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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-07-06
That Empty
Chair
By Ben Ames Williams

There are hundred and thirty
million people in the United States,
say thirty million homes.
In those homes there are today
ten or eleven million empty chairs.
Maybe it's his chair at the dinner
table, kept there SO you can imagine
he is sitting in it. Maybe it's his
chair by the fireplace in the living
room, the one where he used to sit
in the evening.
Some of those chairs will always
be empty; but most of them will
one day-be filled again.
L Yet even when we're sure of that,
pretty sure of that, the sight of
those empty chairs leaves in US a
greater emptiness, loneliness that
is hard to take.
And for most Of US there is moth
ing tangible and important which
we cant do about it, no obvious way
in which we. can help the boy who
once sat in that empty chair to
finish his JOB 50 he can come home
and sit in it. again. Most of us
would feel lot better, we wouldn't
feel quite 50 lonesome, we wouldn't
1nin, him qRiteeso much, if we could
l. "A
find ways 10 help him do the job
which only he can do.
{ OF course there are some little
ways to help.
Refusing to buy from black mar
kets helps some.
Saving gas and tires helps some.
Salvaging paper and grease and
metals helps some.
Just living our lives, trying to
keep things as nearly normal as pos
sible, writing him letters, sending
him snapshots, leaving out of our
letters every word that would wor-
ny him--all that helps a little.
Buying War Bonds helps.
A lot of other things help a little;
they help him little.
But, they help US lot They help
fill that empty loneliness.
They help us lot now.
Some day they'll help us lot
more than they do now.
Because some day, for most Of us
the boy who went away will come
back and sit again in that empty
chair. At first he'll do most Of the
talking, telling us as much as he
can tell us, answering our questions.
But after while it will be his
turn to ask questions. He'll do it,
too. Here's one Of the first questions
he's going to ask.
We'll, what have you all been do
ing while ! was away?"
That's when the little things we
can do today are going to help us
most; that day when he comes home
and starts asking questions; that
day when he's sitting again in what
is now the empty chair.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-07-06
THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD
TARERNACIE

Sunday school, 10 a. m. Glasses
for all ages.
Sunday morning devotional hour,
IL o'clock.
c. A. Young Peoples service, $50
p. m.
Sunday night evangelistic meet
ing, 7:45.
Tuesday evening prayer in the
home of Mrs. James Cole o'clock
Thursday night cottage Bible
study in the home Of r. Albert,
Troy, 7.30.
Friday evening regular Bible
study and prayer in the church, 8
o'clock
Welcome to our services.
REV. F. A. DALTON, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-07-06

Today, 1861 900 U. S. soldiers are
overseas striking victory-Winning
blows against Germany and Japan
by land, from the sea, and in the
air.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-07-06

been in the service of Uuncle Sam
for the past two years, most of it
being spent in the fighting zone.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-07-06
q R Klws Of !.!0 oYa
go ~ "' :s':o..

Word has just been received by
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Woodward of War
land that their son Bob, who is a
motor machinist mate &c in the
Coast Guard, is at Flint, Mich, at
tending General Motors Institute on
diesel engines. He was one of four
sent from the Seattle district to at
tend. He says Flint is very pretty
city but finds the Middle West
rather warm.
Evening star., 1944-11-17
BOYS WARM APPAREL

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Evening star., 1944-11-17
A PALAIS ROYAL Service
for 'YOU' in the 'SERVICE'

We've solved shopping with our trod off m sbo,ne
from the AWVS tbroken
ee) especially Gift selections quickly econo
coy and satisfactorily This TOMORROW here's all
FLOOR and one Of the AVIS
ossons will gladly discuss Christmas
delightful holiday Joy your friends and fo
REMEMsER this free service that in
Won't oke advantage Of ondIe US help
4Tvs SHOPPING BOOTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1944-11-17
WorId Air Conierees
Hopeful Of Success
Despite New Delays
~ the Associated Press.

~ lac AbSOClAteu KIehe.
CHICAGO, Nov. l7.-Hopes that
three proposals for regulating future
air trafflc between nations could be
merged for . successful conclusion
to the International Civil Aviation
Conference held firm today despite
reports Of new delays in drafting a
document to reconcile British, Ca
madam and American views.
Although highly placed ofiicial
expressed the view that the initial
presentation OF the compromise
would be made this week, another
ofiicial In the same delegation, later
said 1t might not be possible to act
SO soon.
Others, however. felt that the
drafting job could be finished and
submitted to the 54-nation meeting
today.
The drafting job Is one of writing
IN language acceptable to the three
leading delegations a description
OF the middle course toward q world
aviation authority on which the
British, Canadians and Americans
have agreed in principle during
private discussions which began
last Sunday.
The British and Canadians. de.
termined to have some sort of eco
nomic controls-regulation of the
business itself-faced United
States delegation convinced there
should be no such controls at this
time, and willing to grant a world
agency powers only in the adminis-
tration of technical standards and
procedures.
Both views have been eased OH
toward . middle course, according
to persons close to the consultations.
and general agreement has been
achieved. Considerable difnculty
was being encountered, however, in
wording this agreement so that the
meeting Of minds on principles will
be expressed satisfactorily.
Reports persisted that the final
result would be an international
aviation body with some regulation
OF the amount of flying, leaving
wide latitude for initiative and de-
velopment, and a plan for avoiding
cut-throat competition by putting a
moor under rates and fares.
Evening star., 1944-11-17
Slight Rise Reported
In Cost of Livino
e the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Ma
tlonal Industrial Conference Board
said today that living costs for the
average family Of wage earners and
lower -salaried clerical workers In
the United States In the middle of
October were i Of per cent higher
tnan at the same time In September,
bringing living costs back to the Au-
gust level.
"A decline Of 0.4 per cent In the
cost OF food failed to Offset increases
OF o.l In housing costs, o. per cent
IN clothing costs and 0.5 per cent In
sundries. according to the report of
the conference board, a private re-
search organization.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Ration Reminders
Release of June 2e)

Release of June 2e)
Meats, Fats-Red stamps AS
through VIZ. are good indefinitely
Ks, Y8 and 70 become good July
2.
Processed Foods-Blue stamps
AS through VS, good indefnit ely.
VS.. Ks, Y8, Z8 and AS. become
good July l.
Sugar-Suear stamps 80, 81 and
32each good for five pounds indef-
nitely. Sugar stamp 40, good for
five pounds Of canning sugar
through February. next year.
Gasoline-A-l2 coupons. good
through September 81.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l and
2, good indefinitely.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Murray Announces
Postwar Discussions
At kalispeIl July "a, Is

Public conferences for the pur-
pose Of discussing the postwar
future of Montana are to be held
at kalispell on July "a and Is,
Senator James E. Murray has an
nounced. Invited to participate
with the Senator are federal and
state officials. businessmen as in
dividuals and in groups, and citi-
zens generally.
The conferences will be under
the auspices of the Senate Small
Business Committee, of which
Senator Murray is chairman.
William c. Broadgate, Technical
Consultant to the committee. will
accompany the Senator to Kalis.
pell. Several senators of h e
committee are expected to b e
present.
Senator Murray has expressed
his conviction that the postwar
problem confronting Montana
centers largely on the develop.
ment of industries to produce,
process and manufacture the vast
raw material resources of h e
state into finished and semi-fin-
ished products. He believes that
the history of the growth of in.
dustry during the war has DEM
onstrated industrial development
follows an abundance of cheap
hydroeIectric power; that bust.
ness generally throughout : h e
state will develop as the poten-
tial energy contained in Mon
tanas many mountain streams
and rivers is developed and as
irrigation I'D reclamation pro-
jects are planned and put into
operation.
Other sources ready for devel-
opment within the state include
timber and wood products, such
as wood pulp and products devel-
oped through cellulose chemistry;
t h e states comparatively u n
tapped mineral resources which
await adequate financing a d
cheap power; and the develop.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Notice To Creditors

Estate of Hugh W. Jackson,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given bv the
undersigned, Executrix Of the
Estate of Hugh w. Jackson. de-
ceased. to the creditors and to
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, to exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers with
in four months after h first
publication of this notice TO the
said Executrix at the law office
of Wilbur P. Werner. located in
the Court House. Cut Bank, Mon
tana. the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of said Estate.
Dated July 9th, 1914.
Ella l.. Jackson.
Executrix of the Estate OF
Hugh W. Jackson deceased.
Wilbur P. Werner,
Attorney for Executrix.
First Publication July ID. 1914
Last publication August d, 1914
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Demand 10 Million
Homes After The War

People will demand 10000, 900
new homes in the first 10 years
after the war if business and in
dustrv are afforded a favorable
economic climate in post W r
America. the Twentieth Century
Fund estimates.
A survey just completed by the
organization reveals that the ma
jority will want medium or low
priced homes. at prices ranging
from 1000 or less in some areas
to $4,000 in other sections. A
large part of the demand will be
for rented homes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
WATCH CAEN

Caen is the key to the fighting
in France. 1t is the key to the
valley of the Seine, which means
it is the key to Paris. And Paris
so runs the military thought
is the key to France.
T h British and Canadian
troops, in what has been perhaps
the hardest fighting of the inva-
sion operation thus far. have cap
turad Caen itself. The Germans
are now fighting fanatically to
contain the Allies without further
gains across the Orne River, be-
cause beyond the Orne s the
wi d e. flat, difficuIt-to-defend
country that leads into the heart
of France.
For a few days the fighting
around Caen was nip and tuck.
The Germans appeared to have
superior numbers of infantry and
armor. The Americans scarcely
had time to liberate Cherbourg
before they were fastened into
battle to protect the Caen inland
flank. General Bradley has been
making it so hot for the Nazis
around Saint-Lo that Montgom-
cry at Caen has been relieved of
some pressure. He has success
fully beaten off German armor.
and with the ever.increasin9 flow
of men a nd materials coming
f m England. Montgomery
should soon be able to roll out of
the German ring.
The Germans know this. They
see their only hope is to smash
the Allied force before it is de-
eisiveIy reinforced, or to bog the
Allies down in a war of attrition
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
on a fixed and fortified line.

vi q A<ASA ouu AOEllllcU lluc.
That. of course. is precisely
what the Allies d o not want.
Nothing. in fact, could be fur
Their from General Eisenhower's
plans. There is every indication
that once he gets his supplies
moving in at the rate he feels
necessary. he expects to launch a
blitz.
The air power that is presently
playing such havoc with Nazis
reinforcements should certainly
make any long German stand in.
fixed positions extremely uncom.
Portable, if not impossible. The
Christian Science Monitor.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
EIias0n Leaves For Arabia

Browning friends will be in
terested to learn that H. R. Ella
son. son Of MIR. and Mrs. L. K.
Cummins. former local residents,
left for Arabia last week and will
be gone for two years.
Mr.. Eliason and his wife and
son. Scotty, had been visiting
his parents at Sunburst for sew.
eral weeks.
The Eliason couple were mar.
ried in Browning several years
ago.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21

ment of processing plants for the
states livestock and agricultural
products.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Better People

Better People
we cannot make the world better
by better laws, but by better men
and women.-Rev. Lewis S. Nudge.
DID.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-21
Mrs. Annie Duncan, Owner

Subscription $500 year in advance.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
Briton Consul
Dies In Fall

Baltimore. Md, Jan. l0-(UP)--
Sir Anthony George. 81, British Con-
sui General at Boston, jumped to
his death from a fourth floor win
dow Of the Lord Baltimore Hotel,
according to DR. Henry @. Wollen-
weber, assistant medical examiner.
wollenweber called his death a
suicide after o short investigation.
According to British officials, Sir
Anthony had been suffering from
Amoebic dysentery which developed
during his internment by the Zap
anese at Shanghai. He was Consul
General at Shanghai at the time OF
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
He had been In the British Con.
SClar Service for 80 years and had
come here preparatory to returning
to England by transatlantic plane
for short rest.
Witnesses reported that Sir An
thOny stood on the windowSill be-
fore falling, and finally hung by his
hande before dropping to his death
His body fell through q drugstore
awning On crowded Baltimore street
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
|Stettin, KieI
Damage Big

Stockholm Jan. 10 - (UP0 -
Swedish sailors returning from
Stettin and Kiel reported today
that last weeks Allied mass air
raids inflicted terrific" strategic
damage and turned the two North
German ports into cities Of devasta-
ton and horror.
THE incendiaries descended like
rain and just the air pressure from
the exploding bombs threatened to
finish us off," the newspaper Alton
bladet quoted q sailor back from
Stettin as saying.
II thought my last hour had
come and none of our nerves was
far from cracking" he said. Every
thing looked so horrible one does
mt even want to think about 1t"
The Royal Air Force assault on
Stettin Wednesday night left the
Baltic shipping center's harbor and
warehouses In supplying
the German Russian front-'look-
ing like skeletons" the sailor was
quoted as saying.
Other sailors, returning to NAL
moe on the southern tip Of Sweden.
reported that Kiel was simply an
inferno after the American raids
TuescR sd Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10

The correspondent recalled
that a WilhelmstraSse spokes-
man only a few days ago had
asserted that the eastern
front would lose its import
ance once Anglo-American
forces had landed in the west,
and deduced that new Rus
sian break-throughS had up-
set all German military cal-
culationS.
German hopes Of having q frea
hand in the west to defeat invasion
forces, after which they would deal
with the Russians, have been shat
tered completely with one single
stroke" the correspondent said.
Another Nad spokesman's admis-
sion that the Germans may be COM
PEELED to abandon most of their con-
quests and satellites In the east, as
vel las part of Norway, was dis
closed by authoritative sources" in
Stockholm. the London Daily Mali
said.
Usually reliable sources In Francs.
were reported by Madrid to have
said that the Germans already we're
evecuating all their military dep0ts
In Rumania's Bucovtna and Bessa Z
rabian provinces. Many Hungarian
units in the areas also have been
sent home, it was said.
The London Sunday Observers
diplomatic correspondent said thab
the Germans also were evacuattng
civilians from the Estonian and
Latvian coastal areas, hating air.
port construction work in Estonia
and closing shale oil mines and
phosphate industries in the Baltic
states.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
Report Reds
Closing In On
Pomoshnoyo

Moscow, Jan. 10.-(UP)-Russia' S
second Ukrainian army was reported
closing today against the Pomosh-
maya Junction As miles southwest
of Kirovograd, the fall Of which
will block the next to last round
about rail exit for formidable Ger
man forces in the Dnieper bend.
Military sources said that the four
powerful Red armies in the Ukraine
might join at any time in de-
cisive onslaught calculated to hurl
the staggered German back to the
DnieSter.
Gen. Nikolai F. vatutin's First
Army already was tanning south
westward on a 300 mile front, its
advanced spearneads probing near
" IS miles into pre-war Poland to
menace Sarny and to come within
GA miles Of Bessarabia.
CA German communique reported
local fighting with Soviet recon-
Nuisance troops west of Sarny in
the outer fringes of the Pripet
Marshes, indicating that Russian
patrols had pushed beyond the key
rail junction SO miles inside old Po-
land.)
The next prospective strategic VIC
tory was the capture Of PomoSh-
maya, from which a lateral railroad
angles across to the Odess- Warsaw
trunk line, the last two routes Of
flight for hundreds Of thousands Of
Nazis holding precarious positions
in the Dnieper pocket.
The Russians who captured Iva.
novka and Anninskaya beyond
fallen Korovograd yesterday nov
were reported racing in against
PomoShnaya, some 20 miles to the
southwest.
From Pomoshaya a lateral line
branches of from the Korovograd.
Odessa railroad to join the Odessa.
Warsaw road at Birzula. When the
key junction within reach of the
CONTINUED on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
Two Foce
Kidnop Rap

New York, Jan. 10 - CU.P0 -
Two Norfolk youths. accused Of
three kidnappings, today faced pos
SibIe prosecution by the Federal
government under the Lindbergn
kidnap law which carries the death
penalty.
They were scheduled to be ar
raigned In felony court today on
charges Of assault and robbery, and
then turned over to the Office OF
United States Attorney Harold M.
kennedy, for questioning. Kennedy
was reported considering placing
possible kidnap charges against
them.
The youths, David Keith, "a. and
John Richard King. %. were ac-
cused Of beginning their mad dash
through eastern states with KID
mapping q Norfolk cab driver on
wednesday.
Norfolk authorities said the pair
forced the cab driver to drive them
to washington where they robbed
him. let him on and then abandon
ed the car.
In Washington they allegedly KID
mapped Herman German, owner OF
an airport limousine and his pass
enger, Miss Mercedes Plat, q recep-
ZIONIST in the American embassy IN
Havana. They drove the cab to
New York, robbed the driver and
Miss Plat. and abandoned them:
They also were accused Of kid
mapping Paul Caalford. q Brooklyn
cab driver, before they were cap
tured by detectives Saturday in a
Manhattan theater.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
Nancy Denies
Divorce Talk

Miami, Fla, Jan. 10. (UP)-Nancy
Cakes De Marigny, enroute to Mas
sau to sell her personal belongings
In order to raise enough money to
pay for a Forthcoming operation,
today described as utterly ridicu-
lous" reports that she would file
divorce proceedings against Count
Alfred De Marigny.
She said she and De Marigny, who
was acquitted last November IN
the murder of her multi-millionaire
father, Sir Harry Cakes, were happy
in Havana, where they have lived
since her husbands deportation
from the Bahamas.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-10
BIGGEST ALLY
BLOW YET FOR
PARTISANS

London, January 10. -
A big force of Flying For
tresses blasted the italian
port of Pola, main supply
base for German forces in
Jugoslavia, yesterday in one
of the heaviest blows yet
struck by the Allies in sup
port of Marshal JoSir (Tito)
Brozovich'S embattled Parti-
sans, it was announced today.
The attacks by Italian-based for
tresses Of the 18th air force was re-
vealed by Allied headquarters at AL
giers as the partisans sought des-
perately to fend off strong German
armored attachments moving in on
their central Bosnian forces from
five directions.
Nad sources reported that Allied
bombers from the Mediterranean al
SO raided Rome, but the Algiers
communique did not mention any
attack on the Italian capital or its
immediate vicinity. The Scandina-
Wan telegraph bureau claimed the
raid occurred Sunday, but other
Nazi sources gave the date as Sat-
urday.
The fortreSses, escorted by fight
ers, hit both harbor and railway in
stallations at Pola, which lies at the
tip of the Istrain Isthmus in the
Adriatic some 40 miles southwest Of
border city of Fiume, in a six-min-
ute thunderbolt attack.
Algiers dispatches said at least
three exceptionally large explosions,
one Of which hurled debris 1000 feet
into the air, were witnessed by the
fortress crews. Factories and the
whole dock area appeared to have
been well-covered with bombs.
Other bombs were seen to fall on
submarine pens. but Algiers sources
emphasized that Pola's chief import
ance lay in its position as a supply
base for German forces in Jugo-
slavia. With guerrilla raids hating
overland shipments, the Germans
have been sending supplies IN large
and small boats from Pola to their
forces along the coasts Of Jugoslavia
and Albania.
American losses were not specified,
but only one plane was lost in all
Allied raids from Mediterranean
bases yesterday.
Jugoslav sources said Brozvich's
partisians, still disorgani2ed from
last weeks defeat at the Bosnian
communications center OF BanJa
Luka, had been cornered and set
upon by five German columns yes
terday.
Brozovich also was revealed to
have broadcast an appeal for all
Jugoslav soldiers serving with Ger
man, Serb or Croat troops to report
Immediately to the recruiting offices
of his army Of Liberation, believed
depleted badly in recent battles.