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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
House Invites Army Troupe
 To Legislature

If the Army actors that entertain ed Juneau servicemen and civilians yesterday question the success of their show they can take new heart from the comment in the House of Representatives this morning.
 Said Representative Gill, Its the best show some of us have ever seen," and the Chief Clerk was in- structed to write letters of apprecia- tion.
 And you might add,' said Gill, that we will extend them in re- turn the gallery rights to see our show"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
SPEAKERS TO TELL OF RED CROSS WORK
 AT {. {. MEETING

Two speakers will talk on the work of the Red Cross in war and peace at the noon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce tomorrow, it is announced today by Program Chairman Harry Godson. They will be the Rev. w. Robert Webb, drive chairman, and Superintendent of Juneau Public Schools A. B. Phillips.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
iet your money ready

Get your money ready!
 Solicitation in the Juneau Red Cross War Fund campaign will start ltonorroV when an army eof workers will begin contracting resi- dents of the Gastineau Channel area, with the goal set at S13,056 to be raised for the local chapter
 The solicitors are busy people, so have your cash or check ready when they make their call.
 Then remember the big Red Cross Rally in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel Friday night, starting at 830 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
IS POUNDED BY
 U. 5. PLANES
Fires Are Started in Var i0us Stdtions-Form0sa
 Is Also Bombed

U. s. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28-Bor- neo has been pounded by over 100 tons of bombs dropped on concen- trated airdromes and port facilities Huge columns of smoke arose from the bombed areas.
 Fires have also been started in the barracks area of Formosa which was plastered with a Cotton bomb droppage.
 Three coastal vessels were dam aged and probably sunk later.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
PETERSBURG ARREsT

Elmer Johnson, arrested in Peters burg yesterday by U. s. Deputy Marshals is to be returned to Juneau to face charges of allegedly issuing checks without funds, it was an- nounced today by Marshal William T. Mahoney.
 Johnson was taken into custody on complaint issued by U. S. Con- missioner Felix Gray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
MISSIONARY SOCIETY, MEMORIAL CHURCH, IS
 TO MEET TOMORROW

The Missionary Society of Memor- ial Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Clara Barlow at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening.
 Since business of importance will be discussed it is urged that all members reserve time for the meet ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
WAY CLEARED FOR WALLACE TO GET POST

WASHINGTON. Feb. 28.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has cleared the way to the Cabinet Post for Henry A. Wallace by signing the George Bill, legislation which separates huge Federal Lending agencies from the Commerce Department.
 Administration leaders told Presi- dent Roosevelt that his signature would be the price of getting Henry Wallace approved by the Senate as Secretary of Commerce.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
STORMS ON VISIT

MT. and Mrs. Joseph Storms and son, John, arrived in Juneau today by plane to visit MT. and Mrs. Arthur Geyer and Dr. and Mrs. John Geyer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
FROM PORTLAND

MT. and Mrs. George Wood, of Portland, Oregon. are guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
FROM KETCHIKAN

William E. Byrd, Ketchikan, is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
GRAYs VISIT

MT. and Mrs. Frank Gray, regis tering from Fairbanks, are staying at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
Alaska May Be Only
 Salmon Supply Source;
 One Service Is Worried

were farmed out in the lleadwaters of Columbia river streams that came in below Grand Coulee. Never in history had there been such an experiment in fish propagation. Sal mon came back to their birthplace to spawn five years after birth. Fish and Wildlife experts had to wait five years to find out if the fingerlings dumped in these tributary head waters would come back there to spawn or beat themselves to death in the rapids below Grand Coulee. Last year the graduates of Uncle Sans Fish college" at Leavonworth came through Grade-A with fins flying. Like a perfectly drilled army the platoons and battalions wheeled off the Columbia into the streams where they had been transplanted and spent their youth.
 Doctor GalbrielSon and his staff were vindicated in an experiment that some ichthyologists thought foolhardy. In 194 they breathed more easily than they had since 1889. They had made their first in terest payment on millions of tax payer money. They had proved that Salmon could be transplanted to other than their native propagation grounds and would go back to those headwaters to spawn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28

When Bonneville dam was con- structed on the Columbia, there wasn't much of problem. It's just short of 75 feet high and it was no trick at all to build ladders that the salmon could take in their upstream stride. Grand Coulee dam was something different. Its $50 feet height ruled out ladders and salmon.
 That's when Doctor Gabrielson's boys got busy. They started trap ping salmon below Grand Coulee, rushed them by truck to Leavon- worth, Wash, in the Cascade moun- tairis and there developed the worlds greatest fish hatchery. The fing- erlings grown in these hatcheries
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.--Oyer in the Fish and Wildlife Service, Di- rector Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson and his staff are holding their breath. They want to know what's going to happen to the post graduates of Uncle Sam's Fish college"
 Don't take this tracheal constric- tion lightly. If the good doctor and his' staff breathe easily again, it will mean that Americas No. fish food -salmon-will continue to be No. l. The alternative: Salmon may be- come as scarce as caviar is outside of USSR official banquets.
 It's a long story but I will try to boil it down. The Columbia river in Oregon is the greatest natural sal mon hatchery in the world. Every fifth year of their lives, these odd fish come out of nobody knows where in the briny, crawl and climb their way up freshwater streams to propagate in the very same waters that gave them birth.
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The trouble now is that the story is only half told. Although only a small percentage of the Columbia river salmon spawned above the present site of Grand Coulee. most of them used tributary streams be- tween Grand Coulee and Bonneville. Tn top drawer postwar plans are blueprints for nearly a dozen more
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-28
AMERICAN
 ADvAN(EIN
 FULL. SPEED
Germans Reported Re- treating in Disorder
 Movements Secret

BULLETIN--PARIS, Feb. 28 First Army tanks and infan- try battled tonight within six and one-half miles of Cologne after throwing three bridge heads across Che Erft River and only flat plain lay ahead to the great city on the Rhine.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
Forger Given
18-M0nthl
Term i'm Prison

Rufus Rector, &c, who pleaded
guilty to forgery before Judge John
Hurry in district court last week, was
sentenced to 10 months in state pri-
son and was taken to Deer Lodge
Sunday by Sheriff E. L. Mcpherson.
Information was filed by Thomas
Dignan, acting county attorney,
charging that Rector had cashed a
check for SGT at the Glasgow j. G.
Penney store which bore the sigma
ture of Adolph Nybakken and with
the notation labor" A similar
check had been passed at Buttrey's
here.
Rector actually had worked for
Nybakken, officers said, but the
check was fraudulent. Information
from the federal bureau of investi-
cation after Rector's fingerprintS
had been sent to the agency showed
a prior criminal record. 1t began
May l. 1885 in Nashville. N. c.,
where he was given nine months for
theft of a COW.
Several other arrests were re-
ported. the most recent at Great
Falls, Nov. %, 1914, where he served
three months for petty larceny.
Rector said his home was in North
Carolina.
accompanying the sheriff as far
as Great Falls was a military police
man. who was guard for John j.
O'Neil, 43. who was arrested here
July 4 after theft of a watch from
William Hoffman, transient, in the
Mcmillan hotel. Records showed
O'Neil was an army deserter from
WaIa Walla, Wash.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
OTHER TOWNS
ALSO URGING
PECK CUTOFF
Highway South from Project
Gets Support of Circle
and Jordan

A Glasgow Chamber Of Commerce
delegation that visited Circle anc
Jordan Tuesday received encourag-
ing support of the move toward
construction of the cutoff road south
from Fort Peck, joining the Central
Montana highway near Van Nor
man.
Heading the group from here was
Mark Watson, chairman of the
Chamber highway committee. along
with Paul Fried and L. v. Lock-
wood, members, and Chamber Sec
rotary Josef Shower.
The proposed cutoff was put on
the state-federal 7 percent system
some years ago and assurances that
it would be built were received from
the state highway commission
shortly before the war began.
Interest is reviving in the road
construction as a postwar project.
Meetings in Circle and Jordan were
with business men and county Of
ficials and it was agreed that the
construction will be urged On the
highway department and the feder-
al bureau of public roads.
The cutoff would eros Fort Peck
dam, then swing south along the
east side of the Big Dry arm of Fort
Peck lake. 1t would provide improved
north-south connections between
many Montana areas and also would
provide a scenic and recreational
Many eastern Montana people
are now finding fishing excellent
along the east side of the Big Dry
lake arm.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
Big Volume
I'm Cannery
at HinSdale
By Courier Correspondent

HINSDALE-The Hinsdale COM
munity cannery has processed more
than 1000 cans of vegetables. fruit
and chicken in slightly more than
a week of operation, it is reported
by Supervisor r. r. Daley. The can
merry has drawn patronage from a
wide area of western Valley county
and has drawn much favorable COM
ment from both town and country
people who have used it. he said.
The cannery is now operating on
a schedule OF three days each week,
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 to
6, and Saturday between ! and 6.
These hours are set for the conven-
fence of the public and will be
changed or increased if required for
coed service.
Produce canned so far includes
beans. peas, beetS, carrots, chickens,
cherries. raspberries, peaches. april
cots and plums. All necessary tools
and equipment are provided to turn
the raw product into finished can
ned food. Salt tablets are furnished,
but sugar and syrup fer fruit must
be provided by the patron.
A double-Size pea shelter capable
of Smelling a bushel of peas in five
minutes Or less is now in operation
at the cannery.
All facilities of the cannery are
available at one cost, that for cans.
Mrs. Ella Rumble, cannery instruc-
tor. is On duty the eight hours of
operation Tuesdays and Thursdays
and five hours on Saturdays. Harvey
Burns is engineer for the steam
equipment.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
KiwaniS Directors
Vote $50 for
Baseball Program

Glasgow KiwaniS directors at q
meeting Wednesday voted to author
ize expenditures of up to $50 in sup
port of the American Legion junior
baseball program here, of which the
KiwaniS club and Junior Chamber
of Commerce are co-Sponsors.
The money will be taken from a
balance remaining from funds raised
by Kiwanians last year for a super
vised recreational program.
Otto H. Bundy, representing the
Legion, told directors that money will
be used principally for purchases OF
needed equipment, if such equip
ment can be secured. The Legion
initiated the program, with Warren
Chouinard. post sports chairman, in
charge and is handling details. Jay
Gees are cooperating by helping pro-
vide coaches and in other ways.
Besides Malta, negotiations are
under way TO schedule games with
Havre and Malta junior outfits, Mr..
Bundy reported, while it is hoped to
have a %four-team tournament late
this month, probably at Malta.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09

Wreckers who this week are com
plotting work tearing down the old
Mcmillan hotel on First avenue
south are removing a Glasgow land
mark 40 years old. according to the
recollection CT Judge Henry Beverly,
oldtime resident.
Miss Mile Mcmillan, original
hotel owner. came TO Glasgow about
1904, Judge Beverly recalls. She was
originally a resident Of Newfound-
land but had lived in western
Canada before coming here. She
first lived in what is now the Savoy
hotel.
Not long after, Miss Mcmillan
bought a shack on the present site
of the hotel and from that 1t grew
piecemeal.
The first section of the hotel was
built from materials ~salvaged after
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
Gasoline Tax
Collection
Over 5 Million

Montana gasoline tax collections
in the fiscal year ended June 80,
1915, totaled SIS 1886, 1896 but re-
funds to nonhighway users returned
81 ,667, 221.38 to the taxpayers, the
state board of equalization reported
Collections COR the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1914, totaled S5,377,-
664.47, and refunds for that period
81, $40, AL 81. For the first six months
of 1945, collections totaled $685.
377.51, while refunds totaled $685.
668.l8. Net to the state highway fund
for the period, after refund deduc-
ion, was 2,439, 709. 33, a net increase
over the same period for 1914 of
$122, 1927 Or SGT per cent.
Largest refund of the last fiscal
year was 81. 344 ,038 80 to agriculture,
80.61 percent of the total refunded
to 35,641 claimants. In the previous
fiscal year a total of S1,213, 304.28
was refunded to agriculture. Cities
counties and school districts were
refunded a total of S57,75l.4 40 for
the last fiscal year, compared with
S78, 240 in the previous year. Most
of the decrease was in county re-
funds.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
Byron Richter
Appointed to
Sheriff'S Post

Byron E. (Bud) Richter, who has
been serving as undersheriff, was ap-
pointed sheriff this week by county
commissioners TO fill the unexpired
term of Sheriff E. L. Mcpherson
whose resignation becomes effective
on Aug. Is. There were five appli-
cations filed for the appointment.
The new a%ppointee, who has been
a Valley county resident throughout
his life. will take office officially
next Wednesday.
The new sheriff was born on a
ranch 7 miles north of Vandalia
and lived with his family there until
1927, when they moved to Hinsdale.
He is a Hinsdale high school gradu-
ate.
Mr.. Richter came to Glasgow in
1888 and for a number of years was
employed on county and city road
construction crews. Later, he took
a position as local bulk agent for
the Standard Oil company. He was
appointed undersheriff in May. Mr..
Richter is married and the Richters
have two daughters.
Sheriff and Mrs. Mcpherson and
daughter, Leona, will leave next
Tuesday or Wednesday for Shelton,
Wash, to make their home, where
the sheriff has accepted a position
with a large paper and pulp manu-
featuring concern.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
Street Runs Full
Of Water; But
Lt Wasn't a Rain

Fifth avenue south neal the Bap-
fist church a almost full of water
after Wednesday nights light
shower. But is wasn't the rainfall
that brought the sudden moisture.
1t was a major break in the water
main that covered the street and ran
over sidewalks in spots.
Water dubbed up under pressure
in a half-dozen miniature springs
while nearby householders worked to
keep overtaXed street drains open.
E. L. Arnold, city water supervisor,
said the break appeared to be n
of the most serious in several years.
The area where it occurred has
given trouble before and there have
been several other breaks nearby.
The ruptured line made 1t 'neces-
sary to shut off water in the two
adjoining blocks. Excavation with a
power shovel began this morning
to locate the break. With luck, Mr..
Arnold hoped to have it repaired
by night, although handicapped by a
lack of labor.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
v. F. w. Buys
Yotter Bldg.
for Hall Here

Fort Peck post of the Veterans C.
Foreign Wars, which has purchased
the former Voter hardware build
ing on Fifth street north in Glas-
gov, is making plans for extensive
remodeling and furnishing of the
building for pest activities. it was
stated Wednesday by Carl E. HAM
merness, post commander.
The post will use the building fol-
a meeting place and a meeting is
scheduled tonight at 8. Women of
the V. F. w. Auxiliary will meet
there Friday night.
Some stock and fixtures belonging
to H. A. Voter, former owner, are
still in the building. The general
overhauling will begin as soon as
they are disposed of.
The building is 80 by 26 feet, A
50-foot meeting hall will be built,
with furnishings. Mushrooms will be
installed, while the rear portion will
be used as a clubrcom by members.
Post trustees. Albert Mcdonald, j.
E. Brown and v. o. Shuman, to-
gether with Curtis Beede, are in
charge of plans, Mr.. Hammerness
said.
He also acknowledged the gift Of
an American flag to the post from
DR.. C. H. Klein. 1t will be placed
in the new hall.
Mr.. Hammerness pointed out that
Mr.. Mcdonald, as post service Of
ficer, is ready to assist veterans with
problems at any time.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
PAYMENTS ON
1916 BETS
SET HIGHER
National Minimum of $3.50
Per Ton Fixed by Secre-
tary of Agriculture

Increased producer support pay
ments on 1946-crop sugar beetS and
sugarcane were announced last week
by Secretary CT Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson.
THE 1916 program is being an
nounced at this time to enable grow
ers to plan for a maximum crop,
the secretary said. Producers OF
both sugar beets and sugarcane have
advised us that their production can
be increased in 1916, and I am
calling on all producers for full pro-
duction. I am confident they will
respond.
THE 1916 crops represent the
earliest opportunity for increased
production of beetS and cane. The
acreage of 1946-crop sugar beets was
planted some time ago, so the guam
tity of sugar that will be produced
from this crop now depends largely
on the weather. Also, harvesting OF
sugar cane is completed, or nearly
so, except in Hawaii"
The 1916 program guarantees
growers CT sugar beets a national
average return, including sugar act
payments. of not less than $3.50
per ton of beets of the average quail
ity Of recent years. This compares
with $3.50 in 1915. Under present
market conditions, this guarantee
for 1916 will call for a payment of
nearly 81 per ton OF average beets
Gin addition to sugar act payments),
compared with a payment OF about
SO per ton in l945.
Secretary Anderson stated also
that lin view of the Importance of
maximum sugar production at the
earliest possible time the depart
ment of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES its
regular wartime assistance to farm
ers-will give special emphasis and
help in securing sufficient labor,
fertilizer, and machinery for sugar
beet and sugarcane producers"
Details of the 1916 program, which
will be carried out by the commodity
credit corporation, will be worked
cut and announced to producers as
soon as possible. The price support
payments, like the payments under
the sugar act, are contingent upon
an appropriation by congress. Such
appropriations are authorized by
existing law
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
JR. LECIONS
FIRST GAME
ON SUNDAY
Recently-FOrmed Baseball Club
Will Meet Malta in
Opener

Glasgow's recently organized
Junior Legion baseball team will
have its first taste OF real COM
petition here Sunday afternoon at
2.30 when it meets Malta's junior
club on the Glasgow high school
field at 2:30.
The activity is sponsored by VAL
ley post of the American Legion,
with Warren (Joe) Chouinard as
athletics officer. Ray Baker is head
coach, assisted by Eddie Olson, Mark
Watson and Milt Kabeary.
Baker is working with four
pitchers, Borland Bardell, a port
slider with plenty of stuff on the
ball, and three right-handers,
Dodge Koon, Joe Luckman and
Bill Sternhagen. Luckman may get
the call to start Sunday but it is
likely other pichers will be on the
mound. too. Baker said. Tom Keat-
ing. Casper Czyzeski and Buddy
Bayne are all possibilities for
catcher, with Heating as possible
starter.
Others who may start in Sundays
opener are Sternhagen. first base.
Mickey Luckman, second base;
Koop, shortstop, and Joe Obstar-
szyk. third base. The outfield will be
selected from Joe Heating, Elton
Peterson, Dave Bundy, Don Malunat
and Fred Rantz.
An average of IS "midgetS,"
younger players being groomed to
step up to the first string in later
years, is turning out for games each
afternoon from 3 to $3.50, Baker re-
ported. These boys are enthusiastic
and are learning baseball as they
play" he said.
Night workouts with older players
have brought an average group OF %.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-08-09
SWEET LAST
SERVICE IS
AT z FRIDAY
Baylor Woman Passes Away in
Hospital Following
Short Illness

Funeral services for Mrs. Serena
SWEET, 81, wife of Allen SWEET of
Baylor community and a county
resident for % years, will be held at
the Methodist church here Friday
afternoon at 2. The Rev. Grant S.
Moore will officiate and burial will
be in the Glasgow cemetery. The
Peterson chapel is in charge.
Mrs. SWEET became ill Friday and
was taken to a Glasgow hospital
Sunday, where she died of a heart
ailment Tuesday afternoon.
She was a native of Plymouth,
Ind, where she spent her early life.
She vas married to Mr.. SWEET at st.
Joseph, Mich, on Jan. 4, 1904. They
lived on his fathers farm near there
for about a year before going to
Plymouth, where he vas employed
for four years.
From there, they went to LaPorte,
Ind, where Mr. SWEET farmcd until
they came to Montana in 1917 and
settled on a homestead 4 miles south
and l mile east of Baylor, which has
since been their home.
Besides her husband, Mrs. SWEET
is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alice
Rasmussen of Deer Park, Wash,
and a son. Otis Clifford, who lives
en- the farm Mrs. Rasmussen is here
for the services, as is a Son-in-law,
Ralph Evenson of Vancouver, Wash.
Mrs. Evenson, the SWEETS daughter,
died in June.
Also surviving are three brothers
and three sisters in Plymouth, Mrs.
William Hess, Mrs. Bertha SWEET,
Mrs. Ressie Lee, John Rhodes, Frank
Rhodes and Arden Rhodes, as well
as two grandchildren, Marva and
Melvin Evenson. There + a num-
Der Of other relatives and friends
in her old home in Plymouth.