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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
Swanberger Rites
To Be tuesday

Funeral services for Willard B.
(Sid) Swanberger, 43, El Centran,
who died Friday, will be held at 2:30
pm. Tuesday at the Brown Colo
NAL mortuary in Santa Ana.
The Elks' lodge will assist at the
rites. Burial will be at Santa Ana.
Swanberger died from complica-
tions which developed after an
emergency appendectomy was per-
formed last week. He had lived in
Imperial Valley for 80 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
EIHT PICKED UP
IN POLICE ROUNDUP

Eight men appeared before Lee
Nuffer, Ell Centre police judge, Mon
day morning accused of being drunk
over the weekend, and were fined
as follows: Jesus Hureta, 26, $14
or 7 days in jail; Pete Pima, 48, SIG
or 8 days in Jail; George Benson
As, S14 or 7 days in jail; Leonard S
Cuevas, %, S14 or days in Jail; H
C. Jackson, 54, Sl4 or Z days in Jail;
L. Martinez, S14 or days in Jail
M. j. Milton and Abundio Gallegos
36, had been released on $40 bail
which was forfeited for non-appear-
ance.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
HER GIFT DELAYED 81 YEARS

ITHACA. N. Y, Jan. Is. CUP)-
Miss Inez j. Kisselburgh made gift
to the alumni fund of Cornell uni
versity through a bank draft in
June, 1917, but for some reason the
check did not reach the university.
As a result of a recent legal notice
in an Albany newspaper listing the
credit to Cornell, the check was sent
to the alumni fund at the university
arriving in the same mail as Miss
Kisselburgh's 1914 gift to the fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
PEGGY SIMMONS, 3

Peggy Joyce Simmons, three-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil
Simmons of El Centre, died Satur-
day.
The funeral was held at the Lem
ons chapel in El Ce nitro at 2:30
pm. Monday with The Rev. Hayden
Sears, pastor of the First Meth
odist church, officiating. Burial was
in Evergreen cemetery.
Her survivors include her parents;
a brother, Billie Wayne, and her
grandparents, MIR. and Mrs. Earl
TAYLOR. all of El Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
IMPERIAL RUNAWAY
NABBED BY POLICE

from the county Juvenile home at
Imperial a short time ago, was ap-
pretended by El Centre police Sun
day. He was seen riding around
with other boys in El Centre ana
taken to the county Jail for ques-
tioning.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
DOUBLE EXECUTIONS
FOR HOLDUP SLAYERS

SALEM. Ore, Jan. IS. lUP) =
Henry William Merten, 80, and WAL
ter Lorne Wilson, 35, died today in
the first double lethal gas execution
conducted in Oregon. They died for
the hold-up Staying of Ralph Dah-
len, 81, Oak Grove, oregon, on
July % 1913.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
PWs GRLpE GI

MELROSE, Mass, Jan. Is. (UP)-
Private Bernard Hadley, who re-
Gently returned on furlough after
two years combat against the Japa-
nese in New Guinea, reported that
his first job on reaching the States
was serving meals to italian pris-
oners. ut was in San Francisco,
Hadley said, land boy. those chaps
beat any American CT for gripping
about service"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
EVEN BRAG OF CATS

SAN JOSE, Cal, Jan. Is. (UP)-
1t may be just the San Jose Cham
ber of Commerce publicity man
talking, but they swear it's true:
"Lightnin'," gray kitten mascot for
the chamber staff, eats hot dogs and
drinks water out of a paper cup.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
By UNITED PRESS

The japanese radio hinted today
that the successful American CAM
paign in the Philippines may force
the resignation of Premier General
Kuniaki Koiso.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
MOON REFLECTED EARTH

The ancients thought the moon
had a mirror-like surface, and the
features they saw on it were thought
TO be reflections. of continents and
seas here on earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15
Norm 1essner has as35,000 kit of tools

- 0fcourse, only takes $50 typewriter provide the
working equipment for stenographer But the other
hand it takes 900 refining unit to make jobs for just
Is stilmen And the company going to function as
unit phase of the work usras necessary the other
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15

= IS years ago almost any man could buy what simple
tools he needed himself Today in many industries tooscost
so much the duidual simply can't finance them. The
swer is multiple ownership pooling the money of lot
people Qn Unions case 375 stockholders have helped
finance our equpment)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15

q So the Union Oil stockholders have actually invested
$39504 Tin reneres, ships TOOLS rigs oil lands, etc. for
every of the 1859 employees in the company This
figure shows how drastcay the machine age has altered
American life
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-15

y OF course countries fern these pools by govern,
ent ownership But IN America form them under legal
agreements known corporations For that wav we can
preserve the freedom of the individual the ececyo free
economy and that all important human incentive
competition.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Are We Asleep While the World Goes By!

Recently concerning floods
which swept down the Ohio River valley may strange
that similar floods did not happen the negborng Tonnes
River valley? Formerly the Tennessee almost annual
y devastated by early sprngme food-waters That has
not happened since the IVA constructed the big of
Tennessee valley When extraordinary rainfa in the
IVA region those charge of the fact Weather
data constantly under observation Those authority
fall allowing to off gradually mankind prefers in
stead of all at would be the without the dams
and their regulation.
Sometimes in the Tennessee watershed rainfall
of 10 IL inches within three-day
Often 72 hours shows four five inches of rainfall But
there floods the
regulated by mankind that steady flow maintained
constantly providing for generation of huge quantities of cleo
trica benefit mankind, to levels
for navigation of freight barges the rivers chain
lakes, provide ample for fishing which is of
commercial character where existed prior to IVA Most
beneficial of all Chattanooga and other cities of the with
surrounding farmland not annually inundated by flood
waters
There is such system the Missouri river. When
falls mets the via the Mississippi
just pleases There organization to check
extraordinary rainfall shut down the gates of dams that do
exist keep flood from sping the lands
the lower Missouri and the Mississippi
We in Montana not bothered about floods
worried about the people down river? We in Montana
don't need irrigation won't build dams permit any
body else do unless they float lot of watered stock
certificates at the time We Montana the
pleasure paying the highest freight the nation
don't want anybody to build competing freight carrier
the tanned waters of harnessed Missouri river The
blessings of the free enterprise system have been showered
1t blessed with reducing
with limited possibilities with shacked press subservient
with pure monopoe in control of most of
enterprises whilst boast of the competition of the
temporary economic system Rip Van Wrinkle slept but 20
years; when will Montana awaken?-The Western News
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
By Federated Press

Opposition to the Breton Woods
Plan comes from small but power
| full group of American bankers who
are out to keep their own information
al dictatorship over international fl
nance even if it means losing the
peace.
But they are too smart to attack il
directly The bankers know that the
American people are already sold on
the idea of international economic co
operation to insure foreign trade and
prevent depressions and war The
strategy of the bankers is to say they
are for these things too, to come out
for the plan and its detectives, only
with certain amendments and sugges-
lions that would make it more
sound"
The American Bankers Assn. says
it approves Breton Woods but urges
that the most important half of it, the
International Monetary Fund, be
dropped and its functions taken over
by the International Bank for Recon
struction and Development. Its
lengthy report, which declares the cur
rency sterilization fund to be "finan-
cially unsound", improved and i'm
practical" involving too many risks,
has gone out to every congressman
senator and bank in the nation.
The ABA's report was signed by an
imposing list of bankers, headed by
the world famous financial magnate,
Winthrop Aldrich, board chairman of
the Chase National Bank It's stand
has also been backed by the Invest
ment Bankers Assn and the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce-which came
out in complete agreement with Bret
ton Woods detectives but urged de-
ferment of action on the fund until
further investigation The National
Association of Manufacturers is ex-
pected to come out with a similar
attack on the fund momentarily.
The bankers suggestions have been
getting wide play in the press and
in testimony of individual bankers at
the Breton Woods hearings before
the house banking and currency COM
mittee. Part of the strategy is to en-
phasize that international finance is
such a complicated and technical mat
ter that the average citizen isn't really
qualified to have an opinion, so when
the bankers who really know what it's
all about say Breton Woods would be
sounder with certain amendments,
their advice should be taken.
But these amendments are almost
certain to kill the plan outright, and
the bankers are we'll aware of this
even if they don't say so. It's true
that the average citizen of this or
any other nation can't know all the
technical matters involved in the Bret
ton Woods agreement, but the leading
financial experts of A nations who |
net over several years before it was
irawn up, knew them very well.
For A nations to pledge to give up |
heir freedom to resort to practices |
If economic warfare and to let their |
be regulated by a body rep
'esenting the worlds governments, as |
hey do in return for the sterilization |
guarantee of the fund, is tremendous |
hing 1t has never happened before
n history 1t removes one of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
Washington Letter
Continued from Page one)

tCOntlhueu from rage One)
benefits all the people Urge her to
make use of this third method of get
ting her bill passed by the house OF
ntatives-which is much faster
than the slow route of discharge
petition.
In the senate, hearings are continu-
ing on S. 101, the companion measure
there. Get your own senators to
pledge support: write to Sen. Denis
Chavez, chairman of subcommittee,
urging quick and favorable report on
S. 101, rejection of phony Taft sub
stitute.
Anti-Lynch Bill: Congressman D..
Lane Powers (R., MD has filed Dis
charge Petition No. 3 to bring H. R.
1893 to the floor for debate and action.
Powers heads a coalition of Demo
cratic and Republican representatives
pledged to support anti-lynch legisla-
ton. Get your representatives. pledge
to sign Discharge Petition No. g.
In the senate, companion bill has
been filed by Senator Hawkes. of New
Jersey. 1t is S. IT'S. Get commitment
of support from your own two SEN
ators.
Hobbs Anti-Labor: H. R. 80, having
failed to get through with sneak
attack on the Consent Calendar, is
now before the rules committee. This
is the bill to give pickets 20 years,
under quite phony guise of its title
to protect trade and commerce
against interference by violence,
threats, coercion, or intimidation
Get your own representative
pledge to work and vote against this
bill when it comes out on the floor.
Puerto Rican Independence: Con-
sressmen Marcantonio has introduced
4. R. 27S1. 1t is "a bill to provide
or the withdrawal of the sovereignty
} fthe United States over the island
If Puerto Rico and for the recogni-
ion of its independence; to provide
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
Y great concern for the

that the packers prompted by for the
pubics welfare interests.
The packers point the small percentage profit
the volume of the business they have DONE but sudous
avoid mention of the percentage of profits their
invested capital which in instances
dreds per cent
They also claim that they justified in making profits
every item of their products Sold They admit making
profits all items except for beef that they
all profit their entire business beef This
to wonder how they justify their stand the basis of
free enterprise competition. Before price control and the
margins provided by it for the they that
they made profit item they sold under free
petition?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
WORLD FINANCE DICTATORS
OPPOSE BRETON WOODS

main causes of war. Before it was
signed by those A nations, every pro-
vision was deliberated over and over
again. There had to be give-and-take
on the part of ALL The agreement
as finally signed was signed as a
whole and the signers wanted the fund
and the bank to be separate
If congress rejects. the fund or tries
to transfer it's functions to the bank,
the agreement will have to go back
to every one of the 43 nations, which
will undoubtedly take it as signal
to offer their own amendments. There
would have to be another international
conference before a new agreement
was reached, and it might never be
signed
The reason the big American bank
ers, and an even smaller group in
England and elsewhere, don't want
the sterilization fund is that under it
they will no longer be able to juggle
and gamble on the money
value of another country's currency
for their own profit. In the past
few international bankers did just
that. By their INSCRIPTIONS manipu-
lation of currency they often made
billions on the bankruptcy of a nation.
While nations in financial trouble
resorted to desperate tactics of eco
nomic warfare devaluating their
money, underwriting prices, dumping
goods-the few big bankers specu-
lated and profited and gained virtual
of nations that needed
their money. Now nations won't have
to get into such warfare because
they'll have the fund
Despite the noisy opposition from
the ABA and other small but power
full interests, most far-sighted bust
nessmen and bankers who are more
interested in general business profits
and prosperity than in the power to
speculate on international currency
are for Breton Woods, fund and bank.
They want foreign trade after the war
and, aware of how currency dealings
in the '30s wrecked foreign trade,
hey view currency sterilization as
necessary to insure their sales and
Investments abroad
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
Philadelphia Bankers Back
Breton Woods :

gratified indeed prominent Philadelphia
bankers taking national leadership the fight for the Breton
Woods program for postwar economic stability.
In memorandum to Congress- heads of II of the city
biggest banks declare the Breton Woods proposals. lin
judgment give reasonable promise of avoiding the fl
nana committed after the last and flexible
enough to be modified in the light of experience"
This Endorsement by of the most influential in
u S. banking makes plain what The Record believed from
the start:
That in opposing the Breton Woods program the
American Bankers Association does not represent most
American banks and bankers but only comparatively few,
chiefly the big international institutions of Wall Street
Special Function
Those international banks perform very special functions
They naturally opposed to the Breton Woods
because necessarily it puts some restriction on international
financing they have known in the past 1t cuts the
profit from fluctuations foreign exchange 1t puts control
of that exchange definitely in the hands of
whereas to be controlled very largely by the Wall Street
banks and their foreign affliates.
This declaration of support by the IL Philadelphia bankers
is line with previous Endorsement of Breton Woods by the
Pennsylvania Bankers Association.
To make clear how misrepresentation the ABA position
is could quote support many other bankers But
we'll not bore with list of merely add that the
Independent Bankers Association representing 1000 banks
in 40 states has out in support of Breton Woods at the
earliest possible date and without Gripping amendments
Even the Wall Street Of the American Bankers
Association lip service to the Breton Woods It
merely wants Gripping amendment Specifically it wants
to merge the two institutions which to be set
Two Institutions
l. The International Sterilization Fund which would be
aimed keep monetary exchange rates stable and grant short
credits to governments to help them stabilize their
g Bank Reconstruction and Development, which
would guarantee private loans to various countries loans
by private bankers for rebuilding ruined
struction of industrial enterprises, etc.
The International Sterilization Fund would extend short
from its funds to governments Private bank
would have hand in that arrangement set
The Bank for Reconstruction and Development would
merely guarantee oans much the FDC
nsures deposits Private bankers would make the
loans.
By merging Institutions the Wall Street group
gain control of both the short term loans and the
long term Ioans (b) profit both; (c by entange
en Of tbe two to gain substantial of private
roI of loans to governments
Objections Hazy
Objections of the ABAs Wall Street members OF the Sta
alton Fund are all hazy Chief among them
that would be risky experiment and that
United would be gambling So on its success
No doubt the Philadelphia bankers in accepting this
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13

risk remember do that after the last had such
institution, took such risk
And that by 1939-n a matter of 20 years-the world
had defaued billions of foreign bonds owned by
Americans.
True, not believe Breton Woods perfect instru
With the IL Philadelphia bankers expect it will
be modified in the light of experience
But having spent than 200 billions to win this
America afford So, 100000 investment in peace
AS the IL Philadelphia bankers point out, peace be
only by collaboration in economics we'll politics.
Breton Woods is the plan for economic collaboration.
We hope congress will quickly grasp the picture, recog
nze that the opposition that of very small minority of
bankers and speed action the Breton Woods program
The world is going to need it.-Philadephia Record
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
Profits and the OPA

Leading the pack of profteers demanding higher prices
profits the meat packers have claimed that the
shortage somehow is the fault of the OPA price
control The packers also endeavored to place the
blame for the existence of black market the agency
the the packers the black market
probably inspired by jealousy the prices that the
black mareeers gouged out of the buyers from them Ger
tany in view of the fact that the packers have made about
times their pre-war volume of petax profits still
want to make does impress anyone with any
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13

for the notification thereof to foreign
governments; to provide for the as
sumption by the government of Puerto
Rico of obligations under the treaty
with Spain on December 10, 1898; to
define trade and other relations be-
tween the United States and Puerto
Rico.
ITO provide for the calling of
convention to frame constitution for
the government of the island of Puerto
Rico; to provide for certain manda-
tory provisions of the proposed con-
stitution; to provide for the submits
sion of the constitution to the people
of Puerto Rico and its submission to
the President of the United States
for his approval
ITO provide for the adjustment of
property rights between the United
States and Puerto Rico; to provide for
the maintenance of military, coaling,
and naval stations by the United
States on the island of Puerto Rico
until the termination of the war be-
tween the United States and Germany
diQ Jdpdhy " COntiuuC III lOICt Ger
tain statutes until independence has
been acknowledged"
Write to Congressman c. Jasper
Bell 3D., Mo- urging favorable action
by the committee on Insular Affairs,
of which he is-chairman, on H.R. 2781.
OutIawing Bias in Mails: Congress
man Lynch 3D., N.Y. has reintro-
duced an amended version of HR.
1928. 1t has the same number as in
the previous congress, even better
chance of passage. 1t declares I'M
mailable all material which holds up
persons or groups to ridicule, hatred
contempt or obloquy on account of
race and religion Penalties are pro-
vided, and the postmaster is charged
with keeping such matter out of the
nails.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13

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Waller, Mont, April Z, 1916
The Peoples Voice,
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Anaconda, Mont, April 10, 1915
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana
Enclosed you will find 5000 to renew
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the state of Montana as far as the
news of the country is concerned and
your small voice is the only true news
we have.
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JOHN ]. MORRIS.

Columbia Falls, Mont, April 8, 1916
Dear Mr.. Bruce,
Would you please print in your
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