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Evening star., 1940-03-27
Allen and McCoach
Back Tax on All
Pay Earned Here
SeoIDirected to Speed
Proposed Amendments
To Congress

Immediate amendment of the
Districts income tax so that it would
be applied to all persons receiving
income in the District, whether they
are residents or claim to be citizens
of other Jurisdictions, was urged to-
day by Commissioners George E. AL
len and David McCoach, jr., in
adopting recommendation made
by Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal.
The Commissioners requested Mr..
Seal to prepare the proposed amend
nents as soon as possible so that
Congress would have an early op-
portunity to act.
Informed that the Commissioners
had decided to send q new revenue
plAn to Congress as a substitute
for the combination retail sales in
come tax. the House virtually killed
Monday, Chairman Randolph of the
District Committee said:
"The plan will be given prompt
consideration by the Fiscal Affairs
Subcommittee and then the full
committee"
Would Apply to Legislators.
Mr.. Seal said the draft he was
preparing for the Commissioners
would contain the same proposals as
those he prepared 10 days ago for
Representative Bates, Republican, of
Massachusetts,, one of the principal
sponsors of the Districts present
income tax law. Under such word
ing the tax would be applied to
members of Congress, it was said.
The fundamental change proposed
by Mr.. Seal would be to apply the
income tax not only to those who
are found to be "domiciled" in the
District, but rather to non-residents
as well as to residents on incomes
earned in the District. Along with
this, Mr.. Seal is proposing that the
District would take its tax first, leav-
ing to the States the practice of
giving credits against their taxes for
the bills paid the District.
The Commissioners Yesterday
issued formal statement in which
they said they would be prepared
to submit to Congress at the OPEN
ing of the session next January any
proposed changes in the revenue
law they found necessary as a result
OF careful analysis of the present
levies after the Districts returns
have been received April IS. They
suggested they did not think there
would be sufficient time thereafter
for them to prepare legislation deal
ing with any possible change in tax
rates, if the receipts from the income
levy showed that such changes were
needed.
Mr.. Allen today said, however,
that the question of revamping the
present law so as to cure the de-
fects revealed by the recent de-
cision by the United States Court
OF Appeals, in its action on a test
Of the Districts old intangible per-
sonal property tax, was another
matter and that he agreed with
Mr.. Seal that action by Congress
at this session was desirable.
District officials were advised that
this was in accord with a sugges-
ton made by Senator King, chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee.
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Will Censor Tobacco Rood

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, March ~ R3.
Mayor John A. Conway assured
the Ministerial Association that the
play Tobacco Road" would be CEN
sored for its presentation here
Thursday and Friday SO that mo
blasphemous utterances will be
heard"
Evening star., 1940-03-27
By the Associated Press.

BERGEN, Norway, March T.-
Shippers here were advised today
that the 3,794-ton Norwegian freight
er Cometa, whose home port is Ber-
gen, was torpedoed and sunk yes
terday while In the British contra
band control base at Kirkwall, in
the Orkney Islands Rn Northern
Scotland.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Summary Of Todoy's Star
WASHINGTON and Vicinity

Washington and Vicinity
D. c. budget slashed $1,317,701 to
$48,291,7l7. Page Al
Montgomery board acts tomorrow on
levy and budget. Page Az
Armed motorist illustrates 3 STOP
sign bandits. Page AS
Senate committee action on racing
bill postponed. Page B-1
Single memorials section set up in
park system. Page B-1
Editorial and Comment
This and That. Page Ala
Answers to Questions. Page Ala
Letters to The Star. Page Ala
David Lawrence. Page A-13
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-13
Frederic william Vile. Page Alb
Charles G. Ross. Page A-13
Constantine Brown. Page A-13
Miscellany
Service Orders. Page BIS
Vital Statistics. Page B-7
Natures Children. Page Bill
Bedtime Story. Page Bis
Letter-Out. Page Bile
Winning Contract. Page Big
Uncle Rays Corner. Pax BIZ
Crossword Puzzle. PagEB.17
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u. ). 10 Lose Shirt
Under Trade Pacts,
Vandenberg Warns
New Authority to Cope
With Foreign Penalties
Urged by Senator
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Senate is considering House.
approved bill to ertend for three
gears ADMINISTRATORS authority
to- negotiate reciprocal trade
agreements Uith other nations
and make them effective Without
congressional ratification. LOU
tariff aspects of trade pacts hare
been criticized, especially in agri-
cultural West, but President
Roosevelt has called them essen
tial part of any 1Dorld trade re-
organization after European 1oar
ends.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican
of Michigan told the Senate today
that the United States was about to
close its shirt" under the recip-
rocal trade program.
The Michigan Senator, in a speech
against continuing the administra.
tion's trade policy, made these siz
contentious:
l. The trade agreements law is un-
constitutional.
2. 1t is economic dictatorship
come to America"
3. 1t is driving the country to q
basis of uncompensated low tariffs
which will ultimately wreck us"
4. War and postwar trade compe-
titlons involve a multitude of dan
gerous trade weapons which the
agreement law cannot touch.
S. It is not working and cannot
work as intended.
6. The alternative is to provide "a
concentrated foreign trade author
lty which can cope with all the ex.
ternal trade penalties which Amer.
ican export increasingly confronts.
Real Barriers" Stressed.
Senator Vandenberg said that in
world at war, or in the harsh
competitive conditions of postwar
readjustment, tariff rates covered by
(Con md NT1 poro AEI
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(See PLANES, Page A-50
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(See D. c. BUDGET, Page AID
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(See TRADE, Page A-5)
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(See POLITICS, Page Al
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Flames Leap IS Feet High.

(See FIRE, Page A-3)
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Group Machine Buying
Benefits Small Farmer

Small farmers, forced to compete
with larger, mechanical units OPP
Grating on scale big enough to
afford expensive equipment, have
banded together in recent years to
purchase heavy equipment and ex-
pensive services which none OF them
could afford to buy individually, the
Farm Security administration re-
ports.
The FSA makes group loans to
its rehabilitation borrowers and
other low-income farmers who cam
not get adequate credit from other
lending agencies, public or private,
to help them finance the purchase
of machinery, live stock, equipment,
and services which none of them
could afford alone.
The loans are repayable in from
one to five years, according to the
amount of the loan, the type. and
the life of the service. Three per
cent interest is paid on loans for
equipment and service and per
cent on loans for purchase of sup
plies and materials which are con-
sumed during the years farming
operations.
The list of equipment and services
obtained by such group loans is al
most linitless. 1t includes COM
bines, silage cutters, purebred sires,
cold-storage plants, bulldozers. ter
racing equipment, syrup mills, hay
balers, hatcheries, tractors, health
services, and veterinary services.
During the past four years, Farm
Security has made more than 10000
such loans involving over $4,000, 900
and benefting more than 1870, 900
participants.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
EVERYTHING
IN
MERCHANDISE
KOOTENAI
Mercantile
DIRECTORY
ihhv MOntana
Libby, Montana
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Commercial Club meets every 3rd
Thursday. James A. Krall, presi-
dent, Harold Hall, secretary.
American Legion Auxiliary Lodge
No. 81 meets lst and 3rd Thurs
days. Mrs. w. c. collars, presi-
dent, Mrs. Russell Whitefield, Sec
rotary.
Lions Club meets every End and
4th Mondays E. ]. Driear, pres
ident, w. ]. Farris, secretary.
Libby Woman's Club meets End
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in community
room of court house. Mrs. ]. A.
Krall, president, Mrs. c. W. Gildea,
secretary.
American Legion Post No. 81
meets LIST and 3rd Thursdays at the
Legion hall. DR.. ]. p Campbell, COM
mander, w. c. Collars, adjutant-
Libby Farm Woman's Club meets
LIST Wednesday. Mrs. John, Fuller
president, Mrs. E. A. Rice, secre'
tary. 80
Libby Junior Woman's Club meet!
second Tuesdays at 8 p. m. in the
community room of the court house
Mrs. VIM. Erickson, president anC
Mrs. Marlen Adkins, secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
Carry Army Recruits to
Destination by Airplane

For the first time in history, re-
cruits enlisted in the Spokane Dis
trict for the Army Air Corps were
shipped to their destination by army
transport plane on January ID, 1910,
according To an announcement
made by Major Frank G. Chaddock,
Army Recruiting Officer, sos Zieg-
Ter Bldg, Spokane.
Leaving Spokane at BIO IN a
plane piloted by Lieutenant Fred
b. Stevers and crew of three men,
the following recruits enjoyed
luncheon at Sacramento air port,
the post for which enlisted:
Emerson A. Billie of Miles City,
Mont. Duane E. Collision of Great
Falls, Mont; Thomas w. Howard
al Ismay, Mont; Roy E. Hurst and
Albert Rimberg, Of Walla Walla,
Wash. Leon A. Olin Of Big Tim
her. Mont; Arthur A. Stokoe OF
Deer Park, Wash; Arthur n. Shoe
maker of Cusick, Wash. and Harold
Il Sunderland OF Sonnette, Mont.
Because the plane would only
carry 10 passengers, three recruits
were required to wait at Fort
George Wright until next week
when the plane will again call for
! load. It is expected that the
plane will call once each week for
The next few weeks.
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LODGES


I. O. O. F. Cabinet chapter No. 68,
meets every Wednesday evening. E.
E. thinner, Noble Grand and Ernest
Davidson, recording secretary.
A. r. g. A. M. Libby Lodge No. IS
meets End and 4th Thursdays at
Masonic Temple. Marshall Murray,
w. M, VIM. Anderson, secretary.
Royal Arch Masons, Libby lodge
No. 80 meets 1st and 3rd Wednes-
days at Masonic Temple. Fred Bur-
bingham, High Priest, ]. F. McCully,
secretary.
Order Of the Eastern Star. Libby
Chapter No. SO meets LIST and 3rd
Tuesdays at Masonic Temple. Alma
Mount, w. M, Marie Jaqueth, sec
rotary.
Libby Moose Lodge No. 1899 meets
End and 4th Mondays at Moose hall.
VIM. Vanderwood, Governor, Glea-
son Pitcher, secretary.
| Royal Neighbors, Mountain View
Camp No. 1853 meets End and 4th
Wednesdays at the Moose hall.
Mrs. Mae thinner, oracle; Mrs Az
mes Larsen, recorder.
1 sMedora Rebekah Lodge No. s.
meets LIST and 3rd Mondays at /. O.
10. r. hall Hester Dunn, Noble
Grand and Ruth hampton, secretary.
| "A. O. u. W. meets the End Friday
OF each month at the Legion hall.
Clayton Youngs, w. M. and L. j
Brown, secretary.
Libby Chapter De Molay meets
1st and 3rd Mondays, Masonic Tenn
pie. Jack Darlington, M c.; Ear.
Lovick, scribe.
Rainbow Girls meet second anC
fourth Mondays at Masonic Temple
Marie Martensen, w. A.; Phyllis d.
Rosia, secretary, Mrs. Harold Hall
mother advisor.
! Women of the Moose, LIB,
1Chapter No. sos meets on the frs
and third Tuesdays at the Moos.
hall. Muriel Oylear, Senior Regen
and Agnes Brennan, recorder.
| Theta Rho Club No. n meets Is
and 3rd Tuesdays in l. O. O. F. hal
at tbs p. m. Celia Ann Nolop, pres
ident; Lenore Martin, vice presi
dent; Helen Rasmussen, recording
secretary. Hester Dunn, advisor of
Ificer.
: Libby Townsend club No. l meet
on the first and third Fridays o
each month in the community hall
at 7.30 p. m. VIM. Kammeyer, pres
ident; Mrs. Ellen Clearey, secretary
Al Study Club-Mrs. Dexte
Shaurette, president; Miss Id
Minde, secretary.
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income to agriculture should be a
study and a matter of economic dis
cussion at farm bureau locals.
3. That we should carry on a pro-
gram of information on the ques-
ton of grading and standardizlng
all agricultural produce that can
pass from producer to consumer
without manufacturing process.
Such a program on marketing will
benefit both the producer and con-
sumner. A special field for such
work is now needed in Montana on
poultry and dairy products.
4. That the question of agricul-
tural credit on a cooperative basis,
the program of distinct and sep
arate credit system be a subject
of intensive study and discussion
for 1870
S. That the question of taxation
in general and the needed appropri-
alton for agriculture and the kind
of taxes to be raised for agricul-
ture be a question of intensive study
the coming year.
s. That all proposed remedies fol
agriculture by politicians be care.
fully studied and analysed to the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

Poultry sires and dams can be
tested through their offspring not
only for egg production, but for size
and hatchability of eggs broodiness,
and other characters.
The number OF horses on farms is
now the smallest in go years and the
number of mules is estimated to be
the smallest in 80 years.
The use OF canned milk has in
creased steadily for a number of
years, but American consumers still
get less than 10 per cent Of their
milk in cans, an economist says,
For electricity in poorer farm
homes, the REA, Is developing a
small transformer and accompany
ing equipment which will permit a
power line to be tapped for a charge
as low as 81 q MONTH. Such equip
ment will permit use df an electric
iron, radio and few light bulbs.
That American farmers are using
more machinery is indicated by fig-
ures showing that farm machinery
sales were $50 per cent higher last
year than at the bottom Of the de-
preston.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
Form Bureau Makes
Plan for This Yeor

A six-point program designed to
acouaint all Montana farmers with
the need for agricultural legislation
based on a study of economics was
outlined for this year at meeting
in Helena of the state farm bu-
reau board of directors. The pro-
gram will be explained during the
wear to Montana business and in
dustrial groups, according to Claude
c. Gray of Big Timber, board chair
man. The program follows:
|. That the farm bureau organ
ization should put forth special ef-
forts to explain agricultural eco
Monies and social programs. That
wherever possible information on
and explanation of our program
should be given business and in
dustrial groups.
2. That program of soil con-
servation, limited control of sur
pluses and parity price and parity
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
FARM
Tories
NEW SEED ACT
AIDS GROWERS
Latest Federal Law Requires
Additional Labelling.
By MISS JESSIE FISKE

BY MISS JESSIE FIShE
The passage of the new Federal
Seed act early last fall brings into
operation a piece of agricultural
legislation which is of great impor-
lance to all the farming sections OF
the country This became apparent
after a study made of the law at
Rutgers university.
1t is the product of two years OF
study and preparation by the United
States department of agriculture, all
farm organizations, seed analysts,
and the seed dealers of the United
States.
Regulations are now in the hands
OF the u. S. secretary of agriculture
and the law is expected to be put
into effect in the near future. The
most outstanding change from pre-
vious legislation seems to be that
larger percentage of seed shipments
will be subjected to the require
ments OF seed control than has been
the case in the past.
The provision Of the new act re-
quires that all interstate shipments
OF seeds be labeled if transported
for seeding purposes, or properly
identified if transported for seeding
purposes, or purveyor will be re-
quired to make representations con-
corning every interstate shipment OF
seed. This regulation overcomes one
of the glaring weaknesses of the old
law, which provided that penalties
for Misrepresentation should be
made, but failed to require that a
representation be made.
There has been introduced into
the new legislation another depar-
ture in the seed control program as
it has developed in the past 80 years.
All persons Transporting seed in
interstate commerce will be re-
quired to maintain system OF rec
ords which will carry through al
the steps from production to con-
sumption.
Another feature of the law which
offers added protection deals specif.
ically with the noxious weed seeds
Henceforth all interstate shipments
i OF seeds must meet the noxious
weed seed requirements OF the seee
law OF the state into which the ship
ment is destined.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
SHOW LARGE INCREASE.

Resources of 68 state banks IN
Montana at the end of 1899 totaled
$71,674,595.57, gain of S4,568, 98O.53
over the total resources of II state
banks in existence year earlier,
according to a report by Etate Ex-
aminer w. A. Brown.
The major increase during the
year was in loans and discounts,
which totaled $l6,137, 1000 for 1888
and $40, 764, $1,000 in 1889. Other
increases were in stock in the fed
eral reserve bank, overdrafts, IT, S.
bonds, cash and due from banks, and
other assets.
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posed on the defeated Britain and
Francei
But this point does not interest
the diplomats nearly so much as
what they believe to be an intention
on the part of President Roosevelt
to further inhame this country
against Germany and Russia. They
are mildly shocked at the lack of
diplomacy" he showed in pointing
out to the American people that II
is of vital concern to this country
that the rest of the world should
not be governed by such rulers as
Stain and Hitler, particularly his In
sistence that it would affect even
domestic affairs in this country.
Thoughts Behind Words Not
Criticized BY Diplomats
The diplomats are particularly ex.
cited about this sentence from the
Presidents address: For it be-
comes clearer and clearer that the
future world will be shabby and
dangerous place TO live Uneven for
Americans to live inf it is ruled
by force in the hands OF few. :
And they were almost as much In
terested in this one: We must look
ahead and see the effect OF our own
future if all the small nations
throughout the world have their IN
dependence snatched from them or
become mere appendages to rela-
lively vast and powerful military
systems. =
And also. 1--WE must look ahead
and see theeeffect on our future gen.
erations If world trade is controlled
by any nation or group OF nations
which sets up that control through
military force
There is no quarrel on the part OF
most of the diplomats, it should be
stated, with the thoughts behind
| these words. Naturally the repre-
sentatives OF the smaller countries
at Washington are in hearty accord
with them. Naturally also the Brit
ish and French are delighted, and
the Firms exuberant. In fact, only
the Germans and Russians are dis
pleased.
/ That is not the point. The point
is that they interpret the message
as Roosevelt promising congress
and the country solemnly that THU
country is going to keep out OF thu
war, and then in the same breath
saving words-almost irrefutable
words, as they see them-which arr
inclined to pave the way to this coun
try going into the war on the sids O
Britain and France and Finland
Deuey's Speech Gets
Under Presidents Skin
There is no doubt that the mucf
talked about Minneapolis speech O
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

Chicago speech OF Senator Robert A.
Taft OF Ohio which will cause more
immediate trouble for the admins
tratiOn.
Dewey's attack hurt because 1t
was the first time any critic had
painted such a simple picture OF the
hopelessness OF the New Deal pol
icies. Its effect. presuming the line
OF attack is continued, are feared
on the electorate, and in the cleo
ton itself
Taft's criticisms, on the other
hand, are apt to plague the admin
istration during the session OF con-
gress now sitting. At once New
Dealers realized the danger. They
rushed out chapter and verse of the
answers to Taft--the impossibility
of achieving the particular cuts he
mentioned-the dire political conse-
quences if these particular items are
eliminated, or even reduced.
However, the actual merit OF the
particular cuts that Senator Taft
suggested are not SO important as
the stirring up at ali of the discus
sion. Best opinion here is that
/ Taft did not help his own candi-
/ dacy by voicing them. To advocate
any particular cut, in the nature OF
things, is to antagonize a certain
group in the electorate.
The trouble, from the New Deal
standpoint, is that Taft has set ar
example. Not an example that viii
| be followed by other candidates fol-
the Republican nomination.
Seeks to Divert Fear o
Bankruptcy and Initiation
), It must be borne in mind that thu
essence OF the Roosevelt strategy II
divert the fear of bankruptcy anc
imitation from this campaign, ant
hence to remove fear that the bulge
will not be balanced shortly, is tn,
new tax bill. 1t is not big, in pro
portion, but it must be had If fea
is to be removed.
Well, congress doesn't want u
vote new taxes. 1t is not inclinet
to make an issue OF it, but it jus
doesn't intend to do it.. Hence al
the talk about budget studies by
special congressional committee;
committee that would report in 8
days, true. But what will 1t report
And even if it did advocate specifi
taxes, does anyone believe Their
would not be a minority report?
No, the whole thing is schem
to defer the evil day. Which !
all right from the standpoint Of tn
individual members Of congress VIII
must face election this fall, and mos
Of them denomination before tha'
but is distinctly not all right fror
the standpoint OF New Deal wish
ing to avoid alarming the countr
about the national debt and in1atio
until after next November.
BELL syndicste-WNU Service.I
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

Congress belieres that the
real Roosevelt plans are not
included IN his messages !.
Foreign diplomats amazed at
the character Of the comment
that greeted the message !.
Senator Taft's speech is er-
pected to plague the admins
frdfiOn.
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end that farmers will not be misled
by will-of- the-wisp remedies. Inc
board realizes that the greatest
enemy of the agricultural program
is the fostering of unsound economic
proposals and remedies for agri-
culture.
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IhOmaS r.. DeWey
got further under
President Roose-
velt's skin than any
recent public utter
ance. Evidence OF
this is the devotion
Of two paragraph
in the Presidents
state OF the union
address to congress
answering Dewey's
charge of defeat
ism. =
But il was the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

ROOSEVELT Hat. A.
isn't for a moment
convinced that the
President laid all
his cards on the Ia
BILE in his message
on 1.-THE State of the
Union, - or in his
budget figures. 1t
believes he is wait
ing the psychology
cal moment. There
is more time In
which for him to
t,1rn around this
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25
Perfume by the Pound

At Grasse, the perfume city OF
the Mediterranean, the scent indus
try uses four million pounds OF or
ange blossoms. and three million
rounds OF rose leaves every year.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

Postage Stamp
The first adhesive postage stamp
came into use in the United States
50 years ago.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

WASHINGTON. - Congress ex-
poets q new rabbit to pop out OF the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-25

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
SCHEDULE
East Bound
No. z Arrives ss03 D. m.
No. % Arrives .. m.
West Bound
No. Arrives..--.---..-.-------- 6.19 p. m.
No. N Arrives.-.---..-.--...--.--2:45 p. m.
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There is no doubt that the much
talked about Minneapolis speech OF