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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30

Four witnesses, all experts in the
field of hydroelectric power, added
the weight of their experience to
the gathering concensus of opinion on
the strategic importance of power In
making the "age Of light metals" a
reality, in testimony developed before
the senate committee on small bust
ness last week.
The raw materials from which light
metals are taken, mainly bauxite, sea
water and brine, are turned into fin
ished products by the application of
power great volumes Of power. Pow
er thus becomes the chief eyener of
competition. The witnesses at the SEN
ate hearing, therefore stressed the
nearness of power as leading factor
for consideration not only in fixing a
government policy for the future dis
posal of aluminium and magnesium
plants but also for consideration by
Independent industrialists who may be
seeking an opening into this new
field
The witnesses were Dr. Paul j.
Raver, administrator, and Samuel Mo-
ment, chief of the market analysis sec
ton, Bonneville Power Administra-
ton; G. o. Wessenauer, manager of
power, and John P. Ferris, director of
the commerce department, Tennessee
Valley Authority.
Chairman James e. Murray conduct
ed the hearings, being joined in in
terrogating the witnesses by his col
leagues on the small business commit
tee, Senators Mcmahon, Capper,
Wherry, and Hart
Dr. Raver reviewed the record of
the Bonneville Power Administration
in selling power to the large fabri-
Gators Of aluminium. He informed the
senators that his project in point of
power production is the third largest
power system in the country. 1t pro-
duced 91a billion kilowatt hours last
year, and at the present time Is pro-
viding at wholesale more than half
Of the energy of all utility systems
both public and private in Oregon and
Indirectly and directly
it has provided much of the energy
needed for the enormous shipbuilding
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
The MISSOURI VALLEY AUTHORITY

The economy of the region, which
is one of the nations richest will be
advanced Areas which have gone
| backward in recent years because of
drouth and erosion will get new life
and will contribute to the national
wealth. Highways, railroads and air.
lines will be buster than ever.
1t is true many of the projects con-
templated in the MVA plan already
have received the diligent attention of
various federal agencies. The recla-
nation bureau, the corps of engineers,
the soil conservation service, the fish
and wild kife service, and the geologi-
cal survey have conducted extensive
research, developed excellent plans
and in some instances executed i'm
portant projects nthis area 1t Is not
the purpose of an MVA to scrap the
accomplishments of these excellent
agencies The MVA, however, will
supply the unified, co-ordinated and
| elastic management, on the pattern
of the Tennessee Valley authority,
which is so necessary to a satisfac-
tory overall program for the Missouri
river drainage BASIN
In the revised bill now before con-
gress, which has been introduced also
in the house by Rep. John ]. Coch-
ran of Missouri, an effort has been
made to deal with those special con-
ditions and situations which differen-
tate the Missouri valley from the
Tennessee valley.
At the same time there has been
retained in this bill the basic princi-
pie of autonomous regional admins
tration, the flexible business manage
ment from headquarters right in the
area, which has contributed so much
to the success of the IVA.
New features in the bill give the
highest degree of protection to the es-
tablished water rights in the western
states of the region and provide for
the development of public lands and
the extension of irrigation in a way
to encourage family-type farming.
Specifically, the revised measure as
sures the up-river states where irri-
cation is practiced that there will be
no impairment of water rights which
have been established under state
laws, and that if stream-flow from wa
tiers arising west Of the 9Sth meridian
is insufficient for both consumptive
uses Including irrigation) and navi-
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
By SEN. JAMES E. MURRAY

By SEN. JAMES E. M URRAY
The broad purpose of the Missouri.
Valley authority as proposed in the
bill | have introduced in the senate
IS. $500 is sound development of the
Missouri river basin for the benefit
of the people of the area and for the
national welfare. For the early post
war period the MVA program should
provide vigorous stimulation of EN-
ployment and business activity not
only in the Missouri valley but also
widely in other sections which would
be called on to supply equipment and
materials for construction.
Intelligent and effective control and
utilization of the waters of the Mis-
souri, river and it's tributaries must
be provided. This is fundamental in
the plan for an MVA, where the pub
lie interest comes first.
The gains are many, but foremost
are these: Protection of two million
to three million acres of rich crop
lands on the lower stretches of the
Missouri and its main tributaries from
annual destructive floods; conserva-
ton of much of the excess stream
flow which would have caused floods
so that in due season it may be used
to give productive life to nearly five
million acres of fertile land in the arid
plains and mountain valleys; low-cost
production of perhaps 10 million kilo-
watt hours year of electricity to add
to the comforts and profits of farm
life and to promote industry through
out the area; improvement of navi-
cation on the main stem of the Mis-
souri, to the extent economically justi-
fled and compatible with the benefit
cial consumptive uses of the waters
of the controlled river system.
Achievement of these primary OBJ
jectives calls for an intelligent pro-
gram of land conservation - protec-
ton of the soil against erosion by wa
ter and wind, planting of trees and
other vegetation which will retard rum
off and help hold precious water in
the ground, the rebuilding and main
tenance of fertility so that the land
may remain a valuable national as
set.
Out of all these benefits grows an
other major one = promotion of wild
life fish, game and birds, and develop
ment of the regions vast recreational
possibilities in it's streams, lakes for
ests and mountains.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
NO PRIMARY

Word of a decision of the SUI
preme court that no primary cleo
ton for nominating candidates for
congress will be held is received
as we go to press. The decision
says that q. nominees to be
placed on the ballot at the special
election to be held =. June 5, 1915,
must be chosen pursuant to Section
612 as amended -. (party conven-
tions) or by Section 615 :, (peti-
tion)."
Associate Justice Adair dissented.
A complete story will be in next
weeks issue.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Signatures Lag on n. r. 7
DISCHARGE Petition

Signatures Lag on n. r.
Discharge Petition
Only 140 congressman had affixed
their signatures to house discharge pc
tition No. 1, to bring H.R. (anti
poll tax bilD up for action, as of yes
terday
This means that not more than hall
the representatives who signed the
discharge petition in 1943 and are still
in congress, have yet signed.
This means that you and your or
ganization haven't yet done their job.
Your representative is waiting to
hear from you.
Chances are, he will stall as long
as he can, until your pressure gets
great enough. Every letter, every res
olution, every telegram counts, just
as every shot fire in battle is i'm
portant.
First order of legislative business
is to see that your congressman signs
discharge petition No. 1 before the
house recesses for the Easter yaca-
ton end of next week. Do it with
wires.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30

Subsequently our purchases increased
to 1,370,000,000 pounds, about the
same amount as could be now pro-
duced by all government plants. In
the same month on May II, 1941, the
Bonneville Power Administration was
advised by the war department that
aluminium was urgently needed and
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
NORTHERN PACIFIC R.R.
REFUSED new GRADE
CROSSING. IN LIVINGSTON
Method of
Supreme Courif ss' 70 s'asa' Library Method of
Business Mems Application y County
Commissioners for Condemnation Of
Property for Right Of Way for New
Stretch of Highway Crossing N. P Tracks.

Reversing decision Of the district court in Park county
January 1914 granting the county commissioners
Park county the right to condemn property belonging
Miller of Livingston for the of constructing
stretch of highway crossing the Northern Pacific tracks
city, March 81 denied the right of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30

Following up campaign of fasehoods and vcation of
Jerry OConnel the c. o. Political Action committee and
program of teng liberal candidates in the election
pagn year with its smearing story that OConne
been ordered to make his the state
capital that this order reported to stem directly
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
Long, Long Road
of State Repeal

South Carolina is an example OF
why federal poll tax repeal CHR. y
is needed, must be passed now. Last
week the S. c. senate passed the near
est thing it could get to a repeal OF
the poll tax in that state, sent it to
the assembly. Only on senator voted
against it. But the process has only
begun. The measure must now be
approved by two-thirds of the assem-
bly,. After that it goes to a statewide
referendum lin which only those citi-
zens who have paid their poll tax
can participate). After that it has to
go back and be passed all over again
by both houses of the state legisla-
ture, in 1947. Passage of H.R. by
the congress would permit voting for
all federal offices without poll tax
payment at the very next election.
South Carolinians, of course, will have
to wait until their state repeater
passes before the price-tag is taken
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-30
STORY BY BRASS CHECK
WRITER IN 4. c. M. CO.
PRESS NAILED AS LIE

Story About Jerry O'Connell Being Ousted
AS Executive Secretary of Democratic
Party in Washington and Forbidden to
Frequent Legislative Halls in Olympia
Proved a Complete Falsehood.
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22
"OVERTONES" Henningburg
CONTINUED FROM PACE IL

of seige.
In China, in Java. In Palestine, and in
Iran open conflict is under way, or is in the
making. The nations which were allies a
short time ago have already begun to give
voice to an underlying suspicion which was
there all the time, but was almost never
mentioned. On the home front, we have not
yet mustered the courage necessary. to give
democracy a breathing chance. We make
plans with agile minds but we fail to carry
them out because we have lost spirit. We
have lost spirit because leadership in this
country is too largely in the hands of men
who basically do not represent the Ameri-
can ideals at all. 1t is just as impossible for
a man who goes to Congress from the spiri-
tual mOrass of South Carolina to work af-
fectively toward world democracy as it is
for a mule which has spent all its life in the
bowels of a coal mine to find it's wav about
in the bright sunlight.
Just the same, every individual in this
country has the obligation to make Christ
mas ring true for as many as he can The
best place to start is where you are and the
time is now. Don't make the mistake of be-
lieving that courtesy has to begin across the
street, and that friendliness has no place
at your own breakfast table. This job Of be-
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22

Published Continuously for Is Years.

lieve that they can tell an honest face when
they see one, and that type always falls the
hardest. They don't know that the smooth
est crooks always have the most honest
faces, and they probably nave not heard the
famous words Of Barnum's: "There's a
sucker born every minute, and someone to
take him."
Initiation Is Here:
In Washington and mNew York, and in
the other money centers of the United
States, there has been much talk about the
dangers Of initiation. OPA has put up a
strong fight to stave it off. and the Trea-
sury Department has helped the nation
keep it's balance by making the buying of
War Bonds an attractive investment. But
initiation is here, in spite of all our efforts
to the contrary. If you don't believe it, try
to buy a shirt which cost dollar and a
half before the war. If the shirt now costs
four dollars, we have initiation. "A dollar has
no more value than the amount of good
can purchase with it, which simply means
that when prices go up, the value of the
dollar goes down. When prices 60 too high
standards Of living drop and there is am
other depression. All Of us can help now by
purchasing only the necessities of life, and
without anyway.
waiting for the things we've learned to do
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22

ing kind and considerate of others isn't a
Sunday responsibility; it's an everyday OPP
portunity. Let's think less of what we shall
buy for our loved ones this Christmas. and
a little more Of what we shall give them of
ourselves.
Watch The Swindlers:
Our boys who are coming back have
saved up amazing totals of money, running
into millions Of dollars. Many Of them have
saved because there was nothing else to do,
and m~any.others have kept their money be-
cause they want to buy a home, or to start
a business Of their own. But on every corn
er IN my town and in yours, there are swind-
lers OF both seXes ready to rob these men
OF their last penny. The Better Business
Bureau estimates that there are hundreds
OF schemes already being worked, and that
the number increases by the day. There is
the guy who offers a lonely veteran a place
to spend the night, and who robs him and
and leaves before daylight. There are the
hussles who stir up excitement in a man
who has been woman hungry for months,
and calmly feeds him knockout drops SO
that their pals can take his money, and
sometimes even his clothing. And doorbells
are being rung all over the country bv dis
honest peddlers who ask for a stable a.
mount down on some household commodity
which is never delivered. Some folks be-
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22
PORT BATTALION SENDS
1926 TO NAACP.

New York. Memberships and
contributions in the amount of
1926 have been received by the N
AACP from the men OF -ne Head
quarters company, 510th Port Bat
TALON on the island of Tinian in
the Marianas. 4
The membership campaign was
assisted by Seaman Lester Cole of
the Sixth Construction Brigade
United States Navy, who provided
the Army contingent with NAACF
literature and campaign material.
The membership drive in the bat
talon was directed by LIST Sgts
James PARROT, Joseph Campbell
and Foster w. Scott of the 290th
31Oth and 632nd Port companies
spectively. The money was trar
shifted by Second Lieutenant 81
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22
CLAIR METHODIST CHURCH


Rev. Reynolds will deliver his
Christmas Message this coming
Sunday morning from the theme,
'"The Heavenly Purpose Fulfilled"
The Choir will give support in ap-
pirate music. In the evening at
6 o'clock the Sunday school will
render its Christmas Program and
Tree. We urge the attendance OF
all parents and adults to this pro-
gram by our Sunday School. AT
the regular Evening Worship at 8
o'clock, the Clair Church Choir
will render it's Christmas Cantata
THE Great Light. This promis-
es to be an evening of fine music
al inspiration, to which we urge
all III members to be present, and
to which we invite our many
friends.
Clair Church will unite with otn-
er churches in our usual Union
Christmas Services at Zion Bapt-
list Church, Christmas Morning al
6 o'clock. The sermon will be de-
livered by the Rev. E. v. Wade
pastor of Cleaves Temple Church
Music to be furnished by the Unit
ed Choirs. The pastor urged al
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Metoyer
have returned from their trip with
relatives and friends in Shreves-
port, Alexandria and Natcheto-
ches, La.
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22

meon B. Osby, formerly an officer
of the Springfield. Illinois branch
of the NAACP.
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22
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Q Legal Notices

Q Legal Notices
Omaha Guide, st bg Dec. 8
ending Dec. %
Edward j. Dugan, Atty.
PROBATE NOTICE
Blk. IS, p. Asst
: In the matter of the Estate of
GERALD M. BOWDEN, deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given: That
the creditors Of said deceased will
meet the Administrative of said
estate, before me, County Judge
of Douglas County, Nebraska. at
the County Court Room, in said
County, on the LIST day of Febr-
uary, 1916 and on the LIST day Of
April, 1916, at 8 o'clock A. M,
each day, for the purpose of pre-
senting their claims for examin-
alton, adjustment and allowance.
Three months are allowed for the
creditors to present their claims,
from the 31st day of December,
1915.
ROBERT r. TROYER,
County Judge.
The Omaha guide., 1945-12-22

our members to attend this early
Christmas Morning service.
Evening star., 1945-11-29

international anlity and human
rights"
Mr.. Murray said problems of wages
and employment would be solved
easily IF we could obtain genuine
agreement to approach them on a
moral plane in terms of human
rights"
Evening star., 1945-11-29
Complete Occupation
OF Base al Soerabaja
Announced by British
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 29.-The
British command officially an
nounced today the complete occupa-
ton Of the Java naval base city of
Soerabaja-the scene of bitter fight
ing in recent weeks between Indo-
nesian Nationalists and British In
dian troops-and said local ad-
ministration had been set up there
under British control.
Military operations continued
south of Soerabaja where IL Indo-
nesian guns were knocked out yes
terday.
At Bandoeng, the summer capital
IS miles southeast of Batavia, the
commander of the British 37th
Brigade continued negotiations with
Soetardjo, the Indonesian gov
ernor" of West Java. British au-
thorities earlier had issued an ulti-
matum that any Indonesian found
in the northern half of Bandoeng
after noon today would be shot.
The British said other terms of
their ultimatum provided that no
Indonesian civilians be permitted
within 220 yards of any British or
Japanese post and that any. male
civilians manning road blocks would
be shot.
A British communique said Soc
tardjo apparently was trying very
hard" to cooperate, but added that
his efforts were Intellectual since he
had no control over some native
Nationalist elements.
| Mortar fire and sniping continued
from the kampongs surrounding
Bandoeng.
Evacuees from outlying areas are
moving into Bandoeng and creating
la difficult accommodation problem.
Evening star., 1945-11-29
Bishop She'll Assai|s
Oppression in Java

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Auxiliary
Bishop Bernard ]. She'll of Chicago
said last night that Java is a SYM
Dol of the oppressed people of the
East against the explorations of
Western imperialism.
Addressing the Committee of
Catholics for Human Rights, he de-
clared that I'VE have forgotten evil
IDENTIFY that the people of the East
took the principles of the Atlantic
Charter seriously"
TN the Far East we see the
spreading fire of revolt and civil
conflict" the prelate said. China
is even now engaged in a bitter
ifratricidal war Java bleeds under
the guns of England and Holland,
intent on preserving imperial life
lines"
He said the picture in the United
States was brighter, with two i'm
portant areas of conflict-in indus
trial relations and race relations"
Bishop She'll and Philip Murray,
president of the CIO, received
awards from the group as "the
Catholic clergyman and the Catholic
layman who have done the most for
Evening star., 1945-11-29
Weds His Job

Returning from leave to his unit
at Brussels, British Private Tom
Grif1ths, an Army cook, found that
Lance Corporal Miss Blackwell
had taken his job-and promptly
married her.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-14

TO inspect The Hasty Heart"
by John Patrick-for the ad-
vance reports had been enthu-
siastic-and they were still ap-
plauding and cheering when we
left In addition TO the regu-
lars who collect at every
premiere we .loticed 1t. Comdr.
Richard Barthelmess, Edward
Everett Horton, Harry Cohn--
head of Columbia Pictures. and
Lou Irwin the well-known Hol-
lywood agent Celeste Holm,
star of "Blooner Girl" bows in
at a new spot and Is compelled
10 sing a dozen songs before the
assembled patrons permit her to
rest Present were the How
ard Cullmans. John Wilson's,
Nanette Fabray. Myron McCor-
mick, the Wallace Harwoods
and the Leon MandelS-also
that well-known mother. Gypsy
Rose Lee.
nOWN at the Office here.
~ Harvard Hodkins. handsome
17-year-old youngster from
Maine who helped trap Nazi
saboteurs Here is a kid who
liked TO fish and play and was
serious about the Boy Scout
creed :. a Huckleberry Finn
although not ragged or impov-
erished or homeless. At any
rate this good average Ameri-
can boy with his Boy Scout
training was able to help cap
ture two thoroughly schooled
German saboteurs Heck. it's
right out Of one Of the adven-
ture cartoon strips Editor
Frances Whiting Of Cosmopoli-
tan heads an interesting table,
among her companions being
war correspondent Richar d
Tregaskis, Pierre Huss and Bob
Considine, also storyteller Ben
nett Cert -. Natalie Schafer,
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-14

the actress lady. sitting with
George S. Kaufman, conveys a
message from my daughter
whom she met on the coast.
nOC MARCUS, the funnyman,
~ entertains a mixed group in
cluding such diverse characters
as Swiftly Morgan, Milton Berle.
Earl Wilson and Dave Marx -.
Folks along Sixth avenue wav-
ing to a well-known lady trav-
eler in a car bearing the license
tag HIM Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt Later, she attends a
perform ance of Bell for
Adano" and after the final cur
tain makes q little speech back
stage to the cast Novelist
Ellin Mackay Berlin entertains
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Seldes of
the television dynasty with
stories her husband has written
in his letters to her from the
Pacific.
John RINGLING NORTH in
- a friendly huddle with his
beautiful wife from whom he is
legally parted North leaves
in a day or two to take an ac-
tive hand In running his new
night club in Sarasota On
West SIND street, Irving Hoff-
man, the columnist, dramatic
critic and cartoonist. admits
that he had been offered the
post OF movie critic for the Sat-
urday Review Of Literature but
has declined The prestige
would 90 10 my head" he insists
At Sardi's. James Mont
gomery F1agg. who looks more
and more as II he stepped out
of his own Uncle Sam posters.
sits at his favorite table-under
the Alex Gard caricature of the
late Daniel Frohman -. Snap
shots!