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Five MONTANA STANDARD, BUTTE, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1943 New Army Transport Built for Job Nazis Have Special Army Ready to Maintain Order in Reich When the Regular Army Collapses By LYNN HEINZERLING i the SS in a crisis. Such formations LONDON (P) In the blustering include the armored grenadier dlvi-days before Sept. 1, 1939, Germans slon and the Hermann Goering This Thief Went Fishing BECKLEY, W. Va. iPy Thecul-prit who obtained $38 from the home of Mrs.

C. C. Crockett of Bluefield apparently haa inclinations as a fisherman. She told police that the money was taken from the clothing of a roomer at her house. The money was stolen when a pair of trousers wa pulled through a window of the room with a wire, Mrs.

Crockett explained. Bridge Party Is Social Highlight Selectees Feted at Picnic Party SHERIDAN, August 1 (Special) Mrs. Jeannette Weeks entertained at a dessert luncheon Tuesday for her contract bridge foursome, and a table of gUesta. Present were Mra.l D. W.

Raymond, Mrs. O. H. Junod, Mrs. R.

H. Dver, Mrs. Albert armored grenadier division, both specially outfitted. Recently the Feldherrnhalle division has been added to this group. This formation, formerly called the 60th motorized division, was destroyed at Stalingrad but Is now being csf a trig's trji FlYINO FREIGHT CAR The nw Curtiss-Wright C-46, the Army' first transport plan built far that purpose supervision of Col.

B. H. Griffin, pilot in the first World war and a flyer of the old school. In 1932 Griffin and Jimmy Mattern flew nonstop from Newfoundland to Berlin, cutting 11 hours off the record to that point of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in their round-the-world flight. One of the technical assistants of Colonel Griffin is Capt.

in iihwiiiih.ii ii I in i i ii i i I By HENRY C. NICHOLAS (Central Pnu Correspondent) MIAMI, pia. Not very long ago a plane roared down a runway in Florida and lifted gracefully In th air. It circled the field, dipped iti wings in a salute, and headed out over the ocean. There were no speeches, cheers or ceremonies of any character.

But the group of Army officials who watched the plane until it was lost In the distance knew that they were witnessing one of the notable developments of World War II one that will play a tremendous part in the defeat of Germany and Japan. For this was no ordinary plane. It was no bomber or commercial transport hurriedly converted into a cargo plane such as our Army had been forced to use during tha early days of the war. It was no slow and lumbering cargo ship which was an easy target for fighter planes, such as Germany had used in its efforts to bring troops and supplies to the aid of Rommel in Africa. Here at last was the Curtiss-Wright C-46, the first giant transport plane built exclusively for Army transport work and handled by a crew especially picked and trained for that purpose.

Their Number Secret How many of these cargo planes are now in operation is a military secret. So is the section of the globe where they are regularly delivering their cargoes. But there are other facts which the OWI has permitted to be disclosed, and these facts will provide neither aid nor comfort to the enemy. The C-46 is as high as a two-story house, and has a wing spread more than one-third the length of a football field. It was built to carry, even with a full load of gas, an amazing tonnage over oceans and continents.

It can be loaded with men and jeeps, or crated fighter planes and tanks with their or millions of pounds of medical and technical supplies needed on some distant battle front. Traveling hfgh in the air at a cruising speed of 200 miles an hour, drawn by roaring engines having the power equivalent to it Pence, Mrs. William Callaway, Mrs. Curtis Holland and Mrs. J.

F. Oak-wood. Mrs. Frank Jackson, Mrs. Flossie Marsh and Mrs.

Harold Fairful entertained with a picnic Friday evening at the J. M. Maddiaon cabin In Mill Creek canyon for nine Sheridan boys who are leaving aoon f0r training camps and others home on furlough. Guests included Mrs. James Maddison and son, James; Douglas Marsh, Arthur jacnaon, George Anderson, of Dillon; Wayne Lynch, Bill May, Jack Smith, Mr.

and Mrs. James Blrdsill, Dale Darby, Doris Garrison, Bonnie Bennetts, Joeen Weidner. Gay Nelson, Mary Ehlers, Beverly Balogh and Beverly Grose. Eight of junior girls responded to a call issued by Mrs. Ri V.

Love, local chairman of the Red Cross, for a meeting at the Library building Friday evening. Work will be started at once on afghans and Instructions will be given in knitting. James Orman Birdsill, son of Mrs. Guy Bowers of Sheridan, and Wanda Donegan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Sylvan Donegan of Twin Bridges, were married In Missoula July 19. The wedding took place in the Methodist parsonage. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Birdsill of Missoula, brother and sister-in-law of the bridegroom.

After a visit with relatives in Missoula, Mr. and Mrs. Birdsill returned to Sheridan to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bowers.

The bridegroom leaves Monday to join the armed forces of the TJ. S. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ehlers and Mr.

and Mrs. M. P. Schneider entertained with a picnic Sunday In Mill Creek canyon. In honor of James Schneider, who leaves Monday for a training camp, and their guest.

Father Herman J. Mowbry, of Minot, N. D. Announce Marriage BOZEMAN, August 1. (Special) Announcement has been made of the marriage of Ruth L.

Dexter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dexter of Silver Spring, former Bozeman residents, and Ens. Richard Bruce N. son of Mr.

and Mrs. A. D. Sted-man of Montgomery Hill, Md. Mrs.

Stedman is a graduate of Gallatin high school and attended Montana State college in Bozeman and Maryland university. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi. Ensign Stedman was graduated from Harvard university. The couple will reside at Alanton London Bridge, Va. Pony Briefs PONY, August 1.

(Special) Mr. and Mrs. Howard Welch and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marshall and son, Harvey, returned Wednesday from a week's visit with relatives in Miles City.

Mrs. John A. Muir and daughter, accompanied by Mrs. Winnie Kemp and Mrs. S.

B. Glenn spent Wednes- day in Bozeman. I Sergeant Helen Davis entrained at Logan Thursday evening to re- turn to her station at Daytona Beach, following a furlough of two weeks in Montana. Mr. and Mrs.

F. I. Johnston left Friday for Cr'eswell, where they expect to spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Mae McLeod returned to her home- in Pony Thursday, following several months' visit in Salt Lake City and Bujtte.

Mrs. Nellie Thomas of Butte, accompanied her to Pony, for an extended visit. Mrs. E. S.

Adkins arrived Saturday from Summerfield, to spend the remainder of the summer at her home in Pony. Mrs. Ef fie Pannell returned Saturday after a two weeks' visit with her scn-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H.

E. Stone of Alder. Mrs. Lillian Seideman of Alder is spending a few days with. Mrs.

Pannell. Whitehall Briefs WHITEHALL, August 1. (Special) Mrs. W. D.

Manlove left Friday for her home in San Pedro, after spending the summer in Whitehall and other "Montana towns. Mrs. Alice Harris spent the week Pony with her mother, Mrs. Josephine Howard. Mrs.

Lillie Cline, her daughter, Mrs. Franklin Yotter, and Neil Yotter left by train Friday for Iowa to spend two weeks with rela tives. Miss Jean Stewart of Minot, N. is a house guest of Miss Betty Taylor. On Wednesday morning Miss Taylor and her guest were entertained at breakfast, with Mrs.

Ralph Marston the hostess. Miss" Norma Hall of Seattle arrived last week end for a visit with friends in Whitehall and relatives iin Sheridan. Mrs. Francis Opie and two chil dren, Roberta Ann and Everett, left the first of the week for East Portal to spend the remainder of the summer with Mr. Opie, who is employed there.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard May and family left Wednesday to make their home in Hanford, where Mr. May is employed. MR.

WHAT I'VE GOT MR. WHY WE'RE WALKING CHUM. EVER HEAR ABOUT EXERCISE AMD SAVIMG GAS? 7 MR. WHAT VICTORY i irri i 1 werefond of speaking of "der tag the day when Adolf Hitler's armies would fall upon his enemies and bring Nazi culture, prosperity and "the new order" tc a misunderstanding world. Things have changed.

"Der tag" now means the day when the special Nazi army known as "die waffen-SS" will go into action to maintain Nazi orcjer in a Germany, crumbling from the blows of the Allies and the collapse of the regular armed forces. Nearly 500,000 Men This army, conceived by Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as the vehicle for thwarting any attempt to overthrow the Nazi regime or incite civil war, now consists of eight divisions with front-line ex perience, three special divisions and enough men in training or assigned to various tasks to bring the total personnel up to 500,000 men, German sources here estimate. This does not include the thousands of men active in the secret police or Gestapo, the safety service and various other police and administrative bodies under Himmler's jurisdiction. The fighting divisions of the SS organization actually comprise only a small part of the huge network of policing, fighting, spying and terror which Himmler has created. Separate High Command Hitler himself has called his SS army an "army in itself." Although SS units are under the direction of the regular army command when on duty at the front, there is a separate SS high command headed by Obergruppenfuehrer Hans Juett-ner.

Most of the officers of the SS have never been inside the halls where the officers of the regular army receive their precise training and indoctrination in German military tradition. The SS now has four armored divisions and four motorized divisions. The armored divisions are the death's head division, the reich division, the Viking division and the Adolf Hitler division, some of whose members descended on Holland as parachutists in Mav, 1940. The motorized divisions are the Prinz Pugen, police, cavalry and mountain. In addition to these, all of which have seen service, there is the Puhrer's guard battalion outfitted with the most modern tanks and equipment.

Have Special Status Certain formations of the regular rmylsoiiBvebeenigrverrtrspeclaT status with the SS and presumably may be counted on to operate with Most of American Battle of Atiu Are By DANIEL MARSTON SEATTLE, July 27. (ff) The first American casualties in the battle of Attu reached the comfort and care of Pacific coast hospitals even before iinalJapaneseorganized-re- sistance on the island was overcome, the Seattle post surgeon has disclosed. Colonel Louis' Brecheman, said nearly all the wounded have been brought more than 3,000 miles back to the States from the fog-ridden beaches of the Aleutian outpost. "I should says that close to 95 per cent of them are down here now," Colonel Brecheman said, in an interview. "A few may remain in well-equipped garrison hospitals in the Aleutians, but most have been brought south, either on transports or flown down." Colonel Brecheman, veteran of many years in the service, and his staff meet all transports bringing wounded.

A hospital train was at the dock when one arrived this month and stretcher cases and the "walking wounded" immediately were placed aboard to be taken to a Northwest hospital. (The War department announced at Washington on June 4 a total of 1.535 Attu casualties; 342 dead, 1,135 wounded and 58 missing. (Contrasting with the care given American woundad, the Associated Press Staffer William L. Worden told in a Cories lake, Attu, dispatch on May 30 how a Japanese prisoner said seriously wounded Japanese were shot by their own officers, before the last final desperate counter-attack.) The first casualties arrived here by transport on May 27, Colonel Brecheman said. It was not until May 30, according to a Navy department communique, that the last main- enemy on-the is land was overcome, although scattered pockets remained to be PLENTY OF ROOM-Thls view gives on excellent idea of the roominess inside the new troop-freight transport, the new Curtiss-Wright C-46.

The SS formations are being constantly enlarged and strengthened and Himmler is reported to have assured himself of the first selection of recruits from the ranks of the Hitler youth recruits which normally would go into the ranks of the regular army. Slugs Slugging Japs and Nazis RICHMOND, Va. OP) Slot machine slugs have gone to war. Walker C. Cottrell, amplification expert who is making "loudmouthed jeeps" for the Army, de cided to use the slugs for washers when he could no longer obtain ordinary iron washers, due to war shortages.

The "loud-mouthed jeep" has gained much favor with the armed services for instructional purposes; it is a mobile loud speaker in several designs. One model can be used as a jeep trailer, another can be moved wheels by hand, and a third fits the back seat of a jeep. Wisdom Briefs WISDOM, August 1. (Special) Miss June Willey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Asa Willey arrived home Monday from Portland, where she is employed in defense work. She will remain for several weeks before returning to her work. Mr. arid Mrs. Floyd Clennan of Great Falls, with their daughters, Carl Su and Floydena, are vacationing at the home of Mrs.

McClen-nahs parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hopkins in Wisdom. Guests spending the summer at the Fred Wilson ranch are Mrs. Lena Nelson, and Mrs.

Blanche Hayne of Dillon, and Coleen Murphy and Waynne Murphy, daughter, and son of Phil Murphy of Townsend. Dies in Fall MANHATTAN, August 1. Special) Word has been received here of the death of Paul Clark at Fonr tana, where he was employed as a painter at the Kaiser plant. TJeatrr -as caueaTyrraaaenta. fall from a 60-foot scaffold.

He was a former Manhattan resident. Casualties in Now in U. S. "cleaned up." The first landings were on May 12. Worden said in a May 31 dispatch- that the battle of Attu ended that day, with the capture of Attu also an Associated Press staffer, told of the many casualties from frostbite which men suffered fighting in the snow for days.

The Army and Navy transports which landed the first forces on the Attu beaches took off wounded a few days later, Col. Brecheman said. After touching at Intermediate points, the transports brought wounded south to Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego. A "shuttle service" was maintained in the Aleutians from one island point to Attu, with one ship making several trips. The Navy, in one flight with a specially-outfitted plane, brought 22 Army casualties south, landing at a northwest city on June 6.

Sheridan Briefs SHERIDAN, August 1 (Special) Bill May, who is home on furlough from his training camp, left Sunday, for Salt Lake City to visit his mother. Jean Hakes returned Sunday from Big Timber, where she visited for several weeks with relatives. Arthur Jackson, home from Far-ragut Naval Training base, on a furlough, spent several days of this week, in Helena. He was accompanied by James Schneider. Conducts Wedding BOZEMAN, August 1.

(Special) Justice of Peace Charles Waterman officiated at the marriage Wednesday evening of Frederick Eugene Plymale and Pauline Marie Ster-rett, both-of Townsend; James Forristell and Loretta Gillespie attended the couple. 1 4,000 galloping horses, this giant plane in one or two quick hops will carry this cargo to Africa, India, China, Russia or Australia. While these planes were being tested at the factory the crews which will pilot them on their long flights were being trained at the Homestead Army Air base near Miami. This training Is under the There is little dispute over the effects of the AAA programs from a financial angle. Farm prices improved.

So did farm incomes. Surpluses that is, supplies for which there were no ready markets were reduced. Agriculture as an industry arose from the brink of bankruptcy. Critics accused the AAA of promoting scarcity and food shortages. Some charged it sought to subject agriculture to the will and control of a strong federal government.

Others declared the AAA deprived farmers of their economic freedom and independence of action. Involved in this criticism was a states' right issue. Prior to the AAA, farmers had looked to state and county governmental agencies for advice and guidance. Those agencies were the state extension services and county agricultural agents. The extension services generally were connected with the state agricultural colleges.

The AAA quickly shoved these state agencies aside. Jealousies naturally developed. Now the situation is reversed. Farmers are no longer plagued by so-called surpluses. There is a ready market for everything they can produce.

And prices are good. Producers don't need to lean on the AAA for benefit payments or i i hi hi i in mm i i i mi ii -ivl I in in i -1 ii AIL ABOARD! Into th capacious Interior of a C-46 marches a detachment, of fighting men. Note comparative size of the plane. AMD WHAT DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW, KIND SIR? of a championship football team. The men must not only know the ship and their work thoroughly, but must have implicit confidence in each other.

Colonel Griffin is never satisfied until each crew has the cocky, confident conviction that it is about the best flying team to be found anywhere on earth. These crews will shortly be called upon to pilot even larger air Tevlathans TMnthe C-46. The Martin Mars, described as the largest aircraft in existence, is almost ready for its first trip. So are the Douglas Skymaster and the Curtiss-Wright Commander. The giant Lockheed Constellation is designed to carry cargo and passengers at an altitude of 35.000 feet at a speed greater than that of a Japanese Zero plane.

The giant plane of them all, however, is that officially designated HK-1, which is now being built by Henry J. Kaiser and Howard Hughes. The gross weight of the HK--1-will-be about. 400,000 poundsr with a wing spread more than one-half the length of a football field. mass means of communication or to make speeches in behalf of the AAA or its programs.

Visitors Register in Waterloo Homes WATERLOO, Augist 1 (Special) Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fischer of Butte visited relatives here Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Carney of Helena accompanied by their granddaughter, Joanne Donaldson of Seattle, were visitors during the week. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Johnson and family of Butte visited at the home of Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs. Mae Held, this week. Mrs. Hetty Townsend is visiting in Great Falls at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.

and Mrs. W. E. Townsend. Mrs.

Lewis Rollins, Mrs. Charles Carney and family and Pat Wall were visitors in Butte during the last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt, and family were business visitors in Twin Bridges this week.

Charles Masola and Milton Held were business visitors in Helena Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Held of Butte visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George WickhamJ and family of Butte visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Rryon Wick-ham over the week end. Mrs. Terese Lueck Is Laid at Rest SHERIDAN, August 1 (Specials Funeral services for Mrs. Therese Lueck, 70, who died in a Butte hospital were held Sunday at the Methodist church in Sheridan. Rev.

H. G.KlemmeL delivered the ser-mon. A mixed quartet, Mrs. F. A.

Brim. Mrs. James Leary, F. A. Brim, and Robert Julian, sang 'The Old Rugged Cross," and "Leaning On Jesus." Mrs.

Dollis Hodges sang, "In A Garden." Mrs. Glenn Marsh accompanied the choir and soloist. Pallbearers were five sons of the deceased, Hubert, Oscar, Gus, William and Fritz Lueck; and a nephew, Elmer Lueck. Burial was in Sheridan cemetery. 1 Learn of Death RINGLING, August 1.

(Special) Mr. and Mrs. Louis Arthun have received word from Charles Tyman of the death of- his mother, Mrs. Julia Gumerson who died July 13 In a hospital In California. Mrs.

Gumerson is survived by three daughters, two sons, and a She was. very well known In Meagher and Fergus counties and had lived at. Ringling a number of years, i War's Demand for Food Is Pushing" the Once Powerful Agricultural Adjustment Agency Into Background MR. WHY TAT, FRESH BAIT FOR A' mTs 1 a. riu rov HELP CATCH 'EM? ALL SET? MY CAR.

BY 15)1 By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, July 31. (IP) The war's demand for food and more food is pusfting the once powerful Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) into the background. Many post-war thinkers predict that It never will regain its former position. In its efforts to expand production of American agriculture to the limit, the War Food administration (WFA) has, with the exception of a single non-food crop tobacco-tossed aside the tools which the AAA used for 10 years to guide and control farm output.

These tools were acreage allotments, crop benefit payments for complying with allotments, and marketing quotas with stiff penalties for sales in excess of- allotments. These tools were Invented In a time of crisis but a different crisis from that confronting the country today. They were brought into use. to combat unmarketable surpluses and ruinously low prices of farm products. Their purpose was to adjust production to the effective market demand that is, the quantity of a particular commodity which consumers would buy at prices deemed fair to both farmers and users.

Robert Crawford, the composer of theArmy Air corps song. The C-46 requires a crew of five. The pilot and co-pilot are graduates of an Army flying school and have had experience in cross-country and overseas flying in the big transports of commercial airlines. The navigator and engineer must have had similar training. The radio operator is a graduate from an Army school.

It is the job of Colonel Griffin to take the men sent him at Homestead and create smooth-running, harmonious crews. During the seasoning period he is continuously shlfting men from one crew to an- other until he has obtained the clock-work precision and harmony for programs designed to hold acreages in line with a limited market. In dropping AAA planting controls, WFA officials said that the formula for determining acreage allotments was too rigid to allow efficient utilization of the nation's land resources. All this does not mean, however, that the federal government will cease to exercise a strong influence on agricultural production. In the future at least for the duration of the war and a few years thereafter while the demand for American food overseas continues heavy that influence will be less direct, more subtle but possibly just as powerful as ever.

The federal government will continue to do the over-all planning for production. It will determine needs for various crops. Then, it will set up prices which would tend to encourage plantings and production to match those needs. For example, should the government decide that more dry beans and fewer sugar beets were needed, it would provide prices which would make beans a better paying proposition than beets in areas where the two crops are interchangeable. Shifts in other crops would be handled in similar manner.

The government will use price ceilings, price supports and commodity loan programs to set up scales of prices which would tend to encourage7 the type and character of production needed. In many cases, prices of some commodities might be supported above consumer ceiling prices. The government could buy such commodities at the support price and re-sell to distributors at levels which would permit sale to consumers at lower ceiling prices. Such operations would involve losses to the government. Those losses would be, in effect, subsidies.

Under future war food programs, the individual farmer will be absolutely free with the exception of tobacco to produce what he pleases. The government will conduct intensive educational campaigns on products needed, but the farmer will be allowed to work out his own production goals best suited to his resources. The AAA organization will continue to play a role, but a much smaller one. Regulations Issued recently took away from 'the AAA's 200,000 state and local farmer committeemen and field workers the privilege of campaigning for AAA programs or for the AAA as an institution or as a philosophy. The federal government notified the committeemen and workers that they were not to distribute to press, radio or other MR.

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