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Evening star., 1945-08-30
II Montgomery Youths
Enter Armed Services

Seventeen youths from the Be.
thesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac
tMd.) areas were inducted into the
armed forces this week, Montgom-
cry County Draft Board No. 3 an.
nounced today. They are:
william E. Dunford, Kenneth p
Butt, James p. WEIGH, Thomas w
Miller, Lauriston S! Taylor, jr.: John
G. Walker, Norman E. Donnelly, jr.;
Frank L. Hall, George w. Imirie, jr.;
Charles P. Wales, Grant H. Sheldon
Edward c. Pugh, Charles E. Mac
Donald, Phillip s. Holston, John B
Harrison, Terence j. McCarty and
Herbert F. Corn, jr.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
himitz Praises Decision
To Retain Emperor
! the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ABOARD U. S. S. SOUTH DA-
KOTA, Tokyo Bay, Aug. 30.-Ad-
miral Nimitz said last night he
thought it was wise to allow the jap
anese to retain their Emperor.
II think" he said, that the wis
dom Of the Potsdam declaration and
clarincation (Which allowed the
Emperor to remain) has already
been shown by the peacefulness to-
night.
There has been no hostile act
and that, I think, is because of the
Emperor"
The admiral asserted that the
Japanese surrender had come earlier
than expected by the Allies and dis
closed that his own victory guess
jotted down on a piece of paper
more than two years ago-had been
December 81, 1945.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
James B. Fitzgerald,
Prominent Attorney
And | Legionnaire, Die!

James Blaine Fitzgerald, So, prom
inent Washington and Maryland
attorney and nationally known
American Legion member, died yes
terday at his home, East Under
wood street, Chevy Chase. He had
been i'll about year following an
operation.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was a member of
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Low Flying in Arlington
Protested to Services

The Civil Aeronautics Administra-
tion has directed the attention of
the Army and Navy air forces in the
Washington area to reports received
by Arlington County officials Of low
flying planes over the county.
County Manager Frank c. Hanra-
han, who referred complaints OF low
flying planes to the CAA, said he
was informed by that agency that it
mas reminded the service air forces
that planes are required to ny at
o minimum altitude Of 500 feet over
open country, and 1000 feet over
congested areas.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
james l. Fieser Leuvinq
Red Cross After II Years

James L. Fieser will end q years
with the American Red Cross, % OF
them as vice chairman of the or
ganization, when he leaves to be-
come assistant to the president OF
the National Safety Council.
MIR. Fieser who lives at 5000 Edge
moor lane, Bethesda, joined the Red
Cross in 1913 when there were only
so member chapters scattered
throughout the country. That num-
Der has swelled today to more than
3,700 with more than 5000, 900 peo-
pie engaged in its humanitarian
work.
Evening star., 1945-08-30

You can take it from some of the
girls awaiting discharges at the
Naval Barracks Separation Center
nothing looks better to them right
now than the prospects Of trading a
natty WAVE uniform for an apron
and broom.
Marriage, a home where the
feminine touch counts for some
thing, clothes that don't all look
alike-those were their dreams today
expressed generally enough to con-
vince all that the postwar Navy
will be safe for the bell-bottom
trouser brigade.
Such were the ambitions of Yeo-
man &c Margaret Howe of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, who soon will be
plain and ordinary" Mrs. C. K
Howe. She won't altogether lose
her Navy contacts for a while, how
ever, for sailor husband is await
ing her in Pennsylvania, where he
Is stationed.
ut Will Be Mighty Nice"
It'll be good to have time to read
and things like that for a change, =
she said. I'm the Navy it has been
work all day and washing and
ironing all night"
Mrs. Howe looked young and
pretty, but bit tired after two days
OF examinations looking to her dis
charge. But it was fun to talk about
such things as going bare-legged
wearing ear rings again, and friif
clothes, evening dresses and long
bob.
All thoughts of Storekeeper liz
M. K. Chesley of Haverhill, Mass.
were for next Sunday That's the
day marry him." she sighed. She
and her doctor husband will live In
Worcester, Mass.
War worries were not over TO,
Yeoman lfc Margaret Ann Hediger
MY husband was a paratrooper
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Bonk Officials Invited
To Meeting in Stuunton
~ the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, Va, Aug. 30.ABank
officials of Staunton, Waynesborc
and Augusta Counties have been
extended invitations to attend a
discussion tomorrow evening in the
county courthouse, at which Charles
T. O'Neil, Charlottesville banker
will be leader.
The meeting is one of a series of
workshop gatherings sponsored by
the joint Ruritan Clubs of the
county and the Staunton- Augusta
Chamber of Commerce, Waynesboro
Chamber of Commerce and Lions
Club of Craigsville.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
|OPA Board Changes Hours

The Alexandria Ration Board has
adopted new hours and will be open
from 8 am. to 3 pm. Monday
through Friday, according to an an
|nouncement by James s. Douglas,
executive secretary. The board is
disseminating its Saturday morning
and Wednesday night hours and
viii be closed all day on Labor Day.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
People Leaving State
Escape Income Levy

By the ASSoclateu PreSS.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 31.-Persons
who leave Maryland permanently
without paying their State income
taxes cannot be made to pay them
later, Joseph O'C. McCusker, chief
deputy controller, reported.
He explained there was no inter-
state provision which makes filing
by a former Maryland employe
mandatory once he has moved from
the State.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Seven Escape Collapse
OF Baltimore BuiIdino

Ey the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 30. - Seven
persons residing in a three-story
building here escaped injury early
yesterday when the front wall of
the structure collapsed, throwing
a pile of bricks and mortar on the
sidewalk.
Evening star., 1945-08-30

in the Philippines. and now the
paratroopers have gone to Japan. ]
hope he's not going to be used in
the occupation forces, but all I can
do Is wait and hope"
Here are the plans of some of the
others about to step into civilian
garb:
Mrs. T. r. Elder, San Francisco
Reunion in Seattle, Wash, with her
husband, chief gunner in the Navy
Yeoman 1/c Mary Jan Whitner
Reading, Pa.-Everything depends
on when he pops the question.
Mrs. Ellen Mascara, New York
Fixing up the fiat for her husband
who beat her out of the service by
year.
Mrs. Clara Diringer, Kansas
Plenty of home life, as much of il
as possible with her sailor husband
Paul L. Diringer, whom she met
here.
May Remain Here.
Yeoman 1/c Catherine B. Grasty
a Notwithstanding in particular
perhaps a secretarial job in Wash
ington
Chief Storekeeper Margaret Phil.
lips. Minnesota-A college educa.
ton at the University of Wisconsin
with the help of the GI Bill O.
Rights.
Yeoman &c Marjorie Croaks, New
York City-Perhaps wedding bells
| II not. job at the University O.
Rochester.
Yeoman l/c Blanche Kelley, Lo
Angeles-A secretarial job with al
oil company in California.
Storekeeper l/cs Virginia Schick
Elkins,s Pa.-She thinks her formel
shipmates would do well to marry
but for herself-well, she still i
restless and will join the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, or the Red Cross
for service overseas.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22
OUR PERIL is CONSERVATISM

lature, deep seated corruption exist
ing for thirty years in that branch Of
our government.
Electricity is the prime utility Of
modern civilization. Statistics com
piled by the Federal Power Commits
sion shoy that for all electric current
used in Montana, we paid in 1914
five million dollars more than we
would have paid under power rates
charged by the Tennessee Valley
Authority, United States owned cor
poration. And yet our governor, and
some other state officials, spend their
time stupidity preaching that we
should not welcome a similar author
ity in eastern and central Montana
over the Missouri river, and similar
authority In western Montana over
our feeding streams of the Columbia.
Every governor of the states served
by the Tennessee Valley Authority
speaks with the highest praise of the
prosperity that the federal owned cor
poration has brought in his respective
state. They loudly proclaim that such
arguments as are made by our gov
ernor against the Missouri valley and
Columbia valley authorities are not
borne out by the facts concerning the
greatest experiment for helping the
common man and the small business
man ever made by our government,
or in fact, by any national govern
ment
These excessive freight rates, I'M
controlled prices of insurance, excess
sive rates for electricity, are the three
great drains on our state economy;
it is all artificial-not natural. 1t is
kept so by enormous sums of money
spent in elections. The allies, the
corporations and gamblers, promoters
of vice, who spend this money to elect
their choice for governor, pay the
fiddler, and, call the tune.
Our last election disgraced Montana
in the eyes of the nation. The Ford
for Governor committees filed their
report showing $4,000 expend's for
Ford's election; that was only part of
the actual expense. If the advertis-
ing space in newspapers and on bill
boards, the radio talks, the travelling
of $1,000 day men and women heel
ers, saloon swampers, professional
gamblers around the state, working
for our governors return to office
were all counted, the cost of his cleo
ton was probably above $250,000.
This is a Disgrace national dis
grace. Montana is known elsewhere
as rotten borough. 1t is thrown
up to our young people when they
travel beyond our state limits, and
they have no answer, and they realize
the truth, and, once outside, stay out
Of a state controlled by railroads, in
surance companies, utility companies,
companies, and a pernicious
press, whose annual deficits are met
by absentee landlords, and whose
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22

education and information on
| the reasons for establishing an
MVA.
1t has been called by a provisional
Regional Committee for MVA, formed
at a Jefferson City, Mo-, conference
May II and IL. The provisional or
ganization is headed by Left Erickson
of Helena, Mont, former Montana
supreme court justice and president
of the Montana MVA Association, and
includes John e. Wetzig, business
manager of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers Local 124,
Kansas City, Mo-, as treasurer. The
committee recently opened an office
in 27S Aquila Court Bldg, Omaha,
under the charge of John H. Becker,
Jr., formerly with the st. Louis Com
mittee for MVA.
Invitations to the conference, re-
stricted in number by Office of De-
Tense Transportation regulations, are
going to progressive-minded business
and professional men, and to leaders
of church, cooperative, veterans and
women's groups, in addition to the
labor and farm organization officials.
AFL leaders asked to participate in
the meeting include A. A. Couch of
the Iowa State Federation of Labor;
John Schoen, secretary of the Sioux
City, Iowa, Central Trades and Labor
Assembly; Joseph CHASER of the North
Dakota Federation of Labor executive
B. l. Steinmetz, president
of the Cascade County Trades and
Labor Assembly, Montana; ]. j.
president of the Nebraska
of Labor; Howard Slough
on of the Omaha Central Trades and
Labor Union; and representatives of
he Omaha Building Trades Council
CLIO officials invited include Will
lam Sentner, president of United
Radio e Machine Workers
District s, st. Louis; James A. Davis,
secretary of the CLIO National Com
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22
DEPT. OF LABOR
CAUTIONS ABOUT
CHILD LABOR

With many inexperienced boys and
girls offering to work on farms in an
effort to aid where they can in pro-
noting the war, Mrs. Hayle Cavanor,
regional Owl radio chief urged today
that every possible precaution be
taken to provide for their safety.
Mrs. Cavanor's statement was made
| in connection with the current stop
accident campaign being conducted by
the Owl, 10 other federal agencies,
and the American Red Cross.
MANY farm children have always
worked on their own farms, but since
Pearl Harbor, about a million city
boys and girls under IS, inexperienced
in farm work, have helped with the
crops" Mrs. Cavanor pointed out.
Young workers have been injured
while operating farm machinery, han
ding farm animals, picking tree fruit,
lifting heavy objects, using ladders
and cutting tools, through exposure
to the sun and heat, and while being
transported to and from work
Farm work should be carefully as
signed to these young people, and
the lightest and safest jobs given to
the younger children.
only children old enough and phys
ically capable of doing the work
should be chosen.
They should be trained in safety
and carefully supervised during work
and transportation"
Last year 1920 farm people were
killed in the United States, $500 of
them at agricultural work, according
to Mrs Cavanor.
Accidents to farmers during q
typical year lost double the amount
of time needed to produce the average
annual wheat crop in the United
States" she said
AS an aid to both children and EN-
ployers Mrs. Cavanor directed atten-
ton to the leaflet, young Agricul- |
tural Workers in Wartime and After
ward" which may be secured from |
the children's bureau of the u. s. |
Department Of Labor, Washington, |
d. c.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22

mittee for MVA and secretary of the
Missouri Industrial Union Council;
Orwell T. Champ and George Paulson,
secretary and field representative re-
spectively of the Iowa-Nebraska States
Industrial Union Council; Frank
Cronin, clio regional director Omaha;
H. j. Yount, secretary of the Kansas
Industrial Union Council; w. A. Ur-
ban, secretary of the Wyoming Indus
trial Union Council; Mike Lacey,
president of the Montana Industrial
Union Council; and Thomas Long,
secretary of the Colorado Industrial
Union Council.
The National Farmers Union and
state Farmers Unions will be repre-
scented by the following: Glenn ]. Tai
bolt, chairman of the National Farm
ers Union Resources Development
Committee and president of the North
Dakota Farmers Union; Hans C. Han
sen ofg Hemingford, Nebr., member
of the National Farmers Union board;
Oscar Fosheim and Emil Loriks, presi-
dent and secretary respectively of the
South Dakota Farmers Union; Don
W. Chapman, president of the Mon
tana Farmers Union; Ernest X. Dean,
president of the Kansas Farmers I'm
ion; Edward e. Roelofs, secretary of
the Iowa Farmers Union; Chris Milius
and Henry Petersen, president and
board member respectively of the
Nebraska Farmers Union; Harvey
president Rocky Mountain
Farmers Union; and Benton ]. Stong,
editor of the National Union Farmer"
The regional committee has also In
vited other farm organization officials,
F. " Heinkel, president of
the Missouri Farmers Association; Fl.
b. Slusher, president of the Missouri
Farm Bureau; John Darrogh, vice
president of the Montana Farm Blu
reau; and Rudolph Johnson, secretary
of the Colorado State Grange.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22
EDUCATION
MUST PROVIDE
LEADERSHIP

Emphasizing that the Montana
educational system SIS worse off in
relation to the rest of the nation than
| it was 20 years ago." University Presi-
dent Ernest O. Melby said in con-
vocation address at university hall
this week that the only way to put
Montana on the map Is for teachers
to have the courage to help children
and adults to better understanding
of the state and its problems.
Deploring the lack of free speech
permitted public office holders in
Montana, DR.. Melby said he had come
from Minnesota, where everyone
spoke his mind on state problems or
on any topic which required open dis
cussion.
"After my first speech tour in this
state, | received a letter from SUI
perintendent of schools, who referred
to some of my remarks and COM
mented, You can't say that and ex-
pect to stay in Montana"
Before an audience consisting of
university summer school teachers
and other students, DR.. Melby said:
Montana needs larger population
after the war, and | doubt that this
state will realize its proportionate
share of returning service men and
war workers because Montana APP
pears to be headed toward a continual
ton of its present colonial economy"
The university president, who will
resign the position to become dean
of education at New York university
in September, said that Montana is
a land of wide open spaces" ripe for
development, factories and industries,
much more desirable for people than
large overcrowded centers of popula-
ton elsewhere; yet nothing is being
done" to attract outsiders and former
residents who have moved to other
areas.
you teachers must do more than
teach reading, writing and arithmetic
in the school room-you must inform
others how to build the state" DR..
Melby said
In speaking upon general problems,
DIR. Melby said education must do
more than give knowledge and skill
that it must offer the world real
leadership and concrete benefits, with
out which "the human race will fall
to ruin.
"Our own behavior as teachers will
do much for the success of human
values. The key responsibility of
today is to inform every
living man and woman of the need
for the brotherhood of all mankind,
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22
DELAYS ON MVA
Peril PLAN FOR
so MILLION JOBS

Again and again In this war oul
enemies have used delaying tactics
Knowing we were too strong for
them, they summed decisive battles
in the hope that the situation would
change or we would become weary.
Today, in the senate, the same kind
of tactics are being used In running
fight to defeat the peoples desire
for Missouri Valley Authority.
First introduced last August, the
bill has received an unfavorable re-
port from the hostile commerce COM
mittee.
Now it is in the hands of an equally
hostile irrigation committee. This
committee has decreed delay of
three and one-half months, plus two
more months of hearings.
Only then, in mid-November, will
the bill finally reach the more friend
ly agriculture committee, which be-
cause OF its experience in all phases
of IVA should have had the measure
in the first place.
Another two months of hearings
debates in the senate and house
more delays in conference committee
"a year and one-half more for engi-
neering-and we will be lucky If the
first ground is broken for the MVA
project by 1948.
Before then, its opponents hope,
they'll find secret weapon to beat 1t.
There's no time for such dilly-dally-
ing. For MVA is vital part of the
insurance policy we must take out
against the next depression. Until 1t
goes through, we risk being caught
without insurance while our economic
house burns down.
Some industrial leaders are telling
us that we need no insurance-that
there will be no unemployment. We
hope they're right.
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22

Editors Note: Address delivered
by Lownder Maury over the open
Forum, KGIR.)
Fellows Citizens of Montana:
To be a guest Of the Forum is a
pleasure; it also carries a duty to try
to bring message of some value.
In the census of 1880, Montana was
the only state showing decline in
population. In the last four years,
according to count of ration cards,
10000 people have left this state; As
900 of these have gone into the Armed
Services. OF those being honorably
discharged, only one in six is coming
back to Montana to live.
That indicates that $4,000 in four
years, have left Montana for good and
all. The end is not in sight. Rarely
has any state in American history
ever before lost ten per cent of its
population in four years. We who
from age, or property holding, cannot
escape, should figure out why our
young people are running away.
suggest few causes for you to study:
Some of these are materialistic
caused by our artificial system OF
economy; some of them are psyche
logic. Our young people growing up
in Montana become ashamed of, and
disguised with, the political life of
the state and the control of the state
government by absentee landlords.
Among the economic causes of our
decline are:
Discriminatory freight rates on our
raw products by the railroads. Some
years ago, before the advent of the
New Deal, wheat was selling in Mon
tana at acc bushel. 1t cost the
farmer 25c a bushel to deliver it in
Minneapolis Then much of the flour
was freighted back to us to eat
The governor of Georgia is fighting
before the supreme court of the
United States discrimination against
the southern states in railroad rates.
The supreme court has announced
that it has the power and the inclina-
ton to help out the state of Georgia.
We elect men here on the promise
that they will fight the railroads about
their high freight rates; after election
we hear no more from them about it.
Another economic cause of our de-
cline is high and uncontrolled rates
for life, fire and accident insurance
The foreign insurance companies in
Testing this state collect in premiums
every year here at least seven million
dollars more than they return in
losses. Their taxes are only 100000
a year; any property of such profit,
If owned by farmers, or city real
estate brokers, or mining companies,
Or utility companies in this state
would be taxed, and is taxed at a rate
which would bring in two million dol
airs a year. This favoritism of taxes
Of insurance companies indicates a
pressure group working on our legis-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22
LIBERALS WIN
VICTORY In
Minneapolis
Sweeping Majority Won by
Liberal Candidate Despite
Red-Baiting of Opponent;
Negro Lady Elected To
Library Board.

| MINNEAPOLIS Hubert H. Hum
liberal forces, was elected mayor o.
Minneapolis by record-breaking ma
jority of 1888 votes, completing the
rout of Mayor Marvin L. Kline which
began in the primary, May IA. The
victory was made more complete by
liberal sweep of three doubtful
wards in the aldermanic contests to
give the liberals IA to u majority
in the city council
Another bit of history was made in
the election of Mrs. Nellie Stone to
the library board, the first time a
member of the negro race has been
chosen for city office here. The
liberal candidates for the school board
swept into office easily One of the
two liberal candidates for the park
commission won out, topping the field.
The charter amendment to permit
an increase in the maximum library
tax levy from two to three mills,
which also had the support of the
liberal forces, went over by wide
margin
Liberal candidates for city treas
urer, city comptroller and the board
of estimate and taxation failed of
election. Otherwise, the election out
come came up to the most optimistic
expectations.
Humphrey captured total of 86,376
votes. Kline's total was 54983
Humphrey carried all but of 10
wards, yielding to Kline only in the
9Th ward, which Kline formerly rep
resented as alderman, and the con-
SENTATIVE 18th ward. Humphrey had
beaten Kline in the 9Th in the pri-
mary.
In the final stages of the campaign,
Kline resorted to batting of minority
groups and singled out the CLIO and
Labor for special attention.
The attacks fell flat
Newspaper commentators attributed
much of Humphreys triumph to the
work of the United Labor Committee
for Political Action of the CLIO, AFL
and the Railroad Brotherhoods. Hum
phrey's brilliance as campaigner
played big part. He completely |
overshadowed Kline whenever they
jointly at meetings Mime
sofa Labor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-22

system through school boards
that the members of such
boards have accepted as their
sole responsibilities supervision
and management of the fiscal
affairs of their districts and
employment of qualified and
competent teachers. They have
no right to permit themselves
to be swayed by petty personal
prejudices or interests in the
discharge. of their public duty
as elected officials.