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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
SENATORS ANNOUNCE
Examinations

Announcements are made by both
Senator Wheeler and Senator Murray
that examinations for entrance to the
military and naval academies will be
held on August 81, 1943 Senator
Wheeler states that those wishing to
apply to take the examinations must
write him not later than July Is. Sen
ator Murray urges all who wish to
apply to write him Immediately for
application blanks which must be
filled in and returned to him by July
21st.
The examinations are open to all
young men between the ages of II
and 81, who are residents of Mon
tana.
Final appointment will be made on
the basis of their standing in the ex-
aminations.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
PRICE CONTROL
DEPENDENT ON
GRADE LABELLING

WASHINGTON While Price Ad
ministrator Brown remains in his self.
imposed stalemate in deciding the
grade labelling issue, the guns sur
rounding the grade labelling front con-
tinue to boom. A shot against grade
labelling has been fired by the newly
created house committee to investi-
gate restrictions on brand names and
newsprint. The committee notified
the OPA chief that hearings on all
Standardization, grading, and produc-
ton restriction orders would begin on
May oath, and requested him to with
hold the effective dates on all such
its Investigations. Meanwhile, much
louder blast for grade labelling was
inadvertently set off by Prentiss
Brown himself when he announced
community prices for foodstuffs, in
Guiding canned goods, for it has since
become apparent to price experts in
OPA that community ceilings for can
ned goods are impossible and unwork-
able without grade labelling.
In asking for the opportunity to
testify before the house committee,
the Cooperative League called upon
Lyle Boren, chairman of
the committee, to begin its investiga-
ton of grade labelling without delay.
out that further postpone
ment of the order will serve the self
ish interests" thus making a commit
tee of congress a tool of these inter-
ests, John Carson, director of the
office of the Cooperative
League, said.
1--WE are sorry, very sorry, that your
on May 5, 1913, urged Prem
tiss M. Brown, OPA administrator, to
defer action on the grade labelling
ordey. OF course it is Mr.. Browns
to administer the law.
He cannot escape from that respon-
,ibility because a legislative commit
ZEE requested him to delay exercise
If his responsibility. But your COM
nittee has acted. We feel your COM
nittee thereby will, inevitably, be
charged with responsibility for delay
ng action on the grade labelling pro-
gram"
The leagues letter to the commit
ZEE was phrased in these strong terms
because of information that it was the
Intention of the committee to first
leal with the hosiery, underwear and
work clothes orders before touching |
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and suspicion and fact that it
is explosive.
AS this is written, the Gillette COM
mittee of the senate is determined to
summon William LETTERS, the rubber
administrator, and permit him another
chance to tell his story. LETTERS ap-
pjeared before the Truman commit
tee. But when his laundering and
threats dissolved into generalities and
sweet-nothings, the rumors and gossip
and suspicion wer only accentuated.
Incidents in the story must be pieced
together to make a mosaic = not a
pretty mosaic.
About four weeks ago, DR.. w. G.
Whitman assistant director of the
Chemicals division of WPB, and John
vents division of WPB, decided to
abandon the plans, already approved,
to build five more alcohol distilleries.
1t was a startling decision. Two of
the distilleries were allotted to coop
eratives. They doomed as an honest
yard-stick on production cost in the
future and hence as a threat to the
ability of the alcohol-oil monopolies to
mulct the consumers.
1t is we'll known in WPB that every
effort was made to discourage the in
dependents from seeking control of
distilleries and then every effort was
made to compel appointment of mo-
nopoly satellites so even an independ-
ent distillery would be under the con-
slant threat of the trust. Those plans
did not bear fruit the independents
insisted on being free. Then the
startling decision to kill off the indie
pendent plants was revealed.
Whitman and Boyer went to Gill
cites office to tell him the story. Gill
cite listened for a short time and then
told Whitman and Boyer they were
wasting time trying to tell him the
story and that they would have to tell
it publicly before the Gillette commit
ttee. They told it to the committee
and Gillette frankly stated his lack OF
confidence in WPB.
Sen. Burton K Wheeler, member of
the Gillette committee, then demanded
that William LETTERS be summoned by |
the committee and Gillette agreed |
Before he could act to convene his |
committee, however, the Truman COM
mittee of the senate summoned JEFF
fers. Truman was not in Washington.
His associates on the committee per-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
REPORT OF WORK
in SUPREME
COURT FOR Week
DEcIosIoNs:

May 17-Edward F. BarteII v. School
Poison Unanimous opinion of the
court written by Chief Justice Howard
A. Johnson.
Facts: Edward Bartet was an on
locker while the high school athletic
coach was coaching a group of boys
how to put the shot At the direc-
ton of the coach Bartell was told to
stand near the place where the shot
would light The coach put the shot
and it struck and injured Bartell who
brought this suit for damages against
the school district. The lower court
held for the school district by sustain
ing demurrer to the complaint.
Held: That the decision of the low
err court was correct; that the school
district was not acting in a proprie--
tory undertaking in this respect and
could not be charged with the active
negligence on the part of the instruc-
tor.
May 19-Burgan & Walker v. The
Highway Commission and others. An
original proceeding arising out of facts
occurring in Lewis and Clark county,
Helena. Unanimous opinion of the
court by Chief Justice Howard A.
Johnson.
Facts: The twenty-eighth legislative
assembly passed an act referring
proposal to the people of the state
to be voted on at an election to be
held June of this year; the act pur-
ported to provide authority for the
issuance of $8,000,000 debenture bonds
to be paid for by gasoline license
tax of cents per gallon. The relator
brought this action contending that
the law was unconstitutional
Held: That the law was so ambigu-
Gus and inconsistent in it's provisions
that it must be declared null, void and
imperative. Among other things the
opinion of the court referred to the
following provisions of the act:
The act provided an appropriation
out of present highway funds for the
purpose of paying for the election.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
review OF
A week OF
The war
By owl
LAST WEEK IN THE WAR

While American land forces were
sweeping back the Japanese on fog
bound Attu island for last-stand
fight on the neck of land between
Holtz bay and Chichagof bay, Ameri-
can air forces roared through the
skies over Europe, Asia and the South
Pacific to deliver crashing blows on
Axis strongholds. The battle for Attu
progressed stubbornly with two Ameri-
can columns forcing their way across
the island from Holtz bay on the
north and Massacre bay on the south.
According to Secretary of War Slim
/ son, American casualties were COM
paratively light up to the time the two
columns joined on the central ridge
for the attack on the main Japanese
positions in the Chicagof bay area.
Secretary Stimson also announced
that several new U. S. army air force
units have recently gone into combat
against Germany from Great Britain.
At a press conference the secretary
declared that the American air Of
fensive against the continent is being
stepped up not only in frequency of
attacks but also in power of individual
raids. He added that large numbers
of the new American fighter plane,
the PAT Thunderbolt, are now en-
gagged in almost daily sorties. He said
the Thunderbolt-a powerful high alti-
tude fighter-was proving highly sat
isfactory in combat.
The net results of the co-ordinated
use OF air power in the Tunisian cam
paign were summarized in a war de-
partment announcement last week. Ac-
cording to the announcement, in the
six months and three days of the Afri-
can campaign the USAAF and the
Raj destroyed 1000 enemy planes
while losing no of their own. In the
first IL days of May alone, the score
was 300 Axis planes downed against
40 Allied planes lost-a ratio of to l.
And from May 7, the announcement
said, the enemy's air strength was al
most at the mercy of the Allies, with
the Axis losing approximately II
planes for every plane the Allies lost
May was the day Tunis and Bizerte
fell to the British First army and the
U. S. second army corps. On that day,
Allied planes flew 2,748 sorties, an
average of almost two a minte for the
"a hours. CA sortie is a single flight |
by one plane.)
But this record of plane against |
plane, impressive as it is, relates only |
a fragment, the war department said |
of the air forces contribution to the |
North African campaign |
in the Axis debacle on |
Cap Bon. The Mediterranean air
command, under Sir Arthur Tedder, |
provided in the Tunisian campaign the |
first lal ge-scale demonstration of the |
'resistlessness" of an aerial striking
force employing all it's capabilities in
an integrated pattern.
AIR DIVISIONS EXPLAINED
Here, in this announcement, the war
department explained the composition
of the Mediterranean air command
and made clear the division of U. S.
air power into the strategic force, the
tactical force, the reconnaissance
wing, the coastal force, the troop car
rier command, the training command,
and the air service command.
The strategic air force cut the enc
my's lines of supply and communica-
lions, which began in Italy and led
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
PEGLER IS
GIVEN FACTS
BY CURRAN

| Joseph Curan, president of the Ma
tional Maritime Union, CLIO, made pub
lie a letter sent to Westbrook Peglel
answering the accusations contained
in the Fair Enough" column of May
| 10, 1913.
The letter follows:
Mr.. Westbrook Pegler
THE WORLD TELEGRAM
125 Barclay Street
New York, N. Y
Dear Sir:
Your column of May 10th which
referred to me contained several mis-
statements of fact as well as many
omissions. | would like to bring
these to your attention, realizing of
course that the probability of their
seeing print is extremely slight.
/. did not ask for deferment. On
the contrary, when | was called to
take my physical l told no one about
it but my secretary. The night | took
my examination | left for the south,
to help get crews for five new Liberty
ships which were then being held up
because manpower was scarce. Dur
ing my absence, the union asked for
my deferment. | informed the union
department which handled this matter
that my draft board should be re-
quested to allow me to sail on the
merchant ships rather than go into
the army, because, in spite of what
you printed in a previous column,
am a skilled seaman and there is a
shortage of them. 1t is my personal
feeling that | could be more useful
at sea. My board, however, felt that
the job of keeping our merchant ships
manned required my presence ashore.
2. You state that our messboys
grab" 500 per week from the govern
ment. This is not true. Messboys
get $3.50 per month, plus 500 per
month while at sea. They receive no
extra pay or bonus while in port Your
statement would indicate the mess
men receive $500 per month. Yet,
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land of the
War Shipping Administration recently
said that merchant seamen average
$57 per week This figure includes
the salaries of officers, which, in
many cases, are two or three times
that of the unlicensed personnel The
true fact is that the messmen, as well
as all unlicensed men, average $33 per
week. They work maximum now at
sea of eight months out of year. In
peacetime they virtually starved work
ing an average of four to six months
a year.
3. Your column is outstanding for
its omissions. You fail to mention
that 4,198 merchant seamen have al
read died in the service of their coun-
try. And, you overlook completely
the fact that the shipowners made
profit of $26,974,176 for 80 trips to
the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with
Lend-Lease supplies.
You also overlook" the fact that
the War Shipping Administration has
given contracts to the shipowners
complete with bonuses and cost-plus
clauses-which relieve them of all re-
sponsibility for delays and poor load |
ing, which have already cost many
lives and cargoes because of this neg
igence. Under their arrangements, |
these shipowners will, just as they did !
in the last war, receive these vessels |
for song.
A. You omit from your column the |
fact that no ship in our Jurisdiction |
mas been delayed from sailing since |
Pearl Harbor, and that some of our
members who have been torpedoed as
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
KILL The KERR
Amendment
in The SENATE

The house of representatives, by a
vote of 31S to 81 this week enacted
an amendment to the Deficiency APP
preparation bill which would deprive
Dr. Robert Morss Lovett, DIR. William
e. Dodd, Jr., and DR.. Goodwin B. Wat
son, of their jobs on the basis of Dies
and Kerr committee charges of mem
bership in "subversive" organizations.
Lovett is government secretary of
the Virgin Islands, Dodd and Watson
are employed by the Federal Com
munications Commission Secretary
of Interior Ickes has announced the
action against Lovett as constitution
al and yesterday went before the SEN
ate appropriations committee to urge
that the amendment be struck out of
the senate version of the appropria-
ton bill.
The FEC has gone to bat against
Kerr and Dies, and has refused to fire
Watson and Dodd.
Rep. Vito Marcantonio, president of
tho International Labor Defense, said
in congress debate on the amend
ment:
1.-THE only thing that Dodd, Watson,
and Lovett have advocated has been
the overthrow of fascism, and this
congress, the senate, and the Presi-
dent of the United States, and 5,000,-
900 soldiers and 13O.0OO,0O0 Americans
today are advocating the overthrow
of the Hitler government, the Musso-
lini government, and the Hirohito gov
eminent by force and violence"
TODAY, wire the senate appropria-
lions committee urging that it drop
the Kerr amendment from the Defi-
ciency Appropriation bill. Wire YOUR
OWN TWO SENATORS urging them
to cast win-the.war vote against the
subversive Kerr amendment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
STATE film
Library In
WIDE USE

Miss Elizabeth Ireland, state super
intendent of public instruction, re
ports that upwards of one hundred
schools have pledged a film each il
lieu of rentals for the 1943-44 schoo
year.
Mr. Harry A. Norton, state super
visor of the film library, states that
the library will contain upwards Of
700 subjects - many of those dupli
Gated in order to facilitate spot book
ings.
The film library, during its two
years of experience, has developed an
extensive service, especially to schools
in small communities.
The large schools have not been
neglected The Helena system, due
to the location of the library, has been
almost completely serviced by spot
bookings from the state films. The
five other first class districts will, as
the stock of films increase, receive
like attention.
In addition to the entire Erpi Ii
brary, the films available to the
schools will include a large number
of subjects that are found by other
film libraries to be in most demand,
and films covering the war in this
and other countries.
The state film library extends serv-
ice to any educational group within
the state. Those receiving a routine
service are asked to deposit film in
lieu of rentals.
The Montana State Library of Wis
ual Aids in Education, is located in
the Department of Public Instruction
in the Capitol, Helena 1t contains
films both sound and silent, which are
considered to be educational. These
films are a powerful ally of the teach
er when used as an integral part of
classroom instruction. The film sur
mounts many barriers to learning and
instruction in many areas
Of the curriculum.
According to Miss Irelands state
ment, a film can be used to introduce
d. initiate a new unit of study, to
1irect attention to selected phases of
an educational unit, to enrich the con-
.ent by opening up related areas for
Investigation, and to review or visual
re the main ideas of subjects already
covered.
Miss Ireland calls the film teach
ng TOOL and she says, GAS such, in
common with all tools, the use of the
lin depends upon the skill of the
person manipulating it."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28

the meeting then will be closed
to the public, a delegation
from Kalispell, members of the
Montana water conservation
board and the state engineer
will participate.
The purpose of the proposed rails
ing of the water level of Flathead
lake is to store and provide additional
water for the Bonneville and Grand
Coulee dams. The proposed high
water level would be reached only
when the flood waters are stored, and
in order to use as much of the Flat
head lake water as can possibly be
secured, the plans involve the dredg-
ing of ten feet deep channel below
the present level of the river bottom
into which the lake empties.
1t is estimated that the raising of
the lake level would flood about 10000
acres of land approximately 1000
acres of which ranks with the richest
agricultural land in the state. More
over, practically all of the highly i'm
proved summer homes and vacation
spots on the lake shores would be des-
troyed. In addition to that, the Som
ers lumber MILL representing an in
vestment of S2,500,000 and now pro-
iucing lumber for the government
needs would be put out of business,
IS would the Dewey lumber mill at
Poison.
The general view is that one of the
scenic spots of the coun-
.ry would be destroyed. AS the waters
are drained out after the high water
period, there would be vast expanses
Of nothing but mud flats.
A protest meeting was held in Kali
spell last night which taxed the ca
lacity of the large hall in which it
vas held. This meeting had been
:alled to crystalline public opinion aft
n discussion of the proposed project
A statewide public meeting will be
leld in Kalispell next Thursday, when
Bonneville dam officials will be pres
mt to explain the plans and to hear
public protests.
The governor of Idaho has an
that the proposal will be OPP
'osed by his state, as well.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
WHAT'S WHAT
In WASHINGTON
CONTRIBUTED

The remarks of Sen A. B. Chandler
in the United States senate with ref
erence to Allied military strategy
have caused widespread comment
| Chandler, never an isolationist, is re-
puted to have expressed the viewpoint
of the high command when he urged
that only a holding battle be fought
in Europe while the bulk of British
and American forces fight Japan.
Chambers disclosure that the Japa-
nese had only $4,000 troops in Burma
while the British had facing them
some 100000 in India came as a sur
prise and shock to most Americans.
1t is at once apparent that the British
have the Japs outnumbered in this
section of the world and one wonders
why something is not done about it.
This column, has, in the past, given
little sympathy to those ex-isolation-
lists who argue that Hitler is no en-
envy and that our forces should be
divided. We have consistently main
tanned that Fascism is a danger that
cannot be killed without a direct
frontal attack of both military and
political nature. However, it must
be admitted that the great gains Jap
an has made in the Pacific area rem
der her extremely vulnerable now be-
fore she has had a chance to com
plete her processes of digging in.
There can be no doubt that Allied
strategy is now at an important cross
roads, and the whole world is await
ing with anxiety the result of the de-
cisions.
The past few weeks have noticed
our nations capitol engulfed in an
other wave of anti-democratic hyste-
ria. The nation, unfortunately, has
been the loser. Congress is again on
a rampage and this time few more
heads have rolled Our liberal repre-
sentatives sat supinely by while these
catastrophe occurrences took place
and hardly one took it upon himself
to defend capable men like Robert
Morse Lovett and DR.. Goodwin Wat
son who were being maligned by pea
nut politicians of the southern reac
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
APPREN TICESHIP
SYSTEM TO BE
ESTABLISHED

Establishment of combination ap-
premiership and high school systems
III every war production area was rec
commended by state apprenticeship di-
rectors from nine states and the ter
r1tory of Hawaii, after a five-day con-
ference held in Washington, Paul v.
McNutt, chairman, war manpower
commission, has announced
This meeting, the first of its kind,
Mr.. McNutt said, was held in the Of
fices of the apprentice training serv-
ice of the bureau of training William
F. Patterson, director, apprentice
training service, was chairman of the
conference.
Mutt other recommendations by the
conference regarding the selection of
persons not now subject to call for
military service, and who may be
trained for all-round skilled work in
war production plants-boys in the 16
and 17-year-old group, men over draft
age, those with dependents or physi-
cally disqualified for combat duty, sol
diers released from military service,
and women. 1t was agreed that ap-
prentices who are 16 and II years old
should be permitted to complete their
high school studies while receiving
their training on the job.
To set up combination apprentice
ship and high school systems, many
of which are already in operation,
close cooperation, it was emphasized
is required among representatives of
state and federal apprenticeship agen-
cies, employers and labor organiza-
lions; state and local school boards;
local vocational and high school Of
ficials, and joint management-labo
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Abandonment OF five
SYNTHETIC RUBBER
III u-AN i ID oil capitol I'm

Hush Order Stops Real Investigation in
Washington Of Action Of WPB in Stopping
To Produce Alcohol for Synthetic Rubber;
ssOiloctopus" Is Supported.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
NOTICE

Complying with a great
number of requests for ad-
ditional copies of the re-
port of the investigation
by a joint committee of
the 18th legislative assem-
bly,, of conditions at the
Warm Springs hospital for
the insane, we are reprint
ing the report in this issue.
Requests for additional
copies of the report, must
be made very soon if they
are to be supplied. The
price will be five cents per
copy, postpaid, while the
supply lasts.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-28
PROPOSED RAISING OF
FLATHEAD WATER Level
BRINGS PUBLIC PROTEST
Federal Engineers Recommendation That
Water Level of Flathead Lake Be Raised IL
Feet Above Present High Water Limit
Arouses Public; Action Would Destroy
Scenic Beauties, Cause Great Property Loss.

With already announced decision to oppose
possible the raising of the water level of Fathead
lake. meeting has been for Tuesday by Gov
Ford with the Army engineers the Bonneville dam adj
minsaion and the Bonneville advisory board for general
the proposed project is understood that while
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-07-22
STOCK CAN BE BOUGHT
THROUGH FSA

SPOKANE. The Farm Security
Administration will buy high-grade
heifers from Coast farmers when
the owners might otherwise slaugh-
ter the animals because Of feed
shortage.
The FSA then will in turn sell
these animals to dairymen who are
interested in getting better dairy
stock.
The animals will be sold at pri J.
vate sales on August IL and anyone
interested should place orders with
the farm security office in Spokane,
Colville. or Deer Park. 1t is under
stood that the animals will be ship
ped to wherever there is a demand,
but that local orders will be given
first consideration.