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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-30
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layed, due both to cold weather In
the northeastern counties and what
Iappears to be the general plan else
where to complete grain seedlings
first.
Winter wheat made good progress
and on the whole is now very promis-
ing, but some areas are infested with
weeds or cutworms Alfalfa is grow
II ing well and there is now enough
grass on pastures and ranges to fur-
nish feed for livestock. Fruit crops
in bloom in western Montana have SO
far escaped with only small frost
damage CAST week.; while livestock
losses in the recent storms have, with
a few exceptions been light. Insect
developments during the week were
unimportant. The farm labor situa-
ton continues to be satisfactory de-
spite continued shrinking in supplies
of such labor.
Wheat Stocks
A total of 34,227 900 bushels of
wheat stored in all positions on April
l compares with 38,787,0 bushels for
January 1, showing a shrinkage OF A.
100000 bushels during the first three
months of 1941 Nearly all of this
shrinkage is in farm stocks, mill and
elevator stocks being practically I'M
changed from January l. Elevator
stocks at 10,759,000 bushels are the
highest for any April l on record, and
in fact are the highest for any quar-
ter on record excluding the preceding
two January l, 1871 and October l,
1910.
Storage
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-30

of wheat per barrel averaged 271, and
pounds of offal per barrel averaged
rs. The daily 24-hour milling capa-
city of these merchant mills is about
5000 barrels.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-30
April 1, al Jan. I, al

For the eight months July 1910
through February 1941, II Montana
merchant flour mills reported $685.
900 bushels of wheat ground, $4,000
barrels of flour produced, and 54,SO7,-
900 pounds of offal produced. Pounds
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

he told a Michigan Chamber of Commerce: T am no advocate of any particular hours. In fact I would be happy to work 10 hours Ca week) providing that in 10 hours you could produce as much as any body else can in 40 or 50 hours"
 Knudsen's relations with both the A. F. of L. and the c. I. O. have frequently been bad. The federation was not amused when, in 1885, Wll- liam Green said: MT. Knudsen laughed at, the efforts of the A. F. of L. to organize thee moter indus try"
 On one of his regular bi-annual trips to Europe, Knudsen saw the sitdown strikes in France. He thought such thing could not hap pen in America. Yet he was execu- tive vice president of General Motors when the 0. I. O. used just such tactics against that firm.
 When peace between GM and the United Auto Workers was restored, Knudsen was the production man again. At the end of the Civil War General Grant had said: "Let us have peace" At the end of the c. I. O. sitdown strike, Knudsen said: Let us have peace and make auto
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

for a male servant who acts as combination cook and housemaid, and chauffeur.
 A devoted family man( he runs home to Detroit every chance a. vailable. He idolizes his wife, the former Clara Elizabeth Euler, of Buffalo, N. Y, girl he married in 1913. Of their four children, two daughters are married, one still at college. His son, Sendon, who is also married, was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. Father Knudsen, the mas ter mechanic, believes in the value of working with the hands, so Semon worked for a while as a mechanic in a Detroit firm. Now he has minor engineering job in one of the General Motors plants.
 Bill Knudsen doesn't get home as much as he'd like. His job doesn't give him much time.
 LET US
 HAVE PEACE"
 At least half of the success of that job will depend on how labor CO., operates with the defense produc- tion expert. Knudsen's attitude tow ard labor, as toward everything else, is that of a production man. In 1939
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

about 20 feet by 20, perhaps-and is furnished in simple luxury, with leather-upholStered chairs about big desk, but there are no trappings. Knudsen keeps his desk-top clean, and you never see a litter of papers or documents on it. He has only one telephone, and although. he handles a huge mass of mail every day he never dictates letters-always writes them out longhand with lead pencil on block of plain paper.
 SUCH
 LANGUAGE!
 He generally beats everyone to work except his secretary, Bill Col lins. Knudsen has had male secre- taries ever since his first encounter with a female one. He tells the story: For the first 20 years of my life I was brought up in shop. I did not acquire all the polish that perhaps I should have. Later. in a job where I had to dictate letters, a young lady was assigned to my office. Something happened. I came out and found the young lady cry ing. She said that she had never heard such language in her life"
 His mail out of the way, there is usually a long series of conferences, morning and afternoon alike. Like his letters, these meetings are kept short. You get a simple "Yes" or NO" out of him without waste mo- ton. A conference that lasts more than 15 minutes is rarity. In these conferences Knudsen talks in a low voice, in which his Danish &C., cent is noticeable but not obtrusive
 Knudsen seldom gets away from his Washington desk before in the evening, the latter part of the aft ernoon usually being taken up by reading various reports, memoranda, etc. He has dinner at home around 8 o'clock; if he doesn't have some one in to talk business, or hasn't brought work home from the office, he will read until II and then go to bed
 OLD WORLD
 MANNERS
 Anecdotes about Knudsen are few, probably because he attends strictly to business He is 8 moder- ate eater, generally washes his lunch and dinner down with a bottle of beer, and likes an occas- ional highball. He still has some of that old-world courtesy: if in the hall of the Federal Reserve building he meets woman he knows, he is likely to bow from the waist, European style. On the other hand, he has one of those one-track minds, and may give an intimate acquaintance no more than an absent nod.
 Social Washington never sees him. For, while back home in Detroit Knudsen likes lot of fun, having people in for dinner, going to par ties and attending concerts, here he is strictly business. He has rented a furnished house out on Woodland place, where he lives alone except
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Heard in passing. Johnnie Alanskas and ms brother Benny aren't to boast about their bowl ing prowess but when they heard the challenges that Al Baker and Dan Mccarthy better known as the Gold Dust Twins, hurling around Walnut Hill It was too much for the boys So they up and accepted the challenge and the quartet hed itself to the bowling alleys where the slaughter of the maple pins soon was On After the dust had subsided and quiet relgned the AIanskas boys were the champs and Al and Dan were somewhat chastened. Dyson Hemingway just added another candle to his birthday cake but he stood up in front of the nice-loOkng confectlOn so that we couldn't count the number.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
TodayS Answers Co
 oAMIUM CRACKERS
Questions on Comic Page.

i. A stick is a series of bombs so arranged that when dropped they explode in an evenly spaced straight line across the target area.
 2. A paravene is device which shears off mine anchor cables so they will come to the surface, where they can be exploded without dam, age. It has sawteeth and is lowed at some distance from ship.
 3. A Y-gun is a weapon with two barrels for simultaneous firing of depth bombs from surface ships. They thus explode on either side Of an attacking submarine.
 4. A pom-pom is an automatic machine cannon, firing one-pound shells, or any similar weapon. The name comes from the drumming sound of its fast fire.
 5. Flaming onions are German anti-aircraft projectiles, in English slang. In explosion the smells ap- pear onion shaped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

four men. But you can't lick all the men in the shop."
 Today William Knudsen, who hates all centralization, in labor and in industry, because he believes it interferes with production, is will ing to let labor have its way-as long as it doesn't interfere with production.
 NEXT: Sidney HilIman, from pants-cutter to union power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
Good Evening.
DO YOU REMEMBER9

Oh do you remember Paris in the Spring? Strollng along the Bois de Boulogne. Wasn't that the thing? And have you forgotten London, English country lanes, the very hill' Where you went fox-hunting And were there at the kill? Or Viennas famous Tiergarten, Winter sports at St. Moritz, Those days when bombs were not ourStlng When no one had heard of blitz? Oh do you remember The French and English parksP Venice and Rome and all the tourists Feeding the birds at St. Marks? Those are places to remember, But are now quite out of reach, Vacatonists quite satisfied With Nassau and Miami Beach.
 FEM EM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

The gay Knudsen Detroit knows, the Knudsen who quits his desk at 5:3O to have fun, is different man from the Knudsen Washing ten knows. Knudsen had 8 big job at GM, has a much bigger one as cOdirectOr w.;n Sidney HilIman of National Defense Pro- duction. This. the third of six articles on Knudsen and Hillman, portrays Knudsen the Production Man in action in Washington.
 By TOM WOLF
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 That's the hurryingest man ever did see" The dark-hued DOT ter's wondering gaze trailed after a hustling, bustling, large figure surg ing down a corridor of the Fedora Reserve building.
 The "hurryingest man" was Will liam s. Knudsen, Director Genera of the national defense program and "hurryingest' is probably tho best single adjective to attach tc the Knudsen Washington sees these days. He already has set rapic pace in his operations and displayed a skill for Getting Things Done that are the envy of public officials who haven't had his experience as g big-time executive in private busi' ness.
 Nevertheless, Kundsen in action is not entirely the big-shot executive of tradition. His office is spacious
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Knudsen's active resistance to the auto workers union ended with the settlement agreement He learned early in life as hot-tempered mechanic in a $10.50 a week job in a bicycle plant. One day his fore- man said to him: You are big and strong and a good boxer. You can lick any man in the shop. Perhaps you can lick two men, three men,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

 maintained by heavy local tax payer.
 Folklore, or what? Farm hands at Hull's Hill do not dress up" CT put on glad rags" when they step out. The boys down that ways always wear PLEASURE CLOTHES" for festive occasions.
 British refugees arriving here tell many strange tales of what they expected to find on arrival, but here's a story about local resident that we can prove.
 When Peter BiljO, Russian Or- chestra leader and grand guy, ar rived in America on September list, 1911, with a group of young Rus sians, he got off the s. s. Cleve- land in H0boken after eleven days voyage from Hamburg. The Rus sians believed thatN they would have to fight Indians, shoot Buff falO, and side-step grizzly bears, but best of all they had been told that they would find gold. Eyes agleam, the newcomers no sooner stepped on the dock when one of them found a silver dollar. 'Let it lay" said his companion. "We'n find gold around the corner" They found no gold loose, but they dis covered that American saloons gave away free lunches and that all Americans thought Russians were usually accompanied by bears. (Maybe you've heard Peter BiljO in Around The SamOvar?" If you haven't, you've missed something.
 Tobruk, Port Bardia, Bomba, Bagbag and Sidi Barani are names that bulk heavy in the news these days. Lots of people never heard of these desert whis- tie stops until the Italians started chasing the British down there and then the British got enough Australians over to chase the Black Shirts out. Fewer people know that General Bill Eaton, a Connecticut Tank from Wood- stock, trekked the same route from Alexandria, without benefit of motor transport, 135 years gao, with a posse of 800.
 General Bill didn't do any ling erihg, either; he went clear through to Derna, captured the village, and came home to stake . claim on q gift of i0,000 acres Of plneIand ln Maine. Massachusetts gave Eaton the pine country. probably because they figured h was worthless.
 The Yankee column that made that trek was composed Of Afneris cans, Arabs, and Greeks. They used eamelS for transport, and when the rations ran short, they just knocked down an old camel bull and made C stew. Bill was out there trying Co negotiate some sort Of e Treaty with the Dashaw of 1flpoIl. c gentleman bandit Wlio used the tIaFbafy pirates to cole iect tribute. fio found that tho
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

W h Il roa dS were a glare of ice and the best a Il y one could do was to make a short haul, a truck from the lower Nau- gatuck Valley d eliv ere d a heavy load of
 gasoline to a
 local town of ficial. We have a gas bulk Sta- tion in town
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
MORE OF HENRY ALDRIcH

Because of tho reception accorded the Aldrich Family film, "Tiie Ald. rich Family in Life With Henry" Paramount has decided to produce another iEa the series, Henry and Dizzles with Jackie Cooper and Ed~ de nraaken. The former picture has been shown co "snoak pgevlewa" only thus far.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Supt. of Schools Joseph A. Fitzgerald of New Ha- ven, who is a member of the Manresa Band of Re- treatants which annually goes from Waterbury to STaten island is patient at st. Raphaels hospital, where he underwent an appendicitis operation last Thursday afternoon. Dr. William Verdi performed the operation on the well.kn0wn educator When Dora R0dass0 starts thing she doesn't stop until she's finished If you don't believe me, ask Mrs. Richafd CrawIey, Frances Crawley, COrrine Murphy Geraldine Fisher or Marian R0cke. The group attended shower one night last week out In Prospect Coming home the baked long and tFeacher0us hill sO most of the party decided to get out and walk But not DOra she stuck to the wheel and drove that right up the hill where the entire party was able tO board t more and set sail for Waterbury .....
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Beatrice Zener of B Holt Street, Terryve, has been annoyed little by friends since an article appeared recipient of a diploma for flying In letter to this column Bea claims she was interested in the course and registered for it, but that's as far as 1t went She never took the course and presented diploma There it be- Bea! Albert Genua of Easton Avenue not the southpaw tennis star hopes his friends do not for Charles Street was year older last Saturday and the girls in the paint department of the N. Y. A. at Porter School wish to wish her belated greetings through the medium of this column. The gals Antoinette Ritucc Josephine Dameio Fschette, Louise Laudisi, Katherine Vitone and Marie Zaccaginni
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
BY BILL GARRIGUS

Patronize your home town mer- chants! Buy branded goods but buy them at home! The other day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

When General Eaton arrived home. nobody tossed any ticker tape at him or asked him to ride up Fifth Avenue. Congress got iT- to a fight and forgot to give him a medal. The General died in 1911, just in time to miss a first class war In which we whipped Great Britain and fought the Battle of New Orleans after peace had been declared by the diplomats. Bill Eaton was only l7 when he passed In his final statement but he had helped to make the Mediterranean Sea . halfway peaceful ocean. he had learned more about camels than F. T. Barnum ever knew, and he had out-f0ught Arabs and pirates In their own backyard. Somebody ought Co put a Inonu- ment to Bill on the Woodstock Green.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Jimmy McMahon of the North Main Street Me- MahOns bespectacled assistant superintendent of streets was taken i'll at his office last week and is now recuperating at home He expects to be back in the swing of his daily labOrs the end of the week At tOrney Albert BrOnsky of the city court Staf and hS able assistant Irene Diane, were missed by city hall associates Monday. Both were confined to their homes by illness Joe Summa president of the To- cal unit took in the installation of master and journey
 men barbers in MiddletOwn last night. MT and Mrs Jack Nierenburg of 911 Cooke Street celebrated
 their 10th wedding anniversary at dinner party at Waverly Inn Sunday night.
 Peggy Marie Gagain, II -year-Old daughter of MT.
 and Mrs Eppy Gagain of POT Homer Street Watervile royalty entertained IS of her neghborhoOd girl tends at birthday party Sunday although Monday was her natal day The hOnOred guest is one of the ves grand
 est and most heroic youngsters She's the queen 0f the fifth grade students at Sprague grammar school Peggy has had her share of the bumps along fes boulevard
 but she's taken them with a smile and gets as much, not fun out of the everyday routine of life than the ordinary child. physical handicap doesn't
 mean thing to yOungster like Peggy Marie Gagaln
 New York headlines last week telling of the plan to murder District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey which was spit out by yeowbelied gangSter now in GUS tody during murder Investigation thinking, we sup pose that by blowing the whistle on dead man he might save his own scrawny neck, particularly n- terestng to of Watebuys growing colony of Greeks most of whom associated with the nationally Ahepa society," This man. waiter in restaurant, had the doubtful honor of attending to the eatabes ordered by the lae but hardly lamented, Arthur F1egenhemer more commonly known as Dutch Schultz. Last week. the rat that squeaed to District Attorney ODwyer m Brooklyn said that Schultz had planned to murder Dewey personally that certain investigation in which the Dutchman was concerned would be suddenly halted. Fortunately perhaps for Dewey, the bullets of other gangsters caught up with Schultz in Newark restaur ant before he could through with his plan to murder Dewey if the person now in custody IS telling the truth which is probable under the circumstances When Schultz was hiding out he chose certain Bridgeport hotel for his outoftown headquarters and was in the habit of eating certain small restaurant not in the hotel dining room. One day. the Greek waiter knowing the reputation of his patron said T suppose you figure you are pretty smart fellow" Schultz reped "You have to be smart in my racket The waiter eaSed off with this one Well you might outsmart yourself one of these days" Sure enough happened for smart guy in the firing line of 38 calibre bullet has much chance as the proverbial snowball in Hades.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
South Britain Briefs

folks who were running the desert country were unreliable and the United States wanted somebody in power who would let a Yankee skipper or missionary ashore with out making him into sun-dried clirio. Eaton figured that ward heeler named Hamet would make a good First Selectnan, so he as- ,sembled his landing party and started ashore to hold an election. The General wasn't handicapped by any news correspondents or radio announcers. He just had himself to look out for, and he managed to turn in mighty ef- ficienS job, despite the Arab treachery.
 Just like the British, General Eaton had an accompanying squadron out there in the Medi- terranean Sea. Mir. Hamet. the new town official, went along with the Yankee column to take over in the name of the Sacred Date Palm every time the cOnstabulary and the camel corps pacified an oasis. Hamet was as full of tricks ss a camel is full of fleas, and General Eaton had several brushes with him and his desert followers. The march. starting from Alex andria on March 9th, 1865, was torture. Water gave out and some body broke the cider jug. The U. s. Navy lost contact with Bills gang and they watched the bug yards topside. and wondered if they'd ever live to eat another helping of baked beans.
 Finally over Bomba way, the U. s. s. Argus and the U. s. s. Hornet landed supplies and Eaton's Army stopped eating $11 camelS and got a few meals of regular rations. Fortified with fresh water, they pushed on to Derna, expecting little or no re- sistance. But here the Arab-in- charge mustered 300 men and told General Eaton that it was put up or shut up" Eaton put up." The Yankee fleet opened fire, Eaton got clipped in the wrist but he ordered Lieutenant O'Ban- non to take. one of the towns batteries and turn the guns around. After about 3 1-2 hours, the Yankees, the Irish, the Greeks and a few Arabs who hadn't run took over the town. Again, Con- necticut Yankee had proven that you can't stop 8 guy who believes he's right and who comes straight in shooting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Good Night.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Post Office
lobe Moved

ROSEVILLE Post master
Norman c. 2eindel today esti-
mated that the Roseville Post
Office would be moved to new
and larger quarters in approx
mately two weeks.
The larger building which will
house the Post Office Is not yet
completed, but contractors are
expected to have 1t ready for &C.
cupation within that time. All
equipment and furnishings in
the present station will be moved
to the new building as soon as
possible, Reindel said.
The new building is located on
the west side of Gratiot avenue
just north of Utica road, around
the corner from the present Pos
tai building. It has been leased
by the Postal Department to
meet the need for an expansion
of facilities.
Bids for moving the furnish
ings to the new location will be
accepted by Reindel up to 1000
a. m. on June 80. This includes
dismantling and re-installation
of all equipment.
Special forms for submitting
bids are obtainable at the Post
Office.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Increased Milk
Income Possible


oJust coax another pound Of
milk each day out OF each cow
in Michigan and dairymen In q
years time at present prices
can share added income in the
state to the tune of $4,320, 900.
That's $50 extra for each Of the
100000 farms that are consider
ed dairy farms in Michigan.
In addition to the added in
come the increased supply will
help answer requests of the fed
cral government in food phases
of national defense, according to
A. c. Baltzer, extension dairy
man at Michigan State College.
Michigan now has ar estimat-
ed $50, 900 dairy cows, Of which
10000 are on test in dairy herd
improvement or COW test associa-
tons. The testing association
herds already are producing eff
GENTLY, Baltzer says-its the
other 90 per cent of the state
cow population, which produce
50 per cent of the total milk
production, that can be more
efficient.
"Dairymen do not need larger
barns, more equipment, more
tillable acres or ENLARGED facili-
ties to produce an extra volume
Of milk" says Baltzer.
Extra cash is available to the
farmer who Is able to get one
pound more of milk daily from
each of his cows. Figuring cows
produce sos days each year, the
extra milk would have . value
annually Of $4,320,000. For each
cow the increase annually in
milk value could be $3.50. 1t
IL worthwhile to spend q little
extra labor, grain, feed and sill.
age for this cash return"
It Is estimated that the o2O,.
900 cows not on test are produc.
ing four billion pounds Of milk
annually in Michigan. The four
per cent Of the cows on test are
credited with IL per cent or .
half billion pounds of milk m.
nually.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-25
Mrs. {. Warner
Passes Away
Extended illness
Proves fotol

OMrs. Eva Warner, n died At
her home, 4102 North River
road. at 1890 o'clock last night
following m extended illnes&
Mrs. Warner was making her
home with her daughter, Mrs.
Ethel Merten who with one
granddaughter, Mary Merten,
are the sole survivors.
Funeral services will be held
from the Merten home at SIS
o'clock Friday morning and
from st. Louis Catholic church
at 8 am, Rev. FIR. Harold Rose
brook officiating. Interment
will be in the family lot In st.
Peters cemetery.