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BUY VJ I tTWM AT FAI G-JR KgOTCTOBY Mi BUY I mm 'nr yfAR JifihBOSDS (I MONTANA'S BEST NEWS GATHERER United Press A5socated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1945 SIXTIETH YEAR Amenaums Meelt Aw Japs Haumi ft Haed Sim WW Melee Delegates of Teachers9 Union Petition Board for Pay Hike Scots Seize Major Part Of Goch City Home Front Island Defenders Battle Yanks From Caves Section of Airfield Seized At Heavy Cost to Invaders GUAM, Feb. 19. (U.R) United States marines fought their way onto the No. 1 airfield of Japan's home front island of Iwo today and battled ahead foot by foot against strong enemy resistance through a flamelit, hellish night. Fighting uphill at heavy cost, the marines stormed across the southern end of the triangular field and before dusk had secured that section of it.

To- Recommendations for revisions of the present teacher salary schedule were presented to the board Monday night by a delegation from the Great Falls teachers union. John Adams, spokesman for the group, pointed out that the present levels had been established during depression times and were now far out of line with existing conditions. Present starting levels are so low, he said, as to handicap the board and the superintendent in hiring new teachers. The result has been, he declared, that new teachers have been brought in at salaries substantially above schedule levels, while those who have remained on the staff have been held at the Sudden Attack Catches German Commander, Aides in Nightshirts PARIS, Feb. 19.

() I if irj perience may have to start as low as $1,300. Top salary for those with the maximum credentials is $2,400, which can be reached in 18 years under the present system of increments. Cost of living increases are being paid this year which raise all salaries $150 a year over the scheduled levels. Chairman R. B.

Caples assured the group that the board is not satisfied with the schedule and that a committee has been working on revisions for several weeks. Any consideration of the financial problem, he said, will have to wait upon the results of school legislation now pending. Under present budget limitations no increases could possibly be made, he declared. Members of the teachers delegation, in addition to Adams, were Ted Barkhurst, John Savage, Ernest Bergren and Mrs. Vera Busch.

Approval was given to the appointments of Clarence Greub and Frank Bondy to succeed Percy Med-lin and T. W. McDonald as members of the Great Falls High School Athletic association. Scotch infantry and tanks captured three-fourths of Goch today after storming from two directions into that Siegfried line city of 14,000 schedule. population on the wavering north flank of Germany's It was brought out that the highest amount that can be paid a new teacher under the present schedule is $1,575 a year.

To be eligible for this amount the teacher must have had a minimum of four years' ex night the rest of the field was western defenses. On the center of the western perience and have the equivalent of front, the United States Third army had slashed all the way through the three-mile deep Siegfried line in the Eifel mountains on a seven-mile a master degree, or five years of training above the high school level. Those with less training and ex Yanks Closing in on Japs Holed up for Bloody Stand MANILA, Tuesday, Feb. 20. (JP) put to work tearing chunks out of Manila's Fort McKinley was seized the thick outer wall of the Intra-Sunday as heavy mortars began muros so tanks and infantry can a no-man's-land, in which American and Japanese fought hand to hand in a wild melee.

The blast of shell, bomb and rocket, the spurt of flame throwers and the flicker of rifle and machine gun bursts, lit the beachhead which the Fourth and Fifth marine divisions had hacked out. Eyewitness reports indicated that by the end of the first day the marines, though their advances were measured in hundreds of yards, had fought across about half the width of Iwo at its narrow southwestern tip where they skirted the slopes of the Suribachi volcano. At the northern end of the fighting line the marines had advanced about one-third of the way across the island. Facing the grimmest test of their proud history, the marines landed at 9 a.m. Monday on the Chin-doriga beach on the southeast coast shore of Iwo.

750 miles from Tokyo and 5,000 miles from home. Resistance at first was deceptively light. Two hours later the marines had fought an average of 500 yards inland on a 2Vi-mile front and the entire battle area was an inferno. "It's terribly bloody," said an eyewitness report. CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED troops.

Captain Gait was killed in action May 3 while leading a successful attack at Villa Crocetta. Italy, during which he leaped atop a tank destroyer tearing apart the outer waUs of move in. and personally liquidated 40 Germans and wounded many others. Pictured above are (left to right). Gen the Intramuros where the cornered Japanese, defense garrison is holed up fer a bloody final stand.

Japanese fire from the walls is stiU heavy, however. Mortars were taken across the Pasig river on Pontoon bridges and eral Abraskov, Mrs. Patricia Gait, wearing the gold medal suspended from a star spangled ribbon, and Falls-Canada Airline Is Authorized Route to Lethbridge Included in Pact Signed in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. (U.R) The United States today signed an agreement with Canada providing for an increase in the number of American-Canadian routes to be operated by the airlines of the two countries.

It was the sixth air transport agreement signed by the United States with other countries in the last few months. The American -Canadian pact authorizes United States airlines to fly the following routes: Boston to Moncton; Boston to Montreal; New York or Boston to Quebec: New York to Montreal and Ottawa; Washington to Montreal and Ot tawa; Buffalo to Toronto; Fargo. N.D.. to Winnipeg: Great Falls. Mont, to Lethbridge: Seattle to Vancouver; Seattle to White Horse.

Fairbanks, Alaska, to White Horse-It authorizes Canadian airlines to travel these routes: Halifax to Boston: Toronto to New York; Toronto to Cleveland; Toronto to Chicago; Port Arthur to Duluth: Victoria to Seattle and White Horse to Fairbanks. General Gaffney. 'Inset, General Gaffney is shown pinning the award on the infantry captain's widow CAPTAIN GALT The nation's highest military award, ih congressional medal of honor, awarded posthumously to Capt. William W. Gait of Great Falls, was presented to his widow, Mrs.

Patricia A. Gait of Stanford, at a formal review Monday at the Great Falls Army Air base. The award was made by Brig. Gen Dale V. Gaffney.

commanding general of the Alaskan division, air transport command, at a public ceremony. Looking on were two Russian officers, Maj. Gen. I. A.

Abraskov, chief of the Russian military mission in Alaska, and Col. A. N. Kotikov, liaison officer at the local base. Col.

Russell L. Meredith, commanding officer of the base here, was in the reviewing stand, and Capt. Sterling W. May read the citation. Maj.

Hillis C. Wiley was commander the in the presence of Captain Gait's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Errol F. Gait.

Gov. Sam C. Ford was unable Three daj-s ago the Japanese commander was asked to liberate the civilians within the walled city. No formal answer has yet been received. Fort McKinley, at the southern outskirts of Manila, was entered by lfth airborne and First cavalry spearheads.

Other Yanks swarming over Corregidor, mopped up the Japanese defenders and pursued enemy remnants on Bataan. Fort McKinley before the war was headquarters for the Philippine scouts and part of the Philippine division of the American army. It has a large airfield and extensive to attend the ceremony but sent a message saying "we all share the grief of the soldier's family, but we are glad in our hearts because of the recognition by his government of the contribution he made to the cause of his country." ill to Nominate O'Connor Reds Capture Polish Town Of Nuenburg Berlin Says Russians Expelled From Guben, Road Hub Near Capital LONDON. Tuesday, Feb. 20.

(P) Russian troops, advancing up to military facilities. Japanese strongpoints on Corregidor were being eliminated by paratroopers and infantrymen who landed by air and sea on the island fortress Friday. Enemy defenders were being killed as they manned their fixed gun batteries. Successor Killed in House Light naval craft operating in Manila bay, now open to United States fleet units with the invasion of Corregidor, sank four barges. American troops blasted and burned Japanese out of Corregidor's tunnels and caves but still moved cautiously against enemy positions in Manila, where lives of thousands of civilians were jeopardized.

Our men were fighting against Japanese fortified in pillboxes, and blockhouses. They swept up the southern end of the airfield and slashed into the defenses on the east side of it-It is estimated that the Japanese have 15.000 to 20.000 tough soldiers on tiny Iwo. Our two marine divisions total about 30,000. At dawn on invasion day, the guns of the Fifth fleet opened their bombardment. Shells from 16 inches down in caliber oitted the' entire field.

Army Liberators and navy carrier planes roared over the island, the Liberators flying at 1.000 feet for accuracy in bombing, the fighter planes flying even lower to gun enemy defenses. From their 800-ship invasion convoy the landing boats started in. Rockets by thousands streaked in to clear the beach defenses. United Press war correspondents on plane and ship told how the marines swarmed down the sides of the big ships and then darted at racing speed into the island. The Japanese opened sporadic fire first with rifle and machine gun.

then with mortar and field and coastal six yesterday captured the Polish Vistula river fortress town of Nowe (Nuenburg), 47 miles south of Danzig, while Berlin said that other Soviet forces temporarily had captured Guben, key road hub 51 miles southeast of the reich capital. Enemy broadcasts said nazi counterattacks later expelled the Russians from Guben and also recaptured the strongholds of Sommer-feld, Sorau and Sagan. on a 35-mile front southeast of Guben. An example of what fate might TO DEVELOP AVIATION TORONTO, Feb. 19.

Trans-Canada Airlines will participate in th development of British commonwealth air communications on a basic pattern agreed to by the commonwealth governments at their recent Montreal meetings. Munitions Minister O. D. Howe said today in a speech prepared for the Canadian club. The routes involving commonwealth communications in which front and was driving against the river lines of the Rhenish Prussian base at Bitburg.

Once more the United States Seventh army to the south was battling in the Saar basin six miles southeast of the capital city of Saarbruecken. The Americans seized 1.000 prisoners in attacks which supreme headquarters said had limited objectives. A lull persisted elsewhere on the front as the British and Canadian forces carried the brunt of the attack in the corridor between the Maas and Rhine rivers leading to the Ruhr and Rhineland. The Scotch struck with such suddenness at Goch that they surprised the German commander and his staff in bed. With fixed bayonets and supported by tanks, the infantry charged on through the rubble of Goch's ruined streets, clearing the enemy from the north side of the Niers river, and driving the beaten garrison from half of the southern part oa the city.

The Germans had to be rooted from wrecked houses and mountains of debris, the product of intense artillery and aerial bombardment, which they turned' into miniature forts. The Scotch applied a pincers to Goch, one column driving down from the northeast, head-on into the city, bisected by the Niers river. second column, already across the Niers, knifed in at the back door, and this was the force that seized Col. Paul Matussek, the garrison commander, and his staff of a major and two lieutenants, in their nightshirts. The final capture of Goch seemed near just one week after the Canadian First army captured Kleve, a city of 20,000 seven miles to the north, which was the first sizable German city to fall into British-Canadian hands.

British Chief Returns From Crimea Parley LONDON, Feb. 18. (U.R Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned to England by air today and prepared for a major address to commons late this week or early next week on the decisions reached at the Crimea conference. He met with his cabinet to make a first hand report of the Crimea meeting as soon as he arrived at No. 10 Downing street.

Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who also arrived home today, spent three days of their return journey in Cairo, scene of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab states, and reliable quarters reported a communique will be issued here tomorrow covering their discussions there. The German news agency D.N.B. today carried a dispatch, datelined "Madrid," asserting that Churchill spent two days at Gibraltar "discussing important political questions with foreign personalities." Churchill may make brief preliminary remarks in commons tomorrow, but he probably will delay his big report on the Crimea conference until later this week or possibly early next week. Dr. J.

G. Thompson, Resident of Helena For 38 Years, Dies HELENA, Feb. 19. OJ.R) Dr. John G.

Thompson, 65, prominent Montana surgeon and resident of Hel Berlin said that while Konev's troops were fighting their way 1 1 ELENA, Feb. 1 9. VP) The method of choosing candidates for Montana's second seat in congress, vacated recently by the death of Pep. James F. O'Connor.

was left in the air today after the state house of representatives killed a bill providing for nominating conventions. The senate-approved measure was killed, 43 to 38, on a motion to strike the enacting clause. Previously each house killed measures providing for selection of candidates at primary elections. Because Montana's existing statutes contain no provision for filling congressional vacancies, today's action by the house presented the possibility of Montana being left with a lone congressman. Rep.

Mike Mansfield, until the next general election. However, it was considered likely that the republican membership, which generally favors conventions to nominate candidates for the second (eastern) congressional district, would move for reconsideration of today's vote and round up some absent members. Sharp debate which preceded the action shared the spotlight with acrimonious senate debate on a abreast of Zhukov's men along the overtake the men, women and children behind the aged but stout walls of the old Intramuros district of the city was disclosed at De La-Salle college. The bodies of 60 Catholic priests and civilians, who had been given refuge, were found in the ruins of the college in the Malata district. They had been shot and bayoneted by Japanese.

T.C.A. will be engaged are across Oder bend southeast of the capital. Zhukov was pouring "masses of men" into the Berlin front, getting ready to launch a heavy blow from his bridgeheads across the Oder between Kuestrin and Fuerstenberg. "The storm will break very soon," the north Atlantic in the Pacific and to serve the West Indies and Latin-America. In a general outline of aviation Rev.

Francis J. Cosgrave, one of one German broadcast said. artillery. The marines would drop as an enemy machine gun opened, then charge on, some with flame throwers to roast a Japanese defense knot in a pillbox or a small cave. Amphibious tanks soon joined them.

For miles behind the landing boats, eye witnesses said, the sea was covered by a swarm of ships and boats of all sorts. Enemy broadcasts also said that Marshal Konev's southern wing had penetrated the area of Lauban, west bank Queis river town 12 miles east of Silesia's second city of Goer-litz, which is on the road to Dresden and 31 miles from the Saxony frontier where it joins the Bohemian border of Czechoslovakia. Moscow said Russian troops on the Samland peninsula, northwest house-approved memorial petitioning congress against establishment of a Missouri valley authority or similar single-purpose agency. The senate recommended the measure for passage after adoption of an amendment urging development of "cheap hydroelectric power for extension of rural electrification and establishment of new industry." The'senate also recommended for passage a bill which would create a state aeronautical commission with authority to regulate all phases of aviation in Montana except interstate operations. The bill was amended to provide for certification of flying schools, rather than licensing; and to give the governor more authority in appointing a seven-member commission.

Both the anti-MVA memorial and the aeronautics commission measure must be approved on third reading and returned to the house for concurrence in the senate amendments. The senate deferred action on a house bill licensing slot machines in clubs and private homes. The measure, already tentatively approved by adoption of favorable committee report, comes up for consideration in committee of the whole tomorrow. The house recommended passage of a score of senate bills, passed five on final vote and recommended a number of others for approval. The calendar of the lower chamber was in best condition to date, with only 43 senate bills pending.

The senate, however, had nearly 150 house bills to be considered. Debate on the nominating convention bill generally followed party lines, although it was a republican. Rep. Walter D. Kemmis of Sidney, who finally moved to strike the enacting clause.

"I would rather have the state do without a congressman than take away the people's right to nominate at a special primary," Kemmis asserted. Other republicans, however. -contended that it would cost at least $50,000 to conduct a primary, and that the cost would be duplicated in having a special election for the actual selection of some one to succeed Representative O'Connor. In the upper chamber, Sen. George W.

Wilson, Toole, was only eight or 10 survivors of the Catholic college massacre, said a Japanese officer and 20 enlisted men murdered the priests and refugees a week ago. The priest, recovering from two bayonet wounds, fell with the others. He was covered by several bodies and remained there from noon until 10 p.m. He crawled into the chapel and remained hidden beneath the floor a week until rescued. He lived on water drained from flower vases and holy communion wafers.

successful in obtaining approval of his floor amendment which included development of "cheap hydroelectric power" as part of the anti-MVA memorial. He offered other amendments which would have eliminated the assembly's objection to a Missouri valley authority, but they failed. "We can't go to Washington with a tin cup in one hand and a brick in the other," Wilson asserted loudly, in explaining that the purpose of his amendments was to remove the legislature's position of being against "federal supervision in development of the Missouri river basin." "Id like someone to show me where state's rights in Montana have been usurped by the federal government." he added. "The state has profited by federal programs and I don't think we should tell congress we're against something which may be highly beneficial to us." Sen. Wesley D'Ewart, Park, countered that the memorial "follows both the National and Montana Reclamation associations resolutions." He was supported by Sen.

J. Fred Toman, Powder River, who said the "real issue is whether we want a three-man appointive authority responsible only to the president." Overflow Crowd Cleared From Billings Court As Floor Starts Giving BILLINGS, Feb. 19. JP To insure the continuation, without mishap, of the trial of Henry Goodman of Sheridan, farmer charged with first-degree murder in the slaying October 7 of Frederick Kembel, the crowded standing audience was ordered out of the courtroom Monday because ceilings of offices underneath were reported cracking. Before the order was given to evacuate those without seats, Goodman told the jury he did not fire the shot that killed KembeL Wives of two of the men and the mother of another charged with first-degree murder in the beet dump shooting testified late this afternoon.

They were Mrs. Dan Kaufman, Goodman's daughter; Mrs. John Goodman and Mrs. John Kaufman mother of Dan Weather of Koenigsberg, had smashed enemy tank and infantry attacks seeking to break out of encircled Koenigs berg. policy and Canada's position in international negotiations, Howe said the new allocation of trans-border air services between Canada and the United States announced today, is "equitable under present Howe's speech contained the most specific statement yet made on the commonwealth air conversations which took place at Montreal before and after the international civil aviation conference at Chicago in November.

"As a result of the discussions at Montreal I am glad to report that plans were outlined which now are under consideration by the commonwealth governments concerned and which are the subject of continuing negotiations." Howe said. "Trans-Canada Airlines in due course will play its full share in the establishment of Canadian services on those international routes which I have described (Atlantic, Pacific, West Indies and Latin-America), service which will not only serve Canada for air connections with other countries, but will contribute fully to the development of air connections within the Next to the United States, be said. Daylis Named to Fill Principal's Post In Billings School BILLINGS, Feb. 19. The board of school district 2 announced today the appointment of Fred T.

Daylis of Billings as acting principal of Billings Senior high school, to fill the vacancy caused by the death Feb. 2 of Principal S. D. Rice. Daylis, a graduate of Montana State university at Missoula, has Southwest of Koenigsberg other Soviet forces reduced the pocket held by the remnants of perhaps 20 German divisions to about 510 square miles with the capture of 11 localities.

Moscow acknowledged a reverse for Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army troops in the sector of Komarom. California-to-Florida Record Set by Giant 72-Passenger Airliner BURBANK, Feb. 19. (U.R) A 72-passenger Lockheed Constellation plane, averaging 276 miles per hour, today flew 2,413 miles from Burbank, to Miami, been assistant principal since 1930, when he discontinued coaching.

He came to Billings in 1922 as teacher in commercial subjects, and as coach of football and basketbalL Detectives Find Fortune on Body in a record 8 hours 43 minutes. Flying nonstop over a nonairways route, the giant ship flew at an average altitude of 10,000 feet and Of Aged Traveler cruised at 40 to 50 percent of its Pioneer Trails Chapter Formed at Billings BILLINGS, Feb. 19. (JP A Bil power to obtain maximum economy. VANCOUVER, B.C., Feb.

19. (Canadian Press) A fortune of Above 3 Zero at A.M. Today at The Tribune building. Data by U.S. Weather Bureau Temperatures 24-hour maximum ending 6:30 p.m.

yesterday 33, minimum 3. Temperatures last year for same date Maximum 30, minimum 15, precipitation .05. Forecast Great Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday. Warmer Tuesday. The Associated Press Weft of continental divide Fair Tuesday and warmer.

High 30 to 40. Wednesday, partly cloudy and mild temperatures. East of continental divide Fair and warmer Tuesday. High 30 to 40. Wednesday, partly cloudy and continued mild.

Max. Min. Fcpt. Billings 30 5 Butte 31 9 Cut Bank 3 11 Glasgow 27 0 .01 Havre 33 3 Helena 33 2 Kalispell Lewistown 33 9 Miles City 28 3 Missoula 37 17 Boston 30 IS Cheyenne 31 16 Chicago 34 9 Denver 42 25 El Paso 71 40 Kansas City 30 25 Los Ansreles SS 42 Minneapolis 16 4 New Orleans 60 50 New Yorit 31 17 Ran Francisco .57 33 Seattle 47 27 SDokane 39 19 St. Louis 30 14 Weather bureau report, ending 6:30 p.m..

Feb. 19.) Nineteen persons were aboard the Constellation. Canada is the largest operator of domestic air services in the world. Last year, on domestic services T.C-A. flew 9,300.000 miles and other lines more than 5,000,000.

T.C-A. operates the only nonstop mail and more than $74,000 in cash, bonds. lings chapter of the American Pio and bank drafts was found wrapped in an old piece of shirting tied about the waist of a man found dead in neer Trails association was 'formed at a meeting here tonight at which Joe L. Markham, executive vice president of the Montana council. Dasseneer service from North Amer Former State Rancher Dies of Fall Injuries a Cordova street hotel tonight.

ica to the United Kingdom, three Detectives Dave MacGregor and trips a week and it will soon be was the principal speaker. About TRULY. Feb. 19. (Special) Ray Thomas Campbell identified the ena for 33 years, was found dead at stepped up to daily trips.

30 persons attended. body as that of John G. HilL over "Canada is enutlea xo an impor Elected as officers were Robert his home today, apparently of a heart attack. He had been in poor 0. Passports indicated the man Halloway, 74, former rancher of this area, died Feb.

12 at Monrovia, friends here have been notified. Death resulted from injuries sustained when he fell from a tant voice In any discussion of aviation whether domestic or he said. Leavens, chairman; L. M. Prill and Mrs.

L. C. Jones, vice chairmen, and J. Ralston, secretary-treas had traveled extensively the world, apparently as a ship's machinist. health for the past year.

Born in Minnesota in Thompson came to Helena in 1907. urer. The money included $11,016 In New Nurses' Aides BOZEMAN, Feb. 19. (Special) The seventh training class for nurses' aides to be sponsored by the Gallatin county Red Cross, is larger than any class ever held.

The enrollment is 15, composed about equally of women employed in business and housewives. Seventy have been trained as nurses aides here, and at present 26 are available for nurses' aide work. Oppose Curfew WASHINGTON. Feb. 19.

UJ bills. There were two large bank drafts, one for 6.172 pounds Aus Okay New Government WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. am Chamber Banquet LEWISTOWN, Feb.

19. (Special) Plans for the annual banquet of the Central Chamber of Commerce which is to be held Thursday evening at St. Leo's school building, have been completed. Advance ticket sale started Monday. A.

T. Peterson, president of Montanans, will be the principal speaker. He was a past president of the Lewis and Clark Medical association and was affiliated with the Masonic and Elks lodges. He leaves his widow of Helena; a son. John of San Francisco, and two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are pending. f- Rep. Joseph Baldwin. R-. N.Y- tonight opposed the midnight curfew as unnecessary and said it probably Halloway moved to Salem.

four years ago and later moved to Monrovia- He is survived by. his widow, Mrs. Edna Halloway; two sons, Clarence of Monrovia and Guy, residing in Oregon, and two grandchildren. I ine United States recognized the tralian currency, the other, for 6.153 pounds on the Bank of California. Two other drafts totaled 272 pounds.

There was 575 pounds in American bonds. new government of El Salvador to would lead to the reopening of day after a four-month break in relations. Jrspeakeasies..