davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-05-22
Winning Contract

winning contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
Trump Force Helps DecIorer
South. Dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
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VOLTS
1852
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AAKJ72
1854
20
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The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
IA Pass INT %
81 Pass A. Pass
81 Pass Pass Pass
When defending against a suit
contract it is frequently good tactics
to shorten declarers trumps by
forcing him to ruff. This, however,
does not hold true when dummy has
four trumps, and declarer may &C
tually gain a trick by trumping re-
peatedly in his own hand. For ex-
ample, although South apparently
had three sure losers, he made his
optimistic f1ve-club contract in the
following manner:
West opened a diamond. East
won the first trick and returned the
suit. South ruffed with the ace of
clubs and led a small trump to
dummy, then trumped the remain
ing diamond with his club king. Next
declarer laid down the jack of clubs,
then entered dummy with the spade
queen. Dummy's two top trumps
were next played, on which South
discarded two of his three small
hearts. Now South was able to dis
card all but one of dummy's hearts
on his spade suit.
Forcing declarer to ruff in this
instance had produced the follow
Ing result: South had won two tricks
by trumping diamonds, dummy S
trumps produced four more. and the
f1ve-card spade suit had run the to-
tai up to II in spite of the fact that
the defense could have cashed three
tricks in top cards.
y X X
Saturday you were MerWin
Maier's partner and held:
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xxx
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The bidding:
Maier. Burnstone. You. Schenken.
"a Pass 2NT Pass
81 Pass 90
Answer-Your correct bid is four
spades. Your one no-trump bid has
shown your lack of high cards. Now,
since you not only have spade sup
port, but also satisfactory club
holding, you should encourage your
partner to bid more.
Score 100 per cent for four spades,
go per cent for three spades, 20 per
cent for five spades can overbid) i,
nothing for three no-trump or any
other.
Question No. 139.
Howard Schenken is your partner.
Evening star., 1939-05-22
BY Fontuine Fox

The bidding:
You. Jacoby. Schenken. Burnstone
IA "a Pass Pass
CD
What do you bid? (Anwser TO-
morrow
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

investigating unAmercan activities
presidential ambitions
at job United
patriotism better condition
borrowing
and
finance
profs
will bill Don't optimistic
like addng
profiteers
Representative Mississippi
to
between Virginia Florida.
between the minimum provided by and the
facilities"
section
third Al
forth with
workers by the BUT THE FUNNY
WORKERS
o.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
LITTLE ROCK GETS
STAMPS IN 8 DAYS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-FP)-In the
record time of three days, Little Rock
rushed through preliminaries and be-
came the goth city to be included in
the federal food stamp for distribut-
ing surplus commodities.
Learning that James S. Allen, head
of the plan and assistant to the presi-
dent of the federal surplus commodi-
ties corporation was in Memphis, city
officials called a meeting of represen-
tative citizens and invited Allen to
attend. Labor leaders, welfare officials
and social agencies Immediately en-
dorsed the project, which will bring
an estimated 100000 year additional
income to Pulaski county. The day
after the meeting, Sec. Of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace announced that the
county's application had been accepted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
Educational Coop
Publishing Go.
Prints 1.-THE Voice

The Educational Cooperative Pub
fishing company contract printers Of
The Peoples Voice for The Peoples
Voice Publishing Co., was organized
in March 1887 1t is an organization
which is unique in many respects
With the exception of less than %, all
of its approximately 700 individual
stockholders are members of organ
lied labor or members of the Farmers
Union. In addition to the Individual
stockholders there are more than so
Labor and Farmers Union organiza-
tions which are stockholders
The Educational Cooperative Pub
fishing Company owns four desirable
city lots across the street from the
State Capitol building in Helena, its
own building ON this property and a
complete printing plant; all free OF
every cent of Indebtedness.
Since the company opened its plant
in October 1898, it has been engaged
in the business of commercial job
printing, the bulk of its business ac-
cruing from the more than one hum
dred other cooperative business insti-
tutions in the state which like itself
are organized as true co-operatiyes
under the cooperative association law
of the state. With the addition of the
printing of The Peoples Voice and
the other printing required by the
Peoples Voice Publishing company,
the Coop Publishing company will be
doing very creditable volume of
business.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
BIG OIL COS. CON-
TR0L INDUSTRY

AS part of its investigation of the
oil industry. the Monopoly Committee
has just disclosed that Rockefeller
interests still dominate the industry
| OF II major companies studied, the
Rockefeller family and its foundations
and institutions control eight. In ad.
dition to the four Standard Oil com
panies, the Rockefellefs control So
cony Vacuum, Ohio Oil, Atlantic Re
| filming, Consolidated and Continental
Of the other nine companies, the
MELONS control Gulf, Royal Dutch
owns the Shell Union Oil and to
gether with other Dutch interests has
an interest in Cities Service. Tide
Water Associated, Continental Oil
and Phillips Petroleum. The Pew
family holds the Sun Oil Co.
Skelly Oil Co.'S largest stakeholder
is the Mission Corp which is also
the largest holder of Tide Water As
ISOLATED. The Pure Oil Co. and Texas
Corp. are both tightly controlled,
though their management is under
groups other than those already
listed.
Testimony shows that these major
oil companies have been repeatedly
accused of "totalitarianism" and price
fixing by independent oil companies
and retail gasoline dealers. The small
oil companies are finding it more and
more difficult to secure outlets for
their products Even when they can
get outlets the big companies, Stand
ard Oil being cited especially, have
successfully controlled retail prices
charged for independent products by
means of varied strong-arm methods.
Independent oil producers far from
the main, consumption centers are
particularly dependent on pipeline ia
cilities, and the main trunk pipelines
are controlled by few large COM
panies.
The pipeline operations Of the big
oil companies have shown continuous
and high returns on investments, ac-
cording to evidence presented to the
TNEC. DR.. John Ise of the Univer-
sity of Kansas, testifying before the
TNEC, stated that the major COM
panies made their largest earnings in
those departments in which monop
oily position is most clearly indicated.
Earnings were largest in the pipeline
and very high also on
the refining divisions of the COM
panies.
Wendall Berge Of the department
of justice, has. pointed out that large,
oil companies owning ma
jor pipelines have an advantage over
which the commodities
clause in the Transportation Act has
denied to the railroads and urged that
such restrictions be extended to pipe
line operations of the big oil COM
panies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
N. L. R. Board
Issues Orders

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-The NLRB
here announced orders, based upon
stipulations, directing three Provi-
dence, R. l., automobile dealers to bar
gain individually, upon request, with
International Association of Machin-
lists (AFL) as the exclusive collective
bargaining agent of their employees.
Observation-Disclosures NLRB
here announced that a secret ballot
election would be held as soon as con-
venient among radio telegraphists Of
Cities Service Oil Co., of New York
city, to determine whether they desire
to be represented by Commercial Tele-
graphers' Union, Marine Division
(AFL), by Marine Division, American
Communications Assn. (CIO). or by
neither.
WASHINGTON.-FP)-The NLRB
here announced certification of United
Aircraft Welders of America (unaffili-
ated) as the sole collective bargain
ing agency selected by majority of
the employees of Douglas Aircraft Co.,
Inc, Santa Monica, Calf, who are.
engaged more than 500 of their work
ing time as oxy-acetylene, oxy-hydro-
gen, and electric arc welders employed
to do fusion welding, as gas torch
cutters, and as helpers and apprentice
Welders.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06

These charges that the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company owns these
papers might be difficult to prove IN
a court of law with the evidence at
hand. Nor is it of supreme import
ance whether the A. G. M. company
alone owns them or if the ownership
or control rests in the hands of this
company and some other great indus
try or group controlling great re-
sources of capital. The feature OF
paramount Importance to the people
of Montana is that these papers could
not have been published for several
years past if they had been operated
by companies of limited capital with
out having resources in the back
ground, of apparently unlimited
means, or unless the extent of their
credit responsibility had no limit.
This being the case, the conclusion
must be that they are being operated
at a tremendous loss, not as service
to the people of the state, but for the
purpose of INFLUENCING pubic
opinion for the benefit of private IN
terests, which must represent the
large corporations of the state. Ger
tainly, the large corporations OF the
state have never appeared unduly con-
cerned about the welfare of the great
mass of the people.
The annual reports of the corpora
lions which publish these papers,
show clearly that they could not have
operated for several years past, had
they been compelled to operate as any
ordinary business institution has 10
ODerate. Below is set forth the con-
dition of some of these companies,
publishing daily papers and the con-
illusions drawn, may be left to the
judgment of the people of Montana.
The company which publishes the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
Peoples Voice
Published by a
New Company

The Peoples Voice which makes
it's bow to the public with this, its
first issue, is published by The Peo-
pies Voice Publishing Co., a domestic
corporation, in which the Educational
Cooperative Publishing Co. has pur-
chased stock sufficient to have con-
trolling interest.
A contract with the Educational
Cooperative Publishing company has
been executed by the new company
under the terms of which the Coop
Publishing company prints the Peo-
pies Voice and will do all of the
other necessary printing for the new
corporation at prevailing commercial
rates for the classes of printing re-
CURED.
The directors and officers of the
Peoples Voice Publishing Co. are:
w. S. Good, Great Falls, president;
Howard NJ Lyman, Great Falls, vice
president; j. B. Bentley, Helena, sec
retary-treasurer The offices of the
new company are in the building of
the Educational Cooperative Publish
ing company at 1905 Jockey Street,
Helena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06

Montana Record Herald, evening pa
per in Helena in its report for 1888
shows that it has a paid in capital
of $38,945. THE AMOUNT OF Elk
listing DEBTS OF THE CORPORA
TION AT THE TIME OF THE RE
PORT WAS $313,69S.27.
The Independent Publishing Com
pany, publishers of the Helena Daily
Independent, on it's annual report for
1888, showed paid in capital of 5000
and DEBTS AMOUNTING TO $301,-
904.6S. 1t is interesting to note that
in its report for 1887, the amount of
Indebtedness was $7,922.32 more than
that reported for 1888, or total of
$309,S27. The company thus reduced
it's Indebtedness during 1885, In it's
report for 1886, it reported debts of
$326,050.26 Thus in 1887, it's indebt-
edness was reduced $16,223.26 Bust
ness must be picking up. The suspic-
ion however arises, that ''It's just a
matter of bookkeeping anyhow"
The Standard Publishing Company,
publishers of the Montana Standard
Butte morning paper, showed a CAPT
tai of 100000 paid in and DEBTS
AMOUNTING TO $433,284.56.
In the directorate of the Standard
Publishing Company we find some
connections in it's personnel with the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company,
with D. Gay Stivers and K B. Frazer,
employees of the A. c. NJ, secretary
and treasurer, respectively, of the pub
fishing company.
The Post Publishing Company, pub
Usher of the Butte Post shows paid
in capital of $124,500 and debts at
the end of 1888 of $S9,716.23. John
E. Corette, said to be an Anaconda
Copper Mining Company attorney is
on the Post board of directors. In
(Continued ON Page Threat
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
1000 Get Electricity
Daily From REA

! WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Power
lines financed by the Rural Electrifi-
cation Administration are going into
service at the rate of approximately
! $50 miles each working day, thus
bringing electric service daily within
the reach of about 1000 additional
farm families and other rural users to
whom it's benefits were never before
available" according to the REA.
These figures are contained in a
survey of construction progress re-
leased by REA Administrator Harry
| Slattery Reports submitted to REA
by private contracting firms building
the government-financed lines show
that during the last three weeks for
which reports are available 8,402 miles
were completed, an average of more
than $50 miles a day. Last week was
the 18th consecutive week in which
completed miles Appropriated $500.
An average of $50 miles per day has
been maintained since last spring and
the construction pace has been in
creasing steadily.
At the present rate, all construction
now approved would be completed in
February, 1910. Projects for which al
lotments have been approved and
which are being prepared for construc-
ton would require another three or
four months to complete. Winter
weather conditions, of course, will
cause a considerable slowing down in
the rate of construction
REA loans for line construction,
most of which have gone to farmers
co-operatives, cover the full cost of
construction and initial operation. Con-
struction contracts are awarded by
local borrowers to private contract
ing firms The loans are to be amor
tized over a 25-year period from the
power systems revenue from sales of
energy
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06

Dear Cap:
So you're sat it, again All | cal
say is that you are glutton 10
punishment when it involves trying
to reorganize this fearful and wonder
full social system Of ours. Don't you
ever get tired and don't you ever ge
hungry?
It's sometime since you favored
me with a letter and when l though
of you back in Montana, | had pic
ture of you as having reformed; be
come a stodgy and respectable cltl
zen and conforming to established
conventions. Now l find that you are
still practicing proselyticism for 1.-THE
better day" we so hopefully looked
forward to so many years ago.
So you want me to write column
for your Vox Populus? | suppose
should feel flattered and maybe l &c
feel some qualification in having this
evidence that you think | might be
capable of contributing anything to
your readers-the whole dozen OF EN-
more or less. Seriously, Cap, | don't
know if I can dish out anything that
will be of particular interest for the
paper to carry. But, as you nave
asked for it, I'm willing to scrlDple
something for you once in a while.
I may even get around to doing IL
every week or two And when what
write doesn't suit your refined taste,
don't bother to send it back. 1t prob
ably won't be worth anything, anyhow.
You never were very receptive to adj
vice. SO I'm sure this good effort OF
1Ct
up against that hard pan streak OF
obstinacy which you think is your
"principle" and conviction" and bounce
clear back out of reach. Anyhow, I'm
going to dish out some advice to you;
like it or lump it. Here it is:
Don't be too cussed serious.
Leaven your "trenchant editorials
with a little humor if you can dig any
out of your makeup. I believe they
will go over better. And don't get too
blinking erudite. Remember and have
a little pity on an old friend If on no
one else, because I'll feel it moral
duty to try to read them.
Also don't let your Viking gorge
rise to the boiling point in writing
your stories of the infamy and in
iauities of the social and political con-
ditions in your fair and great state
Remember too, that your blood pres
sure can't stand it. In other and clear
err words; be your age, and don't try
to tear things apart all at once. (Same
to you, Editor.)
I could give you lot more OF
good advice, but as another great
writer beside myself, once said-ap-
oximately-"why waste your sweet
ness on the desert air." | know it IS
bootless.
Well, old wrangler, I was glad to
hear from you, and the colyum will be
forthcoming more or less regularly
And may the Lord have mercy on
your SOUL
Regards to your long-suffering wife
and boys Some for yourself.
Avec lie plus meilleurs antilles,
SAM.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
JERSEY JUDGE fines
UNI0MISTS DESPITE
EMPLOYERS PLEA

JERSEY CITY.-FP)-Another an
ti-labor decision was hung up by the
notorious New Jersey chancery court,
when, in spite of the employers
wishes, Vice Chancellor James F.
Fielder imposed $50 fines on six mem
bers Of the American Newspaper
Guild (CIO) for contempt. They were
found guilty of violating an injunction
by using sound truck in a strike
against The Bayonne IN. j. Times
two years ago.
All six returned to work in March
1888 when the paper signed an ANG
contract. Fielder ordered the fines
despite joint suggestion by union
and company attorneys that for the
benefit of future harmonious re-
lationships" no sentence be imposed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
Billion Dollar Club
Controls Nearly
Third u. S. Value

The control by 2S mastodontic cor.
porations of about one-third of the
total valuation of the entire country
is condition which carries in 1t a
direct threat to democracy, in the
implications of absolute economic con-
troll of these aggregations of capital
over the lives of hundreds of thou
sands of employees and indirect con-
troll over practically all of the people
of the country. This control un-
doubtedly dictates the policies of gov
ernments and against this tremendous
economic power only one power can
prevail and bring about any change;
the power of mass public opinion.
Below is the list of the members
of this "Billion Dollar Club:
Assets as of
Company Dec. 81, 1888
Bell Telephone System $5,119,962,915
Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company ......-......- 4,942,90O,4lf
Prudential life Insurance
Company .......................... $500, 1864
New York Life Insur-
ance Company .............. 2,647,454,712
Chase National Bank ...... 2,523,167, 177
Pennsylvania Railroad :. 1922, 40S,356
Equitable Life Assur-
ance Company -.---...-...,- 2,260, 9l3,l49
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey .........-.....- 2,044, 635,257
National City Bank of
New York ...................... zoos, 1S2,64O
Guaranty Trust Com
pany New York; ........ 1,941, 765, 661
Southern Pacific Rail
road ...-........................ 1856, 149,5 $50
New York Central Rail-
road ............................ 1926, $3.50, 466
United States Steel Cor
poration ...,...................... 1,71I27OOO6
General Motors Corpora
ton ,0lz,zz9
Bank of America N. T.
S. A. including Bank
Of America ..,.,,.............. 1,574,721,67O
Mutual Life Insurance
Co., N. Y. ..................... 1899, 427,4 96
Continental Illinois Bank
and Trust Co. ............ 1856, 357, 129
Edison ..-.... 1855, 558,4S8
Atchison Topeka & San
ia Fe Railway ...-..-..-..,. 1,297744,922
Mutual
Life Insurance, Mil
waukee .............,..........,. 1888, 191, 69S
Commonwealth & South
ern Corporation ............ 1,213,S66,439
Union Pacific Railroad. 1,210,35782l
Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road ............................. 1903, 6SS,1S1
Cities Service Corpora
ton ............................. 1880, O6S,7O3
Bankers Trust Company 1,043, 469,94l
Associated Gas e Elec-
trio Company ...........-...- 1,041, 93S,965 |
Total Assets ..............-$ 51 ,641 ,999,6l7
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
LABOR UNIONS GIVING
PEOPLES VOICE DANCE

Sponsored by the Butte Miners I'm
ion and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Butte Miners Union, dance is being
advertised for January 27, 1910, at the
Miners Union hall in Butte. The
dance is peoples Voice" dance,
and each ticket of admittance will
carry with it six months subscrip-
ton to the publication.
The ticket sale for the dance will
be under way Immediately and rec
ord sale is anticipated.
The music will be by the McNa-
mara orchestra and as the Union and
it's auxiliary are noted for staging en-
joyable affairs, those attending arc as
sured of a fine time.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06

Democracy Cannot Endure Un-
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
CONTROL OF MANY DAT
papers BY BIG BUSINE!l,
Detrimental TO PUBL j

Editorial Policies of the Montana Daily Papers, Clear
roed by the Corporate Interests Reflect the Apparent Pur
Those Interests To Be To Publish Only News Which
Big and the Editorials Generally When Not
Covering Some Inconsequentia Trivial Subject Are Bat
antly Reactonary in Tone.
Charges have been repeatedly made that the Anaconda Cop
Mining Company controls most of the daily Mon
tana and have been denied by the
pany his book "Americas 60 Families, Lundberg clas
sies the company of the publishers
of the country credtng the Anaconda with ownership of
eight of the daily papers of the state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-06
ON THE MARGIN

Editors Note: A letter to an old
friend asking him to write column
for The Peoples Voice, brought the
reply beloW:)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-01

properties. either through right
of-wsy grants or eolonlzing. and
logging II off ruthlessly. they ex-
peet 10 clean Up a fortune, even
though their work will devastate
the range land and ruin the cat
tlemen of the area.
To halt the invasion oBrien and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-01

huge tracts Of timber. oBtaen se,s
out 10 secure evidence 81 their
misdeeds. and this leads him and
the girl journalist into wel,er
OF difficulties and high adventure.
As in his ether recent pictures
o'Brien has the lanky Chill Wills
; as his faithful pal. and Marjorie
Reynolds plays the feminine lead.
Robert Fake. Guy Usher, Morgan
Wallace, Frank Hagncy, Earl
Dwire and other woll-known play.
ers are In the cast Of the Rko
Radio production. which WAS d.
rccted by David Howard.
Sharing the screen viii be seen
streets of Missing Men, featur-
ing Charles Bickford.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-01
RICHES TO RAGS

Anna Neagle, talented star OF
RKO Radios Nurse Edith Cavell,"
forsakes the extrayagant gowns
and robes she wore in Victoria
the Great" and Queen OF Des-
tinyp for drab nurse uniforms in
her current vehicle.