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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16
British Cheer Gag Man,
 Churchill's Son-in-Law
BY NED RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent

American amusing Britons than his father Prime British Empire American theatrical figures who determined to stay despite
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16

More than $l,100.000 has been in- vested in Brazil's motion picture producing industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16

MT. Miller explained that the Mattatuck Drum Band was not only famous throughout the coun- try because of the skill of It's drummers, but also on account Of the quality of their drums. The drums were known as the Brown drums. They were manufactured here in Connecticut by the Brown family. located in Bloomfield. Thee were father end cons. Thsir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16

NEW YORK CURB
Evening star., 1940-06-13
S49,O15,O8O D. {. Bill
Siqned by President

The District appropriation bill for
l941 was signed by the President late
yesterday. The bill carries S49,015,-
080 to run the local government in
the next fiscal year.
While the President was signing
the supply bill for the next IL
months, the Commissioners were re-
ceiving from Capitol Hill request
to draw up for the next Congress
a fve-year program of essential mu-
nicipal improvement projects.
The letter was sent jointly by Sem
ator Overton of Louisiana and Rep
resentative Caldwell of Florida,
chairmen, respectively, of the Senate
and House subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations.
The Senate originally wrote into
the 194l appropriation bill direc-
ton to the city heads to prepare
such a long-range program, but the
conferees decided to make the re-
quests Informally by letter, instead
of a provision in the law.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Patriotic Exercises
To Mark Flag Day
In District Tomorrow
6. A. R. Auxiliary, Guard.
School Children and
Others Plan Programs

Patriotic organizations. congress
Mothers and school children will
participate in variety of programs
tomorrow in celebration of Flag Day.
The Women's Relief Corps, auxil-
larry Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public, will hold exercises at s pm.
tomorrow at the east front of the
Capitol. Principal speakers will be
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas; Comdr. John M. Kline of
the G. A. r., and Miss Mary G..
Pinnock, department president of
the Relief Corps.
The District National Guard, in
cooperation with the National Park
Service. will hold special Flag Day
exercises at Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV. as a prelude to the Ma
tional Capital Parks first campfire
program of the season at pm. to-
morrow. The ceremony will be led
by the 12lst Engineers. under COM
mand of Col. John w. Oehmann.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mandant of the District National
Guard will make a brief address.
A parade of 1000 school children
down Constitution avenue at II a m.
will open exercises sponsored by the
Department of Labor Post, No. AZ, of
the American Legion, assisted by the
National Guard of Honor The pa
rade will be from Seventh street to
the Departmental Auditorium, where
the program will be held.
Senator Gillette. Democrat, of
Iowa will deliver the principal ad-
dress. Guests will be welcome by
Robert L. Duvall, commander of the
Labor Department Post.
Another program will be held in
the Great Hall of Justice Depart
nent at pm, sponsored by the
Justice Post, No. Al, of the Legion.
Federal Security Administrator Nc
Mutt will be the speaker.
The formal flag raising of the
new Kingsman School, Fourteenth
and E streets NE, will be held at
1890 am. Speakers will be pre-
sented by Mrs. Alma M. Shugrue,
administrative principal of the
Kingsman School.
Evening star., 1940-06-13

GOLDEN WEDDING-Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph A. Waters, 1888
Thirty-third street NV, who
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary Sunday. Mr..
Waters, a retired carpen-
ter, and Mrs. Waters are ma
tive Washingtonians. They
are both 10 years old, have
three children and four
grandchildren.
thanksgiving Photo.
The people's voice., 1940-01-24
To the Share Holders of the
Educational Cooperative Publishing Co.

The annual meeting of the share holders will be held in
Helena February 3rd 1t is of vital Importance that
attend this meeting Your Board of Directors and Sec
retary have carried for the past three at in
convenience to themselves and finally you know The
Peoples Voice has become reality Now your Board of
Directors asks and expects (even ncon
venience be present at the annual meeting Feb
ruary 3rd
This is your institution 1t started by for
we'll for the benefit of Others 1t has been financed by
you the of finances raised is real money in most
peoples language Are you going to sit back, that
things going and let few shareholders and Board
carry without you reviewing their work and helping them
plan for the future You it to yourself and Board
of Directors to make determined effort to be at the annual
meeting and help with your counsel and advice. Your
Board of Directors will not long the responsibility of
directing the institution unless you do part
by attending the annual meetings.
Your Board knows it takes time and money to get
the annual meeting Any worth while project takes
time and expense to make load four
five and be in Helena when the meeting is called
to order the morning of February 3rd We will be looking
for you. Please don't disappoint is.
Comparatively yours
D. L. MANNING President
The people's voice., 1940-01-24
Violence of 1884
Probed by Civil
.LibertiesCommittee
BY KARL BARRON
Federated Press)

The wanton killing of two striking
farm workers in the rich Imperial val.
ley in 1884 was described to the La
Toilette committee here, as the COM
mittee dug further into the activities
of the Associated Farmers.
The unarmed workers were shot
down when 179 deputized vigilantes
attacked a picket line at the Wahl
packing shed. 'The deaths were the
result of undestrained deputizing and
arming of strikebreakers," declared
Joseph Casey, western representative
of the AFL.
Brig. Gen. Pelham d. Glassford
former police commissioner of Wash
ington, d. c., and now ranch operat-
or in Arizona, told of his experiences
as labor conciliator for the U. S. De-
partment of Labor. He was sent to
the Imperial valley in 1884.
Questioned by Sen. Robert M. La
Toilette prog, Wis., and Sen. Ebert
D.Thomas Cd. Utah), Glassford said
that local authorities did nothing to
check the outbreaks of violence" His
own work was handicapped, Glassford
said, because the Associated Farmers
detailed stooges to follow him, see
who visited his hotel room, and keep
rack of his telephone calls.
Glassford also described the kidnap-
ping Of A. L. Wirin, attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union. Wir-
in had come to Ell Centro to address
a workers meeting. He was seized In
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
Capitol Corridor
Chatter
By JAKE

A while back | wrote a piece about
how | thought we ought to start a
new association, and / was going to
ask friend of mine to see the gov
ernor if he'd take the presidency of
it. Not necessarily to do any of the
hard work, but to sort of lend it Of
ficial sanction and dignity. l had
thought to propose the name of
"Amalgamated Society of Bar Flies"
for it, and I still think that would
be a good name for it. OF course
that's something that would have to
be decided by the active membership,
and naturally all it's members would
be active. At least at the beginning
of the gatherings, and maybe some
of them clear up to the last song.
Well, what started to tell was that
have been improving my mind here
lately by reading the minutes of the
meetings of an investigating commit
tee that the senate appointed in 1897
to look into what the highway de-
partment was doing, and I've found
out there are plenty of potential mem
bers in there too. l believe there's
going to be some real competition for
high standing of activity in the Anal
gamated Society Of Bar Flies for top
place in active ability between the
governor and McKinnon, the chief en-
gineer of the highways. There's a
guy that can really take it.
The minutes of the hearings by
that committee make you thirsty to
read, and l can see where I've drifted
into the wrong kind Of company.
These big shots in the highway de-
partment naturally get to know the
rich contractors and those birds pay
the bills when they're out on parties.
Different here. Honestly it's getting
so that | have to lay it on the line
before some of these stony-hearted
bartenders will even reach for a glass.
And some places | can't go into at
all unless | can pay something on
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
ON THE MARGIN

While l haven't been disturbed by
any insistent Glamour that | break
out with another screed for this great
family journal, and your editor seems
to have had no difficulty in filling
space, rather feel that If let more
than two weeks slide by without writ
ing something, the editor might think
| had developed a chronic attack of
what seems to be the usual malady
of Jake who prowls the capitol cor
ridors in your fair city and state.
| Not knowing him, l can't decide
whether he should be in home for
the aged or for inebriates.
Having paid this compliment to my
esteemed colleague, perhaps it might
be well to get on with what 1 intended
to talk about, which is the group of
avowed aspirants for the top political
job in our great nation.
First l might make it clear that if
| happen to discuss more republicans
than democrats, it isn't because /
like them better; it's only because
they seem to me to have more news
value. | have been observing these
democrats and republicans for more
years than | care to tell, and | have
come to the conclusion that from the
standpoint of policies and convictions,
it would be pretty hard to tell one
from the other. 1t strikes me it's
more question of who is in and who
is out. Both the republicans and the
democrats build themselves a nice
platform to ride into office on and
then discard the useless thing. To
examine one Of those platforms, you'd
think every plank in it was made up
of sympathy with the busted farmers,
the jobless workers and all other buns
that have votes. But we know, of
course, that this is just legitimate
come on stuff. We know that we
have to take care of business SO that
1t can make profit and that this is
the first job of the statesmen. But
the average dumb worker don't seem
to get. that idea at all, so the states
men to get into the job with the votes
of these buns have to feed them a
lot of salye.
I've seen lot of presidential cam
paigns pass into history, and I've seen
lot Of early candidates for the job
of president in these campaigns fade
out of the picture, and the same thing
will probably happen this coming cam
paign. But we surely have a high
powered bunch to pick from now.
Outstanding among the democrats
are of course Pecan Jack" Garner
and that beautiful answer to a maid
ems prayer, McNutt. Jackson has
been getting some honorable men,
ton" but no sensible man would go
for a red like he is, and there are
going to be quite few sensible chaps
at the democratic national convention.
Their interest will center more on fell
lows like Garner and McNutt who
know how to handle working stirfs
who are too big for their britches."
Among the republicans they are all
You can just shut your
eyes and grab any one of them and
you can't go wrong. There's Hoover,
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
keep CANADA
wheat OUT
SAYS MURRAY

Urging immediate action on H. R.
It'll which establishes definite quotas
on the Importation of Canadian wheat,
Senator James E. Murray has ad-
dressed the letter printed below to all
western senator's:
AS a senator from one of the great
wheat producing states l am calling
your attention to the Importance OF
immediate action by the Senate on
H. r.. It'll, Calendar No. 1890.
Recently officials of the department
of agriculture appeared before the
United States tariff commission to
urge the immediate establishment of
quotas on imports of Canadian wheat
There is a question as to whether
the commission has the legal authority
under existing statutes to declare
such quota in effect. Existing law
authorizes the establishment of quotas
when imports injurious to the Ameri-
can market actually are occurring.
The enactment of H. R. TIL would
provide authorization to establish
quotas when the commission deter
mines that large imports are practic-
ally certain to occur.
The Importance of immediate ac-
ton on the bill is clearly evident
when one considers that there are
forty million bushels of Canadian
wheat in bond now in the United
States. This wheat is not in bond for
milling but may be sold on the market
upon payment Of the duty. If the
United States market price should rise
by as much as sos Give cents) or
if the Canadian market should drop
by that amount, or if combination
of rise in the American and drop
in the Canadian market should occur
and result in such differentiation
between the two markets we can ex-
pect immediate imports of large guam
titles of wheat from Canada. A suf-
ficient change in the rate of exchange
between the two countries would have
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. l. HARRIS

within the ranks of labor, however
| is playing into their hands.
For only $500 ($100 down and the
balance on easy terms) constituent
| of western congressman promises
| to solve all the problems-including
balancing the budget by the end OF
1910. The only stipulation is that he
remain in anonymity for fear of as
sassination by Wall Street agents. He
must be afraid that the showing up
of Senator Taft will be avenged.
Detroit "Board" Sees
Silver Lining On Dark Clouds
The Detroit Board of Commerce has
been seeing nothing but dark and
foreboding clouds in the skies ever
since the liberal administration came
into power in Washington. 1t is now
beginning to see some rays of light, "
however.
One of the trays of light" says
'The Detroiter," the Boards official
organ, January Is, 1910, issue) is
the appointment of Michigan's Rep.
Earl Michener, arch reactionary, to
"the powerful Rules committee OF the
House." Another "ray of light" is the
appointment of Michigan's labor-bait-
ing, labor-hating Clare Hoffman to the
House Labor committee. Hoffman's
presence on the committee presents a
strong argument for changing the
committee name from Labor to Anti
Labor
Both men assure the Detroit Board
OF their steadfast loyalty to their NUT
ual ideals. Pledges to that effect,
"The Detroiter" says, have been re-
ceiyed from them within the past
few weeks" you may count on me
to cooperate in every way possible
toward repeal or at least effective
amendment OF the (Wagner) law"
Michener said, while Hoffman informs
them that he is still of the opinion
that "the Wagner act is national
disgrace"
Rep. Rich, Pa, finally has said some
thing which makes sense. He wants
someone to define the word prepared
ness" 80 that we know to stop when
we reach that point :. /. Young people
in NYA are engaged in making maps
for the REA, the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, and the Federal Housing
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
CITY Financed
ANTI-UNI0N drive,
LAF0LLETTE SAYS
By KARL BARRON
Federated Pressl

While the Los Angeles Chamber Of
Commerce and the Merchants & Man
ufacturers Assn. strove to break un
ions and keep this city an open shoT
one, the taxpayers paid the bill.
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette of the
senate civil liberties committee drew
this admission from reluctant wit
nesses as the committee resumed its
hearings here. Testimony disclosed
that the city board of supervisors in
1898 and 1899 turned over S470,250 to
the Chamber of Commerce in support
of its activities.
Fred r. Fysh, general manager of
the NJ G. M. A., told the committee
that the purpose of his organization
was "to maintain the open shop in
Los Angeles" He added: That's
been its sole aim and purpose since
it was founded in 1885," Franklin
Cole, head of the chambers industrial
division, testified that the chamber
worked closely with the M. & M. A.
Prof. Paul Dodd of the economies
department of the University of Cali
lOIllid dl iJOo <AuSCiCo CApiOdCu tbt
hoary myth that the unions have made
San Francisco "ghost town"
"The frequently reiterated claims
that the open shop is source of
prosperity in Los Angeles and that the
activities of unions are making San
Francisco ghost city do not seem
to be borne out by the indices of
business activities in the two cities
since 1929" He quoted figures to
show that in San Francisco workers
average $50 week, in Los Angeles
$27, and they work 2 to 3 hours a
week longer in Los Angeles.
William F. (Red) Hynes, former
chief of the city's red squad, told Of
his activities on the San Pedro water
front during the strike of 1884 and in
the 1886 lockout.
"The city of Los Angeles returned
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
Unemployment Of
Youth Discussed
By Conference

( An attendance which taxed the cap
acity of the assembly hall of the house
of representatives in the state capitol
building in Helena, last Monday dis
cussed the problem of youth unemploy-
ment in the state The meeting was
arranged and sponsored by the nation
al youth administration. National
Administrator Aubrey Williams con-
Quoted the conference which was in
formal throughout.
While the conference was open to
all who wished to attend, a large num-
ber of special invitations had been
sent out by the sponsors, to people
representing, business, labor, industry,
agriculture and other groups in the
state. About $50 young people were
present and took the most active part
in the discussions.
State administrator of the national
Youth Administration, ]. B. Love
opened the conference and explained
its purposes and reviewed briefly the
National Youth Administration organ
ization and introduced to the assem-
bly,, members of the state advisory
board who were present.
Mr.. Love then introduced Aubrey
Williams and after short statement
of the purposes of the conference, Mr..
Williams called on the young men and
women present to make statements.
The greater part Of the days discus
people themselves, and Mr. Williams
declared that outstanding intelligence
was displayed by all participants.
This conference was the first of
series of conferences of this kind plan
ned to be held in many different sec
tions of the country.
The people's voice., 1940-01-24
DENIED Relief,
TOBACCO W0RKER
DIES FROM COLD

WINDSOR, Conn.-(FP)-The plight
of the vast army of part-time field
hands thrown out of work every fall
when the season ends on the tobacco
plantations of the Connecticut valley
was demonstrated when two tobacco
workers were found, badly frozen and
starving, in hay barn on the now
deserted American Sumatra Co.'S
plantation here, where they had for
merly worked. One died from ex-
posure shortly afterward.
Neither of the workers had home
or any means of livelihood during the
winter. The survivor said they had
applied for relief in Windsor Locks
when the season closed, but were ord
cred out of town as undesirable char
acters Town authorities Indignantly
denied this report.
During a cold spell the men had
crawled into the barn, relying on
cheap whisky to keep them warm.
They awoke from sound sleep and
found their limbs frozen. Trapped in
the deserted barn about 300 feet from
the road, the two men had remained
there during four or five of the cold
est days of the winter.
The people's voice., 1940-01-24

On last Monday Simmons himself
took the stand late in the day to de-
fend himself against the many charges
which previously had laid at his door
Practically all of his testimony on
Monday was devoted to "hard luck
story Of the shortage of funds pro-
vided for the institution. He also in
ferred that much of the dissatisfaction
of the faculty had its root in the short
age.
Before Simmons took the stand,
Francis Peterson, treasurer of the
state board of pharmacy testified that
or 19 graduates of the pharmacy
school who took the state board of
pharmacy tests In June, 1899, only
eight passed. Had not the faculty mem
bers whose designations have been
demanded, been presented by Attor-
ney Walter Aitken of Bozeman, this
statement by Peterson would have
probably become an unchallenged
part of the records of the board hear
ing. Mr. Aitken's cross-examination of
Peterson developed that second ex-
animation was given those that failed.
and total of Ia of the 19 had passed,
Sid j. Coffee, Missoula business
man testified that it was his opinion
that Simmons had inherited" many
of he university's difficulties from the
regime Of his predecessor, DR.. Clapp.
AS an instance Of his reasons for this
he cited that DR.. Clapp had at one
time been disturbed by the activities
of DR.. Lenness and DR.. Merriam not
directly connected with their work.
Later, however, DR.. Clapp had become
reconciled and had stated that the
probabilities were that the achieve
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The people's voice., 1940-01-24
|Sharecroppers
Visit Washington
To Seek i. S. Aid
BY GEORGE CHARLES
Federated Press)

Twenty-Five delegates from southern
sharecroppers headed south again on
January II after petitioning for fed
eral aid and discussing their plight
at a two-day cotton conference, called
by the United Cannery Agricultural
Packing G. Allied Workers (CIO).
The Rev. Owen II. Whitfield, negro
minister and labor organizer told an
audience of $50 that these represent
atives in congress from the south
don't represent us"
80 doggone it, we've come to
represent ourselves" he continued.
They've just built new highway
up into Washington and from now on
we're going TO use it plenty" Fellow
delegates, mostly negroes, interrupted
Whitfield's address with cries of
"Amen!", "Sho-nuffi" and "Yea-manl"
Whitfield and his wife were invited
to the White House by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt who conferred with them
for half an hour on sharecropper prob
lens. The southern minister is re.
membered for his leadership of the
1900 evicted sharecroppers who
camped along U. S. highway 81 in
Missouri a year ago, attracting the
attention of the nation.
Joe Hart, another leader of the
croppers, told how his son was framed
and jailed by plantation owners after
arranging for protests against evic-
tions. The boy was finally freed
through the efforts of the UCAPAW,
which fought the case to the state
supreme court.
The Ku Klux Klan rides in the
daytime, Hart said. "They ride
through the fields, all dressed up in
white, and they scatter notices telling
what's going to happen to US if we
don't leave unions alone" he related.
"Well, we wait until it gets dark, and
then we go around with our own
leaflets"
Pres. Donald Henderson of the
UCAPAW thanked the delegates for
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