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Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
WOMEN Of MOOSE
SELECT OFFICERS
Mrs. Martha Altman Becomes
Senior Regent-Many Visi-
tors Attend Meeting

A we'll attended meeting of tbs
Women of the Moose was held Tues.
day evening at the parish hall. Al
the lunch served by Mrs. Hattie
Foust and Mrs. Anna Claus, the
group was joined by several mem
bers of the Moose lodge. Members
and visitors from out of town were
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Jones and Mrs.
June Sanders of Billings, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Foust of Bridger, Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Armstrong of Park
City and Mrs. Claus of Fsomberg.
A report was given by Mrs. Bessie
Edgmond on the dance held at River
side park and it was decided to
sponsor a similar event at the park
or Saturday, May 81. Mrs. Edgmond
will be in charge of arrangements
and Mrs. Alice Fisher will be chair
man of the kitchen committee.
Officers were elected to n dur
ing the coming year. Those named
were Mrs. Martha Altman, senior
regent; Mrs. Edgmond, junior re-
gent; Mrs. Elsie Kuper, chaplain;
Mrs. Foust, recorder; Mrs. Julia
Times, treasurer, Mrs. Fisher, grad
uate regent.
Officers-elect will be installed at
the meeting June 10, to be held at
the parish hall.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
SCHOOLS NEAR END
OF YEAR, TWO HONOR
POSTS AWAIT FINALS
DR.. Klemme Of State College
To Speak At Commencement
-BaccaIaureate May Is

Laurel schools are moving into
the final phase of the current year
meaning a vacation of three
months for many, and graduation of
81 high seniors. OF the diplomas to
be issued at commencement. 81 will
go to seniors now completing high
school and three will be issued to
men in service, on the basis of mil
itary training.
Principal John Macdonald stated
this week that the 1947 valedictor-
ian and the salutatorian have net
yet been determined. The decision
will depend on the finals, for some
OF the standings are close.
Baccalaureate will be next Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the high
school auditorium, with Rev. James
H. Haueter, pastor of the Church
of the Nazarene, as the speaker.
Special music will be provided for
this event.
Commencement exercises will be
at 8 p. m. Friday, May %, at the
gymnasium. The speaker will be
DIR. H. G. Klemme, director of the
department of student welfare at
Montana State college, Bozeman.
DR.. Klemme has spoken here on
other occasions and has been popular
with Laurel audiences.
Student activities are closely fol-
the usual pattern at the close
of the school year.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Rebekahs Visit Zelda
Lodge, Initiate Member

Members of Evergreen Rebekah
lodge who attended a meeting of
Zelda Rebekah lodge No. 40 of
Billings Friday evening were Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Everett, Mrs. c.
H. Anderson, Mrs. Paul Gerard, Mrs.
Chris Nelson, Mrs. Frank Platz, Mrs.
A. j. Motzko, Mrs. G. N. Virgins,
Mrs. Louis Bade, Mrs. o. C. Hiner
and Victor Kirk. Mrs. Jessie Row
land of Hardin, president of district
No. II of the Rebekahs, was on her
official visit to the lodge. Another
visitor was Mrs. Sadie Beck of
Helena, past president of the Mon
tana Assembly.
During the business session Miss
Helen Louise Babe received her init
iatory degree as a member of Lau-
rel Evergreen Rebekah lodge.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
LEGION POPPY SALE
IS SET FOR MAY q

Annual Poppy day, again featur-
ing the Montana-veteran made rec
crepe-paper poppy, will be observed
May "a in this county by the Amer
lean Legion posts and Auxiliary
units to support the local and state
child welfare and rehabilitation pro-
grams which, unhearlded, r in op-
GRAFTON the year u
Every dime, quarter or dollar re-
ceived from the sale of poppies to
a generous public will remain in
Montana. The peoples started doing
their work in the veterans hospital
at Fort Harrison where Montana
veterans with Idle moments fashion
ed them and received $3.50 for
their efforts.
Half of the funds derived from
Poppy day will remain in this county
for child welfare and rehabilitation
work. The Montana department of
the Legion will use the remainder
to supplement any exhausted county
funds to care for needy children,
whether those of veterans or not,
and to do rehabilitation work among
veterans.
The patients at the hospital made
$4,000 peoples for this years sale.
The Legion and Auxiliary in Mont
ana will use $4,000, with the re-
mainder going to Hawaii.
Although Montana's quota of the
nationwide American Legion goal of
rs, 10000 povpies this year is only
$4,000, the department chairman,
Mrs. H. L. Holm of Helena, hopes
20 sell $4,000 because of the mount
.ng need for funds.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Laurel Rebekahs Give
Memorial Tribute At
Meeting In Red Lodge

Attending a meeting of Morninn
Star Rebekah lodge at Red Lodgl
last Wednesday evening were Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Babe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold VanNice and Mrs. Paul Ger
ard from Laurel.
During the meeting, which feat
ured a Mothers day program, a
memorial tribute to Mrs. Mary
Youngholder was given in a musical
reading by Mrs. Gerard, with Mrs.
Babe as piano accompanist. Mrs.
Youngholder was the mother of Mrs.
Mayme Henderson, member of Morn
ing Star lodge and secretary of the
Montana Rebekah assembly.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Graft Is Pledged To
Honorary Fraternity

Bozeman, May IA. - Don Graft,
freshman at Montana State college
and son of Supt. and Mrs. Fred
Graft of Laurel, has been notified
by Phi Eta Sigma, freshman mems
honorary fraternity, that his grades
have met the ~fraternity's require
ments and that he is to sit today
in a special section of the auditorium
to be officially pledged.
The assembly will be important,
as all students who have earned
honors during the year will then be
recognized.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Students Place In State
High School Scholarship Contest

the $40 scholarship should the two
who surpassed him in the pentathlon
choose not to use it.
The following persons also at
tended high school week as Laurel
high school representatives on the
basis of earlier elimination tests
given here: Margaret Fink, secre-
t~arial; Shirley Wilson, home econom-
les; Don Herriott and Ralph Hodges,
history; Don Brohaugh, biology; and
jamie Lockwood, home economics
club representative.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
District Meeting Of
V. F. w. and Auxiliary
Is May Is At Joliet

A meeting of delegates from V. F.
w. posts and ladies' auxiliaries of
district No. 8 will be convened at
1870 p. m. May IS at Joliet. George
Robinson of Billings, district COM
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
wars, and Mrs. Edna NAPLES of Red
Lodge, district president of the Aux
iliary, will preside at the sessions.
New officers are to be elected.
Mrs. Ella johnson of Great Falls,
department president, and William
Pilgram of Helena, department
quartermaster, are to be present.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Lois Crawford Appears
In Comedy At Normal

Dillon, May 14.-Lois Crawford
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. F
Crawford of 700 East Main, Laurel
is appearing in the three act comedy
81 Remember Mama" by John Van
Druten, to be staged at the Mon
tana Normal college, Wednesday,
May ID.
Miss Crawford, a freshman at the
Normal college, is a tryout for the
Gargoyle club, campus dramatics So
ciety.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Theta Rho Girls Go
To Columbus To Meet

Twenty-six members of the Theta
Rho girls club were entertained at
a picnic lunch following a meeting
Friday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Webb of Columbus. Ac-
c~ompanying the group were Mrs.
Margaret Leis, club advisor, Mrs.
Geneva Butt, Mrs. Bessie Grow, Mrs.
Doris Armstrong and Mrs. Louise
VanNice.
The next meeting of the club will
be held at 8 o'clock Friday after
noon, May %, at the Commercial
club.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-14
Four From Laurel
On M. S. c. Honor Roll

Of the 337 students at Montana
State college at Bozeman making the
winter quarter honor roll, 36 made
a grade average of 95 or better to
top the list with an A flush. Among
them was Lyndon C. Gemmill of
Laurel. Other Laurel students earn
ing a place on the honor roll with
a grade average of 87.5 or better
were Stuart E. Boyd, Mildred Hage-
man and James w. Sherrow.
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Some Wagner Act Changes
Acceptable Dubinsky Says
By james Y. Newton

David Dubinsky, president of
the AFL international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, de-
clared today that the major la
Dor bills before Congress would
strike "a body blow to our de-
mocracy," although he said some
amendments to the Wagner Act
would be acceptable to him.
Mr.. Dubinsky, who also is an AFL
vice president, joined other labor
leaders in testimony before the
Senate Labor Committee in sharp
criticism of bills to outlaw industry
wide bargaining and the closed
shop. He also opposed measures to
ban organizational strikes and regu-
late union welfare funds.
Under questioning by Senator
Ives, Republican, of New York, Mr..
Dubinsky said he had no objection
to amendment of the Wagner Act
to allow employers and employees to
talk together-to give management
freedom of speech in union matters.
He also said he would agree to sp
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Report of Effort
To Kill Truman
Laid to GorbIe
Radio Luxembourg
Misunderstood by
Paris Listeners
By the Associoied Press

The White House today labeled
Completely groundless" report
emanating from a misunderstood
European broadcast that an attempt
had been made on President Tru-
mans life.
Members of the staff of Paris
newspaper informed the Associated
Press bureau there they had heard
radio Luxembourg broadcasting
such report.
Radio Luxembourg, however. said
it had made no such broadcast. 1t
had broadcast a dispatch dealing
with the explosion of bomb in a
Buenos Aires radio station shortly
after President Juan Peron had
broadcast a speech last night.
1t was suggested that mishear-
ing in Paris OF this broadcast gave
rise to belief President Truman had
been named.
Eben Ayers, assistant presidential
press secretary, told newsmen there
was not the slightest basis for the
report. Mr.. Truman was in his
office when newsmen made their
inquiries of Mr.. Ayers.
Evening star., 1947-02-25
~ Rescued From Greenland Ice
Are Flown Back to u. S. Field
Pilot Who Saved Them
Makes 2,310-MiIe
Flight Nonstop
BY the Associated Press

WESTOVER FIELD, Mass, Feb.
25.-Eleven American airmen
who cheated death for three
days 900 miles from the North
Pole after their B-29 crashed in
Northern Greenland were flown
back here today.
1t. Bobbie Joe Cavnar, %, of
Okmulgee, Okla, set down the rescue
plane-a big C-54 transported the
Army Air Transport Command at
7:55 am. here after a 2,310-mile,
nonstop flight from Thule, Green
land.
Less than "a hours earlier, 1t.
Cavnar wagered his life that sheet
of ice beside the crashed B-29 would
hold his 20-ton r-engined plane
and won.
The II men climbed stiffly from
the rescue plane. They appeared
exhausted from their ordeal An
Army medical officer said none was
in serious condition.
The rescued men were members
of the crew of the Kee Bird, a
B-29 from Ladd Field, Fairbanks,
Alaska, which became lost in a
sudden storm while on a mission
Friday and crash LANDED on the
bleak Greenland ice cap.
1t. Vern Arnett of Riverside,
Calf, pilot of the downed B-29,
Evening star., 1947-02-25
House Passes Bill TO Void
McNabb Confession RuIinq
BY the Associofed Press

The House yesterday passed bill
to make confession valid evidence
regardless of whether 1t Is made
before the accused is. actually
charged with the crime.
The measure would invalidate a
Supreme Court decision known as
the McNabb case. The court threw
out as evidence an alleged murder
confession in Tennessee because the
accused had not been arraigned be-
fore committing officer before he
gave it.
The legislation. passed twice pre-
viously by the House. now goes to
the Senate. 1t was passed also by
the Senate in the last Congress, but
was lost in the adjournment shuttle.
It's sponsors told the House the
court decision Is causing fragrant
miscarriages of justice" by freeing
many confessed prisoners. Repre-
sentative Hobbs, Democrat, of Ala
bama, its author, said the opinion
written by Justice Frankfurter, was
wholly without regard to the Con-
stitution."
The bill approved by the House
reads:
THE failure to observe the re-
quirements of law as to the time
within which a person under arrest
must be brought before a commit.
ting officer shall not render inad-
missible any evidence otherwise ad-
missible."
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Study Of District Government
Is Launched by House Unit
By John w. Thompson. Jr.

An investigation of the organi-
zation of the District govern
ment has been launched by q
House District Subcommittee, II
was announced today.
The study was ordered by Repre-
sentative Auchincloss, Republican
of New Jersey, chairman of the
subcommittee handling the local
home rule issue. It is being made
by C. M. Pierce, director of the
Washington Social Survey, spon-
sored by the Council of Social
Agencies.
MI. Auchincloss said he had or
dered the study completed by April
IS at the latest and that his SUBJ
committee would then take about
two weeks to go over the findings
before calling public hearings.
I'VE want to familiarize ourselves
thoroughly with the subject" he
said, land then we want to hea1
from any one with ideas on what
changes should be made"
Overall purpose Of Mr.. Pierce's
inquiry, 1t was indicated, was to
bring up to date the fiadings made
Evening star., 1947-02-25
House Group Boosts
Benefits for Veterans
In Student Programs
Committee Also Votes
To Extend Job Training
To Four-Yeor Period
By GEORGE Beyeridqe

The House Veterans Affairs
Committee today approved a bill
to increase limits on subsistence
payments to veterans in schools
and on-the-job training.
After a 21a-hour session the COM
mittee voted unanimously to provide
that trainees can get subsistence to
raise their total income to $3.50 a
month if they have no dependents,
to 1925 if they have one dependent
and to $3.50 if they have more than
one.
At the same time, the committee
voted to extend two-year limit
on on-the-job training programs to
four years.
Testifying before the committee
last week, Veterans Administrator
Bradley urged that ceiling be re-
tained but left up to Congress the
amount of Federal aid veterans
should get.
Program Explained.
He emphasized, however, that the
intent of the program is to help
veterans supplement their incomes
and not to pay them an allowance
they can live on. Gen. Bradley told
the committee that the cost of the
job training program as it now
stands may run as high as
$1,0O0,000, 900 a year.
The increase of the ceilings has
been a primary campaign for the
last several months of veterans
organizations, labor and business
groups.
The approved bill, an amended
proposal of Representative Kearney,
Republican, of New York represents
a decided victory for the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, which sponsored
the Kearney bill.
1t represents a defeat for the
American Legion which strenuously
led a fight for outright elimination
of the ceilings. The Legion took its
stand at a national convention last
September, when former Legion
Comdr. John Stelle charged that
Gen. Bradley broke faith with
veterans when he recommended
the ceilings be imposed.
Present Plan Cited.
At present, veterans allowances
are cut if those with dependents
have total income of 5000 month
or if those without dependents get
as much as SITS. Those without
dependents can draw up to $65 a
month and those with dependents
can draw $50 so long as total in
come stay under the ceilings.
Chairman Edith Nourse Rogers
said she would act Immediately to
get the bill before the House as soon
as possible.
I Meanwhile, she told reporters, the
committee will meet tomorrow to
consider bills that would increase
(See VETERANS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Chicago Is Voting Today
Without Kelly on Ballot
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Chicago held
a primary election today and for
the first time since 1885 Mayor
Edward j. Kelly's name was not
on the Democratic ballot.
Mayor Kelly, who is completing
his 14th year as Chicago's mayor
for a record tenure, has announced
his retirement. He first was chosen
mayor by the City Council in 1888
to succeed the late Anton j. Cermak
and won his first four-year term IN
1885. He was reelected twice and
when he completes his term next
month the 70-year-old mayor will
have rounded out a half-century of
public life.
Democrats picked Martin H. Ken
nelly, business man, who is un-
opposed in the primary. Russell w
Root, the regular Republican party S
choice, faced only nominal opposi-
ton
Voters also will nominate SO alder
men, treasurer and clerk. Finals
Ay1ll be held April l.
Evening star., 1947-02-25

amendment permitting employees. to
ask for bargaining elections pro-
viding it was limited to cases in
volving two unions.
Matthew Woll, another AFT vice
president, also spoke out against the
major union restricting bills intro
duced in the Senate Mr.. Woll, vice
president of the Photo -Engravers
Union, applied the effect of the
various bills upon the operation of
his own union, which he said had
enjoyed a high degree of peace the
past 20 years.
You cannot fasten the tentacles
of limitations and restriction on free
labor without endangering free in
dividual adventure and personal en-
terprise," Mr.. Woll said. Let those
of industry who are urging restric-
tions on labor beware of the forces
of reaction and of retaliation they
would set to work"
Mr.. Woll said he was aware that
public temper had been aroused by
strikes and that a Congress must
1See LABOR, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Taber Demands Cut
OF More Than Third
OF Commerce Funds
Specific Department
Named for First Time
In Debate on Budget
By the Associated Press

Chairman Taber of the House
Appropriations Committee lam
basted the Commerce Depart
ment today as haven for
homeless economists" and sug-
gested slashing it's funds by
more than a third.
Naming a specific agency for the
first time in connection with his
drive to pare $4,000, 100000 out OF
President Truman's 1948 budget
Mr.. Taber told reporter the Com
merce Department could stand "a
cut of about 100000, 5000" in its
S261 ,0OO, 900 spending estimate.
For an agency created to help the
Nations business, the New Yorker
commented, tits about time the
Commerce Department got on a
busineSslike basis"
Mr.. Taber said there were only
$4,000 employees in the department
in 1889, but the 1948 estimates call
for 36,500, without any correspond
ing increase in duties"
Analysts Galore.
"Just so the people may see how
ridiculous a lot of these increases
are," he said, there are Is man
agement analysts, % information
specialists, personnel officers galore
under one label or another, analysts
galore, % librarians, an enormous
Evening star., 1947-02-25
War Communications
Bourd Terminated

President Truman today issued an
executive order abolishing the
Board of War Communications-an
emergency agency created to CO.
ordinate and utilize communications
system for national safety.
The independent agency, headed
by Charles r. Denny, chairman OF
the Federal Communications Com
mission, was established as the De-
fense Communications Board on
September "a, 1910. After war was
declared 1t became a war board ana
representatives of the armed forcee
were made board members.
Evening star., 1947-02-25

in 1929 by DR.. Laurence F. Schmeck-
ebier. political scientist of the
Brookings Institution. DR.. Schmeck-
ebier published an authoritative
book on District government and
administration with suggested
changes at that time.
Mr. Auchincloss said the slbcom-
mittee mas no bill on home rule in
mind but will turn over its conclu-
sions from the Pierce fact-finding
study to its staff, together with data
acquired at public hearings, for
work during the summer on a meas
ure to be sponsored in the next
Congress next January.
He said the services of Mr.. Pierce
had been obtained through the leg
islative reference division of the
Library Of Congress headed by DR..
Ernest Griffith, also president of
the Council of Social Agencies.
It was indicated that information
was being collected for Mr.. Pierce
by District officials for submission
possibly by as early as March /.
I'VE are determined to do some
(see D. G. GOVERNMENT, Pg. A-6)
Evening star., 1947-02-25
Bulletin
Police Merger Dead

The bill to merge the park
police with the metropolitan
police was considered dead to-
day after the public service
subcommittee of the House
District Committee tabled the
measure during an executive
session.
Earlier Story on Page B-1)
Evening star., 1947-02-25

only crewrnan to discuss the belly
landing and rescue before all were
hospitalized for rest and observa-
tion, described 1t. Canvar's landing
as a wonderful job"
Permitted to talk to newsnen
for five minutes, 1t. Arnett said his
ship was ION a routine training
fight. We were not making
photos."
The big plane ran into a storm
which blew it completely off course,
he related, and added:
"We were running short of fuel
(See RESCUE. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1947-02-25
By Joseph Young

Members of the Senate Civil
Service Committee today lashed
out at an administration order
requiring Federal agencies to
obtain the Presidents view on
any piece of legislation before
submitting bill reports requested
by Congress.
The f1areup occurred when Civil
Service Commission officials failed
to submit their recommendations on
the legislation to make tax-exempt
all annuity payments to retired Gov
ernment employees. The committee
had requested the commission's
report on the bill nearly six weeks
ago.
"Who Is running this Govern
ment anyway-you people or the
Congress?" Chairman LANCER asked.
We're not going to stand for any
pushing around by the executive
branch of the Government
Baldwin Enters Discussion.
Senator Baldwin, Republican, of
Connecticut, broke in to say Il don't
understand this system at all. There
is no reason or logic to it,"
Senator Baldwin declared he could
understand why the administration
wanted to be kept informed on every
piece of legislation, but he asserted
that there is no reason for not
complying with the wishes of Con-
gress when it wants an agency's
advice in considering legislation"
The committee then instructed
the commission to bring in re-
port on the bill as soon as possible.
I'VE won't stand for any further
delays" Senator LANCER declared.
Says Report Was Ready.
K. c. Vipond, the commission S
assistant chief examiner, previously
told the group that the commission
had been ready to submit its report,
but had to wait until it received
the Budget Bureaus stand on the
matter.
Mr.. Vipond said the commission
was inclined to favor tax exempting
annuities, but he understood that
the Secretary of the Treasury was
opposed to the measure on the
ground that it wuuld deprive the
Treasury of needed tax revenue.
The committee, which met to con-
slider various civil service bills,
heard testimony from post Office of
ficials opposing legislation to give
postal employees 26 days annual and
Is days sick leave, the same as is
granted other Federal workers.
The department based its opposi-
tion on the expense involved. Rep
resentatives of postal employe groups
urged the committee to approve the
bill, pointing out that postal work.
(See CIVIL SERVICE, Page A-6.)