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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

might or might not be embarrassing"
1t is matter of somewhat common
knowledge, that a situation existed
at the time of the investigation,
in connection with the Montana
Contractors Association, and Mr..
McKinnons close relationship with
the person in charge of the operation
of the business of that association,
which exposed Mr.. McKinnon to criti-
cism and suspicion in the minds OF
people familiar with conditions.
The Montana Contractors Assoc1a-
ton membership is composed of con-
Continued on Page Four1
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paign, (the league is composed of
Democrats and Independent Republi-
cans), when New Deal forces are
bearing down more strongly than ever
on the president to run again, and
when the campaign to sell McNutt to
the liberals as the man to "carry on"
seems to have struck a snag.
THE DRAFT ROOSEVELT" CAM
PAIGN is GAINING MOMENTUM IN
THE CAPITAL EVERY DAY, AND
THUS FAR THE WHITE HOUSE
HAS PUT NO BRAKES ON 1T.
A conference of business, educa-
ton, and labor leaders called by
Security Administrator McNutt de-
termined that something should
be done to aid the 100000 jobless
youths between the ages of 16 and
25 who are out of school and
pounding the pavements in quest
of something to do. An increase
in NYA funds to provide for an
expanded youth program will be
recommended to congress.
Share-Croppers Face New Peril
AS Landowners Seek Law Evasion
The shift of share-croppers to wage
laborers by southern landowners is
problem that is progressively growing
more acute.
According to law, landowners must
share benefits with share-croppers. In
order to evade this provision, land
owners are turning these hapless
people into wage-earner status and
hiring them only during season.
The problem has become the
more serious since the landowners
of the Old South have begun COM
peting with the cotton planters of
the Southwest
Last winter, about 600 Missouri
share choppers were evicted from
their scrubby homes in Butler county
victims of this new trend. One humid
red of these families, black and white,
are now living on 93-acre tract which
they secured. They have undergone
great privations The Farm Security
Administration has promised some
aid, bit nothing can be done, it is
charged, because the local FCA re-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

Despite the bonding companies compelled
complete two large jobs this state the work
which being directed by D. A. McKnnon for the con-
tracing with which he at the time connected
and that previous highway commission headed by .. 5.
Warden of Falls because of dissatisfaction with the
work of and his had disqualified them
from further work in the state this McKinnon
appears to by Governor Ayers fully
petent equipped to of the states most i'm
ortant services as chief state highway engineer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
By MARIAN ALLEN deFORD
Federated Press

After several sessions devoted to laying the found
atoms for the agricultural labor problem in California the
LaFoete committee got down to Individual instances with
thorough investigation of the Marysve strike of last
The wakout called by the United Cannery Agcul-
tural Packing Allied Workers (CIO) is still unsettled
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
LAF0LLETTE Committee
DIGS OUT FACTS ABOUT
MARYSvILLE fruit STRIKE

Walkout Called by United Cannery Agri-
cultural Packing & Allied Workers Still
Unsettled; Dorrell LaFortune, Marysville
Chief of Police, Testified He Raided Go
Headquarters Without Warrant.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
ENGINEER DISQU|zI.
BY ONE HIGHWAY BOARD
NOW CHIEF ENG. Ter

Action of Former Highway Board Ignored
By Present Administration AS Is Also the
Record Of Present Chief Engineer While
Engaged in Private Practice of His Profess
sion in State
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Dunn Loring Station
Removal Plan Protested

DUNN LORING, Va, Sept. ?
fSpeciaD Proposal to do away with
washington g. Old Dominion Rail-
road Co. station at Dunn Lorine
today was protested in a letter to
the State Corporation Commission
at Richmond by G. Wallace CAREER,
member of the Fairfax County
Board OF Supervisors from Provi-
dence district.
Mr.. Carper asked the State Cor
poration Commission to give con-
slderatlon to citizens living in the
vicinity who desire not only that it
shall not be torn down, but also
that it may continue as an agency
station.
He also said that the county School
Board is completing a new $4,000
elementary center short distance
from the station, and number of
children will have to travel by trolley.
Mr.. Carper also called attention
OF the commission to the fact the
Arlington & Fairfax Auto Railroad
Co., whose tracks parallel the Old
Dominion tracks short distance
away, proposes to abandon its serv-
ice, which will mean the Old Do
minion will have to take over the
burden of pupil transportation by
rail. For a large area, he pointed
out, the railroads offer the only
public transportation medium.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Montgomery Civic
Federation President
Names Committees
Appointees Will Serve
During Coming Year
Opening October 9

Committee appointments for the
Montgomery County MD Civic
Federation were announced yester-
day by President o. M. Kile. The
committees will serve during the
coming year, which opens with the
first fall meeting october 9.
On the Membership Committee
are Richard H. Akers, chairman;
John A. P. Farnham, j. l.. Gilbreth,
Charles S. Moore and Harold F
Watson.
Other committees are:
Constitution and by-laws-Carey
E. Quinn, chairman: Emory H. Bog
ley, Washington I. Cleveland. D. A
De Lashmutt, Mr.. Moore and J. S
Rogers.
Legislation and legal action -
Richard B. Barker, chairman; o. P
NJ Brown, James Cosgrove, A. H
Gardner, James D. King. w. Scott
Macgill. George w. OKeafe and
Millward C. Taft.
Public utilities-W. C. De Groot
chairman; LIE Roy w. Boughton. Ed
ward r. Ford, A. B Hayes, jr.: John
E. Hendricks, DR.. F. L. Lewton
James r. Reside. William j. Thomas
and Harold F. Watson.
Roads. streets and bridges-Mr
Cleveland. chairman; Alvin B Bar
ber, James B. Garry. Clyde S. Ed
wards, c. H. Godbold, Josiah w
Jones, Joseph B. Matre, Herbert F
Schiefer. c. E. Parsons, Merit P
Smith and Ralph E. Torreyson.
Public safety n. H. Smelling
chairman; Francis X Emmitt, Karl
E. Lohse, Mrs Mary Mohler, A. H
Richmond, F. E. Spurney, Granville
c. Stagg and Mrs A. j. Stefin.
Sanitation and public health -
Herbert N. Eaton, chairman; o. w
Anderson, Rhees E. Burket, j. M
Davidson, DR.. John A. Flemming
Mrs. Edwin D. Fry, r. A. Littleton
H. P Morris and F. o. Smith.
Schools-D. M. Collins, chairman
H. D. Amiss. Jacob w. Bulger, Will
ton R. Eyer, DR.. w. M. Gamble
Joseph c. Gardner, DR.. w. C. KILN
ger, John r. Magness, William w
Moore, Mrs. John C. Shaw. E. Paul
Steigner and Russell I. Whyte.
Social welfare-Raymond B. Leav-
lit, chairman: W. B. Armstrong
Robert E. Bondy, Miss Marcia Boyn-
ton, Herman c. Heffner and S. A
Snyder.
Internal county improvements -
A. c. Wilkins, chairman; T. Brooke
Amiss, William B. Horne, Snyder H
Karr, Theodore G. Parkman, Wal
ter Prichard, Jerome S. Rogers, E. w
Shepard, Granville C. Stagg, Will
liam H. Wagner, Gilbert H. WILEY
and Thomas Wall, jr.
Publicity-Guy Clinton, chairman:
Mrs. Vernon Brewster. John F.
Griffe, Winston E. Hobbs, Stephen
James and Karl E. Lohse.
Budget and Finance-Frederic p
Lee, chairman; L. w. AHearn, T. M
Cremins, c. S. Duvall. jd.; o. S. Goff
William w. Meyer, Roy p. Moore
M. E. Myers. Walter Prichard, Calvin
Schaeffer, Morris Stern and H. S
Yohe.
Program achievement-O. P M
Brown, chairman; Richard H. Akers
Alvin B. Barber, G. r. Candy, L. L.
Dye and Mr.. James.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Civic Associations
Resume Activities
This Week
Southeast Council and
Oldest lnhobitunts
Schedule Meetings

A meeting of the Southeast Council
of Citizens Associations Tuesday at
8 pm. in No. II police precinct,
Nicholas avenue and Chicago street
Sc, will inaugurate the start of the
1889 civic activities season in the
District.
The Association of Oldest Inhab-
itants will meet Wedro~|ay at 7:30
pm. in the Old Union Engine House.
Ninthteenth and H streets, NV.
Edwin S. Hege will address the as
sociation on pedestrian regulation
and protection.
William A. Maio. president of the
Southeast Council, said yesterday
that number of projects would be
drawn up. Member bodies of the
organization will strive to have them
included in the 1941 District budget,
hearings for which are scheduled
before the Commissioners in the
near future.
Mr.. Maio indicated that among
the projects to be sought are new
Anacostia Junior-Senior High School
and new bridge across the Ana
costa River at East Capitol street
or South Capitol street or both.
In connection with the desire for
an appropriation for a new school
in the Anacostia section, it was said
that figures of last year showed the
capacity of the present school is
1,210, but that it had an enrolment
last September OF 1,505. The ex-
pected number of pupils this fall
will be around LOO. Last year,
classes were held in all parts of the
building, including the cafeteria.
Two associations, Manor Park and
the Progressive Citizens Association
of Congress Heights, originally
scheduled to meet tomorrow, will
start next Monday instead.
The Manor Park group will hold
an executive meeting Thursday at
the home of President Daniel Lloyd
and the following Monday open it's
regular season with its first meeting
in the new auditorium adjoining
the Whittier School. Entertainment
will be furnished that night by
children of the Takoma Recreational
Center.
DR.. E. E. Richardson. a member
of the Progressive Citizens Associa-
ton of Congress Heights, said his
group will sponsor an open air con-
cert to be given by the Elks Boys
Band Tuesday at 7:30 pm. at
avenue and Portland street Sc.
Two other associations, Connecti-
cut Avenue and the Northeast Con-
ference, may renew activities this
month. but no decision has been
reached as yet by either of the
presidents, Harry Grove and Marvin
M. Mclean.
Only dozen or so meetings are
likely to be held this month. but
from october until June of next
year, all of the more than three
score citizens associations in the
| District will be in full swing. In
cluded among them will be two
groups starting their second year,
Hampshire Heights and the North
west Council.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Good Will Industries Workers
Lunch for II Gents q Plate
Mrs. Broodus Uses Little Business
Method in Running Cafeteria

Little business" rather than "big
business" methods enable Mrs. Myr-
tie Broadus to serve employees of the
Goodwill Industries a generous hot
plate luncheon, with bread and but
ter, for II cents daily. A meat and
two vegetables are always on the
plate.
Three cents more buys a cup Of
hot coffee or tea. 1ced drinks are
two cents extra And for an addi-
tional S cents her customers have
their choice of a variety of desserts,
salads or soup.
1t should be explained, perhaps,
that the Goodwill cafeteria over
head costs are not completely COW
cred by proceeds from these lunch
cons, although it is confidently
expected to become completely self
sustaining in a short while.
Nor is the cafeteria open to the
public. Its purpose is to supply a
Well-balanced midday meal to the
handicapped workers at the Indus
tries who receive small salaries for
reconditioning cost aside articles
which are later sold at Goodwill
stores.
Notable Achievement.
That Mrs Broadus is ranidIv
bringing the cafeteria "out of tho
red is an achievement noted with
considerable surprise and great sat-
lsfaction by officials, however.
In normal seasons she serves
around 40 persons daily, and she
buys all the food for their luncheon
from 50 daily allowance. When
she can turn back change to the Of
nee she feels that the DAYS business
has been good. >''
Costs of ice. dairy products gas
and electricity are not taken from, ON
the 50, but it covers paper napkins
soap and odds and ends of thai
sort, Mrs, Broadus said.
we nearly always take in abou,
50 day and I usually turn back a
lew cents change, so, YOU see We
nave good bit of profit to heir
toward the overhead" Mrs. Broadus
explained.
i have a crazy little system" she
continued modestly.
Orders Taken Early.
Her formula is not to buv in
quantities. but to purchase each dav
only enough food for those who will
be served at luncheon.
Employees, checking in each morn
ing, are given slip with the day's
luncheon menu and asked to make
out their order When Mrs. Broadus
has collected the slips she knows
just how many hot plates, how
many salads, desserts and drinks
she will serve.
And don't buy bit more food
than is ordered on those slips" she
said. Maybe enough for one or
two more persons" she amended
though sometimes I'm really en-
barrassed when a new worker comes
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Candidates Warned
Of Filing DeodIine
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, Sept. 2.-persons
desiring to be candidates in the gen.
eral election in November must file
with the county clerk not later than
September 8. it has been announced
by County Clerk John M. Whalen.
This regulation applies to those
who have not been declared nomi-
nees by a party primary. The names
OF the candidates will then be filed
with the Fairfax County Electoral
Board for the preparation of ballots.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Dr.. Hall Conter Dies:
RondoIph-Mocon Dean
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ASHLAND. Va, Sept. 2.-Dr. Hall
Canter, 66, for the past 20 years
dean of Randolph-Macon College
and prominently identified with
several national scientific organ
izations, died at his home here to-
day.
He had been connected with Ran
dolph- Macon as professor of chem
istry and geology since 1900. He was
born in Baltimore.
Before joining the Randolph
Macon faculty DR.. Canter taught
at Randolph Macon Academy, Front
Royal, and Tulane University. He
has also taught at the University of
Virginia Summer School,
DR.. Canter was one of the found
ers of Chi Beta, national scientific
fraternity, and past president of the
Virginia section of the American
Chemical Society.
Evening star., 1939-09-03

in later during the day and wants
to have a lunch that I know he
needs"
Mrs. Broadus watches her markets
carefully If a store in her neigh
borhood has better prices on certain
articles than the downtown stores
she goes to work with her arms
loaded with bundles.
Menu Making a Puzzle.
Making up my menu is some-
times regular Chinese puzzle" she
said. If fairly expensive meat is
called for. the vegetables must be
cheap enough to balance the budget
If the meat happens to be inexpen-
sive, she can buy more costly vege-
tables.
Sometimes I change the menus
four or five times day before they
fit" she declared.
Mrs. Broadus, whose experience in
preparing meals includes manage
ment of boarding houses and apart
ment cafeterias for period of years
declares that her clientele at the
Goodwill Industries is the finest she
has ever served. The butcher thinks
I'm cranky" she said, but they'll
have nothing but the best when I'm
serving the meals"
Shes proud also of her cafeteria
a redecorated basement room at the
headquarters at 1918 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV. which the Wom-
ems Guild has supplied with an
electric refrigerator, a steam table
coffee urn and a stove.
Clubs and organizations on a tou,
OF the Industries also are served
luncheons there from time to time
but Mrs. Broadus really seems to en-
joy the extra work.
They have wonderful luncheon
at just IS cents" she commented
Evening star., 1939-09-03

During the first six months this
year, A reports of receiving stolen
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Auto-RaiIer Is Given
Permission 10 End
Service Sept. 3
Commission Arronges
Alternate Transport
To Begin Sept. II

Permission to abandon service at
midnight, September 8, has been
granted to the Arlington & Fairfax
Auto Railroad Co. by the Virginia
Corporation Commission.
william F. Morian of Five Oaks,
Va, chairman Of the Fairfax Com
muters League, announced last night
he had received letter and copy
of the order allowing discontinue
ance of service from the commission.
A similar notice had been sent to
Herbert Williams of Vienna, direc-
tor of the auto railer line.
At the same time the commission
made arrangements to provide al
ternate service. In his letter to Mr.
Morian and Mr.. Williams, William
Meade Fletcher, chairman of the
Corporation Commission, stated the
commission has arranged with the
Washington, Virginia & Maryland
Coach Co., Inc, to begin service
over the Dunn Loring and Idylwood
roads and to increase its service to
Vienna, beginning the morning of
September H." Mr.. Fletcher also
expressed the hope this additional
bus service will help to a "consid-
cradle extent" to take care of the
inconvenience to the public by rea-
son of the auto railer discontinuing
service.
Climax Of Vigorous Fight.
Action of the State Corporation
Commission climaxes a vigorous
fight waged by patrons of the auto
railroad line in Fairfax County
through the Fairfax Commuters
League, which sought to have the
company provide service at least
until some substitute public trans
portation could be provided.
Two alternatives are still being
considered by the league-that local
interests might take over the por-
ton of the line between Fairfax
and West Falls Church, the area
that will be hardest hit by the sus-
pension of service, and that the
State Highway Commission take
over the right of way and convert
1t into a secondary highway. Be-
cause the highway department has
already approved its budget for the
current fiscal year, it was not be-
lleved anything can be done along
that line now.
1t is expected the abandonment
OF service will require the Fairfax
County School Board to make a
number of changes in school bus
routes almost at the beginning of
the new session. More than 100
pupils were transported to and
from schools last year on the auto
rail line.
Likewise, large number of resi-
dents employed in Washington will
be affected. Many have built homes
along the railroad and use it dailv
IN committing The auto-railer line
sought permission to suspend sery-
ice because of declining revenues.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Divorce Granted

ROCKVILLE, Md, Sept. 2 (Spe-
ciaD.-Judge Stedman Prescott has
signed decree in the Circuit Court
here granting to Mrs. Ramona
Pauley Harriss of Travilah an abso-
lutte divorce from Claiborne M. Har-
riss of Olney. Desertion was
charged. The two were married at
Elkton, September %, 1895, and have
no children, the court was told.
Evening star., 1939-09-03

gOOuS were maze, compared TO only
eight for the same period in 1898
Arrests were made for all crimes re-
ported in this category. ut would
appear" the report said, that this
indicates, in this particular field OF
criminal activity, greater efficiency
on the part of police in apprehend-
ing receivers of stolen goods, rather
than an actual increase in crime
itself"
Despite the increase in the num-
Der of crimes reported, arrests by
police were approximately the same
percentage of cases as during the
same period in 1888 The report
gave I'LL arrests in the 2.703 crimes
reported this year, or ALL per cent
compared to Alb per cent OF the
cases reported during the first six
months of 1888.
Technical arrests. which the asso-
citation has been interested in reduc-
ing, increased from is per cent OF
the arrests in proportion to the total
number of crimes reported during
the first six months of 1898 to So
per cent for the 1885 comparable
period. However, technical arrests
have been reduced from IA per cent
of all arrests made in 1886, the re-
port pointed out.
Indictment Percentage.
Nearly 7 per cent of such persons
arrested were convicted in Police
Court during the first six months
Of 1899, as compared to IA per cent
in 1888, 8.4 per cent in 1887 and {
per cent in 1886. This would appear
to be healthy sign, it was pointed
out, as it would indicate that cases
not disposed of in Police Court were
sent to the grand jury on felony
charges
Indictments were returned in 81
per cent of the cases presented te
the grand jury during the first SIX
months of the year, as compared te
95.2 per cent for the same period in
1888, 921 per cent in 1887 and 93.e
per cent in 1886
OF the I'LL arrests in types o1
crime followed by the association Gt
does not concern itself with reported
crimes of gambling, perjury, bribery
violation OF liquor taxing or mar.
cotlc laws except as they come un.
der special observation) 308 were
disposed of by Juvenile Court, 10;
by Police Court and 610 cases were
sent tn the GRAND illry
OF the 555 cases in which indict-
ments were returned during the six
month period surveyed by the asso-
citation, 378, or 679 per cent, entered
pleas of guilty or were found guilty
by a jury in District Court. Thirty
two cases were found not guilty, sc
were nolled and at the close of the
six-month period 81 cases were
awaiting trial.
Associations Usefulness.
With three criminal courts in
session for a greater portion of the
first six months of 1889" the report
said, ''speedier trials were afforded
accused persons in all felony cases.
OF the cases in which convictions
were obtained, rs, or 1913 per cent
were granted probation.
DR.. Nolan said study of parole
in the District, begun early in June
is expected to be completed before
the close of the year. A study o1
the jury system and its relation tc
the general administration of crimi-
nal justice is expected to be under.
taken early in the winter.
by continuous watchfulness ano
observation of practices in crimina
procedure, the report said, 1.-THE
Criminal Justice Association can be
an important factor in protecting
Washington citizens from unfore-
seen attacks by the criminal ele-
Evening star., 1939-09-03

Both on-inf1ammable.
Neither ordinary nor lightweight
helium will burn. The United
States has a good natural supply of
ordinary helium from the earth, but
little more prospect of obtaining the
lightweight element than any other
country.
Dirigibles such as the Akron and
the Macon, which used ordinary
he(ium but met with fireless dis
aster, each requiring $500 900 cubic
feet of lifting gas-an impossible
quantity, so far as present atom
smashing methods are concerned.
Hydrogen, the best litter of all, is
highly inf1ammable The hydrogen
filled German dirigible Hindenburg
burned spectacularly at Lakehurst,
N. j., May 7, 1887, after a trans
Atlantic crossing, bringing death to
So Of It's 81 passengers.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Apples Find Market
Near Jerusalem
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Sept. 2.
Berkeley County apples will find a
far-away market in TelAviv, near
Jerusalem, Palestine, this year, it
was disclosed today through infor-
nation that shipments of early ap-
piles have been made by two growers
from this area.
The market shares with Buenos
Aires the distinction of being the
most distant which local apples
reach.
Evening star., 1939-09-03

a. 3 eases closed 6y suicide of defendant
ca l case closed b suicide OF defendant.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-08

cept the principle that Roland
Hayes or Marian Anderson have
the same fight to sing classical
Italian or German songs as any
other offspring of the American
soil.
If it is appropriate for Negro
students to take the same courses
as white students, to study the
same iterature-if, we may add,
it is appropriate for white students
to sing Negro spirituals or to dance
Negro jazz, it would appear no less
appropriate for Negro actors to en-
act any play suitable for white
students. We do not limit the
latter to plays of student life, nor
to those of our own time and coun-
try. If we who were born 1000
miles from the Avon may claim to
be cultural inheritors of Shake
speare, we cannot deny those
among US of a different skin color
to that same inheritance.
Richard Hartshorne.