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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
On the
Side

From "Corky" Ledford OF
Long Beach. Cal. I have re-
ceived the following letter:
II am is years old. My dad,
Gene Ledford. pitched the frat
night game of professional base
ball on April %, 1880, for Mus
kogee. Okla, against indie
pendence, Mo-, I'm the Western
Association Dad was q pitcher
In the Wevern Association for
some time and had a no-hit,
no=run game In his credit. re-
ceived a notice n short time ago
that his name was being placed
on a plaque at Wichita, Kan,
I'm the Hall Of Fame. Dad was
killed In n car wreck Dec. ],
1889, In Oklahoma"
QUERIES from clients:-Q-
Have you ever been in Santa
Maria, Cal?
A. Certainly. Beautiful town.
How are the flower seeds and
oil wells doing these days:
@. Has your Horses & Women
Department completed research
on Swedish blue-eyed blondes.
A. Our experts say this type
OF young woman usually makes
a very entertaining companion,
being gay. considerable and hav-
ing a good sense of humOr. They
make good wives and mothers,
too, but require firm handling
by man of strong character.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

victories for American tech
nology.
Airdromes have been scooped
out Of solid rock. cut through
impossible tungles and rolled
out on coral reefs.
Every impregnable barrier
erected by nature In an inhos-
pitable part OF the world has
been overcome through the me-
chanical and engineering in
genuity that Is typically Amer
lean.
THE history Of this war will
i be thrilling when told in
terms OF scientific achievement
and chronological marvels.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Letters From
A Soldier

keep all the details in sequence.
except that getting back to
friendly territory includes:
Hiding in a ditch while a
German patrol emptied machine
pistols at them-but In Sgt.
Belts words: 1T was dark, and
they had too much sense to
come in after us, because they
didn't know how many there
were of us-or how few"
Gradually finding more of
their outfit, working back.
Running head-on in the dark
into the muzzle of a German
SO and getting safely past be-
cause the Germans were asleep
at the lanyard. --.-..-
Seeing their captain wounded
and asking for water TO wash
down his suifa pills. A lieu
tenant ran over with a canteen.
The lieutenant was killed as
they watched. because shells. if
not lightning. sometimes strike
twice in the same place. But
the fatal shell didn't touch the
captain. He recovered.
Going for two days without
water Git was a week before all
the stragglers got IND and find
ing a we'll. I'VE drank bucket
full each" Bell said. Il told
them, I'm going to have a
drink if it kills me, and we
each - actually. I'm not exag-
gerating - drank complete
bucketful." =
And finally discovering tpep
tracks and knowing they were
in safe territory.
- They had earned q rest. Onsy
this isn't fiction, this is war.
They went back into the lines
without even waiting for re-
placements to make up for the
men they had lost.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

WHEN the full story Of the
w invasion OF Normandy 10
finally told, II will become ap-
parent that the gigantic under
taking was q great triumph OF
engineering.
Secrecy still shrouds dozens
OF amazing devices and con-
structions utilized for the first
time in the invasion TO meet the
special problems created by the
nature OF German defenses.
weather. tides and topography.
The same holds true in the
Pacific. Our progress In that
theater Is first OF all a victory
for American heroism-but IT
is also q series of magnificent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

President scissored one out and
sent II to the vice president
with a note lin his own hand
writing) reading. Henry. is this,
the way to treat your womenl"
THIS Is the newest Russian
l. gag overheard at the Madl-
son Bar: $50 Ivan Ivanovitch
died calamity In the midst OF
battle" sobbed Katerina- Mix
hailovna Mikhailovitch. "You
he =uttered=my uame with
his last BREATH"
part Of IT," replied the re-
turned soldier. "only part OF It,"
AN IRONIC fact is that
IA George M. Conan never
could scribble successful
ditty about baseball, the sport
he loved so much.
Conan, as all Broadway
knew. was a Polo Grounds
faithful.
Yet the two songs he wrote
about baseball were never per-
formed more than a few tired
times, even with John McGraw
and the Giants lending them
selves TO its promotion.
Yet Albert Won Tilzer's Take
Me Out to the Ball Game" is
as famous rs the game itself,
and Won Tilzer saw his first
baseball contest only short
while back, after his tune had
been played and sung for
decades
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
BETTER HEALTH
by DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING-

3-Any mole, wen or wart
that changes its texture or
begins to grew.
Amy persistent hoarseness
or loss voice not due 10 a
cold.
5-Any lump-no matter II
entirely painless-especially IN
the female breast.
II any of those things were
reported TO me I would start
an investigation Immediately.
The best hope for prevention
Of cancer Is IN the forms on
the skin and In the breast. You
can see or feel them. There is
not much excuse for anybody
who neglects those two varieties
until II is too late.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
One Word Led 10 Another
ByPatterson
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer.

The conventions in Chicago were the first times had
been ON ANYTHING but local train in three years
found the accommodations surprisingly authentic
in spite of the travel which mostly travail 1t has never
been tribal nor trivial ,
While in the ct" zone let's buzz tiffin The trouble
with the food today is they have one dining car with two
sets of appetes.
That means one is sitting at the groaning board
The other boarder is standing up and just groanng
1t is quite distressing to be dobbng the double yolk
in the eptca cup while the waiter searches for his thin
dime tip in an ambush of parsley.
While you are scoffing the table d crumbs the next
eater is standing there sprnklng you with goofer dust
and gypsy anathemas He is hoping you choke bust or
have a sudden stroke of evaporation.
That arouses the beast in In stead of hurrying
through the hot groceries take my good and democratic
time In order to keep the mugg standing trifle
sustained even regurgitate my food few times The
beast in me is bovine, rumnant and bit muish.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

THE New York papers re-
i Gently offered an article by
Gypsy Rose Lees mother. The
story was about Gypsy.
New Workers. are familiar
with the silly quarrel between
these two.
Supposed to have started
when Gypsy wrote articles for
a magazine about her early ca
reer in which her mater was
kidded a lot and unfrocked a
little.
Broadwayites later heard buzz
zing about mother and daugh-
ter getting to the point Of
-aame-ealliHR
Once Gypsy received a tele-
gram from her Nom, which
warned that unless the two
could get together about a GER
tain matter she-the mother
would give" the story to the
newspapers.
"Look, Nom, don't be . fool"
replied Gypsy. "don't give II to
the papers. Sen Il to them"
NOW is probably the last time
~ to recount this instance OF
the humorous byplay that went
in between F.D.R and Henry
Wallace. When Mae West was
suing Frank Wallace for divorce
the papers were full of stories
headed Mae West Charges
Wallace Unkind to Her." The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Brain Game Answers

Fable. \
Lake Champlain. ~
Girl Guides.
4-(a) false, OBJ false. fc) false.
5-B cause its appearance,
viewed from above, with the
white lines running parallel
with the goal lines at inter-
walls of five yards the length
of the field, resembles q
gridiron.
6-Two and a quarter miles. ~
7-Iraq. :.
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
LOW much should the public
IL be educated about cancer?


IL be educated about cancer?
Enough so they use common
sense and not enough 10 get
frightened or 60 off half cooked
at anything that happens 10
their family or relatives or
nelghbors and insist on unneces-
sary operations or some fool
quack treatment.
But they should know enough
70 realize when thAre n real
indication for IL and 10 get early
and proper treatment
A little learning Is a danger
Gus thing and when they get
little learning about cancer
common sense often flies out Of
the window.
have had a skin cancer and
I don't think I displayed any
morbid fear about II. / had II
right In my old vaccination scar
and / didn't recognize what II
was for several weeks. and then
when II began to bleed tit never
hurO went to a derrnatologist
and he said, why that Is an
epitheloma," and I went right
out OF his Office 10 surgeons
office. who cut II cut. and IL
vas sent 10 a psthologist who
sectioned Il and said. Yes, il is
an epttheloma." and that's the
last I have worried about II
since.
LOW do l advise or control
IL my household? Well. / do
not deliberately avoid il. but II
never occurs TO me 10 talk
about cancer TO them. They
come 10 me pretty soon after
any system pops up in them
(that is perhaps the advantage
OF a doctors household) and II
there is. following the outline
Of the American Society for the
Control Of Cancer:
Amy abnormal or irregular
discharge from any OF the body
openings.
Amy sore, no matter how
small. on the skin. lips. tongue,
mouth that does not heal within
10 days.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

OCT. BELL, if I haven't told
~ you, led a section of NOR
tars, that is the big ones. 81
millimeter, which belongs to the
heavy weapons companies. while
the rifle companies take charge
of the COS.
Nobody agrees on which Is
tougher. a rifle company or
heavy weapons. The rifles are
in front, on the battle line, but
heavy weapons men aren't far
distant.
The machine guns have to be
right up on the line, and the
mortars stay pretty close.
Figure it out. An 81-mm. can't
reach out more than a couple
of miles at its best. The general
custom is to dig the moi lars in,
right behind the closest hill.
That protects the rportars from
enemy artillery fire. and the
mertaFs Just lob their shells up
over the hill
Somebody has TO be up front
to see where TO shoot. and that
was Sgt. Bells job. up at the
o. Preservation post.
EDHL," he told me without
d ever bothering to identify
BID "was handling the sound
powered telephone. Hey. I've
lost EN- Bill said. Can't get
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

Ia. &c. 3-b. 4-b. 3d.
6-(a) Second inaugural adj
dress, (b) letter to Mrs.
Bixby, (c) letter to HORACE
Greeley, I'D Emancipatiop
proclamation, tc) Gettys-
burg address. ~
Copyright, 1914, by King Features-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Air
Power

Never before through the
centuries has a war been so
complex, and every new compl-
cation has required such an in
genious solution.
Having recognized the extent
of the engineering contribution.
however, we ought 10 ask also
why this war has been SO Pc
culiarly complex.
1t has been fought in three
dimensions and in almost end
less tactical combinations OF all
three elements-land, sea and
air: amphibious. triphibious.
subaQuaiic and almost subter-
ranean.
Each one necessitated diff
ferent set of chronological So
lutions.
All the beifigerents have
spawned more hybrid weapons
than in any former war: tanks
that swim and boats that ride
on dry land and fly in the air.
We have dragged with-ts
wherever we went new types of
portable bridges, floating har-
bors. drydocks, pipelines for
connecting US with the sources
of water and fuel. Why has all
this been necessary?
THE answer is 10 be found In
i the fact that all nations
have fought this' war along the
old strategic lines--that, IS,
have carried destruction 10 the
enemy on the surface OF the
earth-at a time when air
power made this increasingly
hazardous and at times impos-
sible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

be made compulsory in all
school teaching.
Sit will destroy it. Very
nearly this is going on in Europe
west of Russia and the Balkans
and in the United States and
Australia and will soon do so in
Canada-indeed in the dominat
ing white countries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

HOW TO BE AN EMOTIONAL
6R0WN-IP
- Includes city questions ultk -nh-ch
TO test yourself. Orsred for Zoe 20
cover costs Include stamped C3cJ,
self addressed Tstup envelope.
Address DIR Z A. wgEam- care
this Newspaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

term. God willing, and will seek
an emergency to justify a fifth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

I1DLACK- MAIL,.1by Henry
ID Hoke, is in the book
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Will Collect
Scrop Poper During
Cleanup Week

The second collection OF scrap
paper to aid the war effort will be
held in Libby during Cleanup
Week, next week-April 24-29.
Cleanup Week should give every
one good opportunity to get all
their scrap paper together. Paul
Church has turned the job over
to Rev. H. Hasskamp and the Cub
Scouts and the monies from the
sale of the paper will be used to ex-
pand the Cub Scout program. At
least Is tons are needed to fill a
car coming from Eureka. Scrap pa
per is essential in these times. 1t
has over 200 uses in wartime prod
ucts.
Scrap paper should be tied in
bundles or put into card board box
es and placed in the front of your
home. Cardboard boxes should not
be broken down for they can be
used as containers for loose paper.
The collection will be during the
last four days of next week, We'd
nesday through Saturday. The d.
vision Of the city will be the same
as for the last drive, Lincoln Blvd
and Louisiana Ave, being the d.
vision lines. Paper from S. E. Libby
will be collected Wednesday; S. w
Libby, Thursday; N. E. Libby, Fri
day; and N. w. Libby, including the
shopping district, Saturday.
Don't forget this important drive
for paper. DO your part to help ths
war effort and your local Scouts
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Junior Civic
Club Formed
AT Troy

TROY, April ia junior move
ment, under discussion for several
weeks, was completed here Sunday,
when the youth OF this community
organized a Junior Civic League.
The league is patterned after city
government, and the boys compos-
ing the membership, now about 20,
with more expressing their inten-
ton of joining, will study civic
government; assist the city officials
in enforcing regulations; counsel the
younger element OF the community;
and throw their influence into var
ious city movements for the good of
the town.
Officers OF the league, as elected
Sunday, for the first three month
term are:
Mayor-Jim McCracken
Councilman Ralph Anderson,
Pat Savage, Jim Whalen and Ed
Johnson
Clerk and secretary-Walt Mason
Chief OF police-Jim Savage
Fire chief-Garland Anderson
Police magistrate - Paul Nc
Cracker
The boys expect to attend meet
ings OF the city council and learn
how q government IS operated, and
have asked members OF the council
to attend their meetings. They will
meet every Wednesday, and are fix
ing up their headquarters in a room
behind the county library, in the old
crhnn1hn1tco ht,i1<31vm
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Eureka Man
WorksH Harden
Battle Line

/, XII FIGHTER COMMAND. -
Formerly an employee OF the Mon
tana State Forest Service, S/SRt.
Cecil H. Elliott, Eureka, has been
appointed night chief in the radio
room Of busy fighter group oper-
ating from an advanced island air
drome, it was announced here re-
Gently.
Sgt. Elliott enlisted in the Army
Air Corps at Missoula on December
%, 1941. Ordered to Fort Douglas,
Utah, where he was slated to re-
ceive his basic training, he soon
displayed such a remarkable apti-
tlade for radio work that NJ W. -
Iected by his commanding officer to
attend the Army operated Radio
School at Scott Field, III. Upon
graduation from this institution, Ce-
ell was assigned to fighter group
then engaged in an extensive COM
bat training program in the bayou
country of Louisiana prior to EN-
barking for overseas duty.
1t was only 10 days after the
initial invasion forces struck North
Africa that Sgt. Elliott's unit ar
rived there. As the campaign pro-
crossed his job became more and
more important with the ever
stretching lines Of communications
Often it was his task to work deep
into the night in order to clear out
important messages waiting to reach
the front lines.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. j.
Elliott, Eureka, Cecil also has two
brothers in the service. First Ser
geant Willis B. Elliott is serving as
"top-kick' Of an infantry COM
pany somewhere in the Pacific,
while Donald is staff sergeant as
signed to an Air Corps unit some
where on Italian soil.
Porter is brother to Mrs, Frank
Hendrirkson OF Libby.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Sends Orchids
From Burma
Battlefield
Libby Man Picks
Beautiful Flowers Whe4a
Men Had Been Fighting
INTERESTING NOTES
OF FAR-DISTANT WAR

Pvt. Henry Skranak, who Is In
Burma, sent two orchids which he
had pressed to Mr.. and Mrs. J. =.
Bowen along with most interest
ing letter, part Of which follows:
Burma, March 20, 1914
Dear Friends:
- They have game (pokerl
in this tent every night. All Of
them are broke 50 they use match
es and cigarettes in place Of money.
! guess that's about all there 4
to do as there's no place to 90. An
OF the cities are miles away, ana
no convenient way to travel +
suppose that even il they were close
we wouldn't have time to 20 on q
pass.
Yesterday l was on KIP and TO-
day | was off !. The rest Of the
day spent looking over a pIaca
where there was battle, but that
was before we came here. Not -
long ago either.
just about everything was cleared
off except few items Of no value,
Foxholes and trenches were thick
They give good protection from
small guns, but strafiAg from the
air and mortar fire isn't 50 good.
The trees in that vicinity were
thick with bullet holes from top to-
bottom. can't see how anybody
got out OF there alive.
Some trenches were filled in. I
guess that was where the dead were
buried. Once in a while parts Of
soldiers could be seen laying around.
mere were all kinds Of places
where men had hid.
They are bringing back eome
OF the Burmese that they took out
They havA. .. camp not fur from
ours. There are all kinds OF them.
young and old. noticed they were
.QEetty pu4y 4xip9. tho plaza w 10
suit tl1euaelpkA Most Of them
looked tired and disguised to M.
Here are 4 couple Of orchids t1hnk
/ found where they were fixhtin.
/ don't know how they'll look when.
you get them, but Just the same they
are off the battlefield.
It's funny how they grow. They
grow on a vine that resembles the
Virginia creeper. There are no
leaves on the vine, just flowers.
spaced from one to two inches apart.
They are two and three feet long.
They can be seen in trees and on
the ground but not too close to-
gether.
III close now, hoping you are
both we'll.
HENRY.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Very sincerely,
GEORGE c. KENNEY,
Lieutenant General,
BADLY BEATEN UP DURING

Pat Carrigan is held in Jail and
William Walker is a patient in the
Libby hospital as the result Of a
fight the two men had at the Car
rigan ranch Wednesday morning.
According to Walkers story, a dis
pute arose as to the proper method
for the feeding of a calf and Carri-
gan started to beat up Walker, US
ing a hammer. The hammer handle
broke and Carrigan then claims he
picked up a hook that was in the
barn and used that as weapon.
Carrigan seems to have other ideas
as to the cause Of the alteration.
Walker was badly beaten around
the head and face but was able to
walk down the road about six miles
until he was picked up by passing
car and brought to town. Carrlgan
later came into town and was taken
into custody by the sheriff.
Carrigan was taken before JUS
tice of the Peace Wallace this morn
ing charged with first degree as
sault. He was bound over to district
court under $500 bond.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
1900 rout To Go
Into ChiIdren's
Fish Pond

The meeting of the Libby Rod
and Gun Club held April IA was the
last meeting Of the year and at that
time officers were elected for 1914.
They were Alfons j. Agather, pres
ident; Dick Powell, vice president;
Arthur ]. Neils, secretary and treas
urer; Clyde Conn and L. ]. Brown
directors.
The sale Of membership tickets
will start next week. Frank Warner
is chairman OF the membership
committee and his committee and
helpers will try to contact all sports
men for membership. In case there
is anyone who is not contacted and
would like to buy membership
card, tickets will be on sale at the
Libby Pharmacy. Membership dues
will be $100, the same as previous
years. Each person purchasing a
membership card will receive a
copy of Coolies Fisherman's Cal
endar for 1914.
George Ripley of the local hatch
cry states that he has 1900 nice size
trout which he intends to plant in
the children's fishing hole south
Of town for the opening day. The
club will again sponsor prizes for
the children.
1t is planned that at one of the
meetings in the near future color
slides OF local scenery and game
will be shown.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
Permitted Now
To Publish Names
Of Soldiers

There has been some confusion
IN the public mind regarding reg
ulatlons governing the publishing Of
names OF men selected for induc-
ton into the armed forces. There
have been changes in those regula-
tons from time to time. Recently
the ruling has been that list OF
soldiers should not be. published
until the men have been accepted
for induction. Lists Of those going
for preinduction physical examine
ton were not supposed to be pub
llshed. Lists Of those rejected for
physical or other reasons also
could not be published.
A new ruling has just come out
from Selective Service headuuar-
tiers that changes all this. 1t now an
pears that publishing Of lists Of
soldiers will be permitted at or be-
fore the time they leave for their
preinduction physical examination.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-20
School Bond Will
Give Concert
uesdoy, April Is

The Libby High School Band will
present it's spring band concert
Tuesday, April rs, at 800 p. m. in
the Junior High auditorium. Spe-
cial numbers on the program will
include clarinet quartet and a
coronet quartet. The members of
the clarinet quartet are Earl Win
frey, Dolores Oertel, Carol Borg,
and Jim Woodwork. The cornet
quartet is composed Of four boys,
Bob Benedict, Kenneth Jaqueth,
James Hendrickson and Cameron
Burns. The program will include
marches, several short overtures
and other various numbers. There
will also be quartet numbers. Mem
bers Of the band have been very
faithful In rehearsals, and much has
been accomplished through their eff
forts.
Officers of the band are as fol-
lows:
President-Dave Klehm.
Vice President-Jim Woodwork.
Secretary-Lillian Butt.
Student Director-Earle Winfrey.
Certain problems confronting the
band, itself, like attendance, points
for special work, ETC., are taken up
by a group of four band members,
Germaine Schlumm, Dolores Ger
tel, John Richards, liza Moe White
field, who might be called the
board of control. Their word is
final in all cases.
The public is invited to attend
A free-will offering will be taken
to help pay for the several new
uniforms we now have.