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THE HELENA INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942 Rubber Campaign Promises to Be Success PAGE THREE Young, Old Citizens Give Much Filling Stations Are Swamped With Donations Washington, June 15. -(AP)--Roy Scouts bearing; baskets of old rubber heels, housewives with discarded hot water bottles and farm- ors toting old tractor tires flocked to the nation's filling stations today in a collection drive designed to help offset Japan's blows at the United Nations' rubber supply. The campaign was started on orders of President Roosevelt, and on its outcome may depend the question of whether a nationwide system of gasoline rationing will be instituted to save tires. Filling stations were authorized to pay a penny a pound for the scrap, but many people contributed it i charge. AMERICA'S NEWEST HERO BACK HOME Alaskan Delegate Warns Against Complacent View ownsen Van Voast.

Correspondent. I'liouc i id Bureau Nazis Execute 258 Jews in Berlin on Charges of Aiding Explosion Plot Washington, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond ami Alaska cautioned tonight against a 1 a complacent view of the Japanese occupation of Attu as the absence of further i i a reports indicted that the enemy still held that rocky atoll at the western tip of the Aleutian The island, sparsely settled by Indians, is of a a fissured rock but Dimond envisioned the possibility a the Japanese might be able to create landing fields with mats and move in planes. the occupation could be ex- BIRTHDAY 1 5 i a Brown, a of Mr. Frank Brown, enter- group of her little i at her home tins afternoon, to celebrate her seventh i a Games filled the afternoon and balloons were given nai'h child as favors.

A pink and white cake with seven i candles adorned the center of th" a i i indi- i a a i each place for guests. The guests were Donna and Bobby Lippert, Peggy and Pat Davis, Sheila and Don McCarthy, Karen Cheney, pud Tommy Mulligan, ploited this manner, Dimond pddv Te(Jd and ny said in an interview, it i i i Carol A prove "one of the most serious i( a Mahoney Na developments of the whole war a Vada Del a Mau flrtn finrt -a-nrlr CMir i a i a Jeaneen Kfeno, i Sheila McCormick and 1 i all of Helena. home to San Fran Cisco" is a Ma.i. (Jen. C.

Su-eeiip), left, gives liis son, Lieut. Col. Walter C. Sweeney on return to thr U. S.

after leading liis squadron of Army "Flying Fortresses' 1 in the recent attack against the Jap invasion fleet off Midvi.v island. IJoth are known in Helena, tliP general's vtnfe and colonel's mother heing the former Anne McConnell of of tliis city. and "we would find our work cut out for us." If a fleet of airplanes could be operated from Attu, Dimond declared, the Japa-! nese could move splendidly to FAMILY REUMOX wipe out the naval base at Dutch In pii nt to Walter Horne Harbor and to launch an offensive in operation of his 66th birth- at Kodiak and Sitka, Alaska. day anniversary, Mrs. Horne en' i i a i their entire family of children and their families Fog Is Harmful The prevalence of fog reduces the military value of the i i i a day at the fam- used in a mechanical player piano.

"Early indicate that the A filling station at Watertown. campaign be an outstanding i was almost swamped by its 1 said William R. Boyd, first contribution when a build- chairman of the petroleum i ing supply company dumped six dustry war council. tons of old tires into its front At Xew York, however, Sol' yard. Herzog, counsel for the Eastern' Filling stations in the Southeast States Gasoline Dealers associa- said most of the rubber being tion, said he believed the initial turned in by children, who col- collections were slow because lected the penny a pound; adults donated theirs mostly.

One "mys-1 tery" item contributed was finally identified as an old-fashioned girdle. i Contributions at a Des Moiiics I station included: From a small "this was dumped on the dealers so quickly and without preparation that they were unable to make any 1 He added that gasoline stations equipped with scales to the rubber. Many communities weigh boy, a basket of toy trucks and planned tanks made of rubber; from a i house-to-house canvasses by Boy dob, several rubber bones; from i Scouts and school children to make sure that the contents of garrets and cellars were thorough-j Girl Scouts were given three rub- a man, one rubber band (he said i that was all he could i Six ly combed for the precious sub- ber tires from the Iowa governor's stance. office--they came off the Collections in the York nor's ash trays. i Ailotment of Grain Alcohol Is to Make Much Rubber Washington, Juno 15.

fP)-- Approximates islO.000,000 gallons of aK-ohol distilled front grain will he used in production of butadiene, the raw material from which synthetic rubber is made, Chairman Truman Mo.) of the defense investigating committee, said tonight. The senator gave the estimate in a radio address the Blue Xetwork in which he reviewed the findings of the committee's study of the rubber situation. Truman did not say In what period the 240.000,000 gallons of grain alcohol would be used, but he gave the estimate after stating that it was proposed to pntid the country's synthetic mtiber production capacity from inland but Dimond said that this phase had been generally exag- home in the Canton valley. Following a dinner on the lawn gerated and that the Aleutians (ho was nted were comparatively free of i a lovely by Ms a i y. for the most part in June, July Mn an(1 a i and August.

i in Canton valley a of A bit farther eastward at Kis- a Present -were Mr. and ka enemy ships have been and family, Mr. ed in the harbor, but the reac- and carter Babcock and Ham Ragen were Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wine, Stanley a and Leslie Klkee of and Broderick of i a Falls.

Dr. and Frank Xash by car yesterday for two week's in YVhitefish a and Jackie Nash are i i i in Bowman at the home of Dr. Nash's brother. Mr. Boyce Rohbins left yesterday to viMt Mr.

Hobbins' brother In Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. i re- ceivpd yenei day of birth of a son to i sou and his wife. an( i rs Charles Gillogly of Fort i a Mexi'-o.

Albert Lea and his son Doiial.l were guests yesterday at i home of Mr. and Mrs. Bish i i a i i i Mr. Lea's daughter, i lyn. -Mrs.

George by bus yesterday for Portland to MSII with her sister, Mrs. E. Folley, for two weeks on her way for an i i i visit with hr-r son and his a i Mr. and Oscar Myers of Los Angeles. Mrs.

E. of Sixteen Mile is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koenig. Mrs.

Jennie Bonine and her a a i i a returned home yesterday, having spent the i two weeks i i i relatives and friends in Livingston and Hy- London, June 15. --(fi)-- A Stockholm dispatch to the Free French newspaper "France" lished in London said today that 25S Jews have been bhot in Ber-' lin for complicity in a plot to blow un au anti-Soviei exhibition in which the gestapo was reported to luive discovered five unex- plodul bombs. The executions were carried out the PS i a i in ihc' bai racks yard in the Gross! i i in Berlin May 28, the day after the attack in the proteuorate of Bohemia-Moravia on i a Heydrich. Tap i a added tiiat Berlin Jews have been warned that in the event "auy plot against a'' i a is discovered i be shot simul- a in Beihu, Prague and Vienna. The in Germany and German-occupied lands were a ened i extermination in reprisal for British mass air as- i saults upon Germany in an article by Propaganda Minister i sham.

Miss Betty Bonina remained in Hysham to visit i her brother and his family. Mrs. Bonine's niece, Ruby Jefferson of White Springs, returned with her for a two week's visit. Paul Joseph Goebbels published in the weekly periodical Dts Reicn Adding another terror under which the Jews in German control must live, Goebbels wrote a "in this war the Jews are playing their most criminal game and they will have to pay for It i the extermination, of their race throughout Europe And, maybe, even beyond. COMPOSER DIES Cleveland, June (fi) -Harold A.

Dellon, 55, composer of popular songs and an early radio entertainer, died today of heart ailment. Among his tunei were "Just Plain Folks," Introduced last fall by Kate Smith, "LittlQ White Church on the Hill," "Everybody Loves My Baby," and "There Never Was a Girl Like Mary." WOMEN (SS) HEED THIS A I I I If you're cross, restless, suffer hot flashes, nervous feelings, dizziness-caused by this period In a woman's life--try Lydta E. Plnknam's Vegetable Compound. Made especially for women. Thousands upon thousands helped.

Follow label directions. WORTH TRYINGI tion of military and naval ob- a i Mr. and Mrs. Leroy servers was that the presence of 1 and farailVt Mr and rs. Japanese warships was of com- paratlvely little importance.

Barren Horne and family, Mr. and Ml Horne, Mr. and Generally any landings on the lbert Herron, Mr. and Aleutians west of Dutch Harbor i Charles Horne and "Wesley might fall into the category of and Jack orne. Japanese "face saving." Without ATTEM) WEDDING exception the western Atolls are merely small islands, principally rugged, and bearing the marks of storms and earthquakes.

area ranged from bloomer elas- Nick Mourat, 16, Of Hollidays i than 100.000 tons a rear to PHO.VE 2 3 6 3 For radio repair and service on all makes. Largest stock of parts and tubes in Helena. Curey's Radio Service Columbia Records tics to an 11-pound rubber tube Cove, gathered more than 100 pounds of rubber heels, most of them from a shoemaker's dump behind a baseball more than 1.000.000 tons yearly. a baseball park where Xick works chasing fouls. A Standard Oil agent who can- SCOtRGE OF WOBMS Kemmerer, June --Assistant County Agent Nets Dahlquist warned that a scourge The welcome mat it out.

Come over soon for a week's vacation, a visit of a day or two, or just for a meal. You'rs of a hearty welcome at Gallatin Gateway Inn, and you will find comfortable accommodations, appetizing food and friendly, alert service. We have special facilities for handling luncheon groups, dinner parties, dinner dances and bridge parties. Visit the unique cocktail "Corral." Prices are moderate. Dan Young, Manager Gallatin Getaway, Montana, 4 MILWAUKEE ROAD about in 50 thp miles north, of Kem- i vassed homes and offices in Pe-1 worms is expected to de- tosi, (population 2,017) col- lected 8,500 pounds of scrap rub- 1 ber.

A Detroit man turned in a 250-pouud bale of crude rubber he "caught" off the Florida coast while sailfishing. A vessel carry- Ing crude rubber had been torpedoed. At Little Rock, members of the Exchange club, civic group, voted to turn in the rubber floor mats from the trunk compartments of their automobiles. Denver Sofon Is fo Support High Jurist in Election Denver, June 15. --(fP)-- S.

Sen. Ed C. Johnson, who has not yet announced whether he will seek renomination in the September democratic primary, said tonight he would give "whole-hearted support" to Supreme Court Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard if the latter wins the nomination. Hilliard announced his candidacy yesterday for the senate term which ends this year for Johnson.

Gray foxes frequently trees when pursued. climb Miss Viola Walters and Lowell Mires were in Helena to attend the wedding of Mr. Mires' sister, Miss Rosella Mires, to Willard Whitehead of Winston. VERSOXALS Miss Janet Lippert of Helena was a week-end guest of her mother. Mrs.

Ed Jacobson and Mr. Jacobson of upper Deep creek. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thompson and their guests.

Mrs. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Benson of Outlook, left on a vacation trip yesterday.

George Gabisch filed for senator on the republican ticket today in Broadwater county. Gabisch is manager of the Power- Townsend company. Guests during the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- Stockett Woman Is New President Of Postal Group Great Falls, June 13--W--Mrs.

Olga Dahl of Stockett was named president of the Montana branch of the Xational League of District Postmasters at closing- business session of the annual meeting here today. She succeeds William IT. Fluhr of Belt, president for three terms, who declined reelection. Mrs. Dahl has been secretary-treasurer of the group.

Other officers named were Orvllle Hanson, Gilclford, first vice president: Mrs. Marie Montgomery, Carter, second -uce president, and Mrs. Ethel Btirchalk, Stanford, secretary-treasurer. Xo decision was made concerning- date or place of next year's convention, and Fluhr and others were of the opinion there would be no further meeting until end of the -n-ar. The question will be settled later by the executive board.

SERIAL STORY SPORTING BLOOD BY HARRY HARRISON KROtL COPVftlGHT. NEA SERVICE. INC- MEAT fir th NATURAL'. VITAMINS ffietf nfedf Give tha children plenty of body-building, energy-giving foods during the coming tlon months. Start by serving meat at least a They'll really relish the quality meats from our market! PHONE 152 WEGGENMAN MARKET 7 State Street LEGION TO MEET Butte, June Veterans's Duty in This War" will be the theme of the 1942 convention here July 12 through 15 of the Montana department of the American Legion.

Principal convention speaker will be National Commander Lynn U. Stanbaugh. TO YOUR 5 THE FOUNTAIN FAVORITE FOR YEARS TOE STOHTi Banter Dent, who manages weal'thy Strickland Bal- farm, has hidden the plclpns of Bnllnni'i dUii- (i.ited oon. Junior. On the night Hunter finds Junior, lying apparently drunk beiide satchel containing 917.0OO, a bank messenger wonnded and robbed of a aatchel containing that amount.

Hunter pnts Jnnlor to bed and. hides the money In a Trail ftafe. Next morning he finds that Junior was "not drunk bnt shot, and In near death. And he finds the money gone from the safe to which only he knew the combination. Hunter in fond of Jnnlor, and half in lore with Ballard'a daughter, Bella.

Bnt he his employer, Trho "appropriated" a price horse and a new strain of oorn, both developed by Hunter. Hunter has vowed that both will be returned to him. SHERIFF STEPS IN CHAPTER UTTERLY stunned at the disappearance of the money from the safe, Hunter Dent dropped on the day bed and raked his ringers through his hair. If many more inexplicable i happened around here there would be nothing left for him to do but count his fingers and talk to himself. He rose and went unsteadily back to the open safe door.

He could have spared himself the movement. The bag and money were gone. "Let me see," he muttered, reviewing events. He had gone out at dawn and looked after the colored boys at their feeding and milking. The safe, he would have sworn, locked; but he remembered not locking the office door.

When he came back at sunrise Red was waiting below at the foot of the outside stairway. There he had kissed her. The office was still unlocked while the doctor examined Junior Ballard. But Hunter had locked the door just before taking the boy to the hospital at Middteton. "That would mean," he concluded, "that the one who entered here did it probably just before dawn, perhaps within five minutes after I went to the barns." He took out his wallet, drew forth a small card.

The card contained in code the combination to the safe. There was but this one card. No one except the dealer, and Hunter, and the manufacturer of the safe naturally, knew of the card, knew in fact how to decipher the code so as to read the combination. A NOON when he came in for dinner a radio was going somewhere. Perhaps it in the butler's private domain.

Hunter listened, his attention caught by the theme song of the Ballard Remedies. The McDougal twins were singing their cowboy and hillbilly numbers. They had beautiful if unimportant voices--just right for plugging medicines to rural audiences. "And now, friends," the announcer said, a voice that was bubbling over with neighborliness and good health, "we of the Ballard Ballads have a most unusual offer to make you folks. "Simply go to your drug store tomorrow and say, 'Give me a 60-cent bottle or box of tablets, of Ballard's Bitters, for your sour Send us the top of carton, and within a short time you will receive your generous sample of Ballard's Prolific Corn.

Could anything be more generous than that?" Hunter Dent swore. Already Stride Ballard was cashing in on Hunter's life work. TN the early afternoon Hunter telephoned the hospital to find out how Junior Ballard was. The voice reported there was no news yet. He went about his duties but his mind was not on his work.

It was toward the middle of the afternoon when he had a glimpse of a car down in the big wood next to the river. His impression was the car was inside the stone gate there. His first thought was, naturally, about Junior's wrecked car. His next was an instinct to keep out intruders, for Strickland Ballard was death on trespassers. He dipped down, so as not easily to be seen, and crept along 'intil he could get inside the cover of the woods.

By a path not much used he was able to steal right up to where three people were standing. The most notable of the trio was Red Ballard. She was in khaki pants with puttees, tweed jacket. Outdoors girl. Her red hair made a bright blob of color in the autumn sunlight.

The smallish fat man garbed pretty much like a farmer in the locality was the constable, Major Doolittle. The other man, barrel-bodied, six-foot-four, red-faced, rough, was Sheriff Anderson of Midland County. The three were examining the tread of a car tire in the soft, moist earth just within the iron gate. They had not managed so far to trace the tread to where Junior had wrecked his car the past night. Doolittle'g voice was cracked with excitement.

"That's the tread t)f the death car, beyond any shadow of doubt!" The sheriff spoke with dry voice, disillusioning the J. P. "It wasn't the Major. We believe it was the car in which the killer escaped. From what I can gather, after the stick-up and shooting the killer leaped in his car, drove furiously out of town, and came by back roads in this general direction." "But for him to get in here, Sheriff!" Red protested.

"That is absurd. It's really impossible." "And why, Miss Ballard?" "Why, this is private grounds, that gate was locked as you find it now; it's perfectly clear the rusty chain had not been disturbed. That is, not recently--" Sheriff Anderson examined the fastenings. "On the contrary, Miss Ballard, the chain and lock seem to have been used quite recently." Hunter stepped from the cover of the tree which had hidden him. He smiled around the trio.

"Pardon me, but I couldn't help overhearing the conversation." He glanced at the deep picture of the tread in the earth. "The tire marks were made by my car, gentlemen. If you will get into your car there in the road and drive around, coming in by way of the front, I'll be glad to you the exact pattern. And Sheriff Anderson is correct when he says the gate has been, opened recently. 1 came in here myself last night." He took a large key from his pocket.

It closed like a jack-knife. He walked over to the huge, old- timey lock. "This key fits the antique lock, as you can see, Sheriff. It is the only key to the lock on the place, and so, of course, it would be out of the question for any one else to have come through here in a car." "I--I sec." The sheriff stroked his chin. He'd shaved since noon.

There were many pink veins in his almost childlike cheeks. The way he kept saying "I see" got on Hunter's nerves, but he continued to smile. "Good thing," he thought, "Junior and I got a new set of car tires at the same time before rationing started." The officers crossed the stone fence and drove around. Hunter nodded for Red t6 follow, and walked quickly back, cutting through to beat the car. He got the girl past the place where the car had gone into the brush.

More and more he felt the absolute necessity of protecting Junior, and saving the girl. At the garage Hunter backed his car out. Anderson and Doolittle checked the tread. The sheriff did something Hunter did not like. He took a small camera and made photographs of the tires.

Hunter noted there was no dirt in the tread at all! (To Be Continued) -tehsk A Here you are, Dad, just to prove we do think of you on Father's Day! Brandon shirts have the smart patterns, good-looking woven designs, and clean-fitting collars you like so well. Yes, they're Sanforized, shrinkproof! WARDS THORNEWOOD TIES Let's give him a handful of new ties! Colorful stripes. Neat figures. And he'll like them even more when we tell him they're all wool-lined and wrinkle-resistant too. New rayons.

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