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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21
Bill Allows 56-Hour Week
At Regular Wage Rates

BY the Associated Press.
Voluntary agreements between la
Dor unions and management, for
work as high as Sc hours week at
straight time" would be permitted
under a proposed amendment to the
Fair Labor Standards Act prepared
for introduction yesterday by Repre-
sentative Ramspeck, Democrat, of
Georgia.
The amendment, effective only
during wartime, would allow Volun-
tary waiver. of the time-and- a-half
pay. with the regular rates apply
ing to hours worked over 40 week,
up to IS hours
Mr.. Ramspeck said he was con-
WINGED the amendment would allie
viate local manpoWer emergencies
and prevent many non-War indus
tries from closing down.
Saying he previously opposed any
relaxation of Wage-hour law require
ments, the Georgian told reporters:
I'VE cannot afford in this crisis
| to stand pat on a 40-hOur week,
what with thousands of workers
willing and anxious to work longer
hours-With the Government lower
| ing the draft age. requirements and
Congress considering legislation to
mobilize manpower. My proposal
will not jeopardize the social gains
or any of the benefits that have
come to labor in the past decades Z
Mr.. Ramspeck expressed confl-
dence that organized labor would
/ not object to his bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21
Mississippi Lynching
Cases Under Study
By FBI Agents
Gov. Johnson Welcomes
Federal Investigation
Of Three Hongines

BY the Associated Press.
Omen were sent into the South
today for the third time in nine
months to investigate lynchings.
Attorney General Biddle an
nounced yesterday the decision to
have the Federal Bureau of Investi-
CATION sift the circumstances under
which two colored youths and man
were. hanged by mobs in Mississippi
last week. He said: ~s-.. Y
Assuming investigation develops
case, relentless prosecution will
follow"
One Case Completed.
One case is that of Charlie Lang
and Ernest Green, l4-year old resi-
dents of Shubata, Miss, who were
dragged from the Quitman Jail Oc-
tober II and hanged from railroad
bridge. Authorities in Mississippi
said they had confessed the at
tempted assault of a 13-year old
white girl. ,
The other case is that of Howard
Wash, As. who was lynched near
Laurel, Miss, Saturday after being
convicted of numbering his employ
er. Wash was in the Jones County
Jail awaiting the start OF a lie
sentence.
Of the two previous investigations,
the first of their kind by the Federal
Government in many years. one was
completed with Federal grand jury
finding-'With great reluctance -.
that the facts disclosed do not con-
stitute any Federal offense. The
case involved the mob killing at
Sikeston, Mo, of Cleo Wright,
| colored alleged to have slashed the
wife of ia soldier and also stabbed
the policeman who arrested nm,
Texas Case Also Studied.
The other investigation still is
under way. 1t concerns the lynchlng
of William Vinson, colored, at Tex
arkana. Tex. on July 20. Vlnson,
accused of attempting to attack
white woman, was wounded While
being captured and was taken from
a Texarkana hospital by a MOB
which dragged him through the
streets and hanged him.
The Federal Government conducts
it's Investigations under the So
called civil rights statutes which
guard against "deprivation of any
rights, privileges. or immunlties
secured or protected by the Consti-
tuition and laws of the United
States."7
At jackson, Miss, Gov. Paul B.
Johnson said last night that he
welcomed any investigation
Suspects Freed Under Bond.
Il have done my full duty as Gov
ernor fof the State of Mississippi in
trying to see that the laws violated
by the lynchers were vindicated,'
the Governor added.
Il have used the troops and other
civil officers in endeavoring to APP
prehend those taking part in the
lynchings. I understand arrests
have been made by my troops and
some of the men have been placed
in Jail That is as far as the Gov
ernor can go. 1t remains with the
civil officers of the counties in which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21
Alert Customer BuIks'
Escape of Bandit

The capture of a bandit who
scooped $136 from the cash register
of the Washington Garage and Fill
ing Station, 1901 E street NV. yes
terday afternoon, was credited to
the alertness of Reuben Millman,
1911 Montello avenue NE, who was
in the station at the time
Mr. Millman saw the man open
the cash register and fill his pockets
with currency and called out to
Virgil H. Wharton, 1854 Fairmont
street NV, the manager
The bandit fed but was captured
by an auxiliary policeman and a
fireman who turned him over to
Policeman T. E. Marquis Police
said that second bandit, acting as
lookout, escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21

A GREAT Clearance Day as special feature in
~ our 30th Anniversary Sale. Broken lots j.. q. =.
odds and ends :. l and 2-of-a-kind merchandise
Standard Y M. S. quality all desirable; at
great savings!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21

the lynchings, were committed to
follow up the cases.
Gov johnson said five men be-
lieved to be part of the mob that
lynched Wash had been arrested by
State troopers, but were later re-
leased on bond by county and dis
trict officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21

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finest in America The extra safeguards
of our own laboratory under Sealtest
supervision, assure its purity, quality
and freshness. Telephone Michigan 1ol1
for regular delivefy-or ask your grocer
for this delicious, creamy milk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21
Ruid Warning at GibruItur

GIBRALTAR, Oct. 81 CP.-An
afraid warning sounded in this
British stronghold last night, but
several ItaAan bombers which flew
over the Gibraltar area dropped all
their bombs in adjacent Spanish
TERRITORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-10-21
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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
Council Gets
Blood Donor
Exhibit

Buffalo, y. Y, Sept. 3-CIO union
lists witnessed a public demonstra-
ton Of blood donation at a rally
held here last week under the
auspices of the Greater Buffalo In
dustrial Union Council.
When the council called a Sec
ond Front Rally" in the Front
Park, a mobile unit of the local
Red Cross Blood Donor Service was
parked in front of the speakers
stand, with a cot set up on the
stand itself. With a doctor and
nurses in attendance, member Of
the council donated pint of blood.
Manning the microphone on the
stand was Alfred G. Larke, secre-
tary-treasurer OF the council.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

mill furnaces throughout the nation
burning at 100 per cent capacity.
Charles E. Bramble. president Of
the Transfers Union, and Leo T.
Downey, district engineer State
Roads Commission. are in charge of
trucks. John +. Neal, Local 1874,
Textile Workers Union of America;
Russell s. Copeland, American
Legion. and r. c. Simmons. Amer
lean Federation of Labor laborers'
union, are in charge Of securing
volunteer workers. French Sensa-
baugh. Martin NJ. Corrigan and
Charles +. Heller are the zone
leaders.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

Price Administrator and the CIO
was announced this week by OPA
Chief Leon Henderson.
In recent months Edelman has
been serving in the OPA's consum-
err division. From 1924 to 1887 he
was research director for the Amer
lean Federation of Hosiery Work.
ers, and he was CLIO regional di-
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
Cameras for Army

The Army urgently needs 35 nm.
motion picture cameras and lenses.
If you have such equipment 10 sell,
forward a full description of it 10
the Purchase Board. Signal Corps
Photographic Center. 35-l1 35th
Avenue, Long Island City, New
York.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

rector for eastern Pennsylvania
from 1887 until 1889.
At the same time Henderson
named John T. Burke, an official Of
the Transfers union. as oPA con-
tact man with the AFL, and Glenn
r. Atkinson, former legislative rep
resentative of the Brotherhood Of
Railway Clerks, to be liaison with
the railway brotherhoods.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

palgn.
Only heavy metals such as old
iron and brass beds. boilers, flat
irons. iron gratings, old auto parts,
old radiators and small pieces of
iron, steel, copper and brass will be
collected, sold and the money TO be
divided between the Red Cross and
USO.
ASK COOPERATION
Junk will be picked up at curbs
along the city streets, members of
the scrap metal campaign commit
tee said. They asked the coopera-
ton of all Cumberland residents in
the drive. pointing out that scrap
metal is sorely needed to keep steel
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
City Collects Scrap
Metal September -

CUMBERLAND Sept. 5.-A city-wide door-todoor scrap
metal campaign will be held here Sunday, September 13.
Members of the AFL Transfers Union headed by Presi
dent Bramble will drive donated trucks through the city
beginning pm. Members of CLIO and ALL unions and the
Legion will volunteer their help in the oneday
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
Nome EdeImun
|OPA Confucf Man
With Go Unions

Washington, Sept. S.-Appoint-
ment Of John w. Edelman to act as
contact man between the Office of
Evening star., 1942-11-21

omonQ our dllies Is your Job. And
keeping the U.S.O. Service Clubs
for US fellows who me doing the
fighting -.
i've a hunch you'll do that job
okeh :. with your contribution 10
the Community Wm Fund.
I'm betting my life on u"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

tension worker In that state, Miss
Schuerman succeeds Lillian Stone who
was recently made Missoula county
home demonstration agent. Miss
Schuerman begins her new duties
Feb. /.
DuLON-A coroner's jury has abb
solved Lyman K. Baxter, IS, Of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, Of blame In the truck
car collision which resulted in the
deaths Of four Dillon high school stu
dents Jan. 15 James Hartwig, Russell
Miller, Shirley Hughes and Mary
Boomer lost their lives In the accident.
HAvRE - william McKinnon, rs.
who was fatally injured when struck
by an airplane propeller here, was for
mer Havre chief Of police. A native
Of Boston, he had lived here about
"A years. He had served as a Great
Northern conductor and began a
seven-year period as police chief about
1916.
HELENA-Gov. Sam G. Ford has re-
appointed two members Of the state
Oil conservation board and appoint
ed three new members. Lee j. Yealey
Of Shelby and A. B. Cobb Of Cut Bank
were reappointed. Casper Oien Of OIL
mont, M. r. Wagner of Cut Bank, and
Dean Chaffin Of Bozeman are new
members.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

BOzEAGAN-Appointment of Flor
ence Schuerman as home demonStra-
ton agent for Lewis and Clark county
is announced by j. G. Taylor, director
Of the Montana extension service at
Montana State college. A graduate Of
Iowa State college and a former ex-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

GREAT FAILS-Lanson A. Dia-
mond, state boiler Inspector who died
here as the result Of injuries suffered
in an automobile accident in Deem
Der, was a native of Pennsylvania At
the age of 5 he came to Helena with
his parents. The family moved to the
Deep creek area in 1888 and short
time later to the Truly district. AS a
young man Diamond herded sheep and
in 1898 went to work in a Helena
blacksmith shop. He later worked for
the smelter and the Great Northern
in Great Falls, as well as the city
water plant. From 1880 to 1885 he
served as engineer at the water plant
here
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

the school year. Hodges Is a history
teacher as well as coach Hodges has
been high school coach here since the
fan Of 1884. when he replaced Frank
Jordan, now on the Wisconsin univer-
sity football coaching staff
HELENA - Albert Angstman. law
school junior at the University Of
Montana and son Of Associate Justice
Albert Angstman Of the state supreme
court. has won the Balfour award Of
the Sigma Chi fraternity for the Mon
tana province.
HELENA-Only those employees who
have worked for the state at least a
year continuously will be eligible for
the months pay granted on enlist
ment or induction into the armed
forces, the state board Of examiners
has decreed.
ANACONDA-Mr and MRS. w. P.
Larsen have received word from the
United States navy that their son,
William Larsen Jr., a member of the
marine corps. must be considered a
prisoner Of war. He was stationed at
Guam when hostilities with Japan
broke out.
HAVRE-Walter Brown was elected
president of the Northern Livestock
Loan Co. Of Havre at the annual meet
ing. G. n. Brocksmith of Glasgow was
elected vice president, and G. S. Brad
ford and A. E. Swanton, both Of HaVre,
secretary treasurer and secretary, re-
spectively.
MISSOULA-Dr H. R. Cox, bacter-
iologist of the United States public
health service laboratory at Hamilton,
was given the MiSSoula Junior Cham
Der of Commerce distinguished service
award for rendering outstanding serv-
ice to the community in 1871.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the grade
and high schools here have voted to
attend school six days a week and
this program has been instituted by
school authorities. The summer vaca-
ton viii begin May l, enabling many
students to help with farm work.
HELENA Organization of police
radio network embracing at least six
Montana cities is being planned, with
Helena as the control point. Butte, !
Billings, Great Falls, Mis-
soula and Helena police departments
now have their own units in operation. |
HELENA-Elmo Steffensen has been
elected president of the Helena Re
tail Credit association. Other new Of
ficers are P. w. Singer, vice president;
Harry McCuin, Frank Brown and
Claude McGuinneSs, directors. Frank
A v1y1c ra-11oNfad ny
treasurer.
HELENA-Federal Judge James H
Baldwin has dismissed a suit Of the
A1ovius- Bridenbaugh clinic of Billings
against Lewis PenweI, Montana fed
sral internal revenue collector. The
Clinic had sued to recover 81, 025.91 plus
interest for unemployment excise taxes
paid for 1888.
GREAT FAILsS-Andrew Peadersen,
IS, sheepherder, was found dead by
. searching party about three-quarters
# a mile from the Mcdonald ranch
n the Bird Tail area, where he was
employed. The body was found near
! sheep barn. Officials said Peadersen
apparently died Of heart attack.
BOzEAGAN-Appointment Of Flor
nee Schuerman as home demonstra-
ion agent for Lewis and Clark county
S announced by j. @. Taylor, director
# the Montana extension service at
Montana State college. A graduate Of
owa State college and former ex-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

CHOTEAU-Thomas Groot, old-time
citizen of Teton county, who died re-
Gently. had lived in the Burton bench
area for IS years.
BUTTE-Adrs. Mary Bruce Erickson
/ IA, who died here recently, had Hved
in Butte since 1891. She was a native
/ of Sweden.
HELENA-The state railroad com
mission has extended to April l the
deadline for erecting warning signs al
all railroad crossings in the state.
RED LODGE - OrvilIe Hammer
Beals. who died here of a stroke. was
a retired Red Lodge mail carrier He
was born in 1851 in Iowa and had
lived here since 1910.
HELENA-The state fish and game
commission is getting ready for the
1912 big game hunting season. It has
ordered 10000 tags which hunters are
to attach to animals they kill.
BILLINGs-This city and Butte
have been selected as the two Mon
tana sites of special F. B. I. war traf-
fic schools for police. to be conducted
throughout the nation beginning Feb. 9.
HELENA-Joseph Grinrod. 81. who
died in a hospital here, was a member
of an oldtime Helena family and had
lived here many years. He was a native
of Bloomington, III.
HELENA Whitney Smith has been
elected president of the Montana club
to succeed j. E. Jockey. Ted E. Collins
and Jockey we're elected to the board
of directors.
KALISPELL-Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Miller, residents here for 40 years. re-
Gently observed their golden wedding
They were married in
Beatrice, Neb.
MALTA-R E. Morgan, regional
grazier for Montana, has called a |
Of the advisory board of Mon
tana, district IL, to be held at the
grazing office here Feb. IA.
HELENA-Joseph S. Bossler, well
known Helena man, has been elected
Illustrious potentate of Algeria temple,
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine. He has
been a member of Algeria Shrine pa
troll for 25 years.
GREAT FALIsS-A water color by
Lynette Arouni, former local girl, now
an artist in Los Angeles, has been
by the California Water Color
society travelling show, according to
word received here.
DILLON-AH officers of the Beaver
lead Sportsmens association have been
reelected. They are: Jack Keenan,,
PRESIDENT; OFT Vandegrift, vice presi-
lent; William Lloyd, treasurer, and
drs. Jack Keenan,, secretary.
HELENA Resources of Montanas
z building and loan associations were
1851, 5s411 greater on Dec. 81, 1871,
han at the same time a year earlier,
W. A. Brown, state superintendent Of
'anks, has reported. n
HAAIILTON-An anthology of poet S
y published at New York by Poetry
House, in December, contains a col r
ection of 20 poems written by Bessie
(. Monroe Of Hamilton. Mrs. Monroe's
erse deals largely with nature subjects Z
GREAT Charles Bovey has t
cen presented with the distinguished t
ervice award of the Great Falls e
unior Chamber of Commerce for his t
reation of Old Town" at the North
fontana State fairgrounds.
HELENA - The Montana railroad d
nd public service commission has APP b
ointed c. F. Reardon of Butte as 81
eld agent for the Billings area, sue Il
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07
Treasure State News Briefs

ceeding Emmett Fogarty, who resigned
TO enter private business in Butte.
HAVRE-Dr. Jesse Leroy Somers
S. who died here, was a dentist and
/ former mayor Of Havre He was found
dead from a heart attack in his room
at a local hotel He had practiced den
tispry here for % years.
Douglas Parker Of Sweet
Grass. vice president and cashier OF
the First International bank there, has
purchased controlling interest in the
Sunburst State bank here from Nat
Taylor, vice president and cashier.
BROWNING Clarence L. Mckee,
So. who died of a heart attack while
at work, was freight agent for the
Great Northern and had been a resi-
dent of this community for % years.
He was born at Findlay, o.
VIRGINIA CITY-The Rev. Norman
L. Foote, resident minister in charge
OF Madison county Episcopal church
missions, has left for a months tour
of the east in the interests of his
church.
MISSOULA-Mrs. Margaret Vanek
Storfa, 81, who died here, was for
mer school teacher in the Lewistown
vicinity. She was educated at Fergus
County high school and Eastern Mon
tana Normal at Billings.
SHELBY-E. A. Daubenstek of Fer
dig is new president of the Toole
County Sportsmen's club. Other off
GERS are Dewey Sandell Of Oilmont,
vice president, and J. Dayle Annis of
Shelby, secretary treasurer.
BUTTE-Robert H. O'Brien, son of
J. C. O'Brien of this city, has been
by President Roosevelt to
succeed Edward c. Eicher as a mem
Der of the Securities and Exchange
in Washington, D. G.
William Watkins Dodds,
So, a coal miner, was killed in a fall
Of rock at mine here. Dodds, who
came here in 1920, began working in
coal mines in England when Is years
DID
HELENA - The Montana railroad
has granted the Great
Falls city lines permission to increase
BUS fares to 81s cents. A similar re-
quest by the Butte city lines was re-
ected.
ANACONDA-Dr. E. o. Melby, new
of Montana State university, |
vas the honor guest at dinner spon-
ored here by the Anaconda CONNER
ial club. Mayor Ralph Thorson pre-
ided.
HARLOWTON - Henry Strickland,
lias Henry Anderson and Horace
was sentenced to five years
n the state penitentiary by Judge w.
= Husband on his plea of guilty to
orgery.
BUTTE Scouting in the Silver Bow
rea council was enjoyed by 1876 per-
emit more boys and men in 1941 than
/ 1910, according to the annual report
admitted at the yearly meeting. Guy
}. Piatt of Butte has been elected
resident Of the council.
ANACONDA-Four years ago Eu-
enc, Clark and Ruth Carmichael be-
an saving jefferson nickels. Recently
lie youngsters found they had 1,125
lcked away in cake container. They
zchanged them at the poSteffice for
Tree defense bonds.
GREAT FAILS-T. E. Hodges has
1nounced that he will not be can
date for reelection as football and
coach at Great Falls high
hool and will terminate his connec-
On with the faculty at the close of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

The East Alahoney crude price is based
1Oc below the salt Greek posting, and
the Wertz and Mahoney prices are
based zoe below the Salt Creek posting.
LaBarge follows N1idcontinent prices
sc above Salt Creek. It is derived
from the average of the prices posted
by Standard Oil and Texas in Mid
continent. Since Standard posts down
to 81 gravity and Texas stops at be-
low 49, the average prices apply to
LaBarge crude below % gravity.
Madeleine Rou effective 2 q m
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07
WYOMING
Salt Greek, effective 7 a. m,
May 20, 1941

Cole Greek, LaBarge, Midway Dome,
Dutton Greek, Iron Greek, Lost Soldier,
and Teapot fields in Wyoming, and the
Moffat field in Colorado, crude oil
prices follow the Salt Creek posting.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

Soak handkerchiefs and napkins
that have been stained by npstick In
cold water with some Oxydol. The lip
stick will quickly and entirely dis
appear.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07

Tomatoes are the result of the run
ming together of air masses of widely
varying temperatures.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-02-07
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
POSTED PRICES
FOR CRUDE OIL

Following are the current prices for
crude oil per barrel as posted by the
principal purchasers in various fields
OF the Rocky Mountain Division with
the effective date of the price by
states and fields: