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Nogales international., 1947-03-28

thing that will speed up their Mexi-
can interlude.
Mexico is one of the drawing
cards we Arizonans have to attract
the tourists and their dollars to our
state and our cities. At a time
when we all are trying to make the
income balance the outgo we need
all the tourist dollars we can get.
BUT when the new gate is in
stalled, will there be enough In
spectors to handle the job of passing
the tourists to and from Mexico?
Before the Senate Committee on
Appropriations is the Treasury Ap-
preparations Bill which the House
of Representatives has just passed,
showing a decrease of $6,505, 900 in
1948 budget estimates. That's a lot
of dollars! Now, if the bill passes
the Senate as it did the House, our
National President informs us that
this is apt to happen: approx
mately 300 Customs employees will
be dropped, principally on the bor-
ders. It may mean the closing Of
some ports.
Do you get the drift? What's to
be done at a beautiful new, four
lane gate on the border with only a
few employees to operate it? We're
right back where we are now!
Amt that a shame?
Then think of this: with better
roads to Hermosillo, Guaymas and
beyond, tourist travel through Ari-
zona is going to be bigger and big
cer. Tourists spend money. They'll
spend it in Arizona and they'll
spend it in Mexico. So think little
farther, if you're not already ahead
of me. Where will the Mexicans
spend the money they get from the
tourists? In Mexico? NO SIR!
They'll spend it in Nogales, in Tue
son, and in Phoenix, to buy the
many things they cannot get ir
Mexico.
There is still time to do something
about it, and NOW is the time!
We feel that Nogalians whose
! livelihoods depend upon the condi'
tions as they exist here at the line
will be interested in the above, ant
that it should be brought to theil
attention.
Very truly yours,
FLACK G.. MIIiNER,
President
Arizona Branch
National Customs
Service Association
Nogales international., 1947-03-28

A. w. Hughes, President of the j.
C. Penney Company, was born in
Skaneateles, N. Y He joined the
company in 1920 as a salesman in
the Penney store at Moberly, Mo-,
later serving as manager of Penney
stores in Eureka, Utah, and Athens,
Georgia Starting behind the count
er of a Penney store is typical OF
the careers of most of the officers of
the firm. Mr.. Hughes succeeded E.
c. Sams-himself once salesman
behind Penney counter-as Presi-
dent of the company in April, 1916
when Mr.. Sans became Chairman
of the Board.
Nogales international., 1947-03-28

E. G. Sans, Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the j. c..
Penney Company, was born in
Simpson, Kansas. After several
years in the retail business, he
Joined Mr.. Penney as a clerk in
the Kemmerer, Wyoming, store
After serving nearly 80 years as
President of the company, Mr.
Sans succeeded Mr.. Penney as
Chairman of the Board in April
1916, when Mr.. Penney became
Honorary Chairman of the Board
Nogales international., 1947-03-28

really lived up to the principles in
volved in the name he gave his little
venture, and he further broke with
tradition by plainly pricing his goods
and then selling at no other figure.
Today the company he founded in
Kemmerer operates attractive, mod
ern department stores all over the
United States, testifying to the wis
dom of his fair business practice,
based on the Golden Rule.
Nogales international., 1947-03-28

Penney Company's mother store
in Kemmerer, Wyo., was opened as
the Golden Rule Store in 1902.
It was a small beginning in a real
old Western mining town-just one
small room on the towns muddy
main street. It was an era when
''let the buyer beware was the Or
'dinary business philosophy, and
prices usually depended on the Gus
toner's haggling ability. Mr.. Penney
Nogales international., 1947-03-28
M1
Nogales, Arizona
March 20, 1947

Nogales, Arizona
March 20, 1947
Editor,
Nogales international,
Nogales, Arizona.
Dear Sir:
Action IS being taken to enlarge
the gate into Mexico at Nogales.
Such action will enormously aid in
relieving present congestion of traf-
fic crossing and re-crossing the
border. One of the biggest draw
backs in going to Mexico is the
length of time it takes to get from
one side to the other on a busy day.
Everyone will welcome any change
for the better here on the line, any
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22
Russia's Veto Power

A MISTAKE was made in the
San Francisco conference when the
United Nations was organized. Rus
STA should not have been appeased
by giving her a veto power. She
should have been permitted to walk
out then, and not later be in a posi-
ton to block the needed actions Of
the world organization. United Ma
tons, to be effective, must be some
thing more than debating society.
Its constitution provides a rather
cumbersome method of correcting
that mistake. The time to make
such change is NOW. Russia will
probably quit if it is made, but it is
better that she quit now than to
wait until Communism dominates
all of Europe and Asia. AS long as
any one nation can prevent all
action, United Nations will not pro-
vide an effective method of preserv-
ing world peace and world civiliza-
ton. Today United Nations repre-
sents, not the will of the nations of
the world, only that of Russia. It
can do only what Russia wants, or
do nothing.
Former President Roosevelt's
recognition of the Russian govern
ment was on promise there would
be no fifth column propagandizing
in this country. That promise has
been broken. We should now recall
that recognition; tell the American
ambassador at Moscow to close up
and come home; give the Russian
ambassador his passports, and stop
all trade with the Commies.
The political honeymoon soon
reached the rolling pin welding
stage.
pggNFSl
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22
Mrs. Mark Twain

All of Mark Twain's manu-
scripts were edited by his wife.
So, perhaps the famous humorist's
wife put some of the finishing
touches to such charming book
characters as Aunt Polly, Tom
Sawyer, and even the incompara-
BILE Huckleberry Finn.
Well, 1.-TWO heads are better
than one," the old saying goes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22

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This lovely inset can be two-tone
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22

Unnecessary Spending
A LONG one edge of town in
"A Washington county runs a
creek that must be crossed by those
entering or leaving the town from
that side. Each of three substantial
bridges carries three-lane high
way over that creek, all within a
mile. There are two other crossings
within the same mile where con-
crete, three-lane highways have
been built across the bed of the
creek, with easy up and down
grades. Ninety-eight per cent of the
time that creek is dry. It floods
only following an exceptionally
heavy rain, and then only for few
hours.
That condition has existed at
this town in Washington county
over a number Of years, and
has proven adequate and salts
factory. No one has been in
convenienced, and there has
been no special demand for
change.
Recently the county officials de-
cided to bridge those two highway
crossings at cost to the taxpayer
of many thousands of dollars.
At about the same time the
county officials decided they should
have more money to spend. They
did not raise the tax rate, but they
did revalue, for tax purposes, all
the county real estate, increasing
the values from Is to rs per cent.
The old tax rate, applied to the new
valuations produced a very consid-
cradle increase in the tax money
collected.
ADDING TO THE LOAD
That tax increase comes at a
time when the people of that coun-
ty, and of all the nation, are carry
ing the heaviest tax burden in all of
our history. More than one third of
our national income is paid out for
taxes. About IS cents out of every
dollar we earn goes to the tax col
lector, and the officials of Washing
ton county have added to that bur-
den.
These same officials are
building two bridges at this in
oppOrtune time; bridges for
which there can be no immedi-
ate need or demand. They are
building at time when con-
structiOn costs are at an all
time high, and the taxpayer is
the victim.
Those bridges are utilizing ma
terial, some of which could go into
the building of homes, at this time
when there is scarcity of mate
rails. They are using labor that
could be used for home building for
which an adequate supply is unpro~
durable.
Those two Washington county
bridges are but illustrative of
what is happening in a majority
of the counties and muhcipali-
ties of the nation. 1t may not be
bridges, but it may be new
county or town buildings, high
ways or any one or more of
many things for which there is
no pressing, immeSiate need;
something that could be done
without.
The craze of the times is to tax,
and tax, and tax, and to spend, and
spend, and spend for things that
could well wait for a more oppor-
tune time; until such time as con-
struction costs come down, and un-
til such time as iobS are needed nv
workers; until such time as con-
struction of these unnecessary prof.
ects will not interfere with the
building of greatly needed homes.
The payoff for the taxpayers is to
elect, and elect, and elect new set
of county officials who have not
been bitten by the taxing and
spending bug.
W.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22
The Answers

l. Yes, David M. Casey. While
playing with the National league
Phillies in 1888, he inspired Ernest
Thayer to write the poem.
2. Racing drew 26,00O,OOO while
baseball drew 100000.
8. Yes. Water veins have been
found in numerous sections, con-
tanning desert minnows, relics of
the days when Death Valley was
the bottom of great inland sea.
4. Well over half a million dol
lars.
S. In 1911, when $3.50 was re-
ceived from man who explained
that he came by the funds illegal
ly. To date, Americans have sent
in more than 100000.
6. Yes, an adult eel can deliver
as much as 500 volts.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-08-22
Ask NE -
ANOTHER (
A General Quiz

l. Was casey" of casey at
the Bat" real person?
2. Which drew more spectators
last year, horse racing or big
league baseball?
3. Is there any water in Death
Valley?
4. What would a cubic foot of
gold be worth?
5. When was the treasury de-
partments conscience fund"
started?
6. Is there any real electricity in
an electric eel?
The frontiersman., 1947-01-18
OtNALI SAILING St7 BACK

Sail ing date of the 4teamer Denali i from Seattle, 1T igin- ally scheduled for Jan. 28, has been de- layed until Feb. l, it was learned here by the Ander son Dock this week.
 The steamer should arrive ia S6ldovia on Feb. 7, rather than on Feb. 5 IS origin ally schedul 3d.
 The Rose Knot and the Terminal Knot, both unloading now at Seward, and the Jump CT Hi tch, which is expec ted to arr i've shortly, 6o not carry car go for S5ldOV ia.
The frontiersman., 1947-01-18
( A A PPROVE AIRPORT PL ANS TOR SELOOV|A

GAIA has approved the planned project for improvements to the Seldovia airpor t. Word of the approval came from tAA h6Ad- ouar ters in "ashing- ten, D.C., last week ac ccordirg to inf 1rma- tion r7cei-ad from nchor aCe.
 This city was one of the first thr e in the territory to re- ceive such approval. Dill ingham and Seward also rec ived the Co- ahead ignal for the i1 proiec ts.
 The :. plan, as ap- proved, calls for the expenditure of $66, 900 on the nor th- south landing str ir which is to be 3CO feet wide and 2 900 feet long, with the possibility of 8 fur ther extension of 500 feet.
 The mos6y will be used ts ray for Gr rad- ing, drainage, gravel .urfac ing, zone clear ing and marking. It bee ones available
 Cont. Fage 6
The frontiersman., 1947-01-18
NO ( HANGE. TOR ~ R, CHAM BeRS

The csndi tion of q. If. Chambers, us. Ccwmi s s ioHer now con- I in6d to the hospital by illsess, remain, m chang ed, his at ten ding physic ian, Dr.. MelV in Bel tz, said yee to-day.
The frontiersman., 1947-01-18

BUT COUNCIL OKAf lRECOM M ENOATION The city council last night overrode Mayor Simon Josef sent $ plea for a rostpone- ment Of action on re- comm9ndati ios. for a modificatiAn of Or 6iaance 27 which wa. pr 7ntad by Lin Ras- mus sen, a repre.7nta- i've of the Seldovia Lioror Dealer.' Ass~- c iation.
 MT. Josef sen asked that the discussion be tabled until next meet ing, when a full council, with ade- ouate time for delib- eration, would con- s ider the dealer pro- posals. The absence of Councilman, Herr loft only four voting members at las t T iGhtis meet ing.
 However Counc ilman Norden s on baked the mayor by put ting a mo t ion that the rec on1menda t ions be ac- 2 opted. Counc ilman Gaorg9 Cook backed Mr. Norden son's mo- tion, and Mrs. Everd Jones voiced an af- f irmat i've vote to
 Cont. 7age 4
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Captain Barnes starts bvstinu
pieketines before they exist
By LEONARD c.. LEVIN

Previous articles in this Sc.
ries have described Captain
George Barnes in some of his
better known roles as "compa-
ny cop" for anti-union Chicago
employers.
The head of the police labor
detail, however, has not con-
fined his activities to breaking
picket lines during strikes. He
has operated a card check"
service to give certain employ
ers an excuse for recognizing
one union as against another,
and he has even helped social
ed STRIKES" when they were
employer-approved.
The one thing that has always
stood out in the activities of the
labor detail, in the opinion of
union leaders who have had to
deal with Barnes, is that what
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
This is the fourth of a Sc
ries of fiUe eTclusiUe stories
on Captain Barnes By the
Chicago Star.

ever it has done has always
been of substantial aid to en-
ployers in labor disputes.
THE Chicago formula" of le-
gal strikebreaking a provoca-
ton on the picketline, arrests of
pickets, and finally a court III
junction restraining picketing-
has become almost a standard
handicap expected by Chicago
workers who are forced to strike
for their demands.
But i'm an increasing num-
Der of cases, Captain Barnes
has not waited for q strike to
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

The IngerSOll workers, mem
bers of Local 139 of the CLIO
Farm Equipment Workers union,
defeated the joint craft unions of
the ALL Metal Trades Depart
ment Feb. &c by a vote of 800 10
176, with only seven ballots cast
for neither union.
Although the FE-CIO mad call.
ed on the AFL group 10 with.
draw from the ballot to unity the
plants workers in the face of the
current big business offensive
against labor, according to inter
national representative Don Har.
ris, the Metal Trades department
rejected the proposal in spite of
the "foregone conclusion" of a
CIO victory in the election.
THE FEE drive was led by AM
energetic plant committee, head.
ed by Pres. Stanley Kotas, Chief
Stewards Lorenzo Thomas, Ar
chic Phillips, and Kenneth Jewell,
and Grievance Committeeman
Joe LaFond, Joe Amelsi, and
Henry Tate.
In the unions wage demands,
now being presented, the work
ers are emphasizing the greatly
swollen profits of the corporation
and the tremendous price boosts
in its products, according to Har-
ris. Bendix washing machines,
one of the plants main products,
have gone up in price S37.25 in
the last four months alone.
The company's accumulated
profits on Oct 1, 1916, according
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

No small contributing factor
to this debacle for Mike Mann,
who proudly insists on speaking
for 100000 CLIO members" was
his accepting the advice and can
didates of the handful of self
styled "Trotskyites" in the CLIO
Council. These TrotsEyite "pied
piperS of disaster" will lead
Mann, Towers, and the others
to total impotence i'm labor and
political circles, unless CLIO
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Tool Owners out
lin New York

NEW YORK-CFP)-The Tool
Owners Union, union-busting EN-,
ployer front, was denounced by
the New York Board of Stand.
ards & Appeals as the most "fas.
cistic organization" yet to come
to its attention as the board re-
jected the TOU's application to
do business in the state.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

Dare one hope that Mike
Mann, Albert Towers, Pat Great
house, Sam Levin, Joe Gernla-
no, and others, will study the
revealing lessons of the alder
manic campaign?
Can labor and pr0gressives
generally expect that these Ia
Dor leaders will, in a RESPONSE
BILE fashion, have the courage to
draw the proper conclusions
from the vote received by the
CLIO Council-sponsored indepen-
dent candidates for aldermen?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

Was this a fair statement?
Let's look at the record of the
32nd Ward vote as finally cast
on February 25th. Frank Mier-
hewicz received 1,254 votes,
forcing run-Off between the
candidates of the two old par
ties. Joseph ROstenk0wski, De.
mocrat, received 1896 votes and
AL Sakowicz, Republican, re-
ceived 1851 votes.
Mierkiewicz' vote is thus the
balance Of power i'm the ward.
And any child can surmise that
both old parties are lending an
eager ear to labOr's demands In
the 32nd ward i'm an effort to
corral the MierkiewicZ vote. The
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

Democratic Party, i'm particular,
has learned the lesson - we
suspect - that you cant pur-
sue the old cynical course of dis
regarding labOr's wishes and
still expect Iabor's support. AT
least ROstenlSowski acts - for
the present - as if he learned
his lesson well.
But as against the 1854 votes
received by Mierkiewicz, the
combined strength of the CLIO
Council Cor what's left of it
after the driving out of many
prOgressive-led unions) brought
their candidate, Wesol0wski, the
fOOlish.lOoking vote of 1894.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

AS one who would have great
ly preferred a smashing good
performance by the CLIO Coun-
Gil in their election results, this
observer would like to help point
out the fairly obvious lessons
to be drawn. Taking no special
satisfaction in correct predic-
tions made i'm this column MANY
weeks ago, L can't help feeling
that having been able to call the
shot gives this observer the
right to some constructive criti-
ciSm now.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
a LAUGHING STOCK

Let's go back this column appeared edition
of January 25th month before adermanic
Frank Mierkewicz, organizer of the CLIO Leather
workers had
Ward by section community leaders
The CLIO Council chose. ignore narrow fac
ona partisan undertook sponsor another
candidate in the ward Frank Wesoowski from
small Auto Workers local union Commenting action we
wrote in n anger:
Clo labor Will continue to be disregarded poll
eo and will become laughing politics If snite
full union politics continues warp leaders better upe
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
CIO DEMOBILIzED

What the Democratic Party thinking strength
wisdom the CLIO Council? splitting and
getting the much smaller end speculate many
uar CLIO supporters failed ALL any candidate
disguised and deobized by the split factona policies
In two other wards the CO sponsored independent a.
dermanc candidates the 35th Ward The
results there pitfl
las in the 35 received 282 the 36h
Ward, obtained FOG votes.
OF almost two dozen independent for
alderman in the so Chicago
dates received by far the lowest of any.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

leaders shake themselves free
from the mesmerizing affects of
unprincipled factionalism.
The leadership of the lndepen-
dent Voters of Illinois, fearful
Of being accused of left-wing
sympathies, made the mistake
of supporting the three CIO
Council candidates and must
share in the disgraceful per-
Torrance.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
HARMED ALL OF LABOR

While the Packing Workers union the United Electrical Work
the Food and Tobacco Workers. the Equipment
and other unions outside of the CIO Council through
for Peter Brown in the End Ward became
there they did five
CHS harmed all Of labor and the reaconay
COP hopes for Mccormick victory April 1st
Will the state and city leadership of CLIO be big enough
together and present united April for 1913?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
lnqerso|| workers start wuqe
talks after winning election

Workers at the Ingerso Steel division the Borg
Corporation here carried the
Board election victory this negoa
tons with the company
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

to FEE research director Aaron
Cantor, were $39,63O,OOO before
taxes, compared to $15,S19,00O in
1910.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

begin to swing his weight In
= dispute.
In December of last year, the
CIO Longshore and Warehouse
union was negotiating new
union contract with the McKes
son and Robbins drug firm here.
AS a matter of fact, the union
had been negotiating for nearly
six months without any agree
ment from the company, and
the situation was coming to a
head.
APPARENTLY the company
felt that a strike was imminent,
and the unions negotiating
committee was surprised one
morning to see Captain Barnes
and a squad car full of police
at the plant gates.
Although there was no strike
in progress, the squad car and
the police appeared again and
again in the morning, making
themselves conspicuous to the
workers entering the plant.
This little game of Cap
tain Barnes did the trick.
said Bernard Lucas, president
of the ILWU local. Enough
of the workers were intimi-
dated by the police and their
clubs i'm front of the plant -
while nothing was happening
there - SO that the union
was forced to accept a much
less satisfactory settlement
of the contract than would
have been forthcoming other.
WISE"
THIS trick of trying to init
midate workers while negotia-
tons are going on seems to have
been successful enough for
other companies to want to give
it a try, said Lucas.
For this week, even as this
is being written. two squad cars
OF police have been appearing
IN front of the N-Shure compa.
ny, where the ILWU is similar.
ly trying to carry on negotia-
tons.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

The question IS = did the good brethren in The
leadership OF the Council have the objectivity to
feel ashamed and a bit guilty? After all, it was
their own shortsighted and bulheaded disregard Of
their own best interests that led to the CIO Coun
Gil fiasco in the aldermanic elections TODAY thew
are being held up to rdicue by the political powers
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
A SHAMEFUL PERFORMANCE
BY pop" DEARBORN

Last week Pop blushed for shame probably
friends and members of organized labor
of the Chicago Council in the
aldermanic elections.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

in this town for their inep performance February 25h
Evening star., 1947-10-20
| Streetcor Rides
Lead ID Drunks
To JoHCeUs

Fourteen men who wound UP
weekend drinking sprees on street.
cars woke up this morning in Jail
police reported.
The men, most Of whom were
asleep, were taken off the streetcars
in groups of two or three at the end
of the line at the Kenilworth ave-
nue. and Benning road NE. carbarn
Police were called when the in
toxicated group at the carbarn be-
came too large to be conveniently
handled, transit company employees
said. The men were transported in
a patrol wagon to No. II Precinct
where they were booked on charges
of intoxication.