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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

TROY. Oct. "A group of friends
gathered at the ranch home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Lyle this week, the
occasion being surprise party for
Mrs. Lyle, who was observing her
64th birthday.
Dancing comprised the evenings
entertainment with Frank Reiter
at the organ and son Jim on the
guitar.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Jim Cohenour and children. Bob,
Jill, Kao and Mona June, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Strange. Jim Eusler and
daughters, Darlene, Wanda and
June, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Reiter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Lyle and chill
dren, Gene. Jimmy, Johnny and
Waunita, and Mrs. Jack Cohenour
and son, John Lewis, of Spokane.
John is a greatgrandson of Mr..
and Mrs. John Lyle.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
JR. w. S. c. S. MAKES PLANS

The Jr. W. S. G. S. met at the
home of Mrs. Harvey Robinson last
Friday evening, with president
Marian Johnson presiding in the
absence Of the president.
Each member brought a gift that
she had made, to be turned in in
stead Of the usual dues. These gifts,
along with others to be made by
the members later, will be sold at a
Christmas gift sale to be given No
vember rs.
Mrs Vesta Harmon, Alice Powell
and Lucretia Larsen were appoint.
ed on committee to meet with q
committee Of three from the ST.. w
S. G. S. to plan the program for the
Week Of Prayer.
More plans were made for the
Harvest dinner which was given or
October Q. The money taken il
from this dinner is to be used to
help redecorate the interior of the
Methodist church.
The hostess served lovely lunch
The next meeting will be at the
home of Marian Johnson on Friday
evening, October Is. Each member
is to bring pint Of some home
canned produce to be sold in q
penny auction at this meeting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
APPOINTS SCHOOL LIBRARY
STAFF
BY Joe Applega1


Mrs O. w. Boepple, science teach
er and librarian at Libby nlgf
school, announced Wednesday the
appointment of the school library
staff, and also reported the library
facilities would be available for
reference use.
The new library staff includes
Gloria Holman, Joan Apologize. Pa
tricia Cairns, Audrey Bitterman
Florence Fennessy, Marcella Dole
zal. GWyneth Holman. Anna Ron
ming, Marilyn Neils, Alice Rodgers
Beverly WOLF, and Joe Apologize
Staff members automatically be
come members Of the Library Clut
and are associated with the Literal J
Guild organization.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
Recital PIeoses
Lorge Audience
: BY Beverly WOLF

A large and appreciative audience
was present at the second annual
recital presented by Professor Bert
Skakoon, popular high school music
instructor, last Thursday evening in
the junior high school auditorium.
Mr.. Skakoon divided his recital into
two sections, one for violin num-
bers, and the other for baritone
solos. He was accompanied on the
piano for his violin renditions by
Miss Mary Finney, and for his vocal
numbers by Miss Germaine
Schlump.
The recital, given by Mr.. Skakoon
in honor of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Skakoon, Max N. D.,
was well attended, and attested to
the exceptional musical skill pos
sessed by Mr.. Skakoon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
HOSPITAL NOTES

Roy Mcmillan was admitted Sep
TENDER ~ as a surgical patient
The small son Of Martin Botchek
was a surgical patient last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Urdahl are
parents of son born October |.
Joyce Thompson, Is year old
daughter Of Howard THOMPSON, UNI
derWent an appendectomy October l.
Pete Ramlo, Sr., was admitted
Monday with fracture Of his right
hip
William Burrell was admitted
Monday following injuries received
following an auto accident IL miles
south of town. He sustained frac-
tured ankle, broken nose and multi
pie decorations and bruises about his
head, face and chest.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
MAKE GOOD RECORD IN STAMP
PURCHASES
Bv Harold Blanchard

Pupils in the Libby public schools
purchased total Of Sl87.95 in war
savings stamps and bonds last week,
Mrs. Hilda Shanahan, war stamp
chairman at the high school, re-
ported yesterday,
Central school led with purchases
Of stamps totaling S6780; New Cen
trail placed second with purchases Of
$3.50; the junior high purchased
S42.7O in stamps, and sales in the
senior high tagged with S2415.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
PRESENT FIRST PEP RALLY
Nv MarnorVr Lt,rto~

Libby high Peptomist members
presented their first pep rally of
the year last Thursday afternoon in
the junior high auditorium. The SEES
sion was featured by songs, sklts
concerning the Terrier team mem
bers, and a short talk by Coach Rus
Wasley. The rally was staged III
honor of the football eleven prior
to its trir to Priest River.
Myrna Peterson, Peptomist presi-
denl. introduced Pat GooselaW, Fern
fisher. and Beverly Guenther as
new Peptomist members.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
NEW MEMBERS IN STUDENT
COUNCIL
Bv Jimmy Roberts

Dorothy Ledum, senior at Libby
high heads the student council, and
Gordon DeRosia, junior, is council
vice-president as the result of a stu
dent body election held at the high
school last week
The social calendar for the com
ing season, student government reg
ulations, and other matters concern
ing student activities will be han
died by the council, which, in adolf
ton to the two officers, includes
three members from each of the
four high school classes.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
ELECTED To PRODUCTION
STAFF
By Robert CloWers

Dougald Gilchrist, sophomore at
Libby high, was elected to member
ship on the. Production Staff at a
meeting held last Thursday after
noon. The group has charge of the
motion picture protector at all
school affairs where the visual edu-
cation equipment is used Other
members Of the staff include Har-
old Blanchard. Dale Cutler ard
Robert CloWers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
Libby
School News
ONE MORE VICTORY FOX
LIBBY TERRIERS

Coach Rus Wasley's Libby high
Terriers bit off 1910 victory Wed
nesday night from the Flathead Re-
serves on the Kalispell grdiron
field Complete details of the game
will appear newt week in the West
ern News.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
THE METHODIST CHURCH

Troy worship service 8 a. m.
Libby church school GAS a. m.
Worship service IL a m.
Youth Fellowship at 5 p. m. Heleu
SWimley, leader.
&. ROY FORT, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

The subject for the Lesson-Ser-
mon Sunday October 5. Are Sin,
Disease, and Death Real?n
Wednesday evening meeting at
800 o'clock.
Sunday school Gas a. m.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale or Trade-City of Libby
sewer Improvement warrants, num-
bers 81 to 48 inclusive in amounts
of one or two hundred dollars each
Will trade for real estate or I've
stock, car truck or tractor. Any
cash offer will be considered Write
c. H Kelley, 1910 East Alder, Wella
Walla, Wash. l6tf
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

Planting trees on burncd-oyer
land costs forest owners from Sc
to Sl2 per acre. Planting the people
who start forest fires might be
cheaper in the long run,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale-Good solid winter cab
bage, rutabagas, carrots.-Pete Bias
saraba, Libby 1t
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale-Library dining table,
double bed and coil springs. bed
room set, baby bed and various ar
ticles.-Ted Kessel, Mineral Ave,
Phone 91-M It
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale-Kitchen table, bed.
springs, baby bed and large size
mattress, electric tank heater.-No.
3 Millrow, Phone l59M. 1t
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale-Wood-burning Heatrola
pre-war stove in excellent condi-
ton Mrs. Annie Foster, Phi l77J.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

Potatoes for sale, s3.75 per 100
lbs.-Fay Brees, Libby creek road.
1921
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

Normally, from 10000 10 $4,000
board feet Of lumber may be loaded
into box car, depending on weight
bulk, and measurement.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

For Sale-One 32:40 Winchester
rifle, one box shells included, in
good condition; can be seen at X. MI.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05

Say, II saw your ad. in the West
ern News"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
LOST
WANTED

Wanted-Cedar poles and piling,
all sizes. Quote price f. o. b. ship
ping point, earliest shipment.-Nei-
dermeyer-Martin Co, 1206-1I
Spaulding Bldg, Portland, 4, Ore.
1920
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
Nothing to It, He Says

Corporal Grambauer was asked
about the report reaching Libby
during the Guadalcanal fighting to
the effect than he had got Is
Japs. Nothing to it, he modestIy
said No one knows how many OF
the enemy he kills Everyone il
shooting. How can you tell how
many you yourself get? One night
| was sent out in charge OF small
group as acting sergeant We had
machine guns and rifles. We were to
hold the head Of draw through
which the Japs would have to re-
treat. There was plenty of fighting
during the night, with our boys
blazing away with their machine
guns and rifles whenever anything
stirred. The next morning we went
into the draw and found so dead
Japs but who could tell who shot
them?"
After Saipan was cleaned up
Grambauer's detachment was seni
back to the States after having been
in three Of the bitterest campaigns
of the Pacific. He expects to leave
for San Francisco on October II to
report the 10TH He has been in ord
nance, with weapons company
and expects to be sent east for six
months schooling in that work. One
can readily see in conversation wirh
him that he is not enamored with
fighting but like most American
boys, he is convinced we have a
nasty job to do and is determined to
see it through
Cpl. Grambauer brought lack
with him quantity Of japanese
currency, coins and war bonds.
Some Of them he found in build
ing when a sort of safe was blown
open in the fighting on Saipan,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE

For Sale-Bed and springs, $500
Call CIV or Butch's Barbershop 1t
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
Fought in Three
terCompoigns
(ContinI,ed from Page ~

Continued from Page u
freely and did everything they
could to make us feel at home.
liked New Zealand a lot There was
only one bad feature. There is lol
of rain and it is very damp. While
the New Zealanders speak Englist
they have a dialect all their own
but we were soon talking it as read
lily as the natives
Rests on Hawaii
Following their rest period a,
New Zealand, Grambauer's unit was
thrown into the slaughter on Ia
rawa. But as he said, that only took
from five to six days. After that
bitter struggle in which SO many
American boys were killed, the Ma
rines were sent onto the Hawaiian
island for reorganization. While
there they were stationed on the
large Parker ranch. one of the larg-
est in the islands. There everything
was lovely and peaceful, but not
for long. In due time, they found
themselves with the job of taking
SaiDan
1T was slow work taking Sti-
pan" he said. 1.-The civilians were
composed of Japs and Spanish de-
cendents. They were stubborn and
would not surrender. As you have
read, the island was full of caves
in which the Japs had entrenched
themselves. We had to clean them
out and that was slow work but
gradually we did it. The only WY
was to kill most of them"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-10-05
Saw Evidence Of Atrocities

some dtr0clt1eS, GrdmDauer an
swered when asked. Evidently he
did not care to talk much about it.
I'VE were slowly fighting along one
day when we came upon large pit.
about Is feet square and Is feet
deep. Two American boys looked
over its edge when they heard a
baby crying down in the pit They
were instantly shot. II was found
that tunnels radiated out from the
bottom Of the pit and they were
filled with Jap soldiers. The jars
had thrown woman and d. baby
out into the pit as bait for the
Americans Well, what could we
do2 The Japs had to be cleaned
out 1t would have meant slaughte..
to attempt dropping into the pit for
fight. So there was only one thing
that could be done, We opened up
on that pit and tunnels with dyna-
mite, flame throWers and every
thing we had. 1t was soon over.
One time we were fighting
through a Siapan town, house BY
house Suddenly a young woman
broke out from one Of the houses
and came running toward us ex~
claiming, o, I'm glad you Amerj-
cans are here The Japs moved her
down with their machine guns.
Again we were working through hill
" and timbered area when low
and behold there came a little cir.
some five to six years old calmly
walking down a hill right into orr
~ iJct y
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
Page Five

tist missionary in Alaska on fals. sionary assignment
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
Invasion Preceded
 By Fall Of Rome
 Last Sunday Morning

NAPLES - The powerful Fifth Army thundered its way far north of Rome today in pursuit of the 10th and 14th German armies, af- ter taking hardly more than look at captured Rome, ancient seat Of western civilization.
 The Eternal City fell ito the Al lies last Sunday after more than nine months of sacrifice.
 Last-ditch German rear guards died within the shadows of the Roman forum in the brief battle that preceded the city's liberation from the Nazi yoke.
 The last German units were knocked out in front of the Bank of Italy at 11:15 a. m. Sunday Wrangell time Some hours before, Fifth Army units had entered the city's outskirts.
 Italian partisans, bare chested and wearing the hammer and sickle insignia (Communist) fought hand to hand with the Fascists and Nazis in the brief battle of liberation.
 Italians Cheer LlDerat0rs
 The Italian populace cheered the American and Allied infantry teams as they threaded the city's streets. and rushed to kiss the bearded. grimy liberators. Sometimes shrill cries warned of German ambushes ahead.
 Some Romans died in the citys closing hours of German domina- tion, the victims of machine guns they tried to seize barehanded.
 But despite the sporadic clashes that took place even though the German command pretended until the last that Rome was an open city which would not be defended, the Italian capital with it's social, cul- tural and reiglious treasures ap- Darently came through unscathed for the most part.
 All was quiet. during the taking of the city, in the Vatican, where the Pope had been a virtual prison ed of German bayonets since Sep tember.
 A Berlin radio broadcast this week said Baron yOn Weiz-Saecker German ambassador to the Holy See, had left his residence in Rome and moved to Vatican City Other diplomatic missions of the tripar- tite powers also moved to Vatican City-namely, those of Japan, Hun gary SlOvakia, Rumania and Fin land"
 British correspondents in Madrid reported that the Pope spent sun- day in prayer and consultation with papal officials during the hours of the violent liberation of the city. The Swiss guard about the Vatican Was doubled to prevent an influx of refugees.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09

LONDON - For lack of guns. planes and tanks Norway, Yugo- slaYia, Greece and Crete fell.
 l watched them all crumble like pins in a bowling alley. not be- cause of any lack of courage by their defenders but because they did not have the materials with which to fight.
 Men and women who had sweated and slaved for years to accumulate savings for old age would have given it all for a gun or even a rifle-but it was too late.
 When you try to shrink your way through the bottom of a shell hole as high explosives rain around until your flesh feels like it is crawling away from your bones you get a first hand picture of what the materials of war" mean.
 The difference between a victor ious army and a defeated one is that of having an abundance of war materials. The army that can fire two shells where one might do wins the battles. And victorious armies have the lowest casualties.
 I have seen scores of lives wasted because there were not enough shells or planes available to knock out enemy defense positions. And I have seen hundreds of lives saved in the plains and mountains of Africa and Italy because the Allies could afford to send out two planes to che enemy's one and fire five shells to the enemy's two.
 Money as expressed in guns, tanks and planes can mean the diff ference between victory and defeat. lt can mean the difference between ,osing a son or loved one in battle Ind getting him back again.
 iJ tIe lAen at the fighting front money spent in war bonds means a flow of guns and munitions to where they are most needed. Amer lca's fighting men need only the tools with which to fight and the only tangible way they know that the folks back home" are behind tEem is by the steady uninterrupt- ed stream of munitions which give them fighting chance to live.
 Twice I have been oVerrun by the German army. Once in Denmark and , once in Greece. I have seen dis pirited Allied prisoners trudging back to prison camps in Germany because they did not have the es- sentials of war while cocky Nazi youths sneeringly watched
 Twice I have seen Allied armies
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
HAIL AND FAREWELL

HAyILAND, Kas.-GrOver Nsissl
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
MINISTER'S STORY OF JAP CAPTURE AND TORTURE
 PURE FABRICATION

HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN DE- APARTMENT Stephen O. Whitman of Seattle. Wash. who recently ap. peared In several public gatherings in the city Of Anchorage, Alaska, and represented that he was held as prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands and related at rocious stories about various acts committed by the Japanese to eivil- ians, has emitted to Military In-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
Weapons
 Make The
 NaziSR Run
By IVES GALLAGHER

AP correspondents tell what your War Bonds mean at the front.
 First in a series
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09

overrun the Germans, once in Africa and once in ptaly. And the same cocky youths who two years before overran Europe started treks to- ward prison camps, their arrogance beaten from them by the over whelming Allied fire power.
 In all four causes the difference between victory and defeat was furnished by the home front in bonds, savings and in work.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
HOW TO MAKE
 FIREMEN BURN

SALIVA. Kas.-Firemen changed up to a house in response to an a. larm only to be asked by a harried housewife if they would mind help ing her with the spring cleaning She wanted them to hang awnings in their time.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09

apha 70 ne o"njs of cruelty, h'aH l=s related 10 Anchorage re- porters and told before meetings of
 tc and business club ,. et.ags reached here with arrival shs Anchorage papers.
 E.#- i7 described as the Rev Wh nan. chairman of the l lmaritan Army of America. Bap-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-09
S AS IN SEKERMEsTROvICH

A U' 5. NAVAL BAoE. LUNDUN- DERRY. North Ireiand-The long, est name in the Seebee muster list in Ireland is hat of seaman, sec ond class, from Akron, Ohio. "Sev- ermestrovich is my name and I'm not swearing at you. Whats more I'm proud of it." says William Carl Sekeremestrovich Bill is the son of MT. and Mrs. Mike S- and has four other brothers in the serv- ice.