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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26

lOrlando, which is called The City
/ Beautiful, then proceeded on e
Miami and Carol Gables. The LAT
ter city is advertised as the city
of beautiful homes. Another sister
and relatives live there. We were
there for Palm Sunday. In the
church we attended the children
carried green nalm leaves We also
attended the Miami garden show
Orchids being a tropical air flower,
there was a beautiful display OF
many kinds and colors. They had
an artificial water falls with banks
of palms and roses. The beautiful
rose colored FlamingoS were walk
ing around this adding color and
life TO the display.
A sister of VIM. Kienitz and Mrs.
Wichman lives in Miami and we
called at her home. We took a
great many colored pictures as this
is truly photographers paradise.
There IS a flame vine that grows
on the houses, sometimes covering
a greater part of the roof. Also the
Bouginvilla vine is brilliantly col
ored. The Orange groves were
wonderful TO 60 through: the sweet
scent of the blossoms and the bright
cnlared frIsit on the trees. We
visited the beaches, beautiful Hia-
leah Race Track Park. the Rare
Bird Farm. and the Tropical Ex-
perimental Tree Farm.
On our way north from Miami
we visited Penny Farms. The Ma.
rine Studios. where thew have hun
dreds Of Ocean fish in huge cement
tanks under as natural conditions
for the fish as possible. There are
three levels to each tank where
YOU look through large glass port
holes at the fish and many smaller
displays in small lighted tanks. One
fish was the sea ane-
monae, and we watched them feed
the porpoiseS.
From there we visited the Oldest
city of St Augustine, where the
Fountain of Youth is located We |
visited also the oldest fort in the |
United States and the oldest house;
some streets were so narrow, only |
lorse drawn Surveys could pass
through.
In going to Mississippi, we cross
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26
w. o. T. M HOLD REGULAR
MEETING MAY IS

The Women Of the Moose met
May 10 with seventeen members
present A donation Of $40 was
made to the Girl Scouts. Nomi-
nation Of officers was held.
The Birthday dinner was planned
for June z with q regular meeting
to be held afterwards.
The co-workers voted TO send Bill
" Murray and Senior Regent
Thompson to Standpoint. Ida, TO re-
ceive the Academy of Friendship
degree Sunday, May ~.
Memorial services were held
with co-worker Preston presiding.
Bessie Smith and Mrs: Howard
Thompson are to decorate the
graves.
A delicious lunch was served by
Mona Parker.-Pub. Comm.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26
JACK ENGLAND GIVES
SOME DRIVING TIPS

DO YOU WANT A HEADSTONE
i'm so? DO YOU? Montana's High
way Patrol Supervisor E. II. (Jack)
England today reminded all motor
lists that a good way to become a
statistic and a fond memory to the
loved ones is to drive like an or
binary driver on the coming week
end.
Here are some tips that will
help to get you home safely from
that holiday trip, if you will fol-
low them:
l. Start early, but not at the ex-
penSe of sleep, so that you can drive
| at a reasonable rate of speed and
stlli arrive at your destination on
time.
2. Be sure your car is in good
working order, particularly with re-
gard TO lights, brakes, tires, wind
shield wipers, etc.
3. If you should stop for an emer-
gency, pull as far to the right side
.of the road as possible, and do not
let the passengers in the car stand
around IN the traffic lanes. II your
stop IS not an emergency, get com
pletely OF the travelled surface.
A. Use the regular hand signals
70 indicate changes in speed or
direction, and give them well
enough in advance that the car
following may take the necessary
action TO avoid a crash.
S. Get in rhythm with the gen
eral flow Of traffic. II other cars
are going at As or so miles per
hour, you should drive at that rate
OF speed also. You get into trouble
when you get out Of step with the
other traffic.
6. Know and obey all road signs: !
Round signs mean that you will
cross a railroad track or two with |
IN 300 feet; Oblong signs indicate
traffic regulations such as speed |
limits, no passing zones, etc; Dia-
nond shaped signs are the sign |
hat YOU should slow down, because
..hereu be curve or hill or other
dangerous condition in a matter of +
few seconds; Eight sides or octa-
5onal signs mean that you should
'ome to a full and complete stop
before crossing or entering the
treet or road ahead; the Crossbuck
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26

ed the famous Huey Long bridge
and the Suwanee river. When we
came back north and west we drove
through the BLACK Belt" which
was very interesting. We crossed
the famous rolling hills Of Alabama
and beautiful. green, and wonder
full roads through Arkansas. We
crossed corner of Texas and made
a days stop at Lamar, Colo, to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Halvorson,
formerly of this city, our first as
sistant manager 81 years ago. Our
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26

next overnight stop was at Preston,
Ida, where we visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Christensen, another former
j. c. Penney Co. associate. We
then drove 10 The Dalles, Oregon,
where we attended our sons we'd
ding. Then back home and were
pleased with the new Welcome"
sign at the entrance to Libby and
also the new street lights Home
and friends look very good to us
after three months and ten thOus-
and road miles.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26
LIBBY STUDENTS RECEIVE
MORTAR BOARD HONOR

Miss Margery Hunter and Miss
Marilyn Neils, Libby, are among
Is new members of Mortar Board,
senior women's honorary, at Mon
tana State University.
Miss Hunter, senior majoring
in journalism and history, is also
the editor of the 1949 Sentinel, cam
pus yearbook. Miss Neils, a mem
Der of Masquers, dramatics honor
arY. is maioring in English.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26
BARKEES TELL OF
VACATION
CONTINUED from last week.

It proved to be exceptionally in
teresting going through the south
.streamers of moss were hanging
from the trees, the homes and gar
dens were beautiful, the Hibiscus
and Wisteria were in bloom and
some of the southern mansions
were open to the public. In Ala
bama trucks of cotton was being
hauled from the warehouses and
the new crop was just being plant
ed. Our next stop was at Gaines
vile. Fla. where Mrs. Barkee's sis
ter and husband are now living.
The State University is located
there. We met a DR.. Good who is
associated with the University.
Last year he taught at Bozeman,
during our conversation we found
him to be a close friend of DR..
Seifert of Libby. We stopped at
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26

indicates a railroad crossing.
2. If you drink, don't drive and
if you drive; don't drink
3. Treat your driving as a full
time job and work at it, because
your life depends on il.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26

and Treasurer, Eleanor Huffman.
The club is organized with
twentY-one charter members and is
the 9th club in the state to be
organized. As soon as a charter is
granted by the Federation a special
charter meeting will be held. Mem
bers will all receive special notice.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-05-26
TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO
May is, 1924
Dexter Entertains

2@oF Dd6AA hoy dAbSEIlOOu MrS. w
Z. Dexter charmingly entertainer
number of ladies at her lovely
home on Louisiana Avenue in com
plment to Mrs. J. F. Fennessy'.
mother, Mrs. Foote, who is visit
ing at the Fennessy home. A de-
Hghtful afternoon was spent sewing
ana visiting. The hostess served Z
delicious luncheon late in the after.
noon.
Locals
The 'O6 Club are meeting this
afternoon with Mrs. Allen Rich
ards.
Sheriff F. R. Baney returned Sat
urday morning from a trip to the
eastern end of the county.
Mrs. Fred F. Clark and children
are spending the week in Fortine
with Mrs. Clark'S mother.
". c., Seims returned Friday from
kalispen where he spent several
days on business. 500
Miss Virginia Joughin returned
Monday from MisS0ula where she
represented Lincoln county in the
state declaHnatory contest.
The J & c garage reports the fol-
lowing sales of cars recently: A
Chevrolet sedan 90 H. M. Gompf.
Oldsmobile sport touring TO Edwin
Erickson, Chevrolet touring to How
ard Challinor, and two Oldsmobiles
delivered TO Eureka people.
Mrs. Leo Becker is expected 70
return this week from Spokane
where she has been under a ply
sician's care for the past several
weeks.
Mrs. Fred Carlson and baby left
Saturday for Helena where they
will visit relatives for a month or
six weeks.
Miss Ida Botchek returned to her
home here Tuesday after spending
the past several weeks visiting her
sister in Tacoma, Wn.
ThoS. Hamilton and family drove
through to Kalispell Sunday and
spent the first of the week in that
city.
Mrs. A. S. Fraser left this week |
for Spokane to visit Mr.. Fraser who |
is patient in the ST. Lukes hos
pital where he was taken a couple |
of weeks ago with a fractured limb.
Mrs. Art Polette returned Friday
from Spokane where she accom-
panied her father, w. S. Mcguire
who is patient at the Deaconess
hospital.
E. E. Jaqueth leaves today for
Spokane and will drive back an
six car. He will be ac-
by his wife +
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
ON RAIL RU55AT0M
 SHIPMENTS
House Probers Launch Out on Another Slant in
 Exposed Case

WASHINGTON, Dec 8-R = House probers are on the trail oi more wartime atomic shipments tc Russia-shipments number and 5
 They have reason to believe per- haps 500 pounds of uranium com pound reached the Reds around July of 1944. And they think they may be able to spot proof that the Russians got 1000 grams of heavy water.
 The Un-American Activities Com mittee also is trying to find out Ist what former lend-lease off cials William c. Moore and James P. Hoopes had to do with shipment number two back in the spring of 1943.
 It wants to know why It. Gen Leslie R. Groves, boss of the atom comb project, was reported to have approved the shipment when Groves said he didn't. The committee is exploring. too an idea that the Soviets might have side-stepped the lend-lease administration to get some atomic materials elsewhere.
 EXPLOSION SPLITS
 But except for some checking or items like these by the committed staff, the latest atomic explosion on Capitol Hill apparently has just atout subsided until Dec. Is when the hearing resumes.
 Moore, Hoopes, and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace may be witnesses then.
 Wallace will get chance to deny under oath what Groves has al- ready denied for him-that Wal lace put on pressure and overruled Groves to get atomic materials for the soviets. Wallace has termed this "sheerest fabrication It was radio commentator, Full ton Lewis, Jr., who said Wallace was the source of pressure.
 Wallace telephoned the commit tee that T would like to meet my traducers face-t -to-face before your committee at the earliest possible moment"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
CHINA FLEES TO F0Rk05A; REDS CONTROL
NationdIists Set Up Fifth Capital Guerrilla Forces
 Stay on Mainland
By Spencer Moosa

CHENGTU, Dec. 8.-LR-The Na- tionalists shifted their capital to Formosa today and virtually aban- doned most of the mother country to the Reds.
 The sweeping move was decreed by the cabinet. It could mean end of large scale warfare in China after g hectic years.
 Guerrilla forces were left behind to keep pecking at the Reds. But the main Chinese force was in or headed for Sichang, behind Si- kan's snow covered mountains, on Formosa, or Hainan Island, 300 miles southwest of British Hong Kong.
 Formosa is Generalisimo Chiang kai-Shek's stronghold which has been armed and equipped for a last ditch stand against victorious Chinese Communists.
 The emergency cabinet session also decided to make Sichang, in Sikang Province west of Chengtu. general headquarters for operations on the mainland.
 The cabinet accepted the resig- nation of Gen. Chang Chun from the post of Director of southwest China headquarters. Gen. Ku Gnu Tung, was given this job in addi- ton to his present duties as chief of staff
 Two Guerrillas
 Generals Hu tsung-N Nan and Yang Sen were named deputy directors.
 Two guerrilla forces to operate under southwest headquarters were established. The commander of the first force is General Wang tsang- Shu. The commander of the second is Gen. Tang shih-Tseng.
 This would indicate Nationalist operations on the mainland will be resolved into organized guerrilla warfare. Such a step virtually is Nationalist admission they have lost the China mainlond.
 It does not, however, mean they have lost completely the great war against the Reds which has been going on since 1927
 The Nationalists evidentally hope they will be able to consolidate their remaining forces and conquer the Communists in the same way as the Reds beat them.
 Premier Yen hsi-Shan flew im- mediately to Taiph, which thus
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
Party Is Now Due 
 In Tientsin
Left Mukden "Wednesday with Food Supplies
 10 Last Two Days

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8-tR-Tht State Department received advices today indicating that Angus Ward and the American Consulate Group from Mukden may now be at the North China port of Tientsin.
 A message from the U. $. Consul General at Tientsin siaid the Groups special train had passed Tangsan.
 Based on the timing of the mes sage, State Department officials figured the Ward party of 20 should have arrived in Tietsin about am. tPST) today.
 The State Department said it had confirmed through British sources that the party left Mukden or Wednesday with food supply fol two days.
 These reports were the first or the long isolated consulate group since Ward got out word that he expected to be able to leave Muk- den early Wednesday morning, local time.
 At Taku Bar, downriver from Tientsin, an American merchan, ship is to take the Ward party aboard. They will go first to Yoko- hama, Japan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
NEW TURN,
 spy TRIAL,
 IN SOFIA
One Bulgarian Pleads Guilty, Another Refratts
 Confession Made
(By the Associated Press)

Another former Bulgarian Com munist leader pleaded guilty today to anti-state activities before a peoples court in Sofia. But the trial is not running true to form.
 Yesterday the former No. 3 Bull garian Communist, Traicho Kos tov, repudiated his earlier confes- sion that he spied for British in- telligence, worked for Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and be- trayed the Communists.
 The retraction of Kostov, former Deputy Premier, reportedly shocked the court. It looked like the first time in history anyone had ever dared to change their admission into a denial in Soviet satellite spy trial.
 The Kostov repudiation was re- ported by Peter Burchett, core spondent of the London Daily Ex- press and Tass, the official Russian
 
 news agency
 The latest guilty plea was uttered by Nikola Nachev, former Deputy Construction Minister Altogether II former leaders are on trial. All are charged with treason and spy ing. Former Finance Minister Ivar Stefanov yesterday pleaded guilty
 The trial is similar to one re- gently held in Hungary, another Soviet satellite nation.
 A Yugoslav regime spokesman said recently the trials are a Soviet attempt to build a case against the Tito government as a forerunner of aggression The spokesman said the Bulgarian trials had been postponed for awhile pe- cause Kostov was not quite sure oi his lines of confession for the trial about to be staged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
pWA OFFICIALS EXPECT REQUESTS
 FOR S45,oOo,o0O

Applications in the next two months for Federal aid under the Alaska Public Works Act probably will total about $45,00O,O00, it was estimated today by Arthur D. Nor rell, Deputy Commissioner of the Community Facilities Service which is administering the measure.
 Morrell will know more definitely after his two-week trip to Anchor age, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, on which he was to leave this after noon. He will discuss details of proposed projects, as he and the CTS group have done with officials of Juneau, Douglas, Petersburg, and Pelican City and other municipali- ties while here
 We expect applications from every incorporated town in Alaska and from most of the public utili- ties districts, as well as from a large number of independent school districts" Morrell said shortly be- fore boarding a PIMA plane this afternoon.
 ELIGIBLE PROJECTS
 Applications on behalf of the Territory probably will include those for a number of school pro- jects, and we have been told that the Health Department and the Aeronautics and Communications Commission also have eligible pro- jects.
 50 far" continued Morrell, "the major types of public works sought are schools, sewerage and water systems, and small boats harrors. These are the most numerous re- quested, although not necessarily the largest in terms of dollars in- volved."
 GREATER APPROPRIATION
 With $1,Oo0,O0O in cash and $4,- 100000 in contract authorization as starter for the 1850 fiscal year which will end next June, work in the next few months will barely scratch the surface, accord ing to Morrell.
 However, he believes that the great number of applications for essential services will be effective
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
DOUBT E
 EXPRESSED
 RADAR RUN
Non- Stop Flight Not Pos sibIe, Airmdn Sdys-CouId
 Not Pass Up Alaska

ROCHESTER, NY, Dec. 8--R- A wartime commander of the Army Air Base at Nome, Alaska, said today he didn't think 1t pos- sible for Russian pilot to have flown US. radar equipment to Russia from Washington, as claimed by former Air Force Major George Racey Jordan.
 Edgar A. Coapman, a retired L!eutenant-C Colonel, said:
 If Russian pilot flew a radar- equipped C-47 out of Washington, by-passed Great Falls, Mont, where Jordan was a lend-lease expediter, and made it to Moscow, never saw him.
 Jordan told neWsmen In New York Tuesday that he had ripped radar equipment from four Russian hound planes that had taken off from Washington but that a fifth ship had by-passed Great Falls.
 Jordan described one of the planes that stopped at Great Falls as a CAT.
 Asked how he knew of the flight, Jordan said it was reported in newspaper stories and pictures. Jordan contended that the plane was ale to make the hop by dump ing all baggage and unnecessary equipment at the end of the Wash ington runway.
 Coapman said the 5,500-mile run rom Washington to Nome was out side the normal range of CAT.
 T don't think it would have been possible for Russian pilot, under standing no American radio signals, to have made the tough run with out 'weathering in somewhere be- tween Washington, Great Falls, Calgary, Edmonton or Fairbanks" {" Coapman said
 "A flight such as Jordan de- scribes," Coapman added, would have been decidedly irregular.
 "All airplanes transferred on lend-lease to the Russians were flown by American pilots to Fair banks, where they were turned over to the Soviet Purchasing Commis- sion. Russian pilots then flew tiR planes to Nome and thence to Rus sia."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08

NINE BODIES RECOVERED
 VALLEJO, Calif., Dec. 8-tRl- The bodies of six adults and three children have been recovered from the wreckage of an airliner, a ground party radioed.
 The radio was intercepted by the Eenicia Police Department, Chiei of Police Vincent Warren of Ben icia said. The ground crew said the plane had not burned but tie wreckage was spread over wide area.
 At Burbank, Calif., the Civil Aero rlautics Board listed these passen- gers aboard the plane:
 James s. Garnett, pilot.
 Meade Dillon, co-pilot.
 Susan Devore, stewardess.
 Mrs. George Batchelor and son, Pat, Torrance.
 Mrs. Miriam Kimball, 23, Pasa- dena, Calf, and her sons, Leland III, 18 months and John Wesley, six months.
 Vincent N. Figley. Laguna Beach, Calf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
Gold in Them Idaho Hills Assays $4.502 Per Ton, They Say

WALLACE, Idaho, Dec. 8-tR- Location notices were filed here Tuesday. on North Idaho gold claim from which specimen re- portedly ran 128.64 ounces of gold to the ton. That amount of gold would bring $4,502 at the current market.
 The claim, identified as the "Old Lewie Sam Claim" 20 miles north east of- Avery. Mont, was filed by George Horine of Spokane.
 He said the assay was made by the Associated Laboratories in Portland, Ore.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
Continued on Page 9
The W Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

Copyright. l949. by Bell Syndicate. Incl WASHINGTON-When Sen. E. Thomas of Oklahoma wrote a let ter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson last fall wanting a special Air Force plane to carry Sem ate Appropriations Subcommittee through Europe, someone in John sons office at first questioned the expenditure.
 This caused the Senator from Oklahoma to challenge the use of government airplanes by Secretary Johnson, Vice President Barkley and other brass hats, with the re- suit Johnson pulled in his horns, and Senator Thomas got the plane plus six crew members.
 Now that Senator Thomas and Colleagues have toured Europe supposedly on official business-it appears that Secretary Johnson's first impulse was right. He could have stuck to his guns.
 For the chief results of the Thom- as junket are an overdose of hos pitality in Spain. and underdose of hospitality in Sweden = thereby bringing bitter complaints from Senator Thomas-and the general impression left upon Europe that U. s. Senators are ignoramuses.
 To illustrate why Europeans got this impression, here is an inter- view published by the highly re- liable Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune:
 We saw the French Defense Minister today" Senator Thomas told the press. to illustrate the fact that his committee was in Europe to see how the American taxpayers money was being spent. He showed
 (Continued on Page Four)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
TUMuLTUoUs DAYS

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8-tM- A graphic account of tumultuou, days in San Diego during the de- pression was told today at the Harry Bridges perjury trial.
 The narrator was Stanley Ben- jan1in Hancock, newspaperman and a former Communist. As a government witness Hancock yes- terday testified he had seen Bridges at fraction meeting of the Com munist party in San Diego in 1895.
 Prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue asked the witness why he entered the Communist party. He replied that it was because he saw poverty and hardship everywhere about him and nothing was being done about it.
 Why did he leave the party? he was asked.
 T left the Communist party te- cause slowly but surely l learned that the Communist party was not interested in human beings as such," Hancock replied. Tt placed the interest of the Soviet Union above everything else"
 Under cross-examination by James MacInnis, Hancock told about conditions and events that led him to join the Communist party.
 He gave an extended recital of his own arrests and of strikes in the cotton and tomato fields.
 Yesterday two witnesses placed the defendant Bridges in the Com munist party
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-08
STOCK 0Uo1ATI0Ns

NEW YORK, Dec. 8-Closing quo tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3s, American Can 99k, Anaconda 28A, Curtiss- Wright T International Harvester 28as, Ken necott 51, New York Central 10ss, Northern Pacific 13, U. s. Steel 26A Pound $2.80%.
 Sales today were 1,720,000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials 194.45, rails 50.57, util- ities 4035.