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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-02
others associated with You.

These are important hazards COM
mon to us all = greater or less
according to our circumstances and
conditions. All are greatly aggrav-
ated by the tempo of modern living
and present abnormal conditions.
But why worry about these things,
when you can transfer the worry
to an insurance company for small
outlay. You probably know this,
but maybe you're always in a put
it-off'' mood, trusting to luck. Don't
crowd your luck! Well be glad to
advise you what insurance to buy
and how much.
BARTON PETIT, Agent
Columbia Falls
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-02
McGregors Hold Open House

Bill and Thelma McGregor enter
tanned Bolton and Apgar folks Sat
urday evening at the West Glacier
cafe open house. Pinnochle and
bridge were enjoyed by the guests.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-02
Rad Angel Sells Lot

Rad Angel sold a lot next to his
Coram tavern to Clarence Peter
son, who plans to start construction
of a restaurant building, shortly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
Vetoed lib 4O3 Which Would Have Given
State Board Authority To Revoke
Licenses of Fake Operators

there's oiciaynspired
the effect that special session the legislature halt the
growth of socaled
political
the evils
at the last regular session.
To make all appear legitimate and incidentally to shed major portion
opinion on the need for such session the legislators
Leroy
typical of those
fully Reps
and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
Governor Gave Green Light
To Non-Profit Clubs

BY Rep. Geo. Melton, Beaverhead
Hon. Sam Ford
Governor of the State of Montana
Helena, Montana
Dear Governor:
1 have your letter of the ninth in
slant, asking for my opinion as to the
necessity for calling special session
of the legislature to provide for proper
enforcement of our laws against
gam bling and to put a stop to this
Iracketeering.
This comes as rather a surprise to
me, since I know of no new situation
which has arisen since the last meet
ing of the legislature that did not
exist at that time except that non
profit clubs have been given a cloak
of responsibility by one of the very
laws which came into being under
your own signature, to-wit, the licens-
ing of slot machines in non-profit
clubs. This has given the gamblers
an opportunity to get behind this
CLOAK" and thus avoid the Shake
downs" of petty city officials and the
wrath of crusading county attorneys
and sheriffs And as a consequence
many more non-profit clubs have been
formed, and legalized gambling is be-
ing carried on without taxation or reg
ulation of any kind.
AS governor of this state, honor
able sir, you are the one who by
innuendo at least has given the
green light to non-profit clubs, for
you certainly knew they existed
when you signed the gambling law
passed by the last legislature to IL
cense machines in these clubs. And
as consequence, can fairly charge
before the voters and citizens of
Montana, that your administration
is both the first parent and the
ultimate midwife of the ridiculous
situation in which Montana now
finds itself.
During the last legislature felt that
he time had come to do something to
regulate and control gambling, as
gamblers were carrying on, in fragrant
of law, with open and notori-
)us games in many cities in the state.
So at that time l introduced a bill to
egalize and control this gambling, I'M
Ter which responsible Montana citi-
seps could at least operate the games
and give the poor suckers what
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19

tribute profits to stockholders and
pass on to the stockholders the duty of
paying appropriate taxes on such in
come. This is precisely what coop
eratives do and it does not argue OBJ
jectively on the part of the committee
to pretend otherwise.
1.-THE National Farmers Union con
tends equally for the rights of pro-
Queer, marketing, and consumer CO.
operatives. The cooperative principle
is valid expression of democracy
wherever it is applied. Moreover,
many farmer co-operatives partake of
the character of distributive or con-
sumner co-operatives as we'll as pro-
Queer. We cannot accept, therefore,
any differentiation by the committee
as between types of co-operatives.
Should Also Investigate NTEA
eff your subcommittee is genuinely
interested in the conduct of an inquiry
worthy the dignity of congress, we rec
ommend that you spend as much time
investigating the attacks on co-opera-
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
GTA SCHOLARSHIPS
TO GIVEN

ST. Paul, Minn.-Ten four-year
college scholarships in cooperative
study are being offered to children
of Northwest farmers by the Farm
ers Union Grain Terminal Associa-
ton, it was announced by M. w.
Thatcher, general manager.
Five of the scholarship awards
are for the four-year term begin
ming in 1948. Five more scholar
ships will be awarded for the four
year period beginning with the
1949 fall term.
The scholarships are for Valpar-
also University, Valparaiso, Indi-
ana. Each scholarship is for $4,000.
The winners will receive $500 each
of the four years they are in school.
Applications for the first five schol-
arshps will close October II.
The awarding of the scholarships
for cooperative study was termed
by Mr.. Thatcher to be frankly an
experimental venture. The purpose
is to encourage an objective study
of co-operatives and to encourage
colleges to offer broader study
of co-operatives as a part of their
curriculum.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19

registering with you a vigorous pro-
test against the attitude of some lead
ers of the Republican party who seem
to be bent upon attempting to make
the campaign against co-operatives
into Republican party policy
The letter to Congressman Ploeser,
follows:
''The National Farmers Union has
as one of its three principal reasons
strengthening of the co-operatives.
Throughout it's 45 years the Farmers
Union has fought for the cooperative
principle as an effective economic ex-
preston of the democratic idea.
Hence, we view with increasing con-
committee has made itself the vehicle
for attacks upon co-operatives in gen.
eral.
Welcome Unbiased Investigation
1--WE believe of course that congress
has the right and, indeed, the duty to
investigate conditions of any kind any
where in the United States. Coop
eratives have nothing to conceal and
welcome a fair, unbiased, nonpartisan
inquiry But we are regretfully forced
to conclude, from the reports of the
subcommittee operations to date,
that it is not conducting such an in
vestigation, but rather is adopting the
role of prosecutor against co-opera-
tives.
1--WE object to the pre-judgment of
the case in the Greenbelt hearings, as
indicated by press reports that the
report of the committee was written
before the hearing was concluded, to
the conduct of hearings in quarters
so small as to admit only a fraction
of those interested and to the mis-
leading press release of the committee
attacking patronage refunds.
Declaring Patronage Dividends
Not Limited To Co-ops
CAS- most well-informed persons are
aware, it is entirely deceptive to COM
pare the profits of a private business
organization to the patronage refunds
of a cooperative. Any private bust
ness that wishes to do so may dis
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19

In addition, larger group of COM
panies was cited without direct indica-
ton of the amount they had partici-
pated in dealings with IG.
U. S. attorneys prosecuting the Ger
man corporation bigwigs have charged
that Farben sought agreements which
would hinder development of techno-
logical and chemical processes useful
to other countries in case of war.
Standard Oil Deals Slowed
Synthetic Rubber Production
1t is recalled that in the days after
Pearl Harbor, government investiga-
tors charged that agreements between
Standard Oil of New Jersey and IG
had slowed down this country's pro-
duction of synthetic rubber.
The Nuremberg prosecutors hope to
prove to the war crimes court that
IG, operating at the top level of Nazi
policy-making, operated through a
total of 700 companies in 104 coun-
tries.
The company helped the, Nazis
through espionage as well as through
trade agreements; that it contributed
huge amounts both to the Nazi party
in Germany and to sister Nazi political
groups in Chile, Poland, Turkey, Co.
lombia, Peru, Belgium; and that it fl
nanced German schools in Holland,
Argentina, Spain, Finland, Uruguay,
Bolivia and Brazil
So Helpers of Hitler
Documents placed in the trial record
by the American attorneys showed SO
U. S. firms had been associated direct
ly with IG. At the same time, the
papers showed clearly that IG-22 of
whose directors are on trial for war
crimes-had served as a principal be-
ind-the-scenes element in the Nazis
drive for world conquest
Some $12,000,000 was contributed by
the big corporation to the Nazis back
in 1933-34, when Hitler was hopping
up opposition within Germany from
workers, liberals and religious lead
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19

us. for the combine: American Cyana-
mid G Chemical Corp; Ivan B. Dahl
Inc; General Drug Co.; and Roehm &
Hass Co. of Philadelphia.
Nine companies were cited as par
ticipating in upwards of so of their
business" with IG: Atlas Powder,
Bristol Myers, Eastman Kodak, Euro
pean Gas & Electric, Hercules Powder
Co, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ster-
ling Products, United Drug Co., and
Vegex, Inc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
Governor Ford Gave reen1ight To Mon Profit Clubs
Patton Demands Investigation Of NTEA

of funds being used the
G. president National
Patton public letters of the Democratic
the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
Sc US COMPANIES LINKED linked WITH WITH MAJ
CHEMICAL TRUST, TRIAL REVEALS

Na chemical cartel
trial in Nuembergalong with
with
the Germ business.
direct the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19
Special Session Talk Just
Political Coverup
BY Rep. Leroy Anderson, Pondera


Governor Ford says he is seriously
considering a special session of the
legislature to deal with social clubs
and non-profit clubs which have
sprung up like mushrooms in the past
| few months. There is no question
that the situation is bad, but l cannot
agree that it warrants special ses
sion of the legislature. special ses
sion is Justified only il the Legislature
in regular session could not anticipate
the events under consideration. The
I1947 legislature, and the governor, not
only anticipated but actually invited
the present situation.
| can state unequivocally that House
Bill 403, in the form in which we OF
the house originally passed it, would
have prevented the abuses now so
prevalent. The senate, under the
thumb of. the senator who has been
promoting many of the controversial
clubs, amended and seriously crippled
the bill. But even as amended by the
senate, H. B. 403 still had useful pro-
visions such as the one authorizing the
board of equalization to examine all
the books of the so-called non-profit
clubs; and if it found it not to be, in
fact. a non-profit club then they could
revoke the license.
But the governor vetoed 4O3 and
thus destroyed the best available in
strument for controlling the situation.
We all knew what would happen, and
the governor knew. / cannot believe
he will now spend the thousands of
dollars of the. taxpayers money re-
uuired for a special session, to correct |
a situation he and his party leaders |
in the senate deliberately invited. A i
request by the attorney generals Of
flee for law enforcement funds which |
might have been used in this emer-
gency was denied. We can and must !
control racketeering, and do what we
can to remedy the situation within /
present law. Then we must send men
to the next legislature who will not !
horse trade away Montana's welfare.
We have other problems just as Sc
rious. More people are suffering in
The clutches of loan sharks than are
hurt by the conditions which have so
alarmed the governor. One of the
hottest fights of the last session was
over Senate Bill 81 to regulate loan
sharks. The bill was supported by
church groups, business and civic or
carnations. Against the bill appeared
he most disgusting collection of blood
suckers, feeding on the troubles of the
poor and the unfortunate, ever to
crawl out from under rock. | gave
4 sigh of relief when the loan shark
bill was finally and overwhelmingly
passed l was astounded, after the
close of the legislature to learn that |
the governor had vetoed this bill.
After thus restoring their blood
traffic to these loan sharks, more
despicabIe, certainly, than those he
now attacks, | feel his present alarm
may be regarded largely as a polit-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-19

icaI wooing of the reform group of
voters. 1t seems to me more than
likely that the governor is using the
old trick of hoIIering first, before
someone pins the responsibility for
the situation on him.
The governor should feel no more
alarm over the racketeers he and his
party leaders in the senate invited into
Montana by emasculating and vetoing
H. B. 403 than he showed over the
racketeers of the loan shark business
when he gave them sanctuary by his
veto of S. B. 81. = Independent OBJ
server, Conrad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Baby GIRLS Born
In AHIiner With
Nurse on Hand
By the Associated Press

MEDFORD, Greg, Aug Is. A
young woman passenger gave birth
to a daughter aboard a Southwest
Airline plane yesterday and Rich
ard Day, airline station manager,
reported an undergraduate nurse
attended the mother in the plane.
Mr.. Day said the plane left here
at 1925 pm. with six passengers and
that Is minutes later the pilot
radioed the baby was arriving and
that he was turning back to Med
ford.
The station master identified the
undergraduate nurse as Miss Olga
M. Kempton, Eureka, Calf, and
said the mother and infant were
taken to the Medford Community
Hospital. The hospital reported the
mother was registered as Mrs.
Pauline Larson. home address not
Immediately known, and that the
child weighed pounds. ounces.
Both we're reported in good condi-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25

The letter, the committee said, also
asked that it contain no provision
for the use Of sanctions or armed
force between American states.
The proposed provision for mutual
assistance" in case of an attack on
the Americas would emphasize
hemisphere solidarity, while pro-
vision for use of sanctions of armed
force between the American states
would be a step backward, the letter
states.
The letter also urges immediate
action to improve economic condi-
tons throughout the hemisphere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Edwin James AssaiIs
Russian Type Of
Freedom Of Press
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-EdWln L..
James. managing editor of the New
York Times, answering recent at
tack on him by commentator for
Pravda, official organ of the Com
munist Party. asserted yesterday
that If there is freedom Of the press
in Russia sit is the kind of freedom
we do not care for" in the United
| States.
His reply, in the form of an open
letter published in the Times, was
addressed to David Zaslavsky. a
Pravda commentator. who on Au-
gust II attacked Mr.. James and the
United States press. generally
Mr.. James letter to Mr.. Zaslav-
sky said:
There are in the United States
some 10000 owners of newspapers,
daily and weekly, They are of every
degree and shade of opinion
But in your country, sir, all news
papers must toe the line of the
Politburo. That is one newspaper
control against our 10000. Who has
monopoly"
Free to Come and Go.
Mr.. James told the Pravda COM
mentator he was free to come to
the United States, go where you like,
see what you like and write what
you like" and added:
Surely, you are not going to try
to suggest that any such freedom
exists in Russia! What is journal
istic freedom? If you have got it,
then it is the kind of freedom we
do not care for. Let us get it
straight. In your country the gov
eminent controls the press.
THAT government reposes on the
foundation of the Communist Party,
number some 3 per cent of the
population. You call that freedom.
We do not. Your government con-
trolls you and your press. Our Bill
of Rights set forth that our Gov
eminent may not control the press.
so it seems to me that when we
discuss freedom of the press we are
perhaps as far off in our terms as
when We call our Government q
democracy and you call yours
democracy"
U. S. Readers Are Free.
Mr.. James said that "our freedom
Of the press is not. as you imagine,
guarantee to newspaper publishers
that they may print what they
Y11n ic nc
to readers that they may read what
they please. Stack that up against
your press program of the papers
printing what helps the Party in
power. There is all the difference
in the world"
The New York Times editor told
the Pravda commentator that 1T
is we'll known that an important
factor in the Russian economy Is
the Use of forced labor" and added
that you have millions of people
working under duress."
He then told Mr.. Zaslavsky:
Now you say you have a free
press. Why not exercise your
freedom as journalist by giving
the world a picture of these concen-
tration camps. where they are To-
Gated. how many people are In them.
why they we're sent there and how
they can get out?
That would be real exhibition
of how free a journalist you are.
If you will write such an article, this
newspaper will be glad to publish it
and I would be willing to apologize
for calling you phony.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25

-olutist Communism and tie total.
tartan regime imposed upon our
home" Estonia Is now part of
Soviet Russia.
The appeal was sent by the "Es-
tonian Central Committee In the
United States Zone OF Germany"
said the committees Official news
paper, Eesti Rada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Film Man Held in Train Fire
Fatal 10 II Near Berlin
By the Assoeiofsd Press

BERLIN, Aug. 27.-A train fire
fatal to n persons brought the ar
rest OF a film operator today on
charges Of violating regulations con-
corning the transport of film. More
than As passengers were injured as
the flames swept an overcrowded
coach.
The fire occurred Saturday on a
suburban train in the Russian zone.
north of Berlin.
German police said locomotive
spark apparently ignitedi cara Of
inflammable liquid carried by the
film operator, Max Eichholz. They
said the film he was carrying then
exploded and burned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Dr.. Condor Will Speak
To Purchasing Institute

DR.. Edward U. Condor, director of
the National Bureau of Standards,
will speak at luncheon session of
the Second Annual Conference and
Products Exhibit of the National
Institute of Government Purchasing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
20, 900 Estoniuns Petition
To Be ResettIed in U. S.

=. NstVSFesTeeI
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. Is.
Twenty thousand Estonian dis
placed persons in Germany and
Austria have petitioned President
Truman to be resettled in the United
States, it was learned today.
The Estonians asserted they could
not return to their homeland be
cause. being democratically- minded
persons, we cannot accept the abb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25

Priority Claimants Division. War
Assets Administration; Arthur G..
Eaton. deputy director of the Prior.
ity Claimants Division, War Assets
Administration: Wilfred Nerlich.
county purchasing agent, Montgom-
cry County. Rockville, Md, and
Clifton E. Mack, director of the
Bureau of Federal Supply of the
Treasury Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25
Peoples Mandate Unit Here
Sends Views 10 Rio Farley

The Peoples Mandate Committee
for American. Peace and Co.
Operation of Washington, an
Inounced today it has sent letter
to the foreign ministers of the
American Republics at the Rio Con-
ference, urging that the treaty now
being formulated contain mo refer
ence to an act of aggression by one
American state against another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25

to be held in New York from Sep
TENDER 8 to 10.
Other residents Of the Washington
area who will participate in the
conference include William w. Par
sons, administrative assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury; Maj.
Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn. admin
istrator, War Assets Administration
John r. Campbell, director of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-25

and says postponement of the matter
until the Pan American Conference
in Bogota next January seems
DANGEROUS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-19
MANHATTAN EDITOR
BY Gene Gleason

bling mess blew wide open, but
he'll have to make the busting
unanimous before I pull one man
off this dragnet."
IF BILL O'REILLY had any
1 reservations about the thor
oughness of the police search, he
lost most of them during the next
eight hours. Riding in the Inspec-
tors car, he watched him check
the men of his command.
Early in the evening, the In
spector halted to question De-
tective Captain at Bowery and
Spring Street, in the heart of a
fophouse section teeming with
alcoholic derelicts.
Have you checked all the
Bowery flop joints?" Inspector
Ryan demanded. 81 want COM
plete report on every man in this
neighborhood, drunk or sober"
We've questioned all the ones
who were sober enough to talk,
Inspector" he responded. "But we
couldn't get anything out of the
pass-out cases"
"You couldn't" Ryan barked.
well, load every stiff in the
wagon. Jail them until they're
able to talk straight; if they don't
speak English, I'll give you in
terpreters. But get 'em all, un-
derstand?"
He halted again at row of
tenements on Grand Street. A
hooting crowd had gathered on
the sidewalk as a hundred police
went through the buildings, room
by room. Several of the throng
carried placards reading: eve
Protest Gestapo Tactics of Po-
lice," and ''New York's Finest
Unfair to Democracy" t.
Inspector Ryan snorted.
$50 we're a Gestapo, are we?
Maybe those sidewalk Pinkos
want us to turn thugs and MUIR
derers loose on the people. That's
not freedom; it's just giving gang
sters the break they need to set
up their gangster governments.
That's what those sign-toters
want-and it's nothing like de-
mocracy."
He turned to O'Reilly.
They'll have a delegation in
the Mayors Office tomorrow
morning and a protest parade in
City Hall Park" he predicted.
"But I'm not relaxing the search
an iota. I don't relish pushing
people around, but Pm not going
to throw them to the crooks and