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percent rise is to be expected this
winter and more next spring Food
and clothing will go up the most.
Source: A confidential Washington
news letter for business men,
The new tax bill, placing as it does
the major burden on those least able
to pay, is one of the biggest frauds
ever foisted upon the American peo-
pie. In addition to the direct levies
it will exact from those in middle and
lower-wage brackets, it will raise the
cost of nearly everything the average
workingman's family has to buy.
This Soak the Poor" bill as SEN
ator LaFollette calls it, incidentally
will boost Americas tax bill consider
ably above that paid by Britain-while
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Is This Interesting?


demanding
Secretary
i'Newpor
The facts at hand and the story be written right
Harry Bridges is protected by the thing that
protects the editor of the Newport Journal M the constitution
of the United States which freedom of thought
speech and action to all citizenseven laborng And
Secretary of Labor Perkins protected by that constu
on backed by decision of the United States court
which told her exactly what she could and could not do in the
Bridges Yet Mrs Perkins prosecuted continuously by
unonhater and their mouhpeces for refusing
the law into herpwn hands, violate the constitution thumb
at the and unlawfuy order the de-
portaon of Bridges merely crafty bunch of business
whom he has forced decent and who
Capital Press (Ore.).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-26

Forsyth, Mont, Nov. 81, 1941
Peoples Voice Publishing Co.
Helena, Montana.
Gentlemen:
Kindly enter my name for one
year subscription to your paper, The
PEOPLES Voice. l should also like to
obtain one of your folders, mentioned
on page four of your Nov 18th issue,
SO that I may be able to learn your
opinion of my regard or disregard for
my constituents interests during the
last legislative session IT and who
knows, possibly one may be able to
profit from such opinion. l was a
regular reader of your paper while at
Helena, and with possibly an excep-
ton or two, believe your paper is
doing a lot of good. You did not pull
your punches then, and the informa-
ton you printed often-times did much
good in my opinion. Furthermore it
is always helpful to get more than
one side of a question.
I hand you my check in the amount
of $155 in payment of my subscrip-
ton and a copy of Vote Record
Very truly yours,
r. G. HARKEN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-26
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS

Unsuspectng taxpayers don't know it, but they being
tapped than 900 this frank speech
by Herbert Hoover urging the shipment of food to nazoc
cupied Europe Mr. Hoovers frankng beneacto
the taxpayers Nebraskas rookie solaonist
Sen. Hugh A. Butler-The Yellowstone.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-26

Because I share the conviction that
every expression of honest opinion is
better than Indifference to the urgent
problems facing us, have been deeply
gratified by the response, both hostile
and friendly, to my defense of a citi-
zen's right to speak though his point
of view may be unpopular at the mo-
ment. We, out here, have little
chance to reach and influence the
public mind; if we can excite discus
sion, we have made at least begin
ming.
Miss Mildred Oldenburg of Boze-
man, however, takes an unfair advan-
tage of the consideration due her as
correspondent having sincere opin-
ions to express. l have no objection
to personal attacks upon me; l have
been attacked both fairly and I'M
fairly all my life, and have done no
little attacking myself But in her
second letter she declares herself the
final authority on my point of view
claims, in her own words, complete
understanding of Mr.. Stahlberg's posi-
ton" That is bit thick. | need
no spiritual mother-in-law. The de-
velopment and expression of my posi-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-26
Sullivan, on Whom the Season Is Always
Closed, Speaks Up for the Deer

(By FRANK SULLIVAN in PM
The in Sullivan stands for Victory not Venison.
Come shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it inks the poor dappled fools
Being native burghers of this desert city
Should in their confines with forked
heads
Have their round launches gored .
We usurpers, tyrants and
what's
To fright the animals and to kill them up
In their assgnd and native dwelling place
AS You Like 1t.
The in northern New York bare now, but that
does the region drab They fact abaze with
shirts in Spadng scarlet and Abercromb crimson 1t is No
vember the month with in it, for Victory Venison
The annual venson vendetta full swing The violent
and voracous vehicle venting his vehement and vndctve
the vncbe vegetarian verebrates of the YER
and York State Weld Many vevethorned victim will
Vahaa before the voeys of these vengeul vcua
before the ends the vampires of
All WE'LL how fortunate there is
zebra in the Adirondacks
The of automobiles bearing punctured
strapped ostenatous the front we'll way
at the moment passing proudly south through the main street
my Every fall after have my fifteth
find myself wishing that for just in the interest
of fair play variety would of the north
woods with fine buck hunter in red plaid shirt mpaled
his anters.
But non-hunters shouldn't complain about hunting It
fire safety valve for the homcda that is latent in
all of the of the mighty hunter Goerng being the
cepton that proves the rule There would be
murdered if it weren't for the And
why is it many husbands murdered than wives?
because not enough wives hunting times when they
need to let off steam
Also, bear in mind that qud-eyed friends really
treated with consideration than treat ourselves The
law does not permit the shooting of lady deer her
which much better break than the human beings of Gov
entry, Rotterdam and Warsaw got
Nevertheless find myself in agreement with the words of
the celebrated reformed poacher which preface this little
sublmate homicidal mania without going into
the woods after stag fellow hunter work off
urge STAY simply by dwelling fondly all the people I'd
rather like mistaken for deer this month"; follows
Roosevelt haters conceang their spite under mask of par
osm Naz lovers conceang their treason under mask of
the Christian Frontiers and rabbeousing clecs joyous
heapng fuel the flames of bgotry dscreded estates
playing peanut politics with the nations DANGER pomp
Tweededees among the labor lead
America First phones in it for the dough they get
of it. soandolons in eagerly lending their frank
ng privilege the of sedon washed-up
ious be hnkydink fuehrers soation eager
the Peeu of these Gareat Yewnted States and also
hank
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each ecre soaonsts in the senate consumed by morbid
ambition fill the shoes of the late and overrated William
Borah; and course Talmadge, the Georgia
Pooch
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Evening star., 1941-10-05
Expert Urges Latitude
In Alarm Type Choice

Omission of specific reference to
municipal fire alarm connection
systems in legislation proposed for
the District was urged yesterday by
S. H. Ingberg, chief of the Fire Re-
sistance Section of the Bureau of
Standards.
In statement released by the
Washington Housing Association,
Mr.. Ingberg favored giving the Com
missioners wide range" in adop-
ton of the system they think ad-
visable.
AS the legislation now stands, Mr..
Ingberg said, requirements for
alarm connections are very specific
in the size of the building above
which they are to apply. The sys-
TENS would connect with the city's
fire alarm headquarters.
The total cost of the installation
ranges from s7O0 to $1,000 for a
single connection within a build
ing that is near a fire alarm circuit,
and in portions of the city remote
from such circuits, the cost would
be "prohibitive, he stated. New
York City abolished the require
ment In 1920 after 20 years Of ex.
pertence with It.. 60
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Lees Ancestral Home
To Be Open Next Sunday

Stratford Hall, ancestral Lee
home in Westmoreland County, Va,
will be opened to the public next
Sunday by the Robert E. Lee Me-
mortal Foundation in a celebration
at which DR.. John Mason, presi-
dent of Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pa, will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
The ceremony, to be sponsored by
the Pennsylvania unit of the foun-
dation, will start at 2 pm. with a
welcome to the assemblage by Mrs.
Charles D. Lanier, foundation pres
ident. Greetings from Gov. Price
will be extended by Col. LIE Roy
Hodges, Virginia State controller.
Other speakers will include Mrs.
Joseph B. Hutchinson of Philadel-
phia, former president general of
the National Society of Colonial
Danes, and Mrs. William Cabell
Bruce, Baltimore, foundation direc-
tor for the State of Maryland.
Directors. representing every State
in the Union. will remain at STRAIT
ford from October IL through Octo-
Der 20 for the annual business meet
ing Of the foundation.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Hearing 10 Be Held
On Requested Boosts
In Taxicab Fares
Utilities Commission
To Coll Owners and
Drivers Union OfficiuIs

Officials of the District Public
Utilities Commission yesterday an
nounced plans TO hold a public hear
ing on petitions from taxicab own
ers and taxi union officials for in
creased fares The date was not
set.
One proposal for increased taxi
fares was filed with the commission
by John A. McCuen. president of
the Cab Drivers Union. The COM
mission also has before it a petition
from the District Association of
Taxicab Owners, of which John H.
Royer. Jr.. is president, requesting
change in rates to provide mini
mum fare Of 80 cents for any trip
confined to one zone and also that
the fare for any trip which extends
from one zone to another shall be
20 cents for the first zone and 20
cents for each additional zone en-
tered
The owners association is re-
ported to include the presidents of
the Premier, Bell, Diamond. Arrow.
Yellow, Washington. Blue Light.
American. Federal and Checker
Cabs companies or associations.
The P. U. c. still lacks a legal
quorum and cannot approve any
order for an increase in rates until
at least two members are provided
the commission. Engineer Com
missioner Charles w. Kutz now is
the sole member. However. the
commission can hold public hear
ing and this will be called. antici-
pating that at least one more COM
missioner will be appointed soon.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
| Maryland Boy, 5,
| Polio Victim,
| Rushed Here

Doctors at Childrens Hospital
last night kept watch over the
breathing of a 5-year-old polio
myelitis victim rushed here by
ambulance from Baltimore yester-
day.
His respiration. the doctors said.
was pretty good" but an iron lung
stood ready should his breathing
grow strained. 1t was for that res
pirator that the boy, George Harri-
son of Belair, Md, was sent to
Children's from Suydenham Hos
pital in Baltimore.
The doctors said George was not
in a critical condition but it was
difficult to tell when he might need
the iron lung suddenly and desper-
ately.
Doctors at the Baltimore hospital
called Children's yesterday, found
out it had an iron lung available
and dispatched the boy with his
parents by ambulance.
Children's owns one iron lung
> A second one now at the hospital
belongs to the District Chapter of
the Infantile Paralysis Foundation
and a third to Providence Hospital.
The Providence respirator had been
returned from Baltimore last week
but before it arrived at the hospital
an emergency at Children's diverted
it there.
OF the three iron lungs, one is
being used all the time, the second
is being used part time by children
needing rest periods and the third
one y 0eoree's protection.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Bv HENRY GEMMILL.

It's "ChristmaS" at the Post Of
fee.
Postal clerks tremble as they face
the greatest autumn deluge of mail
this city has ever seen. In full swing
is the equivalent of Yuletide rush
only worse. The labor won't be over
in a few days mail bags pile higher
day by day and month by month.
Washington new defense work
ers may be homeSick, or perhaps
they are enthusiastic. They write
so much to home folks that postage
receipts this year in District offices
are approximately $1,000 900 above
those of last. Before New Year Day
they are expected to be $1,500, 900
higher.
This doesn't include the free mail
sent out by the Government No
figures are available, but it is
rumored that more free than paid
mail is hauled out of this town.
Washington now dispatches more
letters. postcards and packages than
any other city in the Nation except
New York. Chicago, Philadelphia
and Boston.
Biggest Increase in Nation.
No city equals Washington in its
percentage of increase. During the
last month for which figures are
available, August. the Districts re-
ceipts had increased % per cent
over the same month in 1910. The
average increase for the $50 larg-
est cities was So per cent. Cheyenne.
Wyo. came second, with a boom of
206 per cent.
To ease strain, 500 new clerks and
carriers have been added to the
5000 working last year.
To solve the headache of getting
mail in and out of Washington (in-
coming letters have jumped "a per
cent? the Senate and House have
approved a bill to permit construc-
ton of five new railroad tracks, ex-
clusively for postal use. which will
enter steel and concrete annex to
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Postal Boom Here Is Worse
Than Christmas Period Rush
DeIuge of MoiI Hitting Clerks Represents
By Far the Biggest Increase in Nation
be built to the east of Union Sta

be built TO the east of Union Sta
ton
. "Bottleneck."
"Bottleneck" was the word used
on the Senate floor to describe the
present situation at the station.
B. r. Tolson. manager of the ter
minal. says mail has never jammed
up for any considerable period on
the tracks But some buttons have
been popped off to squeeze the mail
out of town. Senator Burton Of
Ohio told the Senate this week that
the new facilities must be ready by
December l if the mail is to go
through. Trucks of letters will be
rushed from the City Post Office to
the new area, hauled by elevator and
tractors.
Behind the scenes at the main
Post Office, men are aided by ma
chimes in a constant battle against
rial direct from the Government
Printing Office by an underground
route beneath North Capitol and G
streets. Other belts criss-cross the
enormous floor space of the office. A
platoon of machines cancels fiat
mail at the rate of 300 a minute per
machine.
Big Rush Is to PM.
Greatest rush is between and 8
pm, according to Assistant Post
master John w. Quick During this
period. when great bulk must be
prepared for shipment on an 8
o'clock train for New York, about
100000 letters an hour are ground
through the postal mill. Men down
there talk in big figures. Last month
36.377,874 letter and package cam
cellations were made.
People here are generous. figures
show. Last month five times more
mail sacks full of packages were
mailed out than were received. The
511 900 package sacks which were
exported from Washington repre-
sented a 81 per cent increase over
September, 1910.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
D. C.. Income Tax Among Issues
Awaiting Supreme Court Ruling
Liability Of u S. Workers for Levy
To Be Decided at This Session

to acquire two parcels of land she
owned, for the construction of homes
for low-income colored tenants in
the Carrollsburg dwelling project,
IN Southeast Washington.
In another case growing out of
the bank closures here in 1888 John
F. Moran. Prudential Bank receiver.
is seeking to enforce an assessment
of 100000 against stockholders. The
Court of Appeals held that the
statute Of limitations barred the as
seSsment, which was challenged by
James A. Cobb. who refused to pay
a 1000 assessment.
The Supreme Court also will pass
on the plea for freedom by Emmitt
r. Warning, one time numbers op-
orator. now serving time in Lorton
following conviction more than two
years ago for criminal contempt and
income tax violations. The con-
tempt conviction grew out of jury
tampering charges during the in
come tax trial and Warning. rebuffed
in the lower courts. is pressing a
habeaS corpus action in >the high
tribunal He contends now his de-
tention is illegal in view of Su-
preme Court decision last April linn
iting the power of Federal judges TO
impose summary contempt sentences
His sentence is due to expire Janu-
ary 25.
The fight of Leroy Abbott, former
filling station proprietor, of 143t
Meridian place NV, to recover
s50.500 which he says disappeared
from a safe deposit box in the Ia.
koma Park Md Bank, is also be
fore the court. The money included
so 1000 gold certificates, and thu
bank. contesting the suit. said Mr.
Abbott was illegally in possession Of
the certificates because of the eolo
boarding law. The Maryland Court
of Appeals, however, ruled he was
entitled TO recover, and the bank
appealed.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Astronomers Hear Talk
On Aurora BoreuIis

An illustrated lecture on sThe
Aurora Boreslis and Sun Spots"
based on the recent display of
northern lights, was given by DR..
Newburn Smith. Bureau OF Stand
ards physicist, at a meeting of the
National Capital Amateur Astron-
omers Association last night.
DR.. Raymond Wilson of the Naval
Observatory also appeared on the
program. The lecture was the first
of series of eight which will be
given monthly at meetings of the
group.
Association members made plans
to visit the Fels Planetarium in
Philadelphia in the near future and
scheduled their first telescope max
ing class for 8 pm, october 20, at
Langley Junior High School.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Mrs. Hattie L. Corby
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie
Laura Corby. widow of Charles l.
Corby long prominent in the Wash
tngton bakery business. will be held
at II am. tomorrow at her home on
the Rockville pike in Montgomery
County, Md. She will be buried in
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Mrs. Corby died Friday night.
She is survived by two grandchil-
dren, Karl w. Corby, jr., and Mrs.
Charles Charming, jr., both of
Washington.
Honorary pallbearers named in
eluded T. P. Bones. w. w. Everett.
Robert " Fleming, j. b Green. Rob-
ert E. Kennedy, DR.. William Kin
nan, DR.. John A. La Gorce. George
Miller, Harry Peters, DR.. Sterling
Ruff1n, Charles w Thompkins and
J. Thilman Hendrick.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Urgent Local Matters
Confront D. T.. GROUP
In Senate This Week
Water Supply Study,
New Voeroney Bill,
Airport Fight Due

Consideration OF a list Of local
problems pending before the Sen
ate District Committee is expected
to be resumed following the return
to Washington late this week of
r. F. Camalier, committee counsel.
Among them are the following:
A resolution asking the Senate
to authorize funds for a thorough
study of the Water Department to
determine whether a proposed in
crease in rates to private consum-
ers can be avoided. The study will
include the cost of the large VOL
ume of water furnished free to the
Federal Government and the extent
to which the proposed higher rates
to private consumers have been
made necessary by the national de-
fenSe program.
The revised vagrancy bill. drafted
to meet objections which prompted
President Roosevelt to veto the
original measure.
The boundary dispute between
the District and Virginia at the new
National Airport at Gravelly Point,
which involves jurisdiction over L.
censes and taxation.
The bill to provide for the de-
velopment of off-street parking IA
cilities and more parking meters,
and the proposed merger of the Po-
lice and Municipal Courts.
There is also possibility that
the subcommittee handling the
nomination of Gregory Hankin TO
be a member of the Public Utilities
Commission will arrange to meet
sometime this week Senator Rey-
nolds, Democrat of North Carolina,
subcommittee chairman, has an
nounced he will call a meeting as
soon as his colleagues can be assem-
bled. The other subcommittee men,
bers are Senators Clark, Democrat,
of Idaho and Austin, Republican,
of Vermont.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
500 Take Maryland U.
Courses in Defense

More than 500 students have reg
lstered for the second series of de-
fense courses at College Park under
auspices of the University of Mary
lands College of Engineering, Dean
S. S. Steinberg announced yester-
day.
The courses, sponsored in cooper
alton with the Federal Government,
for the training of men for defense
Industries and the Army and Navy,
are open to persons who have had
a high school education. No tuition
is charged
Additional courses will be offered
as demands of industry and the
armed services require, Dean Stein
berg said.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Catoe' Attorneys
To Argue This Week
For Venue Chance
LocoI Lawyers Unable
To Recall Precedent
In District Courts

Arguments for a change of venue
and taking of dispositions from three
defense witnesses are scheduled this
week in the case of Jarvis r. Catoe,
SO. colored. whose trial on charges
of numbering and criminally attack
ing Mrs. Rose Abramowitz is set for
October Is.
The dispositions will be taken in
Charlotte, N. c.. tomorrow. with AS
sistant United States Attorney John
w. Finely representing the Govern
ment and Defense Attorneys Wal
tire M. Shea, j. Robert Esher and
George j. Borden representing
Catoe.
Arguments for the change of
venue are scheduled for Friday. A
motion asking that the trial be held
in another Jurisdiction because of
prejudice against Catoe here Nas
filed yesterday. Police say Catoe
has confessed to killing and attack
ing five women mere.
Washington attorneys engaged in
practice many years could not re-
call a single instance where a
change of venue motion. permitting
a trial to be held outside the Dis
trict of Columbia. has been granted
here. In a State. a trial may be
held in a county other than the one
in which the crime was committed.
if the court finds a prejudicial feel
ing exists against the defendant.
In the motion filed yesterday,
Catoe said 1T is fear and reason
able assertion that every one in the
District who can read or hear has
either read or heard of his alleged
crimes and has formed an opinion
thereof and this opinion is highly
prejudicial to the defendant"
In afhdavits supporting the as
sertion that prejudice exists here
against the defendant, two of Ca
toes brothers, James and John, told
the court OF their experiences in
driving their taxicabs, which have
their names painted on the sides.
John said that on one occasion
a young woman who saw his name
on the side barely succeeded in
suppressing a scream" and another
woman dropped to her knees. James
said he had to paint another trade
name on the door of his cab be-
cause he was losing so much busi-
ness,
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Minnesota U. Alumni
To Meet Tomorrow

The Minnesota Alumni Association
of Washington opens its series of
meetings this season at pm tomor-
row at Hotel 2400, with an address
by DR.. Walter c. Coffey, acting presi-
dent of the university.
DR.. E. c. Johnson. president of the
local association, in announcing the
meeting. said the Minnesota Alumni
will also welcome to Washington DR..
and Mrs Guy Stanton Ford. DR..
Ford retired as president of the uni
versity last summer and is now
executive secretary of the American
Historical Association.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Granted Divorce

ROCKVILLE, Md, Oct 4 tSpe-
ciaD "A decree signed by Judge
Charles w. Woodward in Circuit
Court grants to Mrs. Doris Eliza
beth Day of Bethesda, Md. an
absolute divorce from Leo C. Day,
member of the Montgomery County
police force and awards her GUS
tody of their only child, June d.
Days 8. Desertion was charged.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Dance Plans Completed

The annual fall dance of the
Women's Democratic Club of the
Bladensburg Md District will be
held Saturday night at the Beaver
Dam Country Club, it was an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Viola
Anderson, chairman of the Recep-
ton Committee.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

Totals to date 81 81
In October. Beware Of:
l. The hours between mid
night and 2 am. Three persons
were killed within this two-hour
period in October last year.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Two pedestrians met death in
October, 1910, while doing this.
One of the two ran out from
between parked cars,