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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
SGT. FRED METZGER
TAKES BRIDE

A marriage Of interest to Libby
folks took place in BarstoW, Calf,
July s, when Marine Sgt Fred
Metzger took as his bride, Julia
VIM Jacobson, of San Francisco.
She is the daughter of Brigadier
General Jacobsen of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. Jacobsen.
Following their marriage, the cou-
pie spent a few days in San Fran
cisco visiting her parents, after
which the sergeant returned to his
station at Barstow.
Mrs. Metzger expects to come tc
Libby the first part of August to
become acquainted with her hus-
bands family, Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
DeRosia.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
SECOND LABOR INSTITUTE
SCHEDULED IN AUGUST

The second annual labor institute,
sponsored by four Montana Labor
and Farm organizations, in coopera-
ton with the State University will
be conducted on the university
campus at Missoula, August 2, 3
and 4.
The theme of the institute is La
Dor, Today and Tomorrow" The
three-day sessions will be attend
ed by invited labor and farm dele
gates and will be open to the gen.
eral public.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
ioneers Meet
August 5

The annual picnic of the Libby
Pioneer Society will be held at
Pioneer Park Sunday afternoon,
August S.
All those having rs years con-
tinuous residence in Libby are eli
gible to attend; also those living in
Flathead or Lincoln counties prior
to 1900 and having 10 years resi-
dence in Libby.
Bring lunch and dishes for fam
lily. Come Pioneers, and bring your
families. Anyone eligible and not
yet a member, is cordially invited
to attend and Join.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
Elmer Phillips To
Leove Stote Job

In a surprise move, Elmer Phil
lips resigned as state superinten-
dent of fisheries, effective Sept. L
and the state fish and game COM
mission named A. G. Stubblefield
of Anaconda his successor
Phillips, chief of the game de-
partment's fish and hatchery de-
partment four years, said he plan
ned to devote his entire time to the
operation Of his commercial hatch.
cries and distribution plants. Hi
entered the game department ir
1922 as hatchery employee.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
A. Larsen
Answers Cal!

The many friends who affection
ate called her Nom, were, sad
dened by the death of Mrs. Peter Q.
Larsen last Sunday following an
illness of several months, during
which time she courageously re-
fused to give up. A week prior to
her passing, Mrs. Larsen suffered
stroke which took toll of her
weakened condition and she was
not able to make comeback.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larsen were va
cationing at Hot Springs, Mont, for
the past month, when she suffered
the stroke and was moved to Mis-
soula, Mont, for treatment. With
her condition rapidly growing
worse, the two sons, Marine Ser
geant Peter, Jr., and William, re-
Gently honorably discharged from
the Army, were called from Cali
fornia. Sergeant Larsen arrived
there Friday, and Bill on Saturday,
preceding the passing of their
mother, both being accompanied by
their wives, so that all members Of
the immediate family were with
her in her last hour.
Other than her husband, and two
sons, Mrs. Larsen is survived by
two granddaughters, Anna Dolores
and Barbara Jean; brother, David
Watt and three sisters, Mrs. Thomp-
son, Miss jeanette Watt and Mrs.
Isabel Cleveland, all of Philadel-
phia, Penn.
Mrc Jnrcor xu,c on arfiyn mann
Der of the Moose Lodge as well as
the Royal Neighbors, and had
gained the respect of her fellow
members for her fairness and gen.
crosby to those whom she knew
Agnes Watt was born in Scot
land July S, 1886 and came to the
United States at the age of 81 years
She became the bride of Peter O
Larsen in Missoula, Mont, in 1918
The couple made their home If
Plains and reared two sons, Peter
O. and William T. They moved t.
Charlo, Mont, where they farmet
before moving back to Plains il
1884. After a short while there
they moved to Libby in October
1884, and have made their HON,
here since, making many friend
during their, years of business here
: She passed away in Missoula Jul.
, %, 1945
: Funeral services were held iron
; the Gompf Funeral Chapel Wednes
! day evening at 7.30 with the Rev
. E. Roy Fort officiating, and tn
: Royal Neighbor Lodge, tf Whic
i Mrs. Larsen was an active membel
: furnishing appropriate music.
Pallbearers were Vernon Frient
Frank Seigmund, Vernon Paddock
George Wood, Billy Nittle, an
Mike Miller. Honorary pallbearer
were Fritz Maurer, Ray Pival, 10
Dunn, John Lovick and D. Mount
Graveside services were unde
the auspices of Royal Neighbor
Lodge, with interment in the LIB
cemetery.
An expression of sincere respet
for the deceased and her family we
II shown by the Veterans of Foreig
t Wars, when they closed their clu
S which business once was owned
' MIR. and Mrs. Larsen, in memor
' Of her during the services.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
CITY DADS HELD BUDGET
MEETING JULY l8

The City Council held the annual
budget meeting Wednesday of last
week. No change was made in the
mill levy for the coming year.
A pleasing report from the meet
ing, is that the city hall indebted
ness has been reduced during the
past fiscal year, from $500 to $500.
1t is expected that the same levy
held for the coming year will re-
duce the remaining indebtedness or
the building at least another $1,000
and it may be possible to entirely
clear the debt
The bonds for the city hall which
bear 40 interest, do not mature
until 1945, so the progress made ir
taking up the bonds and saving the
interest is highly satisfactory.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
w. F. MATTINGLY, FATHER
OF MRS. ED KEMP, PASSES

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Kemp returned
last Friday from ST. John, Wash,
where they had been called by the
serious illness of her father, w. F.
Mattingly, who passed away the
following Monday. He had been a
pioneer of that community for over
As years.
They were accompanied home by
Mrs. Mattingly, and Margaret Nc
Connell, niece Of Mrs. Kemp, who
will visit here for a month or so.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
MARRIAGES

Raymond P. Rubard and Eleanor
N. Rodgers were issued license
July %.
Theodore w. Kilagren and Freda
c. Kwasnicki, both of Creston, B.
c., were married by Justice H. B.
Wallace, July 81.
Edward Roy Ferguson and Flor
ence Edna Miller, both Of Libby
were married by Rev. E. Roy Fort
July 20.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26
HOSPITAL NOTES

Mrs. George Miller, Troy, was adj
mitted Saturday as medical pa
tent.
Mrs. Clay Benefited had APP
pendix removed Tuesday.
Orville Thorne was an appen-
dectomy case last Thursday.
Banda PERI, Mexican agricultural
worker, was admitted Monday as .
medical patient.
Mrs Ray Ramlo was admitted as
medical patient Sunday.
Discharged during the week were
Geo. Weideman, Mrs. Joe Sickle
Mrs. Art Biegler and Mrs. Kenneth
Endicott.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26

M. L. Miller and daughter, Miss
Myra Miller, of Havre who were
visitors at the A. J. Geringer home
last week are spending this week in
Tacoma before returning to Libby
for the remainder of their vaca-
ton.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-07-26

v. r. WEIGH of Troy was bust
ness visitor in Libby Saturday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
THE SILENT SERVICE DOES
NOTABLE JOB

Secretary of the Navy James
V. Forrestal practically apollo
gized because he couldn't tell
more about operations Of u S
submarines when he announced
the latest tabulation of Japa-
nese ships sunk BY the silent
service in the Pacific. Twenty
eight Y S submarines have
been reported missing and pre-
sum d TO be lost since Pearl Har-
Dor, with six more known to
have been sunk. In the same
time y S. submarines have sunk
% Japanese combat ships and
835 non-combat ships Details Of
the pig boat exploits in piling
up this impressive total must re-
main untold till the war is over,
and the deeds Of submarine he
rocs must 90 without public rec
ognition. For as one lieutenant
expressed it to Secretary For
rcStal, I'D rather be alive and
anonymous than head hero"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
BY PETER EDISON

Georgia Representative Ro.
bert Ramspecks newest idea for
q s. head tax on % million
members OF the Democratic
Party in good standing strikes a
happy medium between two
other political money-raising
schemes advanced during the
last campaign. First was the c.
10. Political Action Commit
tees idea to Give a Buck 10
Reflect Roosevelt" The theory
that five million labor union
members would hear this plea
fell far short of realization. and
the PA c. didn't get much
over a million. At the other end
of the economic and social scale.
President Roosevelt's own idea
for the One Thousand Club of
the u S. A. also fell short of its
ogal to round up thousand big
shots willing to kick in grand
apiece. Ramspeck's 125 million
dollar dream makes both earlier
schemes pickaynish. But even at
five bucks a throw, Ramspeck
could hardly offer special invi-
tations TO meet the President, as
the Thousand Club did.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
You may never have heard Of

You may never have heard OF
1t, but the professional luncheon
club spielcrs, the takers to lad
les societies and assorted lectur-
crs for general cultural improve
ment, now have union. It's
known as the Platform Guild.
About hundred members of
the Guild had luncheon meet
ing in a Washington hotel the
other day. but not for the pur-
pose of hearing each other talk,
as you might imagine. Instead,
only one member of the Guild
was allowed TO talk. That was
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, who
merely acknowledged the well
come of the principal speaker at
the luncheon. Secretary of State
Edward r. Stettinius, Jr. He and
about a dozen of his principal as
siStants WERE there to lecture to
the lecturers on what Dunbar
ton Oaks and the u S foreign
policy are all about. And though
the professional lecturers didn't
get to say anything at their
luncheon, now that they know
all the answers they'll be glad to
come TO your luncheon and tell
YOU all about it. For fee, of
course.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
VICTORY IN THE SECOND BLITZ

Another story Of resourcefuness and rugged
courage has come out Of London the story Of the
victory Of the second bIitz. 1t is perhaps more
inspiring than the accounts Of the first Bottle Of
Brtoin. For here lendons defenders confronted
with weapon unprediotoble, steothy, speedy,
unaffected by weather. 1t demanded new counter
measures
The detoiled story tells how these counter.
measures worked And it reveals thot even before
Allied troops in France blocked off the robot coost,
British brains and effort and American cooperation
had already beaten the flying bomb.
There we're 50 friehtfuI days Of the second btz.
But the posing weeks brought promise Of victory.
In the first month defenders able to bring down
40 per cent Of the missiles At the end coast de-
lenses stopping 10 per cent Of them and inoc
curoces reduced to per cent the bombs that reoch-
ed the forget.
The toll in lives and property though not SO great
as in the raids Of lo4O-4l wos tremendous.
But if the ottooks cost the Allies and London
heavily think Of whot the Genmons poid for the ot
tempt and the detect. Frustrated in the beginning
through superior intelligence and Dir power they
unable to ounoh the flying bombs in time to achieve
the nnoximunn results.
q But the most domooino result Of the obortve
Vengeance was the foct thot having put oil their
eqqs in one bosket, they had to sit by and see the
eggs smashed Arpone and other production
cut back to n,oke flying bombs They we're sold and
oversoId to the Germon people, But the physical ond
psychological punch wos blocked The "mrocIe
weapon" wound up dud And Germany took long
step closer to detect.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
. Bk2BS

Fewer people drive to work
these days-and the war effort
calls for fewer who have to be
driven.
One good turn deserves an
other one bad one is what
causes auto accidents.
Why is it that wearing apparel
given for Christmas always is
too long, too short, too tight or
too something?
Show today's young folks
new dance. step and they'll see
ond the motion.
The main thing we all should
get out of the serious war news
today is the real necessity Of
buying more and more War
Bonds.
The people who always want
to start something are never
around when you want some
thing started
80 -
Someone should invent an ex-
ira leg TO stand on when a proud
dad starts in telling about the
new baby's tricks.
We can all be proud OF our
blood Enthusiastically those
with the Red Cross.
Right now. what you stand for
isn't as important as what you
help with. Buy more War Bonds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
T.. S. UPSETSz THEORIES
OF WAR BABIES

Katharine F. Lenroot. chief of
the Children's Bureau in the De-
partment of Labor, has some
new statistics on babies which
discount one Of the oldest ideas
about the destructiveness and
the deterlorating influence Of
war on a nations population.
The United States, it seems. is
upsetting all the established the
cries. The old idea was that in
wartime the best physical speci-
mems of manhood we're taken
into the army. leaving the phys
ically lcss-fit' TO propagate the
race. So far as the United States
is concerned, it's not true at all,
for births TO the wives of sold
icrs have thus far been greater
than the deaths Of u s. men in
the armed services. In 1914
there were more than 100000
sons and daughters born to the
wives OF the nation S lighting
men. while battle deaths for the
year will total approximately
half that Miss Lcnroot knows
about this birth business be-
cause she administers the Fed
eral governments Emergency
Maternity and Infant Care pro-
gram under which Uncle Sam
foOtS the stork bill for service
men of the three lowest paw
grades. In addition TO 10000
babies already brought into the
world under this program. Miss
Lenroot has another 100000
service mems wives expecting,
and she is adding to the list at
the rate of about 10000 new
cases month.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09

the ace of diamonds. Gresham
decided that il his partner held
three hearts and three spades.
he probably could make six, and
! think his overcall Of six hearts
over three diamonds was a good
one. Gresham thought that
North's double probably indi-
Gated that he held four hearts to
the jack, and the six spade bid
was a good one, although he
CeySs}ss, <&sG>A cXesAe six hearts
doubled also.
1t would certainly have been
difficult for West to get into this
bidding.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
LIPsTICK VS.. BEER GLASSES

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9 - (A) -
The St. Louis Board Of Aldermen
was considering a health bill for
restaurants and tavcrns, and the
talk turned to lipstick on beer
glasses.
Alderman Harry A, Stoffcr
said he didn't mind little lip
stick on his glasses, and added
that he didn't think a glass
should be dipped into hot water
before the bcer>is served because
beer isn't good that way"
Health Commissioner Joseph
+. Bredcck differed, saying he
didn't object to lipstick, but 1t
showed the glasses Weren t
clean. Anyway" he added,
cts the wrong way for a man
to get lipstick on his lips.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
FADED BLOSSOMS

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9-[PJ--
John Montague, theatrical agent,
says it happened to Mrs. George
Clark, who for years has booked
PLAYS into the Des Moines audi
forum.
Mrs. Clark got cailIfrom a
customer w no wondered If
Blossom Time" was coming.
II was.
with the original cast?"
81 hope not, said Mrs. Clark,
recalling that the original cast
opened in Blossom Time IN
New York % years ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
6 FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
PERSEVERANCE

MIAMI. Fla, Jan. Q = LPl =
Mario |. Freyre. Cuban, has been
deported five times and served
one eight-month sentence for
illegal entry into the United
States.
Yesterday the Federal Grand
Jury indicted him again-for the
same offensc.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09

tutor. ! was the master of the
manor of LoWmont.'
That's DevcrcauX BOLIVIAN,
who indeed does know his blood
horses. thanks to his creator.
Miss BayliSs. who at one time
could recognize 5000 Of the 1000
show horses in the country, also
has down pat the New Jersey
mountain e-o-Hntry wherein
dWci led, loved, and duclled the
BoiinVarS.
There's Cousin Hugo, who
loved Nellie Farleigh, and had
a past shroudcd all about with
mystery; there's horse race,
and the foX-huntlng is really
done we'll, with a loving and sure
hand.
The Gentlemen T al X of
Peace and SO does William b.
Eff is in his new 520page book
published by Macmillan at $500.
The voice Is occasionally Strld-
ent, but speaks good sense. Mr..
Ziff tWirls a globe with his
pointing finger, and when 1T
comes TO halt he casually re-
aligns boundaries and does re-
decorating JOB IN several coiors.
But the author, ambitious though
he is, swings telling blows
which bear no comparison to
diplomatic shadow boxing
Striking at roots of the prob
lem, Mr.. Ziff declares: Much
of the genesis Of the present con-
flict Will be found in the revolu-
tionary character of our time. ,"
He asks, Can civilization sur
vivc the radically changed con-
ditions brought about by the ma
chine age, without series of
violent and bloody upheavals
which Will leave the world final
ly a SHAMELESS, and perhaps put
an end TO the white race"
Though not optimistic of SUR
vival, much less an Utopia, he
advocates radical action" then
proceeds to outline steps which
would put TO an end Germany's
ability TO make war. There
would be no German army or po-
lice force, no arms, submarines,
airplanes. The German industrial
machine must be broken down
and large part OF ii used for
the benefit of ruined neighbor
countries. Pan-Germanists (large
landowners, industrialists, some
intellectually who would be the
core Of any future German re-
sistance would be "liquidated."
The worlds society would be
reorganizcd into self-contained
Power Aggregate" the u. S. S.
r., United Orient, "a United
Europe clustered around the
Mediterranean, and a Union of
the West, consisting of North
and South America, the British
Isles and Australasia, and man.
dated territory of Africa.
He calls il a compromise be-
tween the ideal OF an interna-
tional society and the existing
era Of international discord and
disorder. :" Z Whatever you may
call il. its thought-provoking
reading.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
. IN HOLLYWOOD

to the subject. You're supposed
TO be doing the script on so Lit
tie Time the Marquand story
WRITER SCHARY: It's a nice
day.
PRODUCER SCHARY: You
mean for golf You shouldn't
say that. You know we agreed
WRITER SCHARY: | didn't
say it first about golf. You did.
But as long as you have said it
why not?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
WORTH GROWING ABOUT?

TOPEKA, kans., Jan. 9--(41
1t seemed altogether fitting
and proper that it should happen
in Kansas, an agricultural state.
SO nobody minded when And
rev +. Schocppel was sworn IN
for his second term as Governor
Of Kansas amid crows, clucks
and cackles.
There was a poultry show in
the basement
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09

JOHNSON: Don't mind me. l
got places To 90.
PRODUCER SCHARY: That
nice Of YOU, don't hurry. Your
hat Is on that chair. Come on,
Schary, We'll have TO hurry to
get IN that game before dinner.
You can write after dinner. So
long, Johnson I'll Be Seeing
YOU
WRITER SCHARY: From the
picture of the same name.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
RETURN OF THE VANISHED AMERICAN

One of these dovs the doorbell will ring and there
once oqoin like the first robin Of spring, will be the
Vanished American You remember, the CHEEKY and
persistent citizen with the sample cose OF brushes
or hosiery or perhaps mechanical carpet sweeper
We won't say when that doy will come, for feor OF
beinq called comploCen But come it will And tyP'-
cal chapter in American life will be resumed.
pions mlsss <~ ssopieg ep c,ireody. Foe It would
be qreot mistake to think that reconverson will
beon and end at the factory Even now the general
stoff Of door-to-door solesmonshp probably hos the
n1ops spread out and is bordering stroteges and
tactics for the doy when the olout campaign OF per-
suosion moves forward again into every street ono
countryside.
Conny consumers would do we'll then, to recon-
vert their thinking into peocetne channels. Other
wise they may run into some early pitfalls The first
one probably will be the folse Of cordiolity thot
is bound to pervode the resumption Of front stooP
merchandising
The Vanished American returning to his oP
pointed rounds, will certainly be welcomed os the
Americans we're welcomed in Pors. Maybe his wares
won't be dreams Of streomlined transparent plastic
Bur to the housewife down to the lost brste Of the
vegetable brush and reduced to welding q broom,
they will lock like the dawn Of brove new world
This won't lost, Of course The encyclopedia VEN
dor will follow the Fuller Brush man. The vacuum
cleaner salesman will be succeeded by the boy who
is working his fathers way through high school by
means Of magazine subscriptions The big parade
will be on.
So if she is forward looking, the housewife even
now will be brushing up on her soles resistance She
might practise UP on that old scandinavian house.
maid nopersonoton she used to use when the soles-
man asked, "Are you the lady Of the house," Thot
IL L. LII .,,kL f0i$h
Of Ioht-heorted Drama She might give some thought
to her neglected footwork for it takes speed to beat
the soesnons toe to that strategic territory between
the door and the omb.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
. SO THEY SAY

The German people may live,
to regret with much bitterness
the day their leaders decided TO
adopt a weapon (robot bombs)
which could not postpone defeat
but which undoubtedly will in
crease. the severity of retribu-
ton which might otherwise have
been somewhat softened by the
far sighted tolerance of Great
Britain The Daily Mail Lon
don newspaper.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The treasurer Of the American
Contract Bridge League, Ralph
w. Gresham of East Orange,
N. D., gave me today's problem.
What would you do with it?
In all probability, South holds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
FAIR ENOUGH

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. g.
(P-E. T. Grass Is IN the hay
business here.