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Evening star., 1940-04-23
Senate Rejects Two
Of5,488 Nominations
Sent 1t This Session
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The Senate has rejected only
two Of 5,488 nominations sent
to 1t by President Roosevelt so
far this session. Both were
postmasters.
Of1cial figures compiled to
April IS showed today that the
name Of one other postmaster
was withdrawn by the President
and there has been no action
yet on 575 nominations Of all
types.
The box score from the time
Mr.. Roosevelt took Office in 1898
to the opening of the present
session, January 8, showed
57,849 combinations out of
57,25l nominations. In that
period there were 81 reflections,
105 Withdrawals and 24O not
acted upon.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
| Divorces Granted,
Two Men Each
Weds Others Wife
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 23.-In
divorce suits and answers some
months ago, each of two hus-
bands charged the other stole
his wife's love-and the wives
similarly accused each other as
to the husbands.
Williams Ingels claimed his
wife, Catherine, left him with
the statement that she planned
to live with Francis C. Farmer
for two weeks to learn whether
they were properly suited" to
each other.
All charges were modified,
however, and divorces were
granted each couple on mental
cruelty grounds.
On January 20 the former
Mrs. Ingels and Mr.. Farmer
were married at Las Vegas, New,
and today friends learned that
Mr.. Ingels and the former
Isabella Farmer were wed at
Yuma, Ariz., April 13.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
N. |. R. B. to Receive
Strike Pay Claims

BY The Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 23.-The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board an
nounced today it would open Offices
Monday in several Ohio cities to re-
ceive back pay and reinstatement
claims from Republic Steel Corp.
strikers of 1887.
Oscar S. Smith, regional director
estimated 5000 persons are eligible
to fill out such claims and said no
computation of back pay will be
made during preliminary checking
stages because individual cases pre-
sent so many variables that an
overall estimate is impossible"
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Berlin
Continued From First Page)

advanced beyond Aamot and Lille
hammer, north of Oslo, and about
go miles northeast of Trondheim,
cutting connecting roads leading
south from the allied landing point
at Namsos.
Swedish Minister Arvid Richert
called at the Foreign Office today
to discuss SWeden's protest against
German warplanes' violations OF
Swedish territory.
Authorized sources intimated that
Richert was told Sweden had a
strange method of counting-that
every town over which a plane was
seen was reckoned separately and
reported as five different incidents.
In this manner, Germans said, 40
to so invasions of Sweden easily
could be constructed when, as a
matter of fact, only a few planes
flew over the country by error.
zone Swedish newspaper has
charged that the German aerial
incursions were deliberate at
tempts to reconnoiter Sweden's
defenseS)
Repeated raids on Andalsnes, a
British debarkation point on the
Norwegian west coast, virtually
have paralyzed anti-aircraft de-
lenses there and established Ger
man air supremacy in Southern
Norway, according to DNB, official
German news agency.
Debarkati0n Points Bombed.
So complete was the German
mastery of the air, the news agency
declared, that the Nazi bombers
were able to cruise at leisure over
Andalsnes. Both that port and
Namsos, 200 miles to the north
which also has been used for allied
debarkation, were reported in
flames.
DNB said that Nazi warplanes
ranging over Southern Norway, had
bombed and machine-gunned other
enemy objectives, including the i'm
portant railway junction of Dombas,
to facilitate the advance of German
ground troops moving north from
Oslo.
The attack on Dombas, which
was said to have been destroyed
apparently was aimed at cutting
the railway line by which British
troops have been moving from An
dalsnes to reinforce Norwegian
troops on the Hamar front, so miles
north of the capital.
Dombas, situated so miles south
of Andalsnes, is doubly important
from a strategic point of view be-
cause it also is linked by rail with
the German-occupied west coast
port of Trondheim, key to Central
Norway.
Other objective which DNB said
had been attacked from the air
were Lillehammer, rs miles south
east of Dombas on the Andalsnes-
Hamar railway; Elverum, 20 miles
east of Hamar, and the Mjosen Lake
region.
The news agency said that the
Norwegians had offered stiff resist
ance in the snow-covered rough
terrain on the Hamar front, but
had paid for their opposition in
bloody losses"
DNB denied reports that the Brit
ish had recaptured Hamar and said
that German troops had occupied
Gjovik, Is miles to the west, after
inf1icting heavy losses on the Nor
wegian defenders.
The news agency said German po-
sitions at Trondheim and Stavanger,
on Norway's southwest coast had
been strengthened, and that Nazi
communication lines everywhere in
the south were being improved.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Hit-Run Cars Victim
Still in Critical Condition

The condition of John H. Byers,
68, secretary to Representative Leo
E. Allen of Illinois, was said to be
still serious today at Emergency
Hospital where he was taken Friday
night after being struck by hit
run car at Fourteeth and N streets
NV.
Mr.. Byers, who lives at 14l7 N
street NV, suffered a conclusion,
scalp cuts and a fractured collar
bone. Police were searching for the
driver of the car.
Mr.. Byers is former Illinois State
Senator and for years has been a
congressional secretary.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Condition Remains Serious

Mrs. Margaret Frere, 80, 1924
Tenth street NV, was still in criti-
cal condition today at Emergency
Hospital with injuries she received
in a plunge from the Calvert Street
Bridge Sunday morning. She
dropped about 10 feet, her fall being
broken by tree. Police discovered
her about dawn.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Annenbero
CONTINUED From First Page }

Annenberg defense counsel, ex-
planned the wealthy publishers po-
Sition thus:
"All that Mr.. Annenberg cares to
say now is that he was Influenced
by the fact that any alternative
would involve years of trying and
expensive litigation. At the same
time, he hopes to dispose of the
civil claims for taxes that have
been and will be made against him
and the companies in which he Is
interested.
He further hopes that by taking
responsibility upon himself so far
as he can, this will be taken into
consideration by the Government
and the court in connection with
the charges pending against his as
sociates and employees.
I'm the proceedings upon the i'm
position of sentence we feel confident
that the absence of any serious
charge of moral turpitude will ap-
pear and Mr.. Annenberg asks that
judgment be reserved on this until
then"
Date for Disposition Set.
The court set May q for the dis
position OF all pleas. The Defend
ants-13 in all-pleaded innocent to
the various counts of the indictment
until the fifth count was reached.
Then Annenberg and Haffner en-
tered their guilty pleas.
The fifth count alleged that An
nenberg's net income for the year
1886 was $2,312,634.47 whereas he
reported it as $731 ,64075 and paid
an income tax of $475,552.16. The
Government charged tax of
81, ,692 2,84880 was due and that
$1,217,296.73 had been evaded.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Mrs. Jeffreys Named
To Mount Vernon Boord
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 23.-Gov.
Price yesterday appointed Mrs. Al
bert L. Jeffreys of Chase City to the
Board Of Visitors of Mount Vernon
and reappointed four other members
OF the board. Mrs. Jeffreys succeeds
Roosevelt Page, jr., of Hanover.
Reappointed were w. A. Smoot of
Alexandria, Norman Call of Rich
mond, Louis Chauvenet of Esmont
and c. Grafton Price of Harrison
burg.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Volunteers Are SOUGHT
For War Relief Work

Mrs. Roger j. Whiteford, chair
man of the Chevy Chase Branch of
the American Red Cross, today
issued a call for volunteers to help
in making articles for war relief.
Evening star., 1940-04-23

Horses cannot be shipped from
Yugoslavia without special permis-
sion from the government.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Militant Public Opinion

In previous issue of the Voice related public opn-
ion had been stirred to action by evidence against
gambling being by the officers charged with
in the city of Helena they being ignored
in practically of the larger cities state We
told Of complaint filed by individual against three Of
cers resident in Helena charging them with failure
ton of their duties connection with the the
laws against gambling games
This complaint in the Justice court of ustica of
the Peace A. White The day after the complaint was filed
by this citizen the county attorney Harold Anderson moved
to dismiss the complaint and the compasant
The county attorney his grounds motion for
dismissal that he complaint had to his office
that therefore he that there were anv
grounds for the complaint and apparently did
that for him investigate merits of the
complaints filed The Voice willing agree to this extent
with the county attorney The Complaint charged
HIM well ALL other officers in the city with the failure
enforce the laws the violations being open effort
made to conceal them and continuous for long time past
There appeared to be no valid for singing out three
officers responsible the may
the county attorney and all law enforcement officers
charging these three officers alone with the responsibility
failure to enforce the law.
On last Saturday night, in search of her
husband when he failed to home expected and
found him gambling in the Riato Main Helena
Her husband is employed WPA work. he had lost
considerable of his earnings game The same thing
had occurred before and the wife decided that
happen again She before justice peace by
the of W. L. Bompar who had the courage
rants for the reported of the Ralto
the card The Ralto raided the early
Sunday morning and the warrants served The attorney
the charged with gambling to be Sherman Smith,
from Lewis and Clark county reported
be this possible
this district Mr. Smith repeatedly told the who
filed the complaint that if she needed children
she could to his office and it, that he would get
those responsible for her husbands
that he did not want her to get the impression that he
trying to buy her off, At preliminary hearing Monday
afternoon the defendants bound district
Before the hearing Mr. Anderson the county attorney
of several witnesses voiced his speare with
ig of this complaint and the action taken without going
through his office
force developing all this time Helena, which
lime after midnight last night reached climax of activity
This is the Helena Ministerial Association organization
composed of the ministers of the protestant churches
This organization had discovered where the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Farm Organization
Leaders To Go
To Washington

Farmers representing sixteen states
met in Washington, d. c., on April
to present their views on farm legis-
lation to congress. They came at the
call of NJ. W. Thatcher, chairman of
the National Farmers Legislative CON-
mittee and president Of the National
Federation Of Grain Co-operatives, for
all members of the two groups to be
present.
The purpose Of the gathering will
be to support the Farm Debt Adjust
ment and Income Certificate bills and
to oppose the bill offered by Senator
Gillette Of Iowa. This latter MEASURE
would transfer the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration from the department OF
agriculture to five-man board. 1t Is
characterized as the q and 10 and 10"
plan.. because 1t proposes board OF
five members, with terms OF 10 years
each. at $4,000 q year salary.
The states represented were: Texas.
Oklahoma. Kansas, Nebraska. Colo
RADIO, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Ore
gon, Montana. North Dakota, South
Dakota. Wisconsin, Arkansas, Missouri
and Minnesota.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
COOP STORES
I'm MONTANA
FORM fedora TI0N

At meeting of the directors ani
managers of the Farmers Union co
operative stores Of Richland, Froid
Opheim and Nashua held in Vol
Point, Sunday, March 31st, the or
ganization Of mutual association was
completed. 1t is the purpose of this
association to promote education and
build greater cooperation and buying
power among existing cooperative
stores as well as among those which
may be organized in the future.
Bylaws were adopted and officers
and committees elected for the coming
year. Alvin Dahlquist of Opheim was
elected president R. A. Harbo of
Froid, vice president, and Alvin Wan
grud of Richland, secretary-treasurer.
Voting membership will be restricted
to managers and directors of member
co-operatives. Standing committees
were selected on publicity and ednca-
ton, more stores and centralized buy
ing.
1t is the duty of the publicity COM
mittee to arrange for radio programs.
and other means for stimulating in
terest and patronage for all co-opera-
tive stores. The central buying COM
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
WALL Street
UNDERBIDS US.
I'm HOUSING LOANS

! NEW YORK.-(FP) -Privete CAPT
tai is competing -successfully-
public capital in building low-rent
housing.
Under the u. S. housing act, local
housing authorities must raise 1879 Of
the capital cost of the housing prof.
ect built, the USHA being empowered
to lend the other 5000 at go interest.
Wall Street banks have underbid
Uncle Sam now, however, and are
furnishing up to 300 of the cost Of
housing projects at 2h 20 interest.
Stun jewellers will not complain be-
cause every million dollars put in low
rent housing by Wall Street releases
million which the USHA may use
to build still more houses for low
income families.
Cuts In costs of operation of 1870
In such housing projects, announced
recently by Administrator Nathan
Stratus, also make 1t possible to build
thousands more homes.
For short term construction loans
running six months, Wall Street has
bid as low as 29/100 of 10 interest
as against the go the USHA charges
underwriting Uncle Sam by nine
tenths on his interest bill.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Clothing Workers
Launch Life
Insurance Compan,

CHICAGO.-(FP)-The first insur
ance company to be started by union
for protection OF its members was
launched April by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers (CIO).
Chartered as the Amalgamated Life
& Health Insurance Co., the firm will
provide group life, health and accident
insurance for Chicago's $4,000 union
clothing workers. If the plan is sue
cessful, 1t will be extended to the
ACW's entire membership Of 100000.
The company, capitalized at $780,
900, will pay $500 to beneficiaries OF
union mebmers who die before reach
ing the age of 20. ad $3.50 If the mem
Der had passed TO- Health and acci-
dent provisions will yield $40 weekly
for not more than Is weeks within
the year.
Formation of the company was made
possible through funds collected from
employers and employees since the I'M
IONS establishment of an unemploy-
ment insurance plan In 1924.
Even since passage Of the state and
federal social security laws. employers
and employees have continued to pay
13k% Of their payrolls and wages to-
ward this fund, Local clothing manu-
facturers agreed to use Of these funds
to set up the new firm.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
SCIENTIFIC Distribution MUST
FOLLOW SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

| Being a partner with a vital one
quarter interest In the largest business
OF the world. what portion Of that con-
Germs income would you figure was
yours! One fourth? OH no, not
when you are Just farmer in the
firm OF Good Old U. S. A." Your
share of the national income Is only
III percent not 25 percent.
This was one item among many
shocking statements brought out by
Milo Perkins, president of the Federal
Surplus Commodities Corp, at Des
Moines, Iowa, before the Fourth An
|nual National Farm Institute, on Feb
ruary 24th last
Mr.. Perkins, you win notice is at
the head OF the Federal Surplus Com
modities Corp, which means that you
farmers, in your branch of this bust
ness partnership, have done SO well as
to pile up stocks-surpluses. Ordinar-
lily when a department OF business
does that, they are entitled to big
bonus and a vacation. You'll prob
ably get the vacation; but don't count
too much on the bonus in this case.
It's strange game this Price System
of ours. 1t won't do you any good to
point out that one hundred and fifty
years ago 1t took 10 farmers to sup
port themselves and only one person
living In town: while now one farmer
supports himself and three to four
people living In the city. Science and
Technology have made that possible;
but the fly In the ointment 10 that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
BY HENRY ION

Primaries that bloom in the spring
are resulting in the heating up of
politics here but thus far only three
items are of any particular interest
to labor.
Occupying the center of the stage
tering around the speech made by CLIO
Pres. John L. Lewis at Monongah,
West Virginia, on April 1. 1t was in
that speech that Lewis talked about
a coalition convention of liberal groups
this summer
The wise boys of the editorial page
and the page opposite editorial seem
divided into two schools. There are
those editorials and comments devoted
to proving that Lewis hasn't a chance
of starting anything in the way Of a
third party.
The third party field is so barren.
they argue, that two Irishmen and a
jug of whiskey couldn't start anything.
The other school starts out with the
declaration that Lewis knows that
third party prospects are pretty glum
and has other ideas in mind. They
go on from there
Careful reading of the text of Lewis
speech discloses that nowhere do the
words third party" appear. 1t seems
Lewis wanted the idea of third party
to spread among the ranks of the
professional politicians but wanted to
avoid committing himself to such a
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10

the Price System cannot distribute
this abundance Of products. which you
produce. The more you raise the less
you get for 1t.
Even though good old Uncle has
been slipping around a billion and a
quarter dollars per year into the agri-
cultural set-up used principally for the
removal of these surpluses-there are
still millions of dollars worth of pro-
ducts held In storage. Held there for
just one purpose: to keep the value
and price up; for value and price are
the very foundation of our Price Sys-
TEN; wobbly foundation, tits true, to
build any system upon. Abundance
will destroy this foundation and our
Price System will crash; so we at
tempt to maintain a scarcity to pre-
serve the system.
Since we have too much of every
thing; even though we do not grow
all we could; it would seem just plain
ordinary farm s'horse sense" that the
people are all over-stuffed gormands.
What? Even some Of you farmers are
having pretty slim pickings? Well
how about the city guy who has to
buy all his food? Here are some ex-
cerpts from data of the National Re-
sources Committee report on Con-
sumers Expenditures in the u. S. dur
ing 1855, p. So. The data covers
100000 families averaging 1855 per-
sons and 100000 single persons:
Families receiving under $500 in
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Underpaid Teachers
Fight Wage
Discrimination

| INDIANAPOLIS.-(FP)- The Indi
annapolis Teachers Union (AFL) is
campaigning to bring teachers pay
closer to the scale for other govern.
ment employees.
/ The teachers point out that starting
lpay for letter carrier is $1,700, while
about 500. local teachers get less
Messengers, watchmen and iaborers
employed in the postal service start
lat 1880.
The postal workers don't get too
much, the teachers argue. Point is
that the men and women in the edu-
cational system get too little. In In
dianapolis the top pay for classroom
teachers is only $2,679, while in Ham
mond the figure is $4,000 and in Chi
cago. $1,000.
: The maximum for classroom teach
ers' In Indianapolis Is only 81 above
the s2,672 national average for high
school teachers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Balance April l in
State General Fund
Still Deep in Red
Despite Large Re-
ceipts for Month.

With heavy receipts to the state
general fund accruing during the
month OF March. the general fund was
still deep In the red when the books
for the month were closed. The fund
showed an overdraft Of s158,704.63 on
April 1. This shows a reduction in
the overdraft from the one at the
end OF the previous month. The pos
sibility suggests itself that strenuous
efforts are being put forth by the
budget balancing. pay as you go"
governor to get the fund out Of the
red by June 80, the end of the fiscal
year when he will feel that he has
to justify his claim to a balanced
budget, even II it is 80 only momen-
tarily.
The income to the general fund dur
ing March was the tidy sum of $685.
1856 together with transfers from
other funds to the general fund Of
$24, making a total of $633,395.96
in receipts to the fund during the
month.
The warrants issued during the
of March against the fund
to $420.633.41. Perhaps
this amount of warrants suggests rig
i'd economy. Undoubtedly the gov.
ernor would maintain that it does.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10

well planned, orderly campaign is al
ready started.
Mr.. Kathan, in keeping with his
character has announced that he will
go before the people of the state and
ask for their support on his own quail
fications without attacking any of his
opponents. His close friends have
agreed with him that this is all that
is necessary for him to do. The peo-
pie of the state have long recognized
that there is urgent need for a "house-
cleaning" in the state administration
and that they are ready to give their
support to a man OF unquestioned ad-
ministrative ability, integrity, under
standing and forcefulness, which are
the outstanding characteristics Of Mr..
Kathan Mr.. Kathan's friends believe
that the intelligent people of the state
realize that the state administration
has been long enough in the hands
of professional politicians and men
who have never proved by their activi-
ties that they possess even elemen-
tary business abilities, and that these
people will welcome the possibility Of
having a man with Kathan's proven
business acumen in the governors
chair.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

| Pm going to try to get q special
meeting tonight of the AABF (Amal
gamated Association of Bar Flies) and
see II we can't contribute some OF
our ability to get the state govern.
ment back to working like It should
Last week all the work out ut the
capitol seemed to be laid aside and
everybody was talking about the edi-
tor and his failinss. could really
have made some substantial contribu.
|tions to that subject II I'd found 1t
necessary. But they all seemed to be
doing a pretty good job Of 1t without
me.
Today all l heard was about the
preachers turning into sleuths and
grabbing off a few truckloads OF slot
machines and that they were going
to haul them out somewhere and bust
them up. Well. that part is oke with
me. The AABF never did see any
sense in having them around and put
ting money into them that should be
used for supplies, because you never
got anything back to buy supplies
with.
What l don't like about this bust
ness is that you don't know where
It's going to stop. This thing of min
listers and 70 on starting to sleuth
around, IL what's bothering me. You
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