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Laurel outlook., 1945-05-09
One hurdle Surmounted> Thoughts
| lere Turn On We Day 10 Pacific
People Or Laurel Quietly Receive
News Or End or War In Europe

far as Laurel was concerned. Flags
flew in the business district and at
many homes in the residential dis
tricts. Work on the railroad, at the
refinery and on the surrounding
farms did not halt. Business houses
closed for half a day, and the
schools also suspended. The bust
ness concerns had intended to re-
main open throughout the day, for
announcements earlier in the week
had indicated We day would be
Tuesday. However, Governor Ford
declared the day a holiday in Mon
tana, so the concerns closed at noon.
Official We day was anti-clima-
tic. Everyone knew the status of
the wal in Europe and that, except
for isolated pockets Of resistance,
was over and and awaited only the
official pronouncement. The an
announcement was made in the
United States at z o'clock MWT,
which was 9 o'clock EWT, by Pres
ident Truman who broadcast a pro-
clamation. A similar announcement
was made in England by Prime Min
lister Churchill. Marshal Stain did
not proclaim the end of the war
until later to the Russians, for in
sectors the Germans still were
resisting the Red armies and refus-
ing to surrender Internationally.
The most dramatic part of We
day was at 4 p. m. MWT, IL o'clock
midnight in Europe. Two minutes
Of silence preceded the stroke of the
hour, the signal for cease Firingl"
There must have been a strange
in the land of rubble, shell
and desolation. The gun
silent and the shooting war in
was over. In the cities of
The liberated countries there were
celebrations, especially in Paris.
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FOR 9TH LOAN
IS $4,000
Is 60 Per Cent Increase
Over Goal For Sixth
Loan Last Fall

Laurel's quota for the seventh
war loan, which is to officially open
on May ID, is SITE, 000-about 60
per cent more than the sixth loan
quota. However, in the sixth the
actual sales to Laurel people and
concerns totaled $~166,380.50, about
$4,000 less than the quota for the
approaching seventh.
Four major divisions constitute
the $175,000 goal for Laurel. They
are $62,500 assigned to railroad
workers, $12,500 for refinery en-
ployees to subscribe, $4,000 from
the trucking industry, and $4,000
from the business district.
Laurel is expected to take at least
$4,000 in E bonds, known as the
"infantry." The E bond quota for
the county is $3,O99,22O, of which
individuals are to take 9 ,220
and corporations $1,O0O,000.
The official dates for the seventh
loan are May ID to June 80, but
bonds purchased from April 8 to
July z will be counted. The Laurel
war finance committee hopes to see
the job completed by Memorial day
instead of dragging the work
through another month.
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SET RURAL AREAS
QUOTA At s32,840
KukeS Is Chairman OF Commit
tee To Conduct Canvass
Beginning May IA

Laurel Rural areas share of the
mighty Seventh" war loan is $42,-
$40. This is II per cent more than
the quota for the sixth war loan.
At a committee meeting Wednes-
day, j. w. Kukes was selected to
act as chairman and Paul E. Roman
as vice chairman of the Laurel Rur-
al drive committee. Other members
of the committee are Emmett Vau-
GIN, Leo Kamp, John Waddell, Jr.,
Frank Baird, John o. Void, Harold
w. Richardson, Bryant E. Nutting,
Lloyd Golden, Albert H. Brickman,
R. w. Bates, Mark Teeters, F. N.
Barney, M. V. Hagan, A. ". Rich
ardson, and V. E. Shay.
The drive starts Monday, May ID,
and every effort will be made to
contact all residents of the area and
make the quota of cash purchases
by Memorial day, May 30. An
average investment of $275 by each
family is necessary to meet the
quota.
Laurel Rural area has made its
quota in previous drives and a do
so again this time with the full CO.
operation of all the families in the
district" B. Meyer Harris, sponsor,
commented.
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AS the stiff-necked German Of
fcers formally admitted defeat, mel
Their they nor the beaten country's
new ministers entertained any llu-
sions as to the character of the Al
lied terms, with Foreign Minister
Count Ludwig Schwenn Won Kro-
sigk telling the people:
&c. Nobody must deceive him
self on the harshness of the terms.
-. Nobody must have any doubt
that heavy sacrifices will be demand
ed from us in all spheres of life. ...'
Thus did the European war come
to its end six years after the mighty
German army, striking at the I'M
prepared western powers, rolled
through Poland; levelled the low
lands and France, and then turned
back to the east again to challenge
giant Russia.
As the Germans capitulated,
behind them lay the remnants OF
a once all-pOwerful army, which,
like Napoleon's, undereStimated
the vast steppes of Russia, and
then found the U. S. and Britain
gathering force behind its back;
behind them lay Germany's
bIackened cities and shattered
railway lines, pulverized by Al
lied aerial attacks; and behind
them in the ruins of Berlin re-
pOrtedly lay Adolf Hitler's dead
body.
Because of the anti-climactic ma
ture of the formal surrender, and
also because of the premature an
1ouncement of the capitulation days
before, some of the edge had been
removed from the great event, with
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District Officers Pay
Visit To Rebekahs

Initiation of candidates featured
the meeting of Evergreen Rebekahs
Monday evening at the L. L. club.
Mrs. Effie Gerard, noble grand, pre-
sided at the ceremonies which were
held by candlelight. Official WISH
tors of the lodge were Mrs. Lucille
Flatmo of Columbus, district presi-
dent, and Mrs. Ann Shultz of Bill
vice president of the district.
Mrs. Flatmo was presented with a
gift from Evergreen lodge by Mrs.
Gerard.
Hostesses at the meeting were
Mrs. Maude Gerke, chairman of the
committee, Mrs. Dorothy Gomon and
Mrs. Gerard. The next meeting.
Monday, May 81, will feature a
Mothers Day program in charge Of
Mrs. Leta Hiner.
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NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK
EVENT MAY Il At H. S.

The Laurel high school girls glee
club, boys glee club and a mixed
chorus will present their annual
spring concert, "Say 1t With Music"
under the direction of Miss Florence
Shirk, on Friday evening, May II,
at the high school auditorium.
Wayne Scheidecker and Winifred
Wilson will be accompanies.
The concert is in observance of
national music week, and no adj
mission will be charged.
On Saturday, May IL, the Choir
uses will participate in the Midland
music festival and will
broadcast from radio station KGHL.
More than so boys and girls will
be singing in the Laurel event, and
the music is some of the finest the
high school has prepared, Miss
Shirk said when announcing the
concert. She added that Everyone
should come and enjoy an evening
of beautiful music"
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OMOLAY OFFICERS
INSTALLED TUESDAY.
Open Meeting Is Well Attended
-BOllum, Hammer Offici-
ate-MOthers Organize

At a we'll attended open meeting,
the first officers of Laurel chapter
of DeMolay were installed at the
Masonic temple Tuesday evening.
The impressive ceremonies were con-
Quoted by William o. Bollum as in
stalling officer and George Hammer
as installing marshal. Bollum is a
member of the advisory board of
the Billings chapter and Hammer is
the advisor of that chapter.
The following officers were in
stalled: Norman Johnston, master
councillor; Donald Graft, senior
councillor; James Sherrow, junior
councillor; Phillip Noel, scribe; Jack
Mitchell, senior deacon; Joel Roth,
Continued on Page Eight
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With gratitude for the end of the
war in Europe and with thoughts
turning instinctively to the Pacific
where the end of the other half of
the worlds titanic struggle is not
yet in sight, Laurel quietly receiv-
ed the news Tuesday of We day.
There were no public or private
celebrations, no fireworks, no speech
making, no parades. Instead, many
went to Laurel's several
churches to join in the services of
thanksgiving for a great achieve
ment of Allied arms in one theatre
and to petition for speedy success
in the other. I
Industry went ahead as usual as
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MRS. B. G.BROCKWAY
DIS At PORTLAND
Former Resident Who Came To
Laurel Nearly 40 Years Ago
Succumbs TO Heart Attack

Laurel friends of Mrs. B. G..
Brockway, a former Laurel resident,
were informed Wednesday of her
death that day of a heart attack
at Portland, Ore, where she had
resided the past ~ years. She and
her husband, a real estate dealer
and early associate of C.. L. Morris
in the Laurel Trading company,
came to Laurel nearly 40 years ago.
Mrs. Brockway is survived by her
widOwer, four daughters, nine
grandchildren and a great grand
child.
Mrs. Eva Richardson, an old
friend, related Wednesday that Mrs.
Brockway when a child resided with
an uncle and aunt, Nh. and Mrs. w.
b. Taylor, now deceased, at Wiota,
Iowa. After her marriage to Mr..
B~rockway she and her husband came
to Laurel, later lived for a number
of years in Billings and ~ years
ago went to Portland, which since
has been their home.
Two daughters, Mrs. Harriet Hur-
ley and Mrs. Marie Cox, live in Bill
and will go to Portland to at
tend the funeral and burial, which
will be conducted there Friday or
Saturday. The other two daugh-
ters, Ethel and Fay, reside in the
of Portland.
Mrs. Brockway was II on her
last birthday, April 9.
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the result that the nation accepted
the news with restraint. AS Ger
many's fall was substantiated, peo-
pie looked to the east, where the
Japs still remain to be defeated and
the entire resources of the navy and
well over 5000, 900 troops may be
needed to assure victory.
With America scheduled to take
over the occupation of central and
western Germany and western Aus
tria in accordance with Allied plans
to maintain strict supervision over
the country until a thoroughly dem
ocratic administration a be estab-
lished, U. S. military authorities fig
ure on the detention of 400,0 900 Yanks
in Europe.
AS in the case in most wars, Ger
many's collapse came with a dra-
matte s~uddenness after a period of
fierce resistance.
The first big break that signalized
Germany's disintegration vas the
u. S. LIST army's surprise capture of
the Ludendorff bridge spanning the
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COM MANDER GREEN,
HERE THAT MEN IN
NOT FORGOTTEN

Commander Joshua Green, USNR,
said in a statement at Laurel on
Tuesday that although this was
We Day in Europe we should not
forget the men who are fighting
our battle in the Pacific, nor the
many thousands of wounded still
left to be cared for in the various
naval hospitals. 1t is the aim of
the navy to see that adequate pre-
parations are made and oare be
made available for our fighting
men,"
Commander Green is the direct
ing head of naval officer procure
ment for the four northwestern
states, with headquarters at Seattle.
He arrived Tuesday by plane, ac-
companied by one of his staff, Lieut..
Emory Bourdeau.
He came to Montana to consult
with the state naval procurement
officers for the dental and medical
professions, who are DR.. Daniel Nc
of Laurel for the dentists,
and DR.. Herbert Caraway of Bill
for the physicians. The files
of both offices were examined to
if additional men could be
obtained from the state without too
seriously effecting civilian welfare.
Green has received
messages from Washington
to aid in recruiting 1000 additional
dentists, 1000 physicians, and TO-
900 WAVES to handle the antici-
pated wounded now being brought
the Pacific theatre. 1t is diff
ficult to estimate accurately the ex-
act number, but preparations are
ahead so that every available
will be ready to give the
men the best of care.
Commander Green and Lieuten-
ant Bourdeau left by plane late
Tuesday for Helena for conferences
With Colonel Mitchell of the state
'elective draft headquarters.
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At Bridger
Takes Life OF Child

Mrs. Edward Braunstadter Of
Powell, Wyo., formerly Miss Inez
Brock of Park City, and her three
small daughters were seriously in
jured Saturday afternoon when the
car she was driving turned over
near Bridger. The four occupants
were thrown from the cal.
Mrs. Braunstadter sustained a
broken leg and other injuries, and
the youngest daughter, Karen, 2,
died during the night at a Billings
hospital to which the victims were
taken following the accident.
Mr.. Braunstadter is employed in
Columbus. His family were on their
way there to join him.
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A PROCLAMATION

Here is a partial text of Presi-
dent Truman's victory prOclama-
ton:
"The Allied armies, through
sacrifice and devotion and with
Gods help, have wrung from
Germany a final and uncOndi-
tiOnal surrender. The western
world has been freed of the evil
forces which for five years and
longer have imprisoned the
bodies and broken the lives of
millions upon millions of free
born men.
"Much remains to be done.
The victory % in the west must
now be won in the east. The
whole world must be cleansed of
the evil from which half the world
has been freed.
"FOr the triumph of spirit and
of arms which we have won and
for its promise to people every
where who join us in the love of
freedom, it is fitting that we IS
a nation give thanks to Almighty
God, who has strengthened us
and given us the victory.
Now, therefore, 1 Harry S.
Truman, President of the United
States of America, do hereby APP
point Sunday, May IL, 1915, to be
a day of prayer.
81 call upon my c%Ountrymen
to dedicate this day of prayer
to the memory of those who have
given their lives to make pos
sible our victory"
HARRY S. TRUMAN.
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10000 LOchs
In Yellowstone River

c. P. Lawless, secretary-treasurer
of the Laurel Rod and Gun club,
reported this week that 10000 size
2 Loeb Leven trout were planted
May 3 in the Yellowstone river
near the Davenport farm, five and
a half miles west of Laurel.
The delivery of fish from the
hatchery was by tank truck, operat-
ed by Bud and Lew Gilroy. j. d.
Sherrow of the Rod and Gun club
assisted with the planting.
Laurel outlook., 1945-05-09
MORAN HEADS STATE
THEATRE MEMS GROUP

j. H. Moran, proprietor and man.
ager of the Laurel Royal theater,
was elected president of the Thea
ter Owners association of Montana
at the annual convention Thursday,
May 8, in Great Falls. Clarence
Severson of Wolf Point was named
vice president and Jack Suckstroff
of Sidney became secretary-treas-
The association has a membership
of ~, who control SO theaters in
Montana. Virtually all theatre own
ers are members of the state asso-
citation.
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Jacks0ns Of Joliet
Learn Nephew Killed

Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Jackson of
Joliet have been informed that their
nephew, Staff Sgt. John M. Spencer,
was killed March 10 in the fighting
on Luzon, Philippine Islands. He
was in infantry and had been over
seas 80 months.
His widow resides in Los Angeles.
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Thee are the men-ROoseven, Truman, Stain and Churchill, Who were responsible
relation oiies together With Stain adC Churchill, wi direct the United Nations in phns
for worlds peace.
France, at Pal a. M, May 7, with 1t. Gen. Walter Bedel Smith
accepting Col. Gen. Gustav Jodrs capitulation. Later the sur
render was ratified at Russian headquarters in battered Berlin,
with Marshal Gregory Zhukov participating for the Reds.
Grand Adm. Karl Doenitzs order to German troops to cease
firing came as a sort of anti-clmaX since the bulk of the Nazi
forces already had laid down their arms in the face of the Allied
avalanche. April 29, 1,OOO,O 900 Nazs surrendered in northern Italy
and western Austria; May 1, another ZOO, 900 gave up in Holland
and Denmark, and on May 5, 10000 quit in southern Germany.
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VICTORY IN EUROpE!.
Germany Forced to Capitulate
After Six Years of Fighting;
Allies Face Big Job in Pacific

Eleven hard and bitter months after General Dwight D. Eisen-
hower's armies smashed through the ramparts of Fortress
Europe" to set foot upon French soil, Germany's once proud
wehrmacht, weakened after six years of the bloodiest war in his
tory, bowed the knee Internationally to the Allied powers.
Offered to Russia as well as the U. S. and Britain after earlier
futile efforts to split the Allies by approaching the Anglo-Ameri-
cans alone, Germany's surrender took place at General Eisen-
howers Headquarters in the little red school house in Reims,
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MACARTHUR ORDER
HITS big SHOTS"
Continued from Pare One)

ures as Eli Amau, longtime For.
eign Office spokesman and author
Of the Amau statement of April,
1884, warning other powers to
keep hands off China; and Masa-
yuki Tani, who was Foreign Min
lister in the TOTO cabinet in 1912.
The newsmen named were 1no-
suke Furuno, who was president
of the recently disbanded Domei
agency and councillor Of the cab
met information bureau during the
war; and Matsutaro Shoriki, presi-
dent of the Tokyo newspaper 70
miuri and former chief of the
criminal section of the Metropoli-
tan Police Bureau.
When arrested, the. newly-named
suspects will join those previously
jailed and now awaiting trial at
Sugamo and Omori prisons in the
Tokyo area.
The National Financial Control
Association which Macarthur Of
dered abolish 1 was one Of 70
wartime financial bodies and banks
closed Sept. 80. It was policy
making organization sponsored by
the government and with jurisdic-
ton over all the empires financial
institutions.
The industrial inventory was
given to Edwin w. Pauley, chief
Of the U. S. PREPARATIONS mission,
only IL days after he had requested
it. 1t contained production figures,
war damage and plant equipment
inventories on all Japanese war
industries, as well as complla-
tons of all foreign assets owned
by the Japanese whether govern
ment, corporate or private.
The list presumably may be
used to determine what industries
may be transferred bodily from
Japan to Allied countries as repara-
tons, or be destroyed in further
ance of the policy to demolish
Japan's capacity to prepare for
War.
The report covered in detail %
inay~1 ~us.r4es, lncIualn2 values
OF raw materials and finished pro-
uucts; nsts OF SPECIFIC products,
processing metnoas, types OF equip
ment ana materials required; rela-
tive positions Of the nations Is
largest tamliy-oomlnated monopo-
lies; price lists covering more nan
lOO commodities; and a tentative
export-import program for 1916.
Pauley praised 1t. Cmdr. Joseph
Relay OF Washington, D. c., chief
OF the research division OF the
economic and scientific section OF
Allied headquarters, and Corp.
j acK McneIa, Dalton Mass, writer
of the report, for the speed with
which they accomplished a diff
cult task.
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DOCTORS, EXPERTS
FOR TRUMAN PLAN

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-(P-The
government should set up a COM
pulsory health insurance program,
as proposed by President Truman,
in the opinion of 60 per cent of a
group 100 Of physicians and ex-
perts in public health work polled
by The American Magazine. The
result, announced in the January
issue, shows that all the experts
favor some sort of health insur-
ance, but that 40 per cent prefer
purely voluntary plans.
At least 40 per cent of the Amer
lean people are getting inadequate
medical service now, the experts
say, and in the vast Flower middle
income group" four of every five
experts believe the care Is either
ID i n t e y unsatisfactory" or
somewhat unsatisfactory both in
cities and rural areas.
Health insurance to cover both
doctor and hospital bills, is favor
ed by five out of six of the health
experts questioned. The remainder
would like the insurance to cover
especially high doctors fees, such
as surgical expenses. Ninety per
cent think any medical plan should
allow the patient to select his own
doctor, and all agree that health
systems should give actual medical
care, not cash.
The poll was conducted by DIR.
Arthur Kornhauser of Columbia
University's Bureau Of Applied
Social Research.
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GOVERNMENT WILL
TAKE OVER BANKS
Continued from Page One)

Bank OF France, with $4,000
stockholders, and the four de-
post banks, all having a total
capitalization of $50, 500,00O The
four deposit banks have a total of
400, 900 stockholders.
The nationalized banks will be
directed by 12-member commits
sions named by the government.
The government will take over
the shares of these banks, and
assume their management with
government appointed officials.
The law provides also for narrow
control of business banks, through
naming of a government commits
sioner to each one.
The measure also created a ma
tional credit council, which could
recommend naturalization of still
other banks establishments.
Shareholders of the Bank Of
France will be reimbursed with
dividends not higher than those
of 1874, and the rate of interest on
the amortized sinking fund bonds
l. is restricted to not more than
t. percent.
Shareholders of deposit banks
will have their stock purchased
over 50-year-period, beginning
in 1947, and will be reimbursed
with dividends on an average
stock value of the past year.
De Gaulle, In asking that bust
ness banks be left outside the ma
tionalization program, supported
the contention that to include these
banks would be harmful to
Frances changes for reviving her
export trade, since the reserve in
those banks was vital in that re-
lspect.
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GERMANS BITTER
I OVER OCCUPATION
Continued from Page One)

Indeed danger exists that Hitler
ism will win new adherents.'
The report said that mention
of a new "Freikorps' Gllegal mill
tary formations organized after
the first world war; was frequent
and that it was expected in many
quarters that desperation and
idleness Of youth will have violent
consequences.
1.-The Germans indicate their ap-
lprehension in various ways" the
report stated. lone university in
tends to keep a sharp lookout for
the formation of Nazi and Com
munist cells, while parents fear
that their children will form into
gangs"
Clergymen and laynen were re-
ported to be OF the opinion that the
American policy is 'resentful of
the church's position as a defender
of rights and suspicious of the
church as an educational force"
Asserting that this has been evid-
ent in all levels of the Catholic hier-
archy, the report said lone Cath
Ole priest had to be restrained by
his superior from delivering strong
ly anti-American sermons"
The Evangelical Church protest
stated, 1--WE never let it remain in
doubt that we do not consider it
possible to leave devoted ahherents
of Hitler in leading positions. Today
however we find above all in the
American zone that in cases of
dismissals no investigations is
made whether the former party
members joined the party under
pressure. We find that many per-
sons are being arrested or dismis-
sed who did not even belong to
the party and some whom at the
risk Of their existence fought
against National Socialism,
The protest said Michael Car
dnal Won Faulhaber Of the Cath
clio church was ignored some
weeks ago when he drew atten-
ton of the military government
to injust;ces that 90 ~
mitted daily in the dismissal o1
former national coc. .4s.s.
The clergymen protested toe
gainst the freedom accorded the
Poles and other foreigners wher
I, .ney take their revenge on the
German people for evils which
the Nazis inflicted on them"
The clergymen charged that the
American Army stands by at these
acts Of outrage while UNRRA en-
.. courages their activity.
heard some Germans talking O.
organizing v.,-4on,e odn~. es-.44-
the displaced persons while many
other felt groups may be organ
lied to punish fraternizing wo
men.
The report said that a feeling O.
hopeless despair is voiced by vir
tually the whole German nation
with demands that something be
done to help rebuild the country
Fraternization is still one Of the
main causes of burning resent
ment, and wide concern is ex
pressed over the loose morals O.
German girls, the survey said.