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Birds were used to carry messages as long ago as 218 B. C. Veterans' Aid Office To Open in Billings Outline Ski Meet BOZEMAN, Nov. 6 (Special) At a meeting of the Bozeman Ski club extensive plans were made for the Around The Treasure State A GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE, Wednesday, November 7, 1945 BILLINGS. Nov.

6 (Special) A welfare office to aid veterans and Buy Tourist Business RED LODGE, Nov. 5 (Special) W. Crosser and son, J. Grosser, purchased toe Rossette service station and tourist cabins in Red Lodge last week. Crosser was formerly in the meat packing business in Billings and for the past three years had been in Seattle.

His son recently received bis discharge from the armed services. to rtliv stuffiness. Invite Northern Rocky Mountain Ski association meet which is scheduled for Dec 29 and 30 at Bear canyon. Cressap McCracken, president of the club, reported that plans are progressing for the event Montana Workers Returning From West Coast War Jobs Female Driver Proves Women Less Reckless By 'Low Gear Query HELENA. Nov.

(U.R) Who says woman driven are mort reckless than men? An unidenrifed woman motor-lst, evidently apprehensive because of the snowstorm which hit Montana last night called the state highway department today and asked. "Shall I drive in low gear all the way from Helena to Butte?" It's a total of SO miles. Egan Services if nos fills up their families of four southeastern Montana counties will open Nov. 15 in Billings, Walter Barnard of Butte, vice chairman of the state veterans' welfare commission, announced. Barnard, who was here to aid in setting up the office, said that Dewey Fellows, veteran of World was 1, will be in charge of the office to assist veterans and their relatives.

The Billings office will serve Yellowstone, Carbon, Big Horn and Treasure counties. Eugene Callaghan of Helena is state service officer. Buy victory bonds and stamps. 4-VTG ETABLiy Retired Publisher Dies VALLEY CITY, N. Nov.

(flJ Edward G. Brekken. 76, retired weekly newspaper publisher, died here Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Oscar C. Berg.

He edited papers at Pekin and Petersburg in Nelson county for years before retiring three years ago. It's wonderful how a little Va-tro-nol up each nostril relieves stuffy transient congestion. If you need relief tonight, try ltl Follow directions in package. mens VA-ino-rjOL HELENA, Nov. 6 (JPh-Montana workers are returning from war industries on the west coast, according to unemployment compensation claims figures released today by Barclay Craighead, chairman of the unemployment compensation commission of Montana.

Through Oct 27, 73 percent of all continued claims taken in United States employment service offices in the state for the commission were claims against other states, principally Washington, Oregon and Set in Helena Awards Made To Winners In Stock Show MISSOULA, Nov. 6 Tomorrow's farmers from nine western Montana counties placed their livestock on the auction block today bringing to a close the first annual junior fat stock show and sale for this area. Winners in the 4-H club division were: Beef Pat Orcutt, Powell, first; Beryl Mahlum, Flathead, second; Wayne Nelson, Beaverhead, third. Lamb Joan Demin, Missoula, first; Delbert Harrison, Missoula, second; Jacqueline Antrim, Ravalli, third. Swine Jacqueline Hankinson, Mineral, first; Donald Steele, Missoula, second; Ted Plummer, Missoula, third.

In the Future Farmers of America divisions awards went to: Beef Robert Thomas, Stevensville, first; Willard Johns, St Ignatius, second. Hogs Robert Roselip, St Ig HELENA, Nov. JP) A requiem Craighead said the large number of continued for compensable claims against other states shows that workers, having returned to Montana, are registered for work In this state. He added that "employes, employers and the commission must co-operate in order to make the transition to peacetime economy as painless as possible." Because many of these workers are women who were welders, riveters and skilled worker! in other jobs not available In Montana, they cannot be offered similar work, nor are the wages offered in the state comparable to the pay such workers have been receiving in the war Industries, Craighead said. The commission accepts claims of those workers, registers them for work, and then certifies that no suitable work is available for them.

Each liable state then makes its own determination of such claims so taken under a reciprocal mass is to be said tomorrow (9 a. at St Helena cathedral for Kenneth Egan, 35-year-old north west mining man and restaurant operator who was found dead Saturdayat Ronan. Burial will be in the Resurrection cemetery tomorrow, with the Opp Conrad funeral home in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Robert Porter, Sherman Smith, Fred Heinecke, William Siebold and Louis Fon-tana, all of Helena; L. J.

Burrows and Joe Drurnheller, both of Spokane; George Sterling and Philip Roullier, both of Ronan; Shell Sweet of Butte. Cecil Storm of natius, first; Pete Hamilton, second. Auctioneer for the sale was Philip Buck of Creton. Great Falls and Jack Taylor of Craighead said it Is commission policy to allow returned workers a reasonable time to find employment, but if they refuse job offers to report that in claims forwarded to the liable states. From Oct.

1 to 27, there were 343 initial and 1,872 continued claims against other states, whereas for Harlem Man Released From Army After 3 Years' Overseas Duty COLUMBIA FALLS, Nov. 6 (Spe Beet Digging Nearly Done Before Storm GLASGOW, Nov. 6 (Special) First heavy snowstorm of the season that blanketed this section of Montana today found only 20 acres of sugar beets in the Glasgow district still in the ground, it was reported by County Agent James K. Mc-Gibney. The beets were all on the Charles H.

McChesney acreage in the Saco divide section and 100 war prisoners were dispatched to the farm this morning. "There is still considerable hauling to be done to dumps but the fact that virtually all beets are out of the ground is encouraging," the county agent said. About 3,500 acres of beets were harvested in the Glasgow district of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. between Saco and Nashua with an additional 417 acres in the Holly Sugar Co. territory between Frazer and Oswego.

The Glasgow air base is still being operated as a war prisoner camp but it is anticipated that it will be closed soon and prisoners and equipment returned to Rupert, Idaho. the entire month of October thereJ Seattle. Sheriff-Coroner Clyde Weythman said the widely known mining man was killed accidentally in a fall from a 10-foot retaining walL An inquest was slated in Ronan tonight North Dakota's Farmers Union Convention on Today BISMARCK, Nov. 6 () Credentials of 1,500 delegates have already been received for the 1945 state convention of the North Dakota cial) Sgt Carl F. Winter, son of were 52 new claims and 184 continued claims against Montana from other states.

New claims against other states for July through Oct. 27 totaled 667. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Winter of Harlem, was discharged honorably from the army at Fort Lewis, on Oct 3.

Winter entered the service March 16, 1942, and went overseas on Aug. 23, serving three years in the south Pacific theater of operations. Winters was wounded three times. George B. Conway Rites Will Be Held Today HELENA, Nov.

6 (U.R) Funeral services will be conducted here tomorrow for George B. Conway, 85, pioneer mining man of Helena and Beaverhead county, who died Sunday in Dillon. Conway, a Montana resident for 64 years, is survived by a son, Walter Conway, of Helena, and three daughters, Mrs. A. H.

French and Mrs. W. J. Cushing, both of Dillon, and Mrs. Gus Bohstedt of Madison, Wis.

State University's Interscholastic Meet to Be Resumed MISSOULA, Nov. 6 (Montana State university's annual interscholastic meet, which has not been held since 1942. will definitely be an event of May 15, 16 and 17, at the state university, Chairman Dr. J. W.

Howard says. All bars which prevented the meet during wartime have been let down, and the State university will resume its complete interscholastic program of track and field sports, golf and tennis for girls and boys, extemporaneous speaking, debate and editorial association activities. JThe last Montana interscholastic was held in 1942. During the past three years Missoula invitation meets have been held, attracting many entries. Holstein Breeders Will Meet Nov.

14 BOZEMAN. Nov. 6 (Special)-y Montana Holstein-Friesian association will hold its annual meeting at Montana State college Nov. 14, in connection with annual dairy industry week to be held at the institution Nov. 12, 13 and 14.

Officers of the association are J. C. Steiner, Billings, president; John R. Pasha, Bozeman, vice president, and H. Allen Shumat, Helena, secretary-treasurer.

Members of the board of directors are E. F. Lyman, Great Falls, and Westley Lea, i(W fe. wik o7 1 iiJr Heaped with I Sp Gorgeous I Silver Fox I GenulM 1 Beckman Fur Trim Farmers Union, convening here Wednesday, E. A.

Hellebust, state secretary of the group, said today. Hellebust said the 1,500 credentials received already are nearly twice the number of delegate credentials at the 1944 convention and predicted a convention attendance this year of at least 3,000 delegates and visitors. Convention delegates and visitors hit a total of 2,000 at the 1944 convention, Hellebust said. Speakers at the convention will include Claude R. Wickard, former secretary of agriculture and now administrator of rural electrification; Charles F.

Brannon, present assistant secretary of agriculture; James G. Patton, National Farmers Union president; Glenn J. Talbott, State Farmers Union president; Leif Erickson, chairman of the regional committee for a Missouri Valley authority, and Dean H. L. Walster of the North Dakota Agricultural college.

Teresa Todd, Gallatin, Heads Home Ec. Group BOZEMAN, Nov. 6 (Special) Teresa Todd of Gallatin County high school was elected vice president of district high school home economics clubs at a meeting at Gallatin. Grace Nelson and Ava-lina Mayer, both of Helena, were elected president and secretary, respectively. About 125 girls from Great Falls, Helena, Belgrade, Manhattan and Bozeman attended.

Jua-nita Robbins, head of the Gallatin County high school home economics department, was in charge of the meeting. Log Worker Killed By Transport Truck MISSOULA, Nov. 5 (Special-Edward Pucuski, 22, a log worker at the Copenhaver outfit at Seeley lake, was instantly killed late Friday night when struck by a Northern Pacific transport truck driven by Al Fechner. The accident occurred about 4Vfe miles east of Missoula on the Yellowstone highway. Officers said Pucuski was walking on the wrong side of the road and that Fechner has been exonerated of all blame.

Mrs. Agnes Pucuski of Duluth, mother, is the only relative located so far. At the time of his death he was hitch-hiking from the Highway Department Buys Five New Trucks HELENA, Nov. 6 (U.RPurchase of three lV-ton dump trucks at an average price of $1,725 and five model 1945 pickup trucks at an average price of $1,050 for the Montana highway department was announced today by R. A.

Shaw, state purchasing agent. Montana Indian. Leader Visits in Flathead POLSON, Nov. 6 (JPh-Pvt Stephen DeMers, former president of the Flatbead tribal council, on furlough from Camp Velvoir, is visiting his family and friends at Kerr dam. DeMers was given leave to attend the second annual National Congress of American Indians at Browning recently.

He is president of the American Indians of Vote on Commissioner BOZEMAN, Nov. 6 (Special) Tuesday Bozeman electors will go to the polls to select one of two candidates on a nonpartisan basis for city commissioner. W. Soren-son, incumbent, and Don Bennett oppose each other in the race. Treasure State Deaths Mrs.

Olga Smith Woodcock, Fort Benton Resident, Dies Mrs. Mary L. Johnson, 71, of Missoula, who died in a local hospital Saturday, will be held here Wednesday morning. Arthur Pickess will conduct the services. Mrs.

Johnson's husband, William J. Johnson, died in 1942 and she had lived in Missoula for 14 years, coming from Evaro. Survivors include two nephews, James Beck of Poison and Lawrence Vivrett of Haiti, and a niece, Mrs. Mary Oiler of a rancher, operating in the vicinity of Fort Benton and Shonkin, former state senator and county commis Nels P. Sveum SHELBY Nels P.

Sveum, 52, of Galata, died Monday night at the Shelby hospital following abdominal injuries received last Tuesday when he was kicked by a cow he was branding. Funeral services will be held at the Galata Lutheran church Thursday at 2 p. m. Military burial will be at the veterans' plot in Shelby. Sveum homesteaded 25 miles north of Galata in 1910 and was a veteran of World war 1.

He is survived by a stepmother and seven sisters and three brothers, all of Toole couty. sioner. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Surviving are her husband, John W. Woodcock; six children, John W.

FORT BENTON, Nov. 6 (Special) Mrs. Olga W. Smith Woodcock, 65, of Fort Benton, died here at St Claire hospital Tuesday, after an extended illness. She had been successively in Great Falls and Rochester, hospitals before returning here Oct 10.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 at the Cloyd chapel, with the Rev. Wallace Smith of the Christian church officiating. The Order of Eastern Star also will hold services at the chapel. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Mrs.

Smith was born Nov. 14, Truly a SENSATIONAL SALE Sumptuous Silver Fox TRIMMED COATS Mrs. W. Dawson, Mrs. Mary Hampton and Mrs.

Robert Willetts, all of Great Falls; Ben of Shonkin, and Mrs. David Walker of Fort Benton; two brothers, Oscar M. Smith of Portland and Sig V. Smith of Geraldine and by 10 grand children. Mrs.

M. B. Bresee, 81 MISSOULA Mrs. Margaret B. Bresee, 81, a resident of western Montana for the past 45 years, died Monday at a local hospital.

Born June 11, 1864. in Canada, she moved as a girl to Pennsylvania and came to Montana with her husband. Charles L. Bresee, in 1900. They lived in Stevensville, where Bresee farmed.

Her survivors include two sons, Harry of Missoula and Melvin of Saltese; a sister, Mrs. George Harper of Missoula, and three grandchildren. The body has been taken to the Dowling funeral home in Hamilton and funeral services will be conducted at Stevensville. 1879, in St Paul, Minn. She lived at Forest Lake, until her marriage Nov.

14, 1907, to John W. Woodcock. Mrs. Woodcock was active in Fort Benton Senior Women's club of which she was a past, president; in Skeels Rites Held HAMILTON VP) Services for Harry C. Skeels, retired Hamilton farmer who perished last week on a fishing trip in rugged Blodgett canyon, were conducted Tuesday by the Rev.

Earl R. Saladen. Ritual services at the graveside were conducted by the Rocky Mountain Grange. Skeels was the object of an intensive search when he disappeared last Wednesday. The body was found Saturday, slumped among boulders in the canyon.

Coroner F. O. Burrell said he apparently became lost in a snowstorm and died of exposure. ffer such an amazing collection of ver Fox collared coats Beckman lity nationally famous Blue Ribbon, PILES Hurt Like Sin! But Now I Grin Thousands change groans to grins. Use a real doctor' formula for distress of piles; eent druggists by noted Thornton Minor Clinic.

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She had been democratic delegate to the last two national democratic conventions, and for the last several years had been county commander of the American Cancer society's field army. Her husband is "Fromm bright with Silver" skins ar included. Coat bodies are all 100' rics Tailoring is custom finished the best "bench mades" Lamb's wool, fine Forstman and Botany fab with hand detail sewing found only i wool innerlining assures maximum guaranteed for two years' minimum Style that merits the regular price. armth yet light weight linings are wear Quality, Workmanship, In Memory of KENNETH EGAN Emmett Iliff, 58 BILLINGS Emmett Iliff, 58, died Monday at a local hospital of a heart ailment after an illness of several weeks. Iliff had been a resident of Billings for several years and had been employed by Empire Heating Cooling Co.

since 1938. He was a member of Parker lodge No. 630, A. F. A.

in Parker, of United Slate, Tile and Composition Roofers union, and Billings Rod and Gun club. His only known survivors are an uncle and two aunts in East Liberty, O. W. J. Crozier, 75 LEWISTOWN William J.

Croz-ier, 75, miner and prospector of the Fergus-Armells section, died of natural causes while. asleep in his room in a local hotel sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning. He came to Lewistown Sunday afternoon, registering at the hotel where he was found Monday afternoon. on sale h'md JEL, Mrs. Jessie Speelman BILLINGS Mrs.

Jessie Speelman, 55, of Lame Deer, died Tuesday in a local hospital where she had been a patient for the past two weeks. Death was attributed to a liver ailment Mrs. Speelman was born Jan. 18, 1890, at Laramie, and was married to Charles Farr who died in 1925. She was married to W.

E. Speelman in 1928 and he died in 1940 in Glendive. A resident of Montana for 50 years, she was a member of the Mennonite church of Lame Deer. She is survived by 2 daughters, 4 sons, 4 sisters, 3 brothers and 6 grandchildren. Dies in Oregon LEWISTOWN Phil Preston, former Lewistown resident, died at his home in Ontario, Ore.

He is survived by his widow, the former Nellie McDonald, one son and two daughters. Mrs. Preston's mother, Mrs. N. McDonald of Lewistown, was visiting in Ontario at the time of Preston's death.

The Mint will be closed until 5 P. M. Wednesday, November 7 Use Beckman Charge Account Budget or Lay by Plan THE MINT 220 Central WHAT CAUSES EPILEPSY? A booklet containing the opinions of fern-out doctor on this Interesting subject will be sent FREE, while they last, to any reader writing to the Educational Division, 535 Fifth Ave, New York. N. Dept.

L-783 311 Central Avenue Rites at Missoula Today MISOULA Funeral services for.