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Evening star., 1943-02-22
Rush at Restaurants Forecast
When Ration Coupons Give Out
Most Grocers Here Soy Values
Put on Canned Goods Are Too Hioh

While District grocers received
the Governments announcement
of point values for processed food
rationing with mixed reaction
today, a spokesman for many of
the local restaurants said the
system is expected to bring about
a chaotic condition in this trade.
S. Grady Putnam, president of the
Washington Restaurant Associat ton,
predicts that the Districts 5000 pub
lie eating units will be SWamped with
business during the last two weeks
OF each month as consumers run out
OF ration coupons and flock to res
taurants for their meals.
If some restaurants do not spread
their supplies over a month they
will be forced to close early in every
ration period, he warned. Members
OF the association, which represents
30 per cent Of the restaurant trade
here, will meet tomorrow night with
OPA officials.
Restaurants May Be Pinched.
The OPA pointed out today that
civilians who hope to exc out their
food rations by eating out may find
restaurants just as badly pinched
1t was said that restaurants will be
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Japs' Base at Munda
Raided by Americans
Bombers Start Fires in
73d Attuck on Field
Ply the Associated Press.

Ply the Associated Press.
American bomberS started fires at
the japanese air base at Munda on
New Georgia Island in a raid yes
terday, the Navy announced today.
Munda, in the Central Solomons.
is l80 nautical miles northwest of
Guadalcanal Airfeld. 1t has been
raided at least 73 times since last
November % when American at
tackS were undertaken in an effort
to make it useless to the enemy.
The communique said.
South Pacific call dates are east
longitude:
Il. On February 2l, Avenger tor
pedo planes (Grumman TBFD and
DauntleSs dive bombers Douglass
with WarhaWk (CurtiSs P-4O) and
COrSair tVought F4U) escort.
bombed japanese positions at Mum
da on New Georgia Island. Fires
were started in the target area. One
United States fighter failed to re-
turn"
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Congress May Review
Presidents 5 Use Of
Secret War Fund
Toft, Tydines to Request
Thorough Accounting of
S631 100000 Grant
By the Associated Press

bS INC hS9oCldttu fEeSS
Congress may turn a spot
light on expenditures from a
special S631 100000 fund granted
to President Roosevelt for secret
war projects, as part of a snow
balllng movement to recapture
legislative authority delegated to
the executive in the last few
years.
The Presidents authority to use
this fund will expire next June 80
and at least two legislators, Senators
Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland.
and Taft, Republican, of Ohio, said
they intended to demand a thorough
accounting of expenditures before
considering any attempt to renew it.
"As member of the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee" Senator
Tydings told reporters, Il am going
to insist tnat searching investiga-
| ton be made of every proposed ex-
penditure and that Congress be fully
informed of the facts in regard to
all money which has been spent for
secret and public funds in the past.
l am against making blanket ap-
propriat tions."
Taft Hits Revolving Fund"
Senator Taft said he thought that
in addition to asking for more in
formation on confidential expendi-
lures, Congress ought to eliminate
the use of the emergency appropria-
ton as revolving fund
In 1910 Congress gave President
Roosevelt an appropriation of $780,
600 1000 and contract authority of a
like amount for emergency expendi-
lures which he might be called
upon to make in carrying out the
defense and later the war program,
From time to time the fund was
reimbursed until total appropri-
ations reached s63l ,533 900.
In a report covering the last six
iiiontlS tne Budget Bureau told the
House Appropriations Committee
that as of January 18 $l01 900 900 re-
mained unallocated. Requests were
pending for s14,000,000 to finance
further activities of the Office of
Strategic Services, S2,5OO 900 for the
Co-ordinator of Inter- American
Affairs on Mexican railroad project
and $2,000,000 for the payment of
royalties on airplane engines.
ALLEGATIONS Confidential"
Among ALLEGATIONS for the last
six months of 1912 was $46, ,780 900
for the Office of Strategic Services,
including $28,0O0,0O0 "for conf
Dental purposes" and $9,S2S, 900 was
allocated for the Once of War
Information.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
FSA Farm Help
Staging 'Orgies,'
Grower Charges

By the Associated Press.
A Florida food producer declared
today that orgies have taken the
place of work among some of the
farm laborers supplied to growers by
Government agencies.
Whisky and loose women have
been taken into the fields by laborerS
offered to Southern planters under
contract with the Farm Security
Administration, said L. l.. Chandler,
fruit and vegetable grower of Goulds,
Fla
Testifying before a Senate Agri-
culture Subcommittee Mr. Chandler
said these workers are ''petted,
pampered and spoiled" under FSA
policies dripping with social re-
form
The workers are recruited by the
United States Employment Service
and placed under FSA contracts
with farmers.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Senate Group Ignores
White House Stand
On Mcclellan Bill
Measure as Redrofted
Would Still Require
O. K. on 81 500 Jobs
BY j.. A. O'LEARY.

Moving swiftly despite White
House opposition, a Senate sub
committee today worked out a
tentative redraft of the Mcclellan
bill to require Senate confrma-
tion of all Federal appointees
getting $4,000 or more a year.
Senator Mcfarland, Democrat, of
Arizona, acting chairman of the
subcommittee, said an agreement
has been reached on the substance
OF the bill, but several questions re-
mained to be taken to the full Judi
ciary Committee for discussion
Leaving a conference in Senator
McFarland's Office, the subcommit-
tee members went Immediately to
the Judiciary Committee, which was
already in session in another part of
the Capitol.
S4,500 Pay Level Retained.
Senator Mcfarland said the scope
of the bill would be left at the S4,5O0
salary level, instead of going down
to $4,000, as suggested by Senator
Mcclellan Democrat, of Tennessee,
author of the measure.
The subcommittee report also will
recommend eliminating the four
year tenure for all jobs paying 81 500
or more. This would still mean,
however, that incumbents would
have to be confirmed once, next July,
unless some further change is made
in full committee.
Subcommittee members said also
they were working on an amend
ment to protect the civil service
status of these higher -s2laried en-
ployeS after they are confirmed.
At the hearings, members of the
Civil Service Commission contended
that under existing law position
which becomes subject to Senate
confirmation could no longer be re-
garded as having civil service status.
In opposing the bill Saturday
President Roosevelt estimated it
would affect $4,000 positions and
told Vice President Wallace he
would not have the time to pass on
tSee MCCLELLAN, Page ABB
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Japanese Forces Move
Into French Concession
Py the Associated Pre- SIS

Ry the Associated Press
japanese imperial headquarters
announced today that japanese
army and navy forces moved into
the French concession in Kwang-
chow Bay yesterday with the full
understanding of the French gov
eminent"
The announcement was carried in
a broadcast by the Toxic radio re-
corded by the Associated Press.
kWangchow Bay is on the east
coast Of the peninsula of Lai-ChoW,
which projects southwark from the
Chinese province of Kwangtung to-
ward the Island of Hainan.
France leased a considerable ter
ritory on the bay in 1898 under a
99-year lease with China and in
1902 made it free port.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Archbishop SpeIImon
Is Received by Pope
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOCIATED Press.
LONDON, Feb, 22,-Archbishop
Francis j. Spellman of New York
was received by Pope Plus in a pri-
vate audience yesterday, the Swiss
radio said in broadcast.
The Berlin radio said the Arch
bishop later had lunch with Harold
H. Tittman. jr., who maintains con-
tact with the Vatican for President
Roosevelt in the absence of the Pres
ident's personal envoy, Myron c.
TAYLOR.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
| S1.66 Price Ceiling
Put on Top Grades
| OF Soy Beans
By the Associated Press

bS tHt ASSOCldleu treSS.
The Office of Price Admins
tration, with the approval of
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard, today set ceiling of S1.66
a bushel for top grades of soy
beans, heretofore not under
price control.
OPA described the ceiling as
sufficiently high to encourage
farmers to move soy beans
promptly in order to make more
oil and oil meal Immediately
available.
The 81 sc price ceiling applies
to soy beans sold by farmers to
country elevators. It applies
only to raw and unprocessed
soy beans from the 1912 and
previous crops, and eXempts
from price control soy beans
sold for seeding in 1943.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Germans Claim Sinking
OF IS Allied Ships
; The Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
A special report from Adolf Hit
ler's headquarters broadcast today
by the Berlin radio asserted that
German submarines had sunk IS
ships totaling 100000 gross register
tons plus one covette, one escort
vessel, one patrol boat and four
sailing transports in the Atlantic
and off North African and Mediter-
ranean ports.
1t said another freighter was tor
pedoed but gave no result.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, did not specify
the period in which the sinkings
were supposed to. have occurred
There was no continuation from
any Allied source of the German
claims.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Living Costs Advance
For Wage Farmers
By the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The cost of
living for wage earners and lower
salaried clerical workers rose during
January in 81 out of 10 cities sur
veyed by the National Industrial
Confe .lce Board.
Figures showed the largest ad-
vance was jump of 13 per cent in
Dayton, Ohio, while four other cities
showed a l per cent rise, two. no
change. and seven, declines.
Throughout the United States as
whole, the cost of living rose 0.04
per cent, the Conference Board
stated
In New York City, the cost of
living was 06 per cent higher in
January than in December.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
No Night Final
Edition Toduy

Due to the Washington's
Birthday holiday, the Night
Final Edition of The Star will
not be published today.
subscribers to this edition
will receive the regular Home
Edition.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Weather Forecast

Moderate temperatures today, with
lowest about freezing late tonight
temperatures today-Highest, SO, at
midnight; lowest, 40, at 6:35 am.
Fuel oil consumption should be as per cent
Of allotment for period i ending March g.
Evening star., 1943-02-22

tSee REACTION, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspaper.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
ESTABLISHED

The United Nations Relief and Re
Mobilization Administration was form
ally established at ceremony OF sig
nature at the White House November
8 and begins its work this week in
conference in Atlantic City. Thirty
three United Nations invited to sign
the agreement were: Australia, Bel
GUM, BOLIVIA, Brazil, Canada, China
Costa RIGA, Cuba, Czechoslovakia,i
Dominican Republic, Ell Salvador
Ethiopia, Great Britain, Greece Guate'
mala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran,
lands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nor
Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Neither
way, Panama, Philippines, Poland,
Union of South Africa, Union of So
Wet Socialist Republics, United States
and Yugoslavia. Ten nations asso-
ciated with the United Nations in this
war, also invited to sign, were: Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Iceland,
Liberia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and
Venezuela. The French Committee
of National Liberation was also in
vited to sign.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
TOTALS
$43, 900. 90

Disregarding that every dollar contributed
the SAB 900 will be distributed for the
forth in the listing reprinted from their pamphlet
the committee employed Ed Walker automobile dealer of
Helena of the campaign He to receive $3.50
for his of the drive and total of 81
the $43 raised Office help for the
of the drive is also employed
We have no quarrel with Mr. Walker and do not
criticize the action of the committee for employing him. But
do condemn and challenge the committee to justify it's
ton not telling the truth to the public in its appeals for
We believe that the for which the funds
being raised worthy of by the public but in
that there nothing worthy foolng the public by
connection with the handling Of the funds
the integrity of all concerned in the
effort and upon the campaign itself.
Presumably shall be charged with mudslinging and
perhaps damaging worthy We submit that chan
public information have responsibility to tell the
public truth This intend do at all times And
the responsibility rests the committee and the
managers other drives funds the public
may that conditions similar to this do not exist in other
cities they the people there should know about them
committee for the raising of funds has the right
take attitude what the public doesn't know doesn't
hurt approaches the public be damned" line of
thinking action and the time might when ndg
nant public may say The committee and its campaign be
damned.
Keep these things clean and and aboveboard Keep
the honest and worthy of the for which
they carried
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
MARKET NOW OPEN ON
TURKEYS FOR CIVILIANS

WASHINGTON. - VIA announces
turkey sales to civilians may be re-
sumed, since enough turkeys are on
the way overseas to meet U. S. mill
tary holiday requirements. Turkey
embargo in effect since August 2
made it possible for U. S. armed
forces to buy II million pounds of
turkeys in time for shipment over
seas and part of needs at home.
Overseas needs now are met in full
and good share of domestic military
needs assured.
Entire turkey needs of the armed
forces, totaling approximately 35 mil
lion pounds, represents less than 10
per cent of the total U. S. supply.
The remainder of the supply, ex-
pected to total 445 million pounds,
will be available for civilians.
EDO II has worked successfully
and is being revoked because the goal
is reached Cancellation announce
ment released from Washington Sat
urday at pm. is effective October
rs at 1901 am.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
DAILY PRESS
OvERL 00kS GAIN
OF SOCIALISTS
By DONALD MONTROSE

While the daily press carried great
stories of the republican victories al
the polls this month they overlooked
the victories made by the Socialist
party.
At Bridgeport, Conn, Jasper Nc
Levy, Socialist, was elected mayor for
the sixth consecutive term. 27,335
votes were cast and McLevy received
1885 votes or two thirds of the total,
the democrat received 5,226 and the
republican 1889 votes.
Every Socialist candidate for alder
men were elected and every member
of the common council is a Socialist.
Jasper McLevy, is a Connecticut
Yankee of Scottish ancestry, roofer
by trade and an outstanding member
of organized labor.
In the school board election the So
cialist defeated the only republican
member of the school board and the
membership of the board now is four
democrats to three socialists.
III heduinS, Inc lllH ldrBeSI CITY
in Pennsylvania, ]. Henry Stump, So
cialist was elected mayor by ma
jority of two thousand, and the other
socialist candidates were defeated by
a narrow margin, all the republican
candidates ran third
The Socialists of Reading are in
hopes that they will elect a Socialist
to congress next year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
DR.. KRAMER
EXPERIMENTS
With GRASSES

On the goat-steep sides of Mount
Sentinel, unknown even to those who
look on it daily, are some 20 tiny
gardens. No one of them is larger
than wash-tub. They produce no
bright blossoms, no sweet fruit.
They're as drab as the rest of the
dun mountain which rises out OF the
Montana State University campus,
but for four years they've been get
ting their soils tested, their tempera-
lures taken, their products measured
and recorded. And over ON Water
works hill which provides different
soil and different exposure, there's
similar project afoot.
Every seed planted becomes a mat
ter of record, every Seeding the sub
ject of life history complete with
notations of progress, periodic meas
urements. datum on temperature,
precipitation and insect attack Slow
ly, important data on one of western
Montana's most important native
grasses is being compiled by DR.. Jo-
seph Kramer, assistant professor of
botany at Montana State University.
Native bunch grass = Agropyron
spicatum-is the subject of the study
which occupies DR.. Kramer's spare
time. And native bunch-grass, he
points out, is a natural resource
worthy of study.
Though he depreciates his work as
"just little thing" DR.. Kramer prob
ably would not disagree with the phi
losopher who said of grass at bears
no blazonry of bloom to charm the
senses with fragrance or splendor, but
it's homely hue is more enchanting
than the lily or the rose. 1t yields
no fruit in earth or air and yet, should
its harvest fail for single year,
famine would depopulate the world.
DR.. Kramer's study is not yet COM
pleted, but data already collected
point to some definite conclusions.
Fall planting is much more successful
than spring planting; severity of win
ter seems to have little or no effect
On survival; something more than
normal precipitation, especially dur
ng July and September, is essential
o reproduction, September for germ
nation, July for survival of the year
ing plant; once past the first year,
appears good despite a |
growth so slow that seed bearing does |
not occur before the fourth or fifth |
years, frequently later.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
SILVER BOW LABOR ADVISORY
Committee HOLDS MEETING NOV. 8

with the CLIO and AFL representatives
to that agency They are top men in
their organizations and they meet
daily in Washington. Through them
we have secured the active and effec-
tive cooperation of organized labor
in this country in the vital work of
OPA. There are now about $4,000, 900
organized workers in America max
ing this the largest single group of
consumers in the nation and it is to
their vital interest to save price cell
ings, rationing of food and rent con-
troll. Without these three things the
war effort at home would fail and
the country would be in state of
decentralization.
when therefore, organized labor
takes an active interest in the adj
ministration of OPA and the attaining
of it's detectives, labor is paying itself
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
LEFT HAND
DEALS With
RIGHT HAND
Consolidation of Helena's
Two Daily Papers Means
Little Except Additional
Entries by the ACM Co.'s
Rookkeepers.

News of the consolidation of Hell.
ena's two Anaconda Copper Mining
company's daily papers has been re-
leased, the consolidation to be ef-
fected in the near future. Actually
all that it means from a financial
standpoint for the Record Publishing
Company to take over the Indepen-
dent Publishing Company is the trans
fer on the books of the ACM com
pany, some more or less meaningless
figures and the deal is consummated.
The Record Publishing Company
according to it's last report to the
state, shows capital stock paid in of
$38,945.00 with existing debts" of
s188,376.72 The Independent Pub
fishing Company shows total paid in
capital of $4,000 with existing debts
of $21O,616.30.
| According to the announcement, the
Independent Publishing Company is
being taken over by the Record Pub
fishing Company, including its job
plant and other tangible assets. If
these two institutions were ordinary
(free) business enterprises, it would
be an interesting situation. Here we
would have company with only $685.
945 in paid in capital which certainly
represents all or more than the pres
ent value of it's physical plant, taking
over the physical assets of company
with capital of $4,000 which in turn
might be considered the value of its
tangible assets.
Assuming that the Record Publish
ing Company could dispose of its
physical properties for which it will
Of its paid in capital, then deducting
that amount from its Indebtedness as
of January 1 this year, it would be
short $149,531.72 of being able to quit
square with the world But it never
theless is able to take 1ver physical
plant which may be assumed to be
actually worth $4,000 but with debts
in excess of that figure, amounting
to $135,616.30 Thus this little $685.
945 corporation takes over this $4,000
plant and after liquidation of its pres
ent properties will have assumed,
presumably the load of paying off
debts amounting to a total of $685.
04802 over and above the value of
its physical plant. AID there, chill
dren, it appears. is a rxoblem in high
finance
1t would be interesting to scan the
details on the confidential balance |
sheets of the Anaconda Copper Min |
ing Company and see how much the |
company charges off from their prof
its, exempt from taxation as losses
through the operation of newspapers. |
From the standpoint of the company .
it is probably negligible sum, but
being thrifty it probably takes the
attitude that every little bit helps"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-12
Achievement
OF BRITISH
AGRICUL TURE

/ British farmers are doing vital
war job in cutting down the import
of food and relieving the strain on
shipping to the utmost by bringing
back land to cultivation and improv-
! ing the fertility and output of the
land by the best possible methods of
draining and mechanical farming.
The ploughing-up campaign has
brought 100000 more acres of old
grassland under the plough. This
means three acres under the plough
for every two before. That was pre-
viously considered to be about the
maximum possible achievement, but
still more acres are being ploughed
in 1943
From being 1919 self-sufficient in
| food before the war Britain has now
made herself 1919 self-sufficient This
is an achievement unsurpassed in
agriculture.
The British acreage of wheat, GER
calls and oats had risen in 1912 by
1856, 65.7 and 72% respectively since
the start of the war.
The amount of homegrown cereals
used in the British loaf was greater
by no less than 529o in 1942-43 than
the amount used in 1941-42
British vegetable production was
raised from 100000 tons in 1898 to
nearly 100000 tons in 1871
In 1912 something like S0,000,000
tons of crops were harvested.
Allotments now stand at practically
double the pre-war figure; there are
100000
About 100000 private garden own
ers contribute to the war effort, thus
releasing land for crops which private
individuals can not grow.
Britain now grows her own domes-
tic sugar ration.
In the first six months of 1912
British milk production was 100000
gallons above the average for the first
six months of each pre-war year; this
despite the great increase. in plough
land
The increase in total sales of milk
in England and Wales for the six
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