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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26
ALUMINIUM
AUTHORITY
PROPOSED

WASHINGTON-(FP) = Establish
ment of a federal aluminium author
ity to direct all U. S. production OF
the metal was urged by Sen. Robert
M. LaFollette prog. Wis., here in a
speech to the senate.
The Wisconsin senator charged that
the aluminium program had been
warped by the overweening desire of
private corporations to protect their
post war interests" and asserted that
a preventable shortage of aluminium
forgings had held down the produc-
ton of Martin bombers 20qo this year
LaFollette told the senate that the
Aluminium Co. of America had discour-
aged the production of Independent
aluminium producing facilities, had
intimate and dangerous
ties" with the !. G. Farben chemical
trust of Germany, and had concealed
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SENATOR MURRAY
ENDORSED BY UNION

WASHINGTON. = Sen. James e.
Murray was endorsed by the Brother
hood of Railway & Steamship Clerks,
and the organization has been pledged
to work for his reelection to the
United States senate, he was notified
today in letter from George M. Har-
rison, grand president. The action
was taken by the Railway Brother
hood organization at Cincinnati, Ohio.
In notifying all local lodges of the
action, President Harrison said:
Il earnestly urge every member of
our Brotherhood to take an active in
terest In the coming primary and use
his influence to the end that all mem
bers, their families and friends will
follow this recommendation which is
made in the best interest of labor as
viewed by this organization"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26

he is seeking. Casey is considered to
have an advantage over the other
Democratic candidates because of the
acceptable record he has made In the
office though some support from lib
eraI groups will go to the others as
we'll. The "smart money" Is on Cas-
ey's probable win.
Five candidates seek the job of
clerk of the supreme court; three on
the democratic ticket and two on the
republican. The democratic candi-
date who will probably make the best
race for the nomination is w. P. Pill
geram, former speaker of the house of
representatives, we'll and favorabIy
known throughout the state. On the
republican ticket, Peter M. Rigg,
holding the office now as an appointee
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Porter, is believed to have
an edge over his opponent.
On the non-partisan judicial ticket
are three candidates for the office of
associate justice of the supreme
court; Albert Angstman, incumbent;
David J. Ryan, Great Falls and Hugh
Adair of Helena. The general opin-
ion Is that Angstman and Adair will
be the candidates in the general cleo
ton, with odds greatly in favor of
Angstman who has filled the office for
two terms in manner which has won
approval of the public as we'll as that
of his associates and the legal fra
ternity in general.
We hope to have a complete list of
the candidates for the Montana egs-
lature in time for the next issue of
the Voice, and to discuss the merits
and shortcomings of at least some of
them,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26
McCRACKEN ENDORSED
FOR CONGRESS

VIM. NJ McCracken, candidate for
congress in the second district has re-
ceived the unqualified endorsement of
his organization.
The letter so advising him follows
The Montana State Council of Elec-
trical Workers in convention assem-
bled at Helena, Mont, on June 6 and
Z, 1912, unanimously adopted resolu-
ton endorsing you for the office Of
congressman from the second congress
sional district.
The resolution pledged full political
support to you in behalf of your can
didacy for this office, with the recon-
mendation that all IA affiliated local
unions take similar action.
With all best wishes to you for a
successful campaign and that you will
be successful in the primary election.
Fraternally yours,
A. L. SMITH, Secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26

stalled in seaboard plants which had
been making industrial alcohol from
molasses. AS now provided, the
whole 1943 program for both indus
trial alcohol and rubber would con-
sumo 136,000,O00 bushels of grain.
The chief emphasis in this planning
has been on corn and rye to which
the beverage distilleries are already
adapted. But the war production
board states that the new installa-
lions, converting the seaboard plants
from molasses to grain, will be main
ly adapted to wheat.
The major obstacle to increased use
ofMheat and other grains for alcohol
and rubber is Standard Oil; at present
the fight centers around the question
of building new plants in the farm
belt Dr. e. w. Reid, chief of the
Continued on Page Three)
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100000
ASKED FOR WAR
HOUSING

NEW YORK-(FP)-P Pres. Roose-
velt's requested $6OOOOO,0OO for war
housing will meet only one-seventh
of the need, the Natl. Public Housing
Conference warned June 16.
This money will provide only $780,
900 to 100000 dwelling units" the
conference stated. Labor officials
estimate that the number of migrat-
ing war workers will reach 100000
and the conservative estimate of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics is L.
100000 to 100000
Private builders cannot be relied
upon to make up any big part of the
difference. Most rentals are beyond
the moderate wages of war workers,
and too often the real estate owner
refuses to rent - preferring to tie
down the worker with a mortgage
that will be ripe for foreclosure when
the war boom ends"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26

of the war department, and
criticized the administration
for the creation Of new COM
missions, bureaus and boards
whenever a new or varied
problem is presented"
The report declared that 1t had
found evidence of a "sordid picture
of excessive commissions by brokers,
profits by vendors, exorbitant salaries,
bonuses and huge fees for manage
ment and related services In many
war department contracts; that
every conceivable type of extrava-
CANT waste has been reflected by
these investigations" and that "the
time has come when the contractors
honeymoon at the expense of the tax
payers Of the nation must end"
Asserting that the "cost-plus" con-
tracts have brought widespread and
inexcusable waste of public funds
amounting to millions of dollars the
report stated that "the incentive to-
wards extravaganza and disregard for
economy appears to have been the
rule rather than the exception" This
discovery by the committee, will not
be surprising to anyone with some
knowledge or recollection of condi-
lions discovered after the last war to
have obtained in connection with
such contracts. 1t was reported as a
common practice on the part of con-
tractors to employ at big wages any
number of men, whether needed or
not. Similarity along other lines, the
contractors were not concerned with
economical production, because the
more it cost the greater were the
profits.
Discussing the shortage of many
materials needed in war production,
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"AIcoa First!"
Senator LaFollettes charges that
important officials in WPB's alumni
mum section have either been duped
into playing Alcoa's game, to the det-
riment of the war effort, or are con
sciously helping" this corporation to
preserve badly needed high-grade
postwar operations" can't be laughed
off so easily.
Occasion for LaFollettes attack was
the statement made by Glenn L. Mar
tin that production of bombers in his
plant was 20 per cent below schedule
because of failure to obtain suffi-
cient aluminium.
To those who have studied the
aluminium situation it looks as though
Alcoa wrote the ticket for WPB for
expanding aluminium production-and
that ticket was for no short-way route
to win the war for Uncle Sam.
The following charges by LaFollette
border on the sensational, that WPB's
aluminium section decided that gov
ernment-owned plants use only low
grade bauxite ore, while all Alcoa
plants use high-grade ore; that WPB
fell for Alcoa propaganda that there
wasn't enough high-grade bauxite to
go around, and that virtually racket
is being conducted to enable the own
ers of low-grade bauxite mines to cash
in on product that has little, if any,
peace-time commercial value.
Head of WIPES aluminium section
is Arthur H. Bunker, dollar-a-year
mining engineer who once promoted
the Vanadium Corp, and wound up
with a managing director job with
Lehman Bros. Trust Co., one of the
largest holders of Alcoa stock. One
of Bunker's chief assistants in WPB
is DWr Fay Jeffries, who, until he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26
CONTROL OF Retailers
PRICES TO THE PUBLIC
in HANDS OF RETAILER

Appointment Of Billings Merchant and
President of the ACM's Montanans Inc AS
Price Administrator for the State Accepted
By Majority of the Common People and
Consumers of the State as Slap in the Face.
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The consuming public of the state believing that the Office
of Price Administration would bear its interests first in mind
the appointment of state administrator of the price fixing
had their hopes dmmed Wednesday of this week
when it that A. T. Peterson president of the
ACM controlled Montanans Inc retail merchant Bill
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26

Stating in it's report submitted to after years
vesgation that the time has to call halt to the
further of contracts the house mill
tary committee with Andrew May CD chairman de-
manded that such be banned except unique
cases. The report critical of practically every branch
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-26
4C0ST-PLUS' CONTRACTS
ASSAILED IN REPORT OF
CONGRESS COMMITTEE Il

Generally Critical Of the Conduct of Il .
Nations War Business, the May Comm :
Finds Conditions Surrounding Execu' :
OF Cost-Plus Contracts Affected by Same
Faults AS Were World War Contracts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Dairy
Asked

SACRAMENTO. Oct II. CUP)-
The State Board of Agriculture to-
day recommended that essential
dairy workers in fluid milk be allo-
Gated TO their present Jobs to avoid
a serious shortage Of milk in Cali
fornia.
John Marshall. bureau of markets
milk economist, warned the board
the ALLEGATION" of mixers must be
done promptl=, if it is not already
too late Mixers and dairy en-
ployes have been going into defense
industries and military service TO
the point where many dairymen are
slaughtering milk cows because no
one is available to milk them.
The board approved a series of 10
recommendation adopted this week
by the International Association of
Milk Control agencies at Richmond.
Virginia. with emphasis on simplifi-
cation of milk deliveries and the
stabilization of workers.
The board heard q letter from
from Julian McPhee. chief of the
bureau of agricultural education of
the State Department of Education,
in which he stressed the problem
of farm production and harvesting
is not solved once helpers assemble
on the farm. He said farmers and
city folk must be educated that the
farmers attitude toward his vol
unteer assistants is not the same
as the hired hand of past years.
McPhee said experiences of this
summer indicate that many farmers
have been reluctant to adjust their
farms to volunteer or white collar
labor and did not go all out" to
make things comfortable or attrac-
tive to city volunteers. Since even
more of these persons will be work.
ing on the farms next year, he said
farmers should educate themselves
toward their new type of help to
get the best results.
Director w. j. Cecil of the agri-
culture department was supported
in his suggestion to call a wartime
agricultural conference, to be fol-
lowed by a meeting of state legis-
latorS concerned with agriculture
Tor "streamlining" of the agricul-
tural code to meet wartime condi-
j tiOns.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
China Says kazis
Plan New Attacks

CHUNGKING, Oct. 17-CChineso
Broadcast Recorded BY Unitee
Press, San Francisco - Centra,
News Agency todaf quoted a re
liable, confidential report" from
Geneva that the German high COM
mand planned a new offensive
against Moscow before winter.
Such a campaign would be de
signed to prevent any general Soviet
counter-offensive there against Ger
man positions, these reports said
The Geneva sources, claiming the
information came directly from Of
ficial German circles, also sale
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has
been ordered to take the offensive
in North Africa simultaneously with
the proposed drive on Moscow.
The report said that Adolf Hit
Ter, needing full JaNanese support
OF his winter plans, has decided tC
send a new military mission r
Tokyo. The mission was said +? h
headed by very high personalities, :"
possible including Gen Fed0r vor
Book who was reported dismissed 6
month ago as cCmmander-in-ch -chief
of the German army at Stalingr" /
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Victims of Battle
Aid Red Cross

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-UP1
The Navy revealed today that the
Officers and men of the naval tank
er Naches, which was sunk during
the battle for Java, had contrib
uted $l28 to the American Red
Croec.
Chairman Norman H. Davis of
the American Red Cross, acknowl-
edging receipt Of the money, wrote
Pear Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief
# naval personnel. that the con-
tritution has touched the hearts
Of all CT Us here at Red Cross bead
quarter
Jacobs. in reply said that Of the
126 members of the NacheS crew,
So were unaccOunted for.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
JoPs Challenge
u. s, Air Control

Continued From Page II
have been shot down many miles
from Dakar, possibly over Free
town, some 500 miles south.
PRESSURE ON FRANCE
The Germans obviously were at
tempting to utilize the incident to
trouble the waters and probably
to increase pressure on France to
allow the Germans TO participate
in defense" of Dakar. The Nazis
were thought to be seeking to force
France 10 agree to join the war on
the axis side III event of an allied
attack on Dakar or any other French
possession.
The Vichy government itself is
sued a brief denial of an clash at
Dakar.
Berlin, however, insisted that the
biggest maneuvers of the war were
in progress at Gibraltar The Nazl
propaganda drive was in. line with
its campaign of recent weeks claim
ing that allied action against
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
ErroI Flynn. Free on Boil.
Denies Girls Charges

lieve her, and then to the district
attorney, who would. the Sordid tale
of a Lincoln, Neb., high school girl
who was willing to go to any
lengths to become a movie actress.
GIRL WAS WILLING
She said she gladly had sexual
relations with the men she accused,
because she believed they might
help her become a picture star
The prosecutor explained that un-
der California law any such rela-
tionS with a 17-year-old girl, even
with her consent, is statutory rape
The blonde Miss Hansen, red
eyed from weeping and LOOKING
younger than her n years. said
she got n job as waitress in Hol
lywood drug store, because She
hoped there she might meet studio
men. Almost at once she met Ar
mand Knapp. studio messenger;
Morrie Black, clerk, and Joseph
Gerald. song writer.
II had always admired Mr. Flynn
ON the screen" she said. Knapp
said if I'd go to the swimming par
ty at Mr.. McEvoy'S, l could meet
Mr.. Flynn. l tried to get the aft
ernoon off. I couldn't. SO l quit;
l had to meet Mr. Flynn.
SHE TELLS STORY
Knapp took her last September
2727 to the party, where she had
dinner with him, Flynn, McEvoy,
several others including Buster
Wiles, a movie stunt man; Agnes
CChichD Toupes, dancer, and Lynn
Hansen, singer.
They gave me a cocktail after
dinner Miss Hansen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
California Gains
In Re egistrotion

SACRAMENTO. oct 17.-CUP1-
Secretary Of State Paul Peek today
annoulced a total registration Of
3820.776 California voters for the
November s general election. a gain
of only 69,490 over the August pri-
mary. but still the largest in the
states history
Peek's figures showed Imperial
county with a Democratic registra-
tion of 10351, Republican. 6l23. and
total of 17150, including minor
parties.
The total for the state included
$500 ,206 Democrats. & gain of Al
305 over August. and 1.370.069 Re
puolicans. an increase Of 1902.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
1877 Men, Women,
Babies Perish in
Nazi Sub Attack
OContinued From Fage /

continued from rage II
on top of me. The explosion shook
the whole ship and there was no
mistake what happened.
L rushed below to see if my wife
was out of her cabin. She was shar-
ing a cabin with another lady. On
the way, I picked up a lifebelt.
Il got Zoe MRS. Fielding up on
deck She had no lifebelt, so I gave
her mine I threw her overheard and
didn't see her again"
Some lady had her baby with
her. She gave it to me and went
below TO get her other baby. I did
MT see her again. CShe was rescued,
however,
Il gave the naDy 20 some fellow
on Cne of the ships RATS. I didn't
see them again. Somehow or other,
got on a lifeboat, part of which
had been blown away. In fact, four
lifeboats had been blown off the
ship.
We stayed on the upturned boat
for hours. We were last to be picked
up five hours later. There were II
of us when we started, six men and
six women. Only two women and
three men came through.
I'VE put the women on top of
the boat. The men hung on to the
rope. l was m the water all that
time. The sea wasn't SO bad when
we were hit, but it began to get
rougher later on.
Il didn't see the submarine. 1t
was pitch dark when we were hit.
I didn't hear or see any machine gun
fire, just heard the depth charges
from the escort ship"
Mrs Fielding, however, was res
cued, and told her story from
hospital bed:
1T was the first time l had ever
been on boat. I'd been sleeping
when the woman who was sharing
my cabin cried out, Wake up, what's
that?" I said, Oh, nothing l didn't
realize what had happened. wasn't
in a hurry. Then the water came in.
The woman who was with me
wouldn't let me put my lifebelt on
her. She had said before the l:ie-
belts weren't any good. She slapped
my face when | tried to put it on.
Then my husband came. l didn't
see her again. My husband took me
up on deck. He put his lifebelt on
me and threw me overheard. Is he
all right? l dio.1C see him again"
After swimming an hour, a SOL
der put her on raft The soldier,
swimming alongside, disappeared.
Three hours later, navy ship pick
ed up Mrs. Fielding and the others
on the raft.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Chile JaiIs Five
Axis Soy Suspects

SANTIAGO. Chile, Oct. IT,
PD-Five Germans. CHARGED with
espionage. were arrested last nieht
the newspaper Lo Hora reported
today.
Two of the men were said tc
have been escaped members of the
interned crews of the German scut-
tied nCcket battleship Graf Spec
and the German naval supply shir
Tacoma They were interned il
Argentina. The reported arrests
followed decision of the govern
ment to remove DR.. Hans Borchers
former German consul-general ir
New York, and three alleged Naz
spies arrested last week, from the
summer resort of Zapallar to in
ternment on Kuirriquina island in
Conception Bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN


HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17.-U.PD
Enrol Flynn returned to the heroics
of the sound stages today under
$1,000 BAIL charged with criminal
assault upon Betty Hansen, 17-year-
old, moVie-struck waitress, who quit
her job for the chance to meet him.
She accused him of taking her
upstairs after dinner party in the
Bel Air mansion of wealthy sports
man Fred McEVoy and there in
dulging in what District Attorney
John F. DockWeiler called Statu-
tory rape. Three other studio
workers, held with Flynn for ar
raignment on the same charges
next Friday admitted illicit rela-
ticns with her.
The curly-headed Flynn. perform
ing on the Warner sound stages as
heroic Norwegian fighting the
Nazis. said Miss Hansen's story left
him dumbfounded.
FLRNN DENIED CHARGE
Il hardly knew her" he said
we exchanged only a few words
when we were introduced at din
ner. l was with Mr. McEVoy all
evening and 1 left before any of
the other guests.
The Warner brothers indicated
by continuing production of F'lynns
picture that they would stand be-
hind him until his trial. Holly
wood wondered whether the pub
lie alSc would withhold judgment,
or whether his career as one of
the movies highest-paid actors al
ready had reached an abrupt end.
Miss Hansen told first to the
grand jurymen, who wouldn't be-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Washington Hit
By Potomac Flood

Continued From Page II
innate damage. but reported that
virtually all the citys streets were
covered with mud and silt. Very
little traffic-either rail or auto
was moving in or OF of the city by
mid-mornIng. they reported.
In the three-state area. where
thousands were driven from their
Acmes. Fredericksburg and Fall
mouth in Northern Virginia were
the hardest hit The rampaging
Shenandoah and Rappahannock
rivers covered towns. highways,
communications and power facili-
ties in the area
M*NY KILLED
Fourteen persons were believed
dead in Fredericksburg. And the
Red Cross rescue station there said
il had received reliable reports
that six persons drowned in a pas
seuser car which slid into a high
way washout and that three men
in a truck apparently drowned in a
flooded underpass.
President Roosevelt toured the
nood section Of Washington yes
terday and ordered officials to spare
neither effort nor money to pre-
tee tho city"
Civilian defense workers were
placed under partial mobilization
and sandbag barriers were being
erected around sewage pumping
stations and across low points The
national airport was not expected
to be flooded but highway trans
uorafiou 70 tha field was partly
blocked.
HUNDREDS HOMELESS
Fredericksburg was temporarily
without communications or lights
as the waters surged II feet deep
through the downtown area. At
Falmouth. at least $50 persons were
homeless and Marines from the
Ouantico base brought in field
Kitchens. cots and blankets to care
tor 80 refugees sheltered in the
falmouth high schccl.
Along the James river at Rich
mgnd. an Army of 300 workers
sandbaogad low points Of the leyee
pro. ectnp Virginia's s capital.
Fredericksburg officials estimat-
a The water supply would last only
q few hours The city's supply Of
ybhold serum was used up quick
il and an emergency call for furth-
er Supplies was sent to Washing
tcr.
Thp citYs hazard was increased
by danger Of fire and several gas
ouue tanks which brok. loose at
the edge r the CITY and covered
the river with tons of fuel Radio
stations broadcast warnings to cit
ies down the river and Fredericks-
burg officials called on residents 10
exercise extreme care in prevent
iug q fire
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18

French possessions in Africa is i'm
minent.
ITALY SNU8BED
IN connection with indications of
winter campaigns in Africa reports
came from Istanbdl that Adolf Hitler
was preparing to take over full
charge of all operations in Africa
the Mediterranean and the Balkans.
relegating italy even further into
the background.
These reports suggested that tine
first Nazi move would be to take
control Of Trieste and Fiume.
The Hitler move was said to be
motiVated by desire to end Wran-
Cling and bungling oy Italy in these
spheres in view of the growing
threat of allied offensive action.
The nonstop axis air attack on
Malta still was under way. British
Spitfire squadrons shot down seven
more axis planes over the island.
raising their bag in less than a
week to more than 100. Rome claim
ed. that Is British planes were
brought down in the Malta battles
Stockholm heard that the new
NlZl command IN Denmark had or
dered all Danes to halt immed atcly
on German challenge in order to
avoid incidents
Trouble in France over efforts to
draft French labor for Germany
continued to spread. Premier Pierre
Laval was said to have gathered
only $4,000 of the 10000 Workmen
he promised to Hlu.er ana strikes
were reported at Lyons. Grenoble
Chambery, Annecy. LongWy Tou-
louise, and Marseilles.