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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-28
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First In Love Line
Browping lovelorns were first
in 49, TO bargain for a matri-
monia. little at the license bureau
in Glacier County, they being
Woodrow Tatsey and Marie Hall.
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outskirts of Schophoven. five miles northwest of Duren, but there ran into stubborn resistance and were making only slow progress today Gier. three miles west of Duren, also was proving a tough nut to crack, through Obergeich, farther west fell readily.
 On the southern sector of the First Army's offensive front, the situation was slightly confuced. One report said the Americans were fighting inside Gey, four miles southwest of Durer last night, though an earlier report late yesterday asserted the town had been captured.
 A German counter-attack was repulsed at StraSs, a half mile southwest of Gey and mile half west of the Roer.
 . It. Gen. George s. Pattons s Third Army hacked its way deeper into Germany's old and new west wall defenses along front stretching principally from Dlilln- zen. two and a half miles north west of Saarlautern, to the Sarre- ouemines area, nearly 9 miles to the southeast.
 25 PillbOxes Destroyed
 In the past "A hours alone, Thlro Army doughboys and tanks nave knocked out 25 pillboxes and 30 fortified buildings, mainly in house to house fighting in the Saarlau- +ern and Sarreguemines sectors. The Germans counter-attackeo at least Il times along the front, put each time were thrown back to their initial positions.
 Six counter -attacks were repulSeo around Fraulautern, on the norta- west edge of Saarlautern. alone. Elements of the 377th Regiment captured two city blocks in Fraulau- tern. including large hotel where a pitched battle was fought II. an old-fashioned ballroom with tommy runs and hand grenades.
 Many houses in the Saarlautern and Sarreguemines area were re- ported to contain two or three eel, lars or sub-eellars, with each level practically an individual fort. G. Is cal lattacks on these underground structures 'householing.
 The 134th Regiment of the 35th Division occupied Folpersville, two miles east of Sarreguemines and a mile from the German border, while other elements pushed mile soutn- east of the town.
 The 18th (Yankee) Division near Wittring, five miles southeast or Sarreguemines, captured a large underground German factory.
 Heavy Enemy Fire
 German artillery fire on the Sarre river front has increased greatly, dispatches reported, with the 9Otn and 95th Divisions estimating that 18,OOO rounds of enemy shells have fallen on the Dillingen front in the past three days.
 Haguenau, B miles north of Stras- bourg and key to the esatern tip ot France, fell to the 79th Division ot Lieutenant General Alexander M.
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in the west as it is. interrupted Rep. Compton I. White of Idaho, and Secretary Harold Ickes' cops guarding same are too tough. Take the time Rep. White and his wife were driving down a public high way in Idaho.
 T came to man in tent" Rep. White said, "and he told me you cannot enter here without a per- init"
 The congressman and the missus drove five miles the other way get their ticket to the federal for est; it ordered them to hurry straight thorugh, without stopping to fish or camp.
 "Or do anything" he said, but proceed on my way with their per- mission and their tolerance"
 Seventy-two per cent of Idaho is under government ownership. That's fine for the Elk, but tough on the people, Rep. White added. But may be we're getting off the subject, which is the Jackson Hole Monu- ment.
 Good Thing
 It is a good thing for all the people of all the country, the ad- ministration leaders insist. Fur thermore they claim that Herbert Hoover was the man who first tried to make it into a park. It contains one of the finest herd of elk in the world and according to the IckesiteS these noble beasts should not bet turned into steaks.
 Yes sir, it's 8 problem whether you be a two-legged denizen of Wyoming, or four.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
De GuuIIe In StoIin Pact
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The text of the Franco-RusSlan agreement was not released, but an announcement in Moscow said the two countries had "reaffirmed their determination to continue military operations up to complete victory over Germany and their desire 70 take all necessary measures in come mon for safeguarding gsincce tn7A new aggression"
 Moscow dispatches said the asree. ment, like that between Russia ane Czechoslovakia, was essentially ni" lateral in principle and could be ip. voked whenever Germany attacked one or the other power or committed acts or undertook policies which eventually would lead to aggression.
 It also was believed broadly 10 parallel the Anglo Russian 20"year alliance.
 Soviet Foreign Ccmmissar V. M. Molotoy and French Foreign Minis. ter George B.dault signed the new pact early yesterday in MolotoV's of- flee in the presence of Stalin, De 0aulle and other high FTench and Soviet dignilaries after an aI-aisht banquet at the Kremlln in honor of the French 0elegysion.
 United States and Britain were said to have been informed of the negotiations and apparently con- cured In the arrangements.
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Battle Across Muddy
 Plain Of Cologne
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Patch's Seventh Army after a house toulouse fight.
 A peacetime city of 16,000, Hague nau controlled the principal lateral communications of German forces remaining in the eastern corner of France It lies 10 miles west of the Rhine and IS miles from the Sieg- fried Line.
 Other elements of Patch's forces captured Kaltenhouse and Ober- hoffen, two and thre miles south east of Haguenau, and fought into ReichShoffen and Griesbach, nine and seven miles northwest.
 In central Holland, Grman posi- tionS slowly were being flooded as waters poured through a 300-yard breach knocked by RAF bombs in dam 12 miles northeast of Nijmegen.
 Allied aircraft also cut 12 railway lines leading to the Dutch coast and destroyed 4our locomotives and 30 trucks. Fifty-one trucks were damaged.
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Sforzo Rops Churchill
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Continued from Page D London on Oct. II, 1943, the Prime Minister devoted most of the dis cuSSion to pressure that we accept Victor Emmanuel regardless of his heavy responsibilities for Fascism !"
 He added that Churchill was well aware of his oppcrition to the king and he had reaffirmed his "def- mite repudiation" of Emmanuel be- fore and after that conference.
 On his return to Italy, he said he suggested to Badoglio that the king abdicate and that the child Prince of Naples be proclaimed king with Badoglio as regent.
 New Cabinet
 The new cabinet list announced by Premier Ivanoe Bonomi today revealed that neither Sforza nor any other member Of his action par ty had been granted a cabinet post, a pointed omission which observers regarded as triumph for Great Britain and the Italian Royal fam fly.
 Spokesmen for the actionists re- vealed they had rejected preferred place in the new cabinet because of Bonomi's refusal to override Brit ish objections to Sforza and include the philosopher statesman in his governmenti
 Bonomi's new cabinet slate was made up entirely of representatives of the Communist, Christian Demo- crat, Labor Democrat and Liberal parties, with both the Actionists and Socialists excluded at their own re- quest.
 The new cabinet will hold its first meeting tomorrow when mem bers will be received formally by Crown Prince Hunhert, Lieutenant General of the realm.
 Observers regarded the new list, which was approved by the Allied Control Commission last night, as a triumph for British prestige and lift" for the Italian Royal family in it's coming postwar struggle with anti Monarchial elements in Italy.
 Some observers regarded the two leftist parties decision to remain outside the government as sound political move, enabling them to continue at least vocal opposition to the Bonomi regime.
 The new government contains diametrically- opposed clements, but it still is less clumsy than the form CT six-party coalition, since the cen ter and the right can outvote the left wing on any issue. The Christ ian Democrats were believed to hold the key position, as they can pro duce majority by voting with the two rightist parties and can force at least a tie by supporting the Com munists, thereby preventing passage of any markedly reactionary meas ureS.
 The power of the Leftists. on the other hand, has been reduced sub' stantially, with the Communists the only official representatives of the left in the new government.
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(Continued from Page D ton It is believed additional gov- ernments assignements to those plants and to others may boost the need of workers to 1000 or more.
 The WING program calls for ex- tensive checking over present em- ployment records to determine whether help should be where it is, and also intensive efforts to se- cure additional help.
 In the StabiliZation part of the program the WING will include checks on job-transfers. separations, and ceiling. Efforts will be made to secure an uniform method of pass ing on health certificates secured by job-changers, and appeals also will be carried to get more workers to transfer from on-essential to essential work.
 Negotiations for use of foreign help have nearly been completed and a definite program is expected to be announced by tomorrow. It is reported 100 Jamaica natives may be brought here by Jan. to serve as laborers at munitionS-manu- featuring plants.
 It has been reported adequate housing facilities for 100 Jamaicars have been secured at the Plants vile barracks, and final approval of that site is expected shortly. The main consideration now is said to be the food question. One of the suggestions receiving serious con- sideration involves the ''chartering" of a restaurant, where the West In- dies would take all of their meals, prepared by native cooks.
 Local plant officials have been reported highly in favor of hiring the Jamaicans, particularly after visiting plants in New Britain where some are now employed. Immediate action is necessary, however, since the prospective helpers. now living in Virginia. can remain in this country only until Jan. 1 unless definite contracts for further work are received.
 The recruiting work planned by the WING also will include Page Your Neighhor" campaigns In plants and Home Stretch" drives conducted on house-to-house basis.
 Raymond Titterington, former employe of the USES here, will be in charge of the personal contact phase of the recruiting work. As- sociated for many months with Q government recruiting group which was assigned to various sections of New England, he will supervise sec- tlonal and "on-tlle-spot recruiting here. Tha ~on-the-apot" phase will
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creased by automatically qualifying for selective service anyone who ap- plies for divorce.
 Main Purpose
 Since our main purpose Is the preservation of the American family, it is clear that we need not exempt from military duties individuals who have failed in their family life,' he explained. "The older men are no longer needed by their families and often both have had enough of each other anyhow. These men would be satisfied with plenty of cigarettes. Their wives, emancipated from ma- ternal duties, could become nurses, WAVES and WACS. Of course, this would be hard on the reachers of bridge.
 If a man of 50 falls in battle or in trying to train for it - the country has only lost about one sixth of a life, and not the best sixth, at that. It has lost nothing at all from the standpoint of bio- logical survival, and not much from an economic standpoint. When a boy of 18 is killed, the country has lost a whole life, including every thing that has been put into educa- tion and upbringing. It has also lost the possible progeny of the in- dividual sacrificed in youth"
 What is Dr. Sooton's solution to the problem of war? It's a simple one, and he outlines it this way:
 Hitherto, old men have made wars and young men have had to fight them. Why not reverse the process for the good of the species? At least, it would solve the problem of the returning veteran!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

(Continued from Page D ment of the Yamashita line in re- verse"
 The bloodiest fighting ragged on near Tolibaw, Is miles north of Ormoc and two and half miles south of Limon, where the Japan ese had committed their main forces in an attempt to prevent the Amer ican 32nd Division from frontal breakthrough into the Ormoc cor- ridor.
 With the loss of Ormoc and the subsequent threat of their rear, however, the northern forces were expected to divert some of their strength southward soon and 8 breakthrough may follow. Front re- ports said Japanese opposition in the Ormoc area was stiffening.
 American Liberators with fighter ported the ground forces and des- troyed at least five enemy planes in combat.
 (Japanese broadcasts claimed that Japanese forces had re-occupied four American airhelds on Leyte and firmly" held the initiative on the island. American trooos were be- ing driven ''even further from Or moc," the broadcasts said.)
 American Liberators with fightr escorts dropped 268 tons of bombs on Japanese airfields on Cebu, Negros, Panay and Masbate Islands We'd nesday and Friday, demolishing buildings, cratering runways and destroying two parked planes.
 One of three intercepting enemy fighters was shot down and a sec- ond probably destroyed. In several cases, no anti-aircrtf fire was re- ported and observers speculated that the Japanese may have given up as hopeless the task of keeping the air. fields in useable condition.
 Other American planes damaged three small freighters and two barges off Luzon and destroyed two small freighters off Masbate.
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involve trips to clubrooms, amuse- ment centers, and other places where large numbers of persons gather.
 Clearance of workers from other areas will be intensified and nego- tiated transfers from plants with less urgent schedules may eventu- ally be tried on, a temporary basis, according to the new WING pro- gram outline.
 Mrs Mary M. Dewey, area WING director, stated that the WING could stop referrals to all but the Must" programs, if i saw fit to do so. The labor management committee will be called on to oetermine to what degree such a method might be used. In regard to transfers from plants with less urgent schedules, 1t was indicated all possible within the plant" transfers would have to be exhausted befCre such pro- gram would be considered.
 Present USES records list total of 236O untitled orders, 30 per cent of which are for essential work. Government officials hope the new WING program will aid in filing large number of those orders.
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 full share of the nations war effort in order to remain exceptionally deferred, local boards will apply prasent occupational deferment 1n- structions in the light of the irnme- diate urgencies for men in the armed forces and the civilian war effort. "
 New regulations, it was said, would implement this policy without any considerable deviation from the standards by which defermentS have been granted since the standards were established for all militarily- liable registrants last May.
 Officials said the new policy would bring no wholesale reclassifi- cation of men In the 26-37 bracket but would be directed chiefly at registrants who have refused to get into war jobs or who leave essen tial work for peacetime occupations.
 The number who have shifted to peaoetime work was understood to have risen steadily since last May when SeleCJlVe SeTVlCe hLlLloutlCeO that 1t would concentrate future draft calls on the 1925 age bracket,
 The frightened deferment policy for the 26-37 year group was an- nounced over the weekend by mo- bilization Director James F. Byrnes in an attempt to alleviate the man. power shortages responsible to a large degree for the deficiencies in such vital equipment as heavy duty tires and ammunition.
 The 26-37 year old men who are inducted-will not be used for conl- bat replacements since the services prefer men under 26 for the fight ing fronts. They will, however, re- place skilled men in uniform who have already been released or soon will be released for essential work.
 There was no official estimate of the number of such replacements needed. But Byrnes did say that the services already have released several thousand" men for vital
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 said the Soviet fliers were taking heavy toll of German troops and transports.
 Fanatical German rear guards re- mained in the barricaded streets of the capital and along the Hanks of the Nazi escape corridor, but Mos COW indicated they could do little more than delay the Red Army en- try into Budapest.
 Earlier reports had indicated that the bulk of the German and Hun garian garrison was digging in for a death stand inside the city, but the Moscow dispatches suggested this activity was ruse to cover the evacuation.
 The German armored screen drawn around the city began to fall apart last night after series of futile counter attacks that cost the enemy scores of tanks and hun- dredS of other combat vehicles.
 Sabre-swinging cosSackS and ar- mored units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's second Ukrainian army spearheaded the assault, driving more than seven miles down the east bank of the Danube yesterday to capture Alsogod and the adjoining railway station of God, seven miles north of Budapest.
 Looping Front
 Soviet tanks and horSemen also were pounding in on a looping front stretching IS miles east of the river to Domony. riding roughshod over the long-prepared enemy fortifica- tions within full view of the capital.
 Crack German SS panzer divi- sions charged repeatedly into the onrushing Soviet lines in a series of futile counter-attacks that lit- tered the battledelds with hundreds of Nazi head and the wreckage of burned-out Nad tanks without stemming the Russian advance.
 More than 40 towns and villages were swept up in the thrust north and northeast of Budapest while smaller. but equally important gains were carved out of the German lines south and southwest of the city, where Malinovsky's troops linked up with units of Marshal Feodor I Tol- bukhin's Third Ukrainian army.
 German military commentators said tine combined Soviet forces speared three miles up the west bank of the Danube from Ercsi to Erd. six miles southwest of Buda- pest. Berlin claimed the Russians were driven out of Erd again after a furious street battle.
 The punsh carried the Red Army within five miles of the Budapest Vienna trunk railroad. however, ard Soviet guns opened @ drumfire bar rage on that vital escape line.
 Farther West
 Farther to the west. Tolbukhin's troops cut the Budapest-Szekesfeb- Var rail line on both sides of Lake Velencei and drove to within six miles of the latter town at the southwestern corner of the lake.
 Berlin said the Russians broke across the railroad and raced north and east across the 2e-mile gap separating them from Malinovsky's forces on the Danube above Buda- pest. in a bid to complete the encir. element of the city.
 Moscow dispatches said a pail oe 7 smoke hung over Buda and the Dan- uhe bridges linking it with the east bank borough Of Pest, and even Ber- l In painted Q picture of terror and confusion within the capital.
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(Continued rom Page D arrived over the target. During earlier night raids, Tokyo light had remained on.
 The glow of flames above partial overcast was visible as the plane turned homeward.
 Two B-29s penetrated western Kyushu, southernmost of the Japan- ese home islands at 10:30 a. m. yes- terday, but dropped no bombs, Tokyo said. while others dropped incen. diary bombs on western Japan" Saturday night.
 Two superfortreSseS also flew over Korea. one from the northeast and the other from the south be- tween il a. m. and i2 noon yester- day, but filed without doing any damage, Tokyo said.
 Tine raids all appeared to have the double objective of keeping enemy nerves on edge and mapping the terrain for future large-scale air assaults.
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Continued from Page D place ought to be called the Jesse James National monument. not be- cause of the cabin. but because of the way the administra- ton established it
 Creation
 Seems that congress has to create national parks and congress never would turn the Jackson Hole coun- try Into Q park. The President, however, can make Q national mon- ument with the squlggle of Q pen and Mr. Roosevelt did just that. There are too many national parks
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Com promise Hopes Fade
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 llostilities began last Monday.
 British It. Gen. Scobie took no part in the exchange of peace pro posals, on the ground that any set- dement, must be reached between the opposing Greek factions.
 RAF bombers and fighters, finally ordered into a shooting" offensive after week of token attacks, gave the Elas positions east and north of Athens terrific pounding yes- terday, but it was evident that the city itself could not be cleared without the arrival of strong Brit ish troop endorsements.
 British spokeSmen revealed that the leftists were equipped with 75- millimeter artillery, mortars and anti-tank guns, with which they kept up harassing fire on Scoble's headuuarters and the Grand Bret agne Hotel, where Papandreou's government is quartered.
 A slim prospect for a settlement remained ill the efforts of Arch Bishop Damaskinos, Orthodox prl- mate of Greece, who continued to sound out both parties in an effort to find a workable solution to the iInpasse.
 Alexander Svolos, leader Of the Ieft-wing FAM Political Organiza- ton and former minister of finance in the Papandreou government, 1s- sued statement urging an immedi- ate end to the fighting and reiter- ating that there is no hostile feel ing toward the British.
 Svolos insisted, however, that no settlement is possible while the present government remains i'll power.
 Meanwhile, Papandreou ordered all men between the ages of 27 and 30 in the five districts of Athens under his control to report for active duty tomorrow.
 London, Dec. 11-UP)-Harold MacAGillan, British resident min ister for the Mediterranean, was expected to leave Rome within the next few days for Athens for an attempt to solve the explosive Greek crisis.
 His return to Rome following conferences in London was an- nounced last night. It was believed he had been ordered to proceed to Athens to use his authority as a member of the British cabinet to mediate between the Greek gov- ernment and clements supporting the FAM, or National Liberation front, in the civil war.
 The diplomatic correspondent of the London Times said Marshal Nzr Harold R. L. c. Alexander. supereme Allied commander for the Mediterranean, might accompany MacAEillan to Athens because of their previous successful work to- gether in military-political situa- tons.
 The Times said in an editorial that the situation in Athens was Worsening and proposed Q settle ment on the basis of disbandment of all private armies and formation Of a genuine national army, an Al- lied guarantee of Greek politics nRainst forcible domination from any quarter, and effectual coali- ton of all parties.
 Disclosure that MacMillan had 4ftllrned to Rome spiked specula- iIon that he might SO to Washing ton in an effort to settle British American differences over interven- Son in the Belgian, Greek and Italian political situations.
 1t was slill anticipated. however, Iilat some hlgh-ranking Briton will Ho sent to the United states to HAek up Viac0unt Halifax, tho Brlt-
 amhaaaador, in resolving the