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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24

tat the time, ended abruptly
Wednesday morning when the
defense called none of the wit
nesses it had subpoenaed. The
court granted the relator, At
torney Hall 10 days in which
to file a brief and Newcomer
an additional 10 days after the
filing of REALTORS brief in which to
submit an answer Meanwhile the
court will have the matter under
consideration and will render no de.
cision until after the filing of the
briefs by relator and respondent.
The action instituted by H. c. Hall
against Newcomer charged that the
motion which Niewoehner attempted
to file on October 7, was intended to
'injure the character and integrity
of Associate Justice Erickson. then
the candidate on the democratic ticket
for governor, and that his charges
that the justice had violated his oath
of office nd the provisions of the
constitution by accepting service on
the railway mediation board, consti-
tuted an act of contempt.
The Tuesday session of the hearing
opened with a motion by the counsel
for Newcomer to disqualify all OF the
justice except Justice Morris. This
motion was denied as were a motion
to quash the proceedings and a plea
in bar.
Respondent Newcomer then en-
tered plea of not guilty, basing his
plea on constitutional provisions for
free speech" and due process of
law.
Four witnesses were sworn and
testified on Tuesday afternoon. They
were: Frank Murray, clerk of the
supreme court; Peter Meloy, marshal
Of the court; julius Wuerthner, attor-
ney of Great Falls and former mayor
Of that city, and Richard X. O'Malley.
at Helena. Mr.. Wuerthner testified
to receiving a letter written by Vie
woehner to the lawyers in the state,
at the time he attempted to first file
his motion, charging that the record
and minutes of the supreme court
we're in some instances, erroneous
md misleading. Respondent admitted
iending out this letter to the attor-
leys.
A motion for the exclusion of wit
lesses not on the stand made by
Attorney Hall, was denied by the
curt
Assistant Attorney General Fred
4ay along with II. G. Hall were the
tate's prosecuting attorneys
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
" =
COSTUMES FOR THE
"PEOPLE'S ARMY"

Although nazi authorities announced
that members of the new Peoples
Army" would wear only armbands,
ABSIE Cthe American Broadcasting
Station in Europe) reported recently
that the Nazis were trying to dig up
whatever uniforms they could find for
Adolf Hitler's last-ditch defense corps.
ABSIE said that pensioned postmen,
railway workers and even ZOO guards
were being asked to give up their
uniforms, and added:
"At the same time the lucky own
ers of uniforms from the last war
were urged to hand in these precious
souvenirs for the same purpose. And
to make this appeal for uniforms more
complete, all theater wardrobes and
custome renting houses are being
searched for uniforms"
ABSIE observed the humor of see
ing a member of Hitler's Peoples
Army" turning out for battle as Lob
engrin.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
WARM CLOTHING
FOR RUSSIANS
is NEEDED

A nationwide Russian War Relief
campaign for shipload of new, warm
clothing to be sent as a Christmas
gift from American workers, profess
SIGNALS, business, nationality and
church groups to the boys and girls
of Soviet Russia, where military i'm
peratives have made it impossible to
produce clothing for civilian needs for
the past three years, has just been
announced by Edward C. Carter, ma
tional president of the relief Organi-
cation. The campaign will run
through the holiday period.
American union families, in choos-
ing gifts for their own children" said
Mr.. Carter, 'are asked to add some
Russian child to their Christmas list.
Russia has poured into our strug-
gle against the common enemy so
much of her best blood and richest
treasure that | know all Americans
and particularly Americas trade UNI
ionists - will respond generously to
this opportunity to help our gallant
ally save her children from being
sacrificed, too
in doing this, Americans are urged
to remember that a new article of
warm clothing is the most welcome
present any Russian boy or girl can
receive this year. We know how
much the American people, with their
great love of children, would like to
send toys to the children of our ally.
But with clothing so desperately
needed, no shipping space is available
'or toys"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
WATER RIGHTS
not IRRIGATION
NOW The SCARE

Governor Ford, in an address before
the convention of the Farm Bureau
in Helena this week, departed from
his usual Montana Power Company
inspired warning about losing Mon
tana waters for irrigation, by holding
out the intimation that the proposed
Missouri Valley Authority would jeop-
ardize water rights now held in the
state, more "personalized' strategy,
more recently conceived.
The governor asserted, according
to reports, that a MVA would delay
development of the state, but was
apparently just as silent about how
and why it would delay development
as he was concerning whose water
rights are threatened. Could he have
meant the dog in the manager" rights
of the Montana Power Company?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24

Alleging that through conspiracy
continuing since 1884, to fix prices at
non-competitive levels at meetings
held at certain itnersals, 18 steel
firms have monopolized the sale of
more than 80 per cent of the $175,-
100000 worth of stainless steel prod
ucts which were sold in 1912 alone, a
grand jury in Trenton, New Jersey,
last week returned an Indictment
against them together with eight cor
porations and one individual named
as coconspirators. Six steel com
pany executives were also named as
defendants.
Among the fco-conspirators" named
were the Chemical Foundation, Inc.
and the Nirosta Corporation (Krupp-
Nirosta) of New York City. The lat
ter organization was formed in 1928
by Fried Krupp A. G. of Essen, Ger
many, and the majority of its stock
from its organization has been held
by Krupp of Essen. Among the mi
nority stock interests held were those
of Ludlum and Crucible. The indict-
ment charges that Carpenter steel
Company, Crucible Steel Company,
Republic Steel Corporation, Bethle-
hem, Firth Sterling and Jessop Steel
companies were all licensees of Krupp
Nirosta, and that the license agree
ments contained clause forbidding
sale below certain prices of products
under certain heat-treating patents
controlled by Krupp-Nirosta. Elk
ploitation of these patents was the
motive in the organization of the
Krupp- Nirosta company.
The companies named in the indict-
ment are:
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corpora
ton, Breckenridge, Pa, and Russell
NJ. Allen, Pittsburgh, vice president
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp, Pitts
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
.C0-0PS WIN
FIGHT In OHIO

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CLNS)-Thret
Ohio rural electric co-operatives, aftel
long and involved battle agains
New York utility Interests, and disbe
levers within their own ranks wht
sought to prevent them, have com
pleted purchase of the Ohio Midland
Power Company. Organized OhiC
farmers, once again bucking the cor
porate-finance crowd, have soundly
beaten the money kings.
The three co-operatives who bought
the Ohio Midland company for the
purchase price of $2,115,000 are: The
South Central Rural Electric Coop
erative, Inc, with offices at Ian
caster; The Inter-County Rural Elec
trio Cooperative, Inc, located at
Eillsboro; and the Union Rural Elec-
trio Cooperative, Inc, of Marysville
Offices of Ohio Midland are at Canal
Winchester
The sale was consumated October
10 in Jersey City, N. j. Ohio Mid
land was formerly owned by Asso-
ciated Electric Company, which in
turn, is controlled by Associated Gas
and Electric Corporation, a New York
holding company One of the first
acts of the co-operatives, after acquir-
ing the securities of Ohio Midland,
was. to reorganize the board of di-
rectors, and elect new slate. The
Co-ops then cut the connection
charge" from $500 to $5-membership
fee in the cooperative.
Members of the new cooperative
board are: II. Newell Stevenson, Cir
cleville. president; Ralph M. Whaley,
Frankfort, vice president; ]. S. Roe
ley, Redwood; secretary-treasurer;
Joan Eakin, Canal Winchester; and
c. S. Helser, Thornyille. ]. E. Cath
ers, former secretary-treasurer, and
member of the former board of di-
rectors, was retained as assistant sec
retary-treasurer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
RELIGIOUS OR
RACIAL BIG0TRY
is FASCISM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (WDL) -
Warning that "fascism does not have
made in Germany seal on It," Rose
Pesotta, Americas leading feminine
trade unionist who for eight years
was the sole woman vice president of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, charged that "racial
or religious bigotry is fascism, wheth-
er it is practiced in Berlin, Germany,
or Squedunk, U.SA."
Miss Pesotta, representing h e
Workers Defense League, made this
statement in a plea for a permanent
Fair Employment Practice Commits
sion in a speech to negro and white
sharecropper delegates to the South
ern Tenant Farmers Unions 18th an
nual convention here.
I'VE cannot have harmony at home,
or peace in the world if we permit
racial or religious hatred to exist in
any FORM" Miss Pesotta asserted.
We've worked together to win this
war. Behind the pillow and behind the
lathe, behind the machine and behind
the guns, Americans of every extrac-
ton, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish.
negro and white, have fought against
the enemy side by side" she con-
tinued.
IF we can practice the unity and
cooperation we have learned in all
our relationships with others, so that
no propaganda can ever divide us,
then and only then can we hope to
win the peace" Miss Pesotta con-
Guided She is author of the book
Bread Upon the Waters" dealing
with the struggle for labor's rights
from 1933-42, which is being published
by Dodd Mead next week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
Missouri Valley Authority
(MVA)

Editors THE VOICE VIII
present an articles suggested
Missouri Valley Authority Locke For many
basic resources He now
by u Army as Chief h ENGINEER h a Game San LUIS o0p0
Last week this suggested that you write The Voice
letter and let have ideas as to organization
the project waiting for to come H. let US
take closer look at one feature OF proposed M !nae
to have generated much misunderstanding and political neat
during Montana's recent political campaign
REFER course to apparent conflict IN lnterest, III
the right to use of water between people in the upper
basin who have primary stake IN lr11gauon ana Iose
basin whose main objective IS Navigation cnan
mel think that without becoming begged down IN ecnmca
and figures can get general ana accurate VIEW
the situation from engineering and sclenc STANDPOINT
despite considerable political smoke screen that has been
thrown around it. This is just what the members OF any
Missouri Valley Authority Will nave 10 do very soo ai'e
they named. .
The Army or Pick pan flood control and navigation
will in LARGE mart necessarily become the segmens of
anv MVA plan It proposes nine foot channel from Sioux
CITY to St. Louis AS designed this channel will be 5000 tee
wide at Sioux City, gradually increasing 5000 feet of width
at the river Army engineers estimate that l2oooo
acre feet of per year. Yankton about IS miles above
Sioux City, will be required to maintain continuous nine
foot depth of flow down the channel
Bureau of Reclamation Sloan plan) calls for irrigation
4OO84O of land along Missouri river and It's trou
ares above Yankton Their report does not give the es
mated requirement water Assuming to be three acre
feet of river for each irrigated and that
one third of this it's way back to the stream return
flow" the requirement is $50 feet This GER
any ample the 900 acre feet enough So
total maximum requirement for both plans 2z2o4ooo acre
feet annual flow at Yankton
Three different of u s. Geological Survey off
TO nave Deen uependeu OH ny
Gus groups computing annual low probabilities at
Yankton follows:
Reclamation Service 1931-42 (12 yr period) 14935O00
feet.
Commission of State Engineers 1914-43 go yr perod
2,473,000 feet.
Army Engineers 1s9s43 45 yr period) 23O53ooO acre
feet
The average annual flow shown by each OF above com
puaton undoubtedly correct for the period covered How
ever factors enter the picture Missouri river flow
varies year and these variations in cycles OF
several for the IL period prob
ablv include an abnormal drouth years. while
ords for the 80 year quite apt to have
OF
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24

on HR 44S5, concerning the $15,O00,
900 Gavin's Point dam, as follows:
owe think the Gavin's Point dan
is unnecessary it is very ex
pensive for the benefits to be derived
as a power proposition the cost
per kilowatt hour is some 30 to Al
times the cost at any other dam
as a regulator it's capacity is so small
that all it does is to regulate daily
flows and no seasonal flows 1t
has no flood control value and prac
tically no value to navigation
We recommend the elimination
Concerning the $130,000,00O Garri-
son dam, this same engineer testified:
90 it is unnecessary not
worth the expenditure floods
can be adequately controlled with
out it -. floods out $4,000 acres of
irrigable land, including 10000 acres
in an irrigation project just COM
pleted at cost well over $1,OOO,OOO.
.'In face of this testimony against
the two dams, which have total esti-
mated cost of $145,000000, the Bureau
of Reclamation stands today as CO.
sponsors with their shotgun marriage
mate, the Army Engineers, of plan
which includes these two dams.
"This little view into what the bride
thought of the groom and his intelli-
gence just five short months ago,
when our campaign for Missouri
Valley Authority was just starting,
would be the most colossal laugh OF
the year if it we're not so enormously
expensive to the taxpayers of Amer
lea. and such a dire warning of the
lengths to which the entrenched Of
fice-holders of the Bureau Of Rec
lamation will go to hold their jobs,
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24

shotgun wedding
The two agencies, one re
sponsible for irrigation and the
other for flood control ano
navigation, recently adjusted
their plans in Omaha and an
nounced that they had agreed
on plan.
estate Farmers Union conventions
have shown that our organization
clear down to the grass roots, sees
through the Reclamation-Army Engi
neer's shameful, loveless, shotgun
wedding" Mr.. Patton said.
"They have, without exception, en-
dorsed the position of the National
Farmers Union in favor of Missouri
Valley Authority. This includes Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Montana, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Iowa and Kansas
in the valley, where the Farmers IN
ion is the leading farm organization.
The principle of IVA has been en-
dorsed for all the river valleys OF
the nation by every FARMERS OHioH
convention in the nation to date.
"The shamefulness of the shotgun
marriage of the Bureau of Reclama-
ton and Army Engineers, creating
Siamese-twin arrangement for irriga-
ton, flood control and navigation
(only a part of the rivers potential
benefits which an MVA could devel-
OBJ is perhaps best illustrated by the
compromise on the proposed Gavin's
Point dam in South Dakota and Gar
rison dam in North Dakota.
Last June 8, w. Glenn Sloan, as
sistant regional director of the Rec
lamation Service at Billings, testified
for his service before a senate COM
merce subcommittee holding hearings
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
s. BUY
WAR
BONDS

(This material is prepared by the
Office of War Information from in
formation contained in foreign
broadcasts and foreign newspapers,
and from other data received by the
OWL through various overseas chan
nels.1
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24

George Newcomer by the Montana supreme
charges contempt of the preferred against
him by Attorney Hall of Great Falls growing of petition
whichs Newcomer attempted to file October alleging
that the minutes of the court instances
and misleading widely pubicized in the corporation
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
Seven STATE FARMERS
UNIONS IN MISSOURI
VALLEY ENDORSE MvA
Reclamation Enginee.DD"' Bldg Library { avin's
Dam and Garrison Dam Incluoe~ Army
Engineers Plans Previously Condemned
By Them Entirely Acceptable in Their
Compromise Shotgun Wedding

that state Farmers Unions the Missouri
valley area-a that have held conventions this falhave
creation of Missouri Valley Authority Pres
James c. National Farmers Union today called the
plan development of the valley agreed by Bureau
of Reclamation Army Engineers "a Shameful loveless
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
REGRET

A recent article in the nazi news
paper Muenchener Neueste Nachricht-
en- admitted that Germany had paid
dearly" for alternating the peoples of
Europe by cracking down on them
during the PALMER days of occupa-
ton
ITO have been over-zealous, to have
underestimate and at times over
estimated our contemporaries, and to
hayea acted daringly, which occasion
ally gave the impression of arrogance,
certainly were mistakes" the Munich
newspaper said I'VE had to pay for
those mistakes, and paid dearly"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
INSIDE THE AXIS

essential" will no longer receive sup
plies of bed linen.
The nazi newspaper said that those
hotels cut off from linen supplies
would have to request their guests
to bring along their own linen" AS
for those really essential" hotels that
will continue to get linen, the paper
said they would have to economic by
supplying guests with only one towel,
not two.
Likewise" the Fremdenblatt added,
''the oversize bath towels that are
used in many hotels can be split in
two, without impairing the service"
w.
ERsATZ FOOD
Concerned over the possibility of
critical food shortage, Japan is en-
couraging her scientists to develop
food substitutes that sound almost too
eerie to believe. For example, the
Nazi Transocean recently reported
that several Japanese food chemists
had been decorated for the 'inven-
ton" of a new food concocted of rot
ten wood, sawdust and starch, sea-
soned with sunshine.
Transocean, which claimed that the
invention" makes possible the con-
version of fibre into food, gave the
recipe" as follows:
"The mold spreading on rotting
wood is planted in sawdust. Later,
little starch is added, and whole
mass is steamed for a while. When
it has gone into fermentation, it is
dried in the SUM- The product is edi-
bic and can be mixed with flour to
make noodles"
Transocean reported another Japa-
nese food invention" based on mixing
nitrogen with heterogeneous, thus
producing albumen for baking bread
The Japanese Domei agency was ap-
parently referring to this same Gin
vention" in a dispatch referring to
"the production of emergency food
utilizing nitrogen extracted from air."
"The idea of compromising a pro-
tein food utilizing heterogeneous
had existed for some time" Domei
said, "but no nation has been able
to make any Roadway despite much
effort Research of this type was
carried on extensively during the last
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
SERVICE

According to the Hamburger Frem-
denblatt, German hotels with the ex-
ception of a few considered really
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-24
SUPREME COURT TRIAL OF
MIEW0EHNER CONTEMPT
WITHOUT DEFENSE

Respondent Fails To Call Any Witnesses
Subpoenaed by Him for His Defense;
Efforts of Newcomer To Disqualify
Members of Court Fail AS Did Motions
To Quash Complaints Against Him by Hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-23
GEN. M'NARNEY
ENDS DAVIS VISIT

CAMP DAVIS, Jan. 22-second
member Of the Arny's high COM
mand to visit this center of anti
aircraft artillery training this
week, 1t. Gen. Joseph T. McNar-
ney. deputy chief Of staff, left
here by plane this afternoon after
a two-day period spent in observ-
ing antiaircraft artillery and
Fourth Service Command activi-
ties at Camp Davis.
General McNarney arrived here
Friday, on the heels Of an inten-
sive inspection by Maj. Gen. Vir-
gil L. Peterson, Inspector General
Of the United States Army, who
also visited the Antiaircraft Ar
tiQlery Center and School and OBJ
served Fourth Service Command
activities. Maj. Gen. Joseph A.
Green, head Of the Antiaircraft
Command, accompanied both Of
ficers on their visits.
Firing by all types Of antiair-
craft weapons was watched by
Gen. McNarney. Troops of the
Antiaircraft Artillery Training
Center, Antiaircraft Artillery
School and Antiaircraft Artillery
Board, manned the guns during
the various phases of demonstra-
ton.
Anti-mechanized firing - with
simulated tanks and armored We
hicles as targets-came in for the
attention of Gen. McNarney as
did the "dirty fighting" and bayo-
net classes now in full swing
here.
One Of the highlights of the
demonstrations for Gen. McNar-
ney was an exhibition of firing
various types Of automatic weap-
ons from half-tracks travelling at
full speed and shooting at aerial,
moving targets. These fighting
mobile units are of the same type
which won laurels in the North
African campaign in their activ-
ity in defending marching col
unns of troops from strafing Axis
planes.
Numerous other phases of
training at the Antiaircraft Ar
tillery Training Center and Anti
aircraft Artillery School were OBJ
served by Gen. McNarney.
During his visit Gen. McNarney
conferred with Brig. Gen. Bryan
L. Milburn, commandant of the
Antiaircraft Artillery School; Brig.
Gen. Cortlandt Van R. Schuyler,
commanding general of the Anti
aircraft Artillery Training Center:
Col. Adam E. Potts, Camp Com
mander, and Col. Parry W Lewis,
president Of the Antiaircraft Ar
tillery Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-23
Outcome Of Polish Row
Cue To Balkans Future

concessions to Russia. Rumania
expects to lose territory.
Rumania and Hungary, however,
are putting forth all their efforts
toward fostering an atmosphere
for an eventual multilateral con-
ference. Croatian and Serbian on
lockers similarly are interested.
Their argument is tn t since
they are closest to Russia, any
approach for negotiations should
be made to Moscow with a re-
quest that the United States and
Britain be informed.
They hope that when the talk
ing starts, if any, it will be in
London through an inter Allied
commission. No attention is given
to the prospects that the present
day political leaders in the Bal
kans may not be those concerned
in any future talks.
Little likelihood appears h e e
that these nations will do any
thing concrete in the near future,
but they eagerly are seeking a
clue to the postwar world in the
Polish question, and the Red
army's approach daily intensifies
their concern.