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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
INSIDE THE AXIS

which the Japanese Domei agency
said would should political RESPONSE
bility" in the same manner in which
the supreme council was shoulder
ing military responsibility"
Step No. in the Koiso policy was
the revision of the Cabinet Advisory
Board that had assisted Gen. Hideki
TOTO when the latter was premier.
Then TOTO served in the premier
ship as the representative of the Jap
anese army leaders, he accumulated
all power for himself, throwing a few
bones to the industrialists by naming
their representatives as advisers"
His cabinet advisory board, therefore,
consisted exclusively of industrialists,
whose powers were limited to an adj
visory capacity.
In revising the cabinet advisory
board, Koiso reshuffled its members
and made each member a minister
without portfolio inside the cabinet.
Wher the old board was restricted
to industrialists and one financier, the
new board consists of a general, an
admiral, an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
three other industrialists, a financier,
two politicians, an agricultural ex-
pert, a university professor and a
newspaper publisher
Koiso's latest step, the setting up
of general planning bureau" to as
sist the cabinet, was announced by
the Domei agency as body dedicated
to solving problems that have re-
peatedly bobbed up Headed by Tet-
suzo Ueba, vice president of the Cen
trail China Development Company, the
bureau consists of three sections.
The first section, ''Domei said, will
take charge of co-ordinated planning
OF wartime measures, the second the
problems of foodstuffs, transportation
and war production. The third sec
ton will be charged with the inspec-
ton of local administrative affairs to
effect closer relations between the
central and local administrations"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
STATEWIDE
MEET OF .C0-OPS
PLANNED

The Montana division of the Farm
ers Educational and Cooperative I'm
ion will sponsor a statewide meeting
of all cooperative organizations in the
state, to be held in Lewistown on
January 10, according to an announce
ment from the state office of the
Farmers Union in Great Falls.
1t is understood that the purpose
of the meeting will be to organize in
formation for the general public con
corning the actual conditions existing
in taxation of co-operatives, by the
state and national governments, cor
recting false propaganda concerning
this now being broadcast by the Ma
tional Tax Equality Association. This
organization, it is claimed, formed by
certain elements of big business, has
for its aim the passage of legislation
which threatens the future develop
ment of the cooperative movement,
and ironically is also threat to the
free enterprise" so loudly touted by
these big business groups.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17

ton consists of extraneous and irrele
want matters which manifestly have
no bearing upon the question of the
correctness of this courts records and
minutes
A citation against Niewoehner fol
contempt Of court had been issued by
the court shortly after the motion was
presented, but this was withdrawn by
the court when a similar charge was
filed against Niewoehner by H. G.
Hail. Great Falls attorney. The hear
ing on the petition of Mr.. Hall is
scheduled for next Tuesday.
Since Halls charge against New
oehner is that his motives for filing
his motion for the correction of the
minutes was political, and was given
wide publicity in the daily press, and
over the radio the following have
been cited in as witnesses in the
hearing next Tuesday: Burke Glenn
ents, chairman of the Industrial Acct
dent Board; Harry Carlson, United
Press correspondent; Dick O'Malley,
Associated Press correspondent; E. A.
Dye, editor and Thomas E. Mooney,
city editor of the Independent Record
Of Helena; John Willard, reporter for
the Independent-Record. Chief JUS
tice Howard Johnson, Associate JUS
tice Left Erickson and julius Wuerth-
ner of Great Falls have been sub
poenaed as witnesses by the defen-
lant
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
Missouri Valley Authority
(MVA)

months THE VOICE will
Valley Locke For
development He
and vicinity, California This is his 18th article
Organized effort and application of political to
federay sponsored land and water development IN
Missouri BASIN has been going since creation OF the s.
Bureau of Reclamation forty odd The much larger
idea of and unified development embracing
land and water soppage of floods and soil erosion power
navigation timber and plant e mineral treas
and quarry products wild fowls and fishes play
grounds scenery latent energies of the people, is
very grew of course of the farreachng and
successful experimentation of IVA Who first dreamed
of applying this pattern of development to Missouri valley
never be known The idea was first voiced and broad
public by Louis Post Dispatch last May a.
Despite that national attention focused
this big idea spread with the speed of grass fire. in high
wind Probably great national peacetime proJect-and
MVA, involving of sixth of Continental United
States the greatest of all peacetme projects has
famed out public knowledge fast gained ardent and
powerful support rapidly Three bills to set up the nee
essary public corporation and define its duties and powers
have been introduced These fathered by
Murray of Montana, Senator Gillette of Iowa and
Representative Cockrane of Missouri In special message
congress and recent speech President Roosevelt has
urged MVA and similar acts for each Columbia and Arkansas
rivers.
Due perhaps to continuous barrage of support laid
by Post Dispatch Bismarck Tribune and Cowes
paper in Des Moines score or national daes have
taken up the cry Among these are New Daily News
Chicago Minneapolis Morning Tribune Louisville Courier
Journal Washington Times Herald Birmingham News, and
Memphis Commercial Appeal In nationally circulated
this writer has noted MVA articles in Harpers Atlantic
Readers Digest New Republic Transatlantic Life Free World
and Western Construction News.
National Union has Endorsed the project and is
making active campaign for it. Some OF the ClO unions
Mississippi valley prepared and circulating
formative pamphlet entitled Zone River-One Plan. Cong
John w Rankin of Mississippi recently issued statement
urging bipartisan support the plan by In recent
speech Angeles Interior Secretary ckes replied to
suggestion Missouri valley states might get together and
develop their river through joint commission Mr. lckes
said along the Colorado river agreed to do that
kind thing years the whole thing has been pend
ing court SINCE"
know of all support the MVA idea has
accumulated short six months Citations here are suf
show it husky active and growing baby There
is however important side of the picture
This minority but powerful and resourceful opposition
great with it's financial and political allies
publicly owned | suspect that Missouri
people have already had ample evidence of such
position.
This opposition owns much of the press, radio
o
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
CAUTION URGED
UPON AUTO
DRIVERS

There are over 100000 fewer auto
mobiles on the nations highways to
provide for essential transportation
through the coming winter than there
were this time last year, Highway
Patrol Supervisor Chas L. Sheridan
to prepare for the nearing months of
snow and ice. Furthermore, he added,
while every car still functioning is a
year older, it is more vital to wartime
civilian economy than ever before.
The annual reminder to drivers, and
to city and county highway depart
ments, is being issued this early, said
Chief Sheridan, both because of this
reduction in the country's fireplace
able stock of automobiles, and be-
cause of sharp increase in last win
ter's mileage death rate over the pre-
vious winter
Chief Sheridan urged all city and
county highway departments to repair
snow removal machines, since new
ones are hard to get, and to attempt
to line up labor for essential snow
clearance work so essential supplies
and workers can get through.
He called upon all truck fleet oper-
ators and Individual car owners to
take immediate steps for their own
protection this winter. These, he
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
LIBRARY SYSTEM
OF GREATER univ.
lin ONE unit

Plans to organize the library system
of the six units of the Greater Univer
sity of Montana into a single operat-
ing unit will be outlined this week
at special meeting of state library
officials on the campus of Montana
State University. A conference OF
University of Montana librarians will
be held Thursday at the state univer-
sity library building, followed by a
consultation of chairmen and officers
of the Montana State Library Assoc
citation Friday
Conferees will meet with Baker
Brownel, director of the Montana
Study of Life and Traditions to decide
how school libraries may best fit in
with the nationally sponsored founda-
ton project. Purpose of the proposed
change is to develop better library
service in the state through co-opera-
ton among the six institutions of
higher learning, said Kathleen Camp
bell state university librarian.
"At the wars end, we want to have
- iNtiJ PAtPbiC all ny WHlCn
lending Libraries of the University of
Montana can operate on cooperative
basis as one library" Miss Campbell
said
One plan VIC will consider is to
arrange so that books and documents
for special research being conducted
particularly at one institution, will be
housed at that institution, although
exchanges between the various schools
will be quickly and efficiently per-
formed. Similarly, each university
unit which keep nearly complete Ii
brary sets should be able to augment
the sets through inter-institutional
gifts and loans. 1t is our hope that
details of the new system and other
can be worked out
at the conference"
She said the new system will avoid
of materials and will avail
individual Libraries of more books. A
of the Pacific Northwest Lii
brary Association for five years, Miss
Campbell now is Montana representa-
tive of this association, which recon-
mends unification of regional library
systems.
In attendance will be the following
Institutional librarians: Mrs. Lois
Payson, Montana State College, Boze-
man; Pauline Rich, Eastern Montana
Normal College, Billings; Ruth Els
mann, Northern Montana College,
Havre, and Mrs. Loretta Buss, who |
will represent both the School of
Mines at Butte and Montana Normal
College at Dillon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
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KoISo'S CABINET STRUCTURE

KOISO'S CABINET STRUCTURE
Premier Gen. Kuniak Koiso's re
cent appointment of a technical plan
ming board to assist his cabinet calls
attention to two major tendencies that
have marked his stewardship even
since <he took over the reins of gov
eminent from Gen Hideki TOTO on
July 20.
Koiso has worked consistently to
strengthen and broaden the base of
his regime, giving representation in
side the cabinet to other groups be-
sides the militarists on united
| front" basis. At the same time he
has sought to pull together the loose
strings of administration, setting up
a streamlined bureaucracy to try to
set Japan's economy in order before
Allied bombs and blockade hit Japan
where she lives.
Japan is heavily dependent on raw
materials she has been getting from
the occupied regions of South Asia,
now threatened by blockade as con-
sequences of the American invasion
of the Philippines. The military ad
vance in the Pacific, in addition, has
brought the longrange B-29's within
range of the industrial plants on
which the Japanese war effort relies.
With bombings and the shadow Of
blockade creating morale as well as
economic problems in Japan, Koiso
established in August an overall SUI
preme council for the director of the
war, with the economic and political
arms being represented as well as
the military. Up to that point, the
direction of the war had been in the
hands of supreme war council COM
posed exclusively of army and navy
leaders.
A second step in the direction of
Strengthening the base of government
was the formation within the cabinet
of little cabinet of policy makers,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17

The court in a vOluminous
opinion, prepared for the in
formation Of the legal profess
sion of the state, denied the
motion, on the grounds that the
minutes and records of the
court are in no particular false
or misleading; that they COM
ply to the letter with the require
ments of the Montana law. The court
in its opinion, went into great detail,
quoting excerpts from its records and
minutes and showing that they COM
piled with legal requirements.
The court stated that the purpose
of minutes was not ''to show the
hourly or daily attendance of the vari-
GUS justices comprising the court, and
the minutes of this court do not con-
stitute time book or attendance rec
ord of the justices.
1t explained that seven decisions of
the supreme court, signed by Asso-
ciate Justice Erickson and delivered
by the court during the alleged alb
sense from the state of Erickson, had
been before the court for considera-
BILE time and the majority decision
had been reached by the court before
Erickson's departure, participated in
and signed by him.
The Niewoehner motion was criti-
cized by the courts opinion which |
states: "The major portion of the mo-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
new TAX
EXEMPTION
Certificates

Lewis Penwell, collector of Internal
Revenue, advises that information has
been received from the Bureau of In
ternaI Revenue to the effect that all
employees, that is, salary and wage
earners, who are subject to the with
holding tax will be required to file
new Withholding exemption certifi-
Gates with their employers not later
than December /, 1914.
The new law changed the method
of counting exemptions, and therefore
made it necessary to get new certif-
icates from all employees who work
for wages or salary from which in
come tax is withheld. The new GER
tificates must be filed to enable en-
ployers to give their employees the
proper exemptions from withholding
on all wages paid on and after Janu-
airy /, 1915. All old exemption GER
tificates now in use will expire auto
matically December 81, 1914.
Mr.. Penwell also says that an Off
cial leaflet has been printed to help
employees understand and fill out the
new exemption certificates. The leaf
let will be distributed by employers
along with the new certificate forms.
Pointing out that the law does not
permit an employee to receive any
Withholding exemption after January
unless he has given his employer a
new certificates, Mr. Penwell urged
all employees to fill out their certifi-
Gates and give them to their employ
ers without fail.
He added that, although the new
certificates will not become effective
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
F. U. TO HOLD
End Wartime


The second wartime convention OF
the National Farmers Union is SEIZED.
uled to be held in Denver November
20 to % inclusive No convention
was held by the national organization
last year.
Among the speakers who will adj
dress the convention are: Secretary
of Agriculture Claude Wickard; Jona-
than Daniels, executive assistant to
President Roosevelt; Msgr. L. G. Lii
gutti, director of the Catholic Rural
Life Conference; Morris Rosenthal of
the New York City firm of Stein and
Hall; Glenn ]. Talbot, president of
the North Dakota Farmers Union and
NJ W. Thatcher, general manager of
the Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association.
ID. w. Chapman, president of the
Montana Farmers Union and Mrs. Mil
dred Stoltz, state director of educa-
ton of the Montana organization will
be among the Montana members who
will attend the convention.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17

the outsiders, including even
the foes of Co-ops, that coop
Grafton pays, are dividend
checks that go out to farmers
and their local elevators and
the sound commodity legisla-
ton for which GTA has been
responsible.
Proof of what GTA has done, just
in making savings at the market
place, is graphically portrayed in the
display of just a few of the thousands
of checks that went out this summer
to retire the 1889 patronage stock
In six years the farmers have saved
over $6,O00,OOO through GTA, in adj
dition to securing strong, vigorous
representation on legislative matters.
That is why each year more and
more stockholders make every effort
to attend the stockholders meetings.
They know that GTA is their organi-
cation, that it belongs to them and
works for them.
They are willing to undergo the in
conveniences of wartime travel, be-
cause the meetings more than COM
pensate for these discomforts. They
know that these meetings are not just
convention excursions, but serious
gatherings of farmers who have bust
ness to tend to.
Speaking for the Farmers
These will be the delegates who
will speak for thousands upon thou
sands of farmers in North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Mime
sofa, representing and reflecting a
real cross-section of farmer opinion
in these great grain states.
AT GTA preliminary plans already
have been made to assist delegates
in every way to ease difficulties of
wartime travel
To assist all stockholders as much
as possible, GTA is sending out Gre
Dental and reservation blanks this
month, nearly two months before the
December gathering. In this manner
it is hoped that much of the prelim
mary work will be completed well in
advance of the meeting.
Make Your Plans Now
For instance, it will be necessary
to make all room arrangements for
room reservations by mid-November.
There is possibility of scarcity of
'ooms in hotels. Reservations must
)e made in the names of accredited
delegates. For this reason delegates
ihould be selected as promptly as
possible, and the accompanying room
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17

(This material is prepared by the
Office of War Information from in
formation contained N foreign
broadcasts and foreign newspapers,
and from other data received by the
OWL through various overseas chan
nels)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
A TOKYO WEDGE

Japanese propagandist, who for
some time have been concentrating
on driving wedge between Chung
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
THOUSANDS OF NV.
PRODUCERS TO ATTEND
SESSIONS IN ST. PAUL
Seventh Annual Program of the Farmers
Union Grain Terminal Association to be
Largest Cooperative Gathering; Delegates
To Map Future Course; Farmers Have
Saved Over $6,000,000 in Six Years

Thousands upon thousands of grain producers will take up
challenge hurled them and their cooperatves by Coop
seventh annual stockholders meeting of Farmers
Union Grain Terminal Association at the Lowry Hotel St Paul.
December IL to a. Best evidence that cooperation
loyalty understanding of its members Best proof to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-11-17
SUPREME COURT DENIES
N|EW0EHNER MOTION TO
CORRECT COURT MINUTES
Accepts Motion Filed AS of October Z and
Formally Denies state Hlstegasssl Library : he
n mi Mr.. Capitol Bldg NJ
False or Misleading; Refuses to Consider
s'Extraneous Matters

The Montana Supreme Court Wednesday of this week,
accepted as October the motion filed by George New
oehner White Sulphur Springs attorney asking that the min
of the court be corrected claiming that they
indicated of Associate Justice Left Erickson at times
when he absent from the court and from the state
The southern news., 1944-09-16
BROWNELL ISSUES STATEMENT
AFTER TALK WITH RACE GROUP


Herbert Brewnell. Jr., National
Republican Chairman, who met
Wednesday with delegation of
Negro leaders from the eastern
seaboard. said today their reports
to him indicate a steady rise of
Negro sentiment for the Dewey
Bricker ticket"
The delegation, headed by Bish-
op David H. Sims of Philadelphia,
represented an area from Boston
to Washington.
Mr.. Brownell. one of whose first
acts as National Chairman was to
approve policy of mo jim
Crow-ism" in the Republican cam
paign organization. summarized his
conference with the delegation as
follows:
II was grateful for the oppor-
tunity to discuss with the COM
mittee of the Eastern Division of
Negro Republicans, methods Of
presenting to voters the issues of
the Presidential campaign, includ-
ing the all-important issue of the
N egro citizens constitutional
rights. These are constantly being
Haunted by the New Dealers.
THE committee indorsed and
expressed appreciation for con-
trasting policy as exemplified by
the party platform and our declar-
The southern news., 1944-09-16
Will Work For Better
Postwar World
For Negroes

NEW YORK - Heartening evi-
dence of an enlightened point of
view on the race problem on the
part of southern white Army men.
was revealed in a letter to Walter
White In which advice on the pro-
per procedure to take to help
Negroes in their fight for equality,
was asked.
Writing from the South Pacific,
after a successful defeat of the
enemy In the Marianas, the Staff
Sgt. "a former radio announcer in
Southern city,, declared I'VE
have another enemy 1t is the at
tempt to hold back the colored
people of the United States. When
| return to North Carolina after
the war l am going to fight for
the betterment of those colored
folks. 1 am a white fellow, but
am a Christian who deeply feels
the colored folks as a whole, if
educated can gain their rightful
equal rights"
In commenting the NAACP said,
1T is our contention that recog-
milton and encouragement of con-
siderable enlightened opinion of
this kind of postwar racial trag
edies which followed World War
l."
The southern news., 1944-09-16

alton against segregation. along
racial lines, within the Republican
campaign organization.
Il discussed with the committee
the situation in Georgia. where
New Dealers lnstigated the barring
from the ballot Of electors chosen
by a bi-racial group of Republic
ans recognized by the Party's ma
tional convention.
II told them that 1 had ordered
law suit instituted to restore
these electors to the ballot, In
place OF those substituted by a So
called White Republican group
recognized by the Democratic
Secretary of State of Georgia but
NOT by the Republican National
Convention. l pledged to the com
mittee. as I do to all Negroes, that
the Republican National Commit
tee will use every legitimate means
to enforce their restoration.
The committee gave me a re-
sumo of their activities. Their re-
ports indicate a steady rise of
Negro sentiment for the Dewey
Bricker ticket
Il told the committee members
that l will announce soon the
names of additional prominent Ne
groes who will be active in the
Dewey Bricker campaign
The southern news., 1944-09-16
Gov. Dewey Appoints
Mrs. M. V. BOutte To
Important Position

ALBANY. N. Y. - Governor
Dewey today APPOINTED Mrs. Mat
thew V. Boutte of New. York City.
as a member of the Board of Wis
itors of the New York State Train
ing School for Boys at Warwick,
N. Y. Mrs. Boutte was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of Doug
las P. Falconer of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who recently resigned. Mrs.
Boutte's term runs until February.
1947.
Mrs. Boutee, who resides at 2301
Seventh Avenue. N. Y. c.. has
been medical social worker at
Post Graduate Hospital in New
York City. for the past twelve
years. She resigned her position
recently to devote her time to
volunteer welfare work in the
city.
Mrs. Boutte was born in st.
Martinsville. La. February 27,
1885. She was graduated from
Fisk University. Nashville, Tenn,
in 1913 and received a B. s. de-
gree from Teachers College. Col
umbia University, New York City,
in 1924. In 1925. she received her
Masters degree from Paris Uni
versity Paris, France.
From 1887 to 1941, she contin-
ued her post graduate study at
the New York School of Social
Work.
Mrs. Boutte is president of the