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Evening star., 1940-04-01
Weather Report
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The Bureau
District of Coumba-Pay slightly colder tonight with mini
ABOUT 50 degrees
neh. gene north winds tonight shifting northeast
Mayland-Parly cloudy slightly
tonight tomorrow increasing oudiness
w."
Vrgnia-Party cloudy slightly east portions
tonight coudne in south and
extreme portions " " ~ ~
West Vrgna-Pay cloudy slightly portions
tonight; tomorrow cloudy followed ~ ~
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Chicken Dinner Listed

The annual spring chicken din
ner OF Ruth Chapter, o. E. s., will
be served Thursday in the Masonic
Hall, Hyattsville, Md. Chairman OF
the Dinner Committee is Mrs. M
Virginia Thompson.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Omagh. Northern Ireland. had "a
arrests Ia one day for ignoring
blackout regulations.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
River ReBort.

River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
Great Falls today
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Report for Last ~ Hours

Record for Last - Hours.
tFrom noon Yesterday 10 noon today
Hisheat, 10. 5:45 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. 50
Lowest. AZ. $50 am. today, Year
AGO, AZ.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hisheat, 10. on March 81.
Lowest. 7, on January 2a.
Humidity for Last - Aeurs.
Nrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hishest, 20 Der cent. At 1880 Pm.
lowest, 80 per cent. At 7:so pm. yes
Tide Tables
(Furnishsd BY United States Coast
and Geodetie Survey
Today Tomorrow
Hieh 3:04 am. 400 A. m
Low --- a:b2 an. 1850 q, m
Hish ----------- ,3:So pm ,44::;;s pm
The Sun and Neon
Sun today 5:54 6:a1
Sun tomorrow - 5:52 n:3s
Moen. today a:2Aa,m 1:O1 pm
Avtonobiis LIGHTS must Be- turned On
ene-haH hour after sunset
Evening star., 1940-04-01

monthly precipitation in inches IN the
Capltal tcurrent month 10 datel,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Bankers Fight On
Utility Act Revealed

WASHINGTON. = OPP A flash
back to the 1885 days when congress
was being flooded with kilograms
from widows and orphans" urging
members to vote against proposed
legislation regulating utilities was
provided here recently by the Tenn
porary National Economic committee.
Into the record went a telegram,
dated February %, 1885, from George
Lieb, director of Blyth C Co.,
banking firm, to B. W. Ford, another
official of the firm.
The telegram read: "Apropos our
conversation yesterday, Lbring Hoover
in Washington with Fogarty and other
utility executives in fight on Rayburn
bill.
plan now is to have another bill
introduced and then Blyth e Co. will
Immediately organize (stock and
bond) dealers of country to approach
people to whom they have sold Sc
curities to wire their senators and
representatives in favor of this new
bill.
Believe we can put $4,000 tele-
grams In Washington within 20 days
by this method Sullivan & Cromwell
(prominent New York law firm) pre-
pairing our letters to dealers etc. and
we (are) going to it tooth and nail.
Utilities have been our best friends
and it is time for us to give them
complete support"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
SlS,OOO,OOO Wage
Grab Attacked
In Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (FP)-Smarting
under the enactment of u % tax
on wages enacted by the city's re-
dictionary republican administration,
organized labor struck back December
% with the filing of taxpayers bill
in equity court by 50-year-old widow,
Mrs. Jenny Dole, seeking to restrain
the city from collection and enforce
ment of the ordinance.
Mrs. Dole, who owns her own home,
is member of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers (CIO), and is en-
ployed in shirt factory where, be-
cause of short time, she earns about
$500 a year. From incomes such as
hers the republican administration ex-
poets to collect s18,OOO,OO0 a year to
balance the budget.
The bill was filed through Gilbert
Kraus, attorney for the ACW's Joint
Board, and Isadore Katz, general coun-
sci of both the American Federation
of Hosiery Workers and the Textile
Workers Union (both CIO). The
Philadelphia CLIO Council is expected
to join the suit, as are ALL unions
and other wage earners.
"This tax takes bread from workers
and permits well-heeled gamblers,
stock market spectators and rich
coupon clippers to go unmolested,"
Katz and Kraus said in a statement.
even Uncle Sam sees that he gets
his share Of the fat rolls of the gam
bier and speculator.
1--WE are attacking the measure on
several general grounds as inequitable
and discriminatory
"First, the ordinance permits the
employer to collect the tax from the
workers daily, weekly or monthly
wage. 1t contains nothing to force
the employer to pay the collected
taxes to the city He might use the
funds for his business.
Second, should an employer go
bankrupt or in some other manner
fail to pay the taxes to the city, the
ordinance holds the worker liable.
Third, while the professional man
is permitted to make deductions from
income for expenses and the commits
sion salesman may subtract certain
for gasoline and travelling,
The skilled mechanic may not obtain
credit for his costly tool purchases,
and the mill worker is denied the
tight to check off carfare."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
iva SHOWS PROFIT
FOR OPERATION

WASHINGTON-FP)-Power OPP
erations of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority in the IL months ending June
80 produced a net income of $1,479,000
giving the IVA a net income of $780,
900 for its six years operations, the
authority declared in its annual re-
port to congress.
The demand for power in the low
rate IVA area, the report said, has
grown more than twice as rapidly as
in the United States as a whole. The
amount of power generated in the
iva area was $3.50 above that gen
Grated in the peak year of 1929. Use
of coal in generating plants doubled
in the area over 1929.
Residential consumers of IVA pow
er used an average Of 1,179 kilowatt
hours each during the year at an aver
age price of 2.14 cents per kilowatt
hour. The national average was about
$50 XVIII. at an average price of 4.21
cents per XVIII.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Ohio Cities Seen
AS Fertile Soil
For Fascism

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - (FP) -
Cleveland and Toledo are soils in
the U. S. from which fascism can
grow" DR.. Halford e. Luccock of
Yale Divinity School, who is listed as
one of the 10 outstanding preachers
of the country, warned the Bridge
port Community Forum.
"Fascism came to Germany through
hunger and unemployment" he de-
clared, pointing to the folly of per-
hitting such welfare mess to exist
while the nation spends billions for
ornaments.
Luccock decried the "capitalizing of
indignation against Russia, which is
being used against about every liberal,
progressive movement in the U. s."
He cited current attacks on consumer
agencies by the Dies committee as
an example.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
PROFESSORS GROUP
PLACES UNIVERSITY
ON CENSURED LIST

New Orleans, Dec. 28.-(AP)-The
American Association of University
Professors in annual meeting here to.
day placed five universities and col
leges on the censured list for denial
of academic freedom" to professors.
The action was taken on report
submitted by the committee of AGA
demic freedom, of which Dr. w. T.
Laprade of Duke university is chair
man.
The institutions listed were West
Chester State Teachers college of
Pennsylvania, the University of Ten
nessee, Montana State University, St.
Louis (Missouri) university and John
B. Stetson university in Florida.
The censure, DR.. Laprade said, con-
sists of publishing the name of the
college or university in bulletins for
the information of all.
1t is invoked, he added, for the re-
puted denial of the right of profess
serial freedom of research and
thought.
In a prominent part of the SUN
DAY MISSOULIAN, December 81,
there appeared this long account. In
the account "The Campus" must be
either President Simmons or one of
the several persons Subject to hire
and fire by him) who writes the Uni
versity news. The campus is dark
and deserted by faculty and students
this holiday time. 1t is best to as
sumo that Campus Explains means
simmons Explains" 1t follows:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Committee Finds
Picture-Taking
Nazi Propagandist

WASHINGTON. = OPP - Charges
that nazi propagandist toured the
country in specially equipped Mer-
cedes automobile trying to take mo-
ton pictures of specialized industrial
plants" featured a report of the house
committee allegedly investigating I'M
American activities here.
The report was made public on the
eve of a congressional session that
will decide whether the committee,
headed by Rep. Martin Dies d., Tex)
is to continue
Put out as the result of the COM
mittee's own investigation, the report
appeared to be compilation of such
material as the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation was willing to give to the
committee and newspaper clippings.
Colin Ross was named as the nazi
agent and his travels through the
country were described through news
paper reports. Ross is registered as
nazi agent at the state department
but the committee report contended
that Ross had not disclosed the full
extent of his activities.
Films taken by Ross were sent to
the Agfa Film Co. in Los Angeles for
developing, the report declared, and
federal agents viewed them secretly
before they were delivered to Ross.
"These films" the report said, "por-
trayed such scenes as Negroes living
in huts in the south, women working
in cotton mills and cigarette factories
in North Carolina nd Indians living in
small tepees. There were also a num-
Der of prints made showing in detail
cities like Pittsburgh and Jersey City
in which factory sites and bridges
were indicated"
Quoted was an excerpt from a So
ciety column in Chicago American of
January 4, 1899 1t read, 1.-THE Chas
H. Swifts, VIM II. Mites, Dallas b.
Phemisters, and the E. V. l.. Browns,
all of whom have extended the hos
pitality of their tables to the visiting
nazi propaganda, Colin Ross, and to
Mrs. Ross, have been choosing their
dinner guests with care on the nights
they entertained the ROSES.
"Anti-nazi sentiment being what it
is, not every one can be trusted to
stay on an even keel conversationally
even on such social occasions as a
dinner party"
Ross, some of whose activities were
described by Federated Press over a
year ago, left the country on Japa-
nese steamer on March IT, 1899, the
committee reported. The committee
has been in operation since the early
part of 1888.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. l. HARRIS

There are "patrioteers" who would
like to make our Bill Of Rights just
a scrap of paper.
A certain cigar company, in paying
restitution of 100000 to it's workers
for violation of the Wage-Hour act,
informed it's employees that the COM
pany was presenting them the money
as ga Christmas present.
Nineteen-F Forty
at Shall Not Happen Here"
They say at Can't Happen Here"
but
The depression, now 10 years old,
is still our unwanted guest.
The nightmare of insecurity con-
tinues to haunt great masses OF our
citizens.
Between 10 and ~ million able and
willing workers are vainly pleading
for an opportunity to perform useful
labor
"Not Wanted" reads the sign which
daily stares 100000 unemployed
youths in the face.
Farmers till the soil and SOW that
others may reap-and their farms still
belong to the mortgage holders.
Scurvy, pellagra, and ricketts, abound
in sharecroppers' homes, where stark
hunger stalks.
Millions of our citizens live in YER
min-infested, rodent-ridden novels, I'M
fit for habitation by either man or
beast.
Needed professional services are
still beyond the reach of upwards OF
a third of our population.
The relief crisis in Cleveland
reached its peak at time when the
city's great industries were enjoying
war boom.
In Minneapolis they are convicting
and sentencing honest workers who
had the temerity to strike against the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Capitol Corridor
Chatter
Dxr JhKE
By JAKE

Can you imagine a fellow having
/ to work the day after New Year
celebration? There ought to be law
against it. There had just as well
| be anyhow, for all the work that gets
done.
| There are lot of state employees
that tell the truth anyhow. At least
a dozen of them answered truthfully
I'm sure, when asked them what
they knew that was new and startling.
The sum of their total knowledge, ex-
pressed in varying degrees of force
| full language was-nothing. So there
| it is. l think I'll take out member
ship in their fraternity. l can qualify
too.
Well, last week had a scoop. This
week all | have is an unconfirmed
rumor as a sort of follow up, that
Burke Clements has already resigned
his job as main squeeze in the indus
trial accident board. If he has, the
governor is the only one knows any
thing about it. These rumor peddlers
have it that Clements is going to get
w hCClCl ClCSlCu pl ColuCnt anu thCh
he'll get Hulls or Farley's job. /
think we can call that elevating the
sights for long distance shooting.
The letter that / spoke about last
week had something in it that | didn't
like very well, and thought I'd better
not mention it before | checked up
to see if it wasn't a typographical
error something. 1t said that Wheel
er's candidacy would appeal to pro-
gressives and conservatives both. Now
no one can tell me that Wheeler is
getting set to be fence-rider. I'm
sure he had enough of radicals long
time ago and is settled down to be
he is standing in with these long
haired radicals and communists, just
ask one of them, and watch him boil
and start hunting soap box. Seems
like these birds got to have one of
them before they can really express
themselves. So you can just rest easy
about Wheeler and those wild-eyed
reds. And it won't bother him any
either, as long as we safe and sane
ones who know who provides all the
jobs and keeps these communists
where they belong, are for him.
But about this rumor about Glenn
ents: If he had any ordinary kind of
a job, he'd probably have to quit it
if he's going out over the state and
organize for Wheeler and his own job !
as postmaster general or secretary of !
state. But, of course, these big state
jobs don't seem to take all fellows |
time. The bigger the job, the less
time it takes, it seems like. So he |
can probably squeeze in about three |
weeks. campaigning and put in one
week on the state job, or something |
ike that. There might be fellows |
hat think he should put in regular |
hours and days on his state job, but |
hats just these low-lifes' trouble.
They haven't any conception Of all the
.hings involved in the job of a big |
executive like Clements. AS matter
If fact, his job is so big that the other
members of the industrial accident |
Continued. on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

of Professor Phillips was taken up
with University authorities by this
committee, says statement from the
campus.
| The committee, composed of DR.. A.
j. Carlson of the University of Chi
cago and Professor Henry Rottschaef-
| fer of the University of Minnesota
came to the campus in answer to a
request for investigation sent in over
a year ago by DR.. w. P. Clark, pro-
fessor of Latin and former president
Of the local A. A. U. P. chapter The
investigators spent three days at the
University and one in Helena where
they announced tentative findings"
before the September meeting of the
state board of education.
The committee at that time recon-
mended as it's tentative decision that
DR.. Phillips should be reinstated. This
decision, the committee said, was
based on the Character of the former
history professor, the circumstances
at the time of his dismissal, and the
credibility Of witnesses" The COM
mittee also said that it had not fully
digested the evidence" and had not
yet interviewed all of the witnesses.
Wins SANDER Suit
DR.. Phillips resigned from the fac
ulty October 1, 1887, and filed suit
for SANDER against the brother-in-law
of a WPA worker who had accused
him of assault. Two trials of the
case were held, and the second jury
awarded DR.. Phillips the 81 damages
he sought. Subsequently he pushed
his request to the board for permits
sion to withdraw his 1887 resignation
and resume his former duties.
The faculty service committee of
the University, consisting of acting
Dean David Mason of the school of
law, DR.. G. D. Shallenberger, chair
man of the department of physics, and
Professor Anne Plat of the home eco
nomics department, spent five weeks
in the late summer of 1888 investigat- |
ing the matter, and failed to recon-
mend Dr. Phillips reinstatement On |
IL, 1888, President George |
Finlay Simmons recommended that |
Dr. Phillips petition to the state |
board of education for permission to |
withdraw his resignation be refused, |
stating: II have carefully considered
this report submitted to me, together
with facts that have come to my
as to the effectiveness of
his investigation. / have also given
thought to the welfare
If the institution and the viewpoint
If parents and students, as well as
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
ACTORS STUDY
wage INCREASES,
Demand THEATER

NEW YORK (FP) A resolution
approving a $40 weekly increase in
the actors minimum wage, which is
now $40, and one urging united
campaign for establishment of gov
ernment-subsidized theater to relieve
unemployment in the industry were
adopted at the quarterly meeting of
Actors Equity Assn (AFL).
The wage increase proposal will be
studied by the unions minimum wage
committee before being submitted to
managers.
Formation of one big union in the
actors field was discussed. No ac-
ton will be taken until Bernard L.
Refs, accountant named by the Asso-
ciated Actors & Artistes (AFL actors
parent organization), submits his sur
vey on the practicability of the plan.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

safely be assumed that reports made
by them are unassailable in so far as
compliance with all the laws of this
state are concerned. The entire pur-
pose of this effort is to bring to you
some realization of the manner in
which the resources of the state are
being exploited, with the final benefits
accruing to corporations whose des-
TIMES are in the hands of people in
Wall Street. Must we continue to
permit this exploitation because we
are so incredibly stupid that we are
ready to hand over our natural herit-
ages to this exploiting gentry without
receiving any return?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
CAMPUS EXPLAINS
A. A. u. p. ACTION
AT NEW ORLEANS
Only Question of Phillips Reinstate-
ment Was Taken Up, Says
Statement.

The American Association of Uni
versity Professors, meeting this week
in New Orleans, voted to add Mon
tana State University to its list of
institutions which are censured be-
cause of alleged violations of academ-
ic freedom and tenure. The action
was taken on the recommendation of
a two-man committee which spent sew
eral days on the campus in Septem-
Der investigating the claims for rein
statement of DR.. Paul G. Phillips. No
question other than the reinstatement
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

Ownership of the Glacier Production Company
of the largest oil and development companies
plotting the of Montana is stated in the annual
port for 1888 of the Montana Power Company but the report
of the oil company filed compliance with the
governing the operation of foreign corporations state
lists only individuals stockholders.
Some we'll of officers in the Montana Power
Company listed stockholders in the oil company among
them being F. M Kerr president and F. w Bird as vice
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
ORDERED TO DESIST

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-The NLRB
here ordered Omaha e Council Bluffs
Street Railway Co, Omaha, Neb., to
post conspicuous notices in all its car
barns stating that it will cease inter
fering with its employees in the exer-
else of their rights to seif-organiza-
ton, and to form, join, or assist a
labor organization of their own choos-
ing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
CONCERN OvEk : i 1 i;;;;' ,,,,,., Of
AAUP BY SIMMONS BRINGS
STORY FROM campus"
With the Campus Practically Deserted Over
Holidays, Administration of University Re-
leases Story in Daily Missoulian, Corpora
ton Press, Purporting to Represent Stu
dent Opinion.

Note If the reader will carefully through the following
matter he will know good deal about the things
done these days-and nghsat the State University
where Dr. George Fnlay Simmons president Many people
find it hard to clear understanding of the University sit
uation. this is because Dr. Simmons kind
Montana University circles How pausby he
twist the facts is apparent in what follows.
we-hdden part of the Daily Muscular Friday
cember 49, there occurred the following newstem (Ths
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
OWNERSHIP OF GLACIER
PRODUCTION GO. IS NOT
CLEAR, STATE RECORDS

In Reports of Foreign Corporations Doing
Business in Montana, Company Appears to
Be Owned by Some Private individuals But
Montana Power Company Claims Owner
ship or Control in Its Annual Report.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

nefarious (Woodrum) WPA bill, as
though they are common criminals.
Growth of monopoly business con-
tinues to take its toll of small, indie
pendent business, destroying free, pri-
vate enterprise.
Industry has let it be known that,
through mass production and in
creased efficiency in machinery, it
can greatly increase its output with
out any appreciate increase in en-
ployment.
Economists are at a loss to deter
mine whether unemployment is a
chronic ailment of the present social
and economic system.
And the United States Chamber of
Commerce, the National Association of
Manufacturers, and the Republican
party are plotting to take away from
the common folks even that small
measure of protection which their
government now gives them.
All of which would seem to make,
ut Can't Happen Here" just bit
too optimistic. Perhaps it would be
more sensible to make it read, at
NOT HAPPEN HERE"
]. B. Matthews, director of re-
search for the house committee in
vestigating un-American activities,
believes that chain stores present
IAN epic story of typical American
business initiative and energy" but
that co-operatives are Sin line with
the ultra-New Dealers evident in
tent to destroy all private initiative
and free enterprise"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
USHA Cut in Staff
Jeopardizes Program

1t appears that lack of funds for
administrative expenses will result in
from 20 to rs percent cuts in the
staff of the United States Housing
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

same item appeared on The front page
of the newspapers in Butte and Great
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of ALI.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

Democracy Cannot Endure Un-
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.