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Glasgow, Valley County, Montana. Thursday, April 1, 1943
Number 49
Volume 37
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HUGE WAR BOND DRIVE OPENS
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FLOODWATERS
NOW DROPPING
ALONG VALLEY
Milk River Rise Comes after
Heavy Snow Cover in East
Montana Melts.
Glasgow Dike Again Prevents
Inundation of City's
South Side.
Waters of the Miik river, which
went out of their banks this week
in the first severe flood since 1939,
were slowly but noticeably dropping
today as the runoff from a heavy
snow cover over northern Montana
subsided.
The flood reached a crest here
Wednesday night but the level was
still more' than a foot below the
1939 high.
First concern for the flood came
Friday as the river began rising
slowly within Its banks. On that,
da V, the stream was still choked
with ice. most of which remained
unbroken. A small jam developed
near the Fort Peck highway bridge.
Saturday, the county road be
tween Glasgow and Tampico was
covered in several spots as excess[
water from Dry Run creek, drain-,
in 2 a huge territory to the south,
spilled from the hills over valley
lowlands.
The Milk's rise continued slowly
through Sunday and Monday and
bv Tuesday morning it was far out
of its banks, lapping against the
Glasgow south side flood dike.
Leak is Blocked
A small leak developed around a
culvert valve at the west end of
Second avenue south, but it was
quickly stopped by building a ring
dike of sandbags inside the main
dike and around the leaking wa
ter. thus equalizing the pressure.
Mayor E. J. Kjelstrup ordered
a 24-hour patrol of the dike and
straw was scattered in the water to
help minimize the action of waves
thrown against the earth barrier
by a sharp west wind. The water
height Tuesday was about 15 inches
below tire peak of the March, 1939,
flood here. .
Tire water had risen above the
normal outlet of the city sewer
here Friday, but its flow was di
verted to a sump, from where it was
pumped into the river, eliminating
the danger of backup into city base
ments.
No Help Asked
Not one call for assistance from
farmers or ranchers was received
at his office, Sheriff E. L. McPher
son reported, in contrast with the
1939 flood, when many families had
to be rescued from their farm
houses and livestock losses were
heavy.
The stream's slow rise brought
ample advance warning. Many fam
ilies had gone to the hills or moved
stock, while some elected to stick
it out on high spots along the rivpr.
Tire gauge on Vandalia dam, 25
miles upstream, registered as high
as 35.2 Tuesday, well below the 1939
crest of 36.8 feet. At the same time,
the river was dropping near Malta
but a heavy flow from Rock creek,
reported as out of its banks most
of the way from Thoeny to its out
let near Hinsdale, was believed to
have increased the Milk's volume
below that point.
At Nashua, the Highway 2 bridge
across Big Porcupine creek was
threatened' Tuesday when an aban
doned bridge from the old P. H.,
McConnell gravel operation drifted
against it. with other debris. After a
day's work, rnost of the bridge was
removed bv a county crew. The
Mike Tihista family was forced to
move from its home north of High
way 2.
Frazer Bridge Goes
P. L. Sheppard reported that a
flood in Little Porcupine washed out
a bridge on the road connecting
Frazer with Highway 2. Prom all
over the county, minor washouts
were reported when water in cou
(Continued on last page.)
Maag and Hunger
Latest to Enroll
For Navy Service
Pat Maag. 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Maag of Glasgow, was
accepted for enlistment in the navy
at Helena Tuesday and was as
signed for training at Farragut, Ida
ho. it was reported today by Chief
Ben Ulberg. in charge of the Glas
gow navy recruiting substation. Al
so accepted at the station here was
Leroy Munger. 17. son of Herbert
Munger of Opheim. He left today
for final examination at Helena.
Sixty Participate in Area
Meeting of Church Youth
Forty voting people and twenty
adults participated in a district in
stitute of the Methodist Youth Fel
iowship at the Methodist church
Fridav night and Saturday morning
and afternoon
m-, the nrotrram were Dr C L
Clifford of Helena, state director
of young peoples work for the
Methodist church, the Rev. Walter
Wampler of Great Falls, district su
perintendent. the Rev. Joseph Gib
of Scobev, and Rev. W. L.
Bennett of Glasgow, The young
people included delegates from Sco
bey and Hinsdale.
The general theme of the meeting
son
Gets Silver Star
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• Capt. Charles F. Peterson Jr.
of Glasg- v, sot, i, Ir. and Mrs.
Charles K. Pe'rrson h ,s been
awarded th S'lv '.tar for gal
lantry in actio" :>i New Guinea.
He is the second Gia.«%ow offi
cer to win the honor. Announce
ment was previously received of
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the medal's presentation to
Capt. J. L. Hoffman of Glasgow.
Twenty-one Montanans received
the Silver Star after distinguish
ing themselves in driving the
Japs from the Sanananda beach
area. Captain Peterson recently
was promoted from first lieu
tenant.
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PILOT, SON OF
LOCAL PEOPLE
Lieutenant Strader Overdue on
Routine Flight in Area
Near Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Strader re-,
ceived word Sunday from Com
manding Officer Herold at the army
air base at McClelland Field. Ore.,
that their son. Lieut. Alan C Strad
er, 20. on routine flight from Port
land, Ore., was overdue.
The surrounding country where
the last radio contact was made
with him was being thoroughly
searched. Three telegrams received
since from the commanding offi
cer reported that the search was
continuing, but that no clues had
been found and no further informa
tion was available.
Liuetenant Strader enlisted in the
army air force last April and was
called for cadet training in June.
He spent the intervening time visit
ing at the family's former home in
Marysville. Mo„ where he was grad
uated from high school in 1941.
Tmmed'atelv after his graduation
the family moved to Glasgow and
he was emploved here bv the Roxv
theater and later at the Buttrey
store. The winter of 1941-42 he was
employed at flight school at Miles
Ci tv.
He had his grout'd school training
after his enlistment at Santa Ana,
Calif., his primary training at the
Ryan School of Aeronautics at
r f''eson. O'iz.. his basic training at
Minier field, Bakersfield. Calif., and
his advanced training at Williams
field. Chandler. Ariz., from where
he was graduated in March.
A brother, Louis Strader Jr., is
also in the air service and has
been in a ground crew at Chanute
field. Ill. He expects to start cadet
training soon.
Three Finish Red
Cross Aid Course
A Red Cross first aid class
taught by Mrs. Ted Parker and Mrs.
M. A. Taylor at the south side
school completed the course this
week and. certificates were awarded
to Knute Barstad. Mis. Rex Mc
Donald and Mrs, A. L. Blair. Only
eight had enrolled in this class.
Ensign William Lee
Now on Pacific Isle
Ensign William D. Lee. navy pilot
and former Glasgow high school
band director, is now stationed on a
Pacific island with a scouting squad
ron. In a recent letter to The
Courier, he writes that he is well
and sends greetings to Glasgow
friends.
was "Christian Symbolism" and a
trip was made Saturday morning
to St. Raphael's Catholic church
to observe the religious symbols of
that church.
A dinner for the delegates was
' served by the Woman's Society of
Christian service at the church Fri
S. Dosiert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vic
tor Dosiert of Nashua, has gradu
ated from the air forces technical
; training command school for air
' plane mechanics here.
day night.
DOSTERT IS GRADUATE
GULFPORT. Miss. — Private Leo
On the Beam" and
Big Airbase Band
Here on Saturday
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It will be a "double feature"
in the Glasgow civic center Sat
urday night at 8:15 when sol
diers of the Great Falls army
airbase present "On the Beam,"
a 16-act military musical revue,
followed by a dance at which
the 14-piece 50th air force band
will provide the music.
"On the Beam" is an all air
force production written by
Lieut. Irving Berlau and pro
vides everything from a mascu
line strip-tease to a hill-bilty
band, with a bit of Gershwin in
between.
Heading the cast are two
corporals. Jack Abrams, who
has had New York theatrical
experience, and Stafford Repp,
with previous stage work on the
west coast.
The stage show and the dance
to follow are sponsored locally
by the Glasgow Kiwanis club
and all proceeds will go for
lecreation of men stationed at
the Glasgow airfield.
Experienced Men
Wanted by Army
Engineers Corps
"Yes, we're tough! And we might
get tougher," said Chief of Engin
eers Major General Eugene Reybold
in challenging qualified civilians to
volunteer for the army's famed
corps of engineers, under a new
plan to recruit 9.000 specialists a
month.
"The mission of the Army's corps
of engineers is developing with the
progress of our attack. We are fin
ishing up the biggest emergency
construction program the United
States has ever seen. Now we're
moving on to a program of con
struction overseas."
Under the plan announced by the
chief of engineers, trained equip
ment operators who have been em
ployed as civilians on engineering
construction projects may, prior to
their induction by selective service,
volunteer for enlistment in the en
gineers.
The nearest army engineer office,
Port Peck in this case, will take their
applications, pass on their qualifica
tions «nd provide them with a let
ter to their Induction station which
will earmark them for duty with the
engineers. Prom the induction sta
f . .. .
'J2j. ey t ne eenters^at^Fort
®^ lnee î wood Mo Jefferson Bai-
£fcks M oorC amri'Claiborne La
nlan fs de^iencd to aDiieaf'to
1116 plan 18 0eslgned t0 appeal t0
to
trained civilians who. as the army's
emergency construction program
tapers off are, becoming subject to
the draft. Thus earmarked for the
engineers, they can be advanced in
grade as rapidly as their special
training justifies. They will have the
same opportunity to secure commis
sions through
candidate school' as other enlisted
men, but their previous training
should allow them to speed up the
normal process.
Uie engineer officer
Farmers Urged to
Make Labor Needs
For Season Known
Valley county farmers, in order to
cooperate with movements on foot
to secure more farm labor, should
make known their labor needs for
this season immediately, it was de
dared today by the county depart
"Several weeks ago we sent out
blanks to farmers asking them to
state their labor needs and return
the blanks to our office," one board
member commented.
"So far, the returns have been dis
appointing. We most certainly can
not ask for help from various agen
cies until we are able to give them
a clear picture of how much labor
and what kind is needed in the
county. If the farmer wants some
help, he should give us some help."
ment of agriculture war board.
Miss Hill First
From Nashua to
Enroll in Waacs
Bv Courier Correspondent
NASHUA — Miss Gladys Hill,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron
Hill, left Sunday morning for Port
Des Moines, Iowa, where she will
enter training in the woman s army
auxiliary corps. Miss Hill is the first
Nashua girl to volunteer her serv
ices in army work. She recently
resigned her teaching posi-1
tion at Conrad. She visited here at
the home of her parents for two
weeks.
Two from Project
Fined After Hotel
Patrons Complain
Ç. E. Skolrud paid $75 and Harold
Nelson a $50 fine after they pleaded
guilty to disturbance charges Sat-1
urdaj before Justice C. W Kamp
t *r. Bofh
as
Silvas a t n h d CC> r
plaint was filed against them by
James W, Arnold, Port Peck chief
of police. They were arrested after
tel dl in Fort n peck n ^ Employes ho '
tel m Fort Peck -
FOSSUM GRADUATE
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Private
Chester G, Possum, son of Mrs. Jar
ine Possum of Richland, has gradu
ated from an intensive course in avi
ation mechanics at Douglas Aircraft
company, Santa Monica, Calif.
Dike Again Prelects Clasgow iron. Flood
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• This scene in March, 1939, was duplicated this week as Milk river burst out of its banks
Monday night and flooded the valley Hi the Glasgow section. The aerial photograph dem
onstrates the worth to the Glasgow south side of the flood dike. The picture is taken toward the
west, with the Deaconess hospital in the foreground and the line of the Great Northern rail
way out of water in the background.
BUREAU WILL
OPENWEATHEE
STATION HERE
Two Officials Visit to Make
Plans for 24-hour Office
at Glasgow.
locatfcm tf a Tnew m « Æ.T'we*!
ther observation station for tîte
wfeL h with Ur the U v^it S hereof 6 'R°A
D ghtman of SeatUe, assfstaft met-'
eorologist, and J. H. Chafin Jr., of
Washington, D. C., senior technician.
The weather bureau officials were
seeking suitable office quarters and
other facilities for the station. If
these are available, it is expected
that the station will be established.
It will mean the permanent location
here of about six full-time em
p 0> s -
Pritchard Now on
Duty at Glasgow
Recruit Station
L. H. Pritchard, specialist, first
class, arrived Wednesday from
Glendive for duty at the Glasgow
navy recruiting substation. He was |
formerly in recruiting at Glendive, |
which is his home.
Chief Ben Ulberg, who is
charge of the substation here, re- j
turned Wednesday from Helena,
I where he attended a special con-1
ference on enlistment of WAVEs and I
SPARs, women's auxiliaries of the {
navy and coast guard.
Lieut, ij. g.) Jane Bogue from the
naval office of procurement at Se
attle spoke at the meeting anti gave
complete information on latest
training advantages of the women's
groups, which Chief Ulberg will be
glad to provide for any woman of
this section who are interested,
in
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Two Incumbents
Glasgow School
Board Nominees
The Glasgow school district will 1
be without a contest in the annual |
school board election Saturday, ac- j
cording to announcement by A. B.
Priedlund. clerk of the board.
Two incumbents whose terms ex
pire both have been renominated
for three-year terms. They are El
mer Hall and R. Alger. Because of (
the school district's improved fin
ancial condition, no special levy is
to be voted this year.
The polling place for the district
election is at the Glasgow north {
side school. Polls will be open from |
2 to 6 Saturday afternoon.
WAAC Recruiting
Officer Will Be
Here on April 9
W AAC officer recent 1 ? assigned to
recruUine dutv at the Montana
rlcruitinl dtsLfct headquarters, will
b in Glasgow April 9, on a special
detail to encourage interest in the
women^ army auxiha^ corps and
to int erview ' anv women of this
a ?ea intVreded in the organization
f e. tenant Hadsen is being ac
companied bv Auxiliary Celia Fol
bridge, new member of the WAAC
recruiting staff attached to the
Montana recruiting district.
Lieutenant Hadsell will be glad
to meet all girls who may be con
sidering enrollment in the WAAC
and any others who would like in
formation regarding this rapidly
growing women's army.
| pan««g Coyotes, Bison All
In Day for Airplane Hunter
A bobtailed coyote who tries to
trade punches with his aerial at-{
lacker and wandering bison are,
sights all in a day's work for Har- •
old (Hardy) Anderson of Wolfi
Point, who with his gunner. Her
man Grotte, has knocked over morel
than 800 of the predators in east- j
ern Montana this season.
Hardy's familiarity with this sec
tion of the state has just brought
him and his partner a contract with
the state fish and game commission
to make an antelope census of
eastern Montana. And he knows
| vrttere to find them. In fact, he says,
Hsed^t^the^mount^of^ ^itTgaïnê
i'a thi.s se^Uon of the stîtS-Sxh
^ackta.l and wh.tetaü deer as well
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a i*erd belonging to y g
hoffain start
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bbrLst season for the part
g f 941 42 he n they bagged
*as 194! 42 when tney b ggea
S ecUon of s^te as
far south as Billings and as far west
as the Little Rockies. This season
has not been quite so good because
the partners lost their planes in
the Miles City hangar fire and
were not able to secure a replace
ment immediately.
Lining 'Em Up
Coyote hunting sounds simple.
You fly till you find one or more.
Then you line him up for vour gun
ner ant j he fires his shotgun at
the animal. Anderson flies a light
cub cruiser and, after the coyote
; s down, lands the plane as close
to it as possible. Thus may be
several miles in rough country. But
the plane can land in a small space
and, under proper snow conditions,
can pft itself in runs as short as
200 feet.
But, that isn't the whole story,
Several enthusiastic pilots, too in
tent on the animal beneath, have
crashed into hills with disastrous
rfiÄÄÄ
and let the gunner do the rest,"
Anderson explained. Grotte, he says,
is one of the best shots in the bus
iness and averages about two shells
for every animal.
Not lono - ago tliGv btiEScd 15 out
of 16 coyotes spotted on the Pete
Ttcaina ranch near Malta. The sur- :
vivor escaped by ducking into heavy
Rationing Coupons
Sugar
Your No. 12 Sugar
Rationing Coupon
is good for 5 lbs.
of sugar for the
period expiring on
Monday. May 31.
Coffee
Your No. 26 Sugar
Rationing Coupon
is good for 1 pound
of Coffee for the
five - week period
ending at mid
night, Monday, April 26.
You are entitled
to use one
Basic Mileage Ra
tion Coupon, good
for 4 gallons of
Gasoline for each
week. AH A-5 Coupons will be
void after Friday, May 21.
SlirtfKï Tour No. 17 Sugar
>J,1UCS Rationing Coupon
is good for One
Pair of Shoes un.
til June 15.
Gasoline
"A"
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Rnnlr Nr» The bIue C 0 U P° ns
uuuli 1>0 *marketl "D," "E"
and "F" in your
War Ration Book
No. 2 are good for
the ration commo
dities listed through April 30.
Maximum number of points per
month is 48.
IMP A IT Rnt> onin S: of meat,
* cheese and other
BOOK NO. 2 products began on
March 29. Basic
allotment is 16 points a week
from red stamps in Book No. 2.
brush. Grotte uses a 12 gauge gun
and, if it is obtainable, prefers
No. 2 shot. Buckshot will do the
killing but it will rip up a pelt.
Tn „ 2I , nimaIs
lop 21 Ammals
The hunters' top day was 21 an
imals. near Miles city, although one
dav recently they bagged 19 on the
John Etchart range north of Glas
gow. Ranchers, who have stock loss
es in coyote-infested country, al
ways give the hunters a hearty wel
come.
When they see the plane, coyotes
generally cut and run as fast as
th,ey can. Some ziz-zag, with the
traditional cunning of the animal.
But there are exceptions.
"We spotted this bob-tailed coy
ote in a bunch of five and got all
the rest," Anderson relates. "When
we came around after him, he
didn't move an inch, just got up
on his hind legs, did a dance that
made him look like Joe Louis and
gave every sign of daring us to
come on down and fight." But
Grotte's shotgun cut his pugilistic
stance short and the bobtail went
the wav of most of the others that
the partners sight.
GLASGOW CITY
ELECTION WILL
BE ON MONDAY
Present Municipal Officers Are
Without Opposition
at Polls.
Glasgow's city election Monday
will be held with all piesent olfi
ce ''; s unopposed at the polls,
election are Ma> o:
E. J. Kjelstrup, C. A. Dunnell and
«. W. Magruder south side aldei
msn, Rubin Sinclâii «ind C. O.
Johnson, ri ort h side aldermen, Mai -
Un Miller, city treasurer, and C. W.
Ka p n Xf r ^, iI f > ^ e 0I ^ 1 ^ 0 f n 8 a , m .
to 6 p. m. Monday.
Polling place for the north side
voters is the Congregational church
while the south side polling place
is the city library.
"Brain Fever" Is
Comedy Given at
Kiwanis Meeting
! Glasgow Kiwanians saw an amus
ing comedy, "Brain Fever." present
ed bv Glasgow high school pupils at
their noon luncheon meeting in the
Allen cafe Thursday.
In the cast were Tommy eKating,
Betty Lou Malunat, Geneva Tufte.
Ancel Fassett, Mary Lou Alley, Paul
Jaocbson, Isabelle Beatty and Mae
Weasa.
President E. J. Kjelstrup presided
with J. E. Brown as program chair
man, A guest at the meeting was
Jack Kjelstrup of Plentywood.
The club is holding a ladies' night
program and party tonight at 6:30
in the civic center.
HERE FROM ALASKA
Leo Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Knight, will leave tonight
! on a return trip to Alaska after
spending the week here visiting his
I spending the week here visiting his
I parents and his wife and daugh
[ ter. He is employed as a mechanic
on an Alaskan war project.
ONE TRAIN IN TWO WEEKS
OPHEIM — Only one train lias
reached Opheim in the past two
weeks. First, a blizzard halted traf
fic and more recently high water
from melting snow has kept trains
from reaching here.
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Valleyùfunty Quota
Is Set at $270,000
Exclusive Of Banks
COMMUNITY GOALS ARE ASSIGNED AS
COMMITTEE GETS CAMPAIGN
IN OPERATION
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HIGH SCHOOL
HERE FRIDAY
War Physical Fitness Program
Will Be Demonstrated by
Boys and Girls.
Everything from a Russian folk j
dance to boxing exhibitions is on
the program at a "gymjam" sched
uled in the high school auditorium
Friday night at 7:30 to demonstrate {
the type of physical fitness and pre
induction training being given in |
the school. Admission is free. |
The program is under the direc- j
tion of Miss Margaret Smith and
Bob Murray, high school physical |
education instructors. The slogan |
for the "gymjam" is "Physical fit-j
ness through physical education for
the Victory corps."
More than 250 junior and senior
high school boys and girls will par
ticipate.
The program will open with mass;quota
calisthenics by boys, followed by
gymnastics demonstrated by girls
and boys' wrestling exhibitions. I
Grade 7 girls will present a Rus- ,
sian dance, Kamarinskaia. and high |
school girls will stage special gym
stunts. Other program features are
specialty stunts, boys; tumbling,
I grade 7 and 8 boys; game, "Run
ing in Circles," high school girls;
English sword dance, grade 8 girls:
boxing, boys, and, as a finale, mass
gymnastics by high school girls.
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rippiffiowpis association
h aeree d^n tenns of tte 1943
£eet contract with the Utah-Idaho I
Sugar company which will bring
them a record price of $11.52 a
ton.
Negotiations were completed at
Chinook in which both officers of
Glasgow district beetgrowers have
been informed that the Northern
Montana
the Northern Montana and Pondera
growers associations participated.
The price for beets is the same
in 1942, a net of $4.489 a ton.
with an additional $1.50 per ton
for an average sugar content of
16.2 percent.
In addition, the grower will re
ceive. under terms of the sugar act,
his payment from the government
through the processing, of $2.52 a
ton.
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Kreft, Now Major
Is Ease Surgeon
On Pacific Isle
A former Glasgow and Fort Peck j
physician, A. J. Kreft. now serving
with the air forces island air com
mand, was recently promoted to the
grade of major according to word
received here by friends.
Major Kreft was given the post
of base surgeon and says. "I am
at a wonderful place in the South
Seas and can say that these islands
are as pretty as they are depicted
in the movies. I could stand sev
eral weeks of good old Montana
snow and blizzards right now, how
ever,"
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Mrs. Kreft is the former Mary
Smith, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
A. N. Smith of Glasgow.
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Manager C. O. Johnson of the Par
mers Union Oil company and Mrs.
Johnson are at McCleary clinic and i
hospital in Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
Both are getting along fine, Mr.
Johnson writes, and expect to be [
home in a short time. 1
Formes' Peck Officer Heads
David A. D Ogden, a captain,
when he served as an engineer of
ficer on construction of the Fort
Peck dam, is now a brigadier gen
erai in charge of the engineer am
phibious command at Camp Gordon
Johnston on the Gulf of Mexico
near Carrabelle, Fla.
Training at the camp is described
an article in a national news
magazine. which tells of the work
being done to whip into the shape
the units that must first storm the
beaches. They are called specialized
amphibious shock troops, a sort of
a commando combination of in
fantry and engineers.
I The largest monthly quota of war
bonds in World War Two's history
is assigned Valley county for April—
I $270.000. This is for individual buy
| ers alone. In addition, banks of the
I county have been assigned a quota
j almost as large to purchase from
their own assets.
Campaign plans were formulated
at a meeting held here Tuesday
night at which C. H. Brccksmith
was named chairman and at which
every community in the county was
assigned a definite quota for April.
Slogan for the drive is "They
GIVE their lives. You LEND your
money."
Hold Area Meeting
Launching of the county cam
paign followed a northeastern re
gional meeting in Wolf Point Mon
day. at which the drive was ex
plained by R. E. Towle, state chair
{man and manager of the Federal
Reserve bank at Helena; Fred Mar
tin of Great Palls, Montana assis
tant war savings campaign admin
istrator, and Thomas R. Richardson
of Helena, president of the West
ern States Life Insurance company.
Throughout the United States, 13
billions must be raised during the
month. Montana's share of this
quota for April is $35,500,000.
Speakers at the meeting stressed
the fine record in bond buying
made by the northeastern Montana
counties, a "bright spot," they said,
in the entire northwest. They ex
pressed certainty that the April
will be met by every county.
While one purpose of the cam
paign is to fight inflation, of course,
more important is the emergency,
It was stressed that if the tre
mendous war effort cannot be fi
nanced through voluntary loaning
o! money by the public, some other
means of raising that money, per
haps by added taxation or enforced
savings, must be devised,
At Tuesday night's meeting in
Glasgow, Mr. Brocksmith named of
To Further War Effort
llcers to work with him in what
is P lanned as an intensive cam
paign. They are T. J. Hocking, ad
vertising and publicity; E. D. Ben
son, rural distribution and informa
tion; E. J. Kjelstrup. speakers: J.
- Sternhagen. women's organiza
tions, and A. B. Priedlund, secre
tary. Each chairman will choose his
own committee.
Cooperation will be sought from
the Tri P le A < rural neighborhood
leaders ' the Farmers Union war
^ofcomm'erce '3
''VL, „ouns f Commerce and
otnei gloups -
Community Quotas Set
Chairmen were appointed for
each community in the county to
head active solicitation, each' to
select his own committee.
The community goals and chair
men are:
Opheim, $25.000, E. A. Walstad;
Glentana, $10.000, Martin Sauber;
Richland, $20,000, H. L. Curtis;
Larslan, $3.000,Mrs. John Rogenes;
Oswego, $2 000. August Knapp;
Frazer. $20,000, M. A. Lien; Lustre,
{$10.000, Rex Nichols: Port Peck,
($20,000. Col. Howard H. Roberts;
Tampico, $6,000, Richard Motzkau;
Vandalia, $5,000, John David; Hins
dale, $25 000, R. E. Hillman; Bea
verton. $2.000. Charles H. McChes
ney; Thoeny, $2,000, J. M. Thoeny;
Nashua. $25,000, D. M. Hawbaker;
Wheeler $1,500. Mrs. Kirk Stanley:
[New Deal, $1.500, Mark Kotkin, and
Glasgow. $100,000. J. P. Sternhagen.
Each committee chairmen automat
jcally becomes a member of the
General County committee.
Bundy Selected
District Chief of
Junior Baseball
BILLINGS — H. H. Perrigo, de
partment athletic director for the
American Legion, announced Legion
junior district baseball commission
ers f or the 1943 Montana season.
Selected were; District No. 1, C. K.
Walsh, Missoula; No. 2, A. A. Arras,
Cut Bank; No. 3. O. H. Bundy, Glas
gow; N o, 4. J E. Christofferson,
Great Falls; No. 5. Victor Scott,
Denton; No. 6, Ed William Murray,
Miles City.
Perrigo said the Legion plans to
continue its baseball activities, pro
viding they do not interfere with
the war effort.
The street fighting courses in an
abandoned lumber town and the
1 training of troops under actual fire
have already received much publi
city,
EAC brigade
D. Ogden, a go-getting little West
Pointer from New Jersey and build
"Actually, the first shop of an
the outfit now at
camp is under Brig. Gen. David A.
er of Tiinidad base—is to load,
carry and unload a complete in
fantry division in a shore-to-shore
operation," the article adds.
General Gerden left Fort Peck to
go to Trinidad to build bases on
British-leased land.