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Evening star., 1942-09-16
Civic Group Heads
Meet 10 Lay Plans for
Community War Fund
Discuss Members RoIIy
To Be Held Oct. |;
Quotes Are Listed

Representatives of 119 civic and
service organiza tions in the Metro
politan Area today are speeding
plans for a membership rally Octo-
Der l in the interests of united
drive for the community war fund.
Preliminary discussions were held
yesterday in the Willard Hotel by
more than 80 group heads of the
civic and service clubs, who were
told the coming campaign for 81
l4l 900 is actually a combination of
all the various war and social relief
drives" The Community Chest of
Washington, including agencies in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, will get S2,369,717.
The advanced gift period has been
set for October to October 90. So
licitation will begin October q and
end November II, the group was
told.
Single Large Campaign.
Edwin N. Lewis. campaign man.
ager, explained the war fund prin-
ciples of single large drive rather
than a number of independent COL
lection endeavors. Further details
OF the program will be worked out
before the rally and will be described
then, the group was told. However.
group heads were asked to contact
individual members of their partici-
patlng organizations to lay the
groundwork for the campaign.
Guest speaker at the luncheon
rally October / will be William
Bill Powers, educational director
for the Chevrolet Motor Co.
A. P. Reeves, chairman of vester
days planning meeting, pointed out
that all of the l19 participating or
CARNATIONS are to be contacted
through the IS main groupings es-
tablished for purposes of admins
tration.
Edwin c. Graham, who will pre-
side at the rally, is general chair
man of the war fund. He told the
meeting yesterday, Your job is to
sell the drive to your club members. !"
F. D. Akers is campaign general
chairman.
Provision will be made for a con-
tingency fund of $264,997 that will
assure contributors that money will
be available during 1943 to make
grants to organizations set up during
the coming months to meet genuine
needs among our Allies in the war"
Also 1t will be used to meet
emergency needs at home arising
from unfortunate demands" on
local agencies. Contributors were
assured no other valid campaign
for funds is anticipated" for 1943
and that one gift to the Community
War Fund includes all reasonable
needs which can be foreseen."
However, two exceptions were
made-the tuberculosis seal drive at
Christmas and the Red Gross Mem
bership and War Service Campaign
next spring.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Nurses Training School
Presents Three Diplomas

Diplomas We're presented last
night to three graduates of the
training school for practical nurses
of the Washington Home for IN
curables, Wisconsin avenue and
Upton street NV.
The graduates were Mrs. Myrtle
Alma Bell, Miss Leonora Helen
Gibbons and Miss Mary GLADYS
Brown. Miss Brown also received
an award for the highest scholastic
attainment
%Dr. Eugene de Savitsch. head of
the school, presented the certifi-
Gates. An address was delivered
by the Rev. Peyton Williams, min
lister Of Christ Church, GEORGETOWN.
Mrs. Edward r. Finkenstaedt. presi-
dent Of the Board of Managers,
presided.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Burglar Dupes Guard
Into Aiding His Escape

b The ASSOCIATED Press,
INDIANAPOLIS - A court pad
lock order didn't keep an acrobatic
burglar out of the Cotton Club, a
night spot.
He scaled an adjoining building
and lcaped to a window of the club,
which he ransacked. Then he
went to door and called to a
nightwatchman outside, Hey, let
IL out of herei"
The startled watchman opened
the door-then began TO wonder
End called police after the man had
vanished.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Community War Fund Budget
National and Local United Service
Organizations to Get $5o7,776

The breakdown of the Community
War Fund will be as follows
National and local United Service
organizations, $597,776, divided as
follows
National USO, including budgets
of Washington. Arlington, Fairfax,
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, s439,621.
Local.
Army and Navy Committee Of the
. Jewish Community Center 80 S15,46S
National Catholic Community
Phyllis Wheatley YwcA -------- 1895
Salvation Army -- ---.- 10,099
servicemens Lounge at Union ~
Travellers Aid Society i5,,s42
Twelfth Street YMCA --------- 24,292
Young Mems Christian
ASSocla ton 2O,Ill
association va. -Ns'''', ''.---- 1904
United Nations War Relief. S399,46i.
This will include British War Re-
lief Society, Greek War Relief AS
sociation, Polish War Relief, Queen
Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War
Relief, United China Relief, United
States Committee for the Care of
European Children and War Pris-
oners' Aid Committee. Specific allo-
cations will be made to these after
the campaign on the basis of in
formation as to their national goals
for 1943.
Community Chest and Other Local
Welfare, S2,522,4O6.
Community Chest of washington,
D. c. tncludins aseneles IN
Nnrt er,i pr,n
Ba Barnsy NeiFhborhood H9yss M..,o,., s344as
Capital Area Council ,--~-~- 37,5o7
Bows Club of WASHINGTON ~ at.90S
Bureau OF Rehabilitation -----~ 1e'.1e
catholic Charities of Primo. ss.-
Child Welfare Society ----~--- ,S.5l4
Chlldrens Country Home o3.olH
Children's Hospital ----- Note
Chiidren's Protective Association 53,63s
christ Child Fresh Air Farm for oss
Christ Child Settlement House 33.6o1
Columbia Hospital for Women Note
eodHiy counoii Of social SOCIAL Aseheles sS Of the '
VANITY yieinity " 'A u"o $500
Dental Fund 6.204
Department of Social welfare,
Churches Ifs''' O'. ''0N-N~0N---~ ..'0- a,534
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat
HOSPITAL Note
Episcopal Home for Children 3s,126
Family Service Association. Sum
mer Outings Committee and the
Department for the Blind - 1904
Florence Crittenton Home 1883
Friendship House - 3S.615
Garfield Memorial Hospital Note
Georgetown Children's House 1924
GEORGETOWN University Hospital Note
George Washington University w.t.
Girl Scouts OF the District OF Co.
lumbia and Montgomery County 22.213
Girl Scouts of Prince Georses
Hebrew Home for the Aged 36.515
Decentralization Fund 434. .2SS
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society 1Sa,Oi3
Jewish Community Center 1921
Jewish Social Service Agency and
Jewish Foster Home 69,929
House ..-..------.---- 1O..3a
Legal Aid Bureau - SI7I
Northwest Settlement House 1852
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c. A. ll.141
Prince Georges Health Center Note
Providence Hospital -- Note
st. Annals Home -- 2132
St. AIMS Infant Asylum ----- SO .O49
st. Josephs Home and School lS.492
st. Roses Technical School - 81 ,934
St. Vincents Home and School 247Ol
salvation Army 1lO.911
Evening star., 1942-09-16

Maternal and infant care - 1850
Religious education -.---- S94
Venereal disease control --- 2,172
Other Local Welfare
Boys Club of the Metropolitan
Washington Society for the Pre-
vention OF Blindness 1928
Note-Pad for ward and clinic services
from disqualification fund
Home Front War Services. S356,361.
American Social Hygiene Asso-
Civilian Defense Volunteer Of
Civilian Mobilization Division Of
the D. c. Defense Council - 191 ,049
Child Care Committee
Recreation Services-Banne-
ker Service Mems Center
cots sleeping accommoda-
tons and showers for SOL
dlers: information booth;
oh1cers' club recreation
bulletin: Service Mems Club
No !; Sylvan Theater en-
Jertanment programs; VOL
unteer camp shows; wom-
ems battalions for service
dances
Defense Commission OF the WASH
inston Federation of Churches a.33l
Rhoades Service Mems Club 60 1870
SoIdlers, Sailors and Marines
Club 23, 163
Others die for you; the least you
can do is buy for them. Get your
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
BROADcASTING
cos. CENSORED
BY THE PRESS
Springfield Republican,
Philadelphia Bulletin, and
Common Sense Urge
Investigation of NBC-CBS
Refusal to Sell Co-ops Time.

NEW YORK.-The Springfield Re
publican, the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, and Common Sense maya
zine added their voices this week to
the nationwide appeal for a thorough
investigation of the refusal of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company and the
Columbia Broadcasting System to sell
available time to the consumer coop
peratives. America, Commonweal, the
Nation, New Republic, the Progress
sive and several other publications
have already asked for an investiga-
ton.
Putting its finger on the pulse of
public opinion, the Springfield Repub-
lican pointed out that "In attempting
to avoid controversial issue, the
Columbia and National Broadcasting
companies have run plump into real
controversy"
IF all such controversial matters,
as between various branches of bust
ness, was barred from the radio" the
Springfield Republican points out,
PidSIiSdiiy oil COlHHleTCidl DTOduCdSLS
might have to be barred"
The editorial, which appeared in the
October 18th issue, declared:
Under the system of free enter
prise there appears to be no good rea-
son why the co-ops should not be priv
LEGGED thus to advertise. At any rate,
the proposed investigation Of the mat
ter might be good way to settle the
controversy. 1t should clear the air
Of charges and countercharges and
serve to fix the status of co-operatives
as recognized parts of the free enter
prize system"
Ralph w. Page, columnist for the
Evening Bulletin, de-
clared in his column October % that
he refusal of the networks to sell
time to the co-ops because they are
controversial" is beyond under
standing"
Nobody can, and therefore nobody
loes pretend to say that citizens can't
10 business in this way if they want
o." Page continued. zone might az
Continued ON Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
H0SIE ELECTED new
HEAD OF w. D. |.

Laurence T. Hosie, minister of the
Presbyterian Labor Temple in New
York has been elected chairman of
the national executive board of the
Workers Defense League, Morris Mil
gram, league national secretary an
nounced today.
Mr.. Hosie's associates as chief Off
cial of the league are George S.
Counts, state chairman of the Amer
lean Labor Party as treasurer, and
Miss Layle Lane of New York and
Aron S. Gilmartin of Newburgh as
vice chairmen.
For a decade ending in 1886 Mr.
Hosie was minister of the Judson
Memorial church in New York. Since
then he has travelled widely in the
interest of better relationships be-
tween labor and religious groups. Mr..
Hosie is chairman of the Social Edu-
cation and Action Committee of the
Presbytery of New York.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
Wage Sterilization
Machinery In
Operation In Mont.

Machinery for administration of the
nations wartime wage sterilization
program by local officials of the Wage
and Hour and Public Contracts Divi-
sion is now in motion, 1t was an
nounced today by L. A. Hill, Minnea-
polls regional director.
This action is the direct outgrowth
of a national meeting in Washington
last week under the auspices of the
national war labor board at which the
whole wage control structure was out
lined
1.-THE field offices of the division are
now prepared to handle inquiries about
the sterilization program" Mr.. Hill
said. Wage and hour officials in this
area include:
William G. Maloney, senior inspec-
tor, 3O3 Lewisohn building, Butte.
Edwin X. Duncan, inspector, 230
Federal building, Great Falls.
Raymond A. Wells, inspector, (space
with the division of Unemployment
Compensation Billings.
These field representatives will adj
wise inquirers of their status under
the sterilization order. Where en-
ployers and employees wish to apply
for permission to increase wages I'M
der the law the wage and hour author
tiles will help them fill out applica-
tons, which will be turned over to
the regional war labor board director
for action.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
GRAIN Market
SHOWS MORE
STRENGTH

Grain markets showed strength dur
ing the week ended November as
demand improved and market offer
ings lessened according to the Agri-
cultural Marketing Administration.
Hedging pressure from the country
was at a minimum for all grains and
cash movement to the Minneapolis
market was of only moderate proper
tions Flour demand became slightly
more active which in the face of small
offerings lifted wheat prices and
marked improvement was noted In the
demand for all the feed grains. Prices
of mailing barley also firmed as day
to day offerings of suitable mailing
types proved insufficient to meet the
full demand of the maltsters.
The quantity of 1912 wheat held
under CCC loans as of October 81
amounted to 6,166,0O0 bushels and
the quantity held from previous crops
amounted to 169, 226,000 bushels. The
quantity of corn held amounted to
3O,59O,OO and barley loans amounted
to 6,2S7,000 bushels.
WHEAT: The winter wheat outlook
continues bright in western portions
of the main belt with the crop making
excellent growth and furnishing much
pasturage in southern sections. In
the Ohio Valley and other eastern
areas rains were beneficial in helping
late seeded grain to terminate and
make sufficient growth to establish a
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS
CONTRIBUTED

Elsewhere in The Voice this issue
is carried a complete list of the legis-
lators who will represent the people
of Montana at the forthcoming ses-
sion From the names listed it would
appear that little accomplishment Of
q lasting nature will be had, but we
can all hope for the best. Already,
several republicans have announced
their candidacy for the position of
Speaker of the House, position held
last year by E. ]. Stromnes of Great
Falls Among those who have an
nounced or who have been mentioned
are George O'Connor of Carbon, R. j.
Bricker of Cascade, and R. C. Dillavou
of Yellowstone 1t is apparent that
the election of any of these men
would be an improvement over the
last session, but that is still not say
ing a great deal.
Both O'Connor and Dillavou have
perfect reactionary records having
been given a zero percentage rating
on their vote. Both voted to repeal
the Primary Election law; both voted
for the vicious home guard bill which
the governor vetoed; both voted for
the insurance interests; and both
voted for the highway tourist fund
appropriation. Bricker, former
speaker, has not been a member Of
the legislature in recent years so his
record is not readily available, but he
was generally recognized as being
sympathetic to the conservative group.
In the state senate, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Ernest Eaton will be president
of the senate and majority leader,
John L. Campbell of MiSsoula; Tom
Burke of Yellowstone, McQuitty of
Wheatland, and others with zero rec
ords will again be present.
There are some bright spots on the
legislative picture which should be
mentioned. In the senate the election
of R. s. Cotton of Valley county; w.
E. Leo of Richland; George McKenna
of Judith Basin, and Herb Haight of
Fergus meet with the enthusiastic ap-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
ANTI-LAB0R
LEGISLATION
THREATENED

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - The labor
movement and win-the-war forces
everywhere in the country are now
faced with the absolute necessity of
working grimly to prevent the new
congress from enacting a flood OF
anti-labor war impeding legislation.
In the November election Repub-
Leans gained about 40 seats in the
house. Returns were incomplete but
1t was doubtful that they could win
control of the house. In the senate,
they gained s, with a possibility of
others as later returns come in.
Absence of a second front and of a
centralized, integrated war production
allowed the knock-the-war candidates
to attack the conduct Of the war and
the weaknesses which they and forces
they represent are largely responsible
for
Clair Boothe Luce, the COPS only
bit Of sex appeal outside of Thomas
d. Dewey, campaigned on the issue
that "the war is being conducted
sluggishly" and won over labor-sup-
ported Rep. Leroy Downes, New Deal
Democrat, in Connecticut.
In many races, however, candidates
failed to campaign clearly on the only
issue of Importance, the war. This,
and the admitted fact that labor only
got aroused over the campaign at
very late date, probably account for
the light turnout and the march of
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
F. U. CENTRAL
EXCHANGE In
GROCERY BIZ
Exchange Starts Coop
Grocery Distribution;
Williston Warehouse Taken
Over For Distribution in
North Dakota and Montana.

ST. PAUL. - The Farmers Union
Central Exchange, after a thorough
preliminary investigation lasting sew
eral months, has entered the field of
distributing Coop labeled merchandise
on a wholesale basis to local coop
eratives, following the pattern of her
two neighboring regionals, Midland
and Central Cooperative Wholesale.
The Exchange has previously handled
only petroleum products, automotive
goods and farm supplies.
Plans have been completed whereby
the Exchange will equip it's ware
house at Williston, N. D. and from
that point distribute Coop groceries
to northwest North Dakota and north
east Montana ut was decided to
start in this area first" stated Gen
eral Manager E. A. Syftestad, "be-
cause the grocery program has been
developed there to greater extent
than in any other area served by the
Exchange and it is very likely that it
will now develop even more rapidly
since wholesale facilities are being
provided"
The Northwest Cooperative Society
a wholesale unit for co-operatives in
the Williston area, at recent meet
ing officially welcomed the Exchange
to enter grocery distribution in their
area. This society will transfer its
grocery inventory to the Exchange.
Where there are no cooperative
stores at the present time, but where
there are possibilities for service sta
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
Wilmington And HIS Delta HOLDS
TRAGIC STORY OF POLL TAX BURDEN

the state. That's what is called The
Delta, richest cotton country in the
world" the Hon. Wilmington likes to
remind people.
Yet that deep, black, fruitful land
yields some of the most abject pow
erty in the entire nation. Rural
slums" abound, fostered by a higher
rate of tenancy and sharecropping
than anywhere else in Mississippi
which ranks mighty high indeed
among the states as an economic sore
spot
And the Hon. Wilmington has been
a constant and vigorous foe of every
measure in the congress designed to
alleviate the sufferings of his people.
More than 70 per cent of the pop
ulation of the district, according to
the 1910 census, is negro.
HOME OF LYNCH LAW
The Hon. Wilmington has fought
the Presidents Fair Employment
Practices Committee, designed to
bring economic opportunity to our
negro citizens, fought it at every turn
of the road.
Forty per cent of Mississippi's cot
ton acreage is in the third district,
and SO per cent Of the bales produced
in the state come from those acres.
That cotton is not owned by the men
who grow tit is owned by men like
the Hon. Wilmington, owner of plan
tations and described in his biography
in the Congressional Directory as a
lawyer and cotton grower.
The Hon. Wilmington was one of
those In the farm bloc" who con-
tested bitterly every effort to place
an effective ceiling of parity on cot
ton.
The negroes have been lynched--
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13

It's hard to believe in a country
fighting fascism, but there is a con-
gressional district in the deep south
where 435,000 souls live-yet where
one mans vote is enough to send him
self to congress!
The district is the third Mississippi.
The congressman is wealthy Will
liam Madison Wilmington, unopposed
in the primary, unopposed In the gen.
eral election, who needs only to re-
member to go to the polls himself to
be sure of taking his place In the
congress for the 10th consecutive
term.
IT'S THE POLL TAX
Responsible for this feudal situation
is the poll tax, the tax which has
effectively smothered democracy in
Mississippi and most of the south for
more than 40 years.
Consider these figures:
There are 435,OOO people in the
third districts II counties. OF these,
245,000 are old enough to vote.
Yet, in 1886, only $4,000 votes were
cast.
In 1898, only 2,172 votes were cast.
In 1910 only 1900 votes were tai
lied by the election officers of those
IL counties.
(Since 1912 is not a Presidential
year, it can be taken for granted that
the total vote will fall again to some
where near the eight-tenths of one
per cent of the adult population which
voted in 1889.
RICHEST COTTON LAND"
But these APPALLING election figures
mean little if you don't understand
some other things about the third dis
trict of Mississippi
Those Ii counties lie along the Mis-
sissippi river in the northern part of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
MONTANA DAIRY BUYS
TOP PUREBRED COWS

BRATTLEBORO, VT. = Montana's
dairy COW population was improved
and increased by the purchase of 26
head of the nations best registered
-Friesian cattle by Arthur E.
Boswell, Route 8, Billings, Mont, from
the famous Woodlawn Farm, Lincoln,
Neb 1t was necessary to dispense
the Woodlawn Dairy, one of the larg-
est and oldest purebred Holstein
breeding establishments in the south
west due to acquisition of the land
by the government for expansion of
its aviation mechanics school. Bos-
well limited his purchases to bred
heifers due to freshen during the win
ter months. Most of the consignment
going to Montana were carrying calf
to the services of Osborndale Victor
May the Woodlawn FARMS senior
herd sire which topped the sale at
$500. This bull is double grandson
of Sir Bess Ormsby May, son of the
former U. S. butter producing cham
pion, May Walker Ollie Homestead.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
MONTANA farm
PRICE index
UP | POINT

The index of prices received by
Montana farmers rose l point from
] eptember 15October Is, 1912, the u.
J. Department of Agriculture an
bounced today. Rather sharp in
creases occurred in prices of dairy
products, chickens and eggs. Smaller
increases occurred in the prices re-
ceived for grain and fruit, while meat
animal prices declined slightly and
miscellaneous product prices averaged
about the same. At 1877 percent of
pre-World War 1 average, the October
Is index was up 81 points compared
with a year earlier. Rejecting short
er supplies, either in Montana or ma
tionally, some products are now sharp
ly higher than a year earlier. Among
these are apples, at S155 per bushal
compared with so cents; turkeys, 20
cents per pound compared with IS
cents; potatoes, s1.20 per bushel COM
pared with 20 cents; beans, $4.45 per
cwt. compared with $3.50; and alfalfa
seed at $3.50 per bushel compared
with $12.10.
U. S. Prices Up Points
The index of prices received by
farmers for their products rose 6
points from September Is to October
Is, 1912, the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture announced today. More than
the usual seasonal increase in prices
received for dairy products, together
with higher prices for eggs, meat ami
mails, cotton, cottonseed, and tobacco
contributed to this increase. The
grain index was the only one which
declined. At 169 the index of prices
received was 30 points above a year
earlier. The index of prices paid, in
terest, and taxes rose during the
month to 154 which is 1 point above
the revised index of 1853 for Septem-
Der. This was 10 points higher than
the October Is, 1871 index of 141. The
ratio of prices received to prices paid. |
and taxes ON October Is
1912, was ITO, compared with LOT in
September and SO in October 1941.