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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-11
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L E. Sperry of Emmett, Idaho
visited Mr. and Mrs. c. W. Church
in Libby Saturday. Mrs. Church i.
Mr.. Sperry's daughter
Don't Miss the Turkey Shoot Sun,
day, December IA. at the c g. +
Farm Service, one mile south Of
Libby on Highway 2. Come out
for fun and turkeys. Shooting will
start at 10 a. m. sharp.
Vernon Kruger left for his home
in Wisconsin the past week. Mr.
Kruger has been employed in War
land the past several months.
A. o. Parks of Harlem, is visiting
over the holidays with his son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Blair. w
Don't forget the concert that viii
be given BY the High School Music
Department on Tuesday, Dec. Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. ]. Nelson re-
turned Saturday from three-day
visit in Spokane
Mis- Ruth Crush returned last Sat
'urday from Spokane and Moscow,
having visited with a brother in
Moscow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gary L. Lincoln
and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Maurer went
into Spokane Sunday afternoon to
witness hockey game there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Neils left
on Tuesday for Portland and Klicka-
tat, Wash.
Mrs. W. E. Pitcher left on No.
-l27 Saturday for Spokane where
she will spend the winter with her
son, Rev H. B. Pitcher.
Superintendent Guernsey and
Howard Ahlskog returned Wednes-
day from Misosula.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Mackay
drove to Boomers Ferry last Satur-
day to visit relatives. They re-
turned on Sunday.
Mrs. Gladys Heller left last week
for Minneapolis for a visit with
her sisters They have not seen
one another for over 20 years.
Sam Vartanian was a Whitefish
caller on business the first of the
week.
Dean Halves returned to Libby
last week after a years absence I
which he spent in Arizona.
Robert Lynn left for New York
Monday. Mr.. Lynn has been visit
ing friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert .
Ferris and George Ferris the past .
two months.
Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Jim
Christie went into Spokane Mon
day.
Carleton Joughin and mother, Mrs.
Ned Joughin, and Mrs. John Meyers
and daughter, Kay, returned Sat
urday from Spokane where they
to business.
Mrs N. L. Eames of Butte is
visiting for couple of weeks with
her daughter, Mrs. Dexter Shaur-
cite.
Harold and Gene Hamlin arrived
home Friday from Alaska. Harold
went to Kalispell Monday.
Harold Zwang and Del Williams
spent Wednesday in Standpoint, Ida
Ralph Hand of the Regional For
estry office in Missoula is spending
a few days this week in this area
on fire control planning.
and Sawmill Workers
Union No. 1881 meets the End and
18th Tuesday of each month.
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union No. 1881 meet the End and
18th Tuesday of each month.
WV meetings the LIST and 3rd
Wednesday of each month at the
hub.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-11
FIRST LUTHERAN SR. LADIES'
AID MET THURSDAY

The Senior Ladies' Aid of the
First Lutheran Church met in the
social room of the church last
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Klas
Johansson and Mrs. John Knudson
were co-hostesses. The program
consisted of a reading, THE Hea-
venly Guest is at the Door," by Mrs.
Hjortholm. After pinning a rose
on Mrs. John Solem in honor of
her birthday and one on Mrs. John
Minde in honor of her thirty third
wedding anniversary, which occur
red that day, and also one on Mrs.
Clarence Fletcher in honor of her
birthday, the president, Mrs. John
Knudson, on behalf of the Aid,
presented a bouquet of roses to
Mrs. John Solem as an expression
of the society's appreciation Of her
many years of faithful service as
A delicious lunch was served by
the hostesses at the close of the
meeting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-11

Leon H. Rhoades was in yester-
day from Bull Lake. He is adver-
Using land for sale along the lake
shore.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-11

Henry c. Weidner Of Troy, took
delivery this week on new Ford
car purchased through the Standard
Motors agency.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-11

Montana is the largest producer
Of &C riStmas trees in the u. S.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
DIPLOMATIC
 STRUGGLE ON
 OVER GERMANY
Foreign Ministers Study Negotiations for Fin
 al Government
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
 MOSCOW, March 24.-lR-The diplomatic struggle over Germany in the Big Four Foreign Ministers Council entered a new phase today as tEe conferring powers planned their next moves in negotiations on German government.
 The Soviet Union on the one hand and the United States and Britain on the other chartered maneuyers aimed at achieving the kind of government under peace treaty provisions that each side seemed to believe would Ee most favorable to it's own political sys- tenn.
 Proposals of all four powers on this issue had ceen laid before the council in varying detail Sat urday night when it quit work un- til tomorrow to give the Foreign Ministers deputies time to sum- marize the results of deliberations not two weeks old
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
Juneau, ketthikan Teams 10
 Debafe Tonight ai s; Large
 Attendance by Public Urged

Toniqht, at 8 e'eleek, in.--the High School gym, students of Ju- neau High School and Ketchikan High School will meet i'll debate and Supt. A. B. Phillips urges a large attendance.
 The question for debate is Re solved That the Federal Govern ment should provide a system of complete medical care available to all citizens at public expense. , This, in simple terms, is known as "socialized medicine
 The Juneau negative team has already debated Ketchikans af- firmative team at Ketchikan. Now, Ketchikan has it's negative team here and will debate Juneaus af- firmative team.
 Supt. Phillips says that in order to help defray expenses, we are charging the same admission that Ketchikan charged for adults S1 per person. We need your sup port morally and financially if de- bate is to be continued as school affair. And we believe that debate has a definite educational value for high school students.
 We are not making request for $1 so please do not send it to us, but come to the debate. Your presence as as much desired as your money
 The Ketchikan debaters arrived Sunday on the Aleutian and are Charles Graham, Shirley Ander- son, John Dexter, Ernie Faber, Wray Graham, David Bantam and J. Snodderly.
 The debaters representing Juneau are Dick Wingerson, Lois Hared and Mary Lou Fagerson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
LONDON IS
 HARD HIT
 BY FLOOD
Service Is Hailed, Bringing Chaotic Condition 10
 Great Area


 LONDON, March 24 -Pl Flood waters seeped into the largest London subway p9wer station to- day halting service on 40 miles of tracks and bring..g chaotic conditions to much of ttc worlds largest city.
 As floods spread in still more areas of Northern England. wip- ing out crop prospects over many acres, talk started in London over the possibility of seeking an other American loan. The Labor government maintained silence.
 Outside London, York was the major flood sufferer as the swol- len Ouse River virtually cut the industrial city of 100000 in two.
 Virtually everyone was late to work in London. The dead sub ways caused Londoners to travel by strange and devious routes. Service was stopped entirely to two main subway routes and slow ed on the other three. Seventy subway stations were closed.
 Long lines stood at stops for buses, trolleys and taxis and be- fore telephone booths. Some form ed at the better hitch-hike loca- tions.
 The transportation jam, the worst in memory here, started just be- fore the morning rush hour and lasted two hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
32S-Day-0Id
 Strike Ended

MILWAUKEE, March 24.-lR- longest major strike in the nation, UAW-CIO local 248's bitter and spasmodically bloody struggle at the home plant of the Allis- Chalmers Mfg. Co.,, ended without settlement today as lines of pro- duction workers filed quietly into the vast works.
 A company check showed there were slightly less than 5000 production workers reporting on the first shift. On Friday the last working day before the strike ended, 4300 production workers re- ported. A company spokesman said other workers probably would trickle back" as they left temporary jobs held elsewhere.
 West Allis Police Capt. Harvey G. Dieckhoff said there were nc clashes between union men and employees who remained at work or returned to their jobs during the 328-day -old strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
DisIoyaI Employees of JUS. Governmentfo Be Purged;;
 Truman Issues Directive

WASHINGTON, March 24-tR- President Truman has ordered a purge of all government employees where there are reason b e grounds to doubt their loyalty and set up sweeping new standards to test it.
 His ExecutiTc Order directed a loyalty t!gation' of everyone who applies fer job in the exc cutive departments and agencies, without exception, where now only questionable applicants are tested.
 And it instructed the agencies to submit the names of all their pre- sent employees to the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation for a check wherever this has not already been done.
 The Attorney General is ordered to make a list, and keep it up to date, of all subversive organizations. A persons membership in or sym pathetic association with" one of them will be grounds for stamping him disloyal.
 This blacklist is to include all "Totalitarian, Fascist Communist, or subversive" groups: all that ad- vocate or approve force to deny persons their constitutional rights; and all that seek to change the form of the government 'by un- constitutional means"
 Moreover, a central master in- dex" was ordered set up of all per- sons whose loyalty has been inves- tigated since Sept l, 1889. It may be referred to by all government agencies.
 A White House official said that this will not be witch hunt-I can't imagine that any great num- Der cf sfirinps will result
 The order does not apply to the judicial or legislative branches of the government, he emphasized, nor does it involve changes ill present security rules of the armed forces.
 Supplemental appropriations for the Civil Service Com m s s II and FBI probably will be asked. They may amount to Sl5,000,000 to S20,000,000
 Each agency head, MT Truman ruled, must be personally respon- sible" for cleaning his own house.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
Big Six To Meet
 Truman 
 B W
Unprecedented Night Ses. sion Is Scheduled al
 White House

WASHINGTON, March 24.-IP-- President Truman will meet with the bipartisan congressional Big Six" in an unprecedented night meeting at the White House to- night.
 The meeting, which is to be held in the residential part of the exc cutive mansion, is set for 8 D. m. The White House did not disclose the reasons for the conference.
 The Big Six" is made up of four Republicans and two Democrats, as follows:
 Senator Vandenberg, (Mich) President Pro Tempore of the Sen ate; Senate Majority Leader White (Maine) House Speaker Martin (Mass) House Majority Leader Halleck und) Senate Minority Leader Barkley, (Ky). and House Majority Leader Rayburn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
WRITER AFFIRMS, GOVERNOR DENIES
 VISIT BY TRUMAN

SPOKANE, March 24.-iR-Calli- son Marks, Spokesman-Review staff writer, said today in a signed ar ticle that despite denials from Governor Wallgren, this writer re- afiirms the statements attributed to the Governor which appeared i'll the Sunday Review and which stated that President Tru m n would visit the Pacific Northwest in June and make a flying trip to the Alaska interior.
 In a dispatch from Bellingham, Wash, Marks said during the Fri day night interview, the Governor said he had that day talked to John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury, and that MT. Snyder had virtually confirmed the forthcom- ing visit of President Truman to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska ill June"
 The Governor mentioned speci- fically plans for the cruise to Ju- neau and Anchorage and the air flight into the Alaska interior, Marks said,
 Marks yesterday also quoted the Governor as saying that a proposed supersonic aviation research center would be established at Moses Lake, Wash, by the Army. The Governor later also denied making the state ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
NO TROOPS TO BE SENT
 TO GREECE
Aeheson Makes Statement to Com. Secret Doeu-
 ments Made Public

WASHINGTON, March 24-lR- Undersecretary of State Acheson said today the United States does not plan to send troops to Greece and Turkey to shield these coun- tries against the spread of Com munism.
 He told the Senate Foreign Re- latic.ls committee that this coun- try had not been asked to supply troops we do not forsee any need to do so And we do not intend to do so.''
 Acheson testified at the open ing of the Committees hearings on President Truman's proposal for s400 100000 as aid for the two countries.
 As he told the House Foreign Affairs committee previously, Acheson said that he did not think such assistance would lead to war.
 Undersecretary of State Will Clayton, meantime, gave the House committee a breakdown on the S40O 100000 program. He said all except $15O,0o00O0 would be used for military purposes.
 Secret Documents
 The two Department officials went before the committees fol- lowing release of hitherto-secret documents accusing Russia of at tempting to extend Communist control over Greece and Turkey.
 These documents told of Rus sian war of nerves against Fur key and of a master plan" to bring Greece under Communist domination. Poland was labelled a Soviet satellite
 Release of the documents, pre- viously laid before the House For eign Affairs committee for the private background information of members only furnished this country with the first detailed in- formation of the counter Russia reasons behind the Admlnlstra- ticn's Greek Turkish aid program.
 Delay In Approval
 Chances developed that it might be at least two weeks after March 31 - the Administrations original goal for the measures passage before the legislation could clear both the House and Senate.
 Hence a move got underway to give President Truman stopgap authority to borrow SlO0,00o,ooo from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in anticipation of the bills eventual approval.
 Of Greece, the formerly secret documents declared:
 Armed band activities, directed and assisted from outside the coun- try, are part of a master plan to separate Macedonia from Greece
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
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The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = Quite by acci- dent Democratic Congressman Ed die Hebert, former news editor of the New Orleans States, stumbled on new Republican policy the other day.
 Hebert, who can't get out of the habit of being newspaperman, got the first faint whiff of the new COP policy when he introduced a bill making it felony to bribe or attempt to bribe an athlete. His move, coming just after the bri- bery scandal involving New York football players, brought wide na- tional acclaim, and while that ac- claim was at it's peak, Republican Congressman Leo Allen or 1llln- ois strangely introduced an almost identical measure
 The Louisiana Democrat said nothing. But last week another pe- culiar incident happened.
 Hebert, who has done great job cleaning up jails and crime Ill the District of Columbia, introduced .an alcoholic bill The never-endlng stream of drunks that crowd Wash ington, D. C., jails has been one of the Capitals worst problems, and Heberts bill set up machinery whereby alcoholism was to be treated not as a crime but as a disease. He proposed alcohol clin- ics to be paid for by the liquor in- terests.
 The Hebert bill attracted national
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
MOUNTAIN
 CLIMBERS
 5TART0uT
Washburn Party of Twelve Leaves Boston for As-
 cent of Mt. Mckinley

BOSTON, March 24.-tR-On a mountain climbing trip, a party oi II men and one woman was en- route to North Americas highest peak today to carry out the most ambitious scientific program ever attempted on 2o,3O0-foot Mt. Mo- Kinley.
 Headed by Bradford Washburn, director of the New England Mu- scum of Natural History: the group will spend two months on the icy slopes of the Alaskan mountain, making observations and studies of scientific phenomena.
 Washburn's wife, Barbara, 32, who has accompanied the adven- turer on two previous mountain climbing expeditions, will be the first woman ever to attempt Mt Mckinley Another first" claimed by the expedition is the use of air planes to parachute fresh foods to the climbers.
 The purposes of the expedition include cosmic ray observations weather research, studies for the U, s. Coast and Geodetic Survey, studies of the movement of gla- ciers and testing of postwar Army Arctic equipment-including cloth ing, food, tenting and aerial deliv- cry equipment.
 Washburn and his wife left Bos- ton last night for Alaska and will pick up other members of the party along the route to Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
NEW BILL IN SENATE WILL TIE GOVERNOR
Board M m bers Would Garry Over UnfiI Sul-
 Cessors Confirmed

Executive Session. was again the order in the Alaska Sem ate this morning, but the doors were not barred until after a new bill had edged in under 12 to B vote to suspend the rules
 The latest measure-S. B. 110- which definitely puts the Senate ahead of tEe House in bill total for the session, opens new of fensive move by the legislature in its bout with the Governor over appointments to the Board of Edu- cation and the University of Alaska Regents It would effectually tie the Governors hands in the mat ter Of recess appointments.
 l Entitled An Act relating to ! the tenure of office of members
 of the Board of Regents of the
 University of Alaska, Territorial
 Board of Education and other 1 boards and commissions; the mea-
 sure provides that Every person previously appointed and now
 holding office as member of any :; board or commission and
 whose appointment has been con
 firmed by the Legislature or a
 Joint Session thereof, including persons whose terms of office have
 expired and no successor has been
 appointed and confirmed shall continue to hold office as a mem-
 Der of such board of commission
 until his or her successor IS duly i appointed and confirmed c The bill would also bar the Gov ernor from making any recess ap- pointment except to fill an actual
 vacancy created by death; and, 1 the term of office of any recess iappointee would expire with the 1 adjournment of the next Legisla- i ture
 i Carrying an emergency clause,
 if enacted the bill would retain
 Senator O. D. Cochran on the Board of Regents and A. H. Zieg- 1 Ter on the Board of Education, in accordance with the will the Legis-
 lature already has expressed in joint session. Voting against in- troduction of s. B. 118 were Sen
 ators Brownell, Engebreth and Rivers. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee after presen-
 tation by Senator Joe Green. Senator Frank Peratrovich, who
 was ailing Saturday afternoon,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
STOCK QUOTATIONS
WEATHER FORECAST tJuneau and Vicinity)

NEW YORK, March 24.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5is, American Can 945s, Anaconda 38l2, Curtiss- Wright 59s, International Harvester o4, Kennecott 46S, New York Gen. tral 17sl, Northern Pacific 18Ts, U S. Steel 72is. Pound $402ls.
 Sales today were 5300O0 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 7640, rails 1856, utilities 3570,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Freighter Reef Knot, from Se- attle, due tonight.
 Tongass from Seattle, due or March 27
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver March 28
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle March 29, calling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward
 Northern Voyager scheduled tc sail from Seattle, April 3.
 Denali, from westward, schedul- ed to arrive at a. m. tomorrow and sails south about a. m.
 Aleutian, from west, scheduled to arrive about March 30.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
ARMY TRANSp0RT PLANE IS,MISSING
 WITH 10 ABOARD

NEW YORK. March 24.-iR-Air and ground rescue parties started out at daybreak today to resume their search for an Army trans port plane missing in Newfound- land with ten persons aboard
 The Air Transport Command here said visibility in the search area was good The plane, a C. 54 Skymaster, was enroute from Westover Field, Mass, to Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
TWO ARRESTS WEEKEND

Juneau City Police arrested Bill Scott and Lena Brown early Sum day morning, both for disorderly conduct. These two were the only arrests on quiet weekend,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
FIVE FROM KETCHIKAN

Ernest E. Bailey, MT and Mrs. E. Bliven and MT and Mrs. c. M, Morrow, all of Ketchikan, register ed as guests of the Hotel Juneau over the weekend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
WOMEN TO BOWL ON
 ELkS ALLEYS TONIGHT

The alleys at the Elks will be open to women bowlers tonight and they are requested to be ready to roll at 8 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24

Iceland has never had war
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24

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Evening star., 1947-03-10
Session Here Reveals
Plans for Pro Grid
Loop in Southwest

Pro football Is heading for the
wide open Southwest. with the AS
ISOLATION of Professional Football
Leagues fostering the movement
An option for the formation of a
new circuit, with membership In
the association, was granted yes
terday at the closing session of its
meeting at the Statler Hotel.
j. Rufus Klawans, association
president, said Dallas, Fort Worth
Houston, San Antonio, Ell Paso and
Amarillo, Tex, and Oklahoma City
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N. Mex.
and New Orleans and Shreveport
were considered as probable loca-
tions for franchises in the proposed
circuit. v.7rt.F q
The Pennsylvania League, en-
bracing Allentown, Altoona, Ian
caster, Panther Valley, Pottstown
Pottsyille, Shenandoah and York
was admitted to the association
yesterday. Marshall Payn, presi-
dent of the circuit, was named with
Joseph Rosentover of the American
League to confer with Commissioner
Bert Bell of the National League
concerning contract arrangements
and releases of NFL players tc
teams that are members of the
association.
Klawans said the association
would meet in Philadelphia May
to receive a report from Rosentovel
and Payn
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Hogan, Demaret Win
Miami Tourney Again
BY the Asseeiofed Press

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 10.-A pair of
former Texas caddies, Ben Hogan
and Jimmy Demaret, yesterday de-
feated Lloyd Mangrum and Lawson
Little, and 2, to win the $4,000 In
ternational Four-Ban golf tourna-
ment for the second consecutive
year.
Hogan and Demaret finished the
four-day tourney on the 34th hole
at the Miami Country Club after
carding 56 brides in 1876 holes.
The winning duo moved into the
lead of the 36-hole final match on
the 21st hole after trailing / down
from the third. Hogan and Dema-
ret won the 23d and 28th holes
when Mangrum and Little shot one
over-pars. Hogan made it 3 up on
the 340-yard 31st hole with a birdie
3 when his second shot landed three
feet from the cup. They halved the
32d and 33d and closed out the
match on the 34th with both teams
scoring birdie 4s.
The winners received $3.50 each
and the runners I'D $3.50 each.