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THE BILLINGS GAZETTE Sunday, September 19, 1943 Page Sevtn A Letter to Servicemen English Words Get New Meaning I I fl 1 I I 4 Report Local Sailor Dead Wesley Blinston Was in Aleutians Funeral Services Are Conducted For Hysham Man Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 18. (P) Funeral services were conducted Saturday for Dr. A. J.

Plumer, 80, Hysham, rancher and former Montana state senator, who died Thursday. The body will be sent to Billings, Mont. Dr. Plumer, a native of Council Pneumonia Takes City Resident A. W.

Leatherman Dies in Hospital Alvey Walkter Leatherman, 68, By FRANK HYDE at Scott Field, John M. Footit ot Billings to private first class and transferred from Camp Callan, to Camp Davis, N. Rodney to seaman second class at Cump Perry, Charles H. Sil-vernail to captain with the army air force in England. William wasningtonese chairs, but the best explanation seems to be that capital officials, astronomical flgures nrnHpm.

lllRt Hi-Tri Council Meets to Plan Club Piogram The Hl-Trl council, holding a dinner meeting Friday night at the Y. W. C. A. building, planned a camp-out party next week end for the first fall activity of the club, which is the high school branch of the Y.

W. C. A. The camp-out will take place Saturday night about five miles west of town on the rimrocks, according to Miss Musa DeMouth, Y. W.

C. A. secretary, If the weather Is unfavorable, an indoor chuck-wagon party will be substituted, sr.e said. Bluffs, returned here several weeks ago and became ill following his wife's death. Graduated from St.

Louis Medical college at the age of 19, he studied later at the University of Pennsylvania and in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London. Successful in home-steading at Hyannis, in 1888, He founded the Nebraska Stock Growers association. Later he moved to Lincoln, and then to Hysham. He served three terms as senator from Treasure county In the Montana legislature, retiring after the 1939 session. He was a Democrat.

A son and a daughter, of Hysham, survive. COLTLE MARRIES Harold C. Horning, 39, Laurel, and Gretchen Ellen Lawrence, 33, Des Moines, Iowa, were married by Justice of the Peace A. Bohlander Saturday at the Yellowstone county courthouse. Leatherman arrived in Billings Saturday.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 10:30 a. m. at the Smith chapel with the Rev. Forrest W. Werts, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating.

Burial will be in Mountview cemetery. YOUR TIRB oaiuiuay at a. m. at a local hospital of double pneumonia. He had been a patient from July 4 to August 30 and had reentered the hospital Friday.

Mr. Leatherman was a former city alderman and candidate for mayor in 1935. He was in charge of surveying crews in 1911 when Yellowstone National park was surveyed. Afterward he owned and operated Leatherman's grocery store at 3314 Fourth avenue south, until 1926, when he retired, until his illness he was custodian at the Consolidated Freightways. Mr.

Leatherman was born Jan. 8, 1875, In Ellerton, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Leatherman. On March 7, 1906, he married Gertrude M.

Burgan at Hagerstown, Md. The couple came to Gardiner in 1905, where Mr. Leatherman served as justice of the peace for two years. They moved to Billings in 1911. Surviving are the widow; five daughters, Mrs.

Frank Merrill of Billings bench; Mrs. B. T. Sackett of 2058 Garden avenue, Mrs. Emmerson Green of Pryor, Mrs.

Paul Follett of Salt Lake City and Miss Margueret Leatherman of Silverdale, one brother, Add Leatherman, of Hagerstown; one sister, Miss Lilly Leatherman, Hagerstown, and six grandchildren. Mrs. Follett and Miss CAP naturally reach out and grab ex- prcssions like "over-all" and "di rectives." Beset by the wheels within wheels' of federal machinery, the people along the Potomac have tried to sort themselves out into "levels." "Level" "is a trusted, word, almost as Inescapable as overall. Four levels have been discovered publicly. Biggest distinction is between operational and policy levels.

On the operational level you do things. On the policy level you tell others how and why. Bureaucrats on the operational level get their ears pinned back (old Potomac custom) if they speak publicly of things on the policy level. An official of war information office caused a flurry when he described himself as working "at the ideological level." The fourth level is a stand-by of Paul V. McNutt, war manpower commissioner, csucn ana sucn a mai ter, he often says, will have to be handled "at the local level." Apparently this means that the boys at the whistle stops will have to do their own deciding.

The word "dissident" is used wide ly to describe local braves who are at one another throats and alter one another's scalps. It may have originated with a governmental official who pontificated: "This is not a dispute, just a difference of opinion and method." Among the more stratospheric expressions is the favorite of the office of price administration "rationale." Potomac medicine men say "rationale" is an OPA explanation of an OPA order. To hold up its head these days, an official order must be "definitive." That's supposed to mean it's absolute, final. But there's always another "definitive" order following it up. When Potomac officials are fired, their chieftains let them down easy.

In the local dialect, small fry are In Language ot By JAMES D. WHITE ip to nn Wash lngton Sc t. 18-On the north bank of the Potomac river dwells a tribe speaking a language known as "Wasningtonese. It Isn't a difficult tongue to master, particularly if you speak English. Fact is, the average newcomer to the region soon finds himself conversing In the language, or else.

Actually, Washington invents no new words. Not even "directive," its darling of darlings, which is in the dictionary. It just sounds like a strange tongue because Washington takes English words and gives them its own meaning. Then, with governmental thoroughness, it works them to death. Integrate, gear in, over-all Washington officials would be tongue-tied without these words.

Nothing is defined or explained around here any more it is "spelled out." Instead of work, Washington engages in "operations." "Over-all" has nothing to do with blue denim. It's just one of those; washinctin wnrri (mpnninir- Over-all). Of all Washington words, overall is the most habit-forming. Talk long enough to government officials, and you'll find yourself telling the little woman that she overcooked the brussels sprouts but that the over-all impact of the dinner was not bad. A knowledge of the lingo provides entree to governmental hearts.

Ask an official in ordinary English for some general information' about his agency, and he may suspect you. You must be a stranger. You probably have wild ideas anything might happen. But ask him "to spell out the overall picture" for you, and he's happy. The old bromide about "contacting" someone is still In use.

Washington just hasn't thought up anything better. The patios has raided geography for words. Production, for instance, follows peaks and valleys, or rather It did. Plateaus are the thing now. War production is on a plateau, they say, meaning that it is way up and has been up long enough to establish a nlofoQii 4n the pnrvp nf nrnrinrHnn figures.

The scientific mind may ask, "How did Washington get this way?" There have been smart cracks about the effects of sitting in swivel INSURE WITH PETER YEGEN, JR. The Insurance Mao "We Pay for Ashes and Sell Dirt Cheap" PHONE 3245 BILLINGS CCOTHES I i IN TIME said to be "severed." Not severed Aleutian theater of war. from anything, just severed. The big A special "Salerno" day in con-shots "withdraw" or "return" to nection with third war loan drive Your tire recapped in time is good for thousands mora miles. Drive in this week no ration certificate is needed.

A wartime recap is no better than the skill of the recapper and the care given the job. It is EXTREME CARE plus KNOW HOW that makes Wally's recaps so satisfactory. You can depend on them. YOUR SEIBERLING DEALER Sept. 18, 1943.

Dear Fellows: Launching of the S. S. Frederick Billings in Portland, naming Billings as site of a major field office of the reclamation bureau, an oil ff, and truck explosion that damaged a an announcement that Billings has actually gained In population despite the drain of the armed forces and war work, are top news hereabouts during the last seven days. I. D.

O'Donnell, Billings pioneer, who was a close friend of Frederick Billings, and his daughter, Mrs. James D. O'Brien, made the trip to Portland to christen the cargo ship launched by the Henry Kaiser Oregon shipbuilding yards. The city of Billings was named after Frederick Billings. Details for the Billings headquarters of the reclamation bureau are still being worked out in Washington, D.

but It is definite the local setup will have jurisdiction over Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming. Clarence Jacobs, 31, an employe of the Fruehauf Trailer company, was injured by the oil truck blast which occurred while Jacobs was completing a welding job on the tank. The explosion damaged the Mile-A-Way Barbeque shop and M. W. truck terminal office on First avenue north.

A check of installations by Mon Power company, Billings Gas company and Mountain States Tel- ephone company, reveal the popu- lation of Billings is definitely on the upswing Otis F. Hopper, Billings, lost a leg when he slipped under a moving string of cars in the Laurel yards of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was a switchman. C. J.

Williams has been named chairman, and E. H. Sackett, L. G. DeNayer and Ben C.

Cardwell members of the reorganized Yellowstone county war price and ration board. Wesley Hope Blinston, 25, a son of. Mrs. Sophye Blinston, Billings, has been listed as killed In action by the navy department. He was a radioman third class and was serving in a submarine in the netted $165,858 dollars in bond sales and swept the city's total to well over one million dollars.

The city received a mild scare when Lois Joyce Tait, 9, died of infantile paralysis, her older sister was stricken by the disease, and several scarlet fever cases were reported. However, no additional outbreaks are reported at this writing. DOTS DASHES: The newly formed St. Patrick's high school has organized a band and orchestra. The city schools have named committees and laid plans for carrying on stamp sales again this year.

The program netted $50, 000 in sales last term. Paul O. Nilson has been installed as commander of Yellowstone post No. 4, American Legion. At Denver, H.

L. Buck was named a director of the U. S. Highway 87 association. Dude ranchers of eight states will meet here November 5 and 6 in one of the last of many conventions held in Billings this year.

Workers are being brought in steadily to aid with the beet harvest, which starts September 28 And the home front is getting quite a kick out of the office of war production's latest ruling that laundries can no longer sew buttons on underwear. William Bradley Mitchell, a seaman first class who lives in San Antonio, Texas, was killed when he attempted to board a moving freight train east of the Laurel depot. The Rev. W. P.

O'Rourke, for nine years pastor of the Church of the Little Flower here, is to be installed as pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic parish and dean of the Billings diocese. A tragedy of the war struck Missoula when Mitzie, a cocker spaniel, smelled a pair of slippers her master had sent from Africa, and went insane, necessitating she be destroyed. SERVICE CHATTER: Mr. and Mrs.

Ben C. Steele have received a second postcard from their son, Private First Class Benjamin C. Steele, a prisoner of the Japs in the Philippines. "Everyone here speaks to everyone and after they have an argument they share a bottle of wine. Funny how they could get mad enough' to fight," writes Sergeant Pierce L.

Bacheller of Billings from Sicily. And several items of equipment used by the Japs in New Guinea have become souvenirs for Richard Hash, son of Major Charles Hash, who recently sent the trophies taken from battlefields. Mrs. Hash and her son reside here. Ensign Dale Galles of Billings will be second in command when the sub marine chaser 1354 is commissioned in the near future.

Private First Class Charles G. Rogers writes from a Jap prison camp in Shanghai that "the world would be a fine place if I could get back to some of Montana's hunting and fishing." A poem, "African Expose," has been written by Corporal Robert Coop of Billings. He is now in Sicily Sergeant Lo gan Hendershot writes his parents a colorful description of Sicily. He was among the first hundred or so American troops to advance inland after the invasion. Staff Sergeant Paul Ziegele of Jordan has been decorated for outstanding conduct under fire near Sananada where he killed three Japs in a pillbox.

A form card advises Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ward of Billings their son.

Jack Ward, navy coxswain, is taemer held hv the in the Philippines. Corporal WALLY TIRES, Inc. 2910 Montana Avenue "On the big drive-ln just east of N. P. Freight House" Wesley Hope Blinston, 25, son of Mrs.

Sophye Blinston, 6 Alderson avenue, has been listed as killed in action by the navy department. The report is based on Investigations made since Sept. 30, 1342, when he was reported missing, according to official notice received by the mother. Mr. Blinston was a radioman third class, and was serving on a submarine in the Aleutian theater of war at the time he was reported missing.

He was born Aug. 14, 1918, at the A Bar ranch near Ryegate. In 1922 the family moved to Billings, where the son attended school and was graduated In 1936 from Billings high school. He was employed by the local Dun Bradstreet office for a year. After a term at the Minnesota School of Business in Minneapolis, he was affiliated with Dun Bradstreet in Great Falls.

In October 1940 Mr. Blinston enlisted in the naval reserve and was called to active duty June 1941. Surviving beside the mother are a half brother, Leslie Blinston cf Chicago, and a half sister, Mrs. Iva Anmundson of Minneapolis. The fntlnay M7olf T3linptin in T3i1l iatii.i, tvcwili lull, unu 411 uu" lings in 1936.

G. 0. P. Official Speaks Monday Local Women's Club Will Sponsor Dinner Miss Marion E. Martin, assistant chairman of the Republican national committee, who is on a national pre-election tour, will speak at a 6:30 p.

m. dinner Monday in the Congregational church under the auspices of the Yellowstone County Republican Women's club. Miss Martin, also director of the women's division of the national Republican committee, has been identified with the committee since 1936 when she was elected national com-mitteewoman for Maine, her home state, according to Mrs. H. H.

Gul-lard, president of the local Republican Women's club. In addition to two terms in the Maine house of representatives, Miss Martin has served two terms in the state senate, during which she was first a member and later chairman of the joint committee on legal affairs, chairman of the joint committees on state prisons and federal relations and chairman of the recess committee on labor relations. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Mu Sigma and Alpha Omi-cron Pi sororities, the G. O. P.

com mittee chairman is also affiliated with the American Association of University Women, Business and Professional Women's clubs, Maine Federation of Women's Clubs and Bangor Junior Welfare league in Maine. Miss Martin will leave Billings Tuesday morning for Sheridan, Wyo. After completing her tour of the west, she will speak in the south before returning to her home in Bangor. While in Billings she will confer with Republican leaders of the district and state, Mrs. Gullard announced.

Out-of-town guests attending the dinner will include Mrs. Gladys Knowles, Missoula, national Republican committeewoman for Montana; Dan Maddox, Hardin, president of the Republican state committee, and Mrs. Percy Dodds, Helena, vice president of the state committee. Cowboy Boots, Radio Reported Stolen The Coffman Eccles greenhouse at 507 North Twenty-ninth street was entered sometime Friday night and a radio and pair of black cow boy boots, trimmed with white, were taken, it was reported Saturday to the sheriff's office. Entrance to the building was gained through a broken window, according to Undersheriff Albert Thomas.

Requiem Mass Held For Former Resident Requiem mass was celebrated Sat urday at 10:30 a. m. at St. Patrick's Catholic church for Mrs. Theresa Frances Keogh, 85, former Yellowstone county resident, who died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

L. G. Smart of Butte. The Rev. Charles A.

Dever was the celebrant. Pallbearers were C. H. Rusch, H. O.

Beeman, Ralph Saver, C. E. Joyce, Arnold Borgen and Arthur Jorgenson. Burial was In Mount-view cemetery. Surviving are two sons, two daughters and three grandchildren.

RULES ON FEES Helena, Sept. 18. (JPh-The 25-cent recording fee for each marriage certificate required by state law must, he remitted to the county treasurer and credited by him to the county general fund, Attorney General R. V. Bottomly ruled Saturday for Edison W.

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Nelll to corporal at Camp Chaf fee, Ark. W. Q. Stockdale to aviation machinist's mate third class at the Pasco, naval air station. Lieutenant Colonel Charles R.

Greening, formerly of Hardin who designed the "20-cent bomb sight" used in the bombing of Tokyo, is a prisoner of war in Italy. He was previously listed as missing in action. MARRIAGES: Donald L. Whit-ten, 19, San Francisco, and Kath-erine L. Stratford, 21, Billings; Jack H.

Heinrich, 18, Billings, and Betty L. Hertzler, 18, Absarokee; Everett A. Brakke, 21, and Betty Jean Martin, 18, both of Billings, and Laurence T. Gray, 31, Hardin, and Florence M. Woods, 22, Billings.

DEATHS: William John Mac-Farquhar, 65, a grocer here for 25 years; Earl E. Sneckenberger, former Billings city engineer; John M. Garr, 34, succumbed uf creeping paralysis; Mrs. Theresa Kcogh, 85, a former local resident, died at Butte; A. W.

Leatherman, 68; Dr. Andrew Plummer, a former Hysham physician, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa; A. W. Chadbourn, 101, a pioneer of Park county, suc- cumbed at Livingston; Lee Malloy, 23, wolf Point, died or injuries sustained during the Miles City rodeo; Wayne A. Anderson, Red Lodge, and Cyrille Lewis Daniels, 74, Forsyth.

SPORTS: The hunting seasons haven't attracted much attention to date because of a shortage of ammunition. Allotments are being worked out and will be in affect by pheasant shooting time. L. L. Higbee defeated R.

R. Jones for the Hilands club golf championship, and Mrs. R. L. Maynard defeated Defending Champion Mrs.

S. D. Rice for the women's title. Bowling got off to a fine league start during the week with more than 100 teams seeing action In the three local establishments, and many more clubs being organized for later openings. A Havre dog topped a fair-sized field of canines in the open stakes of the state retriever trials here.

Laurel easily trampled Huntley Project high of, Worden, 47-0; Anaconda upset Missoula, 13-0; Butte and Pocatello, Idaho, slugged to a scoreless tie, and Roundup and Forsyth also deadlocked, 0-0, as the football season was ushered in Friday. Harry Burtob, veteran state tennis star, died at Butte. Lieutenant Commander Jack Demp-sey of the coast guard paused briefly in Billings Saturday en route to Great Falls and Helena where he will referee amateur boxing cards in connection with the third war loan drive, Leaders Signed By Girl Scouts Nine to Become Troop Directors Nine new Girl Scout troop lead ers and assistant leaders have been obtained to date by the organization committee of the Girl Scout council, Mrs. H. Lee Welsh, chairman, announced Saturday.

Still needed to complete the organization setup are leaders for three troops of Girl Scouts who attend the Fratt school; a leader for a Brownie troop at Garfield school; an assistant leader of a Brownie troop at North Park and a leader for troop 14, composed of girls from Jefferson school. Volunteer leaders also are sought to organize troops for girls who wish to belong to Girl Scout groups but have been unable to do so because of lack of adult leadership, Mrs. Welsh said. The new leaders are Mrs. R.

J. Leonard, 515 North Thirty-second street, troop 22; Mrs. C. A. Olson, 345 Yellowstone avenue, troop 26; Mrs.

Volly Hopper, 413 Wyoming avenue, troop 17; Mrs. H. O. Harris, 1045 North Thirtieth street, troop Mrs. C.

V. Ridgley, 123 Cedar street, troop 12; Miss Edith Ram-stad, 219 Yellowstone avenue, troop 33; Mrs. Vincent Miller, 234 Avenue the younger girls of troop 16. Additions to the list of assistant leaders include Mrs. V.

N. Orchard, 913 North Broadway, troop 16; Mrs. Malcolm Long, 724 North Thirtieth street, troop 22. Card to Italian Travels Long Route Helena, Sept. 18.

(U.R) Umberto Adani of Rimini, Italy, soon will receive a card with a Rimini postmarkbut the card will have traveled some 10,000 miles. Due to a mixup in global geography and a censor evidently homesick for Montana, the card was delivered to Sergeant Donald Adams at Camp Rimini, near Helena. The card, which was from an Italian prisoner of war in the Union of South Africa, was addressed: "Umberto Adani, to which the censor had added, "Montana, U. S. The card was forwarded to Italy.

COMPLETES COURSE army airfield, Hobbs, N. accord ing to the public relations office there He received his commission at Marfa, Texas, on June 22, JACKET STOLEN A red cloth jacket with leather sleeves was stolen Saturday from a car owned by Bernard Pastian, 3916 Third avenue south, while it was parked on North Twenty-ninth street between Second and Third avenues, police were informed. County Teacher Session Set Unit of M. E. A.

Confers October 2 Date for the organization meeting of the Yellowstone unit of the Montana Education association was set for Saturday, October 2, by members of the executive committee, meeting Saturday in the office of T. E. Pemberton, county superintendent of public instruction. Luncheon will be served at noon at the Commercial club, followed by a business session and discussion period. A musical program will be presented.

Letters will be sent to all rural and grade school teachers of third class districts in Yellowstone county, informing them in detail of the meeting, Mrs. Lydia Plath, instructor at Shepherd school and president of the unit, said. Others present in addition to Mrs. Plath were Mrs. Ann O'Donnell of Elder Grove school, vice president; Miss Mary Jane Barnett of Rimrock school, secretary; Miss Loris Blessing of Rimrock school, treasurer, and Miss Marie Myron of Canyon Creek school, chairman of a special committee.

281 Mexicans Distributed Here Will Aid Harvest In Factory Area Approximately 281 Mexican nationals were distributed for beet harvest labor on farms in the Billings factory district Saturday. The group arrived in Billings at 8:30 a. m. from Mexico City. Billings area was allotted 92, Clark's Fork and Edgar 20, Hysham 43, Laurel 40, Pompeys Pillar 39 and Worden 47.

Distribution was handled at the Union depot by Lawrence Carr, supervisor of the local war food administration office in charge of foreign labor recruitment for Montana, Lyman H. Andrews, factory manager, and C. F. Mann, assistant manager. According to Carr, additional nationals are expected within a short time.

i ii Billings lady on hi tomorrow This is you, some brio 7 9 Imagine coming home from the store with private jobs. Income Tax Brings $2,800,000 in State Helena, Sept. 18. (U.R) An estimated $2,800,000 has been deposited at the bureau of internal revenue here in income tax collections to date, Lewis Penwell, collector, said Saturday. Already processed returns include collections of $2,079,847.74, he Some 35,000 tax returns from Montana residents have been filed to date and it is estimated that another 14,000 may be forthcoming.

Of those filed now, 19,900 are tax-, able. Returns now delinquent, and therefore subject to penalty, should be taken care of immediately, Pen well added. WARDEN for Billings Phone 3111 In Laurel Phone 54 Red Lodge Phone 142 'a package no larger than a lunch box, ret holding enough to feed your family for a week I That day is coming! For, even now, dehydrated foods are being produced with all water and air removed, condensed down to a fraction of their normal size. Today, these foods are going to war. When peace comes, they will be available for your table thanks to gas which is used in dehydrating processes.

Gas will do many new and different jobs after the Axis is crushed and the world returns to normal living. It will help American industry to produce the car you drive or the plane you fly. It will aid in turning out the new metals, plastics and other materials born for war and marked for conversion to peacetime uses. You will find it a still more faithful and efficient servant in your home, too. Features and refinements in the kitchen range, the hot water heater and the house heating system of postwar days will make you want the comforts and convenience that only gas can bring.

Yes, lady, it will be a brighter, happier, more livable tomorrow for you and your family because of gas Staying well-dressed these days mean, tating care of your clothes! You can benefit your appearance and the con- nation effort by the8C -Clothes Warden" rules: Buy wisey nothing that can't be drycleaned. Treat and air clothes often: Buy ooddryceann.f.the IT'S DoftE BETTER w.th GAS drycleaning, Sanitone Fred Feuerbacher of Laurel has Custer, Sept. Lieu-been released from a hospital in tenant Perry Elmer Raster of Cus-Austraha where he was confined ter has completed the pilot transi-4H months, and has returned to his tion four-eneine course at Hobbs Billings Laundry Co. Gas Company outfit in New Guinea Promotions include Dick Hager- man, former Bronc football star, to stan sergeant in tne army air corps Genuine Botany Worsteds IIS Australian wmI fabrics, while they lajt. and S5J.7S Phone 3167 HARRY CROSS In In UCINSED in.