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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-09

look substantially. Instead the record
is full of astounding errors-of which
the most astounding was the presi-
dents cheerful acceptance of Gano
Dunns sanguine report on the ability
of the steel industry to supply the
coming demand. The principal error
was the failure to provide plan for
military production, which may be a
reflection of the lack of any known
grand strategy of military action. Pre-
sumably the general staff still does
not know whether it will fight in the
Western Hemisphere, or in Africa or
the Soviet Union.
1t is impossible to say how much
in national income and man-days work
the collective errors have cost the
country. According to one cautious
guess, it will run into billions this
year. to $5,OO0,000,000 in 1912. In
comparison, the 21s million man-days
which the War Department claims
have been 'lost in strikes" so far
this year are pretty small potatoes.
Planned Initiation
The tip-off on the failure of de-
Tense planning is found in the Off
cial anticipation that the excess prof
its tax will yield more than s1,000,000,-
900. A few shrewd government econ
omists think that this means that
the prices paid for war materials will
be inflated, and that consumer prices
will be inflated along with them.
They reason it this way: The demand
for limited supply of consumer
goods will force prices up. Ration
ing of scarce goods will be accom-
plished by allowing their prices to rise
high. One reason for this is that new
taxes (stiff as they are going to be)
will not be stiff enough to limit de-
mand In the absence of rationing,
will scramble for available
goods, while sellers will make excess
profits which the government will
take back via the excess profits tax.
If the tax program were adequate, if
direct rationing were provided Ito al
locate scarce goods on some other
principle than price,, or If production
Of consumers goods could keep pace
with demand, the excess profits tax
would yield little revenue. But the
the Budget Bureau, and the
Ways and Means Committee, appar-
emily have decided that initiation is
preferable to effective planning.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-09

including medicine, dentistry, phar-
macy, beauty culture, blacksmith.
In a letter to Governor Green urg-
ing him to veto the Dale bills just
after they had been passed by the leg
islature, Hugh DeLacy, national chair
man of the American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, stated that
they are discriminatory, contribute
to current hysteria and discrimina-
tion against the foreign-born, and are
contrary to the democratic procedure"
Governor Green's secretary acknowl-
edged Mr. DeLacy's letter, stating that
the views Of the American commit
tee would be considered when the
governor made his final decision on the
bills.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-09
H0BSS BILL
condemned
AS FASCISTIC

COmmittee Tor FrOtectIOn Of
Foreign Born Urge Defeat
of the Hobbs Concentration
Camp Bill; Says 1t Initiate.
Hitler.
NEW YORK, July 5.-The Hobbs
concentration camp bill CHR 81 was
condemned today as an expression OF
American fascism, in a statement made
public by Hugh DeLacy, national
chairman of the American Commit
tee for Protection of Foreign Born, 70
Fifth avenue, New York City.
''The American people cannot defeat
fascism anywhere else in the world
until they first make possible unity
of all the people in the United States
by defeating each and every effort to
delimit or destroy democracy in our
country" Mr.. DeLacy stated
The statement pointed out that
one of the immediate threats to dem
ocratic rights is to be found in the
Hobbs concentration camp bill CHR 81,
which is now pending before the house
rules committee. The statement con-
tinued
efforts are now being pressed to
secure the passage of HR 3. Every
American and every organization of
the American people must protest
to their own represent
atives and to their own senators de-
that the Hobbs bill for con-
camps be defeated.
This measure openly initiates Hit
Ter 1t would undermine democracy
and serve to weaken every effort to
unite the American people in the
common fight to defeat fascism. We
must not permit this attack on our
democracy to be successful. The
rights of every American, whether
native or foreign-born, whether citi-
zen or non-citizen, is seriously jeop-
ardized by this bill.
Immediate action is imperative
Write or wire your congressman and
your two United States senators urg-
ng them to speak and vote against the
Hobbs on n n a j o n camp bill
CHR 81.
Mr.. DeLacy also requested that
copies of all letters, kilograms or
resolution be sent to the American
Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born, 70 Fifth avenue, New York City.
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PROTECTION

Untangling the verbiage of the at
tacks upon strikers by the military
the Tri-County Herald, progressive N.
Y. state weekly, says: Labor is the
soldier in civilian clothes who is pro-
tecting the job security for the
draftees. >"
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You cannot control what you do
not ownl
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Important Position
Taken, EtoIions Soy

ROME, Jan. tP.-Renewed air
activity along the Albanian front
and the capture Of an important
position" from Greek troops were
reported today by the italian high
command"
A successful raid" was said to
have driven the Greeks from the
position where the Italians said
quantities of automatic weapons
and munitions were abandoned.
The Italian war bulletin said
several prisoners" we're taken by
the Fascist forces in patrol clashes
along the front.
Four enemy" planes were reported
shot down, one by italian anti-air-
craft guns in a raid on an Italian
base in Albania and three in q clash
Of fighter plane squadrons cruising
over the battlefront.
Another formation of ours" the
war bulletin said, despite unfavor-
able weather, bombed an important
enemy objective"
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Break in Cold Spell
Forecast Tomorrow

A break in the three-day cold
spell was due tomorrow, with the
weatherman predicting a slowly
rising temperature"
The mercury, after dropping to rs
degrees at 7:35 am. today, was
scheduled to dip to rs tonight, but
the Weather Bureau promised a
high of SO today, with fair weather.
The rising mercury tomorrow will
be accompanied by clouds, but the
snow predicted in an earlier fore
cast for tomorrow probably will not
materialize.
The promised warmer weather
will dash the hopes of some Wash
ingtonians of the younger set. Park
police had estimated that a few
more subfreezing days would thicken
the skim of ice on the Rejecting
Pool sufficiently for skating.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Race Haired Statute
Valid, Jersey Court
Holds in Bund Case
Kunze and Eight Others
Will Be Sentenced
On Jonuory 81
BY the Associated Press.

NEWTON, N. j., Jan. Sussex
County Judge John C. Losey upheld
today the constitutionality of New
Jerseys race hatred statutes and
set January 81 for the sentencing
of Wilhelm Kunze, national Ger
man-American Bund leader, and
eight bund associates on indict-
ments charging them with "promot-
ing hatred against people Of the
Jewish religion"
None of the men was in court
as Judge Losey delivered a half
hour long opinion. but their attor-
ney, John Winans, filed an excep-
ton Immediately and said he would
appeal. .
Maximum penalties under the law
are three years in prison and q
$1,000 fine.
Besides Kunze, the men are Au-
gust Klapprott Of Andover. the
bund's Eastern leader; Matthias
Kohler of Irvington, State bund
treasurer: Leonard D. Clark OF New
York, writer for the bund magazine
Free America: the Rev. John c. Fit
ting of Union City. State bund sec
retary; Richard Schiele and Paul
Schaarschmidt Of Paterson, Carl
Schipphorst of Glen Rock and
George Neuppert of Chside Park,
trustees of Camp Nordland.
Judge Losey's ruling was on de-
murrers filed by Mr.. Winans from
the individual indictments. The de-
PENDANTS admitted the facts in the
bills, but contended they were in
sufncient to warrant prosecution and
that the laws under which they were
returned were unconstitutional.
It was the first court test of the
statutes, passed in 1885.
The men were indicted last fall on
charges that speeches promoting ra-
cial hatred had been delivered dur
ing bund rally at Camp Nordland,
Andover Township. Klapprott. Koh-
Ter and Clark were charged with
making the speeches, the others with
permitting them.
Wilbur v. Keegan Of West New
York, bund attorney. also was in
dicted for permitting the speeches,
but chose to test the indictment by
standing trial No trial date has been
set.
THE right of free speech is not
an absolute license to publish, print
or speak anything one pleases,"
Judge Losey said, citing Federal mail
restrictions as constitutional con-
troll.
Il am of the opinion that the
indictments sufficiently charge the
defendants with violation Of the
statutes" his opinion said
Only the racial aspect Of the
statutes, which prohibit inciting race
or religious hatred, was involved,
Judge Losey went on.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Navy Expects TO Add
1000 Planes This
Year Despite Delays
Admiral Towers Tells
House Group Output
Is Being Increased

President Roosevelt told Con-
oress yesterday that "tUe are
ahead OF schedule in building
WdrShips," but that "lCe are be-
hind schedule in turning out fin
ished dirpldnes." He said he Uas
mot satisfied" nth progress
made so Jar in rearmament.
Rear Admiral John H. Towers
told Congress today that despite
delays and bottlenecks the Navy
expected to add about 1000 air.
planes to its fleet this year.
The chief of naval aviation. testi-
flying at the opening of an investi-
CATION of the Navy's shipbuilding
and aircraft programs by the House
Naval Affairs Committee. disclosed
thai the number the Navy ex-
pected to receive this month was
334-about double that of December
In response to questions by Chair
man Vinson, Admiral Towers said
that while he was "of course, not
satisfied with the present output
he felt that everything possible was
being done to remedy the situation
Discussing delivery schedules
which he said had not been main-
tanned, Admiral Towers told the
committee that among the reasons
were shortage of machine tools and
tool makers and failure of some sub
contractors to fulfill their oblga-
tions to prime contractors.
$3.50 Planes on Hand.
The admiral said that on January
/ the Navy had $3.50 planes on hand
and expected to add about 1000
during the next II months. About
300 would have to be deducted, he
said, to compensate for anticipated
losses due to crashes and other
causes
Comparing the future schedule
with deliveries of the last three
(Soa NAUY pa0a A.2O
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Roosevelt College Days Friend
Confined in Nuzi Prison Camp

He was decorated by the British and
after the World War opened q law
ONCE in Paris. He joined the Brit
ish Army again in January, 1910,
was made captain and a liaison
ofiicer between French and British
in Flanders. He was commissioned
without taking an oath of allegiance
to the King, he told representatives
Of the Embassy who visited him in
prison camp.
For a time Capt. Morgan con-
cealed his nationality, describing
himself as a Canadian born at Que
bee. Subsequently it was estab-
lished from his passport, which he
had left in Paris, that he was born
at Plymouth, Mass, July IA, 1884.
At Harvard University he was q
fellow editor of President Roose-
welt on the Harvard Crimson. He
married Louise Warfield of Balti-
more, who now resides in Paris
Explaining his concealment of his
American citizenship, Capt. Morgan
told Embassy officials he was afraid
he would be taken from his friends
in the British officers prison camp
near Salzburg, Bavaria, and internec
with British civilians. He Is q short
muscular man with sandy hair, gray
mustache.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Fire Bombing JanuarY2
Denied by Germany
B, the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Jan. Germany today
disclaimed any responsibility for
bombs dropped near Dublin the
night of January 2-3, but said 1t
was possible that German planes
might have flown over neutral
Ireland Eire) the night of January
IL, authorized sources said.
The German government prom
ised the Irish Charge d'Affaires In
Berlin that 1t would continue nego-
tiations concerning the flights and
reported bombing and would offer
regrets and reparations for possible
damage If investigations showed
German flyers were to blame.
OF bomb fragments allegedly
shown to be Of German origin,
a communique said:
British lie agitation is at work
to have this assertion appear as
a planful German challenge to Ire
land.
This has q specially vicious
effect II one remembers how the
British air force itself time and
again Systematically violated foreign
territory as over Marseille, Geneva,
Zurich, Basel, ETC., causing damage
there -.
OF The second nights bombing, it
added, "as in the case Of the Athena,
suspicion arises that they were
English bombs dropped with pro.
vocatory intentions after Churchill
methods"
Evening star., 1941-01-07
3, the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Jan. Capt. Charles
Davis Morgan, United States citi-
zen and college days friend OF
President Roosevelt, is in German
prison camp, the United States En-
bassy disclosed today.
Capt. Morgan, whose wife, Louise
Warfield Morgan of Baltimore, is q
cousin Of the Duchess of Windsor,
was captured early in June while
fighting in the British army in the
Battle of Flanders, the Embassy said.
Capt. Morgan's case has been car
ried to the White House by various
friends, it was disclosed, but under
international law he is factually q
British soldier because he Joined
the British forces and took part in
combat.
His case is thus distinguished from
those of American ambulance drivers
who already have been released.
They were noncombatants. The
Germans indicated they would have
been willing to release Capt. Morgan,
but were afraid it would set q prece-
dent for similar treatment for Amer
lean pilots whom they expect may
be brought down In British planes.
Capt. Morgan is 56. He fought
for the British IN the World War.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Turkey Acts to Keep
Armed Forces MobiIized

ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 7 R.-
Aware of the big German Army now
in Rumania, the Turkish govern
ment acted today to keep modified
for another year all men now under
arms.
The Assembly passed the govern
ments bill prolonging service for all
classes under arms, including re-
cruits 81 years old and over.
The number of men affected is not
publicly known, since official sources
decline for military reasons to say
how many men have been modified
No reason for extending the service
was announced, but observers gen.
orally concluded it was q result Of
the Balkan situation.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Exeter, Delayed by Gall,
Arrives From Lisbon
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSs.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. DE
layed "a hours by a northwest gale,
the American Export liner Exeter
arrived today from Lisbon with 181
passengers, including IS American
citizens.
Among them was Miss Anne Nor
gan, head of the American Friends
of France, who was met at the pier
by her brother, j. P. Morgan. She
said lack of funds for her organiza-
ton caused her return and added
that there was no interference by
German authorities in her relief
work
Edward Reed, recently American
charge d'afYaires in Rome, returned
to report to Washington on condi-
tions in Italy. He declined to dis
cuss his report.
Mr.. Reed said he had been denied
visa to enter Germany to catch q
plane for Lisbon. but he was at loss
to explain the action Of the German
authorities. .
Evening star., 1941-01-07
British Report Big Jump
In Meningitis Cases
~ the Associated Press.

~ VIC hSSOCidlco fIeSS.
LONDON, Jan. Sir Wilson
Jameson, chief medical officer of
the Health Ministry, disclosed today
that Britain was experiencing a
marked wartime increase in cerebro-
spinal fever (meningitis).
He said cases reported to him in
creased from 1,500 in 1899 to about
1880 In 1910. The 1888 figure was
1858.
Sir Wilson added that, although
1--WE are still very much afraid of
cerebro-s spinal fever, our great dread
of It has gone" because the NOR
tality rate had fallen to "a fraction
OF what it once was"
An increase in reported pneumonia
cases from $4,000 in 1899 to nearly
$4,000" in 1910 also was reported.
Enteric fever cases, he said,
mounted from 1,500 in 1899 to $500
last year.
Dysentery cases, after dropping
from Alto in 1888 to 963 in 1889,
rose to $500. he said.
Against these figures, covering
England and Wales, Sir Wilson cited
drops in the prevalence of dipi1theria
and scarlet fever and asserted that
Britain's health "is standing up well
to the strain of war"
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Fuscists' Hold on
TepeIeni- i-KIisuro
Area Weakening
Bv tht Associated Press.

Bv tht Associated Press.
ATHENS, Jan. THE Greeks re-
ported new gains today both in the
coastal sector and north of Klisura
and said the italian hold in the Tep-
eleni-Klisura region of Albania was
weakening.
An advance northeast of Chimara,
dispatches from the front said,
threatens to cut the Italian COM
munications between Tepeleni and
Valona, the Greeks next major OBJ
jective in Southwestern Albania.
North of Klisura, they said, cap
ture of 5,500-foot height gave
Greek forces command of a large
area to the rear of italians still hold
ing out around the town. The peak
is near another 4,5O0-foot height re-
ported taken the day before in that
zone, where the Italians admittedly
are putting up strong resistance.
Prisoners Taken Daily.
Greek claims of the number of
prisoners taken mount slowly, with
each day bringing reports OF a hun
dred or more. Yesterday, for in
stance. a government spokesman
said, 222 prisoners, including five off,
GERS, were captured. With each
group. the Greeks say, they get large
quantities of war material.
Italian casualties are also said to
have been heavy in the last few days.
Reports from the front said that in
the loss of one height all its Italian
defenders were captured, killed or
wounded, and that in both fighting
areas many wounded had been left
behind in swift Fascist Withdrawals.
An air bombardment of Valona
was reported by the Royal Air Force
It's communique said British bomb
ers. bucking rain and low clouds,
left several fires burning fiercely
after scoring bomb hits on buildings
and warehouses and in the water
front district. Loss of che of the
raidtng planes was acknowledged.
Italians Resist Stifly.
A government spokesman pictured
the heavily Italian de-
fense lines as resisting stiffly-but
still Welding.
The high command limited its
regular communique to five words:
Renewed patrol and air activity"
The spokesman said improving
weather permitted a step-up in the
fighting, and declared Greek forces
drove ahead yesterday in two
sectors.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Paraguay Troops March
On Asuncion Reported

8! the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jan.
THE newspaper La Naction, in 4
dispatch from Formosa, Argentine
privincial capital close to the Para
guayan border, said today there
were rumors that Paraguayan mill
tary forces from the Chaco regions
were marching toward Ascunsion.
The Paraguayan Legation here
said it had no news of any disorder
in the Paraguayan capital.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
British Convoys
Hold Mastery
Of the Seas
Escape Shells, Bombs,
Mines, Torpedoes
To Reach Port
BY DREW MIDDLETON,

ABOARD A BRITISH DE-
STROYER OFF THE FRENCH
COAST, Jan. despite shells
bombs, mines and torpedoes, despite
wrecks which dot the frigid waters
Britannia still appears to rule these
waves.
From the destroyer's bridge. ]
can see many merchantmen. Con-
voys bound north and south are
stringing out, their barrage balloons
nodding in gray skies. Destroyers
marshal our convoy at the mouth of
a harbor. Each of the merchant
men carries three or four freight
(See CONVOYS, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1941-01-07
By ROBERT BRUSKIN.

Conditions in the vital machine
tool industry were declared today
to be chaotic and rapidly growing
worse" because of indecision and the
rapidly changing nature of the
Nations rearmament program.
A spokesman of the National
Machine Tool Makers Association,
which met today at the Carlton
Hotel to discover new methods Of
speeding production, declared that
failure Of the Army and Navy to
inform machine tool makers exactly
what was needed for future pro-
duction was preventing planned
expansion.
I'VE cannot expand a plant simply
because some Government offlcial
tells us verbally" the spokesman
declared. but that is what we are
expected to do. We need actual
orders: we need to know far in
advance what We will be expected to
produce: and We need better
system of priority because at this
moment nearly all orders for
machine tools are marked Al
priority"
On December Q, he said, the Pri-
critics Committee Of the Joint Army
and Navy Munitions Board ordered
the Al priorities re-examined. The
result was that gauges and machine
tools used by the industry to manu-
facture other tools were given a rat
ing of ALA. while less important
tools were rated at ALB, A-1-C, etc.
Reuther Plan Held Impractical.
The association met in closed
sessions. William S. Knudsen,
chief of production of the Defense
Commission, was to speak at pm,
also at a closed meeting.
Members of the association de-
clared that the plan of Walter
Reuther, head of the c. I. O.
United Automobile Workers, to pro-
duce 500 pursuit planes a day
through utilization of idle facilities
in automobile plants, was highly
impractical.
They declared that the machines
were suitable only for automobiles
and were idle chiefly because they
were outmoded and ineff1cient. One
official declared that the Defense
Commissions project for utilization
of tools in ghost towns with idle
manufacturing facilities was equally
impractical for the same reason.
An official of the association de-
clared that q study was now being
made by an organization member
to determine exactly how many and
how much would be needed from the
machine tool industry within the
next few years, so that plans for
CSee MACHINE TOOLS. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-01-07
British PIone Needs
Discussed at Treasury
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding of
the British r. A. F. called on Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Morgenthau to-
day to discuss Britain's plane needs
Sir Hugh declined to discuss the
meeting, but said he would hold q
press conference later today.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
British BIust Ships

LONDON, Jan. 7 (P.-British
bombers damaged an enemy" mer-
chantman of the coast Of Norway
and scored a direct hit on an "en-
emy" tanker Of the Netherlands
coast yesterday, the Air Ministry
reported today.