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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
Yak Man Tells
OF Africa

10 Earl Stratton writes from
Italy to his friend Edison Fix Of
the Yak district, and Mr.. Fix has
been kind enough to pass his letter
on for all of us to enjoy. Stratton
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alva
Stratton of the Yak, and has been
across for at least three years.
Dear Friend Edison:
Your letter of Feb. came yester-
day March 81 and was surely glad
to hear from you again. Well / am
getting along alright over here. Am
now in Italy, can't say just where.
Was glad in way to leave Africa,
Sure put in lot of time there and
was surely tired of being around
ditry stinkin' Arabs. Think will
like it little better here. Country
is a little more like ours. There is
at least green grass and trees here,
and 1t is quite mountainous coun-
try. From what / have seen of it so
far, it has taken quite a beating
due to the war Guess these Wops
wish they had stayed out Of it. Do
not feel very sorry for them. Peo-
pie seem to be pretty hard up. New
er saw SO much begging. Is lot
worse than Africa.
Have seen few interesting places
since came here. Have been to
Naples and went to see the old CITY
Of Pompeii that was covered by as
| feet of ashes from volcano in the
year 70 A. D. The Wops have due
most of It away. 1t is really worth
seeing. You have probably read
about it; did lot in school his
tory, but did not ever dream that |
would get to see it some day. Have
also seen the Isle of Capri, about
which some guy wrote song. It
looked like just one big rock pile
to me. This country always attract
ed a lot Of tourist trade. Guess il
is about the only way they can
make living. Looks like the peo-
pie here were hard up even before
the war. They are sure out to gyu
the soldiers if they can by selling
lot Of cheap souvenirs to us for
about 10 times what they are worth
But the G. is get wise to them
quick.
So you saw the picture of me
and the Arab kids. Well don't
know whose they are, but they
sure as heck aren't mine. Another
fellow and | were out ono day TAX
ing some pictures and we ran into
them herding goats. So we each
took a picture with them. AnyWa,
they were nice kids. Those Arab.
back there are just like the Wops
they all have at least 10 children
in family.
We had a quiet trip up here from
Africa. Just like a peacetime cruise
OF course no one got sick from
overeating. really do not care
about these boat rides. Am toe
much Of landlubber | guess. Their,
is only one more trip that ! wan
to make and that is back to The
good old u. S. A. Sometimes | won
der tho. Looks like / will be 30
year man over in these lousy for,
eign countries. Sure am tired O
seeing ragged and starving people
Folks back there in the States can
not realize how it is over here. /
they could see it don't think the,
would want to complain about an,
I rationing
Well anyway, here / am in italy
Think | will like it better thar
Africa tho. 1t is change at least
We have a new APO number, ane
am also back with the main out
tit Will close for now, SO long ant
! lots of luck. Hope to hear from yo,
again.
Your friend,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
INSTALLS 135 BOXES

Postmaster Forest DeRosia says
that 1875 new postoffice boxes were
in the local postoffice over
the weekend. There has been a
of boxes for some time.
causing an inconvenience to the
public as we'll as an extra burden on
the postoffice employees 1t is hoped
this number of boxes will be suf-
ficient for some time to come.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
RECEIVES WORD
NEPHEW is KILLED

Relatives of 1t. Gerald E. Morris
received word this week that the
flier, pilot of a B-24, was killed,
along with all the members of his
crew, when his plane crashed over
Samar island in the south Pacific.
His wife, Mrs. Helen d. Morris of
Tucson, Ariz., communicated the
news to his relatives.
The former Sheridan, Wyo, youth
was killed while on a mission on
Jan. rs, according to word received
here.
He was a nephew of A. L. Nor
ris, Libby.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
LINCOLN co. TROUT
TO ARLEE

Clarence Ripley, foreman of the
state fish hatchery at Arlee, is NOV
ing 100000 Eastern Brook fry from
the state fish hatchery at Libby, to
the Arlee hatchery.
The fish were Matched at the Lib
by hatchery
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
SGT. THOS. HUCHALA
WOUNDED IN ACTION

Word has been received by Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Huchala that their
son Sgt. Thomas Huchala was
wounded in action in Germany and
is now hospitalized in England. No
official details are available at this
time.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

Mrs. Ivan w. Dyer and children,
Lucia and Jack, left Saturday for
Portland, Ore, where they will join
Mr.. Dyer and plan to make their
future home.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

The News have been informed
that another Waste Paper collection
will be made in few weeks. Watch
for announcements.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Cloutier left
Monday for Seattle, where they are
visiting relatives.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

A more detailed report will ap-
pear in next weeks issue of the
Western News.
Mildred Buck, Chairman.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Horse Show Rioters
Draw Fines in Virginia
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ppcC1al DlSpaCCn 70 - uc 0tdi.
MANASSAS, Va, Sept. 20.-Three
of five colored men arrested on
Labor Day after riot at a horse
show staged for colored people here
were fined yesterday by Trial JUS
tice C. Lacey Compton in Prince
William County Court.
The trouble started when police
tried to confiscate a carload of
bootleg whisky being sold at the
show. A 15-year-old colored boy
was killed, Deputy Sheriff Turner
D. Wheeling was beaten and stabbed
in the back and Sheriff j. P. Kerlin
was beaten.
Willie Shellington, 40, Gainesville
Va, was fined $l25 yesterday and
given a six months suspended SEN
tence on charges of assault and
battery against Deputy Sheriff
Wheeling; Irwin Gaskins, Manassas,
was fined $50 on a charge of assault
on Sheriff Kerlin and $50 on a
charge of inciting a riot, and
Roosevelt Pruitt, 20, of the 1700 block
of New Jersey avenue NV, Wash
ington, was fined $50 and given a
six months suspended sentence
after being found guilty OF taking
part in the riot.
Cases against the other men were
continued until October 10.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
House Group Exempts
Only ; Agencies in
Reorganization Bill

President. Truman's chances Tor
gaining broad powers to reorganlze
the Government appeared much,
brighter today, following favorable
action on his request yesterday by
the House Committee on Expendl-I
lures in the executive department.
While they are expected to retain
the provisions of Chairman ManaS-
co.'s reorganization bill, which spe-
cifically exempted 81 Federal agen-
cies from any presidential revamp-
ing plan, the committee approved a
measure exempting only three units
of the Government from possible re-
organization.
The committee decided that the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
the Federal Trade Commission and
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission should be completely ex-
empted. This was done, members
said, because they are quasi judicial
and should be free from executive
domination. Another limitation
provides that the civil functions OF
the Engineer Corps of the War De-
partment may not be moved to any
other agency. These are such ac-
tivities as power projects and river
and harbor control, in which the
Army engineers participate with
various local government. The pow
ers would end July l, 1948.
Committee members said this date
was fixed for two reasons-first. it
is the end of a fiscal year; second,
it means any reorganization plan
cannot be placed before Congress
during presidential campaign
months and thus become a political
issue.
Mr.. Truman had asked for sweep
ing authority without any exemp-
tions. The committee first decided
on the half-a-loaf principle, but
changed its mind after Controller
General Lindsay Warren urged that
exemptions either be left out or
cut down to a minimum for real
economy"
Judiciary Committee has about
completed it's hearing on a similar
reorganization bill. Indications are
that the ICC, the SEC and several
other agencies will be exempted, as
in the bill approved by the House
committee.
Under terms of the bill, four other
agencies, the Civil Service Commis- |
sion. the Federal Communications
Commission, the Federal Power
Commission and the Veterans Ad-
ministration, cannot be reorganized
except under a separate plan for
each one
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Emissury
Continued From First Page.s

estimates this force was considered
here to be questionably small.
A hack of haison between top pol
icy controls in Washington and the
generals operations in Japan is
blamed by some top officials who
are therefore considering dispatch
ing a high-ranking emissary to
Japan to discuss the situation. There
is no evidence here that Gen. Mac
Arthur contemplates trip to Wash
ington, although that remains a
possibility.
A new policy directive on the
terms of the Potsdam declaration
for the industrial disarmament of
Japan is reported to have gone to
Gen. Macarthur recently. Other
difficulties relating to the develop
ment of future democracy in Japan
will go out from time to time.
Main points of the latest directive
are:
/. Elimination of heavy industries
in Japan except those essential to
the peacetime economy of the coun-
try. This is supposed to be a bare
minimum.
Removal of Ultra Nationalist.
2. Promotion of trade unions.
3. Removal of all ultra National
lists from positions of power and in
fuence in either private or public
life.
4. Rigid controls of the Bank of
Japan.
S. Enactment of legislation to per-
nit freedom of speech and of meet
ings as one of the best means OF
laying a foundation for future jap
anese democracy.
Among these measures perhaps
the most revolutionary is the de-
cision to remove all ultra National.
lists from positions of power ano
influence. This eventually should
mean a housekeeping not only fol
government but also industry
breaking or sharply curtailing the
economic power of Japan's famous
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Job 0peningsD Decline,
Applicants Increase

The number of job openings in
the Washington area has begun a
decline for the first time since the
Jap surrender. while the number of
job applicants is increasing, the
area War Manpower Commission
reported today.
Work opportunities, however, still
exceed the number of workers seek
ing jobs, VINO emphasized. EN-
ployers have on file 14,379 job orders
with the United States Employment
Service.
Reporting on job orders during
the second week in September,
WING said Government orders
showed the greatest increase in in
terstate railroads. Public utilities
are second.
While overall job orders showed
a decline of 491 during the second
week of the month, the number of
job applicants increased from 1854
during the first week in September
to 1864 during the second week.
Area VINO Director Ernest "
Connolly attributed the decline in
job orders to the fact that the Jap
surrender brought wave of orders
from less essential employers, some
of whom now have had their orders
filed.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Additional Public Housing
Advocated by EIIender

Senator Ellender, Democrat, of
Louisiana, and Herbert U. Nelson,
executive vice president of the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate
Boards, yesterday debated the mer-
its of additional public housing be-
fore patients at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Senator Ellender declared the
Federal Government must provide
low housing if private enter
prise cannot
Opposing further public housing,
Mr.. Nelson urged Congress to at
tack the evils of low income di-
rectly, rather than to provide hous-
ing for 'only small segment of
the American people"
He listed excessive local taxes
restrictive labor union practices
outdated building codes and high
wages imposed by the seasonal ma
ture of construction work as OBJ
stacles to low-cost construction.
The Louisiana Senator declared
that private enterprise was often
unable to provide low-cost housing
In the District five years before the
war, he added, 50 per cent of the
houses were built to rent for more
than $50 month, while only per
cent were built to rent for under
$40 monthly.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Super Forts
Continued From First Page.)


off again and appeared over the
National Airport at 9:45 pm, flying
in formation.
AS they TAXED up to the ATC
strip, a mass of f1oodlights lit the
runways and the Air Forces Band
burst into the Air Forces March.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander
of the Air Forces; Gen. Carl w.
Spaatz, 1t Gen. James M. Doolittle
and numerous other officers well
coined the weary crews. The wives
of many of the officers were there,
too
Gen. Arnold told a press confer
ence at the airport later that the
purpose of the flight was to see what
might be expected of existing long
range aircraft. He said the B-29
had gone into production directly
from the drawing boards without
service tests because of the acute
need for long-range bombers at that
time This flight, he added, could
be considered as a service test.
But, he added, the time is not too
far off when the B-29 will be called
medium bomber"
Japs Had Large Bombers.
The japanese had four large four
engine planes which were being pre-
pared for one-way suicide attacks
on the United States, Gen. Giles
said. No Americans have yet seen
these land-based bombers, he de-
clared, but they were to have used
the Mizutani airport from which
the three B-29s took off.
Wen do it again. said Gen
Giles, in discussing future trips non
stop from Japan along the Great
Circle route through the kuriles
Alaska and Canada which the Bag;
followed. Its the shortest route
and with normal weather each plane
would have had $500 gallons oi
gasoline left of our load of l0,00(
gallons ,.
He declared that 1t. Gen Kawaba
chief of the Japanese Army All
Force, had told him that aircraft
production fell off so per cent II
Japan after the first B-29 raids ane
that it was cut so per cent NOR.
when the smaller towns we're at
| tackled. These towns contained
thousands of small manufacturin,
centers.
| Gen. Spaatz said the number O
air headquarters in the Pacific woult
be cut down, but strategic ali
force is necessary there. Gen. Gile.
said his personal guess was that th'
air forces would be stationed a
Hawaii. the Philippines, the Mari
annaS and OkinaWa.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
japanese Premier Wants
Missionaries 10 Remain
Ry the Associated Press.


TOKYO, Sept 20.-The Tokyo
newspaper Asahi today said Premier
Prince Higashi-Kunl in an inter-
view invited foreign missionaries to
remain in Japan and help construct
a new nation with high morals and
culture.
Il will see to it that the japanese
people thoroughly understand the
reality of defeat, and not repeat
their mistake again" the newspaper
quoted him as saying.
II would like to have the Japanese
take their first step toward con-
structing a new Japan with high
morals and culture. 1 would like
those concerned with the work of
Christianity to cooperate with us
in this respect
Asahi also reported today that
present textbooks would be used in
Japanese schools-with deletions OF
all contents detrimental to in
ternational peace-until the Edu-
cation Ministry can make complete
| lreViSiOnS.
Evening star., 1945-09-20

$500, 900 900 in reparations from
Italy. The deputies have been in
structed to make full study of the
American plan for United Nations
administration of the colonies for
10 to IS years. Under the plan the
colonies thereafter would be inde-
pendent, except for Italian Somali-
land.
There was some hope that a solu-
ton on certain points in the Italian
treaty would be aided by the Bala
kan discussions.
Greece has territorial and repara-
tions claims on Bulgaria, and others
may be presented, but these will be
minor matters compared with the
paramount issue of representative
governments.
The Greek government is an i'm
portant factor in the negotiations.
Moscow openly desires the custer of
the present Greek government, and
diplomats expect Foreign Commits
sar Molotov to bring up the question
when the British and Americans
express dissatisfaction with the Bal
kan regimes.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Ex-SoIicitor Of B. & 0.
Raps Court Action 10
Adjust Indebtedness
yy the Assoc lated Press.

gy the Assoc lated Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 20.-Cassius
M. Clay. former general solicitor
for the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad,
declared today under cross-exam-
ination in Federal Court that he did
not think the carrier was in need
of debt-adjustment proceedings.
Mr.. Clay, on the witness stand
for the second day at hearing
before a three e-judge Federal Court
on the B. g. O.'s 10000 900 re-
capitalization plan, testified he be-
lieved the court should find the
petition asking approval of the plan
was not filed in good faith.
However, Mr.. Clay emphasized he
was not extending his opposition to
the plan itself. saying, Il am not
saying the plan was immoral or il
legal, I say this proceeding is
Deplores "Prostituting" Court.
He said he would not have op-
posed the proceedings had they been
entered into voluntarily. The wit
ness added that he deplored "prosti-
tuting" the court by invoking its
powers to compel people to submit
to the recapitalization who had not
assented to it.
Railroad officials have said that
80 per cent of its bondholders had
approved the proposal.
II am not questioning the good
faith of any of the officers of the
Baltimore & Ohio who came to
the company after 1888" when a
similar debt adjustment plan was
consummated, Mr.. Clay said. Il
am merely questioning the sound
ness of this proceeding from legal
and moral standpoint"
Most of the directors of the rail-
road gathered in the courtroom to
hear Mr.. Clay.
Jones to Testify.
One of the three judges sitting in
the special court remarked he had
understood Mr.. Clay's testimony of
yesterday to cast a distinct reflec-
ton on some officers of the railroad
and the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. which Mr.. Clay said refused
to renew an $50, ,O0O, 900 loan contrary
to "gentleman's agreement. Jesse
Jones, head of the RFC in 1914, is
expected to testify later in the day
Mr.. Clay replied Il am not here
making any charges, l am here tc
state facts
The ruling on the question of good
faith. he said, was a legal decision
to be made by the court.
Yesterday the court directed
counsel to produce ANY one and
every one who knows anything
about" the question of good faith
raised by Mr.. Clay.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Occupation
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six months hence 1t did not say
that this would be the maximum
landed in the meantime, they en-
phaSlzed.
Troops will continue to pour into
Japan through September, Octo-
ber, November and December until
about 100000 have arrived by the
end of the year, they reported.
The 100000 maximum, they said,
does not include Marine units in
Navy occupation zones, nor feet per-
Sonnel.
Gen. MacArthurs staff officers
pointed out that thus far the occu-
patton has been without incident
and that elimination of what Gen.
Macarthur called "the unknown
quantity of the initial operation"
permitted new planning for the
future.
Crisis in Three or Four Months.
The generals chief of economic
and scientific planning said today
that Japan's food and shelter crisis
would reach it's peak in three or
four months. The staff officers en-
phasized that Gen. MacArthur's pre-
dicted reduction to 100000 occupa-
ton troops would follow this period.
The Staff officers discussed point
by point the comments of Acting
Cacrotor,y pf Ctofo noor Achocov IN
Washington yesterday. They noted
that Mr.. Acheson specified that oc-
cupation policy making is Govern
ment function and requires that
Japan be stripped of her present
economic and social system which
makes for a will to war. And they
pointed to paragraph in Gen. Mac
Arthurs reduction announcement
which said:
THE questions involved in this
matter are entirely independent of
the future of Japan's politico-
governmental structure This
problem is one the ultimate solu-
ton of which necessarily awaits
completion of military phases of the
surrender. 1t is one which unques-
tionably will be. determined upon
the highest diplomatic levels of the
United States ~
Minimum of Friction.
In his statement on the ease with
which the occupation of Japan is
being carried out, Gen. Eichelberg-
er said that if the japanese govern
ment had been dissolved, many
moDe Allied troops and much more
time would have been required.
We've had minimum of friction
with the Japanese authorities and
with the japanese people" he added
IF when I left Okinawa I could
have been permitted to ask for just
what conditions would have pleased
me most, I couldn't have asked fol-
anything better than the working
arrangements we now have, and the
results thus far obtained"
We've naturally been hardened
by years of combat he said, but
we are not SO rough that we want
to mistreat civilians who obey ou1
every demand with a bow.
1--WE are on the alert, however, to
see that surrender terms are car
ried out to the letter. Does any one
think that fighting along the New
Guinea axis and on the islands OF
the Philippine archipelago has de-
veloped a bunch of siSsies?"
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Woman on Macarthur List
Arrested by 9th Army
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 20..-Lily
Abegg, know also as Sybille Abe, the
only woman on Gen. MacArthur's
original list of suspected war crimi-
mails, was taken into custody today
by the 9th Army.
| A naturalized German, she was
reported to have been linked with
Tokyo radio propaganda broadcasts
during the war and earlier is be-
lieyed to have represented the Ger
man Transocean agency in Tokyo.
She was known widely before the
war among foreign colonies in
Tokyo and Kobe.
Her husband accompanied the ex-
change ship Teia Maru's passengers
between Japan and India in late
1943 as official representative of the
Swiss Legation. He is Swiss and
before the war was Tokyo inn
porter and exporter.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
RESORTS.
ORKNEY SPRINGS VA.

One of Virginia's largest, most
popular mountain resorts; 1900
feet above sea level in beauti-
full Shenandoah Valley. Adjoins
George Washington National
Forest. Golf; tennis, hiking, bath
ing, dinner music, dancing. Sea-
son ends September 24th. For
reservations write Hugh Jay
Flynn, Orkney Springs, Va.
Phone 30, Mt. Jackson.
Evening star., 1945-09-20

250,000 people, but now is about
three-fourths bombed out.
AID Division to Return.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
announced that the 43d New Eng
land) Division, veterans of the Solo,
mons and the Philippines, soon
would be sent to the United States
for rehabilitation. 1t will be re-
placed by the 9th Division in the
occupation forces.
The 43d is the fourth division
listed by Gen. Macarthur for re-
turn to the United States. The
others, announced Monday, were the
31st, 37th and 38th.
The Tokyo newspaper Mainichi
reported three more Japanese on
Gen MacArthur's suspect list had
been arrested. They were Col. Akira
Nagahama, former commander OF
gendarmerie in the Philippines;
Shigeru Osanai, former civilian off,
cial at Japanese prisoner Of war
camp, and Sergt. Seichi s(Gunzo)
Miura, guard at the same camp. All
three were accused of brutalities.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
lit. John Roosevelt
Put on Inactive DUTY
Ry the Associated Dress.

" tlIt ASsUCldlGu -ItSS.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Sept. 90
With 491a points to his credit, 1t.
John A. Roosevelt, U. S. N r., young
est son of the late President, has
been ordered to inactive duty.
He is taking terminal leave before
returning to civilian life.
1t. Roosevelt was attached to q
task force in the Pacific early, in
the war and more recently to the
naval air station here. -
He said he had no plans after his
leave, which ends the middle of
November.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
82d Airborne Division
Due to Return Soon

BY the Associat tee Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 20.-The Bad Air
borne Division will start home soon.
1t is to be replaced October Is for
Berlin occupation by the 18th In
fantry Division.
The 82d, which took part in three
land and four airborne operations
in North Africa and Europe, relieved
the I'd Armored Division in Berlin
August