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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07

fought, but we anticipate an Iowa
triumph.
We don't envy Frank Kim
brough's assignment. He has to
send his Baylor forces against the
stampeding sons of the University
of Texas. Speaking of Texas. the
crack of the week was turned In
by a follower of the Bible-coached
squad. He wired this writer CATER
our recent error in picking Rice TO
upset Texas: fN - y
1.-THE Longhorns don't like YOU
TO give the public bum steers. ".
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.. Nov
I.-(INS) - Probable return tc
action Of wingback Don Jones from
the injured list cheered the Rutgers
gridiron camp today as the team
made final arrangements for its
weekend middle three duel against
Lafayette.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
Wings Are Angry
Eastern Experts Call Detroit 81 Shot in MIL;
Now They're ndienant-Look Out, ReneersI
BY LEWIS II. WALTER

That noise you hear from the
direction of Olympia today is the
indignant and incredulous roar of
the Detroit Red Wings at the news
they have been priced as IS to l
shots in the National Hockey
League championship race.
Only the New York Americans,
at IS to l. have been given longer
price than the Detroiters in New
York and Montreal quotations.
The Boston Bruins have been
made S-5 favorites to retain the
title. while Toronto Maple Leafs
are quoted at 81. Montreal Cana
diens and New York Rangers 6-l,
and Chicago Blackhawks, 25-1.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
Scots Must Win TO
CIineh M. |. A. A. Tile;
w. State Risks Record

TOMoRRow's CAMS
MARQUETTE ~ Detroit.
NiehiEan State a. Purdue.
Manchester az W. Michigan.
Michigan Normal AZ Wayne.
Albion al Alma
Hiiisdals At Adrian.
Kalamazoo At Hope.
Grand Rapids ~ Cen. Michigan
Oshkosh (Nis Teachers at Oct. Tech
ne sales At Al. Mays.
Ferris Inst. At Lswrence Tech.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
rsuII llonsd kq luallkao.

Devils homecoming contest. Part
of the most elaborate program in
Techs history will be the dance
at State Fair Grounds after the
game, sponsored by the Lawrence
Varsity Club and featuring Artie
|Shaw'S orchestra.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
Crash Kills Father Of 3

GRAND RAPIDS, Nov. T.
(INS)-Charles w. Bucket. 80,
father of three small daughters.
died today of injuries received
when his car crashed into a tree
at the brink of a 75-foot gulch.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07

For the Inside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column In the Timee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
STILL EXPERIMENTS

Coach Frank Boucher is still ex-
perimenting with the Ranger club
he is bringing into town today,
but Detroit knows the Rangers
will be tough.
Boucher has shifted Phil Wat
son to left wing and put Clint
Smith, scoring hero of the Toronto
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07
OUT OF LINE

eff i were gambler I'd like
10 get little piece of those odds
myself" said Manager Jack
Adams. Those prices are strictly
out of line. The Red Wings are
what race track gamblers call an
eFerlay.. Those prices must have
been made before We heat Cana
diens and tied Americana
I'VE have q better team than
last year when we finished third
and you can't tell mo that the
Rangers, for instance, are more
than twice as good as we are, as
the odds indicate. Why, we
held an edge on them last year
and knocked them out OF the
playoffs.v
Adams is the first person wht
will admit the Rangers are good
That 4-3 decision over the Mapl,
Leafs on Toronto ice last Satur
day night speaks for itself. But the
New Workers, who arrive in De
troit today to battle the Wing,
still aren't favoriteS over
the Wings in Adams mind, or TIT
PLAYERS,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
ORGANIZING
AGAINST LABOR
Is CLAIMED

ITO break the back of organized
labor" is the aim Of the major United
States industries, according to In
Fact, published today.
Says In Fact: "a MINOR produc-
ton executive in e. l. DUPONT Chem
icals, munitions), whose reliability is
known to IN FACT, supplies the fol-
lowing amazing information:
"a field representative from the
center of the DUPONT empire in VIII
mington has for the last two weeks
been travelling about the us. calling
meetings of DUPONT executives in
each territory. At these meetings he
explains that the major U. S. indus
tries have agreed to curtail produc-
ton for two months to break the
back of organized labor Industry's
strategy is to blame labor for the de-
cline in production, preparing the
ground for drastic anti-labor legisla-
ton at the end of May, one year after
the adoption of similar legislation in
England. Meanwhile the two-month
period will be used to condition the
plants for intensive production undis-
turbed by the necessity for collective
bargaining The DUPONT representa-
tive, for obvious reasons, did not put
these instructions in writing AT the
meeting attended by IN FACTS in
formant, he concluded: II we succeed,
we're going to make millions out of
this
~ S. industry has gone on strike
before, and 1T has usually gained its
ends. There is evidence that big
business cut production in 1897 in pro-
test against the excess profits tax
Big business struck last summer to
secure notifications in laws provid-
ing profit limitation on government
contracts, as Monograph &C." the
TNEC report, showed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
WORKERS MUST
Remember
OF 1917
BY SCOTT NEARING

Magical are the changes of the pas
IL months In the position of U. S
big business. A year ago business
was slumping. The boomlet following
the outbreak Of war In September
1889 had spent itself. In the early
days of April 1910 The New York
Times business index was under 49,
Since then 1t has advanced steadily
and rapidly to 122-a figure that is
we'll above 1928 levels.
This latest prosperity wave is due
wholly to orders from the government
of France, Britain, Japan and espe-
cfally the u. S. Within the next two
years 1t is estimated that the u s.
alone will spend not less than $780,
O00,000,000 for war purposes. These
huge war orders have lifted u. S.
business from depression depths to
the heights of prosperity.
No one even pretends that economic
recovery Is due to the energy, wis
dom or initiative of private business
or businessmen. Government spend
Ah6 10 1iCdO ACcpouoiDiC iOi CSOHOlulC
recovery.
Bethlehem Steel tops the list of
government contracts with $1,114,0 00,-
900. Newport News Shipbuilding is
second with s493, 100000. Then comes
U. s. Steel with $393,000,000; New
York Shipbuilding with $381,000,00O,
and so on down the list. A New York
Times survey shows that six principal
Industrial corporations with total
business in 1899 of s1,003, ass, 900 have
received since last summer defense
orders and subsidies for plant expan-
sion totaling s623,S77,00O, or 62% Of
their entire 1899 business volume.
Profits for Industrial corporations
In 1910 were far above 1888 and 1899
In the iron and steel industry they
were $500 over 1899 In machinery,
they were up 69%; and in wooden
goods 44%o. Business is booming and
profits are soaring.
So much Is taken for granted by
big business and its spokesman. War
orders mean prosperity and profits.
Another factor must be reckoned
with, however: the men and women
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
PEACE GROUP
TO JOURNEY In
so. AMERICA
Representatives of Farm
Groups in the U. S. to Meet
With Similar Groups in So.
America to Study Conditions,
President of F. u. in Group.

Representatives of several United
States farm groups will leave New
York on Friday, April IL to confer on
mutual problems with agricultural
leaders In South American countries,
on a trip sponsored by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace,
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, president
Of the endowment, announced today.
Members of the group include J..
Elmer Brock, president of the Amer
lean National Livestock Association,
from Kaycee, Wyoming; Howard Hill,
member Of the Iowa Farm Bureau of
Minburn, Iowa; James Patton, presi-
dent of Farmers Union, Denver, Colo
RADIO; Theodore w Schultz, professor
Of agricultural economics, Iowa State
College, Ames, Iowa; and Harry E.
Terrell, secretary of economic policy
committee, Des Moines, Iowa.
According to DR.. Butler, "the pur-
pose of the trip is to establish per-
5onal contacts between the farm lead
ers Of the United States and the
southern countries and to make pos
sible first-handed observation of To-
cal conditions and the problems with
which farm and ranch interests in
these countries are faced" 1t is
hoped that through friendly discus
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
ANA. GUILTY
BREAKING anti
TRUST LAWS
Jury in District of Columbia
Finds Medical Association a
Violator of Anti Trust Laws
In Trying to Break Health
Cooperative.

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-The Ameri.
can Medical Association and the Dis
trict of Columbia Medical Society are
law violators, guilty of breaking the
antitrust laws.
Ten men and two women, compos-
ing a jury in the federal district court
here, this week brushed aside all the
glamour which the highly paid attor-
neys had tried to cast round the or
ganized medical groups and bluntly
declared they had Illegally conspired
to destroy Group Health, a District of
Columbia cooperative medical assoc
citation
Eighteen doctors, also indicted with
the medical associations, were ac-
quilted after their lawyers had put in
hours pleading with the Jurors mot
to send them back" with the stain of
law violators on them. Why the jury
freed the doctors was a question with
even the doctors who said 1t was
queer that the medical associations
were guilty and the doctors were not.
But the jurors may have decided to
show mercy to the individual doctors
in answer to the sob-pleading made
by their attorneys.
The ANA officials announced inn
mediately they would appeal the de-
cision which obviously shocked them.
The only penalty the court can inn
pose will be comparatively small
fine against the association. Officials
cannot be penalized. 1t is possible,
however that Group Health may
prove that the illegal activities of the
association injured Group Health and
IL so, Group Health would be able
to sue the medical groups for three
times the amount Of the financial in
Jury.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
BEThL EHEM'S
STOCK H0LD ERS
0TEST ACTS
Steel Company's Stockhold-
ers' Meeting Not As Peace
full As Is Usual; Objections
Raised to Labor Policy of
Company.

WILMINGTON, Del.-(FP)-A gen.
tle-voiced 72-year-old woman led a re-
volt of handful of stockholders of
Bethlehem Steel Corp. against the
company's union-busting policy at the
annual meeting April 8.
She was Miss lara DUPONT Of Cam
bridge, Mass, first cousin of Pierre
S. dupont and sister Of former Sen.
T. Colman DUPONT. In a 1,300-word
statement, Miss DUPONT charged that
Bethlehem's anti-labor policy was
"sabotaging national defense" and
"subverting democracy"
Handling the speaker with kid
gloves, Chairman Eugene G. Grace an
swered that there was "a great deal
of misunderstanding about Bethle-
hem's labor policy" and averred that
"our employees may have whatever
form of bargaining they want"
Then the so persons present In a
small green-carpeted room with
facsimile of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence on the wall voted down Miss
duPont's motion. Only four votes
were cast for her proposal that "all
labor laws, especially the Natl. Labor
Relations Act, shall be obeyed" by
the company, and that Bethlehem
grant an immediate adjustment of
wages commensurate with the in
creased earnings of the company"
Miss DUPONT also urged in vain that
the company set a $4,000 ceiling on
salaries and bonuses until the annual
wage Of the lowest-paid worker is
$4,000, and that pensions for execu-
tives be limited to $4,000 until the
workers minimum Is $1,000.
Previously the meeting voted down
news editor OF Federated Press, that
'in the interest Of efficient produc-
ton for national defense this stock
holders meeting instruct the officers
Of the corporation: u Immediately
to sever, disavow and renounce all
with company unions;
(2) to post notices in all of its plants
advising the employees of this action;
and (3) to proceed with diligence and |
speed In negotiation and execution of
written contracts with legitimate I'M
ons In it's various plants" Only |
hree persons, including Miss dupont, |
yoted for this motion on a show of |
hands asked for by Grace.
Grace refused to answer most ques-
ions asked by Crosby. He busted
himself In conversation with other Of
icers and occasionally commented: /
Go ahead-finish your speech"
why does Bethlehem refuse to sign
ontracts with unions?' Crosby asked.
That's not true. We have signed
ontracts," Grace retorted.
with what unions?"
81 can't tell you off-hand"
"As the president Of this corpora
ion, don't you known"
II am not going to answer your
uestions," Grace replied, and then
vent into huddle with company
awyer.
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and 16 groups controlling 10
companies hold 62.5 percent.
In all, 80 concerns have re-
ceived IS percent of the total
contracts so far issued.
The two outstanding groups are
DUPONT and Bethlehem Steel, the Out
look adds, each having well over a
billion dollars worth of orders.
st might be noted" the CLIO says,
that most of the major interest
groups which have the large cuts in
the national defense quotas are repre-
scented by major officials on the Natl
Defense Commission"
This concentration results in slow
ing up the arms program, the Out
look points out, since:
l. 1t gives a few companies exces-
sive backlogs which take considerable
time to work off.
2. Only small portion of total us.
industrial plant is used.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
MONTGOMERY
CASE AGAIN
TO BE HEARD
By O'TOOLE

The Montgomery case - the weird
story of how bank, now a chain
bank, looted the estate of a pioneer
Montana stockman, reduced widow
and her children to poverty, and fin
ally evicted the children from the very
land they were born on, will again
be heard in the Dillon court on April
81, 1871.
William Montgomery was pioneer
Montana stockman. He was one of
those men who helped to build Mon
tana. William Montgomery died on
October 23, 1919. Besides an estate
valued at more than $300,00000 he
left fine family. Montgomery in
his last will and testament provided
for every member of that family. A
piece of land for each of his boys, a
substantial living for his wife, and
provision was made for good edu-
cation and a substantial amount of
money for each of his daughters.
In his will, Montgomery directed
that J. B. Poindexter and ]. H. Gilbert
both of Dillon act as executors, set
thing the estate as rapidly as possibly,
then to become trustees of the estate.
1t seems J. B. Poindexter shortly
thereafter was made governor of the
Hawaiian Islands and moved to Homo
lulu This left Gilbert and the First
National Bank of Dillon, of which he
was president free hand and
chance to work alone. Reading what
followed from the court record, out
does the most fantastic wild west
story. Cattle disappeared by the hun
dred; they were lost in transit and
they never came back. Horses dis
appeared as though snatched by a
magic hand The ranches never
showed profitable year of operation.
handed deeds to the lands left to the
children. Then large sums of money
were borrowed from other banks, even
the federal land bank of Spokane on |
these dummy deeds. The widow was |
busy with her children, and In that |
day and age people still implicitly |
trusted banks and bankers. The little |
loot ring of the bank continued. They |
speculated wildly and unwisely. AS |
the Montgomery boys grew older they |
began to wonder about what was |
wrong. If they went into the bank
to ask, they were told to get to hell |
home and mind their business" But
faith is a peculiar thing and despite /
all Of this, faith in the bank and the
banker persisted.
1t persisted right up to the day
when the banker arrived at the Mont
gomery home and told the widow that
the places were SO heavily indebted
that they would be foreclosed on and
asked her and the family to pack their |
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
Tax Program Next
On Congressional Agenda

With Congress having voted billions
for national defense and aid to nations
resisting totalitarian aggression, the
next big problem the lawmakers on
Capitol Hill will have to tackle is that
of increased taxes. AND THAT'S A
HEADACHE!
Present taxes are estimated to yield
about 10 billion dollars for 1871, while
outgo probably will be between 20
and 81 billions. The Treasury, It Is
known, wants approximately billion
in additional revenue, probably more.
On the Hi they are talking of voting
about 2 billions In Increased taxes.
The boys who shout the loudest
that the country will go to the devil
if we don't come close to balancing
the budget, aren't 80 keen in these
days of heavy outlay about putting
this program into actual practice II
it means sticking the big fellow who
is waxing fat on war profits. real
tax the profits out OF war" bill such
as proposed by the Veterans of For
eign Wars legislative lobby in Wash
ington would virtually double revenue,
but there is no danger OF anything
like that being attempted. business
must have incentive!" They do not
want to take FDR too literally in his
declaration that the present national
emergency must not create new
batch of war millionaires. And when
we make muIti-miiIionalres out Of just
plain, ordinary mIIIIonaires, It shows
that this country is still the land OF
opportunity for everybody! It's only
the workers who shouldn't try to bet
ter their economic condition.
They are still trying to drum up
public sentiment for general sales
tax land even though DR.. Gallup says
public sentiment for such tax is
growing, it doesn't appear likely that
1t will be attempted at this time. The
politicians are afraid of it. But the
idea hasn't been abandoned Alto
gether, and is certain to pop up sooner
or later.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
WAGE RAISES
'UNPAT RI0TIC'
new ANGLE
Propagandists Against Labor
Now Using "Think-of-the-
Poor-Soldiers" Angle; Big
Business Stooges and Draft
Boards Joining the Chorus.

NEW YORK.-(FP)-A new line Of
attack on defense strikes is being
utilized by newspapers, anti-labol
congressman and other labor enemies
The theme is that it Is unpatriotic
for labor to demand Zoe wage in
creases while the boys in the army
are sacrificing themselves for $21 q
month.
Nothing OF course Is said about COM
pany executives and stockholders who
are making thousands Of extra dollars
In profits.
The think-of- -poor-soldiers argu-
ment has been widely used in recent
weeks. 1t was advanced April 9 by
a stakeholder at the annual meeting
of Western Union Telegraph Co.,
when union worker asked that the
company grant wage increases.
In Milwaukee, 10 boys of draft age,
asserting they were indignant that
labor leaders have permitted iawless-
ness, terrorism and sabotage to be-
tray our defense program" formed
the Defense Comes First Committee.
A draft board in Mitchell county,
Georgia, recently announced that it
would defer all registrants until de-
Tense strikes stop. w. B. Grant,
chairman Of the board, subsequently
resigned. Thomas F. Latta,, draft
board member in Cleveland, quit for
the same reason.
A protest against defense strikes
was wired to national draft headquar-
ters by another local board in Lewis
county, New York. Action by these
local officials recalls labor's protests
against being ignored in draft board
Labor representation
averages only 5.7%, Federated Press
survey indicated last fall
Rep. Eugene G. Cox 3D., Ga.), first
% propose antf-strike legislation In
congress, described the Georgia
boards action as IAN awful indict-
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y While the circumstances surround
/ ing the resignation" of DR., Simmons
submitted to Governor Ford as head
of board of education with ma
jority of new members, is shrouded
in the mystery attendant upon an ex-
ecutive session of the board, it ap-
pears that in some way, Simmons
managed to drive a bargain which
gave him some outstanding advan-
tages.
While his resignation as president
of the university does not become eff
fective until the expiration of his
present contract on September 1 OF
this year, he was granted leave of
absense with pay until that time. In
addition to that, he is recognized as
holding the position of professor of
zoology at the institution from Sep
TENDER / of this year until April l
of next year with leave of absense
and drawing pay during the period
Dismissal Rumored
Current rumors before the meeting
of the board of education were that
DR.. Simmons was either going to be
summarily. dismissed or suspended
from duty while another investigation
of his conduct of the office of presi-
dent was carried out. 1t appears like
ly that the new board of education
took the easiest way out by making
a bargain" with him, and while the
salaries paid him while on leave
of absense" amount to quite a sum,
it may be considered that investiga-
tions cost money also.
Economies
In his letter of resignation, Sim
mons spoke of the reduction in the
general budget of the institution and
stated that I'VE have indicated ways
in which such economies may be prac-
ticed without injury to the institu-
ton" Apparently the worthy ex-
president did not include his salaries,
paid him while rendering no service,
except by his absense, as one of the
economies which might have been
practiced.
New Prexy
Professor Charles Leaphart, dean of
the college of law was elected letting
president by the board Immediately
on acceptance of Simmons resigna-
lion.
DR.. Leaphart is recognized as one OF
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-16
BILLIONS FOR
GUNS, LITTLE
FOR FARMERS
BY JEANNETTE RANKIN

Congress spent an entire week In
providing more money for armament
and for national defense-fourteen bill
lion dollars was voted in eight days,
which Is an all time record.
The budget bureau and other agen-
cies have indicated that because of
the large drains being made upon the
Public Treasury by the tremendous
defense program, 1t will be necessary
for the farmers to get along with less
during the coming year However,
the senators and representatives from
the farm districts have made it known
in no uncertain terms that they will
not agree to have the farmer and
stock raiser made the goat" in this
manner.
Right now when labor and industry
are getting bigger and richer con-
tracts every day is a poor time to tell
the farmer that he must make greater
sacrifices and receive less farm relief
than in years past. In fact, although
tho matter has not come to final
vote as yet, there promises to be a
good-sized revolt of middle western
and western legislators If any con-
crete effort is made to make agricul-
ture the stepchild of the government
in this time of national and interna-
tional crisis.
At the time when this country went
through the dark days of the depres-
sion, when hundreds of banks folded
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