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was little party activity between
campaigns"

was little party activity between
campaigns"
Now the Democratic organization
Is stronger, she said, and women OF
the club "can be thinking with as
surance" Of carrying on their Demo-
cratic aims the year round.
II don't mean, however" she
added, that I don't believe in the
two-party system; that we won't be
In the minority sometime in the
years to come"
But whether '1in power or out"
Mrs. Roosevelt told the members,
they have q responsibility to watch
the work of their leaders and Con-
gressmen and do constructive Job
Of criticism"
Mrs. Hartman, former Minister
to Norway and first president of the
club, reminded Mrs. Hull, Mrs. VIII
son and other longtime members
present Of the clubs start in 1924
when washington was a "howling
waste" for Democrats. The Wom-
ems National Democratic Club was
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Births Reported

RAYMOND and FRANCES ,Adwell, boy.
E0ye and Frances Black, boy.
william and Yvonne Boisyert. boy.
Edwin and RUBY Brockyell, boy,
Frederick and virsinia Clare, boy.
Henry and Doris Dixon, girl.
Qeorge and Mary Fay, boy.
Carl and Elsie Firestien. girl.
George and yacquelins GeorEe, sirl.
john hn.i and aG Ruth n Hofner,H Hat1ei H1i,l lii.
Herbert and Ruth Hurst. Eiri.
wi.md and .ad as0Rns Msr; !.5sasea 5ones slrl TlF
Edwin and Margaret Kenneriy, girl
HHarry and Annsbelle LaCoste girl
een en.:d snG .nd alliin tnsnlii nili:. sGS sIfl
John and Mildred Mcpermott, girl.
George and Felicia McTeeley, Girl.
o:sP 5o:sPh :d :nd boloshy bhs5sshrst pn.r pHgnn sr
william and Dorothy Rabette, sirl.
James and Faye ReIan, girl,
Stanley and Ruth Robbin, girl.
ls.m. Ef. ana md hsssls kaas ssess%s sesaotn ssl sn1
John and Iyelyn siyier; eirl.
bernard and Elen Sneiiinss. girl,
.Ir Thc%ra: .nS and ,I|'Sl.l EHth sterer; S .isl.
Arthur and Lend don thorn. siirl. l''
Aulrex and Elizabeth Thurston. girl
James and Grace varah,, boy,
snfs SSssnn ana ma s:neS. sGsneyn vinc.nt Xis tl l
Milton and Mary Warren. bay.
deorss and Iona woodward. siri.
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ScHcIA OHCeS,
Vice President j.
H. Carmichael
announced to-
day.
A native CT
Newton, Pa, and
a graduate of
t he keystone
Radio Institute
i n Pittsburgh,
Mr.. Kobe will
have charge of
all radio, tele-
type and tele-
phone commu-
nicAtions in p
CAS- Washing
tnn nmco
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Eclipse Of Sun Tuesday
Won't Be Visible Here

The sun will be In total eclipse
next Tuesday, but 1t can only be
seen In the Southeastern Pacific
Ocean, Northern Peru, Brazil, the
Central Atlantic Ocean and French
West Africa.
No phase Of it will be visible in
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Kobe to Direct PEA
Communications Here

Stanley Kobe. chief radio operator
Tor Pennsylvania Central Airlines
has been appointed communications
supervisor of the lines Washineton
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Stationed here since 1899, Mr.
Kobe lives at 1908 Twenty second
street, Arlington, Va.
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this city, but residents Of the States
bordering the Gulf Of Mexico, &C.
cording to the Naval Observatory,
will be able to witness q partial
phase Of the only total eclipse Of the
sun to take place this year.
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then the only place for Democratic
men to gather to talk or meet the
press, she reminisced, and the "only
place where they had respect paid
to them"
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Taft Says England,
Russia Hinder Plans
For Lasting Peace

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May 6.-Stumbling
blocks in the formation of a post
war peace organization of nations
come mot fro mso-called isolation
lists, but from demands of England
and Russia and failures in our own
current foreign policy" Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio, de-
clared here tonight.
Speaking before the War Veter-
ans Republican Club of Ohio, Sena-
tor Taft said, Our Government has
made no effort to suggest to the
British more liberal policy in the
Far East . or to Russia in her
relations with Poland, Finland.
Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania to
carry out the principles of the
Atlantic Charter"
Advocates of the idea that Eng
land, Russia and the United States
must rule the world are another
threat to world peace, the Senator
declared.
Such an alliance policy abso-
lutely destroys the hope for q real
or successful League of Nations
beacuse a world dominated by q
three or fuor-power alliance is not
a free world" he added.
Condemning the philosophy of
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spending which dominates our Gov
eminent, Senator Taft said "the
only foreign policy we can see clear
ly is one Of loaning money directly
and indirectly to every foreign ma
ton that desires it with the idea
1t will create a tremendous demand
for our exportable goods.
This policy amounts to giving
away the products of our farms and
our labor, for the loans will never
be repaid; it means imitation and
debt"
What we need" Senator Taft
said, ARE definite steps to per-
suade England and Russia to join
in making a political settlement
which will give freedom to those
peoples who are capable of self
government and desire freedom; a
definite plan for world trade which
will eliminate economic injustice,
and a firm stand against those who
are determined the United States,
with or without allies, shall DOM
mate the world under perpetual
New Deal dictatorship with stream
lined WPA and deficit spending"
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Montgomery Gas Light
Stock Deal Authorized

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday authorized the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. to acquire $4,000
shares of capital stock of the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. of Montgomery
County, Md, with a par value Of
81, ,480, 900.
with the exception Of one share
Of the presently outstanding 1000
shares of common stock, the securi-
ties of Montgomery are all owned by
Washington Gas Light Co." PUG
officials said. "The proposed acqui-
sition of not more than $4,000 shares
of common stock would replace ST.
Ill 400 of advances for construc-
ton and $685., 800 of notes payable.
"Consummation of the proposed
transaction will materially improve
the presently unbalanced capital
structure of Montgomery by chang
ing the form but not the amount of
Washingtons investment in Mont
gomery"
The Public Service Commission of
Maryland already has passed favor
ably on the transaction, the PUG re-
ported.
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Shipyard Wage Fight
In San Francisco MAY
Be Sent 10 President
BY the Associated Press

! BY the Associated Press.
A San Francisco shipyard wage
dispute involving AFL machinists
and CIO steelworkers last night
approached the stage where White
House intervention might be re-
quested by the War Labor Board.
Representatives of the local unions
failed to appear at meeting with
the WLB to which they were sum-
moned yesterday and the board de-
cided unanimously to discuss the
disputed rates for repair and new
ship work with AFL President VIII
liam Green and CIO President
Philip Murray in a last-minute ef-
fort to settle the controversy.
Failing in that, the board said
it will carry the case to the Presi-
dent who could order the yards
seized as he did the Chicago prop
critics of Montgomery Ward & Co.
Appeals to Green, Murray.
In kilograms to Mr.. Green and
Mr. Murray the board asked each
to exercise all of your authority
to obtain action by the officials and
members of the local union in
volved In conformity with the
boards orders in this case," and to
keep the board advised.
The board disclosed also that the
War Production Boards Ship Stabi-
lization Committee, meeting in Port
land, Ore, had agreed to refrain
from discussing rates for drydock
adjustments on new vessels for the
time being, so as not to prejudice
the WLB hearing.
The case, involving members of
Lodge 68, International Association
of Machinists (AFD and Local 1904,
United Steel Workers of America
(CIO), concerns rates for work on
ships built in other yards, taken on
Shake-down cruises, and then
brought to the San Francisco yards
for adjustments. Members of the
San Francisco locals, demanding
they be paid the $1.34 an hour repair
rate for such work instead of the
$1.20 an hour new-ship rate, have
refused to work on the shake down
ships except at the repair rate.
In another case involving the AFL
local only, E. F. Dillon and Harry
Hook, officers Of the San Francisco
local, accepted WLB subpoenas to
appear here Wednesday to explain
why the local had not complied with
a board order to work overtime. The
dispute deals with a union order
prohibiting machinists from work.
ing more than 48 hours in uptown"
shops.
Meanwhile, Representative An
derson. Republican, Of California
wired WLB Chairman william H.
Davis that ut is my opinion that
these individuals Qocal union lead
ers) are guilty of reasonable activ-
tiles and I hope that your board
will use every means at your dis
posal to remove them from positions
of Influence in the San Francisco
area"
Mr.. Anderson declared that "if
the Montgomery Ward Co., an Or
ganization not even remotely con-
cerned with war production, can be
seized by the Government under
some weird Interpretation Of law,
how can these well-known public
enemies continue to defy that same
Government with impunity?"
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investigate the accident which cost
the life Of Second 1t. Eugene C.
Vickers, 20, Of McKeesport, Pa,
killed when his plane collided with
another while engaged in q combat
training mission.
1t. Vickers was attached to the
Army air base here and was single,
base officials reported.
Maj. A. K. Barker, press relations
officer at the air base, said an OBJ
server reported the other pilot
parachuted to safety. Following the
collision, the plane piloted by 1t.
Vickers. crashed and burned In q
wooded area.
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Edwin Shunke Of the A.P.
Married in Stockholm
~ the Associated pres.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, May 6.-Edwin
Shanke, chief of the Associated
Press Bureau in Stockholm, was
married today to Miss Florence
Medin, Swedish secretary In the
local office of the Chicago Daily
News.
The ceremony was performed In
st. Eugenia Catholic Church. and
the couple left on a weeks wedding
trip.
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Elmer Davis to Speak
At Presentation of PIu,

Elmer Davis, director Of the ONCE
of War Information, will make an
Introductory address at 1890 pm.
Wednesday at the initial presenta-
ton of Missing in Action" a one
act play to be given at the Stage
Door Canteen, it was announced
yesterday. The cast will be COM
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posed Of members Of the American
Theater Wing Victory Players.
The play Is based on the actual
story of Sergt. John Gardner, re-
Gently repatriated from a German
prison camp and now stationed at
Walter Reed Hospital.
After the Washington premiere
of the play, owl will sponsor its
production throughout the country.
The theme of the story is to warn
against the danger of careless talk.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Army to Investigate
FutuI Crash in Virginia

I BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, May Ga board Of
inquiry from the Richmond Army
Air Base was dispatched today to
Cuckoo, Va, in Louisa. County, to
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
WHO Soid Freedom
of Opportunity"

The Arizona Daily Star published in Tuscon, prints a challenging
editorial, u business lei really favor freedom of opportunity? !"
1t was provoked by a speech delivered in Tuscon by ii of the
pfopagandists of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He said
Jncle san was "cuIblng private initiative and encouraging the spread
OF Socialism and urged business men to US their political influence
to stop that sort of thing.
editor was 81 provoked he checked up O. some of the res
trctlons m private initiative" imposed by the Arizona Legislatures q
the request of business and professional men.
The doctors have fixed it SO that, under Arizona laws ven thc
famous Mayo brothers could not practice in that state. The lawyers have
a law which restricts the number Of practicing LAWYERS and comnel
lawyers to charge certain minimum fees.
Yet these lawyers complain about freedom Of opportunity cx-
CLAIMS the outraged editor. And so it goes with dentists. undertakers
and many other activities. But who would believe that if Oh eenter-
prislng returned soldier would wan. to buy a motorcycle and start up
z messenger service, he would not be able to do it in Tuscon?"
He cites a number Of similar restrictions, and concludes: Who said
freedom and opportunity? These laws were not passed BY sociaIstic-
minded New Dealers They were passed at the urgent behest of
business and professional men, many of whom applauded the speaker
o. the u. S. Chamber Of Commerce
In other words, sin Arizona and many other states, business AMI pro-
iessIonal men have induced legislatures to give them "closed shops"
tighter than anything labor unions ever attempted to achieve through
the. processes of open and orderly collective neutrality-suspicious.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
Sacrifices Of Floyd Olson
and Captain Mo|Ion

The action of the Executive Board of the ALL unions of Mime
apolis in refusing to vote approval of the proposed fusion of the Demo
cratic and Farrner-Labor parties is one that will meet with popular APP
proval and do much good in restoring better understanding between the
of the city and the tiners of the soil.
The people of Minnesota II not anxious to see the party of Floyd
Olson, Captain Manon, Tony Welch, Magnus Johnson, Henry Teigan
and many other ilustrious ones discarded under any subterfuge.
So far as organized labor is concerned there can be no opportunity
to carry out the nonpartsan policy of the American Federation of Labor
should the Farmer-Labor party be gobbed up or destroyed. For in the
end there would be only the Republican party SO far as any real power
and influence is concerned.
merger many fear, and have reason to fear, the plan plays into the hands
of the Republicans.
The late Captain George H. Mallon, a member of the Sprinkler
Filters union, the only one of Pershing's Hundred Heroes from Mime
was offered the nomination for Governor on the Republican ticket
when he returned from the war. That nomination meant election and
most everyone realized it..
Captain Mallon refused the Republican nomination and instead
became the Farmer-Labor candidate for Lieutenant Governor and was
defeated.
Floyd B. Olson could have had any state office from the Repub-
licans had he chosen to be a Republican.
The great Floyd Olson stayed with the FarmerLabor party and
poured his life into it and in his dying hours urged microphone be
brought to his bed to broadcast against the Mccormick who desecrated
our fair state.
On the battle field and at home these were heroes who stood by
their guns. There has been too much of this sort of sacrifice in the build
ing of the Farmer-Labor party by leaders and rank and filters to permit
its Observation-Disclosures Labor Review.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
NO. 1909.
BiIbo, Jesus and Company.

We don't know everybody in the Company, but we would list as
leading directors in the form of ~. S. Super Race, Incorporated The
names of Senator Bilbo of Mississippi and Jesus Christ.
The Democratic Mr.. Bnbo told us that much the other day when,
in a TRADE against what he privately might call niger lovers he
Americans with the revelation that the white race is the custodian of
the gospel of Jesus !"
We're a little bit surprised at the partnership, since Adoph Hitler
who certainly would applaud the Bibo idea of super race in general
and the estimate of Negroes a; inferior people in particular, isn't favor
able to the Jewish Vagabond who was crucnied for teaching the
"heresy" of manknd's universal brotherhood.
The more w ponder the Bibo assertion the more puzzled we be-
come. What would Jesus think if he knew that His ideals were in the
custody of sc ardent an advocate of the super race? We aren't able to
answer that one ourselves. But n easier question is -
What does Franklin t. Roosevelt think when he ponders the prob
ability that the freedoms which he wants to export to everywhere in
the world" are dependent to no small degree upon a group of states
which, 81 far as dark-skinned people are concerned, think that freedom
is un-American? F. L. r. could answer that one.
What a mix-up! We want to abolish the super race pretense in Ger
r1any and keep it in America. We find a solid South" Democrat talking
the gospel of Jesus in the same breath with which he tells his Negro
loving white friends to go to hell"
And then the dupes of capitalism tell us that Socialists are i'm
practical people!
AS Jim Maurer would have said, Ell, I'll, Eli" = Reading Labor
Advocate. .~~a-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
COOP MILL
PAYS FOR ITSELF
I'M " MONTHS

HARRISBURG, ia. (CLNS) -
When three regional cooperative
associations joined forces to build
one of the most modern feed mills
in the world in Reading, Ohio in
the Spring of 1912 they did the job
to assure their farmer members a
constant source of feed for the
greatly accelerated food production
program.
The success of the undertaking
has surprised even the most OPP
timistic member. For the coop feed
mill not only mel production de
mands but also paid off it's entire
investment of $650,0OO in II
months while supplying feed at
market prices to its membership.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
WHO'LL DO THE


Writing Bernard vi. Baruch that
the chief difference between his
plan for rehabilitation and that Of
the Senate Committee IS that you
would have the skinning of the
people under administration direc-
ton, and the Senate committee
would have it under Compression
al" Benjamin c. Marsh, Secretary
OF the Peoples Lobby, told Mr.. Ba-
ruch that not private enterprise
but government underwriting and
control have achieved war produc-
ton, and must secure postwar en-
ployment.'
The letter reaGs IN part:
Wouldn't it be better to face the
facts frankly that the days Of in
dividual ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and col
lective responsibility are over,
and that the public's interest as
consumer is superior to, conflicts
over division of the capitalist swag,
and between farmers and process
sors and distributors Of farm pro-
ducts over the division of the ON
sumers' dollar."-Thc Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
FIGHTING MEN
DENOUNCE PEGLER

Americans in uniform have turn
ed thumbs down on Westbrook
Pegler, notorious anti-labor col
umnist. They resent his efforts to
drive a wedge between soldiers
and workers. So the "Midpacific-
an" army paper in Hawaii, report
ed recently.
The "Midpacifican" devoted three
columns to a story on results of a
poll conducted among service men
to determine how they feel about
Pegler. A big majority of those who
responded, the paper said, accused
Pegler of promoting disunity and
lying about labor.
Among typical replies cited by
the paper were these:
Private Bert Balmer, Seattle
"Pegler follows the Hitler pattern:
the bigger the lie and the oftener it
is repeated, the more people are apt
to believe him"
Private Edward r. Porter, Rich
mond, Wallis undertaking at
tacks on labor give moral aid and
support to Fascist elements at home
and abroad"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
THE BLOOD OF AsIBI
SAVES MILLIONS

Verify, science, like God, moves
in mysterious ways its wonders to
perform" That observation is
prompted bysa truly amazing dis
closure by Raymond B.. Fosdick,
president Of the Rockefeller Foun-
dation.
Seventeen years ago, he recalled,
a humble African native named
"Asibi' contracted yellow fever and
recovered. A portion of his blood
was injected into the body of a
rhesus monkey. The animal died,
but it's blood became the basis of
yellow fever vaccine that has pro-
tected millions of people all over
the world from the disease and has
brought yellow fever itself under
control.
Every drop of vaccine since
manufactured" declares DR.. Fos-
dick, derives from the original
strain of virus obtained from Ash
BIZ and it has afforded immunity
to many millions of people in many
countries.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
HENRY FORD'S PEACE

Helry Ford broke into print re-
Gently with the statement that the
war in Europe would end in two
months.
A map of Italy, appearing a few
days after Ford's statement, shows
that Allied troops have gained a
total of less than 25 miles of ground
in more than four month of bitter
fighting.
We wonder how these two bits
of information can be r%econciled-
Ford's sspeace" in two months, and
the Allied gains of less than Is
miles in more than four months.
Naturally all of us hope Ford is
right, but unfortunately, all signs
point to his being as wrong now as
he was year ago when he promised
to have the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas, way back in 1917.
Remember that?
Personally, we hope that wishful
thinkers like Ford will keep the
war goods moving out to the boys
fast-and leave the winning of the
war to the fighting fronts. Ford
has done a great deal of damage to
this nation by his ill-advised state
ment, because when the war con-
tinues after the two months he said
would bring us peace, there will be
a pretty general let-down in
morale.
We all pray for peace, but we
must fight for 1.-THE Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12
OF FOOD
By SCOTT NEARING

War Food Administration reports
show that on March /, 1914, re-
frigerator storage space in the USA
was filled to 92% of capacity. The
comparative figure for 1943 was
64%. The refrigeration industry
considers its facilities filled to the
limit when they reach 900 of
rated capacity.
The report points to two signifi-
can't conclusions:
1. The volume of refrigerated
food in the USA is probably at an
alltime peak.
2. The amount of refrigerated
food is up by 500 since this time
last year.
NeWspapcrmen assumed that
these unprecedented food stores
were part of the stockpile accumu-
lated by the federal government.
The New York Times published a
front page story on March IS which
began: THE extent to which the
federal governments vast boards
of food are taxing the nations
storage facilities is revealed in q
report of the VIA"
Next days Times, also on the
front page, carried the refutation
Of its earlier story. Storage space
was crammed sure enough, but
only q fraction of the stockpile
was owned by the federal govern
ment. The food hoard was not a
hoard at all, but an over supply
Of privately owned food, available
to anyone with sufficient points
and money to carry it away.
OPA and other Washington
officials were somewhat indefinite
on this point. They stated that
stored food falls into three classes,
I'd government owned stocks, ~
food earmarked for the armed
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-12

forces, 80 food for civilian con-
sumption. Since the volume of food
held for the armed forces is a mill
tary secret, the proportion falling
in the other two classes could not
be stated.
Washington officials have laid
great stress on the finflationary
gap between the very large
amount of excess purchasing power
in the hands of consumers COM
pared with the much smaller avail
able supply of consumer goods
The result - mounting bank de-
posits, increased currency boarding
and the spreading black market.
The VIA reports show that the
administration can reduce this gar
by reducing the number of points
required, or increasing the number
of point-free commodities, and thus
clearing the storage space for
spring-produced foods.
This whole episode is of minor
Importance. But it is significant
because it offers one more item of
testimony to the imposing volulmne
that records the advent of an
abundance economy. So huge is
the productive capacity of even a
moderated mechanical food indus
try that, with a sixth of the coun-
try's manpower in the armed serv-
ices and at least a third engaged liz
war production, the vast storage
facilities of the country are liter
ally bursting with commodities at
the end of winter.
The lesson is expensive in blood
and wealth. But it is simple for
anyone to learn: even in wartime,
and much more surely in peace.
time, this country can provide the
necessaries and decencies of life fol
all of its inhabitants.