finally ran out of gas put not before it had sideswiped the pursuing state police cruiser, flew
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10

1. The so-called western agree ment almost totally suppressed competition among railroads oper- ating west of the Mississippi river, delaying such improvements as air. conditioning and faster schedules and preventing rate reductions.
 2. The Pullman Company used it's monopoly on sleeping cars to restrain adoption of streamlined lightweight equipment.
 3. The railroads, through their wholly subsidiaries. the rail- way express agency, kept air cargo rates high and restrained expan- sion.
 He devoted much of his 33-page formal statement to the western agreement. He said it was entered into December 1, 1882. by western railroads and remained in effect
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