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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Eastern Magazine Reports Much Merit In
Proposed Missouri Valley Authority

ment of Agriculture and the Federal
Power Commission, plus representa-
tives of all states concerned. Such
a confederation is active now in the
Missouri Valley as the Missouri
Basin Inter-Agency Committee. 1t has
a plan for Harvesting the river Con-
gress has approved the plan and au-
thorized an initial s400,0O0,00O, not yet
appropriated
Nevertheless, MVA enthusiasts
press on. They contend that this COM
mittee is unwieldy and much less
efficient than TVA-style management.
There are numberiess arguments
against authorities. Parallels are
drawn between valley authorities and
foreign relationships. Stress is laid on
the area over which an MVA would
preside, truly enormous. The Missouri
Valley, larger than France, Italy and
Spain combined, includes parts of
Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado and half
of Kansas; most of Montana, Wyo-
ming, Missouri and the Dakotas, and
all of Nebraska.
Rich in Resource
This is an empire, and a rich one.
Millions of sheep, cows, hogs and
horses are raised here. 1t produces
half of the nations breadstuffs, a
third of our wool There is other
wealth in the valley-timber, oil, cop
per, iron, zinc, manganese.
But the valley has troubles. Raw
production overbalances pro-
cessing and manufacture. Leather,
wool and ores are shipped east to be
made into shoes, clothes and metals.
The valleys finest crop follows
youngsters, seeking oppor-
tunities in industry outside the basin.
Population of the Missouri Valley
states has been slipping for 20 years,
and the rate is quickening. After the
droughts of the 30's, the Bureau of
Reclamation began elaborate studies,
but the work dragged; the plan was
not in shape to release for five years.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
PROBE OF CHINA UNION
ARRESTS IS ASKED

CLIO President Philip Murray this
week cabled President Chang Kai-
shek of China, asking for immediate
personal Intervention" in the reported
arrests of staff members of the Chi
nese Association of Labor and the
seizure of hospital and two welfare
centers operated by the CAL.
Pointing out that the seized insti-
buttons were built with funds contrib
uted by American labor for the well
fare of the Chinese people, Murray
said:
"This seizure violates the United
States interests and would discourage
further donations and ALLEVIATE opinion
of the American people at large.
American workers, like the Amer
lean people in general, all hope for a
unified, democratic China in which all
basic rights and freedoms OF man in
Guiding the freedom of labor organi-
cations are guaranteed"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Unions PledgeLarge
Amount To Aid
Clerks

Delegates to the Cascade County
Trades and Labor assembly Wednes-
day night pledged $4,000 to the sup
port of the Retail Clerks in their ne
gotiations with the Great Falls Retail
Employers association. The delegates
represented % unions.
Unions represented were the Cooks
and Walters, Aerial Workers, Machin-
lists, Transfers, Typographical, Plumb
ers, Engineers, Painters, Sheet Metal
Workers, Smeltermen, Brewery Work
ers, Carpenters, Lathers, Meat Cutters,
Bakers, Roofers, Theatrical Employees,
American Newspaper Guild, American
Federation of Teachers, Farmers,
American Federal Government En-
ployes and Retail Clerks.-Great Falls
Tribune.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

In those days the Missouri was
wilder than wild horses. 1t still is. In
seasons of flood, it swallows farms
whole. Everything swirls away
barns, houses, cattle, the fertile soil
itself. Every five minutes, when the
river is in high flood, it carries off the
topsoil equivalent of 100-acre farm.
Every year 100,000,000 tons of good
earth go down the river. That isn't
dirt. That's meat, bread, wool over
coats, leather shoes everything
grown to eat and wear
In dry years the river leaves the
Great Plains to smother in dust.
Thousands of farmers go broke. Dur
ing the wrathful droughts of the 30's,
100000 persons fled the parched
plains. Misery in the Dust Bowl cost
government agencies 81, 246,000,000 in
relief and emergency funds. OF this
immense sum, little went to effect
for reservoirs, levees and soil con-
servation, the Missouri Valley today
would be almost proof against floods
and droughts. AS bonuses, the tall
dams would be generating hydroelec-
trio power and feeding water into
deep channels for river navigation.
Men of the Missouri call their river
a national problem, since all nayigable
streams are the concern of the fed
eral government Besides, they must
look to the Treasury for money to
build the dams. Yet the cry of state
rights is raised whenever federal ac-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

| New York-(FP)-U. S. foreign
policy in China is based ON supporting
! the fascist" government of Chang
Kai-shek against group which is
developing a system closely akin to
American democracy, Brig. Gen. Evans
Carlson charged at press conference
here Sept. 5.
81 say fascist advisedly," the former
Marine leader asserted, "and l use it
in the same sense that | would in
speaking of the Hitler and Mussolini
governments. If the people had the
franchise in China, the first thing
they would do would be to kick
Chang and his Kuomintang group out
of office.
"The Marking government doesn't
exist by the will of the people," Carl
son said, pointing out that it was only
the strength of American armed
forces, material and support that prop
ped up the corrupt Chang government
and INSTRUCTED the working out of
peace in China. If American forces
were withdrawn fre1n China, Chang
would have to sit down and negotiate
a coalition government with the Yenan
communist government, Carlson said
His charges were made Jointly with
Paul Robson, noted singer, as a pre-
lude to announcement of conference
on China and the far east to be held
in San Francisco Oct. 1920. Sponsor
ing the conference, to which delegates
from all local and national organiza-
lions are invited, are the Natl Com
mittee to Win the Peace and the Com
mittee for a Democratic Far Eastern
Policy. Carlson and Robson are CO.
chairmen of the first group.
Only Democratic Force
In China
Spry and tanned despite a long stay
in the hospital recovering from
wounds received in the Pacific war
Carlson spoke with deep respect for
the Chinese communists with whom
he spent two years as an official Navy
observer. Americans are easily tyran-
nized by words" he commented, "but
if you look behind the communist
label, you will find that the North
Chinese government is only force in
that country genuinely interested in
the welfare of the people. 1t couldn't
exist overnight without the support
of the people-but it has it."
Following the years he spent with
the eighth route army in the north,
Carlson travelled all through the south
where he observed ito my utter dis
may" the deep corruption of the Kuo-
mintang army and later talked to
Chang and other high leaders Of the
central government 81 told them of
my concern of the growing friction be-
tween the two forces and was assured
that they were earnestly seeking to
avoid open warfare he said. The day
Carlson left them the order went out
from Chiang's chief of staff calling
for the massacre of the communist
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

suffered on the New York
Stock Exchange, which now
aggregate more than SIS billion.
Several reasons are given for
the paper recession on Wall
Street including the July report
of the Federal Reserve Board
which indicated that the ordin-
airy consumer did not have the
huge savings with which to buy
durable goods that was earlier
indicated. Also, inventories of
durable goods stored in ware
houses, during recent months
have hit an all time high.
Press reports from New York in
dictate that spectators on Sept drop
ped an estimated 81 billion during
the day which saw 100000 shares
change hands and the ticker tape fall
behind several times. DUPONT led the
slump with 17-point drop, with Allied
Chemical and the big liquor outfits,
Schenley and Hiram Walker, not far
behind as they lost 10 and 1917 points
respectively. Big steel was hard hit,
too. as Bethlehem fell off 6as and
U. S. Steel lost 5.
The net decline was the widest since
Sept "a, 1881, according to the New
York Times index while the Wall
Street Journal described it as the
most sweeping recession since October
IS. 1887.
Reserve Board Report Sobered
Spectators
The break had been in the cards
for months, reports Indicate, pointing
out that the market really started on
the downgrade with publication of a
Federal Reserve Board report in July
that 1870 of U. S. families held 600
of the savings and 300 had no saw
ings at all
This sobered up many of the spec
ulators who had been swept away by
the boom talk that portrayed endless
prosperity and unlimited customers
for the U. S. Prices have gone so high
that a majority of the population is
no longer able to buy.
Immediate factors influencing the
drop were uncertainty about the inter
national situation with consequent
fear that foreign trade would be
stymied, the boom in consumer goods
prices, and piling up of inventories, al
ready at record s1S billion, leading
to fear of unemployment.
The Wall Street Journal and other
newspapers played down the break
in an apparent attempt to stem any
new tides of selling. A cautiously
worded editorial in the Journal ascri-
bed the selling to the fact that stock
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

meetings with President Truman and
other government officials.
He talked with Postmaster General
Robert flanagan, secretaries of war
and navy, Asst Atty Gen. Wendell
Berge, members of RFC board of d.
rectors, and veterans administration
officials.
At meeting of Erickson and other
Montana political figures with the
president, Senator Murray, D., Mont,
and o. S. Warden, Montana Demo
cratic national committeeman, said
they told Truman that Montana's
Democratic organization is united as
never before in its determination to
get out the vote and score smashing
victory in November"
With Berge, Erickson discussed
freight rates affecting western indus
tries in general and Montana shippers
in particular.
To RFC officials he urged expan-
sion of its activities in behalf of small
enterprises.
Erickson said in a statement he con-
sidered his Washington visit most
fruitful of positive results in behalf
Of Montana agriculture, industry and
veterans"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Private Power Not
Wanted By of c

Atlanta, Gd-It's like the man
bites-dog" story, this spectacular fight
over efforts of the Savannah River
Electric Company to obtain govern
ment sanction to construct a $685.
100000 hydro-electric project near
Augusta, Georgia.
The company, a subsidiary of the
giant Commonwealth & Southern, has
applied to the Federal Power Commits
sion for permit.
Obviously, it is trying to head off a
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

prices had been abnormally high, saw
the law of supply and demand at work
and interpreted 1t as mot in itself a
symptom"
Great Unemployment Ahead
With the purchasing power of the
great mass of American people being
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Another Major Depression
Likely To Occur Within
Next Is Months
Huge Inventories of Durable Goods Piling Up
In Warehouses; Real Wages of Workers
Rapidly Depreciating In Value

Dizzy rising prices of everything have to buy
particularly the food market justify only conclusion
headed straight for another major economic depres
sion depression which may make the 1929 debace fade
into nsignificance Major straw in the wind during past
weeks has been the several bondoar nosedves
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Majority of Planks Developed By Delegates
Development of Water Resources

last weekend the of much activity old
and young democrats from all parts of the state to the
Capitol city to hold the pars convention elect officers and
draw platforms for this years general election campaign
Lobe Helena attorney reelected state chair
Mrs Bernice Kngsbury Waller to the vice chair
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13

With this the physical
cpad and most welcome change brief Meh No cycnder
completely rebuilt through
With efficiently
ing which formerly aocated either the kug automatic the
Price obbers We're all
patience ability ingenuity
operating
OF from the angle old
slightest
century During
long life
purchased Hampton
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Judge Erickson Gets
Action In Trip To
Washington

Washington, Sept. 12.-Leif Erick-
son, Montana Democratic senatorial
left for home today after
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-13
Saturday Evening Post Writer Finds That An
Overall Authority Such AS MVA Offers
More, Not Less Democracy
By WESLEY~PRICE, Readers Digest as Condensed
From Saturday Evening Post

There snakes in the Missouri Valley that gobbed
like explorers Lewis and Clark told in the
1906 They wasted time checking the story.
astonishing phenomenon confronted them-he rambunctou
mud thickened Missouri River itself.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
Soldier Held in Death
OF New Market Man

A 29-year-old soldier was being
held today without bond in the
woodstock VaD Jail on a charge of
murder IN the fatal shooting early
Yesterday of Leo Price, 23-year-old
New Market CVaD veteran, whose
body was found in ditch on Route
i2l1 near his home.
shenandoah County Sheriff Oscar
Sheetz said the soldier, Calvin Frve.
who lives about miles from New
Market, was arrested last night and
has admitted the shooting. He said
two 17-year-old girls who were with
the two men when the shooting
occurred, are being held as wit
nesses.
The sheriff said the veterans BODY
was found by Jean Zirkle, is, New
Market, as she was riding on her
bicycle. He said Mr.. Price had been
shot through the heart with a %
caliber bullet.
According to DR.. H. w. Miller.
county coroner, there were powder
burns on Mr.. Prices sweater and
shirt, indicating he had been shot at
close range. He estimated the vet
eran had been dead about u hours.
Sheriff Sheetz said the two men
nad been out with the two girls Sat-
urday night and that Fry told him
ne shot Mr.. Price during an argu-
ment.
Mr.. Price had been held in a
German prisoner of war camp for
six months and returned to his
Massanutten Mountain home in
February.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
OOOSee Model Plane Meet:
Fastest Clocked at TIT M.P.H.

rowly missing a group of people
who were blinded by the sun.
Hundreds of gallons of soft drinks
and milk and more than 300 pounds
of hot dogs were consumed by spec
tators during the day. A first-aid
crew was on hand, but there were
no records of any heat prostrations
at the sun-baked field. The crowd
was kept informed of proceedings
by Bill Coyle, radio director of The
Star, and Jim Gibbons and Trafton
Robertson of the WMAL staff, over
a public address system furnished
by the Army Recruiting Ofices
Tenth and D streets NV.
A high light of the meet was un.
yelling by Army technicians of sew
eral robot models of the type used
during the war for target practice
The planes, controlled by a pilot
on the ground with control box
which sends radio impulses, come
to earth by parachute whenever
the pilot wishes to land the ship.
1947 Meet Undecided.
DR.. Walter A. Good was contest
director, assisted by David A. Robt
of the National Airport Club, gen.
eral chairman in charge of arrange
ments. Judges we're DR.. Good, L. O
Steger and William Rogers.
After the meet officials said they
did not know if another would be
organized for next year. One official
said, I'VE will plan another if we de
not 60 more than $4,000 in the hole.
Registration fee was only so cents
per entrant. A long list of prizes
for winners in all events were large
ly donated.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
Reuther Sees 0PA's End
As 8-Bi|Iion Robbery
BY the Assoeiotad Prss.

BALTIMORE. June 1o.-Walter p.
Reuther, United Auto Workers
(CIO) president, said yesterday the
biggest robbery of the day was not
that Of the Hessian crown Jewels.
but what he called the So, ,00O, 900 600
robbery Of the American people by
Congress.
He told meeting OF UAW dele
gates from Maryland and Delaware
that "the action of Congress in de-
stroying price control have brought
us to the bring of disaster" and he
added that "the pockets of every
housewife are being picked" as
prices for food, clothing and other
necessities rise.
within the next several months.
If Congress is not stopped in its mad
drive to throw of price controls and
throw open the f1oodgates of infla-
tion," Mr.. Reuther declared, I'VE
can throw away the whole hope of
winning the peace on the economic
front"
Evening star., 1946-06-10
Hardman and Turner
Cases NoNe Pressed

Charges Of disorderly conduct
against two Alexandria American
Feaderation Of Labor leaders who
were appealing convictions in thu
Alexandria Civil and Police Court
were nolle pressed today in Alex.
andria Corporation Court on motor
Of City Attorney Joseph M. Pan.
coast.
The two, George D. Hardman, 80
1915 Duke street, Alexandria, presi.
dent of the Alexandria Centra.
Labor Union, and James c. Turner
jr., %, 1441 East Capitol street
delegate to the Central Labor Unior
and member of the Engineers
Union, were originally sentenced
to pay $3.50 each and serve 80 days
In Jail. @
The charges arose out Of a fight
in the Central Labor Union meeting
on January z, when j. Fred Kirch-
ner, 80, of 1911 Duke street, labor
inspector for northern Virginia and
former CLU president, suffered a
broken nose and broken optical
bone.
Mr.. Hardman and Mr.. Turner
received fines of $400 each on ap-
pealing State charge of assault
in the Alexandria Civil and Police
Court when their cases came up in
Corporation Court two months ago
Evening star., 1946-06-10
New Schedule Drawn
For o. Bus Route

A new bus schedule, designed to
eliminate the present ''catch-as-
can" service, will be established Sum-
day on the 0-2 line serving the
Brookdale, Glen Cove, Green Acres,
Kenwood, Edgemoor and Bradley
boulevard areas, the Capital Transit
Co. announced today.
The new schedule calls for the
operation of buses on the line every
IS minutes during rush hours and
at 70-minute intervals during non
rush hours. This compares with the
present 30-minute rush hour and
Commute nonrush hour trips.
Company officials explained it was
necessary to increase the time be-
tween trips In order to preserve op-
peration ON Bradley boulevard west
Of Radnor road and still remain
within the limits of a dependable"
operation with a reasonable amount
Of '1ay-over" or resting time for
bus operators at the end of the line.
Also on Sunday, the transit COM
pany announced, it will augment its
Sunday service on Route B-8 (Capi-
tai View-Benning Heights line) be-
tween 9 am. and 10:30 pm.
p Buses will run at nine-minute in
tervals instead Of every II minutes
on the Capital View branch and at
23-minute intervals instead of 80
minutes on the Benning Heights
branch of the line.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
vepco, Union Sign
Contract After Farley
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, June 10.-Two
issues remaining unsettled when the
Virginia Electric & Power Co. and
the International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers signed a new
contract in April have been settled
unanimously by five-man arbitra-
ton board.
- William M Hepburn, chairman of
the board, announced the action
after a four-hour session which fol-
lowed a two-day hearing.
On the subject Of union security
there will be inserted into the con-
tract provision for maintenance OF
membership with . 15-day escape
clause.
The board awarded retroactive
pay OF 6A per cent on earnings
during the period of April /, 1945
through March 81, 1916, to employees
now covered by the new contract
and to foremen on the old Virginia
Public Service Co. properties who
were previously covered.
The contract was signed in April
after the IBEW threatened a strike
that would have cut of power to q
large part of Virginia.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
Dorden Given Degree
At William and Mury
BY the kssoeioted Press

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, June TO-
Former Gov. Darden told William
and Mary''s 200 graduates that two
World Wars in LESS than half a
century is enough to spur us on in
our effort to achieve some (peace)
plan which gives promise Of success -
Speaking at the colleges 253d
commencement exercises last night
Mr.. Darden said that the United
Nations Organization. imperfect
though 1t is because of the pro-
vision which permits great power
to veto action by the Council, offers
much" 4
The college conferred the hon.
orary degree of doctor of laws upon
Mr.. Darden.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
Blowout 0verturns
Car, Killing One Man,
Injuring Another

Raymond Showalter, 20, of 210
Seventeenth street s.e., plumber,
was killed when the car in which
he was riding overturned after a
blowout about 4 miles south of
Dahlgren, Va, yesterday afternoon.
The driver, according to State po-
lice, was Edward Kosok, %, of 1920
Raum street N E., who was admitted
to Sibley Hospital with decorations
and conclusion. His condition is
reported good.
The two friends were on their
way to inspect an automobile in
Warsaw, Va, members of Mr..
Showalter's family said.
Man, 81, Hurt by Bicycle.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Louise Showalter, Is, and a daugh-
ter, Bonnie Lee, 8, and his mother.
Mrs. Eleanor Showalter, and a sis
ter, Mrs. Sylvia Godfrey.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete, pending arrival of the mother
and sister, both of who live at
Noakesville, Va.
The traffic jam at Hains Point
yesterday forced police to call a
harbor patrol boat into action to
remove an 82-year-o1d man, who
was knocked unconscious by a BIZ
cycle, when an ambulance found it
impossible to reach him.
Calvin w. Simmons, of 1649 New
ton street NV, was knocked down
by bicycle operated by Peter Cam
ton, IL, of 221 K street NE. Mr..
Simmons struck his head on the
concrete sidewalk as he fell, police
said.
He was reported in undetermined
condition at Emergency Hospital.
Bus Collision Injuries Seven.
Seven persons were injured late
last night in a collision at Lee boule-
ward and South Lexington street in
Arlington, involving an Arnold
operated bus.
A car driven by George H. In
gals, AZ, 2917 o street NV, struck
the rear exit of the bus as it was
making a lett turn from Lee boule-
ward into Lexington street at Glen
Carlyn, police said. The bus was
driven by Alan Coville, 81, 252O
North Buchanan street, Arlington
Those injured were MIR. ingalls,,
his wife, who suffered a broken
wrist; George H. ingalls,, jr., 16, and
Hunter ingalls,, IL, two sons, and
two nephews, Melville E. ingalls,
jr., 13, Rockville pike, Md, and Car
roll ingalls,, II, of the same ad-
dress. All suffered cuts, bruises and
shock. Fannie Holland, %, colored
1852 South Fifth road, a bus pas
Senger, was treated for shock.
All were taken to Arlington Hos
pital by the Clarendon Ambulance
and the Jefferson Rescue Squads.
Evening star., 1946-06-10
tuberculosis Ward
Planned in Alexandra

The Alexandria Hospital will pro-
vide four beds for tuberculous cases
as the first step toward solving the
problem of lack of facilities in
Northern Virginia for caring fol
victims of the disease.
Robert G. Whitton, administrator
of the hospital, said that the new
isolation ward will provide for treat
ment of patients from 10 to IA days
on an average. The plan is to accept
selected cases Of the disease in its
early stages,