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The people's voice., 1947-02-07

and mines, saw more timber in the
forests, move more wheat and meat
from the farms, prolong the coming
of the evil day of panic, postpone
what is everywhere prophesized, the
most severe industrial depression we
as to drive millions and millions of
our voters to embrace the only other
system now outstanding in the world
-communism-rath than starva-
ton. There are some in congress who
cannot pass the bridge of ounces in
economics They proclaim their stu
pidity They say that forced payment
of these amounts from the unprece-
dented hoard of war profits would de-
stroy our system. The fact is, it would
give it more enduring health.
Canceling of orders has begun al
ready. Forced and proper release of
a million surplus government en-
ployes will soon add to vagrancy. The
banks are loaded with money that re-
sponsible people will not borrow. The
flood behind our weak dam against
surplus products is rising-just these
ounces in congress would like to raise
the flash boards on top of the dam
and increase the weight of water,
rather than open the gates, let some
water out for generating power and ir-
rigation, and save the dam. What
fools these mortals be-"
I,
ters will be reflected in federal taxes
by an increase. A horse can pull only
so much. A working man, or a small
business man, or professional man,
can pay only so much taxes. We are
at the limit of endurance already. A
depression would break us down on
our taxes; might bring the govern
ment income down to near the debt
service AS a Democrat I hope if it
comes at all, it comes under a Re-
publican president, because when
the public income gets close to the
debt service, the currency fails to
function. Then a sack of potatoes
may bring sack of hundred dollar
bills
But they say the payment of these
legal claims will delay the retirement !
Of our national debt There is really
some argument there. At the esti-
mates rate of retirement for this year,
200 million dollars, one billion will
oe paid in five years; 26O billion will
De paid in 1880 years. Aside: The only
way the debt will ever be paid is by
capital levy - say 10 per cent per
year on all the property of all the
nulti-millionaires. But they say that
The people's voice., 1947-02-07

is cOmmunlStlc. 1t PROBABLY is lot all
know But that would clear the debt
in 26 years.
There Is No Way Out But
Payment
Crooner O'Daniels says ''Tax the re-
cOveries in these cases 100 per cent"
Well, suppose that was tried by con-
gress. There are wise heads in con-
gress who know that if that were
started and succeeded, which it can
not, some other congress might tax
the DuPOnts 100 per cent of their
vested rOperties-without due proc
ess of law. However, taxation must
be equal and uniform. Pappy is just
a buffoon, and without sense enough
to keep his mouth shut.
While congress cannot modify or
rule out these vested rights that have
already accrued, the Republican ma
jority joined by the far south pseudo
Democrats will change the law as to
the future. That cannot affect pend
ing cases. Most lawyers realize this.
Many large employers have been SO
dUN1S6u. HIS Has CduSGQ InSul W
negotiate fair settlements, and law
yers for the men have not been in
sistent on a pound of flesh.
A ship building concern recently
settled under court order with its men
for two million dollars. Dow Chem
| icaI Company settled for four million
dollars. Swift and Company have
settled. Some mining companies have
settled. Many employers think they
get better work from their employees
if there are no overdue wages un-
paid
Most of the suits in Montana are
against the Anaconda company. Iowa's
Mrs Sullivan lost five gallant boys
on one battleship during the war in
the Pacific, but the Anaconda emerged
from the war with some phony wire
rejected to an affiliate but with a
reserve estimated at one hundred thir-
tY-seven million dollars
The simpletons in our midst are
business men and stockgrowers who
.hink that they would be hurt by
lew millions removed from the bank
vaults of Amsterdam and put in the
pockets of workmen in Butte, Great
Falls and Helena
By LOWNDES MAURY
The people's voice., 1947-02-07
Maury Clears
CONTINUED from Page one)

Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. " Raj
mund Local No. 121, 321 U. S. 500.
Some of the dearest of my southern
kinsmen hold Toms views. My grand
father lived 80 years after Lees sur
render, unconverted to Lincoln's Pro-
clamation of Emancipation
The large employers of labor have
had perfect notice since the Tennes
see Coal & Iron case that the law was
against their chiseling on the men
and what the consequences should be
in court
The NLRB has secured injunctions
against them for chiseling repeatedly.
One of these was by Judge R. Lewis
Brown, Wafling V. Anaconda Co.
(Montana) sc Fed. Supp. 912 The
bureau has notified them in many in
stances. They paid no heed They car
ed nothing for law observance as a
test of "Americanism." Until their
purse is endangered, their press was
silent.
Background of 4o-Hour Law
But even now the public remains in
darkness about the origin of the 40
hour week law. All remember the out
burst of the corporation press against
Mr.. ROosevelt's brain Trust; a
group of impartial economists asked
to assemble the figures and find out
how many hours work per day on an
average was required to insure a
high standard of living in the nation
After years of patient assembling of
figures and analysis the conclusion
was that 80 or less hours of work per
week would get the result safely-if
there were fair distribution of the
product to the men who toll
To meet this theorem of scientists
(half way only, the congress limited
the work week in certain occupations
to forty hours This part of the law
was for humanitarian purposes. There
was another well known social eco
nomic political purpose Two centur-
les of experience under the capitals
tic system had taught that low wages,
l.e., lack of buying power in the mas
ses to buy back what they produce,
leads first to surplus stocks of mer-
chants, then surplus products on the
farms and in factories, then to unem-
ployment, then to banks calling loans,
next to foreclosures, then to shutdown
of mines and factories, thus to bank
failures, then to an immense once
population returning to
hn of dc cir III
hey had produced more than the ex-
)loiters would let them buy back.
A balancing device was put in the I
aw for our economy, unstable at best
or long periods. To avoid the evils of
surplus product the congress wisely
provided that if the masters worked
he men longer than needed to pro-
luce enough under then-existing liv-
ng standards, the masters should re-
urn to the workers one and One-half
wages for overtime, and penalty of
mother one and one-half, so that the
urplus product would not pile up,
ut be consumed as made, and there ;
y the standard of living would rise
The Bridge of Ounces
There is a problem in geometry
allied the Bridge of Ounces. No Ounce
an get any further. To any one who }
an pass that problem mentally it is
ute simple that to make the masters {
ay every claim for overtime quickly
| cash to the workers, would put
lore money in the merchants hands,
Ike more goods from the factories,
it more oil and metals from wells
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Truman Cites Control
OF Stock Exchange as
Precedent

President Truman said today the
Government should have the same
authority to regulate commodity
exchanges as it does to regulate the
New York Stock Exchange and the
Federal Reserve System.
The President expressed this view
point at his news conference when
he was asked about that portion of
his message to Congress dealing with
the need of commodity exchange
regulations to prevent gambling.
A reporter wanted to know II the
President favored regulating cotton
transactions and the President re-
sponded by asking if it isn't true that
cotton is commodity and wool Is
commodity.
That should answer the question,
he continued.
Silent on Taft Charge.
The President refused to comment
on criticism by Senator Taft, Repub-
lican, of Ohio, who said the Presi-
dents message urging renewal OF
price and wage control and selective
rationing was a move toward totali-
tarianism.
MIR. Truman conceded, however,
that Senator Taft might be correct
in saying the President has export
control powers which he has not
used.
The President explained that
often the administration has more
powers than are taken advantage
of, but he pointed out that export
controls will expire February 20
unless they are extended, and that
he was seeking to have them con-
tinued.
Won't Reveal Time of Controls.
The Chief Executive was asked
when he proposed to make price
controls effective if the power was
granted by Congress, and he said
that matter could not be discussed
until the legislation was enacted.
He also expressed himself as
pleased with the reaction Nationally
to his message to Congress.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Douglas S. Freeman
Gets Franklin Medal
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.-An in
depreciation of George Washington's
character quite different from
American traditions, making him
remarkably outspoken and even
emotional as young man, was given
to the American Philosophical So
ciety last night by Douglas S. Free
man. editor of the Richmond (Va)
News Leader.
Mr.. Freeman spoke on THE Young
Washington" in response to presen-
tation of the society's Franklin
Medal to him for his achievements
as a historian. This medal Is one
of the unusual scientific honors The
American Philosophical Society was
founded by Benjamin Franklin, for
whom the medal is named. The So
ciety has as members scientists
from all branches Of science, and In
addition famous men Of letters, law
and economics.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Capital AirIines Names
Murchison Board Head

Charles H. Murchison, Jackson
vile, Fla, general counsel of Capital
Airlines, has been elected chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
airlines board of directors, it an
nounced today by James H. Carmi-
chael, president of the airline.
Mr.. Murchison, a member of the
Florida bar since 1924, is a graduate
of the University of Michigan and
Harvard Law School.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Filipino Lawyer
FIoored as Angry
Jops Use Judo
BY the Associoted Press

MANILA, Nov. 21-Japanese at
torneys used judo to floor the. chief
of the Philippine army's prosecu-
ton division.
That official, Capt. Nicanor Mar
onilla Seva, was objecting to fire.
quent postponements of the arraign-
ment and trial of former 1t. juno
Matsuta, charged with committing
murders during the Japanese retreat
in the Philippines in 1945.
Matsutas japanese civilian law
yers suddenly threw Seva to the floor
and began kicking him in the face.
Other Filipino officers broke up the
fight.
William S. Yard, executive officer
of Allied headquarters, Tokyo, is in
vestigating.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.. ~ As


Of zoning granted during the pre-
ceding calendar year.
In a letter to Mrs. Susie NJ Rubey,
corresponding secretary Of the feder-
alton, Park Commissioner E. Brooke
Lee said it was planned to start
work on such map each January
He said the maps will consist of
series of sectional master zoning
plans brought up to date annually.
Master plans now being prepared
he reported, are for the town of
Takoma Park; for Sligo avenue
from Georgia avenue to Piney
Branch road: for Macarthur boule-
ward; for Layhill road from Glen
Evening star., 1947-11-21
FTOm Yesterdays Last Ed1t1On. J
by the Assoe;ofed Press


RENO, Nov. 20.-Two University
of Chicago graduate students with
ambitions to break the bank at rou
lette gave it up today when their
system went sour.
They were about $1,000 ahead, on
an original $500 stake.
The youthful gamblers. who for
few days had Reno's professional
house men looking interested, are
Roy Walford, %, of San Diego,
Calf, and Albert Hibbs, Is, Chilli
Goth, Ohio.
Their system consisted Of betting
on No. exclusively. Playing the
wheels in alternate eight-hour shifts
for nearly two weeks, Walford and
Hibbs retired at 6 am. after a long
losing streak at Harold's Club during
which they dropped most of $1,000
won there.
Walford said they may resume
play tomorrow. but intimated they
had enough of the little whirling
ball.
This gets to be a hard way to
make money and we are both almost
worn out"
Walford said they won about
$4,000 at another club before it
closed its wheel to them and had
about $1,000 of the $1,000 they had
piled up at Harolds Club. Gambling
Is legal in Nevada.
But both youths appeared willing
to walk away with their winnings.
which at one time had gone over
s11, 900.
A veteran Reno professional gam
'ler, observing the play, remarked
Is the youths cashed in:
The last big winner here was
about II years ago. He had a sys-
em. too"
He nodded across the street.
He's washing dishes over there
1ow."
The system played by WaHord
md Hibbs consisted of betting only
IN the number nine. But the bets
'aried and that part OF the system
vas a secret.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
PoIicemon's Son Admits
Setting Fire to Church
By the Assoeiated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.-John
Allen, 20, son of a Philadelphia
policeman. has been charged with
arson after admitting in a signed
statement that he set the fire which
destroyed historic st. Anne's Roman
Catholic Church on Armistice Day
Fire Marshal George J. Gallagher
said.
The blaze roared through the
church for 80 minutes, leaving only
the side walls standing.
Mr.. Gallagher, who arrested Allen,
said yesterday, Il have known this
boy since he was born" Patrolman
Francis Allen was present as his son
signed the statement and was
charged with arson, Mr.. Gallagher
said.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Students Quiz, 81, 900 Ahead,
As Roulette System Sours

Walford and Hibbs said they fig
ured out their method while study
ing at Chicago. Hibbs holds mas
ter's degree IN mathematics.
Walford and Hibbs started at the
Palace Club, but the house closed up
the wheel when they ran $500 to
about $4,000. They then moved ever
to Harold's Club, still playing NO
9. The original bet was 81 and they
gradually increased their bets when
winning.
In San Diego, Walford's mother.
Mrs. Jean Walford, expressed
amazement at the winnings of her
son, who was known as "the Brain"
at San Diego high school.
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Park Board Agrees
To zoning Map Plan

The Maryland-N National Capital
Park and Planning Commission an
nounced today it has agreed to COM
ply with a recent request of the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton to prepare annual public in
formation maps" indicating changes
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Church Dinner Tomorrow

The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Potomac (Mdo Meth
odist Church will give a turkey din
ner from to pm. tomorrow to
raise funds for storm windows for
the church's parsonage. Mrs. Clar-
ence A. Barber Is In charge Of ar
rangementS,
Evening star., 1947-11-21
Food-Saving Drive
Pushed as Luckman
Resigns as Director

The food saving drive initiated
by the Citizens Food Commit
tee will continue throughout the
coming winter and "at least
through the first half of next
year."
This change in the drives en-
phasis from short-term emergency
program to something approaching
a long-range conservation drive was
ordered by President Truman late
yesterday in accepting the resigna-
ton of Charles Luckman, chair
man of the food group.
The citizens group now becomes
the Citizens Food Advisory Com
mittee. while the job of continuing
meatless Tuesday, eggless Thursday
and the other conservation measures
falls chiefly on the Agriculture De-
partment.
Says Drive Must Continue.
Mr.. Truman, in releasing Mr..
Luckman from his job. said the
campaign must continue" and
must in fact be intensified If we
are to save the utmost possible
amount Of grain that can be spared
for the needs Of hungry people
overseas"
President Truman referred to his
message to- Congress on Monday,
saying:
It have told the Congress that
the Government will intensity its
efforts to obtain voluntary action
in order to enable us to extend aid
to friendly nations and at the same
time protect our own living stand
ards. The voluntary efforts inau-
gurated by your committee will con-
tinue to be necessary to supplement
the program which have asked the
Congress to authorize"
Mr. Luckman, in his letter of res
ignation. pointed out that the Agri-
culture Department already is in
charge of that part of the program
aimed at cutting down the amount
of grain fed to livestock. The prob
able savings under this program, he
said, alone may exceed the savings
of all other sources"
Big Savings Pledged.
The consumer saving program
meatless Tuesdays, eggless Thurs
days and the save-a-slice-of- bread
= day measures Mr.. Luckman
called "a source Of substantial addi-
tional savings" Programs worked
out by the committee with poultry
producers, distillers, brewers, bakers,
millers, the armed forces and the
public feeding industry include
pledges to save more than 100,000,000
bushels of grain, the original aim
of the whole drive.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported that wholesale
prices hit a new postwar peak dur
ing the week ended November Is.
The wholesale price index reached
1885 per cent of the 1926 average,
the highest figure since VI day
and rise Of 0.4 per cent over the
previous week.
Although farm prices helped raise
the figure, the bureau pointed out
that as a group farm products av-
eraged 81 per cent under their peak
of four weeks earlier but were 1T
higher than a year ago.
The latest figures for Washington
released by the bureau showed re-
tail food prices rose 90 per cent
between August Is and September
IS. Increases were largest in meats,
dairy products, eggs, cereals and
bakery products, sugar and coffee,
while fruits and vegetables, fats and
oils showed declines in the period
covered.
The index for all foods stood at
1929 per cent of the 1935-193 av-
erage, an increase Of 16.1 per cent
over the previous year and an in
crease of 1855 per cent over August
Is. 1899
Evening star., 1947-11-21

I'm sure he's never gambled be-
FORE" she said. HE was always
such a studious and serious chap"
She added that If Walford
kept up the good work well move
the family up there to Reno with
him."
Evening star., 1947-11-21

mont to Sandy Spring; and for the
Columbia road from White Oak to
Burtonsville and the Patuxent River
boundary of the Maryland-Was
ington Regional District.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

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way brew extra favored coffee from the choicest
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to seal in the flavor, then powder it for your conve
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Evening star., 1947-11-16

So fost 50 easy and 50 good! No wonder
Nescafe is such an instant success! You just put
teaspoonful in cup and add hot water. That's all!
Instantly you have the most delicious cup of coffee
you ever tasted. NescaR costs you only about II
cup-and there's no wafe, because you make exactly
the number of cups you serve!
The Omaha guide., 1947-01-11
Radio Programs

"
SUNDAY RADIO PROGRAMS
Dec. 90, 1916 WOW $500 kc SOB.
2m) (CSD
6 80 Sunday ~Serenade
6 55 News
Z 90 Revival Hour
8 90 Chapel in the Sky
s Is Midwest Report
8 Is Chapel Service, Rev. r. r.
Brown
8 so STORY TO ORDER
8 t5 Cheer Up Time
40 90 WOW News Tower
10 Is Gems and lettings
10 80 Furs on Parade
10 IS Solitaire Time. NRC
Dill 90 World Front. NBC
I'll 30 House of Beauty
IL - Canary Pet Snow
u 90 WOW News Tower
u is Farm Magazine of the Air
IL 80 Your University Speaks
Democratic Committee
u As Life Time Favorltes
CO. HCA Victor Hour, MIC
1 30 Harvest of Stars, NC
2 C3 Carmen Clvelero, NC
2 30 One Mans FAMILY. NBC
8 90 The SymphCnette
8 so Nebraska Iowa Guiz
4 90 Quiz kids
4 81 Circle Arrow Slow
3 90 Catholic -Four. NEG
s 60 Bob Burrs
90 Jack Benny. NBC
g 80 RanGuagon. MIC
90 Edaar Bergen Charley
Mccarthy NEC
T 20 Fred Allen Show. NBC
g 90 Manhattan III erry Go
Round. EBC
6 so American Album of tami-
liar Music. NBC
9 co Don Ameche SHOW, MEG
9 so Meet Ne at Parkey's, NBC.
10 90 WOW News Tower
10 15 Show Time
10 so Pacific story. NBC
II 90 WOW News Tower
II IS Music by Shredinik, NBC
IL 30 America United
IL 90 Midnight Melodies
- Is Mary Ann Mercer, NBC
u 80 Symphony Of Melody
u 55 News, NBC
The Omaha guide., 1947-01-11
BY CARL HELM

NEW YORK-The description Of
"l.ad-end kids" has come to mean
ganlin gangster toughness to most
Of tie country. thanks Tor othor-
wise) to The movies. But to Nanhat-
tan's middle East Side. where
original version got born. the sig
nllcance is out Of existence.
The KIDS who Play in tie dead
ends now are anything but hood
l-ms. That's because Che street ter
rini Of the Fest FifGes today are
prim and chaste little PARKS, set WIN
neat fagstoAe walks, and benches
and trees, sand-1aTcs and swings
where 5e-capped and stareAad uni
formed nursenaid- a1l govsraas-ss
ar and exercise TIE children OF the
frv weIl-t0-Lo. whose aic18 a-art-
r-nts have chased out tha aidnls.
a4 rotsing docks which c5l1ina1
\ Maxwell Anderson waota his
atersc5' and Sidney Kingsley
a wai with his "Dsad-End.7
Tile ten years intervening brought
the laa-7caped East River Dlive
ai the u1Qer-income class dwell
N replace the old warehouses
a'l tznamants. To1ay's 'deaa-aad
ars such clean, wen clad ana.
ner1d moppstg rs you'd dnd u
tLs fairgrounds of. say, Eokoa7,
I-l. XIII Ecoi1rh- Ia Which IL as II
E-3all br, ana hgh time, too.
The Omaha guide., 1947-01-11
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All Of the new bars that are re-opening after getting a new
(abe) face have neglected to set aside a special corner tor their
regular eusomers-the suckers who Get on a benHer In the Joint
every night These poor guys who get broke now and then
suffer terribly when they cant dig up the change for a drink or
two. It's like a ~dughabi with the dopes. So why not a bender
sender in the far corner of your favorhe bar2 That room which
Dick Wheaton labels La Continental CRalph Cooper thought that
one up, bless himD that's an ideal location for the. RS. boys to
spot-its 50 comfy, too. can see the BOYS now iuIlne all over
the place with The PINK lights n pink elephants taking over"
If your gal tries &c pull that one about your being "outof-date"
that YOU need to spruce uP, use some Murrays Hair Slid. oct your
dentist to pull out All Of your teeth and Ut yourself a FINE sea of
false ones with that sharp gold one in the middle, or if She should
tell you to stop wearing those softtone striped shirts and get a
dozen ot those pure white rollcollared shirts from Mnks, and
IT your shoes somehow fail to keep that shine-hoP over to Rival
Shoes. "
Brother, don't look non, but yonr pants are baeey. mo
ponder, the little D0mdn's rapin g-1nadD Get oper to Lens
Pants Shop (2II Vest I25th Street, rn-a-Anrry and Get peeged
m draped back. LENS pl make 1or gal stop sIngn'
IN, Man Is An ON of Date Papa"
Lee Richardson, the vocalist with Luis RusseITs band. was
newspapers from coast to coast. He vas presented with a scroll
on the stage Of Harlems Apollo Theatre recently These Groom
es are sure lucky. Richardson has been receiving, very expensive
gifts from women fans who are showing signs of outdoing their
bobby-sox counterparts AT one of the recent appearances of
Luis Rqssells Orchestra Richardson actually had to be struggled
into the theatre. Isn't that carrying it Just too tar??? Richardson
Just can't be that good, gals. I'm getting a bit jealous OF you
lovely dolls cutting up such caPers Please don't take your
love from me.