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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
MOUNTAIN VIEW RNA HOLD
MEETING AUGUST IL

Mountain View R.N.A. lodge held
its regular meeting Wednesday,
August II, with Oracle Sylvia Nc
Grew in the chair. Twenty mem
bers were present
A delicious lunch was served by
Mrs. Yaple, Pat Thorne. Alice Nc
Queen and Tillie Porter.
The next regular meeting will be
not-luck.-Emma Rubard, secretary
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
CHARLES COZAD HEADS
LIBBY JUNIOR HIGH

With the election of Charles Co
zad as Junior high principal, the
Libby school faculty is now COM
plete for the opening of school,
September 7.
Complete details concerning reg
istration and other matters will be
published next week.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
Rep. Mansfield
Gives Status
Of LibbyDann

In discussing the proposed Libby
(Jennings) dam June 10. 1913 or
the floor of the House of Repre-.
sentatives, Washington, D. c. the
Hon. Mike Mansfield made the fol-
lowing remarks:
II have written to Gen. r. C.
Crawford, Acting Chief of Engin-
GERS, for information on this bro
posed project and I am including
with my remarks his reply. l have
already sent out reports on the pro
posed Paradise and Glacier view
Dams and the arguments about the
Libby Dam apply to them as we'll.
The following points, in connec-
ton with the Libby proposal, are
pertinent and should be kept in
mind.
First. The United States Corps
of Engineers has neither the auth
GRITTY nor the funds for the construc-
ton of this project
Second. Under specific authority
granted by Congress, the United
States Corps of Engineers has been
given the authority to make detailed
investigations in the entire Column
bia River Basin.
Third The Libby project is not
being proposed for construction at
this time.
Fourth. Public hearings have
been held to consider the views of
the people of Montana on this pro-
posed project.
Fifth. A complete report cover
ing the Libby project must be made
to Congress-
Sixth. After the report has been
made to CongreSs-and only then
will authorization for this and sim
liar projects be considered"
The letter from General Craw-
ford mentioned the proposed hear
ing later held by Col Hewitt July
z, in the Dome Theatre, Libby. It
also states that the army engineers
do not have the authority at this
time to construct a dam at the Lib
by site. This site has been thor
oughly investigated by the engin-
GERS acting under congressional
and is included among a
large number of prospective i'm
proVements for the development Of
the Columbia River Basin At the
present time, General Crawford
adds, the project is not being pro-
posed by the corps Of engineers for !
but is rather one of |
the subjects of discussion at hear
ings being held in the area.
The General concludes his letter
as follows
The Division and District Engin-
GERS report on the Columbia River
Basin investigation is scheduled to
De completed and submitted to this
office in the fall of this year When
hat report is received, at which
lime you will be notified, it will
De referred to the Board of Engin-
.ers for Rivers and Harbors for re-
,iew as required by law. Upon
of the Boards action on
hat report, the proposed report of
he Chief of Engineers thereon will |,
,e furnished to the Governors Of
he affected States and to interested
federal agencies for their views and
omments, and the written com
1ents of the Governors and in
crested Federal agencies will ac- !
the complete report to |
congress with the recommendation !
the Chief of Engineers regarding
considered feasible :
nd economically justified at that :
me. After the report has been =
to Congress, further
ction toward the construction of !;
ny projects that may be recon- =
tended therein will depend upon =
lie authorization of those projects
Y Congress and the appropriation q
the necessary funds for the work
roposed." II
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
Troy Receives Sum
of Sc, 9O3.4 3 for
City Woter Works

The following telegram was re-
ceived by the Western News from
Senator James E. Murray:
Il am pleased to advise that the
sum of S3,90342 has been allocated
City of Troy from the Presidents
Emergency Fund for the alienation
of flood damage. Amount to be
used for repair of water works. Fur
Their details available from Bureau
of Community Facilities Federal
Works Agency
JAMES E. MURRAY USS-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS

From Geo. H. Ripley, Arlee:
There is such a scramble to open
the paper when it comes that
almost overlooked the fact that the
time had run out for US to get our
letter from Home. So here is anoth.
er year coming up for the best Lit
tie Paper from the best Little Town
Best wishes to all.
From Mrs. L. G.. Klenck, 1901
East Linden Street, Tucson, Ariz.
We welcome the Western News.
Each issue keeps us in touch with
our dear friends in Libby.
From Miss Annie L. Campbell
ZIG S. F. So Ave Portland (l6).
Oregon:
/ failed to receive my Western
News for August 5. Since it is like
a letter from home l dislike missing
an issue Would you kindly send
me One2
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
ATTENTION ALL GIRL SCOUT
INTERMEDIATES!

Day Camp is scheduled for Wed
nesday, Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of next week, August IS, 90
q, %.
Details will be mailed to you be-
fore Monday. If you have any ques-
tions, see or phone Mrs. Rodney
Peterson.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19

c. H. Doxtater Of Havre visited
Monday evening and Tuesday with
his brother, L. w. Doxtater and
family. The brothers and L. WIS
son Kenneth returned Monday from
Tacoma where they had visited
several days with their mother, Mrs.
Iva Doxtater.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
LIBBY CHAMBER ELECTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The following directors were
elected on the Libby Chamber of
Commerce Board, according to the
secretary, Dexter Shaurette:
o. L. Gillespie, Paul Church, Joe
Fennessy, Jr, Melvin Knudson AMI
Fred H. .Maurer.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19

Esmond Switzer and daughter,
Viona left Sunday evening for their
home in Richland, Wash. They
have spent a two weeks vacation
visiting relatives here and in East
ern Montana
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
LODGE NOTICE

Medora Rebekah Lodge No. SO
viii have a special meeting Monday,
August %.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Veen of Great
Falls visited Monday and Tuesday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Partlow.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
Union and KegIers
PIoy Friday Night

What started out as a track meet
for Zonolite last Monday evening
wound up in disappointment. The
Zonolite team ran up a 90 score
during the first inning of the game
but dropped the game at the end
with a score of 1913 in favor of
the BPOK.
Last night the game scheduled
between ZOnolite and Merchants
but postponed on account of the
Negro, Ghost game Monday, was
played off.
The league standing before last
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-08-19
WEATHER REPORT

Following is the weather report
for the past week furnished thru
the courtesy of the Libby Ranger
| Station.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03

unchallenged by the courts or
the Justice" Department of
the Federal Government, can
only be viewed as an unac-
knowledged weapon of that
government and of those states
which have not outlawed it.
THE REPORT should make
Enthusiastically clear to demo-
cratic white Americans that
the nation which permits the
violation of the human dignity
of millions of men and women
because of creed or color can
not itself be free.
Negro persecution lays a
firmer basis for the terroriZa-
ton of labor and progressive
white America. Loyalty tests,
Taft-Hartley laws, and the per-
secution of militant trade union
leaders are some evidence of
this.
This policy of government
deeply influences and affects
the daily lives of all white
Americans. Church, school,
press, theaters, radio and NOV
les take their cue from these Of
fetal sources. But the lines
they utter-the doctrine of
white-supremacy - is dictated
in Wall Street and the driving
force is profits that can be ex-
tracted from the flesh and blood
of black men in the billions.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
Column review
Lands: Send Ke||y-Nash and
Prendergast machines to Italy

drafted by this 80th Congress
would provide no solution to
that problem.
A tax reduction would-as
it always has-benefit only the
monopolists =. The same mo-
nopolists whose profits beat all
records this year.
ON THE other hand we have
Edwin A. Lahey, of the Daily
News, who's been on the spot
lately. In past weeks, while
Lahey has been hitting out at
the Red-baiters and writing
honestly of Wallace's chances
in '48, the space allotted to his
calumn had steadily dimin-
ished. But this week Lahey had
plenty of space. Here's why:
This week Lahey bemoaned
"the total absence of charm in
the faces of F. three promin-
ent lady reds in Europe, named
Hertta Kuuisen, Stella Blago-
jeva, and Anna Pauker," Lahey
continues:
"They lead to the suspicion
that the MarXists have gone
overheard in granting equal
opportunity to women, and
have actually combed the
steppes of Eastern Europe for
the least attractive dolls they
could find for political careers"
More important is LaheY's
conclusion that our own re-
versed democratic system has
NOT produced many lady poll
ticians who would quicken
the pulse of the male passer-
by ). I don't think the en-
france of women into politics
has improved either the
moral or the esthetic tone of
American. public LIFE"
In other words, gals, be beau
tifu1 and keep your brains to
yourselves. Nuts!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
drafted by this 80th Congress
would provide no solution to
that problem.

humanity's practical expert
ence with fascism. This history
teaches nothing so much as it
teaches that democracy is only
won in bitter struggles; it is
not given.
No offer of concessions will
bring black America to accept
the invitation to help to do
unto others what has been done
unto it.
Already Negro America has
come to link its destiny to
world democracy. He who
thinks Negroes will be so easily
gulIed has little respect for
their thinking and less for their
morality. Fascism cannot be
sold to Negro America with
few honied phrases about civil
right to come.
IN DRAFTING the Presi-
dents Civil Rights report the
ruling class of America put on
paper its monstrous record of
thousands of lynchings. Not a
lyncher has ever been pun
iShed.
The Civil Rights report spells
out the record of mob violence
and of bestial exploitation
through forced labor, share
cropping and peona ge by
which the Negro people have
been robbed of billions of dol
lars since 1864.
Some small part of the XII
Klux Klan's record of violence
and murder was cited in that
report. But what stands forth
most clearly is that the Khan,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03

bride them with Trieste?"
ct seems to me that we've
been going at things too crude
ly. Why doesn't Truman call
home our diplomats and adj
mirals and send over some real
experts?"
Who would Lands send TO
Italy to rig the free cleo
fion"? Why the Prendergast
boys in Kansas City who
wouldn't have needed an
atom bomb to win an cleo
tion." ard the old KellY-Nash
stalwarts in Chicago who
never needed a military
draft to have produced any
majority desired"
THINGS are tough all over.
But, it must be admitted, things
are toughest in the world of
newspaper columnists.
One the one hand we have
the Daily News David Law
rence-who sounds more and
more like the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers every
day-booming for tax reduction
in supremacy illogical fash
ion.
"The principal argument for
reduction is" says Lawrence,
"the need to protect the nation
against depression. The pres
ent-day economy is imperilled
by the fact that individuals do
not have enough money to in
vest. Unless risk capital is
available from private sources,
the government must furnish
it. This leads to state social
ISM"
Lawrence is correct when
he says individuals do not
: have enough money TO in
vest" In fact. individuals
do not have enough money"
period. But tax reduction
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
Frank |}!,|:|l avis

WHAT naive fellow is he
who argues that our deadly
enemies, the white suprema-
cists, who are the enemies of
all mankind, will make con-
cessions to black folk simply
because they are preparing a
war against the Negro peoples
greatest friend-the champion
of all oppressed mankind-the
Soviet Union. The contrary is.
the reality Of today. Those who
prepare to fight the Soviet I'm
ion will everywhere seek to-
destroy every vestige of de-
mocracy. We have Palestine,
Italy, Greece and Turkey as
living examples.
The bipartisan Truman adj
ministration is engaged in put
ting over Wall Streets impe-
rialfst war program. They are
trying desperately to reduce
the home front to a terrified
or confused acceptance of this
program of death and destruc-
ton.
But the A m er i n people
want peace, security and de-
mocracy. Therefore terror be-
comes an imperative necessity
for reaction. Negroes will not
be exempt; instead of that fas-
cist terror threatens the very
physical existence of the Negro
people.
TO THOSE who ask: "Where
is the proof?", the answer must
be that the proof lies in our
practical and deeply painful
experiences since 1864. To
these experiences can be added
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
WHO HELPS THE TYPOS?

"Work': 1.-The had Chicago Typo
of
CTU the
Yes, the Star did publish daily the Chi
alternative reading the daily that
Chicago many
explained story
drve1
understands anything about the aobr movement
could hashed There the CTU
financing Chicago Daily Star However, the Stars relations with
typos given full
Some months Work" attempted advise the CTU
paper publicly the union
issue, Work" with another Proposal
Chicago Strike" which itself eacherous
of breaking
to make something of how pubic
interests
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
FIND.
BY WILLIAM L. PATTERSON

A NY illusions that what
Ahas been called the Tru-
man Civil Rights program will
voluntarily be carried into life
are extremely dangerous.
Such illusions can only dis
arm both the Negro people and
their labor and progressive al
lies.
Illusions that Harry Truman
will voluntarily make conces-
sions to democracy, law and
order, can only water down
the development of the peo-
pies movement and struggles.
These struggles alone can win
and guarantee to Negro Amer
leans an enjoyment of those
rights to which centuries of un-
requited toll and the shedding
of rivers of blood in defense
of their country entities them.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03

THE Sun-Times' Kenesaw
M. Lands II lowered
himself from the window of
his own private Ivory Tower
this week and-for change
made with some uncommonly
common sense.
With tongue in check, Lam
dis wrote: "As I understand
things, and I admit don't, the
immediate WAR danger is the
free election the Italians are
supposed to have on April ID.
Usually we are happy about
such things.
But alarming reports have
come in that if all votes are
honestly counted the Commu-
nists may win. and be en-
titled to form a government.
OBVIOUSLY we cannot allow
this to happen. After we kicked
the Communists out of the 1tal-
ian government last year, we
can't allow the Italians to vote
them back again.
= 3 =
AND THEN. with sarcasm as
subtle as a kick in the head,
Landis continued:
"One of cur main handicaps
in the Italian election is that
very few of US had the fore
sight to register. and as re-
suit the American vote will
be light.
But otherwise we are in
good shape. We have the Pope
on our side and also the Pre-
mier. Our friends control the
election machinery and the
spiritual machinery. The pa
tronage is ours.
WE CONTROL the food the
Italians eat, and we've threat
end to take it away if they
don't vote right. What is
wrong? Must we also try to
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
BY pop" DEARBORN
UE COLLAPSING IN THE PRESS

DEPORTS in the the CLIO United Electrical
IL and Machine Workers read like Hes
Hearst and the Chicago Tribune
single of printers
OF it's that Big outfits
genuinely progressive and militant like
getting plenty of help from leaders the United Auto
raised the program
of raiding
However, should be repeated that the last
tiona report of UE showed $4,000 members.
This week, the UE reported that
stopped cold when the Thomas Edison Industries
compelled to contract with UE
all plants
two of the plants
At the Schrader Brooklyn,
the membership of the UE The JAW petned election
forced to withdraw before it could be held
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
- CRANKY SPEAKING
The civil rights hook

This week I am turning over
my entire column to William
L. Patterson. legislative chair
man. Communist Party of I'LL
nois. who disagrees completely
with my statement in this space
several weeks ago that Tru-
mans civil rights program was
designed by Americas bi-parti-
san imperialists TO win Negro
backing for World War III
against Russia. Because this is
sue is so important. I am invit-
ing other readers to write in
and give their viewpoints. Mr..
Patterson's guest column fol-
lows.)
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03
REPORTS OF OUR DEATH :.

For time Work. the little Gnonthy put here by the
Catholic Alliance, Chicago
The strategy that of the fabulous buetal fly which repeatedly
other into early More on the
of these pesky critters that they get swatted!
Nevertheless Work contents itself in the current issue with
sinking From the
dept that paid circulation of
he Star now is just about double that of a month
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-03

INTO this scene, President
Truman, who helped Kill
Roosevelt's FEPC, projects the
Civil Rights Report. Negro
America will get as much bene-
fit from it as the masses OF Eu-
rope and Asia will get from
the Truman Doctrine and the
Marshall Plan-misery and
death.
Harry Truman is as well
aware as the most benighted,
hood-covered lynchers, that the
enforcement Of the Constitu-
ton or his Civil Rights Report
under existing conditions de-
mands the use of the courts
and the protection of all avail
able power including that of
the Federal government.
Only the police power of a
genuine peoples democratic
government can today guaran-
tee to Negroes the enjoyment of
"life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. This is eloquent
ly borne out by the attitude of
the lynchers in high places who
brag that southern streets will
Eun with blood before Negroes
vote as free Americans.
4 Il
BUT Tom Clark, head of the
Department of Justice, has not
moved. J. Edgar Hoover, head
CONTINUED on Page l0l
Evening star., 1948-01-18
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Evening star., 1948-01-18
PRIMERS Showdown
Is Laid 10 Union by
Tribune Executive
BY the Asseciatsd Press

CHICAGO, Jan. ia Chicago
Tribune executive Said today COM
posing room "slowdowns" at the
Tribune ceased following a union
chapel meeting OH November 81
three days before the printers went
on strike against Chicago's six major
daily newspapers.
"The fact that the entire force
went back to work following this
chapel meeting serves as further
evidence of a concerted showdown
and that this showdown had been
conducted with complete knowledge
Of local union officials" according
to H. F. Grumhaus, the Tribune's
assistant production manager.
Working Rules Posted.
He testified at National Labor
Relations Board hearing of NLRB
charges that the International Typo
graphical Union and its Chicago
Local No. 16 have committed unfair
labor practices
Mr.. Grumhaus said that produc-
ton practically stopped" in the
Tribune's composing room from 1870
to 4:30 pm, November 81, after the
Tribune had posted working rules
for the first time in several years
and requested all linotype operators
to put identifying slugs on type they
set.
The Tribune took this action fol-
lowing several weeks of showdown"
tactics by the printers, whose con-
tract had expired October "a, MIR.
Grumhaus said He testified that
linotype production dropped as much
as 1873 per cent during this period
At 4:30 pm. on November 81, Mr..
Grumhaus continued, the union
chapel chairman at the Tribune was
given permission to call union
meeting. Mr.. Grumhaus said the
chapel chairman promised the
meeting would be "of advantage to
all concerned"
Worked Fast on Return,
Mr.. Grumhaus said the meeting
lasted 10 minutes and afterward the
union members "set type at an ex-
traordinarily rapid rate" Compos-
ing room production continued at
normal rate until the printers
walked out November "a, Mr.. Grum-
haus said
He said that on October "a, 81
compositors had worked a total of
754 hours to set 334 columns of
classified advertising matter, an av-
erage of "A columns per man hour.
He said that these figures COM
Evening star., 1948-01-18
THE SUNDAY STAR. Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY,

pared with a production Of 385 COL
umns by 90 men working 1886 hours
for an average of so columns per
man hour on September 26.
Grumhaus said that because of a
falling off of linotype production
and an apparent inability to hire
additional union compositors, the
Tribune was unable to produce all
of its scheduled editions during the
weeks just prior to the strike.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
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Evening star., 1948-01-18
Fillmore PTA to Hear Talk

Miss Betty Brown of the Bureau
Of Human Nutrition, Agriculture
Department, will speak at meeting
of the Fillmore School Parent
Teacher Association at pm. to-
morrow at the school, Thirty-fifth
street between r and s streets
NV,