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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
TRADITIONAL
GRID BATTLE
HERE FRIDAY
Scots and Wolf Point to Tangle
in Contest On Glasgow
Field

Traditional rivals will clash when
Glasgow high meets Wolf Point on
the local football field at 8 Friday
night-a game in which the out
come never can be predicted with
certainty. This year, on paper, Glas-
gov appears to have the edge but
the Scotties will have to overcome
that Wolf Point jinX."
Carrying out this thought. Coach
Ray Baker commented, III be happy
with a win by a touchdown" And to
back it up he has been holding long
and hard practice sessions, including
a scrimmage game Tuesday night
with a tough alumni outfit that sci
the regulars back by n goal.
The Wolves opened their season al
home last week. minus nine of last
years lettermen. and lost to Willis
ton. N. d, 10 to O. Coach Bob Lowry,
who was a visitor in Glasgow last
week. expressed pessimism about his
squads chances. However, the wolves
are always scrappy and have sev-
eral aces in the hole, including
Fullback Homer Steele, 210-pound
line smasher, and five other seniors.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Kennedy, Former
Valley Man, Freed
From Jap Camp

Jack Kennedy, former Valley
county resident, was liberated from
a Japanese prison camp about Sept.
10. Mr.. and Mrs. George Haynes of
Fort Peck have been informed by
a brother, Bob Kennedy, who is in
Honolulu.
The Kennedys for many years OPP
Grated a ranch in the Fort Peck
reservoir area. The soldiers father,
Jack Kennedy ST., died some years
ago.
The family later moved to Boze-
man and Jack completed his first
year at Montana State college. His
mother, Mrs. Delphia Kennedy, now
lives in Seattle. Family members
said he intends to return to Boze-
man to resume his studies.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Stores Will Close
During Hours Of
Baseball Contest

The Glasgow Chamber of Com
merce mercantile committee n
nounced today that local c%ooperat-
ing stores will be closed from 2 to
I the afternoon of oct. 8 to permit
attendance at the exhibition game
being staged here by the American
League All-Stars and Junior Legion
PLAYERS. The game is sponsored by
the American Legion post and the
committee recommended that all
business places close, Chairman E.
y. Benson said.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Lieut.. Armstrong
Is Released
from Prison Camp

Lieut.. George Armstrong, husband
of Mrs. Eloise Armstrong of GlaS-
Cow. who is now teaching in Tacoma,
Wash, was released from ZentSuji
prison camp on Shikoku island,
Japan. on Sept. 8, according to word
received by Mrs. Armstrong; par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ruiz
corn.
Mrs. Armstrong received official
notification of the release from the
war department.
Lieutenant Armstrong, a fighter
pilot, went overseas in December,
1910. He was captured in 1912 in the
fall of the Philippines.
He is the son of MI. and Mrs. H
J.. Armstrong and for many years
made his home in Havre.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Growers Open Record
Harvest Of Beets In
Valley County Area
ALMOST 1000 ACRES BEING DUG;
MCDANIEL LOADING IN
WHOLE TERRITORY

The largest sugar beet harvest in the history of the Glas-
gov area got underway this week in Valley county, according
to A. j. Moore, Glasgow fieldman for Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany.
Almost 1000 acres of beets will be harvested this year,
compared with 2,200 acres in 1914, Mr.. Moore reports.
With 10000 lambs expected to be on feed in the Milk
River irrigated area in 1915, compared with only 1000 that
were fed here last year, increased interest in the use of sugar
beet by-products is also indicated, Mr.. Moore points out.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Begin Survey
On REA Line
INV Courier CORRESPONDENT

OPHEIM-W j. Hauck OF HeIena
field engineer for the REA, and
william Barworth of the state water
conservation board, who has been
designated resident engineer here,
were here this week looking over
proposed routes of Northern Elec-
trio Coop lines prior to stalking
them out.
Mr.. Barworth. with other engin-
GERS. will be stationed here during
the construction period on the REA
project. Contractors and supply men
held conferences here Tuesday Win
directors of the REA.
Tentative plans ire for a major
substation to be built in the Lars
Ian area. Temporarily. a substatlon
NAV be built at Scobey.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Opheim Man, Four
Years Jap
Prisoner, Is Free
BY Courier Correspondent

BY Courier correspondent
OPHEIM - Private Glenn
Watterud has been liberated
from Osaka i'm Japan after
being a prisoner of war for four
years, according to a telegram
received by his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Axel Watterud, Saturday.
He is to be returned to the
United States as soon as possible.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
PFC. Pagan Is Now
Liberated from
yap Prison Camp

Bv Courier Correspondent
OPHEIAI-NIrS. DOrcas Pagan
received word Wednesday that
her son. Pfc. Thomas Dale
Pagan, who has been a prisoner
of war Of the Japanese for al
most four years, was liberated
and turned over to United
states forces on Sept. 8. His
condition is reported as good.
Pfc. Pagan is expected in the
United states soon. He is the
second north country soldier to
re freed from a Japanese prison
camp. He was taken in the fall
Of the Philippines.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

Ole HammerneSs. at fullback, will
be Scot signal caller. Regular Joe
Luckman will be in suit but prob
ably will not see action because of
a leg injury. Others who will be
suited are Mag and Peterson, ends;
Holland and SCHNEIDER, tackles;
Rohrer and Bruce, guards; Heating,
center. and Mickey Luckman, Cush-
ing. Fargo and johnson, backs.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Steer Brings
$30A i'm Sc. Paul

OPHEIM-What stockyards au-
thorities called the biggest steer
from Montana this year brought its
owner. Gilbert Swanson of Opheim.
1904. 30 on the market at South 81.
Paul last week. The four-year-old
animal. weighing 1,790 pounds.
brought IT cents a pound and was
featured with a photograph In a
market publication.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
ON GRAND OLD LADY"

A navy press release brings WOrd
that Seaman Second Class Andrew
c. Sanders of Fort Peck route is
serving on the USS Arkansas,
grand old lady Of the sea" Just
past her 33rd anniversary. the Ar
kansas is the oldest battleship in
the fleet. She was in the Okinawa.
Two lima and Philippines cam
paigns. as well as at the Normandy
beachhead.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
WILL, FEED LAMBS

NASHUA - Ross Noble shipped
seven carloads of sheep to Nashua
from Cascade and Fort Shaw, and
will feed them on his farm north OF
Nashua. His wheat field had been
hailed during the summer and VIII
now serve as pasture to start them
on feed.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

First beets over the dump
this year in the Glasgow dis
trict were reported Monday at
Hinsdale. Slightly wet ground re-
tarded digging the two opening days
but considerable tonnage is expected
at all receiving stations before the
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
DEACONEss HOSPITAL BIRTHS

To Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Lefdahl
of Malta. a daughter, Sept. p.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Munsen
of Glasgow a daughter. Sept. %.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Carter V. john
son of Fort Peck a son. Sept. %.
To Mr.. and Mrs. John Botkin of
Glasgow a son, sept. 26.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

In another month or two, our
fine big airbase on the hill will
not even be in operation for
housing war prisoners. Any
number of local and nearby
pilots would like to have the
use of the field, which has been
restricted by military authori-
ties. IL would be to the towns
advantage for our civic groups
10 work out this problem with
the military, especially since it
is a couple of months since VI
day and no one can see any fur
Their possible army need for the
base.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

Miles City tied &c in its gridircn
opener with Forsyth high Friday
night. But that hardly means that
he COWBOYS are to be discounted
in Glass A Examinations in this dis
trjmt. FORSYTH consistently has n
of the strongest Glass B clubs in n
state. Forsyth got its score on a
pass interrogation while the Cowboys
made a Garrison finish in the last
minutes, after recovering a KICKOFF,
TO pass and slash their way 10 a
score from midfield.
George Wright of Havre, united
States marshal for Montana, was
Wondering here Saturday Just why
he didn't have a large bump on MS
head instead of the jailer IN Great
Fails who was slugged by a JuVenlle
Friday in an attempted break 0
the Cascade calaboose. MarShal
wright had transported the boy
two others from Thompson Falls to
Great Falls. Strangely, he said, the
SlIlrper appeared the meekest OF tne
lot The federal official comment.
ed on the number of wild boys
the coast boom areas have spawn
e5 MANY are found in Montana
With stolen cars. Incidentally, IN
the old Glasgow days when George
lived here. ne was known as Sill
emit a sobriquet earned during d
historic and riotcuS baSepal col-
test with Malta.
After blowing around in the slip
nerv eumbo on the football field
Friday night. this columnist a a
nersonal reason for supporting the
fans who have been talking up a
turfed field. A game on grass not
only would look better but, WIN Che
uncertain fall weather oil thlS sec
ton, would be better.
And who. asks the Old Crouch,
would best qualify for first cousin
to a polecat? His answer is any
one who would take advantage OF a
returned veteran in a business zeal
or sale.
II wasn't the labor shortage, but
mistaken identity" that caused a
delav in Frank Rice's delivery syS-
TEN this week. Frank sold a 10
pound watermelon to Hugh NC
Clean. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
MCLEAN, then told the boy to put
il in the Rice car near the grocery
if he wished Frank to deliver 1t al
ter work. Came quitting time and
Frank saw no melon in the car; he
assumed Hughie had decided TO
carry it home. But Mrs. MCLEAN
said I'VE haven't got the melon.
-Four days later, Frank saw another
coupe parked in front OF his store
and you're right, on the back shelf
was the melon in its original box.
Hughie picked the wrong car.
Because this column sometimes
throws mild brickbats we think an
enthusiastic bouquet is in order Tor
Miss Catharine Cassidy, high school
history instructor, for a scholarly
and logical talk to Glasgow Kiwan-
ians last week on the occasion q
Constitution week. Miss Casadys
point. and we think it is well taken,
was that trainers of the United
States constitution faced the same
sort of regional jealousies and other
handicaps in drawing that remark
able instrument that was encount-
cred in drafting the United Nations
charter. And wise old Ben Franklln's
words then are eve more true IN
this day of atomic warfare: we
must all hang together or we snail
hang separately
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Around 70 4
The - ~
Town "a

Is there a little BOBBY trap in your
home? Col. A. V. Dishman of the
Ninth service command writes ask
ing that people who have ammuni-
ton souvenirs of the war, potential
sudden death, handle them with
care. They shouldn't be fooled
with. if you're inexperienced. Even
though the main charge has been
removed, there is enough explosive
in a fuze or cap to cause serious
injury. Such souvenirs car be in
erted by contracting the command
ing officer of the nearest army post
to secure an examination by an eX-
pert munitions officer.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

1t is an interesting, perhaps use
less, statistic that when one of u
Scotty football players steps on the
field he weighs II pounds more than
he did stripped in the locker room.
Shoes, pants, helmets, shoulder
pads, kidney pads, etc, make up the
difference.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

And while we're issuing warnings,
merchants and law officers tell us
there are a lot CT bad checks float
ing around these days. 1t is always
good policy to be careful of the
identity of strangers who want to
cash checks. They're hard to find,
once they have your money.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-09

large in London). I reco11ect that
those talks were intercepted by the
Germans.
Marshall said he had a test made
on the transatlantic cable. and
found that conversations could be
intercepted. He said he urged Mr..
Roosevelt and Churchill to use a
"scrambler" phone.
But it was not until long after
the war had started that. suitable
scrambler was developed, he told
the committee.
Marshall said "a telephone is a
very easy instrument to tap and
radio telephone is even EASIER
But in any event, if he had called
anyone on Dec. 7, he added, he
would have called Gen. Douglas
Macarthur in the Philippines first.
It was his pre-Pearl Harbor be-
lief that any japanese offensive
would be aimed southwark toward
the Philippines rather than the
daring attack on Pearl Harbor. The
army, Marshall said, thought the
aircraft plants at Seattle and San
Diego were more likely targets
for surprise attack than Hawaii.
An army board which investi-
gated the Pearl Harbor defeat had
criticized both Gerow and Marshall
for not properly evaluating Shorts
message to the Nov. q warning.
IT can only say Marshall told
the committee, 'that that was my
opportunity to intervene and did
not take it. Just why, I do not
know
Pressed by Ferguson as to who
was responsible, Marshall said the
War Plans division handled details
of such messages.
"But," he added, ''the respon-
sibility was mine rs well as Gene
raj Gerow's."
Marshall reiterated that he had
no recollection of seeing Shorts
reply but said that presumably
he did see it.
Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R.,
Calf, went through the army
boards criticism of Marshall point
by point, asking Marshall to COM
ment. n !
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GIN STRIKERS REJECT
TRUMAN'S PEACE PLAN
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mans plan to injure our bargain
ing position.
Charging that a comparison OF
the Truman proposal with the rail-
way act is deliberately mislead-
ing" Thomas said: The railway
labor act uses persuasion; Pres
ident Truman's bill uses tins police
mans club"
Meantime, the White House ha:
not acted on Mr.. Truman's an
nouncement that he would name a
fact-fi1.ding board to investigate
the General Motors strike in the
public interest.
The presidential proposal for leg.
islative authorization Of such
boards for major labor disputes
has been embodied in a bill in.
troduced by Rep. Mary Norton, D.
N. j., chairman of the House La.
Dor committee.
Under this bill, the board would
be appointed by the president upon
certification of disputes by the
Labor department. For 80 days
after such certific alton, strikes ir
the dispute would be illegal.
The fact-finding board would be
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empowered to subpoena persons
and records pertinent to the dis
pute and to make a settlement rec
ommendation. This recommended
ton, however, would not be bind
ing on either party.
AS represented by the UAW
view, labor opposes the compul-
sorry strike-ban and lack OF labor
voice in naming the fact-finding
boards. Industry objects because
of the weight of public opinion
which might be exercised against
disputing company and because
of the provision for access to COM
pany records.
Collective bargaining negotia-
tions, favored by both labor and
management for settlement of dis
putes, will be resumed Monday at.
ternoon in the General Motors
strike. no.
Despite expressed hopes by Of
ficials of both groups for peace
before Christmas through such ne
gotiations, neither side compro-
missed on original strike-provoking
positions during two sessions held
during the last week.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-09
DISABLED VESSEL
REACHES BERMUDA

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. g.
R-"We wanna be home by Christ
mas! We wanna be home by
Christmas!" chanted $50 American
soldiers lining the rails, Of the
transport George W. McCrary as
she locked at St. George today at
ter a narrowing 21-days voyage
from Antwerp.
The chances that the McCrary's
troops and SAL from the transport
Henry War Beecher, disabled At
sea, would be in the United States
considerably before Christmas ap-
peared certain as the emergency
transport Saturnia arrived in Ham
ilton to pick up the contingents
from both ships.
The Beecher was reported as
still $50 miles at sea and proceed
ing to Bermuda in tow, but the
Saturnia is tentatively scheduled
to sail for New York Tuesday with
the men from both ships.
The McCrary was in trouble from
the time she left Antwerp and yes
terday she took a 45-degree roll
from which her skipper. Capt.
Allan Covy of Daphne, Ala, said
he thought she would never re-
cover. The food ran short and the
last of it was served at noon to-
day just before the ship made peN
1T was a nightmarish expert
ence," Covy said, as he told of the
vessels developing boiler trouble
just out of Antwerp. II disliked
taking the ship out in the first
place because she was in damag-
ed condition and loaded light.
That's dangerous combination
for sailing"
Other reasons for taking 81 days
for a normal friday passage, Covy
said, were fog in the English chan
mel, a hydraulic steering casualty
and blown boiler tubes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-09
SERVICE MERGER
RAPED BY KING

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8-(R -
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King de-
livered a parting .broadside tonight
against proposals to merge the
navy and army.
In his final report as command
er-in-chief of the fleet and CHIEF
Of naval operations, he also fired
away at suggestions for separating
naval aviation from the rest 81
the service and for scrapping bat.
tleships for carriers.
Because of its mobility and the
striking power and long range of
its weapons" King said, ''the air.
craft carrier has proved itself a
major and vital element of naval
strength, whose only weakness
its ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
support of all other types, and
thereby places an additional pre-
MUM on the flexibility and bal
ance of our fleet. The balance
fleet is the effective fleet.
"In balanced fleet the several
components must be welded to.
gether rather than simply coor-
dinated."
AS submarine officers must al.
ternate periods of service on sub
marines with duty aboard other
kinds of ships, he continued, so
aviators should rotate in other
characterization is part of the or
binary daily life of the officer at
sea-"
THE strength Of the navy" King
reported to Secretary Forrestal.
Lies in the complete Indignation
of its submarine, surface and air
elements"
The 61-page report, covering the
last phases of the Pacific fighting
and the first of occupation and de-
mobilization, was shot through
with arguments against a unified
War and Navy Department.. At
one point King wrote:
1--WE now have before us the es-
sential lessons of the war. It is my
earnest conviction that whatever
else may have been learned as to
the most effective relationship Of
the ground, naval and air forces,
the most definite and most impor-
tant lesson is that to attempt unity
Of command in Washington is i'll
advised in concept and would be
impracticable of realization"
Unity OF command at the high
est military level, in Washington,
was never attempted" King said
at another point, NOR, in fact,
seriously considered. 1t is mat
ter of record that the strategic
direction of the war, as conducted
collectively by the joint chiefs Of
staff, was fully as successful as
were the operations they directed.
The joint chiefs of staff system
proved its worth,
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day advanced reasons why tree
would be located on the postoffice
lawn in lieu of a widely-acclaimed
Wilmington practice of decorating
the much larger Hilton Park tree.
Reynolds said the latter plan
would be impractical this year be-
cause of additionals and improve
ments to the new water plant at the
park which have altered conditions
considerably.
He further explained that after
four years of not having the tree,
I'VE must start on a much smaller
scale and work up to a big cele-
bration."
Santa Claus will be welcomed to
the city by J. E. L. Wade and con-
veyed to the postoffice, where he
will meet the children and hand out
treats from his gift bag.
Christmas carols will be sung to
ROTC band-furnished music. Parti-
cipants in holiday celebrations in
clude the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts,
C t y Recreation department,
YWCA, USO S and other agencies.
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RUSSIANS MAKE
CHINESE GRANTS
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\OOASAAuOu + AOIn axe OncD
ned entry of Chinese troops on the
ground it was free port.
AS for Hardin and Changchun,
both lie 50 far north that Chung
king feared Chinese Communists
would beat them to both cities if
the Russians withdrew Dec. 10 as
planned.
At Chungking's request, Moscow
recently agreed to delay recalling
its occupation forces from Man
churia until Jan. 3. The Generals
simo's son then renewed negotia-
tons for arranging to fly Chinese
troops into Machuria.
Tue Army newspaper did not say
whether the troops would be flown
in to the cities or would move over
the Dairen to : Hardin railway,
which last was reported still in
operation.
Gen Tu Lining, commander of
Central Government troops in
Manchuria who is now visiting
here, estimated 10000 Chinese
Communist troops were scattered
over the vast territory.
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NAILS PICKED UP
CHI CHILL, F. R.
ON THE TELEPHONE
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second warning, Marshall alluded
10 the Roosevelt-Churchill talks.
I'm not sure, looking back on
ii now, whether that was the rea-
son l didn't use the telephone at
that time" Marshall said.
u do recall, however, that Mr..
Roosevelt frequently talked to Mr..
Churchill on the telephone and that
their conversations were intercept
ted by the Germans.
Marshall explained securely was
consideration. He knew the mes
sage, as it was sent, would be in
code He was not sure. However,
whether that was the reason he did
not use the telephone. He told the
committee that every effort was
hese a chance to claim that this
oelns made not to give the Japa.
country took the first overt action.
Overt Act
ferguson wanted to knew how
using the telephone could have
0een called an overt act.
I think the japanese would
nave grasped at any straw to
prove to such sections of our public
as doubted our integrity that we
naa committed an overt act"
Marshall said.
he added that the Japanese might
nave intercepted the message if
II mad been telephoned. In this
connection he added:
MIR. Roosevelt was in the fre-
quent habit of talking to the prime
mn minister on the telephone. He also
talked to Mr.. Bullitt civilian c.
ounltt, then an ambassador-at-
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LOCATION CHANGED
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(COntlnued From rage OHe)
appropriate Christmas music from
II to 2 p. m. daily Except Sun
days. from Dec. 10 through Christ
mas and from $50 to- 7 pm. at
nights, including Sunday. Jesse Sci
ylers, chairman of a Jaycee decorat-
ing committee, will be in charge OF
the playing of records.
An additional treat has been plan
ned under the supervision of Miss
Katherine Malone, director of. the
Fifth and Orange USO. Under her
direction, church groups, glee clubs
and other community groups will
join in Christmas carols at the tree
from 7 to 7:;30 nightly from Dec. 19
through Christmas eve.
Miss Malone's committee also
will help with the preparing of dec
orations for the tree.
! Jesse A. Reynolds, Recreation
department superintendent, yester-