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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

THOMPSONS Minnesota egg bred chicks bring
you 100000 egg pedigree bloodlines at prices
you can afford to pay. White Leghorns,
Austria Whites, White Rocks from select,
bloodtested flocks, based on outstanding pro-
duction stock. Chicks sexed II desired. 1000
live delivery guaranteed-loSSes over 2qo in
first IA days replaced. Investigate now. Write
Timer Thompson Hatchery, Route 3. Elmore,
Minnesota
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

jerks superior baby chicks. q. S. Approved
and Pullorum Passed. (Official Lab. Test Big
type White Leghorns, New Hampshires, White
Rocks, Is chicks, SIS; so, $3.50; 100, $17.95.
White Leghorn pullets, rs for SO; so, $3.50;
100, s38. White Leghorn cockerels, "a per
100. Above prices prepaid and 1909 live
delivery guaranteed. Order from ad OF write
for large colorful catalog and prices on all
breeds. 1t will pay you to order from one
of the Vests oldest and largest strictly mod
ern hatcheries and breeding farms. jerks
Hatchery, Tangent, Oregon.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

O.. S. APPROVED CHICKS, sexed or straight
run, also started. Ready for delivery now.
From highest r. O. P. record blood lines.
White Leghorns, Rocks, Reds, New Hamp-
shires, Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons. Also
hybrids-Austra Whites, Legrocks, Legreds.
Your order will receive personal attention. We
aim to please you. Write for price list. De-
pendable Hatchery and Poultry Farm, Red
Lodge, or 2010 First avenue north, Billings,
Mont.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
SWINE


HEREFORD HOGS. Featuring national cham
pionship breeding. Prize Goods, Fashion
Model, Riverside Chief, etc. Priced very rea-
sonable. Eugene Manley, Hall, Montana.
REGISTERED Hampshire bred gifts for sale.
VIII farrow March "a through April. Bred
70 Ill. boar. Baue Bros, Fairview, Mont.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

STANDARD Special Egg-Bred' day-old and
sexed chicks. q. S. Certified $50 egg up. R. o.
P. sired White Leghorns. U. S. Approved New
Hampshires, Rhode Island Reds, White Rocks
and Barred Rocks. Austra-Whites the remark
able egg laying crossbreed and for proven best
broilers Cornish-New Hampshire cross. All
breeders U. s. Pullorum passed. Vigorous,
healthy, production bred chicks in every va
riety at sensible prices. One best grade. Write
for free chick guide and price list. Standard
Hatchery, Inc, Winlock, Wash.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
NEW HAMPsHIREs

ORDER New Hampshires now at today's low
prices for spring or immediate delivery. We
hatch every week. U. S. Approved Pullorum
Passed. Longs Hatchery, 1890 S. E. Powell
Blvd, Portland 16. Oregon.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

FARMS. RANCHES. All kinds, sizes. Choice
OF location, climate, production. Information
on irrigating projects Columbia and Missouri
river basins. Resorts, summer homes. Milwau-
kee railroad territory. Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Dakotas, Wisconsin, Upper Michi-
gan, Central corn belt. Free folders, price
lists. L. H. Robbins, 601 Union Station, Chi
caeo 6. Illinois.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS BREEDS

PEAFOWL Pheasants, bantams, ~guineas
waterfowl. Thirty varieties pigeons. Free cir
cular. John Hass, Bettendorf, Iowa.
Evening star., 1948-07-11

found guilty and condemned to
death. A special execution camp
was established for each Gold Field
Administration, nicknamed The
Meat Grinder" where these con-
demned were brought. They dug
their own graves, 20 or 80 at
time; then they removed all their
clothing which wasredistributed
later to new prisoners arriving in
Dalstroy - and stood behind the
holes, and a squad of guards
moved them down with machine
guns.
Two tractors worked up and
down the highway during the
proceedings, to drown the
sound. From one of these tractor
drivers learned the actual num-
Der of those killed in one year. In
our own camp, Tumany, were
about six thousand workers. Three
hundred and fifty were shot. l
would estimate that up to ten per
cent of all the prisoners in Dalstroy
were executed that year.
Suicide Was Common
BESIDES those executed, many
more committed suicide by hang
ing themselves with their belts,
slashng their wrists at night with
broken glass or throwing them
selves from the high viaduct which
carried water to the mines.
The penalty for any insubordi-
nation was a term in one of the
dreaded penal camps" that dotted
Evening star., 1948-07-11

crawled into one of these buckets
and lay curled up on the bottom.
The other prisoners. unaware,
piled earth on top of me until l
was completely covered. l felt the
bucket lurch and sway as it was
drawn up, and then suddenly it
was overturned and l fell, amid a
shower of loose rocks and earth,
down the far side of the pile. No
one had seen me. On hands and
knees l crawled away from the
guards, and made my way to the
local branch of the Gold Fields
Administration. There, by great
luck, encountered one of my old
friends. He allowed me to tele-
phone headquarters at Magadan.
Why He's Alive
l LEARNED that even as was es-
Gaping, friends had succeeded in
obtaining my release from the
penal camp. A week later, l was
transferred from the mines and
assigned to clerical work in an
office at Khattynakh. That is why
l am alive today to tell this story.
The Office where l was put to
work supervised the manufacture
of wooden boxes, in which the
gold was packed and shipped to
Moscow. The boxes were a foot
square. made of ash, the sides
dovetailed tightly together. If
even the point of a needle could
be inserted in a crack, the
worker would be punished.
Representatives of the NKVD
took the boxes to the local air
fields and transported them to the
main airfeld at Strelka, from
which they were flown to Khaba-
rovsk, and thence to Moscow.
The gold was mostly in fine par
ticles. a few solid nuggets, and was
about IS per cent pure. The final
smelling and refining was done in
Moscow, at the Second Factory of
MVD. This is the same factory
that was used to melt down the
gold ornaments and ikons seized
from Russian churches.
BY counting the wooden boxes
that We made, l was able to esti-
mate quite accurately the amount
Continued on next page
Evening star., 1948-07-11

the gold fields. l was sent to a
punishment camp once, the result
OF losing my temper and striking
back at guard who had been
amusing himself by prodding
painful swelling on my neck.
One Meal \ Day
LIVING conditions in a punish
ment camp were infinitely worse.
The victims were fed only one
meal a day, and the guards, spe-
cially selected for their brutality,
beat the prisoners as a matter of
course. To prevent escape, all our
clothes were taken away at night.
When we returned from work we
were halted just inside the barbed-
wire enclosure, made to remove
our clothing and shoes and walk
barefoot through the ice and snow
to our sleeping quarters.
If a prisoner showed the least
stubbornness, he was forced to
stand naked in the bitter cold
until the guards were satisfied that
he was sufficiently chastened.
Penal-camp inmates worked
apart from the other prisoners, at
the bottom of deep pit in the
gold mine. Our job was to pile the
dirt into large wooden buckets,
which were hauled up out of the
pit by a winch, and dumped on a
big pile outside the enclosure. This
gave me the chance to which I
owe my survival.
Waiting until it was dark, l
Evening star., 1948-07-11
give

TXIHEN your baby's un-
w happy tantrums mean
"Childhood Constipation"
Its wise for you to do this:
Give him Fletcher's Castoria.
rhorevgh end ssssesivs-yet SO
gentle, it won't upset sensitive
digestive systems.
Made especially for children
contains no harsh drugs, will
not cause gripping or discomfort.
So pleasont-tossing - children
Evening star., 1948-07-11
give Fletcher's Castoria!
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love it and take it gladly with
out any struggle.
Get flefeisor,s costosio at vOur
drugstore today. Be sure you see
the green band and the Charles
H. Fletcher signature on the
package-then you will knoy
that lOhat you are getting is the
original and genuine.
Evening star., 1948-05-19

United States, through June IA; books,
Manuscripts and drawings OF Henry Rowe
Schoolcraft, 10th century American
author, explorer and ethnologist, through
National Gallery Of Art. Sixth street
and Constitution avenue N. ", open 10
am. to 5 pm. weekdays and to 10 pm.
Pqhhas' pTisins the Mio Meiion M Kress Widener and
Dale collections and gifts from other do
II OAR Museum, I720 b streret NV. open
10 am. to 3 pm. weekdays; Album OF
Americans" in North Wing; China in
South Wing through May.
Fish and WildIife Service, under main
lobby in Commerce Department Building
Fourteenth and z streets NV, open 8 q m
| fresh water fish. for an indefinite priod
Dumbarton Oaks Museum. ty-first
and r streets NV, open Tuesdays through
| to pm: closed Mondays and holidays;
| collection of Byzantine and related arts
for an indefinite period.
FOR SERvICEMEN.
Soldiers. Sailors and Marines CLUB
| ing desk, billiard tables, radio.
| Servicemen's Victory Center. 1113 Penn
daily, noon to midnight. -,
Penthouse Service Center, Seventeenth
and streets NV, informal table game.
o'clock; Gay Nineties'' orchestra dance
9 O'Clock, and games in gymnasium. 9:3G
Armed Services YMcA. 173e G street
NV, games in gymnasium and swimming
all day until 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1948-05-19
Union Officials to Speak
On Toft-HurtIey Act

Speaking before a meeting of the
washington Chapter, Americans for
Democratic Action, union officials
will discuss the Taft-Hartley Act
at 8 pm. tomorrow in Pierce Hall
Sixteenth and Harvard streets NV
Among the speakers will be John
J. Murphy, director of organization
AFL; A. j. Hayes, vice president
International Association of Ma
chinists, and Henry Mayer, coun-
sci, Telephone Workers Organizing
Committee (CIO).
Evening star., 1948-05-19
Luncheon Speaker Named

Shelton E. Reynolds Of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Co. win address a
luncheon meeting of the Northeast
Businessmens Association at 1890
pm. tomorrow in the Continental
Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-05-19
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Evening star., 1948-01-18

W7HEN I was in Germany recently,
w some of my former countrymen
asked why l. once German, liked it so
much in the United States. told them
little story. Every word of it is true.
The setting was the county court
where we got our naturalization papers.
1t was small-town courtroom in one of
the Eastern states, the only state which
still has the venerable institution of
side judges" sitting to the left and right
of the acting judge - like silent monu-
ments symbolizing the peoples voice.
1t was in June, l945, only four weeks
after We Day. There were II of us. The
judge called out our names, one by one.
We rose and gathered at the other side
of the room - all but one man, who re-
manned seated. He was about so, with
wide cheekbones and thick, bushy
mustache. He kept his hands on his
knees and his eyes half shut as if he was
under strain.
WHEN the judge announced his name
he didn't seem to understand. A man
in the audience called out, Hey, Barba-
koff! They want you up there!"
'Barbakoff?" said the judge to the
old fellow. That isn't your real name"
Real name," said the man softly,
''Weresczinsky. Them cannot say. I
barber. So them say Barbakoff."
you mean," said the judge. "the
people here can't pronounce your real
name, Were--Werescz- whatever it is,
and so they call you Barbakof because
you are barber?"
There was some snickering in the
courtroom, but the young naturalization
officer in charge of us sternly called for
order.
He said that Mr.. Weresczinsky - his
Evening star., 1948-01-18
LIKE IT HERE
The humorous poignant story of new citizen
BY CARL ZUCKMAYER

tongue, too, stumbled on the name
i had not passed the examination for
citizenship. He had failed both in the
use of the English language and in the
Constitution and history of the United
States. The serious young officer seemed
sympathetic to the old man, but he was
obliged to object to his naturalization.
Lets ask him some questions" said
the judge. Maybe he'll make it now.
Tell me. Mr.. - Barbakoff, who is the
chief of the United States Government?
What do you call him?'
The man shook his head with des-
perate smile
Now" said the judge, I'm sure you
know. You just didn't get my question.
Let's put it this way: from what country
do you originate? Where did you come
from before you entered the United
States?"
The mans face lit up little.
"R-r-r-russia," he said, and the "R"
rolled over his tongue like brook over
a mills weir
"All right, said the judge, land who's
the chief of the government there?'
Car" said the man happily.
WELL." said the judge, there was a
Gar in Russia, long ago. Meanwhile,
they had revolution. Don't you know"
''Oh," said the man, without under
standing.
when did you leave Russia?" asked
the judge.
Game here 1906"
1906? During all this time you've
certainly heard something about our
government in Washington. Don't you
know who's in the White House?"
"Yes!" said Barbakoff with sigh of
relief. "Roosevelt!'
Don't you know that President
Roosevelt died few months ago? That
we've got another president now?"
"Oh," said Barbakoff, and shook his
head sadly.
The judge was silent for a moment.
Then he said, Can you answer one
other little question? Why do we call
this country the United States?"
Because - is America" said Barba-
koff after long wrestling with himself.
I'm afraid you won't get any reason
able answer out of him." said the officer.
At that moment young woman rose
among the spectators.
MAY / make statement" she asked
quietly.
The court granted permission.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

Hes just shy" the young woman
said. He's little clumsy in expressing
himself, but his English is good enough
to make himself understood among peo-
pie He knows much more than he can
say here or to an examiner"
"And who are your" asked the judge.
I'm his daughter"
WELL" said the judge, looking from
her to Barbakoff and back with some
what surprised expression, you're his
daughter. So you've been brought up in
this country"
We've been brought up as Ameri-
cans" she said, my brother and l.
"And where's your brother now?"
Hes in hospital" she said. He
was wounded at Two Jima"
well, well" said the judge thought
fully, thank you for your statement"
Now the man who had called Weres-
czinsky by his nickname at the beginning
of the hearing spoke up.
1--WE like Barbakoff," he said. "in our
community We think he's good neigh
Dor and he'll be a good citizen. He
brought up his children all right Excuse
me-" he added and sat down.
HE judge shook his head in doubt
and addressed the young naturalization
officer.
you've heard that. Don't you think
you could withdraw your objection?"
I'D be inclined to do it," said the
young man doubtfully. ''if he only - in
order to keep within the letter of the law
could give satisfactory answer to
one question"
Suddenly one of the side judges, who
had watched the whole procedure closely.
raised his hand. He wore an old-fash-
ioned string tie under his white beard
and looked as old as the courthouse.
May l put question:" he asked.
"Of course" said the presiding judge.
The side judge turned to Barbakoff.
Tell me, why do you want to become
an American"
"Oh," said Barbakoff, without hesi-
tating. and with broad, happy grin.
Il like ii here"
"All right" said the side judge, lean-
ing back in his chair Il think that is
good reason and satisfactory answer"
Il withdraw objection, said the young
officer of the state.
Thank you, Mr.. -er - Weresc -
er - step over and take the OATH" said
the presiding judge.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

Names and descriptions of all characters In
fiction stories and semi-6ction articles In this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the Same that of any
person. living or dead. In entirely coincidentai.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
This Week Magazine
FOR A BETTER MERTCA
WILLIAM !. NICHOLS, Editor

WILLIAM |. NICHOLS, Editor
DON'T BLAME TIE WOMEN. ........ 4
BY Amsom Seksinfsld
THE DEFENSE RESTS.
BY Allan Novskos EIsfea
THE SERGEANT IS A KING. G............f 10
BY Betty LVres knesr
PLAYING TAG WITH ATOMS. ....... ~
byCsesss n. Wefsr. n.
SPORTING VICTORY. Is
BY Lucille Comps
HOW 10 MAKE FRIENDS. .......... 70
BY Emily Post
ifsE PkOS DO " BETTER. ~
by Bob DsIndorfsr
NEW ENGLAND SPECIAL. ~
BY Clsmsniins Poddlsford
Cover by hy Psskin
Evening star., 1948-01-18
DMkMMIxr

HIGH CLASS. A New York friend
tells us that while walking in the mid
town district he got slight deposit of
junk in his eye. He'd heard that
Grand Central Station maintained a
service for just such sufferers as him
self, so he went into the station and
was directed to neat frst-aid room
in the upper reaches of the building.
did you get this thing in your eye
out on the street" asked the nurse in
attendance, "or in the station? Well
have to make charge if it was on the
street"
Our friend, an honest man, con-
fessed he'd got it on the street.
Whereupon the nurse called into the
next room, Doctor, l have Private
Eye here"
NO KIDDING. We've published a
great many cartoons about ladies
Evening star., 1948-01-18

driving through the backs of garages,
but we didn't think it really happened
in true life. At least, we didn't until
the other day when one of our assist
ant editors announced that his wife
had actually achieved that feminine
triumph - knocked the whole wall
out, in fact.
Even more noteworthy than her
performance was her remark after
ward. Il don't understand how it
could have happened" she walled.
THE car was only in low gear!"
Evening star., 1948-03-07

ALLEN FUNT, stocky young
n man with mournful appear
ance. was soliciting on the street
for oFCFFNE Organization for
Collecting Funds for Needy Eski-
mos, The Eskimos, he explained
sadly, were suffering from warm
winter. 1t was melting their igloos
and making them perspire.
Touched, a woman passerby
said a few kind words about Es-
kimos and hoped they'd have a
blizzard. She contributed quarter.
Funt then admitted that
oFCFFNE was hoax. He was Just
collecting naive conversations for
his radio program, Candid Micro
phone" which catches ordinary
people in off-guard moments.
The woman was annoyed, but
not embarrassed. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself, making fun of
those poor Eskimos." she said.
Funt has persuaded l 900 per-
sons to give off-guard inter-
views. Some $50 have actually
gone out over ABC. Their reac-
tons vary from indignation to
hammy pleasure. Yes" said one
housewife when asked for permis-
sion to broadcast her criticism of
Candid Microphone itself. Il want
the whole world to know how I
feel about that program.
~Must They Know?"
ANOTHER time, Funt, posing as
ticket salesman in an airlines ter
minal, was very stern with a pas
senger who had lost his ticket. He
made the man empty his pockets
and cross-examined him narrowly
about his whereabouts for the
previous II hours. The man was
a little vague about that.
Then Funt explained that the
conversation had been recorded.
Said the traveller dejectedly: do
all my friends have to know l was
drunk last night"
Funt, who usually wears an arm
Evening star., 1948-03-07

sling to conceal his tiny mike,
thinks up insane problems, finds
there's always someone who will
give them serious consideration.
On one occasion, he persuaded a
society tailor to make low-pocket
zoot suit for his pet kangaroo. The
tailor was fascinated by the COM
plications, particularly the drape
of the tail. When Funt tactfully
explained the joke and played the
recording back to him, the tailor
laughed - and still wanted to 90
ahead and make the suit.
Cat Banquet
l HE same thing happened when
he asked an electrician to make
private electric chair for him and
prominent caterer to prepare a
menu for a cat banquet in honor
of four blue-ribbon cats. Their
professional pride was touched,
and even after they had been dis
illusioned, they still wanted to 20
on with their projects. "A blind
spot in their lives" says Funt.
On the other hand. Funt has
The Valley settler., 1948-10-29

tOIfOELAL Cont. from page 3
 Fo'rers still do not cooperate in planning produc tion. They have done much to solve the marke ting problems.
 There is one thing Coop members should keep in mind. When anyone tries to in- f-uence a co-op member to work against his aos Oc fat ion, he is doing it--~not for the benefit Of the co-op member, but for his oun selfish interests. If he happens to be buyer of the farmer s products, he is naturally interested in buying At the 1ou- est price. This can be attained by gett ing farmers to york against each other. Beware of wolves in sheep'o clothing.
The Valley settler., 1948-10-29

fKEt ikIf WHV|VcI<S tO
 CHICAGO Cont. from page l. his assi stance to tho local 1oador, Mrs. S.S. West. His entire trip will bo fin- nced by l1is-Cha1mers Manufacturing Com- pony.
 Phyllis Donglor of Seward, high school sophomore 'vhose brother uos trip Uinner last year, pur sued throo All club projects this yoar- Clothing, Noal Preparation, ,and Room Eprovoment, and s ince all vero in- cluded in the national contests extended to A1askans she entered each conte st. Hor biggest pr oblem Cas in finding other gipls uho vero interested in the same projects as she. None were, so she took each pro- joct alone as an dividua1 member and emonstrator. In tho Clothing pro ject she made Il articles (9 moro than wore requ1r od), which included Q slip, dressos, bdluuses, 2 skirts, pair of pajamas, a play suit, and vool suit mado over from a largo ono cut down to her measurements. In addition to her All seuing, sho also took souing at school and feo1s both were ue1l worth tho timo and eff ort, ince sho vas able to increas her wardrobe consi id orably at 1ittlo expense to herself. In connection with her meal preparat ion pro- joct, sho prepared most of tho suppors for tho family last winter and loarnod to make pios in addition to project roqu irements. As hor main pr rojoct in Room Improvement she chose rodecoroting the living room, which meant komtoning the Ual1s and ceil- ing and making window drapos end chair covers which sho block printed dosign. Tho room still roma ins her daily cleaning project. Five years of club york on d ten conpletod rojocts seemed O good basis for oItoring tho Girls' Record contest, so she o2torod that contest also. This year she Ucs chosen tho most outstanding All girl i1l SoUord and on Achi evcmont Day ron ? first prizos, 5 seconds, and 9 thirds on articles sho made in hor Clothing and Room Eprovorent pro jocts. She awarded the tip os winner of the Clothing Achievement conto st spon sored by Spool Cotton Comp any, who will finance her trip from Seattle to Chicago, tho round trip ticket from lnchpr ago to Seattle be ing donated by 4lasko fir limos.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-26

Dave Morgan. They had frolicked
lot together and they had ridden
lawless trails side by side. Between
them had been close comradeship.
Each of them had trusted the other
completely, had known his friend
would not fail him at pinch. Now
Dave was gone.
Out Of the fog OF his thoughts FL
lens voice came to him. g. so
father is coming with the wagon to
carry you to the Jail if you can &C"
HE can't CO." the nurse snapped.
81 wouldn't think of letting him. +"
Roam Afford said: 1--WE hate to
ask it Of you, jeff, seeing how sick
you are. It's up to you. Lane and
I can carry you to the wagon. l
dunno as it will do any good, but
we figured maybe if you would tell
the boys about how Richards and
Terry stood by you they wouldn't
be so bull-headed."
The nurse said, mo, he's going
to stay right there on that bed"
Bring me my Clothes" jeff told
his nurse.
Il amt a-going to do it. The doc
tor said
doc didn't know I had impor.
tant business on hand" the wound.
ed man said. Roam, you bring
me my shirt and pants"
Il knew you would, jeff" Ellen
said, and walked into the corridor.
Jeff's eyes followed her, in them
the knowledge of defeat.