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Only Good German
Is Now A Dead One

LONDON.-Baron Won Trott du
Solz. former counsellor at the
G German foreign office. was
known 10 Canadian prisoners of
war as "a good German"
HE was the only good one !
ever heard about" said 1t. A. M.
Hueston, Sernia, Ont, taken pris-
oner In August. 1912, while at Di-
eppc with the Essex Scottish regi-
ment. -
The Baron, about whom Cana
dams heard from other prisoners,
was in charge of a luxury prison
camp near Berlin where favored
or high ranking prisoners were
held. He told prisoners he was a
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1929
and that he was a friend of the
late Lord Tweedsmuir, former
governor-general of Canada. He
said he liked the English.
Evidence that Won Trott may
have meant what he said came
after the attempted assassination
Of Hitler last July. He was hanged
and the explanation given by the
German newspapers was that he
had used official journeys to
Sweden to discuss war secrets
with the enemy.
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UNITED STATES ninth ARMY WAS
NOT MUCH in HEADLINES THOUGH
IT HAD BIG PUNCH AT FRONT

been previously announced be-
cause the results were far diff
ferent from those planned.
The Second Army was suppos-
ed to make the main effort, and
despite Simpsons protests the
Ninth was squeezed south of Wes-
ell into the outskirts of the heav-
lily built up Ruhr area where
there was not room to exploit
armor and it was possible to get
no more than one corps across the
river at time.
The Ninth's crossing was made
without airborne support, but
within 48 hours Simpsons troops
had surged through the Ruhr for
tifications and established a deep
bridgehead with more troops go
ing across.
Simpson packed his narrow
sector with troops until it was
near the bursting point. Though
the Ninth built the bridges across
the river at Vessel, they were as
signed to the British in the open
ing stages and the Ninth had trou-
BILE supplying its troops. The
bridges were not returned on
schedule and the Ninth's position
became more cramped.
1t finally took personal APP
peal from Simpson to Montgom-
cry and a direct order from the
field marshal to the Second Army
to get the Vessel bridges back.
Direction: East
Meanwhile the End Armored
Division crossed the Rhine, pass
ed through the S0th- Division,
crossed the Lippe River and turn
ed east. In SO hours Hell on
Wheels" broke the front wide
open and took off on one of the
fastest advances of the war.
Scarcely hating moment, the
9Th linked up with the LIST Army
at Paderborn to complete one of
the great enveloping movements
of military history by cutting off
the Ruhr.
Once this was completed the
End Armored with the 30th and
83rd Infantry Divisions headed
for the Elbe River. Climaxing the
drive with a 57-mile run on the
last day, they reached the Elbe
SO miles from Berlin only to be
halted by Eisenhower's orders.
Meanwhile Simpso had
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ARTILLERY FIRING
PRACTICE PLANNED

- army amnuunoed today that
Ts8a AFfllieTy firing practice
- - held fron Fort Taylor.
- Mssi. Fiorida on July n.
tsww y. IA. - O. IN. An YES
m8 $50 asfNKaft are warmed 10
rsmaim eteaf ~ tise danger area.
ftT 0anMrr ARA aill he the
ester ares SO yards ofishore
Nf TsslaE hsanaed b an azi-
msh 2ie aexrecs from - de.
NFss AZ msnuies Is seconds
= sh kalstnae and ei degrees
60 mlmsset a6 secands West Lon
as&aslAs aaaih o. an a4imuth $50
askzHxs ffeln thc same point.
thH ARM also announced that
ts~sf Artillery firing practice
49, ~ hela fFou Marine Rifle
NNRe. ssogk Island on July II.
hn : q ~. 60 5 y. M. AN ves-
m@ @md aiferafi are warned 10
Nnsasa eisaE 81 the danger area.
TO danMer are h the water
slsA txtseen Stock Island and
haceen key.
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Donald r. Richberg of Wash
ington, ID. C., lawyer, born Knox
vile, Tenn, 81 years ago.
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Charles Morton Is
Given New Position
With SeabOard Line
Especial to The citizen,


NORFOLK, Va, July 10.-Ele-
walton of Charles !. Morton to the
position of superintendent of sta
ton operations for the Seaboard
Air Line Railway has been an
nounced by c. H. Sauls, assistant
general manager of the road.
Morton's headquarters will con-
tinue to be in Jacksonville.
A native of Wilmington, nj CT,
Morton has been connected with
rail transportation for 30lyears,
the last rs of which have been
with the Seaboard.
Starting his Seaboard career as
a clerk in the city of his birth,
he has advanced through numer-
Gus operating assignments and,
Immediately prior to his present
promotion, was assistant. superin-
tendent of the Seaboard's North
Florida Division.
Morton's new duties involve
system-wide jurisdiction over all
agency operations on the railroad
and constitute part of a continu-
ing program for Improvement of
the lines services to the public.
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FIRE AND STEEL
CONTINUED from Rage One)

Continued from t'age One)
the number of planes in action
totaled $500.
They included squadrons of the
fast and hard-hitting Corsairs,
each of which carries 1000
pounds of bombs, is armed with
eight so caliber machine guns
and Il capable Of lmaKiEsg seven
miles a minute. From ~ to 30
corsairs participated in sthe raids.
A spokesman at headquarters
said that should Japan elect to
hold out till all her cities have
been reduced to ashes, she will
be soundly defeated by the be-
ginning of next summer, but he
was of the opinion that Japan
will sue for peace before that
time.
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TODAY'S
ANNIVERSARIES

1792-George M. Dallas, Phila-
delphia mayor, senator, vice pres
ident, diplomat, born there. Died
Dec. 81, 1864.
1820-James d. B. De Bow, not
ed economist, New Orleans found
er of the famed magazine of his
name, born Charleston, S. c. Died
Feb. ~, 1867.
S,,l825--Renjamin p. Akers, poor,
tintutored Maine boy who became
d noted sculptor, born Saccarap-
pa, Maine. Died May 81, 1861:
lil834 James A. M. Whistler.
wvorldIfamed British artist-etch-
er, born lowell, Mass. Died July
II, 1903.
1867-Finley Peter Dunno, Gre
ator of Mr.. Dooley, national in
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no d. dANEikO. - Brazil's
mNFg has added four units 20 a
lless whieh Naval Minister Adm.
Af.sisAes Guilhem SAYS has in
ffvessa ~ ~ beast 50 vessels since
a. aKal cent to war IN 1912
fhN new ships, constructed in
a. shApsmtsis II Rios Guanabara
So weFs TIE destroyers Acre
sd Apa. and Ina Submarine ches-
esn No paFdo and Rio Negro.
They all loin a 1eet which. ac-
tsasatma a. 0silhern. has already
temsWyrd fa0se than 2.90l ships Of
81 natluaalities IN operations
ffakhina INTO the Caribbean and
NafilffTanesn a. well as along
mssxlfs epast.
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APP Newsfeatures

fhA &NCW StC1tAASS
WITH THE U. S. 9TH
ARMY, June 10.-Less pub
licized than its companions,
the First and Third Armies,
Gen. William H. (Texas Bill)
Simpsons Fig htin g Ninth
earned a reputation as a
soldiers army" that always
did better than asked and
never once failed.
. The youngest American army
in the field at the end of the Eu-
ropean war, the Ninth was prob
ably the most powerful in action.
AT no time was it extended to its
full capabilities.
Much of this was due to its
quiet, soft-spoken commander,
General Simpson. He is less flam-
boyant than some of his col
leagues, but daring in action and
willing to take chances in battle.
The Ninth Army was originally
named the Eighth, but its number
was changed when it reached
England so that it would not be
confused with the British Eighth
Army of desert fame.
II came into the European war
just in time to take part in the
closing phases of the siege of
Brest. From there it was moved
secretly to Luxembourg, where
it was held for several weeks in
the vital Ardennes Forest area.
Then again it was moved secretly
into Holland, this time to take
over the recently captured Aach-
en- sector from the First Army.
Date: November is
Nov. Is, when the Ninth was
scheduled for a secondary attack
in a drive from the German bor-
der to the Roer River to protect
the First Army's flank, it jumped
off in its first big attack. 1t met
some of the toughest fighting on
the western front. The Second
Armored Division lost more than
1G0 tanks in smuggling match
near Geronsweiler, but the Ninth
reached the Roer ahead of sched-
ule.
The Ninth was preparing for a
drive across the Roer to the Rhine
when Won Rundstedt broke thru
the Ardennes Forest. Simpson
sent his prize divisions racing
south to work with the First
Army. At the same time he took
over the whole First Army sec
tor along the Roer and held the
long line with greatly curtailed
strength while the First Army
met the Ardennes threat.
1t took until Feb. % to stabilize
the western front and the Mini
built ip to new power, was as
signed to make the main drive
toward the Rhine. The object was
not to command the Rhine itself
but to cross the swollen Roer and
turn north, rolling up the Ger
man defenseS.
Direction Northeast
The Gern1ansawere expecting an
attack toward Cologne, but the
Ninth moved northeast. The at
tack worked perfectly, with far
fewer casualties than expected.
1t was on the Rhine in eight days,
much sooner than expected.
A month later the Ninth was
again assigned a secondary role,
protecting the British Second
Army's southern flank in the drive
across the Rhine. This has not
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thrown in the 18th Corps, which
also reached the Elbe to the
north.
While the 18th and 10Th Corps
held the Elbe line, the 10th Corps
still fought the battle of the
Ruhr. 275 miles behind the ad-
vance points. taking the great
rail center of Hamm, the NUM-
tions center of Essen and other
key Ruhr cities and destroying
Models 18th Army Group.
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SOCIETY


hfsw Arthur Lowe ef 700 Caro-
hmN aaFeet ANNOUNCES the mar
8aMNN "a hNF daughter. Elsie Mae.
- WilAmm Il Taylor, son of Mrs.
MfMafet Taxlas If Bristol. Tenn.
To- easfle wefe married Sat-
ussAaY mHHning % Judge Ray
N8sAa l.ewa ne ar0oFn left sun
aaF rn fuaase 30 Panama where
~ msil 9eamFAe hln dutics.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

BILLY DALE, popular singer
of sweet songs, who has been
appearing at the Enlisted Mems
Patio, has been called back
home to Washington, D. c., be-
cause of illness in her family.
She is expected to return next
month, it is announced by Muir
ray Kirschenbaum, Sp(A)2c.
Others in the current show
are Renee Villon. talented
dancer. in surprise number;
Mary Algood. live singer: Boots
DeMarco, acrobatic tap: Betty
and her Pals. novelty dancers,
and Gloria Manning, singer.
Kirschenbaum states that
since the recent enlargement
of the patio, the attendance has
increased greatly.
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stitution In its day. born In CO
cago. Died April "A, 1896.

Robert l.. Duffus 81 Wesspofh
Conn, noted writer, born Waters
bury, VT, 81 years aRo.
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17
A Fool and His Money
Are Soon Parted

About As years ago we voted bond
issue of a half million dollars to build
the state capitol We paid interest on
it for 43 years II it took us 43 years
to pay half million dollar bond issue,
will it take us 1,032 years to pay a y
million dollars bond issue? Some New
York bankers got 172 per cent from US
on the capitol bond issue. 1t is pro-
posed that this bond issue of II million
dollars shall bear interest at 80 per
annum. Before the urge to buy war
bonds, banks in Montana were lending
huge sums at 5/8 Of per cent per
annum Massachusetts borrows for 10
per annum. Last week the Milwaukee
railroad borrowed 100 million dollars at
1% per cent.
OF course war bonds must be bought
to save our national life. There is no
alternative, but almost all other public
bond issues are for the benefit of the
bankers first, the public second. The
chain bank systems of Helena came to
Montana chiefly to control our state
cash funds, and buy with our own money,
in such funds. such bond issues as we
might be foolish enough to issue The
simple fact that this proposed u million
dollar issue is to bear 425 shows that the
chain bankers in Helena are behind this
referendum placed before the voters by
our dumb, docile, deceitful Legislature.
These Minneapolis banksters have, by
alliance with power and mining interests
here, run things to suit themselves for
so long (19 years. that now their puppet
Legislature asks us to vote on ourselves,
and our grandchildren a 12million dollar
bond issue at 425 per year. when the
much banksterized, bankrupt Milwaukee
railroad can get 100 million dollars at
13 per cent.
Regretful enough, while our young men
and women are at war, the reactionary
element, worked up by Montana Dwind-
lers, Inc Chambers Of Commerce, in
surance agents, daily press, may be
simple, minded enough to vote for this
bond issue. The Navy knows the depth
Continued on Page Four
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17

The last Legislative Assembly has
proposed a special election June 5th for
the taxpayers of Montana to vote on
themselves a u million dollar bond issue
for roads. Many years ago we needed
telegraph lines in this state badly; we
have enough of them now. Later on we
needed railroads; we have enough Of
them, and then, there was a great need
for telephone lines; we have enough Of
them. At another time we needed high
ways badlys; now we have north-south
east-west highways.
This bond issue IS put 1ortn, as is said,
to provide work for our returning sol
diers. Corporation control of Montana
is so obvious to all of our young men
and women who have gone into military
life that, according to DR. Melby, of
5000 who have been hOnorably mustered
out, only 1000 have returned to Mon
tana to reside. The New Republic as
serts that a comparison of the ration
cards shows that We have lost over 10000
people since the war started.
Forty-five thousand of these can be
accounted for by induction into the
armed services The other $4,000 have
departed because of the m-American
conditions in Montana. If these can
avoid it, they are not coming back. The
dark shadow Of the control of the Execu-
tive, the Legislative and the bureaucratic
branches Of our state government by
the mining, power. insurance, railroad,
chain banking corporations, is clearly
seen when our young people get out into
daylight and look back at it, Born and
raised within the shadow and the odor
they do not know Of better conditions
until they depart, but once gone, they
do not want to come back.
AS has been said, a blood TRANSMISSION
is needed by our colony The only hope
that we have is in the establishment Of
a Missouri Valley Authority, and the
Columbia Valley Authority.
This proposal to bond the state and
put men to work is started to divert the
minds of our people from these Author
tiles and their building.
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17
War Traing Courses at
State University to Be
Discontinued on June 30

All war training courses which were
to have continued at the State univer-
sity and at other assigned places in the
United States will be discontinued on
June &c. according to telegram received
by Dean T. c, Spaulding Of the school
of forestry at Montana State university.
The announcement comes from the
war Training office of engineering
science and management at Washing
ton, D. G.
Courses given in mechanical drafting
and fundamentals of engineering, one Of
which was scheduled to start at the
university on May IA, thus are can
celled, Dean Spaulding said.
The present 16-week course, the fifth
to be conducted, will end on May 10 con-
cluding war training activities at the
Washington officials recently com
mended the State university for the ex-
cellent manner in which the school Of
forestry carried on the war training pro-
grams here.
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17
Resolution Passed by Silver
Bow Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals

WHEREAS: There is now pending in
Congress, a Bill, H. R. 491, to prohibit
experimenting on living dogs in the Dis
trict of Columbia; and
WHEREAS: This organization hereby
denounces and condemns such a prac-
tice as cruel, inhuman and shocking to
every sense of human decency;
THEREFORE,, Be it Resolved that this
Society in meeting assembled endorses
the said Bill H. r. 49l, and urges its
enactment into law, and further, that
a copy Of this Resolution be forwarded
to Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Senator
James E. Murray, Congressman Mike
Mansfield, President Harry s. Truman
and the public press of Montana.
Dated at Butte, Montana this 26th
day of April, 1945.
SILVER BOW SOCIETY FOR
THE PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
GEARLDINE D. BAKER,
President
ANITA G1NEIL, Secretary
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17
WLB PROMISES TO
STOP WAGE
CUTTING MOVES

WASHINGTON - (FP) - American
workers were told by the National War
Labor Board May 10 that it would be as
Jealous in preventing wage reductions
as it was before We Day in refusing to
grant pay boosts.
The pledge was made in a unanimously
adopted policy statement announced by
WIlB Chairman George W. Taylor.
Taylor went into details Of the policy
which calls for immediate agreement by
management and labor on wage sched-
ules for speedy resumption Of civilian
production. These schedules, reached by
collective bargaining are to be put into
effect Immediately and then submitted
TO the WLB for review.
Should the WLB find a wage schedule
out of line, either through wage cuts
or through unstabilizing increases, it
will order adjustments, Taylor said but
in no case will such adjustments be
retroactive.
The policy as announced is the first
step Of the WIB's plan to modify and
ultimately discontinue the wage stabili-
zation program as the nation moves to-
ward a peacetime economy. Other
statements will follow, with the method
of dealing with cutbacks and change
from 48 to a 40 hour week likely to
come next-possibly before the end of
May
In working out new wage structures
for civilian production in reconverJing
plants. Taylor said, The board puts its
chips on collective bargaining where
there are unions. We have confidence
labor and management can work out
these wages structures. We don't want
a minute of lost production or idle jobs "
Should management and labor fail to
agree on permanent new rates for re-
converted plant, say from tank produc-
ton to refrigerators, Taylor explained,
the WIB hopes they will establish tenn
porary or tentative rates for such clas-
sificatons and submit the whole to the
board for review.
Asked if the WLB was holding labor
to its no-strike pledge" Taylor said
there was no dispute about it that the
pledge was good through VI Day lVic-
tory over Japan Day.
Both labor members in attendance,
Sec. Treas. J, A. Brownlow Of the Colo
rado Federation Of Labor (AFI) ana Van
A. Bittner, assistant to President Philip
Murray Of the United steelworkers
QCTO), agreed that nobody is holding
labor to its pledge. It is voluntary and
we are going to keep it until the war is
over"
In reconversion, Taylor said, ID viii be
found that even in turning to new types
Of production, certain key Jobs VIII be
found to have the same skils needed.
These then, will remain the old job rates
and other jobs will be set into the frame
work with proper balances (differendalsl
of the wage structure
Montana labor news., 1945-05-17
AFL'S AMENDMENTS
GIVEN BY GREEN TO
WORLD CONFERENCE

SAN FRANCISCO .-FP) THE United
Nations Conference on International
Organization here "symbolizes the last
hope Of peace loving humanity for gen.
erations to come for a peaceful world, p"
AFL President William Green told the
U. S. delegation, offering amendments
to the Dumbarton Oaks plan designed to
bring about world order based on in
ternational morality and justice"
Recommendations submitted by Green
were adopted by the AFL executive
council at its recent Washington ses-
sion The first proposal was for crea-
ton of a commission to formulate a bill
of rights as the preamble to the Dunn
barton Oaks plan. Tt would include
guarantees Of freedom Of worship
speech, assembly, press and association,
freedom from involuntary servitude ex-
cept as punishment for crimes, the right
of individuals to fair public trial when
accused of crime and the right Of indi-
viduals to speedy determination Of Grim
inal charges prior to detention.
Green also called for incorporation Of
the Atlantic Charter in the World Sc
curity Organization agreement to assure
the world that the purposes Of the
United Nations are consistent with the
high ideals for which the soldiers. Of
freedom have fought and died"
Member units of the general assembly
should be encouraged to include in their
persons from labor, bust
ness and agriculture Green said, sug-
gesting that the Economic and Social
Council have similar representation. He
recommended that the economic council
meet not less than four times year
and make decisions by majority vote Of
those present and voting. He also pro-
posed that persons with proper prac-
tical experience" be considered as ex-
perts eligible for membership on COM
under the council
The AFL strongly urges inclusion of
the International Labor Office as an
agent of the United Nations organiza-
ton, Green said. We feel that work
ers all over the world are concerned in |
this matter and are more than anxious
that the record of constructive achieve
ment made by the ILO be expanded and |
continued" The uO should be adapted !
to the Framework of the new organiza-
ton and its Philadelphia Charter should
be substituted for the present preamble, /
he proposed.
Green also called for reaffirmation Of /
the Act Of Chapultepec, unanimously !
adopted by 20 nations at Mexico City !
in March, and inclusion in the charter
of the principles Of justice formulated /
by the Pan-American Juridical Commits
sion.
While the United Nations must def
nitely contemplate the use of force, if
to keep the peace adoption
Of these principles of morality among
nations would make it plain for all to
see that the delegates at San Francisco
had not lost faith in the power Of right 7
over might" he said
Green said he was pleased with the /
U. S. delegations policy of consulting /
With representatives Of organized labor
and hoped the same policy would be
pursued by other delegations