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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
OPINIONS OF
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Clyde Park, Mont, May 16, 1914
The People Voice,
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr. Bruce:
I've been forgetting to renew for some
time now, been aiming to send check
and here it is, sir. l finally realize
the average man must keep these pro-
gressive papers going and l know
money is fighting you to stand still.
They fully aim to ruin this country
one way or another. They don't want.
the poor man to have any say what
ever, but by hell, we will show them
whose dog name is Ring, our boys
fights for them and their dollars and
those boys are going to run this coun-
try when they come back. Makes no
diff what they think or say, I know
their heads are swelled but that's a
good sign of fool. So more power
to you Bruce. Hew to the line and
let them squirm, it will help their
digestion, the dollar lovers. I'm for
honesty all the way.
Respectfully,
H. RICHARDSON
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
Whitefish, Mont, May II, 1914

Whitefish, Mont, May II, 1914
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed please find a check for
Two and no hundreds dollars $4,000
for which please send the best little
paper printed in Montana, The Peo-
pies Voice to Mr.. Ed. Fense, P. o.
Box 80, Whitefish, Mont He has
been wanting the paper for some time
but has been too busy and neglected
it SO I gave him my last two papers,
SO he gave me the $500 to send in
for him, he is good scout and thinks
that The Peoples Voice should have a
million or more readers and support
ers so as to straighten out this
crooked insane rotten system.
With best wishes, l am as ever
yours,
J. P CAVANAUGH.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
Judge Your Man by Past Performances

When President Roosevelt warned in 1887 that
faced with the prospect of and urged prepare
that being stronger might escape he called
Events proved the President right his
wrong.
When the President called for the
warpanes year his critics shrieked crazy they
maintained it could not be done
One of the critics who affirmed was impossible to pro-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
RATIoNs FOR ExPEcTANT
MOTHEPC

Special ration books are issued to
expectant mothers in Great Britain
to buy oranges, meta, milk, eggs and
vitamin concentrates, in addition to
their regular rations, the British In
formation Services report. Clothing
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
WORKERS FOR ALASKA
SAL MON Rim

Natives of the Aleutian islands, In
dams from as far north as the Arctic
Circle, Filipinos and Asiatics have
been recruited to handle this years
Alask asalmon run, the War Man
power Commission reports.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
AUssIEs' .AUsTERITY CAMPAIGN,

The first Yanks arriving in Aus
tralia found in operation the "Auster-
ity Campaign" the Australian News
and Information Bureau says. Austen
ity was described as growing veget-
ables in strips of gardens, in tubs and
window boxes. as having no canned
foods except a few meats, no fancy
bread, no jelly, four gallons of gaso-
line month, no wrapping paper, no
matted milk, no chocolate candy, no
spices, and rationed tea, sugar and
clothes
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
From the MissouIa Sentinel,
Nav 20, 1914:

From the MissouIa Sentinel,
May 20, 1914:
ut has been limited that the re-
moval of points on practically all
meats was due to the administration S
faux pas in the Montgomery Ward
case. 1t is well known that the Amer
lean people, at least some of them,
like to be fooled, some of them all
the time"
Comment by knut Knutson:
Bravo, Shakespeare-Hol The
keenness of your reasoning is sur
passed only by the charm of your
English style.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26

communist doctrines we shall have to
fire the wicked old crackpot.
1t is true that all men are brothers.
However, it is only part of the truth.
What Our Lord really had in mind
was that we were to be the elder
brother who inherits the earth The
rest of you were only intended to be
our poor relations. This is worth re-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26

list 1t. Michael G. Chiffon, Marine
fighter pilot, son of Mr.. and Mrs. j..
G. Chiffon of $50 HiIlsdale, Helena,
is shown in the cockpit of his plane
in the South Pacific. He has made
numerous fighter sweeps and strikes
into enemy territory, and has been
awarded the Air Medal. Lieutenant
Chiffon attended Carroll college before
joining the Marine Corps.
Evening star., 1944-04-27

Laba," by Lord Dunsany. famed
Irish playwright, had been produced
on the London stage 20 years ago
In it a man receives tomorrow's
paper, reads his own obituary and
drops dead.
Although the story was only re-
motely similar, Capra's lawyers
started a search for Dunsany, who
was reported teaching at the Uni
versity of Athens in Greece. Their
cable arrived in Athens the day the
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National - "Blithe Spirit: $3.50
pm.
Capitol-"Tampico": II am, 1:45,
4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, 1886, 6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Columbia in the Dark:
11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, ITO and 9:35
pm.
Earle-"No Time for Love-: HOS
am, LAS, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1:05, $50, 6:35 and
9:15 pm.
Keith's-'Up in Arms: 11:15
am, 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 1928 and $3.50
pm.
Little-"Suspicion": II am, ITO,
3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Shine On, Harvest
Moon: II am, 1885, AIS, 6:55 and
9:35 pm.
Palace-"See Here, Private Har-
grove: 10:45 am, 1855, 3:05, $40
7:30 and Gas pm.
Pix-"The Devil is an Empress:
2, 4:45, 7:25 and 1905 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-04-27

Washington Municipal Theater and
will not require any financial as
sistance from the District Govern
ment."
X X II
Furthermore: The Bill Powell
who plays Burke, one of the heftiel
roles in "See Here, Private Har-
grove" which opens today at the
Palace. is a Washington product
If he looks like some one you
have seen before, think back tc
productions at Western High School,
and George Washington University
:. He acted as student at both
schools .. The soldiers who knew
Evening star., 1944-04-27

most Of the answers in the in
formal movie quiz popped at the
Stage Door Canteen the other night
should have known them One
was Bob Cowan, brother to Lester,
the movie producer The other
was Spires Skouras, jr., also a mo-
ton picture magnate, and copro-
ducer with the Theater Guild of the
best foreign play of the season,
"Jacobowsky and the Colonel" q. j..
Neither, however, got the answer
to the prize-winning question
After its week here, beginning May
g, Katharine Cornell's Lovers and
Friends" will go straight to Chicago
-. The National, incidentally, will
be seldom dark this summer {.
Maybe not dark at all.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Capra Got His Story
After Long Pursuit
HOIL,YwOOT

HOLLYWOOD.
The story behind the story of
Rene Clair's ut Happened Tomor-
row" has movie plot of its own.
The original tale of a young
lnewspaperman who receives tomor-
rows newspaper today was au-
thored by Hugh Wedlock and How
ard Snyder and purchased by
Frank Capra.
So unusual was the story that
Capra had his attorneys check to
discover if any similar story had
ever been written. They found that
"a one-act play, The Jest of Haha
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Municipal Theater for D. C.
Leaves Its Long Dream Phase
BY JAY CARMODY.

Washngon municipal theater counterpart of St.
Municipal
other similar projects taking today
prominent citizens committee with the blessings
100000 whipped
Evening star., 1944-04-27

Germans marched in. Dunsany had
fed.
The search followed from country
to country, ending in Cairo, where
Dunsany was found and the rights
to the play purchased.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Like a Gypsy

She is like a gypsy with her
love for pretty things, desire
and flare for jewelry and gay
colors. Nearly every one in
Hollywood felt she would marry
a rich man so she could have
all the material things in life
the houses, the clothes, the
furs and the jewels.
That's why my story. the
first published of their plans TO
marry, created so much eX-
element. But Paulette never
doubted In her mind that
Burgess was the one. He has
something of the gamin about
him, too. He loves to laugh and
play, and cares little for the
things money can buy.
Perhaps Paulette has had her
fill of jewelry and palatial
homes. Besides, she can earn
a big income-her salary is as
much as a captain of industry
earns, or a highly paid execu-
tive. When l mentioned that
she had chosen a captain, whose
pay is small, she said:
But he IL such n fine actor
and when the war IL over he
will do big things"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Gives Song and Dance

This is because Donalds APP
peal is largely to the bobby
socks brigade, and a girl has to
be 20 years old before she can
join up. So he packs the audi
forum with teen age young
sters and after he has RECALLED
them with song and dance urges
them to work on their older
sisters and friends.
"You can see that this method
Is n little Indirect" he said, land
1 would really like to address
the older girls personally. But
those kids have a lot OF en-
thusiasm and / know they pass
the good word along. Person
ally, I don't see why any eligible
girl would have TO be urged to
join the air WACs, because II IL
n swell branch of the service"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Complete Reversal

As frank as she always was
secretive about her marriage TO
Chaplin, the place. the incidents,
ct cetera, she told me all about
the ceremony that took place
two weeks ago in the Selznick
garden.
There were only seven people
present." she said, land Chap
lain Stanley Brown used the
love, honor and obey service"
/ must have looked my sur
prise because Paulette said:
"Oh, yes, obey was In the
ceremony, too"
She then went on 10 say a
private drove the chaplain to
the SelZnick home.
Guess what his name was?"
Paulette asked. 'Tt was Love,
and we invited him to come In
and attend our marriage. After
1t was all over, little Jeffrey,
the David Selznicks' elder son,
said, 'Paulette, this Is the incest
Sunday 1 ever spent"
Paulette has always been an
enigma TO me. She has, l think,
as fine instincts as any actress
in Hollywood. but there is
something of the gamin in her.
A side that Charlie Chaplin, for
all his worldly wisdom, never
understood.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Zilpha Marie Poll
lnterlochen. Pupil

DR.. JOSEPH f. MADDY,
president and director of the
National Music Camp at Inter-
lochen. announces that. Zilpha
Marie Poll, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Poll, has been chosen
to be a member Of the camp for
the 1914 season.
The seventeenth annual sea-
son at Interlochen opens July 2
and continues eight weeks, end
ing Aug. II. All musical campers
will be under direction of such
artists as Percy Granger, Ferde
Grofe, Gustave Langenus,
George Rasely, Willard Taylor.
Maynard Klein. Walter Welke
and others.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Like a Vacation

Donald says his service in the
air corps so far has seemed
practically like a vacation after
making seven consecutive pic
lures at Universal without a
breather before he entered last
February. After the public sees
This Is the Life" his current
film. the studio has three more
of his pictures to release. Be-
cause of this, Donald will be
able to keep his fans happy for,
months to come while he goes
on serving his country.
AS for the act Donald stages
in the WAC drive, he first sings
couple of numbers, Line Up
and Sign Up" and "A Twelve
Hour Pass, Gallon of Gas and
You" Ard then. after several
dance numbers, and a serious
talk from 1t. Richard Fisher,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Won't Miss Trip

"WeIl both have our work."
she continued, land we are going
to try our best 10 make q 20 OF
our marriage
One thing that irked her was
remark some one had made
that she wouldn't even take
time from her work TO have a
honeymoon.
"Why. we would rather be
here In our home than any
where else" she said. Burgess
has been away for so long and
80 have !. and where could we
be happier N
The only cloud now is the
thought he will soon leave for
the European theater of war,
where he is stationed. But.
he'll come back and maybe il
won't be too long. We, along
with Burgess and Paulette,
hope and pray it won't be so
long.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Pvt. Donald O'Connor,
Recrui+er. Appeals
TO Bobby Sox Brigade
HOLLYWOOD. June 3.


DVT. DONALD O'CONNOR
= admits he is no matinee
idol, but his superior officers
pass the word along to this
writer that he is doing right
handsomely recruiting air WACs
for the Air Transport Com
mand.
Stationed at Long Beach,
Cal, Donald gives on the aver
age of two shows a night in the
Los Angeles area, doing his bit
to stimulate enlistments in
Uncle Sans current drive to
annex 5000 young ladies in the
air WACs.
For the first time" he told
me, II have had to use some
subtlety i'm my work."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04

"Oh, I knew we would get
married as soon As ne had time
of, but / was never sure when
he could get leave.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04

"The big audience Sunday
laughed about as hard as an
audience can laugh; laughed
with extravagant fervor."
RnsseH MeLaHebiis, Neus
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Around the Sets Of Mouedom

Donald leads a conga chain
right down through the audi
ence, picking out likely looking
enlistees on his way TO the re-
cruiting booths in the lobby of
the theater.
The ex-actor is also pleased
with the fact that he was sta
toned at Long Beach. This
enables him to see his bride of
few months more often. AS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04

soon as Mrs. OConnor is gradu-
ated from Los Angeles High
School in June she's going TO
move to Long Beach and make
a home for him.
But right now Donald is re-
serving all his enthusiasm for
those air WAC recruits, and is
eager to convince the feminine
civilians that they won't regret
it If they try on a pair of wings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
O. p arson,
IN HOLLYWOOD
PauIette's Marriage TO Burgess Meredith
Brinqs Out New Side in Secretive Star
HOLLYWOOD, June 8.

O
ten
or real Paulete
Blu
reerv S
&c 4 isHg o
did asked Taet Who
sill about he o in %
and MeddngM thou eseNat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Then She Knew

Then, after i went overseas
knew when came back
nothing would keep me from
marrying Buzz. After all, IL
wasn't n sudden thing. We had
known each other three years
and had seen each other daily
when he was In town for the
last two years"
Paulette's captain. who says
he still cannot believe his good
luck, added his word to our
conversation.
you see" he told me, "all
her defenses were down, 30 1
just moved In. 1 asked her to
marry me so long ago, and /
kept hoping she would ssys'Yes,'
and finally she did"
ITS the first religious service
either of us ever had In any
marriage--and i think it's i'm
portant to have such n cere-
mony," said Paulette.
This, from sophi icated
Paulette. who has never been
sentimental and who has always
laughed and kidded. was a sur
prise. TO put it mildly.
1 didn't have to ask her about
her wedding TO Burgess, which
was so private not even the
press boys from Paramount
were there. She was dying to
tell me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28

practically immediate-the legally
named burgomeister will simply be
reinstalled in Office as If nothing had
happened-or, if he cannot be
found, the second in authority and
so on down the line. There will
be no recognition of any break Il
local government due to the four
year interim.
The Belgian government recog-
nizes without question that during
a period of military emergency in
any part of the country following
the entry of liberation forces local
authority will be vested in the COM
mander in chief. But it also is rec
ognized that there will be no dis
position to exercise such authority
an instant longer than is absolutely
necessary and agreements have been
entered into with the Allied COM
mand to this effect.
If it is necessary for liberating
army to enter Belgium it will be
accompanied by Belgian military
mission headed by a high ranking
officer, a former cabinet minister
who himself spent a long time I'M
der German rule and Is intimately
familiar with local situations. He
Will attend to restoring to Office the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28

With Antwerp IL boroughs have
been aglomerated, making a city OF
more than a half million.
These changes, of course, will not
be recognized. The burgomeister of
each city and each suburban bor-
ough will instantly be restored to
office, to carry on as before-if he
can be found. 1t is known, for ex-
ample, that both the Antwerp and
BRUSSELS burgomeisters are hostages
in Germany and that their places
are held by out-and-out Nazis.
See Serious Problems.
The ministry of the interior rec
ognizes, however, that 1t will have
some extraordinarily difficult prob
lens. Perhaps the greatest will be
that of resettling refugees in their
homes in short time. Many thou
stands already have been evacuated
from the coastal areas. There are
nearly 800, 900 hostages and workers
in Germany. Vast numbers of
others may be expected to quit their
homes in the fore of an advancing
army. The problem is likely to be
that of handling millions of people
under difficult circumstances.
In 1910, it was explained, approx
mately 2,000. 000-or a quarter the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28
Belgium Is Reported
Able 10 Stand by Self
When Given Freedom
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

LONDON (By MaiD AS soon as
Belgium is delivered from the crush
ing heel of Germany with a sue
cessful Allied invasion Of the con-
tinent, its institutions of orderly,
democratic government will come to
life Immediately and essentially in
tact.
-Four years of the most brutal
Nazi occupation have not essentially
damaged these institutions and the
problem should be one of the SIM
piest with which the civil affairs
organization of the Allied armies
will be called upon to deal.
Behind all this lies remark
able story told me by the king
dom's Minister of the Interior, A. E.
de Schryver-the manner in which
the Belgian government in London
has functioned throughout the &C.
cupation. 1t never has been, M. de
Schryver explains, "a government in
exile" 1t has been able to keep in
almost as close touch with the peo-
pie most of the time as if it actually
had been functioning from the gov
eminent buildings in Brussels and
of late it has handled a great many
communications each week from all
parts of the country. There is
hardly village in the land of which
the Ministry of the Interior has not
fairly complete, up-to-date details.
Situation Simplified.
The situation is greatly simplified
by provision of the constitution
delegating the powers of the King
to the cabinet when he is, for any
reason, incompetent to exercise
them. 1t is specified that this will
be the case if he is prisoner of
war. He has insisted ever since
May, 1910, that this is his actual
status since he surrendered in uni
form as commander Of an army. He
is doubtless the most unwelcome
prisoner of war ever held by a con-
quering army. But this leaves the
government entirely in the hands
of the cabinet which was in power
at the start of the war.
Now the chief executive officer in
every city and town in Belgium is
the burgomeister who holds his ap-
pointment from the King. This is
a mere formality, however, since he
is actually named by the leading
political group in the community.
The Nazis naturally have removed
many of these. burgomeisters and
replaced them with their own man.
A few have proved traitors. Some
of the most prominent have disap-
peared and presumably are on
forced labor in Germany. A few
have been executed.
BY provision of the constitution
the burgomeister's powers 60 to the
first alderman if the former is in
capacitated from exercising them.
There is a recognized hierarchial
line below this. In very few cases
the legally appointed burgomeister
has both remained in Office and
faithful to the government in Lon
den. There may be a very, very
few cases in which first alderemen
or others named by the Nazis are,
due to special circumstances, judged
fit 70 remain in ONCE.
h 1 Tai for BuFgemeisters.
4 hit, as M de sShryver explained,
his 2 ministry, under which = the
burgomeisters function, knows the
status everywhere. As soon as a
liberated community is turned back
by the military to the civil authori-
ties-this, in most. cases, will, be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28

| population of the kingdom-fied be-
fore the advancing Germans, many
of them going as far as Southern
France. Four months later the great
majority of them were back. II
was one Of the great mass migra-
lions to and fro in history. Some
thing of the same sort can be ex-
pected again.
The second major problem will
be that Of food. 1t is expected that
great deal of the eastern, highly
industrialized part of the country
will be without food. Only a few
sparsely settled agricultural areas in
the Ardennes can be expected to
live for q time on their own re-
sources.
Nearly all the civil affairs officers
accredited to the Belgian military
mission, 1t is explained, are men
who have held responsible political
positions in the past and nearly all
of them lived for two or more years
under German occupation. Many
in fact, only recently have arrived
in England.
BY this setup, 1t is explained, the
whole Nazi and Quisling infiltration
Of the country can be torn up by
the roots almost overnight and as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28

former community officials and in
difficult cases he will have the au-
thority to make temporary appoint
ments, afterwards to be confirmed
by the cabinet.
Much Of Plan Worked Out.
Much of this plan has been worked
out on the basis of experiences fol-
lowing the occupation of the last
war. At that time, however, it was
much easier to find and restore the
legal burgomeisters than is expected
to be the case this time, and there
had been less disturbance of the
orderly processes of local govern
ment.
The Germans have made extern
sive changes. For example, the
Brussels area has been aglomerated
into greater Brussels" with a
population of more than a million
under Nazi-named burgomeister.
Formerly this area consisted of
Brussels itself and 10 boroughs, TAX
ing in a considerable area of the
province of Brabant, each of which
had its independent local govern
ment. The same aglomerations of
cities and suburbs have been made
at Antwerp, Charleroi and Liege
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28
Fish Eoting Pressed

To increase the consumption OF
fish food, Chile has decreed that
military establishments and hos
pitfalls must serve fish twice a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-28

fast as the present cccupatio
forces retreat.