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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31

MOSCOW, Aug. 81 (UP) - The
Russians, Stalling the Germans on
the 125-mile Stalingrad front and
killing thousands in counterattacks
indicated today that they had
opened a coUnteroffensive around
Kletskaya, rs miles northwest of
Stalingrad.
I'm the KletSkaya area, Soviet
troops continued active operations
and advanced somewhat" the noon
communique said.
Kletskaya is the German left
flank on the Stalingrad front, and
they may have weakened it to
throw troops across the great bend
of the river Don, some so miles to
the southeast. Thus, if the Rus
slams could muster suf icient
strength in the Kletska%a area,
they might succeed in an offensive
that would ruin the while German
position.
GERMANS STOP
For 48 hours, the Germans have
been stopped or forced to retreat
along a l,0U0-mile front from
Rzhev. lis miles northwest of Mos
COW, to the Caucasus mountains.
The noon communique did not
mention the Red army'S central
front offensive but it was believed
here the Russians were advancing
smoothly, along all that front with
the exception of Rzhev, where the
Germans had rushed up reinforce
ments. Rzhev is the key to the
German Rzhev GzhatSk Vyazma
Salient facing Moscow.
Northwest of Stalingrad, where
the Russians had halted the most
Threatening German wedge and
were beating at it from all sides
the noon communique announced
the destruction of more Germans.
"One Soviet unit in the course
of an engagement lasting several
hours destroyed l2 German tanks,
ID guns, and eight machine gun
points and wiped out more than
400 HitleriteS," it said.
"On another sector. the Germans
attempted to attack our position
with tanks and infantry The at
tack was repulsed b. Soviet guns
and armor busters, OF 30 German
tanks participating in the attack
l6 were destroyed
| A counterattack was reported
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
Japs Routed i'm Milne Bay

GEN. MACARTHURS HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 81.
(UP)-Japanese invasion troops have
suffered a disastrous defeat in the
Milne Bay area of New Guinea, it
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
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PLANTS BACK
IN OPERATION

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 31-tUP)
Employees of two Wright aeronau-
tical corporation plants who left
their jobs in an unauthorized strike
have returned to work, Cyril d.
Savage, president of the Wright
Aeronautical Employees association,
an independent union, announced
today
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
WHISKEY MANUFACTURE
TO STOP SOON

CHICAGO, >sug. 81. CUPl-All
manufacture of whisky. gin and
other beverage spirits for other than
war purposes will cease by next
Nov l, Matthew j. MacNamara.
whisky conversion official of the
war production board, said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
SPORADIC FIGHTING

in his regular communiquc today,
Macarthur reported sporadic fight
ing in the thick jungle country
around Kokoda, which is inland
from the enemy's Buna-Gona base
up the coast from Milne Bay, in
which Australian combat patrols re-
pulsed enemy forces with heavy
casualties.
He said enemy ground activity
was increasing in the Salamaua
area of the Huon Gulf, farther up
the coast.
Though the communique implied
that in the Buna-Gona and Sala-
maua areas the Japanese were at
tacking, it was believed possible
that they had sensed preparations
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31

become that we'll informed quarters
even suggested that the Japanese
command might be faced soon with
whether to withdraw entirely from
New Guinea, or make desperate
attempt to reinforce its garrison
on a major scale.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-31
Flying Forts Hit
Target Frequently

q SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND,
Aug. 81. CUP)-United States fly
ing fortresses have scored at least
10 per cent hits in their seven raids
in two weeks on German occupied
territory to become the kings of
bombers, crew members said today.
Some planes have landed with all
their instruments smashed with
two of their four motors dead, with
their windshields shattered, with
parts of their wings and tails shot
off.
1t is estimated at this fortress
base that some planes have come
back with 1000 sharpnel holes in
them. One had some 1000 holes in
it.
The planes have taken everything
the Germans could give and not
one has failed to return. In their
eighth operational flight, over the
North Sea, they met between 20 and
rs Focke Wulff fighters without
fighter support of their own and
shot down three and probably six
more.
GIVEN CREDIT
Bombardier Lieut.. Frank Beadle,
"a, Grand Rapids, Mich, is credited
with dropping the first fortress
kbomb of the war on enemy territory.
A pre-war civil aviator and air.
plane worker, Beadle was lombard
ier of the first fortress in the raid
on Rouen with which the attacks
of the great army bombers started
Aug. IT.
1T felt damned good to show em
we could really do it," he said.
Il was in the nose, and I felt
sort of funny when 1 looked ahead
and saw the antiaircraft shells burst
ing. 1t gets you sort Of mad and you
want to hit them.
THE plane stretched out for a
dead duck bombing run. 1 began
sighting. We kept getting closer
Then l could pick out the target
clearly. aimed at the freight yards,
stuck my head against the side of
the plane, and saw my mobs go
down. saw them go right through
the yards and blow up freight cars
and everything.
Bullseye! We got 'em dead
shouted. was pretty excited and
l. was yelling so much that forgot
everything except that I had hit
the center of the target.
HEADS OUT
Il guess everybody was sticking
out their heads to see the bombs
go down. We weren't paying any
attention to the enemy at all We
4 bombed between the river and a
bunch of houses and didn't destroy
one house"
Beadle works with Navigator 1t.
Eevon Ray, "a, Tollville. Tex.
Ray didn't see much. 1t is his job
i. to keep on with his work, without
looking out.
Grew members said that BeadIe
could drop bomb in Hitler's lap
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-10
PLACING THE BLAME

ernor, to the President of the U. s.
But there was no proof In the rec
ord that only poll tax payers can sit
on juries In Virginia.
AS Waller died, and in the few
frantic hours before his death, repre-
sentatives of the house and senate
wrangled fiercely over the appropria-
ton for the department of agriculture
for the fiscal year of 1913. Even the
prospect that the department, one Of
the governments largest and most i'm
portant, would be left without funds
for the first few days of the new fis-
cal year failed to break the deadlock.
Cause of the deadlock was the in
sistence of the senate that sufficient
funds TO rthe Farm Security Admins
tration be included in the bill, as
voted by the senate. Representatives
of the house were steadfast in their
refusal to grant the FSA money.
The FSA, the hous had been con-
WINGED, had sinned. Had it not loaned
money to poor southern farmers with
which to pay their poll taxes? Had
not the FSA tried ways of improving
the lot of the sharecropper and tenant
farmer? Was not the FSA "commun-
istic" because it experimental with
cooperative land ownership for the
poor farmer? Did the FSA not
threaten the security of large land
owners and the employers of farm
labor?
The gency was easily convicted of
these crimes. 1t confessed them free
ly and proudly.
But even jury of Virginia poll
tax payers cannot convict those guilty
of abbetting poverty among share
troopers and tenant farmers, those
who, in the name of the American
taxpayer, have fought programs of aid
to the downtrodden.
Odell Waller held the gun that
killed Oscar Davis but the hand on
the trigger was the hand of the OPP
ponents of the FSA.
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War Has Not.
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new factory he has heard Of 100
miles from his village. Meanwhile he
is unemployed.
At first glance it seems odd that
a sturdy man in his thirties should
be unemployed with industry running
at an all-time high. Sis experience
provides one concrete instance of la
Dor dislocation.
| Wholesale instances may also be
cited. The building trades all over
the country are slack for lack of mate
rails. The women's garment industry
in New York City alone reports $780,
900 of its members out of work. A
recent survey puts the total number
of unemployed in New York City at
100000 There are probably around
100000 unemployed in the entire
country.
How is this possible with millions
Of men in the armed forces, the sum-
mer shortage Of farm labor and
general speedup of production? The
answer is simple:
ma country as large as the U. S.
there are millions who cannot serve
in the armed forces, get jobs in fac
tories or do farm work. Some are
old, some crippled, some sick, some
unadjusted. For one reason or an
other, they do not fit into the picture
of mechanization.
Society must take care of these
people The experience in Great
Britain has been quite similar to that
of the U. S.
Even under the pressure of war
economy and the threat of invasion,
unemployment still constitutes one of
the pressing British problems. 1t is
one of the basic economic issues In
the U. S. today.
Relief funds have been cut and
there is much talk of doing away
with the federal relief machinery alto
gether. Such is folly. After the war,
relief will have to be provided as a
matter course, as it was after World
War I, and even during the war there
will be millions for whom the choice
is relief or slow starvation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-10

workers who caught typhoid fever
while working at the Illinois State
Hospital here.
NEW ORLEANS.-Organization of
workers harms the war effort, the u.
S. circuit court of appeals held in a
decision voiding an NLRB order
against the Southern Bell Telephone
company union.
CHICAGO. = Anti-labor domination
of the American Legion in California
was attacked in a resolution at a
national conference of Union Legion
naires here June 27-28.
BEAUMONT, Tex.-Major oil refin-
cries, shipyards and even department
stores in Martin Dies home district
are conducting an anti-union petition
signing campaign among loyal en-
ployes.
BATON ROUGE, La Louisiana
house of representatives has asked
Rep. Martin Dies d., Tex as well as
the FBI to investigate the Christian
American Assn, an organization
which supported extension of Dies
committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-10

How Labor Support the War" Is
the subject of Mr.. Hills next article
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-10
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-Odell Wal
Ter died at 8:35 a. m. July 2 undel
the full majesty of the law of the
Commonwealth of Virginia.
Waller was a negro. Seven hun
bred and seventeen days previously he
shot and killed Oscar Davis, white
tenant farmer. He was tried by a
jury of 10 landholders, businessman
and a carpenter.
The reason Waller killed Davis was
that he faced winter of starvation.
AS a sharecropper he was entitled to
so sacks OF threshed wheat. AS a
negro in Virginia, he had little choice
when Davis refused to give him his
wheat
The wheat was withheld from Wal
on Davis's tobacco allotment. Davis
cut down on his sharecropper's acre
age.
When the executioner for the COM
monwealth of Virginia threw the
switch that killed Waller, the name
of the negro sharecropper was known
throughout the nation. Papers as far
away and powerful as the New York
Times urged Communication Of the
death sentence.
Liberal people throughout the coun-
try, college presidents, writer's, law
yers, labor leaders urged that Waller
be spared his life.
In the Commonwealth of Virginia
only people who pay their poll taxes
are permitted TO sit on the jury The
tax is $3.50 a year and 1t adds up each
year that it is unpaid.
On the jury that tried Waller there
were no sharecroppers too poor to
pay even the $3.50 year for the
privilege of voting. There were no
people who could feel the loss of even
the meager share of crop. There
were no negroes who knew what 1t
means to be black in the Common
wealth of Virginia.
Walters attorney was young and In
experienced. During the course of
the trial he did not place in the rec
ord proof of what everyone knew to
be so, that second class citizens do
not sit on juries.
AS the case went from court to
court, sustained by gifts of talent and
the learned judges looked at
the record and saw that there was
no proof that the peers" of Walters
jury were only poll tax payers, that
men without $3.50 a year to pay for
the rights of citizenship were denied
a place on that jury.
The case went to the q. S. supreme
court which found that there was no
federal issue involved. 1t went
the state courts, to the gov
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REPORT Of WORK
lin SUPREME
COURT FOR week

DECISIONS
Juno 30th-A. E. Cramer v. Mon
tana State Board of Food Distributors
Appealed from Lewis and Clark coun
lty, Helena. Opinion of the court by
Judge Left Erickson. Judge Albert
H. Angstman dissenting.
Held: That the law which created
the Montana State Board of Food Dis.
tributors was constitutional. The
court excepted, and held unconstitu-
tional, that part of the act which pro-
vided that part of the license fees col
lected by the board could be turned
over to a private corporation for the
disbursement.
July 2nd-State of Montana v. C.
H. Russell. An appeal from Big Horn
county, Hardin. Unanimous opinion
of the court by Justice Left Erickson.
Held: The court upheld the con-
viction of the defendant who was
charged and found guilty of stealing
a COW in Big Horn county.
ORDERS:
June 30th = The court denied the
petition for rehearing in the case en-
titled ]. P. Stevens Company v. Great
Falls Paper Company, the decision Of
which was heretofore reported in
these releases.
Prepared and Released by:
PETER MELOY, Marshal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-10
PROTECTING
|L0W-WAGE
Farmers
BY L. A. HILL, Regional Director
Wage and Hour Division

Presented here is the second of
a series of four articles discussing
the Wage and Hour Law, written
specially for The Peoples Voice, by
Mr.. L. A. Hill, Minneapolis, regional
director of the Wage and Hour d.
vision. U. s. department of labor
Editors Note.
| One Of the most farsighted provi
sfons of the Wage and Hour Law Is
the provision which requires that the
administrator appoint committees to
recommend wage increases for work
ers on an industry basis.
The purpose of the committees is
| to study economic conditions In in
dividual industries with the view of
Recommending minimum wage above
| the statutory minimum of 80 cents an
hour where such higher minimum
will not substantially curtail employ
ment In the industry" The highest
minimum wage which a committee
may recommend is 40 cents an hour
the amount which win become the
statutory minimum on October "a,
1916.
To date workers numbering we'll
above one million are receiving mini
mum wages of more than 80 cents an
hour as direct result of the actions
of such industry committees. The
recommendation of more than 40
such committees have been translated
into wage orders by the administra-
tor. In some instances two and three
wage orders have been issued for in
vides that the minimum wage in an
industry may be increased as condi-
lions warrant.
When it is realized that it is the
effect of the Wage and -Four Law
alone that provides the 40-cents-an-
hour wage which many workers In in
dustries covered by wage orders in
this amount receive, it is obvious that
the wartime boom is not resulting in
huge pay checks for many thousands
of workers. Were 1t not for the law,
the wages of these thousands would
not be even the SIG week for 40
hours of work which they now re-
ceive. And, in the face of the in
creased cost of living, SIG week, of
course, cannot be considered great.
Admittedly, the workers affected by
wage orders issued by the administra
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tor of the Wage and Hour division
it is true, also, that the workers
whose earnings are directly increased
by the orders are the lowest pait
among those employed In these in
dustries as a whole.
However, recent figures released by
the U. S. department of labor show
that the average weekly pay check
flor a worker in these industries
(which are distinguished from arma
Iment plants and the like producing
durable goods, is $27. But even s27 a
week cannot be considered much in
the face of the increased cost of liv-
| ing. 1t Is clear that the average wage
Garner is not receiving a dispropor-
tionately high share of the profits as
ISOLATED with our war effort.
How important the weekly pay
check of an American worker is in
the war effort is quite obvious. since
the production of workers, military
Istrategists agree, will very largely de-
termine the outcome of the war. The
health and morale of the workers on
the home front, therefore, must be
considered at all times.
With this in mind, it is alarming, to
say the least, to hear that 40 per cent
of the (American) families do not
have the money to buy food for an
adequate diet" In making this state
ment, DIR. Robert S. Harris of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, warns: Research has shown that
visual acuity, mental and physical
health, morale and endurance may be
impaired by nutritional deficiency. 1t
is therefore imperative that workers
connected with defense industries be
we'll fed"
1t is true that workers In durable
goods industries, the Industries gen.
orally regarded as engaged in defense
work. receive an average pay check
larger than the S27 received by the
average worker in non-durable goods
industries. Recent figures of the U.
S. department of labor show that the
average weekly pay check in such in
dustries was $42. But, with the in
creased cost of living and increased
direct taxes, even this figure is not
huge, especially when it is realized
that 1t includes payment for over
time work which, in many instances,
is being performed under difficult
working conditions which exist in
plants and shipyards in many sections
of the nation.
How Labor Support the War" is
the subject of Mr.. Hills next article |
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to 500 increases in three studios
Lowest minimum is $50 weekly, form
erly $22, paid girl painters.
PROFITS. Universal made $1,731,
100 clear for half year, $361,766 bet
ter than early 1871.
MUSTN'T. Hays Office says please
don't film auto wrecks, furniture
breaking, food wasting. Spreads de
structive ideas.
Wednesday
could save film by cutting scripts be
fore filming. Hollywood's labor-man
agement committee approves. Pro
ducers so order
ENDURANCE. Andy Devine goes
into his 18th contract year with Uni
versal
EXPERIENCE. Word from London:
Col Daryl zanuck, boss of 20th-Fox
production, went with Commands on
two raids.
MUSTN'T. Hitler's Hangman does
MT sound nice as a title, the Hays
OlliC0 ICltO lnQCPChQChl pl OduCSl.
That means nix.
Thursday
EXPERIENCE. John Ford is fam
Gus for exciting direction-How Green
Was My Valley, The Grapes of Wrath.
Commander Ford directed his most
exciting scene for a navy short He
and a young cameraman clambered
atop power house on Midway and
filmed the looming attackers.
REWARD. Philip Anderson has
been cutting film at MGM for 10
years. He has been given chance
at directing-a Pete Smith short
ENLISTMENT. Clark Gable joins
the air corps, morale division.
Friday
ASSURANCE. Studio heads are
nervous. What If all the male stars
join up? The army says don't worry;
they can be borrowed once in a while,
as they are in England.
TRANSPORTATIO Studios have
cut car use $50 by Cd getting Miss
Glamour and Mr. Big to pile in with
the working folks going to location,
(2) hating messenger delivery Of
scripts from writer's to producers to
stars, 90 educating employees to use
streetcars.
FIGURING. To keep costs Of sets
within the governments $4,000 limit
2Oth-Fox has increased set estimators
from one to four.
Saturday
CONFIDENCE. zorina was tested
for For Whom the Bell Tolls SO her
stand-in got her hair clipped short.
SLOGAN OF THE WEEK: Get |
your rubber out of hiding and well !
keep the nation riding.