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The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
WASHINGTON, (P) -

WASHINGTON, (E) - Thirty five representative of the Town send old-age pension movement, IT of them working on commis- sion, have filed reports on their activities under a law requiring registration of lobbyists. Commis- sions vary from 25 to 50 per cent of donations received in individual states.
 Salaries range up to $7,300 a year for Dr. F. E. Townsend of Cleveland, who is paid by the Townsend National Weekly, Inc.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13

SEATTLE, (PD Il. J. Dowell, public relations counselor for the Alaska region of Pan American Airways for the past Is months, has resigned to re-enter the con- struction field. His assistant Maris Swanson, will become acting coun- selor. Dowell has been active on Washington and Alaska construc- ton projects as head of the Dowell Construction company for the past 20 years.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
WASHINGTON, (Ry-By a one

WASHINGTON, (P)-By a one vote margin, the Supreme Court ruled today that Louisiana may try again to execute Willie Fran cis, l7-year-old Negro who lived through one trip to the electric chair. The 5-4 decision split the court on an interpretation of what is the cruel and unusual punish ment' forbidden by the Constitu- ton.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
WASHINGTON, (R) - Genera

WAOf1INIIOIN, EHJ - IeneTdI Omar Bradley, veterans admins trator, received from the CIO to- day a Sl0,0O0 check to buy radios for all the 116 veterans hospitals. Jack Carey, CIO secretary-treas- urer and Irving Abramson, chair man of the CIO community serv- ice committee, also presented Bradley with a radio similar to the one they wish installed.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
KANSAS CITY, (P) - Thomas

w. McCurin, 69, superintendent of construction for the Structural Steel company here, died today. McCurrin's work took him throughout the west and once to Alaska, where he erected the two largest smelters in the Territory. He built smelters in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
Plane Crashes Take
 Large Toll of Lives
CBy The Associated PreSS)


 Airline crashes took a toll of 27 lives in the United States yester- days as only two of 29 persons in five planes involved in disasters survived.
 Eighteen persons, IS passengers and three crew members died in the flaming wreck of an Eastern Airlines Detroit-Miami passenger plane which crashed during a rainstorm in hilly country near Galax, Va.
 William Ellis Reyes, Jr., 25, of Boynton, Fla, the lone survivor, was dragged from the wreck by two residents of the community who saw the crash. He suffered shock, lacerationS and burns.
 Five persons were killed when two planes collided over the Mi ami, Fla, aviation center airport. One person was injured critically. Miami Police Chief Karl Engel said the planes collided as their pilots attempted to land on oppo- site runways.
 Another disaster in Florida cost the lives of two persons as an army training plane crashed near Cocoa in Brevard County, Fla.
 A two-seated private plane crashed near suburban Van Dyke, near Detroit, killing its occupants an army air forces veteran and student pilot. Witnesses said the plane went into a tailspin about 20 feet from the ground.
 Twenty-nine persons died when seven afrplanes crashed in the United tSates yesterday and today Rep. Rivers DISCO proposed Congressional investigation of what he termed the 'inexcusable killing of American people,"
 In New York City, meanwhile, major airlines reported that plane almost impossible to obtain last summer, have been go- ing begging for the last few days with a number of planes leaving with empty seats.
 Rep. Rivers declared in Wash ington that "The American people are mortified and scared to death. If there is something wrong with the whole doggone set-up, then something should be done"
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
MISS AIRLINE ANDERSON TO WHITE MOUNTAIN

Miss Airline Anderson returned to her mission post at White Mountain today.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-13
Senator Ball
 Introduces New Labor Legislation

WASHINGTON, CH) - Senator Ball R.-MinnD introduced a bill that would break up industry wide bargaining between unions and employers.
 He described the measure as aimed to prevent nationwide shut downs in an industry as a result of a labor dispute. Under it:
 1. No union could represent in bargaining the employees of two companies in the same industry unless the plants were less than 100 miles apart. "A union could represent the employees of a sin gle company - such as General Motors-even if it's plants were all over the countryD
 2. No employers association could represent two companies in. the same industry unless the plants were less than 100 miles apart.
 Further, it would be illegal for a national union to try to force its local units to seek the inclusion of any particular terms in a labor management contract, or to con Spire with its local units to seek 9nv nartic1llar faYr,oc
 Ball called his new measure more important than his previous bill to outlaw the closed shop. Federal courts would enforce it's provisions by restraining orders.
 WASHINGTON, [F) - Divided COP opinion points today to rocky going in the l3-man Senate labor committee for Senator Balls pro posals to break up closed shops and industry-Wide wage bargain ing.
 Two of the eight Republicans on the committee, Senators Morse (Ore), and Aiken CVtD, have been outspoken against steps as far reaching as those suggested by their Minnesota colleague.
 A third Republican member Senator Ives N.YD, has never fla vored an outright ban on the closed shop and his friends said today he has not changed his view. Ives, a newcomer to Capitol Hill. is Dean of the New York States School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell university.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

A complete change-over to q
farm consisting principally of
irrigated pasture was the rec
concentration of Soil ConServa-
ton service engineers for the
Harvey Barnett ranch of 200
acres a half mile south of Har.
din.
Barnett accepted their sug-
gestions, his ranch is well on
its way to conversion. It is one
of the places to be visited Oh
the Field day tour.
Grains, beets and some al
falfa were the former crops.
After work is completed, the
ranch will be almost entirely
in Bronze grass and alfalfa,
with some acreage Of beetS as
a cash crop and two years of
row crops in rotation on al
falfa fields when it becomes
necessary to re-establish the
stand.
Barnett estimates that he
will be able to run 200 or more
head of cattle, one and a half
to the acre, when the work is
finished.
Before work, planned and
surveyed by Soil Conservation
technicians, was begun, the
land was extremely rough, and
a large portion of it could not
be irrigated at all.
Barnett made one of the
first applications to the Board
of Supervisors of the Big Horn
Soil Conservation district, and
some of the earliest work was
done on his ranch.
In 1916, "a acres were level
led. Eight acres of this land
had been entirely useless, and
Barnett estimates that it is
now worth more than $500 per
acre. This area was summer
fallowed last year and this for
weed control. The land plane
will be used on it soon for re-
fined leveling.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

nately, were much better COM
binations than alfalfa and
bronze or bluegrass. The rye
and the Sudan made the bind
weed plants reach for the
light and the vines could be
easily reached by the sheep.
With most of the other graz
ing crops the vines became
matted into the growth and
the sheep did not get them as
well.
Do sheep like bindweed?
There seems to be little ques7
ton about it. When rye and
bindweed grew together, the
sheep grazed both without dis
elimination in the early spring
but preferred the bindweed as
the rye became coarses and
ripper. Between the Sudan and
bindweed the sheep seemed to
prefer the bindweed, but relish
ed both and made good gains
on them. An important diScov-
cry at Lamberton was that
bindweed grown with rye, whit
er wheat or Sudan was much
more succulent and palatable
than bindweed growing alone
in the open. The shade crop
not only made the bindweed
stems more tender, but it lift.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

T A border system of irrigation
will be installed when the work
is completed. It is estimated
that this will cut labor costs
about one third and will also
result in increased yields be-
cause of better distribution of
water.
AS the irrigation system re-
arrangement is omp t d,
Barnett plans to establish
permanent concrete turnoutS.
He will use 100 pounds of
commercial fertilizer per acre
for the first three years of the
rotation on his pastures
Says Barnett, II think 100
per cent of the Soil Conserva-
ton service, and plan to have
my entire farm leveled. It is
one of the greatest things a
farmer has ever been privileged
to have"
He estimated that his farm
will be worth at least so per
cent more when the work is
completed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17
Giving The Works
To BindWeed
BY Paul c. Johnson -

10y l du4 ". OO1l11SOll
(The following story on the
eradication of bindweed was
taken from The FurroW", pub
LEGATION of the John Deere
company.
There are several ways to
lick field bindweed without re-
sorting to long periods of black
fallow-with the accompanying
dangers of soil erosion and
sterility.
Many farmers in the corn
belt and plain states who have
lost ground to this toughest of
weed enemes during the heavy
cropping years of the war will
welcome a new control method
that comes from Minnesota.
It's an idea others may have
tried, with variations, and
comes from the experimental
farm in weed eradication oper-
ated for nearly 10 years at
Lamberton, Mimi, by the State
University and the U. S De-
partment of Agriculture.
Some years ago the Lamber-
ton experimenters showed that
it was possible to take crops
off land while controlling bind
weed, providing at least one
crop per year was thickly
sown sorghum, soybeans, millet
or other ground-covering
growth that robbed the bind
weed plants of the sunlight
they need. Now comes word
that bindweed can not only be
controlled, but completely Grad
icted in two years or so by
grazing it with sheep. However,
there can be nothing hit and
miss about the job. The graz
ing must be carefully control
led and properly timed and the
choice of grazing crops to. COM
bine with the bindWeed must
be right.
many combinations, L. M. Stah-
Ter and Arne Carlson, who
handled the Lamberton trials,
found the greatest success with
this routine:
Plow the infested field and
seed rye or winter wheat,
whichever does the best in
your locality, about September
Is. Begin %pasturing with sheep
in the spring as soon as the
grain has a good start and
pasture until June 30. Plow
and seed Immediately to Sudan
grass. AS soon as the Sudan is
large enough for safe grazing,
turn in the sheep again and
Craze until September is. Then
repeat the same routine for a
second or even a third year
until the bindweed has been Kill
led out. In the early expert
ments, summer faIow was used
instead of Sudan during the
summer months, but it was
learned that the Sudan was
just as good as fallow and had
the extra advantage Of provid-
ing a productive crop.
Four grazing plots, having q
bindweed infestation Of 8 to IL
plants per square yard to begin
with, showed substantial re-
duction Of bindweed after one
year of this treatment. At the
end of the second year, two
plots were clean and the other
two showed only traces OF
bindweed. At the end Of three
years all were clean.
A check plot not seeded to
rye and Sudan, but merely
grazed in the same manner as
the ye-Sudan plots, showed 8.5
plants per square yard at the
end of three years OF grazing.
This represented a considerable
reduction from an original in
~festation Of 10 plants, but was
far from satisfactory as a con-
troll plan.
Better Than Alfalfa Grass
At Lamberton it was learned
that rye and Sudan or winter
wheat and Sudan, grown alter
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

~ ~ WIG 0A4C W11SAS
the sheep could get at them.
Carlson and Stahler insist
that grazing must be carried
out according to a careful plan.
They used western ewes and
lambs, enough sheep so that a
stand of bindweed and grass
in each plot could be grazed
down short in a week or two.
whereupon the stock was NOV
ed to another plot and the
first plot allowed to recover
until the new bindweed stems
were about five inches long.
Then the plot was given "the
works" again. The alternate
grazing and resting continued
until the next blowing. Just
before blowing the sheep were
permitted to Craze the plot
nearly black.
Starved the Weeds Out
The Importance of carefully
controlled grazing makes it
necessary to fence in plots of
limited size so that the sheep
available can do a thorough
job on a given plot in a limit
ed time. During the first year
the bindweed plants grew
rapidly after each successive
grazing, but they became stead
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

Community pastures, inaug-
urated on land utilization pro-
jects nearly a decade ago, are
doing a real job for the small
rancher by giving him some of
the advantages. of the larger
rancherS.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

lily weaker in the second year
until they were eradicated.
Stahler and Carlson reported
that it was not necessary to
starve the sheep. Ewes and
lambs made nearly normal
gains, although it is desirable
to have standby pasture in
case the flock gets ahead on
its eradication work. Several
years of grazing brought no
prussic acid trouble as a result
Of grazing young Sudan grass.
In recognition of his high
standing as a scientist, DR..
Hugh Hammond Bennett, chief
of the Soil Conservation ser
vice, has been elected a Fellow
Of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

Schools of Iowa are prepar-
ing youngsters for their re-
SpOnSblity as caretakerS of
natural resources.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Speaking Of Soboteurs

Senator McCarran probably knows
as much about the technique Of
sabotaging legislation as anybody in
Congress. So when he accuses the
Commissioners of trying to sabotage
his charter bill for the District of
Columbia he deserves respectful
audience. A master has spoken.
But. in considering this charter
bill, those who criticize it should be
spared the derogatory implications
of saboteur. For If the bill is to get
anywhere-and The Star hopes it
will get somewhere-it should be as
perfect as intelligent effort can
make it. 1t is not perfect in its
present form.
Senator McCarran has picked
some names out of a hat-the same
names so picked last year-and set
them down in his bill as composing
the Federal Charter Commission.
This commission is then to report to
Congress within two years pro-
posed city charter for Washington,
providing for an elected city council
and appointed city manager Git must
stick to this one setup), exercising
all the usual" municipal powers and
functions, including the levying of
taxes and appropriation of funds.
If Congress chooses to do so, Con-
gress may submit this charter to a
referendum vote and, again, if Con-
gress chooses, it will then decide
whether to abide by the results of
the referendum.
The merit of this plan is that it
at least starts wheels in motion to
give Washingtonians an opportunity
to vote. But why should the wheels
be started in this fashion? If there
is to be a charter commission, its
members would be more representa-
tive II elected, rather than ap-
pointed. The setting up of election
machinery would in itself be help
full thing. But as Congress can set
up amy form of municipal govern
> ment it chooses to set up in Wash
ington, why 60 through all the
motions of having citizens prepare
and vote on a charter with no as
surance that Congress will accept
what they approve? Why not pro-
ceed in the reverse order? Let Con-
gress decide what form of repre-
sentative local government it is
willing to grant the poems, then
submit that form to referendum vote
by those whom it will govern.
But If it Is the choice between this
bill and nothing else, The Star is
for the McCarrah proposal. The
scope of the charter which might
emerge is something else again.
Until it can be seen and examined
In daylight, comment is reserved.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
SokoIovsky's TRADE

The speech delivered last Tuesday
by Marshal Bassily D. Sokolovsky,
Soviet military governor of the Rus
sian occupation zone, at a meeting
of the Allied Control Council in
Berlin ranks as diplomatic ''inci-
dent" for several reasons
In the first place, this was not a
public address. The councils ses-
sions are held in private, and what
occurs there is not usually publi-
cized without mutual agreement
among the members. Yet the sub
stance, If not the text, of Sokolov-
sky's remarks was promptly aired
in the Moscow press And the tenor
of his address was sensational in
character.
For one thing, the marshal
charged the United States and
Britain with trying to create a po-
litical union of their zones in Ger
many and split Western Germany
from the rest of the former Reich.
This charge was based on a press
report that the minister presidents
of the two zones had recently dis
cussed the possibility of political
union if overall German unifica-
ton were not agreed upon in the
forthcoming Conference of Foreign
Ministers at Moscow. The story had
been Immediately denied, but OF
this, Sokolovsky took no cognizance.
This assumption was merely one
phase Of detailed attack on the
whole principle of Anglo-American
bizonal economic unification, the
export program, and the American
proposal for confederation of
German states. In this. of course,
the marshal merely reiterated Rus
sian criticisms voiced from the first,
especially in the Moscow press; but
the reported version Of the address
would seem to rank as the bitterest
statement by high official spokes-
man.
Perhaps the most significant part
Of this address was the marshal's
Evening star., 1947-03-02

demand for an immediate unitica-
tion OF alf Germany, political as well
as economic. This is the first time
such demand had been made by
a high official. Needless to say, such
unification was to follow the Soviet
recipe, the effect Of which would
be to further Russian influence
throughout Germany at the ex-
pense Of the western powers.
Taken in conjunction with other
recent Soviet acts and pronounce
ments, Sokolovsky's address, obvi-
ously calculated indiscretion,"
would seem to be part OF build
up for the Moscow conference and
the Soviet part therein which can
not inspire optimism in America or
Britain. Consideration OF the Ger
man problem by that conference
certainly will not start under ia
yorable auspices.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
From City Hall
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

Revolt is growing among civic groups
over the defeat of daylight saving time
in the House recently. The Commits
sioners, however, are secretly pleased
and at this stage of the game will not
go along with any voluntary movement
for fast time.
They say 1t will cost about $1,000 In
tax funds to print up the voluminous
copies of Engineer Commissioner Cor
don r. Youngs $22S, ,00o,0 900 six-year plan
Of city development.
Commissioner John Russell Young Is
reported an avid follower of the adven-
lures of the Lone Ranger. Whether he
has sent in any cereal box tops for the
new comic book offer is not of record.
There are two congressional patronage
jobs on the District payroll. They are
the posts Of budget investigator for the
House and Senate. c,.lrs. ,.a.e
The Stars Dan OConnell walked
into an Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board hearing recently while lady
was objecting to liquor license appli-.
cation. She immediately introduced
him to the board as a Baptist minister
who also wanted to oppose the license.
Seems she had asked the minister by
telephone to appear but had never seen
him personally. The board Joined in
the laugh. s.e..r,< .
Roughest spot for overtime parkers
in town is Commissioner j. r. Youngs
block in Jefferson place. Enforcement
there, from the laws point Of view. is
said to be above reproach.
No one can accuse District Budget
Ohicer Walter L. Fowler of being afraid
OF a fight on municipal issues. No one
will deny, either, that he has got two
big ones on his hands with his pro-
posal that the city take over st. Eliza
beth's Hospital and abandon the Fort
drive.
4 \
Who is responsible for clearing the
Potomac River of ice? Corporation
Counsel Vernon West is supposed to
have ruled that it isn't us in the Dis
trict. There have been suggestions that
the same legal philosophy applies to the
local streets.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Pagan An1eriica
By Brig. ". ". Bouterse, Salpation Army

Is America half pagan? Figures
do not lie, and the statisticians say
We. are. Information recently has
been released revealing that 52.5 per
cent Of the American population Is
afiiliated with some church Reli-
gioas leaders point out with pride
that the percentage Of church mem
bers Is increasing faster than the
population. In 1850, Is per cent OF
the population was aligned with the
church; now we have a little more
than half. Fine! Splendid! But
what about the pagan half Of our
population? You object to the term
pagan? But, you see, that is exactly
what they are: Nice, refined, civil
ICED pagans. Religious7 Certainly!
Good? Moral? To be sure! But
pagan nevertheless.
They are the people who say, my
religion is the Golden Rule" or II
can worship God in the out-of-
doors" They are contented with
themselves. In fact, most pagans
are. They constitute part of the race
God has created, and endowed with
a mind. emotions and the power of
choice. Thus endowed, they look up
into the face of God. and say in
effect, II, with my finite limitations
have figured out moral code for
myself. I have also decided on how
you as my Creator should be wor-
shipped" Not only is this attitude
pagan, but, think quite stupid
God who made them has already
established the moral laws of the
universe. and in His infinite wisdom
He has revealed them to man. Yes,
revealed them. He did not leave us,
the work Of His hands, to invent
moral laws and create Our own reli-
gion. He is God. We did not make
Him; He made us. We do not devise
or invent PHILOSOPHERS about Him;
He is Truth, and in His infinite
wisdom has revealed that Truth
to us.
A long line of Hebrew prophets
painfully proclaimed certain ele-
mentary segments of this body Of