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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21

cess Anne, Md Mr.. Stotts is a grad
uate of Akron, Ohio, high school and
is employed by the Bennett Trans
portation Company, of Norfolk, Va.
Following the wedding, a small re
ception was held at the Chincoteague
Inn, Oak Hall, Va.
Later in the afternoon, Mr. and
Mrs. Stotts left for a trip South and
upon their return will make THEN
home in Norfolk, Va.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21
Quiet Wedding At
Princess Anne, Md.
Continued from Page y

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mother, Mrs. Eutha Matthews, by
whom she was given marriage. She
was attired in an ice blue crepe dress,
with white accessories. Her corsage
was of white rosebuds and white can
terbury bells.
Miss Nan Byrd, of Oak Hall, Va,
was maid of honor and was dressed
in a powder blue suit with dusty pink
accessories. Her corsage was red
rosebuds.
Mr.. William Fogle, of Onancock.
Va, was Mr.. Stotts' best man.
Mrs. Stotts graduated from Tenn
peranceville High School and Beacon
Business School, of Wilmington, Del,
and has been employed as secretary
of Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Prin-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21

wing described real and personal property to WITT
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21

Of an OF Circuit Worcester
Maryland passed the Of Franklin Hastings and Calvin P P
Maryland
No. 1914 the Chancery Docket Of the Circuit Court for W
Maryland, will
public auction the highest bidder at the Agar Poultry Earns Corpora
southey
Highway the corporate limits Of the Of Berlin
Mnlcate
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21
ReU. StelUart And
Family Left Wed.
Continued from Page u

valuable in other church activities.
The friends they all made trust
they will find their lines have fallen
in pleasant places; that they will not
forget their Pocomoke experience;
and will, now and then, include this
city in their vacation itinerary.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-08-21

Buy United States War Bonds and
Stamps with the money you save!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
FARMERS c0-0PS
BORROW BIG
SUMS In 1941
Loans to Co-operatives by
Spokane Bank for Co-ops
Nearly Double the Amount
In 1941 That Was Borrowed
In 1910.

Farmer co-operatives of the -four
Pacific northwest states stepped W
their borrowings from the Spokane
Bank for Co-operatives $4,S44,000 in
1941 compared to the credit used In
1910, A. c. Adams, president of the
bank, reported today
Co-ops generally handled larger
volume during the past year than for
several years, Adams said. Better
crops, stepped up production under
the Food for Victory campaign, and,
in the case of purchasing associations,
increased purchasing power on farms
combined with higher prices, and a
larger number of associations financed
all contributed to the increase in the
banks loans, it was explained. Costs
Of doing business were higher, too,
because of increased labor and mate
rials expense. Higher market values
Of produce also boosted operating cap
ital requirements of many co-opera-
tives.
Total amount loaned by the Bank
in 1941 was $9,SS5,O0O compared with
$5,041, 900 loaned in 1910. The out
standing balance at the end of the
year was $8,613,000 to 100 associa-
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
DEFENSE BOARD
CAN help With
REPAIR PARTS

Farmers who are experiencing diff
Guilty in obtaining repair parts for
farm machinery should notify their
county USDA Defense boards imme-
diately of such difficulty, Chairman R.
j. McKenna Of the Montana USDA
Defense board announces.
Because of the shortage of new
farm machinery and the fact that a
record farm production is needed dur
ing 1912 to feed America and our
allies, every piece Of disable machin-
cry now on farms will have to be
ready for action next season." he ex-
planned. County USDA Defense
boards throughout the state are now
conducting campaigns urging farmers
to repair all their machinery and have
it ready for use by March H."
Enough metal to manufacture all
farm machinery repair parts that will
be needed has been assured, but man
ufacturers must know what and how
many parts are needed before work
begins. Metal and machines urgent
ly needed for other work cannot be
wasted in turning out repair parts
that aren't needed" McKenna said.
Farmers are urged to check their
machinery now and see their dealers
CONTINUED ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
WAR BUDGET
CREATES new
PROBLEMS
BY SCOTT NEARING

| The u. S. government will spend
$50, 027, 992,300 in the fiscal year 1912
1913. This is the budget estimate
Actual expenditures may run above OF
below this total.
Taking the figures at their face
value and assuming national income
of 100000, 100000 in 1942-1943, nearly
three-fifths of that income will be
handled by the federal government.
Since $4,000, 100000 of the $4,000
100000 are scheduled for war pur.
poses, the country will be putting
slightly more than half Of its income
into the war effort.
This setup makes fully half of the
workers of the U. S. directly depend
ent upon war production. Add to
these workers the members of the
conscript army and the result is a
total of rs to 80 million persons who
will be employed as long as the war
lasts and disemployed when the war
ends.
During World War / only about
one-third of U. S. effectives were en-
gagged in the war effort, but the arm
istice caused seroius unemployment.
Unless the federal government is
ready at the end of World War II
with carefully planned program of
labor-power utilization, the economic
effects will be even more drastic.
It seems unlikely that more than
$40, 900, 100000 of the 1942-1943 budget
can be met by taxation. The balance
-$35 to $40 billion-must be bor-
rowed and added to the national debt,
which was $4,000, 100000 in 1892 and
$40, 200, 100000 in 1899. Consequently
the debt will probably reach s7O,000,-
100000 in 1912 and will exceed $780,
900 1000, 900 in 1913.
Such a development will bring the
national debt, for the first time, above
the national income. Experts in pub
lie finance always shake their heads
when national debt exceeds national
income.
If the federal government uses 500
Of the national income for war pIlr-
poses, there Will be lett 4l,OUU,0UO,0uO
(cr civilian consumption. Allowing
for a price increase of 50% from 1889
to 1943 Wholesale prices increased
25% in 1941), the amount of goods
and services available for 1943 civil
ian consumption will be little more
han half of the quantity IN 1889. In
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
JUDGE RAPS
PR0FITEERS
AS CRIMINALS
Suspends Sentence of Man
Who Pleaded Guilty to
Forgery and States Crime
Was Trivial Compared to
Those of the Industrialists.

BROOKLYN, N. Y (FP) = Sus
pending sentence January 16 on Har
Iry Goldberg, who had pleaded guilty
to a $3,25O forgery, County Judgs
Charles S. Golden declared that the
offense was trivial when compared
with the crimes of the war profiteers
as revealed by the Truman commit
tee.
To-day we are suffering from the
shock of the terrible things that we
have discovered in the report of the
senate investigating committee" Col
den said.
Men who were supposed to be men
of great character and moral integrity
and patriotism have been guilty of
things displayed by the report. We
find men who are gorging themselves
with the wealth that is being con-
tributed by patriotic Americans, SO
that they can enrich themselves like
swine in the feeding trough.
I'VE read such things as one man
saying that the profits of his COM
pany were so great that they needed
a steam shovel to handle them. I'm
til we have a firing squad to take
care of people of that kind we ought
not to deal harshly with some foolish
individual who has a good record and
has been pretty decent sort of man
and who has made Slip"
The prisoner tainted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
CONRAD COOP
REPORTS GOOD
BUSINESS YEAR

With patronage refunds totalinl
s12, 106.32, the Farmers Cooperative
Oil and Supply Company of Conrad
closed it's books on December 81, 1941
marking the end of successful year
The total sales for the year were
S144,72143 and the net income fol-
the years operations was s15,56S.25
It's facilities and real estate, with 49,
43405 deducted as a reserve for de-
probation from their original value,
are now valued at s21,155.32. It's in
vestment in shares of other co-opera-
tives totals s4,10483, and it's inven-
tory totaled $25,32706.
Ed Crook is manager of this out
standing cooperative and has the fol-
lowing employees: Eugene Johnson,
Jay Allen, Ralph Sutherland, Maurice
Eppe, Archie Bishop and Bob liver
son, Ledger.
The directors are: G. w. Wagner,
president; Albert Vermuln, Walter
Hammermeister, Clarence Peters,
Louis Mink, W. w. Mcfarland, Ken
meth Iverson, Henry Larson and Alvin
Erickson.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
SCHNEIDERMAN
CASE VITAL
TO MANY

I'VE are on the side of the law and
the Constitution of the United States.
Mr. Willkie will not have the slightest
difficulty in proving that the lower
federal courts violated this mans
rights" The Argonaut, venerable
San Francisco news weekly now in its
sixty-fifth year of publication, recent
ly stated in editorial comment upon
the case of William Schneiderman.
National attention has been focused
upon the news that Wendell L. Will
kie, republican candidate for Presi-
dent, would represent Mr.. Schneider
man in argument before the United
States supreme court when that body
reviews the decision of lower federal
courts revoking Schneiderman's citi-
zenship.
Hundreds of prominent American
have signed a statement declaring.
This case affects the lives of eight
million naturalized Americans. We
must not allow precedent that would
make native born Americans first
class citizens, and naturalized Amer
leans second-class citizens. We con-
tend that once citizenship is legally
obtained, it is irrevocable."
Sfgners of the statement include
eminent educators, church leaders,
professional men and women, union
lists, writers and artists Among these
are: DR.. Theodore Karwoski, Dart
mouth college; John Candy, president
Virginia State College for Negroes;
Rockwell Kent, artist; Rabbi Henry
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23

>repeaLeu. contractors nave
been placing profits first, their
country second (if at ally /; ex-
orbitant profits and outright
graft have been commonplace;
the swarm of dollar-a-year
men have seen to it that con-
tracts have been limited to the
biggest corporations, and writ
ten on the companies terms.
The result of this scramble for prof
its has been a huge increase In the
earnings of big corporations, but a
pitifully small output of planes and
other war implements. Not until the
end of 1912 will first-class fighting
planes be produced in quantity, the
report said.
Again and again the committee up
held the charges that have been made
by union officials and by a small
handful of liberal newspapers and
periodicals. The report substantiated
dozens of Federated Press stories on
the apathy and venality of defense
contractors.
Here are some of the highlights of
the report:
l. The OPM's mistakes OF commits
sion have been legion; and it's mis-
takes of omission have been even
greater"
Tho o55 do11ar-a-vao,. 49, 80
the 63l additional men working with
out compensation have actually
served as lobbyists for private bust
ness, which has kept them on its pay
roll and in some cases even raised
their salaries.
3. The disappointing production
Of copper, lead and zinc was the re-
suit of industry's sitdown strike for
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
MARKET
CONTINUES
REND
Severe Weather Continued
Over Principal Wheat
States With Fair Production
In Most Areas; European
Prospects Not the Best.

Although showing some hesitancy
at times, grain markets continued on
the uptrend during the week ended
January 16, according to the depart.
ment of Agriculture. Senate action
on the price control bill left room
for further advances in grain prices
and this factor put markets into a
sharp upswing on Monday. Prices
worked off somewhat from the high
point, however, when trade reports
indicated that sizeable quantities of
wheat from reserve G. G. c. stocks
had been disposed Of to millers and
other handlers at whose plants the
grain was stored. Wheat was up &c,
rye SC, barley and the feed grains
lie to &c for the week. Flax gained
&c per bushel, being influenced by the
official department request for an in
crease in the 1871 acreage program
which was accompanied by an an
nouncement that prices would be sup
ported by means of loans and pur-
chases to at least $2.1O per bushel on
a U. S. average farm price basis.
WHEAT: The G. C. c. increased
the minimum sales price of pooled
wheat lie per bushel for the Is day pc
Rod ending January 81, 1912. The
new price will be not less than 16c
above the applicable 1871 loan value
at terminals and 19c above the loan
value at country locations. Sales Of
wheat during the week ended January
10 totaled approximately 100000
bushels, making a total for the sea-
son Of about 22,250,O00 bushels and
leaving slightly less than 151,5O0,000
bushels on hand.
Severely cold weather continued
over the principal winter wheat grow
ing states but most areas had fair to
good protection. A few sections, In
Guiding northwestern and western
Ohio, central and northern Indiana,
central Illinois, most of Missouri and
Kansas, were made
quately covered In the warmer
southwestern portions of the wheat
belt, growth was halted and some
1fOSt damage was possible put the !
extent has not yet been determined |
at the middle of the week
Severe weather continued over most |
Of Europe. Shows helped protect |
winter crops but were inadequate in
many sections and some damage was
feared. Prospects for winter wheat |
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
SOUTHERN tenant F.U.
HOLDS CONVENTION
Pledges Each of Its Locals to Buy One or.
More Defense Bonds, Maintenance of
.Family-Type Farm, Cooperative Develop
ment and Abolition of Poll Tax
The eighth annual convention closed>

The eighth annual convention CLOSED
in Sheffield, Ala, Saturday, January
! 10th, with the election of officers fol-
the coming year. J. R. Butler, fol-
seven years head of the sharecroppel
Organization announced his decision
to retire and declined the nomination
for reelection in 1912.
Roy E. Raley, of near Sheffield
was elected president while Mr.. But
| Ter was given the post of honorary
chairman of the executive council
Reelected for another term were F.
R. Betton, (negro) vice president of
Cotton Plant, Arkansas, and H. l..
Mitchell, secretary of Memphis, Tenn.
Members elected for the executive
council were J. F. Hynds, (white)
Forrest City, Ark, w. M. Tanner,
(white) Kenneth, Mo-, Roy Parks,
(white) Essex, Mo-, Wilbur White
(white) Cruger, Miss, L. c. Mckay
(negro) Muscle Shoals, Ala, Ander-
son Johnson (negro) Hunter, Ark, E..
0. Cistrunk, (negro) Columbus, Miss,
and j. E. Clayton, (negro) Litteg,
Tex.
The 200 sharecropper delegates and
visitors closed the Sheffield meeting
with the re-enactment Of the colorful
Ceremony of the Land and returned
to their homes in the states of Arkan-
sas, Missouri Texas, Mississippi, and
Alabama.
According to H. L. Mitchell the pro-
gram for the coming year, as en-
bodied in resolutions adopted by the
convention, pledges every local to pur-
chase one or more Defense Bonds and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
Nelson Production Gar
Universally Approved

ohiNCio dfJ HPPiONCd
Naming of production car was
certain to come-and it was given to
man who has been making good
here in Washington.
Donald Nelson, one of the few dol
lar-a-year men in the national defense
set-up who has shown an understand
ing of what it takes by way of war
production to lick Adolf Hitler, has
been given the job of seeing to 1t
that the goods are produced.
Observers who have watched Mel
son in action are confident that he
will measure up to the task.
An opponent from the very outset,
of" business as usual" and living as
usual until the messy business OF
destroying Hitler is completed, Nelson
has been looked upon with distrust
by the fat boys. His associations
have been rather with New Dealers
like Leon Henderson, Harry Hopkins,
and Sidney Hillman, who held similar
views on what ought to be done.
By no means fighting man in ap-
character of Lord Beaverbrook, Mel
son, in his quiet, unassuming way,
knows how to get things done. He is
a very determined man. He doesn't
care on whose toes he treads; he
doesn't give hang about preserving
certain business practices" that the
boys. Of Wall Street are so concerned
about; he hates red tape; he favors
nobody, and nobody has a drag with
him. He is the type that is nice and
hard-boiled at the same time.
Last spring, when testifying before
the Tolan committee in the house, he
was asked what he would do to get
the necessary production, were he in
position of authority. II would COM
pei industry to produce the goods" he
replied.
The automotive industry people had
better take notice If they think
that, under Nelson, they can get away
short of a maximum war effort, they
are due for establishment. Nelson
is the best assurance that conversion
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
''CHRISTIAN
FRONTIERS" NOW
PATRIOTS

Christian Frontiers, acting under in
structions from Father Charles E
Coughlin and his Fifth Column lieu
tenants, are flocking into civilian de
Tense organizations. Their plan is tC
dominate these organizations by sheer
weight of numbers, capture every pos
sible office, and in this way place
themselves in a most strategic posi-
ton to sabotage civilian defense work
and spread dissension and panic when
the fright time" arrives.
The Hour is reliably informed that
in Brooklyn, N. Y, number of civil
ian defense groups are already in dan
ger of being taken over by Christion
Front stormtroopers, notorious in the
past for their collaboration with the
German-American Bund and other
Nazi agencies.
The January IL issue of Social JUS
tice brings the campaign into the
open when it commands the Cough
Unite army to transfer its forces en-
masse into civilian defense groups
and other patriotic organizations. The
center spread of the fascist journal
carries this message in bold type:
"Americansl Join All Patriotic Organ
izations; Keep America Christian"
The order is given in more detail on
the rear page in an editorial entitled
I'VE Must Win" which includes this
passage:
9" Social Justice advises you to
get into every patriotic organization
In America. Join up. Be neither
Stacker for war nor a Stacker for
peace. Join up with the Office of
Civilian Defense. The radical influ-
snce is already there. 1t must be
CONTINUED ON Page FOUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
Big Business Blocks j. 5. War Efforts
A PROCLAMATION
BY The GOVERNOR
OF MONTANA

Whereas, The President of the
! United States, acting in accordance
with the terms of the Selective Train
ing and Service Act of 1910 as amend
ed has issued proclamation calling
for registration ON Monday, February
16, 1912, of all male persons within
certain ages residing within the
United States and the Territories of
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico; and
Whereas, The President has in
voked the assistance of the Govern
ors of the several states and all Of
ficers and agents of the several states
and political subdivisions thereof, and
all boards and agents thereof ap-
pointed under the provisions of the
said Selective Service Act as amended
or the regulations prescribed there
under, to do and perform all acts and
services necessary to accomplish eff
fective and complete registration:
NOW, THEREFORE, l, Sam C.
Ford, governor of the state of Mon
tana, do hereby proclaim:
1. That the date of said Selective
Training and Service registration is
Monday, the 18th day of February,
1912, between the hours of o'clock
A. M. and 8 o'clock P NJ
2. That the places of registration
are the offices of the Local Selective
Boards and such other places as may
be designated by the local boards.
3. That (a) Every male citizen of
the United States, and every other
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
HIGHEST INCOME FOR
SCHOOLS REPORTED

Funds accruing from income and
interest collected by the state land
department amounting to $1,433, 562O1
which totals 1910 for every child of
school age in Montana, were allocated
to the schools this week.
OF the total amount, percent goes
to the permanent school fund and the
balance will be sent to the county
school districts.
The amount collected and distri-
buted this year represents an all time
high.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23
SCHOOL BOARD ASSN.
ELECTS OFFICERS

The annual convention of the Mon.
tana School Boards Association closed
it's sessions held in Missoula, last
Tuesday evening. Butte was selected
as the convention city for next year.
This was the 10th annual convention
and it was well attended.
The following officers were selected
to serve during the coming year:
Arthur E. Dye, Roundup, president;
E. H. Newell, Livingston, first vice
president; Fred TRADER, Great Falls,
second vice president; ]. L. Gleason,
Livingston, secretary-treasurer. Exec
utive committee members elected are:
v. f. Gibson, Great Falls, three-year
term; Margaret Leary, Butte, two-year
term; Elmer o. Lund, Simms, one-year
term. Holdover members are G. S.
Hanna of Simms and F. ]. Jelinek of
Miles City.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-23

SAT, 773.25 to teachers retire
ment, and $4,000 to temper
ance commission. T h e
amounts do not include any of
the revenue from license fees
or liquor excise tax.
AS first passed by the legislature,
the profits from the liquor monopoly
were divided among the general fund,
the welfare fund and water conserva-
ton fund A later session of the leg
islature eliminated the welfare fund
from participation in the profits of
the monopoly and later the water con-
servation boards participation was
dropped. 1t was at that time that the
teachers retirement fund and the
temperance commission came in for
their shares.
The liquor excise tax which was
imposed in 1936-37 has always accrued
to the general fund. Up to January
1, it has brought the general fund
total of $2,163,872.48 The revenue
from retail liquor licenses have
amounted to $1,411,920 since the re-
failing of liquor was legalized in 1886
81. This has been distributed as fol-
lows: $445, 467.50 to the general fund;
s7O4,677.50 to the public school gen
eral fund, and $261,775 to the welfare
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