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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
LABOR GROUP
|ASSAILS CANNED
GOODS RULING

"OPA5s scheme for pricing 1914
canned fruits and vegetables leaves
consumers at the mercy of unscru.
pulous Gamers who would overcharge
their customers" the OPA Labor Pol
icy Committee stated today.
The committee, which represents
the consumer interests of AFL, CLIO
and Railroad union membership, as
sailed the recent regulation worked
out by OPA in answer to the Holman
Taber rider to the OPA appropriation
act. This rider, the Committee said,
VISA put into the bill at the instance of
Gamers who sought to knock govern
ment grades out of OPA price cell
ings, just as one year ago they elm
mated government grades from labels.
With government grades entirely
out, the Committee charges, Gamers
will be free to continue the wide
spread practice of selling low quality
at high-quality price ceilings"
The OPA regulation is interpreted
by the Committee as throwing this
CebA 7CAh foohC DCtWCCil OI n anu the
Gamers into court litigation in en-
forcement cases. ut is clear" the
Committee says, that OPA has pro-
vided the Gamers with an escape
hatch which may save them when
they are caught upgrading their prod
ucts. Gamers risk little if anything
in overpricing their products"
AS result the Committee an
ticipates frequent overcharging of con-
which, it says, could have
been avoided if OPA had taken the
issue back to Congress, meanwhile
invoking the assistance of Stabiliza-
ton Director Vinson who came to its
rescue in similar situation in con-
nection with meat grades last year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25

empties into the Mississippi river
above st. Louis, Missouri The wa
tershed of the Missouri embraces a
territory of nearly $4,000 square
miles-171a per cent of the area of
the continental United States. The
area includes all or substantial por-
tions of nine states: North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and
Missouri.
1t sustains a wide variety of agri-
culture, ranging from dairy farming
to cattle ranching and wheat growing.
1t has an abundance of forest and
mineral resources which, properly de-
yeloped, can help to place the region
on a basis of continuous prosperity.
1t has rich soils. 1t has water re-
sources with magnificent potentiali-
ties for development.
In short, the Missouri is valley
of gigantic resources and potential
productiveness.
But the Missouri valley is plagued,
as are many other river valleys in
this country, by problems of great
scope and variety. Frequent floods
cover the productive land, damaging
and disrupting commerce and destroy
ing homes, farms, and factories and
harassing the people. There are prob
lens attending both the normal and
occasional scarcity of water. Wind
storms and uncontrolled waters carry
the best soil into the sea. There are
problems of how to best conserve
and husband our natural resources
and turn them to the fullest account
for human use and advancement. Only
a few in this wide land would claim
that the region is fully productive
now, that we are obtaining the full
benefits of our natural resources-our
forests, and fertile, arid
the light of what modern
science, engineering, and ingenuity
make possible.
Instead, we have seen our resources
ravaged and wasted away In the
past two years, the lower reaches of
the Missouri basin have been swept
by two major floods, with direct dam
age estimated at nearly $100000,000
not counting the immense indirect
damage resulting from disruption of
economic life. 1t is estimated that
about 100000 acres of fertile crop
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POSTWAR
SECURITY
BATTLE ON

WASHINGTON IPA) - Defeat in
the senate of the union supported
Kilgore-Murray bill throws on mem
bers of the house of representatives
responsibility or next steps on two
urgently needed measures. First is
decent, equal-in-every-state unemploy
ment insurance benefits after the
war The second is planning right
now so that the change-over to civ
ilian production keeps every worker
employed, and American factories
producing at full capacity
The house now has before it pro-
posals for an office of rehabilitation,
to have control of postwar planning.
All sections of organized labor sup
port the setting up of such an agency.
They look upon it as the first step in
planning for full employment. How
ever, in the senate the proposal was
tied to the successful George bill,
which was bitterly opposed by labor
because 1T differed with the Kilgore-
Murray bill in leaving to each state
the decision on the amount of unem-
ployment pay to which a worker
would be entitled if his war job folded
up Labor representatives opposed
the states-rights measure because it
would have meant inadequate benefits
in almost every state.
Contrasted with the successful
George bill-supported by coalition
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in the east and this inequality has
deprived the west of the advantage
of low competitive rates
at is alleged that the conspiracy
by the defendants has stifled the util-
ization of improved railroad technol-
ogy, that the defendants have re-
tarded the introduction of radio equip
ment of trains, delayed the installa-
ton of air conditioning equipment and
prevented the construction of essen
tial spur tracks and loading sheds.
ut is alleged that the defendants
have deliberately delayed the delivery
of perishable products, that they have
collusively refused to permit the re-
duction of rates by certain railroads
for the relief of drouth-stricken areas,
despite the fact that such reductions
were requested by officials of the
United States government.
at is alleged the defendants, by
conspiring with the major oil COM
panies owning and operating common
carrier pipe lines, have fixed arbitrary
and non-competitive rates for the
transportation by rail and pipeline of
petroleum and petroleum products
and that thus the advantage of low
cost shipment by pipeline was denied
to the west
at is alleged that the defendants
have conspired with motor carriers
and water carriers to bring motor
and water carrier rates up to higher
rail level.
1T is alleged that the defendants
have established an organization
called the highway department within
the Western Association of Railway
Executives, that the declared purpose
Of the highway department is to re-
tard the development and growth of
the trucking industry, particularly in
the long-haul field, in the western
part of the United States.
ut is alleged that the defendant,
j. p. Morgan & Co., Inc, Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., and their affiliates have for
many years controlled and still con-
troll substantially all the financing
operations and security issues of the
defendant railroads"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25

power development flood elimination, better navigation and
mountains of silt migrating from Rocky Noun
tain regions Gulf of Mexico Some items of paramount
Importance region in another IN all sections
There will also be secondary detectives in which virtually
everybody will direct and personal interest Some of
these pollution abatement wild life development
(duck and fish ponds recreaona marginal land
and at forestation.
Fortunately, final attainment of all these detectives in
very large measure is neither impossible impractical
fantastic dream The accomplishment of EACH largely,
times wholly dovetas in with the other better equaized
flow of the rivera lot less flow in flood little
flow in low furnishes basis OF solution for
power floods navigation silt and pollution problems and
leaves supply of flood water for irrigation
The whole thing requires basin wide coordnated long
plan that will always keep each final objective in view
The rest is mathematc engineering and horse
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25

Mr. President,
| am introducing a bill in the con-
gress for the establishment of a
| United States government corporation
| to be known as the Missouri Valley
Authority, the duties of which shall
be a broad development of the water
and other natural resources of the
great basin of the Missouri river.
The purposes of the corporation
as stated in section 1 of the bill, are:
ITO provide for the control and pre-
vention of floods in the Missouri Val
ley region and the reclamation of pub
| lie lands, to safeguard the navigable
waters, to promote navigation, and to
encourage the fuller development and
utilization of the resources of the
region, all for the purpose of fostering
and protecting the commerce among
the several states, strengthening the
national defense, conserving the wa
ter, soil, and forest resources of the
nation, and promoting the general
welfare of the United States"
The objective of this bill, in short,
is to promote the welfare of the near
ly 100000 people who live within the
watershed and, by the same token, TO
promote the national interest This
great human purpose will be possible
through the unified and orderly de-
velopment of the Missouri Basin, the
greatest single river valley in the
United States, as provided in the
MVA bill This bill will give the
people of the Missouri valley the OPP
portunity to conserve and make the
wisest possible use of the valleys
great resources of water, soil, forests,
and minerals in their interest and in
the national interest.
Mr.. President, this is a tremendous
task-a task worthy of the best eff
forts which this great country can
time and again, and in countless ways,
the speed with which we can turn
the gifts of science and management
into productive channels to achieve
goals which astound the world. Here
is a chance to apply them to a basic
problem of our people here at home
The Missouri river, starting at
Three Forks, in my state Montana,
where the Jefferson, Madison, and Gal
latin rivers converge, flows through
a wide land of varied topography,
rainfall soils, and forests until it
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
80 MILLION JOBS
NO. | PROBLEM
FOR CONGRESS

AS soon as the war ends, the United
States will face it's biggest peacetim,
problem - how to provide 3O,OO0,OOl
new jobs.
| We could probably maintain civilian
production at the prewar level will
30,000,000 fewer men than will b,
wanting work after the war. So tn,
answer, as all parties realize, must BIZ
to raise production to level nevel
before dreamt of in peacetime.
If those 3O,0O0,OOO men are put tt
work producing for all of us, the
American standard of living can be
raised to a new high If they are
not put to work-the dark days Of
1882 may seem bright compared tc
the depression that will strike us.
The question is: HOW are we going
to put those 3O,OO0OOO to work?
Only two answers to that question
have been suggested, and they were
exemplified in the competing Kilgore
and George bills.
The George bill, backed by most
republicans and southern democrats,
proposes to put 30,000,000 to work by
permitting natural economic laws" to
function Private business would be
encouraged to hire as many men as
possible, with little or no overall di-
rection.
The Ki1gore bill, backed by a major
ity of democrats and by liberal ele-
ments in general, would have made
the federal government primarily re-
sponsible for providing for those of
industry.
On returning to a peacetime econ
omy, the George bill would have the
government eliminate itself from the
picture as quickly as possible. The
Kilgore bill would have set up CEN
trail planning organization to work
for full employment by adj
vising business, suggesting nation
wide plans, providing vocational train
ing, helping finance state and local
public works.
On unemployment compensation,
the George bill would leave the ques-
ton to the states, which would mean
low rates. The Kilgore bill supple
mented state payments to provide
higher rates-a plan that George sup
porters say would cost too much.
Which plan is better?
The half-measures of the George
hill will NOT create 3O.000O00 iobs.-
Record.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
WASHINGTON
LETTER
LAME DUCKS AND THE
NATIONAL ELECTIONS

/ Whether scientifically correct OF
not, it is a widespread belief that nc
matter what you do to a rattlesnake
it won't die until shutdown. 1t is q
| fact that persons have been killed by
rattlesnakes officially dead. They
Just did not take sufficient care to
protect themselves from the still-yen
emous fangs.
There is also a saying about the
kind of fight rat will put up after
it is cornered.
All of which brings us to consid-
Grafton of the illustrious list of men,
bers of congress who have been
turned into lame ducks by the prim-
airy elections.
Sen Cotton Ed Smith of South Car
DINA heads the list as the newest re-
cruit to the quacking ranks. With
him went Sen. Hattie Caraway of
Arkansas. Previous retirements were
those of Martin Dies and Richard Kle-
berg of Texas; Joe Starnes of Ala
bama; Costello of California; Senator
Reynolds of North Carolina; Senator
Rufus Holman of Oregon.
Altogether, fine lot, ripe for re-
tirement.
But there is quite an error abroad
in the land in regard to these con-
gressmen. Like the rattlesnake Off
cially dead, they have greatly reduced
means of locomotion Their slither-
ings cannot cause the same heartfail-
ures and panics But until the end
of the year they are still in congress.
They still hold positions of power
And they intend to make full use of
them. They are in a corner-like the
rat.
1t is not correct to speak or even
think of them as being through. Sun
down has not yet caught up with
them.
To assume the victory is won would
be to consider these men solely as
rather than as representa-
lives of the worst anti-American, lose
5he-war, domestic fascist breed that
has yet been turned loose on the coun-
Try.
There is whole company of sedi-
.ionists who have been indicted and |
Ire now on trial in Washington. They |
continue, however, to spread their
lideous un-Americanism - not only |
Using the court as forum as best |
hey can, but in some cases actually
publication and distribu-
ion of their poison.
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defendant IN a 9o, OUU,UUO ud1Il-
age and libel suit brought by
Frank J. Boehm, former vice
president of Union Electric Co.
of Missouri, a subsidiary oper-
ating company of the North
American Company, billion dollar
holding company of which Dulles was
once director and for which Sullivan
and Cromwell, law firm in which.
Dulles is the senior partner, handles
practically all law business.
The subpoena which the process
servers are attempting to reach Dulles
with requires him to appear before a
deposition commissioner in New York
and testify under oath concerning his
part in allegedly Illegal actions of
the North American Company and its
subsidiaries.
The legal action charges that North
American, Sullivan and Cromwell, Dill
Ion, Read and Company, Dulles (as a
partner in Sullivan and Cromwell,
Harrison Williams Former associate
of Samuel Insull) Carl Byoir, public
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25

relations expert and number of
other corporations and individuals
with conspiracy to make sub-or-
dinate suffer for the sins and misde-
meanors of the 'fat boys" named as
defendants.
In common terms, Boehm's suit for
SANDER charges frame-up on the
part of the various defendants named
Boehm was convicted of perjury by
a federal grand jury in the early part
of 1940 the perjury having been COM
mitteed in testimony before investi-
gators of the Securities and Exchange
Commission when he denied that his
company the Union Electric had made
any secret contributions to political
campaigns, a practice made illegal
under the Public Utility Holding Com
pany Act of 1885. Boehm was SEN
fenced to serve five years, but served
only 10 months and was released by
a presidential Communication of his SEN
tence
Now Boehm declares that not only
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ERICKSON, BANQUETED
BY HOME FOLKS

Associate Justice Left Erickson
democratic candidate for governor
was guest at a banquet given in his
honor in his home town of Sidney
Montana, on Wednesday evening. The
banquet had been arranged by the
county democratic central committee,
Judge Erickson officially opened the
radio in Sidney today. He will leave
Sidney tomorrow for Swing over
the northeastern part of the state, re,
turning to Helena the end of next
week. The next term of the supreme
court opens the day after Labor Day,
requiring his presence then.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
DEMOCRATS ISSUE
CALL FOR CONVENTION

A call for the state convention OF
the Democratic party to be held in
Lewistown on September 9, has been
issued by A. F. Lamey present state
chairman of the party.
A state chairman and secretary will
be selected at the convention and a
party program or platform adopted.
No announcement of speakers at the
convention has as yet been made by
the chairman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
REPUBLICANS PICK
JONES AS CHAIRMAN

Ashton Jones, publisher of a news
paper at Broadus was selected by the
Republicans at their convention to
head their organization as state chair
man, to succeed Dan Maddox, former
chairman, who was defeated for the
nomination as candidate for congress
from the first Montana district in the
Primary campaign. Mr. Maddox was
named state secretary of the party.
Mr.. Jones up to the time of his
election as chairman was secretary
of the state republican organization
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25

complaint asks for the dissolu,
ton of the Association Of
American Railroads and the
Western Association of Rail
way Executives.
The complaint, according to the U
s. attorney general charges that g
combination of private financial, in
dustrial and railroad interests have
acted collusiyely to maintain non-com
petitive rates for transportation and
to prevent and retard improvement in
the services and facilities of railroads
for the western part of the United
States"
The defendants listed by the justice
included the following:
Atchison, Topeka e Santa Fe Rail-
way Co.; Chicago, Milwaukee, st.
Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.; Colorado
G. Wyoming Railway Co, Wilson Nc
earthly and Henry Swan, trustees, the
Denver & Rio Grande Western Rail-
road Co.. the Denver & Salt Lake
Railway Co.'S Fort Worth & Denver
City Railway Co.; Great Northern
Railway Co.; Northern Pacific Rail
way Co., Charles e. Denny, st. Paul,
president, Northern Pacific; Wilson
Mccarthy, Denver, president of Salt
Lake; William A. Maxwell Jr., Den
yer. president of Colorado G Wyo-
ming; John S. Pyeatt, Denver, presi-
dent, Denver & Rio Grande Western;
Donald c. Bloomfield, Denver, mem
Der committee of directors.
Assistant Attorney General w. L.
Berge who is in charge of the action
states that 30 similar suits had been
postponed until the end of the war,
but that the War and Navy depart
ments had as yet suggested no post
of the suit filed in Lincoln.
Attorney General Berge reports
that the complaint makes the follow
ing charges:
at is alleged that by collusive
and illegal action, the defendants
have maintained freight rates for
the western part of the United
States which are higher than those
fixed by the defendants for shippers
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
A MISSOURI VALLEY AUTHORITY

Editors Note Last Friday Sen James Murray
bill in the senate proposing the creation
believe that speech should
be as widely read possible We lack
compelled publish
insalmen follows
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
PROCESS SERVERS IN
DAMAGE and LIBEL SUIT
CHASING DEWEY'S DULLES
Suit Brought by Frank j. Boehm Former
Vice President of Union Electric Co.,
Subsidiary Operating Company Of the
North Amer S' c.s's,'' &C.. ar,lding Company
For Which Dulles IL Attorneys.

Foster Dulles Deweys advisor and emssary to Wlke
and Secretary Hull sought by for several weeks
past personal service him of subpoena in damage
and character suit has been contacted
vet though sought him his home office club
Republican headquarters He is named principal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
Major Oil Companies.

The u S. Department of Justice this week announced the
filing of an action the antitrust laws against the Asso
citation American Railroads and its officers and directors
the Western Association of Railway Executives AT individual
railroads their executives 81 other individuals Kuehn
Loeb and Company and j. P. Morgan and Company The
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
Missouri Valley Authority
(MVA)

Editors During several months THE VOICE will
articles
Valley Authority, For
He
U. Obispo
and vicinity, in his is
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-08-25
ANTITRUST SUIT FILED
AGAINST ASSOCIATION
OF american RAILROADS

Action Filed in Lincoln, Nebr., by the u. S.
Department of Justice Charges Conspiracy
To Avoid Utilization of Improved
Technology and Conspiracy With the
Major Oil Companies.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

Mrs. Russell Sipple. a former
resident of this section, was taken
to a Philadelphia hospital last
week. Her condition is reported
very serious. Her many friends
were sorry to hear this and all
wish for her a speedy recovery.
Clifford Hammond. a schoolboy
residing with Linden Thompson,
was taken i'll Sunday and when
rushed to the Emergency Hospital
was Immediately operated upon for
appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arlie Watkins and
son, Richard, spent Sunday with
Mr.. Watkins mother, Mrs. Joseph
Watkins.
Mr.. John II. Bennett, we'll
known resident of this section, who
has been confined to his room for
the past four years, is very i'll at
this writing. Some of the family
are in constant attendance. -
Mr.. Harvey Clifton, who has been
so i'll all fall, is still confined to
the house.
At the last bake held at Thomas
Govan's sale, the ladies cleared
$3.50 and wish to thank every
one who helped. =
Services at the church on Sun
day at the regular time. Sunday
School at p. m. preaching at
p. m. Everyone cordially invited
to be present.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

posed of Harry Carpenter, Clyde
Belts, Charles T.. Vent and George
r. Davidson.
Herman Black of the U. S. Mer-
chant Marine School at New York,
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Leon Black.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and daughter, Betty Lou, of near
Cokesbury, were the guests on
Tuesday of Mrs. Eliza Dutton.
Plans for Christmas
Two programs are being planned
for Goshen Sunday School in OBJ
servance of Christmas. The first
sGwill be a party to be held Thurs
day evening, December 21, at 1880,
in the church. The program will
consist of "On the Boughs of the
Christmas Tree, a family festival
in which the Christmas tree will
be trimmed. Recitations, vocal So
los and group singing will be Civ
en- by children in the Nursery Be-
ginner. Primary and Junior De-
partments. Gifts will be given to
students by the teacher and Santa
Claus is also expected to arrive
with a gift of candy for each one.
All adults of the church are in
vited to draw the name of another
adult and give a gift to that per-
son. Everyone is invited to como
and enjoy the merriment of visit
from Santa Claus.
Christmas Eve. Sunday, Decem-
ber "a. at 7:30. a beautiful pageant,
Finding Christmas" will be given
in costume. The pageant will re-
veal THE Worlds Most Beautiful
Story to three orphans who came I
seeking its meaning. That evening
from 700 to 7:30 carols will be /
broadcast from the church tower.
and following the pageant all are
invited to join in community CAROL
ling. The carollers will stop at
homes in the community where
a lighted candle is seen in a front
window. The carolling will be from
$3.50 to 1870 O'Clock.
As the Christmas season ap-
proaches let us go in search of
the Christ Child. asking Where is
He? and Where Am T.?
Services Sunday will be: $40,
Sunday School; 1900. morning
worship; els. NJ. Y. F.. Eleanor
Smith. leader; 7;3O, evening wor-
ship.