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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12
T. c. Power Empire Builder Helped Develop Montana From
Vast Wilderness One of Greatest Treasure Producing States
Rx WTLCHEY

Senator T. c. Power, 10 the time
Of his death, was among the little
group Of outstanding men who
came 70 Montana in the early days
and assisted materially In develop
ing this section from a wilderness
into a great commonwealth. He
came to the state TO reside perma-
nentIy In 1867, and ever since that
time was a foremost figure In the
financial and business world. He
was active in many lines, and
nearly everything that his master
mind gave attention succeeded.
He established many mercantile in
stitutions and trading establishments
was a big factor IN the fur trade, and
operated fleet of steamboats,, plying
between Fort Benton, then the head
of navigation on the upper Missouri,
and st. Louis, then the QUILTING point
of all the northwestern country. This
fleet, the famous Block P" line, was
the controlling factor of river naviga-
ton until the coming Of the railroad.
Born in Iowa
Senator Power was born in Dubuque,
Ia, May %, 1885, His father, Michael
w. EOWcI, Was bOIA III II C4dAANf dAl1u
his mother, who was Catherine McLeer
before her marriage, was born in Ha-
gerstown, Md. Michael Power came to
the United States when a boy and
settled in Iowa, at that time one OF
the frontier districts, new and I'M
developed. He was married to Miss
McLeer in 1886 in the village Of Pgu,
a suburb Of Dubuque By occupation
he was a farmer. He also conducted
merchandising for some years, besides
engaging in lead mining. He was a
true type Of the industrious and en-
terprising emigrant from the Emerald
isle and did his full share in intro
ducing civilization into what is now
one of the most prosperous and en-
Hghtened states Of the union. He died
near the site of his original settlement
In the 5Oth year Of his life. His wife
survived for years, reaching the age
OF rs before passing into the beyond.
They were the parents of four children,
John w. Power, Miss Sarah E. Power,
Mrs. T. L. Martin and Senator Power.
Ambitious for Education
The childhood and youth of Senator
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12

Power was passed on the farm in
Iowa, and he being the eldest Of the
children, his services we're early requi-
sitioned for farm work In the country
schools Of those days he received the
rudiments of an education, and being
Of a studious mind and a natural lover
of books, he determined to supplement
his earlier educational advantages with
a term at college and accordingly he
completed course Of three years at
Sissinawa Mound college, IN Wiscon-
sin, during which he gave special at
tention to the sciences and civil engi-
neering. After finishing his college
course he taught school for some time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12
Breed Fall Litters

Although fall pig production has not
been practiced widely in Montana
largely because of wintering difficult
ties and absence OF pasture, some grow
ers may wish to participate In the
nations food for defense" program
this year and produce fall pigs, says
E. P. circuit, extension livestock spe-
cialist at Montana State college. In
that case. he said. now is the time to
breed for fall filters.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12
Warn Fur Business

Danger that the American fur In
dustry may head into spiral with
an equally rapid descent towards the
a reasonable price level is maintained
by American furriers, Frank @. Ash
brook, fur expert Of the fish and Wild
life service, United States department
Of interior, warned members Of the
Fur Farmers International summer
school In Milwaukee.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12
Tells of Montana

Fourteen hundred copies Of the fifth
annual edition Of ''Montana's PRODUCE
tion," a statistical summary of the
states industries, have been distributed
throughout the state and northwest by
the bureau Of business research Of
Montana State university.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12

Allowing chickens and hogs to run
In the same lot exposes hogs 10 chicken
tuberculosis-to which hogs are found
more susceptible than chickens them
selves.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12
Little Girl Killed
BIZ WEairLiEaq Prop

The whirling propeller Of an airplane
which was to have taken her ON a
pleasure ride brought death to Sylvia
Josephine Aschin, 5, only child of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Aschim Of Sunburst
The little girl died in a Shelby hos
pital an hour after her head had been
virtually haIved by the propeller Of q
plane owned and operated by Ed Bald
win, on the Baldwin ranch 10 miles
east Of Sunburst.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12

Pectoral muscles OF a pigeon are de-
veloped more than those OF many
other birds which fly with slower wing
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-12

Manufacture Of silk stockings Is
booming in Argentina.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
JOHN l. LEWIS PLANNING FOR COMEBACK
This Time He May Higher Than Ever Many Believe
Br M0rquis ". ChidS.

head of the C. I. o. or to be recognized
as the real power behind the throne.
A likely young man from Iowa, at d
strategic moment Lewis succeeded %
years ago in ingratiating himself with
the top officials of the United Mine
Workers. He got on the good side OF
the late John P. White, then president
of the miners. AT the same time he
cultivated the late Samuel Gompers,
head of the American Federation Of
Labor for many years.
White was tired of responsibility. In
1917 he took a wartime 'front.' job and
with his aid and the backing OF Gompers,
Lewis was made vice president of the
United Mine Workers. With the polit-
ical finagling of many of the men who
are still his associates, he became presi-
dent three years later.
Those who have opposed his methods
within the mine workers say that from
this point on Lewis worked to make the
union his own instrument for personal
power. The U. M. w, they argue had
been up to Lewis ascendancy one of the
most democratic unions in the world.
With Lewis the custom developed of
naming provisional officers of the dis
tricts. The provisional officers were al
ways Lewis men. In a variety of ways,
the Lewis critics say, the processes Of
democracy we're superseded. Lewis, they
charge, became a dictator.
Miners are a sturdy breed and soon
internecine feuds broke out within the
union. Especially in the Southern ILL
nois area the battle ragged. And it was
modern warfare with machine guns and
bombs brought into use.
During all this time he was good
Republican Frequently he saw Calvin
Coolidge in the White House in an effort
to gain political advantage for the mine
workers. Meanwhile, however, his union
had begun to slip. The internal feuds
had had a disastrous effect. In 81 and
80 the U. M. w. was mere shell of its
former strength.
The New Deal gave Lewis his oppor-
tunity to come back. He was made a
member of the National Labor Board of
the N. R. A. From this vantage point
he began to rebuild the miners union.
The Wagner Labor Relations Act, which
became law in July of 1885, was green
light to Lewis. Three months later he
formed the Committee for Industrial
Organization, breaking with all his old
gang in the A. F. L., including William
Green. who had had not little to do
with advancing him in A. F.. L. councils.
Those laborites who criticize Lewis do
not try to take away from the grand
scale of his achievement in bringing mass
production workers for the first time
into union organization. BY the first C.
I. o. convention in 1888, Lewis could
claim 100000 members. The time had
been ripe for a mass labor movement
and Lewis, with the dramatic force of
his personality, had been the man to
lead 1t.
But now, Lewis critics say, those very
Evening star., 1941-09-28
Drive Strategic Crmeo May Speed British Army Aid of Russians

planes over Europe, dropping bombs from
Norway to Brest and as far east as Ber-
lin According to London, the British
lost only 20 fighting planes and seven
bombers. The Germans raided Margate
and pounded Southampton and claimed
the British lost 80 Spitfres over the
Channel
The British hero was Paddy Finucane
of Dublin. During the week end Flight
1t Finucane shot down five Messer-
schmitts In his flying he has got down
all told 20 planes He wants to bag the
2lst before he's 81 years old-in mid
October.
Not British planes, but the anger OF
millions of oppressed people was the key
10 the Western
Unrest Grows European battle
In Many londs last week There
is no western
front. but in every occupied country
there is unrest. In France, for instance,
the executions of disturbers of the Nazi
style of peace and Of French citizens
in repriSals went ahead. Thirty-flve
Frenchmen have died in reprisal eXecu-
tions Marshal Petain last week broad
cast an appeal to Frenchmen to halt
their attacks OH Germans end thus save
France from the reprisals. Three Com
munists guillotined in Paris Friday had
been condemned by a French tribunal
of state set up by Vichy in order 10
show the Germans that the French gov
1t is not a France many Frenchmen
wish to stay in Five French boys in
two canoes landed Monday on the south
ern coast of England after padding
across the Channel, and in London they
| drank champagne with Prime Minister
| Churchill
"Vive La France" he said.
The boys range in age from Is to 49, 2,
! They told stories of life in France under
| the conqueror:
I'VE never knew when We might be
/ ordered to do forced labor. I will give
! you one example of the kind of provoca-
/ ton to which we had to submit. We five
were pupils at the Loyal Lycee. or high
school. When vacation time came. we
| received orders to be at the kommanda-
tur's the following morning with spades.
| When we arrived We were told to go
shovel sand. 1t was not question Of
shoveling sand for definite purpose.
We just moved sand from one place to
another to keep us busy"
The boys ere Guy, Christian, Jean
Pierre and Renaud. Their last names
were withheld because their families
are in France.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
VAGARIES OF CENSORSHIP SHAKE MORALE
Nonvto Needesy Kept From United stotes Citizen

handed, his suggested feature story on
armor plate came out in his paper few
days later
Furious, the Navy press relations man
charged the reporter with disloyalty TO
the United States. said that writing the
story over protest Of the Navy press rela-
tionS Office really constituted insubordi-
nation on the part Of a Reserve officer,
demanded to know where the reporter
obtained the secret" information con-
tanned in the article.
In the Encyclopedia Britannica" re-
piled the reporter, citing the page num-
Der.
Since December, 1910, the o. P M has
been releasing totals for military aircraft
delivered each month. This was begun
with approval of the President and the
Secretaries of War and Navy. But ap-
parently the word has not yet spread
through the War Department.
Leak" Is Traced.
The other day, a young man in civilian
clothes visited the office of a man who
handles press relations for the o. P M.
Once inside the pressman's Office, the
visitor flashed Identification as an Army
intelligence officer. He fished out pho
tostatic copy of a newspaper column in
which comment was made on the
progress, or lack of it, in aircraft pro-
duction. The column mentioned pro-
duction totals for recent months.
We've got reason to believe" the Army
intelligence officer said, that there is
leak in the o. P. NJ. about these airplane
production figures. Do you know who
is responsible for it."
Yes" said the press relations man.
Il do. I can tell you the names of three
men who can tell you all about it.
That's fine" said the Army investiga-
tor. getting his pencil and notebook ready.
Well there is one fellow by the name
of Henry l.. (as in lion) Stimson, who
works over at your War Department.
Then there's another by the name OF
Frank Knox, KNOX, that you can
contact through Navy personnel. And
the third happens to live at loOO Penn
sylvania avenue and his name is Frank
lin D. (as in Delano) Roose :"
The explanation was never completed
because by that time the visitor was
gone
The purpose of this article is not to
assail the philosophy of military censor
ship, but to show why a realistic, COM
nonsense approach to the problem IS
necessary.
1t has often been said of the defense
production program that far greater
progress could be made if the American
citizenry were more solidly behind it.
To this obvious truth, it might be add
ed that the citizenry undoubtedly would
be more solidly behind the defense pro-
gram if the people were told more
about It.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
Br James Free.

enemy agent is the victim of censorship
because the enemy agent, or any one
else keeping close check on published
defense production information, can
keep up with contract and output totals
with reasonable accuracy. But the cit
izen who does not have the time for such
personal checking up is left in the dark
by his Government.
Both the Army and Navy make public
contract awards for defense materials.
Announcements give the total amount
of money involved, the company involved
and what it is to produce.
Thus X company is revealed as the
future maker of $4,000 900 in light tanks.
OF company as the producer OF $780,
900 900 worth of heavy bombers.
The precise number of tanks or bomb
ers to be delivered is not given. That
is a military secret.
wspapermen-and any one else who
reads official reports of testimony before
congressional committees about defense
expenditures, or ordnance magazines or
authoritative newspaper storles-knows
that calculation of the number Of tanks
or planes in publicly announced contracts
is, in nearly all cases, simple matter
of division.
Approximate Costs Known.
According to experts who have spoken
or written for the public record, it costs
$500 900 to s350.OOO to build heavy
bomber, about SIS, 900 for single-engine
pursuit plane $4,000 for light tank,
$4,000 for a medium tank. $4,000 for
standard IS nm. cannon, $500 for a
so nm. machine gun
If foreign agents do not have these
cost figures they are either illiterate or
feeble minded. 1t is safe to assume they
know these per-unit costs and that they
can divide unit costs into contract totals
and get better than fair idea of just
how much of what is expected from indi-
vidual companies.
Yet American citizens must not be told
such details through their newspapers.
That would be information of possible
value to the enemy, according to those
in charge of Army and Navy censorship.
IL GlllS W DS q oOi dllsC SOiSCP-
ton by military authorities of what
enemy agents have access to with little
or no effort, it is at least consistent
with past performances.
In the earliest stages of the defense
production program a reporter for the
Wall Street Journal went to the Navy
Department and asked for information
for feature story on general difficulties
in manufacturing armor plate and
on-technical description of the process
used.
Information Denied.
The public relations officer the reporter
approached said that such a story was
out of the question and added that the
reporter, who happened to be an officer
in the Naval Reserve, should know better
than to ask for such information.
While the reporter departed empty
Evening star., 1941-09-28

Circle, the Russians beat back German
attempt to take Murmansk. This marked
the second German drive on that port.
To the south, in the Ukraine, beleagured
Odessa is still in Russian hands. 1t is
supplied by Black Sea ships.
Each day the question of Russian
supply grows more acute. An Anglo
American mission arrived in Moscow TO
discuss needs and methods of delivery
of goods Ambassador Maisky appealed
in London for more tanks. English fac
tories have consigned this weeks output
of tanks TO Russia.
In London late in the week it was au-
thoritatively reported to the Associated
Press that British aid for the Russian
armies is being rushed to the eastern
front in a rapidly increasing tide. The
R. A. F., it was disclosed, had been in
action on that front and newspapers
speculated whether British imperial
troops in Iran might not be sent north
in the Caucasus to aid hard-pressed
Russia.
The Russians, it is understood, are
establishing schools for training crews to
man British tanks Russian military
experts were expected to visit Britain
for tank instruction. The Germans, at
any rate, began to make ready for a
winters war in Russia. Berlin decreed
that Norwegians must surrender their
wool blankets for use of the German
Army under OenaltV of three wears in
prison or a stiff fine for holding out.
Evening star., 1941-09-28

factors that made him the inevitable
man on horseback at the beginning of
the movement threaten to break the
c.. I. O. in two. Already the cleavage
has gone long way. AS boss of the
CT O.. Lewis tended to regard it as for
a long time he had looked on the mine
Workers-as his own personal show.
Resisted Being Dictated To.
This was all right with the leaders Of
the newly created unions who had come
to power with John L. But it did not
go down with such veteran trade union
lists as David Dubinsky of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers and
Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, who had
taken their own unions out of the A F L.
For many years they had led their own
well-integrated organizations and they
did not propose to be dictated to by
Lewis.
Dubinsky took his union out of the
c. 1. O. and back into the A. F. l.. when
it became apparent that the new organi-
old craft setup. Hillman has remained,
but he and the members of his union
have been increasingly restive and un-
happy. The rivalry between Lewis and
Hillman was accentuated when Hillman
was named by President Roosevelt to be
labor's representative in the defense
organization. Lewis has constantly taken
pot shots at Hillman, denying that labor
has any real representation in defense.
The cleavage within the c. I. o. goes
back in large measure to Lewis break
with President Roosevelt. In the 1886
campaign when the Democrats were
hard pressed for cash Lewis came across
with a half-million dollars out of the
U. NJ w. treasury. 1t was a llfe-Saver
and Lewis thought that after the victory
of that year it gave him the right to
leave his orders at the White House. Mr..
Roosevelt thought otherwise. The two
bickered and hammered on the desk al
each other until the break became final.
From that day forward Lewis bitter
ness toward the President was unrelieved,
Smoldering underneath the surface until
the speech in which he came out for
Willkie. The election proved he could
not deliver the labor vote where he per-
sonally chose to deliver it. The very
night of his speech U. M. w. locals
which had met to hear the address were
in open revolt. Democracy had survived
at the bottom. Later when the mine
workers had a pro forma ballot on the
reelection of national officers Lewis got
considerably fewer votes than the other
officers.
Got Murray to Take Over.
At the C. 1. o. convention last Novem-
ber Lewis staged remuneration scene
of the type for which he is famous while
the Communist element led demon
stration intended to persuade him to
stay In spite of his pledge to quit II
Willkis lost. Lewis got Phil Murray to
Evening star., 1941-09-28

John L. Lewis thrives on trouble OuO
of the last war. he got control OF the
most powerful labor union in America,
Out of this war. he may get a political
foothold on his way to power IN ma
tional politics.
That apparently is what he is gambling
for. A seasoned gambler who always
has taken long chances, Lewis knows the
risks. But he also knows how rich are
the rewards. There is no limit to this
mans ambition.
He probably will not try to make
public comeback at the c. l. o. conVen-
ton in November But he has hundreds
of organizers at work building up unions
which will owe a direct personal
ALLEGIANCE to Lewis himself. And when
the time comes for test Of strength,
he will have new resources Of power.
John l.. has known both the ups and
downs in the course Of his stormy career
Last fall he gambled on Wendell L. Will
kie and lost. A down period followed.
But Lewis has known such down
periods before He waited, scheming and
planning all the time Now he is COM
ing back and both his friends and his
enemies feel that this time he may
bounce up higher than ever before.
No Halfway Neutral Position.
With John L. Lewis you are either for
him or against him. There is no hall
way neutral position. no shadowy middle
ground. In this respect he is as priml-
tive as the Welsh tribal chiefs from whom
in all probability he could trace his
descent
One of his instruments for personal
political power has been Labor's Nom
Partisan League. For several years the
executive director of the league was
Eli L. Oliver. A year ago Oliver, owing
his LOYALTY to Sidney Hillman rather
than to the chieftain of the c. I. O., re-
signed.
The day Oliver departed Lewis left
his splendid Offices in the United Mine
Workers Building to pay state visit
to the Offices of Labors Non-Partisan
League in an Office building several blocks
away. It is doubtful if he had set foot
there more than two or three times be-
fore although his money-that is to say,
United Mine Workers money-ostensibly
supported the league. Establishing him
self in divers vacated Office, he called
in one by one the leagues employees
down to the lowliest stenographer and
Office boy.
Now you've been paid with my money"
John L. said, and I want to know
whether you're loyal to me. Are you
with me or are you against me?'
OF course. when such a great man
asked such a question the Office work
erS, no matter what doubts they may
have had before, pledged answering
fealty. That is the way Lewis has
operated throughout his rise to power.
He has built a personal machine on
personal loyalty 1t is what he is doing
today in his drive to come back as