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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
One-Minute Test

/. What country was formerly
known a. Mesopotamia?
2. What Is the relationship be-
tween the present king Of Eng
land, George vi. and Queen Vic
toria?
3. What is the literal meaning
Of the French expression. beau
geste'7
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09

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$50. WHAM 100, WMAQ $40. Blue
network, WXYZ 1870. WLW 100,
WGN 720.
Columbia 5roadcsstin7 Company
-WJR $50. WBBM $50. WCKY
1880. WFBM 12e, VICAR 1880.
WINS 1850. WOOD 1910. WOwO
1890.
Mutual 6rosdesstlng Company
network, WLW TOO. CKLW 500.
Tonight
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1000 MBS. 1926 CHS. 1900
CHS. 11:15 MBS. 1900 NBC CHS.
1880 MBS, 1855 NBC.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
Words Of MADAM

To rejoice In another's prosper.
ity, Is TO give content TO your own
lot; to mitigate another's grief.
Is to alleviate or dispel your own.
-Tryon Edwards.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09

and such a person will receive
much financial help and pleasant
surprises. A domestic matter
may cause some concern. The
child who Is born on this date will
have a thirst for knowledge Of all
kinds, and will be highly intel.
lectual. possessing great breadth
Of vision and unusual talents.
Good fortune seems assured.
one-blnute Test Answers
1. fraq.
2. She was his great grand.
mother.
3. a hns gesture or action.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
Hints on Etiquette

Even II you, a high school boy.
do think you are a hit with the
girls, don't fail to get up when a
girl enters a room. Your popu.
larity will last longer II you are
polite.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
foday's Horoscope

The outttanding trait Of to-
days birthday child Is 9 deep love
for family and friends. He or she
Is diligent in their work. self-de-
pendent and very practical. For
the next year. success In art.
music or literature Is promised,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
Observations
Construction May
Avert Slump at
End of War

WHETHER or not our govern.
ment economists advance PLAN
ming will prove effective in eush-
ionlng the country against the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
Your Health

Acute Abdomen
Applies to MANY
Severe Disorders
BY Logan Clendenins. NJ. ID.
THE ACUTE abdomen is a
term employed by surgeons and
means any sudden catastrophe
which produces severe abdominal
symptoms.
The acute abdomen, in terms Of
symptoms, means pain, discom-
fort, fever. prostration, shock and
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-09
CARELESS CONVERSATION

THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1872
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
By SCOTT NEARING

Indian independence is being dis
cussed as problem in politics. 1t is
no less a question of economics.
When the British wrested India
from the French nearly two centuries
ago, the peninsula was almost entirely
agricultural. Industry was carried on
by handcraftsmen. Commerce was
centered at a few strategic points.
The great bulk of the population made
its living by farming.
Indian economy, insofar as its con-
tact with Great Britain was con-
cerned, has passed through several
stages:
featured consumer goods such as tex
tiles and hardware, and In exchange
bought spices and other products of
Indian agriculture This was a nor
NAL and stable form of trade so long
as Britain produced manufactures and
India produced raw materials.
2. British manufacturers of producer
goods such as textile machinery and
railroad equipment also began selling
their wares in India and taking in
exchange stocks, bonds and mort
cages. These foreign investments
paid profits to British bankers and
investors. They also speeded up the
industrialization of India. British tex
tile manufacturers, for example,
bought their cotton in America, made
it up in England and sold the product
in India. But as India also produced
cotton and had plenty of cheap labor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
COURSE Is
SCHEDULED
Six Day School Ordered
Held in Placer Hotel in
Helena Next Month for
Training of Volunteer
Defense Workers.

The state defense council issued In
structions during the week for civil
ian defense school planned for Helena
at the Placer hotel, May 18th through
18th, 1912 The purpose of the school,
it was explained, was to train volun
teer civilian defense workers for serv-
ice in the various counties.
Under the supervision Of the United
States Army the school will teach
SO hours Of general instruction con-
sisting of fire-fighting, air raid war
den work, police work, investigation,
decentralization, etc., and 10 hours Of
first aid instruction. The completion
of the school will qualify those In at
tendance for instructors certificates
from the Office of Civilian Defense.
They, in turn, will return to their
counties and give courses in the vari-
GUS fields to the citizens of their
local communities.
Governor Ford requested the local
defense councils to check their local
tiles and send in qualified persons for
this instructors training. Capt. James
Barker, field artillery; w. G. Fergu-
son, defense council; and Mrs. Archie
Goodale, defense council, will be
among the instructors.
The course will cover the funda-
mental training decided upon by the
National Office of Civilian Defense
CONTINUED on Page FOUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17

rigid control, except for GER
tain limited categories.
Equally binding upon property own
ers, builders and suppliers, the order
prohibits not only the start of con-
struction in most categories, but also
the withdrawal from inventory and
the purchase, sale or delivery Of any
material from use in such construc-
ton unless expressly authorized by
the WPB.
No residential construction, except
for maintenance and repair work, may
be started without permission II its
estimated cost Is $500 or more. No
new agricultural construction may be
started If the estimated cost is $1,000
or more. Institutional, commercial
and similar types of construction can
be started only If the estimated cost
is $4,000 or less.
Officials said that projects already
under construction are being carefully
examined by the war production
board on an individual basis and that
such projects may be stopped If the
scarce materials to be used In them
can be put to more effective use In
the war program.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
HIGH COURT
uPH0LDS ATTY.
GEN. OPINION
Case Involves Amount To Be
Paid by a Liquor Dealer in a
Small Town Within Five
Miles of a City of 10000
Population or More.

MOntana's supreme court In a de-
cision rendered Wednesday, April Is,
1912, ruled that retail liquor dealer
located in East Helena must pay only
a 5000 license fee.
The courts opinion came in the
case Of Joseph Ventura v. the Mon
tana liquor control board and affirmed
the decision of District Judge A. J.
Horsky of Helena.
The liquor control board had con-
tended the licensee whose establish
ment was located within five miles
of Helent, city Of more than 10000
population, must pay 5000 license
fee as required within such cities.
Attorney General John w. Bonner
had last year ruled in an opinion for
the state liquor control board that
only 5000 license fee should be
charged for retail liquor dealers in
East Helena.
Montana law contains provision
that 5000 fee is required in towns
of less than 1000 population and that
a $500 fee is required in cities of TO-
900 or more or for establishments
within five miles of such cities of
10000. Justice Augstman, in speak
ing for the court, wrote:
IF the defendants (Montana liquor
control board) contention be sound,
then we would have a situation where
one applicant in East Helena would
be required to pay a fee of 5000,
whereas another applicant in the same
town would only be required to pay
a fee of 5000, for a part of the town
Of East Helena is more than five
miles from the nearest boundary of
the city of Helena.
1.-THE cost Of regulating two IL
censees in the same city is exactly
the same and is affected by the cir
that one of them might
be within five miles from a larger
city.
Likewise, viewing the act as rev.
snue measure, there does not seem
% be any reasonable justification for
charging higher fee for one licensee
n a town of less than 1000 popula-
ion, but who is within five miles
rom larger city, than for one in
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
INSTRUCTIONS
ON WRITING
TO SOLDIERS

The following instructions on how
to address a letter to men in the
armed forces and warnings about
things not to mention in your letters
to them:
Address:
If soldier is located in the United
States:
Private John Doe, (Serial No.
Company B, 373rd Infantry
Camp Wilton, Nebraska.
If soldier is located outside the
United States:
Private John Doe, (Serial MOI
Company B, 373rd Infantry
Army Post Office No..
% Postmaster
City, State-(As instructed by
by soldier or War Dept.)
NOTE: The Station and location of
q soldier outside the United States
is military secret upon which the
life of your son, brother or husband
may depend, and also the success of
our war effort. Avoid writing to the
War department for this information.
Get the correct mailing address from
the soldier, including the Army Post
Office number, and the city through
which mail addressed to him is to
be- handled. II, however, this infor-
nation is not available, after the sol
1ier has left the country, then you
may inquire of the Adjutant General,
War Department, Washington, D. c.,
Tor the correct mailing address. How
aver, only the Army Post Office adj
lress will be furnished and not the
foreign station Of the soldier.
Postage Fees
Regular Mall: Three cents on let
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
PROTEST
AGAINST JAP
LABOR VOICED
Montana Federation Labor
Urges Army authorities To
Delay Sending Japanese
Into State Until Other Labor
Possibilities Exhausted.

Asserting that other sources of agri
cultural labor should be explored be-
fore any Japanese labor is imported
into the state and that able bodied
men should not be diverted to guard
ing Jap labor, the executive board of
Montana Federation of Labor, has for
warded the following telegram to Gen.
eral Dewitt:
The people of Montana are strongly
opposed to the importation of Jap Ia
Dor into this state. II the good judg-
ment OF the army requires internment
of these Japs in Montana, the people
of this state are anxious and willing
to cooperate The availability of Ia
Dor sources other than Jap has not
been investigated by those whose self
ish greed seek to place personal, or,
political profit above the peace and
security of our citizens by importing
into our state thousands of dangerous
aliens. We are opposed to the Japs
being placed in the beet fields as
they will use their position as a base
for future operations.
The fathers and mothers of the
Montana men in the armed forces
and whose sons have and may be
called upon to make the supreme sac
rifice in fighting the Japs are very
much opposed to the Japanese inva-
sion of this state.
We disagree from Governor Ford
who wants able bodied men diverted
for guard duty in this state so that
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
GOVERNMENT
TO SURVEY
MAN POWER

Unions In Montana will be called
upon during the next few weeks to
help the government make an inven-
tory of the nations manpower and
skills for war production purposes.
The plan is to be carried out by the
United States Employment Service in
cooperation with the Selectfve Serv-
ice board, according to o. c. Lamport
Montana director of the United States
Employment Service.
To gather the necessary informa-
ton, missionaries will be sent by
the local Selective Service board to
the men between the ages of 20 and
A who registered in Montana on Feb
ruary 16, asking each one what his
occupation is and what skills he has.
Later, the same QUESTIONABLE will be
sent to other civilians in this area
who are between the ages of IS and
64-those who have already registered
under Selective Service and those
who still have to. When the regis
tration is completed all over the coun-
try and the missionaries are in from
all localities, the government will
have a record of the occupational
skills of 40 million men.
The unions are asked to cooperate
in this survey, Director Lamport ex-
plains, by helping their own members
I'll out and turn in their question
naires. For this purpose he suggests
that local union officers obtain a sam
pie copy of the QUESTIONABLE for their
own information and study IN AD-
They can obtain the sample
from the local Selective Service board
or any one of the AZ local U. S. EN-
ployment offices in Montana.
The questionnaires is intended to
bring out the story of what each man
Is fitted to do. With 1t is list of
225 jobs essential to war production,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
INDUCTION
SYSTEM SAID
TO BE FAULTY
Claimed That Draftees Are
Often Rejected by Army
After Quitting Jobs, Selling
Business and Travelling
Length of State.

Throughout the state the induction
system in use in Montana for the
Selective Service System has been the
object of fire and criticism. Led by
the miles City Star" and other news
papers, the fight conferred on the fact
that approximately one-half of the Sc
lectees who were sent to Missoula for
induction into the army were rejected
and forced to return to their homes
after they had left their jobs, sold
out their businesses and farms and
made every preparation to enter the
service
Under the new system each draftee
is given screen" test by local doc
tors. This screen test merely ascer-
tains If he Is fit in general way
for service and does not attempt to
provide thorough military inspec-
ton. At the induction station the
draftees are given thorough test
and those rejected are sent home and
those accepted are Immediately taken
into the Army.
In Montana where the state is SO
large, it is argued that this works a
great deal of hardship on the individ-
ual registrant who is forced to travel
a long distance after settling his af-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
FUEHRER PELLEY is
LONESOME IN Jail

INDIANAPOLIS OPP - Wanted :
Some cellmates by William Dudley
Policy, Silver Shirt leader who is
cooling his heels in the clink here on
charges of sedition for what has been
printed in his publication, The Cali
lean.
Charged with promoting the sue
cess of our enemies" Policy, who was
unable to raise bond, said: There
hasn't been a damn thing in the mag
azine that Boake Carter, Iron Pants
Johnson, Father Coughlin and many
others haven't also said"
Pelley's anti-Semitic and anti-labor
magazine has often quoted articles
from Charles e. Coughlin's Social
Justice.
The newspaper PM reports that 25,-
900 readers have demanded the gov
eminent take the same action against
Coughlin.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
WALLER CASE
INVOLVE POLL
TAX QUESTION
Requirement of Poll Tax
Payment as Qualification
For Jury Service as Well as
Right to Vote to Meet Test
In u. S. Supreme Court.

The supreme court of the United
Sattes has been asked to decide d.
rectly whether the Fourteenth amend
ment prohibits state from denying
equal protection of the law to an en-
tire economic class, irrespective of
race or color or whether such pro-
hibition is limited to denials of equal
protection solely on account of race
or color.
The question was presented by a
petition for certiorari filed In the SUI
preme court April 2 by John F. Fin
erty as counsel for Odell Waller,
negro sharecropper under sentence of
death in Virginia for killing his white
farmer landlord, Oscar Davis, In
claimed self-defense. Governor OAR
den Of Virginia postponed Walters ex-
ecution until May 10 in order that this
question might be presented to- the
supreme court Walters defense is
sponsored by the Workers Defense
League.
The question arises because the su-
preme court Of appeals of Virginia
on January % dismissed Walters petit
ton for habeas corpus although that
petition was supported by affidavits
showing that the state of Virginia
makes the payment of poll taxes a
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
midas PROBLEM IS ONE OF
ECONOMICS AS we'll AS POLITICS

the cotton goods made In India with
British machinery could undersell
those made in Britain and shipped to
India. BY selling textile machinery
to India, the British spoiled the Indian
market for their own textiles.
8. British capitalists took advantage
of low production costs in India,
helped to finance the Indian textile
industry and exported the product to
various markets, including the British
Isles. Indian-made cotton goods were
now underselling British-made goods
in the British market. British capital
closed mills in England and built
them in India.
The cycle was now complete. At
it's beginning, Britain manufactured
and sold in India. At its end, India
manufactured and sold in Britain.
This economic transformation of In
dia from raw material producer to
and exporter covered a
wide range. At the outbreak Of the
present war, India reported 9,856,65S
cotton spindles and 1880 looms,
employing 417,000 workers, making
India sixth among the cotton manu-
featuring countries of the world. In
dian coal production stood at 1884,
900 tons. Only seven countries pro-
duced more. Pig iron production had
risen to 1,576,000 tons; steel produc-
ton to a million tons year. Indian
ships. Indian factories were making
railroad and other heavy capital
Continued ON Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
MONTANA R.E.A.
C0-0PS FIGHT
FOR FUNDS

Several northeastern Montana REA
Co-operatives involving applications
for over a million dollars of proposed
rural electric lines to serve several
thousand people are fighting desper-
ately for an equitable share of funds
that they allege should rightfully be
allocated to Montana.
Oscar Nesvig, the Northeastern
Montana Co-op's attorney who is ne
gotiating with administration officials
is presenting strong evidence sub
stantiated by leading engineers show
ing the feasibility of Montana prof.
ects. Official reports shows that pro-
portionate shares of allotments have
not been granted to Montana. Con-
gress appropriated 100000, 900 for the
REA out of which Montana is on the
equitable distribution basis entitled to
approximately $1,000,000.
Out of this 1912 appropriation Mon
tana has only received approximately
100000 while recently allotments
have been made to REA projects in
other states including Ohio which was
allotted s3,036,000.
Other allotments amounting to a
total in excess of s6,000,000 have re-
Gently been made to these other
states. Out of these REA project al
lotments to other states, certain sums
will be expended Immediately to fl
nance purchase Of essential electric
power and light plants to the parti-
cular projects and that the balance of
the allotted funds will be used by the
respective projects after the war.
These Montana projects have applied
for REA loans on similar basis.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. 1. HARRIS

is not going well with aircraft pro
duction.
But 1t is no secret that the co-ordf
nator to be named by Nelson, whether
he is an automobile production man
or one from the aircraft or some other
ndustry-Nelson feels that any good
production man from any industry can
do the job-will be the boss of that
division, with Meiggs largely figure
head.
A QuisIng In the Making
There are some important people in
the government who are keeping their
eyes on the Rev. Gerald l.. K. Smith,
a Quisling in the making.
Smith, who learned his rabble-rous-
ing from the late Huey Long, the
Louisiana Kingfis1, is native fascist
If there ever was one. He is now
publishing a magazine called, 1.-THE
eros and the Flag" which fails to
conceal it's Hitler line beneath its
veneer of false and pious patriotism.
Here are some extracts from the
first issue of that magazine:
Even though England has allies and
dominions, she never hesitates when
it comes to choosing between herself
and her allies" "At Dunkirk, only
British boys were allowed to escape
In British boats" while we are be-
ing rationed on sugar, our sugar is
being sent to Russia" 1--WE don't like
the idea of the President Of the United
States playing politics with a war
time cabinet"
"a set of highbinders in Washing
ton are trying to sneak US back into
the British Empire" America is on
the march. Protest is in the hearts
of the people" To-day our fleet is
scattered all over the world, our SOL
diers are scattered all over the world"
I'VE must conclude, where our terri
torial responsibility ends, the terri
torial responsibility of others begins.
CONTINUED ON Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-17
Oppose Auto People
In Drivers Seat


There is a neat little behind-the-
scenes fight" going on between the
aircraft and the automotive industries
as to who shall rule the roost in the
enlarged aircraft production picture.
Donald Nelson, WPB chief, is soon
to name an aircraft production CO.
ordinator (czar) to lay down the law
on this most important phase of the
war program. His first selection was
Chrysler's President Keller, who de-
clined the job because Of Ill health.
Keller, however, is known to be con-
Quoting a private study for Nelson of
aircraft production, and how it can be
speeded up, which study covers such
things as raw materials, supplies,
parts, sub-contracting, and the like.
The aircraft people do not take too
kindly to the idea Of the automobile
industry occupying the drivers seat
in the airplane production field. They
point to their own eregter experience
in aircraft production as the reason
why they should occupy that seat
and the further fact that the automo-
tive industry resisted conversion to
war production until the government
took firm hand.
With the automotive industry as
Stunning an ever increasing role in the
aircraft program, there enters also
the question Of whether they will con-
tinue in this line after the war; to
compete with those who have taught
them to make airplanes. This is a
competition that is not relished by the
aircraft industry.
With the aircraft production picture
having taken satisfactory turn, ac-
cording to official statements, Nelson
is said to have changed his mind
about letting Merrill Meiggs, head OF
WPB's aircraft division, go. He does
MT want to order drastic shakeup
in that division that will give the pub
lie the erroneous impression that all