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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-03
Juniors In
Pioy

On Friday evening, December &c,
the Junior elias. Of the Pres byterian
sunday School presented short
play entitled The Chfistmas Post
man" as their contribution 10 the
annual Chrisimas Tree program
These participating were Mildred
Johnson, Gloria Keith Rosemary
Graham. Gloria Crigsby. Pauline
Davis. Juanita Smith. George Wash
ington. Erwin Johnson. James Bell
and Thomas Jones. Preceding the
play. solo WAS sung very sweetly
by little Rebccca Graham. viclin
solo played by Gloria Grigsby and
q piano solo by Rosemary Graham.
A number Of Christmas carols was
sung by tho audience 10 open the
program. Christmas gifts were dis
tributcd and boxes of candy. apples
and oranges given the children and
each adult present
The Primary and Begipncrs de-
pariments presented their program
on sunday the 2lsi ccntcring
around tho maneer scene
Turner. Mrs. NJ. J.. walker Mr.,
and Mrs. Clarence Frisby. Or l.
n...to.. ~. -. MI fsi,,,.lc. ffrt,
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-03
LIED TO BROTHERS BEDSIDE IN DETROIT

and wade Morton, 1882 Central ave-
nue.. They were called TO Detroit
on account OF the illness oil tneir
brother. Ernest Morton, at the Fora
hosnital.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-03
cARNArloN FUDGE
~ MARY BLAKE
sons Services Dept. cornofion Co

I tbsp. butter "a cup woisr
Z sqs. chocolate tsp. voniliu
, cups sugar tap. solt
ibsp. corn syrup Chopped nuts. n
OiqhtD desired
X cup cuna,ion Mix
Melt butter and showed chocolate
In a saucepan: add suqor. scli.
corn syrup. and cornosion diluted
with the wotsr. Cook until mixture
forms q soft ball IN cold wussr OF
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-03

Turner. Mrs. NJ. l.. walker MIR
and Mrs. Clarence Frisby. Or. l.
Baylor. Or. an dMrs. Charles Con
nelly and Miss Frances Sayre, OF
INDIANAPOLIS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
.STEN0GRAPHERS
NEEDED In
WASHINGTON

During 1871 the offices of the Mon.
tana division of the United States EN-.
ployment Service found jobs for 81
210 Montana workers, according to
figures given out by o. c. Lamport,
director.
"This is an increase of $3.50 place
ments over 1940," Mr.. Lamport said,
land to a large extent reflects in
creased demand of defense industry
outside the state. AS occurs every
year, placements during November,
December and January are only about
half the monthly average, on account
Of seasonal shutdowns, but are sew
eral hundred higher than in the cor
responding months of the preceding
year."
Mr.. Lamport said that the most
urgent labor demand at the moment
is for junior stenographers, male or
female, to fill positions in Washing
ton, D. c. at s1440 per annum. The
age limits are IS to SO with no pre-
vious work experience required. Re-
cruitment Of these workers is being
handled by the local offices of the
Employment Service, where applicants
can make arrangements for tests, he
said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
This story can't be found
in your daily papers.

company has averaged better than a
1870 annual return on its common
stock. Its total net earnings for "a
years were $188, 1885, 66, while paid in
capital amounted to only s25,571, $40.
DR.. ]. Edwin Sharp points out in
his pamphlet, Sugar Dollar, that Great
Westerns annual cut in the sugar
jackpot is around s25,700,000, an
amount slightly higher than the orig
inal investment in the company. The
subsidy also tops the whole WPA ex-
penditure for the state Of Colorado in
193S-1939 Ia high year,, which was
$20,889,202.
The employees of Great Western and
other producers barely manage to live.
For five or six months work In the
beet fields, the average worker col
lects 5000. The average annual in
come = including a 400 share from
public relief agencies-for an entire
family is s436, the Colorado Expert
ment Station found.
Sharp's new pamphlet is attracting
attention in labor circles because the
organized beet workers are now ask
ing for wage increase. Representa-
tives Of the United Cannery Agricul-
tural Packing & Allied Workers (CIO)
testified at a Department of Agricul-
ture hearing called under the terms
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

Every company boosted common
stock dividends, with Tom Girdler's
Republic Steel leading the procession
with 1000 increased But that's
only part of the story. These divi-
dends were paid after dividends on
preferred stock, and after huge allow
ances for federal income and excess
profits taxes.
Bethlehem, for example, set aside
SAG, 100000 for taxes in the first nine
months Of 1871, as against only $685.
429, 10 for the entire year 1910.
Another reason for the apparent de-
cline in Bethlehem's vast profits is
found in some fancy bookkeeping. The
company allowed s25,733,743 for de-
probation and depletion in the first
nine months of 1941, as compared
with s17,699,921 for the same period
in 1940
That extra sS,O33,822 for deprecia-
ton represents an increase of 45%.
Republic used the same device, but
hiked its depreciation by only 23%.
Youngstown and Inland reported de-
probation reserves Of $50 and go.
CLIO Pres. Philip Murray, chief of
the SWOC negotiators, will toss these
figures and many others at the steel
company executives. They will point
to the alarming increase In living
costs, with still higher prices and
heavier taxes ahead.
The union spokesman will also re-
call that dollar spent for wages
costs the companies less than soc,
because of tax savings.
CONTINUED ON Page Tvo)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
CROP LOSS
STILL HIGH
FROM DR0UTH
Figures Released by AAA
Committee Shows That
Greatest Amount of Insured
Losses in 1910 Chargeable
To Drouth; Fire-Hail Next.

| Drouth was responsible for more
| than half the wheat crop losses on
(which indemnities were paid by the
Federal Crop Insurance corporation
in Montana during 1910 despite the
fact that average precipitation in the
state was only one one-hundredth OF
one percent below normal, Chairman
r. J. McKenna of the Montana Triple
A committee reveals.
sThis emphasizes the fact that even
during relatively good year for
wheat raising, drouth is an ever-pres-
ent hazard to wheat crops" he stated.
"In 1910 precipitation was only slight
ly less than normal but the average
per acre, which is 4.3 bushels more
than the average 1931-40 yield and 8
bushels more than the longtime aver
age yield. The uninsured wheat
grower who lost his crop during 1910
probably lost better than normal
crop and had no wheat to sell at
the average price of nearly go cents
a bushel, whereas if he had been in
sured he would have had at least
rs percent OF his normal yield to
market"
Indemnities paid in the state dur
ing 1910 totaled 1,248, according to
McKenna. Fifty-five percent, or 683,
of these were due to drouth and only
% percent, 296 losses, were due to
fire and hail, considered by many
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
film P0RTRAYS
EMPL OVERS
LABOR ATTACKS
BY JAMES PECK

Employers have been killing and
manning workers since the beginning
of time, but the story of their attacks
on labor has been pretty we'll covered
up in the daily press and almost who'll
ly suppressed by Hollywood
Now, for the first time, comes a
full-length film that lays bare every
ugly detail. Titled Native Land and
produced by Frontier Films under the
direction Of Leo Hurwitz, the picture
will be cheered by millions of work
ers for honesty and realism never be-
fore equaled on the screen.
Theme Of Native Land is the strug-
gle for civil rights that marked the
great organizing upsurge of the 30s.
Employer vigilantism is depicted as
subverting the principles of liberty
upon which the U. S. was founded.
In the opening scenes, Michigan
farmer is killed by thugs for being
active in a union, an Ohio unionist
is found murdered in his tenement
room, negro and a white southern
SHdToCIOppeT are Sldlu ny deputies.
After each scene there is flashback
to the streets of the big cities, show
ing people walking along calmly.
"They have not read about these
things, they take the Bill of Rights
for granted" says Paul Robson, the
commentator
Then public resentment grows. AS
pictures Of ever-larger union meetings
flash across the scene, the commenta-
tor says:
"The idea of unions took hold of
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
landowners
GET BREAK
IN COURT

One of the major problems facing
Montana landowners and taxpayers
has been settled by the U. S. circuit
court of appeals In San Francisco
in favor of the landowner and tax
payer, Attorney General John w.
Bonner has announced.
The bright spot in the tax picture
came when the appellate court over
ruled a long-standing policy of the
U. S. district courts and declared IT.
rigation district bonds are a direct
charge against the land and not a
general obligation of the district.
The decision in the Montana case
means that the state and all land
owners who have paid their irrigation
district payments cannot be held liza
Bile If the bonds default because some
district members are delinquent in
their payments, Bonner explained.
The attorney general entered the
case as amicus curiae-friend of the
court-after the U. S. district court
decided III favor of bondbholders who
had brought an action against Toole
county irrigation district.
"The state of Montana was vitality
CONTINUED ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
p agfITEERInG IN
! 81 WORLD WAR
: sfS A new HIGH
By SCOTT NEARING

= 'ofiteering on World War I pre-
!, ed the American people for a re
it program during World War II
l1ue same grab-and-keep methods are
practiced in the business world, and
there seemed no good reason to ex
pect that they would be changed by
the outbreak of war. Indeed, after
the Great Depression Of the thirties
business was eagerly looking for any
opportunity to turn an honest penny.
The surprising thing is not the prof
iteering but its extent and bare-faced
character. The talk of reasonable
profits" was abandoned months ago.
Today big business has both feet in
the trough.
The tales of gouging and grabbing
on defense contracts, particularly
those told by workers on the jobs,
are almost past belief. But they are
mere details Of story that is be-
ginning to get to the American public.
The first chapter of this story dealt
with jobbing in defense orders. The
second chapter has just appeared in
Washington as the report of the house
naval affairs committee. 1t details
the profits made by some of the COM
panies providing naval equipment and
doing repair work on navy property.
The committee checked up on GER
tain contracts that had been COM
pleted and on some others only part
ly fulfilled. 1t reported
1. The General Motors Corp, Cleve-
land Diesel Engine Division, has Is
contracts ranging from S1,000,000 to
SIS, 100000 each Profits are running
from 1870 to 279e.
2. Bendix Aviation Corp, Eclipse
Aviation Division, on a contract of
S1,378,455, is making a profit of 279o.
8. Maryland Drydock Co., on a ST.
1926 contract, is making 459o.
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

to the commission discontinued
it's train service between Bill
lings and Red Lodge on Sep
TENDER 13 last year.
On September 10, athe Montana rail-
road commission issued an order re-
curing the railroad company to re-
store train service, and fixed Septem-
Der % as the day of a hearing in
Helena for the railroad to show cause
why the railroad company should not
restore the train service. At that
time, an order was issued by the COM
mission to the railroad company to
restore train service, but in the same
order fixed time for hearing at Red
Lodge, requiring the railroad to show
cause why the train service should
not be permanently restored, though
the railroad company had filed no
petition asking for the right to aban-
don train service.
The propriety of the commission
setting any hearing of the question of
dDdudOuluS Iu0 u dill Sci WIG WltuOut
a petition having been filed and
public hearing then called, was chal-
lenged by Attorney General Bonner,
under the law, attorney for the COM
mission. The attorney general in
sisted that when the order for the re-
storation of train service had been
issued by the commission, the next
proper step for the commission to
have taken if the order was not
obeyed, was to have asked the county
attorney Of Carbon county or the At
torney General to institute action in
the district court, as provided in Sec
ton 1906 of the Revised Codes of
Montana, 1885. This section provides
in part:
1.-THE district court shall have juris-
diction to enforce, by proper decree,
injunction or order, the rates, clas
sifications, rulings, orders and regu-
lations made or established by the
(railroad and public service) commits
sion. The proceeding therefor shall
be by equitable action in the name
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
new LOAN
PROGRAM Is
ANNOUNCED
FSA Makes Plans for Rapid
Extension of Loans for the
Production of Subsistence
Foods and Commodities for
Expanded Market.

Production of vital war foods In
which increases are needed got a
boost this month as the Farm Sc
curity Administration began taking
applications for new Food-for-Victory
loans, Chairman r. ]. McKenna of the
Montana USDA War board announces.
"In line with the vast new respon-
sibiIities which the Pearl Harbor in
cident brought to the nations food
producers, the FSA made plans for a
rapid extension of its program to new
groups of persons" McKenna said
RED tape has been cut to the bone
simplified forms worked out and a
great deal of effort made to develop
method of making Food-for- Victory
loans quickly available. Present FSA
borrowers who have already made
their 1912 operating plans will be
asked to expand them and simple
process has been worked out to make
this possible"
Under the plans, the new loans are
available to farm laborers, tenants,
low-income owner-operators and part
time farmers who cannot finance food
production through any other source.
Loans are made for the purchase Of
feed, seed, fertilizer, tools, materials
needed for new facilities, poultry and
livestock, canning equipment, mate
rails and equipment needed for food
storage, rental of workstock and pow
er equipment and participation in CO.
operative organizations - especially
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
Subsidized Sugar Cos. Pay Big Dividends
DECISION ON
RATES FAv0RS
MONT. GROWERS

A decision of far reaching benefit
to Montana grain producers and mill
ers is contained in an eight to one
opinion delivered by Justice Frank
furter of the United States supreme
court on January 5, 1912 This de
cision upheld orders of the Interstate
Commerce Commission which pro-
hibited Kansas City, Missouri and
seven other primary grain markets
having dual rates on grain and grain
products.
This subject of many years stand
ing Is an attempt of Missouri river
millers and grain dealers, including
those at Minneapolis, Mimi, to obtain
transit privileges ON grain and grain
products when moving between prim-
airy markets ON proportional rates.
The complaints of the Kansas City
and Omaha markets were directed
against the rule for the application of
rate-break combinations on shipments
of grain and grain products through
the rate-break markets as prescribed
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. The millers at Minneapolis and
dealers in wheat at Missouri river
markets have been very persistent in
attempts to obtain a privilege that
would permit Minneapolis millers to
obtain through transit manipulation
to mill at Minneapolis wheat produced
in Nebraska, Kansas and other states
in the southwest at rates applying
from Missouri river markets such as
Omaha or Kansas City to Chicago in
lieu of rates into Minneapolis and pro-
portional rates from there to Chicago
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
INDUSTRIAL
HEALTH PLANS
effective
DR.. Goldman in Report in
Medical Care" of Health
Plans Serving 10000
People Finds Good Service
Rendered.

NEW YORK.-(FP)-Me care
of the scope and quality enjoyed BY
families with incomes of $4,000 OF
more is being provided for thousands
of wage earners in some Industrial
health plans, DR.. Franz Goldman re-
ports in the winter issue of Medical
Care
Goldman, who is associate profes.
sor of public health at the Yale uni
versity School of Medicine, investi-
gated four plans covering a total of
10000 persons. Average incomes
ranged from about $1,150 to $4,000,
although In the smallest group many
earned $4,000.
Under these four plans of organ
ICED service, self-supporting people
with incomes below the comfort level
have received medical attention by
both general practitioners and spe-
cialists to an extent commonly ex-
perienced only by people in high in
come brackets" Goldman found.
"On the average, every person en-
titled to service under the four pro-
grams went to the clinic either for
treatment by physician or for some
other form of service about four or
five times year. The findings of
the Committee on Costs of Medical
Care show a frequency exceeding four
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
Japanese Propaganda
Follows Nazi Pattern

A marked similarity in Japanese
and nazi propaganda methods is seer
in indictments returned in federal dis
trict court here last week against sia
persons charged with failure to regis
ter as agents Of foreign power
three Japanese nationals and three
American fronts"
The similarity is noted by Albert
Aren't, assistant attorney general, who
presented the above cases before the
grand jury, as well as several nazi
propaganda cases, including Trans
ocean, before previous grand juries.
Japanese nationals indicted are
Teutomu Obana, who is being held as
an alien enemy; X. Takahasi, and S.
Takeuchi, both of whom are now in
Japan. The American fronts" in
dicted are Ralph Townsend Of Serb
ner's Commentator fame; Frederick
Vincent Williams of San Francisco,
and David Warren Ryder, also Of San
Francisco.
Two methods were employed to put
the propaganda across on the Amer
lean people. One was through liter
ature issued under the name of such
organizations as the Japanese Cham
Der of Commerce, the Japanese Com
mittee on Trade and Information, and
similar organizations. The other was
through pamphlets issued by Amer
lean experts" on Far Eastern affairs
and allegedly printed and distributed
by them, the intention being to de-
ceive the American people as to what
interests were behind the pamphlets.
But behind the scene, pulling all
the strings, and furnishing all the
cash, was the Japanese consulate.
So far as government investigators
can ascertain, Townsend severed his
Japanese propaganda connections in
1910, when he found the nazi propa-
ganda field greener pastures to Craze
in. At that time, he wrote pam
phlet Of nazi propaganda nature en-
titled Seeking Foreign Trouble"
which the notorious west coast nazi,
Ferdinand Hansen, thought enough Of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
RAILROADS SHOW 157q6 INCREASE
IN PROFITS OVER 1910 Earnings

Now that the annual reports are COM
ing in, 1t seems that things weren't
as bad as they seemed.
Railroad after railroad is reporting
net income topping the 1910 figures
not by any mere 30% but by 1907,
10000 and even 10000. There are
some exceptions, of course, but the
general prosperity is revealed by the
prediction of the Assn. of American
Railroads that net income of all Glass
roads will be 1879 over the 1910
total.
Taking single weeks reports for
II of the larger lines, here is the
comparison between 1941 and 1910:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

This golden harvest means that the
railroads piled up about 1927, 100000
more than in 1910, when the combined
net income was s18S,000,000. The
wage increase is expected to cost any
where from s255,000,000 to s332,000,-
900, with the lower figure more likely
to be correct.
So, having earned enough to pay
the new wage scales, the roads are
asking-and getting-freight and pas
senger increases that will spare them
the painful task of paying higher
wages out of higher profits. Already
has approved s45,000,000 boost in
passenger fares, and it is expected to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
STEEL WORKERS Demand
Share in Big PROFITS
Republic Steel Increases Dividends On
Common Stock 1000 After Paying Divi-
dends On Preferred Stock and Setting
Aside Immense Sums for Taxes.

Imanded has not yet been disclosed.
The policy committee has announced
only that it will be Substantial" be-
cause of 1871 reports showing that
profits have increased Immensely"
Four Observation-Disclosures Inland,
Republic and Youngstown Sheet &c
Tube-are involved in negotiations for
the first contract in the history of this
ruggedly anti-union section of the
steel industry.
A few years ago most of these COM
panies were reporting deficits. How
the picture has changed is shown by
this table of net profits:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

emarket price and the actual
| price to consumers in the U. S.
When you buy beet sugar, 1870 of
your money represents a subsidy to
the big producers. Biggest Of all is
Great Western Sugar Co., which ac-
counts for one-third of the nations
beet sugar output.
Thanks to the powerful sugar lobby
maintained at Washington for dec
AIDES, Great Western does pretty well.
Since 1t was organized in 1905 the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
s1ss, 2s1,2ss s1OS,s54,s5o

OK new freight rates that will add
another s230,000,O00 assuming a
71s % boost, instead of the 1919 asked
by the railroads).
Which means a total revenue in
crease of s275,OOO,OO0, provided by
American consumers SO that stock
holders will suffer no inconvenience
whatsoever.
On the contrary, the prospects for
stockholders are brighter than ever.
Railroad revenue is expected to climb
still further in 1912, which is one rea-
son why rail stocks have been
stronger than any other group in the
market
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

DENVER FP)-Workers faced with both a shortage of
and stiff price for what they buy do realize
that every person in the u S. kicks with exactly
week keep the sugar industry relief family of
four that adds up to $1,000 The total is $3.50 0OO
representing the difference between the world
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06
By ALEXANDER L. CROSBY

NEW YORK. - (FP) - Remember
how the railroads and the newspapers
cried out in horror against the work
ers' demand for a 300 raise last sum-
mer? And how the railroad unions
had to be content with 1919 in
crease, not enough to keep up with
the cost of liying-let alone raise
their standards?
Any impartial observer would have
figured that the workers were trying
to force the roads into bankruptcy
and that even the 1919 raise would
put the stockholders on the breadline.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-06

Openly foutng entered into with the railroad
public about years ago when
made application for license operate freight and bus
between Billings and Red Lodge that it would discontinue
train service which made part of the order of the
mission the Northern Pacific Railroad company without notice