davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-08-05
2-piece Cotton Dresses, slo7'
We're $29.75

"a Twopece cotton dresses stripes and prints in TAM
blue or wine. Sizes 10 to 20, 38 to a.
Cotton Chambray Dresses green, blue
40 40. Were $35 s2s
100 Printed Cotton Pnafores s7s5 Now
A.95
rs Rayon Jackets Skirts Sacks in blue
Sizes II 90 than y price. Now-------S2 S2.ss
Cotton Knit Jackets in luggage chartese fuchsa
Sizes u to 49, Less than price S9.75
Is Printed Plain Rayon Frock in blue brown lime
color. Sizes II to 49, Were SIG 95 and 1915
W&I--Sportswear Third Floor.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Misses and Women's
Rayon Frocks, $3.50
We're S4.95, $5.o5

" ere S4.9o, Yo.9o
40 Printed Rayons, trim and tailored summer wear
Sizes II to AZ so Misses Cotton Wash Dresses stripes
and prints in sizes II to 20 Were $3.50. Now S75
20 Rayon Maternity Dresses black or wine Broken
sizes. Were S495. Now--------------- s250
W&L-Dcwn Stairs Store, inexpensive Dresses
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Misses Formal
Fashions Reduced

One-of-a-kind and individually Sc
lected fashions for late summer
and early fall wear are offered in
this collection.
> Dinner and Evening Gowns, plain
or printed rayon crepe or chiffon.
Purple. red, aqua, gold-color, light
blue and black. Sizes IL, IA, l8
and 20. Were $69.75 and more
NOW $40
l Light Blue Chiffon Dinner Gown.
beaded basque bodice; size IA. Was
$69.75. Now $50
Dinner and Evening Gowns or
printed rayon chiffon, plain color
rayon lace, rayon crepe and satin in
black with red, black with gold
Others gray, brown or wine. Sizes
IL. Is, l8. Were $l10 and more.
Now - ga
l White Rayon FailIe Dinner Gown.
size 10. Was $40. Now ss3
W&L-The Walnut Room,
Third Floor.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Juniors Cotton Dresses, SIS
Were $3.95

30, dirndl-type. Blue black brown red checks with
rlckrack trim. Junior sizes
25 Cotton Dresses styles drnd
types of striped chambay. yellow
blue; SIS. ---------------
30 Pairs Rayon Sack stitching trimmed yellow, green
blue. Junior -
20 Twopece Summer Suit with basque tops
navy brown or green spun Junior sizes Were $495
Now 81 95
III Chesterfield Suits checked wool Junior Were S29 95
Now
IL Dressmaker Suits wool with gded
and IS. Were $3975.
IL Yellow and Aqua Spring weight Wool Tweed Coats
$2295. - sls95
W&L-Junior Misses Apparel Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Girls Summer
Dresses, s2.9 .9'
Were 1895

rs rayon sharkskin and colored cot
ton organdy styles. Sizes 7, 8, 10.
20 Girls Camp Suits of cotton pop
lin in navy, grey or green. Sizes
IL, IA, Is. Manufacturers close
W&L-DcVn Stairs Store,
Girls Apparel.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
LeatherHandbags'I.'
Were 81 and more

% of novelty grain cowhide,
brown or navy with frame tops.
Small sizes make them convenient
to carry.
W&L~Down Stairs Store,
Handbags.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Shantung-weave Rayon
Dresses, SOS We're s1,.95

Is, in two-piece styles: dotted black. navy brown
copen or green. Sizes 38 to A; 1872 to 2412.
W8L-Inexpensive Dresses Third Floor.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Women's Afternoon
Dresses Reduced

This collection includes rayon crepes and chif-
fonS, plain or printed in one and two piece
styles. Blue, green, red, black, brown or navy
Sizes 1412 to 241a and 16 to A.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
ChiIdren's Apparel

200 pieces including Baby Boy suits,
cotton chambray overalls, inner
and-outer shirts. Sizes ! to in
the group.
20 White Cotton Gabardine Sailor
Suits, navy blue sailor collar on
regular double-breasted jacket with
metal buttons-long pants. Sizes
4, 6, 8. Less than Y price. Now Sl.50
W&L-Down Stairs Store,
Juveniles Apparel.
Evening star., 1943-08-05
Juniors Dresses and
TopPers, '3.9'
Maternity Costume
Slips, SIS

Manufacturers seconds
so 2-button adjustable styles that
wrap comfortably in back OF wash
able rayon crepe in tearose or white.
Sizes 80 to A.
W&L-Down Stairs Store,
Underwear.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07

compel the state officials to
declare the existence of an
emergency and supply addi-
tional funds for the operation
of the institution up to the end
of the present fiscal year, June
Both.
The court held that ut is impossi-
BILE to hold that the present situation
is the result of an emergency unfore-
seen and unanticipated by the 1943
legislature for a request was made
of 1t by the proper authorities for the
necessary funds to meet this exact
situation and the legislature had full
opportunity to provide for the need.
Furthermore, while the report of the
joint investigating committee related
mainly to the more permanent situa-
ton presented by practically worth
less land, obsolete physical plant, In
sufficient toilet and sanitary facilities
for the inmates, and generally made
quate equipment, it pointedly referred
also to the Immediately serious lack
of sufficient doctors, attendants and
employees, the insufficient salaries
paid most of the staff, and the pitt
fully inadequate sum of 60 cents per
meal upon which the inmates were
then being maintained to the best
of the staff's ability"
1t was held that it was immaterial
that the emergency may have arisen
since the original appropriation for
the niennium by the 1941 legislative
assembly. The material point is that
the emergency justifying the extra ex-
penditure must have arisen since the
legislature had its last opportunity to
provide for it by a specific appropri-
alton, which was manifestly at the
legislative session of 1943" It de-
clares that with full knowledge of
the facts, the legislature nevertheless
to make the appropriation"
In closing the opinion written by
Chief Justice Johnson, says: ut is
suggested that some relief should be
devised by this court because none
can be had otherwise except through
4 special session of the legislature,
which would cost money, and would
Do contingent upon the legislative
will. However, free peoples have de-
ermined representative government
to government by arbitrary
have considered the cost
worth paying, and in final analysis
Continued on Page Eour)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
MURRAY GETS
Mine ROADS
FOR MONTANA

WASHINGTON Persistent efforts
| by Senator James E. Murray to OBJ
tain access roads opening up the
small Independent mine operations of
Montana have resulted in the expendi-
ture of approximately 100000 for
that purpose during the past year. A
total of 29 such roads have been built
by the federal agencies, Senator Muir
ray said.
while there are still a number of
roads to be built in Montana that have
been surveyed and approved by the
various agencies engaged in this pro
gram, l am glad to see that results
up to the present time are satisfac-
tory" Senator Murray said. 'There
is now pending a bill to make addi-
tional funds available for the con-
struction of access roads, and / am
working for its passage as it has been
most helpful in developing the min
eral resources of Montana and other
western states"
The largest item in the road build
ing program was the construction of
two highways to open up the chrome
mines in Saltwater county-a total of
$3.50, 900 being expended for that pur
nose
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
ASK PRESIDENT
TO veto BILL TO
freeze PE0NAGE

Many labor and negro organizations
are asking the President to veto H.
]. Res. SO. a bill which, under guise
of providing $26,0OO,OO0, for a land
army, at the same time freezes labor
to the farm in such a way as to per-
petuate peonage conditions Agricul-
tural labor leaders point out the bill
would accomplish little good much
harm. 1t has been passed by both
house and senate.
A specialist in agricultural labor
problems provides the l. L. d. Service
with the following analysis of the
bill: ut requires that worker on a
farm get written permission from his
county agent before moving from one
farm to another, even though the
farms are in the same county. The
farm bloc cut out funds which would
have allowed Farm Security Admin
istration to transport workers to areas
Of shortage and to areas growing es-
sential crops; also funds which would
have allowed FSA to train farm work
ers for jobs on essential war crops.
"The whole effect of turning over
the farm labor job to the extension
service, which in most states is under
the domination of the farm bloc
Farm Bureau is to freeze workers
where they are, particularly those
low-paid workers on surplus cotton
and tobacco who should be released
to find better-paying jobs on essen
tial war crops 1t freezes existing
peonage conditions by making it il
legal for a worker to move without |
the written consent of the county |
agent who in the south is the stooge |
of the cotton planters. In addition to
the funds going to the extension serv-
ice, which functions only within the
county and therefore cannot move |
from one county to another,
the bill provides some funds for NOV
ing workers from the Bahamas, Puer
to Rico, and Mexico to the United |
States.
But with only one-third Of our farm
now being utilized on es-
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
GRAIN PRICES
remain STEADY
PAST week

Grain prices were about unchanged
but presented a firm stand during the
week ended April 80, according to the
Department of Agriculture. General
run of the market news was mainly
a repetition of what has gone on dur
ing recent weeks but the heavy in
roads being steadily made into re-
serve stocks of all grains was given
more attention. The rapid disappear
ance of wheat especially was of prom
inent interest as traders saw the huge
wheat supplies being actively reduced
by the tremendous call which pre-
vailed for feed purposes. Wheat
prices dipped slightly at the close of
the week when import quotas on Ca
madam wheat and flour to the United
States were revised but steadied
quickly after only fractional declines.
Feed grains traded within a steady
and about unchanged range during the
week while flax was unsettled and
showed minor declines.
PART Yand FARM PRICES: Par
ity prices for grains as of April Is
were calculated and announced as fol-
lows: wheat, 1882; corn, 1910; oats,
GAG; barley, 1908; rye, 1865; and
flax, 274.0. Farm prices for that same
date we're: wheat, 1928; corn, 1902;
oats, Gil; barley, 773; rye, 69.5; and
flax, 1880
WHEAT: There was no marked
change in the condition of winter
wheat during the last week in April
with cool weather still retarding
growth in the Ohio valley where the
condition varied from poor to good !
The crop is now stooling heavily in |
Missouri and advanced fields are |
ointing in many areas in Kansas. |
Wheat made good growth in Texas
where soil moisture was sufficient |
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
BUTTE TEACHERS UNION
PURCHASES $1,000 BOND

The members of the Butte Teach
ers' Union voted at recent meeting
to purchase another War Bond, in
the amount of 100000. In addition
to the bonds purchased through the
organization, the teachers, principals,
and other employees of the Butte
school district have 1919 or more de-
Quoted from their pay each month for
the purchase of bonds. To help put
the present drive over the top, many
teachers purchased bonds in addition
to those deducted from their pay. Not
long ago the Butte Teachers Union
purchased a $4,000 War Bond. The
members feel that every available dol
lar should be invested to help promote
the war effort.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
RESPONSIBILITY
OF CITIZENS TO
War EFFORT
McMurphy Discusses Need
OF Recognition by Workers
OF Fascist Forces and Their
Responsibility as Producers
Before Butte Audience.

| Speaking before the large audience
attending the War Mobilization meet.
ing held in Butte on April 2S, William
McMurphy discussed the attitude of
citizens toward the war, and declared
chat the working people of Butte
are not yet in the war" and stated
that it was because of failure to keep
themselves informed. I'm a world
where countless thousands are giving
everything, including their lives in
the fight for freedom, how can we say
that we are meeting our responsibility
when we do not even send a
word of greeting or give our political
support to correct war policies?"
Mr.. McMurphy flatly charged that
appeasers and fifth columnists were
present everywhere in the country;
that there were American Quislings
in Butte and every locality; that they
could be recognized by their actions
and their words. Their program, he
declared was the Axis program of
effort ito keep America divided and
confused to have us fighting
among ourselves with blacks pitted
against whites, Jews against Gentiles,
Firms against Slavs, males against
females, Protestants against Catho-
lies They would like to see a civil
war between labor and capital, or be-
tween ALL and CLIO. In this way,
the Axis can divide and conquer"
He stated that rule number two in
the Quisling book is to get the people
mad at their government; stir up
discomfort against such common sense
things as the draft, rationing, price
controls, wage sterilization and other
absolutely essential to war
Do we have such fifth
in Montana? The ACM
Company controls almost the entire
press of the state and this press is |
Has 1t ever sup |
ported President Roosevelt or called |
or second front?
The use of the DOGGY of commun |
SIN" as an offensive weapon of the |
Axis was discussed by Mr.. McMur-
)hy; it's use by Hitler was told, re-
the setting up of the puppet |
franco in Spain, fascist govern
nent in Finland, it's use as a threat |
o COW the British at Munich. He
:alled attention to thu fact that the
helped The republican |
in Spain; fought against
Hitler in Germany and against Mus
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
N. (. A. SPONSORS
CONFERENCE With
GROUPS

For the first time in the history OF
the United States. representatives of
the American Federation of Labor,
the CLIO, the National Education Asso-
citation, and the American Federation
of Teachers met in Washington, ID. G.
on March Is to discuss educational
problems. The meeting, which was
held in the conference room of the
N. E. A. building in Washington, was
promoted by the N. E. A. for the
purpose of securing labor support in
solving immediate problems facing
education in the present crisis.
Mr.. Matthew Vol, chairman of the
permanent education committee of
the American Federation of Labor,
made clear at the beginning of the
that the group did not repre-
sent joint committee of the N. d. A.
and organized labor, but merely con-
ference made up of the representa-
tives who had responded to an invita-
ton from the ~ %. A. to attend
to discuss mutual problems.
Mr.. Vol pointed out that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor would be
glad to confer with the N. e. A. and
take back to its own committee on
education for consideration any pro-
Dosals which they, the N. E. A. de-
sired to make. Upon this basis the
group proceeded informally to discuss
educational problems = in
Guiding child labor, teacher shortage,
md federal aid to education. Both
he AFL bill, II. r. 2160, and the N.
.. A. bill S. B. 637, were analysed by
members of the conference After |
both bills, the conference
greed to appoint subcommittee to
combine the two bills in such a way |
IS to retain the best features of both |
IN the problem of child labor, which |
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
FREIGHT RATES
keep SOUTH
In BONDAGE

Discriminatory freight rates are
keeping the south in economic bond
age, writes David Very in an article
in The Southern Patriot, published by
the Couthern Conference for Human
Welfare, which appeared last week
Largely because of unfavorable freight
rates, says Mr.. Very, the south must
and is forced to function as "colo-
NAL dependency"
A region or a nation, continues Mr.
| Very, with rev material economy
generally is poor and will be poorer,
because it will be exhausting its
wealth of natural resources and not
getting enough in return to make up
for it.
The eastern states, according to
Very, those north of the Ohio and the
Potomac, and east of the Mississippi,
with 81 per cent of the population do
about II per cent of the manufacture
ing, and receive for their efforts about
rs per cent of the nations cash in
come.
Only by doing its own processing,
Very states, can the south radically
increase its income. But the hitch is
freight rates, a subject much dis
cussed but little understood.
There are two kinds of rates: com
modify and class rates. Commodity
rates generally apply to raw materials
and class rates to manufactured arti-
cles. Glass rates are relatively low
in the east, or official territory, and
high in the south. For example: A
shoe manufacturer in Birmingham,
Alabama, who wishes to sell his shoes
in Pittsburg will find that it costs
him more to ship his shoes 600 miles,
chiefly through southern territory,
than it costs his eastern competitor,
also 600 miles from Pittsburg.
This kind of of discrimination just
described is angular and much more
than parallel discrimina-
ton. Most people in speaking of the
freight problem have parallel discrim-
nation in mind, permitting box of
apples to be shipped from Chicago to
Memphis for less than it cost to ship
them from Memphis to Chicago. This
kind Of discrimination, writes Mr..
Very, is annoying and unreasonable
but relatively unimportant.
Cases 2S3O0 and 2S310 now pending
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission can change southern history
not receiving much atten-
ton from the press, these cases if |
decided as they should be could lift |
the south out of its semi-colonial sta
Ius. They are infinitely more import |
ant than the Southern Governors case |
known officially as State of Alabama
v New York Central Railroad which |
was decided favorably for the south.
The present cases or investigations
we're started by the ice itself after
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
DIES TO PROBE
confidential
WAR DATA

The New York Sun, which has pre-
viously acted as unofficial mouth
piece for the Dies committee, says
that the un-American group is con-
Quoting an investigation of the per-
sonnet of the Office of War Informa-
ton, and of it's work. Two long dis
patches indicated that what Dies is
after is access to the confidential re-
ports and files on the basis of which
OWL prepares material for short-wav-
ing and other means of communities
ton with the peoples of the occupied
countries. The unofficial report
claims as a basis for this ''investiga-
ton" an estimate by Officials" that
at least one out of seven employees
of OWL have "un-American connec-
tons" The Chicago Tribune comes
out in support of Dies with the charge
that there are 3,641 draft-dodgers in
OWL (Elmer Davis, director of Owl
has said this is about the total num-
Der of Owl employees, that about half
of them are women, and some OF the
men at least over draft age.)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
review OF
A week OF
The war
BY Owl

Allied forces in Tunisia have taker
most of the important hills protecting
the way into the coastal plain around
| Tunis in a full-scale offensive tha
has brought the British about 20 miles
from Tunis The British Eighth Army
has advanced from the south against
stiff resistance, and the Americans
have come within 25 miles of Bizerte
Thousands of land mines planted by
the retreating Germans were cleared
by United States forces as they cap
tured Sidi Nsir.
The battle line which stretched
| from Djebel Dardyss on the north,
where the Americans took three hills.
to Djebel Mdeker in the south, was
rapidly contracting as the Axis armies
|retreated under the heavy infantry
and tank attacks of American. British
and French troops. Although there
are no signs of collapse, the enemy
has been forced to make Withdrawals
from his most heavily fortified posi-
lions, and the Allies have kept up de-
structive air raids on troop co1lcentra-
lions and ammunition dumps behind
the enemy's lines. In a spectacular
battle, allied aircraft intercepted
convoy of 20 huge Merseburg-323
transports each capable of carrying
120 men and shot down all of them.
General Eisenhower's headquarters
reported that Axis losses in Tunisia
from January 1 to April Is included:
$4,000 killed, wounded or captured;
$50 tanks, 5000 vehicles and 425 guns
destroyed or captured; 1,754 planes
destroyed, 27S probably destroyed, and
5S6 damaged total of 2,618 put out
of action. Losses at sea were also
great It was reported that single
United Nations submarine flotilla had
sunk IS Axis ships in the Mediter-
ranean since November s.
In the Pacific
Canadian airmen joined Americans
in raids on Kiska, strong outpost of
the Japanese, which was bombed 142
times in April. The largest of the
Ellice Islands, Funafuti, has been oc-
cupied by United States forces. 1t
is about $50 miles south of the Gil
bert group, where the Japanese have
heavy Notifications. Date of the oc-
cupation was not revealed, although |
it was announced that the Marines |
had taken the island without resist
ance.
Chungking declared the Japanese
have used poison gas against Chinese
troops in one sector, and that the |
Japanese had advanced as far as Yu-
in Southeastern Shansi.
Other Developments
The Polish cabinet, meeting in Lon
Ion, drafted reply to Russia which
vas couched in moderate language
md left the way clear for the British
md Americans to attempt to restore
normal relations between the Soviets
md the Polish government in exile.
Russia suspended diplomatic relations
With Premier Sikorskis government
,ver German propaganda story that
he Reds had executed 10000 Polish
,fficers.
Saboteurs are active in Europe.
Norwegian patriots blew up four ships
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-07
Stu TO FIGHT
FOR REPEAL
OF LABOR Law

The Southern Tenant Farmers Un
ion plans a campaign to secure the
repeal of provisions in a law just
adopted by congress which prohibits
the federal government from trans
porting farm workers out of county
without each worker having the writ
ten consent of the county agricultural
agent
This announcement was made by FL.
L. Mitchell, general secretary of the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, fol-
lowing a conference here in Memphis
April 26 and 81 of agricultural extern
sion agents from IL southern states.
The extension agents discussed plans
for importing into the United States
$4,000 Mexican, 10000 jamaican, and
5000 Bahaman farm workers as well
as the organization of land army to
be composed of 100000 women and
children from the cities.
Mitchell said, "There are hundreds
of thousands of sharecroppers and
farm laborers in the cotton south who
employed only to months year
whom the federal government will be
forbidden to transfer to other areas
for seasonal employment under the
terms of H. ]. Res. SO appropriating
26 million dollars for supplying labor
needs on the nations farms. The
county agents have the right under
the law to rfeuse to permit the U. S.
government to transport any of these
workers out of their home county.
We know that there isn't county
agent in the south who will admit
that there is surplus of farm work
ers in his county. This law with gas
and tire rationing now in effect in
our opinion constitutes virtual peon-
age and is a violation of the 18th
of the Constitution of the
United tSates which abolished slav-
cry"
1t was also revealed that the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union had sub
mitted to Chester Davis, Food Admin
list of 1920 farm workers
available for immediate transporta- |
lion to other areas and had pledged |
10 raise volunteer force of 10000 ex-
)erienced farm workers here in the
south. Mitchell said that he con-
erred in Washington 10 days ago |
With Col Jay L. Taylor, Deputy Food |
who held out no hope |
or the use of the unemployed south
srners.
Meanwhile the agricultural labor
administration which is directed by |
Col Taylor is bringing in Bahaman
workers from Nassau to Florida by
Pan American transport planes. These
Continued on Page FOUR