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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-06
ON aU, HONOR ROLL

A list Of students at Montana
State University who made the
honor roll for the past quarter
includes the names Of June and
Lois Sanders of Troy. ).
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-06
HERE FROM GREAT FALLS

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mares and chill
dren are expected from Great Falls
today for a few days visit at the
home of Mrs. Mares parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Kujawa.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-06
Air Age Coming

Mr.. Phillips also touched on a
matter of much interest He prophe-
sled that after the war there would
Continued on page s.
Evening star., 1944-06-14
Record Flood Feared
As Missouri River
Continues 10 Rise
BY the Associated Press.


OMAHA, June 14.-The Missouri
River, straining at levees in Ne.
braska and Iowa from Sioux City
Iowa, down, continued to rise today
and United States Meteorologist M
v. Robins said the Kansas City
Weather Bureau has forecast "one
of the worst floods in recent years
along the Missouri between Nebras-
ka City and st. Joseph, Mo.
Meanwhile the fiood-swollen Elk
horn River, which inundated vast
stretches Of rich Northeast Nebraska
farmland and flooded more than Is
communities to varying degrees
continued to fall slowly.
Recent heavy rains above Nebras-
ka City are expected to result in a
serious overflow in the lowlands of
Southwestern Iowa and Southeast
ern Nebraska, the Missouri River
district engineers office said. One
levee, which protected 5000 acres
OF rich Southeast Iowa farmland,
already has broken and an esti-
mated 400 head of livestock has
been evacuated.
The lower part of Hamburg, Iowa,
has been alerted for possible dis
aster from the Nishnabotna and
Missouri Rivers, which join just
below the town. The Missouri was
reported rising there at rate of a
tenth of a foot an hour.
Railroad and highway travel out
of Omaha to the west has been
stopped by washouts along the
Platte and Elkhorn Rivers. West
bound trains, rerouted south of
Omaha, are 8 to 10 hours late, rail-
road officials said,
Evening star., 1944-06-14
$50, 900 Damages Asked
In Alienation Suit Here

Mrs. Geneyieve Theresa WEIGH
johnson of the 24oO block of Fortieth
street NV. yesterday filed suit in
District Court for absolute divorce
from Sullivan Van Rensselaer, john
son, jr, and in separate suit asked
for $50 900 damages from Mrs. Eliza
beth Hoffman, $500 block of Thirty
ninth street NV, whom she charges
with alienation of affections.
The suit for divorce says Mrs.
Hoffman's husband is believed to
be on foreign duty with the Army.
1t says that Mrs. Johnson's husband
is a Government employe and makes
a salary of approximately $1,000 a
year The Johnsons were married
in 1885 in Norfolk, Va. and have two
children, the suit said.
Both of the suits were filed in
behalf of Mrs. johnson by Attorney
Vernon Booth Lowrey.
Evening star., 1944-06-14
28 U. S. Flyers Interned

NEW YORK, June IA (R.-Thre.
American four-engined bombers
landed in Switzerland yesterday anc
the 28 men making up the crews
have been interned. the Swiss radio
said last night In q broadcast re-
corded by the Federal Communica.
tons Commission,
Evening star., 1944-06-14

Bombs aren't falling on your
street, 50 you feel safe. Help keep
1t that way. Let's all back the
attack: Buy more War Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-06-14
viva Diapers

Spray with Flit-easy,
sure way to get rid of
insect pests.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

600, 900 worth Of goods. They had a
balance on hand at that date of 313
million dollars worth.
Motor trucks are being released
as fast as possible, it was said, be-
cause farmers need them to save
their crops. Up to August Is, %, 600
trucks have been put on the sur
plus lists, and $4,000 more are being
added. The vehicles are being al
located on regional basis, so that
every section. will get fair proper
ton.
Other items, such as bed mat
tresses, are not selling so readily.
Comforters, mosquito nets and bars,
and various articles of clothing are
being liquidated at rather slow
pace. Officials pointed out that lend
lease would probably purchase many
Of these items. Final realization
price on much of the surplus goods
will be considerably lower than these
first lots are bringing, it was an
ticipated.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
CANNED FOODS:
Remove R0tiOni,g

Because War Food administrator
Marvin Jones advised that available
and prospective supplies justified the
step, the government removed from
rationing all canned and processed
jams, jellies, fruit buffers, aspara-
gus, lima beans, corn, peas, pump
kins, squash, mixed vegetables,
baked beans, tomato sauce and
PURGE and all varieties of soups and
baby foods.
At the same time, VIA spokes-
man declared that heavy runs of
cattle may permit the removal of
commercial grade beefsteaks and
roasts from rationing in October or
November. At present, stable mar
ketings Of CRASHED stock have re-
suited in ample point-free supplies
of utility grade meats. Lighter runs
of prime cattle, on the other hand,
will make continued rationing Of top
cuts necessary.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
Weekly News Analysis
Allied Invasion Of Yugosavia Poses Another Threat Reich

On the Chicago market, cattle that
brought $12 per hundredweight six
years ago sold at $18.35. Steers that
averaged 5000 then drew $15.85.
The rise was equally marked in
hogs, with head under $40 pounds,
which brought So per hundredweight
six years ago, selling for the STATS
ceiling AS a whole, the average of
81 of 1899 was far below the 1914
figure of $14.35.
Against the top of $40 in 1889,
lambs drew $14.65 per hundred
weight, with the $3.50 average of six
years ago below this months mark
of $14.25.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
SURPLUS GOODS
Release Vehicles

Excess stocks of war materials
are being declared surplus at the
rate of 100 million dollars worth a
month. Goods declared surplus"
can be sold off as rapidly as possible.
Eighty-five per cent of the materials
are from the war department at
present, and consist of airplanes,
motor vehicles, medical supplies and
radio equipment. So far, goods sold
have brought 1873 per cent of origi-
nal cost.
In the three months between May
Is, when Surplus War Property adj
ninistration acts became effective,
and August Is, Ave agencies that
report to the SWPA disposed Of $685.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
PACIFIC:
Tougher Going

With U. S. forces edging closer to
the Philippines and Japan itself
through intensive operations against
the Bonins lying 900 miles from
Tokyo, Navy Secretary James For
restal warned the country that the
going would become increasingly
tougher as the enemy concentrated
his forces for a fight on a shorter
front.
In speaking of the enemy's air
force, Forrestal said: 1.-THE Japs
have obviously been saving their
planes for the engagement to come.
Except for the battle of the eastern
Philippines, they have not risked
big aerial battle for months"
In addition to concentrating num-
bers, the Japs have also been i'm
proving the quality Of their planes,
Forrestal revealed. Said he: "Jap
planes Of every type /. now have
greater fire power, armament,
speed, range and load capacity.
United States navy planes have
been improved, too, but we don't
now have as big technical advan-
tages >. as year ago."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
HELP WANTED:
Shortage In Industries

A shortage of 100000 workers ex-
lists in the principal industrial re-
gions of the country, and it can be
remedied only by shifting men and
women from areas where there is
less stringency, the War Manpower
commission declares. After review
ing reports from the IL regional di-
rectors, Paul McNutt, VINO chair
man, disclosed that there ara criti-
cal needs in four regions, and tight
situations in most of the rest.
Heavy war industries in New Eng
land, North Atlantic, Middle West
and the Pacific Coast are being
hampered by lack of skilled help.
Only in the South and Southwest is
there an approximately adequate
labor supply.
Released by Western Newspapers Unioa. |
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

ton of civilian production. Under
current regulations, manufac turers
are permitted to develop working
postwar models and order machin-
cry for civilian output.
In allowing those manufac turers
not ngaged in war work to start
turning out civilian lines after the
Nazis' downfall, the WPB will main
tain priorities for military produc-
ton alone and will relax most of
it's controls over materials. Further
more, it will provide assistance for
manufacturers in switching over to
civilian work.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
BURROUGHS:
Shipping Factor

AS a demand was made in con-
gress for an investigation of the war
department handling of furloughs,
especially in the Pacific, letter
from Gen. Douglas Macarthur
stated that the scarcity of shipping
hindered a more liberalized policy.
Citing the shipping shortage, Cen
eral Macarthur said: ''The return to
the United States without replace
ment Of all men who have served
specified length Of time would, of
course, halt our offensive against
Japan and might indefinitely pro-
long the war"
While the demand was made for
the investigation, Rep. Carl Hinshaw
(Calif.) urged that soldiers stationed
in Alaska be rotated by units to
other posts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

LII issuing MS OIL
receive, General Marshall assumed
that congress would pass legislation
requiring every able-bodied Amer
lean youth to undergo training be-
fore placement in the reserves.
BY advocating a small, efficient
force with large pool of reservists,
General Marshall said that there
was more opportunity for advance
ment in such an organization than
there was in big standing army,
where the size made it necessary
to maintain large, professional
officers cast at all times.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
FARM INCOME:
Wickard Recommends

Twelve steps to maintain farm I'M
come at high levels, to adjust pro-
duction to peacetime markets, and
to improve rural health and educa-
tional standards, were recommend
ed to congress by Secretary of Ag-
riculture Claude Wickard.
He advocated keeping up prices of
farm products by comprehensive
program of price-support meas,
ures," with loan and subsidy rates
flexible enough to discourage over
production in some crops, and fuller
output of others.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

MORE CIGARS: Cuban exports of
cigars were being shipped out at
the rate of ten to twelve million
month during the first half of the
year, principally to the United
States. This is in sharp contrast to
last year, when only about three mil
lion cigars a month were being ex-
ported.
CAVE STORAGE: An. abandoned
quarry mine near Kerford, Kan. has
been converted into a cold storage
warehouse with capacity Of $4,000
tons. Modern blast type cooling ma
chinery has been installed by the
War Food administration. At pres
ent government-owned dried eggs
are being preserved in the great
cave.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

BISHOP CANNON DEAD: The
noted leader of the Anti-Saloon
league, Bishop James Cannon of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
died in Chicago at the age of 70.
Death was attributed to a heart all
ment.
FARM DEBT Low: Owners of
farms have larger equity in their
land than at any time in quarter
of a, century as result of large re-
payments on loans, the department
Of agriculture states. Liquidation of
old debt has greatly exceeded new
mortgages, during the recent years
of prosperity. In the fiscal year
ending June 80, payments on loans
totaled 400 million dollars, or about
four times the amount Of new debt.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
CIVILIAN GOODS:
Postwar Formula

Manufacture of civilian goods will
begin in earnest with the fall Of Ger
many, with war output due to drop
about 40 per cent, and 1000, 900 work
ers freed for other jobs, the War
Production board revealed.
At the present time, limited re-
conversion program has been insti-
tuted, with emphasis placed upon
preparation for the eventual resump-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

Because of the u. SIS record
breaking production Of 1850, 900
tons, world steel output rose to
LAG, 500, 900 tons in 1943. While
production increased here, it
dropped from $4,000, 900 to TO-
600, 900 tons in Germany and
from $4,000, 900 to 100000 tons
in Russia.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

Using cross-sectional model of the
globe, Req. Joseph Lynch, director of
the observatory of Fordhans university,
charts course of recent earthquake
.ohich shook northeast corner of U. S.
and extended as far southwest as Wis.
consin. according to Reverend Lynch,
disturbance conferred near eastern end
of Lake Ontario.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
DISQUALIFICATION:
Discharge Plans

Total length of service, time
served overseas, combat record and
dependency will govern the demobi-
lization of soldiers following the de-
feat of Germany, the army an
nounced.
Under the arny's plans for releas-
ing surplus men, each Of the first
four mentioned factors will be worth
certain number of points, with re-
lease going to doughboys with the
highest ratings. However, it was
pointed out, men with qualifications
needed for the war in the Pacific
will be transferred to the Far East
regardless Of their status.
Because the war in the Pacific
will receive first call on shipping, it
may take many months for men
eligible for demobilizatio to return
to this country, the army said. Since
men in camps here are expected to
have the lowest priority ratings, they
will constitute the principal pool for
requirements.
Since the U. SIS full seapower
will be needed in the about war
against Japan, there will be no de-
mobilization of the navy when Ger
many falls. .e...s.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

the institutions Of a
modern democratic
state" Gen. George
c. Marshall told Of
fcers planning the
postwar military or
ganization to work
on a small, efficient
force with a re-
S e We of w e IL
trained citizens.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily Of
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
CATTLE:
War Prices

AS the war entered its sixth year
this month, price levels of meat ami
mails were from IS to 1O5 per cent
higher than they were in September,
1899.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
Future Army

Declaring that "a large
standing army has no place among
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-21
EUROPE:
NeuU Front

EOROF T.:
NeW Front
For the little man with the clipped
mustache, there seemed to be no
end of trouble.
Although his broken armies in the
west were recognizing for sitter
stand against the U. S. and British
onslaught, and although his bat
tered armies in the east were slow
ing the Russians from the Black sea
to the Carpathians, the Allies posed
still another threat to his narrowing
defensive circle by an invasion OF
YugoSlavia.
AS Russian troops tore across
Romania onto the eastern Yugoslav
border near the capital of Belgrade,
u. S. and British forces landed on
the western coast for drive in
land. AS the two Allied armies
worked forward for a junction, Mar
shall Josip Tito's Partisans were &C.
tive in harassing German troops and
sabotaging communication lines.
The twin offensive in Yugoslavia
doubly imperilled the harried le-
gions of Adolf Hitler.
First, the u. S., British and
Russian drives promised to link
the Allied armies for con-
certed attack against southern
Austria and Hungary, and, also
to outfank the. Nazis manning
the Gothic line in Italy to the
west; and, second, an Allied
junction would cut off an esti-
mated 100000 enemy troops re-
manning in lower Yugoslavia,
Greece and the Aegean islands.
Stifen at Border
Bleated the German radio to
fanatical Nazi rearguards resisting
the U. S. and British drives to the
Reich's western frontier:
Every day gained now amounts
to a reinforcement of our national
strength for the defense of the Reich
itself. :"
Partly because of such resistance,
partly because the fast-movlng Al
lied armies had outrun their length
ening supply lines, the U. S. and
British thrusts in the Lowlands and
France temporarily lost their whirl-
ing momentum.
Fighting was particularly
heavy in northeastern Belgium
before the fortress city of Liege
and in the rugged Ardennes for
est, and directly to the east Of
Paris, where American troops
drew up along the MOselle river
for an assault on Nazi defenSes
guarding the rich industrial
Saar basin.
Mounted thickly in the precipitous,
wooded heights east Of the Moselle,
the German artillery maintained
a steady drumfire against doughty
U. S. troops seeking to establish
firm bridgeheads across the river.
Farther to the south, Lieut.. Gen.
Alexander Patch's Seventh army,
driving up from the Mediterranean
for a juncture with Lieut.. Gen.
George Patton's Third army along
the Moselle. drove on the Belfort
gap, the low lying plane between
the Vosges mountains of France and
Swiss border leading into Germany.
Costly Fighting
Rejecting the strong pressure the
Russians were exerting to the north
east of Warsaw the Germans ac-
knowledged their withdrawal across
the Narew river, ''. to avoid the
danger of a Russian breakthrough
on the southern border of East Prus-
sia."
In withdrawing across the Narew.
the Nazis continued their policy OF
economizing their forces by giving
ground when the superior weight Of
x@r0y@1ieAI &@ Il
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Conva|escing Soldiers
Hear Constantine Brown

An audience of convaleScent SOL
dlers, recovering from battle wounds
at Walter Reed Convalescent Hos
pltal, Forest Glen. Md. Yesterday
heard report on the progress of
American arms against the Axis
from Constantine Brown. foreign
affairs writer for The Star.
Mr.. Brown reviewed the Italian
campaign and, as he spoke. veterans
OF Casino and AnZio could be noted
noddlng in agreement as the narra-
tive touched on phases of the strup-
gle in which they had personally
participated
The significance of Chma's par
tlclpation in the Far Eastern thea
ter and the latest dispatches from
our forces in the Pacific were ana
Iyzed and explained by Mr.. Brown.
One OF the most attentive in the
gathering of veterans was a Japa
neSe-American soldier who had lost
an arm at Casino
Mr.. Brown. discussing the coming
presidential election. told the SOL
dlers that it was his opinion that
change in the administration
would have no effect on the prose-
cution of the war.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Capt. Gentle
Gets DISC From
Eisenhower
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE. England, April 12-Capt
Don s. Gentle, Americas leading
fighter pilot and "one-man air
force" was rewarded for his deeds
yesterday by the supreme Alice.
commander for the western front
invasion.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. who
called the handsome 23-year-old
Piqua tOhiol youth "one- man
air force" decorated Capt. Gentle
with the Distinguished Service Cross
second highest American medal
and said his citation read like one
of the great deeds of heroism in
this war.
The Mustang pilot, top American
ace with 80 planes destroyed. in
cluding 7 on the ground. was
cited for extraordinary courage"
in shooting down three Focke-Wu
1905 April 8, although he was out
numbered by more than three to
one and his supplies of gasoline and
ammunition were running critically
low.
1 feel very proud" Capt. Gentle
said simply, after the ceremony.
Gen. Eisenhower also awarded the
Evening star., 1944-04-12

he turned up at Norfolk hospital
to have his wounds dressed.
John A. MILAN, chief of the Fed
eral Alcohol Tax Unit here, said ne
was fired on when he approached
within 25 yards of one of the stills.
He Immediately returned the fire.
Mr. MILAN said he then came out
of the woods to a road where he
met Hewitt, who opened fire, and
the fire was returned.
Il thought surely I had him. Mr..
MILAN said. land went in the direc-
ton of the still after the other men.
When I returned a few minutes
later, the man I thought 1 had shot
had escaped through the woods
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Five Held, One Wounded
After Pitched Battle at Still

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, April 12.-State
and Federal officers arrested five
men and seized two stills and two
automobiles after a pitched battle
in which one man was wounded
Monday night near Fentress in Nor
folk County.
Those arrested and brought to
the jail in Portsmouth gave their
names as Bellefield Coley. John Ed
ward Pugh, Charlie Marshall and
Flaws A. Cleary.
Marshall Hewitt. the fifth defend
ant. was taken into custody when
Evening star., 1944-04-12

lCS lOI Illt Dll1lu
In vocational
training, dis
cusSed informal
ly the possibili-
ties for employ
ment in facto-
ries.
The Goodwill
Industries, in
collabo + a t | o n
with the District
Council of the
Boy Scouts of
America, will
conduct a drive
on S a t ur d a Y,
April %, for con
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Toxic Radio Reports
u. S. Raid on Truk
Goodwill Industries
See Film Of Blind

A film showing the work of blind
persons in industry was exhibited
yesterday to supervisors at the
Goodwill Industries, 1918 New
Hampshire avenue NV, as an in
troductory feature to the organiza-
tion's plan to use sightless persons
i'll their work program for the first
time.
The film, prepared and copyright
ed by the National Society for the
Blind to encourage the use of blind
persons in industry at equal pay for
equal work. showed actual scenes
in which persons thus handicapped
competed with employees with full
vision in work requiring consider
able skill. ...,.--A
j. F. Chunk, chief of the Federal
Security agency's consultant serv-
Evening star., 1944-04-12

trlbutlon of rags and clothing. The
organization, which is non-subsi-
died, employs rs handicapped per-
sons and may employ many more
II materials are made available
through contributions, it was point
ed out by James C. Dulin, jr., presi-
dent OF the Board of Trustees, and
Charles Priest, plant manager.
The materials contributed are
renovated and sold through the
organizations shops in the District.
Evening star., 1944-04-12
Safecrockers Up to Dute

DALLAS, Tex (Pp-Burgl put a
new touch on the safecracking busi-
ness in looting a motor supply COM
pany's strong box. They placed the
safe on the firms new Acton hy-
draulic press and mashed it open
Their loot was $4,000 and two pistols.
Evening star., 1944-04-12

Distinguished Service Gross to Col.
Donald j. M. Blakeslee, 26, Fairport
Harbor, Ohio. commander of Capt.
Gentile's fighter group.