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Joint Ceremony May
|nduct Clark, McGrathG;;
Senate Confirms Both

Plans Tor the Snl1C OF Attorney
General Clark to the Supreme
Court and for Senator McGrath,
Democrat, of Rhode Island, to
succeed him are to be worked
out soon, following Senate con-
firmation of their nomination
yesterday.
The two will confer as soon as
Senator McGrath returns from a
Western trip. it was explained to-
day. 1t is possible Joint cere-
mony will be arranged.
Mr.. Clark was confirmed by the
Senate by a vote of 73 to 8 yester-
day after a long debate in which
he was attacked by a few Republi-
cans
Called "Transparently Political.
Mr.. Clark's appointment drew
bitter criticism from Senator Fer
guson. Republican. of Michigan,
who called it "transparently poll
tical," and accused the 49-year-old
official of gross mismanagement'
in the Gerhard Eisler deportation
case.
Mr.. Clark's friends stood by
him as a good man who should
make a fine justice.
The eight Republicans who voted
against the nominee were Senator
Ferguson and his Michigan col
league, Senator Vandenberg; Sen
ators Donnell and KEN of Missouri,
Flanders of Vermont. Taft of Ohio,
Watkins of Utah and Williams OF
Delaware.
Unanimous on McGrath- ..
The confirmation rdf senator
McGrath as Attorney General
came Immediately afterwards and
was unanimous. He was warmly
praised by his colleague, Senator
Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island.
Outlining Senator McGrath's
career as Governor of Rhode
Island, Solicitor General of the
United States and Senator, his
colleague said he has "the ability,
the courage, the personality and
the training to make an excellent
Attorney General.
Senator Flanders, Republican.
of Vermont, told the Senate he
was delighted that my old friend,
the Senator from Rhode Island.
becomes the new Attorney Cen
eral."
Opens Committee Posts.
Senator McGrath's departure
from the Senate will leave vacant
his three committee posts: chair
manship of the Senate District
Committee and membership Of
the Senate Judiciary and Finance
Committees.
Slated to succeed the outgoing
Senator as chairman Of the Dis
trict Committee is Senator Nicely,
Democrat. of West Virginia.
The committee posts will be
filled by the Senate Steering Com
mittee, headed by Majority Lead
er Lucas.
The Associated Press reported
from Rhode Island that Gov.
John o. Pastore, a Democrat.
may name Edward L. Leahy, for
mer director and now an adviser
to the State Finance Depart
ment, as Mr.. McGrath's successor
in the Senate.
The Senator will relinquish his
Craftsmanship Of the Democratic
National Committee on Wednes-
day.
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Democratic Club Here
To Honor Mrs. Clark

Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark. new
Treasurer Of the United States.
will be honored by the Democratic
Club of the District at a break
fast meeting at II m. Sunday in
the United Nations Club.
A special invitation to all Kan
sans to join in honoring the first
woman to hold the post was isa
sued by Arthur Clarendon Smith:
club president. Mrs. Clark comes
from Kansas.
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Weather Report

District of Columbia-Sunny
with highest today near 81. Fair
and cooler tonight with lowest
about so. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and cool.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to-
night. Tomorrow fair with high
est from IS to 80: n p ~7
Virginia-Fair and little cooler
tonight. Tomorrow fair with
highest from 78 to IS.
Wind velocity, II miles per hour:
direction, northeast.
Five-Day Weather Forecast for
Washington and Vicinity,
August 1924.
Mostly fair except for showers
Monday or Tuesday with total
amount of rainfall from u to "a
inch. The temperature will aver
age near normal. A little warmer
Sunday afternoon but cooler again
by Tuesday night. The normal
maximum for the Washington
area Is 80, minimum. IS.
River Report.
rrom o. g. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at, Great Falls; Shenandoah muddy
at Harpers Ferry
Humidity.
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are extremely
anxious to keep
as much re-
naming work
as possible in
Navy installa-
tions and pre-
vent the is
suance of addi-
tional contracts
to private ship
yards.
N. P. Alias.
president of the
Wa s h in g t on
branch of the
hin indor1and.
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Congress in Brief
BY the Assoeioted Press

Senate:
Meets at II am, an hour early,
to speed action on delayed In
terror Department appropriation.
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees hear Henry
A. Wallace and others oppose
$1.450, 100000 military assistance
bill.
Judiciary subcommittee hears
witnesses on displaced persons bill.
Finance Committee hears testi-
mony on disability benefits for
veterans.
House:
Debates supplemental. appropri-
alton bill and minor measures.
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Guard at Peocetime
Hiah. With 358.882

There were 1882 officers and
men in the District National
Guard on August /. the National
Guard Bureau said today, in an
nouncing that the overall strength
of the Guard had reached a new
peacetime high of 358,882.
The local total included 1893 Of
flcers and men in air units.
Maryland units had a strength
Of 1887, and the Virginia Guard
totaled 5,220 officers and men.
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flying graphite and uranium that
made possible the use OF these
materials in the first atomic pile.
DR.. Lundell joined the bureau in
1913. He lives at 402 Cummings
lane, Chevy Chase, Md.
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$1,000 Fisher
Award in Ana
lytical Chemis-
try September
19 at the 116th
national meet
ing of t h e
A m e r | c a n
Chemical So
ciety in At
lantic City.
DR.. Lundell's
staff durt in 8
World War II
d e v e ! o p e d
methods of ana
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ent International Association OF
Machinists. charges that the five
percenters" are engaged actively
in a campaign to win large ship
building and repair contracts fo1
their clients.
Mr.. Alias asserts the "five-per-
centers" were responsible for the
successful pressure campaign" In
the House last year which saw
the House vote. to repeal the pro-
vision of the Trammel Act pro-
hibiting the Navy from allocating
more than so per cent OF its new
shipbuilding work to outside firms.
The provision, however. remained
intact, because the Senate failed
to act on 1t before Congress ad-
journed last year.
Now, Mr.. Alias says, there Is
another campaign going on to get
greater contracts for private ship
Yards. This time, the union lead
er declares, the "flve-percenters"
are trying to obtain juicy con-
tracts for their clients in ship re-
pair work.
Mr.. Alifas has enlisted the aid
of Senator Thomas, Democrat, OF
Oklahoma, chairman of the Sen
ate Military Appropriations Sub
committee, in this matter. Senator
Thomas introduced an amend
ment, approved by the full COM
mittee, to bar the granting OF con-
tracts to private shipbuilders in
repair work unless it could be
proved that they could do the job
at less cost.
Mr.. Alias says he believes some
of the "five-percenters" will try
to muster support to defeat this
amendment when the 1850 mill
tary appropriations bill comes up
in several weeks for Senate action.
That's why he and some OF his
colleagues are making the rounds
of the Senate corridors these days
to gain support for the Senate
Appropriations Committees pro-
vision.
FAIREST OF ALL-Martha
Slender has been selected as Miss
Interior of 1949. The selection was
made at the annual picnic of In
terror Department employees last
week.
A pretty, blue-eye6 blond, Miss
Slender is employed in Interior s
Bureau of Reclamation. She was
chosen over II other beauty con-
testants at Interior. The runnerup
was Miss Dorothy Lukin, employed
in Interiors Bureau of Mines.
Third-place winner was Mary Lou
Hommel, who works in the Office
of the Secretary.
+ -
APPROVAL-The House EXecu-
tive Expenditures Committee has
approved the bill to permit the
payment of travel allowances to
Government employees who be-
come incapacitated by illness or
injuries while they are out Of town
on official business.
The legislation would correct
the present situation. whereby
travel allowance is stopped If an
employe becomes i'll and cannot
work while on official assignment.
For example, if an employe' suf-
fered an attack of appendicitis
and was operated on, he would
not be paid any travel allowance
money during the time he was laid
up.
The House committees bill
would allow the employe to re-
ceive his regular travel allowance
during the time he was incapa-
citated. The Senate Executive Ex-
penditures Committee Is to hold
hearings soon on the measure.
SIGNED-President Truman
has signed inSo law the bill that
permits recomputation OF retire.
ment benefits to provide larger
annuities for some Of the Govern
ments law enforcement agents.
x* X
PAYDAYS ON SCHEDULE
President Truman also has signed
the stop-gap legislation that Will
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Train DeruiIed Near Crewe

CREWE. Va, Aug. 10 P.-
Twelve cars of a l65-car east
bound Norfolk g. Western freight
train derailed near here last night
but no one was injured.
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DR.. lundeII 10 Receive
Fisher Chemical Award

DR.. C. E. F. Lundell. So. chief
of the Chemistry Division OF the
Bureau of Standards until his re-
tirement last year, will receive the
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insure regular payments Of sal
aries to Government employees here
until September IS. BY that time
Congress is expected to have COM
pleted action on all Of the 1850
appropriation bills. and further
stop-gap iegislation-it is hoped
won't be needed.
* X +
LITTLE CHANGE-Congress
action in approving the transfer
of the United States Employment
Service and the Unemployment
Compensation Off1ce from FSA to
the Labor Departement Is ex-
pected to have little effect on the
job status OF the employees In
these units.
The same holds true for en-
ployes in the Bureau OF Public
Roads, which has been transferred
from the General Services Agency
to the Commerce Department.
fBe sure to listen in Sundays
at 1915 am. ouer WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast Dersion of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
7,eDs and Die,Ds of the Gouern-
1nent service
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The Federal Spotlight
Union Claims 'Five-Percenters'
Seek Navy Repair Contracts
By joseph YOUNG

suddenly brought into the picture
behind fight Of Navy eploye keep the
aocatng OF its work outside indus
trial concerns and contractors.
Navy Establishments scheme
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The electric shock Of a torpedo
fish can temporarily disable q
man.
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Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on August IL.
d Lowest, 21. on January 80.
High and Low for Yesterday.
High, IS. at 5:53 pm.
Low, 66, at b:55 am.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast O.
Geodettc Survey.)
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Of things these days already has
resulted in thousands Of dismissals
among Navy civilian workers,
That's why Navy employe leaders
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The Sun and Moon

Rises. Sets.
Sun. today ~ 6:25 1853
Sun, tomorrow 6:26 -7:57
Moon, today ---- j .Ul am. o.Ol Pm
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-han hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the
ca nital (cuYrent month to date).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01

impossible to distinguish officers
from men because they live the
same life and wear the same uni
form; an army whose units drill,
march in step, and sing together
on every occasion-songs which
recall curiously those heard in
France during the occupation.
At every stage of its advance,
this army, which arrives poor,
moves forward re-equipped from
American lorries. with American
artillery inherited from the troops
of the Kuomintang who were rout-
ed with old rifles.
"a second surprise is that the
Martians are not only in the army
They are also to be found in the
new administration. Everyone is
finding in it unaccustomed vir-
tues of incorruptibility and aus
terity, and even an efficiency
which is rare in China"
Another quotation from the same
looUC VI bhC ndllCHeSleI GudTuldH
shows the effects of ChurchilPs play
ing the Americans for suckers (hand-
ing Mr. Truman at Fulton University
a loaded cigar.)
at is true that there is one sec
ton of British business opinion
here which would like Britain to
play its own hands in dealing with
Chineses Communists. These mer-
chants feel that Britain has a good
opportunity 'to get in on the
ground floor in doing business
with the Communists and profit
from American unpopularity."
Personally have always liked Mr..
He has worked hard to
ret an education. He makes a good
peech on platform and radio. His
virtues, church attendance,
how him to be a splendid American
itizen. He tries to do his best. |
hing his vote for the Mundt-N Nixon
ill was not due to i'll will against
4abor, but to ignorance. His failure
0 actively advocate the Columbia
alley and Missouri Valley Author
lies may be due as much to his poor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01
LUMBER & SAW MILL
CONVENTION TO BE
HELD, JULY 80

Lumber and Sawmill Workers Lo-
cal 1888 at Hamilton, in the Bitter
root valley, will entertain the 10Th
semi-annual convention of the LSW
Montana District Council.
The convention will be held the
second Saturday and Sunday of July,
the 9th and 10th-and early plans
call for housing of a full turnout
of delegates from all Montana local
unions as well as important out-of-
state visitors expected to attend
The two-day meeting is regarded
as one of the most important ever
held by the Montana Lumber and
Sawmill Workers organization in
view of the current deadlock in ne
gotiations on wages and working
with all Montana employ
ers. Keen interest is already being
displayed in actions to be taken by
The convention unless the deadlock
is broken and satisfactory progress
made by negotiations before that
Lime.-Treasure State Labor Journal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01

gubeatoral stock of at least two hopefuls Recall if Won
WILL how those superior Americans comprising the high
priesthood OF the Legion sandered ved
ana citizens in their unsuccessful attempt enmeh our state
IN the tentaces of hystera through the sounding
Un-American Activities committee
Finally look at the hideous in which federal
courts OF justice being perverted into judicial tools
Tor the creeping fascism that is slowly bringing the
darkness over cherished freedoms
Look at the plagng Ager Hiss undergoing at the
hands of ambitious federal times dis
credited perjurer-W haker Chambers.
Look at the political trial of II Communists trial pur-
poredy based the theory that the CP to overthrow
this government by forcebut in truth trial conducted
for entirely different trial. with convictions
foregone conclusion that will silence all Americans not wholly
in accord with the status quo
Consider the conviction Judith Copon charges of be-
ing Russian don't believe that young woman is any
more guilty of espionage than would
be should she happen have sweetheart of Canadian
ctlzeny To the contrary think Miss Copon victim of
one OF the most vicious rameups perpretraed by
icing in America further think that farmnded
who has followed the closely watched the
Justice department in it's final desperation
on attempt to destroy her moral reputation agree with
my contention 1t it not frameup-a frameup to
conviction and thus call off the congressional blood
hounds why then did Prosecutor Kelley arrange
his assistants Shapiro the "other in herhotel
testify to the correctness of the contentious of
illicit relations between he Shapiro and Miss Copon rather
than basng such contentious hearsay Finally she
trial for espionage rather than moral urpude?
you look at it, it's pretty bestial of hitting
One expects such tactics be employed bawdy house circles
but surely not by accredited representatives the United
States Government
Indeed Americans ALL may we'll those impassoned
words of Freedom that out to the far earth
l73 years and wonder the time is far in the
future when again similar expression of determination
freedom will have to be forged to quote Jefferson
: fed on the blood of patriots and tyrants. !"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01

knowledge of public economy as to
his fear of the Montana Power Com
pany at any election.
If Mr.. Mansfield still stubbornly
favors the Atlantic Pact and votes
away few billions to implement it,
this conduct in wrecking the u. S.
Treasury will not be from dishonesty
about tax payers money, but be-
cause he lacks good judgment, or be-
cause he is long on the doings of,
Kubla Khan and short on the wisdom
found in the messages of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln
about "entangling alliances"
Since he voted for and promoted
the dumping in the Chinese rat hole
$500,000,000 more than has come
from the mines of Butte in 80 years,
the people of the Western District
should try to find for congress some
farmer or miner with more common
sense (even if he have fewer private
The brain of rulers is what counts.
In private life, Catherine the Great
of Russia was an assassin, a prosti-
tute. But she did more to elevate
the common people of Russia, free
them from serfdom, kill off the war
lords, than any other Tsar in 500
years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01
.BraInan Offers
Overall Missouri
Development Plan

How can the people keep the Mis-
souri, River Basin free from erosion,
flood and another great drouth?
One answer to this problem was
presented last week by Secretary of
Agriculture Charles Brannan. His
comprehensive plan would speed up
Missouri Valley development so that
the job would be finished in 80 years.
At the present rate, development
would take hundred years.
The Missouri river drains one
fourth of the nations farmland. 1t
covers a 10-state area, from the Da-
kotas west to Montana and Colorado
and south to Missouri and Kansas.
All of Nebraska and parts of Iowa,
Minnesota and Wyoming are in the
basin.
The government is now spend
ing about $33~ million a year on
the Missouri Valley. Brannan pro-
poses to boost this to 500 million
a year.
Benefited would be some 582
thousand farmers and ranchers. Hun
dreds of thousands of ponds, up
stream dams, fences, shelterbelts and
other works would be built. This
would effectively build "a stable
foundation for agriculture in a re-
gion where drought is an unusually
high risk" says Brannan.
A. payment plan direct to the
farmers and ranchers is included in
The proposal. This money would go
toward partial payment" on con-
servation and soil development by
The farmers themselves.
Secretary Brannan did not say
whether his Missouri plan would
be adapted to work under the
Pick-Sloan1 decentraIized system,
or the centrally controlled Mis-
souri, Valley Administration, as
now proposed by congress.
The final figures on Brannan's
'lan are not yet available. They
AVE been sent to the Bureau of the
5udget, from which they will go to
ngress. Farmers Union Herald. AZ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01
with Certain InaIienabIe Rights !. .

We truths be al men
Life, of
That these rights, instituted
deriving their the of the
d That whenever form of becomes destructive of
the Right of the People abolish it, and
institute laying foundation such principles and
organizing such FORM them shall likely
effect their Safety and Happiness -"
We, the American people well give sober consdera
ton to the above words from the Declaration of independence
first enuncated to the world July 1776 We well ask
ourselves if these immortal assertions currently losing their
meaning observe the efforts being made this country
to stamp out the free expression of ideas
Look for example, at the havoc wrought the regulations
destroyed by the House U-Amercan Activities committee
has attempted fan the fires of hyera the past II
The of fellow Americans who have andered by
this congressional committee, legion.
Look for example, at the little un-A American
commttees-from Washington to Massachusetts, California
Maryland have been vying with the bg brother
which the capable of destroying American democracy
Look for example, at the Ober laws recently enacted in
Maryland which make political afiaton, other than Repub
odne Democrat all most certain ticket to the state
Look at the recently enacted law Texas requiring
that school kids soemny to entertain thought
look comic book subversve than Red
Ryder.
Look example, the glorious effort that failed here in
wnterand with it's failure slump the 1862
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01
State Medicine Pays-Doctors

interesting figures have light concerning
salaries paid doctors in Montana state institutions which should
be for sober consideration by other medco when
dering the and of prepaid national health nsur
A few examples will suffice pointing
the desirable things about being employed steady
salary
Dr. F. l. Terri, head of the santarium at GaIen
monthly salary of S71666 (about
top receives full maintenance
approximately $3.50 month In addition that
he frequently called in for consultative services with other
physicians and does private practice the side estimated
a additional Sc, 900 per year.
Two other doctors Gaen receive $3.50 1926 per
month respectively plus similar full approx
mately $3.50 month
At the State Hospital Warm Springs, Freeman
ceves $71625 month"; plus full maintenance at estimated
cost of $3.50 month"; Another doctor (not specias
$500 per month plus similar full maintenance
Still another doctor Dr. Freeman Wilder of the
State Mental Hygiene $500 month plus
home rented by the state Helena plus drawing account
of 500 month for the commssary at Warm
Springs plus grocery paid for by the state Helena
Holmes, also of Mental Health, qualified physc-
receives SALT month for teaching and other
at Warm Springs plus $208 month for mental health work.
plus house Kalspe plus grocery drawing account of
$3.50 per month
salary 81 His assistant Dr. Nichols
$4,000 At Bozeman, Dr. Hammer receives ST 900
attending the health needs college students. No in
formation available at whether these three doctors
also supplied with houses accounts, etc
the health Dr. Kiboufne receives So 400
all instances besides salaries plus other consd
eratons stateowned and maintained also provided
Everything taken into consideration, it would that
sOciaZed medicine isn't so bad for the dOctorf you
happen to be of the fortunate the inside
Note By recollection, particularly Butte Miners
the Dr. Terr mentioned above the Dr. Terrl who
signed the scoss whtewash which bandy advised
the 1919 legislature that there danger from scoss in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-01

our British friends (?) have been
preparing to profit by our ignorant
frenzy against the Chinese Commu-
nists. While Churchill was egging
his dupe Mr.. Truman, to get us
into an alliance with Chang Kai-
Shek's failing gangsters, raising a
frenzy of the American Paid Press
against Communism, the world over,
and particularly in China, the British
Press has appraised the Liberation
of China" fairly and truthfully as a
rise of decent Chinese against a
bunch of spoilers in power. The
British simply made fools of such
children at world politics, in our CON
gress, as Mr.. Mansfield and others
who believed his pretensions of
year ago that he knew something
about China.
Mr.. Mansfield and others who fol-
lowed his asinine advice could have
saved So y billion from the Chinese
rathole, and made for us friendly
customers of Chinese millions, if they
had only read few British news
papers instead of the paid press of
DuPonts, Aircraft makers, other mu-
nitioneers on this side of the Allan
tic.
For five years the leading liberal
paper in Britain has been, and is the
Guardian. From it's is
sue of June Is, quote:
''The best observers of Chinese
affairs reflect admirably the i'm
preston of the people of Shang-
hal in face of the Chinese Com
munist army; Chinese soldiers who
know how to fight effectively, who
after victory do not pillage, do not
shoot people, who sleep on the
pavement without invading the
houses, who politely refuse bowls
of rice and tea offered them by the
inhabitants, who pay for their
places in tramways, trains, and
cinemas-these are soldiers fall
len from another planet
Never before has an army been
seen in China provided with meals
at regular hours; an army in which
the wounded are picked up and
cared for; an army in which it is