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New Costless Radium Substitute The Lead daily call PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON (EXCE SATURDAY) AND SUNDAY MORNING VOL. 54, NO. 218. LEAD. BOOTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948.

UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE Black Hills Rod and Gun Club Writes Most Successful Smoker Into History Of Organization 1,200 Attend Morthland Files For Commissioner A third candidate for the office of Lawrence county commissioner from the fourth district, Lead, has Club. He pointed out that a federal r.pprnpriation bill for $47,000 for development of the state-owned Mirror Lake property as a federal the keynote of the meeting when he called for "fond fellowship" among sprtsmen and declared that consideration for the other fellow will help stop wars and promote better sportsmen clubs. Freeman of Mobridge, president of the Hunters' League Club: and Leonard Lay of Mobridge, secretary of the Clubs Inc. An outstanding program was presided over by Don Howe, as master Spring Snow Strikes Eight-Inch Fall Recorded In Lead; Traffic Is Slowed The song "April in December" had as much truth as music today as a heavy moisture-laden snowstorm hit the northern Black developed with the filing of a peti-. and Gun Club today recorded in tion by Sam Morthland.

Lead in- I their books the most successful suranco man. The petition was 'smoker in the 33-year history of the filed this morning with O. R. organization. Mackie, Lawrence county auditor.

More than 1.200 members and Other candidates are Porter guests from four states Sunday eve-Wagner, incumbent, and Harold I r.ing Jammed the Lead city park Sliper, Lend. I pavilion for the largest and best "If Hitler and Hiruhito had had Lccal sportsmen were advised of ceremonies, with Harlan A. consideration for their neighbors that the project is favored by the I Walker giving the welcoming ad-there would not have been a Pearl Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, i dress. Morthland is a life-long resident of Lead and eraduated from Lead high school. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and Is a veteran of World War II.

He was in the service for four years Prior to entering the service he Elated with news of virtually costless, plentiful radioactive substitute for radium in treatment of cancer, Chairman David Lilien-thul of the Atomic Energy Conimislon (left), and Carroll Wilson, general manager the C'ommlSNion fright), leave White House after reporting exciting discovery to President Truman. (NEA Telephoto) worked at the Murray Brothers among the many dignitaries pres-Dodge Dealers in Deadwood and cnt wt're Representative Karl since the war has been engaged Mundt of Madison who has been Italy's Industrial City Of Milan Has Threat Of Strike Cow Killed When Struck By Auto A cow was killed and an auto mobile wrecked Sunday night about Hr.lO, Sheriff J. O. Twiford industrial city was threatened bj salil. The car, driven by Melvinia general strike today after riot-Seymour, Sturgis, struck the cow ing Sunday night In which a peon the Spearflsh highway on False liceman was killed.

Bottom Creek, near Spearflsh, and GENERAL STRIKE went into the ditch. Seymour was The communist-controlled Milan Hills early this morning, leaving at least eight inches of snow on the ground. Sunday's overcast skies dropped occasional showers during the day and during the evening a steady light rain started. Temperatures dropped during the late evening hours and rain turned to snow. By 6 o'clock this morning telephone wires, trees, cars and tho ground was covered with a heavy layer.

Outside of the Hills the valley areas were getting rain. Sturgis was getting a downpour of rain anu w.e opcanum area goi ing Sunday evening. i i n-i- i. mi. u.e temperatures in Lead had drop ped to 30 degrees and in Dead-wood the reading was 33.

The maximum reading In Lead for the 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock was 51 degrees and in Dead-wood 67. Snowfall in Deadwood was much lifvhA thnn In on.l A hnl. torn of the hill only 3.2 Inches of snow had fallen at 8 o'clock this moratng while at the same hour in Lead more than seven inches had been recorded. I Deadwood, however, had had! more moisture than Lead during the 24-hour period. Rain and snow netted 1.10 inches of mois ture in Deadwood while in Lead the moisture totalled .68 of an inch.

Throughout the state moisture was recorded, some places being only a trace. Temperatures Sunday were higher generally than the Hills area. Tyndall had a high of 68, Philip and Watertown 63, Sioux Fulls 66 and Aberdeen 62. Minimums were all In the high 30 's and 40's. Cars were having difficulty getting around early this morning and many were stranded on lower Main street in Lead when heavy traffic turned the snow into a glaze.

Motorists were warned to travel slow and with caution. Annual Red Cross Meeting Tonight The annual meeting of the Lead Chapter of the American Red Cross will be held tonight at the Lead city hall court room begin' ning at 7:30. Don Howe, chair man of the local chapter, will preside. Reports will be made on the annual fund raising campaign and the activities of the organization during the past year. WEATHER FORECAST Lead Maximum temperature for the 24 -hour period ending at 8 a.

m. today, 51 degrees; mini' mum temperature for the same period, 30 degrees; 8 a. m. today, 30 degrees. Rain which began falling at 6:15 p.

m. Sunday, turning to snow shortly before midnight, netted .68 of an inch of pre cipitation up to 8 a. swelling the total for April to date to 2.59 inches. Snow at 8 a. m.

today measured 7 inches. Barometer in the insurance business in Lead. He is active in American Legion affairs in Lead and is commander of Homestake Post No. 31 Bidding Runs Up Price Of County Tax Property Competitive bidding ran the ririnn nn rn two nieees of I-mirene 1 county property this moming. Mincra, Survcy of the Palisildea in Deadwood.

was bid in by Francis J. Parker, for H. S. Flatt, Billings, Mont, for $1025. The appraised value was set at $500.

Other bidders were Bruce Yarbrough and Louis Hardin, Deadwood. A building on lot 0, block at Maitland was bid in by L. for 7.2 11 $40. There were two other bid ders who were not identified. The sales were conducted by O.

R. Mackie. Lawrence county auditor. GIRL SCOUTS PLAN FUND CAMPAIGN Committees Named To Handle Work; Summer Camp Planned The annual Girl Scout drive for funds for activities of the local Scout and Brownie troops and the support of Camp Paha-Sapa on Box Elder will get under way May 3, Mrs. Martin W.

Morris, Deadwood, commissioner, announced today. The summer camp at Box Elder will be in operation again this summer and many Deadwood girls plan to attend. Tho girls pay their own expenses but additional funds are needed for the management of the camp, salaries of instructors and other camp expenses as well as for expenses for the local troops. Committee members for the drive arc Mrs. Carl Eilers, Mrs.

Francis J. Parker, Mrs. Joe Fountain, Mrs. Ernest Turner, Mrs. Lyle Elward, Mrs.

Larry Endres, Mrs. C. O. Gorder, Mrs. Bill Mertz, Mrs.

H. S. Berger, Mrs. John Kimble, Mrs. L.

O. Pig-ncy, Mrs. Ralph Snyder, Mrs. John Houlrtte, Mrs. I.

E. Litz, Mrs. T. J. Ruether, Mrs.

Ernest Grieb, Mrs. H. W. McCarroll, Mrs. Ray Rotter, Mrs.

C. G. Richards, Mrs. Albert Veitl, Mrs. John Redl, Mrs.

Loon a Kellar and Mrs. Gladys Hamilton. A. H. (Lex) Shostrom will handle the business district.

Movie trailers on Scout activi- I ties will be shown at the theater Members of the Black HilLs Rod attended annual smoker since the event was started about 20 years i ago. I FOUR STATES Sportsmen came irom all areas of South Dakota, from eastern Mon- tana and Wyoming, and from as far North Dakota. Listed on a speaking tour of the Black Hills, Charles Strom of Enning, prominent sportsman and state representative from Meade county; representatives of the South Dakota State Game Fish and Parks commission including Elmer Peterson, director; officials of the statewide Sportsmen's Clubs and representatives of the federal and state fish hatcheries. Congressman Mundt sounded Music Festival Draws Increased Enrollment The 16th annual West River: school music festival, held in Rapid City Saturday, had an enrollment of 1,400 students, an attendance of 300 over that of last year. There were 140 students enrolled from Lead high school and 120 from Deadwood.

Acting as critic conductors were Orland Heskin of Bismarck, N. Ralph Fulghman of the State University at Vermillion and Arnold Rudd of Dakota Wesleyan University at Mitchell. The forenoon was given over to rehearsals of the massed groups for the evening program. At 1:45, the various schools, garbed in colorful school costumes, paraded through the main section of Rapid City, the parade extending over I seven or eight blocks. There were three programs in the afternoon, one for the vocal i section and two for the instru mental sections, the latter section being Increased one over last year, owing to the larger number of entrants this year.

The evening program held in the Rapid City auditorium, con sisted of selections of the massed fgrouns of all participating schools. The west river included entrants from schools as far north as Buffalo, as far south as Provo, and as far east as White River and Kadoka. Qean-Up Drive Slowed By Snow The annual Clean-up campaign in Lead took a setback today and city trucks were forced to postpone temporarily the opening of trash collections because of the snow. City trucks were scheduled to start collections in the Sunnyhil! area this morning, but instead were working to clear out the snow-clogged streets. Mayor Herman Kulpaca said the trucks would get started on the scheduled clean-up as soon as the snow cleared enough for the trucks to get around.

An announcement will be made when (his Is possible. One in every ten native Swedes lives in Stockholm. tive editor, acted as master otf ceremonies introducing many of the guests and correspondents. Miss Donna Telford, Lead, and Richard Johnson, Sturgis, students at Black Hills Teachers College, accompanied by Miss Dorothea Blyler, sang three numbers. Attending the luncheon from the Northern Hills were Mr.

and Mrs. B. E. Colby, St. Onge; Don Howe, Mr.

and Mrs. George Oyler, Lead; Mr. and Mrs. C. S.

Lind-strom and Camillc Yulll, Dead-wood; K. F. Olsen, Sturgis; Charles Donnelly and Ted Olson, Spcarfish. The luncheon came at the conclusion of a meeting of AP managing editors at which Morrell was elected president succeeding E. J.

Karrigan, associate -editor of the Aberdeen American-New3. Boyle planned to remain in the Black Hills for two or three days longer to visit many points of interest. He will be accompanied by several Black Hills men including Morrell and Olsen, secretary of the Black Hills and. Badlands association and was scheduled to come to Deadwood Monday night nd to visit the Homestake mine and Lead Tuesday. I natcnehy been introduced in Congress.

The property would have to be leased by the state to the federal government for the project. He said the House appropriations sub-committee is expected to report on the legislation within a few weeks. Elmer Peterson, in making brief remarks to the large gathering, declared that there Isn't another sportsmen's club in the state that, could get as big a turnout as the Rod and Gun Club did Sunday night. With Peterson at the meet tig were N. E.

MrEachron of Pierre, amistant director of the state game commission; V. J. Johns of Bison and F. Web Hill of Rapid City. Other sportsmen included Roy Travis of Mobridge.

president of the Sportsmen's Clubs Harold BHTC Student Is Head College Press Association A Black Hills Tearhers College student, Jim Vance, today headed the South Dakota Collegiate Press Association. He was elected at the association's meeting late Saturday at Vermillion to succeed Richard Shaffer of Northern State Teachers. Ken Jumper of Dakota Wesleyan was named vice president and Laurel Grey of Augustana secretary-treasurer. In a contest sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, the University of South Dakota Volante won first in the news story division, the Augustana Mirror was first in feature writing, front page makeup and sports writing. Huron College won the editorial contest and the University was first in column writing.

MARIANS HEAR REPORT ON MEETING Rotarians Have Job To Do On National, International Scene Five hundred Rotarians were registered at the annual conference of the 109th District of Rotary Clubs at Watertown, April 11 and 12, Cleo Wells, delegate, said. He spoke at the regular luncheon Monday at the Franklin hotel. "We have a Job to do" was the theme of the conference and speakers included District Governor Lawrence Robison, Mitchell; Rev. Lcland Stark, rector of the Episcopal church at Sioux Falls; Lloyd Uecker, Mitchell; Dr. R.

F. Fatterson, dean of busineses administration, University of South Dakota; Harry Rogers, San Antonio, past president Rotary Inter-national and Christ I. Petrow, Fremont, Neb. Uecker spoke on "I saw UN In Action." He recently visited Lake Success and gave a resume of UN activities. UN will not die in Palestine, he declared.

"It can be worked out of Rotary takes its place as it should and men of good ill throughout the world will seek actively for iheir problems' solutions," he said. Rogers, probably the only man to travel in Europe during the first years of the war, without a passport, described the club's ycuth program, urged aid to Rotary members of war disaster, the setting up of fellowships for exchange students and endorsed the Rotary's work in financing international conferences of business men. Christ J. Petrow, former soldier who served 3 years in the Middle East, recently made a personal survey of Egypt, the Middle East and South Africa with his Egypt-tian-born Greek wife and declared that the United States had "lost face with both the Jews and Arabs" because of its vacillating policy. The feeling has changed from friendliness to hostility and it will be difficult to regain the confidence of the Middle Eastern peonle, he said.

Wells is president-elect of th" Deidwond Rotarv club. Berthald Jacobs, president, also a delecate to the conference re viewed the activities of other Rotary clubs in their service to the commonities in which they oner-" ate. He brought back numerous suggestions that can be worked out here. i Harbor or a World War II. If ugly Joe Stalin had had consideration for his neighbors there would not be the talk about a World War III," Congressman Mundt declared.

He likened thU consideration on a national and international basis to that of clubs when he raid these organzalinns must have consideration for the next generation in their promotion of sporting activities. He refarrcd to their effort to promote conservaton In the wildlifd field, the stocking of streams with game fish and the regulation of big game. Congressman Mundt discussed briefly the prpposod federal fish hatchery at the McNenny property west of Spcarfish and commented on a telegram which South Dakota Congressman Francis Case had sent to members of the Rod and Gun Shea Is VFW Head District 12 Holds Annual Meeting In Lead On Sunday Mrs. W. O.

Frandsen of Lead was elected president of District 12 of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and James Shea of Deadwood was elected District commander of the Veterans Sunday afternoon. The elections took place at the district meeting of the two bodies in Lead, the men holding their conclave in the Veterans headquarters and the women in the IOOF hall. Mrs. Frandsen will succeed Mrs. A.

M. Calhon of Lead, and Shea will succeed Chan Burn-side of Belle Fourche. Elections in the two bodies are held biannually. STATE ENCAMPMENT Shea and Mrs. Frandsen will bo installed during the state encampment at Watertown June 20-23.

The other officers of both bodies were installed following their elections. Auxiliary officers in addition to the president include Mrs. Calhoon secretary; Mrs. George Kilker, Sturgis and Mrs. Vcrda Clark, Belle Fourche, senior and junior vice presidents respectively; Clara Bos-well, chaplain; Mrs.

Irene Forrette, Rapid City, conductress; Mrs. Dorothy Curran, TerraviUe, musician; Mrs. Margaret Hcil, Deadwood, guard; Louise Maresh and Virginia Cock rum. Deadwood and Alpha Chapman and Margaret Winsell, Lead, color bearers; Ruth Voss, Sturgis, patriotic instructor. The Veterans corps include Gil VanLenven, Rapid City and Dean Calhoon, Lead, senior and Junior vice Travis Morgan, Belle Fourche, judge advocate; Buchholz of Quinn, chaplain.

Past state commander Adrian Forrette of Rapid City was installing officer for the Vets and Mrs. Calhoon for the auxiliary. Mrs. Alpha Schumacher of Lead was initiated into the auxiliary during tho afternoon session of the women, presided over by Mrs. Calhoon.

Delegations were in attendance from Rapid City, Deadwood, Belle Fourche, Sturgis and Lead. At 6 o'clock the district banquet was served Jointly lo the two organizations in the IOOF ballroom. Lead post commander Thomas Chapman was loastinaster. A. M.

Calhoon gave the invocation. SOLDIER BONUS After dinner talks were given by past department comrade Robert Baker of Rapid City, who talked on the Veteran sponsored soldiers bonus bill to be voted upon at the November general election, and other comrades who made brief lemarks. Mrs. Calhoon introduced the past and newly seated auxiliary officers. Vocal solos were sung by George Rose and Madelyn Ver-onda, with piano accompaniment by Mrs.

Joseph C. Dunn. Ralph "Skeeter" Boycr, accompanied on the banjo by his father, Harold Boyer, sang a group of cowboy songs. Don Crosby of the Crosby Dance Studios, gave a group of tap dances. He was accompanied at the piano by Dorothy Curran.

Approximately 100 folks were In attendance, many of whom attend ed the Black Hills Rod end Gun club annual smoker following the banquet and program. The meeting opened with music by Henry Phillip's orchestra and was followed by the welcome, an exhibition by R. O. Cartwright's tumblers from Lead high guitar numbers by John Se-verson of HettingerV N. introduction of guests, numbers by the Eturgis men's Key City quartet, ventriloquism and magician exhibition by Doc Brown of the Ft.

Meade veteran's hospital, a duet by Donna Jean Telford and Richard Johnson of the Black Hills Teachers College, selections by a stringed orchestra of Lead musicians, and showing of a film "Life-blood of the Land" shown by John Burke of the Black Hills National Forest. The session concluded with a feed prepared by members of tile club. National Leader Of VFW Auxiliay In Hills For Tour Mrs. Dorothy Mann, Detroit, national president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, arrived In Lead at 4 o'clock this afternoon, com ing on the bus from the west. She was met by her aide-de-camp, Mrs.

A. M. Calhoon, and was taken to the Highland hotel where she will be headquartered during a 2-day visit in the Black Hills. Mrs. Calhoon, president of District 12 of the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and her aide-de-camp during her visit to the Hills, has arranged the itinerary in honor of the national leader.

This evening she will be the guest of the Deadwood Auxiliary at dinner at the Franklin hotel in that city and an open house following at the Deadwood VFW club rooms. Tuesday forenoon Mrs. Mann will be a guest of Homestake officials on a tour of the workings. At noon she will be a guest of the Sturgis ladies at luncheon and will inspect the Fort Meade facility in the afternoon. Tuesday evening the Lead post and auxiliary will entertain her at supper at 7:15 at Rocky Cove.

Wednesday morning she will be guest speaker at 8:30 at an assembly of Lead high school students and will talk over KDSJ at 10:45 the same morning. Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Mann and her aide-de-camp will go to Rapid City where they will be entertained at dinner by the Rapid City auxiliary. Mrs. Mann will speak over KOTA at 8:45 that evening.

Thursday she will inspect the Battle Mountain sanitarium at Hot Springs. She will be in Sioux Falls on April 30 or an inspection of the South Dakota department. Mrs. Mann is wife of Joseph W. Mann, past commander of the department of Michigan, who was in naval aviation in World War I.

Baseball Players Heroes In Train Wreck Sunday ADAMSVILLE, (UP) Some 30 persons were injured but miraculously alive today after the locomotive and three cars of the fast Miami-to-Chicago train they were riding left the rails and hurtled over the edge of a 100-foot cliff near here Sunday. Two persons werd killed instantly and a third died today as a result of injuries received in the derailment. The 13-car Sunchaser, Illinois Central passenger train using St. Louis-San Francisco tracks between Birmingham and Memphis, met disaster as it rounded a horseshoe curve early Sunday morning. Seven other cars were derailed but remained upright on the roadbed.

Only the last three cars, all Pullmans, stayed on the track. A squad of baseball players mostly 18 and 19-year-olds en-route from a Florida training camp were heroes in rescuing many of the injured. The players, members of minor league squads from Sheboygan. and Cairo, 111., were asleep in the rear Pullman cars and escaped injury. They clambered down the steep cliff and tied sheets together to form a human chain to pass the injured upward to safety, where first aid could be administered.

Iodine in very small quantities is said to have a very beneficial ef fect on farm itock. General Walkout May Be Called Since Rioting Sunday MILAN, (UP) Italy's largest 1 chamber of labor waa meeting to consider calling a general strike to protest "provocation" by police who broke up an unauthorized demonstration by 15,000 leftists. At a meeting Sunday night, tha chamber failed to reach agreement on the question, and the session was resumed today. At least 24 persons were injured here when communists, celebrating the third anniversary of the liberation of northern Italy, defied police restrictions and marched through the city to Lor-eto Square, where Mussolini was strung up by the heels in 1945. Iess serious rioting also occurred Sunday night at Turin and Breiela, as leftist partisans held unauthorized parades celebrating the liberation.

In Brescia, at least 10 persons were injured when jeep-riding police charged the demonstrators, swinging their clubs. Three clashes developed iiiui gunfire was exchanged in at least one instance. A persistent rain broke up the demonstrations and calm returned to the rity lute at night. Leftist threats of renewed rioting brought strong army reinforcements Into the city. Troops supported by armored cars, tanks and machine guns were placed at all key points inside the city and on the outskirts.

Precautions Included road blocks at all Important road Junctions and bridges leading Into Milan, virtually isolating the city from the rest of Italy. 200 POLICE After the riots, groups of persons numbering about 3,00 gathered in Central Duomo Square to discuss the day's incidents. More than 200 police with night sticks charged the square In jeeps without warning and dispersed the Large Delegation To Attend Convocation Tile Episcopal convocation, legislative body of the Episcopal church of South Dakota, will convene in Lead Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock for a 2-day session. Registration of delegates will take place during the forenoon. Addresses and plans will center on the general theme, "The Need for a New Strategy." During the afternoon session, the Rt.

Rev. W. Blair Roberts, D. bishop of South Dakota, will give an address on "The State ol the Church Past, Present, Future." The Rt. Rev.

Conrad H. Oesner, D. coadjutor bishop of the state, will talk on "A New Strategy In Our Diocesan Program." The convocation dinner will be held at the Highland hotel. Banquet speaker will be Robert W. Feyerharm, secretary treasurer of Yankton college.

Wednesday forenoon's session will beijin with holy communion at 8 a. followed by breakfast in the Guild rooms, addresses, and appointments. Luncheon will be served at the Highland hotel at 12:30. Advance registrations of 143 Indicate one of the largest gatherings of recent years, and will tax housing facilities of the parishioners. A.

H. Neil, and Mr. and Mrs. Aug- mt. Hett.

skinned and bruised but not seri ousiy injured. His companion, whose name was not learned, was uninjured, the sheriff said. The cow belonged to Frank McDonald, Chickens Destroyed In Spruce Gulch Fire Five hundred chYkens wcro destroyed in a brooder house fire at the home of Lee Mering in Spruce Gulch In Deadwood early Sunday morning. The fire department was called out about 5 o'clock and was successful in saving the other buildings. The brooder house, a building' about 20 by 10 feet, was destroyed.

Origin of the fire is not definitely known but it is believed to have started from an over-heated stove, firemen suid. SERVICE CUT BY STORM 100 Phones, Rural Lines Out Today; Toll Lines Hurt One hundred telephones, including nearly all rurals, were out this morning because of the heavy snow storm which waa breaking wires, E. V. Cooper, manager of the Deadwood and Lead offices of the Bell Te'cphono Company, said. Some service had been restored this morning and toll lines were expected to be in service again tliis afternoon.

The remainder of the service will be restored as fast as possible. Service to Spearfiah, Belle Fourche and points north was out with the discovery of approximately 100 wire breaks near the Cole Quarries between Deadwood and Spearfish. A telephone pole, broken bv the weibht of the mow at St. Onge, disrupted service there. Three Rapid City circuits were out this morning.

Rain at Sturgis turned to snow about 9 a. m. today and caused some trouble there. Lines to Roehford and Snvov were out. The snow vai confined to the Hills.

Other areas had rain. Renoir crews from Snrsrfish and Belle Fourche. in addition t- the Deadwood rrcw were out today in an effort to restore service as soon an possible, Cooper said. Grand Secretary Of I0F To Visit Lead Lodge L. L.

Trotter of Huron, grand secretary of the South Dakota Odd Fellows, is visitor in Lend, and will be nresont nt a meetine; of the Lead Odd Fellows Tuesday evening in the IOOF hall. A pro-cram is being arranged in his honor. Trotter came to the Hills to attend a Black Hills District Encampment in Hot Springs Saturday evening. He accompanied the Lend delegation home Sundny nnd will visit friends here until after the meeting Tuesday evening. The Lead delegation attending the Hot Springs encampment in cluded George Glover, G.

L. Hog- gatt, Frank Phllp, Mr. and Mrs, Famed Correspondent Speaks To South Dakota Newsmen No one can tell if or when war nal, and Warren Morrell, execu- reading at 8 a. m. today was down to 20.75.

Deadwood Maximum temperature for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a. m. today, 57 degrees; minimum during the same period, 31 degrees; 8 a. m. today, 33 degrees.

A total of 1.19 inches of precipitation up to 8 o'clock today fell. The storm started with rain during Sunday afternoon and turned to snow around midnight. Snowfall measured 3.2 in depth at 8 a. m. today.

Precipitation the month up to 8 a. m. to- day is 2.06 inches. Mostly cloudy, showers or local thunderstorms and cooler this with Russia will or may come but the United States should be prepared for any eventuality, Hal Boyle, famed war correspondent, Pultizer prize winner and Associated Press columnist, told a large group of men and women connected with the newspaper business at a luncheon at the Alex Johnson hotel in Rapid City Sunday. Soldiers fought in the last war without proper equipment and weapons, and it took months and months of all out preparation to get a fighting force out, Boyle pointed out.

Speaking simply and directly he advocated a program of preparedness for any difficulty that might arise, and urged that it be inaugurated without delay. Boyle spiced his talks with graphic anecdotes of his reporting days both in and out of war and of the personalities he had known. Boyle was introduced by E. H. Lighter, business manager of the Rapid City Journal, who were hosts to the managing editors of the South Dakota Associated Press newspapers.

The address of welcome waa made by R. W. Hitchcock, publisher of the Jour- afternoon. Cloudy tonight, snow flurries northeast and extreme north. Cooler south.

Low tonight 30 to 40. Tomorrow partly cloudy, light scattered showcra or snow flurries in Black Hills. Cooler east. High tomorrow 35 to 40 east and north, 40 to 50 southwest. (For 24-hour period ended at 6:30 a.

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