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The people's voice., 1944-11-10

Let get thing clear in minds. The talk about
costing taxpayers lot of money support the IVA
bunk The IVA the amounts in taxes money
lieu of does private corporation in the Tennes
Valley Moreover pays interest its capital to the
and out of the profits of its operation
principally the production and distribution of the electric
generated is qudatng the federal advanced
when it organized The money saved consumers is
saving them rates. it could be in the Missouri
Valley
Included charged the by the IVA
the IVA And don't forget that
included in the collected by the Montana Power Com
pany paid the various political subdivisions the
taxes paid by the corporation
Study this table above that co-ordinated
veIopment of the the
to possible produced with using the waters
for irrigation the loss of millions of dollars annually
by consumers power paid in excessive
profiteering corporation
Why fight continue paying tribute to the Montana
Power Company?
The people's voice., 1944-11-10
Expensive Business

As the proposal for Missouri River Valley Authority
gathers momentum expect to read in the Montana
corporation press dire warnings to the people about the bur
den the taxpayers the interference with private enter
prise other standby paudes which the protees work
to death.
The Montana Power Company has made great to-do
about its reduction in rates and the benefits the
will derive Now suppose had had the equivalent of
the IVA Montana 1943, the electric power consuming
public would have saved five million dollars in amounts
paid to the Montana Power Company and its afflate How
does the something $800000 which the Montana Power
Company boasngy states will the
in the coming by its generous reduction in
pare with five million? And the other eight states
the Missouri Valley would have saved proporonatey Here's
the record
The people's voice., 1944-11-10
Missouri Valley Authority
(MVA)

months THE VOICE will
series of short articles suggested
Locke
Mr. active development
He
Chief Obspo
vicinity California. This is his 18th article
The people's voice., 1944-11-10
PRES. ROOSEVELT CARRIES
MONTANA FOR 4TH Time
IN NATIONAL ELECTION
Final Results of Election Indicate That
Montana Voters Were Not Swayed by
Party Consideration STATE : Their Ballotlng
Last Tuesday; Some esaaos11'iss,ss sass lt,. .sll in
Doubt AS This Is Written IL

Montana last Tuesday rolled up 200UU majority
for President Roosevelt and Harry Truman his running mate
elected the candidates for from both
qressona districts large majority vote for the
of Ford and also reelected Ernest Eaton
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War Bond Drive
Continues To Lag
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on Bataan and of rescuing those
who are still prisoners Of the Jap
anese. Actions are more important
than words, and buying bonds is
an action everyone can take"
The goal set for Wilmington is
s4,859, 1000, and at present it seems
fairly remote. New Hanover Coun.
ty has failed to meet its quota
only once.
Only A per cent of the Series
E bond quota of 81, $50, 900 has been
reached.
A report through February 2
from the Federal Reserve Bank
shows that Wilmingtonians have
invested total of $3,228,0O0 in
bonds, of which 1892, 200 was in
the Series E securities.
Although number of individual
clubs and organizations, as well
as the school children who ran a
successful Treasure Hunt for the
benefit of the campaign, have out
done themselves in working for the
bond drive, the county as a whole
has not put out It's maxibub eff
fort.
An extra sacrifice on your part
in bond purchases may hasten the
day when you will read of Ger
man and japanese capitulation.
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Obituaries
r. P. EDMUND

CHADBOURN, Feb 9-Funeral
services for R. P. Edmund, CO.
OF Chadubourn, who died at his
home Wednesday at noon after a
long illness, will be held at Co.
rlenth Baptist church Thursday al
4 p m by the Rev J M Single.
tary. Interment will follow in Bull
lard cemetery.
He is survived by his wife; step
mother, Mrs. M. D. Edmund Of
Chadbourn; one brother, A. "
Edmund of Datona Beach, Fla. /;
RS. L. T. Rogers of
one sister, Mrs. L. T. Rogers Of
Chadbourn; four half-brothers, 1t
W. S. Edmund of Tucson, Ariz.,
Eugene Edmund of Maxton, Pvt.
Earl Edmund of Washington, D.
c., Edward Edmund of Chadbourn;
two half-sisters, Mrs. Jack Inman
of Whiteville and Mrs. Dudly Pea
cock of Chadbourn.
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Marshall Isles
Being Pounded
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flock of enemy interceptors, the
number often being reported as 30
and once reaching As.
(Taroa airdrome was known to
have been one of the better air
bases constructed by the hippo
nese in the, Marshalls. Nearly a
hundred enemy planes were def
nitely or probably destroyed over
Taroa prior to the invasion Janu-
airy 81 of Kwajalein.)
The new. raids by the .striding
team of ships and planes presum-
ably were part Of the strategy ito
get our ground and air forces into
China as early as possible" refer
red to yesterday by Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz He told correspondents
that Japan ''can only be defeated
from bases in China
While there was no mention OF
an invasion schedule, there were
indie atlons that much action is
ahead. Nimitz remarked that IF
you'll watch the communicates,
you'll see us moving on"
In the Southwest Pacific, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced that
allied airmen had hit Rabaul, New
Britain, again destroying or dam
aging 10 Japanese planes. One hum
dred and Twenty-Five tons of bombs
were dropped on the enemy air
and sea base.
A submarine on the surface OF
the bay at Rabaul was hit and a
cargo vessel set afire by the raid
ers, who also destroyed 26 gun po-
sitions. The enemy plane toll was
IL shot down and seven destroyed
on the ground.
The attack was in continuation
of almost daily assaults on this
South Pacific bastion by aircraft
from Admiral William F. Halsey' S
bases in the Solomon islands.
Headquarters communicates OF
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Eleven Are Fined
For Violation OF
License Plate Law

Twelve persons appeared in re-
sorder's court Wednesday morn
irg for violation Of the Wilmington
License Plate ordinance. All plead
ed guilty and were fined So and
costs with the exception of Mrs.
Paul Allen, whose case was con-
tlnued until Thursday by Recorder
H. Winfield Smith.
Others charged with violation
ct the ordinance were R. G. Mum
power, M. E Boyette, c. H. Ell
more, H. C. Korney, Mrs. E. H.
Lefeve, ]. C. New, M. E. McLaw-
ron, Mrs. j. M. Odin, E. M. Smith,
Ernest Green, Negro, and Henry
Harguart, Negro.
Four more cases heard by the
lower court were sent to superior
court after probable cause was
found. John Thomas Livingston
and Bernie G. Odom, both charged
VIII lIlS Id CClly VI Oil doIoi1lONAAS,
we're bound over to the higher
court and placed under bond OF
81 900 each by Recorder Smith.
Andrew Johnson, Negro soldier,
waived preliminary examination
or the charge of embezzlement.
Bond was set at $500.
Jack Moore, Negro, charged with
larceny was sent to superior court
ard placed under bond of 5000.
Alonza Davis, Negro, received
6O-day suspended sentence for
reckless operation Of a truck. Sen
tence was suspended on condition
that he violate no traffic laws for
Two years.
James Lewis, Negro, arrested for
speeding and violation of the stop
law, was fined $25 and costs.
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GOOD ENOUGH

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb.
9-(P)- American cigarettes
were good enough identifica-
ton for S/Sgt. Martin Wobst,
FL, of southampton, Long Is
land, when English farmers,
taking no chances, came at
him with pitchforks when he
landed by parachute from a
Flying Fortress that had run
out of fuel on the return from
Stuttgart, Germany.
"They asked for Identified
tion," he related. ''Then L re-
membered 1 had forgotten to
wear my dog tags that morn
ing. 1 fumbIed around for
some sort of official-lOoking
paper. I found nothing. As a
last resort I pulled out pack
of cigarettes and said, Look.
American cigarettes. Isn't this
good enough?' It was.''
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Umstead Appointed
Campaign Manager
For R. Gregg Cherry

DURHAM, Febs 9-tREFormer
Congressman William B. Umsteac
Of Durham will be the state man.
ager for R. Gregg Cherry, candi.
date for governor, according to ar
announcement made today by
Cherry in, Gastonia.
No definite date has been an.
nounced for the opening of the
campaign, headquarters for the
race. It. was stated, however, that
headquarters will be set UP in Ra
leigh late this month or early in
March.
Widely known throughout the
state, Umstead is a native of Dur.
ham county, He attended the Uni
verslty of North Carolina and
graduated with the class of 1916.
After leaving the university ne
taught school in Kinston, Immedi-
ately following the declaration Of
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Mesa Continues
It's Strike Truce

CLEVELAND, Feb. 9.-R)-The
,,ocbanics Educational Society Of
.n,erican throughout its national
sn,inistrative committee, con-
a au indefinitely truce in its
l' 4n.;He-which affected more than
~ ~ o Ohio and Michigan war plants
~ .o~ Independent union representa-
~ on the War Labor Board.
''G Tbe committee thus accepted a
oaaon,nendation from policy sub
lenomittee that attended a War
Io ohor Board hearing at Washing
Inn yesterday.
'0n Matthew Smith, the unions Sec
osarv said the work stoppage
le' ''ld not be renewed until we
Wort oartain what satisfaction the War
as Shoar Board shall give u.s.
nG T,e WLB warned after the hear
- that it would call President
I nissosevelt's attention to the dispute
h0't hat criminal penalties might
so evoked if the strike were re-
su "Now that the War Labor Board
LIZ taken its case to President
nnss9osevelt." said Smith, 1.-The
TEA ng will do likewise to gain
s.ueDcognition for independent
unions" o;4
M would present the unions case
~ members of Congress and
.Sro,,ob them to the White House.
al. wen select certain Senators
and congressman who will give us
.-'t fair hearing and present our
,.se IN them" Smith said.
The strike started last Friday as
+be National Labor Relations Board
r '1r a hearing at Toledo
w petition from the CIO-United
AZ Automobile Workers for bargain
40 agency election in WHY'S
lpH Motor Co. tool room.
Smith commended the employees
s1readv had designated MESA as
+bpir representative. On Monday
the administrative committee term
,rated the strike temporarily"
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Victory Is Won
By Subsidy Foes
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| \NVx1txAuCu IdRo Onej
approve wholesale consumer sub
sides for 100000 people who
are said to have more money ir
their pockets, in their bank ac
counts and in war bonds, than al
any other time in history" SAD
George, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee.
You are dreadfully afraid you
must appease labor" he shouted
but you are willing to break the
back of the farmers to do it."
George said that if the Maloney
proposal became law, farmers
prices would be reduced in the
market places and all they would
get in return would be "a miser.
able subsidy He commended tha:
even production subsidies were
hard to justify because they
tended to shift production from one
field to another at the cost of the
first.
Taft is sponsoring a proposal
which would authorize $1,000, OO0.-
600 for subsidies this year, bu,
abolish so-called ''roll-backs" or
meats and butter and the milk
subsidy being paid to 100000
dairymen. A vote on this plan may
come tomorrow.
However, leaders of the anti.
subsidy bloc hailed the ballot on
the Maloney amendment as the de.
cisive test. Bankhead predicted mis-
bill will be passed without change,
probably tomorrow. He said the
majority by which the Senate
smothered the administration pro.
posal was "a surprise even to us. >
On the Maloney roll call, % Re-
publicans and 10 Democrats. most
ly from Southern and Western
States, and Senator LaFollette
prog. Wis., teamed to beat down
the administration plan.
Although favoring limited subsi
dies, Taft charged the administra-
zion with political motive in in
augurating, late last year. the
$500, 100000 year plan Of sub
sidy payments to dairymen.
II think the subsidy to dairy
men has a largely political pur-
rose," he said, ito give the AAA
committeeman m money to
hand out and restore the political
influence they had lost since the
old soil conservation and parity
payments were cut Off"
Subsidies now are being paid,
Taft continued, with funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation and
the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration without direct authorization
from Congress.
And unless Congress puts cell
ing on subsidy OUTLAWS, he said,
President Roosevelt may simply
veto anti-subsidy legislation land
then claim the right to 60 ahead
and pay up to five billions yea:
if he wants to-"
The senate took up the Bank
head bill under pressure to act
swiftly since the subsidy ban is
Only part of legislation to continue
the life of the Commodity Credit
Corporation, now due to expire
Feb II. The CCC makes crop p-o-
cuction loans to farmers and farm
minded legislators are anxious to
see it continued.
The House passed a bill before
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Little Steel Wage
Formula Attacked
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leased 10 days ago which conclud.
ed that costs have gone up 1875
percent.
But either index, they said, leads
to lone unacceptable conclusion:
The workers of America cannot
rely upon price control as it now
functions to preserve standards
of living"
The AFL members recalled that
revision of the Little Steel For.
mula but we're turned down by
the majority of the board and &C
cepted the pious hope that-given
another chance-the President S
price control policies would effec-
lively stop the upward spiral OF
prices"
Working men and women have
been patriotic and patient" they
said, but 1.-THE time is now at hand
when the National War Labor
Board must candidly admit the in
sufficiencies of price control as
currently applied
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District FWA Office
Reopens In Raleigh


RALEIGH, Feb, 9. -(P)- The
District office Of the Federal
Works Agency, formerly located in
Fayetteville, has been reopened
here, Kenneth Maxwell, EVA
regional director, announced to.
day.
Thomas r. Owen, district engin-
neer in charge of the Fayetteville
office, will supervise activities
here.
The office supervises all FWA
projects in North Carolina with the
exception of those approved for
construction in Wilmington. A dis.
trict office is in operation there.
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war in 1917 he resigned his posi-
ton with the Kinston schools and
entered the military service. He
served until the end Of the war
with the 317th machine gun bat.
talon, 81st division.
Afttr the war .Umstead studied
law at Trinity college, now Duke
University, and the University o.
North Carolina. He began to prac
tice in Durham in 1921.
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February have reported 1913 Japa-
nese planes destroyed at Rabaul.
General Douglas Macarthur S
communique also announced that
Australian jungle fighters on the
coast of the Huon peninsula, New
Guinea, had continued their adj
vance to the northwest and were
only seven miles from American
Army invasion troops in the Saidor
area on the coast.
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YOUTH DIES

SYLVIA, N. c., Feb. g. up -
Ray Cogdill, Jr., 12-year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Cogdill OF
Sylvia, died at a hospital here to-
Gay of a bullet wound in the head
which members of his family said
apparently was accidentally inflic-
ted while he was cleaning a 20
calibre rifle at his home Tuesday
night.
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Films Disclaim
Surrender Talk
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formed Finland that the Soviets
were ready to discuss peace i'm
mediately.
THE war front remained quiet,
with only patrol ectivities reported
oy the Finnish communique.)
Films in Stockholm felt the
american warning would have "se.
nous effect on public opinion in
INLAND, but the German press de.
Jared Finland would remain
sHong IN face of both the political
and military offensive" of warn
hgS and bombs.
-V-
More than $4,000 girls earned
aOmemaking badges in Girl Scout
ing last year.
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the Christmas recess continuing
the CCC but banning subsidies aft
e1 Deco. 81, 1913. Bankhead's bill S
similar except for the change in
the date the subsidy ban would
be effective.
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The Naval Air Transport Serv-
ice covers more than IS, 900 miles
on scheduled transport services.
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XIII the Itch (seab1ss)
With SiiHiciide

This liquid preparation kills in 80
minutes those itch mites with which
1t comes in contact. Buy SITICIDE
from your druggist. or send 60c to
S1ticide Co., Commerce. Ga. (Adv.l
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Heavy weight enameld surface
floor covering, exceptionally
low priced! Exclusive designs
by a famous maker. Easy to
clean, wide color choice. In
rug sizes also.
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Doubles as ladder or as
stool. Strongly made of wood
and enameled in white with red
accent. Is x 10 inch seat.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-17

hostile army getting on German
soil. the President pointed out.
The Germans, he continued. re-
ceived a gift from God and Gen.
Foch when they were granted an
armistice while It'll fighting on
French soil. Only Gen. Pershing
held out with the insistence that
the Germa an armies first be
smashed and the war carried into
Germany before an armistice was
granted. but he was overruled.
This time, Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted, il is going TO be different.
The German armies are going
TO be smashed up and driven back
into Germany. And it may come
from either side - the Russians
may do il or the Americans and
British. but il is going to be done.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he believes
the Germans will try to give up
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ID
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NaZi NaVaI
Bases Hit

LONDON, Aug. II GNS)-A
force of nearly 1,20O giant Raj
Lancaster and Halifax bombers
smashed at targets in Germany
last night, concentrating most of
their explosives on the German
naval and shipbuilding bases Of
Kiel and Stettin, the air minis
try announced today.
Sixteen of the big British war
planes failed to return to their
bases.
An air ministry announcement
early today also disclosed that
Mosquito bombers simultaneously
carried out another of their
"sideswipe' attacks on Berlin.
German flying bombs again
crashed down on southern Eng
land, including the London area,
shortly after daybreak.
Grounds of Buckingham Palace
and the famous literary shrine,
DR.. Johnston's House off Fleet
Street, have been among the
places recently hit by robot bombs.
German radio warnings said
that raiders had hit various To-
calities in the Baltic area" The
Nazis claimed their night fighters
had inflicted losses on the Allied
planes in violent air combats."
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Reds Driven
From 0ss0W

MOSCOW. Aug. II GNS)-
Russian infantry battled Germans
IN the streets Of the south Poland
bastion of Sandomierz today. but
other Soviet units evacuated the
Warsaw suburb Of Ossow for their
first backward step in the sum-
mer offensive.
Russian combat troops of
Marshal Konevs First Ukrainian
army advanced into Sandomierz,
key to the approaches of Krakow
and German Silesia.
Five German counterattacks
were smashed west of Siauliai, in
Lithuania.
In southern Estonia the Third
Baltic army OF Gen. Maslennikov
smashed forward and cleared the
western border of Lake Pskov
with advances that captured
Rapina Memastkula and 20 other
towns.
The Russian announcement that
German counterblows near the
Warsaw suburb of Praga had been
driven back for the second con-
secutive day gave evidence that
despite the withdrawal at Ossow.
the Red army remained in control
of the situation northeast Of the
Polish capital.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-17
Old RancIler Beats
Bear With FireWOOd

X JACKSON. Wyo.. Aug, II (UP)
A man, even one 65 years old,
can lick a bear IN a fair fight.
Rancher Bernie Cole proved that.
Going TO the barn, he encount-
cred a brown bear. II he had
noticed her two cBS trailing
along, he might have fled. In
stead he bent over TO pick up a
stick of firewood TO drive her off.
AT that instant, she attacked.
He was too far from the ranch
house TO shout for help. He was
in the bears embrace. her claws
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TWO FLEE FROM CAR

Two men were seen to leap from
the vehicle as il came to stop.
They fled into the darkness.
Rushed 10 the hospital in a
police ambulance, Sarkesian died
at 1912 a. m.
Advance notice of Sarkesian's
doom was given when an under
world tipster told officers:
you'd better find Eddie Sar-
kesian quick, because he's on
the spot and they're going to
fill him full OF lead"
Though there were no known
eye-witneSses 10 the Staying. a
resident on Cadillac boulevard told
police he head four shots and,
from a distance, saw the car shud-
der TO a stop and two men jump
out.
IL saw the car lights blink and
the car stall near the corner"
he said. AT first I didn't think
anything Of IL because the re-.
ports were muffled. But then i
saw two men, both bareheaded
and wearing light shirts, leap
from the car and run between
two houses. They were about 8
feet 8 inches tall and heavy-set."
FOUND SARKESIAN SHOT
The witness told Detective 1t.
Lester Chorpening that he and
neighbor ran TO the car
and found Sarkesian slumped over
in the drivers seat
Three bullets had torn a hole in
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Roosevelt Fine
His Physician Says

WASHINGTON. Aug. II CUP)
According TO Vice Adm. McIn-
tire. the Presidents physician, Mr..
Roosevelt came back from his Pa
cific tour today feeling fine"
Mclntire was gratified that the
President had encountered some
bad weather in Alaskan waters
with no i'll effects. Mr.. Roosevelt
was tanned from his frequent ex-
posture TO the sun aboard ship.
He seemed rested and was vigor-
Gus in his speech
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Gangster Slain i'm Car
Take 5TOWnS
lin Paris Area

WITH THE AMERICAN THIRD ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. II QNS)-American armored
forces closed in speedily on Paris today, Selling
several within 40 miles of the French capital.
Captured were Charities, 43 miles frem Paris;
Dreux, two miles closer to the capital; Chateauneuf,
Chateaudun and Orleans.
The Americans drove the Germans out of Chartres
after baering down enemyhed barricades and defense
nests the southern outskirts of the city.
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II More Towns Taken
By French Patriots

LONDON, Aug -1z-UP)-
French Patriots have liberated
new sections Of Haute-Savoie
province. captured II more towns
throughout France and trapped
1900 Nazis in Paimpol. northern
Brittany channel port, official and
neutral sources reported today.
a Bern dispatch said French
Maquis, in occupying Evian and
Thonon, liberated the entire area
between Thonon and st. Gingolphe
in southeastern France near Lake
Geneva, and completely sur
rounded AnnemaSse. The Ger
man garrison at Bourg-St. Maui