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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
Who Owns Chicago?
How Railroad SwindIes Provided
Some Of City's Great Fortunes

as "cartel-monopolies." During
the recent railroad strike, he
quickly forgot these facts.)
ALTHOUGH the largest roads
are basically controlled by Nor.
gan and Kuhn, Loeb, Chicago
Observation-Disclosures play the rcIe
of helper. Chicago railroads Or
their interlocked directors were
well represented on the top COM
mittee of the Western APre e-
ment. They were:
1. SiIa III. Strawn, Alton RR.
2. B. F. Kaufman, Chicago
& Northwestern.
g.. E. A. Pierce, Chicago, Mil
waukee & Pacific.
A. w. A. Harrison, Illinois
Central.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fee, interlocked with First Nation
al Bank of Chicago, Harris Trusf
and Northern Trust banks, was
represented by two Morgan part
nerS.
John D. Harrington is a direc-
tor of First National, but also an
official or director of u rail-
roads, one motor transit and one
terminal company.
ON the other hand, Fred G.
Gurley, director of Chicago's IIar-
ris Trust, seems to be the i'm
portant executive type. The
House of Morgan has entrusted
him with the top position of the
rich Santa Fe. At the same time,
he sits as director of the Asso-
citation of American Railroads
and the Railway Express Agency.
AS matter of fact, Chicago is
overlooking with Morgan little
men, even though it is hard to
trace them at times. For example.
Solomon B. Smith, director #
Northern Trust, is a director of
the small Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Ry. Investigation shows, how
ever, that this railroad is 1907
owned by U. S. Steel, chief Nor
gan enterprise.
The Morgans, the Kuhn, Loebs
and their lot have looted the
American people for over fifty
years.
More than once the country's
railway unions have called for
government ownership of the
roads. Surely, the American peo-
pie have paid many times over
for the nations railroad system.
The Changers, the Populists, the
railway unions - all fought for
naturalization of their rightful
property
The old fight is again on the
order of the day.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20

lew historical no,
is the story of
the Roosevelt Of
hose nome will be
Hoymarkef, with
giles against the
political corrup-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20

less than double the train freight
rate. Unless this agreement was
followed, Railway Express re-
fused to supply the necessary
ground services to the airlines.
This agreement was signed and
put into effect-without the fed
eral governments objection.
No wonder the war found the
country short of air express ia
cilities. The railroad pirates had
won again.
FREIGHT rates are really
fixed by more than go private
associations of railroads. These
rate conferences" as they are
called, have stranglehold on the
industry, and crack down on any
road foolish enough to charge
lower rate than monopolists have
decided on.
Monopolies cannot stand still:
they either expand or declire.
The railroads are no exception.
In 1892, therefore, the land
pirates formed one of the great
est conspiracies in recent Amer
lean history the Western
Agreement" so-called because it
covered all roads travelling west
of the Mississippi. These roads
agreed to fix rates, keep out COM
petition, and suppress new inven-
tons. 1t amounted to a private
industrial government, complete
with legislature, executive, ard
even a supreme court, located at
90 Wall Street in New York city.
In 1913, when the Department
of Justice threatened to take the
''Westerners" to court, the Agree
ment was voluntarily dissolved.
Far be it for them to be dis
couraged. In this very same year
of 1943, bigger and better plan
was announced by the Transpor-
tation Association of America.
The T. A. A., direct descendant of
that kingpin or rail monopolists,
the Association of American
Railroads, now proposed to mon
opolize all of American trans
portation.
- THE Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen said it would be "the
most gigantic utility monopoly
this nation has ever SEEN"
In February, 1914, Harry Tru-
man, then still a progressive"
branded the planned corporations
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
A Tragedy
With q Lift

stand. Later came the conflict of
the man with forces of greed, in
justice, and oppression, forces
typified by those who hunted
down and framed the labor lead
ers fighting for the S-hour day.
There was also the conflict with
ward heelers and political touts
whom he first used for his per-
sonal career and later for larger
purposes.
There was the conflict inside
himself. The man who had
been a poor youth hungering
to "be somebody" fought with
the man who was SO honest
that like the anarchist Parsons
(who, with his wife, permeates
the story and is the real hero),
he would rather be hanged
than go against his own integ-
rity.
FINALLY, his life was the con-
flict between the canny politician
who knows what will work, and
the patriot who realizes that
what will work is not enough =
but who is too much the practi-
cal man and too little the thinker
to achieve a clear-cut theology or
see the total pattern of which he
is part.
''The American" is tragedy
with a lift to it, a piece of the
age-long and continuing epic of
Property VS.. People.
This novel of things that hap
pened to the American people in
the sos and COS has so much to
say to the people of 1916, that l
am devoting no space to sniping
at the authors technique. He
has, it seems to me, still things
to learn about how to tell a story
smoothly.
THE tale of Altgeld was GER
tainly harder to handle than that
of Washington and Tom Paine.
But what matters is that he
deals with intense seriousness
with real people, people on our
side, men and women who have
greatness.
And he tells their story in such
a way that we are stirred, recog-
nizing that their fight is our
fight, that we are fresh reserves
just come to the same battlefield.
What story Howard Fast is
working on now, 1 have no idea.
I hope he continues where he left
off. For Altgeld died on the
threshold of new revolt against
the Robber BaronS.
n n
THIS was the era of the Muck
rakers' = so-called by that tin
god, Teddy Roosevelt, who gets
his deserts, on the side, in "The
American" The greatest of the
Muckrakers, Lincoln Steffens,
would make good protagonist.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20
Who Owns Chicago?

This is the third of series
of articles ON trWho OacHS
Chicagog" Meat week, Mr..
Meyer tackles the utilities.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-20

Present-ddy instance Of
the anti-labor piracy on
the railroads, 1ohich pro-
Dided the basis for great
Chicago fortunes, is tie
T. P. C w. in Peoria
lohere armed guards like
those shol0n here killed
striking railroad york
ers.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-26

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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-26
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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-26

PACKARD - lq4l club coupe 100
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lArre tNin-no Packard Hestmaster
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drive vii, sell below ceiling price.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

of four others retained by the Army Engineers, may be obtained for temporary housing relief.
 Rehabilitation
 Nose likely solution put forward to alleviate the housing shortage here is to secure the cooperation of owners of currently incomplete and unlivable abodes to finish or rehabilitate their structures suffi- ciently to make them suitable for emergency housing accommodations. To that end, owners of such prop critics are asked to contact the City Engineer, who will survey the properties and seek means for fit ting them for use.
 No Federal Funds
 The suggested project to secure additional Federally financed pub lie housing here has been put aside for the present, since information has been received from George Coplen, National Housing Admin istration Regional Representative that no funds are presently avail able for such Federal housing.
 City Engineer J. L. McNamara reported to last nights meeting that the campaign launched last week to collect data on housing needs here has resulted in return to him of B filled-out questionnaire forms. More are still coming in to his office, he reported and, of those on hand by last night, 50 percent are from ex-service men with fam lilies.
 Mackay Malcolm, local architect and Lions Club community welfare committeeman, is to be named by Mayor Parsons as temporary chair man in charge of seeking housing relief, pending formation of per manent emergency housing com mittee to be selected from interest ed local groups.
 The need for a civic recreational program WdS pIeSclltcu Dy MI DOAf Foster, of the JWC, and by Glrl Scout Councillors Mernice Murphy and Virginia Ashcraft. More meet ings on the matter to work out to just what extent the City is justi- fled and able to expend toward a community recreation center are to be held. In the meantime, it is proposed that the City Council ap- ply to the Federal Works Agency for advance planning funds for a recreation center, similar to the leans already obtained for planning of other civic buildings.
 Another meeting has been set for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

ping to death Leonard Phillip Su- Dernaw, a seaman aboard the Sell strom.
 Robert Waters, boatswain' s mate, testified at the inquest as an eve witness Of the knife assault which climaxod a quarrel between Willis and Supernaw. Waters un- derstood the quarrel grew from Willis having kicked Supernaw earlier in the evening.
 Other members of the Sellstrom's crew, at the time, asserted the crime was a result of several days of uuarreling between Willis and Supernaw and that Supernaw, a 18O-pound white man, had been picking on" the 140-pound negro. The final quarrel was stated to have begun hi a Wrangell cocktail bar
 Selection Of a trial jury will be the opening procedure in Court here tomorrcw and is expected to consume a large part of the day, if it does not extend over into Thursday. A special venire of jur- DTS was ordered drawn last week by Presiding Judge J. W. Kehoe, in order to bring the petit panel up to 30 jurors before opening the murder trials.
 An unusually large number or peremptory challenges is available to both prosecution and defense in trials of murder charges.
 Expected to speed selection of a trial jury for the Willis case is fact that little is known here of it's cir cumstances.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

Gas has more than 10000 in- dustrial uses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
WILLIS ON
 TRIAL HERE
 TOMORROW
Negro Sailor 10 Face Mur- der Charge Growing Out
 of Shipbodrd Stdbbing

James Franklin Willis will have what IS likely to be the first of many days in Court here tomor- row, when the first of two, murder trials on the current District Court calendar gets under way.
 Willis, undc- indictment by the Grand Jury of murder in the sec ond degree, has pleaded not guilty to the charge. Defense counsel for Willis local attorney M E. Mon agle with E. E. Robertson asso- ciate counsel.
 Willis, negro Navyman, is charged with staying a shipmate aboard a U. s. Navy vessel, the U. $. s. Sc!lstrom, at Wrangell last Navy day. A coroners jury at Wrangell brought in a verdict ac- cusing Willis, a fireman, of stab
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
VETERANS GUIDE
By MAJOR THOMAS M. NAL

For quite a few months now I've been keeping one eye cooked on Capitol Hill. That's because a new GI Bill has been in the making,
 Way back in September, I wrote a couple of articles about what l thought the House and Senate might do. At that time it looked like the new bill was well on its way to becoming law
 Then the Senate changed the House amendments, and the House didn't seem to like it much, and nothing happened.
 Recently, though, the House and Senate got together in a joint con- ference, ironed out some of their disagreements, and reported bill acceptable to both. That bill has now passed both houses, and has President Trumans signature In short, it's the law of the land.
 So, quicx:y, jet me try and give you the scoop on some of the most important changes in the new bill Later, I'll go over the whole she bang carefully. c9. First, education = the set upi is quite different. No more age 1im- it's! Every Ex-Joe and Jane gel one year plus one month for every month they served. Of course, you have got to have the right kind oi discharge, and must have served al least 90 days.
 Top limit of free CT Bill edu. cation is still four years. But ths
 subsistence allowances are up
 Single vets get $65, those with de
 pendents, $90.
 You'll now be able to take short
 intensive courses which may COS
 $500 for less than "an ordinar, school year" And you'll be abl
 to take- correspondence courses
 though no subsistence allowance
 paid
 The new law says you don't hay to apply for CT Bill education fo
 four years after discharge, or af
 ter the official end of the wa , whichever is later, and that yo don't have to finish till nine year . after the end of the war. That gives us little more tim
 to make up our minds about whs \ We want to do in the way of gel ting knowledge.
 { Disabled veterans, eligible for vt { cational rehabilitation, will now g | their pensions boosted to $105 ! month while they're in training. { used to be $92. If they're marie ' or have other dependents, they wi 2 get an additional ten bucks, pll ' $lO for their first child and ! each for any other children thu I may have.
 | I've heard some vets compla ' about the clause in the old ( . bill that any money paid them f
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

education will be deducted from any possible future bonus.
 Well, that clause is out the win dow. If there ever should be bonus, there won't be any deduc- tions. That goes for the read iustment allowance, too.
 There you have the most impor- tant changes with respect to the education provisions. Soon I'll ex- plain how I think some of these changes are going to work out, and what they mean.
 Up to now, S2,000 was the larg- est part of a loan the government could guarantee under the GI bill | loan provisions. But the new law says Uncle Sam can guarantee up to $4,0OO on all real estate loans loans for homes, farms and pieces of land. Top business loan guar antee remains S2,000.
 Lots of loans in the past have had to be black marketed because the value of the property was not considered reasonable and normal
 But under the new bill it doesn't have to be- It just has to be req scnable." That is, the value must be in keeping with the present. day values of similar pieces of prop erty. I'm told this means a lot more loans will be okayed.
 You'll have up to ten years af- ter the official end of the war to apply for a GI loan. Farm loans . don't have to be repaid until Al years after they're made and home loans can run for 25 years.
 In at least one big respect ret tape and confusion are cut iron i the loan provisions as they uset y to work. I'm running out of spac' ? here, so that'll have to wait untl next time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAM HERE K
 OUT FOR PRESENT
Seek Owner Cooperation in Improving Present
 Structures for Use

Forty-four representatives of var ious Juneau organizations gather ed last evening at the City Hall in earnest discussion of ways and means for solution of Juneaus current critical housing shortage.
 In addition to consideration Of the housing issue, delegates from the Juneau Woman's Club again brought forward that organization s program to provide community center and civic recreational fac ilities.
 Three principal suggestions were advanced for meeting the housing crisis: Use of Yakutat Huts Stlll standing at Duck Creek, removal here of shelters left behind by the Alaska Spruce Logging Program at Edna Bay and use of Quonset Huts at the Juneau Support.
 Investigation conducted d this morning by Mayor Ernest Parsons has shown it impractical to move
 
 the Edna Bay buildings here be- cause of the extensive cost of transportation by tugs and barges and the considerable labor involv- ed in dismantling and re-assem- bling here.
 Support Housing sf
 Also, the present status of the Support housing is so indefinite and the red tape so involved as to make it unlikely that use of vacant Quonset Huts there can immed- lately be obtained. However, use of the Support huts was first ad- vanced as housing relief for wal veterans by the Veterans of Foreign Wars post here and the post E continuing to strive to that end ir cooperation with the City admin istration.
 Fifteen of the Duck Creek huts have been turned over to the Alas ka Native Service, and it is pos sible that use of them, as well a'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
HEINkE OPENS NEW pLUMBING-HEATING
 REPAIR SHOP HERE

The opening of a new general repair shop, specializing in plumb ing and heating, at 929 Twelfth Street, has just been announced by the owner-operator, Frank Heinke.
 Heinke needs no introduction to most Juneauites, having been a resident of this city for many years, and with the Harri Mach inc Shop for the past 20 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
ARMY SWITCH

FREMONT, O. = Sgt. M. F. Baier came here the other day to start army recruiting work, but couldn't find a room. He talked with Jack Homer, 19, a West Vir- ginian living in Fremont, convinced him the army was the place for him, enrolled him and then rented his room.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

Monday evening, at the City Hall at o'clock, to check on develop ments regarding both the housing and recreational programs. Asked to attend next Monday are all those present last evening as well as such other citizens as are in- tereSted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
DOGS LIFE

BOISE, Idaho - Seven -year-old Patty Peck thought she was in the "dog house. because she stayed away from home to play-so she slept there.
 Her foster mother, Mrs. James Pheiffer, said Patty was found in the dog kennel after night-long search.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
WAGES OF CRIME

PORTLAND, Ore. A woman re- ported today a man had offered politely to hold her heavy shopping bay while she waited for a bus and then he ran off with it.
 She was enroute to a relative s farm to bury dead dog which she was carrying in the bag.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
KITTY MOVES IN

NEW YORK-Kitty Kouncil, a wee bit of a cat born in County Limerick in Fire, took up residence today in City Hall where Arnold County Mayo boy, Mayor William O'Dwyer, is head man.
 The cat slowed away aboard a Pan American World Airways clip per at Shannon, County Limerick, and was presented to City Hall by an airline stewardess. Originally she was dubbed O'Clipper, but City Hall attaches decided Kitty Kouncil would be more appropriate.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Truman Visits Mother Again
In Ending Missouri Holiday

INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Dec. 26
IP).-President Truman rounded out
brief holiday visit with the home
folks today before returning to
Washington to face labor and other
legislative problems of unusual mag
nitude.
Three separate messages, on leg
islative, financial and economic af-
fairs. posed a task which his asso-
ciates said would require most of
the period remaining before the
Republican, controlled Congress gets
under way early next month.
Mr.. Truman said he would pay
final visit to his mother, 94-year-
old Mrs. Martha E. Truman, at
Grandview before taking off in the
presidential C-54 plane, the Sacred
Cow" about pm.
He flew into Jackson County yes
terday for a round of Christmas
celebrations, which included a big
turkey dinner shortly after noon at
his home at 219 North Delaware
street.
There he had dinner with his
mother, his wife and his daughter
Margaret, his brother. J. Vivian
Truman, and the Wallaces, his
wife's people.
The President kept close to home
on Christmas Day except for an
hours visit to the nearby home of
Col. Mize Peters, an old friend
whom he has visited regularly on
Christmas for Is years.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Clark Plans to Give DeIinquents
Scholarships at Best Schools

II think the scholarships will induce
the fellows to compete for them. and
I am sure the boys picked will be of
the highest type"
Many of the boys were sporting
Christmas gifts consisting OF muf-
f1ers, neckties and gloves. Mr.. Clark
complimented them on their appear
ance and assured them he was con-
fident they will make fine citizens.
One entertainment number was a
chorus of Deep in the Heart of
Texas" sung by two dozen boys
from Mr.. Clark's home State.
The Attorney General and his r.
year-old nephew, Bobby Clark of
Dallas, Tex, joined in the singing,
Another song led by harmonica
player was I'm Dreaming of a
White Christmas"
Accompanying the Attorney Cen
eral were his assistant, A. Dewitt
Vaneach; James v. Bennett, direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
and Leo NJ Cadison, an informa-
ton specialist at the Justice De-
partment.
After dinner Mr.. Clark spent more
than an hour interviewing several
boys on their personal problems. Be-
fore leaving the school he re-em-
phasized his desire to be helpful and
invited any boy who wished to COM
municate with him to write him
personally.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Greeks Will Pursue
Bands Into Bulgaria
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, Dec. 26-Three Athens
newspapers quoted Brig. Gen. Mich
olas Pappanicholou, Greek comman-
der at Drama, today as saying his
forces had been ordered to pursue
retreating guerrillas Into Bulgaria
despite the consequences
Drama is in the narrow
Thrace area between Bulgaria
and the Aegean Sea. Consider
able fighting has been in progress
in Thrace)
The dispatches said Pappanicho-
lou made strong protest to the
Bulgarian commander at Katonev-
rookopi concerning the free entry
of bandsmen from Bulgaria into
Greece for an attack on the Greek
village of Prosotsami." The Bull
garian officer was said to have 'de-
clined" the protest with the expla-
nation that he had no orders from
his government.
Pappanicholou was quoted as say
ing that in the case of irregulars
taking refuge, or basing, in Bulgaria,
Greek forces will chase them into
Bulgaria despite the consequences. /"
A press report from Trikkala said
80 guerrillas were killed and SO
wounded during an attack on the
nearby village OF Kanisko, In the
area where army units in Thessaly
recently began mopping up cam
Evening star., 1946-12-26

Plans to establish annual scholar
ships at the best military and pre-
paratory schools in the country for
SO delinquent boys were announced
yesterday by Attorney General Tom
G. Clark during his annual Christ
mas visit to the National Training
School for Boys.
Mr.. Clark said he will put the
plan into operation as rapidly as
he can find donors willing to invest
$500 to $500 a year for each scholar
ship. The Attorney General expects
also to parole boys to organizations
of former Servicemen near their
home towns.
Mr.. Clark visited the training
school on Christmas of 1945 and
when he renewed the custom this
year he was received by reception
committee of two boys from each of
the seven cottages on the grounds.
Each cottage had its Christmas
tree in a recreation room decked
with bright holiday decorations put
up by the boys. At each cottage also
there was a brief entertainment pro-
gram as a preliminary to the noon
day Christmas dinner in which Mr.
Clark shared.
Mr.. Clark told the 425 boys at the
school that he wished to instill a
competitive spirit among them by
holding out the possibility that any
one of them can win a scholarship.