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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
T0LAN COMM.
RECOMMENDS
new OFFICE
Declares That Committees
Opinion Is That Production
And Manpower Officials
"Have Not Yet Grasped the
Meaning of Modern War;"
By VIRGINIA GARDNER

Observation-Disclosures
to create an Office of War Mobiliza-
ton for completely reorganizing the
American economy for total war was
proposed in the sixth interim report
of the Tolan committee on national
defense migration October 20.
Reporting to the house on behalf
of the committee, the chairman, Rep.
John H. Tolan ID, Calif.), said the
committee still thinks production and
manpower officials "have not yet
grasped the meaning of modern wal"
The committee would remedy the
situation by placing under a central
policy-making body group of re-
aligned agencies in the form of three
Understanding war supply, war
manpower and economic sterilization.
First of the three would take over
functions and personnel of the war
production board, plus all procure
ment functions of the Army, Navy
and Maritime Commission. Chairman
of OWN would head board on which
would be representatives of labor, in
dustry and agriculture.
Most important of all, the central
office would have plan. Since be-
fore Pearl Harbor the Tolan commit
tee has been the clearest single voice
in Washington demanding planned
changeover from peacetime to full
war economy
After its latest hearings it reports
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which he has been a member for the
past six years, is characterized by
consideration of the interests of all of
the people and not of special groups.
Amendments Rejected
All proposed amendments to the
Constitution were rejected by the
Montana voters. Two of these amend
ments proposed the authorizing of
bond issues for the construction of
necessary buildings at the state edu-
cational institutions. One of the
others would have heightened the
terms of certain county officers and
the other would have reduced the
membership of the State Board Of
Education from II members to seven
and removed from the board all cleo
tive officers. The last two amend
ments were opposed by all organized
labor and farm groups in the state.
Only One Republican
Montana did not follow many of the
other states in decided swing to-
ward the Republican side, only one
candidate for state office on that
party being successful. This was
leonard Young who defeated Horace
Casey, and if Mr.. Young has not
changed in his attitudes and sym
pathies since he last served on the
board, he will not reflect much credit
on his party from the standpoint of
tho people in the position he has won.
The results of the election as tab
ulated on Thursday morning were as
follows:
United States senator, 1923 pre-
cincts of 1,1s5 Murray CD, S2,S74;
Rankin (R), S1,46S; Miller (Prohi.),
1,75S; Helterbran (Soc), 1,275.
Representative in congress, first
district, S97 precincts of 412: Mans
field Cd, 42,S72; Hazelbaker (R), 2S,-
1870; Hamilton Isl, 757.
Representative in congress, second
district 71S precincts of 773: O'Con-
nor Cd, 49,066; Haynes (R), 43,732;
Mcconnell Isl, 1,026.
Railroad commissioner, 1,037 pre-
cincts of LIS; Casey CD, 65,342;
Young (R), 1876.
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reach by January l, and Az
have qualified for the WPB
Salvage for Victory" pennant
which will be awarded to every
county in the United States
which collects more than 100
pounds of scrap per capita.
"This is an outstanding report and
the best yet received from any of the
five Rocky Mountain states Mr.. Tod
hunetr said 1--WE are highly gratified
by this splendid showing, and our
heartiest congratulations go to the
scrappers of Montana"
Counties, their total collections in
pounds and their per capita records
are listed below. All counties through
Sheridan county have exceeded their
quotas, Mr.. Todhunter said, and all
through Roosevelt county have quail
fled for theWPB pennant to be flown
from the flagstaff at their county
court houses.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
new INCOME TAX
Law AFFECTS
ALL BUT few
By SCOTT NEARING

Taxes and death are sometimes
called the twin inevitables. War pro
duces a generous crop of both.
Congress has completed a s9,000,-
100000 tax bill which sets records in
many directions. First it puts the
total of direct U. S. taxes for the COM
ing year at the all-time high of $685.
OO0OOO,0OO Under ordinary circum-
stances this would be distinctive
enough to make the new tax year
memorable.
Second the bill pushes income tax
collections to the lowest income level
in U. S. history. Under it, all persons
with incomes of $12 or more per week
will pay tax. The income tax was
originally designed to reach those
with high incomes. Following the
principle of taxation in accordance
with ability to pay, it imposed tax
on the rich.
During recent years, first in Europe
and lately in Canada and the U. S.,
the rate of incomes subject to taxa
ton has been steadily lowered until
it now includes virtually every able
bodied worker. Under present condi-
tions $12 for a 40-hour week (30c an
hour is a minimum below which are
found only few domestic and farm
workers, and a sprinkling of employed
youngsters. The new law makes the
income tax practically universal.
Third, the new tax bill provides a
gross income tax of 5e6. All previous
income tax laws have imposed taxes
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ADMIRAL Land
PULLS IN
HIS HORNS

WASHINGTON-FP)-Rear Adm
Emory S. Land, whose removal is
being demanded in hundreds of wires
pouring in from ships crews and 9th
er union bodies, has become quite a
hero to Washington's upper crust
since his neutrality-suspicious. speech.
Society Columnist Evelyn Peyton
Gordon, of the Washington Daily
News, on October 26 describes "the
first of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean's
famous Sunday night dinners since
the advent of Mamie mamie Speers
Reynolds, infant daughter of Sen.
Robert R. Reynolds and Mrs. Rey-
nolds, daughter of Mrs. MeLean)."
After mentioning Sen. Burt Wheel
er, j. Edgar Hoover, and lot of
other guests, she says g. =. and Ad-
miral Land was the cynosure of all
eyes"
"The redoubtable Jerry Land really
had his chin out" she goes on. You
really should just say those speeches
yourself, Peggy somebody chortled
at Mrs. Mitchell Palmer, member of
the Admirals staff, instead Of writ
ing them for Jerry Peggy smiled
knowingly"
The allusion is to the widow of the
notorious A. Mitchell Palmer, known
for his wholesale raids against Reds"
in the early 1920s.
What the society folk who were fet-
ing the admiral didn't know was that
the redoubtable Jerry" would be so
worried over the growing demand for
his removal that he would seek out
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CHILDREN OF
WAR WORKERS
ABUSED CHARGED

NEW YORK-FP}-The children
chief victims of a wholesale failure
by the federal government and local
communities to meet the problems OF
housing, health services, child labor
education, juvenile delinquency and
working mothers which have been
created by the war effort.
This story is told in the weekly In
formation Service of the research and
education department of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America, which has made a survey of
500 critical defense areas.
Thousands of families of war work
ers,' the Information Service says,
live in taxpayer shacks, in garages
Converted and unconverted), in trail
er camps, in cheap bungalows run up
by spectators and sold on easy
terms, less than rent Sewage emp
ties into open untitled bitches.
at is almost unnecessary to point
out the grave problems, social and
physical which are raised when chill
dren must live in such communities. ;"
The council found that twice as
many boys and girls between IA and
Is years of age went to work in 1941
as in 1910, and according to the U. S.
Children's Bureau, the numbers are
mounting even more rapidly in 1912.
mot only" it emphasizes, "is legal
child labor increasing, but illegal as
WE'LL"
With the great increases in popu-
lation, the council points out, many
defense communities have found it ex-
traordinarily difficult to provide
school accommodations 1t cites the
case of Wichita, Kans., which needs
1870 more teachers than it did year
ago, and a Michigan community where
schools are run in three shifts.
There are" the council says, "even
new communities where schools have
not yet been provided. 1t is reported
that in a number of isolated places
the USO worker provides some recre-
else is available to them"
While there is no overall data
available on juvenile delinquency, the
council said % of 30 juvenile courts
reporting to the Children's Bureau
found increases ranging from 90 to
1909. Serious crimes by boys and
girls declined in 1910 but rose again
in 1871 and 1912.
The increase in minor offenses is
much graeter For example, 21a
times as many boys were sentenced
to single correctional school in
during February 1912
than February 1941. Similar reports
were received from other states.
While some progress has been made
in providing day nurseries for the
younger children of working mothers,
the council found them grossly made
quate. But worse, it found that little
Or nothing had been done for children
Of school age.
Stories" the council reports, "are
told of women who leave their chill
dren locked in parked autos. Cruel
as this sounds, it is the ones who
really care who do that so they will
be sure to know where their chill
lren are Many children, even very
small ones, are running the streets.
Young children are left in charge of
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A. C. M. co. BUYS
CONTROL OF
MAGNESIUM

The Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
has acquired by purchase the 81 "
per cent stock interest of Howard P.
Eells (cq) Jr. and associates of Cleve-
land, in Basic Magnesium Inc. for
$4,000, Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones announces.
In connection with the purchase,
Defense Plant Corp. bought the ore
lands of Basic Magnesium near Cabs,
New, for $45O,00O. These ore lands
and deposits have been appraised at
more than $1,5O0,0O0, Mr.. Jones said
Basic Magnesium is operating and
will complete the construction of the
plant at Las Vegas, New,
which is owned by Defense Plant
Corp. The first unit of the plant pro-
duced magnesium on August 81, 1912.
Additional units have been brought
in since that time.
This is the largest magnesium plant
in the country, Mr.. Jones said, and
in the world. 1t will have
an equal capacity OF 112,000,000
pounds of metallic magnesium, and
when completed will cost in excess
of $100,000,000. 1t covers four square
miles of desert land in Nevada, and
this site was selected because of its
proximity to the govern
Boulder Dam power prof.
ect from which it takes power.
When in full operation, the plant
will use annually in excess Of 1,5O0,-
100000 kilowatt hours of electricity,
which is equal to the amount of cleo
tricity used annually in Arizona, Colo
RADIO, Wyoming and New Mexico COM
bined.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS
CONTRIBUTED

iOON MD " Ell
II the election returns from Mon
tana prove anything they prove that
an extremely large segment of the
population is dissatisfied with the
present Democratic national leader
ship. If this trend continues into
1914, Montana may well elect two Re
publican congressman as well as con-
tinue to keep its Republican governor.
1t is no secret that the people of Mon
tana are not satisfied with many of
the decisions that are being made re-
garding domestic policies and demand
change.
The senatorial race between Sen.
James E. Murray of Butte, and Well
ington d. Rankin, veteran Helena at
torney, will not be officially decided
until the state canvassing board
meets. From all indications it ap-
pears that Murray has squeezed
by an extremely narrow mar
gin. Analysing the vote it would ap-
pear that Murray lost the support, in
large measure, of organized labor. The
vote in Silver Bow county would seem
to show that the laboring people
thought more of Rankin's efforts for
labor in the courts than of
voting record and his num-
erous Endorsements. Murray did bet
ter in the farming areas where the
Farmers Union is strong, and it is
clear that he owes an unmistakable
political debt to that organization for
the support he received The final
vote will show that Rankin carried
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Murray of Butte was elected
clerk of the supreme court.
Close votes in the races for
practically all offices featured
the election, with only about
so per cent of the voters cast
ing their ballots.
With 81 of Montana's 1,185 voting
precincts still to be heard from, SEN
ator Murrays lead of 1,411 votes over
his opponent Wellington D. Rankin
was still not considered absolutely
guaranteeing his reelection, however,
the precincts which have not as yet
reported are small isolated ones, and
Murray is believed to have a chance
of carrying most of them.
Mysterious
The apparent defeat of Associate
Justice Angstman and Railroad and
Public Service Commissioner Horace
Casey for reelection present problems
difficult to understand. Associate
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
FARM MACHIEfS AND
EQUIPMENT FROZEN

All new farm machinery and equip
ment except repair parts were frozen
November l under temporary ration
ing order B announced by Secretary
of Agriculture Claude r. Wickard.
The order will remain in effect until
state and county quotas are estab-
lished as a basis for a permanent
rationing order.
The freeze order covers two main
types of farm machinery The first
schedule l includes most of the
heavier labor saving machines which
are important as result of the farm
labor shortage. Dealers, distributors,
and manufacturers, under the freeze
order, may not sell or transfer any
of the 144 items listed in this SEIZED
ule.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06

Hollywood is adj
justing itself to war.
New construction of
sets is limited to
$4,000 per picture.
The army objects to
location crews wan
dering in the west
ern defense area.
And if it didn't the
ODT would object to
wear and tear on
motor vehicles and
u n n e C e ssary con-
sumption of tires
and gasoline.
So the elevation
~ Durop Ho ckinQ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06

trick cameraman and special effects
expert, to a streamlined office and his
two cents worth in the counsels Of
producers, directors and writer's, is
symptomatic. The special effects man
is the only one in studio who can
make pictures without sets and, If
necessary, without actors.
Heretofore he has rated as the odd
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Justice Angstman's service on the SUI
preme court is a record of service to
the people Of the state of the highest
order. It is well know that the spe-
cial interests of the state went to
great lengths to defeat him for re-
election and that their efforts were
successful, does not indicate just ap-
probation by the voting public. The
same may be said about Horace
Casey. His work on the board Of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
HOLLYWOOD
LOT
By TED TAYLOR

They made the special effects man
at Warner Bros. an executive the
other day. That means he moves into
the administration building and sits
in on story conferences.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06

DENVER October 30A total of 81 772 tons of
collected between July and October &c. Edward
Kelley secretary of the Montana salvage commit
tee today notified Todhunter regional salvage
for the war production board Thrytwo of the Sc counties
in Montana already surpassed quotas for them to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
SENATOR MURRAY WINS
REELECTION In CLOSE
VOTE; MANSFIELD Wins
Incomplete Returns Indicate Murray Is
Reelected; Mansfield Easy Winner in First
District; O'Connor's Reelection in Second
District Conceded by Opponent Other
Results Hard To Understand

Incomplete unofficial from the voting precincts in
Montana today Thursday indicated the reelection of Mon
ana Junior SENATOR reelection of OConnor to from
the second district and the election
from the first congressional district of Mike Mansfield by
large vote his opponent Howard K Hazebaker Frank
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-06
MONTANA LEADS ROCKY
mountain STATES In
COLLECTION OF SCRLy7

Thirty-two Of the Sc Counties Of e State
Have Surpassed Quotas Set To IS Reached
By January l; Forty Have Qua 5 d for
Salvage for Victory" Pennan 5 Be
Flown From Court House Flas if
Evening star., 1942-07-29
ClU Reports $65,793
Defense Equipment Outlay

The Washington Central Labor
Union has pledged and expended
$65, 1913 .63 for civilian defense equip
ment FOR the District and nearby
Maryland and Virginia communities,
a financial statement of it's Civilian
Defense Fund Committee disclosed
today.
Among the funds earmarked are
$4,000 for overseas caps for war
dens, $4,275.6l for a blood bank,
81 900 to Fairfax County, Va; 5000
to Arlington County, Va; 5000 to
Montgomery County. Md, and IS 900
to Prince Georges County, Md.
Total expenditures for civilian de-
fense equipment through June 81
amounted to s22,5l802, the state
ment disclosed.
Arlington County is asking for
helmets. police radio installat tions
and ambulance units" Fred S.
Walker, CLU treasurer, said Prince
Georges County has ordered radio
equipment for police scout cars
which will cost sl3,35O and the Cen
trail Labor Union will pay $4,000
toward it. Montgomery County
wants 5000 steel helmets for war
dens at 81 each and the CLU Com
mlttee will pay $1,000 on this bill"
Evening star., 1942-07-29

scene. One team stays there to
receive victims while three other
teams, each with its nurses aide,
go on to the scene of the incident
to set up first aid posts.
Work at Station.
At these makeshift stations-the
back of an automobile. the corner
drugstore, under a tree, In a tent
the team with its doctor, nurse
nurses aides and four first aid
workers go into action. The nurses
aide assists the doctor and nurse
IN putting on splints, and dressings,
giving first aid, tagging the victims
with identification cards, transport
ing them to casualty stations and
hospitals and caring for minor in
juries.
If the nurses aide is not on duty.
IN time of crisis she always Is sub
ject to call. If she is stationed at
one of the hospitals, she would have
dozen different chores to do in
helping to care for the most serious
ly wounded of the air raid victims.
No matter how anxious a woman
is to help when she sees suffering
around her, without training she
would be of little use and nurses
aides aren't trained overnight. This
is one job that has to begin now
not when the bombs fall.
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Joseph Simpson, Jr.,
Resigns Montgomery
Raid Warden Post
Will Work With Minute
Men; Mcdonald to Name
Successor in Few Days

Joseph B. Simpson. ir. Of Takoma
Park has resigned as deputy chief
air raid warden for Montgomery
County to devote his time to the
work of the Minute Men. it was
announced today by Chief Air Raid
Warden Arch Mcdonald.
Mr.. Mcdonald said he would ap-
point a successor to Mr.. Simpson
within few days. Mr. Simpson,
who is candidate for. the Demo-
cratic nomination for States attor-
ney Of Montgomery County. has
been with the Civilian Defense
Council since its inception.
Warns About Leaving Lights.
A warning was issued by Warden
Mcdonald that home owners must
turn out their lights when they
leave their premises at night. Every
violation in private dwellings re-
ported during the last test blackout
were cases where the occupants had
gone out for the evening, he said.
Paul L. Banfield, chief of the
Emergency Food and Shelter Serv-
ice, has announced completion Of
his organization. Five subcommit-
tees of the Red Cross Disaster Pre-
paredness and Relief Committee
have been incorporated into the
service, and the county chairman
OF each of these groups will report
to Chief Banfield at the control
center in air raids.
Work OF the committees has been
divided into an area basis, however.
and the chairman of each area will
report to the center in his own sec
ton.
Area chairmen are Albert Walker,
western suburban, Walter C. De-
Groot, eastern suburban; Adolph
GUIDE, Rockville. and w. Lawson
King. upper county.
Canteen Group Lays Plans.
The Canteen Committee. headed
by Mrs. Marshall Beebe. will reouisi-
ton, prepare and serve food to dis
aster sufferers in canteens desip-
mated by the OCD.
Other committees and their chair
men include: The Red Cross Motor
Corps, headed by Mrs. Ernest l..
Smith; the Shelter Committee, DR..
George B.. Clendenin; Committee on
Registration and Information, Mrs.
Dorothy KurtZ, and Committee on
Clothing, Mrs, Austin A. Lamar.
Directors of information named
Tor the report centers by Mrs. Kurtz
are: Mrs. Claire Stacy. Silver
Spring Mrs. Frances FarroW, Be-
thesda; Miss Gladys Benson. Rock
vile, and Mrs. Sadie Wisner,
Gaithersburg.
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The urgent need for Red Cross
nurses aides stretches beyond the
doors of hospitals and into every
street in Washington where a bomb
might fall. That's why the call for
500 women to volunteer for training
must be answered now
With each team that leaves a hos
pital to 60 to the scene of disaster
travels a Red Cross nurses aide.
That is the ideal but many of the
hospitals have no nurses aides to
send.
DR.. John A. Reed, chief of the
Emergency Medical Service, today
called the nurses aides "indispen-
sable to the task of bringing medi-
cal aid to the victims of air attack
240 Needed for Units.
For the mobile units. which oper-
ate out of the hospitals. Dr. Reed
said 24O nurses aides are needed.
This is in addition to the nurses
aides on duty in the hospitals. to
which the most serious cases will
come.
Here's the role the nurses aide
plays in an air raid:
If she is member of one of the
mobile units the sounding of the
alarm or call from her team
captain sends her to the hospital
Evening star., 1942-07-29
Montgomery Charter
Hit by Cantre| as
Political Move
County Boards Counsel
Sees Threot to 2-Porty
System, Direct Voting

Adoption of a charter form of
government for Montgomery County
would constitute an opening wedge
to destroy the fundamental bulwarks
OF American freedom through the
exercise of majority rule, the two
party system and direct voting, JOS
eph A. Cantrel, counsel to the
County Board OF Commissioners,
charged today.
The fundamental recommendation
Tor charter change in a report by
the Brookings Institution report lis
obviously based upon a profound
underlying distrust of both the
American voter and the American
elected Official" he declared.
Mr. Cantrel directed more than a
dozen questions, which by implica-
ton were answered in their own
phrasing, to Chairman Allen H.
Gardner OF the Charter Committee,
chief sponsoring group for the move
ment. Mr.. Cantrel identified Mr..
Gardner as former chairman of "a
half dozen civic, political and other
committees, largely Republican, that
have attempted to- sponsor the
charter form of government.
Mr.. Cantrel inquired whether any
OF the Charter Committee chair
men or Executive Committee men,
bers are supporters of the present
Democratic county administration.
How in the name of political
good faith, forthrightness and fair
dealing, do you and your small
group of Republican associates re-
fuse to tell the people of Mont
gomery County what your program
under the charter would be?" the
counsel asked. s.
He inquired if the people were
not entitled to bill of particu-
lars on the charter plan. rs it
because you hope you can get more
votes for Utopia against the pres
ent American system of county gov
ernment than you can get for any
plan you can think of and describe
in detail to the voters?"