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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09
Death Claims Annie A.
Duncan Early Sunday
Morning At Cut Bank

Seemingly making gradual re
covery from illness developing
from high blood pressure. Mrs.
Annie A. Duncan, was stricken
suddenly last Saturday morning
while doing her kitchen work
Rushed to the Cut Bank Hospi-
tai. che died at 2::45 the following
morning.
Mrs. Duncan's illness began
last October when she was taken
to the Cut Bank Hospital. She re-
NAMED there until December 10.
Leaving the hospital early in De-
cember for further recuperation
at the home Of her daup liter.
Mrs. Sam Arnold at Cut Bank.
she arrived home December 80.
Gladdened to be back home,
where she could make plans well
coming her son. Douglas, who
was to arrive on leave following
graduation a t The naval radio
school at Los Angeles, she appear
ed to be making favorable recov.
cry.
Douglas had visited her at the
Cut Bank Hospital when she was
stricken last October. he having
been granted short emergency
leave.
Still in a serious condition when
he returned to his schooling at
that time the priceless compen-
sation came to mother and son
several weeks ago. when be was
granted an Il-day leave.
Under present circumstances of
military necessity, he was unable
to be present at the funeral. Mrs.
Dupcan's son, Wally, likewise,
was unable to be present.
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Civilian Supplies To Be
Low. OPA Announces

Supplies of meat. butter, sugar.
canned and packaged f . o d q.
clothing and many durable goods
will be smaller in 1915. OPA ad-
vises Record buying and increas-
e d military demands in 1914
greatly reduced reserves. which
have 80 far helped meet dema nds.
The present scarcity of metal
household equipment and appli-
ances will remain acute until
peacetime production can be re-
sumed. At the same time more
people will be eager to replace
equipment and household fur
nishings that are now nearly
worn out. Sh ,rtages always gen.
crate an urge to pay higher
prices to get more.
This increases the dangers of
initiation. In 1945. OPA states,
supplies will he large enough to
meet essential civilian needs but
much smaller than the amount
people could buy with the money
they will have to spend.
The OPA program to meet thi;
situation asks rigid compliance
with rationing regulations and
price ceilings. plus restraint in
buying and q high level OF saw
ings, including war bond pur'
chases.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09
RatiOn-Free Shoe
Sale Coming Up

Limited quantities of mems and
Women's shoes may be sold to con-
sumers ration free at specified price
reductions during the two-weeks
period of February 10 through
March 3, OPA has announced. Two
fold purpose of the temporary ra-
ton holiday is to give consumers
the benefit of extra shoe mileage
that otherwise might remain un-
used on dealers shelves, and to
help dealers clear their stocks of
the normal accumulation of odds
and ends and broken sizes. Before
rationing, such shoes were custo-
marily disposed of in seasonal clear
ance sales. OPA estimates that
about 100000 pair of shoes will
be sold in this special ration-free
sale"
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Oil And Gas Lease
Sale To Be Held
At Agency Mar. z

A sale of oil and gas leases on
allotted and tribal lands will be
held at tn e Blackfeet Indian
agency here March 2.
The tribal land, total n z
1,839.04 acres. i 8 offered as a
unit and one lease will be made
for it. Each allotment will be
offered separately. There are
eight units of this type. totaling
1,236.25 acres, in township 80.
range IL, and rs units. totaling
$500 acres in township "a. range
IL.
The royalty for all leases is
124 percent. The period of the
leases is 10 years from the date
Of approval by the secretary of
the interior and as much longer
as substances specified to t h e
leases are found in paying guam
titles. Rental on land il SIPS an
acre. a year, payable annually
in advance; provided that each
we'll drilled on the tribal land
will reduce the acreage upo n
which rental shall be paid by 800
acres.
The leases provide that the
lessee shall within six months
after the lease is approved begin
an adequate test we'll at q loca-
ton of his own selection. Within
IL months after the drilling is
begun. the we'll shall be com.
pleted to depth of not less than
$500. unless the Madison lime
formation is encountered at q
lesser depth or unless CONNER
cal quantities Of oil and gas
are encountered ats lesser
depth.
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Day Of Prayer Set
For February IS; /
Worldwide Appeal

Browning's observance of the
World Day of Prayer will take
place at the Methodist Church
next Friday evening, Feb. l6. at
Is. All the women of Browning
are urged to attend, The service
offers them An opportunity to
join with all other Christian wo-
men around the world to pray for
their boys in the service. to pray
for those in other countries who
are hungry or homeless from the
war, to pray for the work of the
Church here in America and the
ueedy people of our own country
and to pray for our own needs.
An offering will be taken which
is divided between four interde-
nominational missionary projects.
The first is the support of eight
union Christian colleges for Wo-
men in the Orient. four in India,
one in Japan and three in China.
Although besieged by war the
students in these colleges are
carrying on. Especially in China
the students have made thou
sands of miles journeys on foot.
carrying whatever books and ma
terials they could. going up to the
caves in the mountains for refuge
in order to have a trained leader
ship for China after the war.
AS they move into rural vii
lagos they are teaching the ma
tives to read a n d write. In
Chungking last year 10000 ma
tives learned to read and write.
despite constant bombings. This
new reading public opens up vast
needs for Christian literature.
This is the second project sup.
ported by the Offering. The Bible,
as we'll as Christian magazines,
papers and books. are translated
into thousands of dialects in ORR
entail countries.
The other two projects are for
work at home in America. The
first is work among migrant
workers, vino because they move
from town to town wherever
there is work, have no home life.
no church life. and none of the
benefits of community life. Our
offering helps them to get ade-
quate medical attention. offers
some educational opportunities to
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Browning Soldier Sets
Christian Example For
Enemy To Emulate

Somewhere in the Marianas)
To save the life of a starving
enemy. Marine Private Firs t
Class John J. Kipp, BOX 1874.
of Browning, Mont, carried a
captured Jap on his back up an
Observation-Disclosures 300-f o o t
cliff.
Kipp, an automatic rifleman
with the Third Marine Division,
was on patrol with his outfit be-
low a cliff, on an island recently
seized from the Japanese. When
an enemy survivor. who had been
hiding in the brush surrendered.
Kipp, six foot two-inch, heav-
ily-built Marine. volunteered to
take the prisoner back to camp.
The only way out of the area
was up the face of the cliff. Kipp
realized that the starving Jap
was in nc condition to walk. and
he had him tied to his back, pa
poose style, and began the as
cent.
At first he had little difficulty
with the prisoners 60 pounds.
But the coral cliff became
sleeper and the path more Slip
perry. the weight became heavier
and Kipp began to struggle. He
paused several times. clutching
the underbrush that grew from
the cliffs side. Finally. several
companions helped keep n e
weight of the Jap steady, and he
went the remainder of the way
yard BY yard.
A t the TOP, others took the
prisoner to a Marine csmp where
he was fed and restored to
health.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09

Major John F. Moran of FIT
Douglas, Utah was in Browning
Saturday and Sunday in connec-
ton with work combating es-
pionage. He found the Black
feet Reservation the typical 100
per cent American section. hi
stop-over being listed on t:a IL
inerary throughout the state. he
said.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09

The masquerade and basket
social announced at the Old Agen-
cy Community Hall for Saturday
evening, February ~. has been
changed to this evening by the
committee in charge of plans.
Proceeds will 20 to the Heart
Butte Church. Admission p +
couple will be so cents. with %
cents for extra ladies'.
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Love Tribute Paid
Annie A. Duncan
Here Wednesday

sa~s~ o~SssaOOSaSsY
Funeral services for the late
Mrs. Annie Agnes Duncan were
conducted from the Browning
Methodist Church Wednesday at
2 D. m, with the Rev. Albert
W. Barber of Cut Bank officiat-
ing.
From the text. Cast Thy Bur-
den On The Lord And He Shall
Sustain Thee" the pastor drew
beautiful and solacing thoughts,
stressinR that in the divinity of
the Lord mankind's strength was
secure.
Favorite hymns of t he de-
ceased. Beautiful Isle of Some
where Face To Face" and
! Rock of Ages were sung by
Mrs. K. W. Bergan and Mrs.
Randolph Manuel. with Mrs.
Robert Starr pianist.
Attesting the affectionate re-
gard of friends of Browning and
! neiRhboring communities was the
floral tribute. which was strik-
ingly beautiful.
The funeral services were I'M
der the direction O the Beck
Funeral Home, interment being
made in the Browning cemetery.
iPailbearers were Fred Starr,
A. NJ. Shannon. Richard Taught.
Ed McDougall. X. W. Bergan and
Frank P. Sherburne.
Annie Agnes Duncan was born
at Streator, Illinois December 6,
1886. the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Daily. the family
moving to Park City. Utah when
she was a child. During her
early years her father. who was
employed by mining company.
was killed in a snowslide in the
proximity of the operations.
The daughters schooling WAS
at Park City. 1t was there
where she was betrothed to the
late Jack Duncan, the marriage
being solemnized in Salt Lake
City 10 1902 For several years
the couple resided there. Mr..
Duncan being employed as a
printer on the Salt Lake Tribune.
In 1917 they settled at Denton,
the family then including three
children, one of whom was a son,
Thomas Luayne, W h o passed
away in 1926 at the age of 10.
For several years operating the
Denton Recorder. MIR. Duncan
came to Browning in the spring
of 1884. the family joining him
several months later. From that
year unit. his death in 194l he
was owner and publisher of the
Browning Chief, the widow hav-
ing operated the business since
that time.
Though circumstances in re-
cent years had PLACED the respon-
sibility of the Browning Chief
upon her. it was nearest her
heart to be a loving mother.
Her shrine was of golden men,
cries of her sons and daughters
in their happy childhood. Often
she pondered the exaltation that
] would have been hers were this
group of men and women back
again as a little brood of laugh
ling boys and girls at her knee
side.
With two sons in the armed
forces, she was proud of the
part they were taking. As with
mothers of the world, whose
sons are in the service. she looked
forward to the happy day when
. the war was over and they would
be back in civilian life.
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Notice

NOTICE
There will be a meeting Of the
stock holders of Browning Fair
Association on F ebruar Is.
at the Yegen Hotel, at 500
}. m.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-28
'SELDEN' STOPS
MOTOR TRAFFIC

The feature attraction at the
American Legion Thrill Spring
Fiesta this week at Legion Field
is "Selden''-the famous "Stratos-
phere mainland worlds highest
aerial act, who performs his SEN
sational stunts, at an actual height
of 1873 feet in midair every nlght
at 10: 30 pm. on the midway-free
to the patrons.
selden, whose real name is Ar
seno Selden, is a Danish circus
performer who for many years
has thrilled audiences all over the
United States, Canada and Europe.
He is the sole survivor Of a sex
tette of performers who have at
tempted this hazardous and death
defying act.
His slender steel rigging is ac-
tually 1873 feet high and he presents
his stunts minus the protection OF
any safety devices Or a net. Last
night he tied up traffic on the
boulevard for an hour after his
act, interested spectators watching
the exhibition.
The r and S Amusements are
presenting the midway attractions
at this weeks event and the latest
and greatest rides are providing
plenty of amusement for the mid
way patrons.
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Eisenhower Terms Foe
In West Whipped ARM,

a NH Of remaining Na.i pow,
Eisenhower said thai
reaching the Siegfried lin. amer
autumn, the Allies had these last Is
ternatlves: to attempt to ON b,, a,
through and cross the Pb;a 0seak
a given point by a concentrs s At
OF power, or to defeat the I quo
man army west of the Rhi,a
There was considerable dir..
ence of opinion as to which a'n a
the better plan, the suprem. wi. wa
mander said, but he and manv sO al'
ers favored the latter on wv WV
grounds that, with any si,. bis
German force left west Of W.
Rhine, there always Nas the dsn'
ger OF disastrous counterattacE s''
If the Allies could not deteat ~.
Germans west of the Rhine, tbss '
would have still less chance @'. :,
dong so across the Rhine. -
Then. referring to heavy Gov.
man losses since March /, he ,aid.
You can see what a quarter NJ ,
million men would mean 10 tba
German army east of the Rhins ),
Plans for the attack began earIv
last fall, he said and the progrsn,
was a l-2-3 assault which w,,,a
successfully expose the Germ,s
TANKS. 'A'ah
Asked whether the Germans row
might not fall back on the Wet
preferring occupation by the ws,.
tern powers to Russia, the r.u
eral replied:
Il dom. know who the German,
consider their worst enemy"
Eisenhower paid high tribute 4,
all his field commanders and IN
supply organizations, and as usual
stressed his formula of Teamwork
not only among the Allies, bit
among land. sea and air forces
| Team work wins wars h,
said.
Victories to the west Of III.
Rhine were carved out by soldier,
and tacticians, but they depended
terrifically on the supply people
and taxed the fexibiity of the sun.
ply system to the utmost.
ITO implement the attack, Oh,
ports worked night and day. Dur.
ing February we cleared 5 600 tons
of supplies daily through them,
even through our biggest and only
unchanged port was under con.
slant V-bombing attack.
I'm addition, our engineers
stretched pipelines across the con.
tlnent to carry oil to armies, built
hundreds of bridges, restored thou.
sands of miles of tracks, and sent
trucks and trailers over recon.
structed highways in order to pet
material forward to back the al.
tack.
II should mention too, the superb
work of the medical service In the
evacuation and care Of casual.
! ties.''
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EXPECTS
Mine SETTLEMENT
Continued from Page One)

ed, the miners are not exected to
stay away from work any great
length of time. For one thing, there
are heavy penalties against incit-
ing strikes in Governments seized
plants. Secondly, the miners as
in 1913 are expected to work for
the Government, if not for their
normal employers, in the absence
of a contract.
The National Labor Relations
Board will supervise the strike
vote tomorrow and stand the bill
for it's estimated 100000 cost.
At Pittsburgh, the UNIV district
office distributed $4,000 imitation
ballots calling on workers to SUD
mort your unions damands for q
new contract In other soft coal
areas, however, no campaigning
was reported.
Lewis filed notice of a wage dis
pute in the anthracite field, involv-
mo $4,000 miners in northea stern
Pennsylvania.
AS is the case of the soft coal
dispute, this calls for strike vote
within 80 days, probably April 26
Ten thousand employees of the Phil.
adelphia and Reading Coal and
IRON Co. are excluded because the
government now is operating that
property.
- NIc
sounds familiar to ashington Of
ficialdom and coal people. For in
1913, Interior Secretary 1ckes as
Solid Fuels Administrator. took
over the mines after futile efforts
to get the disputants together.
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dents, Eisenhower told them how
far tina. was. But it is not for
publication since it might help the
enemy.
It is farther than the public
might think, but it will not take
the Western Allies up the the pres
ent Russian lines.
While bridges are being thrown
across the Rhine in 10 hours, it
takes time to build railway
bridges, and the lack of rail COM
munications will for the present
limit the eastward advance, Els
enhower said.
The Germans are expected to es-
tablish a new line along that linn
it. If they fall back into Bavaria
they probably will draw back their
northern flank, he said, and if
they stand along the sea in the
north they probably will fold back
the southern flank. fighting the
usual tough delaying actions.
II believe that, so far as he is
able, the German will stand and
fight wherever we find him, the
general declared.
'"The elimination of German
troops west of the Rhine was one
Of the greatest victories of this
or any other war"
The Germans, he said, decided
to stand west of the Rhine in the
face of overwhelming Allied at
tacks and were destroyed. That,
he added was the greatest error
since the neny's Ardenes often
sive last December and the Ger
man decision to stand and fight
after the Allies broke out of the
Normandy beachhead last sum.
mer.
The general remarked that Ma
ri mentality apparently dictated
the decision to stand and fight
everywhere, and said he expected
this formula to be continued.
Now the enemy was stripped OF
the power to form another strong,
SOIlIlI1QOuS Lille, dIlQ OIlSc tllG al
lies build up strength beyond the
Rhine, the march eastward will
continue.
The loss of the three great in
dustrial regions of Silesia, the
Ruhr and Saar, Eisenhower said
would limit the time the Germans
could wage organized warfare TN
less they could come up with new
inventions not requiring heavy in
dustry.
Victory in the Rhineland was
achieved quicker and at less cos
than the Allied generals had ex
pected, and it cost the German:
100000 men in captives alone
since March 1, he said.
That victory ended one phase O.
the Allied campaign, and now be
gins another: the penetration into
the heart of Germany and the an
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roaring First Army tank forces
registered gains as high as q
miles during the day, maintaining
constant pressure on the frantic
and disorganized enemy. During
Monday night Hodges infantry
crossed hastily-built bridge over
the Lair river at Limburg, and
with the dawn his tanks began
tearing along the suIerhighway to-
ward Frankfurt.
First and Third Army troops
were disclosed already to have
linked up four miles south of
Cobienz, far behind the plunging
spearheads.
The advances were so swift that
officers at American headquarters
could only shake their heads and
point vaguely to the east and say
they're somewhere out there"
Thousands of prisoners overrun
by First and Third armored col
umns streamed to the rear, some
times without a single guard.
Bridges and roads to the east were
damned with supplies pouring in
behind the rampaging armor and
motorized infantry. The identities
of the powerful armored divisions
leading the breakthrough were
concealed temporarily.
Only the American Ninth Army
still was meeting stiff resistance
as it fought savagely into the
Ruhr east of Vessel. After being
held for IS hours, 1t. Gen. William
H. Simpsons 30th sivisions drove
eastward two miles within two
miles Of Dorsten, which is 16 milNs
east Of the Rhine at Vessel. The
18th Division took Holten, at the
edge of the Ruhr near Sterkrade,
seven miles northwest of Essen.
Prisoners from Panzer d.
vision which broke under the Ninth
Army's violent attack said they
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Service Group Approves
Reinstatement OfLo0ney

At special meeting in the City
Council chamber last night, the
City Civil Service Commission rec
commended that Police Officer C.
c. Looney be reinstated with full
compensation for the time he was
suspended, March 3, by order of
Chief Charles H. Casteen.
Chief Casteen disclosed last night
that he would have to wait for or
ders from City officials as to whe-
Their he would reinstate the Off
Ger.
When asked why the Civil Serv-
ice Commission did not recommend
that the officer be reinstated at
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had suffered such extreme losses
in the past So hours they no longer
could resist.
British airborne troops pushed
to the outskirts of Brunen, five
miles northeast of Vessel, while
the American 18th Airborne smash
ed three miles to Grudenburg, six
miles east Of Vessel, and linked
up firmly with the Ninth Army's
Both Division.
North Of Brunen, British Second
Army forces were reported smash
ing eastward almost unopposed,
with censorship hiding their exact
movements. The fanatical resis-
lance which Scottish and Canadian
troops had been meeting in the
Rees area, at the northern end OF
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's bridgehead, appeared to
be collapsing, front dispatch said.
At the extreme west flank Of
Montgomery's holdings, Canadians
drove toward Fornick and Emmer-
Emmerich-Rees highway in gains
up to three miles beyond Millingen.
Highlanders astride the Millingen-
Anholt road northeast of Millingen
smashed to within a mile and a
half of 1sselPerg.
Montgomery push had swept up
16, 900 prisoners in four days-more
than 5000 of them falling to the
U. S. Ninth Army and 11,148 to
British and Canadian forces. The
Ninth Army's 10Th Division was
fighting within a half-mile of a SIX
lane superhighway which slices
through the Ruhr
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's U.
Is. Seventh Army climaxed it's long
drive northward from the Mediter-
ranean by making two crossings of
the Rhine early Monday in the
area north of Mannheim, it was
disclosed. A firm bridgehead some
10 miles wide by four deep had
been secured by noon Monday and
six towns on the east bank had
been cleared of Nazis.
There was no indication of the di-
rection Patch's drive would take
from the Rhine. Few large towns
lie in the loop of the Rhine facing
him, but 120 miles directly east
lies Nuremberg. At the northern
end of the bridgehead Seventh Ar
my troops held half the town of
Gernsheim at last report. Lam
pertheim and Burstadt in the area
across the river from Worms also
were partly in American hands.
Sandhofen, a mile north of Mann
helm, was seized soon after Patch's
troops crossed in rubber boats and
amphibious vehicles.
In its dash down the Autobahn
southeast of Limburg today the
First Army's Ninth Armored Divi-
=, sion passed scores of German
tanks, trucks and halftracks aban-
doned by the Germans in their
flight-apparently because they had
run out Of fuel. It was the Ninth
Armored Division which captured
the Remagen bridge and gave the
First Army its bridgehead across
the Rhine.
A field dispatch said that sheer
quits and the brilliant leadership of
1t. Col. Embry Lagrew of Licking
ton, KY, enabled Doughboys of
Patton's Sixth Armored Infantry to
seize the damaged rail bridge at
Frankfurt and come to grips with
Nazi troops holding the Main city
east of the river.
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the special meeting in the Superior
courtroom Monday, Robert H. Will
liams, secretary of the commits
sion, pointed out that the group
had not had the opportunity to
discuss the problem sufficiently,
and postponed further action until
last night.
The commission gave civil serv-
ice examinations to M. c. White
and C. M. Wolfe, who are seeking
positions with the Fire Depart
ment. However, neither have been
certified, Williams disclosed, point
ing out the the outcome of the ex-
aminations is not ready to be made
public