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Montana labor news., 1938-09-29
Government Health Service
atlanta Journal of Labor

(AJIdIlId JOuIIldl Ol LdDOIJ
The workers are beginning to realize that
in the United States Health Service the gov
eminent is doing much to protect the masses
of the people against i'll health and disease.
While it has no power to promote health and
sanitation by %compulsion its program Of pitt
less publicity has done much to call attention
to the tremendous toll of life exacted by
sickness.
A recent survey report summarizing the
figures covering data on the health of nearly
three million persons gainfully employed
points wildly to the truth that the toll Of
chronic disease is heightened because of the
'indecently low wages imposed upon the
workers in many industries" These low
wages reduce the standard Of living to such
an extent that the workers cannot provide
adequate physical and medical protection
against the encroachment Of disease. The
children as well as the workers themselves,
being un~dernourished, i'll clothed and i'll
housed, are a ready prey to the attacks of
disease. There is a very definite relation
between health and wages. This is not suffi-
GENTLY realized. If it were there would be,
we are sure, greater demand that conditions
be remedied. In its report, the survey says:
Disease and invalidism are particularly
great among families of marginal incomes.
Frequency rate Of chronic illness in relief
families was 81 per cent above the rate for
families in the upper income classiications."
The United States Health Service may be
assured that organized labor recognized this
service as one Of the workers best friends
and is going to support it every way possible.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29
Standing by the President
By DIR. CHARLES STEELE

BY Dh. CHAhlIEno OlELLLE
Executive Director, Good Neighbor League
Most Americans believe that the President
of the United States is a person who should
be honored because of his high position, and
that he should be held free from baseless
villifcation and SANDER. But as n studies
the lives and history of even the great Presi-
dents of our country, one finds that none
were free from attacks upon his character,
and they were all charged with acts which
should have led to their impeachment.
This was true of Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, and Theodore
Roosevelt. They were said by some Of the
newspapers of their day to be guilty OF
wasting the peoples money, disregarding the
Constitution, assuming dictatorial power,
breaking promises, acting as political spoils-
men, being badly advised and being incompe-
tent to hold the Office of President.
But there probably has never been a Presi-
dent of our country who has been subject
to so much hatred and bitterness as has the
man who now occupies the White House.
So serious has this situation become in its
effect upon the Nation that one Of New
York's most influential newspapers is insist
llS uldt COLSiCoo oPPO4AI q "
find out who is inspiring the poisonous propa-
ganda being circulated to discredit President
Roosevelt.
This propaganda cannot be charged eX-
clusively against any opposing political
party, nor is it due altogether to the legisla-
ton which the President has advocated. 1t
has resolved itself into a dirty, below-the-
belt attack, which only men with distorted
minds and venomous purposes can %conjure
up. There's no objection to any man coming
out in the open and frankly and fairly de-
batting a political question upon which there
may be disagreement. This is his right in
our Democracy. But these attacks are purely
personal and vindictive, and they aren't
limited to ignorant men.
Americans believe in the rules of fair play.
To try to win a fight under any other rules
is despicable and contemplate, and our
country is in no mood to tolerate such actions.
Be it said to the credit Of the workers Of the
United States that they are standing by the
President-not because he is a Democrat,
nor yet altogether because he is fighting their
battles-but because they believe in giving
a man a square deal, even though that man
is President of the United States!
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

diseases, etc.
The number of deaths due to chronic
diseases has increased due in part to in
creased longevity-the relation of chronic
disease to advancing age. At the age of 20,
so persons in 1000 have chronic disease; at
the age of 40, 200 persons; at the age of go,
$50 persons; at the age Of 80 more than 500
persons-over so per cent-have chronic
diseases.
Because of the economic problems involved
in chronic diseases, this is a field for which
public medicine must provide with medical
care and often disqualification. This is notably
true in mental cases and tuberculosis, both
in the interest of the patient and the public.
Public responsibility for medical care has
long been an accepted principle-the only
issue is to what degree and for what cases.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

Maybe if people on road work would dis
pense with red flags they could live on their
income from no work.
And by the way, if everybody lived on
income, where would income come from?
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

Say, what kind of company are
you expecting, if you don't want to
let them in?"
"The gas company, the telephone
company, and the electric company"
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

If words were deeds, what a grand and
glorious world tWould be.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

THE gains we have made we are
capable of defending and will de-
fend. We shall support the Peoples
Front government and defend what
it has achieved" ~ Leon Jouhaux,
head of the French General Con-
federation of Labor, now in this
country.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29

Work for all who can work;
To each the fruit of his work;
Help for all who can't work;
He'll for those who won't work.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-29
Old Age Assistance and
Old Age Insurance Plan
Described 10 UnionistsI

Summary of talk given by
Stewart J. Thomas, manager,
Butte office, Social Security
Board, before the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council, Sep
TENDER 20, 1888.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
AUTO LIGHTS ENABLE
18 PLANES TO LAND
Police Broadcast Appeal and
Hundreds Drive to Field to
Aid Lost Squadron.

BS the Associated Press.
HUNTSVILLE Ala, March 1e.-
Poised for fight again today were l8
Army flyers whose commanding officer
profoundly thanked citizens here for
aid in dramatic forced landings dur
ing storm.
Hundreds OF automobile owners,
summoned by State police, trained
their lights on landing field last
night while the ships. from the 17th
Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field,
Mich, came safely to earth.
Capt. D. M. Allison. in command of
the flight, later thanked by radio those
who responded to the appeal.
En- route to Tampa, Fla, for ma
neuvers, the squadron was caught in
tornado winds and blown miles away
from the days objective, Maxwell
Field, Ala. They finally concentrated
over this small Northeast Alabama
city, attracted by huge electric ar
row atop hotel.
Two State highway patrolmen heard
the roar of the motors and saw the
circling planes. They hurried to a
local radio station and broadcast an
appeal for citizens to drive quickly to
the unlighted airf1eld and train their
automobile lights on the runways.
The citizens responded by the hum
dreds and formed a great semicircle
Of headlights about the field as one
by one the Army birdmen glided safely
to earth.
Capt. Allison later said static condi-
tions were so bad that the planes were
unable to contact airport radio sta
tions for directions.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
SECOND TRIAL OPENS
IN LAUGHLIN CASE
Capital Lawyer Is Accused of
Larceny, Embezzlement
and Forgery.

The second trial of Attorney James
J. Laughlin began in District Court
today before Justice Daniel w.
O'Donoghue and a jury.
Laughlin is charged with larceny,
embezzlement, larceny after trust,
forgery and uttering and with pre-
senting forged paper at the Office Of
a Government official for the purpose
of defrauding the United States.
All the charges grew out Of COM
plant by three clients of Laughlin,
who accused him of failing properly
to account for some $4,000 they
allegedly gave him to effect their re-
lease on bond from the District Jail.
The compliments, Walter c. johnson,
Edward r. Dietrich and Erma Miller,
were arrested in June. 1896. on
charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. Subsequently, Justice Pey-
ton Gordon granted motion by their
attorney, Charles E. Ford, to suppress
the evidence against them on the
ground it had been illegally seized by
police, and the charges against them
were nolle pressed.
Laughlin was convicted last winter
on charges Of forgery and uttering
and larceny after trust in connection
Evening star., 1938-03-16
MAR|HUANA RAID
NETS 16SUSPECTS
Police Hope to Solve at
Least Dozen HoId.ups
as Result.

Police hoped to solve dozen recent
hold-ups here with the arrest early
today Of 16 colored suspects in a raid
on an alleged "marihuana joint" in
the 900 block of French street NV.
Investigators said the place had been
used as headquarters by a gang Of
thugs who had been smoking narcotic
cigarettes before committing robberies.
Fifteen men and one woman were be-
ing held for investigation.
The raid was made by the pickup"
squad under 1t. Joseph w. Shimon.
While police were in the place, they
reported. nearly so customers" came
in, unaware raid was in progress
They were questioned and released.
Eight More Arrested.
At about the same time Federal
agents arrested seven men and Wom-
an in drive against heroin peddlers.
Howard Ferguson, 40, of the 1900
block of Fourth street NE, was
charged with sale and possession of
narcotics. He was arrested in an au-
tomobile at Sixth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
John c. Bates. 26, of the 200 block
OF K street NV, was picked up on
similar charges in the 900 block of
Ninth street NV. The other six. all
OF whom were held for investigation,
were arrested in the 1000 block Of
Ninth street NV, and the 1900 block
of Park road NV.
The agents reported seizure of $500
worth OF heroin and materials used in
the preparation of the drug.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
REWARD OFFERED
FOR PET POISONER
Washington Humane Society Will
Give 500 for Information
Leading to Arrest.

Any person supplying information
leading to apprehension of the pet
poisoner whose activities have ex-
tended from the Hillcrest area in the
Southeast section to the vicinity of
Columbia road NV. will be given a
$100 reward by the Washington HUI
name Society. Mrs. H. w. Elmore.
president of the society, announced
yesterday.
Although the reward originally was
offered several years ago at the time
of another series of pet poisonings, it
is being renewed as result of two
new cases of dog poisonings revealed
yesterday, Mrs. Elmore said.
She referred to the dogs owned by
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence p Walton,
1901 Argonne place. and Mrs. D. A.
Wells. 2700 Ontario road. Only the
prompt attention of a veterinarian
saved the animals.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
TROOPS WITHDRAWN
FROM LIBYA BY ITALY
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
ROME, March l6-Italy today an
nounced withdrawal of troops sent sew
eral weeks ago to reinforce two army
corps stationed in African Libya, and
the gesture was interpreted here as an
indication that Italo-British friendship
talks were making satisfactory prog
ress.
Reduction of the Libyan garrison. it
was generally agreed. was one Of the
concessions Britain sought from italy
as basis of rapprochement.
Diplomatic circles believed an
nouncement Of Italo-British agreement
might come in few days. Lord Perth.
British Ambassador, Is to see Foreign
Minister Count Ciano on Friday tor
what may be a conclusion Of their
peace talks.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
WOOlWORTH HEIRESS
EXPIRES IN NEW YORK
Mrs. Helena McCann, Known for
Her Philanthropies, Inherited
see, 200, 900 of Fortune.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 16.-Mrs.
Helena Woolworth McCann, who in
herited one-third OF the $4,000 900
fortune left by her father, Frank
w. Woolworth. sand 10-cent-stor
pioneer, died at her town home yes
terday after brief illness.
Mrs. McCann and her sister. Mrs.
James P. Donohue. became admins
traitors Of the Woolworth estate after
their mother died in 1924.
The fortune was beoueathed equally
to Mrs. McCann, Mrs. Donohue and
granddaughter. the former Barbara
Hutton. now the Countess Haugwitz-
Reventlow. Mr.. Woolworth died in
1919.
Mrs. Mccain was widely known
for her philanthropies. Her country
home, Sunken Orchard, at Oyster Bay.
Long Island, was one of the largest
and most beautiful in the State.
Survivors include her husband, her
sister. son, Frazier w. McCann of
BrldegWater. Conn, and two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Wyllys R. Belts of Syosset,
Long Island. and Mrs. Winston Guest
of New York City, wife of the inter-
national polo player
Funeral services will be held here
Friday morning at the Church of St.
Jean Baptiste.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
BORAH-0'MAHONEY
MEASURE SCORED
Manufacturers Counsel
Says Provisions Are
Most Drastic
BY the Associated Press.

6S the associated Press.
A Senate subcommittee today heard
penalty provisions of the Borah-
OMahoney industrial licensing bill
termed the most drastic ever sug-
gested in Federal statute"
Testifying at hearings, James A.
Emery, general counsel for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
contended the measure would tend to
create confusion" and uncertainty"
in industry.
The legislation, drawn as an anti
monopoly measure, would require most
industries engaged in interstate COM
merce and some others to take out
Federal incorporation charters and
conform to Federal regulation of trade
practices.
Mr.. Emery, citing Is penalty provi-
slons, said the bill would compel
the reorganization or reincorporation
OF the manufacturing. mercantile and
the major farm cooperative business
of the United States"
What scheme" he demanded.
could be more thoroughly calculated
TO intensity rather than lessen the
economic anxieties and fears which
haunt the present?"
III the principle Of this measure
were approved" Mr.. Emery con-
tended, there is no circumstance of
internal corporate or association Or
ganization or operation, whether in
production or commerce, in manu-
facture, processing, service or distri-
button that might not be brought
within the control of Congress as a
condition of engaging in, commerce
and subjected to bureaucratic admin
istration and supervision"
Evening star., 1938-03-16
60 SAVED AS FIRE
DESTROYSSCH0OL
Priest Leads Students Out
of Herman (Pa.) Structure
as Blaze Rages.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HERMAN. Pa, March l6.-Sixty stu
dents. clad in night clothing and
wrapped in blankets, fed in the chill
early hours today as a spectacular fire
swept the main building of st. Fidelis'
Seminary.
Sixty-six younger students in a
fireproof wing filed from that structure
in orderly procession and stood until
the cold hours of the dawn watching
firemen from nearby towns wage a
successful fight to save the nearby
monastery and other buildings.
The Rev. Bertrand Brookman, 39-
year-old director Of the school con-
Quoted by priests of the Order Of
Capuchin Franciscan Fathers in this
village, IS miles from Pittsburgh, es-
timated damage at $4,000. He said
that he had mo idea" what started
the blaze, but that it originated in
. workshop.
The four-story brick building de-
stroyed, erected in 1886, contained
classrooms, laboratories, bowling al
leys, the dormitories of the go senior
students studying for the priesthood
and a 7,000-volume library. The boys
lost all personal belongings.
Father Brookman, who narrowly
escaped with his life, praised Father
Victor Green for leading the boys
to safety. He ordered activities at the
school suspended and the boys sent
to their homes.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
BROTHERHOOD DAY

ROCKVILLE. Md, March 16 (Spe-
ciaD.-Brotherhood Day, which will
be celebrated March "a by churches
OF the Disciples of Christ throughout
the world, will be observed by the
Rockville church, the Rev. j. Lloyd
Black, pastor, announced.
The men of the church will be guests
OF honor at dinner to be served in
the church basement by women of the
congregation and the discussions and
other features of the program will be
similar to those Of all churches parti-
cipating. Brawner Harding has been
made chairman Of the General Com
mittee of Arrangements.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
Blind Choir Singer Wins Bride
after Courtship of 43 Years

He met Miss Sundermann. a willowy
girl of %, II years later in the choir
stall of Jersey City's Second Reformed
Church. For IS years they sang to-
gether in the choir.
But it wasn't until last year that he
proposed-and Miss Sundermann now
White-haired but tall and younger
looking than her 66 years. accepted.
Two hundred persons attended the
wedding last night at st. Johns Meth
odist Episcopal Church. And after the
ceremony MIR. Dieffenbach put his arm
around his bride and said
I have never seen my wife, but
know she's great lady.
She is very fine character-I can
judge character. That's how I know"
Evening star., 1938-03-16
POLICY
TO Be DEBATED
Opposition Party Forces
Chamberlain to Reveal
Program.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 16--Opposition
to Prime Minister Chamberlain today
won the opportunity for a full debate
on foreign affairs in the House OF
Commons.
A surprise motion for adjournment
because Of the governments lack of
policy to counter the grave menace"
to British peace in Italian and Ger
man intervention in the Spanish civil
war was made by Opposition Leader
Clement r. Attlee.
This was accepted by the Speaker
and threw the House open to an
urgent review of foreign policy.
The harassed prime minister. whose
realistic" hope Of dickering with
Reichsfuehrer Hitler had faded with
the absorption of Austria. had just
entered the House after a two-hour
cabinet meeting in which the wisdom
OF sterner policy was discussed.
Declines to Be Rushed.
Chamberlain arose and said:
Il decline to be rushed into making
announcements prematurely about this
very serious subject SPAIN. The
government has to bear a great re-
sponsibility."
Premier Chamberlain's response
brought concerted fire from the op-
position. The prime minister refused
to make a definite statement of Brit
aims position regarding possible Ger
man aggression against Czechoslovakia.
Turning to the Spanish civil war, he
said the French government had in
formed Britain ''of the anxiety with
which they view the present situa ton.
THE British government is fully
alive to the importance of recent de-
velopments and is keeping in close
touch with the French government"
Iaborites, aroused by the fear of
Italian and German domination of
Spain and the Mediterranean in event
OF insurgent victory, resorted to un-
usual parliamentary procedure-the
adjournment motion-to force Cham
berlain to make a statement.
Attlee Demands Statement.
In the afternoon brush between Pre-
mier Chamberlain and the opposition
Mr.. Attlee demanded statement on
foreign policy, seeing that he Cham
berlain) has practically admitted his
late policy has now finished"
Angrily, Premier Chamberlain shot
back:
Il decline entirely to accept that
statement"
The Prime Minister reiterated his
pledge not to resort to peace-time
conscription but refused to pledge that
mo form Of conscription will ever be
introduced"
The opposition storm broke when
Richard Austen Butler, Conservative,
replied to indignant questions regard
ing Spain that the government had
no information to support charges
that Germany and Italy had rushed
reinforcements to Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco.
Members of the Chamberlain cabi-
net cheered when the Prime Minister
complained to Mr.. Attlee, 1T is alto
gether unreasonable to try to press us
to make statements at this time"
May I ask the Prime Minister to
remember the great anxiety Of coun-
try with no policy" Mr.. Attlee said.
Premier Chamberlain answered:
Mr.. Attlee cannot propose that I
am ignorant of that, but that's no
reason why he should deliver ulti-
matums to me-"
Laborite James Maxton interjected:
Isn't it better to have ultimatums
from the leader of the opposition
than from some foreign power?"
Evening star., 1938-03-16
Ry the Associated Press.

JERSEY CITY, N j.. March 16.-A
courtship of 43 years, begun in a
church choir. ended in a honeymoon
today for Charles Rudolph Dieffen-
bach and Miss Louise Sundermann,
the bride mes never seen.
Married after a formal engagement
OF less than year, Mr. Dieffenbach
and his bride. both of whom are now
&c, said they would honeymoon at his
home here.
Mr.. Dieffenbach. tall. white haired
coal salesman and secretary Of the New
Jersey Commission for the Blind, was
stricken blind when 10 years old. two
years after sister plunged a scissors
into his right eye.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
Will Hold Square Dance.

GROVETON, Va. March Is (Spe-
ciaD A square dance will be held in
the auditorium of Groveton School
Friday evening, beginning at 9 o'clock,
for the benefit OF the Parent Teacher
Association,
Evening star., 1938-03-16
BILBO'S SON MARRIES

HONOLULU. March is R).-Lt. r.
g. Bilbo, jr., and Miss Fora Aubrey
Farnsworth we're married here last
night. 1t. Bilbo is the son of United
States Senator Bilbo of Mississippi,
and Miss Farnsworth is the daughter
Of Maj. Laiglon Farnsworth, U. S. A.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
DR.. HAIG APPOINTED
Heads Division of Silvics in
Forest Service.

DIR. Irvine T. Haig, for Is years with
the Forest Service of the Agriculture
Department, has been appointed chief
OF the division Of silvics. it was an
nounced yesterday by F. A. Silcox,
chief forester.
DR.. Haig, a graduate of Pennsylvania
State College and Yale University,
has been acting head of the depart
ment for the past year. Silvics is the
science dealing with protection and
maintenance of forests.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
Sigma Theta Dinner.

Sigma Theta National Sorority will
celebrate founders day with a din
ner at the Kennedy-Warren Apart
ments at 7:30 pm. Saturday. At the
same time it will install a new chap
ter, Zeta.
Evening star., 1938-03-16
ILLINOIS TOWN HARD HIT.
Eight Dead and s1,0o0,000 in Prop
erty Loss.


BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, March 16 F).-
Weary searchers dug for additional
dead today in ruins left in the wake
of a spring tornado which took at
least eight lives and injured scores,
many seriously, in this city of $4,000
Several persons reported missing were
feared to be dead More than 40 IN
iured were under hospital treatment.
This city's known dead were identi-
fed as: Joseph Roesch, Frank MtyslK,
Charles johnson. 18 months old;
George Hassall, Mrs. Robert Mala-
carne, 80; Oscar Krug, and Mrs. Jane
Smith. rs. Albert Weaver, 81, was
killed at nearby Glenview.
Whipping up from the southwest, the
tornado dealt disaster in nearly a
dozen surrounding communities. A
township grade school was among the
so local buildings demolished or badly
damaged, but the twister, striking at
4:57 pm, found the institution de-
serted.
$1,000, 900 School Escapes.
The 81 100000 Belleville High School
almost miraculously escaped unscathed
as the whirling storm passed over the
campus and smashed structures within
its shadow
A unit of the suppinger Canning Co.,
tomato preserving firm, was wrecked.
The management estimated the dam
age at $4,000.
Several hundred soldiers from Scott
Field we're rushed into the stricken
zone to aid State and local police in
maintaining order and assist in rescue
work. The Red Cross set up emer-
gency stations.
The business district was spared
when the tornado veered from its
course as it struck the southwest edge
Of the city.
Evening star., 1938-03-16

with the same series Of transactions,
but the Court of Appeals reversed the
Judgment Of the trial court on the
ground that certain evidence had been
improperly admitted.